[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 63 (Friday, April 1, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18261-18262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-7720]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

 [Docket No. 50-156; NRC-2010-0203]


University of Wisconsin; Notice of Issuance of Renewed Facility 
License No. R-74

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has 
issued renewed Facility License No. R-74, held by the University of 
Wisconsin (the licensee), which authorizes continued operation of the 
University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor (UWNR), located in Madison, 
Dane County, Wisconsin. The UWNR is a pool-type, light-water-moderated 
and cooled TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotope Production, General 
Atomics) reactor licensed to operate at a steady-state power levels up 
to and including 1 megawatt thermal and short duration power pulses 
with reactivity insertions up to 1.4% [Delta]k/k. The renewed Facility 
License No. R-74 will expire at midnight 20 years from its date of 
issuance.
    The renewed facility license complies with the standards and 
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), 
and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made 
appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's 
regulations in Title 10, Chapter 1, ``Nuclear Regulatory Commission,'' 
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), and sets forth those 
findings in the renewed facility license. The agency afforded an 
opportunity for hearing in the Notice of Opportunity for Hearing 
published in the Federal Register on June 18, 2010 (75 FR 34769-34774). 
The NRC received no request for a hearing or petition for leave to 
intervene following the notice.
    The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report for the renewal 
of Facility License No. R-74 and concluded, based on that evaluation, 
the licensee can continue to operate the facility without endangering 
the health and safety of the public. The NRC staff also prepared an 
Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the 
renewal of the facility license, noticed in the Federal Register on 
September 16, 2010 (75 FR 56597-56601), and concluded that renewal of 
the facility license will not have a significant impact on the quality 
of the human environment.
    For details with respect to the application for renewal, see the 
licensee's letter dated May 9, 2000 (ML093570404), as supplemented on 
September 7, 2004 (ML093570441); October 17, 2008 (ML100740573); June 
16, 2010 (two letters, ML101690137 and ML101690083), July 8, 2010 
(ML102110051), August 11, 2010 (ML102320209), November 22, 2010 
(ML103300040), December 8, 2010 (ML103480028); January 28, 2011 
(ML110340310), and February 8, 2011 (ML110410534). Documents may be 
examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room 
(PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first 
floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be 
accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on 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 PDR Referencestaff at 1-800-
397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or send an e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of March 2011.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Jessie Quichocho,
Chief, Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch, Division of Policy 
and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-7720 Filed 3-31-11; 8:45 am]
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