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Summary of the September 16, 2008, Pre-Application Meeting with Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc to Discuss Spent Fuel Criticality Amendment for Palisades Nuclear Plant (Tac No. MD9561)
ML082681140
Person / Time
Site: Palisades Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 10/08/2008
From: Mahesh Chawla
Plant Licensing Branch III
To:
Division of Operating Reactor Licensing
Chawla M, NRR/DORL, 415-8371
References
FOIA/PA-2009-0008A
Download: ML082681140 (3)


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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 October 8, 2008 LICENSEE: Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

FACILITY: Palisades Nuclear Plant SUB~IECT: PALISAIDES NUCLEAR PLANT,

SUMMARY

OF THE SEPTEMBER 16, 2008, PRE-APPLICATION MEETING WITH Et"HERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC REGLARDING SPENT FUEL CRITICALITY AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MD9561)

On September 16,2008, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff held a Category 1 public meeting with representatives of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (ENO) at NRC Headquarters in Rockville, MD. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss future license amendment request which Entergy plans to submit for resolution of Spent Fuel Pool (SFP)

Criticality issue for Palisades Nuclear Plant (PNP). A list of attendees is provided as . The licensee's handout material has been docketed and is publicly available at Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML082610237.

During the meeting, Palisades SFP layout and historical background of the current issue with SFP racks and SFP criticality was discussed between the licensee and the NRC staff. The licensee presented their proposed plan for resolving Palisades SFP criticality issue, consisting of two phases.

In the first phase, licensee plans to submit a license amendment request (LAR) to re-establish compliance with their Technical Specifications and Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.68. This submittal will be particularly straight forward and conservative to facilitate an expeditious review and approval by the NRC. During the meeting the NRC staff stressed the importance of a high quality clearly articulated submittal in order to provide the best opportunity to meet the licensee's scheduled refueling outage.

In the second phase, a more rigorous analysis incorporating appropriate surveillance requirements will be incorporated into a LAR to be submitted by the licensee in 2009. The second phase LAR will include a more complex analysis that removes excess conservatism intended to facilitate the review of the first, and restores as much SFP storage capacity as is practical.

-2 There were not any members of the public present at the meeting. No comments or feedback was received at this time. Please direct any inquiries to Mr. Mahesh Chawla, NRC Project Manager for PNP, at 301-415-8371, or @ Mahesh.chawla@nrc.gov.

Sincerely, CW,fttl-Mahesh Chawla, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 111-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket 1\10. 50-255

Enclosure:

List of Attendees cc: Distribution via ListServ

PRE-APPLICATION MEETING BETWEEN US.NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AND ENTERGY I\JUCLEAR OPEARTIONS, INC.

LIST OF ATTENDEES PALISADES, NUCLEAR PLANT SPENT FUEL POOL CRITICALITY AMENDMENT SEPTEMBER 16, 2008 Organization In the order of signing up:

Mahesh (Mac) Chawla f\lRC/NRR/Plant Licensing Branch 111 Project Manager Emma Wong NRC/I\JRRIDCI/CSGB - Staff Engineer John Ellegood NRC/R-III/BR-4/PALISADES - Senior Resident Engineer Kent Wood NRRIDSS/SRXB - Senior Staff Engineer Diane Jackson NRRIDSS/SRXB - Senior Staff Engineer Greg Cranston NRC/DSS/SRXB - Branch Chief Paul Broda AREVA - Project Manager Robert Smith AREVA - Staff Engineer Thomas W. Allen ENTERGY - Senior Engineer Michael R. McKinney ENTERGY - Supervisor - PWR Fuel Engineering Laurie Lahti ENTERGY - PALISADES - Licensing Manager Fred Smith ENTERGY - Manager - Fuel and Analysis Richard Schmidt ENTERGY - RE Supervisor Dick Deveney AREVA - Supervisor NT NRR - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation DCI- Division of Component Integrity CSGB - SG Tube Integrity and Chemical Engineering Branch DSS - Division of Safety Systems SRXB - Reactor Systems Branch

October 8, 2008

-2 There were not any members of the public present at the meeting. No comments or feedback was received at this time. Please direct any inquiries to Mr. Mahesh Chawla, NRC Project Manager for PNP, at 301-415-8371, or @ Mahesh.chawla@nrc.gov.

Sincerely, lRAI Mahesh Chawla, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 111-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-255

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