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EA-03-230, Entergy Operations, Inc., Waterford 3, Final Significance Determination for a White Finding and Notice of Violation (NRC Inspection Report No. 50-382/03-007)
ML041030344
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Site: Waterford Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 04/12/2004
From: Mallett B
NRC Region 4
To: Venable J
Entergy Operations
References
EA-03-230, IR-03-007
Download: ML041030344 (15)


See also: IR 05000382/2003007

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April 12, 2004

EA-03-230

Joseph E. Venable

Vice President Operations

Waterford 3

Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road

Killona, LA 70066-0751

SUBJECT: FINAL SIGNIFICANCE DETERMINATION FOR A WHITE FINDING AND

NOTICE OF VIOLATION (NRC Inspection Report No. 50-382/03-007)

WATERFORD 3

Dear Mr. Venable:

The purpose of this letter is to provide you the final results of our significance determination of

the preliminary Greater Than Green finding identified in the subject inspection report. Our

preliminary finding was discussed with your staff during an exit briefing conducted on

January 5, 2004. The inspection finding was assessed using the Significance Determination

Process and was preliminarily characterized as Greater Than Green (i.e., an issue of greater

than very low safety significance). The finding involved the failure to establish appropriate

instructions and accomplish those instructions for installation of a fuel line for the Train A

emergency diesel generator in May 2003. The associated performance deficiency resulted in

uneven and excessive scoring of the fuel line tubing that ultimately led to a complete 360-

degree failure of the fuel supply line on September 29, 2003, during a monthly surveillance test,

rendering the Train A emergency diesel generator inoperable.

At your request, a Regulatory Conference was held on March 8, 2004, to further discuss your

views on this issue. During the meeting, your staff acknowledged the performance deficiency

and described your assessment of the risk significance of the finding. In a supplemental

response, dated March 15, 2004, you provided additional information regarding your risk

evaluation of the event. A copy of your supplemental response is enclosed. A summary of the

Regulatory Conference was issued March 16, 2004. During the Regulatory Conference you

agreed that the failure to establish appropriate instructions and accomplish those instructions

for installation of a fuel oil line for Train A emergency diesel generator in May 2003 was a

performance deficiency and a violation of your Technical Specifications. However, you took

exception to certain aspects of the NRCs evaluation of risk associated with this event. After

considering all of the information available, and for reasons explained below, the NRC has

concluded that the finding is appropriately characterized as White.

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During the Regulatory Conference, your staff provided an overview of the event and the root

cause, described your assessment of the significance of the finding, and provided your

regulatory perspectives. We agree with your overall view of the event and the root cause

determination. However, we do not agree with the approach that your staff undertook in

assessing the safety significance for crediting repair of the Train A emergency diesel generator.

With regard to applying credit for repair in this case, the NRC evaluated credit for repair in

determining the significance of this performance deficiency. However, the modeling of specific

maintenance repair activities in the context of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) sequences is

inherently complex and typically requires detailed analysis with appropriate supporting data.

NRC Manual Chapter 0609, "Significance Determination Process," dated March 21, 2003,

Regulatory Guide 1.200, "An Approach for Determining the Technical Adequacy of Probabilistic

Risk Assessment Results for Risk-Informed Activities," and the ASME PRA Standard provide

guidance for modeling equipment repair. The NRC acknowledges that a fraction of PRA models

(including the NRCs SPAR 3i models) credit repair of emergency diesel generators by treating

all emergency diesel generator failure modes in the aggregate, irrespective of the failure

mechanisms, and establishing a mean or median-time-to-repair (MTTR). In general, these

models have MTTR in the range of four to eight hours, which is a significantly longer period of

time than that considered in your risk assessment.

The analysis that your staff performed for the emergency diesel generator repair at Waterford 3

deviated from the guidance provided in Regulatory Guide 1.200 and is different from the

accepted approach for the use of repair, which addresses the spectrum of failure causes and

the distribution of repair times for all causes. The NRC accepts that you have demonstrated

the feasibility of accomplishing the repair for this particular failure mechanism under a certain

set of conditions. However, in order to credit the repair of the emergency diesel generator fuel

line rupture in the risk assessment, it is incumbent upon you to demonstrate the feasibility of

accomplishing the repair under a reasonably bounding set of conditions. The NRC found your

analysis was based on assumptions that did not appropriately consider the dependencies

among those actions as well as human error probabilities. The analysis that was performed for

the repair did not present sufficient justification for deviating from the guidance provided by

Regulatory Guide 1.200.

During the Regulatory Conference, your staff noted that NRC had previously allowed

consideration of manual actions in performing significance determination assessments and

therefore the precedent had been set for allowing credit for repair in this specific instance. In

reviewing the supplemental information that you provided following the conference (enclosed),

each of the examples that you identified concerned situations where the NRC had allowed the

use of manual actions for recovery, not repair. There are different approaches that are used for

analyzing recovery and repair actions. Recovery actions lend themselves to human reliability

assessment techniques, and are in principle acceptable given certain conditions where

procedures exist that address the necessary actions, training has been conducted for the

existing procedures under conditions similar to the scenario assumed, and any equipment

needed to complete these actions is available and ready to use. The repair situation that you

faced was quite different than the situations in which NRC has credited recovery actions. Plant

operators and maintenance personnel were not specifically trained to make the repair to the

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EDG fuel supply line under a reasonably bounding set of conditions, there were no specific

repair procedures in place, and there was no pre-staged equipment or tools. Also, Regulatory

Guide 1.200 does not provide credit for repair actions in which no actuarial data exists, which is

the case in this instance.

As a result of non-conservative assumptions in your analysis, including the reasons noted in the

preceding discussions, the NRC concluded that you did not make a compelling argument for

crediting the repair of the emergency diesel generator in the time assumed in your analysis. As

discussed during the Regulatory Conference, the failure of the Train A emergency diesel

generator fuel supply line was a stochastic occurrence that occurred after a 2.8-hour run time

during a surveillance test. Depending on the operating history of the emergency diesel

generator after the performance deficiency occurred, the failure could have occurred in

significantly less than 2.8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> or could have occurred in significantly greater than 2.8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br />.

The NRC staff noted that a failure in less than 2.8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> would have caused a greater increase

in the risk estimation than the corresponding decrease in risk estimation associated with a

failure following a period of greater than 2.8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br />. We also noted that your analysis did not

adequately consider the spectrum of conditions that could occur in a station blackout scenario,

some of which may be less conducive to successful timely repair.

The NRC staff agrees that there were conservatisms in our safety assessment for the

emergency diesel generator run failure rate and the 4-hour battery depletion time. However, we

do not agree that we neglected the 2.8-hour Train A emergency diesel generator run time before

fuel oil line failure. Notwithstanding that an earlier failure was possible, the initiating event

frequency was adjusted to account for the 2.8-hour run time. Overall, the NRC found that these

conservatisms were sufficient to change the NRC s overall safety significance determination

from "Yellow" to "White" for the case in which no repair of the Train A emergency diesel

generator is credited.

Therefore, after considering the information developed during the inspection and the information

you provided at the conference, as well as the information provided in your supplemental

response, the NRC has concluded that the inspection finding is appropriately characterized as

White, (i.e., an issue with low to moderate increased importance to safety, which may require

additional NRC inspection).

You have 30 calendar days from the date of this letter to appeal the staffs determination of

significance for the identified White finding. Such appeals will be considered to have merit only

if they meet the criteria given in NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Attachment 2.

The violation of the requirements of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion V, is cited in the

attached Notice of Violation (Notice). In accordance with the NRC Enforcement Policy,

NUREG-1600, the Notice of Violation is considered escalated enforcement action because it is

associated with a White finding.

You are required to respond to this letter and should follow the instructions specified in the

enclosed Notice when preparing your response.

Entergy Operations, Inc. -4-

Because plant performance for this issue has been determined to be in the regulatory response

column, we will use the NRC Action Matrix to determine the most appropriate NRC response for

this event. We will notify you by separate correspondence, of that determination.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its

enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document

Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs document system

(ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-

rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Bruce S. Mallett

Regional Administrator

Docket: 50-382

License: NPF-38

Enclosures:

1. Notice of Violation

2. Entergy Supplemental Response

cc w/Enclosures:

Senior Vice President and

Chief Operating Officer

Entergy Operations, Inc.

P.O. Box 31995

Jackson, MS 39286-1995

Vice President, Operations Support

Entergy Operations, Inc.

P.O. Box 31995

Jackson, MS 39286-1995

Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway

P.O. Box 651

Jackson, MS 39205

General Manager, Plant Operations

Waterford 3 SES

Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road

Killona, LA 70066-0751

Entergy Operations, Inc. -5-

Manager - Licensing Manager

Waterford 3 SES

Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road

Killona, LA 70066-0751

Chairman

Louisiana Public Service Commission

P.O. Box 91154

Baton Rouge, LA 70821-9154

Director, Nuclear Safety &

Regulatory Affairs

Waterford 3 SES

Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road

Killona, LA 70066-0751

Michael E. Henry, State Liaison Officer

Department of Environmental Quality

Permits Division

P.O. Box 4313

Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4313

Parish President

St. Charles Parish

P.O. Box 302

Hahnville, LA 70057

Winston & Strawn

1400 L Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20005-3502

ENCLOSURE 1

NOTICE OF VIOLATION

Entergy Operations, Inc. Docket No. 50-382

Waterford 3 License No. NPF-38

EA-03-230

During an NRC inspection completed January 5, 2004, a violation of NRC requirements was

identified. In accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC

Enforcement Actions," NUREG-1600, the violation is listed below:

10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion V, Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings,

states in part, that activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented

instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and

shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, and drawings.

Contrary to this requirement, during the overhaul of Train A emergency diesel generator

in May 2003, the licensee failed to establish adequate instructions to ensure proper

installation of the fuel supply line of Train A emergency diesel generator. This failure

resulted in uneven and excessive scoring of the tubing that ultimately led to a complete

360 degree failure of the fuel supply line on September 29, 2003, during a monthly

surveillance test.

This violation is associated with a white significance determination process finding.

Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Entergy Operations, Incorporated is hereby

required to submit a written statement or explanation to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, ATTN: Document Control Desk, Washington, DC 20555 with a copy to the

Regional Administrator, Region IV, and a copy to the NRC Resident Inspector at the facility that

is the subject of this Notice of Violation (Notice), within 30 days of the date of the letter

transmitting this Notice. This reply should be clearly marked as a "Reply to a Notice of Violation"

and should include: (1) the reason for the violation, or, if contested, the basis for disputing the

violation or severity level, (2) the corrective steps that have been taken and the results achieved,

(3) the corrective steps that will be taken to avoid further violations, and (4) the date when full

compliance will be achieved. Your response may reference or include previously docketed

correspondence, if the correspondence adequately addresses the required response. If an

adequate reply is not received within the time specified in this Notice, an order or a Demand for

Information may be issued as to why the license should not be modified, suspended, or revoked,

or why such other action as may be proper should not be taken. Where good cause is shown,

consideration will be given to extending the response time.

If you contest this enforcement action, you should also provide a copy of your response, with the

basis for your denial, to the Director, Office of Enforcement, United States Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

Because your response will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC

Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs

document system (ADAMS), to the extent possible, it should not include any personal privacy,

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proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be made available to the public without

redaction. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-

rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room). If personal privacy or proprietary

information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please provide a bracketed

copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted

copy of your response that deletes such information. If you request withholding of such material,

you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and

provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure of

information will create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information

required by 10 CFR 2.390(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or

financial information). If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable

response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.

Dated this 12th day of April 2004

Enclosure 2

Supplemental Response Provided by Entergy

Following March 8, 2004 Regulatory Conference

Question 1: Clarify where NRC has given credit for manual action.

Response to Question 1:

A sample review of industry events indicates the NRC has given credit for manual actions in

PRA and also used manual actions as a credit for concluding the safety significance of a

violations is Green.

The following NRC Inspection Reports are examples.

NRC Integrated Inspection Report 50-285/02-03 - Fort Calhoun Station, dated April 10, 2002

This inspection report identified an issue where the licensee revised a procedure to permit a full

flow test of the turbine driven pump and to credit operator action to manipulate valves and

change line-ups to maintain operability of the motor driven pump. The NRC determined that

during the test both turbine driven and motor driven pumps were inoperable at the same time.

As stated in the inspection report, This finding is determined to have a credible impact on

safety, in that, it involved a flawed analysis that ultimately led to operation of the plant in a

manner not anticipated in the original license. Although the NRC concluded the licensee could

not credit operator action as a condition for Technical Specification operability, the NRC did give

credit for operator action under the Significant Determination Process. The NRC concluded in

the NRC Inspection Report, Using Phase 1 of the Significant Determination Process, the team

determined that only the mitigating systems cornerstone was affected and that the reliability of

the operator actions needed to restore system operability was very high.

NRC Inspection Report 50-440/01-13 - Perry Nuclear Power Plant, dated December 11, 2001

This inspection report identified an issue where due to an inadequate calculation, NRC

determined that with the ESW alternate intake sluice gates open, recirculated discharge water

would raise ESW suction temperature above the design input value resulting in potential

inadequate cooling during a design basis accident. This condition rendered all three trains of

ESW inoperable for the period of time that the gates were open and not able to be closed. In

the inspection report the NRC stated, this issue had a credible impact on safety and could

potentially impact the operability of ESW system, a support system for several mitigating

systems. The NRC inspection report stated, there were several instanceswhere the gates

were opened and removed from service, such that operator restoration of the gate would have

been difficult. In those cases, mitigation of an event would require dispatching an operator to

the auxiliary building to reposition the swale valves. Upon conducting the Phase 1 SDP, the

inspectors concluded the finding was potentially risk significant. Nonetheless, the NRC credited

manual action to reposition the swale valves as a basis to conclude the violation was a Green

violation. The NRC inspection report stated, This issue was determined to be of very low safety

significance due to the availability of the nonsafety-related service water system and credit for

manual operator action, either of which would mitigate the adverse effects of the open sluice

gates.

NRC Inspection Report 50-315/2000013(DRP); 50-316/2000013(DRP) - D.C. Cook, dated June

13, 2000

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This inspection report identifies an issue where the NRC concluded that past operation of the

ESW system with both ESW pumps in a unit out of service with the cross ties opened would

have resulted in both ESW loops being inoperable, and therefore the condition was prohibited by

Technical Specification and should have been reported under 10 CFR 50.73(a)(2)(i)(B). The

licensee had relied on operator action to restore ESW system configuration. Although the NRC

concluded the licensee could not credit operator action as a condition for Technical Specification

operability, the NRC implied credit for manual operator action in determining safety impact was

acceptable. The inspection report stated, Although manual action credit for determining safety

impact may have been warranted, crediting manual actions to maintain TS operability was

inappropriate.

NRC Inspection Report 50-272/02-010 and 50-311/02-010 - Salem Generating Station, dated

March 31, 2003

This inspection report identifies a potential White violation for failure of the 1C EDG turbocharger

that was attributed to a fatigue failure of an inducer blade. This event was evaluated under

Phase 3 of the Significant Determination Process. The Licensee took the position that recovery

credit for operator action was warranted in the event that the 1A EDG was the only onsite

emergency AC power source following a LOOP. In this scenario, the non-essential service

water loads would not be automatically isolated. This would result in the only available service

water pump operating in a runout condition. The Licensee asserted that the pump would

operate in this condition for in excess of 30 minutes before it would fail, which was sufficient time

for the operators to diagnose the condition and take recovery action in accordance with

Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs). Although the NRC disallowed credit for operator

manual action, the discussion in the NRC inspection report clearly articulated criteria for allowing

operator manual action. The NRC inspection report stated, the licensee had not performed a

rigorous analysis of the likelihood of the operator failure to diagnose the condition and take

action. The analyst determined there was a lack of assurance of sufficient time for the operators

to progress through the EOPs to the point where they would be directed to manually operate the

service water isolation valves and take action before the EDG failed due to inadequate cooling.

Clearly, the elements inherent in the NRC inspection report discussion for acceptance of

operator manual actions are (1) a rigorous analysis, (2) ease of diagnosis, and (3) sufficient time

to complete action. At the Regulatory Conference Waterford 3 personnel discussed why we

believe we presented a rigorous analysis for repair, why a tubing break reflects ease of

diagnosis, and our justification why the repair could be completed within 1 hour1.157407e-5 days <br />2.777778e-4 hours <br />1.653439e-6 weeks <br />3.805e-7 months <br />.

NRC Final Significance Determination for a White Finding, EA-03-180, dated December 31,

2003, (NRC Inspection Report 50-255/03-05)

This NRC letter dealt with an event at Palisades Nuclear Plant during shutdown for a planned

refueling outage during which there was a loss of offsite power and loss of shutdown cooling.

The licensee presented information regarding the time available to operators to perform

necessary recovery actions to prevent core damage. Although the NRC did not allow recovery

action due to justification concerns, the discussion appears to allow necessary operator recovery

actions provided there is robust justification.

Question 2: Waterford 3 will review whether guidance is necessary to respond to EDG

failures and demands (LOOP).

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Response to Question 2:

CASE 1: Loss of Off-Site Power with one EDG Operable and in operation

RESPONSE: An Auxiliary Operator would be sent to the EDG to monitor its performance

throughout the event. He/she would be required to walk the diesel down for any evidence of

malfunctions and monitor the EDG operating parameters.

CASE 2: Loss of Off-Site with the failure of both EDGs

RESPONSE: An Auxiliary Operator would be sent to the EDG Rooms to investigate and try to

determine the failure mode(s). Maintenance would be directed to start troubleshooting on both

EDGs immediately to determine the failure mode and commence the appropriate repairs. An

Operations representative (Auxiliary Operator or Licensed Operator based on availability) would

closely monitor troubleshooting and repair of the EDGs to insure the emphasis on restoration is

present, and the time to restore is as minimal as possible.

ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION:

Both, the Operations Manager Shift and Administrative discussed these scenarios and agree no

additional actions need to be taken to address the significance of these two cases by the

Operations Department. These expectations are reinforced during training in the simulator

during scenarios involving EDG failures. In addition, the Emergency Operating Procedures

prioritize Safety Functions and in the event a Safety Function is not met it is required continuous

efforts be implemented to restore the function as soon as possible.

Question 3: One of the questions raised by the NRC at the EDG-A SDP Regulatory

Conference concerned fire-induced loss of offsite power (LOSP).

Response to Question 3:

The risk impact of a fire in the EDG-A room (RAB-16) was already included in Entergys risk

assessment. The risk impact of a fire in other fire areas, with the fuel line condition on EDG-A,

was assessed using the most recent fire model cut sets by setting the EDG-A fail to run event

(EDG0DG3ASF) to a probability of 1.0. The resulting changes in CDF by fire area were summed

to give a total ICDF, which was multiplied by the non-repair probability (0.1, since the EDG-A

room would not be affected) and by the duration of the condition (138 days, 5/16/03 to 9/30/03)

to give the ICDP. The resulting ICDP was 2.9E-8. This risk increase was almost all in the turbine

building and RAB switchgear rooms, and was associated with (partial or complete) fire-induced

LOSP. This can be added to the ICDP for internal events and fire in the EDG-A room (4.8E-7) to

give a total ICDP of 5.1E-7.

Question 4: What is impact on day tank if EDG A leak continues for 15 minutes?

Response to Question 4:

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The maximum flow capacity of the fuel oil booster pump is 12.5 gpm, and the EDG A fuel oil

transfer pump IST requirement of a minimum of 30 gpm is maintained. Therefore, with

continued EDG operation and the tubing failure leakage remaining active, the fuel oil transfer

pump is fully capable of maintained the EDG A feed (day) tank within the normal operating band.

Therefore required fuel oil volume will be maintained within the feed tank to support subsequent

EDG starts.

Question 5: Has vendor been contacted to determine if there is potential to damage EDG

if EDG runs for extended period with fuel tubing failure?

Response to Question 5:

Cooper Energy Services (CES) was contacted, and CES provided the following information:

If the diesel were at 2200 KW or less, the load on the active cylinders would not exceed their

rating. The engine could probably carry 3000 KW for a short period without damage to the

active cylinders.

The fuel injection pumps would probably seize on the side without fuel, if operated for an

extended period of time. The Haynes Corporation, fuel injection pump manufacturer, indicated

that permanent damage may occur after fuel pump operation without fuel within 15 minutes. In

the repair timeline, the diesel was secured in about 6 minutes. Extended operation would

probably not affect any other engine components except the fuel injection pumps.

Because of the relaying and associated protective functions, Waterford 3 is confident that the

EDG would unload immediately following loss of fuel to the right side cylinders. Therefore, the

diesel would operate unloaded in this impaired condition.

During the actual fuel line failure of September 29, 2003, the EDG was secured in about 15

seconds and before fuel oil supply was actually lost to the right cylinders.

Question 6: What is meant by Swageloc training that says over tightening is not an

issue?

Response to Question 6:

Waterford 3 review page 43 of Lesson Plan W-3-LEC-GMAD-0000 Swageloc Fittings

Page 43 of the lesson plan states the following:

State the safety aspects of properly made up fittings verses fittings incorrectly made-up

-Use Go-No-go gauge to measure sufficient pull-up

-Over-tightened - not a safety problem, however, will only be able to remake

union about 2 or 3 times

This page of the lesson plan is a review page near the end of the lesson. This page references

the industrial safety hazard of improperly installed fittings. This is discussed during the lesson,

page 13. A significant industrial safety concern exists for pressurization of the fittings if not

tightened sufficiently. The tubing can be ejected with extreme force causing serious injuries.

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Over tightening is not intended to be encouraged here but is being compared to the industrial

safety hazard of a poorly tightened fitting.

While proper assembly of the Swageloc fittings is discussed in detail within this lesson plan,

reference pages 33-40, page 43 could be misunderstood. A change has been initiated to revise

this page and eliminate any potential for misinterpretation.

Question 7: Determine if any significance to EDG fuel oil being transferred from one fire

area, EDG A room, to another fire area, RAB -35

Response to Question 7:

Diesel fuel oil is expected to drain from the Emergency Diesel Generator Rooms to Oil Sump #3

located on the -35 RAB in Fire Area RAB-39. Oil Sump #3 has a volume of 869.5 gallons.

Introduction of Diesel Fuel Oil into Fire Area RAB-39 would have a combustible loading and

associated fire severity affect of 140,479 BTU/Gal or 0.026 minutes fire severity / gallon (i.e. 55

gallon diesel fuel oil spill would equate to a fire severity increase in RAB-39 of 0.4 minutes).

Diesel fuel oil is a combustible liquid with a flashpoint of >100 degrees F, and presents no vapor

or explosive hazard. This, accompanied with the closed piping and sump arrangement, would

present negligible impact to Fire Area RAB-39.

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