ML20137U174

Confirms That for Present Evolution of Moving Unit 2 Fuel, Suspension of Work on Unit 1 Side of Fuel Handling Bldg (Fhb) Not Required.Worst Case Accident Would Not Adversely Affect Personnel in Any Area of Fhb

ML20137U174
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	11/19/1985
From:	Stolz J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Hukill H GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP.
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NUDOCS 8512090223
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November 19, 1985 Mh Ob Docket No. 50-289 ISTRIEUITON:

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Dear Mr. Hukill:

H0rnstein EBrach WPaulson GEdison

SUBJECT:

EFFECTS OF MOVING TMI UNIT 2 FUEL ON THE UNIT 1 SIDE OF THE FUEL HANDILNG BUILDING By letter from Mr. Denton to Mr. Hukill dated October 2,1985, TMI-1 was permitted to resume operation subject to conditions imposed in the restart proceeding. One of these conditions concerns the movement of Unit 2 fuel in the fuel handling building (FHB) and reads as follows:

During any Unit 2 fuel movements in the fuel handling building, GPU Nuclear Corporation shall suspend work in the Unit 1 area of that building, unless GPU Nuclear Corporation has submitted to the NRC for its review specific written procedures for the planned movements of Unit 2 fuel and an evaluation of the potential impacts of those fuel movements on personnel working in the Unit 1 area of the building and the NRC has agreed that the potential impacts of the planned Unit 2 fuel movements on personnel working in the Unit 1 area of the building do not require that work in the Unit 1 area of the building be suspended.

LBP-82-27, 15 NRC 747, 755 (1982).

By letter dated November 12, 1985 from Dr. Travers, Acting Director of the TMI Program Office, to Mr. Standerfer, Vice President / Director TMI-2, the staff reviewed and approved the planned movement of fuel from the Unit 2 reactor to the fuel handling building via special canisters. This SER implied but did not specifically state that this planned fuel movement does not require that work in the Unit 1 area of the fuel handling building be suspended. The purpose of this letter is to confirm that for the present evolution of moving Unit 2 fuel, suspension of work on the TMI-1 side of the FHB is not required.

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This conclusion -is based on (1) NRC staff review and approval of specific TMI-2 fuel movement procedures (required per TMI-2 Technical Specification 6.8.2), and (2) NRC staff evaluations of early TMI-2 defueling activities, including potential impacts, proposed by GPUN. Our evaluations indicate that the likelihood of a detrimental impact resulting from TMI-2 fuel movements in the FHB is small. Even if a worse case accident (i.e., canister drop and rupture) were assumed to occur, the impacts would not adversely affect personnel in any area of the FHB, Releases of radioactive material postulated from such an accident would either be contained and shielded by water in the flooded fuel pool or be too small (i.e., Krypton-85 qas) to pose a significant hazard to personnel in the FHB.

It is our intent that future safety evaluations covering the movement of Unit 2 fuel in the FHB explicitly review the effect on the Unit I side of the FHB and thereby address this condition of operation for TMI-1.

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