ML19352A074
| ML19352A074 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oyster Creek |
| Issue date: | 11/23/1977 |
| From: | Case E Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Finfrock I JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LIGHT CO. |
| References | |
| IEB-77-05, IEB-77-05A, IEB-77-5, NUDOCS 8103020786 | |
| Download: ML19352A074 (2) | |
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November 23, 1977 Docket No.50-21P Jersey Central Po'wer & Light Company
'ATTH: 11r. I. R. Finfrock, Jr.
Vice President - Generation Madison Avenue at Punch Bowl Road Morristown, New Jersey 07960 Gentlemen:
On or about flovember 8,1977, you should have received IE Bulletin No. 77-05 on Electrical Connector Assemblies from the Regional Office of the NRC O'ffice of Inspectior. and Enforcccent and a supplemenc to this Bulletin-15, 1977, (copies enclosed). This Bulletin requests on or about November that, within 30 days, you provide information on whether your Oyster Creek facility utilizes electrical connector assemblies within containment that could be subject to an accident environment and are required to be opera'le o
during an accident; and, if it does, to provide documentation of the environmental qualification testing performed for these connectors.
Due to the safety significance of this matter, the staff also conducted a telephone survey of all operating plants to obtain preliminary inforna-tion on which facilities utilize such connectors and the adequacy of Since then you have qualification testing of any such connectors.
determined that such connectors are used in your Oyster Creek facility.
23,1977, you At a meeting held with your representatives on November were unable to provide documentation of the environmental qualification You advised us that your plant uses connectors of these connectors.
manufactured by the Cannon Company and that qualification tests on similar connectors have been conducted.
From information we received during our survey about the test performance of these and other connectors at other facilities, satisfactory qualification of the connectors at your facil.'ty is likely.
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Jersey Central Power & Light Company Because of the safety importance of these connectors, you are hereby requested, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.54(f) of the Commission's regulations, to deliver to the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C.
20555, not later than December 1,1977, information which establishes the required environmental qualification.of the connectors used in your facility. This infornation should include all that requested by IE Bulletin No. 77-05 and Supplement 77-05A thereto.
If you are not able to provide complete documentation of the required i
qualification testing of all applicable connectors, you should, as indicated in the Bulletin, submit plans and programs for qualifying existing equipment or plans for replacing unqualified connectors with qualified equipment.
In this case, you must also include with your response a justification that continued operation of the facility, for whatever period it will take to environmentally qualify the connectors i~n accordancs with NRC regulations, would not' create undue risk to the health and safety of the public.
Please advise us if you have any questions relative to this matter.
Sincerely,
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