ML20002C411
| ML20002C411 | |
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| Site: | Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 06/26/1972 |
| From: | Winter K AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8101100268 | |
| Download: ML20002C411 (3) | |
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PETOSKEY NEWS REVIEW 80- $6 PETOSKEY. MICHIGAN. 49770 AREA CODE 616 PHONE 347 2544 ALBERT SCHALLER PUBLISH [R JIM bOHERTY EblTOR
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Atomic Energy Commission Germantown, Maryland Sir:
I would appreciate your immediate attention to the article enclosed.
Could you ellaborate on the details of Big Rocks f ailure to pass your standard for its emergency core cooling system.
I would apprecinte any comments as to the accuracy of this story and copies of any orders you have given Corsumer Power of Michi,nn concerning their nuclear ronctor.
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avenue to shp mio it an> thug goes aronr " CL616 mam worry e the probrem of a6celerated oudzi t s, 47 throme steelin At;R boden Present gumn.g n tbt (EGB wdl be abic to get around thn by cutting re.
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Ir laat no vm neraa; AGR n operatmp and results from laboratory espenments are
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highly inconwsrent. m no one knowwet what u ell happen m a workinr, reactor A sw1tch to behu l
F aho eaw twe other poNems sauwd by use of carbon dioude coolant and a graphite moderator. graphite j
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I N-wereston and sarbs &,mtien on the molan' ureuit.
l The AGR proNems hase led to widesper.ed speculation m Leandon that Britain will budd no mo k.
them, at least untd or.c n working InJcc f. sti stimored by unoffical sources that m the secret report of b*
d fintaini Vmter wmnnitec set up to male wiemmendations on a futute Britah reactor polic), the preuurned water reattoe and U K Atomic i nergy inthenys steam pneratmg heavy wster reactor emenge ahead of
, d the AGR n the trimi rui.nen for use bs liniaat m the shmt term.1he high temperature gas <noled tractor, i
aho stuJied by the committee.n scen.n a longs term prospect.
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A l.30GMa B0llING h 4TER Ri ACTOR H AS liEEN CHOSEN FOR THE GEESTHACHT plant in Germa
.i m Nj m the project.llamburpsche Elecincitsetswerke (Hf W)and Nordwestdeutsche even though the utihty par'nct Kraftwerke, refuse to a knowkdr tha WW..i fch.8) Breda Termomeccaruca.nf %Ian,already has Kraf A
fb 57 mt!!!on merk I' mon's ordct f or a hbR weM.- (kenhaht.!nformed sources estimat: a price o a out g')
for the BOO ton e vmri til W nor,etl.:i n sticks to its purn,emphasirmg that it has not given Kraftwerk Unmn any letter of mtent and won't du w untd liLW has received its construction permit. KWU ma r-V.['
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AEC H AS REJECTED THE ELTS Of liK, ROCK POINT, the Consume rs Power first-gneration bothng water re-actor on lake %ehspn The utiht) has unt.1 July I to submit plans ',or improvements to the emergency core k
coohnF 9 sit m of the 'O 3 W t.cneral I-leetnc plant. AEC's prir.upal objection u that in evaluatmp
,,f of Ibg Rotk. Consumen used auumptmns that were not conservative enough to meet the requirement
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' \\ AFC rntenm cntena en HTS in a lettei to the uttht), ALC said "We find that the evalu A n not atceptsble under the mienm pohey statement be6ause several assumptw.is were used that are
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servarnc than the ones the ustenient provides. It appears that the current Big Rock LCCS design does not 4N rucet the mienm atceptar,a untena " Among the enter.a are the fuel clad temperature limit of 2,300 degree
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and the lilimit on metabwater reactions in the fuel. The utihty told AEC that these limits would be met in
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postulated coolant.h.op breaks oflarge and intermediate sue. But for smallsized breaks the hmits
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.wo k wdlwntmue on the small-break acci ent..." Consumers noted that it had consi d
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r able difficulty m modi ying the ALC-approved GL computer model to fit the B4g Rock plant. '*This = as due
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A Consumers official <ai.! the auumptions used in the LCCS evaluatiem were realistic, but AEC main-dgf '
tam, that although thn may be true the evaluation must be made on the more conservative assumptions con-y asmed in the interim cnteria "There is no imphc.ation that A1 C is going to close us down," said die utshty
' Y, y of ficial Consumenis now wvrkmg with GF o i necessary changes Improvements must be made by July 1974.
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An AEC staffer said th6 6 the nnly case of its kmd since usuance of ECCF " terim criteria last summer.
E.1 GENER AL ELECTRIC I! \\S INTEGR 41 ED 'ITS NUCLEAk M ARKEllNG SET UP, naming James R. Birle as fN general manager of a newly created nuJear energy marketing dept.,whkh draws togetner with E
energy div.11+ marketmg functmns from the atomic power equipment dept.. nuclear fuels dept.,and
,4 power Feneration sonirois dept,ihrle had been marketmg manager for APED.'the changt ref!c
',y says has become the unhty buying pa tein a smgle transxtion coverms reactor systems. initial core r
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.h, SAFE.END CRACK PRODLLMS IIAVE ARISFN AT Tile DODEW AARD REACTOR i reports mdicate simdar:ty to the minute mtergtanular cracking that was found in virinus U.S bothng w
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reactor sy stems a coupie of s em ago The 58 Ma Dodewaard unit was being started up after refueling w ater was norieed - weepmp, r.nher th.m any full fled ed leak - and an 8-mmlong hairhne crack was foun 3
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in a notele safe <nd. The Dutch <usri et that irnproper suspension of a pipe caused undue stres*. Official they espected to have sep. irs mad and the reactor back on ime by the end of this week.
1 CBI NUCLE AR CO ST ARTS 01 r Willi JtrSilCE DEPT. flLESSING of the 50-50 partnership on reactor ve y, '! '.Y betacen Chiago 11odge A Irm, and Genesal Electric but with a very empty manufpeturing plant in Memp
/s Tens 'Ihe partnership, stemmq trom prehmmary agreement last summes (NW,22 Juli '71,1), was not op-
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DATE REC'D LTR I S :0 RET OTEIR PROM: Petoskey News-Review Petoskey, Michigan Ken Winter 6-26-72 7-5-72 X
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ENCLOSURES:
Info on the Big Rocks Plant Failure To Pass Standard for its ECCS
& appreciate any conunents as to accura DISTRIBUTION PER FRANK LOGAN 7-5-72 of story & cps of orders AEC has given CPC of Mich. concerning their reactor I
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