ML20137X357

Forwards TMI-1 Status Rept for 851115-22

ML20137X357
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Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	11/22/1985
From:	Kane W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Murley T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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NUDOCS 8512100489
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Docket No. 50-289 MEMORANDUM FOR: Thomas E. Murley, Regional Administrator Region I THRU: Richard W. Starostecki, Director Division of Reactor Projects FROM: William F. Kane, Director TMI-1 Restart Staff

SUBJECT:

TMI-1 STATUS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 15-22, 1985 The enclosure is the seventh of a series of weekly status reports of the TMI-1 Restart Staff. These reports are intended to provide NRC management and the

.public with highlights from an NRC regulatory perspective of the TMI-1 restart activities for the previous week. Subsequent inspection reports will address .

most of these topics in more detail.

The enclosed report covers the period from 8:00 a.m., November 15 to 8:00 a.m., November 22, 1985. We will continue to issue weekly status reports for the duration of TMI-1 Restart Staff activities. An overview of the chronological status of the restart effort is shown on the figure which is attached to this report.

William F. Kane, Director ,

TMI-1 Restart Staff

Enclosure:

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_ a ENCLOSURE n TMI-1 STATUS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 15-22, 1985

-1. Plant Status Asof8:b0a.m.onNovember 22, 1985, TMI-l was at 48% power.

2. Test Proaram Status The licensee's planned test program and current status for restart of TMI-1 are shown on the attached Figure 1. As of 1:30 a.m. on November

'23, 1985, the licensee will complete the required 30 days of operation at the 48% power testing plateau. .Upon receipt of authorization from the Region I Administrator, the licensee plans to slowly increase power to the 75% testing plateau. Initial testing at the 75% power plateau will include a turbine runback to 60% of rated power and return to the 75%

plateau. As discussed in last week's status report, the licensee plans to remain at 75% power beyond the required 30 days to delay operation at 100% power .until late December 1985. This would defer the planned _ trip from 100% power and subsequent maintenance / management review until after the holiday season.

3. ' Facility Operations Summary Steady-state operation at 48% power continued throughout the period, except during an inadvertent power excursion to 53% as described below.

4. Items of Special Interest

[NRC Notifications As has been the case in prior periods, there were no events that required notification of NRC by the licensee. There are, however, several items of. interest and they are discussed below.

Inadvertent Power Excursion ,

On November 19,'1985, power was inadvertently raised from 48% to 53% of rated power as a result of an instrument and control technician accidentally raising the setting on the main turbine generator unit load demand module of the integrated control system (ICS). The technician was in the~ process of replacing a meter located directly above the ICS modulet and, in reaching over the control room console, his belt buckle caught on the module toggle switch causing power to increase. The shift supervisor immediately recognized that the plant was in a transient and

' directed that manual control be taken off the turbine generator. Power was returned to 48% of rated power within five minutes of the initiation of the transient.

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Emergency Drill and Exercise The licensee conducted an annual emergency exercise on November 20, 1985.

The TMI-1 Restart Staff, in conjunction with NRC TMI-2 Program Office personnel, provided the initial NRC response during the exercise with subsequent participation and assessment by NRC personnel from Region I.

A post-exercise critique was conducted by the licensee at the licensee's media center on November 21, 1985. The NRC concluded that the licensee's emergency response was considered adequate to protect the public health and safety but several open items were identified. The detailed findings of the exercise are expected to be issued in four to six weeks.

New Fuel Shipments On November 19, 1985, the licensee received the last of nine shipments of new fuel for use during future refuelings through 1988. This shipment included ten fuel assemblies which brought the total new fuel assemblies received to 103.

Meeting with Susquehannn 'talley Alliance On the evening of November 21, 1985, the Director, TMI-1 Restart Staff, met with about fifteen members of the Susquehanna Valley Alliance near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Following a discussion of the organization and functions of the staff, the Director responded to various questions from the group. SVA members expressed their general and specific concerns regarding the safety of nuclear power plants and their particular concerns regarding both TMI-1 and TMI-2. SVA plans to formalize a request for additional offsite monitoring by NRC. SVA members stated that information in past status reports was generally useful to them and they wanted to continue receiving these reports. They expressed disappointment regarding the time it takes to receive the reports.

5. THI-1 Restart Staff Status During the Period The THI-1 Restart Staff continued 16-hour shift coverage during the period. The shifts were manned by NRC personnel from Regions II and IV and by a reactor operator examiner from EG&G Idaho, Inc., an NRC contractor. A Region I project engineer, a reactor engineer, and a startup inspector were on site during portions of the period to augment the resident inspection staff.

The staff's inspection plan for this period covered the primary functional areas of operations, maintenance, surveillance, and restart testing with the division of responsibility as noted in previous status reports. The staff continued to evaluate the performance of licensee personnel and the plant to determine whether the licensee should be permitted to proceed beyond the next hold point, which will be reached after 30 days of operation at 48% power as discussed previously in Section 2.

Contact from the press and public was minimal throughout the period with the exception of the media coverage of the emergency exercise. We continued to maintain daily contact with representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania during this period.

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• 3 The TMI-1 Restart Staff issued one daily highlight report for the Executive Director.for Operations on November 20, 1985, regarding the inadvertent increase to 53% of rated power that occurred on November 19.

The sixth weekly status report for the period November 8-15, 1985, was issued on November 18, 1985.

6. TMI-1 Restart Staff Composition During Period The TMI-1 Restart Staff was comprised of the following personnel during the period:

W. F. Kane, TMI-1 Restart Director

'R. J. Conte, THI-1 Restart Manager D. R. Haverkamp, Technical Assistant F. I. Young, Resident Inspector, TMI-1 W. H. Baunack, Project Engineer R. J. Urban, Reactor Engineer N.-J. Blumberg, Startup Inspector W. D. Johnson, Shift Inspector, Region IV M. A. King, Shift Inspector, EG&G Idaho, Inc.

T. L. Morgan, Shift Inspector, EG&G Idaho, Inc.

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