[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 4, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63076-63077]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-29971]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-354]
PSEG Nuclear LLC; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for
Amendment to Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted
the request of PSEG Nuclear LLC (the licensee) to withdraw its November
29, 2000, application as supplemented August 10, 2001, for proposed
amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-57 for the Hope Creek
Generating Station (HCGS), located in Salem County, New Jersey.
The proposed amendment would have modified the HCGS technical
specifications to reflect the enabling of the Oscillation Power Range
Monitor (OPRM) reactor protection system (RPS) trip function. The OPRM
is designed to detect the onset of reactor core power oscillations
resulting from thermal-hydraulic instability and suppress them by
initiating a reactor scram via the RPS trip logic.
The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of
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Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on December 27,
2000 (65 FR 81930). However, by letter dated October 19, 2001, the
licensee withdrew the proposed change. The withdrawal request was based
on the extended time period General Electric Company (GE) is projecting
to resolve a defect that was reported to the Commission pursuant to
part 21 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR part
21). The defect pertains to GE's OPRM setpoint methodology as detailed
in letters from GE to the Commission dated June 29 and August 31, 2001.
The defect could result in non-conservative OPRM trip setpoints. The
OPRM is currently installed at HCGS with the RPS trip function
disabled.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for amendment dated November 29, 2000, as supplemented
August 10, 2001, and the licensee's letter dated October 19, 2001,
which withdrew the application for license amendment. Documents may be
examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room,
located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be accessible
electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management
Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the
NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html. Persons who do not
have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the
documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public Document Room
(PDR) Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or
by email to [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of November 2001.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Richard B. Ennis,
Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate I, Divisionof
Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regualtion.
[FR Doc. 01-29971 Filed 12-3-01; 8:45 am]
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