ML19322C204
| ML19322C204 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 11/30/1978 |
| From: | Kuhns W GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP. |
| To: | Barbour G, Goode W, Jeffrey Jacobson NEW JERSEY, STATE OF, PENNSYLVANIA, COMMONWEALTH OF |
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| TASK-TF, TASK-TMR NUDOCS 8001160592 | |
| Download: ML19322C204 (2) | |
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9 CORPORATION November 30, 1978 The Hon. Joel R. Jacobson, Commissioner Department of Energy State of New Jersey 101 Commerce Street Newark, New Jersey 07102
-The Hon. George H.
Barbour, President Board of Public Utility Commissioners State of,New Jersey 101 Commerce Street Newark, New Jersey 07102 The Hon.
W. Wilson Goode, Chairman Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Post Office Box 3265 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Gentlemen:
Due to the extensive interest shown by the Commissions in the status of Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 2, particularly as to when the unit will be ready to be placed in commercial service, we are providing an updated status on the unit.
The unit is currently starting up from a maintenance period and we expect to achieve full rated generator output by next week.
Testing at _ the_100 per_ gent _powe.L. level,_,which culminates __in_a_ full load _gonarntor-Frip.,_is_s.cheduled to b3 comoleted_by December 12.
The unit should be ready to be declared commercial D owing return from__the full load generator trip.
We u 1 not know of any remaining items which are likely to require a scheduled outage prior to the first refueling.
As recently as November 21, we still expected to be within a couple of days of our scheduled November 30, 1978 in-service date'but further delay was encountered when equip-ment problems led to contamination of the fredwater system with turbine lubricating oil.
Although the amount of oil was very slight, extensive efforts were necessary to ensure
.t was removed from all systems which may have been contam-inated by the oil.
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l 2-The _ fun load generator trip will mark compl e_t_i.pp__pf a star _t-up and _ tesf_pIngxatw_hich has appfled to all unit structures, systems and components necessary to ggnduct comm_ercial operations.
It'was pfannsd~so~~as to fully exercise all of the plant equipment under carefully con-trolled and monitored conditions and thereby identify any deficiencies in design or construction.
The end objective of the test program has been to verify that the plant
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performs' in full conformance with all operating and licensing specifications.
The program consists of 170 individual tests, all of which required a specific, detailed procedure.
Approximately half of these tests relate to systems with nuclear safety implications and, consequently,-were subject to NRC regulatory requirements.
Within that group, NRC staff personnel reviewed both the procedures and the test results in many instances.
The NRC required the conduct of very extensive testing of the plant as a whole, and of its'individua1 systems, subject to rigid administrative and technical contrbls, and independent surveillance, review and audits.
These same controls also were utilized in conducting the portion of the test program not subject to NRC regulations.
To date, the unit has operated at 75 per cent power or F
greater for over 200 hours0.00231 days <br />0.0556 hours <br />3.306878e-4 weeks <br />7.61e-5 months <br /> and has produced almost 300,000 MWH's.
It will have produced about 500,0C0 MWH's upon completion of the test program.
We believe that completion of this program will prbvidi ssurance that the unit is capable of producing significant energy and is then ready to be placed in commercial service.
Sincere.ly, e
William G.
Kuhns Chairman WGK:mn ev cc:
The Hon. Robert K. Bloom The Hon. Louis J. Carter The Hon. Michael Johnson The Hon. Helen B.
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