[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61446-61447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-24759]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2012-0232]
Proposed Revision Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Severe
Accident Evaluation for New Reactors
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Standard review plan-draft section revision; request for
comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission)
is soliciting public comment on NUREG-0800, ``Standard Review Plan for
the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR
Edition,'' on a proposed Revision 3 to its Standard Review Plan (SRP),
Section 19.0, ``Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Severe Accident
Evaluation for New Reactors.''
DATES: Submit comments by November 8, 2012. Comments received after
this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received
on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may access information and comment submissions related
to this document, which the NRC possesses and are publicly available,
by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2012-
0232. You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
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Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0232. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [email protected].
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules,
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Amy E. Cubbage, Office of New
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone at 301-415-2875 or email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0232 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
access information related to this document, which the NRC possesses
and are publicly available, by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0232.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the
search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ``Begin Web-
based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's
Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is
referenced. The SRP, Section 19.0, is under ADAMS Accession No.
ML12132A481.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2012-0232 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enters the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information in their comment submissions
that they do not want to be publicly disclosed. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.
II. Further Information
The Office of New Reactors and the Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation are revising SRP Section 19.0, which updates Revision 2
(ADAMS Accession No. ML071700652) dated June 2007, to reflect the
changes as listed in the description of changes. These changes include
(1) incorporation of guidance previously contained in Interim Staff
Guidance (ISG), DC/COL-ISG-003 (ADAMS Accession No. ML081430087)
concerning the review of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA)
information and severe accident assessments for new reactors submitted
to support design certification (DC) and combined license (COL)
applications, (2) incorporation of guidance previously contained in ISG
DC/COL-ISG-020 (ADAMS Accession No. ML100491233) concerning review of
information from PRA-based seismic margin analyses submitted in support
of DC and COL applications, (3) incorporation of guidance previously
contained in ISG DI&C/COL-ISG-003 (ADAMS Accession No. ML080570048)
concerning review of digital instrumentation and control system PRAs,
including common cause failures in PRAs and uncertainty analysis
associated with new reactor digital systems, and (4) incorporation of
additional procedures for review of PRA information and severe accident
assessments developed during NRC reviews of DC and COL applications
completed after ISG DC/COL-ISG-003 was issued. A redline document
comparing Revision 2 and the current proposed Revision 3 can be found
under ADAMS Accession No. ML12153A008.
The NRC staff issues Federal Register notices to facilitate timely
implementation of the current staff guidance and to facilitate
activities associated with the review of amendment applications. The
NRC staff intends to incorporate the final approved guidance into the
next revision of NUREG-0800, SRP Section 19.0 Revision 3.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of September 2012.
Amy E. Cubbage,
Chief, Policy Branch, Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking,
Office of New Reactors.
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