ML20092H201
| ML20092H201 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Wolf Creek  |
| Issue date: | 06/21/1984 |
| From: | Silberg J KANSAS GAS & ELECTRIC CO., SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE |
| To: | Anderson G, Paxton H, Wolfe S Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| REF-GTECI-A-46, REF-GTECI-SC, TASK-A-46, TASK-OR OL, NUDOCS 8406250380 | |
| Download: ML20092H201 (4) | |
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20555 Dr. George C. Anderson Department of Oceanography University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98185 Dr. Hugh.C. Paxton 1229 - 41st Street Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544 Re:
Kansas Gas and Electric Company, et al.
(Wolf Creek Generating Station, Unit No. 1)
Docket No. 50-482 OL Gentlemen:
Your letter of June 5, 1984 requested that the NRC Staff by June 14, 1984 provide an explanation of why it is acceptable to permit Wolf Creek to operate in light of the Staff's. statements in the Safety Evaluation Report concerning unresolved. safety issue (USI) A-46, " Seismic Qualification of Equipment in Operating Plants."
Your letter invited comments by other parties on the Staff's submittal by June 23, 19.84.
Applicants have reviewed the Staff's June 14 filing',
including the attached. affidavits of Tsun-Yung Chang and Arnold.J. H. Lee.
Applicants agree with the statements. set forth in those affidavits.
USI A-46 was designated by NRC in December 1980 in recognition that i
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[t]he margins of safety provided in existing nuclear power plant equipment to resist seismically induced loads and perform their intended safety functions may vary considerably, and may not meet current seismic qualification criteria.
Therefore, there is a recognized need to reassess,the seismic qualification.of equipment in operating plants to ensure its performance during and after a seismic event.
NUREG-1018, " Seismic Qualification of Equipment in Operating Plants:
Status Report-Unresolved Safety Issue A-46" (September 1983) (emphasis added).
As set forth in Mr. Lee's Affidavit, Wolf Creek is designed to meet the requirements of current seismic qualification criteria.
See also NUREG-0881, " Safety Evaluation Report related to the oparation of Wolf Creek Generating Station, Unit Mo. 1" (April 1982), at C-21 (" Wolf Cre k was designed using current seismic criteria."); SNUPPS e
Final Safety Analys!.s Report, Chapter-3 (setting forth seismic design criteria for Wolf Creek).
Thus, USI A-46 is inapplicable to Wolf Creek.
As was the case in at least one other Safety Evaluation Report, the reference to USI A-46 in the Wolf Creek SER "was an improvident use of boilerplate."
Louisiana Power & Light Co.
(Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3), LBP-82-100, 16 N.R.C.
1550, 1560 (1982).
What was said in Waterford equally applies here:
A-46 addressed whether safety equipment in plants designed against former criteria should be backfitted'to comply with current critaria.
Waterford 3, however, is being reviewed against and must meet current criteria, and thus A-46 is inapplicable as an unresolved generic issue in the instant case.
lb That USI A-46 is not yet finally resolved is therefore irrelevant to the licensing and operation cf Wolf Creek.
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SERVICE LIST Sheldon J. Wolfe Atomic Safety and Licensing CN trman Appeal Board Atomic Safety and Licensing U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Board Panel Washington, D.C.
20555 U,9. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wu hington, D.C.
20555 Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary Jr. George C. Anderson U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Department of Oceanography Washington, D.C.
20555 University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 Kent M. Ragsdale General Counsel Dr. Hugh C.
Paxton Missouri Public Service Commission 1229
.41st Street Post Office Box 360 Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102 Myron Karman, Esquire A. Scott Cauger, Esquire Deputy Assistant Chief Assistant General Counsel Hearing Counsel Missouri Public Service Commission Office of the Executive Post Office Box 360 Legal Director Jefferson City, Missouri 65102 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Eric A. Eisen, Esquire Birch, Horton, Bittner ti Monroe Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 1140 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20036 Washington, D.C.
20555 C. Edward Peterson. Esquire Alan S. Rosenthal, Esquire Assistant General Counsel Atomic Safety and Licensing Kansas Corporation Commission Appeal Board State Office Building - 4th Floor
' S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Topeka, Kansas 66612 dashington, D.C.
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Sorvico List Pcg3 Two Dr. John E. Buck Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Connaission Washington, D.C.
20555 Brian P. Cassidy, Esquire Federal Emergency Management Agency liegion I J. W. McCormack POCR Boston, Massachusetts 02109 John M. Simpson, Esquire 4350 Johnson Drive, suite 120 Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66205 Thomas S. Moore, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
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