ML19332E832

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Informs That Plans to Conduct Third Type a Integrated Containment Leakage Rate Test in 1991 Refueling Shutdown Remain Unchanged
ML19332E832
Person / Time
Site: Maine Yankee
Issue date: 12/04/1989
From: Whittier G
Maine Yankee
To:
NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
References
GDW-89-373, MN-89-147, NUDOCS 8912130041
Download: ML19332E832 (2)


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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Attention: -Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555

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. Type A Integrated Containment Leakage Rate Test Gentlemen:

1 Section 4.4.1.1 of the Technical Specifications to our operating license specifies that all Type. A integrated containment leakage rate tests "will be performed in accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR 50.54-(o) and 10 CFR 50 F

Appendix J."

Section III.D.I.(a) of 10 CFR Appendix J states, in part, that

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"a' set of:three Type A tests shall be performed, at approximately equal intervals'during 'each 10-year service period. The third test of each set shall be conducted when the plant is shutdown for the 10-year plant inservice inspections."

Our. third Type A test for the current 10-year service period has been scheduled to be performed during the 1991 refueling shutdown (about December of 1991);'the previous two: tests were performed.in August of 1985 and October of 1988.

The 1991 refueling shutdown was also to have been the shutdown for the 10-year plant inservice inspections.

However, because. of a commitment to inspect our reactor vessel thermal shield in 1990, we now plan to perform the.

required 10-year inservice inspection activities during the 1990 refueling shutdown.

We feel' it appropriate to maintain the sequencing of Type A '

. integrated containment leakage rate tests at every-second refueling shutdown,

.which results in three at approximately equal intervals during each 10-year

. service period. Therefore our plans for conducting the third Type A integrated

. containment leakage rate test during the 1991 refueling shutdown remain unchanged.

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Please' contact us should you have.any questions in, this matter..

Very truly yoprs,

).J. $ /t V h G. D. Whittier,' Manager Nuclear Engineering and Licensing.

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Mr. William T. Russell Mr. Eric-J. Leeds Mr. Cornelius F. Holden

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