ML20207Q354
| ML20207Q354 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Vogtle  |
| Issue date: | 01/15/1987 |
| From: | Doris Lewis GEORGIA POWER CO., SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE |
| To: | Edles G, Kohl C, Wilber H NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP) |
| References | |
| CON-#187-2248 OL, NUDOCS 8701270205 | |
| Download: ML20207Q354 (3) | |
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- Teorco Ica January 15, 1987 wa Ttws oinscr oi4L Nuusta (zoa) 775 o33e (202)663-8474 Gary J. Edles, Chairman Christine N. Kohl, Esq.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 t
Mr. Howard A. Wilber Atomic Safety and Licensing j
Appeal-Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 y
i In the Matter of Georgia Power Company, et al.
(Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2)
Docket Nos. 50-424 and 50-425-OG.
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Dear Administrative Judges:
In its appellate brief, Intervenor Georgians Against Nuclear
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Energy (GANE) made allegations not previously raised in this proceding concerning Limitorque motor operators.
See GANE's "Ap-peal, Brief and Proposed Findings Concerning Licensing Board De-4 cisions" (Oct. 1986) at 17-18.
One of the allegations related to 3
the discovery of burn damage to the internal wiring in several j.
motor operators at Plant Vogtle.
Georgia Power Company responded that GANE's allegations neither conformed to the NRC's Rules of i
l Practice nor raised a timely or significant iss.ue.
Applicants' Brief in opposition to the Appeal of Georgians Against Nuclear Energy (Nov. 14, 1986) at 59-61 and n.14.
Georgia Power Company further submitted.an affidavit of Robert M. Bellamy, the Plant i
Support Manager, indicating that it had detected and reported to j
the NRC the occurrence of burn damage in the internal wiring of several motor operators in November 1985, had determined and cor-rected the root cause of the problem, had inspected safety-related motor operators, and had replaced any burned wiring that was found.
Affidavit of Robert M. Bellamy (Nov. 14, j
1986), 11 12-13.
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SHAw, PITTMAN, PoTTs & TROWBRIDGE A PARTN(mSmP INCLUD8NQ PROrtsS40NAL ConsonaftONS While addressing the results of a recent NRC inspection, Mr.
l Bellamy discovered some further information bearing on this mat-ter, which he promptly brought to Georgia Poder Company's atten-tion.
Georgia Power Company reports this information below.
Georgia Power Company learned that several VEGP work orders, which should have included instruction to QC inspectors to in-spect the internal wiring of a number of safety-related Lim-itorque motor operators for burn damage, inadvertantly omitted this. instruction.
As a result, while the wiring of safety-related Limitorque motor operators at VEGP had been sub-jected to a number of documented inspections and evaluations which should have detected burn damage, the documentation did not demonstrate that burn damage had been a particular item of scru-tiny in all cases.
Georgia Power Company therefore identified those safety-related motor operators which lacked documentation of a specific inspection for internal wiring burn damage, and reinspected all but five,of them.
Two instances of burn damage i
i were found, but they were on the superfluous wiring for the dis-
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connected heater circuit (see Affidavit of Robert M. Bellamy, 1 l.
Four of the motor operators that were not reinspected are inaccessible because they are contained in encapsulation vessels l
(a containment pressure boundary that cannot readily be i
breached).
The internal wiring of these four motor operators has been previously inspected (albeit without specific instructions to check for burn damage), and one of the four motor operators e
has been specifically examined by engineering personnel for in-ternal wiring burn damage during an engineering evaluation.
The i
i previous inspections and the engineering evaluation would likely I-have detected significant burn damage.
Based on these facts and j
on the very infrequent occurrerce of burn damage.in other motor operators, Georgia Power Company has determined that reinspection of these four valves is presently unnecessary.
The fifth motor operator that was not reinspected did not use an internal heater j
(which was the cause of burn damage in other motor operators).
l Georgia Power Company brings this matter to the Appeal Board's attention in order to keep the Appeal Board fully in-formed of new developments.
This information does not alter i
Georgia Power Company's opinion that GANE has failed to raise any l
timely or significant issue.
l-Sincerely, 1,2 David R. Lewis
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Counsel for Georgia Power Company l
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6 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board In the Matter of
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GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, et al.
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Docket No. 50-424
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50-425 (Vogtle Electric Generating Plant,
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Units 1 and 2)
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SERVICE LIST Gary J. Edles, Chairman Bernard M. Bordenick, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Office of General Appeal Board Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Washington, D.C.
20555 Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Christine N. Kohl Atomic Safety and Licensing Bradley Jones, Esquire Appeal Board Regional Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Washington, D.C.
20555 Commission 101 Marietta Street, Suite 3100 Howard A. Wilber Atlanta, GA 30303 i
Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Danny Feig U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1130 Alta Avenue l
Washington, D.C.
20555 Atlanta, GA 30307 Morton B. Margulies, Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Washington, D.C.
20555 Gustave A. Linenberger Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Panel Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Washington, D.C.
20555 Dr. Oscar H. Paris Docketing and Service Section Atomic Safety and Licensing Office of the Secretary Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Washington, D.C.
20555 Carol Stangler 425 Euclid Terrace Atlanta, GA 30307~
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