ML23026A091

Gns Gesellschaft Fur Nuklear-Service Mbh, Additional Response on Request for Supplemental Information for 10 CFR 72 Application of the Castor geo69 Dry Storage System - Submission of Revised SAR

ML23026A091
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Site:	07201052
Issue date:	01/12/2023
From:	Bussmann D GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH
To:	Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
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T1213-C0-00016, EPID L-2021-NEW-0006
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@GNS

GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH

• Postfach 1 O 12 53. 45012 Essen

Document Control Desk Our reference: T1213-CO-00016 Director, Division of Fuel Management Contact person: Dominik Bussmann

• Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Phone: +49 (0)201/ 109-1891 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Fax: +49 (0)201/ 109-1186 USA Email: dominik.bussmann@gns.de

Date: 01/12/2023

Subject:

Additional 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.

In addition to the revised SAR submitted on December 21, 2022, the response on this request is enclosed to this letter.

With regard to the observations on the thermal chapter of the SAR, GNS prepared an external hard drive with calculation data. This hard drive (GNS inventory number 18746) is directly delivered to:

Mr. Bernard White Mail Stop T4B16 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville MD 20852 USA

The response on the request for supplemental information as well as the external hard drive with calculation data contain certain information that is proprietary, confidential and a trade secret to GNS.

Therefore, a non-proprietary version of the response 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.

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GNS Gesellschaft fiir Nuklear-Service mbH Frohnhauser Strall.e 67 Commerzbank AG, Essen USt-ldNr. DE 171892160, Steuer-Nr. 111/5714/1234 DE-45127 Essen IBAN DE17 3604 0039 0124 3237 00, BIC COBADEFF Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Dr. Guido Knott Telephone +49 201109-0 Bayerische Landesbank D0sseldorf Managing Directors:

Telefax +49 201109-1100 IBAN DE56 7005 0000 0004 3662 43, BIC BYLADEMM Georg Buth www.gns.de Deutsche Bank AG, Essen Daniel Oehr (Chairman)

HRB Essen 11213 IBAN DE28 3607 0050 0151 7804 00, BIC DEUTDEDEXXX Dr.-lng. Jens Schroder page 2/2 to T1213-CO-000 16

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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 : Response on request for supplemental information, Proprietary Version Response on request for supplemental information, Non-Proprietary Version to letter T1213-C0-00016

AFFIDAVIT

PURSUANT TO 10 CFR 2.390

I, Dr.-lng. Jens SCHRODER, depose and say that I am Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of GNS Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH (a company duly orga~ized under the German Law, having its seat at Frohnhauser Strasse 67, 45127 Essen, Germany), duly authorized to execute this affidavit.

I, Dr.-lng. Sascha KLAPPERT, depose and say that I am Divisional Director of Engineering of GNS Gesellschaft fi.ir 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. Jens SCHRODER and Dr.-lng. Sascha KLAPPERT, 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

a) is contained in Enclosure 2 of letter T1213-C0-00016:

Response on request for supplemental information, Proprietary version This document hqs been appropriately designated as proprietary.

b) consists of electronic calculation data with re~ard to the thermal analysis of the CASTOR geo69 DSS and is contained on the external hard drive with GNS inventory number 18746.

The entire content of the hard drive shall be considered as proprietary.

We have personal knowledge of th~ criteria and procedures utilized by GNS.Gesellschaft fi.ir 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 referenced 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 DSS design, which are owned and have been held in confidence by GNS Gesellschaft fi.ir 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 cask for the dry storage and transport of spent 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.tor 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.

Date: 9 January 2023

Dr.-lng. Sascha K

- Divisional Director of Engineering -

GNS Gese!lschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH

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Subscribed and sworn to me before this 9th day of January, 2023.

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Dr. J~m Go~es, Notary Public

3 Nummer G0-7 des Urkundenverzeichnisses fur 2023 Number G0-7 of Notary°s List of Deeds for 2023

Die vorstehenden, heute var mir ge-I herewith certify that the foregoing fertigten Namensunterschriften van signatures today is given by

Dr.-ing. Jens Schroder, geb. am Dr.-lng. Jens Schroder, born on 16.01.1969, von Person bekarmt, 16;01.1969, of known identity,

' und and

Dr.-lng. Sascha Klappert, geb. am Dr.-lng. Sascha Klappert, born on 21.08.1972, von Person bekannt, 21.08.1972, of known identity,

beidle deenstansassig Frohnhattnser iooth with their business address at Str. 67, 45127 Essen, Frohnhauser Str. 57, 45127 Essen.

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Die Unterschriften wurden heute im The signatures were given today in Hause Frohnhauser Str. 67, 45127 Frohnhauser Str. 67, 45127 Essen.

Essen, geleistet.

Pflichtvermerk nach deutschem Obligatory Statement according to Recht: German law:

Die Unterzeichner verneinten eine According to Sec. 3 Para. 1 S. 1 No. 7 Vorbefassung im Sinne des § 3 German Notarisation Law the Notary Abs. 1 S. 1 Nr. 7 Beurkundungsge Public asked the appearers whether setz, nachdem ihnen der Notar den he or any member of his firm had lnhalt dieser Vorschrift erlautert hat. acted in the matter which is the sub ject of this instrument, except in a no Essen, den 9. Januar 2023 tarial capacity. The appearers replied in the negative.

Essen, January, 9, 2023

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APOSTILLE

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1. Country/ Land:

Federal Republic of Germany/ Bundesrepublik Deutschland

This public document/ Diese offentliche Urkunde

2. has been signed by/ ist unterschrieben von Notary Public Dr. Joachim Gores/ Notar Dr. Joachim Gores

3. acting in the capacity of/ in seiner Eigenschaft als Notary Public in Essen / Notar in Essen

4. bears the seal I sie ist versehen mit dem Siegel of the Notary Public Dr. Joachim Gores in Essen / des Notars Dr. Joachim Gores in Essen

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7. by/ durch the President of the Regional Court Essen/

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