[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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