ML16060A172
| ML16060A172 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oyster Creek |
| Issue date: | 03/07/2016 |
| From: | John Lamb Plant Licensing Branch 1 |
| To: | Bryan Hanson Exelon Generation Co |
| Hood T, NRR/DORL/LPL1-2 | |
| References | |
| CAC MF5577 | |
| Download: ML16060A172 (4) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 M3rdl 7' 2016
SUBJECT:
OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING PRELIMINARY DECOMMISSIONING COST ESTIMATE AND SPENT FUEL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (CAC NO. MF5577)
Dear Mr. Hanson:
By letter dated December 30, 2014 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System Accession No. ML14365A067), Exelon Generation Company, LLC (the licensee) provided to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a preliminary decommissioning cost estimate pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 50.75(f)(3), and spent fuel management plan pursuant to 10 CFR 50.54(bb) for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station.
The NRC staff has reviewed the licensee's submittal, and based on this review, determined additional information is required to enable the NRC staff to make an independent assessment regarding its technical review. The enclosed document describes this request for additional information (RAI). The draft questions were sent to Mr. David Helker and Mr. Richard Gropp to ensure that they were understandable, the regulatory basis for the questions was clear, and to determine if the information was previously docketed. Please respond to ttie RAI within 30 days of the date of this letter.
If you have any questions, please contact me at 301-415-3100 or John.Lamb@nrc.gov.
Docket No. 50-219
Enclosure:
Request for Additional Information cc w/enclosure: Distribution via Listserv John
. Lamb, Senior Project Manager Plan icensing Branch 1-2 Divi on of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO PRELIMINARY DECOMMISSIONING COST ESTIMATE EXELON GENERATION COMPANY, LLC OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION DOCKET NO. 50-219 By letter dated December 30, 2014 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System*
Accession No. ML14365A067), Exelon Generation Company, LLC (the licensee) provided to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a preliminary decommissioning cost estimate pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 50. 75(f)(3), and spent fuel management plan pursuant to 10 CFR 50.54(bb) for the Oyster. Creek Nuclear Generating Station. The NRC staff has reviewed the request and determined that the following additional information is necessary to enable the NRC staff to make an independent assessment regarding its technical review.
Request for Additional Information (RAI) 1 As. required by 10 CFR 50. 75(f)(5) and 10 CFR 50.82(a)(8)(iv), in part, cost estimates shall include plans for adjusting decommissioning costs and associated funding levels during operations and over the storage or surveillance period following cessation of operations.
The current preliminary decommissioning cost estimate submittal shows adequate funds would be available in the decommissioning trust throughout decommissioning and license termination based on a SAFSTOR approach. However, the licensee did not provide plans for adjusting cost estimates and funding levels during SAFSTOR. Provide a description addressing the means by which decommissioning cost estimates and associated funding over the period of storage described in your December 30, 2014, submittal will be adjusted. Regulatory Guide 1.159, "Assuring the Availability of Funds for Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors," dated October 2011, Section 1.4, "Adjustments to Cost Estimates," and Section 2.1, "Guidance Applicable to all methods of Financial Assurance," provide an acceptable means for adjusting decommissioning cost estimates and associated funding, which considers use of the Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index, or other inflation index methodology to account for inflation.
Adjustments to decommissioning funding must reflect new estimates.
RAl2 In your December 30, 2014, submittal, you provided detailed decommissioning costs in 2011 dollars. NRC staff determined that you applied an approximate 2.25 percent annual increase to
. your 2011 decommissioning cost estimate of $873,828,000 to escalate decommissioning costs into 2014 dollars ($934,208,000). Provide an explanation as to how you made that adjustment.
Enclosure RAl3 As required by 10 CFR 50.82(a)(3):
,_Decommissioning will be completed within 60 years of permanent cessation oJ operations. Completion of decommissioning beyond 60 years will be approved by the Commission only when necessary to protect public health and safety.
In your submission, you indicate radiological decommissioning activities beyond this 60-year period. Explain or correct your proposed decommissioning plan to the radiological costs beyond this 60-year period.
ML16060A172 OFFICE DORL/LPL 1-2/PM DORL/LPL 1-2/PM DORL/LPL 1-2/LA DI RS/I FIB DORL/LPL 1-2/BC DORL/LPL 1-2/PM NAME THood.
JLamb LRonewicz A Bowers DBroaddus JLamb DATE 03/01/16 03/01/16 03/01/16 03/02/16 03/04/16 03/07/16