ML18065B034
| ML18065B034 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 11/04/1996 |
| From: | Connaughton K NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Bordine T CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| References | |
| TAC-M94378, NUDOCS 9611060184 | |
| Download: ML18065B034 (5) | |
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Mr. Thomas C. Bordine Manager, Licensing Pali sades Pl ant November4, 1996 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, MI 49043
SUBJECT:
PALISADES PLANT - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION -
Dear Mr. Bordine:
Based on our review of your September 4, 1996, submittal concerning electrical*
technical specification changes, we have determined that we need additional information and have prepared the enclosed list of supplemental questions.
Please provide a response to the enclosed questions within 30 days of the date of this letter. If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact me at 415~3018.
Docket No. 50-255 Sincerely, Original signed by Kevin Connaughton, Project Manager Project Directorate 111-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III/IV Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Mr. Thomas C. Berdine Manager, Licensing Palisades Plant WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555--0001 November 4, 1996 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, MI 49043
SUBJECT:
PALISADES PLANT - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION -
{TAC NO. M94378)
Dear Mr. Berdine:
Based on our review of your September 4, 1996, submittal concerning electrical technical specification changes, we have determined that we need additional information and have prepared the enclosed list of supplemental questions.
Please provide a response to the enclosed questions within 30 days of the date of this letter. If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact me at 415-3018.
Docket No. 50-255 Sincerely,
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Kevin Connaughton, Project Manager
- project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III/IV Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Enclosure:
Request for Additional Information cc w/encl:
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Mr. Thomas C. Bordine Consumers Power Comp~ny cc:
Mr. Thomas J. Palmisano Plant General Manager Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Mr. Robert A. Fenech Vice president, Nuclear Operations Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 M. I. Miller, Esquire Sidley & Austin 54th Floor One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60603 Mr. Thomas A. McNish Vice President & 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 Warrenville Road Lisle, Illinois 60532-4351 Jerry Sarno Township Supervisor Covert Township 36197 M-140 Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Office of the Governor Room 1 - Capitol Building Lansing, Michigan 48913 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspector's Office Palisades Plant 27782 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Palisades Plant Drinking Water and Radiological Protection Division
- Michigan Department of
- Environmental Quality 3423 N. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd P. o. Box 30630 CPH Mailroom
- Lansing, Michigan 48909-8130.
Gerald Charnoff, Esquire Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge 2300 N Street, N. W.
. Washington DC 20037 Michigan Department of Attorney General Special Litigation Division 630 Law Building P.O. Box 30212 Lansing, Michigan 48909 August 1996
REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR TECHNICAL SPECIFlCATION (TS) CHANGE - ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT DOCKET NO. 50-255 1.0 The Bases associated with the TS Surveillance Requirement Section 4.7.3.1 indicate that the fuel oil storage tank (T-10) is also used as fuel oil for the diesel fire pumps, heating boilers and waste evaporators, and as lube oil for the emergency diesel generators (EDGs).
Provide the following information:
- a.
the provision in the emergency operating procedures for isolating these components/systems following a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA},
or
- b.
detailed calculations to demonstrate that the fuel oil stored in T-10 and the day tank will be sufficient to support the operation of these components and EOG for 7 days following a LOCA.
Information to be provided should include:
Fuel oil consumption rate for each of the above cited components.
Methodology/assumptions used to calculate the fuel oil consumption rates.
Since the calculated EOG fuel oil consumption rate is based on the time dependence of EOG loads, has a minimum margin of 10% been added to the calculated storage requirement?
2.0 Section 8.4.1.3 of the FSAR states that the plant modification reported in Facility Change FC-889 provides the capability to transfer fuel oil from the fuel oil storage tank (T-926) to T-10 and enables a backup fuel supply to T-ld from another onsite source.
Provide the following information:
- a.
Discuss the procedure established to transfer fuel oil from T-926 to T-10 following a LOCA.
- b.
Discuss the equipment (portable or permanent) to be used for fuel oil transfer from T~926 to T-10.
If portable equipment is utilized for the fuel oil transfer, discuss the provision for maintaining the readiness of this portable equipment.
- c.
Discuss the administrative control and amount of fuel oil reserved in T-926 for the operation of EOG following a LOCA.
3.0 The response to the staff's comment (Q-4) states that the proposed 24-hour allowed outage time (AOT) for P-18A was not based on the.DG run time (15 hours1.736111e-4 days <br />0.00417 hours <br />2.480159e-5 weeks <br />5.7075e-6 months <br />) due to the available fuel oil stored in the day tank.
It was based on a judgement of the relative severity of both DGs being inoperable or both offsite sources being inoperable and was intended to allow a reasonable time for repair of P-18A prior to declaring DG-12 to be inoperable.
Discuss in detail how the relative severity of both DGs being inoperable or both offsite sources being inoperable is determined.
ENCLOSURE
- ' Discussion should include the assumptions and the justifications for the assumptions used to make this determination.
(We find that the fuel oil stored in day tank is only sufficient to support DG-12 operation for 15 hours1.736111e-4 days <br />0.00417 hours <br />2.480159e-5 weeks <br />5.7075e-6 months <br />, therefore, the AOT for P-18A should be less than 15 hours1.736111e-4 days <br />0.00417 hours <br />2.480159e-5 weeks <br />5.7075e-6 months <br />.)
4.0 To be consistent with the guidance described in NUREG-1432, "Standard Technical Specifications, Combustion Engineering Plants," the following should be included in the TS Action Sections:
- The minimum inventory of fuel oil required to be maintained in the DG day tank.
The minimum air pressure required to be maintained in the DG starting tank.*