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Energia i regulacje · 29.05.1998

Criticality Accident Requirements; Public Meeting

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has initiated a rulemaking to provide light-water nuclear power reactor licensees with greater flexibility in meeting the requirement that licensees authorized to possess more than a small amount of special nuclear material (SNM), maintain a criticality monitoring system in each area where the material is handled, used, or stored. This action is taken as a result of the experience gained in processing and evaluating a number of exemption requests from power reactor licensees and NRC's safety assessments in response to these requests that concluded that the likelihood of criticality was negligible. On December 3, 1997 (62 FR 63825), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission published in the Federal Register a direct final rule amending its regulations that would have provided persons licensed to construct or operate light-water nuclear power reactors with the option of either meeting the criticality accident requirements of paragraph (a) of 10 CFR 70.24 in handling and storage areas for SNM, or electing to comply with requirements that would be incorporated into 10 CFR part 50 at Sec. 50.68. The direct final rule would have become effective on Februar

Source: Federal Register — Nuclear Regulatory CommissionOpen original release →