ML20245H493

Advises That Util Actions Re NRC Bulletin 88-002 Adequate to Authorize Restart from Refueling Outage 6.NRC Expects to Complete plant-specific Review to Close Out Bulletin by Sept 1989

ML20245H493
Person / Time
Site:	Farley
Issue date:	04/28/1989
From:	Reeves E Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Hairston W ALABAMA POWER CO.
References
IEB-88-002, IEB-88-2, NUDOCS 8905030414
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l April 28, 1989 i t

Doc'ke't No. : 50-364 j Mr. W. G. Hairston, III

} Senior Vice President i

[ Alabama Power Company 40 Inverness Center Parkway l

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Post Office Box 1295 i Birmingham, Alabama 35201 i

Dear Mr. Hairston:

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SUBJECT:

BULLETIN 88-02 " RAPIDLY PROPAGATING CRACKS IN STEAM GENERATOR I j TUBES," RESTART FROM REFUELING OUTAGE NO. 6 - JOSEPH M. FARLEY )

l NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 2 i

l In view of our current followup activities relating to the recent steam L generator problems at McGuire and North Anna 1, our review of Bulletin

! 88-02 responses for the Joseph F. Farley Nuclear Plant has not yet been completed. However, you have perforned an analysis pursuant to item C.2 i

of the bulletin to identify tubes susceptible to fatigue. Corrective actions i have been completed on Farley Unit 2 where necessary by that analysis.  ;

! In addition, you have completed the Westinghouse plug-in-plug modification l for 172 previously plugged tubes.

We expect to complete the plant-specific review to close out the bulletin for both Units 1 and 2 by Septenber 1989. In the neantine, we believe that the actions for Farley Unit 2 provide an adequate basis to auttorize restart from refueling outage No. 6.

Therefore, pending our final closecut of the bulletin, you should continue to implement the interim program of enhanced monitoring of primary-to-secondary l leakage pursuant to item C.1 of the bulletin On this basis, we consider l your actions on this issue are acceptable to restart Farley Unit 2 when you consider that all other restart prerequisf.tes are met.

Sincerely ,

Original Signed By:

Edward A. Reeves, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate 11-1 Division of Reactor Projects -I/II Of fice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation cc: See next page DISTRIBUTION

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~ Mr. R. P; Mcdonald Resident Inspector Executive Vice President U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Connission Alabama Power Company P. O. Box 24 Route 2 )

.P. 0.. Box 2641 Columbia, Alabama 36319 Birmingham, Alabama 35291-0400 '

Mr. Bill M. Guthrie D. Biard MacGuineas Esquire Executive Vice President Volpe, Boskey and Lyons- H N Alabama Power Company 918 16th Street, N.W. 1 P. O. Box 2641 Washington, D.C. 20006

, Birmingham, Alabama 35291-0400 Mr. Louis B. Long, General Manager Mr. Charles R. Lowma Southern Company Services, Inc. Alabama Electric Corporation

'P. O. Box 2625 P. 0. Box 550 a Birmingham, Alabame 35202 Andalusia, Alabama 35420 Chairman Regional Administrator, Region II Houston County' Comission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Dothan, Alabama 36301 101 Marietta Street., Suite 2900 Atlante,' Georgia 30323 Ernest L.. Blake, Jr., Esquire Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge Claude Earl Fox, M.D.

2300 N.-Street, N.W. State ~ Health Officer l

' Washington, DC 20037 State Department of Public Health ,

State Office Building Montgomery, Alabama 36130 l Robert A. Buettner, Esquire ' '

Balch, Bingham, Baker, Hawthorne, Mr. O. N. Morey Williams and Waro .

General Manager - Farley Nuclear Plant P. O. Box 306 P. C. 00x 470 Birmingham, Alabama 35201 Ashford, Alabama 36312 i

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