ML17318A380
| ML17318A380 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Cook  |
| Issue date: | 10/16/1979 |
| From: | Schwencer A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML17318A378 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 7911020263 | |
| Download: ML17318A380 (3) | |
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0 0 y**4 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSlON WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 INDIANA AND MICHIGAN ELECTRIC COMPANY INDIANA AND MICHIGAN POWER COMPANY DOCKET NO. 50-316 DONALD C.
COOK NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT NO.
2 AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE Amendment No. 13 License No. DPR-74 I.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has found that:
A.
The application for amendment by Indiana and Michigan Electric Company (the licensee) dated November 22,
- 1978, as supplemented by letters dated January 22, January 24, April 16, June 29, July 27, and September ll, September 26 and September 27, 1979, complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended
( the Act) and the Commission' rules and regulations set forth in 10 CFR Chapter I; B.
The,,acility will operate in conformity with the application, the provisions of the Act, and the rules and regulations of the CorIIIission; C.
There is reasonable assurance (i) that the activities authorized by this amendI'Ient can be conducted without endangering the health and safety of the public, and (ii) that such activities will be conducted in coI:IpIiance with the Commission' regulations; D.
The issuance of this amendment will not be inimical to the.common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public; and E.
The issuance of this amendment is in accordance with 10 CFR Part 51 of the Commission's regulations and all applicable requirements have been satisfied.
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E 2.
Accordingly, the license is amended by changes to the Technical Specifications as indicated in the attachment to this license amendment, and paragraph 2.C of Facility Operating License No.
DPR-74 is hereby amended to read as follows:
(2)
Technical S ecifications The Technical Specifications contained in Appendices A and 8, as revised through Amendment No.
13, are hereby incorporated in the license.
The licensee shall operate the facility in accordance with the Technical Specifications.
(3)
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S ent Fuel Pool Stora e
The licensee is authorized to store D.
C. Cook, Unit 1
and Unat 2 fuel assemblies, new or irradiated in any combination, up to a total of 2050 fuel assemblies in the shared spent fuel pool at the Donald C.
Cook Nuclear Plant subject to the following conditions:
Fuel stored in the spent fuel pool shall not have an enrichment greater than 3.55 Uranium-235 or a fissile fuel density greater than 44.2 grams of Uranium-235 per axial centimeter of fuel assembly or the reactivity equivalent thereof.
(3)
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S ent Fuel Pool Modifications The licensee is authorized to modify the spent fuel pool as described in the application dated November 22, 1978 as supple-,
mented by letters dated January 22, January 24, April 16, June 29, July 27, and September ll, September 26, and September 27, 1979.
Since spent fuel is now being stored i.n, the spent fuel pool, upon commencement of work on either the existing racks or the new racks in the spent fuel pool in conjunction with replacement of the existing racks with new racks:
(i) the water in the spent fuel pool shall contain at least 2000 ppm boron and shall be maintained at this boron con-centration until completion of the rack replacement; and (ii) the boron in the spent fuel pool shall be verified to meet the concentration requirement by chemical analysis at least 3 times per 7 days, with a maximum time interval between samples of 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br />.
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Prior to final conversion to the modified rack design, fuel may be stored, as
- needed, in either the modified storage racks described in Technical Specification 5.6.2 or in the unmodified storage racks ('r both) which are designed and shall be maintained with a center-to-center distance between fuel assemblies placed in the storage racks to ensure a Keff of <0.95 with the storage pool filled with unborated
- water, including a conservative allowance for uncertainties as described in Section 9 '
of the FSAR.
3.
This license amendment is effective as of the date of its issuance FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Attachment:
Changes to the Technical Specifications Date of Issuance:
October 16, 1979 r/
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A. Schwencer, Chief Operating Reactors Branch 81 Division of Operating Reactors