ML18292A870

August 28, 2018, Summary of Meeting with the National Organization of Test, Research, and Training Reactors

ML18292A870
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Issue date:	10/25/2018
From:	Cindy Montgomery Research and Test Reactors Licensing Projects Branch
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Montgomery C, NRR/DLP, 415-3398
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October 25, 2018 ORGANIZATION: National Organization of Test, Research, and Training Reactors

SUMMARY

OF AUGUST 28, 2018, MEETING WITH THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF TEST, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING REACTORS On August 28, 2018, a Category 2 public meeting was held between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff and representatives of the National Organization of Test, Research, and Training Reactors (TRTR) at NRC Headquarters, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, via teleconference. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss NRC personnel changes, rulemaking, licensing, oversight, upcoming meetings, and other items of interest to the TRTR community. The meeting notice and agenda, dated August 17, 2018, are available in the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System at Accession No. ML18229A207. A list of attendees is provided as an enclosure. The following is a description of the topics covered by the NRC staff and the TRTR community.

Personnel Changes: The Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation has a new Director, Ho Nieh.

He had previously been the Deputy Director for the Division of Licensing Projects (formerly known as Division of Policy and Rulemaking), and he is familiar with research and test reactors (RTRs). He recently worked for the Nuclear Energy Agency on international activities.

Interoffice Activities: Hipolito Gonzales, Branch Chief of the Materials Safety Licensing Branch, in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, presented information about a petition for rulemaking to address incidential byproduct material created by irradiation services provided by research reactors. He discussed whether the RTR community could enhance the understanding of the NRC scope of such irradiations.

Licensing: Anthony Mendiola discussed the options for licensed operators to reactivate their licenses when their facility has been shut down for a significant period of time. He outlined the specific requirements for RTR licensed operators pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 55.53(e) and 10 CFR 55.53 (f). In the past, licensed operators have gone to nearby RTR facilities to reactivate their licenses. There were comments about these regulatory requirements indicating the need for additional discussions.

Oversight: Anthony Mendiola and Elizabeth Reed addressed the Enhanced Weapons/Security Event Notification Rule, for which the Federal Register Notices and Regulatory Guides are publicly available on www.regulations.gov under NRC-2009-0096. Only the Security Event Notification Rule applies to RTRs. The 10 CFR Part 74 rule does not impact RTRs and there is a 180-day implementation period.

Meetings relevant to the interests of the TRTR community:

October 28-November 2, 2018, TRTR Annual Conference, will be hosted by the Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center, in Newport, Rhode Island, at the Newport Marriott.

The final 2018 TRTR Executive Committee Teleconference is scheduled for Tuesday, November 27, 2018.

Please direct any inquiries to me at 301-415-3398, or Cindy.Montgomery@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Cindy K. Montgomery, Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch Division of Licensing Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Enclosure:

As stated cc: w/enclosure: See next page

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Addressee List for Research and Test Reactor Licensees Dr. David M. Slaughter, President and Reactor Administrator Aerotest Operations Inc.

3455 Fostoria Way San Ramon, CA 94583 Mr. Craig Reisner, Interim Reactor Manager Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor Facility 250 West 13th Street Rolla, MO 65409-0630 Mr. Dale Tomlinson (Acting)

Reactor Facility Director Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute 8901 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda, MD 20889 5603 Andrew T. Cook Manager of Engineering and Operations Nuclear Reactor Program Department of Nuclear Engineering North Carolina State University Campus Box 7909 2500 Stinson Drive Raleigh, NC 27695-7909 Paul J. OConnor, Ph.D.

Facility Director Dow Chemical TRIGA Research Reactor Dow Chemical Company Building 1602 Midland, MI 48674 Dr. Lei Raymond Cao, Director Nuclear Reactor Laboratory Ohio State University 1298 Kinnear Road Columbus, OH 43212 Mr. Matt Feyrer, Site Manager GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Vallecitos Nuclear Center 6705 Vallecitos Road Sunol, CA 94586 Dr. Steven R. Reese, Director Oregon State University 100 Radiation Center Corvallis, OR 97331-5903 Dr. Marylou Dunik-Gougar Reactor Administrator Idaho State University Professor of Nuclear Engineering 921 S. 8th Avenue, MS 8060 Pocatello, ID 83209-8060 Dr. Kenan Unlu, Director Radiation Science and Engineering Center Breazeale Nuclear Reactor Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-2301 Dr. Alan Cebula Nuclear Reactor Facility Manager Kansas State University 118 Ward Hall Manhattan, KS 66506-5204 Dr. Thomas H. Newton, Deputy Director National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST Center for Neutron Research U.S. Department of Commerce 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 6101 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-6101

Dr. Melinda Krahenbuhl, Director Reed Reactor Facility Reed College 3203 S.E. Woodstock Boulevard Portland, OR 97202-8199 Mr. Mung Chiang, Dean of Engineering Purdue University School of Nuclear Engineering 400 Central Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907 Dr. Wei Ji, Director Reactor Critical Facility NES Building 1 10 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 3590 Dr. Wesley D. Frey, Reactor Director McClellan Nuclear Research Center University of California, Davis 5335 Price Avenue, Building 258 McClellan, CA 95652-2504 Dr. Cameron Goodwin, Director Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center 16 Reactor Road Narragansett, RI 02882-1165 Dr. George E. Miller, Reactor Supervisor Nuclear Reactor Facility Department of Chemistry University of California 1102 Natural Sciences 2 Irvine, CA 92697-2025 Dr. Yassin Hassan, Department Head Texas A&M University Nuclear Engineering Department 3133 TAMU College Station, Texas 77843-3133 Dr. Andreas Enqvist, Director University of Florida Training Reactor P.O. Box 116400 Gainesville, FL 32611 Dr. Sean McDeavitt, Director Nuclear Science Center Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station 1095 Nuclear Science Road, MS 3575 College Station, Texas 77843-3575 Dr. Timothy Koeth, Director Nuclear Reactor and Radiation Facilities University of Maryland Department of Materials Science and Engineering 4418 Stadium Drive, Room 2303 College Park, MD 20742-2115 Brycen Roy, Reactor Supervisor U.S. Geological Survey P.O. Box 25046 - Mail Stop 974 Denver Federal Center Denver, CO 80225 Mr. Leo Bobek, Reactor Supervisor University of Massachusetts Lowell Nuclear Radiation Laboratory One University Avenue Lowell, MA 01854 Mr. Matthew Lund, Interim Director Utah Nuclear Engineering Program Joseph Merrill Engineering Building 50 S. Central-Campus Drive, Room 1206 Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Dr. David J. Robertson, Reactor Facility Director University of Missouri-Columbia Research Reactor Center 1513 Research Park Drive Columbia, MO 65211

Robert Agasie, Reactor Director Nuclear Reactor Laboratory University of Wisconsin - Madison 1513 University Avenue, Room 1215 Madison, WI 53706-1687 Robert D. Busch, Ph.D., P.E.

Nuclear Engineering Department 1 University of New Mexico MSC-01-1120 Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Dr. Donald Wall, Director Nuclear Radiation Center 50 Roundtop Drive Pullman, WA 99164 1300 Mr. Paul Whaley, Associate Director Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory The University of Texas at Austin 10100 Burnet Road, Building 159 Austin, TX 78613 Mr. Alberto Queirolo Director of Reactor Operations Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Reactor Laboratory 138 Albany Street, MS NW12-116A Cambridge, MA 02139 Dr. Robert Bean, Director Purdue University Radiation Laboratory School of Nuclear Engineering 400 Central Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2017 Mr. Andrew Kauffman, Associate Director Ohio State University Nuclear Reactor Laboratory 1298 Kinnear Road Columbus, OH 43212-1154

Enclosure LIST OF ATTENDEES AUGUST 28, 2018, MEETING WITH THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF TEST, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING REACTORS Name Organization Thomas McConnell GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Christine Barrett SHINE Medical Technologies Dan Cronin University of Florida Thomas Newton National Institute of Standards and Technology Susan Tucker Massachusetts Institute of Technology Edward Lau Massachusetts Institute of Technology Walter (Guy) Steingass University of California, Davis Cameron Goodwin Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission Hilary Lane Nuclear Energy Institute Steve Reese Oregon State University Siaka Yusuf Dow Chemical Alexander Adams, Jr.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Cindy Montgomery U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Elizabeth Reed U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Edward Helvenston U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Michael Balazik U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Xiaosong Yin U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Anthony Mendiola U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Linh Tran U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Patrick Boyle U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Duane Hardesty U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Spyros Traiforos U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Geoffrey Wertz U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ashley Ferguson U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hipolito Gonzales U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Richard Struckman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Alexa Sieracki U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Shirley Xu U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission