ML23306A274

LLC, Submittal of Additional Information with the NuScale Standard Design Approval Application, Revision 1

ML23306A274
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Site:	05200050
Issue date:	11/02/2023
From:	Griffith T NuScale
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Document Control Desk
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ML23306A273	List: ML23306A274 ML23306A276 ML23306A277 ML23306A278
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LO-152903 November 2, 2023 Docket No.52-050 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN: Document Control Desk One White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738

SUBJECT:

NuScale Power, LLC Submittal of Additional Information with the NuScale Standard Design Approval Application, Revision 1 The purpose of this letter is to provide information, as requested by the NRC staff, to support the NuScale US460 Standard Design Approval Application review.

This submittal includes proprietary information. NuScale requests that the attachments containing proprietary information be withheld from public disclosure in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR § 2.390. The enclosed affidavit (NuScale affidavit, Enclosure 1) supports this request.

This letter is accompanied with the following attachments that describe changes incorporated into draft SDAA Revision 2:

1. Table 9.1.4-2 (Nonproprietary)

2. Table 9.1.5-2 (Nonproprietary)

3. CNTS CVC Class 3 valves design changes. These changes include:

Table 3.9-16 (Nonproprietary)

Table 3.9-18 (Nonproprietary)

Table 3.11-1 (Nonproprietary)

Table 6.2-7 (Nonproprietary)

Table 17.4-1 (Nonproprietary)

ITAAC Table 2.4-3 (Nonproprietary)

4. SSC Roadmap Rev 4 (Proprietary)

5. Updated Response for Audit Question A-17.4-2 (Proprietary)

This submittal of additional information is being submitted electronically via the NRC EIE with separate attachments for each item listed previously.

This letter makes no regulatory commitments and no revisions to any existing regulatory commitments.

NuScale Power, LLC 1100 NE Circle Blvd., Suite 200 Corvallis, Oregon 97330 Office 541.360.0500 Fax 541.207.3928 www.nuscalepower.com

LO-152903 Page 2 of 2 11/02/2023 If you have any questions, please contact Elisa Fairbanks at 541-452-7872 or efairbanks@nuscalepower.com.

Sincerely, Thomas Griffith Manager, Licensing NuScale Power, LLC Distribution: Mahmoud Jardaneh, NRC Brian Smith, NRC Getachew Tesfaye, NRC David Drucker, NRC Stacy Joseph, NRC Prosanta Chowdhury, NRC Enclosure 1: Affidavit of Carrie Fosaaen AF-152905 NuScale Power, LLC 1100 NE Circle Blvd., Suite 200 Corvallis, Oregon 97330 Office 541.360.0500 Fax 541.207.3928 www.nuscalepower.com

LO-152903 :

Affidavit of Carrie Fosaaen AF-152905 NuScale Power, LLC 1100 NE Circle Blvd., Suite 200 Corvallis, Oregon 97330 Office 541.360-0500 Fax 541.207.3928 www.nuscalepower.com

NuScale Power, LLC AFFIDAVIT of Carrie Fosaaen I, Carrie Fosaaen, state as follows:

(1) I am the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs of NuScale Power, LLC (NuScale), and as such, I have been specifically delegated the function of reviewing the information described in this Affidavit that NuScale seeks to have withheld from public disclosure, and am authorized to apply for its withholding on behalf of NuScale (2) I am knowledgeable of the criteria and procedures used by NuScale in designating information as a trade secret, privileged, or as confidential commercial or financial information. This request to withhold information from public disclosure is driven by one or more of the following:

(a) The information requested to be withheld reveals distinguishing aspects of a process (or component, structure, tool, method, etc.) whose use by NuScale competitors, without a license from NuScale, would constitute a competitive economic disadvantage to NuScale.

(b) The information requested to be withheld consists of supporting data, including test data, relative to a process (or component, structure, tool, method, etc.), and the application of the data secures a competitive economic advantage, as described more fully in paragraph 3 of this Affidavit.

(c) Use by a competitor of the information requested to be withheld would reduce the competitors expenditure of resources, or improve its competitive position, in the design, manufacture, shipment, installation, assurance of quality, or licensing of a similar product.

(d) The information requested to be withheld reveals cost or price information, production capabilities, budget levels, or commercial strategies of NuScale.

(e) The information requested to be withheld consists of patentable ideas.

(3) Public disclosure of the information sought to be withheld is likely to cause substantial harm to NuScales competitive position and foreclose or reduce the availability of profit-making opportunities. The accompanying response reveals distinguishing aspects about the method by which NuScale develops its SSC Roadmap.

NuScale has performed significant research and evaluation to develop a basis for this method and has invested significant resources, including the expenditure of a considerable sum of money.

The precise financial value of the information is difficult to quantify, but it is a key element of the design basis for a NuScale plant and, therefore, has substantial value to NuScale.

If the information were disclosed to the public, NuScale's competitors would have access to the information without purchasing the right to use it or having been required to undertake a similar expenditure of resources. Such disclosure would constitute a misappropriation of NuScale's intellectual property, and would deprive NuScale of the opportunity to exercise its competitive advantage to seek an adequate return on its investment.

(4) The information sought to be withheld is in the enclosed response entitled SSC Roadmap Rev - 4.

The enclosure contains the designation Proprietary at the top of each page containing proprietary information.

(5) The basis for proposing that the information be withheld is that NuScale treats the information as a trade secret, privileged, or as confidential commercial or financial information. NuScale relies upon the exemption from disclosure set forth in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 USC § AF-152905 Page 1 of 2

552(b)(4), as well as exemptions applicable to the NRC under 10 CFR §§ 2.390(a)(4) and 9.17(a)(4).

(6) Pursuant to the provisions set forth in 10 CFR § 2.390(b)(4), the following is provided for consideration by the Commission in determining whether the information sought to be withheld from public disclosure should be withheld:

(a) The information sought to be withheld is owned and has been held in confidence by NuScale.

(b) The information is of a sort customarily held in confidence by NuScale and, to the best of my knowledge and belief, consistently has been held in confidence by NuScale. The procedure for approval of external release of such information typically requires review by the staff manager, project manager, chief technology officer or other equivalent authority, or the manager of the cognizant marketing function (or his delegate), for technical content, competitive effect, and determination of the accuracy of the proprietary designation.

Disclosures outside NuScale are limited to regulatory bodies, customers and potential customers and their agents, suppliers, licensees, and others with a legitimate need for the information, and then only in accordance with appropriate regulatory provisions or contractual agreements to maintain confidentiality.

(c) The information is being transmitted to and received by the NRC in confidence.

(d) No public disclosure of the information has been made, and it is not available in public sources. All disclosures to third parties, including any required transmittals to NRC, have been made, or must be made, pursuant to regulatory provisions or contractual agreements that provide for maintenance of the information in confidence.

(e) Public disclosure of the information is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of NuScale, taking into account the value of the information to NuScale, the amount of effort and money expended by NuScale in developing the information, and the difficulty others would have in acquiring or duplicating the information. The information sought to be withheld is part of NuScale's technology that provides NuScale with a competitive advantage over other firms in the industry. NuScale has invested significant human and financial capital in developing this technology and NuScale believes it would be difficult for others to duplicate the technology without access to the information sought to be withheld.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on 11/2/23.

Carrie Fosaaen AF-152905 Page 2 of 2