ML20190A217

Summary of June 11 2020, Public Meeting to Discuss Technology Inclusive Content of Application Project

ML20190A217
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Issue date:	07/15/2020
From:	Joseph Sebrosky NRC/NRR/DANU/UARP
To:	John Segala NRC/NRR/DANU/UARP
Sebrosky J
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J. Segala 2 July 15, 2020 MEMORANDUM TO: John P. Segala, Chief Advanced Reactor Policy Branch Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-Power Production and Utilization Facilities Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation FROM: Joseph Sebrosky, Senior Project Manager /RA/

Advanced Reactor Policy Branch Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-Power Production and Utilization Facilities Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

SUMMARY

OF JUNE 11, 2020, PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS TECHNOLOGY INCLUSIVE CONTENT OF APPLICATION PROJECT On June 11, 2020, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) held a Category 2 public meeting with stakeholders, to discuss the industry-led technology inclusive content of application project (TICAP). The meeting notice is available in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at Accession No. ML20162A017 and the presentation slides are available in ADAMS at Accession No. ML20161A350. This was a teleconference meeting, and an attempt was made to capture a list of the attendees as they called into the meeting. Enclosure 1 provides the attendees for the meeting as captured by the operator that helped to facilitate the meeting.

Southern Nuclear (Southern) provided the current status of TICAP. Topics for the meeting included:

• More detailed discussion of the industry-developed licensing modernization project (LMP)-based safety case

• Industry-developed draft annotated outline for an application following the TICAP approach

• Intention to pilot the LMP-based safety case and the annotated outline for three designs in the summer of 2020 Regarding the LMP-based safety case, the NRC staff committed to providing comments to Southern on their approach in future correspondence. Subsequent to the meeting the NRC staff captured its comments in an email dated June 24, 2020, that is publicly available in ADAMS Accession No. ML20176A480. Southern and the NRC staff agreed that there would be more frequent meetings on TICAP and that the items that the NRC staff identified to Southern would be a topic of a future discussion.

Regarding the industry- developed draft annotated outline, Southern provided an outline for the final safety analysis report (FSAR) portion of an application based on the LMP approach.

J. Segala 2 The industry-developed FSAR outline is organized into 11 chapters. The staff previously proposed an FSAR outline as part of the advanced reactor content application project (ARCAP) that was organized into 14 chapters as described in NRCs Updated Draft Outline for Licensing Modernization Project Advanced Reactor License Applications, dated April 15, 2020 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20107J565). The NRCs updated draft outline was discussed in an April 22, 2020, public stakeholder meeting as documented in a May 5, 2020, meeting summary (see ADAMS Accession No. ML20119A484). The staffs updated draft outline includes a proposed FSAR structure for both LMP-based chapters and non-LMP-based chapters while the industry-proposed FSAR structure is based solely on LMP-based chapters. The NRC staff and industry intend to discuss the structure of the LMP-based FSAR chapters in future meetings.

Southern noted that industry intends to pilot the LMP-based safety case and the annotated outline for three designs in the summer of 2020. The developers that have expressed interest in the pilot include:

• General Electric - Prism Design - Solid fuel in a pool of coolant

• Westinghouse Electric Company - A micro reactor design - Solid fuel, heat pipe cooled

• Kairos Power - fluoride salt-cooled solid TRISO pebble bed - based fuel The planned start date for the pilot projects are August of 2020. Southern indicated that there was the potential for NRC staff to observe the pilot projects. The NRC staff noted that observing the pilot projects would be helpful and agreed to work with industry to try to make the appropriate arrangements to observe them.

Enclosure:

Attendance List

ML20190A217 *via e-mail NRC-001 OFFICE NRO/DANU/UARP/PM NRO/DANU/UARP/BC NRO/DANU/UARP/PM NAME JSebrosky* JSegala* JSebrosky*

DATE 7/15/20 7/15/20 7/15/20 June 11, 2020, Public Meeting to Discuss Technology Inclusive Content of Application Project Attendance List NAME AFFILIATION NAME AFFILIATION Amir Afzali Southern Company Marc Nichol Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)

Frank Akstulewicz Industry Consultant - Kati Austgen NEI TICAP John Segala NRC/DANU/UARP Mike Tschiltz NEI Bill Reckley NRC/DANU/UARP Jeff Merrifield Pillsbury Law Firm Amy Cubbage NRC/DANU/UARP Cyrial Draffin US Nuclear Industry Council Joe Sebrosky NRC/DANU/UARP Chantal Morin Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)

Eric Oesterle NRC/DANU/UARP Nick Shykinov CNSC Jim Kinsey Idaho National Laboratory Kevin Lie CNSC (INL)

Tom Hicks INL Farshid Shahrokhi Framatome Tom King INL Dennis Henneke GE Hitachi Wayne Moe INL Juswald Dedovi GE Brandon Chisholm Southern Company Darrell Gardner Kairos Power Brandon Waits Southern Company Pete Gaillard TerraPower Ben Carmichael Southern Nuclear Jill Monahan Westinghouse Carl Flemming Southern Company Rick Pace Westinghouse Consultant Jason Redd Southern Nuclear Travis Chapman X Energy Paul Hayes Independent Contractor Pramab Samanda Brookhaven National with Southern Nuclear Laboratory Steven Nesbit LMNT Consulting Jason Andreus INL Rob Taylor NRC/NRR Jason Christensen INL John Monninger NRC/NRR/DANU David Holcomb Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Brian Smith NRC/NRR/DANU George Flanagan ORNL Jordan Hoellman NRC/NRR/DANU/UARP Willis Poore ORNL Nan Valliere NRC/NRR/DANU/UARP Bruce McDowell PNNL Juan Uribe NRC/NRR/DANU/UARP Donald Helton NASA Maryam Khan NRC/NRR/DANU/UARP Alex Runner Oklo Michelle Hayes NRC/NRR/DANU/UART Forouche Miriran Fennovoima Ian Jung NRC/NRR/DANU/UART Boyan Petrovich Georgia Institute of Technology Stu Magruder NRC/NRR/DNRL/UARL Andy Zack US Senate Ismael Garcia NRC/NRR/DEX Alex Hashemian ANS Corporation Joseph Ashcraft NRC/NRR/DEX/EICA Frank Schaaf ASME Carolyn Lauron NRC/NRR/DNRL/NRLB Prasad Kadambi Consultant Eric Bowman NRC Kurt Harris Belis Energy Bernard Dittman NRC/RES/DE/ICEEB Halin Alsaed Environuclear Enclosure

NAME AFFILIATION NAME AFFILIATION Julie Ezell NRC/OGC Michael Howard Zachary Nuclear Scott Bussey OCHCO/ADHRTD/RTTB Nicolas Jenner IRSN Tammy Morin Holtec International Shakur Booker Samson Richard Orthen Public Ed Wallace Public Alan Levin Public Mike Mayfield Self 2