ML20128H454

Discusses Completion of Detailed Review of Sfsp Safety Issues.Staff Concludes That Existing Structures,Sys & Components Related to Storage of Irradiated Fuel Provide Adequate Protection of Public Health & Safety

ML20128H454
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Site:	Millstone, Seabrook, Haddam Neck  File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png
Issue date:	10/01/1996
From:	Mckee P NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Feigenbaum T NORTHEAST UTILITIES SERVICE CO.
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TAC-M88094, NUDOCS 9610090354
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% y ,,, # October 1, 1996 Mr. Ted C. Feigenbaum Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Northeast Utilities Service Company c/o Mr. Terry Harpster Director - Nuclear Licensing Services P. O. Box 128 Waterford, Connecticut 06385 i l

SUBJECT:

RESOLUTION OF SPENT FUEL STORAGE P0OL SAFETY ISSUES: ISSUANCE OF '

l FINAL REPORT, HILLSTONE NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNITS 2 AND 3, SEABROOK STATION, AND HADDAM NECK PLANT (TAC N0. M88094) ,

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Dear Mr. Feigenbaum:

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff recently completed a detailed review of spent fuel storage pool safety issues. The results tf the staff's review are documented in a report to the Commission which is enclosed for your information. In the report, the staff concludes that existing structures, systems, and components related to the storage of irradiated fuel provide adequate protection of public health and safety.

1 Notwithstanding this finding, the staff has also identified certain design features that reduce the reliability of spent fuel pool decay heat removal, increase the potential for loss of spent fuel coolant inventory, or increase the potential for consequential loss of essential safety functions at an operating reactor. The staff intends to conduct plant-specific regulatory analyses to evaluate potential safety enhancement backfits pursuant to 10 CFR 50.109(a)(3) at a number of operating plants that possess one or more of these design features. .

Although Millstone 2 and 3, Seabrook, and Haddam Neck are not identified for a plant-specific safety enhancement backfit analysis by the staff, it is requested that you review the enclosed report for applicability to your facilities and consider actions, as appropriate, related to the design of spent fuel pool decay heat removal systems at your facilities. This letter does not require any response.

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Mr. Ted C. Teigenbaum October 1, 1996 If you have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me at 301-415-2040 or the project managers.

Sincerely, (Original Signed By)

Phillip F. McKee, Director Northeast Utilities Project Directorate Division of Reactor Projects - I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-336, 50-423, 50-443, '

and 50-213

Enclosure:

Memo to the Commission, from J. Taylor, " Resolution of Spent Fuel Storage Pool Action Plan Issues,"

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