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11 LWR #3 File F. J. Williams Docket tio. STil 50-561 T. Cox M. Rushbrook HEHERANDUM FOR:
D. B. Vassa'llo Assistant Director for Light Water Reactors.
Division of Project ifanagement THRU:
- 0. D. Parr, Chief, Light Water Reactors Branch tio. 3 Division of Project fianagement i
FROM:
T. H. Cox, Project Manager, Light Water Reactors Branch tio. 3 l
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SUDJECT:
BSAR-205 OPEN ISSUE ON FUEL SURVEILLANCE l
As you directed at our meeting with D?.W representatives on 08/03/77, DPM will climinate the fuel surveillance issue (No. 5)-as an "open issue" on the DSAR-205 docket.
I recomend that we delete the last sentence in Section 4.2.1.4 Fuel Surveillance (of the July 8,1977 Report,
to the ACRS which will become the SER) and add the following new paragraph:
"We expect that, at the time of a staff decision on issuance of an operating license to an applicant referencing the BSAR-205 system, the first two full reactor cores of ?! ark C (17 a
- 17) fuel will have been examined in accordance wit.h our fuel surveillasce requirements for this new fuel type.
If the required fuel surveillance has not been conducted prior to an operating license decision, we will require each referencing s
applicant, as appropriate, to perform the fuel surveillance program, or portion thereof that remains to be conducted, by requiring such performance as a condition of an operating license."
i I also recommend that, if we reach the SER stage in the OL review of the Bellefonte and WPPSS 1-4 projects and still do not have the required
_ commitments, we simply plan to condition the UL ana state tnis intent in the SER.
Please indicate your approval /aisapproval on a copy of tnis memo and return to me.
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- t 4.2.1.4 Fuel Surveillance Performance of the fuel during operation will be indirectly monitored by reasurement of the activities of both the reactor and steam generator coolants for compliance with technical specification limits. For new fuel designs for which there is no op'arating experience, we require that a supplemental fuel surveillance program be conducted. The supplemental fuel surveillance program is directed at monitoring the behavior of the actual fuel systems as they perform in-reactor, thus demonstrating the adequacy of the conclusions reach'ed in the design evaluation.
3 Babcock & Wilcox has committed to perform, as a minimum, a surveillance program on the initial core loading of the 17x17 fuel.
We will require a fuel surveillance program for the first two plants to use Mark i fuel. The program will consist of a visual in'spection of all the peripheral re h a E
n the initial core fuel assemblies as they are discharged into the spent fori s' al.
The visual inspection will include observations for cladding defects, ficttie9. * < '
bowing, corrosion and deposition and geometric distortion. If any anrnalic n a detected during the visual examination, further investigation will be performed, including, under unusual circumstances, destructive examination of a fuel assembly or individual fuel rods as required.
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