ML120270364

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Correction to Email, Request for Additional Information, Relief Request A-1, Risk-Informed Alternative to Code Exam Requirements for Class 1 and 2 Piping Welds, Second 10-Year Inservice Inspection Interval
ML120270364
Person / Time
Site: Comanche Peak 
Issue date: 01/27/2012
From: Balwant Singal
Plant Licensing Branch IV
To: Hope T
Luminant Generation Co
Singal, Balwant, 415-3016, NRR/DORL/LPL4
References
TAC ME6827
Download: ML120270364 (1)


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Singal, Balwant Sent:

Friday, January 27, 2012 2:47 PM To:

'Hope, Timothy' Cc:

'paul.passalugo@luminant.com'

Subject:

Draft Request for Additional Information (RAI) - Relief Request A TAC ME6827 Please note that there a small typo in RAI No. 1. Safety Evaluation ADAMS Accession No. has an extra zero at the end. It should be ML11262A206.

Thanks.

Tim:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staffs Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)

Licensing Branch has reviewed your application dated August 2, 2011 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), Accession No. ML11220A261) for Relief Request A-1 and requires the following additional information to complete its review.

1. The Luminant Generation Company LLC (the licensee) used Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Topical Report (TR) 1018427 to address those supporting requirements significant to the PRA for risk-informed inservice inspections (RI-ISI).

The NRC has endorsed TR 1021467 through a NRC safety evaluation (ADAMS Accession No. ML11262A2060) for determining the technical adequacy of the PRA for RI-ISI. Please review your analysis and address any outstanding supporting requirements for this application by using guidance found in the safety evaluation that references EPRI TR 1021467.

2. The licensee noted that two supporting requirements (SY-A22 and DA-C15) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standard (ASME RA-Sb-2005) as provided by PRA technical adequacy guidance in EPRI TR 1018427 are related to the use of hardware fault recovery. DA-C15 and SY-A22 are not related in this standard. In ASME RA-Sb-2005, DA-C15 pertains to data on recovery of plant-specific initiating events while SY-A22 addresses repair of hardware faults. Please provide additional justification that disposition DA-C15 for this application.

Please review the request and let me know by January 24, 2012 if a conference call is needed for clarification. The formal RAI will be issued after hearing from you. Please note that your application is being reviewed by additional technical branches and there may be additional RAI from the other branches.

Thanks.