ML17227A459
| ML17227A459 | |
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| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 06/09/1992 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 9206170023 | |
| Download: ML17227A459 (2) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION RELATED TO AMENDMENT NO. 114 TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO.
DPR-67 FLORIDA POWER 5 LIGHT COMPANY ST.
LUCIE PLANT UNIT NO.
1 DOCKET NO. 50-335
1.0 INTRODUCTION
By letter dated March 13, 1992, Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) requested an amendment to Facility Operating License DPR-67 for St. Lucie Unit 1.
The proposed amendment would revise Technical Specifications Design Features Section 5.3. 1, Fuel Assemblies, to delete the maximum weight of uranium in a fuel rod and provide alternative requirements for fuel assemblies in the design features section.
Reload fuel assemblies would be limited to those designs that have been analyzed using an NRC-approved methodology and shown by tests or analyses to comply with all applicable design and safety criteria.
- 2. 0 EVALUATION The fuel assembly description in the Design Features Section of the Technical Specifications provides a description of the required characteristics of reload fuel, and requires that each rod in a fuel assembly shall contain a
maximum total weight of 2250 grams uranium.
However, the requirement for maximum fuel rod uranium weight is unnecessary because changes to the characteristics of the fuel rod (including uranium weight) that can impact design and safety criteria are specifically analyzed during the reload evaluation process.
These
- analyses, using an NRC-approved methodology, assure that plant operation with the reload fuel assemblies comply with the safety limits and limiting conditions for operation in the Technical Specifications.
In addition, any changes in the characteristics of the reload fuel assemblies will be limited to those designs that have been analyzed using an NRC-approved methodology and shown by tests or analyses to comply with all applicable design and safety criteria.
Therefore, the deletion of the maximum fuel rod weight in the Design Features Section 5.3. 1 of the Technical Specifications on Fuel Assemblies will
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permit changes in rod uranium weight while maintaining similarity in physical design to that of the initial core.
Since compliance of the design with the limiting safety system settings and the limiting conditions for operation in the St.
Lucie Unit 1 Technical Specifications is demonstrated during the reload evaluation
- process, the staff concludes that the proposed amendment will not adversely impact the safe operation of the plant and finds it acceptable.
3.0 STATE CONSULTATION
Based upon the written notice of the proposed amendment, the Florida State official had no comments.
- 4. 0 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION This amendment changes a requirement with respect to installation or use of a facility component located within the restricted area as defined in 10 CFR Part 20'he NRC staff has determined that the amendment involves no significant increase in the amounts, and no significant change in the types, of any effluents that may be released offsite, and that there is no significant increase in individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposure.
The Commission has previously issued a proposed finding that this amendment involves no significant hazards consideration and there has been no public comment on such finding (57 FR 11109).
Accordingly, this amendment meets the eligibility criteria for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(9).
Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b) no environmental impact statement or environmental assessment need be prepared in connection with the issuance of this amendment.
5.0 CONCLUSION
The Commission has concluded, based on the considerations discussed
- above, that:
(1) there is reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public will not be endangered by operation in the proposed
- manner, (2) such activities will be conducted in compliance with the Commission's regulations, and (3) the issuance of the amendment will not be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
Principal Contributor:
L. Kopp Date: June 9, 1992