ML18066A623
| ML18066A623 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 08/26/1999 |
| From: | Craig C NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Haskell N CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML18066A624 | List: |
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| TAC-MA5548, NUDOCS 9909030126 | |
| Download: ML18066A623 (8) | |
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Mr. Nathan L. Haskell Director, Licensing Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Ml 49043 September 8, 1999
SUBJECT:
PALISADES PLANT-REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING INSERVICE INSPECTION PROGRAM RELIEF REQUEST NO. 14 (TAC NO.
MA5711).
Dear Mr. Haskell:
By letter dated May 17, 1999, you submitted a request for relief from the requirements of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code for the Palisades Plant. Based upon our review of the information submitted in your request, the staff has developed the enclosed request for additional information.
The enclosed request was discussed with Mr. P. Flenner of your staff on August 25, 1999. A mutually agreeable target date for your response of October 15, 1999, was established. If circumstances result in the need to revise the target date, please contact me at (301) 415-1312 at the earliest opportunity.
Docket No. 50-255
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/encl: See next page Distribution Docket File (50-255)
PUBLIC R. Schaaf ACRS' A: Vegel, Riii Sincerely, Original signed by:
Robert G. Scha,af, Project Manager, Section 1
- Project Directorate Ill Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation PDlll-1 r/f R. Bouling OGC S.Sheng S. Black.
DOCUMENT NAME: G:\\PDlll-1\\Palisades\\raia5711.wpd OFFICE NAME DATE
/99 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY
UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Mr. Nathan L. Haskell Director, Licensing Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Ml 49043 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 September 8,. 1999
SUBJECT:
PALISADES PLANT - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING INSERVICE INSPECTION PROGRAM RELIEF REQUESTNO. 14 (TAC NO.
MA5711)
Dear Mr. Haskell:
By letter dat~d May 17, 1999, you submitted a request for relief from the requirements of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code for the Palisades Plant. Based upon our review of the information submitted in your request, the staff has
. developed the enclosed request for additional information.
. The enclosed request was discussed with Mr. P. Flenner of your staff on August 25, 1999. A mutually agreeable target date for your response of October 15, 1999, was established. If circumstances result in the need to revise the target date, please contact me at (301) 415-1312 at the earliestopportunity.
Docket No. 50-255
Enclosure:
As stated
- cc w/encl: See next page Sincerely, Robert G. Schaaf, Project Manag r, Section 1 Project Directorate Ill Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Mr. Nathan L. Haskell Consumers Energy Company cc:
Mr. Thomas J. Palmisano Site Vice President Palisades Plant 2n80 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Mr. Robert A. Fenech, Sr Vice Pres Nuclear, Fossil, and Hydro Operations Consumers Energy Company
- 212 West Michigan Avenue
- Jackson, Michigan 49201 Arunas T. Udrys, Esquire Consumers Energy Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201
. *Regional Administrator, Region Ill
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 801 Warrenville Road Lisle; Illinois 60532-4351 Jerry Sarno, Supervisor Covert Township P. o. Box 35
- Covert, Michigan 49043 Off ice of the Governor P. 0. Box 30013 Lansing, Michigan 48909 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. 0. Box 30630 CPH Mailroom Lansing, Michigan 48909-8130 Michigan Department of Attorney General Special Litigation Division 630 Law Building P.O. Box 30212 Lansing, Michigan 48909 August 1998
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO REQUEST FOR RELIEF FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF ASME SECTION XI FOR THE SPENT FUEL POOL HEAT EXCHANGER INLET NOZZLE TO SHELL WELD CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY PALISADES PLANT DOCKET NO. 50-255
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Provide equations and input for all parameters appearing in the equations that give a diffusion coefficient of 1.1162 ft2/hr of water vapor in air and a leakage rate of 13.88 lb/year. Estimate the error in the final leakage rate caused by the assumption that the mass transfer is analogous to the heat transfer. Cite examples from literature showing that the final leakage rate (strongly influenced by free convection) can be conservatively estimated by applying the Nusselt number to the leakage* rate by diff.usion. Alternatively, justify the calculated final result by empirical deduction based on observations.
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Provide information regarding the validation of the computer program PC-LEAK. The staff's primary interest is the benchmark of the crack opening area and the leakage rate using PC-LEAK against results from using other computer codes.
- 3.
Your LEFM model in the PC-LEAK program does not appear to be based on the finite element method. Provide the schematic of your model surrounding the crack and demonstrate that PC-LEAK.can account for different moduli of elasticity for materials at opposite sides of the crack.
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Provide justification for applying the limit load solution for piping with through-wall flaws to flaws in the weld between piping and a shell.
ENCLOSURE
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, Mr. NathanrL. Haskell Director, L.="icensing Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Ml 49043 August 26, 1999
SUBJECT:
APPROVAL FOR THIRD 10-YEAR INTERVAL INSERVICE INSPECTION PROGRAM REQUEST FOR RELIEF FOR THE PALISADES PLANT (TAC NO. MA5548)
Dear Mr. Haskell:
- By letter dated May 14, 1999, you proposed an alternative. to the requirements of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME;) Boiler ~net Pressur~ V~ssel Code (the Code)
Section XI (1989 Edition), IWA-5250(a)(2),**as applied to th_e*Palisades Plant Pressure Testing*
Program.Section XI, IWA-5250(a)(2), requires the~removal.of all'bolts-_when leakage is detected at a bolted connection: As;*an alternative, y'ou.propose to imi:ilement the requirements of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vess.~! Co,de Case N-56~-1? .Porrecti\\.~~.Action for Leakage Identified at Bolted Conneetions,* Section XI, Division f," when-le~kage iS. di$covered at a bolted connection during a syste'ril pressure test. This:reJief reques't would-..be inccfr:porated into the Palisades lnservice Inspection Pressure Test F'.rogram for the re'mafnd~r ofthe third 10-year interval, concluding in August of ~005......
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Section 50.55a of Title 1 o of the Code cH Fe.dfJral Regu{~t;ons *(1 p CFR -*5o.55a) requires that inservice inspection (ISi) of ASME;° Coqe Plass; 1_, 2, _and 3.comp9iie~ts "be performed in accordance with Section XI of th.e*A~ME Code applicable edition and* addenda, except where specific relief has been reque~~ed'_!:>y the. lic~nsee and granted ~y the Commission pursuant to paragraph 1 O CFR 50.55a(g)(6)(i), or. alternatives approved pursuantt? 1 o CFR 50.55a(a)(3).
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The NRC has revi~wed your reque?t and concludecq~at the p~dposed* alternative to the requirements of ASME Section XI (1989 Edition), 1WA-5250(a)(2), provides an acceptable level of quality and safety at the Palisades Plant ari'd is authorized pursuant to 1 o CFR 50.55a(a)(3)(i). The safety evaluation supporting the staff's finding is enclosed. If you have any questions about this action, please contact Mr. Robert Schaaf of my staff at (301) 415-1312.
Docket No. 50-255
Enclosure:
Safety Evaluation cc w/enclosure: See next page r' r~ {" t'i 4 9
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Claudia M. Craig, Chief, Section 1 Project Directorate Ill Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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,~ Mr. Nathan L. Haskell Director, Licensing Palisades Plant August 26, 1999 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Ml 49043
SUBJECT:
APPROVAL FOR THIRD 10-YEAR INTERVAL INSERVICE INSPECTION PROGRAM REQUEST FOR RELIEF FOR THE PALISADES PLANT (TAC NO. MA5548)
Dear Mr. Haskell:
By letter dated May 14, 1999, you proposed an alternative to the requirements of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (the Code)
Section XI (1989 Edition), IWA-5250(a)(2), as applied to the Palisades Plant Pressure Testing Program.Section XI, IWA-5250(a)(2), requires the removal of all bolts when leakage is detected at a bolted connection. As an alternative, you propose to implement the requirements of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Case N-566-1, "Corrective Action for Leakage ldent1fied at Bolted Connections,Section XI, Division 1," when leakage is discovered at a bolted.
connection during a system pressure test. This relief request would be incorporated into the Palisades lnservice Inspection Pressure Test Program for the remainder of the third 10-year
- interval, concluding in August of 2005.
Section 50.55a of Title 1 o of the Code of Federal Regulations (1 O CFR 50.55a) requires that inservice inspection (ISi) of ASME Code Class 1, 2, and 3 components be performed in accordance with Section XI of the ASME Code applicable edition and addenda, except where specific relief has been requested by the licensee and granted by the Commission pursuant to paragraph 1 O CFR 50.55a(g)(6)(i), or alternatives approved pursuant to 1 O CFR 50;55a(a)(3).*
The NRC has reviewed your request and concluded thatthe. proposed alternative to the requirements of ASME Section XI (1989 Edition), IWA-5250(a)(2), provides an acceptable level of quality and safety at the Palisades Plant and is authorized pursuant to 10 CFR 50.55a(a)(3)(i).
1 The safety evaluation supporting the staff's finding is enclosed. If you have any questions about this action, please contact Mr. Robert Schaaf of my staff at (301) 415-1312.
Docket No. 50-255
Enclosure:
Safety Evaluation cc w/enclosure: See next page Sincerely, Original signed by:
Claudia M. Craig, Chief, Section 1 Project Directorate Ill Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation DISTRIBUTION Docket File PUBLIC ACAS PDlll Director GHill (2)
AVegel, Riii OGC PD31 Reading E-mail SE to RScholl (RFS)
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- DOCUMENT: G:\\PDI 11-1 \\Palisades\\Rela5548. wpd OFC PM:LPD3 NAME DATE OFFICIAL RECORD COPY
y UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555--0001 Mr. Nathan L. Haskell Director, Lice11sing Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Ml 49043 August 26, 1999
SUBJECT:
APPROVAL FOR THIRD 10-YEAR INTERVAL INSERVICE INSPECTION PROGRAM REQUEST FOR RELIEF FOR THE PALISADES PLANT (TAC NO. MA5548)
Dear Mr. Haskell:
By letter dated May 14, 1999, you proposed an alternative to the requirements of American Society of Mecha:iical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (the Code)
Section XI (1989 Edition), IWA-5250(a)(2), as applied to the Palisades Plant Pressure Testing Program.Section XI, IWA-5250(a)(2), requires the removal of all bolts when leakage is detected at a bolted connection. As an alternative, you propose to implement the requirements of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Case N-566-1, "Corrective Action for Leakage Identified at Bolted Connections, Section x1*, Division '1," when leakage is discovered at a. bolted connection during a system pressure test. This relief request would be incorporated into the.
Palisades lnservice Inspection Pressure Test Program for the remainder of the third 10-year interval, concluding in August of 2005.
Section 50.55a of Title 1 O of the Code of Federal Regulations (1 O CFR 50.55a) require~ that inservice inspection (ISi) of ASME Code Class 1, 2, and 3 components be performed in accordance with Section XI of the ASME Code applicable edition and addenda, except where specific relief has been requested by the licensee and granted by the Commission pursuant to paragraph 10 CFR 50.55a(g)(6)(i), or alternatives approved pursuant to 10 CFR 50.55a(a)(3).
The NRC has reviewed your request and concluded that the proposed alternative to the requirements of ASME Section XI (1989 Edition), IWA-5250(a)(2), provides an acceptable level of quality and safety at the Palisades Plant and is authorized pursuant to 1 O CFR 50.55a(a)(3)(i). The safety evaluation supporting the staff's finding is enclosed. If you have any questions about this action, please contact Mr. Robe.rt Schaaf of my.staff at (301) 415-1312.
Docket No. 50-255
Enclosure:
Safety Evaluation cc w/enclosure: See next page Sincerely,
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Claudia M. Craig, Chief, Section 1 (j Project Directorate Ill Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
y Mr. Nathan L. Haskell Consumers Energy Company cc:
Mr. Thomas J. Palmisano Site Vice President Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Mr. Robert A. Fenech, Sr Vice Pres Nuclear, Fossil, and Hydro Operations Consumers Energy Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Arunas T. Udrys, Esquire
. Consumers Energy Company 212 West Michigan Avenue
- Jackson, Michigan 49201 Regional Administrator, Region Ill
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 801 Warrenville Road Lisle, Illinois 60532-4351 Jerry Sarno, Supervisor Covert Township P. 0. Box 35 Covert, Michigan 49043
- .Office of the (3overnor P. 0. Box 30013 Lansing, Michigan 48909 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspector's Office Palisades Plant 277.82 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 v
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Palisades Plant Drinking Water and Radiological Protection Division Michigan Department of Environmental Quality 3423 N. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd P. 0. Box 30630 CPH Mailroom Lansing, Michigan 48909~8130 Michigan Department of Attorney General Special Litigation Division 630 Law Building P.O.. Box 30212 Lansing, Michigan 48909 August 1998