ML20134P202
| ML20134P202 | |
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| Site: | River Bend  |
| Issue date: | 08/29/1985 |
| From: | Butler W Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8509060191 | |
| Download: ML20134P202 (8) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NO. 50-458 RIVER BEND STATION, UNIT NO. 1 GULF STATES UTILITIES AND CAJUN ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE Notice is hereby given that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Comission), has issued Facility Operating License No. NPF-40 to the Gulf States Utilities and Cajun Electric Power Cooperative (licensees), which authorizes operation of the River Bend Station Unit No.1 (the facility) at reactor core power levels not in excess of 2894 megawatts thermal in accordance with provisions of the License, the Technical Specifications and the Environmental Protection Plan with a condition currently limiting operation to five percent of rated power (144.7 megawatts thermal).
Authorization to operate beyond five percent rated power will require specific Comission approval.
The River Bend Station, Unit No. 1, is a boiling water nuclear reactor located approximately 2 miles east of the Mississippi River in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, approximately 2.7 miles southeast of St. Francisville, Louisiana and approximately 18 miles northwest of the city limits of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The application for the license complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Comission's regulations. The Commission has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Comission's regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the License.
Prior public notice of the overall action involving the proposed issuance of an operating license was published in the Federal Register on September 4, 1981 (46 F.R. 44539-44540).
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.. The Commission has determined that the issuance of this license will not result in any environnental impacts other than those evaluated in the Final Environmental Statement since the activity authorized by the license is encom-passed by the overall action evaluated in the Final Environmental Statement.
For further details in respect to this action, see (1) Facility Operating License NPF-40 complete with Technical Specificaticns and the Environmental Protection Plan; (2) the interim report of the Advisory Cermittee on Reactor Safeguards, dated July 17,1984;(3) the Conmission's Safety Evoluction Report, i
dated May 1984, Supplement No. I dated October 1984, Supplement No. 2 dated August,1985, and Supplement No. 3 dated August 1985; (4) the Final Safety Analysis Report and Anendments thereto; (5) the Environmental Report and supplements thereto; and (6) the Final Environmental Staterent dated January 1985.
These items are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20555, ano at the i
l Government Documents Department Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803. A copy of Facility Operating License NPF-40 may be obtained upon request addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, Attention: Director, Division of Licensing. Ccpics 4
of the Safety Evaluation Report and its Supplements 1, 2, and 3 (huPEG-0989) and the Final Environmental Statement (NUREG-1073) nv.y be purchased at current rates from the National Technical Information Service. Department of Conmerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161, or may be ordered by calling (202) 275-2060 or (202) 275-2171 or by writing to the Superintendcnt cf I
Docunents, U.S. Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 37082. Washington, D.C.
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Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 29 cay of August 1985.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY C0f71SSION Walter R. Butler, Chief Licensing Branch No. 2 Division of Licensing
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\\....j Docket No. 50-458 AMENDMENT TO INDEMNITY AGREEMENT NO. B-104 AMENDMENT NO. 1 Effective August 29, 1985, Indemnity Agreement No. B-104, between Gulf States Utilities Company, Cajun Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., and the Nuclear Regulatory Comission, dated January 15, 1985, is hereby amended as follows:
Item 2a. of the Attachment to the indemnity agreement is deleted in its entirety and the following substituted therefor:
Item 2 - Amount of financial protection a.
$1,000,000 (From 12:01 a.m., January 15, 1985 to 12 midnight August 28, 1985, inclusive)
$160,000,000*
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Item 3 of the attachment to the indemnity agreement is deleted in its entirety and the following substituted therefor:
Item 3 - License number or numbers SNM-1943 (From 12:01 a.m., January 15, 1985 to 12 midnight August 28, 1985, inclusive)
NPF-40 (From 12:01 a.m.,
August 29, 1985 )
- and, as of August 1,1977, the amount available as secondary financial protection.
J d Item S of the attachment to the indemnity agreement is amended by adding the following:
Nuclear Energy Liability Policy (Facility Form) No MF-119 issued by Mutual Atomic Energy Liability Underwriters.
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ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT ON LICENSE DURATION ON MATTERS DISCUSSED IN THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT FOR THE RIVER BEND STATION UNIT 1 (DATED JANUARY 1985)
INTRODUCTION The Final Environmental Statement (FES) for the operation of the River Bend Station, Unit I was published in January 1985.
It has been past practice to issue operating licenses for a period of 40 years from the date of the construction permit.
For River Bend, the CP was issued in March 1977, thus, approximately 32 years of operating life would be available.
By letters dated July 29, 1985 and August 2, 1985 Gulf States Utilities Company requested that the operating license for River Bend Station, Unit 1 have a duration of 40 years from the date of issuance.
DISCUSSION The staff has reviewed the River Bend FES to determine which aspects considered in the FES are affected by the duration of the operating license.
In general, the FES assesses various impacts associated with operation of the facility in terms of annual energy production benefits. Thus, the overall assessment and conclusions would not be dependent on specific operating life. There are, however, two areas in the FES for which a specific operating life was assumed:
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Radiological assessments are based on a 20-year plant miclife.
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Uranium fuel cycle impacts are based on one initial core load and annual refuelings.
In addition there is a third area which is affected by the duration of the operating life which was not specifically addressed in the FES.
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Uranium availability is evaluated through 30 years of operation.
Radiological assessments were evaluated based on a 40 year operating period (20-year plant midlife) in Section 5.9.3.1 of the FES. Therefore only the uraniur:
fuel cycle impacts and uranium availability needed to be assessed to determinc whether the use of a 40-year operating period rather than a 30-year operating period would significantly affect our assessment concerning these areas.
EVALUATION The staff's appraisal of the significance of the use of 40 years of operation rather than 30 as it affects these two areas is presented in the following discussions:
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. Uranium Fuel Cycle Impacts - The impacts of the uranium fuel cycle are based on 30 years of operation of a model LWR. The fuel requirements for the model LWR were assumed to be one initial core load and 29 annual refuelings (approximately 1/3 core). The annual fuel requirement for the model LWR averaged out over a 40-year operating life (1 initial core and 39 refuelings of approximately 1/3 core) would be reduced slightly as compared to the annual fuel requirement averaged for a 30-year operating life.
The net result would be an approximately 1.5% reduction in the annual fuel requirement for the model LWR. This small reduction in fuel re-quirements would not lead to significant changes in the impacts of the uranium fuel cycle. The staff does not believe that there would be any changes to River Bend FES Table 5.12 (5-3) that would be necessary in order to consider 40 years of operation.
If anything, the values in Table 5.12 become more conservative when a 40-year period of operation is considered.
Uranium Resources - A 25% increase in the River Bend operating life (to 40 years) would still be within the projected uranium resources since the cancellation of many reactors will result in an off-setting reduction in demand. Furthermore, the increase in operating life assumption to 40-years will reduce the need for replacement generating capacity, incluc-ing nuclear, at the end of 32 years.
CONCLUSION The staff has evaluated the environmental impact of these areas which are dependent on a specific operating life for the River Bend, Unit 1 plant. lie have concluded, based on the reasons discussed above, that the impacts associa-ted with a 40-year operating license duration are not significantly different from those associated with a 32-year operating license duration and are not significantly different from those assessed in the River Bend FES.
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