ML20041C056
| ML20041C056 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Point Beach  |
| Issue date: | 02/11/1982 |
| From: | Colburn T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-OLA, NUDOCS 8202260104 | |
| Download: ML20041C056 (6) | |
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BOARD NOTIFICATION IN THE MATTER OF WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER. COMPANY, POINT BZACH NUCLEAR. PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2, DOCKET N05. 50-266-OLA AND 50-301-OLA.
I recommend that the following documents be provided in a board notification to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board in the subject hearing:
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Transcript of January 28, 1982 Commission briefing relating the events of the January 25, 1982 steam generator tube rupture at the R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant.
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Daily Highlights of February 3, 4, and 8,1982 re: January 25, 1982 steam generator tube rupture at R.E. Ginna plant.
The subject hearing is currently in progress to determine whether Wisconsin Electric Power Company should be allowed to conduct steam generator tube sleeving in lieu of plugging and removal from service for tubes degraded beyond the plugging limits set forth in the Point" Beach - Units 1 and 2 Technical Specifications. One of the contentions the intervenor, Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, intends to litigate is:
" Rupture of steam generator tubes in normal operation will release radiation to the environment from the secondary system, and, if the rupture is sufficiently severe, in amounts in excess of maximum permissible doses. See Regulatory Guide 1.21."
Although this contention was not admitted at an earber hearing involving a demonstration sleeving program for Point Beach Unit 1 (the ruling was that this contention was beyond the scope of the hearing).-the admissibility of this contention for the hearing on the full scale sleeving program for Point Beach Units 1 and 2 steam generators has not been decided. - Werefore it is possible that this issue may be litigated during an evidentiary hearing.
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Further. in its Memorandum and Order dated February 5,1982 (copy attached).
the ASLB chairman stated that the staff had informed the board that a formal notification would be forthcoming regarding the Ginna incident (this probably occurred as a result of informal conversations between OELD staff members and the board chairman).
For the above reasons and because the board has expressad a desire to be kept informed of all information, present and future, regarding the Ginna tube rupture incident. I feel a board notification is appropriate.
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Timothy G. Colburn, Project Manager Operating Reactors Branch #3 Division of Licensing
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BOARD NOTIFICATION IN THE MATTER OF WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, POINT BEACH NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2, DOCKET NOS. 50-266-OLA AND 50-301-0LA.
I recommend that the following documents be provided in a board notification to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board in the subject hearing:
1.
Transcript of January 28, 1982 Commission briefing relating the events of the January 25, 1982 steam generator tube rupture at the R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant.
2.
Daily High1.ights of February 3, 4, and 8,1982 re: January 25, 1982 steam generator tube rupture at R.E. Ginna plant.
The subject hearing is currently in progress to determine whether Wisconsin Ciectric Power Company should be a? lowed to conduct steam generator tube sleevi.ng in lieu of plugging and removal from service for tubes degraded beyond the pl.ugging limits set forth in the Point Beach, Units 1 and 2 Technical Specifications.
One of the contentions the intervenor. Wisconsin's Environmental Mcade, intends to Sitigate is:
" Rupture of steam generator tubes in normal operation will release radiation to.the environment from the
. secondary system, and, if the rupture is sufficiently severe, in amounts in excess of maximum permissible doses. See Regulatory Guice 1.21."
Although this contention was not admitted at an earlier hearing involving a demonstration sleeving program for Point Beach Unit 1 (the ruling was that this contention was beyond the scope of the hearing), the admissibility of this contention for the hearing on the full scale sleeving program for Point Beach Units 1 and 2 steam generators has not been decided. Therefore it is possible that this issue may be litigated during an evidentiary hearing.
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g Further, in its Memorandum and Order dated February 5,1982 (copy attached),
the ASLB chairman stated that the staff had informed the board that a formal notification would be forthcoming regarding the Ginna incident (this probably occurred as a result of informal conversations between OELD staff members and the board chairman).
For the above reasons and because the board has expressed a desire to be kept informed of all information, present and future, regarding the Ginna tube rupture incident, I feel a board notification is appropriate.
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Before Administrative Judges:
Peter B. Bloch, Chairman Jerry R. Kline Hugh C. Paxton WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY Docket Nos. 50-266-DLA 50-301-OLA (Point Beach Nu:: lear Plant,*. Units 1 and 2)
February 5, 1982 MEMORANDUM AND ORDER (Concerning an Extension of Time)
On February 1,1982, Wisconsin's Environmental Decade (Decade) filed a Motion for Cortinuance, and three days later it amended its own motion.
As part of its amended motion, it requested triat the deadline for filing discovery requests should be postponed until three days after the Board decides its motion for a continuance.
The purpose of this Memorandum and Order is to deal only with the aspect of the amended motion which requests an extension of time for filing discovery requests.
A decision on the remainder of the motion will await responses to the motion.
We have decided that the grounds for a continuance do act support indefinite post'ponement of the deadline for filing first round discovery requests.
To the extent that new information may be derived ' fro:a the rec.ent incident at the Ginna plant, that information could be used as a basis for
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possibility of deriving new information from Ginna or from Three Mile Island I, whose steam gene,rator has recently been found to be suffering from a corrosion problem (as Decade argues), is not sufficient ground for delaying the close of discovery.
To reduce possible inconvenience to Decade from its feelings of uncertainty about the need to file, it may file its first.ound,.
interrogatories by no later than February 10, 1982.
The parties also should know that the Comission's staff recently informed us that the Ginna incident did not involve a sleeved tube.
It also indicated that there would be. formal notification to the Board about the Ginna incident. This notice should permit the parties and the Board to determine the possible relevance of that incident.
It is therefore ORDERED Wisconsin's Environmental Decade is granted an extension of time until February 10, 1981, within which to file its first round discovery requests.
FOR THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD Peter B. Bloch, Chairmar ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE Bethesda, Maryland O
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