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Tech Spec Pages for Amendment No. 277, Revising Technical Specification (TS) 5.2.1, Fuel Assemblies, to Add Optimized ZIRLO-TM as Optimized Fuel Rod Cladding Material
ML080370017
Person / Time
Site: Arkansas Nuclear Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 03/26/2008
From:
NRC/NRR/ADRO/DORL/LPLIV
To:
Wang, A B, NRR/DORL/LPLIV, 415-1445
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3 (4) EOI, pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Parts 30, 40 and 70 to receive, possess and use at any time any byproduct, source and special nuclear material as sealed neutron sources for reactor startup, sealed sources for reactor instrumentation and radiation monitoring equipment calibration, and as fission detectors in amounts as required; (5) EOI, pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Parts 30, 40 and 70, to receive, possess, and use in amounts as required any byproduct, source or special nuclear material without restriction to chemical or physical form, for sample analysis or instrument calibration or associated with radioactive apparatus or components; and (6) EOI, pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Parts 30 and 70, to possess, but not separate, such byproduct and special nuclear materials as may be produced by the operation of the facility.

C. This renewed license shall be deemed to contain and is subject to conditions specified in the following Commission regulations in 10 CFR Chapter 1; Part 20, Section 30.34 of Part 30, Section 40.41 of Part 40, Sections 50.54 and 50.59 of Part 50, and Section 70.32 of Part 70; and is subject to all applicable provisions of the Act and to the rules, regulations, and orders of the Commission now or hereafter in effect; and is subject to the additional conditions specified or incorporated below:

(1) Maximum Power Level EOI is authorized to operate the facility at steady state reactor core power levels not in excess of 3026 megawatts thermal. Prior to attaining this power level EOI shall comply with the conditions in Paragraph 2.C.(3).

(2) Technical Specifications The Technical Specifications contained in Appendix A, as revised through Amendment No. 277 are hereby incorporated in the renewed license. The licensee shall operate the facility in accordance with the Technical Specifications.

Exemptive 2nd paragraph of 2.C.2 deleted per Amendment 20, 3/3/81.

(3) Additional Conditions The matters specified in the following conditions shall be completed to the satisfaction of the Commission within the stated time periods following issuance of the renewed license or within the operational restrictions indicated.

The removal of these conditions shall be made by an amendment to the renewed license supported by a favorable evaluation by the Commission.

2.C.(3)(a) Deleted per Amendment 24, 6/19/81.

Renewed License No. NPF-6 Amendment No. 277 Revised by letter dated July 18, 2007

5.0 DESIGN FEATURES 5.1 Site Location The site for Arkansas Nuclear One is located in Pope County, Arkansas on the north bank of the Dardanelle Reservoir (Arkansas River), approximately 6 miles west-northwest of Russellville, AR. The exclusion area boundary shall have a radius of 0.65 statute miles from the center of the reactor.

5.2 Reactor Core 5.2.1 Fuel Assemblies The reactor shall contain 177 fuel assemblies. Each assembly shall consist of a matrix of zircaloy or ZIRLOTM or Optimized ZIRLOTM clad fuel rods with an initial composition of natural or slightly enriched uranium dioxide (UO2) as fuel material.

Limited substitutions of zirconium alloy or stainless steel filler rods for fuel rods, in accordance with approved applications of fuel rod configurations, may be used. Fuel assemblies shall be limited to those fuel designs that have been analyzed with applicable NRC staff approved codes and methods and shown by tests or analyses to comply with all fuel safety design bases. A limited number of lead test assemblies that have not completed representative testing may be placed in non-limiting core regions. Other cladding material may be used with an approved exemption.

5.2.2 Control Element Assemblies The reactor core shall contain 81 control element assemblies. The control material shall be boron carbide and silver-indium-cadmium as approved by the NRC.

ARKANSAS - UNIT 2 5-1 Amendment No. 205, 277