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HATCH UNIT 1 CONDENSER HOTWELL DAMAGE & LONG CYCLE CLEANUP VALVE LEAKAGE FORCED OUTAGES JAN 2013 & OCT 2013.

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1 HATCH UNIT 1 CONDENSER HOTWELL DAMAGE & LONG CYCLE CLEANUP VALVE LEAKAGE FORCED OUTAGES JAN 2013 & OCT 2013

2 1A MAIN CONDENSER HOTWELL 2012 REFUELING OUTAGE

3 Divider wall section broken 1A MAIN CONDENSER HOTWELL 2012 REFUELING OUTAGE

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5 False bottom cracks on Southeast corner tube sheet supports (8) 1A MAIN CONDENSER HOTWELL 2012 REFUELING OUTAGE

6 Divider wall separated from hotwell floor False Bottom topside 1A MAIN CONDENSER HOTWELL 2012 REFUELING OUTAGE

7  Cyclic fatigue due to large variations in circwater temperatures  Condenser design deficiencies  Corrective actions:  Repair to previous condition  System Engineer to identify condenser design deficiencies and initiate design changes INITIAL CAUSE DETERMINATION

8  Banging sounds identified from 1A Hotwell  Same general area as previous damaged area  ODMI created, evaluated to most likely be an FME issue (Grating)  Sounds only heard when operating at or near 100% power JUNE 2012

9  Unit 1 Forced shutdown due to high conductivity  Condenser tube rupture, circwater entered the hotwell  24 hours before planned Unit 2 refueling outage FEBRUARY 2013

10 1A HOTWELL DAMAGE

11 1A HOTWELL DAMAGE FEBRUARY 2013

12 FALSE BOTTOM DAMAGE

13 TUBE RUPTURE

14  No PMs on hotwell level transmitters  “A” transmitter crosstied to 1B hotwell  Level recorder displayed 1B hotwell level twice  1A hotwell level maintained too high  Long cycle cleanup valve leakby CAUSE DETERMINATION

15 1A Hotwell 72”+ 1B Hotwell ~40” HOTWELL LEVEL

16  1N21F165 valve  Open during startup only  Short cycles condensate/feedwater from the condenser hotwell, through the condensate demins, through all FWHs, then back to the condenser hotwell  Also used during low power operations for RWL control LONG CYCLE CLEANUP

17 1N21F165 14” CCI DRAG VALVE

18 LONG CYCLE CLEANUP FLOWPATH

19  Feedwater (~350 degrees, 1000 psi) short cycled back to hotwell  Drains below hotwell false bottom (under water)  Result:  Flashing of feedwater within hotwell  Water hammer inside hotwell 1N21F165 LEAK BY EFFECTS

20  “A” level transmitter valved back to 1A hotwell  Transmitters recalibrated  1A hotwell level lowered  Stopple valve plug considered, but rejected  ~75 REM dose projection  August & September, patches placed on valve body due to external leakage MARCH – OCTOBER 2013

21  External leakage exceeded the capacity of the conbay floor drain sumps  Shutdown required as flooding neared the 3” setpoint to trip circwater pumps VALVE BODY BLOWOUT

22 ~1” THOUGH BODY HOLE 2” VALVE BODY

23 REPAIRS 7” X 7” X 2” PLATE

24  Inadequate valve design  No PMs (installed mid 1990’s)  Leaking upstream valves  Inadequate thermal performance monitoring  No temperature indication downstream of 1N21F165 CAUSES

25  Since 2007, both Unit 1 RFPT RPMs were noted to have increased by about 150 RPMs  Indications of feedwater being short cycled to the hotwell. RPMS increased to maintain RWL  Thermal performance trends of upstream 1N21F027A/B valves were not fully understood, and were not acted upon  Indicated leakby from those valves  PMs on 1N21F027A/B moved out of 2012 refueling outage with little technical justification  Inadequate ACD from 2012 condenser damage  Incorrect assessment of June 2012 banging noises in ODMI  No action taken from increasing offgas flowrates, as recommended in the ODMI  Possibility of external valve leakage not identified, despite similar occurrences in similar applications MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

26  Need PMs on all high energy source drains to condensers  FWH high level dump valves  Feed Pump min flow valves  Long cycle Cleanup valves  Thermal Performance monitoring  Permanent thermocouples  Heat gun  UT thickness measurements for suspect valves  Hotwell level  False bottom impacts  PMs for Level Controls LESSONS LEARNED

27 QUESTIONS?


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