ML19305A693
| ML19305A693 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Trojan File:Portland General Electric icon.png |
| Issue date: | 12/21/1979 |
| From: | Ostrander F OREGON, STATE OF |
| To: | Mark Miller Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8001170297 | |
| Download: ML19305A693 (4) | |
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTIG PoitnAND DM51oN 9 N' c,
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Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 In the Matter of Portland General Electric Company, et al.
(Trojan Nuclear Plant)
Docket No. 50-344 (Control Buildine)
Dear Chairnan Miller:
As required by the Board's November 30, 1979 order, this letter provides the State of Oregon's views to date on interin operation ~ 6f Troj an.
This letter is also intended to serve as Oregon's response to Intervenor's Decerber 8, 1979
" Motion to Reopen Phase I Evidentiary Hearings, etc."
and the applicant's request, treated by the Board as a no tion, th?t the November 30 order be rescinded.
In its Nover.ber 30, 1979 order, the Board at paragraph 5 requested that " All parties shall state and document their views as to how long interim operation of the Trojan facility should be permitted in the absence of the submission of
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fir = plans for control room modifications, adequate frem a safety standpoint to bring the facility into substantial compliance with the license. "
Oregon believes that the Board's December 21, 1978 Initial Decision which permitted interim operation of Trojan, for an indefinite time period subject to certain stringent condi-tions, has an adequate technical basis.
Given that technical de termination, the State of Oregon considers the need for rapid implementation of control building modifications to be based on economic and regional energy concerns and not public health and safety concerns.
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Deca-ker 21, 1979
_Mge 2 3ased upon a review of the documentation filed to date by the applicant and the NRC staff e, Oregon believes that resuming i *-=-in ciperation of Trojan pending completion of the control b-4'T Fing "Mifications per the December 21, 1978 order would not be ini-4 cal to the public health and safety subject to satisfactory completion of modifications of piping supports and resolution of the following two issues relating to block val.ls.
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For shear transfer capacity between wythes of block i
'_lls, FGE has assumed 18 psi, and claims this value is
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s:pported by test data.
Upon closer review, the NRC staff
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discovered the test data presented thur far involved walls with +k ee times the amount of reinforcing bar as the relevant Trojan walls, and therefore concluded this test data is invalid.
Thus a decision must be made as to the proper criteria and ass--- tions relating to shear transfer capacity ar i whether T ojan reets the criteria.
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There is also significant uncertainty regarding how much m:rtar can confidently be assumed to exist between wythes of blocks, as built, and what effect that assumption has upon shear transfer cabah:.lity.
?GE must make a justifiable assumption regerding the percentage of inter-wythe voids which exist, and demon-that it is acceptable from a safety standpoint.
s_ rate Oregon w-ill =ake ever.y effort to satisfy itself as
- those two questions prior to the December 28, 1979 hearing.
Very truly yours, f
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Frank W.
Ostrander, Jr.
Richard M.
Sandvik Assistant Attorney General di
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CZRT1?ICA'"E OF SERVICE I, o i r-5 ' - d M. Sandvik, hereby certify that on this 21st day of Deca-ker,1979 I served the within letter to the 2'-ic Safety and Licensing Board.upon the following parties cf record by then depositing in the United States Post Office at ? :-'l a d, Oregon, full, true, and correct copies thereof, f
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i addresses listed below, and prepaying the postage thereon:
E v = - e ', 2 ' ' E. Miller, Esq., Chair.
Mr. David 3. McCoy At==ic Safety and Licensing Board 348 Eussey Lane U.S. Nucla>- Regulatory Co=m'n Grants Pass, Oregon 97256 Wa.s'-i - g:cs, D. C. 20555 Ms. C. Gail Parson t.Ie eth A. McCollom, Dean 800 SW Grer, #6
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Di--ision of Engineering, Portland, OR 97206 A:ek4tecture & Technology 0%1ahm= State University Ronald W. Johnson, Esq.
5"# 1' sate:, Oklahoma 74 07 4 Corporate Attorney Portland General Electric t. Ecgh C. Parton' 121 SW Salmon Street 1229-41st Street Portland, OR 97204 Les Ala:cs, New Mexico 97544 William W. Kinsey Y.. John A. Eullberg 10^^. NE Holladay 2= te one, Box'250Q Portland, OR 97232 Sa
._e Island, Oregon 97231 Ms. Nina Bell Col--wia Environmental Council 632 SE 18th 203 S.
1st Street Portland, Oregon 97214 c'
ra b-m, Oregon 97051 Mr. Stephen M. Willinghan
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C =nsel for KRO Sta'f Portland, Oregon 97217 U.S. 5 clear Regulatory Co=m'n Was :- 4 gton, D. C. 20555 Mr. Eugene Posolie Coalition for Safe Power Ma---ice Areirad, Esq.
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SANDVIK Assistant Attorney General Of Attorneys for the State of Oregon
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