ML24020A010

Project Update Letter Regarding the TRISO-X License Application

ML24020A010
Person / Time
Site:	Triso-X
Issue date:	01/20/2024
From:	Wheeler J Triso-X
To:	Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Document Control Desk
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ML24020A009	List: ML24020A010
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TX0-REG-LTR-0032
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TRISO-X, LLC 801 Thompson Avenue Rockville, MD 20852

+1 301.358.5600 TX0-REG-LTR-0032 THE ENCLOSURES TO THIS LETTER CONTAIN SECURITY-RELATED INFORMATION -

WITHHOLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH 10 CFR 2.390 WHEN DETACHED - HANDLE THIS PAGE AS DECONTROLLED THE ENCLOSURES TO THIS LETTER CONTAIN SECURITY-RELATED INFORMATION -

WITHHOLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH 10 CFR 2.390 ELECTRONIC DELIVERY January 20, 2024 Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555-0001

References:

1)

Docket No. 70-7027

2)

TRISO-X letter from Jennifer Wheeler to Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility License Application Submittal, dated April 5, 2022

3)

TRISO-X letter from Jennifer Wheeler to Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility Environmental Report Submittal, dated September 23, 2022

4)

NRC Letter from Matthew Bartlett, Senior Project Manager, Fuel Facility Licensing Branch, to Jennifer Wheeler, Director, Regulatory Affairs, Acceptance of the TRISO-X, LLC License Application for a Fuel Fabrication Facility (Enterprise Project Identification Number L-2022-NEW-0005 and L-2022-LNE-0002), dated November 18, 2022

Subject:

Project Update Letter Regarding the TRISO-X License Application TRISO-X, LLC (TRISO-X) hereby submits a project scope update regarding the contents of the License Application and Environmental Report for the TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility (References 2 and 3). The NRC formally accepted the TRISO-X license application for review by letter dated November 18, 2022 (Reference 4).

TRISO-X is finalizing the detailed design for the fuel fabrication facility, and site plan, which will accommodate additional process buildings. Since submittal of the application, equipment designs have matured, and the US DOE Office of Clean Energy Deployment (OCED) has identified a source of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) that may be suitable for TRISO-Xs Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project (ARDP) cooperative agreement. However, this HALEU source is of a form not originally included in the application. Accordingly, changes must be made to the design and license application documents in order to receive the material. Both the DOE and TRISO-X believe the effort worthy as receipt of the HALEU would eliminate a proliferation

TX0-REG-LTR-0032 THE ENCLOSURES TO THIS LETTER CONTAIN SECURITY-RELATED INFORMATION -

WITHHOLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH 10 CFR 2.390 THE ENCLOSURES TO THIS LETTER CONTAIN SECURITY-RELATED INFORMATION -

WITHHOLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH 10 CFR 2.390 WHEN DETACHED - HANDLE THIS PAGE AS DECONTROLLED concern from the DOE complex and use it instead to fuel a first of a kind ARDP advanced reactor.

The enclosed design change information associated with the receipt of DOE provided HALEU is submitted for consideration of the potential impact to the NRC project review schedule.

TRISO-X intends to provide supplemental information to the NRC for review by December 31, 2024. This supplemental information will include revisions to the license application documents (previously submitted to the NRC) impacted by the design changes presented in the enclosure to this letter.

Request for Withholding Portions of the enclosed submittal contain information that TRISO-X requests be withheld from public disclosure. The following regulations and guidance were consulted to develop the document markings and specific withholding requests as noted in the description of each enclosures contents.

10 CFR 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding NRC Regulatory Issue Summary 2005-31, Revision 1, Control of Security-Related Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information Handled by Individuals, Firms, and Entities Subject to NRC Regulation of the Use of Source, Byproduct, and Special Nuclear Material Summary of this Submittal The following Enclosure is included with this letter.

Enclosure - Design Change Information (Security-Related Information)

If there are questions or if additional information is required, please contact me at (865) 850-0893 or jwheeler@triso-x.com.

Sincerely, Jennifer K. Wheeler, P.E.

Vice President, Regulatory Affairs TRISO-X, LLC 801 Thompson Avenue Rockville, MD 20852 Copy: Mr. Matthew Bartlett, US NRC, NMSS TRISO-X Regulatory Records File