[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 90 (Friday, May 9, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26783-26784]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-10716]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 52-0010; NRC-2010-0135]
RIN 3150-AI85
ESBWR Design Certification
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: NUREG; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
1966, ``Final Safety Evaluation Report Related to the Certification of
the Economic Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor Standard Design.'' On
August 24, 2005, General Electric-Hitachi Nuclear Energy tendered its
application for certification of the economic simplified boiling-water
reactor (ESBWR) standard nuclear reactor design to the NRC. The
application included the ESBWR design control document (DCD) and the
ESBWR probabilistic risk assessment (PRA). On March 24, 2011, the NRC
published the proposed rule in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC 2010-0135 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may access publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search
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for Docket ID NRC 2010-0135. Address questions about NRC dockets to
Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-3422; email:
[email protected]. For technical questions, contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in
the ADAMS Public Documents collection 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 document
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time
that a document is referenced.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Misenhimer, Office of New
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-6590, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 24, 2005, General Electric-Hitachi
Nuclear Energy tendered its application for certification of the ESBWR
standard nuclear reactor design to the NRC. The applicant submitted
this application in accordance with Part 52 of Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, ``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for
Nuclear Power Plants,'' Subpart B, ``Standard Design Certifications.''
The application included the ESBWR DCD and the ESBWR PRA.
On March 9, 2011, the staff issued the final safety evaluation
report (ADAMS Accession Number ML103470210) and final design approval
(ADAMS Accession Number ML110540310) for the ESBWR standard design. On
March 24, 2011, the NRC published the proposed rule in the Federal
Register (76 FR 16549). In late 2011, while the NRC staff was preparing
the final rule, issues were identified with the ESBWR steam dryer, a
non-safety related component. These issues called into question certain
conclusions in the staff's safety review. Publication of NUREG-1966 was
delayed while the steam dryer design methodology was under review. The
NRC issued requests for additional information (RAIs). Resolution of
these issues required additional analyses by the applicant and review
by the NRC staff in order for the NRC staff to conclude the design is
acceptable for certification. Responses to all RAIs were received in
December 2013. An Advanced Supplemental FSER was issued to the ACRS on
February 12, 2014 which became publicly available on April 17, 2014
(ADAMS Accession No. ML14043A134). The supplemental final safety
evaluation report includes the NRC staff's safety review of the steam
dryer issues. This notice announces the final safety evaluation report
was published as NUREG-1966 in April 2014 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML14100A304).
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of May 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ronaldo Jenkins,
Chief, Licensing Branch 3, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of
New Reactor.
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