80 FR 12041 - Considerations in Licensing High Burnup Spent Fuel in Dry Storage and Transportation

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 43 (March 5, 2015)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public comment on the draft regulatory issue summary (RIS) addressing considerations for licensing high burnup spent fuel in dry storage and transportation. The purpose of this RIS is to provide information on some approaches acceptable to the NRC for demonstrating compliance with regulations in applications for issuance of dry storage cask certificate of compliance (CoCs), independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) licenses, and CoCs for transportation packages involving high burnup spent fuel (HBF).

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0047]


Considerations in Licensing High Burnup Spent Fuel in Dry Storage 
and Transportation

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public 
comment on the draft regulatory issue summary (RIS) addressing 
considerations for licensing high burnup spent fuel in dry storage and 
transportation. The purpose of this RIS is to provide information on 
some approaches acceptable to the NRC for demonstrating compliance with 
regulations in applications for issuance of dry storage cask 
certificate of compliance (CoCs), independent spent fuel storage 
installation (ISFSI) licenses, and CoCs for transportation packages 
involving high burnup spent fuel (HBF).

DATES: Submit comments by April 20, 2015. 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-2015-0047. 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: Huda Akhavannik, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-9241, email: 
[email protected].

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0047 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-2015-0047.
     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 
draft RIS is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14175A203.
     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-2015-0047 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 submissions into ADAMS.

II. Background

    The NRC is issuing this draft RIS to inform addressees of 
considerations for licensing HBF in dry storage and transportation. 
When evaluating HBF dry storage and transportation applications, the 
effects of radial hydrides and creep strain on the cladding must be 
taken into consideration. The purpose of this RIS is to provide 
information on some approaches acceptable to the NRC for demonstrating 
compliance with regulations in applications for issuance of dry storage 
cask CoCs, ISFSI licenses, and CoCs for transportation packages 
involving HBF.
    The NRC issues RISs to communicate with stakeholders on a broad 
range of matters. This may include communicating staff technical 
positions on matters that have not been communicated to or are not 
broadly understood by the nuclear industry; such is the case with this 
RIS.

Proposed Action

    The NRC is requesting public comments on the draft RIS. The NRC 
staff will make a final determination regarding issuance of the RIS 
after it considers any public comments received in response to this 
request.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of February 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mark Lombard,
Director, Division of Spent Fuel Management, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-05097 Filed 3-4-15; 8:45 am]
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