[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 81 (Friday, April 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 20845]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10308]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Westinghouse Electric Company; Notice of Receipt of Application 
for Final Design Approval and Standard Design Certification of the 
AP1000 Standard Plant Design

    Notice is hereby given that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, 
the Commission) has received an application from Westinghouse Electric 
Company dated March 28, 2002, filed pursuant to section 103 of the 
Atomic Energy Act and Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 
CFR) part 52, for the final design approval and standard design 
certification of the AP1000 Standard Plant Design.
    The AP1000 design is based on the AP600 design, which was certified 
on December 16, 1999. The AP1000 design is an approximately 1100 
megawatts electric pressurized water reactor plant design in which 
passive safety systems are used for the ultimate safety protection of 
the plant. All of the safety systems are designed to be passive, where 
natural forces, such as gravity, natural circulation, and stored energy 
(in the form of pressurized accumulators and batteries), are used as 
the motive forces of these systems. The AP1000 application includes the 
entire power generation complex, except those elements and features 
considered site-specific. The acceptability of the tendered application 
for docketing and other matters relating to the requested rulemaking 
pursuant to 10 CFR 52.51 for design certification, including provisions 
for participation of the public and other parties, will be the subject 
of subsequent Federal Register notices.
    A copy of the application is available for public inspection at the 
Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint 
North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 
Publicly available records will be accessible from the Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic 
Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who 
encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should 
contact the NRC Public Document Room Reference staff by telephone at 1-
800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of April 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James E. Lyons,
Director, New Reactor Licensing Project Office, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-10308 Filed 4-25-02; 8:45 am]
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