Energia i regulacje · 30/05/1996

Standard Design Certification for the U.S. Advanced Boiling-Water Reactor and System 80+ Designs; Extension of Comment Period

A supplementary notice of proposed rulemaking for certification of the U.S. Advanced Boiling-Water Reactor (ABWR) and System 80+ designs was published in the Federal Register on April 24, 1996 (61 FR 18099). The supplementary comment period expired on May 24, 1996. On May 17, 1996, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received a request for a 60-day extension of the supplementary comment period from the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). NEI requested the extension in order to provide substantive comments on new issues, as well as on longstanding issues that NEI stated have not yet been resolved to its satisfaction. Therefore, the Commission is extending the comment period to July 23, 1996. The final design certification rules for the ABWR and System 80+ designs, which are under consideration by the Commission, are contained in SECY-96-077, ``Certification of Two Evolutionary Designs,'' which was prepared by the NRC staff. This SECY paper has been placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), and comments on the proposed rules, focusing specifically on staff-recommended changes from the rules originally proposed, are solicited. These changes are discussed in the supplementary