[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 158 (Monday, August 17, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 49177-49181]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-20260]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISION

10 CFR Chapter I

[NRC-2015-0176]


Abnormal Occurrence Reports

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Proposed revision to policy statement; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing 
revisions to its policy statement on reporting abnormal occurrences 
(AO) to Congress. The proposed revisions would clarify and restructure 
the criteria used by the NRC and Agreement States for determining 
whether to consider an incident or event as an AO. The proposed 
revisions to the policy statement would ensure consistency with current 
NRC guidance and

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regulations. The NRC is requesting public comments on the proposed 
revision to the policy statement at this time.

DATES: Submit comments by November 16, 2015. Comments received after 
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the 
Commission is able to assure consideration only for comments received 
on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0176. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
    For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis A. Benevides, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2457; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0176 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain 
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the 
following methods:
     Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0176.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, 
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0176 in the subject line of your 
comment submission.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into 
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove 
identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to 
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be 
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should 
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.

II. Background

    Section 208 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended 
(Pub. L. 93-438), defines an AO as an unscheduled incident or event 
that the NRC determines to be significant from the standpoint of public 
health or safety. The Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 
1995 (Pub. L. 104-66) requires that AOs be reported to Congress 
annually. As required by Section 208, the discussion for each event 
includes the date and place, the nature and probable consequences, the 
cause or causes, and the action taken to prevent recurrence. The 
Commission must also widely disseminate the AO report to the public 
within 15 days of publishing the AO report to Congress.

Abnormal Occurrence Reporting

    The Commission has developed the AO policy statement to comply with 
Section 208 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended. The 
intent of the act is to keep Congress and the public informed of 
unscheduled incidents or events that the Commission considers 
significant from the standpoint of public health and safety. The policy 
reflects a range of health and safety concerns and applies to incidents 
and events involving a single individual, as well as those having an 
overall impact on the general public. The AO criteria use a high 
reporting threshold so that only those events considered significant 
from the standpoint of public health and safety are reported to 
Congress.

Applicability

    Implementation of Section 208 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 
1974, as amended, ``Abnormal Occurrence Reports,'' involves the conduct 
of Commission business and does not impose requirements on licensees or 
certified facilities. The reports cover certain unscheduled incidents 
or events related to the manufacture, construction, or operation of a 
facility or conduct of an activity subject to the requirements of parts 
20, 30 through 37, 39, 40, 50, 61, 70, 71, 72, or 76 in chapter I of 
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR).
    Agreement States provide information to the NRC on incidents and 
events involving applicable nuclear materials in their States. 
Agreement States are those States that have entered into formal 
agreements with the NRC, pursuant to Section 274 of the Atomic Energy 
Act of 1954, as amended (AEA) (Pub. L. 83-703), to regulate certain 
quantities of AEA material at facilities located within their borders. 
Events reported by Agreement States that reach the threshold for 
reporting as AOs are also published in the ``Report to Congress on 
Abnormal Occurrences.''

Proposed Revisions

    The NRC is proposing revisions to the AO criteria to clarify the 
criteria for determining events that are significant from the 
standpoint of public health and safety and should therefore be 
considered AOs. The proposed revisions would also make the criteria 
consistent with NUREG-1614, Volume 6, ``U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission's Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2014-2018,'' issued August 
2014 (ADAMS Accession No. ML14246A439), and new NRC requirements in 10 
CFR part 37, ``Physical protection of category 1 and category 2 
quantities of radioactive material.'' Further, the NRC proposes to 
revise the AO criteria to separate ``Other Events of Interest'' from 
the AO criteria to clearly delineate that events considered ``Other 
Events of Interest'' are not AOs, but do represent significant

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events that the Commission deems appropriate to report to Congress. 
Finally, restructuring and minor editorial changes are proposed to some 
sections for clarity.
    The NRC is requesting public comments on the proposed revision to 
the policy statement at this time. The NRC is specifically seeking 
public comments on screening all reports for exposures to embryo/fetus 
or nursing child as an AO under Criteria l.A.2, unintended radiation 
exposure, versus screening reports required by 10 CFR 35.3047 for 
exposures to embryo/fetus or nursing child resulting from treatment to 
a patient as an AO under Criteria III.C, ``Events involving the Medical 
Use of Radioactive Materials in Patients or Human Research Subjects.''
    The entire text of the proposed revision of the policy statement is 
available as an attachment to this document.

Licensee Reports

    The proposed changes to the general policy statement would not 
change the reporting requirements for NRC licensees in Commission 
regulations, license conditions, or technical specifications. The NRC 
licensees will continue to submit required reports on a wide range of 
events, including instrument malfunctions and deviations from normal 
operating procedures that may not be significant from the standpoint of 
the public health and safety but provide data useful to the Commission 
in monitoring operating trends of licensed facilities and in comparing 
the actual performance of these facilities with their design and/or 
licensing basis.

III. Paperwork Reduction Act

    This policy statement does not contain information collection 
requirements that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

Public Protection Notification

    The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to 
respond to, a request for information or an information collection 
requirement unless the requesting documents displays a currently valid 
Office of Management and Budget control number.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of August, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette L. Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.

Attachment--Abnormal Occurrence Statement of Policy

    The Commission will apply the following policy in determining 
whether an incident or event at a facility or involving an activity 
that is licensed or otherwise regulated by the Commission or an 
Agreement State is an abnormal occurrence (AO).\1\
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    \1\ Events reported to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) by Agreement States that reach the threshold for reporting as 
AOs will be reported as such by the Commission.
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    An incident or event is considered an AO if it involves a major 
reduction in the protection of public health or safety. The incident or 
event has a moderate or severe impact on public health or safety and 
could include, but need not be limited to, the following:
    (1) Moderate exposure to, or release of, radioactive material 
licensed by or otherwise regulated by the Commission or Agreement 
States;
    (2) major degradation of essential safety-related equipment;
    (3) major deficiencies in design, construction, use of, or 
management controls for facilities or radioactive material licensed by 
or otherwise regulated by the Commission or Agreement States; or
    (4) substantiated case of actual loss, theft, or diversion of risk 
significant radioactive material licensed by or otherwise regulated by 
the Commission or Agreement States.
    The criteria for determining whether to consider an incident or 
event for reporting as an AO are set forth in Appendix A of this policy 
statement.
Commission Dissemination of Abnormal Occurrence Information
    The Commission widely disseminates the AO reports to the public. 
The Commission will submit an annual report to Congress on AOs that 
occur at or are associated with any facility or activity that is 
licensed or otherwise regulated pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954, as amended, or the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended. 
This report gives the date, place, nature, and probable consequences of 
each AO; the cause or causes of each AO; and any action taken to 
prevent recurrence.

Appendix A: Abnormal Occurrence Criteria

    An accident or event is considered an abnormal occurrence (AO) 
if it involves a major reduction in the degree of protection of 
public health or safety. This type of incident or event has a 
moderate or severe impact on public health or safety and could 
include, but need not be limited to, the following:
    (1) Moderate exposure to, or release of, radioactive material 
licensed by or otherwise regulated by the Commission or Agreement 
States;
    (2) major degradation of essential safety-related equipment;
    (3) major deficiencies in design, construction, use of, or 
management controls for facilities or radioactive material licensed 
by or otherwise regulated by the Commission or Agreement States; or
    (4) substantiated case of actual loss, theft, or diversion of 
risk-significant radioactive material licensed by or otherwise 
regulated by the Commission or Agreement States.

Abnormal Occurrence Criteria

    The following presents the criteria, by types of events, used to 
determine which events will be considered for reporting as AOs.

I. All Licensees \2\
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    \2\ Medical patients are excluded from consideration under this 
criterion and these criteria do not apply to medical events defined 
in Sec.  35.3045 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 
CFR), which are considered in AO Criteria III.C, ``Events involving 
the Medical Use of Radioactive Materials in Patients or Human 
Research Subjects.''
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A. Human Exposure to Radiation From Licensed Material

    1. Any unintended radiation exposure to an adult (any individual 
18 years of age or older) resulting in:
    (a) An annual total effective dose equivalent (TEDE) of 250 
millisievert (mSv) (25 rem) or more;
    (b) an annual sum of the deep dose equivalent (external dose) 
and committed dose equivalent (intake of radioactive material) to 
any individual organ other than the lens of the eye, the bone 
marrow, and the gonads of 2,500 mSv (250 rem) or more;
    (c) an annual dose equivalent to the lens of the eye of 1 Sv 
(100 rem) or more;
    (d) an annual sum of the deep dose equivalent and committed dose 
equivalent to the bone marrow of 1 Sv (100 rem) or more;
    (e) a committed dose equivalent to the gonads of 2,500 mSv (250 
rem) or more; or
    (f) an annual shallow dose equivalent to the skin or extremities 
of 2,500 mSv (250 rem) or more.
    2. Any unintended radiation exposure to any minor (an individual 
less than 18 years of age) resulting in an annual TEDE of 50 mSv (5 
rem) or more, or to an embryo/fetus resulting in a dose equivalent 
of 50 mSv (5 rem) or more.
    3. Any radiation exposure that has resulted in unintended 
permanent functional damage to an organ or a physiological system as 
determined by an independent physician \3\ deemed qualified by the 
NRC or Agreement State.
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    \3\ Independent physician is defined to be a physician not on 
the licensee's staff and who was not involved in the care of the 
patient involved.

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B. Discharge or Dispersal of Radioactive Material From Its Intended 
Place of Confinement

    The release of radioactive material to an unrestricted area in 
concentrations that, if averaged over a period of 24 hours, exceeds 
5,000 times the values specified in Table 2 of appendix B, ``Annual 
Limits on Intake (ALIs) and Derived Air Concentrations (DACs) of 
Radionuclides for Occupational Exposure; Effluent Concentrations; 
Concentrations for Release to Sewerage,'' to 10 CFR part 20, 
``Standards for protection against radiation,'' unless the licensee 
has demonstrated compliance with 10 CFR 20.1301, ``Dose limits for 
individual members of the public,'' using 10 CFR 20.1302(b)(1) or 10 
CFR 20.1302(b)(2)(ii). This criterion does not apply to 
transportation events.

C. Theft, Diversion, or Loss of Licensed Material; Sabotage; or 
Security Breach 4 5 6
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    \4\ Information pertaining to certain incidents may be either 
classified or under consideration for classification because of 
national security implications. Classified information will be 
withheld when formally reporting these incidents in accordance with 
Executive Order 13526, as amended (``Classified National Security 
Information'' (75 FR 707), or any predecessor or successor order to 
require protection against unauthorized disclosures. Any classified 
details about these incidents would be available to the Congress, 
upon request, under appropriate security arrangements.
    \5\ Information pertaining to certain incidents may be 
Safeguards Information as defined in 10 CFR 73.2 because of safety 
and security implications. The AO report would withhold specific 
safeguards information in accordance with Section 147 of the Atomic 
Energy Act of 1954, as amended. Any safeguards details regarding 
these incidents would be available to the Congress, upon request, 
under appropriate security arrangements.
    \6\ Reporting lost or stolen material is based on the activity 
of the source at the time the radioactive material was known to be 
lost or stolen. If, by the time the AO report is due to Congress, 
the radioactive material has decayed to below the thresholds listed 
in appendix A of 10 CFR part 37, the report will clarify that the 
radioactive material has decayed below the thresholds.
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    1. Any stolen, diverted, abandoned, or unrecovered lost 
radioactive material that meets or exceeds the thresholds listed in 
appendix A of 10 CFR part 37, ``Physical protection of category 1 
and category 2 quantities of radioactive material.'' Excluded from 
reporting under this criterion are those events involving sources 
that are lost or abandoned under the following conditions: Sources 
that have been lost and for which a reasonable attempt at recovery 
has been made without success or irretrievable well logging sources 
as defined in 10 CFR 39.2, ``Definitions.'' These sources are only 
excluded if there is reasonable assurance that the doses from these 
sources have not exceeded and will not exceed the reporting 
thresholds specified in AO Criteria I.A.1 and I.A.2 and the agency 
has determined that the risk of theft or diversion is acceptably 
low.
    2. An act that results in radiological sabotage as defined in 10 
CFR 73.2, ``Definitions.''
    3. Any substantiated \7\ case of actual theft, diversion, or 
loss of a formula quantity of special nuclear material \8\ or an 
inventory discrepancy of a formula quantity of special nuclear 
material that is judged to be caused by theft or diversion.
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    \7\ ``Substantiated'' means a situation in which there is an 
indication of loss, theft, or unlawful diversion, such as: An 
allegation of diversion, report of lost or stolen material, or other 
indication of loss of material control or accountability that cannot 
be refuted following an investigation; and requires further action 
on the part of the agency or other proper authorities.
    \8\ Formula quantity of special nuclear material is defined in 
10 CFR 70.4, ``Definitions.''
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    4. Any substantial breakdown \9\ of physical security, cyber 
security, or material control and accountability programs that 
significantly weakens the protection against loss, theft, diversion, 
or sabotage.
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    \9\ A substantial breakdown is defined as a red finding under 
the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) in the physical security 
inspection program or any plant or facility determined to have 
overall unacceptable performance.
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    5. Any significant unauthorized disclosures (loss, theft, and/or 
deliberate) of classified information that harms national security 
or safeguards information that threatens public health and safety.

D. Initiation of High-Level NRC Team Inspection \10\
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    \10\ This item addresses initiation of any incident 
investigation teams, as described in NRC Management Directive (MD) 
8.3, ``NRC Incident Investigation Program'' (see http://www.internal.nrc.gov/policy/directives/toc/md8.3.htm), or initiation 
of any accident review groups, as described in MD 8.9, ``Accident 
Investigation'' (see http://www.internal.nrc.gov/policy/directives/toc/md8.9.htm).
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II. Commercial Nuclear Power Plant Licensees

A. Malfunction of Facility, Structures, or Equipment

    1. Exceeding a safety limit of license technical specification 
(TS) (10 CFR 50.36(c)).
    2. Serious degradation of fuel integrity, primary coolant 
pressure boundary, or primary containment boundary.
    3. Loss of plant capability to perform essential safety 
functions so that a release of radioactive materials, which could 
result in exceeding the dose limits of 10 CFR part 100, ``Reactor 
Site Criteria,'' or five times the dose limits of General Design 
Criteria (GDC) 19 in appendix A, ``General Design Criteria for 
Nuclear Power Plants,'' to 10 CFR part 50, ``Domestic licensing of 
production and utilization facilities,'' could occur from a 
postulated transient or accident (e.g., loss of emergency core 
cooling system, loss of control rod system).

B. Design or Safety Analysis Deficiency, Personnel Error, or 
Procedural or Administrative Inadequacy

    1. Discovery of a major condition not specifically considered in 
the safety analysis report or TS that requires immediate remedial 
action.
    2. Personnel error or procedural deficiencies that result in 
loss of plant capability to perform essential safety functions so 
that a release of radioactive materials, which could result in 
exceeding the dose limits of 10 CFR part 100 or five times the dose 
limits of GDC 19 in appendix A to 10 CFR part 50, could occur from a 
postulated transient or accident (e.g., loss of emergency core 
cooling system, loss of control rod drive mechanism).

C. Any Operating Reactor Events or Conditions Evaluated by the NRC 
Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) To Be the Result of or Associated 
With Licensee Performance Issues of High Safety Significance \11\
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    \11\ The NRC ROP uses four colors to describe the safety 
significance of licensee performance. As defined in NRC MD 8.13, 
``Reactor Oversight Process'' (see http://www.internal.nrc.gov/policy/directives/toc/md8.13.htm), green is used for very low safety 
significance, white is used for low to moderate safety significance, 
yellow is used for substantial safety significance, and red is used 
for high safety significance. Reactor conditions or performance 
indicators evaluated to be red are considered AOs.
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D. Any Operating Reactor Events or Conditions Evaluated by the NRC 
Accident Sequence Precursor (ASP) Program To Have a Conditional 
Core Damage Probability (CCDP) or Change in Core Damage Probability 
([Delta]CDP) of Greater Than or Equal to 1 x 10-\3\ \12\
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    \12\ Results from the NRC ASP program are used to monitor agency 
performance against the agency's strategic safety goal (e.g., ensure 
the safe use of radioactive materials) and objectives (e.g., prevent 
and mitigate accidents and ensure radiation safety). A precursor 
event with a CCDP or [Delta]CDP of greater than or equal to 1 x 
10-\3\ is used as a performance indicator for the 
strategic safety goal by determining that there have been no 
significant precursors of a nuclear reactor accident and that there 
have been no more than one significant adverse trend in industry 
safety performance.
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E. Any Operating Reactor Plants That Are Determined To Have Overall 
Unacceptable Performance or Are in a Shutdown Condition as a Result 
of Significant Performance Problems and/or Operational Event(s) 
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    \13\ Any plants assessed by the ROP to be in the unacceptable 
performance column, as described in NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 
(IMC) 0305, ``Operating Reactor Assessment Program'' (see http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1508/ML15089A315.pdf), or under the NRC IMC 
0350, ``Oversight of Reactor Facilities in a Shutdown Condition Due 
to Significant Performance and/or Operational Concerns'' (see http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0634/ML063400076.pdf). This assessment of 
safety performance is based on the number and significance of NRC 
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III. Events at Facilities Other Than Nuclear Power Plants and All 
Transportation Events

A. Events Involving Design, Analysis, Construction, Testing, 
Operation, Transport, Use, or Disposal

    1. An accidental criticality.
    2. A major deficiency in design, construction, control, or 
operation having significant safety implications that require 
immediate remedial action.
    3. A serious safety-significant deficiency in management or 
procedural controls.
    4. A series of events (in which the individual events are not of 
major importance), recurring incidents, or incidents with 
implications for similar facilities

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(generic incidents) that raise a major safety concern.

B. Fuel Cycle Facilities \14\
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    \14\ Criterion III.A also applies to Fuel Cycle Facilities.
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    1. Absence or failure of all safety controls (engineered and 
human) such that conditions were present for the occurrence of a 
high-consequence event involving an NRC-regulated hazard 
(radiological or chemical).\15\
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    \15\ High-consequence events for facilities licensed under 10 
CFR part 70 are those that could seriously harm the worker or a 
member of the public in accordance with 10 CFR 70.61. The integrated 
safety analysis (ISA) conducted and maintained by the licensee or 
applicant of 10 CFR part 70 fuel cycle facilities identifies such 
hazards and the safety controls (10 CFR 70.62(c)) applied to meet 
the performance requirements in accordance with 10 CFR 70.61(b) 
through (d). Fuel cycle facilities licensed under 10 CFR part 40 or 
certified under 10 CFR part 76 have licensing basis documents that 
describe facility specific hazards, consequences, and those controls 
utilized to prevent or mitigate the consequences of such accidents. 
For these facilities, a high-consequence event would be a release 
that has the potential to cause acute radiological or chemical 
exposures to a worker or a member of the public similar to that 
defined in NUREG-1520, Revision 2, Appendix A to Chapter 3, Section 
A.2, under ``Consequence Category 3 (High Consequences)'' (see 
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1520/).
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    2. An NRC-ordered safety-related or security-related immediate 
remedial action.

C. Events Involving the Medical Use of Radioactive Materials in 
Patients or Human Research Subjects \16\
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    1. A medical event, as defined in 10 CFR 35.3045, which results 
in a dose that:
    (a) Is equal to or greater than 1 Gray (Gy) (100 rad) to a major 
portion of the bone marrow or to the lens of the eye; or equal or 
greater than 2.5 Gy (250 rad) to the gonads;

or

    (b) exceeds, by 10 Gy (1,000 rad), the expected dose to any 
other organ or tissue from the administration defined in the written 
directive; and
    2. A medical event, as defined in 10 CFR 35.3045, which 
involves:
    (a) A dose or dosage that is at least 50 percent greater than 
that prescribed, or
    (b) a prescribed dose or dosage that
    (i) uses the wrong radiopharmaceutical or unsealed byproduct 
material; or
    (ii) is delivered by the wrong route of administration; or
    (iii) is delivered to the wrong treatment site; or
    (iv) is delivered by the wrong treatment mode; or
    (v) is from a leaking source or sources; or
    (vi) is delivered to the wrong individual or human research 
subject.

Appendix B: Other Events of Interest

    This appendix discusses other events of interest that do not 
meet the AO criteria in Appendix A. The Commission may determine 
that events, other than AOs, may be of interest to Congress and the 
public and should be included in an appendix to the AO report as 
``Other Events of Interest.'' Such events may include, but are not 
necessarily limited to, events that do not meet the AO criteria but 
that have been perceived by Congress or the public to be of high 
health and safety significance, have received significant media 
coverage, or have caused the NRC to increase its attention to or 
oversight of a program area, or a group of similar events that have 
resulted in licensed materials entering the public domain in an 
uncontrolled manner.

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