ML23304A157
| ML23304A157 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crystal River  |
| Issue date: | 11/02/2023 |
| From: | Marlayna Vaaler Doell Reactor Decommissioning Branch |
| To: | |
| References | |
| NRC-2023-0174 | |
| Download: ML23304A157 (8) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-302; NRC-2023-0174]
Accelerated Decommissioning Partners Crystal River Unit 3, LLC;
Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant;
License Termination Plan
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of receipt; public meeting, and request for comment.
SUMMARY
- On December 12, 2022, as supplemented on June 9, 2023, the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received from Accelerated Decommissioning
Partners Crystal River Unit 3, LLC (ADP CR3, licensee) a license amendment request to
add a license condition to include the requirements of a License Termination Plan (LTP)
for the Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant (CR3). The LTP provides details
about the known radiological information for the site, the planned demolition and
decommissioning tasks to be completed, and the final radiological surveys and data that
must be obtained for termination of the NRC's license for CR3. The NRC is requesting
public comments on CR3's LTP and will hold a public meeting to discuss the LTP.
DATES: Submit comments by March 7, 2024. Comments received after this date will be
considered, if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for
comments received on or before this date. The public meeting will be held on Thursday,
December 7, 2023, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. eastern time (ET), at the Citrus County
Chamber of Commerce, located at 915 N Suncoast Blvd, in Crystal River, Florida. The
public meeting is also accessible through an online webinar. See Section IV, Request
for Comment and Public Meeting, of this document for additional information.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods; however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal rulemaking
website:
- Federal rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC-2023-0174. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov
to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624; email: Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the individual listed in the For Further Information Contact
section of this document.
- Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN-7-A60M, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Program
Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting comments, see
Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Timothy J. Barvitskie, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-2480; email: Timothy.Barvitskie@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2023-0174 when contacting the NRC about the
availability of information for this action. You may obtain publicly available information
related to this action by any of the following methods:
- Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and
search for Docket ID NRC-2023-0174.
- NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the
search, select Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For problems with ADAMS, please
contact the NRCs Public Document Room (P DR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, at
301-415-4737, or by email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. For the convenience of the
reader, instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are provided
in the Availability of Documents section.
- NRCs PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of publicly
available documents, is open by appointment. To make an appointment to visit the PDR,
please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-
4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal
rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please include Docket ID NRC-
2023-0174 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identif ying or contact information that you
do not want to be publicly disclosed in y our comment submission. The NRC will post all
comment submissions at https://www.regulat ions.gov as well as enter the comment
submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for
submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying
or contact information that they do not w ant to be publicly disclosed in their comment
submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions
available to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Discussion Accelerated Decommissioning Partners Crystal River Unit 3, LLC (ADP CR3,
licensee) is currently the licensed operator responsible for decommissioning of Crystal
River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant (CR3). Prior to ADP CR3, Duke Energy Florida
(DEF) held the licensed authority for CR3. The Facility Operating License No. DPR-72,
provides, among other things, that the facility is subject to all rules, regulations, and
orders of the NRC now or hereafter in effect. The facility is a pressurized water reactor
located in Citrus County, Florida.
By letter dated February 20, 2013, pursuant to paragraphs 50.82(a)(1)(i)-(ii) of
title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), DEF formally notified the NRC that
it had determined to permanently cease power operations at CR3 and that it had
permanently removed fuel from the reactor vessel. In this letter, DEF explained that CR3
had been safely shutdown since September 26, 2009, and that all fuel had been
permanently removed from the CR3 reactor vessel as of May 28, 2011. DEF then placed
the fuel in the CR3 spent fuel pool for temporary storage. After removing the fuel in
2011, DEF stated that it had determined it would retire CR3.
DEF submitted its Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR)
on December 2, 2013. The PSDAR described DEFs proposed decommissioning
activities and schedule. At that time, DEF decided to place the facility in long-term
storage (i.e., the SAFSTOR decommissioning option) as described in the PSDAR.
SAFSTOR is a method of decommissioning in which a nuclear facility is placed and
maintained in a condition that allows the facility to be safely stored and subsequently
decontaminated (deferred decontamination) to levels that permit release for unrestricted
use. DEF planned to continue in SAFSTOR until 2067.
By letter dated June 14, 2019, as supplemented by letters dated
January 17, 2020, and March 5, 2020, DEF and ADP CR3 requested that the NRC
consent to the proposed direct transfer of licensed authority under CR3 Facility Operating License No. DPR-72 from DEF to ADP CR3. By letter dated June 26, 2019,
ADP CR3 submitted a revised PSDAR contingent upon the transfer of the CR3 license
authority to ADP CR3 pursuant to the terms of the Decommissioning Services
Agreement between DEF and ADP CR3. ADP CR3 is a joint venture between NorthStar
Group Services and Orano USA. The revised PSDAR changed the decommissioning
approach for CR3 from SAFSTOR to the immediate decontamination and dismantlement
of the facility (i.e., the DECON decommissioning option). DECON is a method of
decommissioning in which structures, systems, and components that contain radioactive
contamination are actively removed from the site and safely disposed of at a
commercially operated low-level waste disposal facility or decontaminated to a level that
permits the site to be released for unrestricted use as soon as possible after removal of
the spent fuel from the spent fuel pool.
By Order dated April 1, 2020, the NRC provided its consent to the direct transfer
of licensed authority. On October 1, 2020, the licensed authority was transferred from
DEF to ADP CR3 pursuant to the terms of the Decommissioning Services Agreement
between DEF and ADP CR3. Per the agreement, DEF remains the NRC-licensed owner
of the plant, property, and decommissioning trust fund but not the spent fuel. ADP CR3
became the NRC-licensed operator responsible for decommissioning and maintaining
the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) under a service agreement with
ADP SF1, and ADP SF1 became the owner of the spent nuclear fuel, high-level waste,
and Greater-Than-Class C waste stored in the ISFSI.
On December 12, 2022, ADP CR3 submitted its LTP to the NRC as
supplemented by letter dated June 9, 2023. Paragraph 50.82(a)(9), Termination of
license, specifies that an application for license termination must be accompanied or
preceded by a LTP, which is subject to NRC review and approval. The LTP addresses
site characterization to ensure that the scope of final status surveys (FSS) of the site
cover all areas where contamination existed, remains, or has the potential to exist or
remain, identification of remaining dismantlement activities, plans for site remediation, a
description of the FSS plans to confirm that CR3 will meet the release criteria in
10 CFR part 20, subpart E, Radiological Criteria for License Termination, dose-
modeling scenarios that ensure compliance with the radiological criteria for license
termination, an estimate of the remaining site-specific decommissioning costs and an
updated assessment of the environmental effects of decommissioning CR3. Once
approved, the LTP would become a supplement to the CR3 Defueled Safety Analysis
Report.
According to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii), after the licensee submits an LTP the NRC
must hold a public meeting near the site. The purpose of the meeting is for the NRC staff
to discuss the NRC's review of the LTP and to request public comments on the LTP. In
addition, in accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii) and 20.1405, upon the receipt of an
LTP from a licensee, NRC must publish a notice in the Federal Register and solicit
comments from affected parties.
III. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to interested
persons through one or more of the following methods, as indicated.
Document Description ADAMS Accession No.
DEF notification of its intent to permanently cease ML13056A005 operations at Crystal River Unit 3, dated February 20, 2013.
DEF submittal of PSDAR for Crystal River Unit 3, ML13340A009 dated December 2, 2013.
DEF submittal of updated PSDAR for Crystal River ML19177A080 Unit 3 to reflect the change from SAFSTOR to DECON, dated June 26, 2019.
DEF and ADP CR3 proposed direct transfer of CR3 ML19170A209 (Package)
Facility Operating License No. DPR-72 from DEF to ML20017A216 ADP CR3 dated June 14, 2019, and supplemented ML20065K737 on January 17, 2020, and March 5, 2020.
NRC Order providing consent to the direct license ML20069A028 (Package) direct transfer of CR3 Facility Operating License No.
DPR-72 from DEF to ADP CR3, dated April 1, 2020.
ADP CR3 submittal of their LTP to the NRC, dated ML22355A441 December 12, 2022.
ADP CR3 supplement to the LTP, dated ML23180A051 (Package)
June 9, 2023.
The NRC may post materials related to this document, including public
comments, on the Federal rulemaking website at https://www.regulations.gov under
Docket ID NRC-2023-0174. In addition, the Federal rulemaking website allows members
of the public to receive alerts when changes or additions occur in a docket folder. To
subscribe: (1) navigate to the docket folder ( NRC-2023-0174); (2) click the Subscribe
link; and (3) enter an email address and click on the Subscribe link.
IV. Request for Comment and Public Meeting
The NRC is requesting public comments on the CR3 LTP. The NRC will conduct
a public meeting to discuss the LTP and receive comments on Thursday,
December 7, 2023, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. ET, at the Citrus County Chamber of
Commerce, located at 915 N Suncoast Blvd, in Crystal River, Florida. Please contact Mr.
Timothy Barvitskie no later than Tuesday, December 5, 2023, if accommodations or
special equipment is needed for you to attend or to provide comments, so that the NRC
staff can determine whether the request can be accommodated. For additional
information regarding the meeting, see t he NRCs Public Meeting Schedule website at
https://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. The agenda will be posted no later than 10 days prior to the meeting.
Dated: November 2, 2023.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
/RA/
Marlayna V. Doell, Acting Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.