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Submits Info Re Pressure Operated Relief Valves.Addl in- Plant Tests Will Be Performed During Next Hot Functional Testing Scheduled for mid-Sept.Tests Will Involve Cycling Block Valve W/Associated Relief Valve Open
ML20009F917
Person / Time
Site: Summer South Carolina Electric & Gas Company icon.png
Issue date: 07/29/1981
From: Nichols T
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS CO.
To: Harold Denton
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
NUDOCS 8108030163
Download: ML20009F917 (2)


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Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Docket No. 50/395 TMI Item II.D.1 PORY Block Valves

Dear Mr. Denton:

At the request of Mr. William Kane, South Car 311na Electric and Gas Company provides the following information regarding the PORY block valves for the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station.

As discussed in our letter to Mr. Denton dated March 25, 1981, and in FSAR Section 5.5.13.4, PORY block valves similar to those located at Summer Station were to be tested at Duke Power's Marshall Steam Plant.

Westinghouse type 3GM88 valves, the exact model located at Virgil C.

Summer Nuclear Station, were tested at the Marshall Steam Plant. Initial test results were unacceptable as the valves failed to close during full flow conditions. As instructed by Westinghouse a design modification was made and subsequent testing proved successful. The modification involved changing the valve operation from torque to limit control.

As indicated in our response to NRC I&E Bulletin 81-02 dated July 7, 1981, the same modification was made to the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station valves.

Additional in plant tests will be parformed at Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station during our next hot functional testing scheduled to start in mid September. These tests will involve cycling the block nlve with the associated PORY open at normal operating conditions.

If you require additional information, please let us Enow.

Yours very truly, T. C. Nichols, Jr.

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