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Licensee Slides for 2/9/12 Meeting Regarding GSI-191
ML120440065
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Site: South Texas  
Issue date: 02/09/2012
From: Kee E, Mohaghegh Z
South Texas
To: Balwant Singal
Plant Licensing Branch IV
Singal, B K, NRR/DORL, 301-415-301
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STP Risk STP Risk--Informed Approach to Informed Approach to NRC G i S f t I 191 NRC G i S f t I 191 NRC Generic Safety Issue 191 NRC Generic Safety Issue 191 (GSI (GSI-191) 191)

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Zahra Mohaghegh Ph D Ernie Kee Zahra Mohaghegh, Ph.D.

Soteria Consultants Boston, MA www.soteriaconsultants.com mohaghegh@soteriaconsultants.com Ernie Kee South Texas Nuclear Operating Company Wadsworth, TX www.stpnoc.com keeej@stpegs.com Introductory Presentation at at NRC Public Meeting February 9, 2012

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STP Risk STP Risk-Informed Project Informed Project on Feb 9, 2012 Public Meeting:

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Containment Accident Stochastic Analysis (CASA )Team 2.

Corrosion/Head Loss Experimental (CHLE) Team 3.

GSI-191 Analysis & Methodology Implementation (GAMI) Team 4.

Oversight Team 5

STPNOC Team 5.

STPNOC Team 2

Containment Accident Stochastic Analysis Containment Accident Stochastic Analysis (CASA) T (CASA) T (CASA) Team (CASA) Team Bruce Letellier, Ph.D. in Nuclear Eng.

Nuclear Reactor Safety and Risk Analysis at Los Alamos National Lab Nuclear Reactor Safety and Risk Analysis at Los Alamos National Lab CASA lead for STP Risk-informed GSI-191 project 10 years of experience in GSI-191 3

Corrosion/Head Loss Experimental (CHLE)

Corrosion/Head Loss Experimental (CHLE)

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Team Team Kerry Howe, PE, Ph.D., BCEE.

Associate Professor in the Civil Eng. Department at the University of New Mexico CHLE lead for STP Risk-informed GSI-191 project 5 years of experience in GSI-191 Janet Leavitt, Ph.D. in Environmental Eng.

Post-doc in the Civil Eng. Department at the University of New Mexico CHLE team member for STP Risk informed GSI 191 CHLE team member for STP Risk-informed GSI-191 5 years of experience in GSI-191 4

GSI GSI--191 Analysis & Methodology 191 Analysis & Methodology Implementation (GAMI) Team Implementation (GAMI) Team Ti S d

Implementation (GAMI) Team Implementation (GAMI) Team Tim Sande, M.S. in Petroleum Eng.

Engineering Supervisor at Alion Science & Technology GAMI lead for STP Risk-informed GSI-191 project 8 years of experience in GSI-191 Gil Zigler Nuclear Eng Gil Zigler, Nuclear Eng.

Senior Scientist/Engineer at Alion Science & Technology GAMI team member for STP Risk-informed GSI-191 20 f

GSI 191 20 years of experience in GSI-191 5

Oversight Team Oversight Team Z h M h h

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Zahra Mohaghegh, Ph.D. in Reliability Eng.

Principal Research Scientist at Soteria Consultants Oversight lead for STP Risk-informed GSI-191 project 8 years of experience in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)

Seyed Reihani, Ph.D. in Mechanical Eng.

Research Scientist at Soteria Consultants Oversight team member for STP Risk-informed GSI-191 project Oversight team member for STP Risk informed GSI 191 project 10 years of experience in catalytic combustion 6

STPNOC Team STPNOC Team Steve Blossom, Project Manager Project Manager at the South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company Project Manager for STP Risk-informed GSI-191 project 32 years of experience in Project Management Ernie Kee, Mechanical Eng.

Supervisor, Risk-Informed Applications, at the South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company STP Technical Leader for STP Risk-informed GSI-191 project 14 years of experience in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) at a commercial nuclear power plant 7

Main Goals of the Risk Main Goals of the Risk-Informed Project Informed Project 1.

Through a risk-informed approach, establish a technical basis to i NRC l t l th f t i l t d t j

gain NRC approval to close the safety issues related to GSI-191 by the end of 2013 2.

Exemption from certain requirements of 10 CRF 50.46 if the risk associated with the fibrous insulation in STPNOCs containment is determined as non risk significant :

3/4 Decision-making is based on the difference in risk between a perfect design and the existing design 3/4 Safety issues having CDF < 10-6/yr and LERF < 10-7/yr fall in Risk Region III (very small changes) as defined by Regulatory Guide 1.174 8

S h ti R t ti S h ti R t ti Schematic Representation Schematic Representation of the Integrated Model, of the Integrated Model, Developed for the Developed for the Risk Risk--Informed GSI Informed GSI--191 191 Project Project 9

3/4 PRA is located at the top level of system analysis.

3/4 This PRA has the typical Power yp Plant Fault Trees and Event Trees covering hardware failures and operators actions and so, has the typical PRA cut sets.

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3/4 CASA Grande provides estimates for the likelihood of three basic events of Fault Trees in PRAs.

3/4 Rather than relying solely on historical failure data for these three basic events, the risk-informed project develops the models (in CASA Grande) for the underlying chemical and h

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di mechanical phenomena leading to the three basic events.

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3/4 The output of CASA Grande will give a more accurate estimate of the likelihood of these three basic events and can then be imported to events and can then be imported to Fault Trees of the plant-specific PRA in order to calculate CDF.

3/4 CASA Grande is instrumental in opening the black boxes of two important events in the scenarios of P

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l ti a Power Plant PRA (i.e. recirculation and core blockage) by model-based estimations of the likelihood of their underlying basic events.

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3/4 The Risk-Informed GSI-191 project not only contributes toward the closure of the GSI-191 issues, but also makes a contribution toward also makes a contribution toward PRA research and applications.

3/4 This project improves the scientific incorporation of underlying physical failure mechanisms ( i.e. chemical and mechanical phenomena) into PRA, an important topic of interest in the PRA field.

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Focus of Todays Meeting:

Focus of Todays Meeting:

Chemical Effects Chemical Effects 3/4 Chemicals are hypothesized to yp affect both the strainer debris bed head loss and the in-vessel debris bed head loss.

3/4 In the figure, the effect on the in-vessel debris bed head loss is shown as going through the strainer bypass path.

3/4 Boron precipitation is separate from the chemical reaction processes and their potential p

p debris bed blockage.

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Todays Agenda Todays Agenda Today s Agenda Today s Agenda 1.

As necessary, discuss STP Post-meeting Notes from January y,

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Methods for addressing each of the significant PIRT issues 2.

Methods for addressing each of the significant PIRT issues 3.

Experimental apparatus configuration p

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High level alignment on strainer head loss methodology (use of NUREG/CR 6224 and CHLE experiments)

(use of NUREG/CR 6224 and CHLE experiments) 15

Plan for Plan for Risk Risk--Informed Informed Chemical Effects Testing Chemical Effects Testing Existing KnowledgeBase on Chemical 30DayIntegrated ChemicalEffectsTests withDirectHeadLoss Measurement PrecipitateCalculator (Type Quantity and onChemical Effects Benchtop Testing (Type,Quantity,and Form)

Thermodynamic Modeling Short Term Integrated Benchtop Testing NUREG/CR6224Head CASAGrande ShortTermIntegrated ChemicalEffectsTests withDirectHeadLoss Measurement

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LossCorrelation HeadLossCalculator (StrainerHeadLossdue toFiber,Particulate,and Precipitates)

PlantSpecific Vertical PlantSpecificVertical LoopandTankTests 16