Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: ff0641d9-a372-423d-a595-0b1ffbb956d1
Document Type: esrp
Title: ALTERNATIVE SITES
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 9
Section ID: 9.3
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rictions Local/regional/Tribal restrictions State restrictions Construction Equipment and materials handling Work-force availability and accessibility Work-force housing Cost Access roads and railways Construction costs Cooling system Fuel costs Intakes and discharges Land and water Operating and maintenance costs Site preparation Station facilities Transmission and substations Transmission Access to existing network New corridors Reliability Transmission losses October 1999 9.3-17 NUREG-1555 APPENDIX B CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING OBVIOUSLY SUPERIOR SITES Demography In terms of a review of demographic aspects of the site-selection process, the population density guidelines of Regulatory Guide 4.7 have been interpreted by the staff in the following manner: ` If, on balance, there are alternative sites of approximately equal merit regarding issues other than population density, ` If the proposed site has a population density substantially greater than one of the alternative sites, and ` If that density is in excess of the stated Regulatory Guide 4.7 values, there does exist a site obviously superior to the proposed site. NUREG-1555 NUREG-1555 NUREG-1555 NUREG-1555 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARD STANDARD STANDARD STANDARD REVIEW PLAN REVIEW PLAN REVIEW PLAN REVIEW PLAN OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION October 1999 9.4-1 NUREG-1555 USNRC ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARD REVIEW PLAN Environmental standard review plans are prepared for the guidance of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Environmental standard review plans are prepared for the guidance of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Environmental standard review plans are prepared for the guidance of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Environmental standard