ML19169A149

Letter to NuScale Transmitting SER with No Open Items for Chapter 11, Radioactive Waste Management.

ML19169A149
Person / Time
Site:	NuScale
Issue date:	08/29/2019
From:	Getachew Tesfaye NRC/NRO/DLSE/LB1
To:	Bergman T NuScale
Chowdhury P / 415-1647
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ML19171A288	List: ML19169A149 ML19169A150 ML19240A442
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August 29, 2019 Mr. Thomas Bergman Vice President, Regulatory Affairs NuScale Power, LLC 1100 NE Circle Boulevard, Suite 200 Corvallis, OR 97330

SUBJECT:

NUSCALE POWER, LLC, DESIGN CERTIFICATION APPLICATION - SAFETY EVALUATION WITH NO OPEN ITEMS FOR CHAPTER 11, RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT

Dear Mr. Bergman:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is preparing a safety evaluation (SE) with no open items (OIs) for each chapter of the NuScale Power, LLC (NuScale) Design Certification Application submitted by NuScale on January 6, 20171.

The NRC staffs SE with no OIs for Chapter 11, Radioactive Waste Management, is being provided to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Subcommittee to inform the ACRS of the closure of all OIs and to support a briefing by the staff if requested by the Committee.

The enclosed SE with no OIs is being provided to NuScale for review of proprietary information pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding. The NRC will withhold the enclosed SE from public disclosure for ten business days from the date of this letter to allow you the opportunity to identify any proprietary information or factual errors. If within that ten-day period, you do not request that all or portions of the SE be withheld from public disclosure, the enclosure will be made available for public viewing through the Publicly Available Records component of NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System and placed on the NRCs public webpage for this application.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Getachew Tesfaye, Senior Project Manager Licensing Branch 1 Division of Licensing, Siting, and Environmental Analysis Office of New Reactors 1

The Design Certification Application was submitted via a transmittal letter dated December 31, 2016.

T. Bergman 2 If you have any questions or comments concerning this matter, I can be reached at (301) 415 8013 or via e-mail address at Getachew.Tesfaye@nrc.gov.

Docket No.52-048

Enclosure:

As stated cc: w/o encl.: DC NuScale Power, LLC Listserv

PKG: ML19171A288 Letter: ML19169A149 SER: ML19240A442 *via email NRO-002 OFFICE NRO/DLSE/LB1: PM* NRO/DLSE/LB1: LA* NRO/DLSE/LB1: BC NRO/DLSE/LB1: PM NAME GTesfaye MMoore SLee GTesfaye DATE 08/28/2019 08/29/2019 08/28/2019 08/29/2019