[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 36 (Thursday, February 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6868-6869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3939]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Project No. 672]
Issuance of the Draft of the Final Preapplication Safety
Evaluation Report for the Modular High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor
AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Issuance of a Safety Evaluation Report for an
Advanced Reactor Design.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing the
draft of the final preapplication safety evaluation report (PSER) for
the modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (MHTGR) proposed by the
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The NRC has been conducting a
preapplication review of the MHTGR design since 1986 at the request of
DOE and in a manner consistent with the Commission's Advanced Reactor
Policy Statement (51 FR 24643, July 8, 1986). The preapplication review
process is described in NUREG-1226, ``Development and Utilization of
the NRC Policy Statement on the Regulation of Advanced Nuclear Power
Plants,'' June 1988, and is conducted before an application is
submitted for design approval: preliminary design approval, final
design approval, or design certification under 10 CFR Part 52. The PSER
is comprised of two volumes: Volume 1, which contains the staff's
preapplication review of the MHTGR design and the staff's conclusions
on the design from this review, and Volume 2, which contains the
appendices to the draft PSER. Volume 2 of the draft PSER is being
issued without copies of the documents listed in Appendices C through J
to reduce its size. These documents are in the PDR or in NRC Central
Files, and are not essential for the staff's discussion of MHTGR
licensability and policy issues in the draft PSER. They will be issued
with the publication of the final PSER for completeness and will be
made available to the public for the draft PSER upon request.
A copy of the draft PSER has been placed in NRC's Public Document
Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20555,
for review by interested persons.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack N. Donohew, NRC, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone (301)
415-1307.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14 day of February, 1996.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Theodore R Quay,
Director, Standardization Project Directorate, Division of Reactor
Program Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-3939 Filed 2-21-96; 8:45 am]
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