ML20236D931
| ML20236D931 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 07/24/1987 |
| From: | Wambach T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8707310133 | |
| Download: ML20236D931 (3) | |
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i 7590-01 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY DOCKET NO. 50-255 NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO PROVISIONAL OPERATING LICENSE
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued Amendment No.105 to Provisional Operating License No. DPR-20, issued to Consumers Power Company (the licensee), which revised the license for operation of the Palisades Plant (the facility). located in Van Buren County, q
i Michigan.
The amendment is effective as of the date of its issuance.
The license amendment provides Technical Specifications applicable.to an expanded storage capability for spent fuel at Palisades Plant.
This expansion is to be accomplished by installing new storage racks in approximately one-half of the spent fuel pool.
The modification will l
increase the spent fuel storage capacity of Palisades from 798 to 892 fuel assemblies, thus allowing a full core discharge capability for two fuel cycles (Cycle 8 and Cycle 9), longer than with existing racks.
The spent i
i fuel storage pool will be divided into two regions.
Region I contains the existing storage racks which have a nominal center-to-center spa.:ing of j
1 10.25 inches and is designed to accommodate non-irradiated, fuel.
Region'II will contain the new racks which have a nominal center-to-center spacing of 9.17 inches.
Placement of fuel in Region II is restricted by burnup and enrichment limits.
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1 I l The application for the amendment complies with the standards and l
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and I
I the Commission's rules and regulation.
The Commission has made l
appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license j
amendment.
Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity for Prior Hearing in connection with this action was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on November 18, 1986, 51 FR 41711.
No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed following this notice.
Also, in cor,nection with this action, the Commission prepared an Environmental Assessment dated July 24, 1987, and Notice of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact was published in the FEDERAL i
REGISTER on July 20, 1987 (52 FR 27267).
,For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the application for amendment dated February 20, 1986, supplemented by l
submittals dated April 16 and 24, July 24, October 16 and December 19, 1986, and April 23,1987,(2) Amendment No. 105 to License No. DPR-20, and (3) the l
Commission's related Safety Evaluation.
All of these items are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20555, and at the Van Zoeren Library, Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423.
A copy of items (2) and (3) may be l
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20555, Attention:
Director, Division of Reactor Projects -
III, IV, V and Special Projects.
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Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 24th day of July, 1987.
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Thomas V. Wambach, Project Manager Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V
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