L-83-344, Application for Amend to Licenses DPR-31 & DPR-41,revising Tech Specs to Support Fuel Design Change from Westinghouse Low Parasitic Fuel Assembly to Optimized Fuel Assembly & Use of New Westinghouse Wet Annular Burnable Absorber Rods
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| Site: | Turkey Point  |
| Issue date: | 06/03/1983 |
| From: | Robert E. Uhrig FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
| To: | Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| L-83-344, NUDOCS 8306090352 | |
| Download: ML17345B114 (8) | |
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AOCESSION NBR:8306090352 DOC ~ DATE: 83/06/03 NOTARIZED:
YES FACIL:50-250 Turkey Point Planti 'Unit 3< Florida, Power and Light C
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AUTH BYNAME AUTHOR AFFILIATION UHRIG P R ~ E ~
Flor ida Power 8 Light Co, "REC I'P, NAME RECIPIENT AFFILIATION EISENHUT<DSG, Division of Licensing.
DOCKET 05000250 05000251
SUBJECT:
Applicat-ion for amend to Licenses DPR"31 8
DPR Olirevising Tech Specs to support fuel design change from 'Iiestinghouse low parasitic fuel assembly to opt,imized fuel assembly 8
use of new Nestinghouse wet annular burnable absorber
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~g9~llr FLORIDAPOWER & LIGHT COMPANY June 3, 1983 L-83-344 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Attention:
Mr. Darrell G. Eisenhut, Director Division of Licensing U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
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Dear Mr. Ei,
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8 4 Docket No. 50-250 8 50-251 Proposed License Amendment Optimized Fuel Assembly and Wet Annular Burnable Absorber In accordance with 10 CFR 50.90, Florida Power 5 Light Company submits herewith three signed originals and forty copies of a request to amend'ppendix A of Facili.ty Operating License DPR-31 and DPR-41.
This amendment is submitted to support a
planned fuel design change from the Westinghouse Low Parasitic 15 x 15 (LOPAR) Fuel Assembly to the Optimized 15 x 15 Optimized Fuel Assembly (OFA) and use of the new Westinghouse Wet Annular Bur nable Absorber (WABA) Rods.
The proposed amendment is described below and shown on the acccmpanying Technical Specification pages.
The safety evaluation for the changes is attached.
Pages 3.2-2, B3.2-2 This change permits an increase in the shutdown and control rod drop time.
Page 5.2-1 This change permits the use of WABA rods.
Pages B2.1-1, B2.1-2, B2.3-2, B2.3-3, B3.1-1, B.3.2-3, B.3.2-8 These changes incorporate the design limit DNBR for OFA.
In accordance with 10 CFR 50.91(a)(1),
we have determined that this amendment poses no significant hazard.
The transition to OFA fuel and WABA rods will not cause any change in the types or increase in the amount of effluents or any change in the authorized power level of the facility, therefore, the
-amendment does not:
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Involve a significant i ncrease in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated; or 2)
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new or di fferent kind of accident frcm any accident previously evaluated; or 3)
Involve. a significant reduction in a margin of safety.
The proposed amendment has been reviewed by the Turkey Point Plant Nuclear Safety Committee and the Florida Power 8 Light Company 'Nuclear Review Board.
Very truly yours, Robert E. Uhrig Vice President Advanced Systems 8 Technology REU/J EM/js cc:
Mr. James P. O'Reilly, Region II Mr.. Harold F. Reis, Esquire
'Nr. Ulray Clark, Administrator Radiological Health Services Department of Heal th and Rehabi 1 itati ve Servi ces 1323. Winewood Boulevard Tallahassee, Florida 32381
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Robert E. Uhri being first duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he is Vice President Licensee herein; of Florida Power 8
Light Company, the That he has executed the foregoing document; that the statements made in this document are true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief, and that he is authorized to execute the document on behalf of said Licensee':
Robert E. Uhrig Subscribed and sworn to before me this doy of I 98&.
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Notary public, State of Florfda at Large My Qornr i%on Expire" October 30,.1983 My COmmiSSiOn eXpireS:
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