ML19247A273
| ML19247A273 | |
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| Site: | Crystal River  |
| Issue date: | 07/06/1979 |
| From: | Reid R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| FOIA-79-98 NUDOCS 7907300476 | |
| Download: ML19247A273 (2) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FLCRIDA POWER CORPORATION DOCKET NO. 50-302 NOTICE OF AUTHORIZATION TO RESUME OPERATION The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued an Order (the Order) on May 16,1979 (44 F.R. 29765, May 22,1979), to the Florida Power Corporation (FPC or licensee), holder of Facility Operating License No. DPR-72, for the Crystal River Unit No. 3 Nuclear Generating Plant (t he facility or Crystal River Unit 3), confirming that the licensee accom-plish a series of actions, both immediate and long-term, to increase the capability and reliability of the facility to respond to various transient events.
In addition, the Order confirmed that the licensee would maintain the plant in a shutdown condition until the following actions had been satisfactorily completed:
"(a) Upgrade the timeliness and reliability of delivery from the Emergency Feedwater System by carrying out actions as identified in Enclosure 1 of the licensee's letter of May 1,1979."
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Develop and implement operating procedures for initiating and controlling emergency feedwater independent of Integrated Control System control. "
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Implement a hard-wired cont cl-graje reactor trip that would be actuated on loss of main feedwater and/or turbine trip."
"(d)
Complete analyses for potential small breaks and develop and implement operating instructions to define operator action."
"(e) All licensed reactor operators and senior reactor operators will have completed the TMI-2 simulator training at B&W.*
By letter dated May 1,1979 and supplemented by five letters dated May 16', June 12', 15, 22, and'29, 1979, FPC'h'as documented the actions taken
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in response to the May 16 Order. Notice is'hereby given that the Director of 57G038 gg g
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The bases for the Director's conclusions are more fully set forth in a Safety Evaluation dated July 2, 1979.
Copies of (1) the licensee's letter dated May 1,1979 and five letters dated May 16, June 12,15, 22, and 29,1979, (2) the Director's letter dated July 5,
1979 and (3) the Safety Evaluation dated July 2,1979, are available for inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room at 1717 H Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C. 20555, and are t,eing placed in the Cornission's local public document room in the Crystal River public Library, 668 N. W. First Avenue, Crystal River, Florida 32629. A copy of items (2) and (3) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C. 20555, Attention: Director, Division of Operating Rcactors.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATCRY COMMISSION
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Robert W. Reid, Chief Operating Reactors Branch #4 Division of Operating Reactors Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 6th day of July 1979.
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