Screening of generic safety issues for license renewal considerations

Technical Report · Sun Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:10107455

Faramarzi, A; Hughes, A A; Seth, S S ^[1]

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1. Mitre Corp., McLean, VA (United States)

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is developing regulations for renewing the operating licenses of nuclear power plants to ensure that they operate safely beyond the present license terms of 40 years. One consideration relates to past resolutions of generic safety issues (GSIs) that did not result in backfit requirements on the licensees. The consideration of an additional operating term of 20 years which the proposed license renewal rule allows, could have retrospective implication for the basis of those GSI resolutions. As part of its technical support to the NRC for the development of license renewal regulations. MITRE has performed an independent review of the GSIs to identify those that could be potentially affected by license renewal considerations. This report describes the screening process and the results of that work.

• Research Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Div. of Safety Issue Resolution; Mitre Corp., McLean, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 10107455
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR--5382; MTR--90W00467; ON: TI92004282
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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