A prioritization of generic safety issues. [Contains bibliography and glossary]

Technical Report · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5649312

Emrit, R; Riggs, R; Milstead, W; Pittman, J

This report presents the priority rankings for generic safety issues and related to nuclear power plants. The purpose of these rankings is to assist in the timely and efficient allocation of NRC resources for the resolution of those safety issues that have a significant potential for reducing risk. The report focuses on the prioritization of generic safety issues. Issues primarily concerned with the licensing process or environmental protection and not directly related to safety have been excluded from prioritization. The prioritized issues include: TMI Action Plan items under development; previously proposed issues covered by Task Action Plans, except issues designated as Un-resolved Safety Issues (USIs) which had already been assigned high priority; and newly-proposed issues. Future supplements to this report will include the prioritization of additional issues. The safety priority rankings are High, Medium, Low, and Drop and have been assigned on the basis of risk significance estimates, the ratio of risk to costs and other impacts estimated to result if resolutions of the safety issues were implemented, and the consideration of uncertainties and other quantitative or qualitative factors. To the extent practical, estimates are quantitative. 1310 refs.

• Research Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Div. of Safety Issue Resolution
• Sponsoring Organization: NRC; Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5649312
• Report Number(s): NUREG-0933; ON: TI91016545
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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