[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 215 (Monday, November 8, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68629-68630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-28130]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-020; NRC-2010-0313]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor Notice of Issuance
of Renewed Facility Operating; License No. R-37
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued renewed
Facility Operating License No. R-37, held by the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (the licensee), which authorizes continued
operation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (MITR-
II), located in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The MITR-II
is a tank-type, light-water-cooled-and-moderated, heavy-water-reflected
research reactor licensed to operate at a steady-state power level of 6
megawatts thermal power. Renewed Facility Operating License No. R-37
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
May 8, 2008, at 73 FR 26148. 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 Operating License No. R-37 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 October
5, 2010, at 75 FR 61220, and concluded that renewal of the license will
not have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment.
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For details with respect to the application for renewal, see the
licensee's letter dated July 8, 1999 (ML080950435), as supplemented by
letters dated February 10 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML003683419,
ML052900533, ML053190234, and ML053190384), and May 8, 2000 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML081000625), January 29, 2004 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML081000626), July 5 (ADAMS Accession No. ML061930319), and October 11,
2006 (ADAMS Accession No. ML063340716), January 26, 2007 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML070320555), February 22 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML081000627), May 29 (ADAMS Accession No. ML081560246), August 15
(ADAMS Accession No. ML082350069), 21 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML082401050), and 26 (ADAMS Accession No. ML082470562), October 6
(ADAMS Accession No. ML082900488) and 7 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML082910241), and December 1, 2008 (ADAMS Accession No. ML083430006),
May 26 (ADAMS Accession No. ML091540202), August 27 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML092450427), October 5 (ADAMS Accession No. ML092930273), October
9 (ADAMS Accession No. ML092930278), and November 19, 2009 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML093290155), and March 30 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML100970368), August 6 (ADAMS Accession No. ML102310032), and August
26, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML102440122). 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 1st day of November, 2010.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jessie Quichocho,
Chief, Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch, Division of Policy
and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2010-28130 Filed 11-5-10; 8:45 am]
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