ML18262A037
| ML18262A037 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Pilgrim |
| Issue date: | 09/21/2018 |
| From: | John Lamb Special Projects and Process Branch |
| To: | Lampert M Pilgrim Watch, Town of Duxbury, MA, Nuclear Advisory Committee |
| Lamb J, NRR/DORL/LSPB, 301-415-3100 | |
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| Download: ML18262A037 (3) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Mrs. Mary Lampert Pilgrim Watch/Town of Duxbury Nuclear Advisory Committee 148 Washington Street Duxbury, MA 02332 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 September 21, 2018
SUBJECT:
PILGRIM NUCLEAR POWER STATION - QUESTIONS REGARDING PLANNED LICENSE TRANSFER APPLICATION
Dear Mrs. Lampert:
On behalf of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), I am responding to your September 18, 2018, e-mail submitted on behalf of Pilgrim Watch and the Town of Duxbury Nuclear Advisory Committee, which contained several questions regarding the planned license transfer application for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Pilgrim).
On July 18, 2018, Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy), presented a Pilgrim decommissioning update to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (NDACP). The Entergy slides can be found at https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2018/08/16/7-18-18-pilgrim-ndcap-presentation-final.pdf.
On August 15, 2018, Entergy and Holtec International (Holtec) made presentations to the NDCAP. Those slides can be found at https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2018/08/ 17 /ndcap-presentation-holtec-cd i-august%2015. pdf. Holtec presented an overview of the company, its partners, joint ventures, and subsidiaries, as a well as its decommissioning experience. Slide 19 shows Holtec's plan to have only the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation remain at the Pilgrim site in 2028, which is approximately 8 years from the start of decommissioning.
To date, Entergy has not submitted to the NRC a post-shutdown decommissioning activities report (PSDAR) for Pilgrim. Nor have Entergy and Holtec submitted a license transfer application for Pilgrim. Without a Pilgrim PSDAR and a Pilgrim license transfer application, we cannot answer specific questions related to the Pilgrim license transfer application. Several questions are directed toward Entergy and Holtec. I have forwarded a copy of your questions to Entergy and Holtec for their information.
Once the NRC receives the Pilgrim license transfer application from Entergy and Holtec, the NRC staff will perform technical reviews of the license transfer in the following areas:
(1) financial qualifications, (2) decommissioning funding assurance, (3) foreign ownership, control, or domination, (4) technical qualifications, and (5) insurance and indemnity. The license transfer application must include the information required by Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 50.82(b ). The NRC staff will review the license transfer using the guidance described in office instruction, LIC-107, Revision 2, "Procedures for Handling License
Transfers," dated May 30, 2017 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System Accession No. ML17031A006).
In addition, a notice of the application for the direct transfer of the license will be published in the Federal Register for an opportunity to comment, and/or request a hearing, and petition for leave to intervene.
If you have any questions, please contact me at 301-415-3100 or via e-mail at John.Lamb@nrc.gov.
Docket No. 50-293 cc: Listserv Sincerely, amb, Senior Project Manager Projects and Process Branch Divisi of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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