NRC: TMIA Rulemaking Petitions

 The !\IRC Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (I\IRR) has instructed its staff to perform an audit 

of licensees' commitment management programs once every 3 years to determine whether the 

licensees' programs are consistent with the industry guidance in NEI 99-04, and that regulatory 

 On September 23, 2009, a Category 1 public meeting was held by teleconference between the 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and representatives of Exelon Generation 

Company, LLC (Exelon, the licensee). The purpose of the meeting was to discuss remaining 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SEEKS PARTICIPANTS FOR UPCOMING DISCUSSIONS

ON DRAFT SAFETY CULTURE POLICY

 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will host several public workshops next year to gather input on the agency’s draft policy statement on “safety culture,” and the staff wants to hear from individuals interested in participating in the workshops’ roundtable discussions.

To read the NRC memo, open pdf: 

 

 

 

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/roundtables/the-future-of-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission

 

VICTOR GILINSKY | 25 JUNE 2008

Let's talk about something no one is happy with--citizen and state participation in Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing hearings on nuclear plants and facilities. The industry and commission's view is that those who are flat out opposed should express themselves somewhere else, instead of tying up NRC hearings with safety issues best left to government experts. But because of federal preemption of safety regulation, states have no say in these matters and there is no somewhere else. Citizens and states can influence nuclear construction only by participating in NRC hearings, which allow only narrow technical arguments.

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  Exelon Generation Company, LLC, (Exelon) submitted a license amendment request (LAR) for Peach 

Bottom Atomic Power Station (PBAPS), Units 2 and 3. The LAR seeks to revise the PBAPS 

  Exelon Generation Company, LLC, (Exelon) submitted a license amendment request (LAR) for Peach 

Bottom Atomic Power Station (PBAPS), Unit 2. The LAR seeks to revise the PBAPS Unit 2 

 Beginning October 1, 2009, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced its new method for posting information available to the public: 

For details on retrieving information electronically, see pdf: 

 

NRC CHAIRMAN TASKS STAFF TO EVALUATE AGENCY ACTIVITIES ON BURIED PIPING AT NUCLEAR PLANTS 

NRC Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko has tasked the agency’s technical staff to review the NRC’s approach for overseeing buried pipes given recent incidents of leaking buried pipes at several U.S. commercial nuclear power plants.

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August 28, 2009

No safety issues found to prevent reactors from running another 20 years.

 

By Rory Sweeney 

Times Leader Staff Writer

 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that there are no safety issues that would stop PPL Corp. from relicensing its Susquehanna nuclear station for another 20 years, according to a report released by the agency on Thursday.

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