ML18059B024
| ML18059B024 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 06/01/1994 |
| From: | Hsia A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Fenech R CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| References | |
| TAC-M89491, NUDOCS 9406080330 | |
| Download: ML18059B024 (2) | |
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June *1, 1994
~cket No. 50-255 Mr. Robert A. Fenech Vice President, Nuclear Operations Consumers Power Company Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043
Dear Mr. Fenech:
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SUBJECT:
PALISADES PLANT - REQUEST FOR DEVIATIONS FROM COMMITMENTS CONCERNING CORE EXIT THERMOCOUPLES (TAC NO. M8949I)
By letter dated May 20, I994, you requested a deviation from a previous commitment concerning I6 core exit thermocouples (CETs).
You had previously committed to disconnect these I6 CETs, which are class IE devices, from the primary datalogger, which is a non-class IE device.
This commitment was made to satisfy NUREG-0737, item 11.F.2, and Regulatory Guide 1.97..
However, removing these CETs from the datalogger could be detrimental since
,the operations staff has been trained to use the digital information from the datalogger in an accident.
The likelihood that a potential failure of the non-class IE datalogger would affect the I6 CETs is low.
Therefore, we find the deviation from your original commitments acceptable through the next refueling outage, at which_ time you will resolve the IE to non-IE interface in these CETs.
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Mr. Thomas J. Palmisano.
Plant General Manager Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memor1al Highway Covert, MI 49043 Mr. David W.
Rog~rs Plant Safety and Licensing Director Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Mi~higan 49043 M. 1. Miller, Esquire Sidley & Austin 54th Floor One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60603 Mr. Thomas A. McNish, Secretary
- Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson~ Michigan 49201 Judd L; Bacon, Esquire Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Regional Administrator, Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 801 Warrehville Road
- Lisle, Illinois 60532-4351 Jerry Sarno Township Supervisor Covert Township 36197 M-140 Highway
{overt, Michigan 49043
-Office of the Governor Room I - Capitol Building Lansing, Michigan 48913 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspector Office Palisades Plant 27782 Blue Star Memorial Highway Cnvert, Michi~an 49043 Pali sades Pint Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Monitoring Secti~n Office Division of Radiological Health Department of Public Health 3423 N. Logan Street P. 0. Box 30195 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Gerald Charnoff, Esquire Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge 2300 N Street, N. W.
Washington DC 20037 Alora Davis Commitment Tracking System Coordinator Palisades Plant Consumers Power Company 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043-9530 April 1994