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E-Mail from Qualls to Schin, Hatch Denial of NCV - Additional Information
ML051220393
Person / Time
Site: Hatch  Southern Nuclear icon.png
Issue date: 10/23/2003
From: Qualls P
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Schin R
NRC/RGN-II
References
FOIA/PA-2004-0277
Download: ML051220393 (2)


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>>> Robert Schin 10/23/03 01 :53PM >>>

Phil, Thanks for the May 16, 2002 letter. I noticed that it states that one circumstance under which manual actions are allowed is:

manual operation of normally operated manual switches and valves Could locally manually turning switches to repower the battery chargers after a LOOP be in this category? (Hatch says they normally do this action after a LOOP.) Or does 'normally operated' exclude during accidents and transients?

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>>> Robert Schin 10/23/03 11:26AM >>>

Right. But have we communicated this to the nuclear industry by some other form than the words in Appendix R.? I ask because apparently many licensees have In the past made this error. So it must have come up before.

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>>> Robert Schin 10/23/03 11:09AM>>>

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'maintain hot shtonconditions fro m eithlerthe` ciontrol 'roomn or emergency control station(s) is freo iedmg.

atchiclaimis that h local manual actio6ns are considered to be 'emergency control tations as peritted b Il.1.

DoesiheNRChave anything in writing stating that 'emergency control stations' are not applicable toII.G.2 ire areas?

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