ML20032E352
| ML20032E352 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Quad Cities  |
| Issue date: | 11/16/1981 |
| From: | Fitzgibbons R COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO., ISHAM, LINCOLN & BEALE |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8111200450 | |
| Download: ML20032E352 (6) | |
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Dear Administrative Judges:
This letter is to supply additional information which you requested at the special prehearing conference held in Rock Island, Illinois on October 14, 1981. At this conference, the Licensing Board asked, among other things, why Commonwea]th Edison Company and Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company (" Licensees") would like to obtain opera-ting license amendments authorizing installation of the proposed high density storage racks by early next summer.1/ Licensees are committed to performing reactor work during the Unit 1 refueling outage t.:heduled for September 1982, which will require the discharge cf the full core of Unit 1, comprised of 724 fuel bundles, into the spent fuel 1/ The Licensing Board also asked two technical que:tions concerning Licensees' operating license amendment application report. Licensees are currently compiling answers to these questions and anticipate submitting the information requested by November 30, 1981. %N 98 l 8111200450 811116 PDR ADOCK 05000254 O PDR
i, T The Quad Cities spent fuel pools currently contain I l 114 fuel racks, with twenty storage spaces each, for a tota pools. Following the currentill capacity of 2,280 storage spaces. Unit 2 refueling outage, a total of This will be stored in the Quad Citics spent fuel pools. leave 564 i 1982, 160 storage locat ons a outage scheduled for Septembershort of the number of storage loc the full core discharge. There is only one viable alternative available to i Commonwealth Edison Company, other than the ope ted in connection date the full core discharga anticipa/ This alternative is with the Fall 1982 refueling outage._2to install additio i rently utilized at Quad Cities Nuclear Station. 1 Licensees' operating licenses for the Quad Cities facility authorize storage of up to 2,920 spent fuel assem-i blies in up to 146 racks of the currently authorized Cus gn. 3 pent (Table 11.1 of the Licensing Report on High Density Accordingly, the Fuel Racks for Quad Cities Units 1 and 2.) full 160 additional storage spaces needed to accommodate the the core discharge could be provided by installing int l uthorized design. i f Eight such racks are on the Quad Cities d site, but six of these have not been previously used an f before will require some repair of welds and shipping damage Likewise, it might be feasible to ship to I t fuel pools a installation. . ad Cities for installation in the spenhich have been recently removed 2.4mber of the thirteen racks w l it 1 Deferral of the refueling outage scheduled for Un Refueling in September 1982 is not a viable option. 2/ outages are carefully coordinated and scheduled to the cost: of new fuel, the l account for fuel management, seasonal variation in the demand for electr l l ibution ment power, and the integrity of the electrical distr Refueling outages are scheduled well in advance l i of actual refueling in order to facilitate such plann ng. [ system. Deferral of the refueling outage for Unit 1 beyond l i September 1982 would be extremely difficult and expens v s' and would have adverse consequences throughout Licensee l generating systems.
5 3/ These racks, fuel transfer pool for l from the Dresden Unit 3 spent fuel poo.be inspected before Co h however, are now being stored in t eent that any of them are Dresden Unit 1 and would need to wealth Edison Company could repres d Cities. a suitable for installation at Qua i several factors make this an opt onval and in significantly less viable than approin order to accommodate t In any event, k the proposed high-density rac sSeptember 1982 refue tly authorized The installation of eight currene capability only for h duled for racks will provide full core discharg of the Unit 1 refueling outage sc el increase the The eight additional racks wil 724 fuel fuel pools spare storage capacity to the duration This the Fall 1982 outage.ecessary to accommo-Fall 1982. assemblies prior to the start of combined spent is the minimum spare storage capacity nblies will be loaded into During the re. date the full discharge of Unit l's co fuel This means that 224 of the 724 refueling outage 224 new fuel assem 1 reactor during theill remain in the p the Unit 1 reactor. assemblies unloaded from the Unit
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beginning of the refueling outage was spent fuel on mbined spare storage the spent fuel pools will have col assemblies immediately 24 storage loca-capacity for only 500 spent fueFall 1982 refueling outage, or 2 after the h tions shtrt of full core disc ar Unit 2 is sched-Moreover, a refueling outage for Due to the short duration betweend f uled for January, 1983. l d for Unit 2 in Januaryi ht additional the refueling outage schedule and the refueling outage schedu e1983, no storage d and replaced by lth Edison Company These thirteen racks were remove Commonwealth Edison high-density racks which Commonweahorization to install 3/ received authorization to install.t Dresden an Company has not yet received autonwealth Edison additional high-density racks a such authorization is received Canmy additional racks Company will be unable to remove an from the Dresden pools.
I referred to above could be installed until after completion The Unit 2 l of the January 1983 Unit 2 refueling outage. refueling outage.will result in 192 additional spent fuel assemblies being stored in the Quad Cities spent fuel pools. the combined spent fuel pools' spare storage capacity will be 416 storage locations short of full core discharge
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capability after completion of Unit 2's refueling outage in the Spring of 1983. In addition, the installation of eight current'_f authorized racks will not generate sufficient storage capacity to allow the new fuel, which is to be loaded into to the Unit 1 reactor during the Fall 1982 refueling outage, Instead, the be temporarily stored in the spent fuel pools.new fuel will have j By not having any is separata from the spent fuel pools. spare storage capacity in the spent fuel pools to receive the new fuel, the refueling outage will be extended byThis delay will b approximately two days.need to transfer the new fuel from the new fuel vault to spent fuel pools before installing the new fuel into there i for replace-outage in December 1982, is $275,000 to $300,000Thus the two day ment energy costs. approximately $550,000 to $600,000. Furthermore, the installation of eight currently authorized racks will cause increased occupational exposure and installation difficulties once the installation of the Increasing proposed high density storage racks is authorized. the use of currently authorized racks will increase theam within the spent fuel pools in order to install the new high This will increase occupational density storage racks. exposure to personnel conducting the reracking operation. since existing racks must be removed from the placement of additional currently authorized racks
- Moreover, spent fuel pools will also increase the complexity of theIn addit reracking operation.
currently licensed racks in the spent fuel pools willi.. c to be disposed of.
~ b k m. tably the af the difficulties noted above, nontain full core Some delay caused by h ing the Fall 1982 refueling outage and t e982 Unit I refueling inability to na having the new fuel for the Fall c..uld be avoided if twenty-8 outage stored in the fuel tault, currently authorized racks wereAs noted nine, rather than eight, ls. installed in the Quad Cities spent fuel poothere is no indic nty-nine currently authorized racks will be availa
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utage.- lation prior to the Fall 1982 Unit 1 refuel ng othan eight, racks Moreover, placement of twenty-nine, ratherdifficulties of will increase occupational exposure and theinstalli e racks to an even greater degree than noted above. oposed In conclusion, the ability to install the prbject of this high density spent fuel storage racks, the suit 1 refueling proceeding, before the September 1982 Un Such i sees. outage would be a definite advantage to L ceninst discharge i reduce the capability, increase generating reliabil ty,be disposed of, amount of contaminated material needing to ARA considera-reduce installation problems (including ALand save ad r tions), Respectfully submitted, - Robert Q) Fitaplhbons, {r. One of the Attorneys for Licensees RGF:emc ne racks are As noted on pages 2 and 3, only twenty-o have been currently available and not all of theseinspec for installa-4/ tion at Quad Cities. i l
b UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of ) ) Docket Nos. 50-254-SP COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY ) 50-265-SP (Quad Cities Station, Units ) (Spent Fuel Pool Modification) 1 and 2) ) CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that letter from counsel for the Commonwealth Edison Company, Robert G. Fitzgibbons, Jr., to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board regarding the need for the requested operating license amendmenr has been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class, postage prepaid, this seventeenth day of November, 1981: Atomic Safety and Licensing James L. Kelley Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Board Panel Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Washington, D.C. 20555 Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Docketing and Service U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Dr. Peter A. Morris Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Washington, D.C. 20555 Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Richard Goddard Commission Office of Executive Legal Washington, D.C. 20555 Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Dr. Richard F. Fester Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Washington, D.C. 20555 Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Robert Romic Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Quad Cities Alliance For Safe Energy and Survival (also) 628 Grant Street P.O. Box 4263 Sunriver, Oregon 97710 Bettendorf, Iova~ 62722 \\ Atomic Safety and Licensing Marilyn Bos Citizens For Safe Energy Board Panel P.O. Box 23 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Hillsdale, Illinois 61257 Commission l Washington, D.C. 20555 1 h h Robert % Fi+ M bons @. l ~~ ~ - - - _}}