ML20234B381
| ML20234B381 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Surry  |
| Issue date: | 06/24/1987 |
| From: | Rubenstein L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| ML20234B373 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 8707060007 | |
| Download: ML20234B381 (2) | |
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r-7590-01 l!!!ITED STATES NllCLEAR PEGULATORY COMMISSION DENIAL OF AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES AND OPPORTitNITY FOR A HEARING i
VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AMD POWER COMPANY DOCKET NOS.57-280 AND 50-281 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Conrnission (the Commission) has denied a request by Virginia Electric and Power Company (the licensee) for amendments to facility Operating License Nos. DPR-32 and DPR-37, issued to the licensee for operation of the Surry Power Station, Unit Nos.1 and 2 (the facilities) located in Surry County, Virginia.
The proposed amendnents would have reduced the minimum number of thimbles reccired for taking flux maps with the incore movable detector system from 757, to 50%. Notice of Consideration of Issuance of these amendments was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on May 21, 1985 (50 FR 20996). The licensee's applica-tion for the amendments was dated April 15, 1985.
The request was found unacceptable due to the fact thet the ability to detect anomalous conditions in the core would be seriously Jagraded. Technical Specification changes to reduce the number of thimbles required for taking flux maps with the incore movable detector system to 50% might result _in a lack of incentive to keep the system operating as close to 100% as-possible, and could j
result in an unacceptably degraded ability to detect anomalous conditions in the core. Therefore, the proposed change to the Technical Specifications is denied.
q The licensee was notified of the Commission's denial of this request by letters dated June 24, 1987 8707060007 87062 DR ADOCK 050 0
>. By July 30, 1987 the licensee may demand a hearing with respe,ct to the denial described above and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to intervene.
A request for a hearing or for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, l
D.C. 20555, Attention: Docketing and Services Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W.,-Washington, D.C.
by the above date.
l A copy of any petition should also be sent to the Office of the General f
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Counsel - Bethesda, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and to Mr. Michael W. Maupin, Esq., Hunton and Williams, Post Office Box 1535, Richmond, Virginia 23213.
For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the application for amendments dated April 15, 1985, and (2) the Commission's letter to Virginia Electric and Power Company dated June 24, 1987, which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. and at the Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185. Copies of item (2) may be obtained upon request i
addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor Projects-1/II.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 24th day of June 1987.
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