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2017 Equipment Qualification Technical Meeting Agenda
Monday - Friday, November 6-10, 2017
Sheraton Sand Key Resort, Clearwater Beach, Florida

Agenda Overview

2017 Advanced EQ Training Course     8:00am – 5:00pm

Advanced EQ Training topic: EQ Program Owner Best Practices - Applying Lessons Learned from Design Basis Assurance (Programs) Inspections. 

Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Scientech, Newell “Woody” Woodward, NKW, Inc., and Ron Wise, NEQ Consulting

       ·          Sand Key Room

Breakfast & Lunch (Training Attendees & Registered Guest Only)

•     Rusty’s Dinning Hall (Lunch)     12:00pm-1:00pm

2017 Advanced EQ Training Course     8:00am – 12:00pm

• Sand Key Room

Breakfast (Training Attendees & Registered Guest Only)     7:30am – 8:00am

• Sand Key Room

 EQMS User Group Meeting     3:00pm – 5:00pm

• Sand Key Room

Welcoming Reception     7:00pm - 9:00pm

• Poolside (grass area)

29^th Annual EQ Technical Meeting (full agenda below)     8:00am – 5:00pm

Moderator - Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Nuclear Division, - EQPS
Bill Horin, Winston & Strawn LLP – Nuclear Utility Group on Equipment Qualification

·                Island Ballroom

Wednesday Evening Activity

·                Dinner Cruise

Breakfast & Lunch

·                Breakfast – Gulf/Palm/Bay

·                Lunch – Gulf/Palm/Bay

29^th Annual EQ Technical Meeting (full agenda below)     8:00am – 5:00pm

Moderator – Bill Horin, Winston & Strawn LLP, and Ron Wise, NEQ Consulting

·                Island Ballroom

Breakfast & Lunch

·                Breakfast – Gulf/Palm/Bay

·                Lunch – Gulf/Palm/Bay
Thursday Evening
·                No activity planned

29^th Annual EQ Technical Meeting (full agenda below)     8:00am – 12:00pm

Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Nuclear Division, - EQPS
Bill Horin, Winston & Strawn LLP – Nuclear Utility Group on Equipment Qualification

·                Island Ballroom

Breakfast

·                Gulf/Palm/Bay 

·                Meeting Room – Beach Room

Full Agenda
2017 EQ Technical Meeting Wednesday, November 8

Opening Remarks/Introductions

Moderator - Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Nuclear Division, - EQPS

Year in Review     8:20am – 9:15am

Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Nuclear Division, - EQPS

Subsequent License Renewal Approach and Impacts     9:15am - 10:00 am

Spencer C. Feuerstein, Enercon

Jim Gleason, GLSEQ, LLC

IEEE 60780-323 Joint Stand Update     11:00am – 11:45am

Bob Konnick, RSCC & John White, Luminant

Lunch     11:45am – 1:15pm

 1:15pm - 1:45pm

Chad Kiger, AMS

Bruce EQ Extension Project     1:45pm - 2:30pm

Shaun Abbas, Bruce Power

Break     2:30pm – 3:00pm

Improving Designs and Reducing Qualification Costs using 
Agile Engineering       3:00pm - 3:30pm
Adam Gaither, Ultra-Electronics

     3:30pm - 4:00pm
Nick Ingles & Steve Casadevall, Emerson

Analysis Methods to Reduce EQ Dose 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Nathan Block, Red Wolf Associates
                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Q & A/Network/Open Discussion     4:30pm – 5:00pm

2017 EQ Technical Meeting Thursday, November 9

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Introductions and NUGEQ Business    8:00am – 9:00am

• Overview of EQFAX’s, Part 21’s, Generic Communications, WSPlus Updates, Other

Industry and NRC Panel Discussion – NRC Program Inspections     9:00am – 10:20am

• NRC Overall Program Inspection Initiative
• NRC EQ DBA Program Inspection Initiative
• Group Comments on Initiative
• Inspection Results by Plant 2017
• Tentative 2018 Schedule
• NRC Staff New Positions/Focus
• Commercial Grade Dedication, Arrhenius Calculation, Activation Energy Determination, DOR and NUREG–0588 Reinterpretation(s), Other
• Group Member Support

Break    10:20am – 10:40am

Regulatory Developments    10:40am – 11:15am

• Service Life Draft RIS/NRC Backfit Analysis
• Regulatory Guidance External Petitions
• Enforcement Guidance Regarding Design Compliance Subsequent License Renewal

Delivering the Nuclear Promise    11:15am – 12:00pm

• Group/Industry Initiatives (Risk-Informed, Post Accident Operating Time, Graded Qualification, Optimizing Maintenance Intervals, Program Scope Limitation to 50.49)

Lunch   12:00pm – 1:15pm

NRC Presentation – “Challenges in the Environmental Qualification of First of a Kind Components”     1:15pm – 1:45pm
Jeff Jacobson, NRC

Benchmarking Discussion    1:45pm –  2:15pm 

Vendor Developments   2:15pm – 2:45pm

• Inspections
• Departure of Nuclear Vendors

Break    2:45pm – 3:00pm 

Utility Information Exchange – CLOSED Session – Utilities ONLY     3:00pm – 5:00pm 

• Individual Utility Issues, Industry Issues
  

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2017 EQ Technical Meeting Friday, November 10

Moderator – Rick Weinacht, Curtiss-Wright, Scientech, EQPS

Sven Olof-Palm, Vattenfall

Break   9:00am - 9:15am

On Study of Synergistic Effect for PEEK of CEDM in Nuclear Power
Plant Using TGA Method     9:15am – 10:00am

Kim Han Soo, Jae Hyung and Keug Jin Bhang, KHNP

Yasutaka Eguchi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Break    10:45am - 11:00am

Q&A/Network/Open Session     11:00am – 11:45am

Marek Tengler, Rizzo Associates & Bohumir Myslin, Czech Republic Military Technical Institute

Meeting Adjourn