Overview of the

Decommissioning

and Low Level Waste

Business Line

October 1, 2015

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2

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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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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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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