[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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