ML20207A918
| ML20207A918 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Pilgrim |
| Issue date: | 07/03/1986 |
| From: | Strosnider J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Kister H NRC |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8607170320 | |
| Download: ML20207A918 (5) | |
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s Docket No. 50-293 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Harry Kister, Chief j
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Jack R. Strosnider, Chief Reactor Projects i
Section IB
SUBJECT:
PILGRIM STATUS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD JUNE 25 - JULY 2,1986 1
I Enclosed is the Pilgrim weekly status report from the NRC Resident Office at j
Pilgrim. Three NRC Resident Inspectors monitored routine activities at the i
plant during the report period. The reactor remained in cold shutdown through-
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out the period for maintenance.
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i These status reports are intended to provide NRC management and the public with j
an overview of plant activities and NRC inspection activities.
Subsequent in-spection reports will address many of these topics in more detail.
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J. Zwolinski, NRC, NRR J. Lydon, Chief Operating Officer, BECO L. Oxsen, Vice President, Nuclear Operations, BECO A. Pederson, Station Manager, BEC0 Paul Levy, Chairman, Department of Public Utilities
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Chairman, Board of Selectmen J. D. Keyes l-Plymouth Civil Defense Director i
Senator Edward P. Kirby j
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PILGRIM STATUS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD JUNE 25 - JULY 2,1986 i
I 1.0 Plant Status 1
As of 8:00 a.m. on July 2,1986, the reactor was in cold shutdown with the reactor coolant temperature at about 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
j 2.0 Facility Operations Summary i
The plant has been shut down for maintenance and to make program improve-l ments since April 12, 1986. Boston Edison Company announced that planned inspections of all four (4) Residual Heat Removal pumps in the Emergency Core Cooling System, and primary containment local leak rate testing and integrated leak rate testing will lengthen the current outage.
j 3.0 Items of Special Interest l
j Duxbury Town Meeting I
On June 26, 1986, Mr. Richard Starostecki, Director of-the Division of Reactor Projects, NRC Region I and Dr. Martin McBride, NRC Senior Resident I-Inspector attended a public meeting at the Duxbury High School in Duxbury, MA.
The public meeting was sponsored and conducted by the Duxbury Board j
of Selectmen to provide local residents the opportunity to question re-j sponsible officials regarding emergency planning.
In addition to the NRC, representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Massachusetts Department of Civil Defense, Massachusetts Department of Radiation Protection and Boston Edison Company were on hand to answer questions from the public and the selectmen.
Plymouth Town Meeting 1
On June 30, 1986, Dr. Ronald Bellamy, Chief, Emergency Preparedness and Radiological Prctection Branch, NRC Region I and Dr. Martin McBride, NRC Senior Resident Inspector attended a public meeting sponsored by the Plymouth Board of Selectmen.
The meeting was held at Memorial Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts to discuss, in the public forum, issues related to emergency planning.
Representatives of federal, state and local agencies and Boston Edison Company were in attendance.
Labor Actions i
On June 30, 1986, at approximately 8:00 p.m., the United Plant Guard Workers Union of America Local 540, representing the contract security force (Globe Security System), voted to strike.
The strike vote followed the union's failure to accept a new labor contract.
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of licensee and Globe security supervisory personnel from other sites, i
was called in.
Some Boston Edison union personnel, including reactor operators, honored the picket lines.
Boston Edison used management i
personnel to fill in for missing union workers as was done during the
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recently concluded strike by licensee employees.
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In a second ballot held June 30, 1986, at approximately 2:00 p.m.,
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union chose to accept the proposed labor contract, strike activities f
ceased, and the normal security force resumed their duties.
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Laborers are continuing a strike against the chief contractor onsite, j
j Bechtel. This job action has delayed some plant modifications but has j
not significantly affected routine plant operations.
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Leak Rate Test Results The licensee has started a new program cycle of containment leakage testing.. Plans include conduct of local leak rate testing for all i
containment penetrations and isolation valves followed by performance of f
j a containment integrated leak rate test.
Local leak rate testing uses 1
air under pressure to measure the leakage through specific penetrations r
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the entire containment is pressurized with air and the total leak rate
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from the containment is measured. The licensee has selected those com-1 ponents with a higher probability of leak rate test failures to be tested j
first.
This provides the maximum time for repair of problems identified 1
during testing.
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Since June 23, 1986, 35 of 100 containment penetrations to be tested, i
have been tested with no failures.
Leakage tests on 8 of 123 containment j
isolation valves to be tested, have been conducted with 5 tests exceeding 4
the acceptance criteria.
Specific test failures identified during this
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week include check valves in the "A" and "B" feedwater lines. These valves will be repaired and retested prior to the integrated leak rate I
test.
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i Failed Motor Generator Set Field Breaker i
I On June 29, 1986, one of two electrical coils that operate a circuit
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breaker for the "A" recirculation motor generator set failed. The coil j
that failed performs no safety function.
However, the breaker was found i
to be mechanically bound and as a result, the second coil which is
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intended to perform a safety function under certain postulated conditions i
may also have failed if called upon. An investigation of the failure is
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3 Main Stack Weekly Particulate Sample Missed On July 1,1986 during performance of routine weekly surveillance, the licensee discovered that no particulate filter had been loaded into the main stack sample canister. A continuous representative sample of main stack effluent is passed through the canister so these station releases j
can be quantified.
The canister is removed weekly for analysis and then reloaded and replaced. Apparently after performance of the previous surveillance, the required particulate filter was not installed. The plant is presently in cold shutdown with release rates a small fraction of allowable limits.
The licensee is evaluating other available data to estimate the results of the missed weekly sample.
4.0 NRC Staff Status during the period Three NRC Resident Inspectors monitored plant activities between June 25 and July 2, 1986. Currently, the resident inspector staff at Pilgrim consists of the following:
1 Martin McBride, Ph.D. --- Senior Resident Inspector Jeffrey Lyash
--- Resident Inspector Gregory Nejfelt
--- Resident Inspector No NRC inspection reports were issued during the past week.
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