[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 41 (Friday, February 29, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11156-11157]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-3918]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 52-020]
AREVA NP, Inc.; Acceptance for Docketing of an Application for
Standard Design Certification of the U.S. EPR
By letter dated December 11, 2007, as supplemented by letters dated
February 7, 2008 and February 20, 2008, AREVA NP Inc. (AREVA) submitted
an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the
Commission) for a standard design certification of the U.S.
Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR). The application was submitted
pursuant to section 103 of the Atomic Energy Act and Subpart B,
``Standard Design Certifications,'' of Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) Part 52, ``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals
for Nuclear Power Plants.'' A notice of receipt and availability of
this application was previously published in the Federal Register (73
FR 2286) on January 14, 2008.
The NRC staff has determined that AREVA has submitted information
in accordance with 10 CFR Part 2, ``Rules of Practice for Domestic
Licensing Proceedings and Issuance of Orders,'' and 10 CFR Part 52 and
that the application is acceptable for docketing. The docket number
established for this application is 52-020.
The NRC staff will perform a detailed technical review of the
design certification application. Docketing of the design certification
application does not preclude the NRC from requesting additional
information from the applicant as the review proceeds, nor does it
predict whether the Commission will grant or deny the application. The
NRC staff anticipates that a notice relating to the rulemaking pursuant
to 10 CFR 52.51 for design certification, including provisions for
participation of the public and other parties, will be published in the
future.
The U.S. EPR design is an approximately 1600 megawatt electric
evolutionary pressurized water reactor (PWR). The primary system
design, loop configuration, and main components design are similar to
those of currently operating PWRs. The U.S. EPR contains unique design
features, such as four redundant trains of emergency core cooling;
Containment and Shield Building; and a core melt retention system for
severe accident mitigation. The U.S. EPR application includes the
entire power generation complex, except those elements and features
considered site-specific.
Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's
Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public
File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland 20852, and will be accessible electronically through the
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public
Electronic Reading Room link 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 documents located in ADAMS should
contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-4209, 301-
415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected]. The application is also
available at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-licensing/design-cert.html.
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 25th day of February 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Getachew Tesfaye,
Sr. Project Manager, EPR Projects Branch, Division of New Reactor
Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-3918 Filed 2-28-08; 8:45 am]
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