ML17261B038
| ML17261B038 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Ginna  |
| Issue date: | 04/05/1990 |
| From: | Wessman R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 9004130225 | |
| Download: ML17261B038 (5) | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ROCHESTER GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATION R. E.
GINNA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DOCKET NO. 50-244 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-18 issued to Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation (the licensee) for operation of the R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant located in Wayne County, New York.
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Identification of Pro osed Action:
The proposed amendment would revise the Technical Specification (TS) to allow use of reconstituted fuel assemblies in order to reduce coolant activity and utilize the remaining energy in fuel assemblies.
In the reconstitution process the fuel rods, which are known to be defective, will be removed and replaced with dummy rods.
The reconstituted assembly will meet the original assembly design criteria.
The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's application for amendment dated February 16, 1990, as supplemented on March 15, 1990.
The Need for the Pro osed Action:
The proposed change to the TS will allow use of reconstituted fuel assemblies at the initial criticality of Cycle 20.
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Environmental Im acts of the Pro osed Action:
The Commission has completed its evaluation of the proposed revisions to the TS.
The proposed revisions allow use of reconstituted fuel assemblies in a reload core and is considered acceptable because each reload that contains reconstituted assemblies will be evaluated using standard methods as described in WCAP-9273A "Westinghouse Reload Safety Evaluation Methodology," July 1985.
The reload analysis will evaluate the effect of the actual reconstitution on core performance parameters, peaking factors, core average linear heat rate effects to ensure that the existing safety criteria and design limits are
- met, and original fuel assembly design criteria are satsified.
The proposed changes do not increase the probability or consequences of any accidents, no changes are being made in the types of any effluents that may be released offsite, and there is no significant increase in the allowable individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposure.
Accordingly, the Commission concludes that this proposed action would result in no significant radiological environmental impact.
With regard to potential nonradiological
- impacts, the proposed change to the TS involves systems located within the restricted area as defined in 10 CFR Part 20. It does not affect nonradiological plant effluents and has no other environmental impact.
Therefore, the Commission concludes that there are no significant nonradiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed amendment.
The Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the Federal
~Re ister (55 FR 7611) on triarch 2, 1990.
No request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed following this notice.
3 Alternative to the Pro osed Action:
Since the Commission concluded that there are no significant environmental effects that would result from the proposed action, any alternatives with equal or greater environmental impacts need not be evaluated.
The principal alternative would be to deny the requested amendment.
This would not reduce environmental impacts of plant operation and would result in not meeting NRC requirements.
Alternative Use of Resources:
This action does not involve the use of any resources not previously considered in the Final Environmental Statement for the R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant.
A encies and Persons Consulted:
The NRC staff reviewed the licensee's request and did not consult other agencies or persons.
FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT The Commission has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed license amendment.
Based upon the foregoing environmental assessment, we conclude that the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment.
For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated February 16, 1990, as supplemented on March 15, 1990, which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document
- room, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20555, and at the Rochester Public Library, 115 South Avenue, Rochester, New York 14610.
Dated at Rockville,'aryland, this
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FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ichard H. Wessman, Director Project Directorate I-3 Division of Reactor Projects I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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