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Letter to NuScale Transmitting Final SER TR-0716-50351
ML20056C907
Person / Time
Site: NuScale
Issue date: 02/27/2020
From: Anna Bradford
NRC/NRR/DNRL/NRLB
To: Rad Z
NuScale
Bavol B / 415-6715
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ML20056C808 List:
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ML20056C796 PROP Version, TR-0716-50351, Rev 1
Download: ML20056C907 (3)


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February 27, 2020 Mr. Zackary W. Rad Director, Regulatory Affairs NuScale Power, LLC.

1100 Circle Boulevard, Suite 200 Corvallis, OR 97330

SUBJECT:

FINAL SAFETY EVALUATION FOR NUSCALE POWER, LLC TOPICAL REPORT TR-0716-50351, REVISION 1, NUSCALE APPLICABILITY OF AREVA METHOD FOR THE EVALUATION OF FUEL ASSEMBLY STRUCTURAL RESPONSE TO EXTERNALLY APPLIED FORCES

Dear Mr. Rad:

By letter dated September 30, 2016, NuScale Power, LLC (NuScale), submitted Topical Report (TR)-0716-50351, NuScale Applicability of AREVA Method for the Evaluation of Fuel Assembly Structural Response to Externally Applied Forces, Revision 0, to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). NuScale asked the NRC to review and approve the use of AREVAs methodology as described in ANP-10377P-A, PWR Fuel Assembly Structural Response to Externally Applied Dynamic Excitations, Revision 0, dated April 30, 2018, for the NuScale design. By letter dated December 19, 2019, NuScale submitted Revision 1, TR-0716-50351, which incorporated changes from request for additional information responses.

The NRC staff has evaluated TR-0716-50351, Revision 1, and found that it is acceptable for referencing licensing applications for the NuScale small modular reactor design to the extent specified and under the conditions and limitations delineated in the enclosed safety evaluation report (SER).

The NRC staff requests that NuScale publish the applicable version(s) of the SER listed above within three months of receipt of this letter. The accepted version of the TR shall incorporate this letter and the enclosed SER and add -A (designated accepted) following the report identification number.

CONTACT: Bruce M. Bavol, NRR/DNRL 301-415-6715

Z. Rad If the NRC staffs criteria or regulations change, and its acceptability conclusion in the SER is invalidated, NuScale and/or the applicant referencing the SER will be expected to revise and resubmit its respective documentation, or submit justification for continued applicability of the SER without revision of the respective documentation.

Prior to placing the public version of this document in the publicly available records component of NRCs Agencywide Documents and Access Management System (ADAMS), the NRC staff requests that NuScale perform a final review of the SER for proprietary or security related information not previously identified. If you believe that any additional information meets the criteria, please identify such information line-by-line and define the basis pursuant to the criteria established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 2, Section 3.90, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding.

If after a 10-day period, you do not request that all or portions of the SER be withheld from public disclosure, the SER will be made available for public inspection through the publicly available records component of NRCs ADAMS.

If you have any questions or comments concerning this matter, please contact Bruce Bavol at 301-415-6715 or via e-mail address at Bruce.Bavol@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

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

Enclosures:

1. TR-0716-50351 SER (Public)
2. TR-0716-50351 SER (Proprietary) cc: DC NuScale Power, LLC Listserv (w/o Enclosure 2)

Pkg: ML20056C808 Letter: ML20056C907 Enclosure No. 1: ML20056C908 PUBLIC Enclosure No. 2: ML20056C867 PROP *via email NRR-106 OFFICE DNRL/NRLB: PM DNRL/NRLB: LA DNRL/NRLB: BC DNRL: D NAME BBavol CSmith* MDudek ABradford DATE 02/25/2020 12/23/2019 02/26/2020 02/27/2020