[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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