DC Cook Reactor Engineering is looking at possible extraneous work to remove from the refueling outages.

Cook is a PWR which performs a fuel core offload and reload.

Currently our Quality Control department performs a 4-sided camera inspection of the assemblies as they leave containment on unload and as they enter containment on reload.

We are looking at reducing the inspections to occur only on unload, eliminating the reload inspection.

My Questions:

What organization at your plant performs the fuel inspections?

Do you perform the inspection on Unload?

Do you perform the inspection on Reload?

What method do you use to perform the inspection, 4 cameras, 1 camera, binoculars, eyeball, etc.?

thanks

Glen M Bradham, 269-465-5901 X1538
gmbradham@aep.com