Equipment environmental monitoring: Perspective from the BWR license renewal lead plant

Northern States Power's Monticello Nuclear Plant is the BWR License Renewal Lead Plant. NSP is currently evaluating plant components and programs such that a license renewal application may be submitted by the end of 1991. As part of the justification to extend the license of the plant, NSP will be required to demonstrate for components important to license renewal that either: evaluations show degradation of the component is not significant during the license renewal term or demonstrate that programs are in place which manage potentially significant degradation mechanisms. This paper identifies NSP's perspective of the environmental monitoring activities which are expected to be utilized by the project to support the technical evaluations