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LER 78-028/01X-1 for Dresden, Units 2 and 3 Re NRC Request for Immediate Actions to Be Taken to Mitigate the Potential for a Spurious Closure of a Recirculation Loop Suction Valve with a LOCA Occurring Between the Loop Discharge and Suction
ML17252B492
Person / Time
Site: Dresden  Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 08/28/2017
From: Stephenson B
Commonwealth Edison Co
To: James Keppler
NRC/RGN-III
References
BBS LTR 78-1224 LER 78-028/01X-1
Download: ML17252B492 (3)


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is oeing submitted* to your office to correct the Cause Cod~

  • Cause Suocode (Items 12 and 13) used in the original Licensee Event Report 78-02'8/0lT-fQJ. The report concerned a potential problem which had been p_ostulated with* the designed ECCS logic system.

'Only items (12) & (13) on the original report_ fa.rm have been reclassified to indicate a design error. No other chang*es have been made.

  • This event was reported to you under DresdenNuclear*Power Station Technical Specification '6.6.B.l.(i)., performance of structures, s~st~ms, or com-ponents that requires remedial action or corrective measures to prevent operation in a manner less conservative 'thah assumed in the. ac::/cident analyses in the safety ari.alys_is
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~sion "(NRC) requested that adequate action be taken immediately

  • to mitigate the potential for a spurious closure of a recirculation

)i*.Toop suction valve with a LOCA ~ccurring between the loop discharge

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  • inventory while reactor pressure remained high. _Technical Specifi-cation 6.6.B.l.i. requires reporting of performance of structures,
  • systems,*or *components that requires remedial action or corrective measures to prevent operation in a manner less conservative than assumed in the accident analyses in the safety analysis report or*

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. 'On April 21, 1978, t~ comply with th~ above. NRC requ~st, a*

.'-modification was initiated for each unit. The modification will .*_ .:* ..

  • defeat* only that portion of the Low Pressure Coolant injection:..

. :. (LPCI) Loop Select Logic which automatically closes the recircu~ * *, .. .

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,,-*~*.*lation loop suction valves. The Station Nuclear Engineering *'

-pepartnient (SNED) is currently reviewing the modification. The*.

Unit 2 mo.dification will n.Jt be completed t.intil a unit outage of

-:~~*:sufficient duration occurs following SNED approval. .A.s an interim*.*

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  • solution, both recirculatfbn loop suction valve circuit breakers ...-

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