ML20054B689
| ML20054B689 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
| Issue date: | 04/14/1982 |
| From: | Gilinsky V NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8204190065 | |
| Download: ML20054B689 (2) | |
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SUBJECT:
PALO VERDE VISIT (April 3-4, 1982)
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w Together with my technical assistant, Ed Abbott, I viNited '
the Palo Verde Plants on April 3 and 4, 1982.
On the first day, we met with Lou Vordenbrueggen, NRC Senior Resident Inspector for Construction; Gaston Fiorelli, NRC Senior Pesident Inspector for Operation; Ed Van Brunt, Arizona Public Service ("APS") Vice President for Nuclear Projects and Project Director; Don Fasnacht, APS Palo Verde Construction Manager; and John Roedel, APS Palo Verde Quality Assurance Manager.
We discussed the plant layout, the status of construction, quality assurance / control programs and the areas of the plant to be toured.
We then took a bus tour of the site, looking at the equipment laydown areas, the make-up pond, the water treatment plant and the main circulating water cooling towers.
We walked through the Unit 1 diesel generator building and the Unit 1 emergency switchgear, lower cable spreading, and control rooms and the Unit 1 containment building.
After this, we walked through fuel handling and auxiliary buildings, looking at the the high pressure injection pump room, the auxiliary feedwater pump room, the containment spray pump room, the residual heat removal heat exchanger, the chemical volume and control system primary gas stripper, and the charging pump room.
The tour concluded with a walk through the Unit 3 containment building.
On the second day of the visit, I flew to the Palo Verde site with Governor Babbitt, Keith Turley, President of Arizona Public Service, and Hal Lewis, a member of the NRC's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.
On the way, the pilot flew over the Ninety-first Street Sewage Treatment
- Plant, One of the contentions in the Palo Verde Operating License proceeding is whether the supply of water from this plant will be adequate for the needs of the Palo Verde plants.
Mr. Turley pointed out the location of the plant
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and the piping leading from the treatment plant to the Palo ])$D S
Verde site.
He commented that the treatment plant had been designed to supply enough water for five reactors.
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hearing this comment, I did not participate in the discussion of the treatment plant's capacity.
Carl Andognini, APS Vice President for Electric Operations, joined us at the site.
The tour covered most of the areas visited during the previous days's tour, and, in addition, Unit 2.
During the tour we met with W.
Stubblefield, the Bechtel construction superintendent, who explained the construction management methods used on this project.
We then visited the simulator and discussed operator training with the instructors.
We also toured the Technical Support Center and the Emergency Operations Facility.
We discussed how those centers would operate in the event of an accident.
At the end of the tour, I flew back to Phoenix in the same helicopter as Governor Babbitt, Dr. Lewis, and Mr. Turley.
As the helicopter in which we flew was owned by APS, I have asked Ed Abbott to obtain a bill for my part of the flight from APS.
I understand that APS will send a bill as soon as possible.
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