ML17348B465
| ML17348B465 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Turkey Point  |
| Issue date: | 04/13/1992 |
| From: | Raghavan L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Goldberg J FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML17348B466 | List: |
| References | |
| RTR-REGGD-01.097, RTR-REGGD-1.097 GL-82-23, NUDOCS 9204230179 | |
| Download: ML17348B465 (5) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 April 13, 1992 Docket Nos.
50-250 and 50-251 Hr. J.
H. Goldberg President - Nuclear Division Florida Power and Light Company P.O.
Box 14000 Juno
- Beach, Florida 33408-0420
Dear Hr. Goldberg:
SUBJECT:
TURKEY POINT UNITS 3 AND 4 INSTRUMENTATION TO FOLLOW THE COURSE OF AN ACCIDENT (REGULATORY GUIDE 1.97)
Section 6.2 of Generic Letter 82-33 requested licensees to provide a report on their implementation of Regulatory Guide 1.97 (Revision 2), including methods for complying with the Commission's regulations and supporting technical justification for any proposed alternatives or deviations.
A large'number of exception requests were received from pressurized water reactor (PWR) licensees asking that the environmental qualification requirement for accumulator level and pressure monitoring instrumentation be relaxed from Category 2 to Category 3, which would allow commercial-grade instruments to be used.
Prior to 1987, these requests were denied by the staff.
Since then, these exception requests have been considered as open items until a generic resolution could be found.
The staff has now reviewed the bases for these exceptions and has concluded that no operator action is based on this post-accident instrumentation and that it does not perform a safety function.
In addition, successful performance of core cooling systems can be inferred from other environmentally qualified instrumentation.
Since this instrumentation does not perform any post-accident safety function, its qualification requirements can be reduced to Category 3.
A copy of the Safety Evaluation is enclosed.
You have already installed Category 2 instrumentation to monitor accumulator level and pressure.
You are no longer bound by this commitment, and may, at your discretion, replace this instrumentation with Category 3 instrumentation.
Please notify me of the actions you plan to take and the schedule for implementation.
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H. Goldberg April 13, 1992 If you have any questions regarding this issue, please do not hesitate to contact me at (301) 504-2019.
Sincerely,
Enclosure:
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Harold F. Reis, Esquire Newman and Holtzinger, P.C.
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Washington, DC 20036 Jack Shreve, Public Counsel Office of the Public Counsel c/o The Florida Legislature 111 West Madison Avenue, Room 812 Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1400 John T. Butler, Esquire
- Steel, Hector and Davis 4000 Southeast'inancial Center Hi ami, Florida 33131-2398 Hr. Thomas F. Plunkett, Site Vice President Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Florida Power and Light Company P.O.
Box 029100 Miami, Florida 33102 Joaquin Avino County Manager of Metropolitan Dade County 111 NW 1st Street, 29th Floor Miami, Florida 33128 Senior Resident Inspector Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O.
Box 1448 Homestead, Florida 33090 Hr. Jacob Daniel Nash Office of Radiation..Control Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services 1317 Winewood Blvd.
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0700 Hr. Robert G. Nave, Director Emergency Management Department of Community Affairs 2740 Centerview Drive Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2100 Administrator Department of Environmental Regulation Power Plant Siting Section State of Florida 2600 Blair Stone Road Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Regional Administrator, Region II U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 101 Marietta Street, N.W. Suite 2900 Atlanta, Georgia 30323 Attorney General Department of Legal Affairs The Capitol Tallahassee, Florida 32304 Plant Manager Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Florida Power and Light Company P.O.
Box 029100 Miami, Florida 33102 Mr. R.
E. Grazio Director, Nuclear Licensing Florida Power and Light Company P.O.
Box 14000 Juno
- Beach, Florida 33408-0420