ML18064A727
| ML18064A727 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 04/26/1995 |
| From: | Haas K CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9505030208 | |
| Download: ML18064A727 (2) | |
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consumers Power POWERING llAICHl&AN"5 l'llOGIUSS Palisades Nuclear Plant: 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway, Covert, Ml 49043 April 26, 1995 Nuclear Regulatory Commission A TIN: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555 KurtM. Haas Plant Safety and Licensing Director DOCKET 50-255 - LICENSE DPR PALISADES PLANT - SEVERE ACCIDENT ISSUE CLOSURE GUIDELINES The purpose of this letter is to inform you that Consumers Power Company intends to implement the formal industry position on severe accident management approved by the Nuclear Energy Institute's Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee on November 4, 1994, at our Palisades Nuclear Plant. That formal position, previously communicated in a letter dated November 21, 1994 from NEI to the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor.
Regulation, states that :
Each licensee will :
Assess current capabilities to respond to severe accident conditions using Section 5 of NE/ 91-04, Revision 1, " Severe Accident Issue Closure Guidelines. "
Implement appropriate improvements identified in the assessment,. within the constraints of existing personnel and hardware, on a schedule to be determined by each licensee and communicated to the NRC, but in any event no later than December 31, 1998.
Based on previous interactions between NEI (NUMARC) and NRC staff, we understand that NRC staff agrees with the need for licensee flexibility in their methods of assessing and establishing severe accident management guidance. Utilizing the associated implementing guidance (contained in NEI Report 91-04, Revision 1), we intend to complete the assessment
.. of severe accident management capabilities and make any identified enhancements by December 31, 1997.
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This implementation schedule is complementary to efforts currently underway at Palisades to address the individual plant examination of external events.
SUMMARY
OF COMMITMENTS This letter contains one new commitment as follows:
Assess Palisades' severe accident management capabilities in accordance with NEI Report 91-04, "Severe Accident Issue Closure Guidelines", and make any identified enhancements by December 31, 1997.
Kurt M. Haas Plant Safety & Licensing Director CC Administrator, Region III, USNRC NRC Resident Inspector - Palisades