[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62868-62869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-26180]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-027, NRC-2011-0083]
Washington State University; Notice of Issuance of Renewed
Facility Operating License No. R-76
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of issuance of renewed facility operating license No. R-
76.
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ADDRESSES: You can access publicly available documents related to this
notice using the following methods:
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have
copied for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, Room
O1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS):
Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC are
available electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain
entry into ADAMS, which provides text and image files of NRC's public
documents. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems
in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR
reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to
[email protected]. For details with respect to the application for
renewal, see the licensee's letter dated June 24, 2002 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML092390202), as supplemented on April 7 (two letters) (ADAMS
Accession Nos. ML101031097 and ML101030215), May 3 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML101310231), May 24 (ADAMS Accession No. ML101530139), June 30 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML101890720), July 30 (ADAMS Accession No. 102230406),
August 4 (ADAMS Accession No. ML 102230415), August 10 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML102300722), August 17 (ADAMS Accession No. ML102360194), and
September 22, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML102780440), and March 23
(ADAMS Accession No. ML110900059), July 15 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML11202A095), July 18, (ADAMS Accession No. ML11207A068), August,
(ADAMS Accession No. ML11221A162), and August 26, 2011 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML112430148).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linh N. Tran, Senior Project Manager,
Research and Test Reactor Licensing Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: 301-415-4103;
fax number: (301) 415-3031; e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC,
the Commission) has issued renewed Facility Operating License No. R-76,
held by the Washington State University (WSU, the licensee), which
authorizes continued operation of the WSU Modified TRIGA Nuclear
Reactor, located in Pullman, Whitman County, Washington. The WSU
Modified TRIGA Nuclear Reactor is a pool-type, natural convection,
light-water cooled, and shielded reactor that was converted to the use
of TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotope Production, General Atomics)
fuel. The WSU NRCR is licensed to operate at a steady-state power level
of 1 megawatt thermal power and pulse mode operation with a peak pulse
power of 2,000 megawatt. The renewed Facility Operating License No. R-
76 will expire 20 years from its date of issuance.
The renewed facility operating 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 facility
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operating license. The agency afforded an opportunity for hearing in
the Notice of Opportunity for Hearing published in the Federal Register
on June 28, 2010 (75 FR 36717-36721). 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-76 and concluded, based on that
evaluation, 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 the renewal of the facility operating license, noticed in
the Federal Register on April 19, 2011 (76 FR 2192821931), and
concluded that renewal of the facility operating license will not have
a significant impact on the quality of the human environment.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of September, 2011.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patricia A. Silva,
Acting Chief, Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch, Division of
Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-26180 Filed 10-7-11; 8:45 am]
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