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THE REACTOR THE REACTOR OVERSIGHT PROGRAM OVERSIGHT PROGRAM

David Lochbaum David Lochbaum Nuclear Safety Engineer Nuclear Safety Engineer May 1, 2002 May 1, 2002

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Industry trends program Industry trends program  SDP SDP  Selectively risk-informed Selectively risk-informed  Commissioner’s forecast Commissioner’s forecast 

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Industry Trends Industry Trends Program Program

Recommended additions: Recommended additions:  Trend causes for NRC SITs, Trend causes for NRC SITs, ① AITS, and IITs conducted AITS, and IITs conducted each year to flag emerging each year to flag emerging issues issues Trend safety during outages Trend safety during outages

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SDP SDP

Recommended fix: Recommended fix:  Impose a 90-day hard Impose a 90-day hard ① deadline for final SDP color deadline for final SDP color assignments assignments

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Selectivel Selectively y Risk-Informed Risk-Informed

Recommended fix: Recommended fix:  Include design errors in Include design errors in ① fault exposure time fault exposure time calculations for PIs calculations for PIs

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Commissioner’s Commissioner’s Forecast Forecast

Recommended fix: Recommended fix:  Revise NRC procedure for Revise NRC procedure for ① investigating near-misses to investigating near-misses to require formal evaluation require formal evaluation against ROP against ROP

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Wrap-up rap-up

UCS continues to believe UCS continues to believe that ROP is superior to SALP that ROP is superior to SALP UCS cannot point to a single UCS cannot point to a single shred of evidence to shred of evidence to corroborate our belief corroborate our belief What is driving safety trends? What is driving safety trends?

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