"This report presents the results of the evaluation of trench subsidence and possible future stabilization techniques at the Sheffield Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility, Sheffield, Illinois."

This report presents recorded test data for Tests LLR-S0, LLR-3, LLR-4A, and LLR-5 of the thermal Fuels Behavior Program PBF/LOFT Lead Rod Test Series.

Introduction: Since 1975, a short course entitled "System Safety and Reliability Analysis" has been presented to over 200 NRC personnel and contractors. The course has been taught jointly by David F. Haasl, Institute of System Sciences, Professor Norman H. Roberts, University of Washington, and members of the Probabilistic Analysis Staff, NRC, as part of a risk assessment training program sponsored by the Probabilistic Analysis Staff. This handbook has been developed not only to serve as text for the System Safety and Reliability Course, but also to make available to others a set of otherwise undocumented material on fault tree construction and evaluation. The publication of this handbook is in accordance with the recommendations of the Risk Assessment Review Group Report (NUREG/CR-0400) in which it was stated that the fault/event tree methodology both can and should be used more widely by the NRC. It is hoped that this document will help to codify and systematize the fault tree approach to systems analysis.

Abstract: This report documents the Federal/State regulatory permitting actions in 12 case histories of nuclear power station licensing in nine different states. General observations regarding Federal/State siting roles in the siting process include: new regulations, with the exceptions of those imposed by NEPA, were not found to be the source of significant delay; interventions were the sources of significant delay in only two cases; in only two cases was a local agency a source of delay; no one factor was found to be a source of delay, rather several factors often combined to cause delay; it is still too early to assess the influence of State power plant siting laws on the licensing process; clarification of the word "delay" is needed; water related issues predominate in State permitting requirements associated with delay; generalizations on the sources and nature of delay in the licensing process are difficult to make because of site specific characteristics; and frequently problems outside the Federal/State realm have had, or can have, a delaying effect on the process. Eleven of the case histories are illustrated with a logic network that gives the actions of the utilities in addition to the Federal/State permits.

Abstract: A Final Environmental Statement for the Power Authority of the State of New York for the construction of the Greene County Nuclear Power Plant (Docket No. 50-549) located in Greene County, New York, has been prepared by the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). This statement provides (1) a summary of environmental impact and adverse effects of the proposed facility, and (2) a consideration of principal alternatives. Also included are comments of governmental agencies and other organizations on the Draft Environmental Statement for the project and staff responses to these comments. The NRC staff has concluded, based on a weighing of environmental, economic, technical, and other benefit against environmental costs and available alternatives, that a construction permit should be denied because the alternative sites available to the applicant are environmentally preferable. If the permit is granted, the applicant will be required to take the necessary mitigating actions to decrease the aesthetic impact by using alternative closed cycle cooling systems and to undertake monitoring programs to identify, evaluate and mitigate construction related community and public services impacts in the immediate three-county impact area.

The proposed project: Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's regulations in Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, an application with an accompanying Environmental Report, was filed by Northeast Utilities (hereinafter referred to as the applicant) for construction permits for two generating units designated as the Montague Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2 (Docket Nos. 50-496 and 50-497), each of which is powered by a boiling water reactor (BWR) and is designed for initial operation at approximately 3579 megawatts thermal (MWt) with a net electrical output of 1150 megawatts electric (MWe). A safety design rating of 3759 (MWt) has been used in assessing the impact in this report. Condenser cooling will be accomplished through the use of natural-draft cooling towers. Makeup water for the cooling towers will be obtained from the Connecticut River, and the tower discharge (blowdown) will be returned to the Connecticut River. The proposed facilities will be located on the 1900-acre Montague Plain in the Town of Montague, Franklin County, in northwestern Massachusetts about 1.8 miles east of the Connecticut River and about 3.5 miles east-southeast of the Town of Greenfield, Massachusetts, the largest community within 10 miles with a …

FRAPCON-2 is a FORTRAN IV computer code that calculates the steady state response of light Mater reactor fuel rods during long-term burnup. The code calculates the temperature, pressure, deformation, and tai lure histories of a fuel rod as functions of time-dependent fuel rod power and coolant boundary conditions. The phenomena modeled by the code include (a) heat conduction through the fuel and cladding, (b) cladding elastic and plastic deformation, (c) fuel-cladding mechanical interaction, (d) fission gas release, (e} fuel rod internal gas pressure, (f) heat transfer between fuel and cladding, (g) cladding oxidation, and (h) heat transfer from cladding to coolant. The code contains necessary material properties, water properties, and heat transfer correlations. FRAPCON-2 is programmed for use on the CDC Cyber 175 and 176 computers. The FRAPCON-2 code Is designed to generate initial conditions for transient fuel rod analysis by either the FRAP-T6 computer code or the thermal-hydraulic code, RELAP4/MOD7 Version 2.

This report presents and discusses the results from Test PCM-4 of the Power-Cooling-Mismatch Test Series.

This report presents the results of the first three power-cooling-mismatch tests - Tests 8-1 RS CHF Scoping, and 8-1 RF - performed in the PCM Test Series.

This report presents the analysis of the fuel rod materials behavior based on the postirradiation examination of the Test PCM-1 fuel rod from the Power-Cooling-Mismatch Test Series.

From abstract: As a result of review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff and extended collegial consultations and investigations within the NRC, the Commission has designated four new Unresolved Safety Issues (USIs). This report describes the process used to evaluate the large number of concerns and recommendations which resulted from the major investigations of the Three Mile Island-2 accident, as well as other events and investigations of the past year, and it identifies the four new USIs.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for onsite radiological accidents.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for background radiation dose rates.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data on ecology.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for site location and description, population and population distribution, nearby facilities and institutions, nearby land usage, nearby water usage, transportation systems and pipelines, and historic, cultural, scientific, scenic and wildlife areas.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for general geology and seismology, faulting and vibratory ground motion, and subsurface materials.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for surface waters, ground waters, water quality, floods, and low flows.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for plant identification, unit status, and project permits and licenses.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for regional climatology.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for environmental design bases, external appearance, reactor systems, steam-electric system, heat dissipation system, cooling water intake and discharge systems, radwaste systems, chemical and sanitary waste systems, transmission facilities, and transportation connections.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for land use impacts, water use impacts, impacts on terrestrial ecological systems, impacts on aquatic ecological systems, social and economic impacts, and transmission line impacts.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for land use impacts, water use impacts, heat dissipation system impacts, nonradiological impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, nonradiological impacts on aquatic ecosystems, radiological impacts on biota other than man, radiological impacts on man, social and economic impacts, and transmission line impacts.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for project benefits, project and fuel alternative costs, and evaluation of alternatives.

Information collected from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) using the Information on Nuclear SITEs (INSITE) Information System. This document describes data for system characteristics, load and capacity, and consequences of delay.