Nuclear safety advisory committee review group 6 (research) - 22 April 2008

Open government status: Open
Agenda number: NuSAC/RG6/08/A1
Meeting Date: 22 April 2008
Type of paper: Agenda

2nd meeting on Tuesday 22 April 2008 from 10.00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Conference Room 6, HSE Redgrave Court, Merton Rd, Bootle

Agenda

With indicative timing

	Item	Timing	Ref.
1	Welcome to new member and apologies for absence	10:00
2.1	Chairman’s Remarks:
2.2	Approval of Minutes: 1st Meeting on 2 October 2007		NuSAC/RG6/07/M1
2.3	Matters arising from previous meeting
3	Members’ Reports on Technical Exchanges	10:30	No papers
4.1	UK nuclear safety research programme: update on 2007/2008 programme and proposed programme for 2008/2009 (HSE)	11:00	NuSAC/RG6/08/1
4.2	Licensees' proposed 2008-09 Programme (Licensees) 4.2.1 BE 4.2.2 ME North and South 4.2.3 BNFL Sellafield 4.2.4 UKAEA Dounreay		NuSAC/RG6/08/2 NuSAC/RG6/08/3 NuSAC/RG6/08/4 NuSAC/RG6/08/5
	LUNCH	12:00
5	UK International Research Strategy – coordinated approach (Main topic of meeting)	12:30	NuSAC/RG6/08/6
6	NDA TBURD Production Process (NDA)	13:30	NuSAC/RG6/08/7
7	Human Factors Implementation (Licensees)	14:00	NuSAC/RG6/08/8
8	Safety Research needs to support the Waste Repository (NDA) (Introduction to topic - detailed discussion at a future meeting)	14:30	No papers
9	Access to Independent Technical Capability (HSE) (Below the Line)		NuSAC/RG6/08/9
10	Position on ERC at Nexia and the NNL (NDA)	15:00	No papers
11	Any Other Business	15:15
12	Date and place of next Sub-committee meeting	15:25

07/1 - HSE & Licensees to present a paper on Integrated International Research Strategy to the second meeting of NuSAC/RG6.
07/2 - NDA to send a representative to the Human Factors Workshop in November 2007.
07/3 - HSE/Licensees to prepare a paper on Human Factors implementation.
07/4 - RG6 Chair to consider how HSE Chief Scientist can interact with NuSAC.
07/5 - NDA/RWMD to check whether international collaboration between Waste Management Organisations can take place at the SLC level.
07/6 - All to advise the Chair of NuSAC/RG6 by 22nd October 2007, what topics they would like to be discussed in future meetings.
07/7 - British Energy to provide a statement to RG6 on the importance of research that has had to be deferred as a result of the diversion of staff to major emerging operational issues.