Energia i regulacje · 12/03/1998

Prairie Island Coalition; Receipt of Petition for Rulemaking

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received and requests public comment on a petition for rulemaking filed by the Prairie Island Coalition. The petition has been docketed by the Commission and has been assigned Docket No. PRM-72-4. The petitioner requests that NRC undertake rulemaking to examine certain issues addressed in the petition relating to the potential for thermal shock and corrosion in dry cask storage. The petitioner requests that the NRC amend its regulations that govern independent storage of spent nuclear fuel in dry storage casks to define the parameters of acceptable degradation of spent fuel in dry cask storage. The petitioner also requests an amendment to the regulations to define the parameters of retrievability of spent nuclear fuel in dry cask storage and to require licensees to demonstrate safe cask unloading ability before a cask may be used at an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI).