[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 179 (Friday, September 13, 1996)] [Notices] [Pages 48512-48513] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 96-23513] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Twenty-Fourth Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice of meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Twenty-Fourth Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting will be held on October 21-23, 1996, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in the Bethesda Marriott Hotel, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. The Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting will be opened by NRC Commissioner Kenneth C. Rogers as the keynote speaker for the plenary session on Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Regulation. Panelists will include vice presidents from two nuclear utilities and senior management from NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. A second plenary session will be held on Wednesday morning and will address the Role of Research in Nuclear Regulation. NRC's James M. Taylor, Executive Director for Operations, will chair a panel of international executives representing research, regulatory, and industry points of view. Themis P. Speis, Deputy Director, RES, will speak at the luncheon on Tuesday, October 22. The meeting is international in scope and includes presentations by personnel from the NRC, U. S. Government laboratories, private contractors, universities, the Electric Power Research Institute, reactor vendors, and a number of foreign agencies. This meeting is sponsored by the NRC and conducted by the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The preliminary agenda for this year's meeting includes 7 sessions, along with the panel discussions, on the following topics; High Burnup Fuel, Reactor Pressure Vessel Embrittlement and Thermal Annealing, Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Human Reliability Assessment, and Digital Instrumentation and Control, Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment and Seismic Siting Criteria, Reactor Vessel Lower Head Integrity, Containment and Structural Aging, and Steam Generator Tube Integrity. Attendees may register at the meeting or in advance by contacting Susan [[Page 48513]] Monteleone, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Nuclear Energy, Building 130, Upton, NY 11973, telephone (516) 282-7235; or Christine Bonsby, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-5838. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of September, 1996. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Alois J. Burda, Deputy Director, Financial Management, Procurement and Administration Staff, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. [FR Doc. 96-23513 Filed 9-12-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P