[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 228 (Monday, November 30, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 62606]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-28511]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0495; Docket No. 50-005]


Penn State Breazeale Reactor; Notice of Issuance of Renewed 
Facility Operating License No. R-2

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued renewed 
Facility Operating License No. R-2, held by the Pennsylvania State 
University (the licensee), which authorizes continued operation of the 
Penn State Breazeale Reactor (PSBR), located in University Park, Centre 
County, Pennsylvania. The PSBR is a pool-type, light-water-moderated-
and-cooled research reactor licensed to operate at a steady-state power 
level of 1 megawatt thermal power and pulse mode operation with a peak 
pulse power of approximately 2,000 megawatts. Renewed Facility 
Operating License No. R-2 will expire at midnight 20 years from its 
date of issuance.
    The renewed license complies with the standards and requirements of 
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the 
Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made appropriate 
findings as required by the Act and the Commission's regulations in 
Title 10, Chapter 1, ``Nuclear Regulatory Commission,'' of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), and sets forth those findings in the 
renewed license. The agency afforded an opportunity for hearing in the 
Notice of Opportunity for Hearing published in the Federal Register on 
June 8, 2009, at 74 FR 27188. The NRC received no request for a hearing 
or petition for leave to intervene following the notice.
    The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report for the renewal 
of Facility License No. R-2 and concluded, based on that evaluation, 
that the licensee can continue to operate the facility without 
endangering the health and safety of the public. The NRC staff also 
prepared an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant 
Impact for license renewal, noticed in the Federal Register on November 
12, 2009, at 74 FR 58319, as corrected on November 20, 2009, at 74 FR 
60301, and concluded that renewal of the license will not have a 
significant impact on the quality of the human environment.
    For details with respect to the application for renewal, see the 
licensee's letter dated December 6, 2005 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML091250487), as supplemented on October 31, 2008 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML092650603), and April 2 (ADAMS Accession No. ML093030395), June 11 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML092030312), September 1 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML092580215), and October 21, 2009 (ADAMS Accession No. ML092990409). 
Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public 
Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 
Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records 
will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access 
and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on 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 PDR Reference staff 
at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or send an e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of November, 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kathryn M. Brock,
Chief, Research and Test Reactors Branch A, Division of Policy and 
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E9-28511 Filed 11-27-09; 8:45 am]
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