[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 238 (Monday, December 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 89510-89511]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-29661]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2016-0252]
Assumptions Used for Evaluating the Potential Radiological
Consequences of a Fuel Handling Accident in the Fuel Handling and
Storage Facility for Boiling and Pressurized Water Reactors
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; withdrawal.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is withdrawing
regulatory guide (RG) 1.25, ``Assumptions used for Evaluating the
Potential Radiological Consequences of a Fuel Handling Accident in the
Fuel Handling and Storage Facility for Boiling and Pressurized Water
Reactors.'' This document is being withdrawn because the guidance
contained in RG 1.25 has been superseded and is now incorporated into
RG 1.183, ``Alternative Radiological Source Terms for Evaluating Design
Basis Accidents at Nuclear Power Reactors,'' and RG 1.195, ``Methods
and Assumptions for Evaluating Radiological Consequences of Design
Basis Accidents at Light-Water Nuclear Power Reactors.''
DATES: The effective date of the withdrawal of RG 1.25, ``Assumptions
used for Evaluating the Potential Radiological Consequences of a Fuel
Handling Accident in the Fuel Handling and Storage Facility for Boiling
and Pressurized Water Reactors'' is December 12, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0252 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-2016-0252. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 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
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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
withdrawal notice for RG 1.25 is available in ADAMS under accession No.
ML16105A081.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Parillo, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone 301-415-1344; email [email protected]
or Mark Orr, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-
6003; email: [email protected]. Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Regulatory guides may be withdrawn by the
NRC when their guidance no longer provides useful information, or is
superseded by technological innovations, congressional actions, or
other events. The withdrawal of an RG should be thought of as the final
revision of the guide.
The NRC issued RG 1.25, ``Assumptions used for Evaluating the
Potential Radiological Consequences of a Fuel Handling Accident in the
Fuel Handling and Storage Facility for Boiling and Pressurized Water
Reactors,'' in March 1972 to provide guidance for the evaluation of the
design basis fuel handling accident to demonstrate compliance with the
NRC's regulations in part 100 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations. The NRC is withdrawing RG 1.25 because the guidance
contained in RG 1.25 has been superseded by more current guidance,
which has been incorporated into RG 1.183, ``Alternative Radiological
Source Terms for Evaluating Design Basis Accidents at Nuclear Power
Reactors,'' and RG 1.195, ``Methods and Assumptions for Evaluating
Radiological Consequences of Design Basis Accidents at Light-Water
Nuclear Power Reactors.'' The information in RG 1.183 provides guidance
for new and existing light-water reactor (LWR) plants that have adopted
the alternative source term (AST), and RG 1.195 provides guidance for
those LWR plants that have not adopted the AST.
The withdrawal of RG 1.25 does not alter any prior or existing NRC
licensing approval or the acceptability of licensee commitments to RG
1.25. Although RG 1.25 is withdrawn, current licensees may continue to
use it, and withdrawal does not affect any existing licenses or
agreements. However, RG 1.25 should not be used in future requests or
applications for NRC licensing actions.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of December, 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2016-29661 Filed 12-9-16; 8:45 am]
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