ML20196L733

DOE Presentation for July 16, 2020 Meeting on Idaho Spent Fuel Facility

ML20196L733
Person / Time
Site:	07200025
Issue date:	07/16/2020
From:	US Dept of Energy, Idaho Operations Office
To:	Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
KLBanovac NMSS/DFM/STL 415.7116
References
CAC 001028, EPID: L-2019-LRM-0080
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June 2019 DOE-Idaho Spent Fuel Facility License Amendment to Extend the Expiration Date Meeting with NRC July 16, 2020 Idaho Cleanup Project

Agenda

• Opening Remarks

• License Amendment to Extend the Expiration Date

• Facility Location

• Facility Description

• Idaho Spent Fuel Facility Licensing History

• Idaho Spent Fuel Facility Status

• Schedule

• Closing Remarks Idaho Cleanup Project 2

License Amendment to Extend the Expiration Date

• Review the Idaho Spent Fuel Facility (ISFF) Safety Analysis Report (FSAR), programs, and environmental report for time-sensitive information

• Evaluate the condition of the material to be stored to ensure its still bounded by the application

• License Amendment Request (LAR) would request license expiration extension with technical and regulatory basis explained

• LAR package would include proposed changes, if necessary, to:

- ISFF FSAR

- Environmental Report

- Other programs affected by expiration date extension Idaho Cleanup Project 3

License Amendment to Extend the Expiration Date

• §72.42 aging management plan not applicable at this time.

• §72.42 timely renewal provision not applicable

• 10 CFR 72.42(a) allows initial terms up to 40 years from date of issuance

• DOE intends to extend the initial license term from 20 to 40 years, re-setting the initial license expiration date to 11/30/2044

• Because neither the facility nor any Part 72 important-to-safety components exist, a license amendment to extend the license term is necessary, a license renewal is not.

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Facility Location Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Complex TMI-2 ISFSI Idaho Cleanup Project 5

Facility Description

• Idaho Spent Fuel Facility is an ISFSI designed to store material already at the Idaho National Laboratory under DOE control:

- Peach Bottom Unit 1 spent fuel (~1600 elements)

- Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics (TRIGA) spent fuel

(~1600 elements)

- Shippingport spent fuel (~2,970 rods)

• Facility operating concept is:

- Receive the material in the cask receipt area

- Perform remote-manual, dry repackaging of the material into new welded Idaho Standard Canisters

- Transfer the Idaho Standard Canisters to individual storage tubes located in the storage vault area

- Storage tubes are closed with bolted lids having dual metallic seals Idaho Cleanup Project 6

Idaho Spent Fuel Facility Description Idaho Cleanup Project 7

Idaho Spent Fuel Facility Description Idaho Cleanup Project 8

Idaho Spent Fuel Facility Licensing History

• Spent Nuclear Material License 2512

• 20-year term expires 11/30/2024

• Amendment 1: Transferred license from Foster-Wheeler to DOE

• License transfer order issued July 2009

• Conforming amendment issued September 2009

• Amendment 2: Added Essential Program Control to Technical Specification

• Amendment issued September 2015

• Amendment 3: Changed licensee delegation of authority

• Amendment issued June 2017 Idaho Cleanup Project 9

Idaho Spent Fuel Facility Status

• Construction never commenced

• No procurement of important-to-safety components has occurred

• License, FSAR, and essential programs have been maintained per Part 72 requirements Idaho Cleanup Project 10

Schedule

• Assuming no regulatory prohibition on this approach is identified by DOE or NRC:

- License Amendment Request (LAR) development:

4th Quarter 2022 through 3rd Quarter 2023

- Pre-application meeting with NRC:

1st Quarter 2023 through 2nd Quarter 2023

- LAR submitted: 3rd Quarter 2023

- NRC dockets application: 4th Quarter 2023

- Requests for Additional Information (RAI): 1st Quarter 2024

- RAI response: 2nd Quarter 2024

- Amendment issued: 3rd Quarter 2024 Idaho Cleanup Project 11

Questions?

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