ML20235C016

Preliminary Aspects of Brunswick Steam Electric Plant,Units 1 & 2, Rept to ACRS

ML20235C016
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Site:	Brunswick, 05000000
Issue date:	08/30/1968
From:	US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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PRELIMINARY ASPECTS OF THE CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY'S BRUNSWICK STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT UNITS 1 & 2 l

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The Carolina Power & Light Company filed an application on July 31, 1968 for'a construction permit and facility license for a two-unit boiling water reactor plant, identified as the Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Units 1 and 2. . This applicant also has under construction the H. B. Robinson ' '

Unit No. 2 which is a 2094 Mwt pressurized water reactor plant. '

The Brunswick site is located in the southeastern portion of North Carolina about 135 miles SSE of Raleigh, North Carolina and 150 miles

-NE of Charleston, South Carolina. The nearest population center over 25,000 people is Wilmington (population: 44,013), located 20 miles NNE of the site. The nearest sizable community is Southport (population:

2034), located;! miles south of the site.

Two single-cycle, forced circulation boiling water reactors will be used, each with a rated thermal power of 2436 Hwt and a gross electrical output of about 847 Mwe. The reactor, the containment system, and other engineered safety features are very similar to the designs proposed for the Bell Station of the New York State Electric & Gas Company and the Edwin I. Hatch plant of the Georgia Power Company which are under current review by the Division of Reactor Licensing. Prior plants with similar features include the Browns Perry, Vermont Yankee, and Cooper power stations.

New features in this application include a very slight reduction in fuel pellet diameter along with associated changes in fuel enrichment, thermal heat flux, and reactivity control; and small volumetric, changes

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i in the primary containment systems. In addition, the first of the two units will be designed for a capability to take a complete loss of demand load without tripping the reactor. This capability exists in the Millstone

. plant (Docket No. 50-245) though it has not been provided in the more recent plants.

In accordance with our usual practice in evaluation of construction permit applications, we will: (a) compare the Brunswick units to previ-  ;

ously authorized boiling water reactor plants to determine design features which are sufficiently similar to accept on the basis of the earlier reviews, (b) identify and evaluate in detail those features which are unique to the Brunswick facility,'and (c) examine the status of those areas in which R&D is being performed for the boiling water type reactor.

We expect to concentrate our evaluation efforts on the following issues:

1. Station structural design criteria with respect to geology, l seismology, and hydrology;

2. Site and environment features;

3. Shared systems of the two-unit facility;

4. Fuel failure mechanisms and detection; j

5. Progress of research and development programs;

6. Quality assurance programs; and

7. Progress on other safety issues identified in recent ACRS letters.

On the basis of a preliminary review of the Carolina Power & Light Company application, there do not appear to be safety problems that cannot be satisfactorily resolved. {

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