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3 <br /> 10 . The Harris plant features one pressurized-water reactor (PWR) . The core of this <br /> reactor contains 157 fuel assemblies , with a center- center distance of about 8 . 5 inches . <br /> The Harris plant was to have four reactors but only one was built . A fuel handling <br /> building was built to serve all four reactors . This building contains four fuel pools (A, B , <br /> C , D ) , a cask loading pool and three fuel transfer canals , all interconnected but separable <br /> by gates . Pools A and B contain fuel racks . Pools C and D are flooded but do not <br /> contain racks . The cooling and water cleanup systems for pools C and D were never <br /> completed . <br /> 11 . Pool A now contains six PWR racks ( 360 fuel assembly spaces) and three BWR <br /> racks (363 spaces) , for a total pool capacity of 723 fuel assemblies . Pool B contains <br /> twelve PWR racks ( 768 spaces) and seventeen BWR racks (2 , 057 spaces) , and is licensed <br /> to store one additional BWR rack ( 121 spaces) , for a total pool capacity of 2 , 946 fuel <br /> assemblies . Thus , pools A and B now have a combined capacity of 3 , 669 fuel <br /> assemblies . The center- center distance in pools A and B is 10 . 5 inches for PWR fuel and <br /> 6 . 25 inches for BWR fuel . <br /> 12 . Pools A and B store spent fuel from the Harris reactor and from CP &L ' s Brunswick <br /> plant and Robinson plant . The Brunswick plant has two boiling -water reactors (BWRs) <br /> while the Robinson plant has one PWR . Shipment of spent fuel from Brunswick and <br /> Robinson to Harris is said by CP & L to be necessary to allow core offload capacity in the <br /> pools at Brunswick and Robinson . <br /> 13 . CP &L seeks an amendment to its operating license so that it can activate pools C and <br /> D at Harris . By activating these pools , CP &L expects to have sufficient spent fuel <br /> storage capacity for all four CP &L reactors (Harris , Robinson and the two Brunswick <br /> reactors) through the end of their current operating licenses . <br /> 14 . CP &L . plans to install racks in pool C in three campaigns (approximately in 2000 , <br /> 2005 and 2014) , to create 927 PWR spaces and 2 , 763 BWR spaces , for a total pool <br /> capacity of 3 , 690 fuel assemblies . Thereafter, CP & L plans to install racks in pool D in <br /> two campaigns (approximately in 2016 and at a date to be determined) , to create 1 , 025 <br /> PWR spaces . Thus , the ultimate capacity of pools C and D will be 4 , 715 fuel assemblies . <br /> The center-center distance will be 9 . 0 inches for PWR fuel and 6 . 25 inches for BY R fuel . <br /> 15 . The PWR racks in pools C and D have a smaller center- center distance than the racks <br /> in pools A and B (9 . 0 inches instead of 10 . 5 inches ) . This arrangement allows . more <br /> PWR fuel to be placed in a given pool area but also means that PWR fuel in pools C and <br /> D is more prone to undergo criticality . In response , CP &L proposes to include in the <br /> Technical Specifications for Harris a provision that PWR fuel will not be placed in pools <br /> C and D unless it has relatively low enrichment and high burnup . 3 <br /> F . Some Technical Safety Issues Raised By the Proposed License Amendment <br /> 16 . CP &L ' s plan for the activation of pools C and D raises a variety of technical safety <br /> issues . This section of my Declaration describes some of those issues . Later parts of the <br /> Declaration relate these issues to the NRC ' s standard for a " no significant hazards " <br /> determination . <br /> I3 License amendment application , Enclosure 5 . <br />