ML021340009
| ML021340009 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 04/14/2002 |
| From: | Finlayson R Physical Acoustics Corp |
| To: | Sheron B NRC/NRR/ADPT |
| References | |
| TAC MB4977, Y020020128 | |
| Download: ML021340009 (3) | |
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Richard Finlayson TICKET NO: 020020128 DOC DT: 04/14/02 NRR RCVD DATE: 05/02/02 Brian Sheron FOR SIGNATURE OF :
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Reactor Pressure Head Degradation at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio ASSIGNED TO:
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PHYSICAL ACOUSTICS knn, CORPORATION A MISTRAS Holdings Company Major (retired) R.D. Finlayson Director, REACT Sunday, April 14, 2002 Dr. Brian W. Sheron Associate Director for Project Licensing and Technical Analysis Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Mail Stop 05-E7 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001
Dear Dr. Sheron,
I am writing this letter in response to the recent incident (early March 2002) of "Reactor Pressure Head Degradation" at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio. Severe corrosion was found on a reactor pressure vessel head and in turn necessitated inspections at 69 nuclear reactors across the country. Our company, Physical Acoustics Corporation of Princeton Junction, NJ has a technology that, if installed on the heads, could have detected the corrosion as it was developing and verified the wall loss well before it got to the critical level found on the Davis-Besse head. This technology involves active and passive monitoring technology that we have developed and refined over the last 22 plus years of doing business in the physical acoustics market.
We would like your assistance in reaching parties who might be interested in our technology and possibly installing our sensors and detection system on their reactor pressure vessel heads as continuous "health" monitors. I would assume the individuals that need to be contacted are at the individual nuclear power generation sites and located in the Operations Department. Can you suggest a way that we can contact them or could you suggest a better way to approach this problem? In addition, if there is a meeting coming up where we could give an oral presentation of our technology, we would be more than happy to address all interested parties.
(Princeton, NJ)
HQTS: 195 Clarksville Road
- Princeton Jct., NJ 08550-5303 - Telephone: (609) 716-4000
- Fax: (609) 716-0706
- www.pacndt.com
- e-mail: sales@pacndt.com Subsidiaries: Cambridge - Paris
- Tokyo, Wolfegg - Beijing
- Rotterdam
- Moscow - Sao Paulo
- Buenos Aires
- Athens (Aff.) Field Sales: Boston
- Houston ° Los Angeles
Once we have been put in contact with the interested parties, we would be more than happy to travel to any site to present our technology. Thank you for your assistance in this matter and I look forward to your response. Please feel free to contact me at any time.
Yours truly, RZ cwd D. F6iryanS0VV Major (retired) Richard D. Finlayson Director, Research, Engineering Applications, Certification, Training (REACT) and New Business Development Physical Acoustics Corp.
195 Clarksville Road Princeton Jct. NJ 08550, USA Direct Phone: (609)-716-4026 Fax: (609)-716-4057 e-mail: RFinlayson@pacndt.com web site: www.pacndt.com