June 18, 1998EA 98-207Tennessee Valley Authority
ATTN: Mr. J. A. Scalice
Chief Nuclear Officer and
Executive Vice President
6A Lookout Place
1101 Market Street
Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801SUBJECT:NOTICE OF VIOLATION (NRC INSPECTION REPORT NO. 50-390/98-03)Dear Mr. Scalice:...
The Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant (WBN) is located in southeastern Tennessee approximately 50 miles northeast of Chattanooga, and is owned by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The site has two Westinghouse-designed pressurized water reactors. WBN Unit 1 received a full power o...
New Mexico is an Agreement State. The NRC's Regional Office in Arlington, Texas, (Region IV) is responsible for carrying out many of the agency's duties in New Mexico. No operating nuclear reactors are located in New Mexico. However, Louisiana Energy Services...
Unlike the Operating Reactor Oversight program, which focuses on monitoring and evaluating the performance of existing nuclear power plants, regulatory oversight for new reactors focuses on the construction of reactor facilities (that is, the period between licensing and initi...
Most recently, the NRC, with extensive stakeholder input, published a completely re-organized and significantly revised amendment to the rule. The amended Part 26 (10 CFR Part 26 Final Rule) was published in the Federal Register on March 31, 2008, and is organized into 12 subp...
On this page:Publication InformationAbstractDownload complete documentNUREG-1725 (PDF - 548 KB)Publication Information Manuscript Completed: November 2001 Date Published: January 2002Prepared by: S. McCarthy, USDA/ARS/NAL T. Nicholson (NRC Project Manager) and J. Philip, USNRC...
October 15, 2001EA-98-327Tennessee Valley Authority ATTN: Mr. J. A. Scalice Chief Nuclear Officer and Executive Vice President 6A Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801SUBJECT:NOTICE OF VIOLATION AND PROPOSED IMPOSITION OF CIVIL PENALTY - $88,000 (U.S. DEP...
New Jersey is an Agreement State. No nuclear fuel cycle facilities are located in New Jersey. On September 30, 2009, New Jersey became an Agreement State and assumed responsibility for Part 40 licenses within its borders, and also has jurisdiction over x-ray eq...
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires Federal agencies to evaluate the impacts of proposed federal actions on the human environment. The NRC complies with NEPA through its regulations in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 51. These ...
February 25, 2000Mr. J. A. Scalice
Chief Nuclear Officer and Executive Vice President
Tennessee Valley Authority
6A Lookout Place
1101 Market Street
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801 SUBJECT:WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 1 - NOTICE OF ENFORCEMENT DIS...
The NRC is engaging with applicants and prospective applicants for initial licensing of new research and test reactors based on advanced reactor technologies. Further details on advanced technologies are available on the NRC’s Advanced Reactors page. The NRC is currently...
(a) Design, construction, and alteration. New facilities shall be designed and constructed to be readily accessible to and usable by disabled persons. Alterations to existing facilities shall, to the maximum extent feasible, be designed and constructed to be readily accessible...
Fuel fabrication facilities that produce uranium fuel for commercial use in nuclear power plants are currently licensed to possess and use special nuclear material, including uranium with an enrichment level of up to 5 weight percent uranium-235 (U-235). New fuel designs for c...
The following is a list of correspondence on licensing and inspection activities for Watts Bar Unit 2. | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 |This page includes links to files in non-HTML format. See Plugins, Viewers, and Other Tools for more in...
On this page:Commission MeetingsTransportationFuel FacilitiesStakeholder MeetingsCommission MeetingsPast public Commission meetings related to Accident Tolerant Fuel and Advanced Reactor Fuel, both of which include HALEU, are listed in the table below:DescriptionLinksDateBrief...
New York is an Agreement State. No nuclear fuel cycle facilities are located in New York.The NRC's Regional Office in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, (Region I) is responsible for carrying out the Agency's duties in New York.On this page:Regulatory Contacts for New...
New Hampshire is an Agreement State. No nuclear fuel cycle facilities are located in New Hampshire.The NRC's Regional Office in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, (Region I) is responsible for carrying out the Agency's duties in New Hampshire.On this page:Regulatory C...
Quality assurance (QA) comprises all planned and systematic actions that are necessary to provide adequate confidence that a structure, system, or component will perform satisfactorily in service. Attributes of a QA program include procedures, recordkeeping, inspections, corre...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is dedicated to protecting the public and occupational workers from radiation hazards in the various medical, academic, scientific, and industrial uses of radioactive materials. Toward that end, in addition to Radiation Monitoring a...
March 8, 2001Tennessee Valley Authority
ATTN: Mr. J. A. Scalice
Chief Nuclear Officer and
Executive Vice President
6A Lookout Place
1101 Market Street
Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801SUBJECT:NOTICE OF ENFORCEMENT DISCRETION FOR TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY REGARDING WATTS BAR NU...
April 11, 2005EA-05-036Tennessee Valley Authority ATTN: Mr. K. W. Singer Chief Nuclear Officer and Executive Vice President 6A Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801SUBJECT:FINAL SIGNIFICANCE DETERMINATION FOR A WHITE FINDING AND NOTICE OF VIOLATION (NRC I...
As part of the NRC mission, all civilian uses of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) material will be licensed in a way that is not inimical to the common defense and security. Like all the material licensed by the NRC, HALEU will require attention to physical security, sa...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is committed to enabling the safe use of new fuel technologies, including those that can increase the safety of operating reactors. The U.S. nuclear industry, with the assistance of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), plans to depl...
UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555
September 7, 1989
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