[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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