ML20210B778

Petition for Action,Per 10CFR2.206,requesting That Facility Fuel Loading Not Be Permitted & OLs Not Be Issued Until Damage from 860131 Earthquake Evaluated,Functional Testing & Repairs Completed & Local Seismicity Reevaluated

ML20210B778
Person / Time
Site:	Perry
Issue date:	02/03/1986
From:	Hiatt S OHIO CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
2.206, OL, NUDOCS 8602100059
Download: ML20210B778 (4)

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' UNITED--STATES OF ANERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

.Before-th'e Director, Orrice or Nuclear Reactor Regulotson In the' Hotter of -)

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THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ) Docket Nos. 50-440 OL

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(Perry Nuclear Power Plant, )

Units 1 ond 2) )

PETITION FOR ACTION UNDEP 10 CFR 2.206

1. INTRODUCTION

'At 11:47 AM on Friday, January 31, 19 6 on' earthquake with a magnitude of 5.~0 on the Richter scale struck Northeast Ohio.

- The-epicenter of the earthquoke is estimated to be near r Thompson, Ohio,-less than 10 miles from the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.-

While only preliminary informotion as available on the

- eorthquake at this time, thts informotson strongly indicates

.that,iat a minimum, the FSAR analysis of site area seismicity needs t o ' kHi redone. The January 31 earthquake clearly shows the conclusions in the FSAR and SER (NUREG-0887) to be erroneous, For. example, at is concluded that no capable faults'exsst in the

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vicinity of the plant. FSAR Sectson 2.5.3.6s SER or The pione site is otso sotd to be on oreo of low seismicity.

FSAR Section 2, Appendix 0, p. D-94.

Even more disturbing are news accounts statang that accelerations from the eorenquote were estimated to ronge from 0.19 9 to 0.25 9, Perry ss designed to withstand 0.15 9 (sofe shutdown earthquabe). F5AR sectscn 2.5.2.6. This, along with the definitton of the. operating basis earthquoke in 10 CFR 100 9602100059 860203 g9 DR ADOCKOS00gggO

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l Appendix A (on earthquake which could reasonobly be expected to ofrect the plant site during the operating lire of the plant),

indicates'thot the SSE ond OBE should be more severe than presently postulated, and the seismsc capability or sorety-related structures, systems, and components at Perry should be upgraded oCCordingly.

In li9ht of this information. Ohto Citizens for Responsible Energy ('OCRE*) hos moved to reopen the hearing record in the Perry operating license proceedtng, for the purposes or admitting and litigottng the rolloutng neu contentton:

Appliconts have not demonstrated that the seismsc design or'the Perry fluclear Power Plant is odequote in Itght or observed locol setsmietty.

Secouse fuel loodsng of Perry Unit 1 is scheduled for sometime this month (perhaps os soon as mid-February). OCRE also rands te necessary to rile this oceton pursuant to 10 CFR 0.006 in order to ensure tnot Itcensing does not proceed before this matter hos been thoroughly investagoted.

II. RELIEF REQUESTED OCP,E requeses that ruel loodtog not be p e r nii t t e d , and that no operotang license for any power level be issued. untti the following actions have been accomp11shed:

1. The Perry fluclear Power Plant has been thoroughly inspected for d a ro o g e resulting from the January 31 earthquoke, Thts should include the use or nondestructive evoluotion techniques os well as visuoi inspection.

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' :: . Post-eorthquake functional testing or oli plant systems is completed. These tests should include, but not be limsted to, contoinment integrated leak rote testing and hydrostatic testing of the reactor coolont pressure boundary.

3. Full completion of any corrective actions or repoirs found to be necessory os a result of the testing and inspection delineated aboVe, 5, A comprehensive investigotton of the January 31 earthquake o r. d a reevoluotion of local setsmicity by the Cleveland Electric

! Illuminating Co., the flRC, the Advisory Committee on Reactor ioreguards, the U.S. GeolostC Survey, and all other scientifte entities stuaying the earthquake.

5, Completion of the hearing and tssuance of a decaston'on OCRE's seismic design contention (noted above) in the reopened operating license proceeding, should the Appeal Board gront OCRE's motion, o, Completed insto11otton of any sessmic upgrooing of Perry that may be required either by the flRC Stof f or by the Appeal Goord in its decision on OCHE's sessmic design contention.

III . C0tlCLUSI0tl The Jonuary 31 earthquake rosses significant questions about the safety of the Perry lluclear Power Plant. Completion of the l

ocove ocesvattes is a necessory prerequisite to the resolution of these questtons, Because at ts imperottVe that the safety of

! Perry be firmly resolved before the plant is permitted to I

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Operate, the Granting'Of this Petteion as montrestly in the public interest.

Respectfully submitted.

.e Susan L. Hiatt GCRE Representoesve 3275 ttunson Rd.

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