Insights into generic safety issues noted from licensee operating events

Journal Article · Mon Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1997 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society

OSTI ID:552524

Cronenberg, A W ^[1]

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1. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)

The Generic Safety Issues (GSI) program was an outgrowth of Public Law 29-209 (amendments to the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974), whereby the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was directed to develop a formalized action plan to identify and resolve outstanding reactor safety issues. During the past two decades, several hundred GSIs were identified and investigated by NRC. By the mid-1990s, solutions to many of these issues had been implemented, so that such GSIs were classified as {open_quotes}resolved.{close_quotes} Reviews by the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) of licensee operational events, however, indicate recurrence of a number of resolved GSIs. An investigation into the adequacy of the agency`s GSI resolution process that was therefore initiated is the subject of this paper.

• OSTI ID: 552524
• Report Number(s): CONF-971125--
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 77; ISSN 0003-018X; ISSN TANSAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AMENDMENTS
EVALUATION
REACTOR ACCIDENTS
REACTOR SAFETY
RELIABILITY