ML20195B637
| ML20195B637 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Peach Bottom  |
| Issue date: | 10/04/1988 |
| From: | Linville J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Kane W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| FOIA-88-478 NUDOCS 8811020115 | |
| Download: ML20195B637 (4) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3
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50-277 50-278 MEMORANDUM FOR:
William F. Kane, Director, Division of Reactor Projects l
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J. C. Linville, Chief, Reactor Projects Section 2A l
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SUBJECT:
PEACH BOTTOM ATOMIC POWER STATION STATUS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD FEBRUARY 4 - FEBRUARY 24, 1988 i
Enclesed is the Peach Bottom periedic status report from the NRC Resident Office at P6ach Bottom. Three NRC resident inspectors monitored activities at the plant during the report period.
These status reports are intended to provide NRC management and the public with an overview of plant activities and NRC inspection activities.
Subsequent inspection reports will address many of these topics in more dctail.
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Enclosure:
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C. A. McNeill, Executive Director, Nuclear Otekinson M. Smith, Vice President, Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station d
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John S. Kemper, Senior Vice President Nuclear J. W. Gallagher, Vice President, Nuclear Services i
E. C. Aistner, Chairman, Nuclear Review Board Thomas S. Shaw, Jr., Vice President, Production i
l Troy B. Conner, Jr., Esquire j
W. H. Hirst, Director, Joint Generation Projects Department, Atlar. tic Electric
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G. Leitch, Vice President, Limerick
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Eugene J. Bradley, Esquire, Assistant General Counsel (Without Report) l Raymond L. Hovis, Esquire l
Thomas Magette, Power Plant $1 ting, Nuclear Evaluations i
W. M. Alden. Director, Licensing Section Doris Poulsen, Secretary of Harford County Council Public Document Room (PDR)
Local Public Document Room (LPDR)
Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC) 4 NRC Resident Inspector Commonwealth of Pennsylvania a
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Region ! Docket Room (with concurrences)
J. Taylor, EDO T. Murley, NRR F, Miraglia, NRR
$. Varga, NRR B. Boyer, NRR W. Butler, NRR R. Martin, NRR W. Russell, RI W. Johnston, RI T. Martin, RI S. Collins, R!
R. Gallo, RI K. Abraham, RI M. Miller, RI J. Williams RI B. Clayton, E00 i
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ENCLOSURE PEACH BOTTOM ATOMIC POWER STATION STATUS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD February 4,1988 - February 24, 1988 1.0 Plant Status As of 8:00 a.m. on February 24,1988, Unit 2 and 3 are in a cold condition per the March 31, 1987, NRC Order with coolant temperatures less than 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Unit 3 core is completely off loaded into the spent fuel pool.
2.0 Facil_ity Operations Summary Unit 2 is in day 345 of its seventh refueling outage that began March 13, 1987. Unit 2 is currently in its reactor pressure vessel (RPV) hydrostatic test.
RPV pressure is being held at 500 psig pending resolution of several minor problems.
Unit 3 has been in a cold condition per the March 31, 1987, NRC Order since April 1, 1987.
Unit 3 is in day 147 of its recir-culation system pipe replacement outage that began October 1, 1987. Jet pump instrument line work was finished on February 10, 1988.
The reactor pressure vessel was drained the weekend of February 13 and 14 and the nozzle plugs were removed. Weld preparations of the nozzle safe ends has begun.
Recirculation pipe cutting and removal is about 50% complete.
3.0 Items of Special Intere3 3.1 NRC management conducted individual enforcement conferences with Peach Bottom operators from February 8 - 18, 1988. NRC actions based on these conferences are under evaluation.
3.2 Philadelphia Electric Company's Peach Bottom Restart Plan, Section 11, was submitted on February 12, 1980. NRC review is progressing.
3.3 On February 1G,1988, Philadelphia Electric Company announced that Corbin A. McNeill, Jr., was named Executive Director - Nuclear. He is currently Senior Vice President - Nuclear for Pubite Service Electric and Gas Company and will be on loan until Peach Bottom restarts.
3.4 The following meetings were held between NRC personnel and Philadelphia Electric Company (PECo) personnel:
February 17, 1988, NRC Region 1 personnel with PECc QA personnel to discuss the proposed Quali+.y Assurance plans and organization;
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Inspection reports covering the details of these inspections will be issued in the future.
A routine radiation protection inspection report (50-277/87-38; 50-278/87-38) was issued on February 4,1988.
The inspection was conducted between December 14-18, 1987. One apparent violation was cited but was mitigated because it was licensee identified, P
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