ML20039A224
| ML20039A224 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Midland |
| Issue date: | 12/03/1981 |
| From: | Jackie Cook CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| RTR-NUREG-0700, RTR-NUREG-700 14913, NUDOCS 8112160385 | |
| Download: ML20039A224 (2) | |
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MIDLAND DOCKET NOS 50-329, 50-330 RESPONSE TO OPEN ITEMS OF PRELIMINARY SER DRAFT SECTION 18.0 FILE: 0961 SER,IAL: 14913 ENCLOSURE: RESPONSE TO OPEN ITEMS OF PRELIMINARY SER DRAFT SECTION 18.0 We have reviewed the preliminary draft section of the NRC Staff's Safety Evaluation Report 18.0, " Human Factors Consideration of the _ Control Room Lesign." Enclosed are our responses / comments to the open items.
The status report and prep, p2an to be submitted in January 1982 will address recent NRC gu n.ie ittued in NUREG-0700 (September 1981) and subsequent reports
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o ENCLOSURE HUMAN FACTORS CONSIDERATION OF THE CONTROL ROOM DESIGN DRAFT SER SECTION 18.0 OPEN ITEMS 1.
Open Item - The applicant's preliminary design assessment report of the Midland Unit 2 and common control room has not yet been submitted for NRC review. Submittal is scheduled for January 1982.
Response - As mentioned in the preliminary draf t SER, Consumers Power has an ongoing control room design review program which utilizes a full-scale mockup of Unit 2 and common control room panels. This effort is currently being expanded to take into account the guidelines of NUREG-0700 published in September 1981.
The CP Co report to be submitted in January 1982 will present the expanded program plan, including those items identified in Section 5.1 of NUREG-0700, as well as a description of progress to date in our ongoing control room design review effort.
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Open Item - The applicant's detailed design assessment report of the Midland Unit 2 and common control room will be needed at least six months prior to issuance of an operating license for Midland Unit 2 in order to complete our human factors review. The applicant's overall control room construction and checkout will be about 90% complete by October 1982 and we, therefore, anticipate receipt of this detailed report about that time.
Response - Overall control room construction and checkout will be approximately 90% complete by October 1982 and the Midland detailed design assessment report called for by NUREG-0700 will be submitted in January 1983.
This submittal date is consistent with the approximately one-year duration from program plan to final report submittal depicted in NUREG-0801 and with the NRC need date of six months prior to fuel load.
The overall plan and schedule details will be presented in our January 1982 submittal; however, the January 1983 date is reasonable based on the need to complete certain portions of the review requiring access to an essentially complete control room and time needed to finalize the report.
Emergency operating procedures are being developed in parallel with this effort via the B&W Abnormal Transient Operating Guidelines Program.
Available procedures have and will continue to be used and modified during procedure walkthroughs as part of various control room review phases.
This iterative effort is scheduled to culminate in the issuance of emergency operating procedures in January 1983. Final validation of these procedures in the control room will then occur and a report will be submitted in April 1983 which will address procedural validation.
Since procedure development and review has been and will continue to be an integral part of our overall program, there is high confidence that major revisions will not result from the final validation process in early 1983.
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