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| Issue date: | 11/03/1988 |
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1 l UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION MEETING WITH PUBLIC SERVICE )
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DISCUSS PLANT READINESS FOR ) Docket No. 50-443 ISSUANCE OF A LOW POWER (5%) ) -
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November 3, 1988 1
Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11555 Rockville Pike ,
Conference Room Rockville, Maryland The above-entitled matter came on for hearing, pursuant to notice, at 1:32 p.m.
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On behalf of the Nuclear Reculatory Commission:
MR. VICTOR NERSES NRC/NRR/PDI-3 :
DR. F110 MAS MURLEY Director, NRR MR. DENNIS CRtiTCHFIELD ;
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MR. EDWIN J. REIS r NRC Deputy Assistant General Counsel ;
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On Behalf of the Publir Service Company of New Hampshire an( New Hamn3 ire Yankeet MR. GEORGE S. THOMAS '
Vice President, NHY Nuclear Production
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President and CEO, NHY j MR. JOHN F.G. EICHORN Chief Executive Officer i ; Eastern Utilities Associates k
i MR. TED FEIGENBAUM s Vice President, Engineering, Licensing 2 and Quality Programs, NHY
! MR. NEAL VILLSBURY l IRT Manager, NHY MR4 JOHN C. DUFTETT 'I i President and Chief Executivo Officar Public Service Company of New Hampshire f
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3 MR. NERSES: Ohay. Why don't we get started here?
4 My name is Vic Norses, and I'm the Seabrook Project Manager, I
5 and this is a meeting between the NRC and the licensee to 6 discuss the licensee and plant readiness for low power
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9 transcribed, so when a party speaks, don't do like I did. f 10 rinst of all, give your name and get started so that ha l 11 knows who it is and it can help him out. Generally it's f 12 customary for everybody to introduce themselves. Why don't j 13 we jtst begin doing that before we start off. 7 14 My name is Vic Nerses and as I say I'm the !
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16 MR. CRUTCHFIELD: Danny Crutchfield, Acting '
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3 MR. EICHORN: John Eichorn, Chairman, Chief 4 Executive Officer, Eastern Utility Associates and Chairman l f 5 of the Jo4.nt Owners of the Seabrook Project. !
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8 MR. BRobH: Ed Brown, President and Chief 9 Executive of New Hampshire Yankee.
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12 MR. SWEENEY: Rob Sweeney from the New Hampshire :
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14 HR. . MOODY: Don Moody, Station Manager of New i
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16 MR. KANN: Greg Kann, Start-Up Manager, New 17 Hempshire Yankee.
18 HR. VARGAS: Joe Vargas, Manager of Engineering, 19 Haw Hampshire Yankee.
20 km. DIGNAN: rom Dignan, Ropes and Gray, Bostol.
21 Counsel for New Hampshire Yankee.
22 MR. CAMERON: D. Pierre Cameron, Sr., Senior Vice
.' 23 President and General Counsel, Public Service of New 24 Hampshire.
25 MR. GRAM: George Gram, Executive Director of Heritage Reporting Corporation (202) 628-4488
6 1 Emergency Preparedness and Community Relations, New 2 Hampshire Yankee.
3 MR. WARNOCK: Jeff Warnock, Nuclear Quality 4 Manager, New Hampshire Yustkee.
5 MR. SHER: Ron Sher, Media Relations Coordinator, 6 New Hampshire Yankee.
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11 MR. REIS: Ed Reis, Deputy Assirtant General 12 Counsel, NRC.
13 MR. BOGER: Bruce Boger, Assistant Director for 14 Region I Reactors, NRC.
15 MR. CO!! GEL: I' m Frank Congel. I am Director of 16 Division of Reactor Prchection and 3mergency Prepartdness.
17 MR. WIGGItiS Jim Wiggina, Projects Branch 3 i'or l l
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19 MR. D';M13 EY : Doug Dempsey, Division of Reactor ;
I 20 Projects, Region I. j 21 MR. IGNE: El Igne, ACRS.
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24 MR. PLTERSO!!: James Peterson, NRC Staff.
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2 MR. NERSES: May I have some names over there 3 please?
4 MR. SCALETTI: I'm Dino Scaletti from the NRC.
5 HR. DELMINICO: Vincent Delminico, NRC 6 Professienal Staff.
7 HR. BIERMAN: Dan Bierman, NRC.
. 8 MS. SLOSSON: Marylee Slosson, Office of OEDO.
9 MR. CALLAHAN: Mike Callahan, Congressional 10 Affairs, NRC.
11 MR. NERSES: Oka . Well, thank you. I also want 12 to add that there is an attendance sheet going around. I' d 13 appreciate it if you folks would sign that, and before we 14 begin, are there any opening comments that we need to make?
15 I know that I would like to add that if there ar-16 any members of the public that like to make some comments, I 17 would prefer that we wait until the end of the n.#et3ng, 18 conduct our business as usual and then you'll have an 19 opportunity at the end of the meeting for public comments.
20 Are there any other comments? <
21 DR. MURLE*I : Yes, I have just a thought, Dick, and
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9 1 organization, financial status and John Eichorn, as Chairman 2 of Eastern Utilities and Chairman of the Joint Cwners 3 Executive Committee, and John Duffett, who is President and 4 Chief Executive of Public Service New Hampshire, will be 5 prepared to address the financial issues.
6 George Thomas will discuss operational experience, 7 schedule, operational readiness. Ted Feigenbaum, who's our 8 Vice President of Engineering and Quality Programs will 9 discuss the test program, support readiness, licensing 10 status and Neal Pillsbury, who is the Manager of our 11 Independent Review Team and also our self-assessment team 12 manager, will review our self-assessment effort.
13 Then Ted will talk about other technical issues as 14 requested in the agenda, and then we will have some 15 concluding remarks.
16 New Hampshire Yankee is organized along functional 17 lines and operates as a division of the Public Service 18 Company of New Hampshire, with myself, Ed Brown, reporting 19 to the President of Public Service Company of New Hampshire 20 for license compliance and license matters.
21 I report to a five-member executive committee of 22 the joint owners, of which John Eichorn is chairman for 23 policy matters, budgetary matters end financial reporting 24 matters. I should point out I am also Chairman of Yankee 25 Atomic Electric Company and I am on the payroll of Yankee Heritage Reporting Corporation (202) 628-4888 U.-
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2 Organizationally, along the functional lines that 3 I described, George Brown is Executive Director of Emergency 4 Planning and Community Relations. George Thomas, Vice 5 President of Nuclear Production and among those reporting to 6 h.im and here today is Don Moody, who is Station Manager, and 7 reporting to Don Moody of the topic of interest here is Greg 8 Kann, who is our Start Up and Test Manager.
9 Ted Feigenbaum is Vice Presidbnt of Engineering, j 10 Licensing and Quality Programs, and germane to the subject 11 today, Heal Pillsbury, who is our Manager of our Independent 12 Review Team will discuss toe self-assessment analysis.
13 There are currently 1,368 workers at Seabrook 14 Station. Of these, 757 are New Hampshire Yankee payroll 15 employees. We have 160 contracted personnel in the security 1E area. Twanty-two Yankee Atomic Electric Company Nuclear ,
I 17 Service Division employees who are the site. There are 18 other Yankee people who are involved in the project, but 19 these are site employees.
20 And then there's 429 other personnel, and I should 21 point that looks like an extremely large number but it i 22 includes 153 craft labor personnel, construction trade craft
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11 1 A brief update on New Hampshire Yankee Electric 2 Corporation. In 1984, New Hampshire Yankee was established 3 as a division of Public Service Company of New }{ampshire to 4 act as managing agent for the owners in the then 5 construction and operation of Seabrook Station. In 1984, 6 New Hampshire Yankee Electric Corporation was also 7 incorporated in the state of New Hampshire, and the intent 8 was in the second phase of this establishment of New 9 Hampshire Yankee to spin off this entity as a separate 10 corporation.
11 We received approval of the New Hampshire PUC, 12 Public Utility Commission, to 1) operate as a utility in New 13 Hampshire, 2) act as managing agent for the owners in the 14 construction and operation of the plan, 3) to sell shares of 15 New Hampshire Yankee stock to the joint owner companies.
16 This required approval of the Massachusetts DPU, ,
17 Department of Public Utilities, which has never been 18 forthcoming. The record on that issue, although heard in 19 1985, hus never been closod. So the joint owners in 20 Massachusetts companies were unable to purchase New 21 Hampshire Yankee shares, and as a result it took some time 22 to got to the point where we had a process to go forward
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I 4 Remaining steps to implement that second phase of l 5 spinning off New Hampshire Yankee as a separate corporation >
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7 before them now and in the rev.*aw stage. I mentioned the l 8 bankruptcy court which would consider, in conjunction with 9 PS & H reorganization plan, and after receipt of all other j 10 approvals we would then bring it to the Nuclear Regulatory !
11 Commission for its review and approval prior to implementing 12 it.
13 DR. MURLEY: Ed, did I understand you corrsctly 14 that the bankruptcy court could decide the issue in the !
15 absence of a decision from the Massachusetts DPU?
16 MR. BROWN: Yes. Let me just go back a couple of ,
17 steps, because this gets kind of convoluted. Because the !
Massachusetts owners were unable to purchase shares, our i 18 19 attorneys in late, mid- to late 1987 came up with a proposal l 20 that called for all other owners to sign an agreement saying 21 when we set up New Hampshire Yankee, even though those l 22 Massachusetts owners did not buy shares, they will be L
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I have gotten this through before the bankruptcy filing took 2 place, and we got caught in that bankruptcy filing. ,
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4 I would refer to John Duffett, President of Public Service, 5 at this point. i 6 UR. DUFFETT: The Commission is aware that 7 a . ,3 aunet t 15 1:unicipal Wholesale Electric Company ceased l
8 s At.ing paymen.ts a few months ago and during an interim l 9 c . o;! c + :ticut Light and Power is making payments in 10 1 x of (P failure of MMWEC to make those payments.
11 Well, I'd like to iddress what happens after the l 12 payments by Ccnnecticut Light and Power cease. Public !
13 Service of New Hampshire and HMWEC have just negotiated an ;
14 agreement, part of which agrees that Public Service of New !
15 Hampshire will make advance payments to the Seabrook project 16 up to $30 million, necessary to pay HMWEC's share of project l l
17 costs and eYpenses, with payments to begin at such time 18 payments that are now being paid by Connecticut Light and 19 Power will cease. I understand that is at the end of 20 November, November 30, 21 Lcnguage for that agreement is now being drafted, 22 and we feel it will be signed within a few days. It is
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l 3 committee both parties at interest in our Chapter 11 4 proceedings before the court, have given an indicction that 5 they' re aware of the terms of the agreement, the genaral 6 terms, they've given indications that they would be !
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3 MR. DUFFETT Until $30 million has been expended.
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P 7 DR. MURLEY: How many months would that be?
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i 10 ' ' MR. HERSES: Oh, I see. Okay. j 11 MR. EICHORN: I might like to cover just the other 12 particl. pants, because I know that's of interest to you too. l l
13 Ws've talked about two of them, PS & H and HMWEC, and United l 14 Illuainating, Northeast Utilities and Lincoln Electric i 15 System, Montaup Electric, ConEnergy. All are in reasonably 16 good financini shape and have no problems in trying to meet f l
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18 Eway Power Company has raised sufficient money to 19 take it through until May of 1990, with the projections the 20 way we see them today, and that should be well within the 21 time frame we see. Hudson and Tauton, two municipals are in 22 good shape to be able to make their payments, leaving us
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3 I might add that there's one other thing in this 4 agreement that Mr. Duffett didn't cover and that I thought I 5 might just touch upon, and that is we generated some S interest in the NRC when we filed with the bankruptcy court 7 back on October 19 a petition extending the bar claims date 8 from October 19th to December 9th, which extends the period 9 of time in which there could be any litigation entered into.
10 In part of this agreement it is envisioned that 11 not only will MMWEC and PS & H agree not to 11 '. gating each 12 other, but all the other joint owners will agree not to 13 enter into any litigation with Public Service of New 14 Hampshire. So we should have that item cleaned up and off 15 the deck at the same time.
16 Anything else that we can address financially?
17 MR. NERSES: If I see the steps then, you're l 18 saying you get to bankruptcy court to give you the extension 19 of time.
20 MR. EICHORNi It's already been done.
21 MR. NERSES: It's been done.
22 MR. EICHORN: That's been done.
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25 MR. EICHORN: No, I said that when this agreement
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17 1 gots signed, Mr. Norses, we believe that all the other joint 2 owners will be participants to this agreement and they will 3 agree not to sue PS & H and PS & H will agree not to sue us, 4 although I don't know what claims they'd have.
5 MR. NERSES: Okay. But would that be in the time 6 frame that you've got for the extension?
7 MR. EICHORN: Yes it will.
8 MR. NERSES: Okay.
9 MR. EICHORN: Yes sir.
10 MR. NERSES: Fine.
11 MR. EICHORN: I expect that to be run very 12 shortly.
13 MR. BROWN: In conjunction with what you just 14 heard, we've provided you a response in September on the 15 question of the MMWEC short falling. We referred at that 16 time to an independent power producer. He'll provide you an 17 update to that infcrmation and keep you updated as the 18 situation develops.
19 MR. NERSES: Can you teal us when, because what 20 I'm thinking about Ed, is that our staff is reviewing what 21 you have on the docket, and that information as docketed 22 says it's the independent power group, okay.
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24 MR. NERSES: And if that changes, then our 25 evaluation obviously has to reflect that change.
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18 1 MR. BROWN: Well, there's no reason why we can't 2 do that immediately. Would you see that that happens, Ted, 3 because at that time and referring to the independent power 4 producers, that's what was being discussed at the time.
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1 13 other joint cwners will not allow the project to go into 14 default, that we will pick up those interim period until l
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16 I don't want you to have that as a wart. It will be done.
17 MR. FEIGENBAUM: Vic, are these --
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4 HR. BROWN: Are there any further questions on the 5 matter that Mr. Duffett and Eichorn just descri*oed?
6 DR. MURLEY: No, I don't believe so. Thera is a l ~ separate set of financial questions which of course is 7
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10 MR. WESSMAN: Well that's their next slide.
11 DR. MURLEY: Yes.
l 12 MR. BROWN: We have it on the next slide.
13 MR. NERSES: So are we ready to go back on it?
14 MR. BROWN: In CLI-8R07, we were requested to 15 provide a plan or cost estimate and some reasonable 16 assyrance to the Commission regarding fund.*ng for the smount 17 that it would take to release the site to unrestricted use.
18 In the order, it referred to the decommissioning rule.
19 Our response was based upon the provisions of that i
20 decommissioning rule that was published in June, and it was l
l 21 based upon a set of conservative assumptions, and by l conservative I mean we believe on the~high side. Such 22
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20 1 it is conservatively high. Any amount of contamination 2 anticipated we believe is conservatively high, and the 3 duration of time that it would take to remove fuel from the 4 site.
5 Based on that set of assumptions and the plan that 6 we put together in detail, we have a $21.1 million figure
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11 The joint owners voted on August 19th to authorize 12 the establishment of a separate segregated account for that 13 $21.1 million, if so ordered by the Commission. $11.1 14 million under this vote would come from the existing 15 dispersing agent account, from most owners, and $10 million 16 would be funded promptly separately from that existing 17 account. It would require new funda 69 18 I believe that covers the matters that we were 19 going to present on financing and decommissioning.
20 MR. NETEES: Okay.
21 MR. BRONN: Next -- are there any questions. Next 22 George Thomas will talk about operating experience.
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1 gives some of the reason for that statement.
2 First of all the station staf f's operating 3 experience greatly exceeds the applicable requirements of 4 Regulatory Guide 1.8. Most people in operating management ;
5 positions have previous experiencs at other Yankee plants 6 and included in that is the station manager, the operations 7 manager, the maintenance manager, the technical support l 8 manager, and the chemistry and HP manager.
9 There are six shifts of operators. Each of those ,
I 10 shifts la headed by a shift superintendent and I'll go into 11 our operator licensing status later on. Each of those shift 12 superintendents meets the applicable experience requirements ,
13 of generic letter 8416. In the areas of maintenance and I &
14 C, our personnel have been involved with pre-operational 15 testing of systems and equipment, and also have maintained ;
16 the plant over the last two years of the zero power liconse.
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22 1 manager. Greg Kann, the Start Up Manager, is here with us 2 today. Greg was previously involved in start-up activities 3 at North Anna Unit I, and managed the start-up of North Anna 4 Unit II.
5 Reporting to him are three shift directors, one 6 for each shift during which testing is going on to allow ,
7 around the clock testing, and six ongineers. In addition, 8 there's a reactor start-up supervisor in a staff position ;
9 who is also qualified a.s a shift test director and can 10 provide relief support on weekends so people can get some 11 time off.
12 The start-up organization itself is described on 13 the next slide, is all personnel are qualified in accordance 14 with Reg Guide 1.8, as specified in the FSAR. All have 15 previously worked in the Seabrook Station pre-operational l 16 and start-up programs and are familiar with the equipment 17 and the testing programs done to date, and they consist of 18 some of our better technical people from a number of areas i
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2 Very little in the higher trained technical support area.
3 DR. MURLEY: How about your licensed operators? l 4 MR. THOMAS: We have not had a licensed operato.i 5 leave for greater than two years. l 6 DR. MURLEY: Okay.
7 MR. THOMAS: (pause) If there are no further j 8 qu9stions, I'd like to talk a little bit about the low power 9 testing schedule. We have shown this schedule in terms of :
10 the weeks prior to and after criticality, and that's shown 11 on the top of the slide and on the bottom of the slide are 12 the four phases of the low power testing sequence.
13 First, preparation, heat up, low-power testing, i 14 and then cool down and lay up, and what I'd like to do is 15 talk abcut briefly each of those four phases.
I 16 First of all the preparation phase was originally i 17 scheduled for five weeks, but we've extended it to eight I i
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.- 23 systems that will be involved in los power testing, which is 24 about 95 percent of the plant systems.
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3 available so we were able to continue directly into low-4 power testing upon the completion of all prerequisite j 5 activities.
6 In addition, at the same time we are preparing our
[ 7 health physics program. This involves records, setting up 8 the radiation control area, setting up the respiratory
- 9 protection program which is actually set up at reaffirming i 10 the respiratory protection program and reinsuring the i
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f i 12 It is planned to establish the radiologically 13 controlled area this coming Monday. We expect that within 14 two weeks and it's shown there at 11/17, by the date of l 15 11/17, we will be in a position where we' re ready to 16 increase the reactor coolant temperature from its present
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18 180, 190 degrees, pump the reactor coolant pumps, draw a
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8 Follow'ing the completion of low power testing, the 9 plan is to cool down the plant, to cold shutdown, and put 10 the applicable secondary systems and plant lay up during the 11 duration of licensing. There is no plan to spin the turbine 12 generator during low-power testing. That was previously 13 done under hot functional testing and we see no advantage of 14 repeating it.
15 How superimposed upon that schedule, and it's 16 shown here across the top is the self-assessment process, 17 which Neal Pillobury will be talking about later. A brief 18 overview of the process is that the Phase I is shown 19 involves assessing our preparation or our readiness, is a 20 better term, for heat up and criticality. That effort is 21 done and a report is expected to be ready tomorrow.
22 There is also a Region I inspection team at the
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2 Starting with plant readiness, firnt of all 3 construction activities on Seabrook Unit I are complate.
4 All start-up related activities, including the testing l 5 itself and any retests have been integrated into a much, ;
6 much more detailed version of the schedule that you just saw ;
7 in the previous slides. We have an integrated sc6edule for
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9 With regards to tech specs surveillance items, of :
10 course the zero power license requirements are in effect 11 right now. All tech specs are current. The local leak rate j 12 tests for Class B and C containment penetrations were !
t 13 recently redone satisfactorily. Also, over the last couple 14 of months we have repeated the 18-month surveillance for the i 15 first interval , 18-month sarveillance for emergency diesel l
16 generator and ESF actuation systems. Those tests went off i
17 without a hitch, and other surveillance tests are being done l 18 in accordance with our overall schedule and program.
19 We are going through and cleaning all the i
20 baildings, concentrating on ones in the radiologically 21 controlled area and doing another final cleaning of those.
22 With regards to work request items, there are presently 97 23 work requests that are required for completion prior to 24 initial criticality. Those have all been scheduled and are 25 expected to be complete prior to heat up above 200 degrees. l l
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3 At no time during that period of time did we devitalize 4 doors or anything like that. So both the vitsi areas and 5 the protected areas have been in effect.
6 DR. HURLEY: George, can you -- does this achine 7 back up?
, 8 HR. THOMASt Sure.
9 DR. M'JRLEY : Can you go back a minute. I'd like 10 to ask Sam Collins, our regional representative here, where 11 our evaluation, NRC's regional evaluation would fit into 12 this schedule and have -- when would you be prepared to tell 13 us that you're ready for us to come on site to do our own 14 readiness? Have you got that, George, cranked into this 15 schedule?
16 MR. THOMAS: Yes, we have, and my understanding is 17 the present plan for that and correct me if I'm wrong is at 18 about the time we start increasing temperature above 200 19 degrees the NRC staff would be ready to be there. Actually, 20 prior to that.
21 DR. MURLEY: 11/23.
22 MR. THOMASt That's right.
23 HR. HERSES: Well, on the top schedule, what does 24 that correspond to? What week are we?
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I 3 DR. MURLEY: Okay, so you're basically within a [
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5 MR. WIGGINS: We would hope, we would hope.
6 That's -- once I understand what our team has found and once [
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. 8 capability and I have my staff' review that report, we should 9 be in a position to make a call at that point.
10 And then we will make a confirmatory assessment as l 11 the utility and the operators are actua11,*r operating the 12 plant, heating up w.d making mode changes prior to l 13 criticality. We will confirm the assessments we made at i 14 that point, and that's the best approach we can make right 15 now.
16 DA. MURLEY: Very good. We don't have to wait for ;
17 a public meeting to talk amongst ourselves, but now at least l 18 you can hear and see the things I'm hearing as to where NRC !
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. 23 HR. THOMAS: Just an overview of our present j 24 operator's status. As I previously mentioned, there are six 25 shifts of operators that are presently staffed and going i i
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5 There are also a number of staff positions that 6 are maintained in current Seabrook Station licenses, as 7 shown on the slide. I'll also point out that the -- our
, 8 present shift technical advisor function is being perfer'ed 9 by licensed operators. There are 15 of those senior 10 licensed operators that are qualified STAS.
11 These operators have been complying with the 12 existing zero power license condition for the past two j 13 years. In addition, I have certain administrative 14 procedures such as shift turnover, work control, etcetera ,
15 have also been in effect for more than the past two years.
16 In the area of health physics and chemistry, some i
17 of this is a bit repetitious, but in both areas the '
18 supervisory professional staff and technicians are trained 19 and qualified. We are going to be using some contractor 7 20 augmentation for the health physica department, for the 21 radiation surveys associated with low-power testing.
22 In addition to that, chemistry people have been
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31 1 coming Monday for training purposes.
2 In summary, with regards to plant readiness, I 3 feel that all plant equipment, programs and procedures and 4 operating personnel are expected to be ready for heat up 5 abovs 200 degrees by November 23rd, as shown on the schedule 6 slide. If there are no other questions, Ted Feigenbaum will l "
7 talk about the test program support readiness.
8 HR. FEIGENBAUM: Okay. In addition to station j 9 staff and start-up group preparations, our corporate support 10 organizations have also geared up to support the low-power 11 testing activities. New Hampshire Yankee's nuclear quality 12 group is fully staffed and has received training on our 13 start-up programs and procedures including a simulated walk-14 through on a sample of our test procedures, to familiarize 15 the QA-QC staff with control room activities that will occur i
16 during the testing, and to help make their evaluations even i 17 more effe.scive.
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2 Of course, we will provide 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> coverage around 3 the clock, QA-QC personnel and we have adequate staff to 4 handle this around the clock coverage as necessary. In 5 addition, our nuclear safety in-audit the review committee :
6 will be conducting a series of evaluations during the test 7 program, including evaluations that follow our adherence to
. 8 technical specifications and to assure our compliance with 9 our corrective action program.
10 The independent safety engineering group performs I 11 operational surveillances and reviews in-house and industry 12 events for potential improvements in equipment, precedures 13 and training. They have been fully staffed since 1986 and j 14 ISE has made hundreds, literally hundreds of recommendations 15 to improve safety at Seabrook Station. [
16 The self-assessment team who we will hear from 17 more in a few minutes will also continues its evaluations I
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6 We have a proven, effective design and j 7 modification control program. We believe we've effectively l
8 and successfully transitioned from the construction mode to 9 the operations mode. We've matured our programs and they're 10 now working smoothly. We continuo to update those programs.
11 We're now in revision 6 update of our Design Centrol Manual, 12 and we will continue to refine th6se programs to make them !
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14 Our technical staff has reviewed open, non-l 15 conformance reports, station information reports and 16 temporary modifications tn ensure that the items that are 17 required for low-power testing are tied to the appropriate i 18 mode restrictions in our mode checklists. We performed ;
19 evaluations on systems that were laid up for extended 20 periods of time and determined their condition. No problems ;
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5 To avoid this situation at Seabrook Station, we've 6 proactively put into place a method to evaluate all 7 important in-house events immediately, and to address any 8 negative trends during the test program. As part of this 9 program, we've prepared comprehensive root cause analysis 10 procedures, and issued these guidelines through our staff.
11 DR. MURLEY: Before you go on, Ted, what -- do you ;
12 have a sister plant design? Is this the class of 13 Westinghouse plants? I've forgotten.
14 HR. FEIGENDAUM: Yes, Millstone III has 15 essentially the same HSSS system and the same turbine 16 generator nystem.
17 DR. MURLEY: Okay.
18 HR. FEIGENBAUM: And Wolf Creek as well and 19 Calloway.
20 DR. MURLEY: Although this was not part of the 21 SNPPS system? l 22 FR. FEIGPUDAUM: No it was not.
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24 HR. FEI3ENBAUM: USSS is the same at those plants.
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Okay, we have assigned a number of engineers from our technical in plant staff. Each engineer has a ar.all number of systems that he's responsible 7 for completely. Any work requests or maintenance work that ;
8 is done on a system go to that' technical support engineer 9 for his review and his cognizance.
10 Any design modifications that are made, the ,
11 corporate design engineer will interface with that system 12 angineer, so that he's aware of everything going on in his 13 system. He's also responsible for monitoring the 14 performance of his system and trending and keeping an eye on 15 any negative trends or positive trends on his particular 16 area of expertise.
17 Regarding emergency preparedness, our on-site 18 emergency response organization is in place and has been 19 trained since October 1986. Performance of our emergency 20 response organization has been tested and evaluated a number 21 of times, most recently in our June 1988 graded exercise.
22 The NRC inspection team at that time found our
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4 our technical specifications, such as the station operations 5 review committee, the NRSARC, the ISEG, New Hampshire Yankee 6 has instituted another level of checks and balances at 7 Seabrook. Our independent review team has been in place
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10 Neal Pillsbury, on my left here, is the manager of i
11 the independent review team, and he will discuss shortly the 12 self-assessment team review which ho managed, to assess our 13 readiness to perform the heat up and initial criticality 14 testing.
15 Our employee allegati..as r3 solution program 16 continues to be in place, and their work is centered on 17 interviewing exiting employees and conducting surveys of on-18 site employees to assure that any concerns that our 19 personnel have, whether they be NHY or contractors, are 20 identified and promotly acted upon.
21 We also have a radiation safety committee which 22 meets periodically to discuss ALARA issues, recommends
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37 1 Moving on to some licencing status, technical 2 licensing issues, we've gone through all the open NRC 3 inspection issues and evaluated for impact or relevancy to 4 our low power test program. All the items that are relevant 5 to low power are scheduled in accordance with their mode 6 requirement, and are being tracked on a daily basis at our 7 plan a day meetings.
. 8 The key open items that are scheduled for a close- l 9 out at this time, prior to heat up, include NRC Bulletin 10 8808, which involves thermal stress on RCS piping. That's 11 piping connected to the RCS. We performed non-destructive 12 examination. That's complete and we found no problems on 13 those lines that are affected. We have installed 14 temperature detectors to monitor the temperature profile 15 during the testing program.
16 And the last piece of work that needs to be done 17 there is finalizing our detailed monitoring program 18 document, which will be ready in the next two weeks, and 19 that should complete our initial activities on 8808, 20 On 8803, which involves certain HFA relaya, we 21 have already replaced those relays and tested them and the 22 only thing that remains to be done in that area is close-out 23 of our work request paper work, the final review by the 24 systems engineers.
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38 1 material, we'll discuss that a bit later in our technical 2 issues summary at the end of this presentation. However, we 3 have two replacement blind flanges that are in the process 4 of being installed, and as I say, we'll discuss that a bit 5 later. Regarding Part 21 items, there are two remaining 6 actions that require completion and they will be completed 7 and are scheduled for completion within the next two weeks.
. 8 There are other activities, additional open items 9 that are being tracked for completion by New Hampshire 10 Yankee as well as the resident NRC inspector. These items 11 require a mode change and normal operating pressures and 12 temperatures in order to complete them. All the items shown 13 on this slide are scheduled to be completed following heat 14 up, and prior to initial criticality testing, and are again 15 tracked, and will be tracked at our plan of the day meetings 16 that are held daily.
17 In summary, based on our evaluation of open 18 technical licensing issues required for low-power testing, 19 and the current status, we've concluded that all the items 20 required for heat up will be complete by November 17th. All 21 other open items will be completed in accordance with their 22 mode requirement.
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39 1 through on the self-assessment team and our readiness for 2 low power testing.
3 MR. PILLSBURY: Thank you Ted. As has been 4 previously stated, my position within New Hampshire Yankee, 5 the New Hampshire Yankee organization is that of the 6 independent review team or IRT manager. The IRT's function 7 is to assist New Hampshire Yankee executive management by 8 performing independent review and evaluations and 9 assessments.
10 For example, the IRT has conducted several 11 organizational effectiveness and interface analyses in the 12 past. We did another organizational operational readiness 13 analysis in May and June of 1986, and we have conducted 14 analyses done at the request of legal counsel to prepare 15 counsel on various licensing and litigatory issues.
16 The IRT organization is comprised of a small group 17 of permanently assigned New Hampshire Yankee personnel. We 18 use on loan New Hampshire Yankee personnel and contracted 19 personnel to supplement the permanent IRT personnel as 20 necessary. As Ted had stated previously, the independent 21 review team has been utilized by New Hampshire Yankee for 22 several years now, having been initiated in July of 1984,
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3 DR. MURLEY: Who do you report to? Whc does the 4 IRT report to? i 5 MR. PILLSBURY: I report to Ted Feigenbaum.
6 DR. MURLEY: Okay. And how does it fit in --
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9 MR. PILLSBURY: It's somewhat different, Dr.
10 Murley, than other utilities in that we have a standing 11 self-assessmant or self-critique organization as a permanent 12 fixture of the organization, to address, you know, 13 independent reviews and evaluations and assessment as 14 directed by New Hampshire Yankee executive management or 15 requested by executive management.
16 MR. BROWN: Greg, just give an example. They 17 don't get necessarily into technical issues or regulatory 18 issues. We had the independent review team do a complete 19 assessment of our emergency planning readiness before we got 20 into the graded exercise in June, and they brought people 21 from all over the country in to assess us.
22 DR. MURLEY: Okay, whereas for example, ISEG. Who
.. 23 does that report to?
24 MR. FEIGENBAUM: That reports to me as well.
25 DR. MURLEY: As well.
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2 DR. MURLEY: And what do you rely on that group 3 for?
4 MR. FEIGENBAUM: That group performs operational 5 surveillances of activities, maintenance and operational 6 surveillances in the plant. They also review in-house and
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9 The IRT we use, in addition to what Ed was saying, 10 for certain organizational reviews, such as staffing 11 reviews. Where in a particular -- in our organization a 12 particular set or group of people should report to. They 13 look at interfaces between plant staff and corporate staff, 14 to see whether the interface is working properly.
15 So we use them not only for technical reviews but 16 also to look at organizational issues.
17 DR. MURLEY: Do you contemplate that this will 18 become as a permanent team or is it just a start-up kind 19 of --
20 MR. FEIGENBAUM: No, it is a permanent team and it 21 has a 40 year position. We have right now three approved
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42 t 1 MR. FEIGENBAUM: And it's been in effect, as I 2 think Neal mentioned, since July of 1984.
3 DR. MURLEY: Okay, thank you. Go ahead.
4 MR. PILLSBURY: Can I see the next slide? The 5 low power testing e'.* Lution self-assessment is being 6 conducted in two phases. The first phase of the assessment 7 has evaluated Seabrook's resolution of open inspection audit 8 and self-critique issues and has provided an assessment of 9 the adequacy of the low-power testing preparatory 10 activities.
11 At the conclusion of Phase I, New Hampshire Yankee 12 is committed to provide a report to NRC Region I indicating 13 the status of NHY readiness to being low power testing, a 14 That date is tomorrow and that report is on schedule and 15 will be issued tomorrow.
16 The second phase of the self-assessment involves a 17 comprehensive and detailed self-evaluation of New Hampshire 4 18 Yankee's conduct of low power testing activities and we're 19 going to focus on nine specific detailed areas of evaluation 20 there. That evaluation has already commenced, and as has 21 been already shown on Mr. Thomas's integrated schedule 22 slide, will include a verbal criticality readiness report to
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4 The 14 topical areas that have been evaluated 5 during the course of the Phase I assessment are listed on 6 this slide and the next one. They're both on one page in
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, 8 Rather than offering remarks that would be highly 9 redundant or repetitive to what Mr. Thomas and 10 Mr. Feigenbaum have already remarked against thea3 14 ,
11 topical areas I'd like to summarize the extent of our 12 evaluation to you by saying that the self-assessment team 13 has recommended 90 actions to New Hampshire Yankee 14 management during this Phase I assessment effort.
15 Forty-one of those recommendations dealt with low-
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21 The scope of the Phase II self-assessment 22 activities remains as described and the August 17 and
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4 input to the self-assessment process, we establithed a 5 management oversight committee that has been briefed on a'-
6 every two week or greater frequency. The management .
7 oversight committee consists of the President and Chief 8 Executive Officer for New Hampshire Yankee, the Vice l 9 President, Nuclear Production, the Vice President, 10 Engineering, Licensing and Quality Programs, and the Station 11 Manager. ,
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13 individuals, 15 of which are senior New Hampshire Yankee 14 management or staff members for this particular IRT or self- I 15 assessment effort, and a single contracted services 16 individual. Some of these team members, such as the two IRT ;
l 17 staff and the five ISEG staff have spent essentially 100 18 percent of their time engaged in this effort since September 19 22nd, when the effort started formally. ,
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10 New Hampshire Yankee has conducted preparatory 11 activities in an intentionally conservative and thorough 12 fashion. The operations-oriented management controls and 13 programs have been implemented, improved tpon and 14 effectively demonstrated over the past 24 aonths since the 15 zero power license was issued, the maturatior. process that 16 Ted referred to earlier.
17 The physical plant condition has been brought to a 18 good state of readiness through repeated surveillance tests 19 and preventitive maintenance activities, and the operations 20 and start-up groups are properly focused on plant operations 21 and test evolutions in that order. The various support 22 groups also have well-matured programs and detailed
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2 For an overall conclusion, that based on the tasks remaining 3 to be accomplished and demonstrated progress against 4 schedule, Seabrook Station will be operationally ready to 5 commence heat up by mid-November and ready to begin testing 6 by the end of November. Do I have any questions? Now I'll
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8 DR. MURLEY: Okay.
9 MR. FEIGENBAUM: I have a few slides that will 10 summarize the status of certain technical issues which may 11 be of interest to the Staff. We mentioned Bulletin 8805 12 earlier. We have performed an exhaustive search of our 13 material and procurement records, and performed 100 percent 14 hardness testing on material covered by this bulletin and 15 the supplements to the bulletin, and ne've also transmitted 16 these results to the NRC Staff for evaluation.
17 We supplemented this data with additional chemical 18 analyses and that also was transmitted to the Staff within 19 the past few weeks. Based on our review, we've concluded 20 that the installed material is' adequate for its intended 21 use. As mentioned earlier, we are in the process of 22 replacing two blind flanges that were also found to be
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2 DR. MURLEY: Do I understand this correctly, Ted, 3 that you will not be asking the NRC then for exemptions from 4 code requirements for these materials?
5 MR. FEIGENBAUM: That's correct.
6 DR. MURLEY: Okay.
7 MR. FEIGENBAUM: This past summer there was a
. 8 spate of -- I'm sorry, this is'not what I want -- there's 9 been a spate of information notices regarding possible non-10 conforming materials at other nuclear facilities. We've 11 reviewed our quality and material procurement records and 12 we've determined that none of these bulletins apply to 13 Seabrook.
14 As a result of these notices, however, we have 15 made changes to our receipt inspection program, and we are 16 re-evaluating and will upgrade our vendor QA programs to try 17 to avoid these types of problems that have been experienced 18 in the industry with certain suppliers.
19 For instance, in our receipt inspection program we 20 have given instructions to our people that are in the 21 warehouse that when this material comes in they are to look 22 for such things as removed labels, changed dates on 23 documentation, and for any signs of potential disassembly 24 and any evidence of material having been refurbished 25 improperly.
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9 We've also issued a commercial grade procurement 10 procedure, based on EPRI guidance for dedicating commercial i
11 grade equipment, and of course we continue to have our pre-12 op test program in accordance with our manual system. j 13 As a last item we thought it would be appropriate 14 to update the staff on our PRA efforts. As'you're aware, we 15 have a full-scope PRA thht's been available on Seabrook i l 16 since 1984 and it was submitted to the NRC at that time. We 17 continue to maintain the PRA and supplement it. We've i
18 submitted a number of follow-on studies to the PRA and kept l l 19 it up to date.
20 Our most recent PRA work involved the very 21 detailed analysis of operation in modes 4, 5 and 6, and we 22 expect this will be very helpful in helping us prepare our
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4 We are working to wean ourselves from our PRA 5 consultant, Pickett, Lowe and Garrett, so that we can run 6 PRA tests in-house on our own. In fact, the shutdown study 7 in modes 4, 5 and 6 that I had mentioned earlier was an in-8 house NHY effort with Pickett, Lowe and Garrett serving as a 9 peer reviewer in that case.
10 Our reliability and safety engineering group that 11 keeps the PRA up to date has been working in conjunction 12 with our in~ plant systems engineers in developing 13 reliability systems for certain important critical systems 14 such as our emergency diesel generator system and our 15 emergency feedwater system.
16 These programs include analyses that identify 17 critical components, and recommend monitoring programs and 18 trend performance parameters of these components and systems 19 and provides feedback to our maintenance system and our 20 maintenance program.
21 After a trial period with these two particular 22 reliability programs, it's anticipated that we will expand 23 the reliability program to other systems. We also believe 24 our PRA will be very helpful in responding to our individual 25 plan evaluation, which we expect to be hearing from from the Heritage Reporting Corporation (202) 628-4888
50 1 NRC in a short time, and we believe that with our available 2 models and information we'll be able to respond in a timely 3 manner to that individual plan evaluation.
4 At this point Ed Brown, if there are no other 5 questions for me, Ed Brown will aummarize and make some 6 concluding remarks.
7 MR. BROWN: Yes. Before we have our concluding 8 remarks, George Thomas wants to speak.
9 MR. THOMAS: Yes. Tom, I just wanted to correct 10 or possibly correct the record on the response to your 11 question about how many licensed operators we've lost. Don 12 Moody reminds me of one individual that left approximately 13 two years ago and I obviously don't have the records here, 14 so we may have lost an operator over the last two years. We 15 certainly haven't lost one over the last year.
16 DR. MURLEY: Oksy.
17 MR. BROWN: Our concluding remarks I'd simply like 18 to address the question of what the benefits of conducting 19 low-power testing now. Why do we feel that it's important 20 that it be done at this time?
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51 1 actual operating conditions.
2 This applies not only to the technical matters 3 that they address but the procedures as well. We think it's 4 extremely important that the Seabrook Station procedures be 5 put to the full test under actual operating conditions, in 6 order to determine that a) they work and b) if changes are 7 needed that we do it long before we get into full power 8 escalation.
9 Three, update of the plant timulator with actual 10 plant data and perhaps, more importantly, training of the 11 operators in that simulator, using the actual plant data.
12 Five, discovery of unexpected conditions early enough to 13 prevent delsy in full power operation of a much-needed 14 electric generating plant.
15 Now recent experience at recent vintage start-up 16 plants shows the potential for delay. Some experienced no 17 problems. Some experienced delays of three months, two 18 months, and in one case five months. These are recent 19 vintage plants. We don't expect that we're going to 20 experience substantial delays, but xt would be imprudent if ,
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2 If at that time we encountered a substantial delay, it would 3 have been totally imprudent of us to have waited.
4 Six, the ability to complete any identified work 5 or retest prior to the full power license and finally 6 avoidance of extra costs resulting from the potentially
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. 8 I mentioned under point five a much-needed 9 electric generating plant and John Eichorn wants to address 10 that iseue, the need for power issue, and also has some 11 concluding remarks.
12 MR. EICHORN In New England, last summer we 13 experienced a very, very heavy electrical growth in New 14 England and we have been experiencing a heavy growth in New 15 England over the last several years. This winter, in our 16 forecasted period for the next 26 weeks, we expect to be in 17 what we call operation number 4, which means that we are in 18 a capacity situation where we have to take some action other 19 than having generation to be able to make sure we're in a 20 mode to be able to meet the load.
21 That does not mean we'll be in voltage reduction 22 for 26 out of the next 52 weeks. It means that we will be 23 taking some internal actions but not necessarily external to 24 affect the customers. But the only two possible sources for 25 generation that we see in New England for potential meeting Heritage Reporting Corporation (202) 628-4888
53 1 additional growth is a Pilgrim restart and Seabrook. There 2 are no other units or no other means of being able to get 3 generation in before 1991, 1993.
4 So that we've been fortunate that we had some 5 extra capacity during the last two years when Pilgrim was 6 out of service, so that we did have enough extra generation
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16 So we can't emphasize that we really do direly 17 need this capacity, as soon as it can be made available.
18 MR. BROWN: In conclusion, we have tho trained 19 staff and ample resources to conduct a safe low-power 20 testing program. There's no impact on public health and 21 safety from the low power test program at Seabrook Station.
22 We believe there are significant benefits to an early low-23 power testing program rather than waiting until such time as 24 it's evident that a full power license is to be issued.
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-m 94 1 order that funds will be available to release the site 1 2 restricted use in that hypothetical event that low power 3' testing is performed and no further license is issued. All 4 outstanding NRC requirements for low power authorization 5 will be complete by November 17th, and the joint owners are 6 committed to satisfying our requirements for full power <
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. 8 In short, New Hampshire Yankee and the owners are 9 ready to conduct low-power testing safely and soon. We 10 believe it's prudent to proceed with a low-power testing 11 program at this time rather t.han nait unt11 such time as a 12 full power license is to be issued, and we believe that 13 plant operations will be enhanced and improved through the 14 experience gained from actual operating conditions during 15 and after low power testing is conducted.
16 That concludes our prepared program.
17 DR. MURLEY: Okay, thank you. This has a 18 thorough, a clear and a concise presentation. In fact 19 you've anticipated virtually all my questions, so I don't 20 have any, but let me ask my staff whether there's anything.
21 Ed, did you havo --
22 MR. REIS: No.
23 DR. MURLEY: Vic, back to you.
24 MR. HERSES: Since you don't have any more 25 questions, I indicated at the beginning an opportunity for Heritago Reporting Corporation (202) 628-4888
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SEABROOK JOINT OWNER AND NEW HAMPSHRE YANKEE REPRESENTATIVES JOINT OWNERS John F.G. Eichorn- Chairman and CEO of Eastern Utilities Associates and Chairman of Joint Owners Executive Committee
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Edward A. Brown- President and CEO ,
George S. Thomas - V.P. Nuclear Production Ted C. Felgenbaum- V.P. Engineering, Licensing and Quality Programs
, Thomas G. Dignan- Lead Counselor for NHY,(Ropes & Gray)
George R. Gram- Executive Director, Emergency Preparedness and Community Relations Donald E. Moody- Station Manager Neal A. Pillsbury-IRT Manager / Self Assessment Team Manager Joseph M. Vargas- Manager of Engineering Jeffrey J. Warnock- Nuclear Quality Manager Greg A. Kann- Startup Manager Robert E. Sweeney- Bethesda Office Manager Ronald A. Sher- Media Relations Coordinator s
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AGENDA INTRODUCTION E.A. Brown NHY ORGANIZATION E.A. Brown FINANCIAL STATUS E.A. Brown
. J.F. Eichorn J.C. Duffett OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE G.S. Thomas SCHEDULE G.S. Thomas OPERATIONAL READINESS G.S. Thomas TEST PROGRAM SUPPORT READINESS T.C. Felgenbaum LICENSING STATUS T.C. Feigenbaum SELF-ASSESSMENT N.A. Pillsbury OTHER TECHNICAL ISSUES T.C. Feigenbaum CONCLUDING REMARKS E. A. Brown O ge
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, o The Plan - Detailed study and cost estimate submitted to NRC on 10/20/88
- Basis - Study based on returning site to unrestricted use and termination of license per decommissioning rule e Cost - Conservative cost estimate is $21.1 million e Completion - License terminated by month 52
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LOW POWER TEST PROGRAM STARTUP CRGANIZATION o Shift Test Directors and Test Directors
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$ - all have previously worked in the Seabrook preoperat! anal and startup programs e Startup Organization - consists of test personnel from the following organizations:
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! - Other surveillance tests are being performed per schedule e Buildings - final cleaning in progress e Work Requests - currently 97 scheduled for completion prior to initial criticality i e Security - Programs fully in effect for 2 + years I
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- All relevant items to be complete prior to required mode ;
- Statused daily at plan-of-day meeting o Pre-heatup open items
- NRC Bulletin # 88-08 -- All actions completed except for i final program approval
, - NRC Bulletin # 88-03 -- Complete installation of replacement relays l ,
- NRC Bulletin # 88-0S -- Replace two blind flanges in service water system e All evaluated 100FR 21 actions closad except for two items
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- 5. Construction punchlist items
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- T.C. Feigenbaum- V.P. Engineering, Licensing and Quality Programs
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- Preparation for low power testing conservative and thorough ;
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e Good physical plant condition e Operations and startup personnel properly focused e Overall Conclusion - Seabrook Station will be ready to heat up by mid November and be ready to begin testing by end of November l
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Confirmation of flange and fitting (F/F) adequacy from WJM/ PSI / Chew's Landing e Response:
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- In situ hardness testing
- Laboratory chemical analysis
- NUMARC / EPRI data comparisons '
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- Hardness: 30/369 F/F's required engineering evaluation after in situ hardness testing l
- Chemkal analysis: weld neck flanges consistent with l 1 product chemistry expected for SA-105. Two bilrid j flanges (same heat) replaced l
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PRA AT SEABR@K e Full Scope Level 3 PRA- submitted to NRC in January,1984
- Major Follow on Studies- continued in 1984 - 1988 timeframe:
I - Direct containment heating and induced SGTR
- Improving safety in shutdown modas 4,5 and 6
- Risk sensitivities for emergency planning topics e Reliability /SafetyEngineering Group (RSEG)-
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- 1. Confirmation that all plant systems will operate safely as de$igned and installed I'
- 2. Experience gained by operators and staff during and after testing under actual operating conditions
- 3. Update of plant simulator with actual plant data obtained during Low Power Testing
- 4. Training of operators in simulator using actual plant data
- 5. Discovery of unexpected conditions early enough to prevent delay in full power operation of a much needed electric generating piant
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3 This is to certify that the attached proceedings before the 4 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the matter of:
5 Name MEETING WITH PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TO DISCUSS PLANT READINESS FOR ISSUANCE OF A LOW 6 POWER (5%) LICENSE 7 Docket Numbers 50-443 8 Place: ROCKVILLLE, MARYLAND
- 4 9 Date: November 3, 1989 10 were held as herein appears, and that this is the original 11 transcript thereof for the file of the United States Nuclear 12 Regulatory Commission taken stenographically by me and, 13 thereafter reduced to typewriting by me or under the direction 14 of the court reporting company, and that the transcript is a 15 true and accurate record of the foregoing proceedings.
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17 (Signature typed): K. C. SEKANDER 18 Official Reporter 19 Heritage Reporting Corporation 20 21 22 23 24 25 Heritage Reporting Corporation (202) 628-4888
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