ML20059L704

Forwards Safety Evaluation Accepting Licensee Proposed Changes to Low Power Physics Testing Program for Plant

ML20059L704
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Site:	Fort Calhoun
Issue date:	11/10/1993
From:	Steven Bloom Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Tira Patterson OMAHA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT
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TAC-M87821, NUDOCS 9311170304
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j Docket No. 50-285 November.10, 1993 i i

Mr. Terry. L. Patterson Division Manager - Nuclear Operations +

Omaha Public Power District  :

Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.

Post Office Box 399 q Hwy. 75 - North of Fort Calhoun Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68023-0399  :!

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Dear Mr. Patterson:

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SUBJECT:

FORT CALHOUN LOW POWER PHYSICS TESTING PROGRAM (TAC N0. M87821)

By letter dated October 1,1993, Omaha Public Power District proposed changes to the Low Power Physics Testing Program for Fort Calhoun Station. These _$

proposed changes would eliminate the pseudo ejection symmetry checks and t replace them with a low power flux map prior to 30 percent power. The NRC staff has reviewed the proposed changes and find them acceptable. _

A copy of our Safety Evaluation is enclosed. I Sincerely, j ORIGINAL SIGNED BY:  ;

Steven. Bloom, Project Manager I Project Directorate IV-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III/IV/V i Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation l t

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Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.

Post Office Box 399 Hwy. 75 - North of Fort Calhoun Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68023-0399

SUBJECT:

FORT CALHOUN LOW POWER PHYSICS TESTING PROGRAM (TAC NO. M87821)

By letter dated October 1,1993, Omaha Public Power District proposed changes to the Low Power Physics Testing Program for Fort Calhoun Station. These proposed changes would eliminate the pseudo ejection symmetry checks and replace them with a low power flux map prior to 30 percent power. The NRC staff has reviewed the proposed changes and find them acceptable.

A copy of our Safety Evaluation is enclosed.

Sincerely, Steven Bloom, Project Manager Project Directorate IV-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III/IV/V Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Enclosure:

Safety Evaluation cc w/ enclosure:

See next page

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Mr.' Terry L. Patterson -

Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1  ;

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Mr. Michael F. McBride, Esq. -

LeBoeuf, Lamb, teiby & MacRae 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20009-5728 .

Mr. Jack Jensen, Chairman '

i Washington County Board of Supervisers  !

Blair, Nebraska 68008 Mr. Raymond P. Mullikin, Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission i i

Post Office Box 309 Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68023 1 Mr. Charles B. Brinkman, Manager '

Washington Nuclear Operations Combustion Engineering, Inc.

12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 330 i Rockville, MD 20852 Regional Administrator, Region IV U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission j

'611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 1000 Arlington, Texas 76011 y Harold Borchert, Director ,

Division of Radiological Health r Nebraska Department of Health 301 Centennial Mall, South j Post Office Box 95007 l Lincoln, Nebraska 68509 ,

Mr. James W. Chase, Manager ,

Fort Calhoun Station  ;

Post Office Box 399 Fort Ceihoun, Nebraska 68023 i

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