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NRC-013 - Staff Presentation Slides - Environmental Panel (December 8, 2015)
ML15342A390
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Site: SHINE Medical Technologies
Issue date: 12/08/2015
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NRC/OGC
To:
NRC/OCM
SECY RAS
References
Mandatory Hearing 2, RAS 28630, 50-608-CP
Download: ML15342A390 (18)


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Construction Permit Application Review SHINE Medical Technologies Environmental Panel December 15, 2015 NRC-013

Panelists

  • Jane Marshall

- Deputy Director, Division of License Renewal, NRR

- Branch Chief, NRR

- Project Manager, NRR 2

Environmental Review

  • National Environmental Policy Act
  • Environmental review process

- Title 10 of Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51

- Environmental Standard Review Plan (NUREG-1537)

- Interim Staff Guidance 3

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

  • Project-specific decision

- Potential significant impacts

- First-of-a-kind facility with a unique application of technologies

- Public involvement maximized 4

Scoping

  • 5 oral comments
  • 6 written comments 5

Department of Energy (DOE)

  • National Environmental Policy Act

- Lead agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

- Cooperating agency: DOE

  • American Medical Isotopes Production Act

- Complementary environmental reviews 6

Environmental Review Areas 7

Human Health Terrestrial Resources Air Quality Socioeconomics and Environmental Justice Land Use Historic and Cultural Resources Water Resources Aquatic Resources Soils

Environmental Impacts Resource Area Impact Land Use and Visual Resources SMALL Air Quality and Noise SMALL Geologic Environment SMALL Ecological and Water Resources SMALL Historic and Cultural Resources SMALL Socioeconomics SMALL Human Health and Waste SMALL Transportation SMALL to MODERATE 8

Reasonable Alternatives

  • No-action alternative
  • Alternative sites

- Chippewa Falls

- Stevens Point

  • Alternative technologies 9

Alternative Technologies

  • Neutron capture
  • Aqueous homogenous reactor
  • Linear-accelerator-based

- Analyzed in depth 10

Costs and Benefits

  • Purpose

- Inform recommendation to the Commission

  • Costs

- Environmental and financial

  • Benefits

- Societal, medical, and economic 11

Environmental Costs SMALL to MODERATE Proposed Janesville Site Traffic Chippewa Falls Alternative Traffic, Noise Stevens Point Alternative Traffic, Noise, Visual Alternative Technology Traffic No-action Alternative None 12

  • SMALL impacts for all other resource areas

Benefits

  • Support United States (U.S.)

policy

  • Support U.S. public health needs
  • Economic benefits

- Increased tax revenue

- New employment opportunities 13

Consultations Regulation or Order Determination Endangered Species Act, Section 7 No Effect National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106 No Adverse Effect 14

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

  • 1 oral comment
  • 8 written comments 15

NRC Staffs Recommendation Staff recommends issuance of the construction permit.

16

Future NEPA Analyses

- Matters that differ from the Final EIS

- New significant information 17

Acronyms

  • NRR - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 18

Construction Permit Application Review SHINE Medical Technologies Environmental Panel December 15, 2015 NRC-013

Panelists

  • Jane Marshall

- Deputy Director, Division of License Renewal, NRR

- Branch Chief, NRR

- Project Manager, NRR 2

Environmental Review

  • National Environmental Policy Act
  • Environmental review process

- Title 10 of Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51

- Environmental Standard Review Plan (NUREG-1537)

- Interim Staff Guidance 3

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

  • Project-specific decision

- Potential significant impacts

- First-of-a-kind facility with a unique application of technologies

- Public involvement maximized 4

Scoping

  • 5 oral comments
  • 6 written comments 5

Department of Energy (DOE)

  • National Environmental Policy Act

- Lead agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

- Cooperating agency: DOE

  • American Medical Isotopes Production Act

- Complementary environmental reviews 6

Environmental Review Areas 7

Human Health Terrestrial Resources Air Quality Socioeconomics and Environmental Justice Land Use Historic and Cultural Resources Water Resources Aquatic Resources Soils

Environmental Impacts Resource Area Impact Land Use and Visual Resources SMALL Air Quality and Noise SMALL Geologic Environment SMALL Ecological and Water Resources SMALL Historic and Cultural Resources SMALL Socioeconomics SMALL Human Health and Waste SMALL Transportation SMALL to MODERATE 8

Reasonable Alternatives

  • No-action alternative
  • Alternative sites

- Chippewa Falls

- Stevens Point

  • Alternative technologies 9

Alternative Technologies

  • Neutron capture
  • Aqueous homogenous reactor
  • Linear-accelerator-based

- Analyzed in depth 10

Costs and Benefits

  • Purpose

- Inform recommendation to the Commission

  • Costs

- Environmental and financial

  • Benefits

- Societal, medical, and economic 11

Environmental Costs SMALL to MODERATE Proposed Janesville Site Traffic Chippewa Falls Alternative Traffic, Noise Stevens Point Alternative Traffic, Noise, Visual Alternative Technology Traffic No-action Alternative None 12

  • SMALL impacts for all other resource areas

Benefits

  • Support United States (U.S.)

policy

  • Support U.S. public health needs
  • Economic benefits

- Increased tax revenue

- New employment opportunities 13

Consultations Regulation or Order Determination Endangered Species Act, Section 7 No Effect National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106 No Adverse Effect 14

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

  • 1 oral comment
  • 8 written comments 15

NRC Staffs Recommendation Staff recommends issuance of the construction permit.

16

Future NEPA Analyses

- Matters that differ from the Final EIS

- New significant information 17

Acronyms

  • NRR - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 18