[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 125 (Wednesday, July 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29053-29054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12351]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-395; NRC-2023-0152]
Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc.; Virgil C. Summer Nuclear
Station, Unit 1; Subsequent License Renewal and Record of Decision
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued
Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-12 to Dominion
Energy South Carolina, Inc. (DESC, or the licensee), for Virgil C.
Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (V.C.Summer). In addition, the NRC has
prepared a record of decision (ROD) that supports the NRC's decision to
issue Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-12.
DATES: The Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-12 was
issued on June 30, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2023-0152 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-2023-0152. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Bridget Curran;
telephone: 301-415-1003; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual 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 1-800-397-4209, at 301-415-4737,
or by email to [email protected]. For the convenience of the reader,
instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are
provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. 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
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marieliz Johnson, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-5861; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
Notice is hereby given that the NRC has issued Subsequent Renewed
Facility Operating License No. NPF-12 to DESC for V.C. Summer. Dominion
Energy South Carolina, Inc. is the operator of the facility. Subsequent
Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-12 authorizes operation of
V.C. Summer by DESC at reactor core power levels not to exceed 2,900
megawatts thermal (MWt), in accordance with the provisions of the V.C.
Summer subsequent renewed license and technical specifications. Notice
is also given that the ROD that supports the NRC's decision to issue
Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-12 is available,
and its location is listed in the ``Availability of Documents'' section
of this document.
As discussed in the ROD and the final supplemental environmental
impact statement (SEIS), published as NUREG-1437, Supplement 15, Second
Renewal, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal
of Nuclear Plants: Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Virgil C.
Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Final Report,'' published May 2025, the
final SEIS documents the NRC staff's environmental review, including
the determination that the adverse environmental impacts of subsequent
license renewal (SLR) for V.C. Summer are not so great that preserving
the option of SLR for energy planning decisionmakers would be
unreasonable. The final SEIS conclusion is based on (1) information
provided in the environmental report submitted by DESC, as
supplemented; (2) the NRC staff's consultations with Federal, State,
local, and Tribal agencies; (3) the NRC staff's independent
environmental review; and (4) the NRC staff's consideration of public
comments received during the scoping process and on the 2024 draft
SEIS.
V.C. Summer is a pressurized water reactor located near
Jenkinsville, South Carolina. DESC submitted its application for the
subsequent renewed license, ``Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1,
Subsequent License Renewal Application,'' on August 17, 2023, as
supplemented by letters through October 24, 2024 (see ``Availability of
Documents'' section of this document). The NRC staff has determined
that DESC's application complies with the standards and requirements of
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and NRC's
regulations. As required by the Act and NRC regulations in title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC has made the
appropriate findings, which are set forth in the subsequent renewed
license.
A public notice of the NRC's acceptance for docketing of the
subsequent renewed license application and an opportunity for a hearing
was published in the Federal Register on October 16, 2023 (88 FR
71384). Further, a notice of intent to prepare a site-specific
environmental impact statement and conduct environmental scoping was
published on November 3, 2023 (88 FR 75627). On August 6, 2024, the NRC
updated the Commission's 2013 findings on the environmental effects of
subsequent renewal of the operating license of a nuclear power plant
via rulemaking. This final rule redefines the number and scope of the
environmental issues that must be addressed during the review of each
application for license renewal (LR) and specifically considers the
environmental effects of SLR. As part of this update, the NRC issued
Revision 2 to the LR Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) to
account for new information and to address the impacts of initial LR as
well as one 20-year period of SLR. The final rule became effective for
NRC staff on September5,2024. Thereafter, on October 1, 2024, the NRC
staff noticed its intent to prepare a plant-specific supplement to the
LR GEIS for the V.C. Summer SLR application (89 FR 79975). In November
2024, the NRC staff issued a draft SEIS for public comment, providing
the preliminary results of the staff's environmental evaluation of the
V.C. Summer subsequent license renewal application (SLRA). A notice of
availability of the draft SEIS was published in the Federal Register on
December 6, 2024 (89 FR 97077). In January 2025, the NRC staff issued
its Safety Evaluation (SE) regarding the V.C. Summer SLRA, and in March
2025,
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the NRC staff issued Revision 1 of the SE. In May 2025, the NRC staff
issued a final SEIS, providing its final evaluation of the
environmental impacts of V.C. Summer SLR; a notice of issuance was
published in the Federal Register on May 16, 2025 (90 FR 21082).
For further details with respect to this action, see (1) DESC's
subsequent license renewal application for V.C. Summer, dated August
17, 2023, as supplemented by letters dated through October 24, 2024;
(2) the NRC's safety evaluation, dated January 21, 2025 and Revision 1,
dated March 4, 2025; (3) the NRC's final SEIS (NUREG-1437, Supplement
15, Second Renewal) for V.C. Summer SLR dated May 2025; and (4) the
NRC's ROD, issued in June 2025.
II. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons through ADAMS, as indicated.
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Document Description Adams Accession No.
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Record of Decision--Subsequent License Renewal ML25120A069.
Application Review--Virgil C. Summer Nuclear
Station, Unit 1, dated June 30, 2025..
Final Safety Evaluation to the SLRA of Virgil C. ML25014A307 (Package).
Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, dated January
21, 2025..
Final Safety Evaluation to the SLRA of Virgil C. ML25062A234.
Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Revision 1,
dated March 4, 2025..
NUREG-1437, Generic Environmental Impact ML25128A160.
Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear
Plants, Supplement 15, Second Renewal,
Regarding Subsequent License Renewal of Virgil
C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Final
Report, published May 2025..
Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, ML23233A179 (Package).
Application for Subsequent Renewed Operating
License, dated August 17, 2023..
Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Update ML24095A207.
to Subsequent License Renewal Application
(SLRA)--Supplement 1, dated April 1, 2024..
Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Update ML24129A200.
to Subsequent License Renewal Application,
Supplement 2, dated May 6, 2024..
NUREG-1437, Generic Environmental Impact ML24330A271.
Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear
Plants, Supplement 15, Second Renewal,
Regarding Subsequent License Renewal of Virgil
C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Draft Report
for Comment, published November 2024..
Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Update ML24155A146.
to Subsequent License Renewal Application
(SLRA)--Response to NRC Request for Additional
Information Set 1, Response to NRC Request for
Confirmation of Information, Set 1 and
Supplement 3, dated May 30, 2024..
Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Update ML24171A015.
to Subsequent License Renewal Application
(SLRA)--Response to NRC Request for Additional
Information, Set 2 Safety Review, dated June
17, 2024..
Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, ML24274A194.
Subsequent License Renewal Application (SLRA)--
First 10 CFR 54.21(b) Annual Amendment, dated
September 26, 2024..
NUREG-1437, Revision 2, Volumes 1, 2, and 3, ML24087A133 (Package).
Generic Environmental Impact Statement for
License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, published
August 2024..
Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Update ML24302A144.
to Subsequent License Renewal Application
(SLRA)--Supplement 4 and Requested Information
Formation in Response to Limited Aging
Management Audit, dated October 24, 2024..
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Dated: June 30, 2025.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Samuel Lee,
Deputy Director, Division of New and Renewed Licenses, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2025-12351 Filed 7-1-25; 8:45 am]
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