[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 30029]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14515]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Draft NUREG: Issuance, Availability
The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has published a draft
report entitled ``Analysis of Spent Fuel Heatup Following Loss of Water
in a Spent Fuel Pool'' (NUREG/CR-6441). The report describes a
methodology for predicting the spent fuel heatup in the event of loss
of water in the spent fuel pool. The methodology has been formulated
and implemented within a computer code called SHARP (Spent-fuel Heatup:
Analytical Response Program). The code modeling framework, including
the mathematical models and solution methods are described in the draft
NUREG/CR-6441. NUREG/CR-6441 has incorporated a users' manual for the
SHARP code and it discusses how to compute the results of the spent
fuel heatup characteristics using representative design parameters and
fuel loading assumptions. The SHARP code is intended to provide NRC a
method for analyzing the safety of spent fuel in the pool for post
shutdown conditions. This situation may occur when a licensee requests
relief from regulatory requirements during the decommissioning process
at their nuclear reactor facility.
NUREG/CR-6441 has been prepared for the NRC by Brookhaven National
Laboratory (BNL) and is now available for review and comment. Copies of
draft report may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S.
Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 37082, Washington, DC 20013-7082.
Copies are also available from the National Technical Information
Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161. A copy is
also available for inspection and/or copying for a fee in the NRC
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW. (Lower Level), Washington, DC.
The software for the SHARP code can be obtained by contacting Kia L.
Jackson, Mail Stop T-9 F31, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555; Phone (301) 415-6250; E-mail: klj@nrc.gov. For
additional information, please contact the NRC program manager, George
J. Mencinsky, Mail Stop T-9 F31, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555; Phone (301) 415-6206; E-mail: gjm@nrc.gov.
Comments on the draft report should be sent to the Chief, Rules
Review and Directives Branch, Division of Freedom of Information and
Publications Services, Mail Stop P-223, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Copies of the comments received may
be examined at the NRC Public Document Room at 2120 L Street, NW.
(Lower Level), Washington, DC. Comments will be most helpful if they
are received by August 3, 1998.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of April, 1998.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John W. Craig,
Director, Division of Regulatory Applications, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 98-14515 Filed 6-1-98; 8:45 am]
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