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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

Highlights Highlights  Industry trends program Industry trends program  SDP SDP  Selectively risk-informed Selectively risk-informed  Commissioner’s forecast Commissioner’s forecast Slide 2

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 Slide 3

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 Slide 4

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 Slide 5

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 Slide 6

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? Slide 7