ML20148T911

Responds to Re Info on Licensing of Nuclear Power Plants.Description of Licensing Process Encl

ML20148T911
Person / Time
Issue date:	02/04/1981
From:	Zech G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Jacks J, Mafkovitch R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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January 31, 1981 FEB 0 41981 Jill Jacks and Robin Mafkovitch Snohomish High School 1316 Fifth Street Snohomish, Washington 96290

Dear Jill and Robin:

This is in response to your letter of December 3,1980, asking for information on licensing of nuclear power plants.

Enclosed is a description of the licensing process.

I hope it will serve your purpose.

Si ncerely, Gar

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Planning & Program Analysis Staff Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Enclosure:

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64 THE LICENSING PROCESS Obtaining an NRC construction permit-or a limited work presenting the results of its independent evaluation and recommend-ing whether or not a construction permit should be issued. The staff authonzation, pending a decision on issuance of a construction per.

issues a supplement to the Safety Evaluation Report incorporating mit-is the fint objective of a utility or other company seeking to operate a nuclear power reactor or other nuclear facihty under NRC any chanirm or actions adopted as a result of ACRS rwommenda, beense. The process is set in motion with the filing and acceptance of tiorts. A pubhe heanng can then be held, generally in a community the applicauon, generally compnsing ten or more large volumes of near the propel site, on safety aspect.s of the hcensma decision.

material covenng both safety and environmental factors, in accord-In appropnate cases, NRC may grant a Limited Work Authanza.

ance with NRC requirements and guidance. The second phase con-tion to an appheant in advance of the final decision on the construe-sats of safety and environrnental factors, in accordance with NBC re-tion permit m order to allow certain work to begin at the site, raving quirements and guidance. The second phase coruuts of safety, as much as seven months time. The authonzation will not be given, environmental, safeguards and antitrust reviews ur dertaken by the however, until NRC staff has completed environmental impact and NRC staff. Third, a safety review is conducted by the mdependent site suitabihty reviews and the appointed ASLB has conducted a Adyt.ory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); this review is public heanng on environmental impact and site suitabihty with a required bv law. Fourth, a mandatory public hearing is conducted favorable finding. To realize the desired saving of time, the appheant by a three-member Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB),

must submit the environmental portion of the application early.

which then makes an initial decidon as to whether the permit should be granted. This dectuon is subject to appeal to an Atomic Safety and The emaronmental review begins with a m,ew of the applicant's Licensing Appeal Board (ASLA.B) and could ultimately go to the Envimnmental Report (ER) for acceptability. Assuming the ER is Commusionen for final NRC decision. The law provides for appeal suffierently complete to warrant review, it is docketed and an bevond the Commission in the Federal courts.

analpa of the consequences to the environment of the construction As soon as an trubal applicadon is accepted, or " docketed," by the NBC, a nouce of that fact is published in the Federal Reguter, and and operation of the proposed f acihty at the proposed site is begun.

copies of the applicat on are iurrushed to ai:propnate State and local Upon completion of this analysis, a Draf t Environmental Statement as pubhshed and distnbuted with specific requests for renew and authonties and to a local public document room (LPDR) established comment bv Federal. State and local agencies, other interested par.

in the ncmity of the proposed site, as well as to the NRC-PDR in ties and memben of the public. All of their comments are then taken Washington, D.C. At the same time, a notice of a public heanng is into account in the preparation of a Final Environmental Statement.

pubbshed m the Federal Reguter and local newspapers) which pro.

Both the draft and the fmal statements are made available to the vides 30 days for members of the pubhc to petition to mtervene in the public at the time of respntive publication. Durir g this same time proceeding. Such petitions are entertained and adjudicated by the penod NBC is conducting an analpis and preparing a report on site ASLB appotnted to the case, with rights of appeal by the petitioner to suitahihtv asperts of the proposed hwnsing action. Upon completion the ASLAB.

of these actiuties, a public heanng, with the appointed ASLB The NRC staffs safety, safeguards, environmental and antitrust rmews proceed in parallel. With the guidance of the Standard For.

presidmg. may be conducted on enuronmental and site suitabihty aspects of the propsed hcensing action (or a single heanng on both mat iRegulatorv Cuide 1.70), the applicant for a construction permit safeev and enuronmental matters may be held, if that is mdicated).

lavs out the proposed nuclear plant design in a Prehminary Safety Analyus Report (PSARI. If and when this report has been made suffi.

The antitrust renews of license applications are earned out by the ciently complete to warrant review, the application is docketed and NRC and the Attornev Ceneral in ads ance of, or concurrently with, NBC staff esaluations begm. Even pnor to submission of the report, other hertung rmews. If an antitrust heanng is required, it is held NRC staff conducts a substantive rmew and inspection of the appli.

cant's quahty assurance program covering design and procurernent.

separately from those on safety and enuronmental aspects.

The salen renew is performed by NRC staff in accordance with the About two or three years before construction of the plant is Standard Renew Plan for Light. Water Cooled Reactors, frutially scheduled to le complete, the apphcant files an application for an pubhshed m September 1975 and updated penodically. This plan states the acceptance entens used in evaluating the ianous systems, operstmg beensr. A process similar to that for the construction per.

mit is folkme 1. The application is filed. NRC staff and the ACRS components and structures important to safety and in assessmg the rmes it, a Safety Es aluation Report and an updated Ennronmental proposed site, and it desenbes the procedures used in performing theStatement are twued. A pubhe hearms is not mandatory at thu stage.

safetv vmew.

but one mn be held if requested by aficeted members of the pubbe The NRC staff exammes the applicant's PSAR to determme or at the amtsaine ni the Commimim. Each license for operation of a whether the plant deugn is safe and consistent with NRC rules and outcar resetor cimtams technical spirifications which set forth the regulanons; a hether valid methods of calculation were emplomi partnist salen and enuronmental protection measures to be im.

and senarately carned out; w hether the applicant has conducted hts punt upm the f acihty and the conihtions that must be met for the anahm and esaluation m sufficient depth and breadth to support stalt srprm al with respret to safety. When the staff is satisfied that f acihrv en oper ate.

the acceptance cruena ci the Standard Review Plan have been met One hnnet. a nuclear facihty remams under NRC surveillann by the appheant's prehmmary report, a Safety Es aluation Report is

.nd unerp pni,dw myartmm throuchout its operatmc hfe. In prepared by the staff summanung the results of their rmew regard-can u here the NRC lands triat substantial, additional protection is ing the anticipated eirects of the proposed facihty on the pubhe r=wwan for tlw puhhc health and saferv or the common deferue and health and salen.

sceunn, the Nim inav require "harkhttmg" of a hcensed plant, that Fo;lesing pubhcation of the staff Safety Evaluation Report, the u, the sAhtwn, ehmination or mothheation of str: ctures. sutems or ACRS wmpletes its rmew and meets with staff and appheant. The ACRS then prepares a 'weter report to the Chairman of the NRC cumpments ce the plant,

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ICCESSION NBR B312109455 00C.DATE: 30/12/03 NOTARIZED: NO 30C<ET s rACIL:

AUTH.NAdE AJTi34 AFFILIATION JACKS,J.

Affiliation Unknewn dAin0VITCH,9 Affiliation Jnknown RECIP.NAME RECI*IENT AFFILIAT!3N Commissioners

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Requests info.re qu: lear olant licensi,a orecedures,in s u o o s.r t of high senool geogroohy class oroject.

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