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Forwards Final Papers Recently Submitted to NRC Re Preapplication Reviews of Advanced Reactor & Candu 3 Designs
ML20045H517
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Issue date: 04/30/1993
From: Crutchfield D
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Hink A
AECL, INC.
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April 30, 1993

- Project No. 679

.y Mr. A.D. Hink Vice President / General Manager AECL Technologies 9210 Corporate Boulevard, Suite 410 i

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Dear Mr. Hink:

SUBJECT:

COMMISSION PAPERS CONCERNING THE PREAPPLICATION REVIEWS OF THE ADVANCED REACTOR AND CANDU 3 DESId5 Enclosed are the following final papers which have recently been submitted to the Commission on the subject preapplication reviews:

(1) SECY-93-092,

" Issues Pertaining ~to the Advanced Reactor (PRISM, MHTGR, and PIUS) and CANDU 3 Designs and Their Relationship to Current Regulatory Requirements,"

and (2) SECY-93-104, " Program Analysis and Reconnendatiens Concerning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (l:C) Reviews of the Advanced' Reactor (PRISM, MHTGR, and PIUS) and CANDU 3 Detigns."

.The first paper provides the staff's final recommendations to the Commission

. on the 10 key policy issues related 'to the preapplication. reviews.

You received a draft copy of this~ paper. in-our letter of December 16, 1993,:which requested comments on the draft paper.

The comme'nts we received including those from the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards are discussed..in Enclosures 4 and 5 of the enclosed paper.

The second enclosed paper is the reassessment of.the priorities'and schedules for the preapplication reviews of.these reactor' designs in light of staff:

reductions directed by the Clinton administration.

You have submitted two letters of_ March 10 and 31,1993, discussing this reassessment. This reassessment and the Commission's decision will affect the plans and schedules given in the paper, SECY-92-393, " Updated Plans and Schedules for the.

Preapplication Reviews of the Advanced Reactor-(MHTGR, PRISM, and PIUS) and-

'CANDU 3 Designs," which was also enclosed in our letter of December 16, 1992.~

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Mr. A.D. Hink April 30,1993 You will be informed of the Commission's decisions as soon as they are publicly available.

If you have any questions, please contact Jack Donohew at (301) 504-3128.

Sincerely, Jose A. Calvo for Dennis M. Crutchfield, Associate Director for Advanced Reactors and License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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April 30, 1993 Mr. A.D. Hink CANDU 3-Project No. 679 cc: Louis N. Rib, Licensing Consultant AECL Technologies 9210 Corporate Boulevard, Suite 410 Rockville, Maryland 20B50 Bernie Ewing, Manager Studies and Codification Division Atomic Energy Control Board P.O. Box 1046, Station B 270 Albert Street Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P SS9 A.M. Mortada Aly, Senior Project Officer Advanced Projects Licensing Group Studies and Codification Division Atomic Energy Control Board P.O. Box 1046, Station B 270 Albert Street Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P SS9 Project Director - CANDU-3 AECL CANDU 2251 Speakman Drive Mississaugua,' Ontario, Canada L5K 182 L. Manning Muntzing Newman & Holtzinger, P.C.

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