ML20154C233
| ML20154C233 | |
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| Site: | Wolf Creek  |
| Issue date: | 08/29/1988 |
| From: | Calvo J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8809140284 | |
| Download: ML20154C233 (7) | |
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4 7590-01 UNITED STATES REGULATORY COMMISSION KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY KANSAS ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE, INC.
DOCKET NO. 50-482 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACIQTYOPERATINGLICENSEANDPROPOSEDNOSIGNIFICANTHAZARDS CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) is considering issuance of ti amendirent to Facility Operating License No. NPF-42, issued to Kansas Gas and Electric Company, Kansas City Power & Light Company and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., (the licensees), for operation of the Wolf Creek Generating Station Unit No.1, located in Coffey County, Kansas.
The proposed amendr'ent would modify Technical Specification 5.3.1, Fuel Assemblies, to allow the replacement of a limited number of fuel rods with filler rods or vacancies if such replacement is acceptable based on the results of a cycle-specific reload analysis.
Before issuance of the proposed ifcense amendment, the Comission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Comission's regulations.
The Comission has made a proposed detennination that the request for amendment involves no significant hazards consideration. Undet the Comission's regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this meant that operation of the facility in accordancewiththeproposedamendmentwouldnot(1)involveasignificant increase in the probability ). consequences of an accident previously evaluated, jDRSO91402s4 esos29 p
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In accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR 50.92, the licensee has submitted the following no significant hazards detemination:
1)
This proposed amendment does not involve a significant increase in the prcbability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated. This license amendrent request will allow the utili:ation of filler rods or vacancies in the fuel assemblies at k'olf Creek Generating Station. These fuel assemblies will meet the same mechanical, nuclear and therral hydraulic limits as the other fuel assemblies. A cycle-specific relcad analysis will confirm that the use of a fuel assembly with filler rods or vacancies in a core design aces not result in an existing design limit being exceeded. Therefore, this license amendment request does not involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated.
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This proposed amendaent does not create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated. A fuel assembly with filler rods or vacancies satisfies the same design i
criteria as other fuel assemblies and since only a single fuel assembly will be moved at a time during during fuel reconstitution activities, thr; consequences of an accident are bounded by the presently postulated l
fuel handling accident. Therefore, this license amendment request does not create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated.
3)
This proposed amendment does not involve a significant reduction in a margin to safety. The use of a fuel assembly with filler rods or vacancies will not result in any existing design limit being exceeded.
These reconstituted fuel assemblies meet essentially the same design requirements, satisfy the same design criteria as the other fuel assemblies and the use of reconstituted assemblies will not result in a change to existing safety criteria or design limitt,. Therefore, this change does not reduce the margin of safety.
Based on the previous discussion, the licensee concluded that the proposed amendment request does not involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated; nor create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated; nor involve a significant reduction in the required margin of safety. The NRC staff has reviewed the licensee's no significant hazards consideration determination and agrees with the licensee's analysis.
The Comission is seeking public coments on this proposed determination.
Any coments received within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered in making any final determination. The Comission will not norina11y make a final deterinination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
Coments should be addressed to the Rules and Procedures Branch, Division of Rules and Records, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C.
20555, and should cite the publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice.
By October 11, 1988
. the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the anendment to the subject facility operating license, and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding and
4 who wishes to participate as a party in the proceeding must file a written petition for leave to intervene. Request for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene must be filed in accordance with the Comission's "Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2.
If a request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the Comission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel will rule on the request and/or petition, and the Secretary or the designated Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will issue a notice of hearing or an appropriate order.
As required by 10 CFR 2.714, a petition for leave to intervene rust set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and how that interest ray be affected by the results of the proceeding. The petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be permitted with particular reference to the following factors:
(1) the nature of the petitioner's right under the Act to be made a party to the proceeding; (2) the nature and extent of the petitioner's property, financial, or other interest in the proceeding; and (3) the possible effect of any order which may be entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest. The petition should also identify the specific aspect (s) of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which the petittorer wishes to intervene. Any person who has filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has been admitted as a party mayamendthepetitionwithoutrequestingleaveoftheBoarduptofifteen(15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirerents described above.
Notlaterthanfifteen(15)dayspriortothefirstprehearingconference scheduled in the proceeding, the petitioner shall file a supplement to the
petition to intervene which must include a list of the contentions which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set forth with reasonable specificity. Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration. A petitioner who fails to file such a supplement which satisfies these requiretrents with resp 6ct to at least one contention will not be permitted to participate as a party.
Those permitted to intervene become parties to the proceeding, subject to any limitations in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the opportunity to narticipate fully in the conduct of the hearing includihg the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses.
If a hearing is requested, the Comission will make a final determination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration. The final determination will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
If the final determinatien is that the request for anendnent involves no significant hazards consideration, the Comission may issue the anendment and make it effective, notwithstanding the request for a hearing. Any hearing held would take place after issuance of the amendment.
Normally, the Comission will not issue the amendment until the expiration of the 30-day notice period. However, should circumstances change i
during the notice such that failure to act in a timely way would result, for example, in derating or shutdown of the facility, the Comission may issue the license amendment before the expiration of the 30-day notice period, provided that its final determination is that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration. The final determination will consider all public and state corvrents received. Should the Comission take this action, it will
publish a notice of issuance and provide for opportunity for a hearing after issuance. The Comission expects that the need to take this action will occur very infrequently.
A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Comission. U.S. Nuclest Regulatory Comission Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Corrnission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington D.C., by the above date. Where petitions are filed during the last ten (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that the petitioner promptly so inform the Comission by a toll-free telephone call to WesternUnionat(800)325-6000(inMissouri(800)342-6700). The Western Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following ressage addressed to Jose A. Calvo: petitioner's name and telephone nunher; date petition was mailed; plant name; and publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice. A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Cffice of the General Counsel-Rockville, U.S. Nuclear Regulatcry Comission, Washington, D.C.
20555, and to Jay Silberg, Esq., Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, 2300 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20037, attorney for the licensee.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will not be entertained absent a determination by the Comission, the presiding officer or the presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, that the request should be granted based upon a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714 (a)(1)(1)-(v)and2.714(d).
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..o For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment which is available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the Local Public Document Room. Erporta State University, William Allen White Library, 1200 Comercial Street Emporta, Kansas 66801 and Washburn University School of Law Library, TopeF.a. Kansas.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of August,1988.
FORTHENUCLEARREGULATORYC0h. PISS 10N
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$c bs Jose A. Calvo, Director Project Directorate - !Y Division of Reactor Projects - !!!,
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