ML19169A139

Letter to NuScale Transmitting Chapter 10 (Phase 4) SER

ML19169A139
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Site:	NuScale
Issue date:	09/09/2019
From:	Omid Tabatabai NRC/NRO/DLSE/LB1
To:	Bergman T NuScale
Tabatabai O / 415-6616
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ML19170A135	List: ML19169A139 ML19169A141 ML19218A037
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September 9, 2019 Mr. Thomas Bergman Vice President, Regulatory Affairs NuScale Power, LLC 1100 NE Circle Boulevard, Suite 200 Corvallis, OR 97330

SUBJECT:

NUSCALE POWER, LLC, DESIGN CERTIFICATION APPLICATION - SAFETY EVALUATION WITH NO OPEN ITEMS FOR CHAPTER 10, STEAM AND POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM

Dear Mr. Bergman:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is preparing a safety evaluation (SE) with no open items (OIs) for each chapter of the NuScale Power, LLC (NuScale) Design Certification Application submitted by NuScale on January 6, 2017 1.

The NRC staffs SE with no OIs for Chapter 10, Steam and Power Conversion System, is being provided to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) to support a briefing of the ACRS members, if deemed necessary.

The enclosed SE with no OIs is being provided to NuScale for review of proprietary information pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding. The NRC will withhold the enclosed SE from public disclosure for ten business days from the date of this letter to allow you the opportunity to identify any proprietary information or factual errors. If within that ten-day period, you do not request that all or portions of the SE be withheld from public disclosure, the enclosure will be made available for public viewing through the Publicly Available Records component of NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System and placed on the NRCs public web page for this application.

Document transmitted herewith contains sensitive unclassified information. When separated from the enclosure, this document is DECONTROLLED.

1 The Design Certification Application was submitted via a transmittal letter dated December 31, 2016.

T. Bergman 2 If you have any questions or comments concerning this matter, I can be reached at (301) 415-6616 or via e-mail address at omid.tabatabai@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Omid Tabatabai, Senior Project Manager Licensing Branch 1 Division of Licensing, Siting, and Environmental Analysis Office of New Reactors Docket No.52-048

Enclosure:

As stated cc: w/o encl.: DC NuScale Power, LLC Listserv

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