ML20205F281

Forwards Request for Addl Info on Initial Plant Test Program as Detailed in Amends to FSAR Through Amend 34.Response Requested within 45 Days of Ltr Receipt

ML20205F281
Person / Time
Site:	Clinton
Issue date:	10/29/1985
From:	Butler W Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Spangenberg F ILLINOIS POWER CO.
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NUDOCS 8511050283
Download: ML20205F281 (5)

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OCT 2 91985 Docket No. 50-461 Mr. Frank A. Spangenberg Director of Nuclear Licensing &

Configuration Management

-Clinton Power Station P.O. Box 306 Mail Code V920 Clinton, Illinois 61727

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORf'ATION ON THE INITIAL PLAllT TEST PROGRAM FOR CLINTON POWER STATION (CPS)

The staff has completed its review of your proposed changes to the Initial Plant Test Program as detailed in your amendments to the CPS FSAR through Amendment 34. The proposed changes were made subsequent to the issuance of our SER. Based on this review we find that you have made changes to your previously evaluated and approved test program without providing the requisite justification. As ~a result, we have identified a need for certain additional information, which is detailed in the cnclosed request for additional information.

We request that you respond to the enclosed request within 45 days of your receipt of this letter.

If you have any questicns regarding this request or the schedule for response, please contact the staff's project manager for your application.

Sir,cerely, Walter R. Butler, Chief Licensing Branch No. 2 Division of Licensing

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SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE INITIAL PLANT TEST PROGRAM FOR CLINTON POWER STATION (CPS)

The staff has completed its review of your proposed changes to the Initial Plant Test Progiam as detailed in your amendments to the CPS FSAR through Amendment 34. The proposed changes were made subsequent to the issuance of our SER. Based on this review we find that you have made changes ta your previously evaluated and approved test program without providing the requisite justification. As a result, we have identified a need for certain additional infonnation, which is detailed in the enclosed request for additional information.

We request that you respond to the enclosed request within 45 days of your receipt of this letter.

If you have any questions regarding this request or the schedule for response, please contact the staff's project manager for your application.

Sincerely, Walter R. Butler, Chief Licensing Branch No. 2 Division of Licensing Enclosurd:

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Mr. Allen Samelson, Esquire Jean Foy, Esquire Assistant Attorney General 511 W. Nevada '

Environmental Control Division Urbana, Illinois 61801 Southern Region' 500 South Second Street Richard B. Hubbard Springfield, Illinois 62706 Vice President Technical Associates Mr. D. P. Hall 1723 Hamilton Ave. - Suite K Vice President San Jose, CA 95125 Clintor. Power Station P. O. Box 678 Clinton, Illinois, 61727 Mr. H. R. Victor Manager-Nuclear Station Engineering Dpt.

Clinton Power Station P. O. Box 678 Clinton, Illinois 61727 Sheldon Zabel, Esquire Schiff, Hardin & Waite 7200 Sears Tower 233 Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 Resident Inspector U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission RR 3, Box 229 A Clinton, Illinois 61727 Mr. R. C. Heider

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Mr. L. Larson Project Manager General Electric Company 175 Curtner Avenue, N/C 395 San Jose, California 95125 Regional Administrator, Region III 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 e

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Enclosure REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CLINTON POWER STATION.

RAI Question.

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Status 640.13 1.n(18) Either provide an acceptance test abstract for the heat tracing system or modify appropriate test abstracts to reinstate test'ing of this system.

640.15 5.z Either modify the response to this item to reference where testing of process and effluent radiation monitoring systems are demonstrated, or reinstate these system tests in FSAR Subsection 14.2.12.2.2, Radiation Measurements.

640.16 (4)

Exception to Regulatory Guide 1.68, Appendix A Paragraph

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1.h(10), in FSAR Section 1.8 should be modified or deleted as ultimate heat sink testing has been modified in response, to this item.

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FSAR Subsection 14.2.12.1.36, Diesel Generator System.

acceptance criteria relating to load testing and consecutive starts should reference Regulatory Guide 1.108 reconsnendations, not design considerations.

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FSAR Subsection 14.2.12.1.38, 125 #DC Systems, should be modified to delhonstrate that emergency D-C loads as installed will be verified to remain operable at the minimum voltage level established in the discharge test.

14A Modify FSAR Table 14.2-1 to include the following Regulatory Guides:

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(1) Regulatory Guide 1.56, Maintenance of Water Purity in Boiling Water. Reactors, and

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(2) Regulatory Guide 1.95, Protection of Nuclear Power Plant Control l

Room Operators Against an Accidental Chlorine Release.

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14B It is not apparent from the discussion in FSAR Subsection 14.2.4 and 14.2.10 that the commencement of fuel loading requires completion of all preoperational tests. For portions of any (including review and approval of test results)preoperational tests which are intended i

to be conducted after fuel loading:

(a) list each test, (b) state what portions of each test will be delayed until after. fuel loading, (c) provide technical justification for delaying the.te portions, and 1

(d) state when each test will be completed.

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Number Status 14C The exceptions taken to Positions C.9 and C.10 of Regulatory Guide 1.8, Preoperational Testing of Instrument Air Systems, in FSAR Section.1.8 should either be deleted, justification provided for the existing project position, or delete ~

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Regulatory Guide 1.68.3, Preoperational Testing of Instrument and Control Air Systems.

14D Either reinstate Level 2 acceptance criteria regarding the low-low set pressure relief logic in FSAR Subsection

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14.2.12.2.28, Loss of Offsite Power, or provide technical justification for deletion of the c iteria.

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