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May 28, 1993 MEMORANDUM FOR: The Chairman Comissioner Rogers Iomissioner Curtiss Commissioner Remick Commissioner de Planque FROM:
James M. Taylor Executive Director for Operations
SUBJECT:
ACCEPTANCE OF GE NUCLEAR ENERGY'S APPLICATION FOR FINAL-DESIGN APPROVAL AND DESIGN CERTIFICATION OF THE SIMPLIFIED BOILING WATER REACTOR DESIGN (DOCKET NO.52-004) f In S CY-92-403, Acceptance Review of GE Nuclear Energy's Application for Fina yesipproval (FDA) and Design Certification (DC) of the Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (SBWR) Design," the staff reported to the Commission that GE Nuclear Energy (GE) had submitted its application for FDA for the SBWR standard plant design.
During its acceptance review, the staff determined that the SBWR application was incomplete.
A partial list of information required by 10 CFR 52.47 that was missing from the SBWR application included Tier I design certification material (including inspections, tests, analyses, and acceptance criteria); interface requirements for a standard design; portions of the probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) and the PRA uncertainty and sensitivity analyses; severe accident evaluation; resolution of unresolved safety issues and generic safety issues; and a description of the test program supporting design certification. The submit-tal also did not include the comparison of the SBWR design to the Electric Power Research Institute's Advanced Light Water Reactor Requirements Document, an evaluation of how operational experience was considered in the design, and the discussion of severe accident mitigation design alternatives needed for the review of the application.
On February 25 and 28 and May 7, 1993, GE submitted additional information in response to the NRC staff's identification of missing or incomplete areas of the application. The staff has reviewed this additional information and determined that the GE SBWR application is sufficiently complete to enable the formal design certification review to begin.
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Enclosed is a copy of the staff's acceptance letter to GE Nuclear Energy.
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May 27, 1993 Docket No.52-004 Mr. Patrick W. Marriott, Manager Licensing & Consulting Services GE Nuclear Energy 175 Curtner Avenue San Jose, California 95125
Dear Mr. Marriott:
SUBJECT:
ACCEPTANCE OF THE GE NUCLEAR ENERGY'S (GE's) APPLICATION FOR THE j
SIMPLIFIED BOILING WATER REACTOR (SBWR) DESIGN In a letter dated August 27, 1992, GE submitted its application for a final design approval under Appendix 0 to 10 CFR Part 52 and a standard design certification under 10 CFR Part 52 for the SBWR standard plant design.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.101, the staff performed an acceptance review to determine if the SBWR application was complete. The review revealed that, although an extensive amount of design information was included, the applica-tion was incomplete. Areas of the application where information was missing or incomplete were identified to GE in the staff's letter to you dated December 10, 1992.
On February 25 and 28 and May 7, 1993, GE provided additional information in response to the NRC staff's identification of missing or incomplete informa-tion during its original acceptance review. The staff has subsequently determined that the information provided substantially fulfills the require-ments of 10 CFR Part 52. Therefore, the GE SBWR application is now considered g sufficiently complete to be accepted formally as a docketed petition for design certification.
Enclosed is a copy of the notice relating to NRC acceptance of the SBWR application that will be sent to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.
The staff will conduct a detailed review of all application material during its review of the SBWR application in accordance with the schedule provided in SECY-93-097, " Integrated Review Schedules for the Evolutionary and Advanced 1
Light Water Reactor Projects," April 14, 1993. As stated in SECY-93-097, the staff will complete issuance of requests for additional information (RAls) to GE by no later than October 1993 and expects GE completion of responses to the RAIs by no later than January 1994.
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Mr. Patrick W. Marriott May 27, 1993 Please continue your work to address the "round zero" RAls we forwarded to you on January 28, 1993.
At this time, however, we are requesting that you complete your response to these questions by June 30, 1993, so that those responses may be considered during the staff's development of further RAIs.
Should you have any questions or comments concerning these matters, please contact one of the project managers assigned to this review, Melinda Malloy at (301) 504-1178, or Son Ninh at (301) 504-1125.
Sincerely, utchfiel', Asspyiate Director ennis P(
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