82 FR 44218 - Virginia Electric and Power Company; North Anna Power Station Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 182 (September 21, 2017)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviewed an application by Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion) for an amendment to License No. SNM-2507 in the form of changes to the Technical Specifications (TS). Under this license, Dominion is authorized to receive, possess, store, and transfer spent nuclear fuel and associated radioactive materials at the North Anna Power Station (NAPS) Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI). Dominion requested approval of the TS changes to allow storage of spent fuel in a modified TN-32B bolted lid cask as part of the High Burn-up Dry Storage Cask Research and Development Project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Electric Power Research Institute. Data gathered from the cask will be used to confirm the effects of long-term dry storage on high burn-up assemblies.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 182 (Thursday, September 21, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44218-44220]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20156]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-16; NRC-2015-0237]


Virginia Electric and Power Company; North Anna Power Station 
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviewed an 
application by Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion) for an 
amendment to License No. SNM-2507 in the form of changes to the 
Technical Specifications (TS). Under this license, Dominion is 
authorized to receive, possess, store, and transfer spent nuclear fuel 
and associated radioactive materials at the North Anna Power Station 
(NAPS) Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI). Dominion 
requested approval of the TS changes to allow storage of spent fuel in 
a modified TN-32B bolted lid cask as part of the High Burn-up Dry 
Storage Cask Research and Development Project sponsored by the U.S. 
Department of Energy and the Electric Power Research Institute. Data 
gathered from the cask will be used to confirm the effects of long-term 
dry storage on high burn-up assemblies.

DATES: September 21, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0237 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of

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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-2015-0237. 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.
     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 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this 
document. In addition, for the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS 
accession numbers are provided in a table in the ``Availability of 
Documents'' section of this document.
     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: Chris Allen, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6877; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion

    By letter dated August 24, 2015, as supplemented October 8, 
November 18, November 19, December 1, and December 28, 2015; January 
14, March 22, March 23, April 21, June 21, July 26, September 23, 
November 22, 2016, and April 10, 2017, Dominion submitted to the NRC, 
in accordance with part 72 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Register 
(10 CFR), a request to amend License No. SNM-2507 for its NAPS ISFSI 
located in Louisa County, Virginia. This ISFSI contains spent fuel that 
was generated at the NAPS Unit 1 and 2 reactors. License No. SNM-2507 
authorizes Dominion to receive, possess, store, and transfer spent 
nuclear fuel and associated radioactive materials at the NAPS ISFSI. 
Specifically, Dominion requested approval to revise the NAPS ISFSI TS 
to allow storage of spent fuel in a modified TN-32B bolted lid cask as 
part of the High Burn-up Dry Storage Cask Research and Development 
Project sponsored by the Department of Energy and the Electric Power 
Research Institute.
    The NRC issued a letter dated September 25, 2015, notifying 
Dominion that the application was acceptable for review. In accordance 
with 10 CFR 72.46(a), a notice of proposed action and opportunity for 
hearing was published in the Federal Register on October 13, 2015 (80 
FR 61500). No requests for a hearing or for leave to intervene were 
submitted. Accordingly, pursuant to 10 CFR 72.46(d), the NRC is 
publishing this notice that the action proposed by Dominion in its 
license amendment request has been taken.
    The NRC prepared a safety evaluation report that documents its 
review and evaluation of the amendment request. Also in connection with 
this action, the NRC prepared an Environmental Assessment containing a 
Finding of No Significant Impact. The Notice of Availability of the 
Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the 
NAPS ISFSI was published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2016 (81 
FR 42743).
    Upon completing its review, the staff determined that the amendment 
request complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic 
Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), as well as the NRC's 
applicable regulations. As required by the Act and such regulations, 
the staff made the appropriate findings which are contained in the 
safety evaluation report and the Environmental Assessment. Based on 
these findings, the NRC approved Dominion's amendment request and 
accordingly issued Amendment No. 5 to License No. SNM-2507. Amendment 
No. 5 was effective as of its date of issuance.

II. Availability of Documents

    The following table includes the ADAMS accession numbers for the 
documents referenced in this notice. For additional information on 
accessing ADAMS, see the ADDRESSES section of this document.

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                Document                        ADAMS accession No.
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Dominion application, dated August 24,    ML15239B260
 2015.
Acceptance Letter Issued, dated           ML15271A044
 September 25, 2015.
Supplemental Information Submittal,       ML15289A189
 dated October 8, 2015.
Supplemental Information Submittal,       ML15328A483
 dated November 18, 2015.
Supplemental Information Submittal,       ML16022A073
 dated November 19, 2015.
Re-Submittal of Clean and Marked-Up       ML15342A065
 Technical Specifications, dated
 December 1, 2015.
Supplemental Structural Information       ML16004A108
 Submittal, dated December 28, 2015.
Supplemental Information Submittal,       ML16019A335
 dated January 14, 2016.
Request for Additional Information        ML16089A091
 Responses, dated March 22, 2016.
Responses to Environmental Review         ML16083A527
 Questions for North Anna HBU Amendment,
 dated March 23, 2016.
Supplemental Information for Request for  ML16118A205
 Additional Information Responses, dated
 April 21, 2016.
Supplemental Information for Request for  ML16176A239
 Additional Information Responses, dated
 June 21, 2016.
Final Environmental Assessment, dated     ML16168A104
 June 24, 2016.
Supplemental Information Submittal,       ML16211A077
 dated July 26, 2016.
Second Request for Additional             ML16272A388
 Information Responses, dated September
 23, 2016.
Supplemental Information for Second       ML16330A654
 Request for Additional Information
 Responses, dated November 22, 2016.
Supplemental Information for Second       ML17109A469
 Request for Additional Information
 Responses, dated April 10, 2017.
Revised Technical Specifications and      ML17165A454
 Transmittal E-Mail.
Amended License, dated September 13,      ML17234A534
 2017.
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13 day of September, 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John McKirgan,
Chief, Spent Fuel Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Management, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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