[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 96 (Wednesday, May 18, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28819-28820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-12200]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2011-0109]
NUREG/CR-XXXX, Development of Quantitative Software Reliability
Models for Digital Protection Systems of Nuclear Power Plants Draft
Report for Comment
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Announcement of issuance for public comment, availability.
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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public
comment a document entitled: NUREG/CR-XXXX, ``Development of
Quantitative Software Reliability Models for Digital Protection Systems
of Nuclear Power Plants, Draft Report for Comment.''
DATES: Please submit comments by July 18, 2011. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC
staff is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or
before this date.
ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2011-0109 in the subject line
of your comments. Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form
will be posted on the NRC Web site and on the Federal rulemaking Web
site, http://www.regulations.gov. Because your comments will not be
edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC
cautions you against including any information in your submission that
you do not want to be publicly disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any
identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not
include any information in their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed. You may submit
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comments by any one of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-
2011-0109. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher,
telephone: 301-492-3668; e-mail: [email protected].
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules,
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446.
You can access publicly available documents related to this notice
using the following methods:
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine
and have copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's
PDR, O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC
are available online in the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain entry into ADAMS,
which provides text and image files of the NRC's public documents. If
you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing
the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR reference staff
at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
NUREG/CR-XXXX is available electronically under ADAMS Accession Number
ML111020087.
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public comments and
supporting materials related to this notice can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2011-0109.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Kuritzky, Division of Risk
Analysis, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Telephone: 301-251-
7587, e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC is conducting research to support
development of regulatory guidance for using risk information related
to digital systems in the licensing actions of nuclear power plants
(NPPs). The objective of this research is to identify and develop
methods, analytical tools, and regulatory guidance for (1) including
models of digital systems into NPP probabilistic risk assessments
(PRAs), and (2) incorporating digital systems in the NRC's risk-
informed licensing and oversight activities.
A previous Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) technical report,
entitled ``Review of Quantitative Software Reliability Methods,'' BNL-
94047-2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML102240566), documented a review of
currently available quantitative software reliability methods (QSRMs)
that can be used to quantify software failure rates and probabilities
of digital systems at NPPs for use in PRAs and identified a set of
desirable characteristics for QSRMs. The current draft report documents
a comparison of the previously-identified QSRMs against the set of
desirable characteristics. Three candidate QSRMs were identified for
further literature review to assess their suitability for estimating
demand-failure probabilities of safety-critical protection systems and
to formulate an approach for applying each of them to an example system
in a case study. The example digital protection system to be used in
the case studies is also identified. The actual case studies will be
documented in separate reports. Completion of the case studies is
expected to provide a much better understanding of the existing
capabilities and limitations in treating software failure in digital
system reliability models for use in NPP PRAs.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of May, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kevin A. Coyne,
Chief, Probabilistic Risk Assessment Branch, Division of Risk Analysis,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-12200 Filed 5-17-11; 8:45 am]
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