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Standards Database Initial Development

Tom Boyce, NRC/RES/RGDBNuclear Energy Standards Coordination

Collaborative (NESCC)March 1, 2011

Tom.Boyce@nrc.gov

Task Group Overview

• Purpose: Develop a modern searchable relational database that will catalog the current suite of NRC regulatory documents and10 CFR for citations of standards

• Tool for nuclear community and NRC in applications for NRC licensing (design certifications, site permits, and construction and operating licenses) – identify gaps and assess them

• Tool for SDOs to see where and how their standards are cited – identify regulatory and collaborative needs

• Possible future expansion of the database – standards currently under development by SDOs– plant-specific documents, such as COLAs and DCDs

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Progress Since Last Meeting

• Program Considerations– NRC signed an inter-agency agreement (IAA) and transmitted

it to NIST

– Department of Commerce attorneys are reviewing the IAA

• Funding Issues– Although under a Continuing Resolution, funding expected to

be sufficient for initial database task group effort

– Funding from NRC to NESCC once IAA in place

– The database effort will likely require additional funding, and could possibly require modifications to the original IAA

Concept Development

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• User Need Cases:– Task group needs users to develop user need cases

• Inputs (information that users have)

• Outputs (information that users want to get out)

• Description of how that information pertains to the user’s job

– Target NRC users are the licensing project managers who act as the interface between plants and the agency

• New Reactor Office Project managers

• Construction Inspectors

• Office of NRR project managers

• Other NRC program offices

Concept Development

• Input from task members on user needs for design engineers with respect to new plant design (J. August)

• Additional industry and SDO volunteers needed to take the lead on developing user need case studies

– Base tables (see Nov. presentation): are the proposed documents and key parameters adequate?

– Junction Tables (see Nov. presentation): are all of the useful relationships captured?

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Next Steps

• Complete Inter-Agency Agreement– Allows development to begin

• Develop Test Region – NIST taking lead to develop initial background test region– Data mining to populate the test region

• User Interface– The user need cases to inform the “front end” user interfaces

and reports desired from the database– Can be customized for different types of users– Can use MS Access to develop prototype front end panel

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Questions?

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