ML19259D322
| ML19259D322 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 10/04/1979 |
| From: | Vollmer R NRC - TMI-2 OPERATIONS/SUPPORT TASK FORCE |
| To: | Arnold R METROPOLITAN EDISON CO. |
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OCT 4 M79 Docket No. 50-289 Mr. R. C. Arnold, Senior Vice President "etropolitan Edison Company 260 Cherry Hill Road Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 0'ar Mr. Arnold:
REi MODIFIED TMI-2 REST /<RT REQUIREMENTS Section II of the Commission's Order of August 9,1979 on TMI-l identifies short-term and long-term actions recommended by the Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation to be accomplished to resolve concerns of the Commission and permit a finding of reasonable assurance that the facility can safely resume operation.
Since issuance of that Order, various of these recommendations have been nodified and some added, as discussed below.
Lessons Learned Task Force Report (NUREG-0578)
The Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards has completed its review of the Task Force report. The several public meetings of the ACRS subcommittee on TMI-2 and the public meeting of the full committee on August 9 pecvided an opportunity for the presentation and discussion of public comments on the report. The ACRS letter of August 13, 1979 to Chairman Hendrie states that the Committee agrees with the intent and substance of all the Task Force recommendations, except four upon which the Committee offered constructive comments to achieve the same objectives articulated by the Task Force. The Committee al so noted that effective implementation will require a more flexible, perhaps extended,. schedule than proposed by the Task Force. A copy of the ACRS letter is provided as Enclosure 1.
After considering all comments received, we have conc'luded that the following actions are appropriate for operating nuclear power plants.
(a) The staff will be prcposing a new rule on a Liniting Condition of Operation to ree,; ire plant shutdown for certain human or procedural errors, p6rticularly those which are repetitive in nature.
As such, no action is required on your part at this time.
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r fir. R. C. Arnold (b) At the present time we are delaying efforts recarding ;roposed rulemaking on both the inerting requirements for Mark I and II BWR containments, and the requirement regarding hydrogen reconbiner capability; accordingly, no action is required on your part at this time.
(c) The ACRS comments on the shift technical advisar have resulted in our reassessment of the possible means of achieving the two functions which the Task Force intended to prcvide by this requi r..nent.
The two functions are accident.ssessment and operating experience assessment by people orwite with engineer-ing competence and certain other characteristics. We have concluded that the shift technical advisor concept is the preferable short-term method of supplying these functions.
We have also concluded that some flexibility in implementation may yield the desired results if there is management innovation by individual licensees. We have prepared a statement of functional characteristics for the shift technical advisor that will be used by the staff in.he review of any alter-natives proposed by licensees.
A copy is provided as.
(d) Three additional instrumentation requirements for short-term actions were developed during the ACRS review of TUREG-0578.
These items relate to containment pressure, containment water level and containment hydrogen monitors designed to follow the course of an accident.
Descriptions of these ir.ers are provided in Enclosure 3.
(e) An additional requirement following issuance of NUREG-0578, which concerned a remotely operable high point vent for gas from the reactor coolant system, was developed.
A description of this requirement is provided in Enclosure 4.
(f) The Lessons Learned Task Force has compiled a set of errata and clarifying comments for-NUREG-0578.
It is provided as.
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s "r. R. C. Arnolld Other Review Areas outlines the requirements developed to date resulting from the staff's Emergency Preparedness Studies. provides the implementation schedules for the emergency preparedness requirements which, you will note, includes three of the Lessons Learned Topics.
We also require that you provide comnitnents to comply with each of the requirements of Enclosure 7 in accordance with the implementation schedules shown in Enclosure 8.
Further, the Commis' ion has initiated a rulenaking procedure, now scheduled for completic-in January 1980 in the area of Emergency Planning and Preparedness.
Additional require-ments are to be expected when rulemaking is comple;ed and some modifica-tions to the emergency preparedness requirements contained in this letter nay be necessary.
The items above were discussed further in the meeting on emergency prep" Jness held in Middletown during the week of September 25, 1979.
Enc'osure 9 outlines the staff recommendations concerning improvements in the area o'f operator training. These recommendations are undergoing Commission review, and are expected to be adopted as requirements in the near future.
Further Commission review in the areas of operator training and qualification can be expected to result in substantial additional requi rement s.
A number of other related actions on your facility have been underway for some tine under the direction of the NRR Bulletins and Orders Task Group.
You will receive additional guidance from this group, particularly related to auxiliary feedwater systems and small t'reak LOCAs, in the near future.
Your activities should continue in these ar =as, as all the mentioned activities are meant to complement one anocner.
The measures discussed above modify the set of requirements that should be implemented at this time. As stated earlier, other requirements may follow in the future. To assist in explaining in more detail each of these requirements, the NRC held regional meetings during the week of September 24, 1979.
Changes described at these meetings are not included in the scope of this letter, but should be assumed to modify further the recommendations cf *:UREG-0578.
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Mr. R. C. Arnold
- If you have any questions regarding these actions, please contact the flRC Project ?'anager for your facility 3 darley Silver.
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Richard H. Vollmer, Director TIil-2 Support
Enclosures:
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ACRS Ltr:
Carbon to Hendrie dtd 8/31/79 2.
Alternatives to Shift Technical Advisor 3.
Instrunentation to Monitor Containment Conditions 4.
Installation of Remotely Opera'ted High Point Vents in the Reactor Coolant System 5.
NUREG-0578 Errata 6.
Implementation Schedule 7.
Requirements for Inproving Energency Preparedness 8.
Emergency Preparedness Improve-ments - Implenentation Schedule 9.
Inprovements in Operator Training 4
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R. C. Arnold Mr. J. G. Herbein, Ms. Mary V. Southard, Vice President Nuclear Operations Chairperson Citizens for a Metropolitan Edison Compar.y Safe Envircnment P. O. Box 480 c/o Metropolitan Edison Company Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 260 Cherry Hill Road Parsippany,'!ew Jersey 07054 Mr. E. G. Wallace, Licensing Manager l'.etrcpolitan Edison Company Chaurcey R. Kepford, Esq.
260 Cherry Hill Road Chairman Parsippany, !!ew Jersey 07054 York Coriittee for a Safe Envir : ment Mr. G. P. Miller, 433 Or' ndo Drive Manager Support Services and Logistics State ollege, Pennsylvania 16801 Metropolitan Edison Company 260 Cherry Hill Road U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 Region III Office Attn:
EIS Coordinator Mr. J. L. Seelinger, Curtis Building Su;erintendent, Unit 1 6th and Walnut Streets 260 Cherry Hill Road Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 Farsippany, New Jersey 07054 Director, Office of Radiological
.. J. J. Colitz Health
- ..;ager Plant Engineering Department of Envircnmental 20 Cherry Hill Road Resources Farsippany, New Jersey 07054 P. O. Box 2063 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105
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Jersey Central Power and Light Company Mr. Weldon B. Arehart, Chairman Madison Avenue at Punch Eowl Road Board of Supervisors
'%rri ste.e, New Jersey 07960 Londonderry Township RFD #1, Geyers Church Road Mr. R. W. Conrad Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Pennsylvania Electric Company 1007 Broad Street Mr. Harry B. Reese, Jr., Chairman Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15907 Board of County Commissioners of Dauphin County Mr. George F. Trowbridge, Esq.
P. O. Box'1295 Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 1800 M Street, N.W.
'M 5ington, D. C. 20036 Mr. Gustave A. Linenberger Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission "stropolitan Edison Company Washington, D. C. 20555 M0 Cherry Hill Road sippany, New Jersey 07054 Dr. Ernest O. Salo Professor, Fisheries Research Institute, WM-10 Collece of Fisher'ies
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- Alan S. Rosenthal, Esq., Chairman A:cnic Safety and Licensing Appeal Ecard U. S. "uclear Regulatory Commission 1'as.hington, D. C. 20555 Dr. W. Reed Johnson, Member Attmic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U. S. "uclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Jerome S. Sharfman, Esq., Member Atcmic Safety and Licensing Appeal U. S uclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Dauphin County Office Emergency Preparedness
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U.S. Environmental. Protection Agency Crystal Mall #2 Arlington, Virginia 20460 Mr. Robert S. Borsum Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Division
' Suite 420, 7735 Old Georgetown Road Sethesda, Maryland 20014 Governor's Office of State Planning end Develcpment ctn:
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