Energia i regulacje · 21.02.2003

Solicitation of Public Comments on Spent Fuel Transportation Package Performance Study Test Protocols

This Federal Register notice announces the availability, for public comment, of the Test Protocols Report (draft NUREG-1768) for the NRC's spent nuclear fuel transportation Package Performance Study (PPS). The PPS is a confirmatory research program focused on the probabilities and consequences of severe transportation accidents--the very small fraction of accidents that could result in impact or thermal forces, on casks, that exceed NRC's standards for cask design. The PPS will use a combination of testing and analyses to develop data and validate methods of analysis for use in transportation risk assessments. A public participation process will continue as PPS proceeds, to ensure that stakeholder concerns are considered by the PPS and to support increased public confidence in NRC's regulatory activities, considering potential future increases in the number of spent fuel transports. The test protocols report describes, at a conceptual level, full- scale spent fuel cask impact and fire physical testing that NRC may sponsor over the next couple of years. The "Executive Summary" of the test protocols report is included in this notice, and full copies of the report are available for co