[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 80 (Tuesday, April 26, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23339-23340]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-10084]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-113; NRC-2009-0549]


Notice of Issuance of License Amendment Regarding Decommission 
Plan Approval; University of Arizona Research Reactor

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued the 
approval of the University of Arizona decommissioning plan (DP) by 
amendment to the Facility License R-52 for the University of Arizona 
Research Reactor (UARR). The UARR is located within the University of 
Arizona Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (NRL) on the 325-acre campus of the 
University of Arizona in Pima County, Arizona in the city of Tucson. 
The reactor was licensed for a steady state power of 110 kW (thermal), 
with a pulsing capability up to peak powers of approximately 650 MW. 
The reactor ceased operations on May 18, 2010. The UARR is a TRIGA 
pool-type reactor designed and constructed by General Atomic Division 
of General Dynamics Corporation (now GA Technologies of San Diego, 
California). TRIGA stands for Test, Research, Isotope production, 
General Atomics. The licensee submitted the UARR DP to the NRC in a 
letter dated May 21, 2009, as supplemented on March 26, 2010.
    A document titled, ``Notice and Solicitation of Comments Pursuant 
to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Section 20.1405 
and 10 CFR 50.82(b)(5) Concerning Proposed Action to Decommission the 
University of Arizona Research Reactor,'' was published in the Federal 
Register on December 14, 2009 (74 FR 66173-66174). No comments were 
received following the notice.

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    The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report approving the 
University of Arizona's proposed decommissioning plan. Based on the NRC 
staff's review of the licensee's application for approval of 
decommissioning, the NRC staff finds that the proposed DP meets the 
requirements of 10 CFR 50.82(b)(4).
    For details with respect to the licensee's application, see the 
licensee's letter dated May 21, 2009 (ML100620926, ML091490076), as 
supplemented by letter dated March 26, 2010 (ML100920089). 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 15th day of April 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jessie F. Quichocho,
Chief, Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch, Division of Policy 
and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-10084 Filed 4-25-11; 8:45 am]
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