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54 1 CHAIRMAN MACFARLANE: All right. 2 QUESTIONER: Is there any way to engage the 3 4 5 insurance industry and its knowledge of actuarial science -- for example, through estimation of risk premiums -- and the NPP Safety Assessment process? 6 7 8 Apostolakis take this one. CHAIRMAN MACFARLANE: (Laughter.) I'll let Commissioner 9 10 COMMISSIONER APOSTOLAKIS: No. (Laughter.) 11 CHAIRMAN MACFARLANE: You don't want to 12 elaborate? 13 14 (Laughter.) QUESTIONER: What is each Commissioner's 15 16 17 18 19 perspective on whether plant operating licenses should be renewed for 60 to 80 years; i.e., subsequent license renewal? CHAIRMAN MACFARLANE: I will let everybody take a stab at that one. I personally think that one has to be very careful 20 projecting out. You always have to worry about the unknown 21 22 23 24 25 26 unknowns that will come and get you. We have experience with this on a regular basis, the unknown unknowns. And so, I think it's something that we really need to be very cautious about and look at very, very carefully before we make a decision to go in that direction. COMMISSIONER SVINICKI: I wouldn't prejudge any
55 1 2 3 particular application that would come before this Agency to extend or renew an operating license. But I would note that, you know, legally, in looking at our regulations, such extension is currently not precluded. 4 COMMISSIONER MAGWOOD: One of the things 5 6 7 8 9 10 that we have been having a lot of discussion about in the last year or so is the need to focus our decision-making on a site-specific basis, and to think about things as how they affect individual reactors, individual sites, and their particular circumstances. So, I think really the answer to the question isn't so much what do you think about operations between 60 and 80 years. It 11 12 is that you have to look at specific reactors. specific circumstances. You have to look at 13 14 15 16 17 18 And I think that the answer to the question is the <strong>NRC</strong> is well-equipped to make that decision using the tools and knowledge and people that it has. So, I don't know what answer will ultimately come of this, but I suspect that we're more than ready for the challenge. So, it is not one that keeps me up at night thinking about it, quite frankly. I think we can handle this one very easily. 19 COMMISSIONER OSTENDORFF: I agree with my 20 colleagues. I'll note that especially Commissioner Magwood's last 21 22 23 24 point about it's under this Agency and we have the ability to make these assessments. I'll look at the alkali-silica reaction at Seabrook as being a prime example of something that you all have worked on, or Region I has, the licensee has, to get to the bottom of technical issues 25 associated with that phenomena. So, that is just one example of 26 where it's within our technical ability to take a hard look at these aging
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