ML19317E195
| ML19317E195 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Oconee  |
| Issue date: | 08/22/1978 |
| From: | Reid R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Check P Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7912170432 | |
| Download: ML19317E195 (2) | |
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spi:CIFICATIONS In response to your ecca.o dated f east 3,19M r:ents as found in the Technical Specifications of operating po. arf, reactors assigned to this branch, suhait startup lest reports follo. ing initial startup under the ide condittoas stated and within the tirca specified in Regulatory Gu i;hich cait the explanatory second, third and f h
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first paranraph of reg. Guida 1.16, Section 1.a. cntitled "Startup Ecport," all Technical Specifications use the wording of Peg. G 1.16.
At the prc ant time, there are no technial specification requirenen for subnission of physics startup test reports follcuing routine re He do, leiever, frequcally request the licensens to subm ings.
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Occ procedure uould be to require a report only 1;han LSe t.
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. Another,olution mald be for the licensee to propose acceptance criteria for the startup physics tests in his reload submittal.or as a separate reference docunent to be used for all reloads, and to cornit to sutnit a report only for those parameters where the criteria ut.c not ret. This would provide mecns for alerting the staff to e,pecific inar!equacies of physics calculational methods without requiring revicu of all data.
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for detectioq problens uith calculational rnthods, than reporting based en violatioq of FSAR assumed values, I believe the acceptance i
criteria cnproach could be pre.~erable (ho, ever, such an approach should be limited to those itms which are truly significant to reactor safety).
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