[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 70 (Tuesday, April 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21607-21608]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-08383]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2016-0074]


Sequoyah State-of-the-Art Reactor Consequence Analyses

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft technical report; public meeting and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment draft technical report, ``State-of-the-Art Reactor 
Consequence Analyses (SOARCA): Sequoyah Integrated Deterministic and 
Uncertainty Analysis.'' A public meeting related to the issuance of 
this draft technical report will be held on April 20, 2016. The purpose 
of the meeting is to present information on the pilot study for 
potential severe reactor accident progression and resulting offsite 
radiological health consequences.

DATES: Submit comments by May 12, 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-2016-0074. 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: Salman Haq, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1799; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0074 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-2016-0074.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the

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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 
draft technical report, ``State-of-the-Art Reactor Consequence Analyses 
(SOARCA): Sequoyah Integrated Deterministic and Uncertainty Analysis,'' 
is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16096A374.
     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-2016-0074 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 will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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 into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    The Sequoyah SOARCA project considered a select set of potential 
severe reactor accidents at the Sequoyah power plant. The project 
combined up-to-date information about the plant's layout and operations 
with local population data and emergency preparedness plans. This 
information was then analyzed using state-of-the-art computer codes 
that incorporate decades of research into severe reactor accidents.
    The public meeting will be held on April 20, 2016, from 6:30 p.m. 
to 8:00 p.m. at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Training Center, 2600 Igou 
Ferry Road, Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee 37379. The SOARCA team will hold an 
informal poster session, then present the project's approach and 
findings, answer questions, and take comments on the draft report. The 
meeting agenda will be published on the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule 
Web site, http://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg, 10 days prior to the 
meeting. Any changes regarding the meeting will be available on the 
previously stated Web site.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of April, 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patricia A. Santiago,
Chief, Accident Analysis Branch, Division of Systems Analysis, Office 
of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2016-08383 Filed 4-11-16; 8:45 am]
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