ML20247L645

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Requests That Licensee Follow Instructions of 890328 Order & Either Request Hearing or Submit Payment of Civil Penalty Re Operation of Safety Injection Pump W/Gas from Crossover Piping.Hydrogen Accumulation Discovered on 880226 Not 06
ML20247L645
Person / Time
Site: Farley  Southern Nuclear icon.png
Issue date: 05/25/1989
From: Taylor J
NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
To: Macdonald R
ALABAMA POWER CO.
References
EA-88-113, NUDOCS 8906020227
Download: ML20247L645 (1)


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Alabama-Power Company ATTN: R. P. Mcdonald-M .- Executive Vice' President Post Office Box 2641

^ . Birmingham, Alabama 35291-0001 Gentlemen:

The NRC^ staff has completed its review of the information'that Alabama Power Company (APCo) presented at the May 10,-1989 meeting. The technical discussion of pump performance was especially thorough and well presented. Information-presented atithe meeting further supported the licensee's assumption that the safety. injection pump would have been capable of operating during recirculation with gas'from the crossover piping. However; we still have concerns with re-

_spect to satisfactory overall system behavior. The impact of large quantities of gas on overall system behavior..such>as piping loads, operator actions.in response to abnormal. pump indications, and thrust loads on the' pump still have not been conclusively demonstrated not;to affect system operability. The staff thus retains :its conservative view regarding system operability.-' The informa-tion presented has not changed ~the basis for the March 28, 1989 Order Imposing a Monetary Civil. Penalty (Order) and,- as stated 'in the Appendix to the Order,-

.we are unable to conclude that system operability was assured. Consequently, APCo should follow the instructions of tha Order and either submit a request

. for a hearing or. a payment of the civil penalty within 10 days of the date of this letter. .

The enclosed copy of the transcript of the May 10, 1989 meeting and the slides-presented by'APCo will be placed in.the'Public Document Room. The NRC acknow-ledges;that APCo discovered the hydrogen accumulation on Farley Unit 1 on' February 26,1988, instead.of February 6,1988 as stated on page 5.of the Appendix'to the'0rder.

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