DCL-14-121, Cancellation of Licensee Event Report 1-2014-001

Cancellation of Licensee Event Report 1-2014-001

ML14363A266
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	12/29/2014
From:	Allen B Pacific Gas & Electric Co
To:	Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
DCL-14-121, LER 01-014-00
Download: ML14363A266 (2)

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Pacific Gas and Electric Company Barry S. Allen Diablo Canyon Power Plant Site Vice President Mail Code 104/6 P. 0. Box 56 Avila Beach, CA 93424 805.545.4888 Internal: 691.4888 December 29, 2014 Fax: 805.545.6445 PG&E Letter DCL-14-121 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 10 CFR 50.73 ATTN: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555-0001 Docket No. 50-275, OL-DPR-80 Docket No. 50-323, OL-DPR-82 Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 Cancellation of Licensee Event Report 1-2014-001

References:

1. PG&E Letter DCL-14-026, "Licensee Event Report 1-2014-001-00, Technical Specification 3.4.3, RCS Pressure Limit Violation During Vacuum Refill Due to Human Error," dated March 31, 2014. (ML14090A450)

2. NRC Letter, Anne T. Boland to Ernest Harkness, "Perry Nuclear Power Plant- Revised Non-Cited Violation 05000440/2013007-01 in NRC Problem Identification and Resolution Inspection Report 05000440/2013007," dated September 3, 2014.

(ML14246A151)

Dear Commissioners and Staff:

In Reference 1 above, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) submitted a Licensee Event Report (LER) in accordance with 10 CFR 50.73(a)(2)(i)(B) regarding an apparent failure to comply with reactor coolant system (RCS) Pressure and Temperature (Pff) Limits when RCS pressure was below 0 pounds per square inch gauge (psig) during RCS vacuum fill operations.

Regarding a similar apparent violation of Technical Specifications (TS) at Perry Nuclear Power Plant, the NRC concluded in Reference 2 that operation below the 0 psig range shown on the PIT figure did not constitute a violation of TS, since the intent of the figure was to show the minimum temperatures to be maintained at the pressures shown by the PIT curves. Similar to Perry, the Diablo Canyon Power Plant PIT figures show acceptable regions of operation below and to the right of RCS cooldown, heatup, hydrostatic leak test and criticality PIT curves, but do not graphically go below 0 psig.

Accordingly, since a violation of TS did not occur, PG&E is hereby cancelling LER 1-2014-001. This cancellation is consistent with the guidance in NUREG-1022, Revision 3, "Event Reporting Guidelines 10 CFR 50.72 and 50.73."

A member of the STARS (Strategic Teaming and Resource Sharing) Alliance Callaway

• Comanche Peak

• Diablo Canyon

• Palo Verde

• Wolf Creek

Document Control Desk PG&E Letter DCL-14-121 December 29, 2014 Page 2 PG&E makes no new or revised regulatory commitments (as defined by NEI 99-04) in this letter.

Sincerely,

. rli~ ~uJdlL_ -h-Bar~.. AIIen Site Vice President JY 1E/4609/50669827 cc: Marc L. Dapas, NRC Region IV Administrator Thomas R. Hipschman, NRC Senior Resident Inspector Siva P. Lingam, Senior Project Manager IN PO Diablo Distribution