Employee Meeting - NRC

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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.
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COMMISSIONER MAGWOOD:
One of the things
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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
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is that you have to look at specific reactors.
specific circumstances.
You have to look at
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And I think that the answer to the question is the NRC
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.
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COMMISSIONER OSTENDORFF:
I agree with my
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colleagues.
I'll note that especially Commissioner Magwood's last
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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
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associated with that phenomena.
So, that is just one example of
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where it's within our technical ability to take a hard look at these aging