ML19169A312

LLC, Design Certification Application - Safety Evaluation with No Open Items for Chapter 16, Technical Specifications - Letter

ML19169A312
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Site:	NuScale
Issue date:	12/04/2019
From:	Prosanta Chowdhury, Getachew Tesfaye NRC/NRO/DLSE/LB1
To:	Bergman T NuScale
Chowdhury P / 415-1647
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ML19171A304	List: ML19169A312 ML19169A314 ML19330E020
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December 4, 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 16, TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

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, 20171.

The NRC staffs SE with no OIs for Chapter 16, Technical Specifications, is being provided to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Subcommittee to inform the ACRS of the closure of all OIs and to support a briefing by the staff if requested by the Committee.

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) 415-8013 or via e-mail address at Getachew.Tesfaye@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Getachew Tesfaye, Senior Project Manager New Reactor Licensing Branch Division of New and Renewed Licenses Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No.52-048

Enclosure:

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

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