ML17031A277

January 24, 2017, Summary of NRC Public Meeting on the Proposed License Transfer of Vermont Yankee for Decommissioning

ML17031A277
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Site:	Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png
Issue date:	02/01/2017
From:	Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
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J. Parrott NMSS/DUWP/RDB 415-6634 T-8E47
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February 1, 2017 MEETING REPORT MEETING DATE: January 24, 2017

TIME: 10:00 am - 11:30 am EST

PLACE: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Three White Flint North Building 11601 Landsdown Street, Room 1C03 Rockville, Maryland PURPOSE: To discuss a proposal to transfer the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station 10 CFR Part 50 license and decommissioning trust fund from Entergy Nuclear (Entergy) to NorthStar Group Services, Inc. (NorthStar).

The meeting announcement is publicly available in NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at accession number ML17006A204. ATTENDEES: See Enclosure 1

DISCUSSION: Entergy and NorthStar provided a presentation on the proposal to transfer the license and decommissioning trust fund of the permanently shutdown Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VYNPS), from Entergy to NorthStar for the purposes of decommissioning. The presentation covered the current status of the VYNPS and current approach to decommissioning, a timeline for decommissioning under the proposed approach, gave an overview of the NorthStar approach, their teaming partners, their technical qualifications, financial assurance, plan for spent fuel management and other topics such as foreign ownership and control, insurance coverage. The decommissioning strategy would go from the currently planned SAFSTOR method to an immediate DECON method thus shortening the decommissioning period by as much as 43 years.

The decommissioning trust fund, site property, and title to the spent fuel would transfer to NorthStar upon successful transfer of the NRC license, successfully obtaining a certificate of public good from the Vermont Public Service Board, and successful transfer of the spent fuel to dry cask storage. NorthStar would retain ownership of the site property and spent fuel after the completion of decommissioning. The NorthStar presentation is in ADAMS at ML17019A145. NRC gave a presentation on the process for reviewing license transfer requests, the review criteria, and the fact that the NRC safety, security, and financial assurance oversight continues for the site before, during and after the license transfer review process. The NRC presentation is in ADAMS at ML17024A106. ACTIONS: The licensee intends to submit a formal request for the license transfer at by the end of February 2017. NRC will consider holding a public meeting after the request for license transfer is submitted. NRC will also establish a web page to post links to licensing documents related to this license transfer.

Docket No./

License No.: 05000271/DPR-28

DISTRIBUTION: cc: Vermont Yankee ListServ JTappert AKock BWatson JParrott ABowers, NRR VWilliams, NSIR JWachutka, OGC RPowell, RI JWeil, OCA DMcIntyre, OPA JKim, NRR DTiftt, RI

ML17031A277 OFFICEDUWP/RDB/PMDUWP/RDB/BC NAME JParrott BWatson DATE 02/01/2017 02/01/2017 Attendees for January 24, 2017 Meeting Between NRC and Entergy/NorthStar

John Tappert NRC Andrea Kock NRC Bruce Watson NRC Jack Parrott NRC Anthony Bowers NRC Mike Dusaniwskyj NRC Eric Olvera NRC Ruth Murray NRC Jim Kim NRC Jenny Weil NRC Jeremy Wachutka NRC Dave McIntyre NRC Vince Williams NRC Steve Hammann NRC

Steven Scheurich Entergy Paul Paradis Entergy Andrew Rosenlieb Entergy John Gordon Entergy Phil Couture Entergy Susan Raimo Entergy

Scott State NorthStar Scott LaBuy NorthStar Billy Reid NorthStar Gregory DiCarlo NorthStar

Frederic Bailly Areva

Rod Baltzer WCS

John Neises Burns & McDonnell

Thomas Magette PwC

John Matthews Morgan Lewis

Willis Bixby Energy Solutions

David Lewis Pillsbury

Tim Judson NIRS Diane D'Arrigo NIRS

Kevin Kamps Beyond Nuclear Enclosure 1