ML20028D984

Application to Amend CPPR-83 & CPPR-84,extending Time for Const Completion Until 780801 & 790801,respectively,due to Increased Delivery Time of Matls & Components

ML20028D984
Person / Time
Site:	McGuire, 05000000, Mcguire
Issue date:	07/01/1976
From:	Parker W DUKE POWER CO.
To:	Rusche B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Shared Package
ML20028D960	List: ML20028D966 ML20028D967 ML20028D971 ML20028D976 ML20028D978 ML20028D982 ML20028D984 ML20028D987
References
FOIA-82-556 6784, NUDOCS 8301200204
Download: ML20028D984 (3)

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Reference:

McGuire Nuclear Station /

Units 1 and 2  % j 1-Docket Nos. 50-369, 50-370 ..

Dear Mr. Rusche:

My letter of December 30, 1975 cpplied for an extension of time for comple-tion of McGuire Nuclear Station Units 1 and 2, which are under construction pursucnt to Constructica Permit Nc - CFPR-83 and -84. This letter is to .

provide additicnal inforc.r h n regardini: the causes of the delays in comple-tion, and to request a further e:dcasion of time for ccepletion of Units 1 and 2 until August 1, 1978 and August 1, 1979, respectively.

The following summarizes the reasons for delay:

1. On March 11, 1972, the Unit 1 Cc:mercial Operation date was delayed for four months because:

a) Excavation took longer than originally planned, delaying the start of cencrete work on the Reactor Building for four months.

b) The schedule for shi tecnt of the steam generators was delayed by four conths.

2. On August 17, 1973, Co=nercial Operation for Units 1 and 2 was delayed j by eight and six months respectively due primarily to late delivery of equipment as follows:

a) The Auxiliary Building cencrete was delayed at least three and a i half months due to late delivery of tanks, other equipment and engineering drawings.

b) The Unit 1 Reactor Building interior and exterior concrete was delayed at least eight vecks due to late release of drawings, late delivery of reinforcing steel, inclement weather, and the cceplexity of placing reinforcing steel.

c) The start of erection of the Containment Plate was delayed a month

in Unit 1 and two months in Unit 2 because of late delivery of material.

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. Mr. Benard C. Rusche Page 2 July 1, 1976 d) The Unit 2 Reactor Building Base Slab was cocpleted one month late due to a late start and due to proble=s with embedments.

e) The Unit 1 Turbine Building substructure concrete was delayed three months due to caisson work finishing late and due to late delivery of embedded condenser circulating water pipe.

f) The condenser circulating water discharge structures were delayed four and a half months because of inclement weather and late delivery of embedded condenser circulating water pipe.

g) The release of piping drawings to the field was behind schedule for the Reactor, Auxiliary, and Turbine Buildings.

h) Some valves deliveries were delayed as much as a year.

3. On August 20, 1974, the Company announced a fourteen and sixteen month delay in Commercial Operation of Units 1 and 2 respectively because of critical financial conditions and an expected slower rate of ' load growth The units were then rescheduled for operation in early 1978 and 1979, -

respectively. Full details regarding the impact of financial conditions and slower rate load growth were examined in 1974 in reopened hearings for the Catawba Nuclear Station (Dockets 50-413 and -414), and examined more recently in the ASLB hearings on Perkins and Cherokee Nuclear Stations (Dockets 50-488, -489, -490, -491, -492 and -493) . As a result of this rescheduling of McGuire and to reduce cash flow, the construction work-force on the site was reduced from 2211 in August 1974 to 1847 currently.

4 Based upon the rate of construction progress with the smaller work force and without scheduled overtime, we now expect to complete each unit four months later than expected at the time of my December 30, 1975 letter.

As required by Section 2.101 of the Commission's regulations, a copy of ,

j this request is being served on Mr. Glenn C. Blaisdell, County Manager of I Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, the county in which the facility is

! located.

I Resp tfully Submit td, w . ' lO-William O. Parker, Jr.

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Mr. Benard C. Rusche July 1, 1976 j Tage 3 -

WILLIAM 0. PARKER, JR., being duly s Orn, states that he is Vice President of Duke Power Company, that he is authorized _on the part of said Company to sign and file with the Nuclear Regulatory Com=ission this request for an extension of time for completion of MtCuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2; and that all statements and matters set forth therein are true and correct to the best of his knowledge.

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y Ar.afotant Secretary Subscribed and sworn to before ce this 1st day of July 1976.

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