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[Docket No. 99902056; NRC–2024–0146] 

Tennessee Valley Authority; Clinch 

River Nuclear Site; Exemption 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has issued an 

exemption in response to a request 

dated November 30, 2023, from 

Tennessee Valley Authority for approval 

to conduct certain excavation support 

activities prior to the issuance of a 

construction permit application for the 

Clinch River Nuclear Site. 

DATES: The exemption was issued on 

December 10, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2024–0146 when contacting the 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

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Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, telephone: 301–415–8556; email: 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of 

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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Allen Fetter, 

Senior Project Manager, Licensing and 

Regulatory Infrastructure Branch, Division of 

New and Renewed Licenses, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation. 

Attachment—Exemption 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 99902056; NRC–2024–0146] 

Tennessee Valley Authority Clinch 

River Nuclear Site; Exemption 

1.0 Background 

By letter dated November 30, 2023 

(Agency wide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) 

Accession Number ML23335A100), 

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) 

submitted a request for an exemption 

from Title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) Part 50, Section 

50.10(c). The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or the NRC staff) has 

reviewed this request for an exemption, 

pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12, as it relates 

to TVA’s request to conduct certain 

excavation support activities that are 

otherwise prohibited by 10 CFR 50.10(c) 

prior to the issuance of a construction 

permit (CP) application for the Clinch 

River Nuclear (CRN) Site, which is 

expected to be submitted for NRC 

review in 2025. This exemption would 

authorize TVA to conduct certain 

excavation activities at the CRN Site and 

to abandon in place the initial ground 

support system, which may include 

rock bolts, wire mesh, horizontal gravity 

drains, and pressurized grout. 

Granting this exemption does not 

obviate the need for the applicant to 

meet the Permit Conditions or Action 

Items in the Early Site Permit for the 

CRN Site. Granting this exemption 

would also not constitute a commitment 

by the NRC to issue a CP for the CRN 

Site. TVA would conduct these 

excavation activities assuming the risk 

that its CP application may later be 

denied. 

2.0 Request/action 

The proposed action, as described in 

TVA’s request for an exemption from 10 

CFR 50.10(c), would allow TVA to 

conduct certain excavation activities 

which would otherwise be prohibited 

prior to issuance of a CP. This 

exemption would authorize TVA to 

abandon in place the initial ground 

support system for conducting certain 

excavation activities at the CRN Site. 

According to TVA, the initial ground 

support system for the reactor will serve 

no function in the completed reactor 

building (RB). As such, TVA’s 

interpretation of NRC regulations is that 

this proposed construction does not 

have a reasonable nexus to nuclear 

safety or security and therefore does not 

meet the definition of ‘‘construction,’’ as 

defined in 10 CFR 50.10(a). However, 

NRC regulations clearly require that the 

activities described by TVA that involve 

the placement/installation of permanent 

parts of the overall facility are 

considered ‘‘construction’’ as defined in 

10 CFR 50.10(a) (see 72 FR 57416, pp. 

57416–57447). Therefore, an exemption 

from the requirements of 10 CFR 

50.10(c) is needed for TVA’s request. 

TVA states that the initial ground 

support system includes the following 

activities: 

• rock bolts to secure unstable rock 

blocks, as required; 

• wire mesh and a non-structural 

sprayed-gunite lining to stabilize and 

protect exposed rock walls; 

• horizontal gravity drains to manage 

groundwater, as required; 

• pressurized grout to seal any 

notable areas of water entry, as required. 

TVA also states that additional 

components of the initial ground 

support system, depending on the 

excavation method selected, may 

include items such as the following or 

similar: 

• steel soldier beams with timber 

lagging through the soil overburden and 

weathered rock; 

• rock bolts to secure soldier beams; 

and 

• reinforced concrete compression 

rings to provide lateral support for the 

soldier beams. 

As construction of the permanent 

plant structures proceeds, TVA states 

that the initial ground support system is 

infeasible to remove and would be 

abandoned in place. After 

abandonment, the initial ground 

support system would have no function 

in the completed RB construction. 

In its exemption request, TVA stated 

that the proposed exemption is needed 

to allow excavation to proceed in 

advance of the issuance of the CP for the 

CRN Site. The initial ground support 

system would allow TVA to complete 

certain on-site activities in parallel with 

the licensing process, so that it can 

begin construction promptly upon 

issuance of the CP. The on-site activities 

will ensure worker safety as the 

excavation activities proceed. 

3.0 Discussion 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12(a), the 

Commission may, upon application by 

any interested person or upon its own 

initiative, grant exemptions from the 

requirements of 10 CFR part 50 when (1) 

the exemption is authorized by law, will 

not present an undue risk to public 

health or safety, and is consistent with 

the common defense and security; and 

(2) when special circumstances are 

present. 

Under 10 CFR 50.12(b), to issue an 

exemption from 10 CFR 50.10 that 

would allow for the conduct of activities 

prior to the issuance of a construction 

permit, the Commission may grant such 

an exemption upon considering and 

balancing the following factors: (1) 

whether conduct of the proposed 

activities will give rise to a significant 

adverse impact on the environment and 

the nature and extent of such impact, if 

any; (2) whether redress of any adverse 

environment impact from conduct of the 

proposed activities can reasonably be 

effected should such redress be 

necessary; (3) whether conduct of the 

proposed activities would foreclose 

subsequent adoption of alternatives; and 

(4) the effect of delay in conducting 

such activities on the public interest, 

including the power needs to be used by 

the proposed facility, the availability of 

alternative sources, if any, to meet those 

needs on a timely basis and delay costs 

to the applicant and to consumers. 

10 CFR 50.12(a)(1): Authorized by Law 

This exemption would authorize the 

applicant to abandon in place the initial 

ground support system prior to issuance 

of a CP for the CRN Site. Granting of the 

applicant’s proposed exemption will not 

otherwise result in a violation of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 

or the Commission’s regulations. 

Therefore, the NRC staff finds that the 

exemption is authorized by law. 

10 CFR 50.12(a)(1): No Undue Risk to 

Public Health and Safety 

In determining that the proposed 

exemption would not pose an undue 

risk to public health and safety and that 

the applicant could be exempted from 

the prohibition on construction for the 

limited purpose of the installation and 

subsequent abandonment of the initial 

ground support system to ensure worker 

safety during the onsite excavation 

activities, the NRC staff evaluated the 

safety aspects of the exemption in the 

areas of Geology and Geotechnical 

Engineering because the excavation 

activities described by TVA are specific 

to those technical review areas. 

Geology 

The NRC staff reviewed geologic 

information in the CRN Site exemption 

request using the criteria in NUREG– 

0800, Standard Review Plan (SRP), 

Chapter 2.5.1, ‘‘Geological 

Characterization Information’’ and 

Chapter 2.5.3, ‘‘Surface Deformation.’’ 


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The related excavation support 

activities requested in the exemption 

request would result in covering the 

excavation floor and walls; therefore, 

the purpose of staff’s review was to 

determine whether the proposed 

activities to be completed under the 

exemption request would affect TVA’s 

ability to meet the terms of the Clinch 

River Site early site permit (ESP–006), 

issued on December 19, 2019 

(ML19352D868), with respect to 

geologic mapping of the foundationbearing rock unit, to include the floor 

and walls of the open excavation. ESP– 

006 included permit condition #3, 

which requires TVA to perform detailed 

geologic mapping of excavations for 

safety-related engineered structures, 

examine and evaluate geologic features 

discovered in those excavations, and 

notify the staff once excavations for 

safety related structures are open for 

examination. The geologic mapping of 

the foundation-bearing unit in the open 

excavation required under permit 

condition #3 would not be 

implementable once the excavations 

support activities proposed in this 

exemption request are complete. 

Therefore, the staff considered how this 

permit condition can be met under this 

exemption request. 

For this exemption request, staff 

planned and conducted a virtual 

regulatory audit between March 5, 2024, 

and May 3, 2024. Audit information 

needs were provided to TVA in an audit 

plan (ML24060A069) and through a 

supplemental additional information 

request from the NRC staff 

(ML24075A322). 

During the virtual audit (see NRC 

Audit Summary Report, ML24145A107), 

the applicant summarized how it would 

perform the geologic mapping of the 

excavation as required in permit 

condition #3 of ESP–006 (Early Site 

Permit for the Clinch River Nuclear Site, 

ML1935D868). The applicant clarified 

that during the excavation activities 

requested in the exemption, geologic 

mapping will be conducted for each lift 

before the excavation walls are covered 

by any stabilization methods and the 

subsequent lift commences. The 

applicant further clarified that the data 

obtained from mapping each lift will be 

available as it is recovered during the 

excavation activities. 

The staff reviewed the applicant’s 

response to audit questions about how 

the applicant intends to perform the 

necessary geologic mapping to obtain 

the required information to address 

permit condition #3 in ESP–006 related 

to geologic mapping of the excavation. 

The staff concludes that because the 

applicant will perform the geologic 

mapping as the requested early 

excavation activities proceed and that 

information will be made available 

before the subsequent lifts commence, 

these early excavation activities will not 

affect the satisfactory addressing of 

permit condition #3 in ESP–006. 

Because the applicant will obtain the 

information necessary to meet the terms 

of the geologic mapping permit 

condition to ensure the foundationbearing geologic unit meets the criteria 

reviewed and approved in the ESP, the 

staff concludes that there is no undue 

risk to public health and safety in 

approving this exemption request. 

Geotechnical Engineering 

The NRC staff evaluated geotechnical 

engineering information in the CRN Site 

exemption request using the criteria in 

NUREG–0800, Standard Review Plan 

(SRP), Chapter 2.5.4, ‘‘Stability of 

Subsurface Materials and Foundations’’. 

The guidance that applies to aspects of 

the early excavation exemption request 

includes specific criteria from: 

1. RG 1.132, ‘‘Site Investigations for 

Foundations of Nuclear Power Plants.’’ 

2. RG 1.138 ‘‘Laboratory 

Investigations of Soils and Rocks for 

Engineering Analysis and Design of 

Nuclear Power Plants.’’ 

For this exemption request, staff 

conducted a virtual regulatory audit 

between March 5, 2024, and May 3, 

2024. Audit information needs were 

provided to TVA in an audit plan 

(ML24060A069) and through a 

supplemental additional information 

request from the NRC staff 

(ML24075A322). In response to the 

staff’s information needs, the applicant 

provided a summary of disposition 

regarding Early Site Permit (ESP) permit 

condition #4 that relate to geotechnical 

engineering (Audit Summary Report 

ML24145A107). 

ESP–006 permit condition #4 requires 

TVA to remove the material above El. 

225.9 m (741 ft) NAVD88 in the areas 

where safety-related structures will be 

located to minimize adverse effects of 

discontinuities, weathered and shearfracture sones, and karst features on the 

stability of the subsurface materials and 

foundations. Permit condition #4 also 

requires TVA to perform additional 

investigations at the excavation level to 

identify any potential geologic features 

that may adversely impact the stability 

of subsurface materials and foundations. 

The staff considered how this permit 

condition can be met under this 

exemption request. 

The applicant intends to address the 

ESP–006 permit condition #4 to ensure 

that compliance with relevant terms and 

conditions of the early site permit will 

not be affected by the excavation 

performed pursuant to the exemption 

request. Specifically, the applicant 

stated that the proposed BWRX–300 RB 

foundation elevation is located below 

the required permit condition 

excavation elevation and the applicant 

will remove the material above 

Elevation 225.9m (741 ft) NAVD 88 in 

the RB area as part of the early 

excavation. In addition, the applicant 

stated that it will provide details of its 

supplemental site investigation program 

at the center and perimeter of the RB 

shaft as part of a future CP application. 

The applicant will perform additional 

investigations in accordance with RG 

1.132 at the foundation level if any 

significant anomalous issues are 

discovered while performing the 

excavation and geologic mapping of the 

RB shaft. In addition, the applicant 

stated that the activities related to this 

early excavation exemption request 

should not affect addressing the permit 

conditions and CP or COL action items 

in a future application. 

The staff reviewed the applicant’s 

summary of dispositions clarifying how 

the applicant intends to address permit 

condition #4. Given that the applicant 

will gather all necessary data during the 

activities that involve this early 

excavation exemption request and will 

utilize it to address regulatory 

requirements in a subsequent 

application, the staff finds that this early 

excavation activities would not pose an 

undue risk to public health and safety 

and would not affect addressing permit 

condition #4 in ESP–006. 

The applicant states that it plans to 

use a combination of stabilization 

methods as the initial ground support 

system for erosion control to ensure the 

safety of their employees and to 

facilitate construction activities. The 

applicant stated that the initial ground 

support system serves no function in the 

completed RB construction, but that its 

components are not feasible to remove 

and will remain in place. The applicant 

indicated that the initial ground support 

system is expected to be composed of 

rock bolts, wire mesh and non-structural 

sprayed-gunite, horizontal gravity 

drains, and pressurized grout. 

Depending on the final excavation 

method, the applicant stated that the 

initial ground support system could also 

include steel soldier beams and 

reinforced concrete compression rings. 

In addition, the applicant stated that no 

part of the RB walls or foundations will 

be installed before a CP is approved. 

During the virtual audit, the applicant 

provided a conceptual excavation plan 

describing its planning efforts for the 

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activities, installation of field 

instrumentation, methods of excavation, 

construction of temporary crane pads, 

temporary dewatering systems, a finite 

element model to assess the impact of 

dewatering and construction stages on 

excavation support and foundation, 

geologic mapping, and stabilization 

methods. In a CP application, the 

applicant plans to quantify and 

incorporate the impacts of rock 

excavation on the mechanical properties 

in a numerical simulation for the 

assessment of the foundations. The 

applicant stated that it will also develop 

an instrumentation and monitoring 

program consistent with Chapter 3.4 of 

the approved Licensing Topical Report 

(LTR) NEDO–33914–A to meet 

regulatory requirements. The applicant 

stated that it plans to monitor lateral 

and vertical displacement during 

excavation and construction. In 

addition, during the excavation the 

applicant plans to monitor slope 

movement, heave, changes in pore 

pressures and dewatering, and 

settlement. 

During the virtual audit, the applicant 

clarified that neither the annulus filled 

with lean concrete nor the steel plate 

composite RB walls, as shown in Figure 

1 ‘‘Conceptual Layout of Excavation 

utilizing Soldier Beams and 

Compression Rings’’ of the exemption 

request, are considered part of this early 

excavation exemption request. 

Furthermore, the applicant stated that 

the emplacement of the annulus will 

occur after CP issuance and that it will 

be approximately 5 feet wide around the 

RB shaft, thus separating the RB from 

the excavation and any abandoned 

initial ground support system. 

The staff reviewed the description of 

the design methodology for the BWRX– 

300 as approved in the LTR NEDO– 

33914–A Section 5.0, Revision 1, and 

notes that the BWRX–300 design does 

not rely on the resistance provided by 

initial ground support system. However, 

the staff noted that in accordance with 

the design methodology, the applicant 

must consider the effects of the initial 

ground support system in its seismic 

sensitivity analysis for a future 

application. Therefore, in the event that, 

during early excavation, the applicant 

needs additional retaining measures as 

part of the initial ground support 

system, the potential effects of all 

retaining measures on the RB structure 

shall be included as part of the SSI 

sensitivity analysis in a future CP 

licensing application. 

Based on the foregoing and in 

accordance with 10 CFR 50.12(a)(1), the 

staff finds that the proposed exemption 

that would permit the installation of an 

initial ground support system for 

erosion control measures and 

subsequently abandon it in place prior 

to the issuance of a CP, would not pose 

an undue risk to public health and 

safety because (1) the applicant will 

gather all necessary data during the 

activities that involve this early 

excavation exemption request and will 

utilize it to address regulatory 

requirements and relevant ESP–006 

permit conditions; (2) the applicant will 

include demonstration of the structural 

integrity of the RB prior to the presence 

or use of radiological materials on the 

CRN Site to provide adequate protection 

of the public health and safety; (3) the 

initial ground support system will not 

perform a support function of the RB 

since the BWRX–300 design does not 

rely on the resistance provided by initial 

ground support system; (4) the annulus 

filled with lean concrete will separate 

the RB from the excavation and any 

abandoned initial ground support 

system, and (5) the applicant will 

consider the potential effects of all 

retaining measures (including the initial 

ground support system) on the RB 

structure as part of the Soil-Structure 

Interaction (SSI) sensitivity analysis in a 

future licensing application. 

10 CFR 50.12(a): Consistent With 

Common Defense and Security 

The proposed exemption would allow 

the applicant to pursue excavation of 

the CRN Site and install the initial 

ground support system to ensure worker 

safety during excavation activities. 

Because the exemption would allow for 

early excavation and excavation wall 

support only, the exemption has no 

relation to defense and security issues. 

Therefore, the common defense and 

security is not impacted by this 

exemption. 

10 CFR 50.12(a)(2): Special 

Circumstances 

Special circumstances, in accordance 

with 10 CFR 50.12(a)(2)(iii), are present 

whenever ‘‘compliance [with a 

regulation] would result in undue 

hardship or other costs that are 

significantly in excess of those 

contemplated when the regulation was 

adopted, or that are significantly in 

excess of those incurred by others 

similarly situated’’. The applicant cited 

undue hardship or other costs as a 

special circumstance that would 

warrant granting this exemption. The 

applicant stated that removal of the 

initial ground support system, which 

would make the system temporary and 

therefore not ‘‘construction,’’ as defined 

in 10 CFR 50.10(a), is infeasible because 

the initial ground support system is 

necessary for personnel safety and 

removal of these items could potentially 

destabilize the rock walls. The applicant 

stated that the delay in excavation for 

the RB at the CRN Site until receipt of 

the CP will result in substantial costs 

due to delays to the construction 

schedule and commercial operation of 

CRN Unit 1, hence delaying the 

deployment of carbon-free electricity 

generation. 

10 CFR 50.12(b): Environmental 

Considerations 

The applicant has also provided 

information on this proposed action 

pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12(b) which 

states any person may request an 

exemption permitting the conduct of 

activities prior to the issuance of the 

construction permit prohibited by 10 

CFR 50.10. The NRC staff considered 

the balancing factors for granting such 

an exemption and its evaluation is 

documented in the environmental 

assessment (EA) that is attached to this 

package. The ADAMS Accession 

number for this associated EA is 

ML24310A024. The staff made a finding 

of no significant impact. 

4.0 Conclusion 

Accordingly, the Commission has 

determined that, pursuant to 10 CFR 

50.12(a) and 10 CFR 50.12 (b), the 

exemption is authorized by law, will not 

present an undue risk to the public 

health and safety, and is consistent with 

the common defense and security. Also, 

special circumstances are present. 

Therefore, the Commission hereby 

grants Tennessee Valley Authority an 

exemption from the requirements in 10 

CFR 50.10(c) for the installation of 

initial ground support system prior to 

and during excavation activities. 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.32, the 

Commission has determined that the 

granting of this exemption will not have 

a significant effect on the quality of the 

human environment (89 FR 90319). 

This exemption is effective upon 

issuance. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day 

of December 2024. 

For the Commission 

/RA/ 

Michele Sampson, 

Director Division of New and Renewed 

Licenses Office of New Reactors. 

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