ML19224C674
| ML19224C674 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Farley  |
| Issue date: | 06/07/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Clayton F ALABAMA POWER CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7907060040 | |
| Download: ML19224C674 (2) | |
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/'pm Af G 'o UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION l'
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JUN 7 1979 In Reply Refer To:
RII:JP0 (e50-3485g364,y' Alabama Power Company Attn:
F. L. Clayton, Jr.
Executive Vice Fresident Post Office Box 2641 Birmingham, Alabama 35291 Centlemen:
This Information Notice is provided as an early notification of a possibly significant natter.
It is expected that recipients vill review the infor-mation for possible applicability to their facilities.
No specific action or response is requested at this time.
If further NRC evaluations so indicate, an IE Circular, Bulletin, or NRR Generic Letter will be issued to reco= mend or request' specific licensee actions.
If you have questions regarding the matter, please contact the Director of the appropriate NRC Regional Office.
Sincerely, Y
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( Ja=es P._O'Reilly Director
Enclosures:
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IE Information Notice No. 79-15 2.
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JUN 7 1979 Alabama Power Company cc w/ encl:
A. R. Barton Executive Vice President Post Office Box 2641 Birmingham, Alabama 35291 C. Biddinger, Jr.
Manager-Corporate Quality Assurance Post Office Box 2641 Birmingham, Alabama 35291 H. O. Thrash Manager-Nucl. err Generation Post Office box 2641 Birmingham, Alabama 35291 H. G. Hairst a, III v
Plant Manager Drawer 470 Ashford, Alabama 36312 R. E. Hollandr, Jr.
QA Supervisor Post Office Box U Ashford, Alabama 36312 9
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UNITED STATES hTCLEAR FIGULATORY C0?OilSS10N OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 June 7, 1979 IE Information Notice No. 79-15 EFICIENT PROCEDURES Sum =ary On June 2, 1979, at Arkansas Nuclear One - Unit 1, while observing conditions an NRC inspector discovered an operational deficiency in the control room, that could have resulted in the emergency feedwater system remaining isolated during subsequent power operation.
Description of Circumstances On June 2 while Arkansas Nuclear One - Unit I vac preparing for startup, an NRC inspector in the control room found that during a surveillance test of the main feedwater check valves, the controls of the e=ergency feed-water system were positioned so that the system could not automatically The NRC inspector found that the test procedure being respond if needed.
used by the licensed operators did not include, as it should have, instruc-tions either to bypass the emergency feedvater system or to return it to The plant operators, without approved procedures covering this normal.
aspect of the cest, bypassed the controls that would have started the feedvater syste= automatically. Lacking a procedural requirement to re-turn the syst?m to normal, there was no assurance that emergency feedwater vguld be provided automatically if needed.
Following the Three Mile Island accident, the NRC required that operators be trained to initiate pro =ptly the erargency feedwater system manually if it does not come on automatically. Thus, while no ic=ediate safety hazard existed at the Arkansas Unit 1 plant because of the improper action, the NRC staff is concerned about the potential safety hazard of leaving the emergency feedwater system in the bypassed condition, about the possibility the Arkansas plant may be deficient and about that other procecures at the fact that the operators deviated fro: procedures in perforcing the surveillance test.
to cold shutdown.
Arkansas Power and Light Cocpany has returned the plantfor a cold shutdown The June 2,1979, NRC Order confirmed the requirement until the Commission staff is satisfied with the utility's cethod of con-n g g f ureg A g,,,gey "acy of existing d
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