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Email from W.Craft to R.Guzman Millstone Unit 3 Information Regarding LAR to Adopt Dominion Core Design and Safety Analysis Methods
ML15349A808
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Site: Millstone Dominion icon.png
Issue date: 06/30/2015
From: Craft W
Dominion Resources Services
To: Richard Guzman
Plant Licensing Branch 1
Guzman R
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TAC MF6251
Download: ML15349A808 (1)


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1 Guzman, Richard From:

Wanda D Craft (Generation - 6) <wanda.d.craft@dom.com>

Sent:

Tuesday, June 30, 2015 10:23 AM To:

Guzman, Richard Cc:

John Harrell (Generation - 6)

Subject:

[External_Sender] Information related to MPS3 LAR to Adopt Dominion Core Design and Safety Analysis Methods Categories:

Followup

Rich, TheNAFgroupdiscoveredadiscrepancybetweentheMPS3RETRANBaseModelPressurizerShellHeatConductorand theDominionRETRANTopicalReportthispastweekend(June27/28).TheMPS3RETRANbaseinputdeckmodelsthe pressurizershellasaheatconductor,whichdiffersfromTopicalReportVEPFRD41.VEPFRD41states,Dominion continuestomodelthenonequilibriumwallasanadiabaticsurface.

Thismodelisnotusedinanyanalysesofrecord,sothisdiscrepancyhasnoimpactonplantlicensingor operations.However,theRETRANbasemodelwasusedtobenchmark/replicateWestinghouseanalysesofrecordin supportofthesubjectLARsubmittedonMay8,2015forgenericNRCapprovalofapplicationofDominionreloaddesign analysismethodstoMPS3.EachofthefivebenchmarkingcasessupportingtheMay8,2015LARwerererunwiththe neededcorrection.ThisresultedineitheressentiallynodifferenceorimprovedreplicationoftheWestinghouseanalysis ofrecordresults(i.e.inthecaseoftheofthepredictedpressurizerwatervolumeforthelossofnormalfeedwater benchmark).

ThisinformationwasnotknownatthetimeofourJune25clarificationcall.Weanticipatethatmodifiedgraphsandtext fortheaffectedLossofNormalFeedwaterbenchmarkcaseintheLARmaybeneededbytheNRCtechreviewerto completehisreviewoftheLAR,andthathemaywishforustoprovidethisadditionalinformationinconjunctionwith responsestoforthcomingRAIs.

ACRisbeingwrittentodocumentthisissue.Iwillbehappytosendyouacopyafterithasbeensubmitted.Ifyouhave anyquestions,pleaseletmeknow.Weareavailabletodiscussthisatanytime.Thanks.

Wanda D. Craft Nuclear Licensing and Operations Support Dominion Resources Services, Inc (804) 273-4687 tie-line 730-4687

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