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Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants (NUREG-1437, Supplement 11)On this page:Download complete document The following links on this page are to documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). See our Plugins, Viewers, and Other Tools page for more information. For successful viewing of PDF documents on our site please be sure to use the latest version of Adobe.
Publication InformationManuscript Completed: April 2003 Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs AbstractThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) considered the environmental
impacts of renewing nuclear power plant operating licenses (OLs) for a
20-year period in its Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants (GEIS), NUREG-1437, Volumes 1 and 2, and codified
the results in 10 CFR Part 51. In the GEIS (and its This Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) has been prepared in response to an application submitted to the NRC by the Florida Power and Ught Company (FPL) to renew 16 the OLs for St. Lucie Units 1 and 2 for an additional 20 years under 10 CFR Part 54. This SEIS includes the NRC staff's analysis that considers and weighs the environmental impacts of the proposed action, the environmental impacts of alternatives to the proposed action, and imitigation measures available for reducing or avoiding adverse impacts. It also includes the staff's preliminary recommendation regarding the proposed action. Neither FPL nor the staff has identified information that is both new
and significant for any of the issues for which the GEIS reached generic
conclusions. The staff determined that information provided during the
scoping process did not call into question the generic conclusions in
the GEIS. Therefore, the staff concludes that the impacts of renewing
the St. Lucie OLs will not be greater than impacts identified for these
issues in the GEIS. For each of these issues, the staff’s conclusion in
the GEIS is that the impact is of SMALL(a)
significance (except for collective offsite radiological impacts from
the fuel cycle and from high-level waste and spent fuel, which were not
assigned a single significance level). The NRC staff’s recommendation is that the Commission determine that
the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for St. Lucie Units
1 and 2 are not so great that preserving the option of license renewal
for energy-planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable. This recommendation
is based on (1) the analysis and findings in the GEIS; a) Environmental effects are not detectable or are so minor that they will neither destabilize nor noticeably alter any important attribute of the resource. |
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