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Discusses & Forwards Rept of Staff Review of Sfsp Safety Issues.Staff Concludes That Existing Structures,Sys & Components Re Storage of Irradiated Fuel Provide Adequate Protection.Review of Rept Requested for Plant Applicability
ML18012A359
Person / Time
Site: Harris Duke Energy icon.png
Issue date: 09/17/1996
From: Le N
NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To: Robinson W
CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO.
References
TAC-M88094, NUDOCS 9609190298
Download: ML18012A359 (5)


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September 17, 1

Mr.

W.

R. Robinson, Vice President Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant Carolina Power 8 Light Company Post Office Box 165 Mail Code:

Zone 1

New Hill, North Carolina 27562-0165

SUBJECT:

RESOLUTION OF SPENT FUEL STORAGE POOL SAFETY ISSUES:

ISSUANCE OF FINAL REPORT, SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (TAC NO. M88094)

Dear Mr. Robinson:

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff recently completed a detailed review of spent fuel storage pool safety issues.

The results of the staff's review are documented in a report to the Commission which is enclosed for your information.

In the report, the staff concludes that existing structures,

systems, and components related to the storage of irradiated fuel provide adequate protection of public health and safety.

Notwithstanding this finding, the staff has also identified certain design features that reduce the reliability of spent fuel pool decay heat removal, increase the potential for loss of spent fuel coolant inventory, or increase the potential for consequential loss of essential safety functions at an operating reactor.

The staff intends to conduct plant-specific regulatory analyses to evaluate potential safety enhancement backfits pursuant to 10 CFR

50. 109(a)(3) at a number of operating plants that possess one or more of these design features.

Although the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant is not identified for a plant-specific safety enhancement backfit analysis by the staff, it is requested that you review the enclosed report for applicability to your facility and consider actions, as appropriate, related to the design of spent fuel pool decay heat removal systems at your facility.

This letter does not require any response.

Sincerely, (Original Signed By)

Ngoc B. Le, Project Manager Project Directorate II-1 Division of Reactor Projects I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-400

Enclosure:

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Mr. William D. Johnson Vice President and Senior Counsel Carolina Power

& Light Company Post Office Box 1551

Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 Resident Inspector/Harris NPS c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 5421 Shearon Harris Road New Hill, North Carolina 27562-9998 Ms. Karen E.

Long Assistant Attorney General State of North Carolina Post Office Box 629

Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 Public Service Commission State of South Carolina Post Office Drawer 11649
Columbia, South Carolina 29211 Regional Administrator, Region II U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 101 Marietta St.,

N.W. Suite 2900 Atlanta, Georgia 30323 Mr. Dayne H. Brown, Director Division of Radiation Protection N.C. Department of Environmental Division of Radiation Protection Commerce

& Natural Resources Post Office Box 27687

Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 Mr. -J.

Cowan Vice President Nuclear Services and Environmental Support Department Carolina Power

& Light Company Post Office Box 1551 - Mail OHS7

Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 Mr. Bo Clark Plant General Manager Harris Plant Carolina Power

& Light Company Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant P.O.

Box 165 New Hill, North Carolina 27562-0165 Mr. J.

W. Donahue Director of Site Operations Carolina Power

& Light Company Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant Post Office Box 165, MC: Zone 1

New Hill, North Carolina 27562-0165 Mr. Robert P. Gruber Executive Director Public Staff NCUC Post Office Box 29520

Raleigh, North Carolina 27626 Chairman of the North Carolina Utilities Commission Post Office Box 29510 Raleigh, North Carolina 27626-0510 Mr. T.

D. Walt

Manager, Regulatory Affairs Carolina Power

& Light Company Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant P. 0.

Box 165, Mail Zone 1

New Hill, North Carol ina 27562-0165 Mr. Vernon Malone, Chairman Board of County Commissioners of Wake County P.

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Box 550

Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 Ms, Uva Holland, Chairman Board of County Commissioners of Chatham County P. 0.

Box 87 Pittsboro, North Carolina 27312 Mr. Milton Shymlock U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm.

101 Marietta Street, N.W.

Suite 2900 Atlanta, Georgia 30323-0199