[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 13 (Friday, January 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 3495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-872]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD.; Notice of Receipt of 
Application for Design Certification of the US-APWR

    Notice is hereby given that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, 
the Commission) has received an application from Mitsubishi Heavy 
Industries (MHI), Ltd. Dated December 31, 2007, filed pursuant to 
section 103 of the Atomic Energy Act and Title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 52, for standard design certification 
of the US-APWR Standard Plant Design.
    The US-APWR design is an approximately 1,700 megawatts electric, 
four-loop, advanced pressurized water reactor (APWR). MHI developed the 
US-APWR based on technologies for a 1,538 megawatts electric APWR 
planned for use in Japan. The US-APWR is based on the latest 
technologies to improve plant efficiency, reduce plant building volume, 
and provide a 24-month fuel cycle. The US-APWR 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 will be 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. The accession number for the application is 
ML080020070. Future publicly available documents related to the 
application will also be posted in ADAMS. 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 14th day of January 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jeffrey A. Ciocco,
Sr. Project Manager, US-APWR Projects Branch, Division of New Reactor 
Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-872 Filed 1-17-08; 8:45 am]
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