ASME/ANS
Joint Committee on Nuclear Risk
Management (JCNRM)
Presented to
Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination
Collaborative (NESCC)
November 2014, Washington DC
C.R. (Rick) Grantom P.E.
Co-Vice Chair BNCS, JCNRM Co-Chair
crgrantom@stpegs.com
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Presentation Outline
Introduction
ASME/ANS Risk Management Role & Governance
ASME Board on Nuclear Codes & Standards
ANS Standards Board
Nuclear Risk Management Coordinating Committee
JCNRM Overview
Main Committee
Subcommittees
Working Groups
Project Teams
JCNRM Strategic Plan
JCNRM Products
Risk Informed Applications
Communication & Contact Paths
Opportunities to Participate
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INTRODUCTION
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ASME/ANS RISK
MANAGEMENT ROLE &
GOVERNANCE
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Current ASME / ANS / NRMCC Organization
ANS
Standards
Board
ASME
BNCS
NRMCC
NRC, DOE, NEI, EPRI
Owners Groups, IEEE,
ASME, ANS
ASME/ANS
JCNRM
BNCS Organization
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ASME Organization Chart for Nuclear Codes
and Standards Development
Board of Governors
Council on
Codes and
Standards
Board of Nuclear
Codes & Standards
Committees
NQA
CNF
Council on
Public
Affairs
Council on
Engineering
O&M
CONAGT
Board of
Performance
Test Codes
Council on
Members
Affairs
Board of
Safety Codes
and Standards
Council on
Education
Board of
Pressure Technology
Codes & Standards
QME
JCNRM
Section III
Over 3,000
volunteers
participate
in this
process
BPV
Section XI
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ANS Standards Board
Organization
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The ANS Standards Committee
Standards Board
(Top-level committee)
Large
Light
Water
Reactor
Consensus
Committee
Research
and
Advanced
Reactors
NonReactor
Nuclear
Facilities
Consensus
Committee
Consensus
Committee
Joint
Safety &
Committee
Radiological on Nuclear
Analyses
Risk
Consensus
Management
Committee
Consensus
Committee
Subcommittees
Working Groups
Risk-Informed &
PerformanceBased Principles
Policy
Committee
Nuclear
Fuel,
Environmental
Criticality
Waste, and
and Siting
Decommissioning
Safety
Consensus
Consensus
Committee
Committee
Consensus
Committee
Nuclear Risk Management Coordinating
Committee
MEMBERS
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ASME, ANS, IEEE, Owners Groups, EPRI, NEI, DOE, and NRC
Committee can also include interested standards developing organizations,
such as ASTM, NFPA, and AISC
PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
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Coordinate codes and standards activities related to risk management for
current and new nuclear power plants, nuclear facilities, and the
transportation and storage of nuclear material
Ensure that codes and standards associated with risk management, and
their underlying principles, are consistent and compatible
CURRENT ACTIONS
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Facilitates coordinating activities between ASME, ANS, and IEEE on riskinformed initiatives
Acts on inputs from industry and regulating organizations relative to the use
of risk methods in codes and standards
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JCNRM Overview
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JCNRM CHARTER
• To
develop,
revise
and
maintain
standards and guides on probabilistic
risk assessment (PRA) and related risk
management techniques supporting risk-
informed
and
performance-based
applications for nuclear facilities.
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JCNRM SCOPE
• The development of standards and guidance that
establish risk criteria and methods for PRA, risk
assessment, and risk management for nuclear
facilities.
• Review of standards as requested by other
American Nuclear Society (ANS) and American
Society
standards
of
Mechanical
committees,
Engineers
and
other
(ASME)
standards
development organizations on related topics to
identify inconsistency, lack of integration of risk
concepts and duplication, as appropriate.
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JCNRM Overview
• National consensus committee
• ~70 volunteers working in all JCNRM
organizational areas
• All nuclear sectors interest areas
represented
• Member rosters can be found on
JCNRM web page
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JCNRM BACKGROUND
RA-S Chronology
ASME
RA-S-2002
ASME/ANS
RA-Sa-2009
ASME/ANS
RA-S1-2008
ASME/ANS
RA-Sb-2013
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JCNRM Products
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Current JCNRM Products
• Level 1/LERF PRA (Internal Events & external
hazards): RA-Sb-2013
• Advanced Non-LWR PRA Standard (Published
2013), RA-S-1.4 (Trial Use)
• In process
– New Edition, RA-S-1.1-2016
– Level 2 PRA (Containment Response &
Radiological Release), RA-S-1.2 (Trial Use)
– Level 3 PRA (Consequences), RA-S-1.3 (Trial
Use)
– Low Power and Shutdown PRA (LPSD)
– Advanced LWR PRA
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JCNRM Organizational Chart
JCNRM
Executive
Committee
Subcommittee
Standards
Development
(SC-SD)
Joint Committee on
Nuclear Rick
Management [JCNRM]
(Consensus Group)
Subcommittee
Standards
Maintenance
(SC-SM)
Subcommittee
on Risk
Applications
(SCoRA)
JCNRM Working Groups
JCNRM Project Teams
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Subcommittee
Standards Development
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Chair/Vice Chair
– Barry Sloane (ERIN Engineering), Chair
– Dennis Henneke (GE Hitachi), Vice Chair
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Working Groups (“Writing Groups”)
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Advanced LWR PRA Standard (Jim Chapman, lead)
Low Power/Shutdown PRA Standard (Don Wakefield, lead)
Level 2 PRA Standard (Ed Burns, lead); currently being balloted for trial use
Level 3 PRA Standard (Keith Woodard, lead)
Non-LWR PRA Standard (Karl Fleming, lead); currently in Trial Use phase
Project Teams
– Spent Fuel Pool PRA Needs Assessment; work is completed
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Primary focus 2014 – 2016
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Issuance of LP/SD PRA Standard for Trial Use
Issuance of Advanced LWR PRA Standard for Trial Use
Issuance of L2 PRA Standard Trial Use
Issuance of L3 PRA Standard for Trial Use
Evolution of Trial Use Process, interaction with Trial Use Standard users
Eventual Issuance of Trial Use standards as ANSI Standards
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Subcommittee Maintenance
• Chair Paul Amico/Vice Chairs Andrea Maioli,
Gareth Parry
• Working Groups: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part
4, Parts 5-10
• Project Teams: 8 PTs addressing groups of
cross cutting issues.
• Primary focus 2014 – 2016 is new edition of
RA-S. Expect to inherit new standards and
WGs beginning in 2016
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Subcommittee on Risk
Applications
• Chair Ken Kiper/Vice Chair Stanley Levinson
• Project Teams - New PT on interface with BNCS
Board Committee Nuclear Quality Assurance
(NQA) to facilitate and improve 50.69
implementation
• Primary Focus 2014-2016 - Establish POCs with
key stakeholder organizations & national
consensus committees with risk initiatives
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Strategic Plans
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ASME BNCS Risk Management
Strategic Plan
MISSION
Factor risk, as well as performance, into all ASME Nuclear Codes and
Standards, as appropriate, to further ensure, on a worldwide basis, that
they protect public health and safety and meet the needs of users
ACTION PLAN
Identify and track short-term (1-2 years) and long-term (3+ years) riskinformed initiatives within the Committee on Board Operations and
across all BNCS Committees
PRA STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT
Identify needs to enhance or develop PRA Standards to support
applications defined in the action plan
UPDATES
Plan is updated and approved at each BNCS meeting (~4 months) and
is then placed on the ASME website for public access
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ANS Standards Board Risk
Management Strategic Plan
• The American Nuclear Society Standards Board (SB) has established
the Risk Informed and Performance Based Principles Policy
Committee (RP3C) as a committee that reports directly to the SB.
• The RP3C is responsible for the identification and oversight of the
development and implementation of the ANS Risk Informed and
Performance Based Standards Plan that establishes the approaches,
priorities, responsibilities and schedules for implementation of risk
informed and performance based principles in American Nuclear
Society (ANS) standards.
• The RP3C is also responsible for reviewing standards being developed
by other standards developing organizations as assigned by the ANS
SB on related topics to ensure consistency.
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JCNRM Action Plan
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Risk-Informed Applications
Support
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Regulatory Infrastructure
• RG 1.200 endorses PRA Standards
• Other supporting RGs for applications are
– RG 1.174, Risk Informed Licensing Changes
– RG 1.175, Risk Informed Inservice Inspection
– RG 1.177, Risk Informed Technical
Specifications
– RG 1.201, Risk Informed Categorization &
Treatment of SSCs
– RG 1.205, 50.48(c) Fire Protection, NFPA 805
– RG 1.206, 10CFR52, New Plants
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Use of PRA Results in
Regulatory Applications
• NRC has adopted a risk-informed approach to use of
PRA in regulatory decision-making (Risk Informed
Regulation)
• The philosophy is discussed, in the context of
changes to licensing basis, in RG 1.174
• PRA analyses are one, but not the only, input to the
decision
• NUREG-2150 describes a proposed risk management
regulatory framework
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Risk Informed Regulatory Areas
– Maintenance Rule (10CFR50.65),
– Mitigating Systems Performance Index
(MSPI),
– Reactor Oversight Program/Significance
Determination Process
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Industry PRA Applications
Risk-Informed Applications used by US NPPs
• On-Line Maintenance, Configuration Risk
Management, Risk Informed Inservice Inspection
(prior to PRA Standard)
• 10CFR50.69, Risk Significance Categorization
• Risk-Informed Technical Specifications
– Risk-Managed Tech Specs (Flexible Allowed
Outage Times) (RITS 4B)
– Surveillance Frequency Control Program
(RITS 5B)
• NFPA-805 (Risk Informed Fire Protection)
• Risk-Informed GSI-191
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PRA Standard Utility Interfaces
Utility PRAs use the guidance in the
Standard for establishing in part or in
whole:
• Role of Peer Reviews
• Risk-Informed Application Process
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Communication & Contact
Paths
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Communication Venues
• Owners Group Meetings
• EPRI meetings
• Two JCNRM Meeting weeks per year
(February, September)
– Monday/Tuesday (WGs, Exec Committee)
– Tuesday/Wednesday (Subcommittees)
– Thursday (Main Committee)
• NRMCC Meetings (two per year)
• ASME & ANS
• Many telecons at all levels
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Contact Information
• UTILITY REPRESENTATIVES
• ASME JCNRM committee website
– http://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePa
ges.cfm?Committee=100186782
• Officers
– Co-Chairs: C.R. (Rick) Grantom, Bob Budnitz
– Vice Chairs: Dennis Henneke, Pamela Nelson
• SDO Secretaries
– Oliver Martinez (ASME), martinezo@asme.org
– Pat Schroeder (ANS), pschroeder@ans.org
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Opportunities to Participate
• Subcommittees
• Working Groups (permanent JCNRM
technical groups)
• Project Teams (temporary teams
chartered to address or resolve a
specific short term activity)
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INSIGHTS
• Codes & Standards are the consensus mechanism
to develop guidance and requirements for industry
use and subsequent regulatory endorsement
• Many areas need attention and further development
• Opportunities to help ensure that technical
requirements ultimately to be imposed on Users are
accurate, efficient, and effective
• What is contained in C&S typically become
requirements (participation is important)
• Good opportunity for younger professionals to have
a voice in their future
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QUESTIONS?
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