ML20238C556
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| Site: | FitzPatrick  |
| Issue date: | 08/19/1987 |
| From: | Brons J POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (NEW YORK |
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BEFORE THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION-In the. matter of
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New York Power Authority
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Docket No. 50-333 James A.-Fit 2 Patrick Nuclear Power Plant)_
APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT.
TO OPERATING LICENSE Pursuant to Section 50.90 of the. regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the New York Power Authority -as holder:of-Facility Operating License No. DPR-59, heteby applies for an Amendment to this license.
4 The proposed amendment changes the expirationLdate'of the: J ame s - A.'
FitzPatrick Operating License as. stated in section'2.F on page 5 of the Amended Facility Operating License from May 20, 2010 to October 17, 2014..This new expiration date corresponds.to-forty..
(40) years from the date of issuance of'the full.-power-operating
' license as permitted under 10 CFR~50.51'.
-The' Fit 2 Patrick' plant was designed and constructed for an' operating' lifetime of 40' years.
The proposed. change page to the Operating License is 4
Attachment I to this application.
The Safety Evaluation for this J
change is included as Attachment II.
New York Power Authority 1
grw John Brons Executive Vice President Nuclear Generation J
STATE OF NEW 'rORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER Subscribed and Sworn to before me this / 9 day of 4mpar, 19 87.
[Yabact b M%rt MA9f Notary Public BARBARA ANN McGUlHE Notary Fuuiic, State of New York No. 4851437 oualified in Putnam County Commission Expires Jan. 27,19...!.
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ATTACHMENT I TO JPN-87-047 PROPOSED CHANGE TO THE OPERATING LICENSE EXPIRATION IMTE j
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8 NEW YORK POWER AUTHORITY JAMES A. FITZPATRICK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DOCKET NO. 50-333 DPR-59 i
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! (d) A copy of all reports pertaining to the i
environment and relating to water quality or i
water pollution prepared by the operator for any Feders1, _ State or local agency, shall also be submitted to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; (e) Intake and effluent-temperatures and flow must be measured and recorded continuously; l
(f) Facility electrical output must be monitored and daily maximum and minimum recorded and daily average determined and recorded:
1 (g) All oil and chemical discharges must be l
treated, before any dilution, in facilities approved by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; (h) Triaxial isothermal mapping by actual temperature measurement must be conducted on a frequency in such a manner and pursuant to a program approved by the New York State De pa r t;'.e nt of Environmental Conversation and the Commission; and (i) Reports of tests and measurements pertaining to temperatures, flows, electrical output, oil and chemical discharges, and triaxial isothermal mapping as prescribed in conditions (e), (f), (g) and (h) above must be submitted monthly to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and the Commission, j
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This amended license is effective at 11:59 p.m.,
EDST, June 4,
1977, and shall expire at.aidnight October 17, 2014.
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i Date of Issuance:
June 3-1977 i
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ATTACHMENT II TO JPN-87-047
-1 SAFETY EVALUATION FOR THE PROPOSED CHANGE TO THE OPERATING LICENSE EXPIRATION DATE j
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DOCKET NO. 50-333 DPR-59 J
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Descri.ption of the Proposed Chance l
The proposed change is to extend the duration of the FitzPatrick Operating License to forty (40). years from the date of issuance of the full-power license (October.17, 1974).
Specifically, Section 2.F on page 5 of the Amended' Facility Operating License is changed from:
...and shall expire at midnight May 20, 2010."
to read:
...and shall expire at midnight October 17, 2014."
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Purpose of the Proposed Chance The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, specifies in Section 103 c. that a license shall be issued for a specified
.h period of time, not exceeding forty years.
This limitation has been codified in 10 CFR 50.51.
I Prior to 1982, the Commission granted operating licenses to nuclear power reactors with the date of expiration linked to the issuance date of construction permits.
This practice was modified in response to a request by Commonwealth Edison
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Company for the Commission to issue operating licences (OL) i for La Salle Units 1 and 2 for a full term of forty years 1
beginning with the date of issuance of the operating l
licenses.
This request was approved, and La Salle Unit 1 received an OL for forty years from the date of OL issuance in 1982.
In an August 16, 1982 memorandum to the Commission, Mr. William I. Dircks, Executive Director for Operations, elaborated on the new OL position and directed the staff to l
issue an OL for the term requested by the applicent, but in j
no case to exceed forty years from the date of issuance of the OL.
The Commission practice of granting forty year OLs has also, upon request by the licensee, been extended to plants licensed before 1982.
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company requested a license amendment to change the OL expiration dates of its Calvert Cliffs Units 1 and 2 to extend the duration of both licenses to forty years from the date of issuance of the OL.
The Commission granted this request and issued these amendments on May 1, 1985.
1 The New York Power Authority's James A.
FitzPatrick operating license is similar to the Calvert Cliffs Units' licenses in that they were all issued before 1982 and their licensed for.ty year lifetime originally started from the date of issuance of their construction permits.
This amendment request for FitzPatrick is to modify its license in the same manner that was granted to the Calvert Cliffs Unit's licenses.
That is, to extend the duration of the license to forty years by changing the license expiration date.
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III. Impact of the Proposed Chance i
FitzPatrick is currently licensed for plant operation for j
40 years from the date of issuance of the construction 1
permit.
Accounting for the time that was required for construction, this represents an effective operating license term of approximately 35 1/2 years.
The Commission, in amending the Calvert Cliffs-licenses, noted that the issuance of operating licenses for 40 years
_1 from date of the construction permit issuance rather than 40 years from date of the operating license issuance was arbitary, and had no safety basis.
The plant was designed for 40 years of operation.
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l The FitzPatrick plant was also designed and constructed for 40 years of operation as discussed at various places in the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR).
This 40 year design life presumed operation at a thermal power level of 2436 MW j
with a cumulative lifetime capacity factor of 80%, or'32.
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effective full power years (EFPY).
l Reactor pressure vessel materials analyses have demonstrated the expected cumulative neutron fluence of the-vessel at the 32 EFPY service life will not be a limiting condition.
Analyses of survc111ance capsules of q
representative vessel materials and flux wires'placed inside i
the reactor vessel have provided a means to periodically monitor the cumulative effects of the neutron exposure and j
have confirmed the predictions used-in the analytical I
techniques.
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The 40 year service life design criteria do not imply
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that some equipment and components will not wear out or i
require replacement during the plant lifetime.
Therefore, other features were included in the design and construction of FitzPatrick which maximize the ability to test, inspect and perform preventative and corrective maintenance on'the plant structures, systems and components.
Periodic inservice inspection and testing requirements have been incorporated into the plant Technical Specifications and procedures to provide further assurance that any unanticipated degradation in systems or equipment will be identified and corrected in a timely manner.
Environmental qualification of plant s n 'ty related-electrical equipment in accordance with 10 6cR 50.49 have identified qualified lifetimes for this equipment.
These lifetimes have been incorporated into the-FitzPatrick maintenance and replacement policies to ensure that safety l
related electrical equipment will remain operable throughout-the plant lifetime.
Extending operating licenses to 40. years from the date of issuance will not significantly impact information presented in the FSAR as evaluated in the AEC Safety Evaluation Report.
I The Authority's " Environmental Report, Operating License Stage", dated May, 1971 for FitzPatrick and the US AEC's
" Final Environmental Statement Relating to Operation of James A.
FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant", dated March 1973, were reviewed to determine if the proposed' license extension would involve any previously unconsidered environmental impacts.
Since both environmental impact reports were written presuming a 40 year plant life, no additional environmental impacts associated with extended plant. operation for a full 40 year period were identified.
In computing a financial worth comparison, the AEC Environmental Statement uses at basis a lifetime of less than 40 years.
In Section 9.3, Alternate Means of Power Generation, a life of 30 years is used in computing a-financial present-worth comparison of FitzPatrick with an alternative oil-ficed steam plant of equal electrical l
output.
This postulated lifetime does not reflect the actual design lifetime of the plants, 'but rather.was selected ar a standard reference used to demonstrate the economic superiority of-completing FitzPatrick vs. constructing'any other comparable means of generating electricity at the site.
l A consideration in extending the FitzPatrick OL to a full 40 years is the effect, if any, continued operation will have on the general public.
Operation of the plant does not now result in significant exposure to the public.
Routine operation of the plant for the additional 4 1/2 years will also not result in significant exposure to the public.
The FSAR evaluates the consequences of design basis accidents as the resulting exposure to the public.
Population projections in the FSAR form the basis for l
evaluating what affect the license extension would have on l
the public in the unlikely event that an accident should occur during the extension period.
Cumulative exposure to the general public due to a design basis accident (or from any other accident) would be less than originally projected because of lower than projected population in the surrounding i
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I The population projections provided in the FSAR, the AEC's Environmental Statement, and the Authority's Environmental Report were compared to the most recent projections available in the "1984-85 New York State Statistical Yearbook" using data from the 1980 census and the population projections from the New York State Department of Commerce, State Data Center.
This comparison is shown in L
Tables 1 and 2 for Oswego County (containing the entire 10 mile Emergency Planning Zone) and for seven surrounding.
counties (common to each of the sources and representing a 50 mile radius around the plant).
The percentile figures below-the population figures represent the deviation for those.
projections with current best estimate projections.-
It should be noted that the 1980 data shown for the "New York 1
State Statistical Yearbook" is derived from the 1980 U.S.
Census.
TABLE 1 Population Projections (x1000)
Osweuo County
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114 l
116.3 l
122 l
118.6 l
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+3.8%
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+7.0%
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+4.0%
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1980 l
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1990 l
127 l
134.0 l
147 l
134.4 l
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+5.5%
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+15.7% l
+5.8%
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l-2000 l
140 l
155.9 l
178 l
157.1 l
+11.4%
+21.1%
+12.1%
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l 2010 l
153 184.4 l
185.1 l
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+20.5%
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+21.0%
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l 2020 l
l 217.6 l
l 218.4 l
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1 NYSSY - New York State Stati6tical Yearbook, 1984-5 ER - Environmental Report, PAS?1Y, 1971 EG - Environmental Statement, AEC, 1973 FSAR - Final Safety Analysis Report, latest revision
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FSAR l
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1089 l
1188.8 1193 l
1206.5 l
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+9.2% I
+9.5%
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1980 l
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1990 l
1145 l
1301.1 l
1314 l
1320.2 l
+13.6%
+14.8%
+15.3%
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l 2000 l
1202 l
1470.2 l
1428 l
1490.1 l
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+22.3% l
+18.8%
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1255 l
1664.0 l
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+32.6%
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+34.2% 1 j
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2020 1888.9 1
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ER - Environmental Report, PASNY, 1971 l
ES - Environmental Statement, AEC, 1973 FSAR - Final Safety Analysis Report, latest revision i
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All of the FitzPatrick licensing reference documents over predicted the 1980 population by as much as 7% for Oswego j
County and by 10% for the surrounding region.
Overestimation
.j of growth rates leads to an overprediction by 20% for Oswego-County'and by-over 30% for the surrounding region through the year 2010.
These data'show the actual population now and the projszted population for the future are less than originally projected.
Therefore, the effect on the general public of continued operation of FitzPatrick through the year 2014 would not increase over that previously evaluated as a result of the
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license extension.
FitzPatrick was originally designed to operate on a 12.
month cycle with' annual refueling outages.
Advances in fuel design have, among other things, allowed cycle lengths of up l
to 18 months.
Increased cycle length has reduced the number I
of refueling outages necessary during the lifetime of the l
plant.
The number of refueling outages necessary to support FitzPatrick operation until the proposed expiration date will be less than that originally conceived'using 12 month cycles and an effective 35 1/2 year lifetime.
The FitzPatrick Plant provides one of the'most reliable.
sources of electricity to New York State.
The Authority fully.
expects the facility to remain economically competitive beyond the current operating license expiration date.
IV. Evaluation of Significant Hazards Consideration' Operation of the FitzPatrick Plant in ac'ordance with the proposed amendment would not involve a significant hazards consideration as stated in 10 CFR 50.92 since it would not:
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Invo ve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated.
The proposed change does not involve hardware or procedural changes which may effect the probability or consequences of accident evaluated in the FSAR.
The Fi.tzPatrick plant was designed and constructed for forty years of operation.
The original accident analyses contained in the FSAR assumed an operating lifetime of 40 years.
The effect of extending the JAF operating license expiration date to a full 40 years has already been considered in the FSAR.
Since the FSAR considers a plant operating' lifetime of forty years and
... accidents are not expected during plant operations...." the probability that an accident-would occur is not increased.
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The-consequencesfof the proposed, change, should[an i
accident occur during the four year extension period, is i
best quantified as the change in radiation exposure of the general public from'a postulated. radioactive release.:
4 Since the current'best estimate.of future-population-around the FitzPatrick site is significantly less than-that projected during thelinitial licensing period, the-
-consequences of a postulated accident release would'not-be-increased.
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Create the possibility.of a new or different' kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated.. As stated above, the proposed change does not involve-j hardware or procedural changes to FitzPatrickJ The effect 1
of aging.of electrical equipment, in accordance with 10=
CPR 50.49 have-been incorporated into plant maintenance
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and replacement policies.
A forty year operating life was used in the design of.FitzPatrick.
Inspection, testing and maintenance. policies will assure full operability for.
j, the plant's design lifetime.
Continued. operation ofL FitzPatrick in accordance with approved procedures'will not create a new or different kind of accident.
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Involve a significant reduction.in the margin of safety.
The FitzPatrick plant was designed and constructed for forty years of operation.
Safety margins included in the j
design of FitzPatrick consider a full. forty years of service.
Operating the plant'for the full forty years-considered in its' design does not reduce any margin of safety.
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Implementation of the Proposed Chance The proposed change will not, adversely impact the ALARA,.
Security or Fire Protection programs at the FitzPatrick plant, 1
nor will it impact the environment.
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VI. Conclusion The change, as proposed, does not constitute an unreviewed-safety question as defined in 10 CFR 50.59.
That is, it:
(a) will not increase the probability.or the consequences of l
an accident or malfunction of equipment important to safety as evaluated previously in the safety analysis report;
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will not increaseithe possibility of an accident or
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malfunction of a different type than any evaluated previously in the safety analysis report; i
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i (c) will not reduce the margin of safety as defined in the-I bases for any technical specification; (d) does not constitute an unreviewed. safety question; and 1
(e) involves no significant harards considerations, as defined in lo CFR 50.92.
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VII.
References 1)
James A.
FitzPatrick Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) and latest revision of Updated FSAR.
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Safety Evaluation of the James A.
FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, with Supplements USAEC, 1972-74.
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Environmental Report - Operating License Stage, 1971.
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Final Environmental Stateluunt Related to Operation of James A.
FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, USAEC, 1973.
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James A.
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I Vessel Surveillance Materials Testing and Fracture Toughness Analysis, General Electric. 1986.
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6) 1984-85 New York State Statistical Yearbook, lith l
Edition, 1985.
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USNRC Memorandum, William J.
Dircks - Executive Director l
for Operations to the Commissioners, August 16, 1982.
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Power Authority Act as Amended, 1982.
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