ML19312D775
| ML19312D775 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | North Anna, 07002718  |
| Issue date: | 12/28/1979 |
| From: | Delaney J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| NUDOCS 8003250320 | |
| Download: ML19312D775 (2) | |
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DEc 2 8 1979 DOCKET NO.: 70-2718 APPLICANT:
Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCO)
FACILITY:
North Anna Power 5tation, Unit 2
SUBJECT:
LICENSE AMENOMENT APPLICATION DATED OCTOBER 16, 1979
Background
VEPC0 is authorized under NRC Materials License No. SNM-1801 to possess fuel and accessories for eventual use in the VEPC0 North Anna Power Station, Unit 2.
The subject October 16, 1979, application requests that the license expiration date be extended, and that existing license conditions requiring a center-to-center minimum spacing of 21 inches between stored fuel assem-blies be deleted to pemit VEPC0 to use high density storage racks which provide a center-to-center spacing of 14 inches.
General Delays associated with construction and licensing of the facility are such that an operating license will not be issued for the facility prior to the December 1,1979, scheduled expiration date of SNM-1801.
(The license is currently in effect under the timely renewal provision of 10 CFR 70.)
Radiation Safety and Environmental Considerations Extension of the license expiration date and approval of the storage of fuel assemblies in the spent fuel pool on 14-inch centers do not change any of the previously. approved radiological safety parameters, nor does it affect previous environmental considerations.
Nuclear Safety The storage of fuel assemblies in the spent fuel pool at a 14-inch center-to-center spacing has been approved for the North Anna Power Station, Unit 1 t,y Amendment No.14 to Facility Operating License NPF-4 issued August 17, 1979.
The spent fuel pool has been filled with water which will provide some measure _of shielding between assemblies.
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- Reconnendation
-I recommend that the license amendment be issued as requested by VEPCO.
f4 J. C. Delaney Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety Approved By W. T. Crow, Section Leader 4
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