[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 121 (Wednesday, June 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36365-36366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-15518]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2011-0147]


Thomas Saporito on Behalf of Saprodani Associates

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Director's decision under 10 CFR 2.206; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a 
director's decision with regard to a petition dated March 12, 2011, 
filed by Thomas Saporito (the petitioner), requesting that the NRC take 
action with regard to all operating reactor licensees. The petitioner's 
requests and the director's decision are included in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this document.

DATES: June 24, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0147 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain 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 for Docket ID NRC-2011-0147. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected].
     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 (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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Notice is hereby given that the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, has issued a director's decision (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML15114A411) on a petition filed by the petitioner on March 12, 2011 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML110740026). The petition was supplemented by 
documents dated April 14, April 16, and May 25, 2011 (ADAMS Accession 
Nos. ML11110A026, ML11110A027, ML11110A028, ML11119A024, and 
ML111450897, respectively.)
    The petitioner requested that the NRC:
    1. Order the immediate shutdown of all nuclear power reactors 
located on or near an earthquake fault line in the United States.
    2. Order the immediate shutdown of all power reactors employing GE 
Mark I containment design in the United States, characterizing such 
design as flawed from the nuclear safety standpoint.
    3. Advise other countries employing the GE Mark I nuclear power 
reactors about the serious nuclear safety design flaws associated with 
that design, which is likely to result in a serious nuclear accident 
comparable to the Japanese nuclear disaster.
    4. Immediately revoke all 20-year license extensions issued to NRC 
licensees, because the NRC ``has improperly and illegally granted 20-
year license extensions to the 40-year license that was initially 
granted by the agency for the 104 nuclear reactors throughout the 
United States.''
    As the basis for these requests, the petitioner cited the events in 
Japan at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant.
    On April 14, 2011, and May 25, 2011, the petitioner met with the 
NRC's Petition Review Board. The meetings provided the petitioner an 
opportunity to provide additional information and to clarify issues 
cited in the petition. The transcripts for those meetings are available 
in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML11109A014 and ML11146A010, 
respectively.
    The NRC sent a copy of the proposed director's decision to the 
petitioner and the licensees for comment on April 8, 2015 (ADAMS 
Package Accession No. ML13018A145). The petitioner and the licensees 
were asked to provide comments within 2 weeks on any part of the 
proposed director's decision that was considered to be erroneous or any 
issues in the petition that were not addressed. Comments were received 
from two licensees and are addressed in an attachment to the final 
director's decision. The staff did not receive any comments from the 
petitioner.
    The Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation has 
determined that the following requests are denied: (1) To require that 
the NRC Order the immediate shutdown of all nuclear power reactors 
located on or near an earthquake fault line in the United States, and 
(2) to require that the NRC Order the immediate shutdown of all power 
reactors employing GE Mark I containment design in the United States. 
The NRC rejected Request 3 on the basis that the NRC was already 
implementing the actions requested. The NRC rejected Request 4 on the 
basis that the petitioner's claim was general and insufficient to 
warrant further inquiry, and that the NRC staff had already reviewed, 
evaluated, and resolved the issue.
    The reasons for this decision are explained in the director's 
decision (DD-15-06) under Section 2.206 of Title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) of the Commission's regulations.
    The NRC will file a copy of the director's decision with the 
Secretary of the Commission for the Commission's review in accordance 
with 10 CFR

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2.206. As provided by this regulation, the director's decision will 
constitute the final action of the Commission 25 days after the date of 
the decision, unless the Commission, on its own motion, institutes a 
review of the director's decision in that time.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of June, 2015.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
William M. Dean,
Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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