ML20129F454
| ML20129F454 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Maine Yankee |
| Issue date: | 09/24/1996 |
| From: | Russell W NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| NUDOCS 9610010347 | |
| Download: ML20129F454 (3) | |
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E 7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMISSION MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC Polder COMPANY MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC P0lfER STATION DOCKET NO. 50-309 RECEIPT OF PETITION FOR DIRECTOR'S DECISION UNDER 10 CFR 6 2.206 Notice is hereby given that by Petition dated August 19, 1996, Patrick M. Sears (Petitioner) has requested that the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) take action with regard to the Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station and all users of the RELAP computer code for emergency core cooling systems analyses. The Petitioner requests that the NRC fine Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company and Yankee Atomic Electric company (YAEC) if records have not been kept in accordance with YAEC's computer code quality assurance procedures, and that the NRC inspect all users of RELAP and fine those users not operating within required computer code verification procedures.
As the basis for his request, the Petitioner states:
that the May 5, 1989, statement of Steve Nichols of Maine Yankee that RELAP5YA was " operable" and would be used for subsequent reloads was false; no computer code inspections were performed by the NRC before a 1992 inspection at YAEC by the Petitioner when he was an NRC employee and not again until 1995; the j
Petitioner was told not to do any more computer code inspections; RELAP is widely used; RELAP has been shown to have serious deficiencies; and the RELAP I
problem is not confined to the Maine Yankee Atomic Power Plant but is endemic to the industry as a whole.
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! The request is being treated pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the Commission's regulations. The request has been referred to the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. A copy of the Petition is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20555 and at the local public I
document room located at the Wiscasset Public Library, High Street, P. O. Box l
367, Wiscasset, Maine 04578.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24thday of September 1996.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMISSION Nr l
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Patrick"M. Sears Fairfield, PA FOt James Taylor FOR SIGNATURE OF :
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2.206 PETITION RE THERMOHYDRAULIC COMPUTER CODE, Taylor RELAP5YA Milhoan Thompson Blaha Russell, NRR HMiller, RI
)DATE: 08/28/96 Lieberman, OE i
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