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Summary of 890215 Meeting W/Util in Rockville,Md Re ATWS Implementation.List of Attendees & post-meeting Questions Encl
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Site: Three Mile Island Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 02/27/1989
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Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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%h*****j/ hebruary 27, 1989 Docket No. 50-289 LICENSEE: GPU Nuclear Corporation FACILITY: Three Mile Island Unit 1 (TMI-1)

SUBJECT:

SUMMARY

OF FEBRUARY 15, 1989 MEETING WITH GPU NUCLEAR ON ATWS IMPLEMENTATION.

The NRC staff met with representatives of GPU Nuclear (GPUN) Corporation in Rockville, Maryland on February 15, 1989 to discuss technical issues associated with the design and installation of new systems intended to comply with the requirements of the ATWS Rule (10 CFR 50.62). Enclosure 1 is a list of attendees.

GPUN presented discussions of three technical issues in response to the staff's letter of January 3, 1989. The letter forwarded the staff's review comments on the TMI-I plant-specific preliminary design submitted on November 18, 1988. GPUN plans to submit a letter to the staff in the near future to outline the schedule and approach to ATWS implementation and to address the ',

issues discussed below. ,

'A GPUN stated that a decision has been made to provide a separate and '

independent power supply for the DSS and AMSAC logic and actuation circuits to make the design acceptable to the NRC. Therefore, Option 1 as presented in the September 7, 1988 NRC letter to the B8H Owners Group will be incorporated into the TMI-1 design.

The second issue discussed deals with the number of control rod groups required to be inserted by the ATWS mitigation system (DSS). The B&W Owners Group generic position was that only rod groups 5 through 7 needed to be inserted to achieve hot, zero-power shutdown conditions. However, because THI-1 is in a transition period to longer lived cores using more highly enriched fuel, GPUN has concluded that to assure hot, zero power conditions following a hypothesized ATWS event for all future (more reactive) core configurations all rod groups must be inserted by the DSS. GPUN reviewed the proposed circuit modifications to achieve release of all rod groups. The proposal seemed reasonable to the staff. GPUN agreed to address any concerns involving diversity in their submittal. Following the meeting, the staff further discussed this modification amongst itself and developed three questions that should be addressed in GPUN's near-term or interim submittal.

These questions are enclosed as Enclosure 2.

The third issue was the manner in which loss of main feedwater flow will be detected by the new ATWS modifications. The staff's January 3,1989 letter expressed concern that, since the initiating signal would be main feedwater pump control oil pressure, the possibility exists that a loss of feedwater flow not attributable to the pumps tripping could occur but would not be sensed by the AMSAC circuitry. To ameliorate this concern, GPUN proposed to provide additional written justification of the low probability of events other than MFW pump trip causing loss of MFW flow. As an additional measure, s90314o123 890227 PDR p

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4 if. necessary, GPUN would consider addition of a steam generator low level-trip signal to the AMSAC which would trip the main turbine. The staff indicated that this seemed to be a reasonable approach.

The staff expressed concern that detailed engineering.for the ATWS Rule implementation. and modifications was not yet underway. It was noted that some B&W plants have essentially completed detailed engineering work on these

- modifications and have already submitted the final design to the NRC for approval. The staff plans to further discuss implementation schedules at a higher level.of management during future meetings, original signed by Ronald W. Hernan, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate I-4 Division of Reactor Projects I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Enclosure As Stated cc w/ enclosure:

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SN W' RHernan:cb JSto 02/3/89 02/;/89 02Cf89 L____________ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Mr. Henry D. Hukill Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, GPU Nuclear Corporation Unit No. I cc:

G. Broughton Francis I. Young O&M Director, THI-1 Senior Resident Inspector (TMI-1)

GPU Nuclear Corporation U.S.N.R.C.

Post Office Box 480 Post Office Box 311

' Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 Ricnard J. McGoey.

Manager, PWR Licensing Regional Administrator, Region I GPU Nuclear Corporation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 100 Interpace Parkway 475 Allendale Road Parsippany, New Jersey 70754 King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406-C. W. Smyth Robert B. Borsum THI-1 Licensing Manager Babcock & Wilcox GPU Nuclear Corporation Nuclear Power Generation Division-Port Office Box 480 Suite 525 Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057 1700 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 20852 Ernest L. Blake, Jr., Esq. Governor's Office of State Planning Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge and Development 2300 N Street, N.W. ATTN: Coordinator, Pennsylvania Washington, D.C. 20037 State Clearinghouse Post Office Box 1323 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Sally S. Klein, Chairman Thomas M. Gerusky, Director Dauphin County Commissioner Bureau of Radiation Protection Dauphin County Courthouse Pennsylvania Department of Front and Market Streets Environmental Resources Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Post Office Box 2063 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Kenneth E. Witmer, Chairman Board of Supervisors of Londonderry Township 25 Roslyn Road l Eilzabethtown, PA 17022 l

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-4 ENCLOSURE 1 ATTENDANCE LIST MEETING WITH GPU NUCLEAR ON ATWS IMPLEMENTATION NAME AFFILIATION TITLE RTE! Hernan NRC/NRR/PDI-4 Fr53!Mgr.

V.D. Thomas NRC/NRR/ DEST I&C Eng.

J.L. Mauck NRC/NRR/ DEST Section Chief G.M. Gurican GPUN - Licensing Sr. Engr.

- W.M. Drendall GPUN - 18C Sr. Engr.

J.R. Delockery GPUN - Projects Sr. Engr.

B.L.. Collins INEL/EG8G Idaho Engr. Spec. .

M.D. Lynch NRC/NRR/PDIII-3 Lead PM.

L.E. Kokasko NRC/NRR/PDIII-3 P. Engr.

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. ENCLOSURE 2 Post-Meeting Questions on TMI-1 ATWS Systems

1. Provide information regarding the physical and operating characteristics of the Westinghouse circuit breakers being considered for use in the revised ATWS/ DSS design and the existing General Electric circuit breakers that are currently used to interrupt power to the CRDs at TMI-1. Include in this discussion information regarding the differences of the devices used to trip the circuit breakers and the type and voltage level that is used to operate these tripping devices.
2. Provide information on the history that TMI-I has experienced while operating the Westinghouse and General Electric circuit breakers in question. Include in this discussion information related to the preventive maintenance program that is being used to maintain these circuit breakers.
3. Provide general information on the cost and man power requirements if enother method of interrupting power to control rods is considered. Use the Davis Besse (All SCRs) reactor trip design or consider the use of a heavy duty line contactor as possible other design concepts to interrupt power.

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