ML13330A267

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Advises That post-accident Sampling Sys,Described in Licensee ,Will Not Include Capability to Perform Chloride Analysis,Per NUREG-0737 & NUREG-0578.Chloride Analyses Using Dilute Samples Are Inaccurate
ML13330A267
Person / Time
Site: San Onofre 
Issue date: 03/18/1981
From: Baskin K
Southern California Edison Co
To: Crutchfield D
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
RTR-NUREG-0578, RTR-NUREG-0737, RTR-NUREG-578, RTR-NUREG-737, TAC-44128, TASK-2.B.3, TASK-TM NUDOCS 8103270680
Download: ML13330A267 (2)


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Southern California Edison Company P. 0.

BOX 800 2244 WALNUT GROVE AVENUE ROSEMEAD, CALIFORNIA 91770 K. P. BASKIN March 18, 1981 TELEPHONE MANAGER OF NUCLEAR ENGINEERING, (213) 572-1401 SAFETY, AND LICENSING Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Attention: D. M. Crutchfield, Chief Operating Reactors Branch No. 5 Division of Licensing U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Gentlemen:

Subject:

Docket No. 50-206 NUREG-0737,Section II.B.3 Post Accident Sampling Capability San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Unit 1 We are proceeding with the design and procurement of a Post Accident Sampling System (PASS) in response to the guidance provided by NUREGs-0578 and

-0737. These NUREGs, in part, required the capability to analyze the reactor coolant for the presence of chloride. Our July 9, 1980 letter provided a description of our PASS and the design criteria for that system, including the capability to obtain a diluted grab sample of reactor coolant for chlorides analyses.

The purpose of this letter is to advise you that the PASS described in our July 9, 1980 letter will not include the capability to perform chloride analysis. Our decision not to include this capability is based on three factors:

1) chloride analyses using dilute samples are not accurate enough to be useful.

The samples are diluted approximately 1000 to 1 (dilution water to reactor coolant).

The dilution water chloride content is on the order of 0.1 ppm. If the reactor coolant chloride content were to reach even 100 ppm, the dilution process would reduce this to the chloride level in the dilution water. The results of the analyses on diluted samples essentially becomes an analysis of the dilution water,

2) the collection, transportation and disposal of undiluted reactor coolant samples involves an unnecessary radiation hazard to personnel engaged in reactor coolant sample handling and analysis, poi.

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3) the information gained from the quantification of reactor coolant chloride levels under accident conditions will not affect operator actions to achieve a safe shutdown.

If you have any questions or desire further information concerning our decision to not include chloride analysis capability, please contact me.

Very truly yours,