ML053460114
| ML053460114 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 11/17/2005 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Rani Franovich NRC/NRR/ADRO/DLR/REBB |
| Fields, L C, NRR/DLR/REBB, 415-1186 | |
| References | |
| TAC MC3274, TAC MC3275 | |
| Download: ML053460114 (34) | |
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Preliminary Results of Preliminary Results of Environmental Review Environmental Review Nine Mile Point Power Nine Mile Point Power Station, Units 1 and 2 Station, Units 1 and 2 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission November 17, 2005
2 Purpose of Todays Purpose of Todays Meeting Meeting 3/4 Discuss NRCs license renewal process 3/4 Describe the environmental review process 3/4 Discuss the results of our review 3/4 Provide the review schedule 3/4 Accept any comments you may have today 3/4 Describe how to submit comments
3 NRCs NRCs Regulatory Oversight Regulatory Oversight 3/4 Atomic Energy Act 3/4Issue operating licenses 3/4Regulate civilian use of nuclear materials 3/4 NRCs Mission 3/4 Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations
4 Nine Mile Point Nuclear Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2 Station, Units 1 and 2 License Renewal License Renewal 3/4 Operating licenses expire 3/4August 2009 for Unit 1 3/4October 2026 for Unit 2 3/4 Application requests authorization to operate Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2 for an additional 20 years.
5 License Renewal Process License Renewal Process Environmental Environmental Review Review Application Application Review Review NRC Decision NRC Decision On Application On Application**
- If a Request for Hearing is Granted
- Available at www.nrc.gov License Renewal License Renewal Application**
Application**
submitted to NRC submitted to NRC Safety Safety Review Review Onsite Onsite Inspections Inspections Independent Independent Review Review Hearings*
Hearings*
6 Scope of License Scope of License Renewal Safety Review Renewal Safety Review 3/4 Limited to Aging Management 3/4 Systems, structures and components important to safety 3/4 Determined by license renewal scoping criteria 3/4 Not on Ongoing Oversight of Current Issues 3/4 Security 3/4 Emergency Planning 3/4 Safety Performance
7 Safety Review Process Safety Review Process 3/4 Safety Evaluation 3/4 Audits 3/4 Evaluation of technical information 3/4 Plant inspections 3/4 Independent Review 3/4 Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS)
8 Safety Review Process Safety Review Process Safety Review Onsite Onsite Inspection(s)
Inspection(s)
Inspection Inspection Report(s)
Report(s)
Issued**
Issued**
Safety Evaluation Safety Evaluation Review Review Safety Safety Evaluation Evaluation Report Issued**
Report Issued**
ACRS ACRS Letter Issued**
Letter Issued**
NRC Decision NRC Decision On Application**
On Application**
Regional Regional Administrator Administrator Letter Issued Letter Issued Local Public Information Meeting Hearings*
Public Meeting(s)
-Tech. Issues
-Audit Exit Advisory Committee on Reactor Safety (ACRS)
Review Public Exit Meeting(s)
- If a Request for Hearing is Granted Opportunities for Public Interaction
- Available at www.nrc.gov License Renewal License Renewal Application**
Application**
submitted to NRC submitted to NRC
9 Environmental Review Environmental Review Process Process Environmental Review Draft Draft Supplement Supplement To GEIS To GEIS Issued**
Issued**
Final Final Supplement Supplement To GEIS Issued**
To GEIS Issued**
Site Site Environmental Environmental Audit Audit Meeting/
Comments On Scoping Meeting/
Comments On Draft License Renewal Application**
Submitted to NRC NRC Decision on Application Hearings*
Local Public Information Meeting
10 Safety Safety Review Review Environmental Environmental Review Review Onsite Onsite Inspection(s)
Inspection(s)
Inspection Inspection Report(s)
Report(s)
Issued**
Issued**
Safety Evaluation Safety Evaluation Review Review Safety Safety Evaluation Evaluation Report Issued**
Report Issued**
ACRS ACRS Letter Issued**
Letter Issued**
Draft Draft Supplement Supplement To GEIS To GEIS Issued**
Issued**
Final Final Supplement Supplement To GEIS Issued**
To GEIS Issued**
NRC Decision NRC Decision On Application**
On Application**
Regional Regional Administrator Administrator Letter Issued Letter Issued License Renewal Process License Renewal Process
- If a Request for Hearing is Granted Opportunities for Public Interaction
- Available at www.nrc.gov Site Site Environmental Environmental Audit Audit License Renewal Application**
submitted to NRC Local Public Information Meeting Meeting/
Comments On Scoping Meeting/
Comments On Draft Hearings*
Public Meeting(s)
-Tech. Issues
-Audit Exit Advisory Committee on Reactor Safety (ACRS)
Review Public Exit Meeting(s)
11 National Environmental National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Policy Act (NEPA) 3/4 NEPA requires Federal agencies to use a systematic approach to consider environmental impacts 3/4 An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is required for major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.
3/4 Commission has determined that a supplement to the Generic EIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants" will be prepared for a license renewal application.
12 Analysis Approach Analysis Approach Potential Potential New Issue New Issue Generic Environmental Impact Statement Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS)
(GEIS)
Category 1 Issues Category 2 Issues Category 1 Issues Category 2 Issues New and New and Significant Significant Info?
Info?
GEIS: Impacts Same GEIS: Impacts Same At All Sites At All Sites GEIS: Analyze GEIS: Analyze Impacts At All Sites Impacts At All Sites Perform Site Perform Site--
Specific Analysis Specific Analysis Adopt the Adopt the GEIS Conclusion GEIS Conclusion Validated Validated New Issue?
New Issue?
No Further No Further Analysis Analysis NO NO NO NO YES YES YES YES
13 Decision Standard for Decision Standard for Environmental Review Environmental Review To determine whether or not the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2 are so great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable.
14 Application Received Notice of Intent Scoping Public Meeting Scoping Period Ended Scoping Summary Report Draft SEIS Draft SEIS Public Meeting Draft SEIS Comments Due Final SEIS September 22, 2004 September 29, 2005 November 17, 2005 December 22, 2005 Environmental Review Environmental Review Milestones Milestones May 27, 2004 August 9, 2004 November 8, 2004 January 5, 2005 June 2006
15 Team Expertise Team Expertise Nuclear Nuclear Safety Safety Regulatory Regulatory Compliance Compliance Radiation Radiation Protection Protection Terrestrial Terrestrial Ecology Ecology Atmospheric Science Atmospheric Science Socioeconomics/
Socioeconomics/
Environmental Justice Environmental Justice Land Use Land Use Archaeology/Historical Resources Archaeology/Historical Resources Hydrology Hydrology Aquatic Aquatic Ecology Ecology
16 How Impacts are How Impacts are Quantified Quantified 3/4 NRC-defined impact levels:
3/4 SMALL: Effect is not detectable or too small to destabilize or noticeably alter any important attribute of the resource 3/4 MODERATE: Effect is sufficient to alter noticeably, but not destabilize important attributes of the resource 3/4 LARGE: Effect is clearly noticeable and sufficient to destabilize important attributes of the resource 3/4 Consistent with the Council on Environmental Quality guidance for NEPA analyses
17 Information Gathering Information Gathering SEIS SEIS License Renewal License Renewal Application Application Staffs Staffs Site Audit Site Audit Public Public Comments Comments State & Local State & Local Agencies Agencies Social Social Services Services Permitting Permitting Authorities Authorities
18 Environmental Impacts Environmental Impacts of Continued Operation of Continued Operation 3/4 Cooling System 3/4 Transmission Lines 3/4 Radiological 3/4 Socioeconomic 3/4 Groundwater Use and Quality 3/4 Threatened or Endangered Species 3/4 Accidents
19 Cooling System Cooling System Impacts Impacts 3/4 Category 2 issues 3/4 Water Use Conflicts 3/4 Entrainment 3/4 Impingement 3/4 Heat Shock 3/4 Microbiological Organisms 3/4 Preliminary findings 3/4 Impacts are SMALL 3/4 No additional mitigation required
20 Radiological Impacts Radiological Impacts 3/4 Category 1 issues 3/4 Radiation exposures to the public 3/4 Occupational radiation exposures 3/4 Preliminary findings 3/4 No new and significant information identified 3/4 GEIS concluded impacts are SMALL
21 Threatened or Endangered Species 3/4Three terrestrial Federally listed species potentially in vicinity.
3/4U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined there is no need for a biological assessment.
3/4IMPACTS ARE SMALL Bald eagle Piping Plover Indiana Bat Images: http://images.fws.gov, http://www.nwf.org/wildlife/indianabat/.
22 Cumulative Impacts Cumulative Impacts of Operation of Operation 3/4 Considered impacts of renewal term operations combined with other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions 3/4 evaluated to end of 20-year renewal term 3/4 geographic boundaries dependent on resource 3/4 No significant cumulative impacts
23 Other Environmental Other Environmental Impacts Evaluated Impacts Evaluated 3/4 Uranium Fuel Cycle and Solid Waste Management 3/4 Decommissioning
24 Alternatives Alternatives 3/4 No-action 3/4 Alternative energy sources 3/4 New generation (Coal, Natural Gas, Nuclear) 3/4 Purchased electrical power 3/4 Other alternatives (Oil, Wind, Solar, Conservation) 3/4 Combination of alternatives 3/4 Environmental effects of alternatives in at least some impact categories reach MODERATE or LARGE significance
25 Preliminary Preliminary Conclusions Conclusions 3/4 GEIS Conclusions on Category 1 issues adopted.
3/4 Impacts resulting from Category 2 issues are of SMALL significance.
3/4 No new impacts identified.
3/4 Environmental effects of alternatives may reach MODERATE or LARGE significance.
26 Postulated Accidents Postulated Accidents 3/4 Design-basis accidents 3/4 Severe accidents 3/4Severe accident mitigation alternatives (SAMAs)
27 SAMA Evaluation SAMA Evaluation Process Process 3/4 Characterize overall plant risk 3/4 Identify potential improvements 3/4 Quantify risk reduction potential and implementation costs 3/4 Determine whether implementation of any of the improvements is required to support license renewal
28 Preliminary Results of Preliminary Results of SAMA Evaluation SAMA Evaluation 3/4 220 candidate improvements considered for each unit.
3/4 Set of SAMAs reduced based on multi-step screening process (to 13 for Unit 1 and 20 for Unit 2) 3/4 Detailed cost/benefit analysis shows that several SAMAs would be potentially cost-beneficial at each unit (4 for Unit 1 and 11 for Unit 2).
29 Preliminary Results of Preliminary Results of SAMA Evaluation SAMA Evaluation 3/4 None of the potentially cost-beneficial SAMAs relate to managing the effects of aging.
Accordingly, none of the SAMAs are required to be implemented as part of license renewal 3/4 Notwithstanding this, the licensee has committed to further evaluate the potentially cost-beneficial SAMAs for possible implementation 3/4 Completion of the evaluations is being tracked in the licensee's plant change process
30 Preliminary Preliminary Conclusions Conclusions 3/4 Impacts of license renewal are SMALL for all impact areas.
3/4 Impacts of alternatives may reach MODERATE to LARGE.
3/4 The staffs preliminary recommendation is that the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2 are not so great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable.
31 Environmental Review Environmental Review Milestones Milestones 3/4 Draft SEIS issued - September 29, 2005 3/4 Comment period ends - December 22, 2005 3/4 Issuance of Final SEIS - June 2006
32 Additional Information Additional Information 3/4 NRC contact: Leslie Fields (800) 368-5642, Ext. 1186 3/4 Documents located at Penfield Library State University of New York Oswego, NY 13126.
3/4 Draft SEIS can also be viewed at the NRCs Web site (www.nrc.gov) at: www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1437/supplement24/
33 Submitting Submitting Comments Comments 3/4 By mail:
Chief, Rules and Directives Branch Division of Administrative Services Mailstop T-6D59 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington DC 20555 3/4In person: 11545 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 3/4 By e-mail: NineMilePointEIS@nrc.gov
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