ML19262B068

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Forwards Licensee Response to ASLB 790914 Memorandum & Order & 791029 IE Bulletin 79-17,Revision 1.T Tramm,Tw Lukens,B Clarke & R Staehle Affidavits Address Technical Safety Problems Re Spent Fuel Storage.Certificate of Svc Encl
ML19262B068
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Site: Zion  File:ZionSolutions icon.png
Issue date: 11/16/1979
From: Steptoe P
ISHAM, LINCOLN & BEALE
To: Wolf J
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICl NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISFION BEFORE TIIE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICEl SING BOARD IN TIIE MATTER OF

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COMMONWEALTII EDISON COMPANY

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Docket Nos. 50-295

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50-304 (Zion Station Units 1 and 2)

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Proposed Amendments to

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Increase Spent Puel Storage

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Capacity (43 P.R.

30938)

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November 16, 1979

Dear Board Members:

Enclosed is Licensee's Response to the Board's Memorandum and Order of September 14, 1979.

It consists of five affidavits and Revision 1 to I.E.

Bulletin 79--17, issued on October 29, 1979.

The latter is unverified but I believe the Board can take administrative notice of its contents.

The affidavit of Tom Tramm identifies the type of stainless steel in the liner, the spent fuel assemblies, and the spent fuel pool cooling system, the conditions to which the stainless steel is exposed, and the possible consequences of failure of such stainless steel systems.

The affidavits of Thomas W.

Lukens and Robert Shannon report the results of inspection of the spent fuel pool cooling system and of an existing spent fuel rack undertaken in response to I.E.Bulletin 79-17 and this Board's order.

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November 16, 1979 Page 2 The affidavit of Bill Clarke gi es the results of the EPR sensitization tests which were performed on various specimens from Three Mile Island and on components of the new Zion boral racks currently being fabricated at Leckenby.

Also attached is an article by Mr. Clarke explaining the EPR test.

Finally, the affidavit of Roger Stachle addresses the subject of intergranular stress corrosion cracking and sets forth his reasons for believing that this does not present a safety problem for the Zion racks.

For additional assurance Dr. Stachle proposes that pool water chemistry be monitored weekly for chloride and fluoride, and that corrosion specimens be suspended in the pool and inspected on a regular basis.

I am authorized to state that Edison will make a commitment to follow these recommendations.

Edison would oppose incorporation of these recommendations as a condition or Technical Specification in its operating licenses for Zion Station.

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Commonwealth Edison Company ISilAM, LINCOLN & BEALE Suite 4200 One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60603 (312) 558-7500 1532 202

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of

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COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY

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Docket Nos. 50-295

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50-304 (Zion Station, Units 1 and 2) )

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Proposed Amendments to

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Increase Spent Fuel Storage

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Capacity (43 F.R.

30938)

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the Affidavits of Tom R.

Tramm, Thomas W.

Luxens, Robert Shannon, Willis Clarke and Roger Staehle, and I.

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Bulletin 79-17, Rev. 1 have been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class, postage prepaid, this 16th day of November, 1979:

John F. Wolf, Esq.

Richard Goddard 3409 Shepherd Street Steven Goldberg Chevy Chase, Maryland 20015 Myron Karman Of fice of the Executive Susan N.

Sekuler Legal Director Assistant Attorney General U.

S. Nuclear Regulatory Environmental Control Commission Division Washington, D.C.

20555 Office of the Attorney General Dr. Forrest J. Remick 188 West Randolph Street 305 East Hamilton Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60601 State College, Penn. 16801 Dr. Linda W.

Little Atomic Safety and Licensing 5000 Hermitage Drive Board Panel Raleigh, North Carolina 27612 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Docketing and Service U.

S. Nuclear Regulatory Atomic Safety and Licensing Commission Appeal Board Panel Washington, D. C.

20555 U.

S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rick Konter Washington, D.C.

20555 671 Piper Lane Lake Villa, Illinois 60046 Richard E. Webb, Ph.D.

2858 lllth Street Toledo, Ohio 43611 1532 203

Dr. John Weeks Dr. Joseph Muscara Brookhaven National Laborator'as Office of Nuclear Regulatory Associated Universities, Inc.

Research Upton, New York 11973 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop 1130-SS Washington, D.C.

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