ML20211L052
| ML20211L052 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Pilgrim |
| Issue date: | 06/20/1986 |
| From: | Strosnider J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Kister H NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| NUDOCS 8607010192 | |
| Download: ML20211L052 (4) | |
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JUN 2 0 266 Docket No. 50-293 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Harry Kister, Chief Projects Eranch No. 1 FROM:
Jack R. Strosnider, Chief Reactor Projects Section IE SUEJECT:
PILGRIM STATUS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD JUNE 10 - JUNE 18, 1986 Enclosed is the Pilgrim weekly status report from the NRC Resicent Office at Pilcrim. Two NRC Resicent inspectors monitorec routine activities at the plant curing tne report period.
ine reactor was in cold shutdown throughout the period f cr a maintenance outage.
Tnese status reports are intenced to provide NRC management and the public with ar ove v"e.
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t act'vit'es a-d NR: inspection activities. Subsecuent in-scection reports will adcress many of these topics in more detail.
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Fartiow, NRC, IE W. Kane, NRR, RI J. Zwolinski, NRC, NRR J. Lycon, Cnief Coerating Cfficer, EECO L. Oxsen, Vice President, Nuclear Operations, BECO A. Pederson, Station Manager, EECO Paul Levy, Chairman, Department of Public Utilities Chairman, Scard of Selectmen J. D. Keyes Plymouth Civil Defense Director Senator Edward P. Kirby Public Document Rocn (PDR)
Local Public Document Room (LPDR)
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Rep. Peter Forman pgg7o2M Bloe%3 R
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Region I Docket Room (with concurrences)
Management Assistant, DRMA (w/o encl)
DRP Section Chief W. Raymond, SRI, Vermont Yankee T. Shedlosky, SRI, Millstone 1&2 H. Eichenholz, SRI, Yankee P. Leech, LPM, NRR L. Doerflein R. Fuhrmeister RI:DRP P
Strosnider Kister 6/19/86 6fLO/86 s
0FFICIAL RECORD COPY PILGRIM WEEKLY. STATUS REPORT -
06/20/86
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PILGRIM STATUS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD JUNE 10 - JUNE 18,1986 1.0 Plant Status As of 8:00 a.m. on June 18, 1986, the reactor was in cold shutdown with moderator temperature about 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
2.0 Facility Operations Summary The plant has been shut down for maintenance and to make program improve-ments since April 12, 1986.
3.0 Items of Special Interest I
CAL 86-10 Update NRC Confirmator y Action Letter 86-10 was issued on April 12, 1986.
It outlined three areas of NRC concern: (1) two recent spurious primary con-tainment isolations in April that closed the main steam line isolation valves (MSIV), (2) the inability to promptly open the outboard MSIV's following the spurious isolations, and (3) the leakage of reactor coolant into the residual heat removal systen which had the potential to over-pressurize system piping. The licensee agreed in CAL 86-10 to seek ap-proval from the Regional Administrator of NRC Region 1 prior to restarting i
the reactor.
Short-term repairs and plant modifications related to CAL 86-10 issues have been completed.
Related raintenance during the report period in-cluded the disassembly and inspection of the 28A residual heat removal injection valve.
Boston Edison submitted a suppler.entary response to CAL 86-10 to the NRC on June 16, 1986.
In addition, CAL 86-10 was discussed during a meeting between BECo and NRC canagement on June 12, 1986 at the NRC regional offices.
The NRC has not completed its review of the 86-10 issues and has not given approval for restart.
Plymouth Town Meeting On June 10, 1986, Dr.
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Murley, Regional Administrator, and Mr.
R.
i Starostecki, Director of the Division of Reactor Projects, from NRC Region I attended a public meeting at the Plymouth-Carver High School in Plymouth, MA. The meeting was held by the Plymouth Board of Selectmen to give local residents the opportunity to ask Boston Edison and the NRC questions about Pilgrim Station.
The meeting lasted about four hours.
Dr. Murley and Mr. Starostecki toured the Pilgrim site prior to the meeting.
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2 Management Meeting On June 12, 1986, a management meeting was held between NRC Region I and senior Boston Edison officials at the NRC offices in King of Prussia, PA.
Discussion topics at the meeting included an update on CAL 86-10 correc-tive actions, the status of BECo corrective action programs, plant staff-ing, and recent QA problems.
Planned improvements in the BECo management process were also discussed. These involve improvements in management ac-countability and improvements in the scheduling and tracking of planned work at the station.
BEC0 management informed the NRC that restart of the reactor is not planned until at least mid-July. Members of the news media attended the meeting.
Labor Actions Striking plant operators, maintenance workers, and clerical workers ended a four-week labor action on June 12, 1986.
Boston Edison management personnel filled in for union personnel during the strike.
Normal plant work schedules should be resumed next week.
Laborers are continuing a strike against the chief contractor onsite, Bechtel.
This job action has delayed some plant modifications but has not significantly affected routine plant operations.
Overdue Surveillance Tests On June 13, 1986, the licensee reported that approximately 59 of 65 con-tainment penetration leakage tests and 37 of 107 containment isolation valve leakage tests were apparently overdue by as much as several months.
These tests are required to be done at least every two years and are used to calculate primary containment leakage.
The licensee also reported that a surveillance test for an emergency re-actor shutdown system, the standby liquid control system (SBLC), may be overdue.
This test verifies that the SBLC will pump a neutron poison solution into the reactor. The SBLC system is a backup system designed to shut the reactor down if the reactor control rods malfunction.
The licensee is evaluating the test scheduling problems and formulating corrective actions.
These tests are required to be conducted at specific intervals by NRC regulations.
Non-Seismically Qualified Electrical Relays The licensee also started removing non-seismically qualified differential electrical relays from the safety-related electrical distribution system at the station. The relays are being replaced with seismically qualified equipment.
NRC Information Notice 85-82 identified the existing model relays as being not seismically qualifiad The licensee justification for operation with the unqualified relay < is currently under NRC review.
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3 Unsamoled Septic Truck On June 13, 1986, a commercial sanitary waste truck pumped out a sewage waste tank onsite and left site without being sampled. The licensee re-quires that the waste in these trucks be sampled prior to leaving the site.
No radioactive contamination had been found in trucks previously sampled and it was subsequently cetermined that the waste in the truck came from a noncontaminated waste tank.
4.0 NRC Staf' Status durinp the Period Two NRC Resident Inspectcrs monitored plant activities between June 10 and 18, 1986. A third Resident Inspector reported to Pilgrim on June 17, 1986.
He will be stationed at the site for about two months.
Currently, the resicent inspector staff at Pilgrim consists of the following:
Martin M Brice, Ph.D. --- Senior Resident Inspector Jeffrey Lyash
--- Resicent Inspector G-ece v Neffel:
--- Reside-t Inspecto-NO NRC inspe: tier recorts vere issued during the last week.
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