NRC ISSUES FINAL SAFETY EVALUATION REPORT FOR 

KEWAUNEE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT LICENSE RENEWAL 

 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its final safety evaluation report (SER) 

for the proposed renewal of the operating license for the Kewaunee Power Station and 

concluded there are no open items that would preclude license renewal for an additional 20 

years of operation. 

 The report documents the results of the NRC staff’s review of the license renewal 

application and site audits of the plant’s aging management programs to address the safety of 

plant operations during the period of extended operation. Overall, the results show the applicant 

has identified actions that have been or will be taken to manage the effects of aging in the 

appropriate safety systems, structures and components of the plant, and that their functions will 

be maintained during the period of extended operation. 

 Kewaunee Power Station is a pressurized-water reactor located 27 miles east-southeast 

of Green Bay, Wis. The current operating license expires Dec. 21, 2013. Dominion Energy 

Kewaunee, Inc., submitted an application to the NRC on Aug. 14, 2008, to extend the 

Kewaunee Power Station license by 20 years. 

 Issuing the final SER is a significant milestone in the license renewal review process. 

This process proceeds along two tracks – one for review of safety issues and another for 

environmental issues. The SER documents the NRC staff’s safety review, and is published, 

subsequently reviewed and publicly discussed by the agency’s Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards (ACRS). The staff has completed its review of the environmental part of the 

Kewaunee plant’s license renewal application. Both the safety and environmental reviews must 

be completed before a final decision is made on the renewal. 

 The SER and the license renewal application have been provided to the ACRS, an 

independent body of experts that advises the Commission on reactor safety matters. The ACRS 

will discuss the SER during its December meeting, details of which will be posted on the NRC 

website at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/acrs/agenda/2010/. The ACRS will 

later issue a letter discussing the results of its review. 

 

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No. 10-203 November 5, 2010
 In a letter dated Nov. 5, Brian Holian, director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation’s Division of License Renewal, provided Dominion Energy Kewaunee with the 

SER. 

 The SER will be viewed on the NRC’s website through ADAMS online documents 

system at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html by entering accession number 

ML103090024 in the search window. Help in using ADAMS is available by contacting the 

NRC’s Public Document Room at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

 Documents related to Kewaunee Power Station are also located at the Kewaunee Public 

Library, 822 Juneau Street, Kewaunee, Wis. 

 

 Additional information concerning license renewal in general and the Kewaunee 

application in particular can be found at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/factsheets/license-renewal-bg.html and 

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/kewaunee.html 

respectively. 

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