97-15275. Notice of Issuance of Staff's Safety Evaluation on DOE's Report on Tritium-Producing Burnable Absorber Rod Lead Test Assemblies  

  • [Federal Register Volume 62, Number 112 (Wednesday, June 11, 1997)]
    [Notices]
    [Page 31853]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 97-15275]
    
    
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    NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
    
    [Project No. 697]
    
    
    Notice of Issuance of Staff's Safety Evaluation on DOE's Report 
    on Tritium-Producing Burnable Absorber Rod Lead Test Assemblies
    
        The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is considering the use of 
    commercial light water reactors to produce tritium in order to maintain 
    the strategic stockpile. On December 4, 1996, as revised on March 17, 
    1997, DOE submitted a report to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
    (NRC) entitled, ``Report on the Evaluation of the Tritium Producing 
    Burnable Absorber Rod Lead Test Assembly.'' This report contained 
    information to allow the NRC staff to determine whether the use of a 
    commercial light-water reactor to irradiate a limited number of 
    tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs) in lead test 
    assemblies (LTAs) requires prior NRC review and approval. The NRC staff 
    has reviewed the DOE report and has prepared its safety evaluation.
        The staff's safety evaluation concludes that DOE's proposal 
    involves at least one issue requiring prior Commission review and 
    approval; therefore, an NRC licensee seeking to perform the LTA 
    irradiation must submit an amendment to its facility operating license 
    prior to placing the TPBAR LTAs in the reactor core. The staff's safety 
    evaluation is being published as NUREG-1607, ``Safety Evaluation Report 
    Related to the Department of Energy's Proposal for the Irradiation of 
    Lead Test Assemblies Containing Tritium-Producing Burnable Absorber 
    Rods in Commercial Light-Water Reactors.''
        NUREG-1607 is available for public inspection and copying for a fee 
    at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L 
    Street (Lower Level), NW., Washington, DC. Printed copies of NUREG-1607 
    are available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government 
    Printing Office, P. O. Box 37082, Washington, DC 20402-9328.
    
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. H. Wilson, Office of Nuclear 
    Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
    20555, telephone (301) 415-1108; e-mail JHW1@nrc.gov.
    
        Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of June, 1997.
    
        For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
    Marylee M. Slosson,
    Acting Director, Division of Reactor Program Management, Office of 
    Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
    [FR Doc. 97-15275 Filed 6-10-97; 8:45 am]
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Document Information

Published:
06/11/1997
Department:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
97-15275
Pages:
31853-31853 (1 pages)
Docket Numbers:
Project No. 697
PDF File:
97-15275.pdf