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Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants (NUREG-1437, Supplement 8)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: November 2002 Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs AbstractThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has 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. The GEIS (and its Addendum 1) identifies
92 environmental issues and reaches generic conclusions related to environmental This Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) has been prepared in response to an application submitted to the NRC by Duke Energy Corporation (Duke) to renew the OLs for McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2 (McGuire) up to 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 mitigation measures available for reducing or avoiding adverse impacts. It also includes the staff’s recommendation regarding the proposed action. Regarding the 69 issues for which the GEIS reached generic conclusions,
neither Duke nor the staff has identified information that is both new
and significant for any of these issues that apply to McGuire. In addition,
the staff determined that information provided during the environmental
review did not call into question the conclusions in the GEIS. Therefore,
the staff concludes that the impacts of renewing the McGuire OLs will
not be greater than impacts identified for these issues in the GEIS. For
each of these issues, the GEIS conclusion is that the impact is of Regarding the remaining 23 issues, those that apply to McGuire are addressed
in this SEIS. For each applicable issue, the staff concludes that the
significance of the potential environmental impacts of renewal of the
OLs is SMALL. The staff also concludes that additional mitigation measures
are not likely to be sufficiently beneficial as to be warranted. The NRC staff’s recommendation is that the Commission determine that
the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for McGuire 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; (2) the Environmental Report
submitted by Duke; (3) consultation with Federal, State, and local agencies;
(4) the (a) Environmental effects are not detectable or are so minor that they
neither destabilize nor noticeably |
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