ML23361A099

LLC, Response to NRC Request for Additional Information (RAI 10083) on the NuScale Standard Design Approval Application

ML23361A099
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Site:	99902078, 05200050
Issue date:	12/27/2023
From:	Shaver M NuScale
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Document Control Desk
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ML23361A098	List: ML23361A099
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RAIO-155263
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RAIO-155263

December 27, 2023 Docket: 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 Response to NRC Request for Additional Information (RAI No. 10083) on the NuScale Standard Design Approval Application

REFERENCE:

NRC Letter RAI-10083 Chapter 10, Steam and Power Conversion System, Revision 0, dated October 11, 2023, RAI# 10083

The purpose of this letter is to provide NuScale's response to NRC Requests for Additional Information (RAI), RAI# 10083, noted in the Reference above. The responses to the individual RAI questions are provided in the attached Enclosures.

This letter contains NuScale's response to the following RAI Question from NRC RAI# 10083:

10.1-1

Enclosures are grouped with all proprietary version responses first, followed by all nonproprietary version responses. NuScale requests that the proprietary versions be withheld from public disclosure in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR § 2.390. The enclosed affidavit supports this request.

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

Please contact Elisa Fairbanks at 541-452-7872 or at EFairbanks@nuscalepower.com if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Mark Shaver Director, Regulatory Affairs NuScale Power, LLC

Distribution: Getachew Tesfaye, NRC Thomas Hayden, NRC Mahmoud Jardaneh, NRC

NuScale Power, LLC 1100 NE Circle Blvd., Suite 200 Corvallis, Oregon 97330, Office: 541.360.0500, Fax: 541.207.3928 www.nuscalepower.com RAIO-155263

NuScale Response to NRC Request for Additional Information RAI# 10083, proprietary : NuScale Response to NRC Request for Additional Information RAI# 10083, nonproprietary : Affidavit of Carrie Fosaaen, AF-155264

NuScale Power, LLC 1100 NE Circle Blvd., Suite 200 Corvallis, Oregon 97330, Office: 541.360.0500, Fax: 541.207.3928 www.nuscalepower.com RAIO-155263

NuScale Response to NRC Request for Additional Information eRAI No. 10083, proprietary

NuScale Power, LLC 1100 NE Circle Blvd., Suite 200 Corvallis, Oregon 97330, Office: 541.360.0500, Fax: 541.207.3928 www.nuscalepower.com RAIO-155263

NuScale Response to NRC Request for Additional Information eRAI No. 10083, nonproprietary

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

RAIO-155263

Affidavit of Carrie Fosaaen, AF-155264

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, 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 competitor's 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 NuScale's competitive position and foreclose or reduce the availability of profit-making opportunities. The accompanying Request for Additional Information response reveals distinguishing aspects about the process by which NuScale develops its NuScale Power, LLC Response to NRC Request for Additional Information (RAI No. 10083) on the NuScale Standard Design Approval Application.

NuScale has performed significant research and evaluation to develop a basis for this response 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.

AF-155264

4. The information sought to be withheld is in the enclosed response to NRC Request for Additional Information RAI 10083 Chapter 10.1-1. The enclosure contains the designation "Proprietary" at the top of each page containing proprietary information. The information considered by NuScale to be proprietary is identified within double braces, "((" in the document.

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 § 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 December 27, 2023.

Carrie Fosaaen AF-155264}}