ML19338E954
| ML19338E954 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Point Beach  |
| Issue date: | 09/30/1980 |
| From: | Burstein S WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO. |
| To: | Clark R, Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8010060355 | |
| Download: ML19338E954 (3) | |
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O WISCONSIN Electnc m cwa 231 W. MICHIGAN, P.O. BOX 2046. MllWAUKEE, WI 53201 September 30, 1980 Mr. Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION washington, D. C.
20555 Attention:
Mr.
R. L. Clark, Chief Operating Reactors Branch 3 Gentlemen:
DOCKET NOS. 50-266 AND 50-301 INTERIM MODIFICATION TO TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION CHANGE REQUEST NOS. 42 AND 58 POINT BEACH NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 Technical Specification 15.4.5.II.B.2 requires that the spray additive valve be tested monthly "with the pumps shut down and the refueling water storage tank outlet valves diosed".
Testing these valves in strict accordance with this Specification results in securing of the containment spray systems for the duration of the test during Plant operation.
Wisconsin Electric Power Company (Licensee) recognized this situation and, in the license amendment and Technical Specification change requests cubmitted to update the safety class component inservice intoection cnd testing programs mandated by 10 CFR Section 50.55e, we proposed deleting this Specification and testing these spray cdditive valves on a cold shutdown interval.
These license I
amendment requests were submitted on February 17, 1977, for Point Beach Unit 1 and on November 27, 1978, for Point Beach Unit 2.
To date, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not completed its review of either of these license amendment requests or the attendant proposed inservice and testing program descriptions.
Licensee has resumed testing of these valves on a monthly basis using a procedure which results in only securing the chemical addition portion of the containment spray system during the duration of the test rather than the entire containment spray We therefore request that, as an interim measure until system.
the proposed inservice inspection and testing program and attendant Technical Specification changes have been approved, Specification 15.4.5.II.B.2 be revised as proposed on the attached page to delete the procedural steps associated with this surveillance testing i
requirement.
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Mr. Harold R.
Denton September 30, 1980 In accordance with the Commission's regulations regarding license amendment applications, we enclose three signed originals cnd forty copies of this interim modification to previously cubmitted license amendment requests.
Please contact us if you have any questione regarding this request.
Very truly yours, s
/w Sol Burstein Executive Vice President Attachment Subsc-lbed and sworn to before me This 30th day of September, 1980.
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G Notary Public, State of Wisconsin My Commission expires 7'[-[
Copy to: NRC Resident Inspector Point Beach Nuclear Plant J
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e containment spray pumps shall be started and oper ;ed on recirculation fic*.i monthly.
2.
Acceptable levels of performance shall be that th? pumps start, reach their required developed head at miniflow, and operate for at least fifteen minutes on the miniflow line.
B.
Valves 1.
The refueling water storage tank outlet valves shall be tested in performing the pump tests.
2.
The spray additive valves shall be checked for operability monthly.
3.
The accumulator check valves will be checked. for operability during each refueling shutdown.
4.
The concentrated boric acid tank isolation valves to the safety injection system shall be tested monthly.
Basis The Safety Injection System and the Containment spray System are principal plant Safety Systems that are normally inoperative during reactor ope'ation. Complete r
systems tests cannot be performed when the reactor is operating because a safety injection signal causes containment isolation and a Containment Spray System test requires the system to be temporarily disabled. The method of assuring 15.4.5-3 T
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