ML23012A097
| ML23012A097 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 07201052 |
| Issue date: | 12/21/2022 |
| From: | Bussmann D GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH |
| To: | Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
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| ML23012A102 | List: |
| References | |
| T1213-CO-00014, EPID L-2021-NEW-0006 | |
| Download: ML23012A097 (6) | |
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@GNS GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH
- Postfach 10 12 53
- 45012 Essen Document Control Desk Director, Division of Fuel Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Ourreference:
T1213-CO-00014 Contact person:
Dominik Bussmann Phone:
+49 (0)201/ 109-1891 Fax:
+49 (0)201/ 109-1186 USA Email:
dominik.bussmann@gns.de Date:
12/21/2022
Subject:
Response on request for supplemental information for 10 CFR 72 Application of the CASTOR geo69 Dry Storage System - Submission of revised SAR (Docket No. 72-1052; EPID No. L-2021-NEW-0006)
Reference:
REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE FOR THE MODEL NO.
CASTOR GEO69 STORAGE CASK-REQUEST FOR SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION, OCTOBER 8, 2021 By letter dated October 18, 2021 NRC submitted a request for supplemental information on the application for approval acc. to 10 CFR 72 of the CASTOR geo69 dry storage system.
Based on this request and the discussion between the NRC staff and GNS on the 15th and 17th of March 2022 the related Safety Analyses Report was revised and is enclosed to this letter.
Section 0.3 of the SAR provides an overview of the implemented changes, which are also indicated by a vertical line on the left side of each page. In addition to detailed changes in the individual chapters, the following adjustments were considered comprehensively in the entire SAR.
Removal of references to the 10 CFR Part 71 application, Elimination of the consideration of a storage facility building, and thus Implementation of analyses regarding additional conditions due to free field storage, Implementation of analyses regarding off-normal conditions for the CLU-System, Implementation of analyses during the on-site transfer of the DSS.
The revised SAR contains certain information that is proprietary, confidential and a trade secret to GNS. Therefore, a non-proprietary version of the SAR together with an affidavit prepared pursuant to 1 O CFR 2.390 providing the basis for withholding of the GNS-proprietary information from public disclosure is enclosed to this letter.
An external hard-drive, which contains the requested calculation data with regard to the thermal analysis, will be send in a separate package. For security reasons the hard drive will be encrypted and the password to decrypt the files will be provided to the staff via E-Mail.
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- v/v/SS 2-0 GNS Gesellschaft fiir Nuklear-Service mbH Frohnhauser Strai?,e 67 DE-45127 Essen Telephone +49 201109-0 Telefax +49 201109-1100 www.gns.de HRB Essen 11213 Commerzbank AG, Essen IBAN DE17 3604 0039 0124 3237 00, BIG COBADEFF Bayerische Landesbank Dilsseldorf
!BAN DE56 7005 0000 0004 3662 43, BIG BYLADEMM Deutsche Bank AG, Essen IBAN DE28 3607 0050 0151 7804 00, BIG DEUTDEDEXXX USt-ldNr. DE 171892160, Steuer-Nr.111/5714/1234 Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Dr. Guido Knott Managing Directors:
Georg Buth Daniel Oehr (Chairman)
Dr.-lng. Jens Schroder
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(@)GNS Due to the demand for international customers, GNS requests the approval until the end of 2023.
Should the NRC staff require additional information to support review of this response, please do not hesitate to contact Mr.
Dominik Bussmann at +49 201 109 1891, or by email at dominik.bussmann@gns.de.
Sincerely, GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH : Affidavit Pursuant to 10 CFR 2.390 : 1014-SR-00002 Rev. 1. Proprietary Version 1014-SR-00002 Rev. 1. Non-Proprietary Version to T1213-CO-OOO 14 AFFIDAVIT PURSUANT TO 10 CFR 2.390 I, Dr.-lng. Sascha KLAPPERT, depose and say that I am the Divisional Director of Engineering of GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH (a company duly organized under the German Law, having its seat at Frohnhauser Strasse 67, 45127 Essen, Germany), duly authorized to execute this affidavit.
I, Dr.-lng. Rainer NORI NG, depose and say that I am Divisional Director of Cask Projects of GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH (a company duly organized under the German Law, having its seat at Frohnhauser Strasse 67, 45127 Essen, Germany), duly authorized to execute this affidavit.
We, Dr.-lng. Sascha KLAPPERT and Dr.-lng. Rainer NORING, have reviewed or caused to have reviewed the information which is identified as confidential and referenced in the paragraph below.
We are submitting this affidavit in conformance with the provisions of 10 CFR 2.390 of the Commission's regulations for withholding this information.
The information sought to be withheld from public disclosure is contained in Enclosure 2 of T1213-C0-00014 and is listed below:
Safety Analyses Report (SAR), Dry Storage System CASTOR geo69, GNS Report number 1014-SR-00002, Revision 1, Docket 72-1052, Proprietary Version This document has been appropriately designated as proprietary.
We have personal knowledge of the criteria and procedures utilized by GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH in designating information as a proprietary trade secret, privileged or as confidential commercial or financial information.
Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (b) (4) of Section 2.390 of the Commission's regulations, the following is furnished for consideration by the Commission in determining whether the information sought to be withheld from public disclosure, included in the above refefrenced document, should be withheld.
(1)
The information sought to be withheld from public disclosure involves certain design details associated with the SAR analyses and SAR drawings of the CASTOR geo69 dry storage system design, which are owned and have been held in confidence by GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH.
(2)
The information is of a type customarily held in confidence by GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH and not customarily disclosed to the public. GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH has a rational basis for determining the types of information customarily held in confidence by it.
(3)
The information is being transferred to the Commission in confidence under the provisions of 10 CFR 2.390 with the understanding that it is to be received in confidence by the Commission.
( 4)
The information, to the best of our knowledge and belief, is not available in public sources, and any disclosure to third parties has been made pursuant to regulatory provisions or confidentiality agreements which provide for maintenance of the information in confidence.
(5)
Public disclosure of the information is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH because:
(a)
A similar product is manufactured and sold by competitors of GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH.
(b)
Development of this information by GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH required expenditure of considerable resources. To the best of our knowledge and belief, a competitor would have to undergo similar expense in generating equivalent information.
(c)
In order to acquire such information, a competitor would also require considerable time and inconvenience related to the development of a design and analysis of a cask for the dry storage and transport of spent nuclear fuel.
(d)
The information required significant effort and expense to obtain the licensing approvals necessary for application of the information. Avoidance of this expense would decrease a competitor's cost in applying the information and marketing of the product to which the information is applicable.
(e)
The information consists of design features, analyses methods and calculation results related to the design and analyses of a dry storage system of spent nueclear fuel, the application of which provide a competitive economic advantage. The availability of such information to competitors would enable them to modify their product to unfairly get a better competitive position with GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH, take marketing or other actions to improve their product's position or impair the position of GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH's product, while avoiding the expense of developing similar data and analyses in support of their processes, methods or apparatus.
(f)
In pricing GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH's products and services, significant research, development, engineering, analytical, licensing, quality assurance and other costs and expenses must be included. The ability of GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH's competitors to utilize such information without similar expenditure of resources may enable them to sell at prices reflecting significantly lower costs.
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Nummer GO-367 des Urkundenverzeichnisses fur 2022 Number GO-367 of Notary 0s Ust of Deeds for 2022 Die vorstehenden, heute var mir ge-I herewith certify that the foregoing fertigten Namensunterschriften van signatures today is given by Dr.-lng. Sascha Klappert, geb. am 21.08.1972, vo111 Person bekannt, und Dr.-ing. Rainer Noring, geb. am 27.11.1968, von Pers8n bekannt, Dr.-lng. Sascha Klappert, born on 21.08.1972, of known identity, and Dr.-lng. Rainer Noring, born on 27.11.1968, of known identity,
. beide dienstansassig Frohnhauser both with their business address at Str. 67, 45127 Essen, Frohnhauser Str. 67, 45127 Essen.
beglaubige ich hiermit.
Die Unterschriften wurden heute im The signatures were given today in Hause Frohnhauser Str. 67, 45127 Frohnhauser Str. 67, 45127 Essen.
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Pflichtvermerk Recht:
nach deutschem Obligatory Statement according to Die Unterzeichner verneinten eine Vorbefassung im Sinne des § 3 Abs. 1 S. 1 Nr. 7 Beurkundungsge-setz, nachdem ihnen der Notar den lnhalt dieser Vorschrift erlautert hat.
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Essen, November10,2022 Notary Public
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