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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy/NorthStar
Vallecitos, LLC.; Vallecitos Boiling
Water Reactor; License Termination
Plan
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Commission.
ACTION: Public meeting and request for
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AGENCY:
On September 7, 2023, as
supplemented by letters dated
September 15, 2023, and March 25,
2024, and email dated October 31, 2023,
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) received from
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General Electric (GE) Hitachi Nuclear
Energy (GEH, the licensee) a license
amendment request to include a License
Termination Plan (LTP) for the GEH
Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor
(VBWR). The LTP provides details about
the radiological status of the reactor
facility, the remaining decommissioning
tasks to be completed, and the plan for
termination of the VBWR license. The
NRC is requesting public comments on
VBWR’s LTP and will hold a public
meeting to discuss the LTP.
The public meeting will be held
on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, from 6 p.m.
to 8 p.m., pacific daylight time (PDT), in
the meeting room of the SpringHill
Suites Pleasanton, 7270 Johnson Drive,
Pleasanton, CA 94588. The public
meeting is also available through an
online webinar or by phone. See section
III ‘‘Request for Comment and Public
Meeting’’ of this document for
additional information. Submit
comments by July 15, 2024. Comments
received after this date will be
considered if it is practical to do so, but
the NRC is able to ensure consideration
only for comments received on or before
this date.
DATES:
You may submit comments
by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
• Federal rulemaking website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2024–0092. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
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A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
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Announcements and Editing Staff.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
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Jack
D. Parrott, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–415–
6634; email: Jack.Parrott@nrc.gov.
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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2024–
0092 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publicly
available information related to this
action by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2024–0092.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly
available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For
problems with ADAMS, please contact
the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR)
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II. Discussion
General Electric (GE) Hitachi Nuclear
Energy (GEH, the licensee) is the holder
of Facility Operating License, DPR–1.
The license provides, among other
things, that the GEH Vallecitos Boiling
Water Reactor (VBWR) is subject to all
rules, regulations, and orders of the NRC
now or hereafter in effect. The VBWR is
a boiling water reactor located at the
GEH Vallecitos Nuclear Center (VNC) in
Sunol, CA.
The license, DPR–1, was issued to GE
on August 31, 1957, and full power was
attained on October 19, 1957. The
VBWR ceased operations on December
9, 1963, and was defueled on December
24 of that year. GE was issued a license
to possess but not operate the VBWR
reactor on September 9, 1965. The U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission issued GE
an order to dismantle the VBWR on July
25, 1966. However, the VBWR was put
into a safe storage configuration and
major decommissioning activities at the
VBWR did not occur until 2007–2008
with the removal of most of the
contaminated equipment and
components. The reactor vessel was the
last remaining component of the VBWR
reactor. The reactor vessel was removed
and disposed of offsite in 2023. What
remains of the VBWR is the empty
reactor building with residual structural
contamination and contaminated
embedded piping.
The VBWR LTP describes a strategy
for terminating the VBWR license by
transferring the residual contamination
of the VBWR to the NRC license (DR–
10) for the Empire State Atomic
Development Agency (ESADA)
Vallecitos Experimental Superheat
Reactor (EVESR), that is adjacent to the
VBWR. This strategy will require
approval of an exemption to paragraph
50.82(a)(11)(ii) of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) that will
allow the VBWR license to be
terminated without demonstrating that
the facility and site have met the
residual contamination criteria for
license termination in 10 CFR 20,
subpart E. This is because the VBWR
residual contamination would be
transferred to the EVESR license by
amending the EVESR license. When the
DPR–1 license is terminated, the VBWR
facility and all in-situ residual
contamination will be included in the
EVESR license. The VBWR LTP
describes that an LTP for the EVESR
will be submitted later, that will include
the residual contamination of the
VBWR, and describe meeting the
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residual contamination requirements of
10 CFR 20, subpart E. This will allow
for the termination of the EVESR DR–10
license by April 15, 2030.
The VBWR license, and the other GE
licensed facilities at the VNC, were
transferred from GE to GEH in 2007. By
letter dated September 1, 2023 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML23244A247), GEH and
NorthStar Vallecitos, LLC (NorthStar
Vallecitos) have requested that the GEH
licenses at the VNC (including the
license for the VBWR) be transferred to
NorthStar Vallecitos for
decommissioning. This request is still
under review by the NRC but may be
granted by the time of this public
meeting. If so, the VBWR licensee will
then be NorthStar Vallecitos. By letter
dated September 7, 2023 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML23250A267), as
supplemented by letter dated September
15, 2023 (ADAMS Package Accession
No. ML23261A591), and March 25, 2024
(ADAMS Accession No. ML24085A792),
and email dated October 31, 2023
(ADAMS Accession No. ML23304A300),
GEH submitted the LTP for the VBWR.
According to the requirements in 10
CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii), after the licensee
submits an LTP the NRC must hold a
public meeting near the site. The
purpose of the meeting is for the NRC
staff to discuss the NRC’s review of the
LTP, to solicit public comments on the
LTP, and to describe how comments can
be submitted to NRC. In addition, in
accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii)
and 20.1405, upon the receipt of an LTP
from a licensee, NRC must publish a
notice in the Federal Register and
solicit comments from affected parties.
III. Request for Comment and Public
Meeting
The NRC is requesting public
comments on the VBWR LTP. The NRC
will conduct a public meeting to discuss
the LTP and receive comments on
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, from 6 p.m. to
8 p.m., PDT. The public meeting will be
held at SpringHill Suites Pleasanton,
7270 Johnson Drive, Pleasanton, CA
94588. Please contact Jack Parrott no
later than May 17, 2024, if
accommodations or special equipment
are needed for you to attend or to
provide comments, so that the NRC staff
can determine whether the request can
be accommodated.
For additional information regarding
the meeting, see the NRC’s Public
Meeting Schedule website at https://
meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. The agenda
and links to participate by webinar or
phone will be posted no later than 10
days prior to the meeting.
Dated: May 10, 2024.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Nicole Warnek,
Acting Chief, Reactor Decommissioning
Branch, Division of Decommissioning,
Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs,
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguard.
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Commission.
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AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) issued an exemption
to Vistra Operations Company LLC 1
permitting Perry Nuclear Power Plant
(Perry) to load the Holtec 89 position
multi-purpose canister with continuous
basket shims in HI–STORM Flood/Wind
Multipurpose Canister Storage System
at its Perry Unit 1 Independent Spent
Fuel Storage Installation in a storage
condition where the terms, conditions,
and specifications in the Certificate of
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5 are not met.
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1 Effective March 1, 2024, the facility operating
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transferred from Energy Harbor Nuclear Generation
LLC (owner) and Energy Harbor Nuclear Corp.
(operator) to Energy Harbor Nuclear Generation LLC
(owner) and Vistra Operations Company LLC
(ADAMS Package Accession No. ML24057A092).
Upon completion of this license transfer, Vistra
Operations Company LLC assumed the
responsibility for all licensing actions under NRC
review at the time of the transfer and requested that
the NRC continue its review of these actions
(ADAMS Accession No. ML24054A498).
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-18; NRC-2024-0092]
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy/NorthStar Vallecitos, LLC.; Vallecitos
Boiling Water Reactor; License Termination Plan
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Public meeting and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: On September 7, 2023, as supplemented by letters dated
September 15, 2023, and March 25, 2024, and email dated October 31,
2023, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received from
General Electric (GE) Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH, the licensee) a
license amendment request to include a License Termination Plan (LTP)
for the GEH Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR). The LTP provides
details about the radiological status of the reactor facility, the
remaining decommissioning tasks to be completed, and the plan for
termination of the VBWR license. The NRC is requesting public comments
on VBWR's LTP and will hold a public meeting to discuss the LTP.
DATES: The public meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, from 6
p.m. to 8 p.m., pacific daylight time (PDT), in the meeting room of the
SpringHill Suites Pleasanton, 7270 Johnson Drive, Pleasanton, CA 94588.
The public meeting is also available through an online webinar or by
phone. See section III ``Request for Comment and Public Meeting'' of
this document for additional information. Submit comments by July 15,
2024. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is
practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only
for comments received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
Federal rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2024-0092. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack D. Parrott, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-6634; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0092 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2024-0092.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, at 301-415-4737,
or by email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number for
each document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the
first time that it is mentioned in this document.
NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2024-0092 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at
https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions
into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information
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before making the comment submissions available to the public or
entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
General Electric (GE) Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH, the licensee) is
the holder of Facility Operating License, DPR-1. The license provides,
among other things, that the GEH Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor
(VBWR) is subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the NRC now
or hereafter in effect. The VBWR is a boiling water reactor located at
the GEH Vallecitos Nuclear Center (VNC) in Sunol, CA.
The license, DPR-1, was issued to GE on August 31, 1957, and full
power was attained on October 19, 1957. The VBWR ceased operations on
December 9, 1963, and was defueled on December 24 of that year. GE was
issued a license to possess but not operate the VBWR reactor on
September 9, 1965. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission issued GE an order
to dismantle the VBWR on July 25, 1966. However, the VBWR was put into
a safe storage configuration and major decommissioning activities at
the VBWR did not occur until 2007-2008 with the removal of most of the
contaminated equipment and components. The reactor vessel was the last
remaining component of the VBWR reactor. The reactor vessel was removed
and disposed of offsite in 2023. What remains of the VBWR is the empty
reactor building with residual structural contamination and
contaminated embedded piping.
The VBWR LTP describes a strategy for terminating the VBWR license
by transferring the residual contamination of the VBWR to the NRC
license (DR-10) for the Empire State Atomic Development Agency (ESADA)
Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor (EVESR), that is adjacent to
the VBWR. This strategy will require approval of an exemption to
paragraph 50.82(a)(11)(ii) of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) that will allow the VBWR license to be terminated
without demonstrating that the facility and site have met the residual
contamination criteria for license termination in 10 CFR 20, subpart E.
This is because the VBWR residual contamination would be transferred to
the EVESR license by amending the EVESR license. When the DPR-1 license
is terminated, the VBWR facility and all in-situ residual contamination
will be included in the EVESR license. The VBWR LTP describes that an
LTP for the EVESR will be submitted later, that will include the
residual contamination of the VBWR, and describe meeting the residual
contamination requirements of 10 CFR 20, subpart E. This will allow for
the termination of the EVESR DR-10 license by April 15, 2030.
The VBWR license, and the other GE licensed facilities at the VNC,
were transferred from GE to GEH in 2007. By letter dated September 1,
2023 (ADAMS Accession No. ML23244A247), GEH and NorthStar Vallecitos,
LLC (NorthStar Vallecitos) have requested that the GEH licenses at the
VNC (including the license for the VBWR) be transferred to NorthStar
Vallecitos for decommissioning. This request is still under review by
the NRC but may be granted by the time of this public meeting. If so,
the VBWR licensee will then be NorthStar Vallecitos. By letter dated
September 7, 2023 (ADAMS Accession No. ML23250A267), as supplemented by
letter dated September 15, 2023 (ADAMS Package Accession No.
ML23261A591), and March 25, 2024 (ADAMS Accession No. ML24085A792), and
email dated October 31, 2023 (ADAMS Accession No. ML23304A300), GEH
submitted the LTP for the VBWR.
According to the requirements in 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii), after the
licensee submits an LTP the NRC must hold a public meeting near the
site. The purpose of the meeting is for the NRC staff to discuss the
NRC's review of the LTP, to solicit public comments on the LTP, and to
describe how comments can be submitted to NRC. In addition, in
accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii) and 20.1405, upon the receipt
of an LTP from a licensee, NRC must publish a notice in the Federal
Register and solicit comments from affected parties.
III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting
The NRC is requesting public comments on the VBWR LTP. The NRC will
conduct a public meeting to discuss the LTP and receive comments on
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., PDT. The public meeting
will be held at SpringHill Suites Pleasanton, 7270 Johnson Drive,
Pleasanton, CA 94588. Please contact Jack Parrott no later than May 17,
2024, if accommodations or special equipment are needed for you to
attend or to provide comments, so that the NRC staff can determine
whether the request can be accommodated.
For additional information regarding the meeting, see the NRC's
Public Meeting Schedule website at https://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.
The agenda and links to participate by webinar or phone will be posted
no later than 10 days prior to the meeting.
Dated: May 10, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Nicole Warnek,
Acting Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of
Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguard.
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