ML20069E863
| ML20069E863 | |
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| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 08/31/1982 |
| From: | Jeffery Grant, Youngblood B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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EHCLOSURE ftyG 311932 SAFETY EVALUATION tlILLST0HE NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNIT 3 INTRODUCTION By letter dated August 3,1982, Northeast fluclear Energy Company (NNECO), the lead appItcant and operating agent of the Hillstone tiuclear Power Station, Unit 3 (Millstone-3), requested an amendment to its Construction Pemit, CPPR-113, to transfer ownership shares in Millstone-3 as follows:
Ownership Interest to be From To Transferred Chicopee ftunicipal Massachusetts Municipal 0.4800% (5.5 ttW)
Lighting Plant Wholesale Electric Co.
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Public Service Company IMEC 2.1726% (25.0 MW) of New Hampshire Vemont Electric Vemont Electric Gener-0.2000% (2.0 MW)
Cooperative, Inc.
ation and Transmission Cooperative Inc.
The HRC staff has completed its review of all safety-significant matters related to the issuance of the construction permit amendment as requested in the August 3, 1982 application. This Safety Evaluation is issued in support of Amendment No.10 to Construction Permit CPPR-113, approving the transfer of ownership shores in Hillstone-3 as stated above. Table I delineates the owners and their corresponding shares, assuming that all transactions as approved in this amendment and any prior to this anendment have taken place.
It should be noted that on Jure 30, 1982, The Hartford Electric Light Company (liELCO), formerly a lead participant in M111 stone-3, merged with and into its affiliate. Connecticut Light & Power Company (CL&P). On that date, CL&P succeeded to all of the rights and obligations with respect to HELCO's 18.200% ownership interest in the Unit.
Consequently, CL&P will own a 51.571% interest in Millstone Unit tio. 3 upon completion of all transactions approved in this and prior amendments.
Table 1. Ownership Interest in Hillstone-3
!!ILLST0HE-3 OUNERS t OWNERSHIP The Connecticut Light & Power Company 51.5710 Western Massachusetts Electric Company 9.1150 New England Power Company 12.2050 The United Illuminating Company 3.6850 Public Service Company of How Hampshire 0.6749 Central Vemont Public Service Corporation 1.7303 liontaup Electric Company 4.0090 O tc'^p 95
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% OWNERSHIP City of Burlington, Vernont Electric Light Department 0.3650 Chicopee Municipal Lighting Plant 0.8700 lussachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co.
9.9786 Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc.
0.0 Central Maine Power Company 2.5000 Village of Lyndonville Electric Department 0.0487 Vernont Electric Generation & Transnission Coop., Inc.
0.8000 Vermont Public Power Supply Authority 1.0430 Washington Electric Cooperative, Inc.
0.1390 Connecticut flunicipal Electric Energy Cooperative 1.0435 100.0000%
The purpose of the Safety Evaluation is to exaninc the impact of the proposed change in ownership shares as described above on the conclusions presented in Section 21.0 of the " Safety Evaluation of the flillstone Point Nuclear Power Station, Unit Ho. 3," (Construction Pernit Stage) issued March 13, 1974.
Soecifically, the evaluation addresses the resultant changes or lack of changes in the following:
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The design of the facility or requirenents for safety-related information, and 2.
The conclusions concerning the health and safety of the public.
EVALUATION We have reviewed NMECO's application for a construction permit anendment as identified above. Our review of safety-related natters and our conclusions concerning each iten are described in the following subsections of the evaluation report.
Desiqn of the Facility We have reviewed the application for amendment subnitted by the letter of August 3, 1982, and find no information which leads us to conclude that the requested amenonent to the construction permit will result in design changes to the facility.
We note that the letter states that the " transfers will in no way af fect the operation and control of the tiillstone Unit lio. 3 project by the lead participants,"
"will not endanger the health or safety of the public," and "does not involve any significant increase in the probability of an accident, any significant increase in the consequences of an accident, or any significant decrease in the safety margin."
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'*4 ggg 311982 On the basis of our review of 'the application for amendment and the above statements by NNECO, we conclude that the propo, sed transfer of ownership interests as stated will not result in safety-significant design changes to the facility. Further, we find that our conclusions in Section 21.0 of the Safety Evaluation Report (Construction Permit Stage) for H111 stone-3 will not be alter 6d by the issuance of the requested amendment to the construction permit.
Health and Safety of the Public Based on our conclusion that the proposed transfer of ownership interests will not resu'it in safety-significant design changes to the facility, we further conclude that there will be no impact on the health and safety of the public as the proposed. transfer does not involve any significant increase in the probability of M accident, any significant increase in the consequences of an decident, or any, significMt decrease in the safety nargin. Our conclusions in Section 21.0 of the filli, tone-3-Safety Evaluation Report (Construction Permit Stage) regarding the healtn and safety of the public witi remain unaltered.
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We have examined the fiapact on safet/ considerations of amending Construction i
Pernit CPPR-113 to perMt the transfer of ownership interests in Millstone-3.
We have concluded that the requested anendaent will not result in safety-significant design changes to the facility..
On the basis of the above conclusion, we find that the issuance of the requested amendment appmvihg the transfer of ownership interests to the electric utilities as previously stated sill not be inimical to the health and safety of the public, and that our conclusions in Section 21.0 of the M111 stone-3 Safety Evaluation Report (Construction Permit Stage) will remain ' unaltered. Further, we find that the-requested amendment does not involve i significant hazards consideration because this action will not involye any significant increase in the probability of an accident, any significant increase in the consequences of an accident, i
or any kignificant decrease in the safety margin.
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