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Exemption from Certain Requirments of 10CFR73.55 Re on-site Physical Protection Sys.Exemption Granted & Effective Immediately
ML20237F140
Person / Time
Site: Yankee Rowe
Issue date: 11/24/1992
From: Grimes B
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:
YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC CO.
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FOIA-98-175 NUDOCS 9809020085
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UNITED STATES OF ANDt!CA NUCLEAR REGULATORY C0fel!55fM

in the satter of )i Docket No.50-029 YANKEE AT0 HIC ELECTRIC COMPANY

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The Yankee Atomic Electric Company (YACC or the licensee), is the holder of Possession only License No. OPR 3 which authorizes possession and malhtenance of the Yankee Nuclear Power $tation (YNP$ or plant). The license I

'provides, among other things, that the plant is subject to all rules.

regulatior.s. and Orders of the Commission now or hereaf ter in effect.

The facility is a permanently shut down pressurtred water reactor, currently in the process of being decommissioned and 15 located at the Ilcensee's site in franklin County, Massachusetts, 11.

The licenste, by letter dated February 27, 1992, informed the NRC that YAfC had permanently ceased power operations, removed the fuel from the reactor to the fuel pool and begun to develop detailed plans to decommission the f acility. The NRC in a License Amendment dated August 5.1992, modified License DPR-3 to a Possession Only License (POL). The license is conditioned so that YACC is not authorized to operate the reactor or place fuel in the reactor vessel, thus formalizing the licensee's commitment to permanently cease power operatlens.

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By letters dated August 11, 1992, and October 22, 1992,:the licensee requested an examption from certlin safeguards requirements of 10 CFR 73.55 as l discussedinSectionVwhichweredesignedforanoperatingpowerreactor n w,9Wem -

l facility and are unnecessary for YNPS in its defueled condition.

l I The licensee's bases for the exemption request are that the reactor has l

l been defueled, the fuel placed in the spent fuel storage pool, and that the l reactor cannot be returned to operation because of the August 5, 1992 POL.

j In addition, the licensee stated that the potential risk to the public was I

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significantly reduced and that the range of credible accidents and accident ]

' consequences for YNPS was limited because of the currently shut down and j

defueled condition.

The-requirements of 10 CFR 73.55 were promulgated to provide protection

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of a facility against a design basis sabotage threat in consideration of the I

conditions associated with an operational power reactor. When compared with  ;

an operational power reactor facility, the status of YNPS provides a significantly reduced risk from a radiological release as a consequence of sabotage. The Defueled Security Plan, which remains relevant to the defueled status, provides an adequate basis for an acceptable safeguards program.

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The staff, based on its independent evaluation, agrees with the licensee's analyses and concludes that sufficient bases have been presented for our approval of the exemption request. The documents submitted by the 1leensee dated August 11 and October 22, 1992, are classified as Safeguards Information and consequentially are not publicly available, I

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Based on Sections til and IV, above, .the Comission has determined that.

pursuant to 10 CFR 73.5, thit exemption is authorhed by law, will not present an undue risk to the public health and safety, and is consistent with the comon defense and security.

Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(c)(12), the Comission has determined that this exemption meets the eligibility criteria for categor cal exclusion from the need for either an environmental assessment or.environmentalfimpact statement.

The Comission has also determined that the>lssuance of this exemption will have no significant impact on the environment.

Accordingly, the Comission hereby grants an exemption to the Yankee Atomic Electric Company from certain requirements of;10 CFR 73.55 as requested in its letter of October 22, 1992. This exemption concerns an onsite physical protection system and security organization which are no longer needed for the Yankee Nuclear Power Station in its permanently defueled condition, as determined by the Comission it its review of the licensee's revised security and training and qualification plans, provided that (1) the reactor is vold of all fuel, (2) the fuel is stored in the spent fuel pool, and (3) the YNPS Defueled Security Plan Rev. Original dated October 13, 1992, and Defueled Security Training and Qualification Plan Rev. Original dated October 13. 1992, are implemented. - ,

this exemption is effective imediately. . ,

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGU TORY COMISSION s_ x rian K. Grimes, Director

_A Olvision of Operating Reactor Support Office of Huclear Reactor Regulation Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 24th day of November 1992

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