ML21208A146
| ML21208A146 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 07/29/2021 |
| From: | Michael Wentzel NRC/NRR/DORL/LPL2-2 |
| To: | David Wrona NRC/NRR/DORL/LPL2-2 |
| Wentzel, M. | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML21208A152 | List: |
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| Download: ML21208A146 (7) | |
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July 29, 2021 MEMORANDUM TO: David J. Wrona, Chief Plant Licensing Branch II-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation FROM: Michael J. Wentzel, Project Manager /RA/
Plant Licensing Branch II-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF THE JULY 22, 2021, PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS CHANGES TO THE ACCIDENT TOLERANT FUEL PROJECT PLAN On July 22, 2021, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff conducted a public meeting with representatives from the nuclear industry to discuss changes made in draft Revision 1.2 of the Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) Project Plan (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML21188A117). The purpose of the meeting was to 1) provide an overview of the changes that have been made to the project plan and 2) solicit stakeholder feedback on the changes. The meeting notice can be found in ADAMS at Accession No. ML21190A016. The NRC meeting slides can be found at ADAMS Accession No. ML21202A230.
Bo Pham, Director of the Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, and Joe Donoghue, Director of the Division of Safety Systems, both from the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, made opening remarks. The NRC staffs first presentation provided a high-level overview of the changes made in draft Revision 1.2 of the project plan. The NRC staffs second presentation focused on providing an overview of the Regulatory Framework Applicability Analysis that has been added to Appendix A of the plan.
Following the completion of the staffs presentations, the NRC staff opened the meeting to solicit stakeholder feedback on changes made to the plan. Representatives from Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and Framatome provided feedback for the NRC staff to consider as it finalizes the project plan revision. Enclosure 1 contains the feedback received during the meeting. The
D. Wrona representative from NEI stated that the organization intended to provide additional detailed comments via letter by August 6, 2021.
Approximately 65 members of the public and representatives from the industry attended the meeting. No comments were received during the public comment portion of the meeting and no regulatory decisions were made during the meeting.
Enclosures:
- 1. Feedback Received on Draft Project Plan
- 2. List of Attendees
FEEDBACK RECEIVED ON DRAFT ACCIDENT TOLERANT FUEL PROJECT PLAN Source Comment Nuclear The industry sees overall positive environmental benefits (e.g., fewer Energy shipments, less amounts of uranium, etc.) and strongly encourages the U.S.
Institute (NEI) Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to evaluate environmental issues generically and update the plan to reflect.
NEI Suggest adding the use of exemptions to the licensing pathways and describe how they will be used in licensing accident tolerant fuels.
NEI There are several mentions of near-term and long-term burnup concepts. The industry sees both as near-term and request the NRC staff to clarify what is meant.
NEI The definition of High Quality refers to quantities of data. What is meant by this term? Regarding high quality, risk-informed submittal, what is it that the NRC staff thinks is important for industry to know and include?
NEI The project plan should address need for the NRC to collaborate with foreign counterparts for uranium hexafluoride overpacks.
NEI Regarding fuel fragmentation, relocation, and dispersal (FFRD), the project plan should acknowledge industrys pursuit of the alternate licensing strategy.
NEI Regarding the term FFRD burnup threshold, the NRC staff should remove the term burnup because there could be other factors that affect or determine thresholds.
NEI Regarding the term Consequences in Tasks 3 and 4 in the PRA section, the NRC staff should add a discussion about how the staff plans to address dispersal and consequences.
NEI The licensing pathway diagram shows that Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards review is a possible delay to approval of license amendment requests. The NRC staff should add information about how to avoid delays due to Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards review.
Framatome Recommend that the NRC staff perform a word search for must to ensure the use is intentional and actually reflects a requirement.
Enclosure 1
LIST OF ATTENDEES PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS CHANGES TO THE ACCIDENT TOLERANT FUEL PROJECT PLAN JULY 22, 2021 Name Organization Michelle Bales U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Scott Bussey NRC Paul Clifford NRC James Corson NRC Marilyn Diaz Maldonado NRC Joseph Donoghue NRC Brian Glowacki NRC Hipo Gonzalez NRC Kimberly Green NRC James Hammelman NRC Kevin Heller NRC Andrea Kock NRC John Lehning NRC Bob Lukes NRC Joseph Messina NRC Dennis Morey NRC Ngola Otto NRC Donald Palmrose NRC Mathew Panicker NRC Bo Pham NRC Jason Piotter NRC MJ Ross-Lee NRC Phillip Sahd NRC Fred Schofer NRC Neil Sheehan NRC Jeremy Smith NRC Rao Tammara NRC Michael Wentzel NRC Josh Whitman NRC Brandon Wise NRC John Wise NRC Carolyn Wolf NRC David Wrona NRC Enclosure 2
Name Organization Darius Ahrar Public Hatice Akkurt Electric Power Research Institute David Andersson Public Nima Ashkeboussi Nuclear Energy Institute Jana Bergman Curtiss-Wright Dwayne Blaylock Public Mark Brossart Public Nathan Capps Public Johnathan Chavers Public Robert Daum Electric Power Research Institute Christopher Edgar General Electric (GE)
Russ Fawcett GE Jesse Fisher Public Jeff Gabor Public William Gassmann Exelon Cheryl Ann Gayheart Southern Nuclear Operating Company Lisa Gerken Framatome Kent Halac GE Robert Hall Public Luther Hallman, Jr Public John Hannah GE Stanley Hayes Public Stephen Hess Public Nathan Hottle Public Susan Hoxie-Key Public Zeses Karoutas Public Storm Kauffman Public Jeffrey Kobelak Public Suzanne Kroma GE Sam Lafountain Public Mason Makovicka GE Alex Markivich Public Brian Moore GE Will Morris Public A. Kurshad Muftuoglu GE Kinya Nakamura Public Larry Nicholson Public Robert Oelrich Public Gary Peters Framatome Ian Porter GE Robert Schillat Public Tyler Schweitzer GE Fred Smith Public
Name Organization Ryan Sweet Public Karen Tyler GE Tao Wu GE Andrew Zach U.S. Senate, Environment and Public Works Committee
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ML21202A230 (NRC Meeting Slides) *via e-mail OFFICE NRR/DORL/LPL2-2/PM NRR/DORL/LPL2-2/LA NRR/DSS/SFNB/BC NAME MWentzel RButler RLukes DATE 7/27/2021 7/28/2021 7/29/2021 OFFICE NRR/DORL/LPL2-2/BC NRR/DORL/LPL2-2/PM NAME DWrona MWentzel DATE 7/27/2021 7/29/2021