[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 72 (Thursday, April 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22129-22130]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-08621]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2014-0040 and NRC-2015-0136]
Neutron-Absorbing Materials in Spent Fuel Pools
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Generic letter; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the
availability of a final generic letter addressing degradation of
neutron-absorbing materials in the spent fuel pool (SFP). The NRC has
determined that it is necessary to obtain plant-specific information
requested in the generic letter so that the NRC can determine if the
degradation of the neutron-absorbing materials in the SFP is being
managed to maintain reasonable assurance that the materials are capable
of performing their intended design
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basis function, and if the addressees are in compliance with the
regulations.
DATES: The final generic letter is available as of April 14, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0040 and NRC-2015-0136
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-2014-0040 and NRC-
2015-0136. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher;
telephone: 301-415-3463; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed in the CONTACT section of this
document.
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
final generic letter, GL-2016-01, is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML16097A169.
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.
This generic letter is also available on the NRC's public
Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/gen-comm/gen-letters/ (select ``2016'' and then select ``GL-16-01'').
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Krepel, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-302-0399, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC is issuing a final generic letter,
GL-2016-01, addressing degradation of neutron-absorbing materials in
the SFP. This generic letter requests information from nuclear power
plant licensees demonstrating that credited neutron-absorbing materials
in the SFP of power reactors and the fuel storage pool, reactor pool,
or other wet locations designed for the purpose of fuel storage, as
applicable for non-power reactors, are in compliance with the current
licensing and design basis, as well as applicable regulatory
requirements, and that there are measures in place to maintain this
compliance. The information is being requested so that the NRC can
determine if it needs to take any additional licensee-specific
regulatory action with respect to neutron-absorbing materials in the
spent fuel pool.
The NRC published notices of opportunities for public comment on
drafts of this generic letter in the Federal Register (79 FR 13685,
March 11, 2014; 80 FR 31930, June 4, 2015; and 80 FR 81560, December
30, 2015). In total, the agency received 18 comments. The staff
considered all comments, which resulted in minor revisions to the
generic letter. The evaluation of these comments, and the resulting
changes to the generic letter are discussed in the publicly-available
documents in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML14181B130, ML15222A005, and
ML16033A002, respectively.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of April 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Sheldon D. Stuchell,
Branch Chief, Generic Communications Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016-08621 Filed 4-13-16; 8:45 am]
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