NRC to Hold Webcast Meeting on Post-Fukushima Actions

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding a meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, about its efforts to implement lessons learned from the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident.

The meeting will be held at NRC headquarters in Rockville, Md., but will be open to the public via webcast.

NRC staff and other stakeholders will brief the public on lessons learned and actions taken post Fukushima.

The webcast will be made available at www.nrc.gov. The meeting is expected to last three hours.

The slides for the various presenters for the meeting can be found by clicking this link. The agenda is as follows: 

Speaker: James Scaroloa, Executive Director, U.S. Industry Fukushima Response
Topic: Industry actions taken in response to the Fukushima accident
Duration: 10 minutes

Speaker: Casey Pfeiffer, President, Professional Reactor Operator Society
Topic: Impact on reactor operators of Fukushima lessons learned activities
Duration: 10 minutes 

Speaker: Christopher Paine, Nuclear Program Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Topic: Public interest perspective on NRC actions and stakeholder involvement in response to the Fukushima accident
Duration: 10 minutes 

Speaker: David Lochbaum, Director, Nuclear Safety Project, Union of Concerned Scientists
Topic: Public interest perspective on NRC actions and stakeholder involvement in response to the Fukushima accident
Duration: 10 minutes

Commission Q&A: 50 minutes

Break: 5 minutes 

NRC Staff Panel: 30 minutes
Speakers: Mike Johnson, Deputy Executive Director for Reactor and Preparedness Programs and Longer-Term Steering Committee Chairman; Eric Leeds, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation; Jim Wiggins, Director, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response; Brian Sheron, Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research; Dave Skeen, Director, Japan Lessons-Learned Project Directorate, NRR

Topics by the NRC Staff Panel:

• Update on staff’s progress towards implementing Tier One recommendations, including guidance development and stakeholder engagement
• Overview of the staff’s plans for addressing Tier Two and Three recommendations, including a discussion of schedules, milestones and project plans
• Update on the staff’s efforts to evaluate the Tier One item on filtration of hardened containment vents for boiling water reactors with Mark I and II containments

Commission Q&A: 50 minutes

Discussion — Wrap-up: 5 minutes