ML20125D175
| ML20125D175 | |
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| Site: | 05000130 |
| Issue date: | 03/12/1964 |
| From: | Lowenstein R US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| FOIA-85-54 NUDOCS 8506120269 | |
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NORTEIRN STATES POWER COMPANY DOCKET no 50-130 NorICE OF ISSUANCE OF PROFISIONAL OPERATING LICENSE Please take notice that a Notice of Proposed Issuance of Provisional Operating License having been published in the Federal Register on January 30, 1964, 29 FE 1593 and no reguest for a hearing having been filed following such publication, the Atomic Energy Comunission has issued Provisional Operating i
License No. DPE-11. The license authorizes Northern States Power Company to
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cperate the Pathfinder nuclear reactor, which is located approximately five and cae-half miles northeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at power levels up to cae (1) megawatt thermal.
The Commission has found that:
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Construction of the reactor has been completed in conformity witha the construction permit, the application as amended, the provi-sions of the Act, and the rules and regulations of the Commeission, except for fabrication of the nuclear fuel for the superheater region of the core, installation of a stop valve in the safety valve discharge line and associated installation of a rupture disc on a new branch line from the present discharge line, final operational testing of the pressure control system, permanent repairs to the fuel storage canal,and. the water level instru-mentation utilized in flooding the superheater, all of which are l
not required for operations authorized by the provisional oper-ating license; 3.
There is reasonable assurance that the uncompleted items will..
be pompleted in conformity with tho construction permit, the l
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2-e application as amended, the provisions of the Act, and the rules and regulations of the Comission; C.
There is reasonable assurance (i) that the activities au-thorized by this provisional operating license can be con-ducted without endangering the health and safety of the l
public, and (ii) that such activities will be conducted in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Commission; D.
Northern States is technically and financially qualified to
. engage in the activities authorized by this provisional operating license in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission, and to assume responsibility for payment of Commission charges for the special nuclear material allocated; E.
Northern States has submitted proof of financial protection I
which satisfies the requirements of 10 CFR 140, and has executed an indemnity agreement as required by Section 170 of the Act l
and 10 CFR 140; F.
The reactor is ready for initial loading of nuclear fuel for operations authorized by the provisional operating license.
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The issuance of this provisional operating license is not inimical to the common defense and security or to the health t
and safety of the public.
l The license, as issued, is substantially as set forth in the Notice of l
Proposed Issuance of Provisional Operating License cited above, except that I
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i the statement of the Cossaission's findings have been eliminated from the text of the license and are set forth herein.
FOR THE ATCHIC ENERGY CateilSSION Original signed by R. Lowenstein.
Director Division of Licensing and Regulation b
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Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this day of
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