ML030660369
| ML030660369 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 03/06/2003 |
| From: | - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Download: ML030660369 (1) | |
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burns for a
long duration.
Those have been 2
eliminated.
So we would hopefully never get there in 3
this part of it.
4 So given that, we moved onto our data 5
gathering and analysis tasks.
We did this -
6 MEMBER WALLIS:
I'm sorry.
So the end 7
state where we subsequently stopped worrying about it 8
isn't necessarily where it's suppressed.
It could 9
have been decreased in size by some initial action 10 which made it harmless but it still needs to be 11 suppressed fully but the actual risk stops at an 12 earlier stage than your final outcome.
13 MR.
NOWLEN: That's correct.
There is a
14 big debate about what we really mean by suppressing a 15 fire.
And in the risk context we typically are 16 satisfied with controlling the fire to the point where 17 it's not causing any further damage to my plant 18 systems and components.
So in a sense, we're really 19 looking at fire control.
We do have to put them out 20 and there's a chance that if you don't do that, it 21 reflashes and there are a lot of issues there, but 22 yes, we're really interested in ending the damage and 23 making it so nothing more is going to fail.
24 Okay so we
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