ML18025B446
| ML18025B446 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Browns Ferry  |
| Issue date: | 04/08/1981 |
| From: | Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 7590-01 In the Matter of
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
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(Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Unit )
No.
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Docket No. 50-259 MODIFICATION-OF JANUARY 9 1981 ORDER RE UIRING AN AUTOMATIC IR HEADER DUMP SYSTEM The Tennessee Valley Authority (licensee) is the holder of Facility Operating License No.
DPR-33 which authorizes the operation of the Browns I
Ferry Nuclear Plant, Un'it No. 1, at steady state reactor power levels not in excess of 3293 megawatts thermal (rated power).
The facility consists of a boiling water reactor located at the licensee's site in Limestone County, Alabama.
On January 9, 1981 the Commission issued an Order modifying the license, effective immediately, requiring an operable automatic system to initiate control rod insertion at low pressure in the control air header.
The Order, published in the Federa'I
~Re ister on January 28, 1981 (46 FR 9299) required the automatic air header dump system to be operable by April 9, 1981 or the facility be placed in cold shutdown within 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br />.
By letter dated March 10, 1981, the licensee requested an extension of the April 9, 1981, deadline to permit the air dump system to be installed during the refueling outage scheduled to begin April 10, 1981.
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The requested extension of time is consistent with the intent of the January 9',
1981 Order to provide the required additional margin of safety within a short time period.
Operation of the facility for a short additional period of time will not present an undue risk to the public health and safety.
For Browns Ferry Unit No. 1, this additional period of time is projected to be only one day according to the refueling schedule.
Accordingly, pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
- amended, including Sections'.
103 and 161i, and the Commission's rules and regulations in'IQ CFR Parts 2 and 50, IT IS ORDERED that the April 9, 1981 completion date required in the January 9, 1981 "Order for Modification of License" be extended to "Before startup following the refueling outage cur rently scheduled to begin April 10, 1981, but in no case'hall operation continue beyond May 1, 1981 without the automatic system installed."
The Order of January 9, 1981 except as modified herein remains in effect in accordance with its terms.
IV.
Any pe'rson whose interest may be affected by this Order may request a hearing within 20 days of the date of publication of this Order in the Federai
~Re ister Any r.egoest for a hearing wi'l1 not stay the effective date of this Order.
Any request for a hearing shall be addressed to the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.
S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.
C.
20555 and shall set forth with particularly the nature of the requestor's interest and the manner in which such interest may be affected. by this Order.
A copy of the request should also be sent
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to the Executive Legal Director, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C.
20555.
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If a hearing is held concerning this Order, the issue to be considered at the hearing shall be:
Whether the completion date for the automatic air header dump system r equired by the January 9.
1981 Order for Modification of License, be extended to "before startup following the refueling outage currently scheduled to begin April 10, 1981, but in no case shall operation contin'ue, beyond May 1, 1981 without the automatic system installed."
Operation of the facility on terms consistent, with this Order is not stayed by the pendency of any proceedings on the Order.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 1
Darr e 1
G.
- isenhu, Director Division of Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Effective Date:
April 8, 1981
- Bethesda, Maryland
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