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From: pwrrm@retaqs.com [mailto:pwrrm@retaqs.com]On Behalf Of WILLETT, JOSEPH E
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:29 AM
To: pwrrm@retaqs.com
Cc: BUSSEY, TIMOTHY J
Subject: [Pwrrm] Electronic Benchmarking - Fuel Handling Issues

We apologize for the lengthy list, but we’re trying  get the year started off right and wrap-up from a late fall outage.
 
Fort Calhoun Station
Reactor Engineering is looking to benchmark a few items
 
  1. Do your stations fuel handling machines require fall protection?   Yes, when outside the bridge or trolley handrails.  Tieoffs to cable or structural member.  Safety harness with cavity empty, Life vest with cavity filled. 
  1. If yes, what measures are taken?  Netting, harnesses, etc.
  2. If using netting, where is it attached?
  3. If using fall protection, where are the tie-offs?
 
  1. What are you requirements for fuel movement in the Spent Fuel Pool?
  1. Continuous communications with Control Room? If yes, SRO, RO., Other.   Yes, RO and Reactor Engineer with Spent fuel pool bridge crane operator and transfer system operator. 
  2. Do you require oversight on the spent fuel handling machine (SRO, RO, Other)?   Intermittent by Refueling Window Manager at least once per shift. 
  3. Is your procedure Continuous Use, Information Use or Reference Use?   Reference use for equipment operation, continuous use for Fuel Shuffle direction 
  4. Do you utilize Vendors?  If so, what additional oversight is required?    Yes, Refueling SRO provides continuous oversight in containment, Refueling SRO in continuous communication with headsets between spent fuel pool and control room. 
 
  1. What type of underwater lights do you use for normal Spent Fuel Pool Lighting?
  1. Style: drop light or mounted   Both 
  2. Vendor:   ROS underwater lights provided by Master Lee Services 
  3. How many:   1 remote operated high intensity light on lower core plate for reload with two other dunkers along baffles, 3 Hydro Products T-bar lights at top of cavity around core 
  4. Spacing:
  5. Ballasts: above water or submerged?   submerged 
 
  1. What type of underwater lights do you use for normal Reactor Cavity Lighting?
  1. Style:  drop light or mounted   Both 
  2. Vendor:   drop lights--Master Lee Services,  mounted--Hydro products 
  3. How many:   3 drop lights,  3 mounted around core, 1 near upender, 1 along side of transfer path between core and upender 
  4. Spacing:
  5. Ballasts: above water or submerged?    submerged for 1 light setting on lower core plate for fuel load 
 
  1. What type of underwater lights do you use for supplemental lighting? If Necessary.    See above answer to question 4. 
  1. If so what would require the additional lighting?
  2. Style:   drop light or mounted    
  3. Vendor:
  4. How many:
  5. Spacing:
  6. Ballasts: above water or submerged?
 
 
J. E. Willett
 
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Joseph E. Willett, P.E.      
Principal Reactor Engineer-Fuel
Nuclear Operations Division
 
E-mail: jwillett@oppd.com
 
  Omaha Public Power District           Phone:  (402) 533-7213
  Fort Calhoun Station                  Pager:   (402) 561-3899
  9610  Power Lane                       FAX:      (402) 533-6747
  Blair, NE  68008
  Mail Station: FC-1-1 Plant
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