ML102590397

Prairie Island, Summary of Meeting with Northern States Power Company to Discuss the Alternative Source Term License Amendment Request

ML102590397
Person / Time
Site:	Prairie Island
Issue date:	09/23/2010
From:	Thomas Wengert Plant Licensing Branch III
To:	Northern States Power Co
Wengert, Thomas NRR/DORL 415-4037
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ML102590397	List: ML102590397
References
TAC ME2609, TAC ME2610
Download: ML102590397 (4)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 September 23,2010 LICENSEE: Northern States Power Company - Minnesota (NSPM)

FACILITY: Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 (PINGP)

SUMMARY

OF AUGUST 25,2010, MEETING TO DISCUSS THE ALTERNATIVE SOURCE TERM LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. ME2609 AND ME2610)

On August 25,2010, a Category 1 public meeting was held between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and representatives of Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation (NSPM, the licensee), at NRC Headquarters, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss NSPM's October 27, 2009, license amendment request (LAR) to adopt the Alternative Source Term (AST) for PINGP. The primary focus of the meeting was the application of the steam generator tube rupture margin-to-overfill (SGTR MTO) analysis, which was submitted by the licensee as part of the AST LAR. A notice for this meeting was issued on August 10, 2010, and is available in the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at Accession No. ML102220087. The licensee's presentation can be found at ADAMS Accession No. ML102380571.

The licensee's presentation to the NRC staff included a discussion of the background for the AST amendment request and Requests for Additional Information (RAls), an overview of PINGP's SGTR MTO licensing basis, the applicability of Regulatory Guide 1.183 to the SGTR MTO analysis, and the NRC staff's concerns with the licensee's May 25,2010, RAJ responses.

The NRC staff queried the licensee throughout the presentation. In response to the licensee's statement that the SGTR MTO evaluation is not considered a safety analysis within PINGP's licensing basis, the staff remarked that its review to this point has treated this evaluation as a safety analysiS and that, because this is a new LAR, the staff is considering the SGTR MTO analysis in its totality. At the conclusion of the meeting. the NRC staff remarked that additional RAls may be issued by the staff to allow the licensee to clarify the information that was presented and discussed at the meeting.

- 2 No regulatory decisions were made during this meeting. Members of the public were not in attendance. Public Meeting Feedback forms were not received. A list of attendees is included as an enclosure.

Please direct any inquiries to me at 301-415-4037, or Thomas.Wengert@nrc.gov.

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Thomas J. Wengert, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 111-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-282 and 50-306

Enclosure:

List of Attendees cc w/encl: Distribution via Listserv

LIST OF ATrENDEES AUGUST 25,2010 MEETING WITH NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY - MINNESOTA PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST CONCERNING ALTERNATIVE SOURCE TERM NAME ORGANIZATION A. Hazelhoff Xcel Energy (Enercon)

T. Verbout Xcel Energy O. Nelson Xcel Energy (DeMark)

L. Gunderson Xcel Energy S. Thomas Xcel Energy (Black & Veatch)

T. Wengert NRC/NRRlDORL T. Beltz NRC/NRRlDORL M. Panicker NRC/NRRlDSS L. London NRC/OGC/RMR T. Tate NRC/NRRlDRA A. Boatright NRC/NRRlDSS T. Ulses NRC/NRRlDSS S.Sun NRC/NRRlDSS ACRONYMS NRC - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRR - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation DORL - Division of Operating Reactor Licensing DRA - Division of Risk Assessment DSS - Division of Safety Systems OGC - Office of the General Counsel RMR - Reactor and Materials Rulemaking Division Enclosure

PKG ML102590420 Meeting Notice: ML102220087 Meeting Summary: ML102590397 Handouts: ML102380571 OFFICE NRRlDORULPL3-1/PM NRRlDORULPL3-1/LA NRRlDORULPL3-1/BC NAME TWengert BTully RPascarelli DATE 9/2212010 9/17/2010 9/23/2010