ML060270341

01-27-06 E-mail R. Webb to S. Flory Special Request for Copy of the May 1979 NRC Report, Staff Safety Evaluation of Long Term Post-Accident Cooling of the Three Mile Island Unit 2.

ML060270341
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Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	01/27/2006
From:	Webb R Studies of Nuclear Hazards & Constitutional Law
To:	Shirley Flory NRC/FSME
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Dear Ms. Flory,

May I ask you to pass this email to Messrs. Lauben and Meyer (Ralph Meyer)? And thank you for walking to Marsha Ward my fax for her. I had sent to the PDR fax number the same letter a day or so earlier, but she never received it.

So, your hand delivering the letter to her was vital; and good, since by sending the copy of the letter to your office for Norm Lauben, I did not expect you to make a copy of it and take it to Marsha Ward, or a copy to Lauben. So, you do well. Thank you.

Now, below is my message for Messrs. Lauben and Meyer:

Dear Messrs. Lauben and Meyer,

I have sent to the NRC's PDR, copy to Norm Lauben, by fax, a letter requesting quickly a copy of the May 1979 NRC report, "Staff Safety Evaluation of Long Term Post-Accident Cooling of the Three Mile Island Unit 2." I assume that the PDR has not found the document among what the 31,593 documents in the TMI docket number. Since that report is a key report of the NRC during the TMI accident, and probably the first report made by the NRC on the TMI accident, I should think that both of you, or either of you, have a copy in your cabinent, or some cabinent in the Office of Research or elsewhere in the NRC offices. May I request that you find the report and have a copy made and sent to me by air mail?

Also, about the so-called "Industry Advisory Group" assembled during the TMI accident, and "directed," or "chaired,"

by Milton Levenson, then of EPRI, the Rogovin Report, Vol. II, Part 3, pages 883 and 884, mentions that written reports of the IAG were issued in those days from March 30 about to about the time of the switch to natural circulation, April 27, 1979. Does your office or any other office of the NRC have those reports or any of them?

I request also the several documents on the core thermocouples that I selected from James Wiggins list of documents.

These are listed below in my letter to the PDR.

I am repeating below my letter to the PDR.

Sincerely yours, Richard Webb Raiffeisen Strasse 1 86868 Mittelneufnach Bavaria, Germany Telephone: 49 / 8262-960236.

Copy of letter to the PDR on

Subject:

Long-Term Cooling Reports on TMI.

I found the reference for the document which I have inquired about. The document is indeed an NRC report, as I remembered. It is titled:

"Staff Safety Evaluation of Long Term Post-Accident Cooling of the Three Mile Island Unit 2."

My reference is page 185 of the Transcript of congressional hearings: Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, chaired by Morris Udall, titled: "Accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Powerplant," Oversight Hearings, Serial No.

96-8, part II, 96th Congress, 1st Session. The reference indicates that the report was transmitted to the Commissioners on May 4, 1979.

Now that I have the title of the document, I think that is must be an evaluation of a report either by the licensee of TMI, or the reactor vendor, B&W. I recall that a B&W safety analysis of the Long Term Cooling was given to me also for my study and review, when I met with Dr. Mattson and Carl Berlinger on April 26, 1979. Therefore, I wish to have the B&W safety analysis as well. In addition, there was a Sandia report that was a part of this documentation: a third document given to me for my review. Perhaps the Sandia report is mentioned in the Staff Safety Evaluation. I recall that the terms used by the NRC, "Safety Evaluation," indicates that there such is an evaluation of a "safety analysis " -- the safety analysis being usually proferred by the nuclear licensee, either issued by the licensee, or his contractor.

You mentioned that you found a B&W report. So, perhaps, or probably, that is the safety analysis. The Staff Evaluation would then be a separate document, and an NRC document.

Also, please excuse me for my emails that express my personal difficulties in using the internet to setup the Citrix-Adams thing. Perhaps I have to put the work into learning the new technology of PC's and internets, but there is a limit of my capacity to do things. Please view my criticisms or venting of frustrations as a kind of feedback. I want to

make use of the works of your office; but I do not know how to setup the Citrix thing, as I have amplified on in another series of Email to your PDR, not addressed to your specifically,though you may already know about them. I am very appreciative of your help.

Also, in my email I mentioned two references in a list of document titles and their dates and I.D. numbers which Jim Wiggins made using the Cintrix, and the TMI docket number (05000320), key word (thermocouple), and date (prior to October 1979). After examining his list of references, I have selected the following items which I wish to have:

1. Forwards summaries _?_ plots of thermocouple temp and time at time of reactor core performance 2A trip.Info. ...

04/28/1979, # 7907110045; and "Temp Increase in Thermocouple 9H on 790429 & 790430. 04/30/1979, 7908220063;

2. Thermocouple maps from 790403-10, dated 04/10/79, # 7905160014

3. Thermocouple computer data for 790329, # 03/29/1979, # 7906140547;

4. Readings on thermcouple computer data, 03/30/79, 7906140557;

5. Forwards sequence of events from 3:30 a.m. to 4 a.m. on 790405 and thermocouple readings for 12:30 am onm 790405, 04/05/1979, 79071100607, but uncertain as to the 5th digit;

6. Notifies of 1A prmary coolant pump tripped offline & 2A pump started 3 minutes later. Some change in thermocouple temperature distribution noted, but not serious. 04/06/1979, 7905140037;

7. Discusses increased thermocouple readings due to proximity of fuel particulates, w/graph, 04/10/1979, 7907260560

8. Forwards assessment of core damage for use in SER for natural circulation. 04/13/1979, 7904270057;

9. Task 108: Fuel Temp Thermocouple Readings during Pressure Transients form 790409-12, 04/13/1797, 7905230462; 10.

The # ____ are identification numbers I assumed.

I hope that you can find the requested documents. Please reply by email, as that is easiest for you, and for me.

Sincerely yours, Richard E. Webb

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Special Request for Norm Lauben and Ralph Meyer Creation Date: 1/27/06 4:14AM From: "Richard Webb" <richard.webb@t-online.de>

Created By: richard.webb@t-online.de Recipients nrc.gov twf5_po.TWFN_DO SAF (Shirley Flory)

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