ML20004D092
| ML20004D092 | |
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| Site: | Beaver Valley, Millstone, Calvert Cliffs, Davis Besse, Salem, Oconee, Palisades, Indian Point, Kewaunee, Saint Lucie, Point Beach, Sequoyah, Arkansas Nuclear, Prairie Island, Surry, North Anna, Turkey Point, Crystal River, Haddam Neck, Ginna, Farley, Robinson, San Onofre, Cook, Yankee Rowe, Maine Yankee, Rancho Seco, Zion, Fort Calhoun, McGuire, Trojan, Crane  |
| Issue date: | 05/29/1981 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20004D037 | List: |
| References | |
| DD-81-08, DD-81-8, NUDOCS 8106080354 | |
| Download: ML20004D092 (4) | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION HAROLD R. DENTON, DIRECTOR In the Matter of Petition to Suspend
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Water Reactors
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ISSUANCE OF DIRECTOR'_S DE_ CISION UNDER 10 CFR 2.206 On December 6,1979, notice was published in the Fe_deral Register (44 Fed. Reg. 70241) that by petition dated March 29, 1979, the Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power, State College, Pennsylvania, had requested that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Comission) suspend all operating licenses for pressurized water reactors.
The petition alleges that the safety evalua-tions performed for these licenses are invalid, because the incident which occurred on March 28, 1979, at Three Mile Island Unit 2, a pressurized water reactor, shows that the evaluations of the Emergency Ccre Cooling System (ECCS) for all pressurized water reactors cannot demonstrate the performance of the ECCS required by 10 CFR 50.46. The Comission's Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation has treated this request as a request for action under 10 CFR 2.206. Upon review of the information provided by the Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power, the Director has determinad that the request does not provide an adequate basis to suspend all operating licenses for pressurized water reactors. Accordingly, the request has been denied.
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l Copies of the Director's decision are available for inspection in the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.,
20555 and at each Local Public Document Room for all operating pressurized i
water reactors. A copy of this decision will also be filed with the Secretary for the Connission's review in 'accordance with 10 CFR 2.206(c) of
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the Commission's regulations.
I As provided in 10 CFR 2.206(c), the decision will constitute the final i
action of the Commission twenty-five (25) days after the date of issuance, unless the Commission, on its own motion, institutes a review of the decision within that time, t
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Harold R. Denton,131 rector Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 29th day of May,1981.
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D eaver Valley Unit 1 Docket No. 50-313
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docket No. 50-250 Calvert Cliffs Unit 1 Turkey Point Unit 3 Docket No. 50-318 Docket No. 50-251 Calvert Cliffs Unit 2 Turkey Point Unit 4 Docket No. 50-261 Docket No. 50-315 H. B. Robinson Unit 2 D. C. Cook Unit 1 Docket No. 50-295 Docket No. 50-316 Zion Unit 1 D. C. Cook Unit 2 Docket No. 50-304 Docket No. 50-309 Zion Unit 2 Maine Yankee Docket No. 50-213 Docket No. 50-239 Connecticut Yankee (Haddam Neck)
Three Mile Island Unit 1 Docket No. 50-3 DocketNo.50-320 Indian Point Unit 1 Three Mile Island Unit 2 Docket No. 50-247 Docket No. 50-336 Indian Pcint Unit 2 Millstone Unit 2 Docket No. 50-285 Docket No. 50-282 Indian Point Unit 3 Prairie Island Unit 1 Docket No. 50-255 Docket No. 50-306 Palisades Prairie Island Unit 2 Docket No. 50-269 Docket No. 50-285 Oconee Unit 1 Ft. Calhoun Docket No. 50-270 Docket No. 50-344 Oconee Unit 2 Trojan Decket No. 50-287 Docket No. 50-272 Oconee Unit 3 Salem Unit 1
in Docket No. 50-244 R. E. Ginna 1 Dock'et No. 50-312 Rancho Seco Docket No. 50-206 San Onofre Unit 1 Docket No. 50-346 Davis-Besse 1 Docket No. 50-338 North Anna 1 Docket No. 50-280 Surry Unit 1 Docket No. 50-281 Surry Unit 2 Docket No. 50-266 Point Beach Unit 1 Docket No. 50-301 Point Beach Unit 2 Docket No. 50-305 Kew:unee Docket No. 50-29 Yankee-Rowe Docket No. 50-339 North Anna 2 Docket No. 50-311 Salem.2 Docket No. 50-327
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l Before The Nucicar Regulatory Commission Emergency Petition
.O The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is hereby petitioned to immediately suspend the operating license for each Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) currently licensed to operate. This petition is brought before the Commission pursuant to 100FR 2.204,2.206, 50.54 and 50.100. This petition is brought because the safety evaluations performed for these licenses are not valid.
As required by 10CFR 50.46, each PUR shall be equipped with an Dnergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) which shall be designed so that its performance sha,11 be to respond to postulated accidents in such a way as to limit the fuel temperature as specified in 10CFR 50.46. This specification would not permit the fuel to melt. These postulated accidents include the double-ended rupture of the largest pipe in the reactor r viant system. All P!R power plants are licensed subject to this regulation. The procedures used to demonstrate this performance are not valid.
The Three Mile Island Unit II plant is licensed to operate subject to this reouirement. On 28 March 1979 an accident occured at this plant. The accident was initiated by an event less severe than the double-ended rupture of the largest pipe in the reactor coolant system. The consequence of this accident was that at least some of the fuel melted. This consequence is clearly in excess of the performance required under 10CFR 50.46. Thus, the analyses used to predict such performance are invalid. Thus, it has now been established'in fact by the evidence of 28 March 1979 at Three Mile Island Unit II, that the basis for granting these licenses was invalid, and they should be inmediately suspended, or revoked.
MM Wm. A. Lochstet, Secretary 119 E. Aaron Dr.
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