ML19206A797
| ML19206A797 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 10/31/1969 |
| From: | Bond J, Williams C, Wolman A US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| NUDOCS 7904210468 | |
| Download: ML19206A797 (12) | |
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{{#Wiki_filter:.ma_ %,7 Il e.- .I i 1 .J -1 l UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,/ ATQ4IC ENERGY CG41ISSION In the matter of the application by ) ) JERSEY CE:iTRAL POWER & LIGHT COMPNiY ) ) and ) DOCKED NO. 50-320 ) MEIROPOLITAN EDISON CG'PANY ) 1 ) For a Provisional Construction Pemit) (Three Mile Island Nuclear.9'.r:1on, ) Unit 2) Middletown, Pennsylvania ) Anpearances Gerald Charnoff, Esq. and Bruce W. Churchill, Esq. Appearing on behalf of the Applicants Jersey Central Power & Li ht Ccc pany 6 1 and Metropolitan Edison Ccepany James P. Murray, .Tr., Esq. Neil J. Neunan, Esq. and Troy B. Conner, Jr., Esq. Appearing on behalf of the U. S. Atcctic Energy Coc: mission Regulatory Staff INITIAL EECISION Preliminary Statement 1. This proceeding involves the application of Jersey Central Power & Light Cccpany and Metropolitan Edison Coc:pany (Applicants) i for a provisional construction pemit to construct e pressuri ed water reactor designed for initial operation at core power levels ,- n e, q U.?, ., n u 730421oyg g 7
, ' 'D. .. )_ - - 1 %- g) 3 . :- I up to 2452 megawatts (thermal). The facility, designated as Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 2, (hereinafter, Unit 2) vill be located cn the site at Three Mile Island adjacent to Unit 1, a l nuclear electric Senersting plant which is now under construction l by Metropolitan Edison Ccepany. The island sita in the Susquehanna River is in Dauphin Ccuntyabout D miles southeast of Herrisburg, Pennsylvania. The application has been reviewed by the Regulatory Staff (Staff) of the Atcnic Energy Cccmission (Cccmission) and the Adviecry Ccc=ittee on Reseter Safeguards (ACES), both of which con-cluded that there is reasonable assurance that the described facility can be constructed and cperated at the proposed site without undue risk to the health and safety of the public, t 2. In accordance with the require =ents of the Atcmic Energy i Act and the Ccesission's regulations, and pursuant to the Notice of Hearing published in the Federal Regir?er on Au6ust 27,1969, at 3h FR 13703, a public hearing was held before this Atcmic Safety and Licensing Board (Beard) on October 6, 1969, in Middletown, Pennsylvania, to consider whether a provisional construction permit should be issued to the Applicants. The parties to the proceeding vere the Applicants and the Staff. No petitions for leave to intervene were filed. Pursuant to Section 2 715(a) of the Ccc=ission's Rules of Fre.ctice, Dr. Arthur Socolov, an area resident who attended throu6 out the hearing, presented a limited appearance h statement expressing concern relating to protection of the facility frott aircraft using the nearby Olmsted State Airport. Mr. Thocas M. O As. p p 'n - ~a. o s -i i
~~ ~ .ru ,..) i'. g .1 .J / ! Gerusky, representing the Pennsylvania Department of Health, ststed that mutually satisfactory progrsms relating to radiological health i and emer5ency procedures have been established in cooperation with the Applicants and the U. S. Public Health Service. Subsequent to the hearing proposed findin6s and conclusions were filed by the Applicants and the Staff. 3 This is not a contested proceeding as defined in Section 2.4(n) of the Ccc=ission's Rules of Practice. Accordingly, the Board is instructed by the Rules and in the Notice of Hearing to consider the issues of whether the application and the record of the proceeding contain sufficient informat'.on, and the review by the Staff has been adequate, to support the findings proposed to t be made and the previsional constnictio-germit proposed to be issued by the Director of Regulation. The findings and the pemit proposed by the Director of Regulation vere published in and with the Notice of Hearing. The post-hearing pleadings of the parties propose affinative conclusions upon the issues; they are supported by and in accordance with the reliable, probative, and substantial evidence in the record. Findines of Fact 4. Jersey Central Power & Light Ccepany and Metropo'itan Edison C.npany vill share the financing and ownership of Unit 2 in the ratios of 25 percent and 75 percent, respectively. Each of the Applicants is an operating utility enEaged in the generation, transmission and sale of electric power. The Applicants are two IU T WLU m ' i .4
~ ,2 _.. .~...u. ' l, ~ 'h e-(] s I _4_ of four wholly-owned subsidiaries of General Public Util:Lties Corporation (GPU), a Pennsylvania corporation registered under the Public Utility Holding Ccmpany Act of 1935 Each of the Applicants is financially sound and plans to finance its share I of the costs of construction of the proposed facility as part of i its overall construction pro 6 ram. Funds to meet construction require =ents vill be provided by internal sources and capital contributions frcn GPU and by the sale of debt securities in such a nanner as to Lintain a sound and conservative capital structure. 5 Metropolitan Edison Ccnpany is responsible for engineering, design, construction, operation and maintenance of Unit 2. Metropolitan Edison Ccepany has 85 years' experience in the desi n, 6 s construction, and operation of electric generating stations, and is now constructing Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 1. The GPU Huclear Power Activities Group, with nuclear experience in operating power reactors at Saxton and Oyster Creek, vill provide technical assistance and guidance to the Three Mile Island Project Director, John G. Miller, who is Vice President and Chief The nuclear steem supply Engineer of Metropolitan Edison Cc=pany. system is being designed and fabricated by the Babcock & Wilcox Burns and Roe, Inc., has been engaged as the project Ccnpany. architect-engineer except in the areas of cooling tower design and interfaces between Unit 1 and Unit 2 for which Gilbert Associates, Inc., has been engaged. United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., is the construction nanager for both Unit 1 and Unit 2. Applicants g'- C(6
~ O J l l vill rely also on assistance in design, quality assurance, and structures to be provided by Pickard & Love Associates, MPR Associates, and Schupack & Associates. The record supports the Staff's conclusion that "the applicants are technically qualified to design and build the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 2". 6. The Unit 2 reactor vill operate initially at core powers up to 2452 Mvt and is designed for an expected ultimate capacity of 2772 Myt. This higher power has been used as the design basis for the contain=ent and the engineered safety features, and it has been used by the Staff and the Applicants in the accident analyses and in the evaluation of all major structures, systems, 4 and cccponents which bear significantly on the acceptability of 8 the site. The exclusion distance for the Three Mile Island site is 2,000 feet. Based upon the ecmbined population of the Middletown-Steelton ecc= unities (22,450) with their nearest bound-ary at 2.2 miles, the Applicants have prcposed a low population zone radius of two niles. The plant design vill take into account local hydrological conditions, earthquakes, tornados, and possible aircraft impacts. The App]icants will provide protection a6ainst the Probable Maximum Flood (PMF) as calculated by the Corps of Engineers. 7 A comprehensive pre-operational environmental monitoring program has been in progress at this site for scce time in connection with the Three Mile Island Unit 1. The Applicants vill ~ continue to cooperate with interested Eovernment agencies concerning c.,. Q*,jj e o 9 i 1
.E l i-- - -- - ~ I. 'N ( v . radiolo6 cal surveys and in accordance with recoc:mendations of the 1 Fish and Wildlife Service. This record includes evidence frce the Applicants and Staff which indicates that the Susquehanna River basin as well as the Chesapeake Bay can acecx::modate the installation of the proposed plant and an additional number of other such plants without causing total or cu=ulative concentrations of radiological effluents to c=ceed more than a small fraction of the values sec I forth in 10 CFR Part 20. 8. The proposed facility incorporates nu=erous syste=s, ccm-ponents and features for the protection of plant personnel and the public and is similar in design to plants incorporating pressurized water reactors which have been previously approved for construction by the Coc: mission. An important safety feature is the containment system which vill ccepletely enclose the reactor and =ajor com-The contain=ent system con-ponents of the pri=ary coolant system. sists of a reinforced prestressed concrete structure with a vapcr i f ti6ht steel liner. The pret, tressed tendons vill be grouted to pro-I vide protection a6ainst corresion. The containment structure is i designed to acccc=odate, without loss of integrity, functional loads rs:sulting frcm a loss-of-coolant accident occurring simultaneously I with the maximum hypothetical earthquake and nor=al operating loads. I 9 The proposed facility has two separable cooling systems which assure adequate core cooling and pressure reduction within the containtent structure even if a loss-of-coolant accident should For im=ediate short-term cooling, an emergency core cooling occur. ,-a~. cV. Q q A
-{. O J 7 system vill inject cool borated water into each of the primary i coolant loops and directly into the reactor vessel, thereby limit-ina the fuel pin clad temperatures and fission product release into the containment. For cooling contairsent air to reduce the contairment vessel internal prescure in the unlikely event of a major accident, there are two independent spray systems which These deliver cool borated water into the containment atmosphere. systems vill provide borated water containing dissolved sodium thiosulphate and sodiun hydrcxide to remove iodine in the event of an accident. i
- 10. The Applicants and the Staff recognize that in order to develop the final design of the facility further information and t
data vill be needed. Such additional information and da M will be developed by research and development projects in the course of the final design vork for the plant. In addition, basic work in progress is expected to provide some confir=ation that the preposed designs l are conservative. The major areas of research and development in- . clude the renon oscillations, core thermal and hydraulic tests, fuel rod clad failure, hj6h burnup fuel tests, internal vent valves, control rod drive test, once-through steem generator, in-core neutron detector test, blowdown forces on reactor internals, chemical spray system, and effects of radiolysis. The objectives of these programs have been defined, and a schedule for the furnishing of infomation prior to ec=pletion of construction of the proposed facility has been established.
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~ * - - - - - I _) .a. l Applicants have established a eccprehensive quality assur-11. ance program which is consistent with the intent of, and which has been evaluated by the Staff in accordance with, the AEC's " Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear Pcver Plants" which was recently pub-o i lished as a proposed Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50. Applicants' quality assurance organization, including the GPU Manager of Quality Assurance, vill undertake to assure that he facility will be fabri-cated and constructed in accordance with applicable codes and epecifi-The quality assurance program enecmpasses overall direction, cations. guidance and surveillance over the quality assurance practies to be observed by the reactor supplier, the architect-en6 necr, the 1 construction manager, and their subcontractors. The facility will be located 2-1/2 miles frcn Olmsted State 1 12. Airport. Althou6h the probability of an aircraft incident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station is remote, the vital structures of the station vill be designed to withstand a significant range of air-craft strike leadings, including such secondary effects as missiles, t Dr. Socolov's statement inquired fire, pressure and temperature. abput the capability of the containment building and other critical eccponents to withstand an impact of a larger tht.n the design basis aircraft (200,000 lbs.). The responsive evidence presented by the parties, in addition to that concerning the low probability of impact, is persuasive that there is little likelihood that any air-craft i= pact on the facility could cause the release of radioactivity. This view rests upon an e W.uation of the conservative design of the u L-4
~3 (D .J -/ . i i containnent to withstand impact, and the value of the additional I protection provided to the reactor and the primary cooling system In addition, under adverse by_ shield valls inside the containment. weather conditions involving poor visibility, landings by all large aircraft using Olmsted Airport vculd be under instrunent flight regulations which then vould not permit fifghts over the cite. the activii,les to be conducted under the provisional 13 construction permit vill be within the jurisdiction of the United States, and all of the directors and principal officers of the The Applicants are not Applicants are United States citizens. owned, controlled or dominated by an alien, a foreign corporation The activities to be conducted do not or a foreign government. involve any restricted data, but the Applicants have agreed to i safeguard any such data which might beccce involved in accordance with 10 CFR Part 30 33(J). Special nuclear material for use as fuel in the prcposed facility will be subject to Cot: mission regula-tions and vill be obtained frcn sources of supply such that there vill be no diversion of such material to unauthorized uses. Conclusions Upon consideration of the entire record in this proceeding 1 14. and the findings of fact and statements set forth above, the Board concludes that the application and the record of the proceeding con-tain sufficient information, and the review of the application by the Staff has been adequate to support the findings proposed to be made by the Director of Regulation, and the issuance of the provisional nrQ ,c. u g, f.. u T i
i K2 _.. m.., i ..v'. .j . l construction pemit as proposed by the Director of Regulation. Order Pursuant to the Act and the Co==ission's regulations, IT IS ORDERED that the Director of Regulation issue a provisional con-struction pemit to the Jersey Centrcl Power and Light Co=pany and the Metropolitan Edison Co=pany substantially in the for= set forth in Appendix "A" to the Notice of Hearing in this proceeding. IT IS PJRTHER CRDERED, in accordance with 10 CFR Sections 2 760, 2 762 and 2 764 of the Ccrsission's Rules of Practice, that this Initial Decision shall be effective ic=ediately and shall constitute the final action of the Co= mission forty-five days after the date of issuance, subject to the review thereof and further decision of the f Ccemission upon its own motion or upon exceptions filed pursuant to the cited rules, ATCMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD L$v ..UR MW Clarke Williams b i ( () l ' W. i. t s Abel Wolcan j' ...( [] s fj d* s M ' ~ ,/ Chaiman f D. Bond, October 31, 1969 Gemantown, Maryland , - o r r' 'Z
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.GA. 'I I 50-320 Ince 2 Mr. James V. Keely Samuel B. Russen, Isq. Jersey Central Pover and Lidat C% PJm2, Russell & Mecenar)y 260 Cherry Hill Road 30'4 Colcotal Tntst tuilding Parsippemy, rev Jersey 0705% F11'th and Penn Streets E** ding, Pennsylvania 19G01 Infomatice copies cent to: Valter D. Van Riper, Esq. 5trl Cewze Merkel Van Riper, Ecluont & Ville. teva 2(iddletevn Borcm6h Cm' amity 744 Iroad Street Iuilding Hewark, New Jersey 07102 60 V. D::nus Street Middletown, Pennsylvania 1M 57 Itr. John H. Eelsen, Superistatodent of Li.ghting Dr. Arthur A. Socolow City ef Feattle Departnect of A20 Imm Drive Lighting Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17109 1015 mird Avera SeatW, Vazhtm;' ton 96104 ' Er. Sturart Ditzen 'The Evening Eevu Dr. Charles Itfeven, Superintendent 612 Market of Schools Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17104 39 Vest vater street yf M1etown, Pe=nsylvanin 1W57 A I i i b h/ O nice or the Secretary ces ltr. Pa'A Mr. Pttrray Mr. Yore l H. Steele i 4 , c
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