ML18024B112

Summary of Conference Call on October 26, 2017 - Fire Safety

ML18024B112
Person / Time
Site:	Westinghouse
Issue date:	01/18/2018
From:	Ryder C Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
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CAC L33317
Download: ML18024B112 (2)

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NOTE TO: File FROM: Christopher Ryder, Project Manager Fuel Manufacturing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards and Environmental Review Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

SUMMARY

OF CONFERENCE CALL ON OCTOBER 28, 2017 FIRE SAFETY BACKGROUND The Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC (Westinghouse) submitted a application to renew special nuclear material (SNM) license SNM-1107 (Ref. Error! Reference source not found.).

The application was revised by letter dated September 2017 (Ref. Error! Reference source not found.). The staff at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requested for additional information by letter dated (Ref. Error! Reference source not found.).

Westinghouse responded to the RAIs, both formally by letter dated (Ref. Error! Reference source not found.), and with preliminary responses1. As the chapter of the Safety Evaluation Report about fire safety neared completion, the NRC staff had a few minor aspects to clarify.

Instead of submitting additional RAIs, the NRC staff decided discuss the matter with the licensee.

PARTICIPANTS NRC Westinghouse Mollie Semmes(Error! Reference Nancy Parr(Error!

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Christopher Ryder(Error! Justin Williams(Error!

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DISCUSSION M. Semmes asked Westinghouse about their commitment to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standard NFPA-25, Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems, NFPA-55, Compressed Gases and Cryogenic Fluids Code, and NFPA 30, Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code. These standards were either inconsistently mentioned in various parts of the license application or committed to in the last license application and not mentioned in the current application. Several other codes are referenced in the Integrated safety Analysis (ISA) summary, but not in the application. The NRC staff are aware that the ISA summary is not a part of the application, but wants to clearly 1 Preliminary responses has been informally sent to the NRC staff to ensure that the requested information would meet the expectations of the NRC staff.

establish which codes mentioned in the ISA summary are Westinghouse committing to implement.

FOLLOW-UP N. Parr agreed to send C. Ryder an e-mail stating the fire safety codes that Westinghouse would commit to implementing. N. Parr stated that Westinghouse would consider revising the license application to include fire safety codes as such. Specific dates were not given.

References

1. Letter from N. Parr, Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, "Westinghouse License Renewal Application, December 17, 2014. ADAMS accession number ML14352A111.

2. Letter from N. Parr, Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC, Westinghouse Snm-11 07 Updated Renewal License Application, September 15, 2017. ADAMS accession number ML17261A085.

3. Letter from C. Ryder, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Request For Additional Information: Renewal Of Special Nuclear Materials License SNM-1107 (Cost Activity Code:

L33317), June 23, 2016. ADAMS accession number ML16141A734.

4. Letter from N. Parr, Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, " Westinghouse License Renewal Application Response to Request for Additional Information (Cost Activity Code: L33317)),

August 31, 2016. ADAMS accession number ML16246A300.