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Design Certification Application Reviews - US-APWR
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Pre-Application Review
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US-APWR Design Certification Pre-Application Review

Since July 2006, the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) have been engaged in a variety of pre-application review activities associated with possible certification of a standard design for the U.S. Advanced Pressurized-Water Reactor (US-APWR). For detail, see the following topics on this page:

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Design Description

Date Description
10/06 US-APWR Design Description

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Public Meetings

Date Description
09/26/07 Public Meeting on Technical Specifications for the US-APWR Four Train Systems (PAR Meeting # 10)
08/23/07 Public Meeting on Safety Features and Plant Design Features for the US-APWR (PAR Meeting # 9)
07/26/07 Public Meeting on the Severe Accident Analysis Methodologies for the US-APWR (PAR Meeting # 8)
06/13/07 Public Meeting on the Electrical System, Design Acceptance Criteria, and Technical Specifications for the US-APWR (PAR Meeting #7)
03/22/07 Public Meeting on Engineered Safety Features (ESF), Small Break Loss-of-Coolant Accident (SBLOCA), and Containment Response Analysis Methodologies for the US-APWR (PAR Meeting #6)
03/01/07 Public Meeting on Radiation Dose Assessment, Severe Accident Mitigation, and Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) for the US-APWR (PAR Meeting #5)
02/01/07 Public Meeting to Discuss Mitsubishi's Loss-of-Coolant Accident (LOCA) and non-LOCA (PAR Meeting #4)
11/29/06 US-APWR Pre-Application Review Meeting: Advanced Accumulator (PAR Meeting #3)
11/28/06 Meeting with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Public Meeting to Discuss MHI's Proposed Quality Assurance Topical Report (PAR Meeting #3)
11/28/06 Meeting with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Public Meeting to Discuss MHI's Proposed Topical Report on Instrumentation and Controls (PAR Meeting #3)
09/26/06 US-APWR Pre-Application Review Meeting #2
07/13/06 US-APWR Pre-Application Review Meeting #1

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Testing Plans

Date Description
07/13/07 Reactor Vessel Lower Plenum 1/7 Scale Model Flow Test Plan
07/13/07 Neutron Reflector Reflooding Test Plan

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