[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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