1 Meeting on April 18, 2013 Washington DC Workshop on a Joint HDPE Roadmap for Current and Future Service

2 Overview Joint HDPE Roadmaps Tracking Document: Issues, Status, Research, Results & Resolution –Tracking Purposes: List all Issues preventing conditional or full acceptance of Codea & Standards for HDPE usage in Nuclear service Reflect the current Status of the efforts to resolve a given Issue Identify the Research Tasks needed to fully resolve an Issue List current and planned Research projects by Research Task, as well as identify Tasks without a Research project Summarize the Results of Research projects Validate the Resolution of an Issue through and indicate revisions to existing or creation of new Codes and Standards for HPDE To be use by Industry, Regulators, Research Entities, & SDO’s

3 Goal To have a single top-level tracking document To have a common list of prioritized Issues affecting the acceptance of Codes & Standards for HDPE For Industry & Regulators to see the path to Resolution of a given Issue needing Research Highlight those Research Tasks that do not have an active or planned Research Project Seek Industry/Government sponsorship for those needed Research Projects to accelerate HDPE acceptance

4 1 st Step Started developing the Joint HDPE Roadmaps Tracking document in January, 2013 Initial Contributors were from NRC, NIST, EPRI & ASME ST-LLC Document Structure and Tracking Methodology was developed Several exchanges occurred between the initial contributors to bring the Tracking document to this point

5 This Workshop Show the Joint Tracking Document to broader audience Obtain feedback on: –Methodology –Structure –Content (completeness and accuracy) To be consider a living document ato be managed by stakeholders

6 Next Steps Incorporate the feedback from this Workshop Identify additional Contributors from within this group of Stakeholders Request the Contributors obtain the most complete & current information Establish a “First Release Date” for the Tracking Document & identify the distribution

7 ASME Committee Input (1) BPV III Standards Committee on Construction of Nuclear Facility Components Special Working Group on HDPE Design of Components (SG HDPE) WG R&D HDPE BPV XI Standards Committee on Nuclear In-service Inspection Subgroup on Repair/Replacement Activities (SGRRA) (SC XII Subgroup Evaluation Standards (SGES)(SC XI) Task Group Flaw Evaluation HPDE Working Group on Non-Destructive Examination and Fusion of HDPE

8 ASME Committee Input (2) Request that the Chairs of Committees, Subgroups, and Working Groups to related to HDPE Code Cases and Research on HDPE become Contributors Obtain from Chairs the current status of ASME Research Projects for HDPE Work with Code Case Project Managers to obtain most current status of Code Case N755-2 and N808

9 To Achieve Standards NRC Acceptance Concerns Planning Resolutions Standards Acceptance Capturing Concerns from Regulators and industry Prioritization of Concerns with input from NRC, SDOs and industry Obtain NRC buy in Identify projects: utilize ASME’s HDPE Roadmap, NESCC’s report & other sources Develop project scope Establish tasks, schedule & budgets Identify target code case or standard Identify funding Coordinate with other SDO’s, & government entities. Obtain NRC buy in Solicited Contracts with R&D Entities Oversee R&D Projects Review Results Final Findings and Outcome Obtain NRC buy in Standards development and writing Modify existingor create new Technical Concerns, Code Cases or standards Consensus process Adoption to the Code NRC participation in first 4 phases leading to standards endorsement Seek NRC acceptance of new or modified code cases or standards Accepted code case or standard be published in NUREG

10 Contact Info John Grimes Project Specialist