[Federal Register: April 26, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 81)]
[Notices]
[Page 20845]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Westinghouse Electric Company; Notice of Receipt of Application
for Final Design Approval and Standard Design Certification of the
AP1000 Standard Plant Design
Notice is hereby given that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC,
the Commission) has received an application from Westinghouse Electric
Company dated March 28, 2002, filed pursuant to section 103 of the
Atomic Energy Act and Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR) part 52, for the final design approval and standard design
certification of the AP1000 Standard Plant Design.
The AP1000 design is based on the AP600 design, which was certified
on December 16, 1999. The AP1000 design is an approximately 1100
megawatts electric pressurized water reactor plant design in which
passive safety systems are used for the ultimate safety protection of
the plant. All of the safety systems are designed to be passive, where
natural forces, such as gravity, natural circulation, and stored energy
(in the form of pressurized accumulators and batteries), are used as
the motive forces of these systems. The AP1000 application includes the
entire power generation complex, except those elements and features
considered site-specific. The acceptability of the tendered application
for docketing and other matters relating to the requested rulemaking
pursuant to 10 CFR 52.51 for design certification, including provisions
for participation of the public and other parties, will be the subject
of subsequent Federal Register notices.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at the
Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint
North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland.
Publicly available records will be accessible from the Agencywide
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic
Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who
encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should
contact the NRC Public Document Room Reference staff by telephone at 1-
800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of April 2002.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James E. Lyons,
Director, New Reactor Licensing Project Office, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-10308 Filed 4-25-02; 8:45 am]
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