ML19343B449

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LLC, Design Certification Application Phase 4 Review Status
ML19343B449
Person / Time
Site: NuScale
Issue date: 12/12/2019
From: Anna Bradford
NRC/NRR/DNRL
To: Bergman T
NuScale
Lee S 415-0155
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Download: ML19343B449 (3)


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December 12, 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 PHASE 4 REVIEW STATUS

Dear Mr. Bergman:

The purpose of this letter is to communicate the status of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staffs Phase 4 review of the NuScale Power, LLC (NuScale) Design Certification Application (DCA).1 This letter is a follow-up to the status letter we sent to NuScale on May 16, 2019 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS)

Accession No. ML19122A050). On December 12, 2019, the NRC staff achieved the Phase 4 milestone by completing all 21 chapters of the Advanced Safety Evaluation Report2 (SER) and issuing them to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS).

The NRC staff remains confident that the overall review schedule of 42 months will be met in September 2020. In support of the overall schedule, the NRC staff has begun supporting ACRS review of the five topical focus areas with staff presentations made to the ACRS. Over the next several months, the NRC staff will engage the ACRS on each of the topical areas proposed by the Committee in its letter dated September 5, 2019 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19269B682), in addition to the three topical report reviews associated with the DCA and any individual chapter items that warrant additional Committee review.

The NRC staff expects to receive Revision 4 of the NuScale DCA Part 2, Tier 2 (the Final Safety Analysis Report), from you in January 2020 in order to be able to close out the confirmatory items and complete the Final Safety Evaluation Report.

1 NuScale submitted the DCA on January 6, 2017, via a transmittal letter dated December 31, 2016 (ADAMS Accession No. ML17013A229).

2 The SER chapters can be accessed through https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/design-cert/nuscale.html.

T. Bergman 2 If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 415-1183 or via e-mail to Anna.Bradford@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Anna H. Bradford, Director Division of New and Renewed Licenses Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No.52-048

Enclosure:

As stated cc: NuScale Power, LLC, Design Certification Listserv

ML19343B449 *via email NRR-106 OFFICE DNRL/NRLB: SA QTE DNRL/NLRP: LA DNRL: D NAME SLee* KAzariah-Kribbs* SLent* ABradford DATE 12/05/2019 12/05/2019* 12/09/2019* 12/12/2019