Overview of the
Decommissioning
and Low Level Waste
Business Line
October 1, 2015
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Victor M. McCree,
Executive Director for
Operations
Opening Remarks
Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and
Safeguards
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Catherine Haney
Director
NRC Resources
FY 2015 Enacted FTE*FY 2015 Enacted CS&T by Business Line*
(Dollars in Millions)
*Contract Support & Travel (CS&T) and Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) reported at Full Cost.
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FY 2015 Enacted FTE* FY 2015 Enacted CS&T by Business Line*
(Dollars in Millions)
*Contract Support & Travel (CS&T) and Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) reported at Full Cost.
International
Activities
7.2
Licensing
97.2
Oversight
37.3
Research
2.8
Rulemaking
9.9International
Activities
$0.6
Licensing
$11.5
Oversight
$3.4
Research
$0.2
Rulemaking
$1.2
DLLW has significant breadth
and scope
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Decommissioning
Completions
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Materials Sites RTRs Power Reactors
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Major Actions Under Review
Licensed Facilities/Not Operating
Operational Facilities
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Uranium Recovery
Program Growth
LLW Program
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LLW
Program
Uniform Waste
Manifest
Programmatic
Assessment
CA BTP
Implementation
International
Byproduct
Material
Financial
Scoping Study
Waste
Incidental to
Reprocessing
GTCC Waste
Transuranic
Waste
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Rulemaking
DLLW Initiatives closely
align with Project Aim
• Program
Assessments
• Business
Improvement
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Division of
Decommissioning,
Uranium Recovery, and
Waste Programs, NMSS
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Andrew Persinko
Deputy Director
DLLW Workload – Current
and Future
• Decommissioning
– Reactors
– Materials Sites
– Uranium Sites
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DLLW Workload – Current
and Future (cont’d)
• Uranium Recovery Licensing
and Oversight
• Waste Incidental to
Reprocessing
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DLLW Workload – Current
and Future (cont’d)
• LLW Activities
• International
Activities
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External and Internal
influences
• Commission Policy Decisions
• Premature and Planned
Shutdown of Power Reactors
• Findings at Non-Military
Radium Sites
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External and Internal
influences (cont’d)
• Uranium Recovery Growth
– Uranium market
– Environmental reviews and
consultations
– Number and extent of hearings
– New Agreement State
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Optimization of Resources
• Workload distribution
• Rotations from other Offices
• Identification of critical skills
and experience
• Knowledge transfer
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Programmatic Evaluations
• Reactor decommissioning
• LLW
• Uranium recovery
– License duration
– Licensing efficiency
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Region IV
Division of Nuclear
Materials Safety
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Mark Shaffer
Director
Inspection Oversight:
• Power Reactors
• Complex Sites
• Research &
Test Reactors
• DOE site visits
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Focus Areas:
• Safety
• Security
• Emergency Planning
• Public Outreach
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Regional Activities -
Decommissioning
Reactors & Complex Sites:
• Transition Oversight
• Active Decommissioning Sites
• Terminations
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Uranium Recovery Sites in
the U.S.
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Regional Activities –
Uranium Recovery
• Pre-operational Inspections
• Reactive Inspections
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On the Horizon:
• Increased Workload
• Support for Hearings
• Wyoming - Agreement State
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Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research
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Rebecca Tadesse, Chief
Radiation Protection Branch
Research Support for DLLW
Program
• Computer Code Development
– RESRAD Family Code
– MILDOS-Area Code
– Visual Sample Plan Code
• Other Areas of Technical
Support
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RESRAD Family of Computer
Codes
• Residual
Radioactivity
(RESRAD)
• Current
Activities
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MILDOS-AREA Computer Code
• MILDOS-AREA
• Current Activities
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Visual Sample Plan
• Visual Sample Plan (VSP)
• Current Activities
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Other Areas of Technical
Support
• Engineering Cover design
• Groundwater Modeling
• Geochemistry Review
• Hearings
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Challenges and Strategies
To Move Forward
• Resources for Code
Maintenance and Updates
• Leveraging resources among
other Federal Agencies
• Utilizing the Radiation
Protection Computer Code
Analysis and Maintenance
Program (RAMP)
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Victor M. McCree,
Executive Director for
Operations
Closing Remarks
Acronyms and Initialisms
• CA BTP – Concentration
Averaging Branch Technical
Position
• DLLW – Decommissioning and
Low Level Waste
• DOE – Department of Energy
• FY – Fiscal Year
• GTCC – Greater-Than-Class C
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Acronyms and Initialisms
(cont’d)
• LLW – Low Level Waste
• NMSS – Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and
Safeguards
• RTRs – Research and Test
Reactors
• WIR – Waste Incidental to
Reprocessing
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Commission Briefing
Spent Fuel Storage and
Transportation Business
Line
October 1, 2015
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Opening Remarks
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Victor M. McCree,
Executive Director for
Operations
Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and
Safeguards
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Cathy Haney
Director
NRC Resources
FY 2015 Enacted FTE*
Operating
Reactors
2,195.6New Reactors
695.9
Spent Fuel
Storage and
Transportation
162.1
Nuclear
Materials
Users
315.7
Decommissioning and
Low Level Waste
154.4
Fuel Facilities
191.8
FY 2015 Enacted CS&T by Business Line*
(Dollars in Millions)
Operating Reactors
$225.2
New Reactors
$81.0
Spent Fuel
Storage and
Transportation
$19.2
Nuclear Materials
Users $36.5
Decommissioning and
Low-Level Waste $16.9
Fuel Facilities
$18.8
*Contract Support & Travel (CS&T) and Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) reported at Full Cost.
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SFST has significant
breadth and scope
FY 2015 Enacted FTE*
FY 2015 Enacted CS&T by Business Line*
(Dollars in Millions)
*Contract Support & Travel (CS&T) and Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) reported at Full Cost.
Generic Homeland
Security
.7
International
Activities
4.2
Licensing
74.3
Oversight
27.7
Research
14.2
Rulemaking
41.0
Generic
Homeland
Security
$.05
International
Activities
$.5
Licensing
$7.4
Oversight
$1.9
Research
$4.0
Rulemaking
$5.3
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Continue to improve
efficiency with Project Aim
• Licensing Process
Improvements
• Renewal Regulatory
Framework
• Resolving technical issues
• Risk Informing Regulatory
Framework
• Safety-security interface
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Division of Spent Fuel
Management, NMSS
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Mark Lombard
Director
Spent Fuel Storage and
Transportation Business
Line
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Paradigm shifts
• Longer storage periods
• Possible 72 – 71 – 72 scenario
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Storage Transportation Storage
External and internal
influences
• Away-from-reactor ISFSIs
• DOE Topical Report
• Potential legislative actions
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External and internal
influences
• Evolving national strategy
• Increased public interaction
• Resources
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Division of Spent Fuel
Management
Renewals and
Materials Branch
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Aladar Csontos
Chief
Current Licensing and
Research Activities
• Renewal regulatory
framework
• Impending renewal surge
• Updated renewal guidance
• Operational Experience
• Technical issue resolution
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Ensure Safety through
Storage Renewal Regulatory
Framework
• Maintain intended functions
during renewal period
• Modeled after reactor
renewal methodology
• Renewal period up to 40 years
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Ensure Safety through
Storage Renewal Regulatory
Framework (cont’d)
• Aging Management Program
• Time-Limited Aging Analyses
• NUREG-1927 Rev. 0: SRP for
Renewal of Spent Fuel DCSS
Licenses and CoC
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Storage Renewal Surge
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35 S
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2 S
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Peak
3 S
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3 S
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1S
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DOE/ANL
Report
MAPS
NUREG
SRP 1927R1
NEI
14-03
Storage/
Reactor
OpE
Technical
Issue
Resolution
Managing Aging
Processes in Storage
(MAPS) Report
NUREG-###
Staff consideration of
Stakeholder inputs
Updated Storage Renewal
Guidance Framework
SRP
1927R0
Consensus
Codes
Operational Experience:
Concrete Aging
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Operational Experience:
Canister System Aging
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Technical Issue Resolution
• CI-SCC
• Inservice inspection
• Consensus Codes
• High burnup fuel
• Thermal modeling
• International
coordination
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Division of Nuclear
Materials Safety,
Region IV
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Mark Shaffer
Director
ISFSI Oversight Program:
• Design
• Fabrication
• Preoperational
Testing
• Operations
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Inspection Activities:
• Construction
• Initial Testing
• Final Loading
• New Systems
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Continuous Improvement:
• Operational Experience
• Program Enhancements
• Public Outreach
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Victor M. McCree,
Executive Director for
Operations
Closing Remarks
Acronyms and Initialisms
• ISFSI – Independent Spent
Fuel Storage Installation
• FY – Fiscal Year
• ICSF – Interim Consolidated
Storage Facility
• TSAR – Topical Safety
Analysis Report
• DOE – Department of Energy
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Acronyms and Initialisms
(cont’d)
• SRP: Standard Review Plan
• AMP: Aging Management
Program
• TLAA: Time Limited Aging
Analyses
• CoC: Certificate of
Compliance
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Acronyms and Initialisms
(cont’d)
• MAPS: Managing Aging
Processes for Storage NUREG
• CI-SCC: Chloride Induced
Stress Corrosion Cracking
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