ML20045C953
| ML20045C953 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png |
| Issue date: | 06/21/1993 |
| From: | Murley T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20044H043 | List: |
| References | |
| 2.206, NUDOCS 9306250149 | |
| Download: ML20045C953 (2) | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Docket No. 50-271 VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER CORPORATION Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station RECEIPT OF PETITION FOR DIRECTOR'S DECISION UNDER 10 CFR 2.206 Notice is hereby given that by letter dated April 8, 1993, to t
Thomas T. Martin, Regional Administrator, Region I, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), as supplemented by letter dated April 11, 1993, to Ivan Selin, Chairman of the NRC, from Michael J. Daley on behalf of the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, the NRC has received a Petition under 10 CFR 2.206 regarding the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station. The Petitioner requested the NRC to take immediate action to require that the reactor remain in cold shutdown until plant management can provide proof that the emergency diesel generators (EDG) at the plant are able to meet their safety function.
Petitioner seeks relief based on assertions that (1) diesel generator "A" was damaged by overload conditions suffered during testing in August through October of 1990; (2) the "B" unit also suffered under the same testing regime; (3) one of the causes of the repeated failures of the "A" unit in the summer t
of 1992 was the damage from this testing; (4) the overloading resulted from inappropriate actions taken in response to an NRC-identified violation indicating that the EDG had for 20 years not been tested at loads consistent with the maximum expected accident load; and (5) the foregoing raises a number of questions that must be answered immediately if Vermont Yankee is going to-be allowed to depend on these machines to fulfill the regulatory requirements for adequate onsite emergency backup power systems.
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Petitioner's request'for immediate action was denied by the Regional l
Administrator for Region"I in a letter dated April 13, 1993. The bases for the denial of Petitioner's request for immediate action are ' set forth with more specificity in a letter. dated June 21,1993, which acknowledges receipt of the Petition.
J Petitioner's request is being. treated pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the Commission's regulations.
The NRC will take appropriate action on this j
request within a reasonable-time.
I A copy of the Petition is available for inspection and copying in the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC 20555 and in the Local Public Document Room, Brooks Memor,ial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION j
As Thomas E. Murley, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of June 1993.
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