Energia i regulacje · 26.07.1999

Public Comment on the Pilot Program for the New Regulatory Oversight Program

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing significant revisions to its processes for overseeing the safety performance of commercial nuclear power plants that include integrating the inspection, assessment, and enforcement processes. As part of its proposal, the NRC staff established a new regulatory oversight framework with a set of performance indicators and associated thresholds, developed a new baseline inspection program that supplements and verifies the performance indicators, and created a continuous assessment process that includes a method for consistently determining the appropriate regulatory actions in response to varying levels of safety performance. The changes are the result of continuing work on concepts as described in SECY-99-007, ``Recommendations for Reactor Oversight'' dated January 8, 1999, and SECY-99-007A, ``Recommendations for Reactor Oversight Improvements (Follow-Up to SECY-99-007)'' dated March 22, 1999. In June 1999, the NRC began a six- month pilot program with two sites participating from each region. The purpose of the pilot program is to exercise the new oversight process, identify problems, develop lessons learned, and make any necessary