ML063210252

NRC Receipt of Cooper Nuclear Station Responses to Generic Letter 2003-01 Control Room Habitability

ML063210252
Person / Time
Site:	Cooper
Issue date:	12/05/2006
From:	Bhalchandra Vaidya NRC/NRR/ADRO/DORL/LPLIV
To:	Edington R Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD)
Vaidya B, NRR/DORL/LP4, 415-3308
References
GL-03-001, TAC MB9792
Download: ML063210252 (6)

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December 5, 2006Mr. Randall K. EdingtonVice President - Nuclear and CNO Nebraska Public Power District P.O. Box 98 Brownville, NE 68321

SUBJECT:

COOPER NUCLEAR STATION - RE: NRC RECEIPT OF COOPER NUCLEARSTATION RESPONSES TO GENERIC LETTER 2003-01, "CONTROL ROOM HABITABILITY" (TAC NO. MB9792)

Dear Mr. Edington:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) acknowledges the receipt of your responsesdated November 10, 2003 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML033210207), September 30, 2004 (ADAMS Accession No. ML042800269), and June 17, 2005 (ADAMS Accession No. ML051720149), to the NRC Generic Letter (GL) 2003-01, "Control Room Habitability," dated June 12, 2003 (ADAMS Accession No. ML031620248).The GL 2003-01 requested that you confirm that your control room (CR) meets its design bases(e.g., General Design Criteria (GDC) 1, 3, 4, 5, and 19, draft GDC, or principal design criteria),

with special attention to the following:(1)GL 2003-01, "Requested Information," Item 1a: Determination of the mostlimiting unfiltered and/or filtered inleakage into the CR and comparison to values used in your design bases for meeting CR operator dose limits from accidents.(2)GL 2003-01, "Requested Information," Item 1b: Determination that the mostlimiting unfiltered inleakage is incorporated into your hazardous chemical

assessments.(3)GL 2003-01, "Requested Information," Item 1b: Determination that reactorcontrol capability is maintained in the CR or at the alternate shutdown location in the event of smoke.(4)GL 2003-01, "Requested Information," Item 2: Provide information on anycompensatory measures in use to demonstrate control room habitability (CRH),

and plans to retire them.(5)GL 2003-01, "Requested Information," Item 1c: Assessment of the TechnicalSpecifications (TSs) to determine if they require verification of the integrity of the CR Envelope (CRE), including ongoing verification of the inleakage assumed in the design-basis analysis for CRH, in light of the demonstrated unreliability of the R. Edington "P surveillance" (a test to ensure positive differential pressure between CR andadjacent areas) alone to provide such verification.As requested by GL 2003-01, you provided responses by letters referenced above. They aresummarized below:a.Cooper Nuclear Station's (CNS) CR is a positive-pressure-design structure.

b.The results of the American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM) E741 tracergas tests (ASTM, Standard Test Method for Determining Air Change in a Single Zone by Means of a Tracer Gas Dilution) for CNS's CR indicate that the maximum tested value for inleakage into the CRE was 64 actual cubic feet per minute (acfm) with the Control Room Emergency Filter System operating in the pressurization mode and that these test results are bounded by the unfiltered inleakage assumptions in your revised dose assessment methodology contained in License Amendment Nos. 183, 187, 196, with the correction letter dated March 12, 2003, and 206.The staff reviewed your License Amendment Request (LAR) dated February 28,2001 related to radiological assessment calculation methodology (ADAMS Accession No. ML010660067 - Non-Publicly Available) and subsequent License Amendment Nos. 187 (ADAMS Accession No. ML012960618), 196 with the correction letter dated March 12, 2003, (ADAMS Accession No. ML030710724),

and 206 (ADAMS Accession No. ML042470174) and confirmed that your test result of 64 acfm is not more than the value assumed in your design-basis radiological analysis for CRH which is 81 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm)

(71 scfm unfiltered inleakage from infiltration plus 10 scfm unfiltered inleakage from control room ingress/egress) as stated in the above referenced documents.c.The maximum tested value for inleakage into the CRE in the isolation (toxic gas)mode was 222 (+/-13) acfm and that this value is incorporated into the Control Room Habitability Hazardous Chemical Analysis which was performed using the guidance contained in Regulatory Guide 1.78, Revision 1, "Evaluating the Habitability of a Nuclear Power Plant Control Room During a Postulated Hazardous Chemical Release."d.Reactor control capability is maintained from either the CR or the alternateshutdown panel in the event of smoke.e.A schedule for revising the surveillance requirement in the TS to reference anacceptable surveillance methodology has been developed and a license amendment request addressing the monitoring of CR inleakage would be submitted within 12 months following NRC approval of TS Task Force Traveler (TSTF)-448.f.Potassium iodide is utilized as a compensatory measure to demonstrate CRhabitability during a loss-of-coolant accident with core damage, but License Amendment No. 206 deleted License Condition 2.c.(6) which enables this compensatory measure to be retired.

R. Edington-3-g.CNS meets the draft GDC regarding CR habitability as documented in the CNSUpdated Safety Analysis Report.Based on the information provided, the regulatory commitment made in your response lettersreferenced above, and the above discussion, the NRC staff finds the CNS responses to GL 2003-01 to be complete.If you have any questions regarding this correspondence, please contact me at 301-415-3308.Sincerely,/RA/Bhalchandra Vaidya, Project ManagerPlant Licensing Branch IV Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor RegulationDocket No. 50-298 cc: See next page

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