ML20101R040

Monthly Operating Rept for Mar 1996 for Oyster Creek Station

ML20101R040
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	03/31/1996
From:	Edelmann P, Roche M GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP.
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
References
6730-96-2127, NUDOCS 9604160016
Download: ML20101R040 (7)

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April 10, 1996 6730-96-2127 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attention: Document Control Desk Washington, DC 20555

SUBJECT:

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Docket No. 50-219 Monthly Operating Report - March 1996 In accordance with the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Operating License No.

DPR-16, Appendix A, Section 6.9.1, enclosed are two (2) copies of the Monthly Operating Data (Gray Book information) for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station.

If you should have any questions, please contact Ms. Brenda DeMerchant, Oyster Creek Regulatory Affairs Engineer, at 609-971-4642.

Very truly yours,

)(u 0 Michael B. Roche Vice President & Director Oyster Creek MBR/BDeM/gl Enclosures cc: Administrator, Region I (2 copies)

NRC Project Manager NRC Resident inspector 9604160016 960331 PDR ADOCK 05000219 ].0111 3 r R POR GPU Nuclear Corporation is a subsidiary of General Public Utilities Corporation

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SUMMARY

MARCH,1996 Oyster Creek operated the entire month of March at full power with minor power reductions for Reactor Water Clean-Up and Control Rod Drive maintenance.

The plant generated 474,832 MWh net electric which was 103.1% ofits MDC rated capacity for the month.

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a MONTHLY OPERATING REPORT LICENSEE EVENT REPORTS No LER's were submitted during the month of March,1996

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OPERATING DATA REPORT l OPERATING STATUS

1. DOCKET: 50-219

! 2. REPORTING PERIOD: March -%

3. UTILITY CONTACT: Paul G. Edelmann (609) 971- 4097

4. LICENSED THERM AL POWER (Mwt): 1930 )

l 5. NAMEPLATE RATING (GROSS Mwe): 687.5 x 0.8 = 550 l 6. DESIGN ELECTRICAL RATING (NET MWe): 650 l

7. MAXIMUM DEPENDABLE CAPACITY (GROSS Mwe): 641

8. MAXIMUM DEPENDABLE CAPACITY (NET MWe): 619 l 9. IF CHANGES OCCUR ABOVE SINCE LAST REPORT, GIVE REASONS: NONE

10. POWER LEVEL TO WHICH RESTRICTED, IF ANY (NET MWe): NONE

11. REASON FOR RESTRICTION,IF ANY: NONE

! MONTil YEAR CUMULATIVE 1 i

12. REPORT PERIOD HOURS 744.0 2184.0 230304.0 l

13. HOURS RX CRITICAL 744.0 2148.1 156481.0

14. RX RESERVE SHUTDOWN HRS 0.0 0.0 918.2

15. HRS GENERATOR ON-LINE 744.0 2125.9 152936.6

16. UT RESERVE SHTDWN HRS 0.0 0.0 0.0

17. GROSS THERM ENERGY (MWH) 1433045 4008206 264527700

18. GROSS ELEC ENERGY (MWH) 491997 1373386 88790961 t 19. NET ELEC ENERGY (MWH) 474832 1324320 85193485

20. UT SERVICE FACTOR 100.0 97.3 66.4 l

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21. UT AVAIL FACTOR 100.0 97.3 66.4

22. UT CAP FACTOR (MDC NET) 103.1 98.0 60.3

23. UT CAP FACTOR (DER NET) 98.2 93.3 56.9

24. UT FORCED OUTAGE RATE 0.0 2.7 9.8 l

l 25. FORCED OUTAGE HRS 0.0 58.1 165 % .3

26. SliUTDOWNS SCHEDULED OVER NEXT 6 MONTHS (TYPE,DATE, DURATION): NONE

27. IF CURRENTLY SHUTDOWN ESTIM ATED STARTUP DATE: N/A

o Oyster Creek Station #1 Docket No. 50-219 REFUELING INFORMATION - MARCH,1996 Name of Facility: Oyster Creek Station #1 Scheduled date for next refueling shutdown:

Septesaber,1996 Scheduled date for restart following refueling: Currently projected for November,1996 i

l Will refueling or resumption of operation thereafter require a Technical o Specification change or other license amendment?

I No Important licensing considerations associated with refueling, e.g., new or different fuel design or supplier, unreviewed design or performance analysis methods, significant changes in fuel design, new operating procedures:

1. General Electric Fuel Assemblies - Fuel design and performance analysis methods have been approved by the NRC.

The number of fuel assemblies (a) in the core = 560 (b) in the spent fuel storage pool = 2048 (c) in dry storage = 24 l

The present licensed spent fuel pool storage capacity and the size of any increase in licensed storage capacity that has been requested or is planned, in number of fuel j assemblies:

Present Licensed Capacity: 2645 The projected date of the last refueling that can be discharged to the spent fuel pool assuming the present licensed capacity:

l Full core discharge capacity to the spent fuel pool will be lost after the 1996 refueling l outage.

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AVERAGE DAILY POWER LEVEL

! NET MWe DOCKET # . . . . . . . . . . 50-219 .

UNIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oyster Creek #1 REPORT DATE . . . . . . . . 4/1/96 )

COMPILED BY. . . . . . . . . Paul G. Edelmann TELEPHONE #. . . . . . . . . (609) 971- 4097 i

Month: March,1996 I l

DAY MW DAY MW i

1 640 16 639  !

2 639 639 I

17 l 3 639 18 639 4 641 19 637 5 636 20 634 6 639 21 638 7 639 22 640 l 1

8 639 23 637 i 9 640 24 640 10 640 25 637 11 640 26 638 12 638 27 638 13 640 28 635 a

14 640 29 642 15 638 30 636 31 630

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UNIT SHUTDOWNS AND POWER REDUCTIONS .

1 DOCKET NO: 50-219 , s UNIT NAME: Ovster Creek  !

DATE: ADril 2. 1996 i COMPLT'D BY: David M. Euan i TFLEPHONE: 971-4818  !

i REPORT MONTH: March 1996 l TYPE METHOD OF CORRECTIVE i No. DATE F: Forced DURATION REASON (1) SHUTTING DOWN ACTIONS / COMMENTS '

S: Scheduled (hours) THE REACTOR OR ,

REDUCING POWER  !

(2) i There were no shutdowns or i l significant power reductions  ;

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SUMMARY

(1) REASON (2) METHOD "

a. Equipment Failure (Explain) e. Operator Training & Lic Exam 1. Manual

b. Maintenance or Test f. Administrative 2. Manual Scram t

c. Refueling g. Operational Error (Explain) 3. Automatic Scram

d. Regulatory Restriction h. Other (Explain) 4. Other (Explain) i

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