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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Title:

Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant License Termination Plan

Docket Number: (n/a)

Location: teleconference

Date: Thursday, December 7, 2023

Work Order No.: NRC-2631 Page 1-35

NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.

Court Reporters and Transcribers 1716 14th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 234-4433 1

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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PUBLIC MEETING

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CRYSTAL RIVER UNIT 3 NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT

LICENSE TERMINATION PLAN

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THURSDAY,

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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The meeting convened via Video-Teleconference,

at 5:00 p.m. EST, Lynn Ronewicz, Meeting Facilitator,

presiding.

NRC STAFF PRESENT:

LYNN M. RONEWICZ, NSIR/DSO/ISB

ANDREW TAVERNA

JACK PARROTT

TIM BARVITSKIE

NEIL SHEEHAN

SHAUN ANDERSON

ALSO PRESENT:

BRYANT AKINS, ADP CR3

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C O N T E N T S

Welcome............................................3

Opening Remarks....................................5

NRC License Termination Regulatory Process.........9

NRC Inspection and Oversight Program..............15

Crystal River Unit 3 License Termination Plan.....21

Public Comments and Q&A...........................30

Closing Remarks...................................36

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P-R-O-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S

5:00 p.m.

MS. RONEWICZ: Welcome, everyone. This is

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's public

comment meeting to describe the license termination

process and the NRC's review of the license

termination plan for the Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear

Generating Plant.

Good evening. My name is Lynn Ronewicz,

and I am an Information Security Specialist in the

Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, but

I am also an NRC meeting facilitator. And I will be

helping to facilitate tonight's meeting.

I am joining you virtually from Microsoft

Teams, so I will be working with the NRC staff in the

room to ensure we hear all your comments and

questions.

As will be described in greater detail by

Neil Sheehan, Region I Public Affairs Officer, after

the conclusion of my short opening remarks, the

purpose of this meeting is to receive public comments

on the license termination process and the NRC's

review of the license termination plan for the Crystal

River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant.

This meeting is a hybrid meeting which

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means the NRC is hosting this public meeting in person

at the Citrus County Chamber of Commerce, Crystal

River, Florida, and also virtually by Microsoft Teams.

Tonight's meeting is a common gathering

meeting. The NRC is holding this meeting specifically

to obtain public feedback on a regulatory issue, which

is the review and possible approval and implementation

of the license termination plan required for the

decommissioning of the Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear

Generating Plant.

If you are joining us online via Teams or

if you have called in using the Teams bridgeline,

please be sure to keep your microphone muted unless

you are called on to speak. As a note, however, we

have automatically disabled all microphones. When we

call on raised hands of virtual attendees during the

public comments and questions, I will enable your

microphone when I call your name.

You will then need to unmute yourself to

speak. Please then re-mute your phone after you

speak. Also during the question and answer portion,

we will take about four questions in the room first

and then we will alternate virtually to hands raised.

And we'll go back and forth that way.

We have disabled chat messaging for this

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meeting because we want to hear all questions and

comments verbally for the court reporter

transcription.

If at any point during tonight's meeting

you are having Microsoft Teams issues, I wanted to

provide the bridge number if anybody wants to write it

down. The bridge number is 301-576-2978. The

passcode is 540972190.

The NRC's agency-wide documents access and

management system known as ADAMS Accession Number of

the Slide presentation is ML23335A081.

The meeting is being transcribed by a

court reporter as indicated. That's all for me now.

And I am going to hand it over to Neil Sheehan.

MR. ANDERSON: Thanks, Lynn. I'm actually

going to take it over from here.

Good evening, everyone. My name is Shaun

Anderson from the NRC's Office of Nuclear Materials

and Safety and Safeguards, or NMSS, in Rockville,

Maryland.

As you may be aware, Crystal River Unit 3

is undergoing a decommissioning process. In December

of 2022, Crystal River submitted their license

termination plan by Accelerating Decommissioning

Partners, which is NRC's licensee for the LT plan.

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The plan was submitted in -- supplemented

in June 2023 and initially accepted for NRC review.

And that's why we're here tonight to get your public

comments on the license termination plan for us to

consider as part of our review.

If you're here for any other purposes,

please refrain and hold your comments for a more

appropriate venue so that we can hear from the local

community. And for those in the room, if there is an

emergency, we will exit between the two exit doors to

your left or the one where everyone came in, and we'll

reconvene at the parking lot adjacent to the building.

And if you are planning to use the restrooms, the

restrooms are located again behind the door where you

entered on the left-hand side.

Next slide, please. Before we go any

further, I do want to reiterate or mention again that

this meeting is being transcribed and will be made

publicly available as far as a meeting summary for

this meeting.

During this presentation, we will provide

an overview of how the NRC conducts and oversees the

decommissioning process as well as our review process

for the license termination plan.

Bryant Akins from ADP will cover the

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contents of the LTP and provide an overview of the

current decommissioning status and activities at

Crystal River. And before coming back for us first,

provide an overview of NRC's licensing termination

process.

After that, we will ask for comments from

the elected state and local officials or any

representatives from the Native American Tribes who

may be present with us tonight, and we will also

double-check online. And then Neil Sheehan and Lynn

Ronewicz will be facilitating the public comments

during the portion of this meeting. And we will give

instructions at that time so that everyone can have an

opportunity to provide any comments or speak to us

both in person and online.

We hope that everyone has an opportunity

to provide comments. We do want to remind everyone

that the facility will close at 8 o'clock so we do

want to make sure we get all the comments in at that

time --before that time.

Next slide, please. Joining me today,

there are several NRC staff from various parts of the

agency in person and online, most who have extensive

experience with the decommissioning process and the

regulations and across the country for our nuclear

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power reactors.

Again my name is Shaun Anderson. I am the

Chief of the Division of Decommissioning Branch and

the Division of Decommissioning Uranium Recovery and

Waste Programs.

I have the pleasure of working with a lot

of highly technical staff across the Agency and within

our division.

Here with me today I have Jack Parrott and

Tim Barvitskie, our project managers coordinating the

technical and license reviews of power reactors across

the U.S. and are the project managers for the Crystal

River Unit 3 facility here.

I also have Andrew Taverna who is joining

us online who is a decommissioning reactor inspector,

who is located in King Prussia, Pennsylvania. He is

here with us virtually. He is going to provide us the

inspection program that verifies that safety is being

maintained during decommissioning.

And finally, I have Neil Sheehan, who is

our public affairs officer for Crystal River, and he

will be facilitating the public comment portion of the

meeting. And he is here with us today in person.

Again, I thank everyone for joining us

today. We are interested in hearing your comments for

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the Crystal River LTP, and I am going to pass it over

to Tim, who is going to kick us off with a

presentation.

MR. BARVITSKIE: Next slide. Thanks,

Shaun. As part of the decommissioning process, the

NRC oversees each stage of radiological cleanup and

making final surveys to verify the site meets our

strict specifications.

Once the NRC terminates the license, the

bulk of the site may be used for other purposes as

identified by the licensee in accordance with any

state or other local approvals.

However, until that time comes, the NRC

will be here to inspect the decommissioning activities

throughout the entire process. In fact, the NRC will

continue to provide oversight for the independent

spent fuel storage installation, or ISFSI, until fuel

is removed from the site.

Next slide, please. This graph shows the

NRC's extensive experience in the decommissioning of

commercial facilities throughout the years.

Specifically, the NRC has regulated the completion of

decommissioning at over 80 complex material sites,

research and test reactors and commercial power plants

over the last 20 years, including overseeing 14 power

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reactors as they completed the decommissioning

process.

The most recent of these are the La Crosse

and Zion Nuclear Power Stations, who had their

licenses terminated earlier this year.

Next slide, please. Crystal River is

planning to conduct the safe dismantling and

decontamination of the Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear

Generating Plant to reduce residual radioactivity so

that the property may be released for use under

unrestricted conditions and the license terminated.

Under the NRC's decommissioning

regulations, the site will be considered acceptable

for unrestricted use if the residual radioactivity

that is distinguishable from background does not

exceed 25 millirem per year, including that from all

exposure pathways and the residual radioactivity has

been reduced to levels that are as low as reasonably

achievable, or ALARA.

Fourteen reactors that have completed

decommissioning have typically been a small fraction

of the 25 millirem per year limit. For comparison, on

average, Americans receive a radiation dose of about

620 millirem each year, half of that dose comes from

natural background radiation, mostly from radon and

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also cosmic rays and the earth's natural

radioactivity. The other half comes from manmade

sources of radiation, including the use of medical,

commercial and industrial sources.

In general, a yearly dose is 620 millirem

from all radiation sources has not been shown to cause

humans any harm.

Next slide, please. The NRC's

unrestricted release criteria established the

radiological dose limits associated with

decommissioning but did not prescribe a specific end

state for decommissioning facilities. So you could

end up with two end states shown on the slide, both of

which would be considered to be decommissioned

radiologically.

The sites shown on the slide were

decontaminated and released for unrestricted use. As

can be seen on the left slide, some sites, such as

Maine Yankee, elected to dismantle and remove the

majority of the structures, while others, such as

RANCHO SECO on the right side chose to decontaminate

the structures remaining on the site to a level that

allowed for unrestricted release and then left a

number of their structures standing at the site.

Both of these approaches are acceptable

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under the NRC's decommissioning regulations, and it is

ultimately up to the licensee working within our state

and local requirements or other agreements to

determine what the final condition of the reactor site

will be.

Under the approach outlined in the current

LTP for the Crystal River site, the ISFSI, including

the security building, is only allowed inside the

restricted area scheduled to remain at the time of

license termination.

All other above grade structures will be

removed, and the site will be graded. The remaining

licensed property outside of the restricted area will

be surveyed and released back to Duke Energy Florida.

Next slide, please. This slide gives an

overview of the NRC's decommissioning program and

highlights the opportunities for public involvement

throughout the process.

The first six steps are two phases that

have been completed at the Crystal River site with

some dismantling and demolition still be performed.

Since permanent shutdown in 2011, ADPS

continually has been decommissioning their facility.

During this time, NRC inspectors have been onsite

providing oversight via decommissioning and spent fuel

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inspection programs.

Crystal River is currently in the third

phase of decommissioning after receipt of the LTP.

And as Shaun has already mentioned, we are here today

to collect any comments you may have related to their

plan.

Before we open the floor to public

comments, let's discuss more about the specifics of

the LTP and the NRC's inspection program during

decommissioning.

Next slide, please. Each nuclear power

reactor of licensee is required to submit a license

termination plan prior to, or along with, their

application for termination of the license.

The LTP is required to be submitted at

least two years before termination of the license and

must include the following.

Site characterization information that is

used to understand the environmental and radiological

conditions of the Crystal River site in order to

appropriately prepare for cleanup activities as well

as identification remaining dismantlement activities

associated with decontamination and dismantlement to

get to the final configuration of the site.

The plan also includes plans for site

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remediation that describes how the Crystal River site

will be remediated to reduce the residual

radioactivity so that the property may be released for

use under unrestricted conditions and includes a

detailed plan of final radiation surveys that

demonstrates to the NRC that residual radioactive

material does not exceed NRC criteria for termination

of the license.

The plan includes an updated site specific

decommissioning cost estimate to ensure NRC has

adequate assurance that the licensee has sufficient

funds to complete the radiological decommissioning of

the site and also includes a supplement to the

environmental report, which includes an evaluation of

site specific environmental impacts from

decommissioning activities to ensure that they will

not result in any significant environmental change

associated with the licensee's proposed termination

activities.

During the review of the LTP

decommissioning, the NRC continues to maintain

oversight of the licensee's activities. This is where

Andrew will provide us with more details of the NRC's

decommissioning and spent fuel inspection programs.

Next slide, please.

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MR. TAVERNA: Thanks, Tim, the inspection

program for decommissioning reactors is based on the

licensee meeting NRC regulations license-based

documents and guidance documents such as NUREGs as

appropriate.

The one thing about guidance documents

like NUREGs that they are such -- they are just

guidance documents unless the licensee makes it part

of their licensee, such as conditions or tech specs.

The program office at NMSS will perform

licensing reviews as well as safety evaluations of

licensee amendments.

Regional inspectors like myself we perform

onsite and remote inspections. The onsite inspections

typically involve direct observations of licensing

activities and remote inspections include remote

documentation reviews as well as calls and discussions

with the licensee.

MS. RONEWICZ: Could I interrupt for just

a moment? And I know we have a hands raised. There

seems to be the echoing. And I'm not sure, maybe what

the hands raised person was going to mention also.

You're echoing Andrew, and I don't know if anything

can be done.

MR. TAVERNA: It's just the delay from

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when I'm speaking to the mic in the conference room.

MS. RONEWICZ: Okay. And the person that

had their hand raised, I'm assuming maybe that's what

you were going to comment on.

COURT REPORTER: This is the court

reporter. It is also a bit difficult for me to

understand who is saying what. Would it be possible

for Ardath Prendergast to mute when there's someone

remote calling in or speaking?

MR. ANDERSON: Absolutely.

COURT REPORTER: Because that's what's --

thank you so much.

MR. TAVERNA: Okay. Is that better?

MS. RONEWICZ: It's better now.

MR. TAVERNA: Okay.

MS. RONEWICZ: And I don't see the hand

raised anymore so I think --hopefully we're good.

MR. TAVERNA: Okay. Where was I? So I'll

start from the program office. The program office

staff will perform licensing reviews as well as safety

evaluations and proposed licensee amendments.

So the regional inspectors like myself we

perform onsite and remote inspections, onsite meaning

direct observations of licensee activities.

Remote inspections include documentation

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reviews and calls and discussions with the licensee.

This is all to ensure that the licensee is following

the regulations and license requirements. And after

that we document the results and inspection reports

along with any violations that might be found.

Enforcement actions as well as dispositioning of

violations are done in accordance with NRC enforcement

policy, which is available for the public to review.

Next slide, please. The inspection

program is outlined in Inspection Manual Chapter 2561

titled Decommissioning Power Reactor Inspection

Program.

Once the fuel is removed from the vessel,

the licensee enters into the program. We inspectors

perform oversight and verification of the

decommissioning projectat the site, and the program

ends when the license is terminated at the site.

Next slide, please. So the NRC

decommissioning reactor inspection program overall

objective is to obtain information through direct

observation and verification of licensee activities to

determine whether or not the work that they are doing

is being done safety, that spent fuel is safely and

securely stored onsite and that the site operations

and license termination activities are in conformance

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with applicable regulatory requirements, licensing

basis, licensee commitments and management controls.

Next slide, please. So decommissioning

activities that we look at, we observe a variety of

activities and licensing programs. The inspections

are typically multifaceted and intrusive. We look at

a lot of things. The programs that are assessed by

inspection include plant status, modifications,

maintenance, surveillances, fire protection, rad

protection and transportation.

As the amount and complexity of the

decommissioning work increases, so does the number of

inspections will also increase. An example of a

complex decommissioning activity that we observed

previously at Crystal River, we observed GTCC ways

from reactor internals being moved and stored in a

canister on the ISFSI pad.

GTCC is Greater-Than-Class C. It's a

significant level of rad levels for waste and that was

stored safely. We looked at how it was controlled,

how it was moved. And no safety significance of more

than minor issues were identified during that

operation.

Next slide, please. So the region, like

myself, inspectors developed a master plan so to speak

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in advance of performing the annual inspections by

considering what activities the licensee might be

undertaking during the upcoming year, and we

coordinate the scope and timing of these inspections

with the program office.

The inspection effort includes reviewing

the licensee correspondence, previous inspections,

then we perform the inspection. We identify any

findings or violations, and we communicate these to

the licensee during exiting.

Again, as I said before, dispositioning of

violations are in accordance with NRC enforcement

policy.

Now one thing I want to say, with regard

to scheduling inspections, we typically schedule one

or two inspections per quarter. And, again, as I

said, previously in the previous slide, that depends

on the work activities. And we increase our frequency

due to complexity or if the site is having issues like

multiple violations, repeat violations.

The master schedule is very tentative.

Activities in decommissioning slide frequently to

various reasons from like the work taking longer than

projected, staff (inaudible) et cetera. It is

essential to have good and open communication with the

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site to ensure and understand what is going on there.

As you saw in the previous slide, you saw

that we had biweekly calls with the licensee.

Typically an inspector and a project manager from the

NRC will be on the call discussing activities. That

varies from site to site, and it depends on what is

going at the site. Some sites have weekly calls.

Other sites have monthly calls. So it just depends on

what's going on.

Next slide, please. And after the

inspection is completed, we perform a debrief of the

findings from the inspection to NRC management. And

then the report is issued within 30 to 45 days after

the inspection is complete.

Thirty days are for solo inspections.

Forty-five days are for team inspections. As you can

see here on the slide, the inspection reports are

available through ADAMS. And you can look at previous

inspection reports that have been sent out. And you

use that docket number there to search for any

previous inspection reports.

And now that completes my presentation.

And I will hand it over to the site, please. Thank

you.

MR. ANDERSON: Thank you, Bryant.

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MR. AKINS: I'll come stand up here. Jack

is going to run the slides. My name is Bryant Akins.

I'm a rad protection manager. Most in this room know

me.

For those that are on audio and other

places, I'm a hometown guy from Crystal River, born

here. My family has been here, still here. And we

live here. In this plant I started work back in 1983

as a contractor. Shortly thereafter, permanent with

Florida Power Corporation.

I subsequently moved over to Progress

Energy, who bought the nuclear plant. And after that

Duke Energy bought the plant. I stayed in the same

position as rad protection manager with him.

And when we selected NorthStar

Decommissioning Services for decommissioning the

plant, demolishing the plant, I accepted a job as rad

protection manager again in the same position with

NorthStar Services. So I've been with them since they

took over in October of 2020.

On the slide, you can see the progress

from the time we had a construction permit in 1968,

operating license in '76, started operating March of

1977 and final reactor shutdown was September 2009.

Then we moved the fuel in May of 2011. And then

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announced permanent cessation of operations, basically

declaring we wanted to decommission the plant, in

February of 2013.

We completed that spent fuel move in

January of 2018, so all the spent fuel was moved out

to a safe storage area out in the independent spent

fuel storage area and is safely stored there now.

The NRC approved a partial site release

for our site. It was very huge. For some reason

decided when we were doing our license application, we

would just encompass all the land that Florida Power

owned and put that in the license. It was 4,700

acres.

And we have taken the non-impacted land,

surveyed it, made sure it was clean, applied to the

NRC to take that out of our license. So we have

already removed 3,854 acres out of our license. And

we have about 884 left. And that's part of the

license termination process now is to look at that

land area, survey it, and make sure it's clean, make

the confirmatory surveys behind us from the NRC. They

will then analyze all our data and our application.

And if everything goes successful, then they will

terminate removing either as a partial site release or

will in the future remove the ISFSI and all the fuel

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and that's when we'll terminate the license from the

site.

Next slide, please. Next slide. There we

go. So we're looking at some photos here of the

plant, how it was originally taken over when NorthStar

got here. The plant was off of this area you are

looking at was where the large transformers that fed

high voltage electricity from the plant out to the

grid. And this is what it looked like.

Next slide, please. And we started with

that. And then here you can see the outbuildings for

different shops and maintenance shops and transformer

areas being removed and devised. Then that equipment

was safely picked up, put in trucks and railcars and

removed from the site.

The materials we're showing here were all

clean or non-radioactive and taken offsite to either a

landfill or a scrap yard to recycle materials.

Next slide, please. And here is what the

slide on the part on the left, that photo shows how

the plant was originally taken over. And then next to

it is the slide that shows how we went to the turbine

building and taken all the interior portions of that

out. And it's a skeleton, and we have removed that

all the way to the ground.

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Next slide, Jack, please. So here on the

left, you can see our emergency feed pump building

made out of some very thick concrete, and on the right

is demolishment of that building, removing the

concrete, rebar and other equipment out of there.

Next slide, please. And then again, this

shows the plants and the sides of it and how we've got

cranes out there and take down this thing piece by

piece safely, put it into railcars, trucks and various

things and take it offsite.

Next slide, please. So here is the

interior of the turbine building and equipment and

large equipment that is in most plants that generate

electricity. It's very large in size, hundreds of

tons. It takes a lot of specialty people to

disassemble this, get it out safely and/or cut up this

into pieces and put it into carts.

In these areas, the turbine will be able

to be worked on to remove any residual contamination,

make sure it's clean and then get it ready to take it

to Philadelphia.

Next slide. And you can see the skyline

changes as they took the exterior of the building off

all the way until we just got a skeleton and getting

ready to take it down.

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Next slide. And here is the turbine

building as it's being taken apart, demolished and

chopped over. And one on the right there, it has the

whole three-fourths of the building are down in the

basement. And then we have large equipment goes into

those areas, picks up that metal, cuts it up, puts it

in the trucks and/or railcars and sends it out.

And for me it's very interesting to see

this work because I was all about building and running

the place. I was here, like I said, when I was fairly

young when they started building it, seeing it go

together. And to see it taken apart like this to me

is very interesting, how they go in with big

equipment. It's like competence related stuff, you

know. And they can do this fast and efficient. And

it's not your normal way of a nuclear plant taking

apart pieces of equipment. It's quite different.

So NorthStar had the expertise to do this.

And we're glad we chose them.

Next slide. And here again it looks at

the north. NorthStar is taking down the turbine

building and the skylights. You can see the afternoon

with the sunset and the skyline going down.

Next slide. This is the interior for the

auxiliary building. And some of the systems in there,

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you can see it's packed with pumps and pipes and large

stuff on the left. And then the slide on the right is

as we've taken all of that material out and started

shipping it off, loading it in railcars and/or trucks

and leaving the site.

The good thing and in most of these areas

we were able to successfully decontaminate these

systems. We didn't have to ship it in rad material or

handle it and get it out. And that's a really good

craftsmen that come from demolition that can do this

inside a building with large equipment and do it

safely.

Next slide, please. Again, this found in

that seawater room, some of the larger equipment for

the pumps and pieces of equipment down there. It's a

little A-frame framed so when you kind of walk through

this area, you can barely get through it. Now it's a

large open room, just concrete walls and ready going

into the license termination process.

So to get to that process, you remove

everything. When you get down to bare basement walls,

that's where we'll do the surveys. That's where the

license termination will leave the plant. It's only

the basement walls. Everything above about 20 foot

high from the floor, everything up to the top of the

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building will leave site and it either goes for waste

disposal or recycling to landfills.

Next slide, please. And like I was

saying, they've got some neat toys with all this

decommissioning stuff. In my job, I don't get to

drive any of those. I wish I could. They won't let

me.

And they go in with good stuff, and they

can do so much work so fast inside a building where

you wouldn't expect it. And you're used to seeing

people with hand tools, and they drive in with big

equipment to make a path, make it safe. And then they

can take out large volumes of heavy sealed concrete,

materials and equipment and get it loaded and gone.

Next slide, please. And at the end is

material removal. This is one of the very important

things for license termination. This is how you keep

buildings clean. So when you get ready to terminate

the license, you have no radioactive material left.

You take the radioactive material. You

cut it out, pull it apart, cut it up and you put it

into these really heavy duty bags. They are shipping

approved bags. This material, steel, concrete,

whatever, you put it in there. You latch it down.

It's sealed. And then it's transported out of the

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building where there's no radioactive material on the

outside or can be moved to the outside of the

building.

Next slide, please. This is how we do it.

This is inside the reactor building. And you're

looking from up on the polar frame down into the

reactor cavity and e-rings, things like that. So

that's how it looked with a lot of equipment in there,

steam generators and large pumps.

Those steam generators, you know, they are

60 some feet long, 14 foot diameters. And the first

time ever for taking these, we took these long wire --

a piece of wire rope and slice these things into

pieces and were able to package them. And that sounds

like, okay, that can be done except they were 15,572

tubes that were cut. And they're hanging there like

toothpicks.

Can you imagine holding a pack of

toothpicks from the outside and trying to keep the

middle ones from falling? That was quite a feat. So

they applied some putty like material. It was gummy,

and it hardened, and it kept all those in place. They

brought it up and put a sack around it like those

other sacks, put it inside that, transported it out on

a truck. And these were many, many tons to do this

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work. They're not lightweight.

Next slide, please. And this is the

picture after those have been removed, those

(inaudible) removed. And the hole in the floor over

here was where there used to be a reactor. So that's

been pulled out and has been packaged. To do that,

they took all the internals in there of the reactor.

Of course, the fuel is gone. But there is a lot of

high radiation in internals.

They took those, pulled them out

underwater, cut all those in pieces, selected how

they're going to package it and then packaged it back

inside the reactor vessel, put a grout like concrete

in it, and then took that wire rope again and sliced

it into three pieces and pulled those out, packaged

them into approved transport containers.

Next slide. And here they are. You can

see the portion of the reactor being lifted on the

slide on the left, and the Apollo crane bins put it

into the white containers and that's how it will be

shipped by barge to West Texas and be disposed out

there as rad waste.

That's the end of my presentation. Thank

you, Jack.

MR. BARVITSKIE: Thanks, Bryant. So this

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slide provides an overview of the NRC's steps and

review of the LTP. Since the LTP is incorporated into

the facility license as an amendment, there is an

opportunity to request a public hearing on the license

amendment associated with the plan. So this is where

we would like your comments.

As part of the NRC's ongoing review of the

technical, financial and environmental aspects of the

Crystal River LTP, the staff may ask the licensee for

additional information in order to determine whether

the plan meets the information needs outlined in the

decommissioning regulations and associated regulatory

guidance.

If the plan demonstrates that the

remainder of the decommissioning activities will be

performed in accordance with the NRC's regulations, is

not detrimental to health and safety of the public and

does not have a significant effect on the quality of

the environment, the Commission will approve the plan

by a license amendment subject to whatever conditions

and limitations the NRC deems appropriate and

necessary.

The NRC will continue to inspect the site

and will perform independent confirmatory radiological

surveys and sampling to verify the licensee's results

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to ensure the residual radioactivity levels meet the

NRC requirements for unrestricted use of the land and

remaining structures.

Next slide, please. The Crystal River LTP

and supporting documentation is accessible

electronically from the NRC's agency-wide documents,

access and management system, ADAMS, at the accession

numbers listed on the slide.

You can go to the NRC's website at nrc.gov

to access ADAMS and perform a search for the accession

numbers listed to access the LTP and supporting

documents.

Next slide, please. In closing, the

public comments on the Crystal River LTP will be

accepted during this meeting and by mail at the

address listed on this slide. You can also go to the

federal rulemaking website at regulations.gov and

perform a search on the associated docket identifier,

which is NRC-2023-0174 to provide formal comments on

the Crystal River LTP. Please note that comments are

due by March 7 of 2024.

Next slide, please. (Simultaneous

speaking) facilitate the public comment portion of the

meeting.

MS. RONEWICZ: Thank you. We are now

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going to open the meeting up for public comment. We

request you keep your comments or questions at three

minutes for the first round of comments to allow all

those interested in speaking an opportunity. We will

go back for a second round of comments as time

permits.

I will be watching Teams for raised hands

and coordinating with the NRC staff in the room to

allow both audiences an equal opportunity to speak.

We will take about four questions in the room and then

about four questions virtually and alternate that way.

To get a clear and accurate transcript of

everything said, please be sure to introduce yourself

first, including your affiliation if you have one,

before you begin your question or comment. Please

speak loudly and clearly.

If you are in the room with the NRC, you

must use a microphone so everyone tuning in via Teams

and phone can hear you speak. The NRC staff in the

room will guide people one by one to the microphone to

speak.

We are starting in the room, but ask

people on Teams to raise their hand by clicking on the

hand icon on the top or bottom of their Teams screen.

And if you are on the phone, you can raise your hand

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by pressing star 5. If you are on the phone, you will

need to press star 6 to unmute yourself. So now we

will go to the room.

MR. SHEEHAN: (inaudible) for the NRC,

we'd like to start here in the room first. And again,

we'd like to get a few comments here and then we'll

switch to those online.

Let's start first of all if there are any

elected officials who are present who would like to

make any comments? We'd like to try to keep to three

minutes or so for each comment. No?

Do any of you want to check online to see

if there are any elected officials?

MR. RONEWICZ: Are there any elected

officials? If so, please raise your hand, and I will

unmute your mic. No hands raised.

MR. SHEEHAN: Hearing none, any

representatives of agencies who would like to speak at

this point? Okay. Seeing none, anybody in -- any

member of the public that would like to speak at this

point, offer comments? Any Native American,

representative of Native American groups that would

like to speak? No? Okay.

Well, Lynn, if you would like to go ahead

and switch to online to see if there are any comments

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there?

MS. RONEWICZ: Sure. There are no hands

raised yet, but let's go ahead and anybody that is

joined virtually, please raise your hand if you would

like to speak. And once your hand is raised, I will

call your name, I will enable your mic, and then you

will unmute yourself to speak.

And so far no hands raised, but we'll give

it a little bit of time. And no hands raised yet.

We'll go back to the room.

MR. SHEEHAN: And we'll go back to the

room and get another opportunity if anybody would like

to offer comments. It must be a very good license

termination plan. All right.

Well, seeing no comments in the room,

we'll try it one more time online, Lynn, and if not,

we'll turn it over to Shaun to wrap up.

MS. RONEWCIZ: Sure. Again, no hands

raised yet, but maybe we'll give it 30 seconds or so.

Anybody that would like to comment or ask a question,

please raise your hand. And there are no hands raised

at this time.

MR. SHEEHAN: Okay. Well, the comment

period will remain open as we already mentioned. So

there will still be an opportunity to send in written

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comments to communicate with us through the other

channels. So feel free to do that. But at this

point, I will turn it back over to Shaun to close

things out. So thank you.

MR. ANDERSON: Thanks, Neil. And thanks,

everyone for supporting this meeting. Thanks to the

Citrus County Chamber of Commerce for giving us the

facility to host our meeting and then also the

community of Crystal River.

Again, the commentary period will be open

until March 2024 so please provide any comments that

you may have. For us, we will still be in the room.

We'll stay in here for approximately the next hour or

so just in case anyone trickles so we can make sure we

address any comments from the community while we're

still here.

We'll go ahead and end the public meeting

and the virtual meeting at this time. Thanks for all

of those who have supported virtually. That's it.

(Whereupon, the above-entitled matter went

off the record at 5:44 p.m.)

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