ML17158B810

Forwards Results of Detailed Review Re Spent Fuel Storage Pool Safety Issues.Rept Should Be Reviewed for Applicability to Facility & Actions Considered Re Design of Spent Fuel Pool Decay Heat Removal Sys.No Response Required

ML17158B810
Person / Time
Site:	Susquehanna
Issue date:	09/27/1996
From:	Poslusny C NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Byram R PENNSYLVANIA POWER & LIGHT CO.
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TAC-M88094, NUDOCS 9610030161
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@- Bs'7/SKAG Hr. Robert G.

Byram Senior Vice President-Nuclear Pennsylvania Power and Light Company 2 North Ninth Street Allentown, PA 18101

SUBJECT:

RESOLUTION OF SPENT FUEL STORAGE POOL SAFETY ISSUES:

ISSUANCE OF FINAL REPORT, SUSQUEHANNA STEAN ELECTRIC STATION, UNITS 1

AND 2 (TAC NO. M88094)

Dear Hr. Byram:

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff recently completed a detailed review of spent fuel storage pool safety issues.

The results of the staff's review are documented in a report to the Commission which is enclosed for your information.

In the report, the staff concludes that existing structures,

systems, and components related to the storage of irradiated fuel provide adequate protection of public health and safety.

Notwithstanding this finding, the staff has also identified certain design features that reduce the reliability of spent fuel pool decay heat removal, increase the potential for loss of spent fuel coolant inventory, or increase the potential for consequential loss of essential safety functions at an operating reactor.

The staff intends to conduct plant-specific regulatory analyses to evaluate potential safety enhancement backfits pursuant to 10 CFR

50. 109(a)(3) at a number of operating plants that possess one or more of these design features.

Although Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2, is not identified for a plant-specific safety enhancement backfit analysis by the staff, it is requested that you review the enclosed report for applicability to your facility and consider actions, as appropriate, related to the design of spent fuel pool decay heat removal systems at your facility.

This letter does not require any response.

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Sincerely, Docket Nos.

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Poslusny, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate I-2 Division of Reactor Projects - I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1

& 2 CC:

Jay Silberg, Esq..

Shaw, Pittman, Potts

& Trowbridge 2300 N Street N.W.

Washington, D.C.

20037 Bryan A. Snapp, Esq.

Assistant Corporate Counsel Pennsylvania Power

& Light Company 2 North Ninth Street Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101 Mr. J.

M. Kenny Licensing Group Supervisor Pennsylvania Power

& Light Company 2 North Ninth Street Allentown,.Pennsylvania 18101 Mr. K. Jenison Senior Resident Inspector U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O.

Box 35 Berwick, Pennsylvania 18603-0035 Mr. William P. Dornsife, Director Bureau of Radiation Protection Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources P. 0.

Box 8469 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105-8469 Mr. Jesse C. Tilton, III Allegheny Elec. Cooperative, Inc.

212 Locust Street P.O.

Box 1266 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108-1266 Regional Administrator, Region I U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406 Mr. Harold G. Stanley Vice President-Nuclear Operations Susquehanna Steam Electric Station Pennsylvania Power and Light Company Box 467 Berwick, Pennsylvania 18603 Mr. Herbert D. Woodeshick Special Office of the President Pennsylvania Power and Light Company Rural Route 1,

Box 1797 Berwick, Pennsylvania 18603 George T. Jones Vice President-Nuclear Engineering Pennsylvania Power and Light Company 2 North Ninth Street Allentown, Pennsyl vani a 18101 Dr. Judith Johnsrud National Energy Committee Sierra Club 433 Orlando Avenue State College, PA 16803 Chairman Board of Supervisors 738 East Third Street

Berwick, PA 18603