On July 24, 2004, at about 1000 PDT,
SCE [Southern
California Edison] personnel were tightening two seismic restraint bolts on Advanced Horizontal Storage Module (AHSM) Number 10 at the Unit 1
ISFSI [Independent Fuel Storage Installation] when one of the bolts failed.
SCE had placed the storage canister into AHSM No. 10 on July 18, 2004 and was tightening the restraint as specified in the final safety analysis report, after the module had reached thermal equilibrium.
SCE plans to replace the failed bolt with another bolt manufactured under the same Certificate of Compliance and will tighten the seismic restraints within the period allowed by the FSAR (one week from initial placement of the storage canister). SCE's evaluation of the failed bolt is ongoing.
SCE has notified the NRC resident inspectors about this occurrence and will provide them with a copy of this report.