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Policy & Strategy: Environmental Protection

Policy & Strategy: Environmental Protection. George Oliver RETS/REMP Conference June 25-27, 2007. Restructuring. Form Working Group on Radiation Safety, Low-Level Waste Management, and Environmental Protection Form Task Forces on each (3) and on new plants

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Policy & Strategy: Environmental Protection

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  1. Policy & Strategy: Environmental Protection George Oliver RETS/REMP Conference June 25-27, 2007

  2. Restructuring • Form Working Group on Radiation Safety, Low-Level Waste Management, and Environmental Protection • Form Task Forces on each (3) and on new plants • Coordinate with INPO, EPRI, and ANI • Utilize peer groups – Health Physics Forum, EPRI Conference on LLW & Decommissioning, and RETS-REMP Conference

  3. Working Group Emerging Issues • Radiation protection standards becoming more restrictive (limits) AND more flexible (application) • Decreasing options for low-level waste disposal • Increasing emphasis on environmental protection and resource conservation versus public health and safety • Increasing challenges to the underlying scientific basis for standards and regulation

  4. Opportunities • Inform and influence the shape of emerging policy and regulation • Position the industry to minimize impacts and drive improvements to safety performance and cost-effectiveness • Enhance public (and others) confidence that industry safely monitors and controls radiation and radioactive materials

  5. Missions • Working Group: • Develop and oversee implementation of nuclear energy industry policy and strategies • Task Forces: • Provide input to policy and strategy development and formulate action plans to implement same • Peer Groups: • Review operating experience and lessons-learned, identify emerging issues and operational needs, and provide peer input to policy, strategies, and action plans

  6. Working Group Preliminary Issues(For Environmental Protection) • Protection of non-human species • Radiation risk research • Dual regulation (NRC and EPA) • Alignment of int’l and nat’l standards • Old and new plant standards/guidance

  7. Industry Members Chip Bach, Progress Rick Doty, PP&L Jim Breeden, Dominion Zigmund Karper, Exelon Rick Buckley, Entergy Al Gould, FP&L Dale Holder, Duke Kathleen Yhip, SCE Scott Bradley, TXU Industry Advisory Members Bill Wendland- ANI Sean Bushart-EPRI Joe Sears- INPO NEI Staff George Oliver Ralph Anderson Environmental Taskforce Members

  8. Environmental Taskforce Issues • Successful Resolution For Groundwater Protection Initiative • Regulatory Guides & NUREGS • Operating Experience & Technical Exchange • ANS/ANSI 2.17 Standard • High Priority Issues • Revised Radiological Standards (Including EPA Tritium Dose Factors) • Potential Revision of 10CFR20 or 10CFR50 Appendix I • EDG Fuel Oil Storage Exemption

  9. Environmental Taskforce Issues • Monitor The Following • Need For Coordination of Existing Plant and New Plant Regulatory Issues • NCRP (2008 Agenda Low Dose and Low Dose Rates) • ICRP • Protection of Non-Human Species • Free Release • EPA Effluent Guidelines

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