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Design Certification Application Review - ESBWR

The Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) is a 4500 MWt reactor that uses natural circulation for normal operation and has passive safety features. GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) submitted an application for final design approval and standard design certification for the ESBWR on August 24, 2005. By letter dated December 1, 2005, the application was accepted for docketing. Docket number 52-010 has been assigned to the ESBWR.

For additional information, please access our ADAMS Advanced Web Search. Enter 05200010 in the 'Docket Number' field to search for documents linked to the ESBWR design certification application."

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On this page:

• Design Certification Review
• Application Review Schedule
• Pre-Application Review
• Project Managers

Design Certification Review

On September 28, 2007, GEH submitted Revision 4 to the ESBWR Design Control Document (DCD).

The ESBWR Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) is also publicly available. See NEDO-33201, Revision 1, "ESBWR Probabilistic Risk Assessment."

Application Review Schedule

The staff's review schedule for the ESBWR Design Certification was provided to GEH on November 27, 2007. On February 20, 2008, GEH updated their schedule for submittal of Revision 5 of the ESBWR Design Control Document. The staff is currently re-evaluating its review schedule based on this information.

Pre-Application Review

On April 18, 2002, GEH requested a pre-application review of the ESBWR. Since that time, the staff completed its review of the application of the TRACG thermal hydraulic code to ESBWR loss of coolant accidents . The staff is currently reviewing the application of the TRACG code for ESBWR anticipated operational occurrences (AOOs) and the application of TRACG to ESBWR thermal-hydraulic stability. These reviews will be completed as part of the design certification review.

For additional information, please access our ADAMS Advanced Web Search. Enter proj0717 in the 'Docket Number' field to search for documents linked to the ESBWR design certification application.

Project Managers

NRC project managers assigned to the ESBWR design certification project.

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