ML17229A364
| ML17229A364 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 06/03/1997 |
| From: | Wiens L NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Plunkett T FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
| References | |
| TAC-M98787, NUDOCS 9706060057 | |
| Download: ML17229A364 (5) | |
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.z Hi. Thomas F. Plunkett President, Nuclear Division Florida Power and Light Company Post Office Box 14000 Juno
- Beach, Florida 33408-0420 9'une 1997
SUBJECT:
"EXTENSION OF REFUELING SURVEILLANCE INTERVAL FOR ST.
LUCIE UNIT 1
CYCLE 15 (TAC NO. H98787)
Dear Hr. Plunkett:
In a letter dated Hay 13, 1997, Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) informed the NRC of the intent to exercise the 25 percent allowable surveillance interval extension for Technical Specification (TS) Surveillance Requirements (SR).
The provision for a maximum extension of 25 percent in a surveillance interval is included in SR 4.0.2.
In the submittal, it was stated that FPL planned a 20 month operating cycle as a one-time extension of the nominal 18-month cycle in order to avoid a Unit 1 shutdown in mid-summer 1999.
A shutdown in the months of June, July, or August was stated to be undesirable from a grid stability and load management perspective.
It was further stated that the provisions of SR 4.0.2 would not be used repeatedly nor as a
convenience to extend surveillance intervals.
FPL requested NRC concurrence with the operating plans for St.
Lucie Unit 1.
SR 4.0.2 permits a 25 percent extension of surveillance intervals to facilitate surveillance scheduling and the consideration of plant operating conditions that may not be suitable for conducting the SR.
It also provides flexibilityto accommodate the length of a fuel cycle for surveillances that are performed -it each refueling outage and are specified with an 18-month surveillance interval.
As such, the general approach described in the Hay 13, 1997, letter appears to be acceptable.
However, it is each licensee's responsibility to ensure that individual facilities are operated in compliance with their license and TS, and therefore FPL management must make the determination that such operation is appropriate.
Sincerely, Docket Nos.
50-335 and 50-389 original signed by L.Wiens L. A. Wiens, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate II-3 Division of Reactor Projects-I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation cc:
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 June 3, i997 Hr. Thomas F. Plunkett President, Nuclear Division Florida Power and Light Company Post Office Box 14000 Juno Beach, Florida 33408-0420
SUBJECT:
EXTENSION OF REFUELING SURVEILLANCE INTERVAL FOR ST.
LUCIE UNIT 1 CYCLE 15 (TAC NO. H98787)
Dear Hr. Plunkett:
In a letter dated Hay 13, 1997, Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) informed the NRC of the intent to exercise the 25 percent allowable surveillance interval extension for Technical Specification (TS) Surveillance Requirements (SR).
The provision for a maximum extension of 25 percent in a surveillance interval is included in SR 4.0.2.
In the submittal, it was stated, that FPL planned a 20 month operating cycle as a one-time extension of the nominal 18-month cycle in order to avoid a Unit 1 shutdown in mid-summer 1999.
A shutdown in the 'months of June, July, or August was stated to be undesirable from a grid stability and load management perspective.
It was further stated that the provisions of SR 4.0'.2 would not be used repeatedly nor as a
convenience to extend surveillance intervals.
FPL requested NRC concurrence with the operating plans for St. Lucie Unit l.
SR 4.0.2 permits a 25 percent extension of surveillance intervals to facilitate surveillance scheduling and the consideration of plant operating conditions that may not be suitable for conducting the SR.
It also provides flexibilityto accommodate the length of a fuel cycle for surveillances that-are performed at each refueling outage and are specified with an 18-month surveillance "interval.
As such, the general approach described in the Hay 13, 1997, letter appears to be acceptable.
However, it is each licensee's responsibility to ensure that individual facilities are operated in compliance with their license and TS, and therefore FPL management must make the determination that such operation is appropriate.
Sincerely, Docket Nos.
50-335 and 50-389 cc:
See next page L. A. Wiens, Senior Project Hanager Project Directorate II-3 Division of Reactor Projects-I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Hr. T. F. Plunkett Florida Power and Light Company ST.
LUCIE PLANT CC:
Senior Resident Inspector St. Lucie Plant U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 7585 S.
Hwy A1A Jensen
- Beach, Florida 34957 Joe Hyers, Director Division of Emergency Preparedness Department of Community Affairs 2740 Centerview Drive Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2100 H. S.
Ross, Attorney Florida Power
& Light Company P.O.
Box 14000 Juno
- Beach, FL 33408-0420 John T. Butler, Esquire
- Steel, Kector and Davis 4000 Southeast Financial Center Hi ami, Florida 33131-2398 Hr. Thomas R.L. Kindred County Administrator St. Lucie County 2300 Virginia Avenue Fort Pierce, Florida 34982 Hr. Bill Passetti Office of Radiation Control Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services 1317 Winewood Blvd.
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0700 Regional Administrator Region II U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 61 Forsyth Street, SW., Suite 23T85 Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3415 H. N. Paduano, Hanager Licensing
& Special Programs Florida Power and Light Company P.O.
Box 14000 Juno
- Beach, Florida 33408-0420 J.
A. Stall, Site Vice President St.
Lucie Nuclear Plant 6351 South Ocean Drive Jensen
- Beach, Florida 34957 Hr. J. Scarola Plant General Hanager St.
Lucie Nuclear Plant 6351 South Ocean Drive Jensen
- Beach, Florida 34957 Hr. Kerry Landis U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 61 Forsyth Street, SW., Suite 23T85 Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3415 E. J.
Weinkam Licensing Hanager St.
Lucie Nuclear Plant 6351 South Ocean Drive Jensen
- Beach, Florida 34957
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