CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, September 5, 1984
Page 10
KCC approves Wolf Creek tests
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday tentatively approved a 250-hour test requirement at 100 percent capacity for the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant before the plant will be certified as complete and ready for operation.
The KCC also tentatively approved three other requirements that must be met by plant operators before the estimated $2.9 billion plant near Burlington is certified for operation. The KCC will take a final vote on the requirements early next week. KCC spokesman Gary Haden said.
The KCC requirements are that
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- all necessary pre-operational and start-up component testing be complete before certification.
- the plant be operated for 250 hours or about 10 days at full power as required by the contract.
- the unit be fired by its predominant fuel source, nuclear power.
- the plant show sufficient demonstration of transmission capacity to utilities the plant will supply.
Michael Lennen, KCC chairman,
said the full power test would be
required despite objection by Kan-
tomine Diaz and others in charge of building Wolf Creek.
"IT IS THE OBLIGATION of the
commission to insure the plant is likely to operate." Lennen said. "We must make sure it is reasonably free from design or construction defects because the technology is new. It would be inconsistent to look at the 50 percent or partial level of operation."
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KG&E had asked the KCC to consider the plant complete during its 50 percent operation level, which would have allowed an expected rate-increase request by Oct. 15, officials said. However, that rate-hike request may now be postponed because the plant is not expected to run at 100 percent capacity until sometime between March 22, 1985, and May 21, 1985.
KG&E OFFICIALS told the KCC last week they expected the plant to be operational by May 21, 1985. Nuclear fuel will be loaded into the Wolf Creek reactor between Nov. 1 and April 30, commercially operable at 50 percent capacity between Feb. 12 and April 13 of 1985.
The plant is 97.5 percent complete despite a brief interruption of a major test of the its ability to withstand extremely high temperatures and pressures.
The test was halted less than two weeks ago when faulty seals were discovered on two of the four coolant pumps in the facility.
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