[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 228 (Wednesday, December 1, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68290-68291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-26119]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-7513; NRC-2021-0193]
Kairos Power, LLC
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Construction permit application; acceptance for docketing.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff accepts and
dockets an application for a construction permit for the Hermes test
reactor to be built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
DATES: This action becomes effective on November 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket No. 50-7513 or Docket ID NRC-2021-
0193 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2021-0193. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individuals 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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-209, 301-415-4737, or
by email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first
time that it is mentioned in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
NRC's Public Website: The construction permit application
is available under the NRC's Hermes Construction Permit Application
public website at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/non-power/kairos-hermes.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Benjamin Beasley, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2062; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
On September 29, 2021, Kairos Power LLC (Kairos) filed, pursuant to
Part 50 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
``Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,'' the
first part of an application (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML21272A375)
for a construction permit for the Hermes test reactor (a ``testing
facility'' as defined in 10 CFR 50.2), which would be located in Oak
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Ridge, Tennessee. Hermes would be a fluoride-salt cooled, high-
temperature reactor that uses solid tri-structural isotropic fuel in
pebble form. A notice of receipt and availability of this portion of
the application was published in the Federal Register on October 29,
2021 (86 FR 60077).
The first part of the Kairos construction permit application
consisted of the following information:
The general information required by 10 CFR 50.33.
The Preliminary Safety Analysis Report required by 10 CFR
50.34(a).
Exemption requests to support issuance of a construction
permit.
A request to invoice the filing fee required by 10 CFR
50.30(e) and 10 CFR 170.21.
On October 31, 2021, Kairos filed the second part of its
application (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML21306A131) for a
construction permit, which consisted of the Environmental Report
required by 10 CFR 50.30(f). Submission of the Environmental Report
completed the application for a construction permit.
The NRC staff determined that Kairos submitted a two-part
application in accordance with 10 CFR 2.101(a)(5) and 10 CFR part 50,
and that the application is acceptable for docketing under Docket No.
50-7513. The NRC staff provided Kairos notice of the acceptance and
docketing determinations by letter dated November 29, 2021 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML21319A354).
The NRC staff will perform a detailed technical review of the
construction permit application and document its safety findings in a
safety evaluation report. Also, in accordance with 10 CFR part 51,
``Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and
Related Regulatory Functions,'' the NRC staff will prepare an
environmental impact statement for the proposed action.
Docketing of the application does not preclude the NRC from
requesting additional information from the applicant as the review
proceeds, nor does it predict whether the Commission will grant or deny
the application. The construction permit application will be referred
to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards for review and report
consistent with 10 CFR 50.58, ``Hearings and report of the Advisory
Committee on Reactor Safeguards.'' If, after holding an evidentiary
hearing, the Commission finds that the construction permit application
meets the applicable standards of the Atomic Energy Act and the
Commission's regulations, and that any required notifications to other
agencies and bodies have been made, the Commission will issue a
construction permit, in the form and containing conditions and
limitations that the Commission finds appropriate and necessary.
The Commission will announce, in a future Federal Register notice,
the opportunity to petition for leave to intervene in a proceeding on
the construction permit application.
Dated: November 24, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Benjamin G. Beasley,
Senior Project Manager, Advanced Reactor Licensing Branch, Division of
Advanced Reactors and Non-Power Production and Utilization Facilities,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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