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Design Certification Pre-Application Review - PBMROn this page: On December 5, 2000, Exelon requested a pre-application review of the PBMR for possible licensing in the United States. The staff’s recommendations for the PBMR pre-application review were described in SECY-01-0070,"Plan for Pre-Application Activities on the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor," dated April 25, 2001. During 2001 and early 2002, the staff conducted a series of public meetings with Exelon and interested stakeholders to obtain
information on topics related to the staff’s pre-application review. At Exelon’s request, NRC’s initial pre-application review
focused on legal and financial issues and Exelon’s proposed licensing approach.
In SECY-01-0207
On April 16, 2002, Exelon announced that it will not be proceeding with the PBMR project beyond the completion of the current feasibility study phase. On May 16, 2002, the staff held a public meeting with Exelon to discuss plans for "wrap-up" of PBMR preapplication review. By letter to Exelon dated September 9, 2002, the PBMR preapplication review was closed. Subsequent to the closure of the PBMR preapplication review, the staff provided final policy recommendations to the Commission regarding legal and financial issues in SECY-02-0180, "Legal and Financial Policy Issues Associated with Licensing New Nuclear Power Plants," dated October 7, 2002. In an SRM dated March 31, 2003, the Commission approved the three specific recommendations by the staff on environmental effects, financial qualifications, and decommissioning costs. By letter dated February 18, 2004, PBMR, Pty. LTD, notified the NRC that it intends to apply for design certification of the PBMR once the detailed design for a PBMR demonstration plant to be built in South African is sufficiently completed. In order to make the staff's design certification application review process efficient and effective, PBMR, Pty. has requested that discussions be initiated with the NRC to plan the scope and content of a PBMR preapplication review. In support of pre-application planning, the staff has held two public meetings, one on June 30, 2005, and the other on September 21-22, 2005. The discussions have resulted in identification of the topics that are expected to be the focus of the pre-application phase. The end point of the pre-application phase is expected to be the submittal of a design certification application. Pre-Application ReviewThe following pages list, in chronological order, the notices, responses and letters on the pre-application reviews held concerning PBMR. 2000s: | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002 | 2001 Public MeetingsThe following pages list, in chronological order, the notices, transcripts, slides and summaries documenting the public meetings held concerning PBMR. 2000s: | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002 | 2001 Modular HTGR Safety Analysis and Licensing ChallengesThe Modular HTGR Safety Analysis and Licensing Challenges document provides a list of challenges for licensing the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor. These challenges include: establishing an acceptable HTGR licensing basis, establishing an acceptable technical basis for Plant Safety Analysis, and revieiwng a HTGR application.
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, "Legal and Financial Issues Related to Exelon’s
Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR)," dated November 20, 2001, the staff provided its preliminary position on operator staffing,
fuel cycle impacts, financial qualifications, decommissioning funding, minimum decommissioning costs, antitrust review, number of licenses, annual fees, financial protection, and testing requirements
for a combined license (COL). The staff also completed a preliminary assessment
of Exelon’s proposed licensing approach for the PBMR. The results of this
assessment were documented in a letter dated March 26, 2002.