ML040270271
| ML040270271 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Dresden, Davis Besse, Limerick  |
| Issue date: | 03/05/2002 |
| From: | Holtec |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| FOIA/PA-2003-0395 HH17.05 | |
| Download: ML040270271 (2) | |
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DAVIS BESSE SITE CONSTRUCTION EFFORT REPEATS AN OFT-REPEATED SUCCESS NEXT STOP: LIMERICK I
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~Holtecinternahona.comE Following its decision to abandon dry storage using Vectra's NUHOMS technology in 1998, First Energy had signed a turnkey contract with Holtec to rerack Davis-Besse.
After completing the engineering and licensing phases, the major phase of site construction began in September 2001. This phase, involving removal of all in-pool rack and hardware, completed on February 8, 2002, came out "below dose (actual dose approximately one-third of allotted dose), and ahead of schedule (by six days)",
in the words of Holtec's Site Construction Manager, Steven Soler. First Energy's Project Manager, Mr. Stephen Fox and Project Engineer Mr. Dave Dibert have been instrumental in the success of the project to date. The final phase of reracking, due to begin immediately after completion of the ongoing outage in early March, is expected to take up to fSur weeks.
"We have earned our stripes as a world-class nuclear plant constructor by securing one success at a time; through countless NUREG-0612 lifts and hundreds of spent fuel racks installed" asserts fifteen-year Holtec veteran, Steven Soler.
Soon after completing Davis-Besse, the Holtec site services team will head to Exelon's Limerick Station to execute a similar rerack in Limerick Unit One (see attached photo).
QUALITY ASSURANCE DEVELOPMENTS A four-utility, five-person quality team consisting of quality experts from TVA (Lead), FP&L, Energy Northwest, and Exelon conducted a Dry Storage Quality Group (a NUPIC derivative) format-based surveillance of Holtec's Corrective Action and Internal Assessment Program (Quality Commitments 15, 16, 18, and 2 (partial)). The four-day surveillance identified no deficiencies. The team noted several strengths and a number of recommendations. "While the absence of deficiencies and recognition of strengths by our clients' QA personnel validates our relentless drive to seek perfection in quality, the recommendations provide the ideas for future improvements," notes Holtec's Mike McNamara.
Two weeks ago, an NRC inspection of Holtec's primary fabricator (UST&D) was similarly affirmative. The NRC's lead inspector, however, asked Holtec to use a formal notification process (in lieu of the informal e-mails) to inform the company's clients when and if an NRC inspection identifies any anomaly in the verbiage of the CoC. (The company had used e-mails to notify its clients of an ongoing "ASME Code Exception Table" change.) Because no plants are loading MPCs within the next week, this notification formalism, although immaterial to our clients at this time, is significant as a precedent-setter for the industry.
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