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List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: PSNA VSC-24 Revision
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to revise the Pacific Sierra Nuclear Associates (PSNA) VSC- 24 cask system listing within the ``List of approved spent fuel storage casks'' to include Amendment No. 1 to the Certificate of Compliance. Amendment No. 1 will modify the present cask system design to permit a...
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List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: TN-68 Addition
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to add the Transnuclear TN-68 cask system to the list of approved spent fuel storage casks. This amendment allows holders of power reactor operating licenses to store spent fuel in the Transnuclear TN-68 cask system under a general license.
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List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: Holtec HI-STORM 100 Addition
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to add the Holtec HI-STORM 100 cask system to the list of approved spent fuel storage casks. This amendment allows the holders of power reactor operating licenses to store spent fuel in this approved cask system under a general license.
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Emergency Core Cooling System Evaluation Models
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to allow holders of operating licenses for nuclear power plants to reduce the assumed reactor power level used in evaluations of emergency core cooling system (ECCS) performance. This amendment provides licensees the option to apply a reduced margin for ECCS evaluation or to...
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Elimination of the Requirement for Noncombustible Fire Barrier Penetration Seal Materials and Other Minor Changes
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its fire protection regulations to remove the requirement that fire barrier penetration seal materials be noncombustible, and to make other minor changes. The final rule removes a requirement that has a negligible contribution to safety and includes editorial changes designed to meet the intent...
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Antitrust Review Authority: Clarification
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is clarifying its regulations to reflect more clearly its limited antitrust review authority by explicitly limiting the types of applications that must include antitrust information. Specifically, because the Commission is not authorized to conduct antitrust reviews of post-operating license transfer...
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Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material; Possession of a Critical Mass of Special Nuclear Material
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations governing the domestic licensing of special nuclear material (SNM) for licensees authorized to possess a critical mass of SNM, that are engaged in one of the following activities: enriched uranium processing; fabrication of uranium fuel or fuel assemblies; uranium enrichment...
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New Dosimetry Technology
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations that govern radiological safety to allow licensees to use any type of personnel dosimeter that requires processing to determine the radiation dose, provided that the processor of the dosimeter is accredited to process this type of dosimeter under the National Voluntary...
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New Dosimetry Technology
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations that govern radiological safety to allow licensees to use any type of personnel dosimeter that requires processing to determine the radiation dose, provided that the processor of the dosimeter is accredited to process this type of dosimeter under the National...
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Reporting Requirements for Nuclear Power Reactors and Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations at Power Reactor Sites
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending the event reporting requirements for nuclear power reactors to reduce or eliminate the unnecessary reporting burden associated with events of little or no safety significance. This final rule continues to provide the Commission with reporting of significant events where Commission action may be...
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Requirements for Certain Generally Licensed Industrial Devices Containing Byproduct Material
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations governing the use of byproduct material in certain detecting, measuring, gauging, or controlling devices, and devices to produce light or an ionized atmosphere. The amendments include explicit provisions for a registration process authorized under a provision of the existing...
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Consideration of Potassium Iodide in Emergency Plans
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its emergency planning regulations governing the domestic licensing of production and utilization facilities. The final rule requires that consideration be given to including potassium iodide (KI) as a protective measure for the general public that would supplement sheltering and evacuation. KI...
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Industry Codes and Standards; Amended Requirements
This document corrects a final rule appearing in the Federal Register on September 22, 1999 (64 FR 51370), and reflected in the 2000 revision of the Code of Federal Regulations. This action corrects the final rule by specifying the use of a flaw length sizing criterion for reactor vessel qualification. This correction is necessary for clarity...
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Changes to Adjudicatory Process
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations concerning its rules of practice to make the NRC's hearing process more effective and efficient. The proposed rule would fashion hearing procedures that are tailored to the differing types of licensing and regulatory activities the NRC conducts and would better focus...
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Clarification of Decommissioning Funding Requirements; Correction
This document corrects a misreference appearing in a final rule that was published in the Federal Register on July 26, 1995 (60 FR 38235). This action is to correct this typographical error for clarity and consistency in the regulations.
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Decommissioning Trust Provisions
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations relating to decommissioning trust provisions for nuclear power plants. The NRC proposes to require that decommissioning trust agreements be in a form acceptable to the NRC in order to increase assurance that an adequate amount of decommissioning funds will be available...
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Material Control and Accounting Amendments
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its material control and accounting (MC&A) regulations. The reporting requirements for submitting Material Balance Reports and Inventory Composition Reports are being revised to change both the frequency and timing of the reports. The categorical exclusion for approving safeguards...
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List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: Standardized NUHOMS® -24P and -52B Revision
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations revising the Standardized NUHOMS<Register> -24P and -52B cask system listing within the ``List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks'' to include Amendment No. 3 to Certificate of Compliance (CoC) Number 1004. Amendment No. 3 will modify the present cask system design to add the...
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List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: Standardized NUHOMS® -24P and -52B Revision
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations revising the Standardized NUHOMS<Register> -24P and - 52B cask system listing within the ``List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks'' to include Amendment No. 3 to the Certificate of Compliance. Amendment No. 3 would modify the present cask system design to permit a...
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Revision of the Skin Dose Limit
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations to delete a reference to averaging over 1 square centimeter from its definition of shallow-dose equivalent (SDE). In addition, the proposed rule would change the method of calculating SDEs by specifying that the assigned SDE must be the dose averaged over the 10 square...