ML20085M613
| ML20085M613 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Kewaunee  |
| Issue date: | 11/11/1991 |
| From: | WISCONSIN PUBLIC SERVICE CORP. |
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| References | |
| RTR-NUREG-1437 AR, S, WM, NUDOCS 9111110217 | |
| Download: ML20085M613 (6) | |
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9]$R12.5 WASIC MANAGEMENT 00ES110NS A. Spent fuel Stor69e IA. KNPP has completcd /cracki>g their spent fuel pool with high density !
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- 18. N/A
- 10. Above ground dry storage is planned but not currently utilized.
- 10. KNPP currently utilitizes multi-rone core design to optimize burr..up of individual f uel elements.
1E. N/A .
- 2. KNPP will continue to optimize burn-up, r
3C. Above ground dry storage is planned starting in the late 1990's.
Conceptual design options and economic analyses are presently being evaluated.
- 30. KNPP is presently applying for appropriate license amendments to allow the use of higher enrichment cores. About 20% higher fuel burn-up is projected by 1997. This will allow extension of full core unload capa-bility f rom 1997 to 1999.
- 4. The above strategies will allow at-reactor storage through the 20 year license extension period.
- 5. The existing 930 acre site is adequate to provide for the above strate-gies.
6/7. Present plans call. f or an earth berm passive f acility for dry. cask storage, i
B. Low Level Waste Management .
the Midwest Compact, it is questionable whether off-site disposal will be available to KNPP until sometime after the mid-1990's.
- 2. KNPP presently plans to. construct an on-site LLW storage f acility f or
- DAW and HlC's. (See questions 5 through 8) 3/6. FNPP has always utilized a " total systems approach to LLRW management _ .
which results in an average annual LLRW generation of about 2500 cu.
ft. The approach could be described as:
- eliminate f uel f ailures
- maximize system integrity
' minimize number of workers
- clean it up and keep it clean l:
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9JSR12.6 5/8. The existing site is adequate to accomitiodate the new LLW storage building. The proposed new building will be a 100' x 100' non-seismic, concrete wall structure containing below-grade vaults f or tilC's with DAW storage above. Standard Review Plan section 11.4 and Generic Letter 81 33 are being utilized as design guides.
Steam generator replacement is being planned f or the late 1990's. On-site '.torage will be in a 50' x 80' shielded bunker. The LLW storage building will acconinodate the added waste load f rom steam generator changeout.
- 9. Major modifications with waste volume impact do not appear to be indi-cated f or license renewal.
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$0010 ECONOMIC QUESil0NS 1, The most recent year for which data is available is 1989. There were 303 permanent (i.e. staf f and ut111ty non-staf f) vorkers on-site. In addition, there is a contact security force of about 60 persons and about 12
" semi-permanent" contractor craftsmen.
- 2. For the first 8 years of operation,1974 through 1982. Kewaunce averaged about 495 total persons badged each year. Of this total, about 200 to 250 were permanent employees. 1he remainder were temporS y personnel brought in for primaiily plant outage work; however, the majority of these temporary personnel were from the local hiring area. From 1983 through 1989, per-manent work force has been stab'e at about 300 while temporary short-term workers increased f rom 440 in 1983 to a peak of 638 in 198p. The seven year average is 544 of which about 80% are from the local hiring area. This is about the same number of people that were on-site during the maximum construction period.
- 3. A typical planned outage involves about 500 additional workers in addition to the utility staff of about 300. The number was slightly higher in 1987, 1988, and 1989 due to an extensive preventative sleeving program for the steam generators.
Kewaunee did not schedule a "10 year 151 outage" at the end of the first 10 year interval (1984). The "10 year 151" outage activities were spread over three outages (1983,1984, and 1985,) which fulfills code requirements and lessens impact on personnel and capacity factor. The annual outages from 1976 through 1989 average about 50 days breaker-to-breaker with a minimum of 37 and a maximum of about 66 days in 1977 (threw a turbine blade) and 1979 i (prrisurizer relief valve and RC pump seal leakage-on restart). ,
Dose information is available but does not appear to be relevant to socioeco-nomic impact evaluations unless NUMARC is going to attempt to quantify local health impacts. 00se information is readily available to the public as NUREG 713.-
- 4. In the State of Wisconsin there is no local property tax assessment of any property used in utility operations. Th'erefore, the Kedaunee Nuclear power plant was not assessed any local property taxes in the years in question.
The State does assess an annual license fee for the utility which is in lieu of all property taxes on utility property. This license fee is based on the gross revenues of the utility for each year. As a result, no assessed value is-ever determined for the individual plants operated in the state. -The State then makes distributions to the local municipalities and counties which contain production. plant, substation property and general structures ,
of electric and gas utilities. The amount of this' distribution is based on the net book value of the plant, substation or structure located in each -
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9J5R12.3 j 50C10 ECONOMIC QUESTIONS (cont.) j I
jurisdiction. In response to the question the following amounts were paid by Wisconsin Public Scryice Corporation to the state and distributed by the state to the local taxing jurisdictions
- i 1980 1985 1989_ ,
State Assessment Paid $8,74 5,000 $7,522,000 $15.054,000 State Distributions to:
Town of Carlton 300,000 291,563 317,730 :
Kewaunee County 602,847 587,211 635,460 It should be pointed out that the Kewaunce Nuclear Power Plant is a jointly owned plant and the state assessment paid reported above represents only the i Wisconsin Public Service Corporation share (41%). The state distributions reported-represent the total amount received by the town and county for uti-lity tax distributions.
An allocation of the taxes paid on the basis of the electric production of i the joint owners of the Kewaunee Nucicar Plant estimates that approximately 15,600,000 was paid on the nuclear plant production for 1989. For 1985 approximately $3,000,000 was paid on the production of the nuclear plant.
The information is not available for a similar allocation to be made for 1980. These allocations represent the total paid by all three joint plant owners for the nuclear plant.
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9JSR12,4 AQUATIC RESOURCE QUESTIONS
- 1. The physical intake and discharge structures have not been modified since issuance of the Operating License. The admiralty condenser was retubed in 1985 with 439 Stainless steel which necessitated addition of a chlorination system in 1987.
- 2. NUMARC should recognize, up front, that violations of discharge permit con-ditions are not synonymous with known impact on environmental resources as implied by the wording of the question. KNPP has experienced exceedances of their environmental tech spec /WPDES discharge conditions over the course of plant life. These short term exceedances were primarily in the areas of suspended solids, discharges, or total iron and/or copper concentrations in boiler blowdown. The'.c exceedances have been resolved through changes in operating practice, additions of effluent filters, and in certain cases, modification of permit limits.
- 3. A brief chronology of-effluent permit changes follows:
1974 - Commercial Operation.
1976 - 316(a) Demonstration Report indicates no adverse thermal effects.
1979 - Wisconsin discharge permit _(WPDES) issued under the state admin-istration of NPDES. .
1980_- Added chlorine residual and fecal caliform limits to the WPDES permit.
1981 - Submitted a licensing amendment including justifications to delete Environmental Tech Specs (Appendix B tech specs) and transfer regulation of nonradiological effluents to the state (WPDES permit). The amendment was approved in 1982.
1982 - Priority pollutant analysis under RCRA showed indicated no problem areas.
1983 - WPDES permit renewed for 5 years based on no evidence of nega-tive environmental effects.
1987 - WPDES permit modified to allow chlorination i condenser.
- 4. No specific trends were identified.
- 5. Detailed impingement records (number, s'pecies, size) were obtained during the first several years of plant operation, This information formed part of
.the data base for our 316(b) exemption.
6/7.The effect on aquatic habitat was predicted in the Final Environmental Statement and-confirmed by later studies and actions by the State Department of Natural Resources. The shoreline fishery for anadromous species was enhanced. A portion of.the discharge structure had to be closed to recreational fishing due to fishing pressure.
- 8. No impacts on aquatic resources traceable to either KNPP or its neighbors have been identified.
- 9. 1he 316(a) and (b) Demonstration Ryorts are a multi-volume set but ~ can be supplied if needed. The reports led to a declaration of no environmental impact, a
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