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Acknowledgment Letter - EA-05-103; Acknowledgement of Response to Final Significance Determination Letter Dated September 7, 2005, for a White Finding and Notice of Violation (05000373-05-010, 05000374-05-010)
ML052990027
Person / Time
Site: LaSalle  Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 10/25/2005
From: Satorius M
Division Reactor Projects III
To: Crane C
Exelon Generation Co, Exelon Nuclear
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Download: ML052990027 (2)


See also: IR 05000373/2005010

Text

October 25, 2005

EA-05-103

Mr. Christopher M. Crane

President and Chief Nuclear Officer

Exelon Nuclear

Exelon Generation Company, LLC

4300 Winfield Road

Warrenville, IL 60555

SUBJECT: ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RESPONSE TO FINAL SIGNIFICANCE

DETERMINATION LETTER DATED SEPTEMBER 7, 2005, FOR A WHITE

FINDING AND NOTICE OF VIOLATION (NRC INSPECTION REPORT

05000373/2005010; 05000374/2005010), LASALLE COUNTY STATION,

UNITS 1 AND 2

Dear Mr. Crane:

The NRC acknowledges the receipt of your letter dated October 7, 2005. In your letter, you

concurred with the violation and provided a rational for its occurrence. You indicated that the

cause of the violation was a modification made to inhibit Emergency Diesel Generator breaker

closure on a bus lockout condition during an accident that re-introduced the single point

vulnerability into the CT circuit. A contributing factor was the various programmatic reviews that

failed to identify the single failure vulnerability because these reviews were limited in scope and

did not evaluate the system protection logic. Your letter also provided information about

enhancements made to the modification program over time that would preclude the occurrence

of this type of error.

The NRC is currently reviewing your response. After our review is completed, we will use the

response to determine the scope of the supplemental inspection mandated by the Reactor

Oversight Program in response to the White finding. We anticipate conducting this inspection

in the first quarter of 2006.

C. Crane -2-

If you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact Bruce Burgess, Chief, Reactor

Projects Branch 2 at (630) 829-9629.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Mark A. Satorius, Director

Division of Reactor Projects

Docket Nos. 50-373; 50-374

License Nos. NPF-11; NPF-18

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OFFICE RIII RIII RIII

NAME B. Burgess K. OBrien M. Satorius

DATE 10/24/05 10/24/05 10/25/05

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