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Supplemental Information Regarding Alternative Source Term License Amendment Request
ML072640608
Person / Time
Site: Palisades Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 09/21/2007
From: Schwarz C
Entergy Nuclear Operations
To:
Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
TAC MD3087
Download: ML072640608 (2)


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Entergy Nuclear Operations, inc.

Palisades Nuclear Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, MI 49043 September 21, 2007 10 CFR 50.90 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555-0001 Palisades Nuclear Plant Docket 50-255 License No. DPR-20 Supplemental Information Regarding Alternative Source Term License Amendment Request (TAC No. MD3087)

Dear Sir or Madam:

By letter dated September 25, 2006, Nuclear Management Company, LLC, the former licensee for the Palisades Nuclear Plant (PNP), requested Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) review and approval of a license amendment request (LAR) for PNP. The LAR would modify the PNP licensing basis to adopt the alternative source term methodology. On September 7, 2007, Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., (ENO) provided supplemental information. The submittal included one new commitment.

In a September 20, 2007, telephone conference call with the NRC, it was determined that the commitment should be revised. EN0 is revising the commitment as shown below.

No other information in the September 25, 2006, LAR is affected by this additional information. The No Significant Hazards Consideration and the Environmental Consideration provided in Enclosure 1 of the September 25, 2006, submittal are not affected by this change.

Summary of Commitments This letter contains no new commitments and one revision to an existing commitment.

Previous commitment:

Prior to loading the Cycle 21 core, EN0 will revise the procedure used to check the adequacy of a core design to include an evaluation on the pin powerlburnup of the design core against the following criteria:

Document Control Desk Page 2 of 2 Fewer than 21 rods in any one assembly violate the "5416.3" criterion.

Fewer than 20 assemblies in any core design contain at least one rod that violates the "5416.3" criterion.

All rods that violate the "5416.3" criterion have a rod average linear heat generation rate of less than 6.7 kW1ft.

All rods that violate the "5416.3" criterion have a rod burnup of less than 58.5 GWDIMTU.

In any assembly containing any rods that violate the "5416.3" criterion there are at least four times as many rods that have total radial peaking factor of less than % of the total radial peaking factor limit of 2.04.

Revised commitment:

Prior to restart (Mode 2) from the 2007 refueling outage, EN0 will revise Section 2.4, "Total Radial Peaking Factor," of the Core Operating Limits Report to include an evaluation on the pin powerlburnup of the design core against the following criteria:

a Fewer than 21 rods in any one assembly violate the "5416.3" criterion.

a Fewer than 20 assemblies in any core design contain at least one rod that violates the "5416.3" criterion.

All rods that violate the "5416.3" criterion have a rod average linear heat generation rate of less than 6.7 kW1ft.

All rods that violate the "5416.3" criterion have a rod burnup of less than 58.5 GWDIMTU.

In any assembly containing any rods that violate the "5416.3" criterion there are at least four times as many rods that have total radial peaking factor of less than % of the total radial peaking factor limit of 2.04.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on September 21, 2007.

Site Vice President Palisades Nuclear Plant CC Administrator, Region Ill, USNRC Project Manager, Palisades, USNRC Resident Inspector, Palisades, USNRC