Principal Nuclear Engineer: Serves as a principal reviewer in the area of nuclear power plant reactor systems including the nuclear steam supply systems, auxiliary and power conversion systems, waste management systems and fire protection provisions incorporated into the reactor and facility design. Performs studies and analysis of technical issues.

Senior Nuclear Engineer: Serves as technical expert and reviewer for Three Mile Island Recovery Systems and Operation in the areas of chemistry and chemistry control systems, reactor systems, radioactive waste treatment and solidification systems, and various interfaces.

Nuclear Engineer: Serves a technical expert and reviewer for Three Mile Island Recovery Systems and Operations in the areas of containment entries and decontamination efforts, groundwater monitoring, spent resin storage and solidification, and other auxiliary systems and interfaces.

Nuclear Engineer: Serves as technical expert and reviewer for Three Mile Island Recovery Systems and Operations in the areas of containment radwaste liquid cleanup (Submerged Demineralizer System), reactor systems, air cleanup systems, other radwaste and power conversion systems, and interfaces. Provides continuous contact between NRR & I&E personnel on site; responsible for overall coordination of weekly status reports.

Radwaste Engineering Aide: Assists senior staff members in collection of review of TMI data, primarily for radioactive waste treatment systems. Under supervision of senior staff, reviews and comments on proposed and existing procedures and operations.

Secretary, Technical Support Section: Performs all secretarial and administrative functions for the Chief, Technical Support Section, as well as the members of the section. Responsible for security clearances for visiting dignitaries. Responsible for control of all incoming and outgoing procedures pertaining to the Three Mile Island Recovery Systems and Operation.

Reactor Systems Engineer: Review licensee proposals regarding the maintenance of the safe shutdown of the TMI-2 reactor. Includes review of new system design criteria, operating procedures, emergency procedures and evaluation of reactor plant conditions.

Senior Project Manager for the Three Mile Island Program Office: Manages and participates in the review and evaluation of safety and environmental considerations associated with the maintenance of TMI-2 in the safe shutdown condition, the cleanup of the TMI-2 facility, and onsite storage of radioactive waste.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW SECTION

Section Leader: Supervises the analyses of environmental impact concerns relative to TMI-2 and acts as co-project manager for preparation of the PEIS. Senior Environmental Project Manager: Manages the preparation of the NRC Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on the cleanup of TMI-2 and Supplements to the PEIS which might be necessary in the future.

Senior Nuclear Engineer: Reviews technical aspects of environmental assessments and performs other duties relative to safety matters.

Secretaries: (Three). Secretarial assistance to the TMI Program Office, Bethesda,

MD.

DEPUTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (MIDDLETOWN, PA.)

Deputy Program Director: Management and coordination of all NRC functions at the site (NRR and I&E). Constant interface with high-level utility management, the press, the public, and other government agencies. Supervises 15 technical and 3 nontechnical personnel.

Secretary to Deputy Program Director: Acts as personal secretary to the Deputy Program Director, handling all correspondence, meeting scheduling, and interfaces with the licensee, other government agencies, the public and the press (including attendance at public meetings and meetings with state and local officials). Performs administrative functions of security, travel, time and attendance, document control.

GAS-COOLED REACTORS

Question 223. What has been done with the $1,000,000 provided in fiscal year 1981, for preapplication review of gas-cooled reactors.

Answer. The NRR has not received any applications for gas-cooled thermal reactors nor have any technical reports supporting a preapplication review been formally submitted. Therefore, no program support funds have been expended for the preapplication review of gas-cooled reactors. The NRR plans to request approval to reprogram these funds.

Question 224. What is the status of research for advanced converter (HTGR) reactors?

Answer. Research is being carried out in support of licensing reviews of the Fort St. Vrain reactor and the licensee's request for permission to operate at 100 percent of rated power (licensee now limited to 70 percent power).

These activities support a small source of expertise remaining at the involved laboratories that also provides information regarding potential licensing actions. This staff would also be available for an NRC program which would be required to provide an adequate data base for the demonstration reactor plant being considered by DOE and a group of utilities.

Question 225. How much is included in the fiscal year 1982 budget for preapplication review of gas-cooled reactors?

Answer. Based on the caseload forecast, NRR did not request resources in the fiscal year 1982 budget for the preapplication review of gas-cooled reactors. The earliest forecast for any preapplication activity is late 1983: an early site review to support a preapplication for a high temperature gas-cooled reactor.

Question 226. How much is included in fiscal year 1982 for gas-cooled reactor research?

Answer. There is $2.0 million requested in the fiscal year 1982 budget for gascooled reactor research, primarily in support of the operating Ft. St. Vrain reactor.

FAST BREEDER REACTORS

Question 227. Are any funds included in the fiscal year 1982 budget for fast breeder research or to prepare regulations for eventual licensing of a breeder reactor?

Answer. There are no funds requested in the fiscal year 1982 budget for fast breeder research or to prepare regulations for eventual licensing of a breeder

reactor.

Question 228. How much funding would be required in fiscal year 1982 to continue research and licensing activities?

Answer. There are no funds in the fiscal year 1982 budget for breeder regulatory research. In order to maintain a minimum viable program in breeder regulatory research, $8 million would be required. If licensing review of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor (CRBR) is to be resumed, the research program would have to be accelerated in addition by at least $2 million and 17 people for regulatory licensing activities.

SAFETY TECHNOLOGY ISSUES

Question 229. How many years of effort and how much money is requested in fiscal year 1982, spent in fiscal year 1980 and planned expenditures in fiscal year 1981 for each of the following: Unresolved Safety Issues; Designated Generic Issues; Generic Studies; Operating Experience Evaluation; Research Coordination; Risk Assessment and Regulatory Requirements.

Answer. See Table 1.

Question 230. Provide for the record a summary of all audits done of research

results utilized in the regulatory process.

Answer. Research programs and their results are managed and reviewed at many stages. A five-year plan is developed and updated each year. This is used in the development of each specific year's research budget. Individual research projects are initiated through the specific request of a user office. Research programs developed by the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) are reviewed and endorsed by the user office. Research Review Groups, which include members from the user offices, follow the course of the research to ensure it maintains it focus on the users' needs. Mid-year and annual reviews are conducted for most programs. Upon completion of a research project or when interim results of significance become available, a Research Information Letter (RIL) is sent by RES to the user offices. The user offices, with input from the specific staff affected, respond to each RIL with a Research Results Utilization Form to document how the research results are being used. This information is compiled and published about twice per year in NUREG0435, the Status Summary Report of Research Results Utilization. A new edition of this report is due out in early March 1981; a copy of the latest issue (September 15, 1980) is attached.

OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH

RESEARCH PROJECT CONTROL SYSTEM (RPCS) STATUS SUMMARY REPORT

Research Results Utilization

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part No. and description

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Summary of Impact of Research Information Letters (RIL'S) on the Regulatory Process

3.0 List of Issued RIL's

4.0 Projected Near Term Research Information Letters

1.0

INTRODUCTION

THIS REPORT ON 'RESEARCH RESULTS UTILIZATION' PROVIDES STATUS AND CONTROL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE
UTILIZATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS IN THE REGULATORY POLICIES AND PRACTICES OF THE NRC.

RESEARCH INFORMATION LETTERS - (RIL'S) ARE PREPARED BY RES TO TRANSMIT RESEARCH RESULTS TO NRC USER
OFFICES UPON COMPLETION OF A SUBSTANTIAL, COHERENT AND REASONABLY COMPLETE BODY OF EXPERIMENTAL
AND/OR ANALYTICAL RESEARCH WORK. A RIL MAY COVER MATERIAL DEVELOPED FROM MORE THAN ONE RESEARCH
PROJECT. THE USER/PROGRAM OFFICE(S) IN THE NRC REVIEW THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE RIL AND CONSIDER
ITS UTILIZATION IN THE REGULATORY PROCESS. SECTION 2.0 OF THIS REPORT LISTS THE RIL'S ISSUED TO DATE,
TOGETHER WITH AN IDENTIFICATION OF THE RESEARCH PROGRAM MANAGER AND THE RESEARCH PROGRAM ELEMENT
WHICH GENERATED THE RIL. THE POTENTIAL APPLICABILITY OF EACH RIL TO THE REGULATORY PROCESS IS ALSO
IDENTIFIED HERE, AND COMMENTS FROM THE COGNIZANT RES AND USER OFFICE STAFF ARE SUMMARIZED WHICH
RELATE TO THE EXPECTED IMPACT OF THE REPORTED RIL'S ON THE REGULATORY PROCESS. WHERE DEEMED APPRO-
PRIATE BY MUTUAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN RES AND OTHER INVOLVED PROGRAM OFFICES, A POSITION PAPER MAY BE
PREPARED TO INFORM THE COMMISSION ABOUT THE POTENTIAL APPLICATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS. BRIEFINGS MAY
BE CONDUCTED FOR THE COMMISSION, THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS (ACRS) OR OTHER
TRACKED IN THIS SECTION.
APPROPRIATE GROUPS. PRESS RELEASES MAY ALSO BE MADE, AS APPROPRIATE. THESE EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED AND

A LISTING OF ALL RIL'S THAT MAY BE GENERATED IN THE NEAR FUTURE (2 OR 3 YEARS) IS PRESENTED IN SECTION 3.0.
FOR EACH RIL.
THE SUBJECT, TITLE, IMPACT, TARGET DATE, AND RESEARCH REVIEW GROUP NUMBER, TITLE AND CHAIRMAN ARE SHOWN

RES IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DISTRIBUTING EACH NEW RIL TO COGNIZANT OFFICES AS THEY ARE ISSUED. RES AND OTHER
COGNIZANT PROGRAM OFFICES ARE OBLIGATED TO COLLECT, REVIEW, AND FORWARD APPROPRIATE INFORMATION
RELATING TO RILS AND ASSOCIATED FOLLOW-UP ACTIONS TO RES. RES IS RESPONSIBLE FOR REFLECTING NEW
SCHEDULE.
INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION AND PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THIS PUBLICATION ON A QUARTERLY

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