REQUEST FOR WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE FOR PEACH BOTTOM ATOMIC POWER STATION, UNIT NOS. 2 AND 3 (TAC NOS. ME9631 AND ME9632)

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Where: NRC: Regulatory Information Conference.

http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/conference-symposia/ric/

Date: March 12, 2013.

Panel session: 3:30 to 5:00 pm.

Session Title and Description:  Promoting Success for Emergency Preparedness Guidance
NUREG-0654/FEMA-REP-1, “Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency
Response Plans and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants,” was issued in 1980. 
Following Emergency Preparedness (EP) rulemaking, the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) and the NRC initiated a multi-year process to revise NUREG?0654/FEMA-REP-1
to update existing guidance.

Public meetings occurred in August and September 2012 to engage external stakeholders. 
More public meetings and comment periods will occur throughout the planned timeline, currently
extending until 2017.  This session is targeted to complement these ongoing efforts by providing the
current status of the NUREG?0654/FEMA-REP-1 revision project.  Key questions that the NRC
and FEMA posed during the 2012 meetings will be used to encourage discussion, including “

How do stakeholders define success  with respect to the guidance revision?”

Session facilitator, Rick Daniel, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Panelists:

• Eric Epstein, Chairman, TMI- Alert, Inc.

• Joe Klinger, Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors 

•  Ed Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists 

• Mark Thaggard, Deputy Division of Emergency Preparedness,  NRC/NSIR

PEACH BOTTOM ATOMIC POWER STATION, UNITS 2 AND 3, ACCEPTANCE REVIEW REGARDING PROPOSED EXTENDED POWER UPRATE (TAC NOS. ME9631 AND ME9632)

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Three Mile Island Nuclear Station - Annual Assessment Letter for Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (Report 05000289/2012001)

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Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station - Annual Assessment Letter for Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station Units 2 and 3 (Report 05000277/2012001 and 05000278/2012001)

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Susquehanna Steam Electric Station - Annual Assessment Letter for Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2 (Report 05000387/2012001 and 05000388/2012001)

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Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 – Request for Additional Information Regarding 30-Day Report for Emergency Core Cooling System Model Changes Pursuant to the Requirements of 10 CFR 50.46 (TAC No. ME8237)

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Greetings,

Here are a few things we would like to share with you. These documents can also be accessed on our Waste Confidence website:  http://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/wcd/pub-involve.html#arch. 

Today we issued the Waste Confidence scoping summary report (ADAMS Accession No. ML13060A128):  http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1306/ML13060A128.pdf.

The report provides a summary of the determinations and conclusions reached during the NRC’s scoping process for the Waste Confidence generic environmental impact statement (GEIS).  The report also contains a summary of the comments received and the NRC’s responses.  A second document (ADAMS Accession No. ML13060A130) contains scoping comments organized by category:  http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1306/ML13060A130.pdf.
 
We have documented our last public meeting:

• February 20 teleconference status meeting summary (ADAMS Accession No. ML13060A105):  http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1306/ML13060A105.pdf.

• February 20 teleconference status meeting transcript (ADAMS Accession No. ML13058A096):  http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1305/ML13058A096.pdf.

Also, we have announced our next monthly public teleconference status meeting.  The focus of this meeting will be the scoping summary report.  Participants will be provided an opportunity to ask clarifying questions on the scoping summary report.  Please note that discussion in this forum will not be considered as formal comments and will not be considered in the GEIS development.

• March 20, 2013 from 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EST, meeting notice (ADAMS Accession No. ML13063A465):  http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1306/ML13063A465.pdf.

• Prior to the start of the meeting, please dial 1-800-857-2553 and provide the operator with passcode 3682386

Sincerely,
 
Staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Waste Confidence Directorate

You and your students are welcome to attend two upcoming public lectures at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA:

David W. Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College: Designing Resilience in a Black Swan World. Wednesday, March 27, 7:00 PM.

Bill McKibben, Middlebury College and 350.org: Front Lines of the Climate Fight. Thursday, April 11, 7:00 PM.

Both events will be held in the Anita Tuvin Schlecter Auditorium, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA. For maps and directions, please visit http://www.dickinson.edu/about/visit/maps-and-directions/Maps-and-Directions/.

JPG posters are attached if you wish to advertise these events on your campus.

Neil Leary | Dickinson College
Director | Center for Sustainability Education
P.O. Box 1773 | Carlisle, PA 17013

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Good Day:

Attached is the stand-alone executive summary and full report for "The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety in 2012: Tolerating the Intolerable." They are being released on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at noon eastern time and we ask that the information be embargoed until then.

On March 11, 2011, I was on Capitol Hill to brief Congressional staffers on what was then the first in an annual series of reports on the NRC and nuclear safety. Since then, I've learned two things:

1) Try not to schedule briefings a few hours after major international nuclear disasters.

2) An annual series of reports means you gotta do one every year.

As in past reports, this year's report contains a section summarizing the "near-misses" last year - times when an event or discovery at a plant prompted the NRC to dispatch a team to investigate what happened and why. The NRC reported on 14 such near-misses in 2012.

Our report also contains a section on commendable outcomes achieved by the NRC last year. The NRC's hosting an international conference on security last December tops the list in our book.

We also have a somewhat longer section detailing bad outcomes last year. Topping, or bottoming, that section was the latest safty culture survey of the NRC's work force. The survey revealed a huge gap between how NRC's senior managers viewed things and how the NRC's rank and file viewed them --- the senior managers seeing no problems across the board. Could explain why the NRC "tolerates the intolerable" - nothing is intolerable when you don't give a damn.

For the first time, this year's report contains a trending section with observations from the three annual reports. Special recognition goes out to the Wolf Creek nuclear plant with four near-misses in three years - it hasn't missed a year yet. Like the Wizard of Oz being re-run every year, Wolf Creek having a near-miss each year has become tradition.

Thanks,

Dave Lochbaum
UCS

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