other · Nuclear Regulatory Commission · Published 1997-12-03 · Effective 1998-02-17 · 62 FR 63825
Document
Document number
97-31733
Federal Register citation
62 FR 63825
CFR reference
10 CFR 50
Type
Rule
Action
Direct final rule with opportunity to comment.
Category
other
Sub-agency
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Publication date
1997-12-03
Effective date
1998-02-17
Abstract
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to provide light-water nuclear power reactor licensees with greater flexibility in meeting the requirement that licensees authorized to possess more than a small amount of special nuclear material (SNM) maintain a criticality monitoring system in each area where the material is handled, used, or stored. This action is taken as a result of the experience gained in processing and evaluating a number of exemption requests from power reactor licensees and NRC's safety assessments in response to these requests that concluded that the likelihood of criticality was negligible.