[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 27, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4680-4681]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-01654]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2015-0234]
Draft NUREG/CR-7209, A Compendium of Spent Fuel Transportation
Package Response Analyses to Severe Fire Accident Scenarios
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG/CR; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment draft NUREG/CR-7209, ``A Compendium of Spent Fuel
Transportation Package Response Analyses to Severe Fire Accident
Scenarios.'' This report summarizes studies of rail and truck transport
accidents involving fires, relative to regulatory requirements for
shipment of commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF).
DATES: Submit comments by March 28, 2016. 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 before this
date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0234. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jimmy Chang, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20005-000; telephone: 301- 415-7427; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0234 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0234.
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].
Draft NUREG/CR-7209, ``A Compendium of Spent Fuel Transportation
Package Response Analyses to Severe Fire Accident Scenarios,'' is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16015A016.
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-2015-0234 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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 that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. 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.
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II. Discussion
The NRC is issuing draft NUREG/CR-7209, ``A Compendium of Spent
Fuel Transportation Package Response Analyses to Severe Fire Accident
Scenarios.'' This report summarizes studies of truck and rail transport
accidents involving fires, relative to regulatory requirements for
shipment of commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF). The fire accident
scenarios were based on the most severe historical railway and roadway
fires in terms of their potential impact on SNF containers. The
accident scenarios that were analyzed include one railway tunnel fire,
two roadway tunnel fires, and one roadway enclosed overpass fire. The
combined summary of this work demonstrates that the current NRC
regulations and packaging standards provide a high degree of protection
to the public health and safety against release of radioactive material
in real-world transportation accidents, were such events to involve SNF
containers.
The purpose of this notice is to provide the public with an
opportunity to review and provide comments on draft NUREG/CR-7209. Any
comments received will be considered in the final version or subsequent
revisions of the draft NUREG/CR.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21 day of January, 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christian Araguas,
Chief, Containment, Structural, and Thermal Branch, Division of Spent
Fuel Management, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2016-01654 Filed 1-26-16; 8:45 am]
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