ML030290697

Modular Plant Licensing - Slides from Industry Meeting with NRC, with Handwritten Notes. Notes Are Being Withheld

ML030290697
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Issue date:	05/22/2002
From:	Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
To:	Nuclear Energy Institute
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FOIA/PA-2003-0032
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Modular Plant Licensing Industry Meeting with NRC May 22, 2002 I Modular Plants " Plants consisting of multiple reactor modules hold great promise for the future ", Enhanced safety and reliability

"* Improved economics

"* Ability to add capacity incrementally according to market conditions

"* Need to ensure that statutory and regulatory infrastructure is not unfair to modular plants pv-I Pu+;Dfls Wi+)utd Eý I----7!

Objectives for Modular Plant Licensing " Single NRC technical/safety review and single public hearing " Approval to operate each module for 40-years "* Assessment of a single retrospective Price-Anderson premium "* Assessment of a single NRC annual f Integrated Approach

• Applicants would -Prepare a single FSAR covering all modules e Prepare a single Environmental Report (if an ESP is not referenced)

• Simultaneously submit nearly identical COL / S.applications for each module

• NRC would "° Use existing authority under the AEA to subject the set of modular COL applications to a integrated technical/safety review and a single public hearing "* Issue an integrated set of nearly identical COLs,,;one for each module I I!

1 Integrated Approach (cont.) -.The set of modular COLs would authorize construction of all modules n Modular COLs would identify the estimated completion date for each module as specified by the applicant per 10 CFR 50.33(h) u Each COL would authorize operation after the module-specific 10 CFR 52.103(g) finding

• Pending legislation would allow module-specific 40-year license terms to commence with each 10 CFR 52.103(g) finding LII Integrated Approach (cont.) x Pending legislation would subject modular plants to a single Price-Anderson premium ,. m NRC has authority to assess a single annual fee to multi-module plants, even if each module is licensed separately r I I I Design Approval Under a COL"* Regardless of licensing scenario, the SECY-01-0207 proposal for modular design re-reviews every five years is: "* Unnecessary in light of the backfit rule (10 CFR 50.109) "* Contrary to the intent that COLs resolve all safety issues and have a 40 year term "* Adverse to Part 52 goal of standardization

"* Duration of design approval embodied in a COL is coincident with the license term! Summary "* Integrated, multi-license approach recommended to achieve practical objectives for modular plant licensing

"* Enabling legislation pending in Congress "* Price-Anderson

"* Start of 40-year license term "* Modular COL embodies design approval for the term of the license