Letter to Bruce Power regarding regulatory hold point 1

Regulatory Operations Branch

10 May 2023

Mr. Maury Burton
Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs
Bruce Power Inc.
P.O. Box 1540, B10-4W
177 Tie Road
Tiverton, ON N0G 2T0

SUBJECT: Bruce B Unit 6: Release of Regulatory Hold Point for Fuel Load, Major Component Replacement

Dear Mr. Burton:

The purpose of this letter is to respond to Bruce Power’s request [1] to remove the first regulatory hold point (RHP-1), allowing fuel to be loaded in the Bruce B Unit 6 reactor, following the Major Component Replacement outage.

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) staff’s assessment [2] concluded that Bruce Power has met all of the pre-requisites established by the CNSC to remove RHP-1.  Therefore, as the person authorized by the Commission and pursuant to Licence Condition 15.5 of the Bruce Nuclear Generating Stations A and B Power Reactor Operating Licence 18.02/2028, I consent to the removal of RHP-1 and fuel may now be loaded into Unit 6.

Yours sincerely,

Ramzi Jammal
Executive Vice-President and
Chief Regulatory Operations Officer
Regulatory Operations Branch

c.c: CNSC – A. Viktorov, M. Hornof, J. Stevenson, Bruce RPD
Bruce Power – M. Rinker

References:

1. Bruce power Letter, M. Burton to R. Jammal, “Bruce B Unit 6: Release of Regulatory Hold Point for Fuel Load, Major Component Replacement”, February 2, 2023, BP-CORR-00531-03775.
2. CNSC staff document, “Request by Bruce Power to Remove Regulatory Hold Point for Prior To Fuel Load for Unit 6”, dated May 10, 2023.