ML101730484
| ML101730484 | |
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|---|---|
| Site: | Nuclear Energy Institute, Boiling Water Reactor Owners Group, PROJ0704, PROJ0669, PROJ0694 |
| Issue date: | 06/29/2010 |
| From: | Rowley J NRC/NRR/DPR/PSPB |
| To: | John Jolicoeur NRC/NRR/DPR/PSPB |
| References | |
| Download: ML101730484 (7) | |
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June 29, 2010 MEMORANDUM TO: John R. Jolicoeur, Chief Licensing Processes Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation FROM:
Jonathan Rowley, Project Manager
/RA/
Licensing Processes Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF THE MAY 25 - 26, 2010, ANNUAL INDUSTRY/NRC MATERIALS PROGRAMS TECHNICAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE MEETINGS On May 25 and 26, 2010, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff and representatives from the nuclear industry; including representatives from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Materials Reliability Program (MRP), EPRI Nondestructive Evaluation Program, EPRI Boiling Water Reactor Vessel and Internals Project (BWRVIP), EPRI Corrosion Research Program, and representatives of the Pressurized Water Reactor Owners Group (PWROG) Materials Subcommittee met, to discuss materials programs. The meetings were held at the Legacy Hotel, 1775 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. A list of meeting attendees is enclosed. The meeting agenda can be found in the meeting notice dated May 14, 2010, available in the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at Accession No. ML101241044.
The NRC staff and industry representatives discussed programs in the areas of stress corrosion cracking (SCC), nondestructive examination (NDE), reactor vessel surveillance, dissimilar metal welds, guide card wear, and jet pump testing, among other topics.
The NRC staff gave presentations on the following topics: ultrasonic testing (UT) in lieu of radiographic testing (RT) research (slides in ADAMS at ML101481032), NDE research programs at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (slides in ADAMS at ML101481039), Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Section 50.55a (10 CFR 50.55a) updates (slides in ADAMS at ML101481042), regulatory perspectives for leak-before-break in piping systems with nickel-alloys (slides in ADAMS at ML101481043), an overview of 10 CFR 50.61a implementation (slides in ADAMS at ML101481044), the status of license renewal guidance updates (slides in ADAMS at ML101481050), and the NRC primary water SCC research program (slides in ADAMS at ML101481052).
The EPRI staff gave presentations on the following topics: overview of the MRP (slides in ADAMS at ML101590616), overview of NDE (slides in ADAMS at ML101610126), overview of the BWRVIP (slides in ADAMS at ML101590655), Materials Degradation Matrix and Issue Management Table update for 2010 (slides in ADAMS at ML101590689), MRP Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) internals inspection and evaluation (slides in ADAMS at ML101590594),
J. Jolicoeur recirculation line break and annulus pressurization loads for BWRs (slides in ADAMS at ML101590626), status of BWR dissimilar metal welds category C and D (slides in ADAMS at ML101590642), jet pump degradation management (slides in ADAMS at ML101590703),
BWRVIP program and Revision 2 of the Generic Aging Lessons Learned Report (slides in ADAMS at ML101590711), assessment of mitigation effectiveness under hydrogen water chemistry/noble metal chemistry addition (slides in ADAMS at ML101590725), MRP reactor internals modeling and testing projects (slides in ADAMS at ML101590731), Alloy 52/52M welding issues (slides in ADAMS at ML101590585), current industry depth-sizing capability for dissimilar metal welds (slides in ADAMS at ML101610065), optimization of UT techniques for flaw evaluation (slides in ADAMS at ML101610097), Alloy 600 mitigation methods and status of NDE development (slides in ADAMS at ML101610100), UT in lieu of RT (slides in ADAMS at ML101610106), advanced NDE technology innovation program (slides in ADAMS at ML101610113), and qualification of reactor pressure vessel head instrument nozzle volumetric examination (slides in ADAMS at ML101610172).
The PWROG staff gave presentations on the following topics: overview of the PWROG Materials Subcommittee (slides in ADAMS at ML101600283), PWR reactor vessel surveillance program (slides in ADAMS at ML101600233), guide card wear programs (slides in ADAMS at ML101600252), PWR reactor internals (slides in ADAMS at ML101600299), and outer diameter initiated SCC of stainless steel (slides in ADAMS at ML101600301).
Follow-up Actions The following actions items were noted:
- 1. The PWROG will provide to NRC staff a brief, high level, semi-quantitative description regarding the location and amount of wear that guide cards experience.
- 2. NRC Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) staff will set up a conference call with BWRVIP staff to discuss plans for evaluating the effects of higher fluence on the effectiveness of hydrogen water chemistry.
- 3. The EPRI Primary Systems Corrosion Research committee will set up a call or meeting later in 2010 with the RES staff to discuss plans for irradiation-assisted SCC work using Zorita material.
- 4. NRR staff will provide a description of concerns and questions related to Alloy 52/152 welds to MRP staff prior to the July 13-14 primary water SCC mitigation meeting.
- 5. Industry will provide feedback to NRC staff regarding difficulty interpreting the requirements for reactor vessel inservice inspection related to 10 CFR 50.61a.
- 6. Industry and NRC staff will collect and evaluate feedback about the meeting facilities, organization and content of the meeting.
- 7. Industry and NRC staff will schedule a meeting or conference call after the regulatory issue summary on leak-before-break is issued.
J. Jolicoeur
- 8. NRC and industry technical staff will conduct quarterly planning conference calls in support of the 2011 technical information exchange meeting.
- 9. Industry and NRC staff who will attend the Performance Demonstration Initiative meeting in Charlotte, NC, June 17-18, 2010, will add a discussion of root mean square error treatment to the agenda.
- 10. ERPI will provide to NRC staff information about the welding workshop to be held June 23 - 25, 2010 in Sanibel Island, FL.
- 12. RES staff will provide PWROG personnel information on NRC research on SCC of austenitic stainless steel.
- 13. The PWROG is coordinating surveillance programs to assure availability of very high fluence data to support validation of embrittlement correlations for long-term operation.
Some licensees have pulled capsules to support license renewal. These capsules would need to be re-installed to support a very high fluence program. The NRC staff will provide clarification regarding conflicting needs of license renewal commitments versus acquisition of very-high fluence data.
- 14. The NRC requested the industry provide copies of any updates to Safety Communication 09-03 to the staff.
One member of the public was in attendance. Public Meeting Feedback forms were not received.
Please direct any inquiries to me at 301-415-4053, or jonathan.rowley@nrc.gov.
Project Nos.: 669, 689, 691, 694, 704
Enclosure:
List of Attendees cc w/encl: See next page
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SUMMARY
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ENCLOSURE Attendees Annual Industry/NRC Materials Programs Technical Information Exchange Meetings May 25, 2010 Name Organization Phone Email Jonathan Rowley NRC 301-415-4053 jonathan.rowley@nrc.gov Robert Hardies NRC 301-415-5802 robert.hardies @nrc.gov David Alley NRC 301-415-2178 david.alley@nrc.gov Carol Nove NRC 301-415-3814 carol.nove@nrc.gov Jay Wallace NRC 301-415-3135 jay.wallace@nrc.gov Appajosula Rao NRC 301-251-7636 appajosula.rao@nrc.gov Keith Hoffman NRC 301-415-1294 keith.hoffman@nrc.gov Stacey Rosenberg NRC 301-415-2357 stacey.rosenberg@nrc.gov Allen Hiser NRC 301-415-5650 allen.hiser@nrc.gov Kenneth Karwoski NRC 301-415-2752 kenneth.karwoski@nrc.gov Rachel Vaucher NRC 301-415-1320 nrcoip6@earthlink.net Ralph Architzel NRC 301-415-2804 ralph.architzel@nrc.gov Patrick Purtscher NRC 301-415-3942 patrick.purtscher@nrc.gov Jeffrey Poehler NRC 301-415-8353 jeffrey.poehler@nrc.gov Ganesh Cheruvenki NRC 301-415-2501 ganesh.cheruvenki@nrc.gov Edward Andruszkiewicz NRC 301-415-1994 edward.andruszkiewicz@nrc.gov Donald Naujock NRC 301-415-2767 donald.naujock@nrc.gov Wallace Norris NRC 301-251-7650 wallace.norris@nrc.gov George Georgiev NRC 301-415-2719 george.georgieo@nrc.gov Aladar Csontos NRC 301-251-7640 aladar.csontos@nrc.gov Matthew Mitchell NRC 301-415-1467 matthew.mitchell@nrc.gov Timothy Lupold NRC 301-415-6448 timothy.lupold@nrc.gov Randy Stark EPRI 650-855-2122 rstark@epri.com Robert Carter EPRI 704-595-2519 bcarter@epri.com Raj Pathania EPRI 650-855-8762 rpathani@epri.com Larry Steinert EPRI 650-855-2140 ldsteine@contractor.epri.com Craig Harrington EPRI 817-897-1433 charrington@epri.com Kyle Amberge Pacific Gas & Electric 856-339-1142 kyle.amberge@pseg.com Greg Selby EPRI 704-578-4871 gselby@epri.com Charles Wirtz EPRI 440-346-7124 cjwirtz@firstenergycorp.com Robin Dyle EPRI 205-425-5371 rdyle@epri.com Mark Richter Constellation 410-470-3293 mark.richter@cenguc.com Terry McAlister EPRI 803-345-4758 tmcalister@scana.com Randy Schmidt Pacific Gas & Electric 856-339-3740 randal.schmidt@pseg.com Carl Latiolais EPRI 704-595-2638 clatio@epri.com Alvin Reed Constellation 410-470-3291 alvin.s.reed@constellation.com Randy Lott Westinghouse 412-374-4157 lottrj@westinghouse.com Stephen Fyfitch AREVA NP, Inc.
412-264-1610 steve.fyfitch@areva.com Ted Meyer Westinghouse 412-374-4226 meyerta@westinghouse.com Matthew DeVan AREVA NP, Inc.
434-832-3160 matt.devan@areva.com James Cirilli PWROG 610-765-5966 james.cirilli@exeloncorp.com James Molkenthin PWROG 860-731-6727 molkenjp@westinghouse.com Andrew Odell Exelon 610-765-5483 andrew.odell@exeloncorp.com Bernard Rudell Constellation 410-495-4815 bernie.c.rudell@constellation.com Maurice Dingler PWROG 620-364-4127 madingl@wcnoc.com Ted Sullivan Public 703-548-2460 sullivanejj@gmail.com May 26, 2010 Name Organization Phone Email Jonathan Rowley NRC 301-415-4053 jonathan.rowley@nrc.gov Robert Hardies NRC 301-415-5802 robert.hardies @nrc.gov David Alley NRC 301-415-2178 david.alley@nrc.gov Carol Nove NRC 301-415-3814 carol.nove@nrc.gov Jay Wallace NRC 301-415-3135 jay.wallace@nrc.gov Dave Rudland NRC 301-251-7622 david.rudland@nrc.gov Robert Tregoning NRC 301-251-7662 robert.tregoning@nrc.gov Ali Rezai NRC 301-415-1328 ali.rezai@nrc.gov John Tsao NRC 301-415-2702 john.tsao@nrc.gov Kenneth Karwoski NRC 301-415-2752 kenneth.karwoski@nrc.gov Rachel Vaucher NRC 301-415-1320 nrcoip6@earthlink.net Ralph Architzel NRC 301-415-2804 ralph.architzel@nrc.gov Michael McCoppin NRC 301-415-2737 michael.mccoppin@nrc.gov Wallace Norris NRC 301-251-7650 wallace.norris@nrc.gov Aladar Csontos NRC 301-251-7640 aladar.csontos@nrc.gov Matthew Mitchell NRC 301-415-1467 matthew.mitchell@nrc.gov Timothy Lupold NRC 301-415-6448 timothy.lupold@nrc.gov Randy Stark EPRI 650-855-2122 rstark@epri.com Robert Carter EPRI 704-595-2519 bcarter@epri.com Raj Pathania EPRI 650-855-8762 rpathani@epri.com Larry Steinert EPRI 650-855-2140 ldsteine@contractor.epri.com Craig Harrington EPRI 817-897-1433 charrington@epri.com Kyle Amberge Pacific Gas & Electric 856-339-1142 kyle.amberge@pseg.com Tim Wells Southern Nuclear 205-992-7460 tgwells@southernco.com Charles Wirtz EPRI 440-346-7124 cjwirtz@firstenergycorp.com Robin Dyle EPRI 205-425-5371 rdyle@epri.com Steve McCracken EPRI 704-595-2627 smccracken@epri.com Terry McAlister EPRI 803-345-4758 tmcalister@scana.com Randal Schmidt Pacific Gas & Electric 856-339-3740 randal.schmidt@pseg.com Melvin Arey PWROG 704-382-8619 melvin.arey@duke-energy.com Alvin Reed Constellation 410-470-3291 alvin.s.reed@constellation.com Randy Lott Westinghouse 412-374-4157 lottrj@westinghouse.com Stephen Fyfitch AREVA NP, Inc.
412-264-1610 steve.fyfitch@areva.com Ted Meyer Westinghouse 412-374-4226 meyerta@westinghouse.com Matthew DeVan AREVA NP, Inc.
434-832-3160 matt.devan@areva.com James Cirilli PWROG 610-765-5966 james.cirilli@exeloncorp.com James Molkenthin PWROG 860-731-6727 molkenjp@westinghouse.com Andrew Odell Exelon 610-765-5483 andrew.odell@exeloncorp.com Bernard Rudell Constellation 410-495-4815 bernie.c.rudell@constellation.com Maurice Dingler PWROG 620-364-4127 madingl@wcnoc.com Dave Waskey AREVA NP, Inc.
434-832-3473 dave.waskey@areva.com Charles Kim Westinghouse 412-374-6696 kimcc@westinghouse.com