ML030290697
| ML030290697 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 05/22/2002 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
| To: | Nuclear Energy Institute |
| References | |
| FOIA/PA-2003-0032 | |
| Download: ML030290697 (4) | |
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Modular Plant Licensing Industry Meeting with NRC May 22, 2002 I
Modular Plants
" Plants consisting of multiple reactor modules hold great promise for the future
", Enhanced safety and reliability
"* Improved economics
"* Ability to add capacity incrementally according to market conditions
"* Need to ensure that statutory and regulatory infrastructure is not unfair to modular plants pv-I Pu+;Dfls Wi+)utd Eý I
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Objectives for Modular Plant Licensing
" Single NRC technical/safety review and single public hearing
" Approval to operate each module for 40-years
"* Assessment of a single retrospective Price-Anderson premium
"* Assessment of a single NRC annual f Integrated Approach
- Applicants would
- Prepare a single FSAR covering all modules e Prepare a single Environmental Report (if an ESP is not referenced)
- Simultaneously submit nearly identical COL /
S.applications for each module
- NRC would
"° Use existing authority under the AEA to subject the set of modular COL applications to a integrated technical/safety review and a single public hearing
"* Issue an integrated set of nearly identical COLs,,;
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1 Integrated Approach (cont.)
. The set of modular COLs would authorize construction of all modules n Modular COLs would identify the estimated completion date for each module as specified by the applicant per 10 CFR 50.33(h) u Each COL would authorize operation after the module-specific 10 CFR 52.103(g) finding
- Pending legislation would allow module-specific 40-year license terms to commence with each 10 CFR 52.103(g) finding LII Integrated Approach (cont.)
x Pending legislation would subject modular plants to a single Price-Anderson premium m NRC has authority to assess a single annual fee to multi-module plants, even if each module is licensed separately r
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Design Approval Under a COL
"* Regardless of licensing scenario, the SECY-01-0207 proposal for modular design re-reviews every five years is:
"* Unnecessary in light of the backfit rule (10 CFR 50.109)
"* Contrary to the intent that COLs resolve all safety issues and have a 40 year term
"* Adverse to Part 52 goal of standardization
"* Duration of design approval embodied in a COL is coincident with the license term!
Summary
"* Integrated, multi-license approach recommended to achieve practical objectives for modular plant licensing
"* Enabling legislation pending in Congress
"* Price-Anderson
"* Start of 40-year license term
"* Modular COL embodies design approval for the term of the license