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Design Certification Application Review – U.S. EPR

The U.S. EPR is an evolutionary pressurized water reactor designed by AREVA Nuclear Power. It is a four-loop plant with a rated thermal output of 4,500 MWt. The U.S. EPR design features four redundant trains of emergency cooling equipment, and a containment and shield building for added protection.

By letter dated December 11, 2007, as supplemented by letters dated February 7 and February 20, 2008, AREVA submitted an application for a standard design certification of the EPR, pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 52, "Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants." By letter dated February 25, 2008, the NRC staff docketed the application and subsequently published a schedule for the detailed review of the application on March 26, 2008.

For more information and to review available documents related to AREVA's U.S. EPR Design Certification and pre-application activities, please access our ADAMS Advanced Web Search and enter PROJ0733 or 05200020 in the "Docket Number" field.

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Final Safety Analysis Report
Application Review Schedule
Pre-Application Review
Project Managers

Final Safety Analysis Report

Date	Description
12/11/2007	Tier 1 - Ch. 1 - 5
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 1 - Introduction and General Description of the plant
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 2 - Site Characteristics
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 3 - Design of Structures, Systems, Components and Equipment
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 4 - Reactor
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 5 - Reactor Coolant and Connecting Systems
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 6 - Engineered Safety Features
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 7 - Instrumentation and Controls
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 8 - Electric Power
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 9 - Auxiliary Systems
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 10 - Steam and Power Conversion System
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 11 - Radioactive Waste Management
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 12 - Radiation Protection
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 13 - Conduct of Operations
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 14 - Verification Programs
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 15 - Transient and Accident Analyses
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 16 - Technical Specifications
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 17 - Quality Assurance and Reliability Assurance
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 18 - Human Factors Engineering
12/11/2007	Tier 2 - Ch. 19 - Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Severe Accident Evaluation
12/11/2007	Environmental Report

Application Review Schedule

Key Milestones	Completion Date Actual - A Target - T
Application
Received design certification application	12/11/07 - A

Acceptance Review
Federal Register Notice (FRN) published for receipt and availability	01/02/08 - A
FRN published announcing acceptance	02/25/08 - A
Review schedule published (through Phase 6)	03/26/08 - A

Safety Review
Phase 1 – Preliminary Safety Evaluation Report (SER) with Requests for Additional Information (RAIs) issued to applicant	01/28/09 - T
Phase 2 – SER with Open Items issued	11/20/09 - T
Phase 3 – Response to ACRS regarding SER with Open Items issued	03/05/10 - T
Phase 4 – Advanced SER with no Open Items issued	11/10 - T
Phase 5 – Response to ACRS regarding SER with no Open Items issued	03/11 - T
Phase 6 – Final SER issued	05/11 - T

Rulemaking
Issue proposed rule
Issue final draft rule
Issue final rule

Pre-Application Review

AREVA NP formally requested a pre-application review of the U.S. EPR design on February 8, 2005. During the pre-application review phase, AREVA NP submitted 15 Topical Reports and 4 Technical Reports. The pre-application review phase ended with the submission of the formal Design Certification application. For more information and to review available documents related to AREVA's pre-application activities, please access our ADAMS Advanced Web Search and enter PROJ0733 in the "Docket Number" field.

Design Description submitted by AREVA on August 12, 2005:

Project Managers

U.S. EPR PMs
Lead Project Manager	Getachew Tesfaye
Project Managers	Mike Canova Pete Hearn John Rycyna Jack Donohue Tarun Roy Surinder Arora Evan Davidson