ML17139C876
| ML17139C876 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 01/31/1985 |
| From: | Campagnone M Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8502080037 | |
| Download: ML17139C876 (15) | |
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1985 LICENSEE:
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company FACILITY:
Susquehanna Steam Electric Station (SSES)
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF MEETING ON SSES UNIT I, CYCLE 2 RELOAD PACKAGE On January 22, 1985, representatives of the NRC staff met with representatives of the Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPAL) Company to discuss the SSES Unit I reload package.
Members of PPSL made a presentation to the NRC staff to identify scheduling needs and discuss Technical Specification changes.
A list of attendees is provided in the Enclosure to this memorandum.
Enclosure:
As stated M. J.
Campagnone, Project Manager Licensing Branch ¹2 Division of Licensing DISTRIBUTION
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Sus uehanna Mr. Norman W. Curtis Vice President Engineering and Construction Pennsylvania Power 5 Light Company 2 North Ninth Street Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101 Jay Silberg, Esq.
Shaw, Pittman, Potts, 5 Trowbridge 1800 M Street, N.
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Washington, D.C.
20036 Edward M. Nagel, Esq.
General Counsel and Secretary
'Pennsylvania Power 5 Light Company 2 North Ninth,Street Al 1 entown, Pennsylvania 18101 Mr. William E. Barberich Manager-Nuclear Licensing Pennsylvania Power 8 Light Company 2 North Ninth Street Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101 Mr. R. Jacobs Resident Inspector P.O.
Box 52 Shickshinny, Pennsylvania 18655 Mr. E. B. Poser Project Engineer Bechtel Power Corporation P. 0.
Box 3965 San Francisco, California 94119 Mr. N.
D. Weiss Project Manager Mail Code 391 General Electric Company 175 Curtner Avenue San Jose, California 95125 Robert W. Alder, Esquire Office of Attorney General P. 0.
Box 2357 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Mr. William Matson Alegheny Elec. Cooperative, Inc.
212 Locust Street P.
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Box 1266 Harrisburg, PA 17108-1266 Mr. Thomas M. Gerusky, Director Bureau of Radiation Protection Resources Commonwealth of Pennsylvania P. 0.
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DOCKET No. 50-387 MEMORANDUMFOR:
UNITED STATES UCLEAR REGULAFURY COMMISSI WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 August 12, 1985 Docketing and Service Branch Office of the Secretary of the Commission DISTRIBUTION:
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SUBJECT:
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation NOTICE OF DENIAL OF AMENDMENT TO SACILITY OPERATING LICENSE ANO OPPORQUNITY FOR HEARING SUSQBBHANNA, UNIT 1 One signed original of the Federal Register Notice identified below is enclosed for your transmittal to the Office of the Federal Register for publication. Additional conformed copies
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6
) of the Notice are enclosed for your use.
Notice of Receipt of Application for Construction Permit(s) and Operating License(s).
Notice of Receipt of Partial Application for Construction Permit(s) and Facility License(s):
Time for Submission of Views on Antitrust Matters.
Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License.
O Notice of Receipt of Application for Facility'icense(s); Notice of Availabilityof Applicant's Environmental Report; and Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Facility License(s) and Notice of Opportunity for Hearing.
Notice of Availabilityof NRC Draft/Final Environmental Statement.
Notice of Limited Work'Authorization.
C3 Notice of Availabilityof Safety Evaluation Report.
Notice of Issuance of Construction Permit(s).
Notice of Issuance of Facility Operating License(s) or Amendment(s).
Order.
CI Exemption.
Notice of Granting of Relief.
Other:
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PENNSYLVANIA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, ET AL DOCKET NO. 50-387 NOTICE OF DENIAL OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Corrmission (the Comnission) has denied in part requests by the licensee for amendments to Facility Operating License NPF-14, issued to the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, for operation of the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Unit 1 located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
The Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendments was published in the Federal Re ister on December 31, 1984 and January 23, 1985 (49 FR 252) and (50 FR 3051) respectively.
The amendments as proposed by the licensee, would change the Unit 1
Technical Specifications as follows:
(1)
Page 3/4 3-55/Table 4.3.6-1:
changing CHANNEL CALIBRATION surveillance intervals to be less conservative than the present requirement.
Experience has shown that electrical equipment will tend to drift or fail and as'a result surveillance requirements were established.
The frequency of surveillance has been based on the difficulty in conducting the surveillance test and the consequence of equipment failure.
The staff has defined the required surveillance intervals on a generic basis i>> she standard Technical Specifications.
The licensee has proposed substantial departures from the requirements in the standard Technical Specifications, but has not provided an acceptable basis for this departure from the staff's judgement.
Therefore, I
the staff has denied the licensee's request.
(2)
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incorporating a
quarterly surveillance interval for the channel functional test for the Scram
Discharg'e Volume (SDV) float switches.
The staff has denied this request and requires the licensee to test on a monthly basis.
The objective of the SDV modification was to provide reliable instrumentation which can accommodate a
single random failure or potential common-cause failures for all postulated SDV filling events.
The basis for this denial is the same as that stated above.
Additionally,'xperience has shown that problems have been experienced in the past with these SDV float switches and these problems have been discovered as a result of the surveillance tests.
Therefore, the staff finds the monthly testing interval to serve a useful purpose.
(3)
Page 3/4 5-5/Insert A: including a new surveillance requirement to test the LOCA/false LOCA logic in support of two unit operation.
The staff has denied this proposal due to the potentially long time lapses between testing of the LOCA/false LOCA logic.
The staff finds that the licensee's proposal does not provide good assurance that the LOCA/false LOCA logic will be surveilled on an appropriate schedule.
The staff understands that the licensee has undertaken a study to determine more accurately an appropriate sur-veillance requirement based on this study.
It is the staff's understanding that when this study is completed the licensee will submit it to the staff along with a request for new surveillance requi rement for review and approval.
(4)
Page 3/4 7-9 through 3/4 7-30/Snubbers:
revising the snubber Technical Specifications by placing the inspection schedule of snubbers on a system basis rather than a
plant or unit basis.
The staff has denied this request based on the fact that the intent of visual inspection is to survey all snubbers in a plant and to locate those which may suffer from an identified failure mode, which may not always be
I system specific.
Operating experience has indicated that snubber inoperabilities are not generally related to the systems on which they are installed.
Such inoper-abilities are usually caused by either:
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an isolated incident such as installation error, 2.
a problem related to the snubber design, or 3.
a general environment problem, such as high temperature or radiation.
None of the above causes are system unique.
The staff believes that the visual inspections should be used to identify the type of inoperable
- snubbers, and rein-spection intervals should be based on the number of failures within the identified type instead of the specific system to which the original inoperable snubber was attached.
All other portions of the proposed amendments were granted on April 12, 1985 Amendment 36 and April 23, 1985 Amendment 41.
Notice of issuance of Amendment Nos.
36 and 41 were published on April 23, 1985 (50 FR 16024) arid Hay 21, 1985 (50 FR 21002).
By
, 1985, the licensee may demand a hearing with respect to the denials described above and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to intervene.
A request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Coranission, Washington, D. C.
- 20555, Attention:
Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Comnission's Public Document Room 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., by the above date.
A copy of any petitions should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and to Jay Silberg, Esquire, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, 1800 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
For further details with respect to this action see (1) the application for amendments dated May 18, 1984 as supplemented on September 20,
- 1984, March ll and 13, 1985 and April 4, 1985; and application dated November 13, 1985, (2) the Commission's letters to the licensee dated April 12, 1985 and April 23, 1985 which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document
- Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the Osterhout Free Library, Reference Department, 71 South Franklin Street, Wi.lkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18701.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland tHiS 5 " day of August 1985 FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION gaF Walter R. Butler, Chief Licensing Branch No.
2 Division of Licensing
4 A copy of any petitions should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and a
to Jay Silberg, Esquire, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, 1800 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
For further details with respect to this action see (1) the application for amendments dated May 18, 1984 as supplemented on September 20, 1984, March 11 and 13, 1985 and April 4, 1985; and application dated November 13,
- 1985, (2) the Commission's letters to the licensee dated April 12, 1985 and April 23, 1985 which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document
- Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.,
and at the Osterhout Free Library, Reference Department, 71 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18701.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland AU> p5 I/5 FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Walter R. Butler, Chief Licensing Branch No.
2 Division of Licensing I
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