ML23090A180

GEH - Financial Assurance Status Reports

ML23090A180
Person / Time
Site:	Vallecitos Nuclear Center, Vallecitos  File:GEH Hitachi icon.png
Issue date:	03/31/2023
From:	Murray S GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas
To:	Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Document Control Desk
References
M230047
Download: ML23090A180 (1)

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GE Hifachi Nuclear Energy

• HITACHI Scott P. Murray _

Man0:ger, .Faclllty Licensing 3901 Castle Hayne Road P.O. Box.780 -

M230047 Wilmington, NC 28402 March 31, 2023

• USA U.S. Nuclear-'H _egulatory Commission T (910) 819-5950 scott.mu~y@ge.com Attn: Document Control Desk -

Washington, p. C. 20555-001

Subject:

G-EH Financial .Assurance Status .Reports

References:

1} NRC License _DPR-1, Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR}, Doc~e_f50-18

2) NRC License DR-10, ESADA Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor*

(EVESR}, Docket 5Q-183

3) Letter, _S.P. Murray (GEH} to USNRC "GEH Financial Assurance Status Reports", 3/30/22 (ML22089A084}

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a}(8}(v} attached are GE Hitachi Energy, LLC (GEH} financial assurance status reports for the shutdown VBWR and EVESR facilities (References 1 and 2).

These reports provide an annual update to the reports submitted on March 30, 2022 "(Reference 3).

Please contact me if you. have any questi~ns or would like !o discuss this matt~r.furthe~. _

Sincerely, sl~.Eaei Facility Licensing*- _

Attachment:

Decommissioning_fi11ancial Assurance Status Reports for VBWR and EVESR Shutdown Reactor Facilities cc:

J. D. Parrott, NRC/DUWP/RDB S. Anderson, NRC RIV SPM 23-012

USNRC M230047 3/31/23

-P-age 2-of 2 Attachment Decommissioning Financial Assurance Status Re(?orts for VBWR and EVESR Shutdown Reactor Facilities *:

• Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor <VaWR) NRC License DPR-1

- GEH spent approximately $2.2 million onYBWR decommissioning worK in.2022 that included planning,-preparatio'n, and dismantlement activities. As of year-end 2022, tlie-VBW~faoility- - -- -

estimate of the costs to complete decommissioning is approximately $14.6 million. The VBWR financial-surety bond was updated using a bond.Jider effective March 28,. 2023. A duplicate origina!_of the bond rider was sent to NRC on Ma_rch 31, 2023: There were 9 changes tqJb~

GEH mast~r standby trust agreement.

Experimental Superheat Reactor {EVESR) NRG* License DR-1 0 GEH spent approximately $0.7 million on EVESR decommissioning work in 2022 that included planning and preparation activities. As of year-end 2022, the EVESR facility estimate of the * ~

costs to complete decommissioning is approximately $16.3 million. The EVESR financial surety bond was updated using a bond rider effective March 28, 2023. A duplicate original of the bond rider was sent to NRC on March 31, 2023. There were no changes to the GEH master standby

• trust agreement. - * *