ML17208A671

Safety Evaluation Re Containment Overpressurization Potential Due to Auxiliary Feedwater Pump Runout Flow Following Main Steam Line Break.Peak Containment Pressure Will Remain Below Design Value

ML17208A671
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Site:	05000000, Saint Lucie
Issue date:	05/15/1980
From:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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LUCI E NUCLFAR POL JER PLANT, UNIT 1

.SER Supplement Docke,t J,'o, 50-,335.

COHTAINMEJ'JT OVERPRESSURIZATION POTENTIAL DUE TO AUXILIARY FEEDlrJATER PUMP RUJ'J-OUT FLOW FOLLOWING A MAIN STEAM LINE BREAK By letter dated December 21, 1979, the staff requested the Florida Power 5 Light Company (FP8L), the licensee for the St. L'ucie Nuclear Plant, Unit 1 to provide certain additional information.

Specifically, the licensee was to assess the potential for containment overpressurization due,to the anticipated continuous ad-dition, at pump's run-out flow, of auxiliary feedwater to the affected steam gener-ator following a postulated main steam line break (MSLB) accident.

The staff's interest in this issue resulted from the recommendation of the Three Mile Island, Unit 2 (TMI-2) Lessons Learned Task Force to automate initiation of the auxiliary feedwater systems.

Automating the auxiliary feedwater system would cause an increase in energy released to containment after a MSLB; thereby, increas-inq the containment pressure response to a HSLB.

. In a letter dated January 24,

1980, the licensee responded to the staff's letter Y

cited above.

In the original J<SLB analysis by FP8L, no consideration was given to auxiliary feed-water pump run-out; The licensee has since performed an analysis that demonstrates that the addition of auxi'liary feedwater at the run-out flow condition (2600 gpm) will not cause containment pressure to rise above the initial blowdown peak.

The auxiliary feedwater pump run-out flow was based on a backpressure of one atmosphere.

The staff concurs with the licensee's conclusion that the peak containment pressure will remain below the containment design pressure even with the addition of auxili-ary feedwater at the run-out flow rate.

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