ML17334A663
| ML17334A663 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Cook  |
| Issue date: | 02/23/1998 |
| From: | Collins S NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Lochbaum D UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS |
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| 2.206, NUDOCS 9803030074 | |
| Download: ML17334A663 (10) | |
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Dear Mr. Lochbaum:
This letter acknowledges receipt of the January 12, 1998, Addendum to your Petition dated October 9, 1997, regarding the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, operated by American Electric Power Company (the Licensee) and a January 15, 1998, request for a copy of a special team inspection report. The Addendum discusses the 2.206 process and six concerns covering a broad range of issues.
Your January 15, 1998, supplement requests the opportunity to review the report of a special team inspection conducted at the D.C. Cook facility in January 1998 before restart of the D.C. Cook facility. The NRC willaddress the actions to be taken with respect to each item separately.
A portion of your January 12, 1998, letter addresses the 2.206 petition process itself. This issue, whether the 2.206 process is functioning effectively, is not directly applicable to the request in your Petition for certain actions preceding restart of the first unit at D.C. Cook.
I will correspond to you separately regarding this issue.
The first of your technical concerns in the January 12, 1998, letter relates to D.C. Cook's ice condenser containment.
You question ifthe ice condenser problems identified at Watts Bar also apply to D.C. Cook. Specifically, you discuss problems with the bay doors and components of the ice baskets.
Also, you discuss problems in the configuration and testing of the ice condenser at Watts Bar. You also state that the problems were known, but were not properly reported to NRC by several licensees and the vendor. The specific concerns regarding the applicability of the ice condenser problems to Cook willbe addressed in my response to your Petition. The.concern that the problems were known, but not properly reported by several licensees and the vehdor, willbe handled separate from the 2.206 process.
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Your second concern addresses the licensee's 50.59 process and questions whether the licensee's safety evaluations had been assessed.
Your third concern involves the scope of the licensee's review of engineering calculations and the NRC's assessment of that review. Your fourth concern pertains to missing and inaccurate net positive suction head calculations at D.C.
Cook. Given the specific applicability of these issues to D.C. Cook, they willbe addressed as part of your Petition.
You also state that the NRC's architect-engineering (AE) inspection at D.C. Cook found significant issues in systems that were previously examined by the licensee.
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D. Lochbaum in response to the confirmatory action letter (CAL) should be considered adequate.
As this pertains directly to the issue in your original Petition, this issue willalso be addressed as part of your Petition and is considered your fifth concern.
Your sixth concern involves the adequacy of the NRC's inspection process.
Noting that an inspection finding represents both a nonconforming condition and a programmatic failure that allowed the problem to go undetected, you question ifthe NRC inspection process should have defined criteria for expanding the inspection scope based on findings. This concern is not directly applicable to the request in youi Petition for certain actions to be taken before restart of the first unit at D.C. Cook. Therefore, I willcorrespond with you separately regarding this issue.
Your January 15, 1998, letter also notes that a special inspection team had been sent to D.C.
Cook to review a sample of the licensee's corrective actions in response to the CAL, to validate the licensee's root-cause analysis, and to assess the adequacy of the Licensee's conclusions.
You also state that this inspection will be a primary factor in the staffs decision on whether the licensee's actions pursuant to the CAL are adequate and whether the licensee's decision to restart D.C. Cook Unit 1 is proper and willform a basis for responding to the Petition.
Therefore, you request that the NRC send you a copy of the special inspection report, even ifit is a preliminary version subject to revision, at least one business day before liftingof the CAL.
With regard to your request for the draft inspection report, it is NRC policy not to release draft information. This policy is intended to prevent improper influences and assure that predecisional information, or contemplated enforcement actions, are not compromised by a premature release.
Based on this, I must deny your request for a draft copy of the report of the special inspection team.
However, my staff willensure that you receive a copy of the final inspection report when it is issued.
In addition, as previously discussed with you, my staff will contact you prior to the liftingof the CALto inform you of that decision.
You should be aware that the special team inspection results willonly be one of several inputs into NRC's review of the licensee's restart readiness.
Other items that willbe considered are the licensee's responses to the CAL, the public meetings held with the Licensee to discuss its actions, oversight of licensee activities by the NRC resident inspector staff, and inspections conducted on particular issues, such as the licensee's response to the ice condenser issues raised at Watts Bar.
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D. Lochbaum Please contact the NRC project manager assigned to oversee activities at D.C. Cook, John Hickman, at (301) 415-3017, ifyou have any questions.
Sincerely, amuel Ilins, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation cc:
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Indiana Michigan Power Company Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2 Regional Administrator, Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 801 Warrenville Road Lisle, IL 60532-4351 Attorney General Department of Attorney General 525 West Ottawa" Street Lansing, Ml 48913 Township Supervisor Lake Township Hall P.O. Box 818 Bridgman, Ml 49106 Al Blind, Site Vice President Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant 1 Cook Place Bridgman, Ml 49106 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspector's Office 7700 Red Arrow Highway Stevensville, Ml 49127
, Gerald Charnoff, Esquire Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge 2300 N Street, NW.
Washington, DC 20037 Mayor, City of Bridgman P.O. Box 366 Bridgman, Ml 49106 Special Assistant to the Governor Room 1 - State Capitol Lansing, Ml 48909 Drinking Water and Radiological Protection Division Michigan Department of Environmental Quality 3423 N. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd P.O. Box 30630, CPH Mailroom Lansing, Ml 48909-8130 Steve J. Brewer Indiana Michigan Power Company Nuclear Generation Group 500 Circle Drive Buchanan, Ml 49107 w/co of incomin 2.206 re uest:
E.E. Fitzpatrick, Vice President.
Indiana Michigan Power Company Nuclear Generation Group 500 Circle Drive
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