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accommodate the spent fuel of either reactor; in the past, FPL
had obtained licenses to transfer spent fuel from one pool to the
other.
A 1982 BI No. 139, approved on August 30, 1982, budgeted
$300,000 to procure and install spent fuel storage racks to
increase capacity at Turkey Point Unit 3. A section of the BI
labeled “purpose and necessity” states:
The original design for Turkey Point Unit #3 had a
spent fuel storage capacity of 217 assemblies. In 1977
the original racks were replaced with high density
stainless steel racks which provided a capacity of 621
assemblies. The capacity was increased due to the lack
of off-site spent fuel reprocessing facilities.
The BI went through several revisions.
Similarly, FPL began expansion of the spent fuel facility at
St. Lucie Unit 1 in 1982. A 1982 BI No. 177, approved on July
13, 1982, budgeted $46 million for various projects at St. Lucie,
including spent fuel storage racks. This BI also underwent a
series of revisions. ER No. 9304, dated December 1985,
authorized $1.5 million for “phase I” of the project for design
engineering, to remove the existing spent fuel racks, and to
install new high density racks.27 This ER was revised in late
1986 and processed in March 1987 to include construction and
material costs, increasing the amount authorized by about $9.5
27 This ER was associated with BI No. 190, approved in late
1985, which budgeted $1.5 million for engineering costs for the
St. Lucie Unit 1 spent fuel storage rack project.
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