ML18333A182

Pre-Submittal Meeting - November 8, 2018 - License Amendment Request for Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Plan Revision

ML18333A182
Person / Time
Site:	Harris
Issue date:	11/08/2018
From:	Progress Energy Carolinas
To:	Division of Operating Reactor Licensing
Barillas M DORL/LPL2-2 301-415-2760
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Harris Nuclear Plant Pre-Submittal Meeting - November 8, 2018 License Amendment Request for Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Plan Revision 2

Duke Energy Participants Jeff Robertson, Regulatory Affairs Manager David Thompson, Emergency Preparedness Corporate Manager Chuck Yarley, HNP Regulatory Affairs Engineer David Stih, HNP Emergency Preparedness Specialist 3

Summary The LAR will revise the Emergency Plan as follows:

Currently per PLP-201 Revised PLP-201 TSC Exterior walls, roofs, and floor are built to Exterior walls, roof, and floor are designed and Seismic Category 1, tornado, wind, and missile built to a nationally recognized building code safety criteria.

Alerting, warning, and notification will be Alerting, warning, and notification will be provided by sounding sirens, activation of provided by sounding sirens and tone-activated radios within five miles of the supplemented by announcements made plant, and supplemented by announcements through radio and television (EAS), sound made through radio and television (EAS), trucks, bullhorns, and knocking on doors.

sound trucks, bullhorns, and knocking on doors.

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Background:

Technical Support Center The Technical Support Center (TCS)

Located in the Fuel Handling Building Exterior walls generally built Seismic Category 1, tornado, wind, and missile safety-related criteria.

Interior Walls and Ceilings are built to the North Carolina Building Code.

There are roof and wall penetrations not built to nuclear safety-related criteria.

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Background:

Tone Alert Radios Currently, HNP ANS credits Sirens and Tone Alert Radios as primary.

Mobile Route Alerting is back-up.

Emergency Alert System (EAS) supplements both with notifications.

HNP supports Tone Alert Radios by:

Distribution to all residencies within 5 miles of the plant.

Yearly distribution of batteries.

Yearly guidance on purpose and operation.

Conducting annual testing and effectiveness surveys.

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Background:

Tone Alert Radios Original (pre-2008) ANS Design: Current (Post-2008) ANS Design:

Used 69 Sirens Uses 83 Sirens Locations may be under 60 dBc 60 dBc for essentially 100% population FEMA approval was contingent Supplemental system no longer needed.

on supplementing original design. FEMA, State, and county approval Req.

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Proposed Changes:

For TSC: For Tone Alert Radios:

The E-Plan will no longer The E-Plan will no longer state that the TSC is built include Tone Alert to safety-related Radios as part of ANS.

criteria.

Instead, E-Plan will state Instead, E-Plan will rely that the TSC is built to a on sirens only for primary nationally recognized alerting system.

building code.

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Regulatory Guidance - TSC and ANS 10 CFR 50.54(q), Conditions of Licenses, Emergency Plans 10 CFR 50.47, Emergency Plans and 10 CFR 50, Appendix E, "Emergency Planning and Preparedness for Production and Utilization Facilities NRC Regulatory Issue Summary 2005-02, Revision 1, Clarifying The Process For Making Emergency Plan Changes NUREG-0654/FEMA-REP-1, Revision 1, Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants NUREG-0696, Dated February 1981, Functional Criteria for Emergency Response Facilities NUREG -0737 Supplement 1, Dated January 1983, Clarification of TMI Action Plan Requirements FEMA-REP-10, Dated November 1985, Guide for the Evaluation of Alert and Notification Systems for Nuclear Power Plants, 9

Precedents The following LAR is an example of a recently approved Emergency Plan utilizing a siren-only ANS design:

Vogtle, Unit 3 and 4, 2017 - NRC agrees Tone Alert Radios no longer required per approved VEGP ANS design.

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Conclusion LAR is required to correct nonconformance with TSC documentation.

The TSC design is robust, meets regulatory guidance to protect the public.

Change will also align ANS design with FEMA/Industry best practices.

Credits improved siren performance from 2008 ANS redesign.

Eliminates vulnerability to public and significant burden on the site.

Site and public coordination will no longer be required to distribute, install, and maintain Tone Alert Radios.

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