ML20210P657

Forwards List of Proposed Changes to Approved Power Ascension Test Program Proposed in Util .Two Startup Test Exceptions Listed.Fsar Should Be Amended to Reflect Approved Changes

ML20210P657
Person / Time
Site:	Clinton
Issue date:	04/23/1986
From:	Butler W Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Spangenberg F ILLINOIS POWER CO.
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NUDOCS 8605130462
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Mr. Frank A. Spangenberg Manager - Licensing and Safety Clinton Power Station P.O. Box 306 Mail Code V920 Clinton, Illinois 61727

SUBJECT:

CLINTON POWER STATION:

PROPOSED CHANGES TO POWER ASCENSION PROGRAM By letter dated February 5, 1986, you proposed certain changes to the power ascension test program for Clinton Power Station. The startup tests that are the subject of the proposed changes are identified in the enclosure. The staff has reviewed your submittal and determined that the proposed changes to the startup tests identified in the enclosure are acceptable with the following two exceptions:

Startup Test 11.0 - Conducting the LPRM response test to control rod movement at Test Condition 1 rather than during heatup is unacceptable. However, response checks can be limited to those LPRM's that have on scale position indications.

Startup Test 30.3 - Deletion of the two recirculation pump trip test at Test Condition 3 is unacceptable.

Most of the changes you proposed were determined to be acceptable largely on the basis of similar changes reviewed and found acceptable for the Hope Creek program. The two proposed changes that were found unacceptable were also found unacceptable for the Hope Creek program.

In addition, you proposed deletion of Test Condition 4 from Startup Tests 22.0 and 23.1.

The staff has determined the deletion of this test condi+ ion is acceptable, provided that for Startup Test 22.0 the Technical Specification Surveillance Test for Section 3/4.4.1 is incorporated into a startup test procedure to be performed at Test Condition 4, such as in the recirculation system test described in Section 14.2.12.2.27 of the FSAR.

Our findings relative to your proposed accelerated power ascension program is being furnished at this time so that the corresponding test procedures can be amended, approved by your facility review group and reviewed by Region III in time for use during startup testing at the Clinton Station. The staff's safety evaluation of this program will be reported in Supplement 6 to the SER. We request that the Clinton FSAR be amended, where applicable, to reflect the changes that have been found acceptable by the staff. This concludes our review of the proposed changes to the power ascension test program.

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7 If you have any questions regarding this matter please contact our project manager for your application.

Sincerely',

Walter R. Butler, Director BWR Project Directorate No. 4 Division of BWR Licensing

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Walter R. Butler, Director BWR Project Directorate No. 4 Division of BWR Licensing

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Mr. R. C. Heider Project Manager Sargent & Lundy Engineers 55 East Monroe Street Chicago, Illinois 6QC03 l

Mr. L. Larson Projecttianager General Electric Cor.pany 175 Curtner Avenue, N/C 395 San Jose, California 95125 Regional Administrator, Region til 799 Roosevelt Ruad Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 l

l Enclosure STARTUP TESTS FOR WHICH CHANGES REQUESTED Chemical and Radiochemical Test Simplification Startup Test 1.0 Fuel Loading Test Simplification Startup Test 3.0 Control Rod Drive System / Hot Friction Testing Startup Test 5.1 Test Simplification Control Rod Drive System / Hot Single Rod Scram Startup Test 5.2 Testing in Conjunction with Startup Test 28.0 Control Rod Drive System / Ganged Rod Testing Startup Test 5.3 Delete Selected Non-Essential Equipment Testing Control Rod Sequence Exchange Test Deletion Startup Test 8.0 Startup Test 11.0 - Local Power Range Monitor Calibration Test Simplification Startup Test 14.0 - Reactor Core Isolation Cooling System Test Simplification Startup Test 18.0 - Traversing Incore Probe Uncertainty Test Deletion Startup Test 21.0 - Core Power-Void Mode Response Test Deletion Startup Test 22.0 - Pressure Regulator Test Simplification Startup Test 23.1 - Feedwater System Response Test Simplification Startup Test 24.0 - Turbine Valve Surveillance Test Simplification Startup Test 25.1 - Main Steam Isolation Valve Functional Tests Test Simplification Startup Test 26.0 - Relief Valves Test Simplification Startup Test 27.0 - Turbine Trip and Generator Load Rejection Test Simplification Startup Test 29.0 - Recirculation Flow Control System Test Simplification Startup Test 30.1 - Single Recirculation Pump Trip Test Simplification Startup Test 30.3 - Recirculation Pump Trip - Two Pumps, In Conjunction with Startup Test 27.0 Startup Test 30.4 - Recirculation Runback in Conjunction with Startup Test 23.3 Startup Test 30.5 - Recirculation System Cavitation Test Simplification

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