ML030290697

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

ML030290697
Person / Time
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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7 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

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!

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 ,.

mNRC has authority to assess a single annual fee to multi-module plants, even if each module is licensed separately r

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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