ML20140G747

FOIA Request for Documents Re C-E Auxiliary Pressurizer Spray Sys at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station & Other Plants & ACRS Meetings on Subj

ML20140G747
Person / Time
Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	01/16/1986
From:	Michael Scott COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY EDUCATION
To:	NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
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FOIA-86-45 NUDOCS 8604030533
Download: ML20140G747 (4)

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• TEMPE, AZ 85282 * (602) 968-2179 January 16, 1986 Director Office of Administration FRtEm g gOHMATION U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission %m r REQUEST Washington, D.C. 20555 kO M -/[a-(p/f FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST

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Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 522, as amended, the Coalition for Responsible Energy Education (CREE) hereby requests the following documents pertaining to the Combustion Engineering Auxiliary Pressurizer Spray System (APSS) at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS) and other plants, and to specified meetings of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS),

which addressed matters related to the PVNGS APSS, as well as those addressing recommended Systems Interaction Studies at PVNGS.

Please consider " documents" to include reports, studies, test results, correspondence, memoranda, meeting notes, meeting minutes, working papers, graphs, charts, diagrams, notes and summaries of conversations and interviews, computer records, or any other forms of written communication, including internal NRC Staff memoranda. The documents are specifically requested from, but not limited to, the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR); the Division of Licensing; the Office of the Executive Legal Director (OELD); and the Division of Recator Safety and Projects.

Pursuant to this request, please provide all documents prepared or utilized by, in the possession of, or routed through the NRC related to:

1. The November and December 1985, meetings of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), and any subsequent meetings, delaing with PVNGS Unit 1/ Arizona Nuclear Power Project (ANPP) performance and/or PVNGS-2 licensing ~ issues;

2. Any and all ACRS or other discussion of or references to the advisability of conducting, at PVNGS, a Systems Interaction and Reliability Study or similar studies, preoperationally or otherwise, as referenced in the attached newspaper report (" Attachment A");

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3. Any and all discussion of APSS difficulties related'to the September 12, 1985, event at PVNGS, as well as other plants utilizing the same system.

These requests, where appropriate, should be deemed to be continuing  !

in nature.

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In our opinion, it is appropriate in this case for you to waive copying and search changes, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552 (a)(4)(A)

"because furnishing the information can be considered as primarily benefiting the general public." CREE is a non-profit, volunteer-supported organization providing information to the general public and intervening in rate cases and other proceedings involving PVNGS which affect the general public.

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em A-plant WASHINGTON - A govern- C "'". #'8"' M ment panel decided Saturday to . .

recommend that the Nuclear Regu- In response to the problems w.th i the same electr.ical circuit. If tha latory Commission grant interim .t he spray system, Palo Verde offi- circu,it fails, they say the operato, approval to what it called a " patch- e als said they would visually m- has time to go and close the valves. '

work" safety system at the:Palo ~ spect water levels daily instead of Verde Nuclear Generating Stati6n,~. The 15 members of the panel ar weekly. In addition, operators will "We suggest that they carryant'a .

appointed by the NRC to four, yea

' . be able to control the valves on the terms. The committee's function i systems-interaction end reliability

. secondary tank without leaving the study," said Jesse Ebersole, chair- to pr

.-c ntrol room.

man of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's advisory committee Charles Wylie, a committee. cal expertise;techm, to the NRC. ov member, said resignedly, "Now i The panel's decisions are non on reactor safeguards. ~ ' f. they tell us the two valves are on ! binding but generally followed.

"If they had done that (in 1981); '

the problems may have been-dis-covered," he said, referring to faults , - ARIZONA REPUBLIC, Nov. 10' 1985 that led.to redesigmng a pressur-ized auxiliary-spray system, which would be used only in a major.

emergency. -

The panel urged the study in

,1981, but it was not done. . . : .-

b The fullcommittee met Saturday to discuss exactly what its letter.to the NRC should contairr."The committee decided to delay.. il)e issue and will discuss it at the next regular meeting in December. 9 :: .

Greg Cook, an NRC spokesinair, said last. week that a "tremendodsli negative" report from the advisorf committee, which is made up. of .

technical experts, can influence the NRC regarding a commercial'li-cense for Unit 1.

Faults in the auxiliary-spray' system, which is used to help cool

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