ML100970350

Hope Creek Generating Station, License Renewal Application - Request for Additional Information for Section 2.2.5, Boral Monitoring Program

ML100970350
Person / Time
Site:	Hope Creek
Issue date:	04/14/2010
From:	Ashley D J License Renewal Projects Branch 1
To:	Joyce T Public Service Enterprise Group
Ashley D J
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TAC ME1832
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April 14, 2010 Mr. Thomas Joyce President and Chief Nuclear Officer PSEG Nuclear LLC P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038

SUBJECT:

HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION, LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR SECTION 2.2.5, BORAL MONITORING PROGRAM (TAC NO. ME1832)

Dear Mr. Joyce:

By letter dated August 18, 2009, as supplemented by letter dated January 23, 2009, Public Service Enterprise Group Nuclear, LLC, submitted an application pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulation Part 54 for renewal of Operating License No. NPF-57 for the Hope Creek Generating Station. The staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the staff) is reviewing this application in accordance with the guidance in NUREG-1800, "Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants." During its review, the staff has identified areas where additional information is needed to complete the review. The staff's requests for additional information are included in the Enclosure. Further requests for additional information may be issued in the future.

Items in the enclosure were discussed with John Hufnagel and other members of your staff during a telephone call on April 7, 2010, and a mutually agreeable date for the response is within 30 days from the date of this letter. If you have any questions, please contact me by telephone at 301-415-3191 or by e-mail at donnie.ashley@nrc.gov. Sincerely, /RA/ Donnie J. Ashley, Sr. Project Manager Projects Branch 1 Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-354

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/encl: See next page

ML100970350 OFFICE LA:DLR PM:DLR:RPB1 BC:DLR:RPB1 PM:DLR:RPB1 NAME S. Figueroa D. Ashley B. Pham D. Ashley DATE 04/12/10 04/12/10 04/14/10 04/14/10 Letter to T. Joyce from D. Ashley dated April 14, 2010

SUBJECT:

HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION, LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR SECTION 2.2.5, BORAL MONITORING PROGRAM (TAC NO. ME1832)

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Mr. Michael Gallagher Vice President - License Renewal Projects Exelon Nuclear LLC 200 Exelon Way Kennett Square, PA 19348

Mr. Jeffrie J. Keenan, Esquire Manager - Licensing PSEG Nuclear LLC One Alloway Creek Neck Road Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Greg Sosson Director Corporate Engineering PSEG Nuclear LLC One Alloway Creek Neck Road Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038Mr. Michael Gaffney Manager - Hope Creek Regulatory Assurance PSEG Nuclear LLC One Alloway Creek Neck Road Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038

Mr. Ali Fakhar Manager, License Renewal PSEG Nuclear LLC One Alloway Creek Neck Road Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Township Clerk Lower Alloways Creek Township Municipal Building, P.O. Box 157 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Paul Bauldauf, P.E., Asst. Director Radiation Protection Programs NJ Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, CN 415 Trenton, NJ 08625-0415

Mr. Brian Beam Board of Public Utilities 2 Gateway Center, Tenth Floor Newark, NJ 07102

Regional Administrator, Region I U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 19406

Mr. Paul Davison Vice President, Operations Support PSEG Nuclear LLC One Alloway Creek Neck Road Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038

Hope Creek Generating Station cc: Ms. Christine Neely Director - Regulator Affairs PSEG Nuclear LLC One Alloway Creek Neck Road Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Senior Resident Inspector Hope Creek Generating Station U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Drawer 0509 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Earl R. Gage Salem County Administrator Administration Building 94 Market Street Salem, NJ 08079

ENCLOSURE HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR SECTION 2.2.5, BORAL MONITORING PROGRAM (TAC NO. ME1832)

The Boral Monitoring Program is described in Appendix B as an existing program that is consistent without exception or enhancement to the 10 elements of an Aging Managing Program (AMP), as shown in The Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants NUREG-1800, Revision 1.

RAI 2.2.5-1

Element 2 (Preventive Actions), Element 4 (Detection of Aging Effects), and Element 5 (Monitoring and Trending) of the Boral Monitoring Program contain the sentence, "The assumption is that the spent fuel pool environments, including the pool's water chemistry and radiation field, and the Boral material characteristics are consistent enough so that the results at other BWR [boiling water reactor] sites are representative of the results if the Hope Creek Boral test coupons were inspected and/or tested."

The position that spent fuel pool environments between different BWR plants can be considered to come from a single population has not been supported by the staff. The draft Interim Staff Guidance of November 2009 (LR-ISG-2009-01), cited specific examples of industry operating experience that have shown extrapolations on plant-specific data that were incorrect in trying to determine the future condition of neutron absorbing material in spent fuel pools. The staff clarified that an applicant should consider both plant-specific and industry operating experience in a license renewal application (LRA), and that the plant-specific operating experience should include data from an on-going inspection and monitoring program.

Please discuss your plan to implement changes to your Boral Monitoring Program that will include regular inspections of the spent fuel pool test coupons at Hope Creek Unit 1.

RAI 2.2.5-2 Element 6 (Acceptance Criteria) contains the following sentences:

If the test report conclusion indicates at least one of the two acceptance criteria is unsatisfactory, the test report information will be entered into the Hope Creek corrective action program for further evaluation. Additionally, this could trigger the requirement to retrieve one Boral test coupon from the Hope Creek spent fuel pool and initiate inspection, testing and evaluation in accordance with the Boral Monitoring Program.

Please describe the test results that would require a spent fuel pool test coupon to be retrieved, inspected, tested, and evaluated. RAI 2.2.5-3

Please discuss the following regarding the spent fuel pool racks:

a. If and how the racks are vented. b. What constitutes a drag test. c. The basis for the conclusion that the 15 cells marked as "DO NOT USE" did not suffer from Boral deformation.