ML19209A369

Response to Jf Doherty 790810 Amended Contentions.Contention 19 Remains Inadequate as to Specificity.Contention 33 Lacks Basis for Alleged Innappropriate Doppler Reactivity Coefficient.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19209A369
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Site:	Allens Creek File:Houston Lighting and Power Company icon.png
Issue date:	08/17/1979
From:	Biddle C, Newman J BAKER & BOTTS, HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO., LOWENSTEIN, NEWMAN, REIS, AXELRAD & TOLL
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j i-p UNITED STATEC OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of 5 HOUSTON LIGHTING AND POWER COMPANY S Docket No. 50-466 5

(Allens Creek Nuclear Generating S Station, Unit 1) '

S APPLICANT'S RESPONSE TO " JOHN F. DOHERTY'S AMENDMENTS TO CONTENTIONS NUMBERED:

19, 33" Houston Lighting & Power Company (Applicant) hereby submits the following individual responses to the amended contentions filed by John F. Doherty (Intervenor) on August 10, 1979.

Amendment to Contention 19. Collet retainer tube cracking.

This latest amendment to contention 19 does nothing to alter the conclusions reached in Applicant's Response to John F. Doherty's Additional Contentions. Intervenor again does not discuss why Applicant's changes to the materials, design, and fabrication of collect retainer tubes to avoid cracking problems is inadequate. This contention remains entirely inadequate in satisfying the specificity requirements of 10 CFR 52.714 and should be dismissed.

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Amendment to Contention 33. Doppler Reactivity Feedback.

In essence, Intervenor contends that General Electric has relied on inappropriate experimental results in confirming the Doppler reactivity coefficient. To support his statement, he includes an edited quote frcm NEDO-20964 dealing with the moderator void coefficient.1/ Obviously, Intervenor has confused Doppler reactivity coefficients with moderator void coefficients. Since the latter has nothing to do with the former, Intervenor has provided no information about the issue he is attempting to place in contention.

Thus, Mr. Doherty's snendments add nothing to his earlier contention and sueceed only in demonstrating an apparent confusion with respects to the factual issues.

1/ After confusing Doppler and moderator void coefficients, Intervenor further erroneously asserts that the mathematical model for the moderator void coefficient relies on data produced from experiments using the SPERT-I and SPERT-III reactors. In fact, the moderator void coefficient mathemical model has never relied on SPERT results; furthermore, the Doppler reactivity model was compared to SPERT results but did not in anyway rely on those results.

1091 258 Accordingly, the contention should be rejected for lack of any basis.

Respectfully submitted, OF COUNSEL:

BAKER & BOTTS 3000 One Shell Plaza

(. Zf J. Gregory Copeland v' Houston, Texas 77002 Charles G. Thrash C. Thomas Biddle, Jr.

3000 One Shell Plaza Houston, Texas 77002 LOWENSTEIN, UEWMAN, REIS, J. R. Newman ALEXRAD & TOLL Harold F. Reis 1025 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Robert H. Culp Washington, D.C. 20036 1025 Connecticut Ave., N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20036 Attorneys for Applicant HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPA.VY TB:02:0 1091 259 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of 5 S

HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY S Docket No. 50466 S

(Allens Creek Nuclear Generating S Station, Unit 1) S CERTYFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing Applicant's Response to " John F. Doherty's Amendments to Contentione Numbered- 19 & 33" in the above-captioned proceeding were se. 2 on the following by deposit in the United States mail, -ostage prepaid, or by hand delivery this 17tk day of ou( -

, 1979.

I Sheldon J. Wolfe, Esq., Chairman Richard Lowerre, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Assistant Attorney General Board Panel for the State of Texas U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 12548 Washington, D. C. 20555 -

Capitol Station Austin, Texas 78711 Dr. E. Leonard Cheatum Route 3, Box 350A Hon. Charles J. Dusek Watkinsville, Georgia 30677 Mayor, City of Wallis P. O. Box 312 Mr. Gustave A. Linenbergcr Wallis, Texas 77485 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Hon. Leroy H. Grebe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission County Judge, Austin County Washington, D. C. 20555 P. O. Box 99 Bellville, Texas 77418 Chase R. Stephens Docketing and Service Section Atomic Safety and Licensing Office of the Secretary of the Appeal Board Cocmission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Washington, D. C. 20555 R. Gordon Gooch, Esq,. Atomic Safety and Licensing Baker & Botts Board Panel 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Washington, D. C. 20006 Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 iO91 260

Steve Schinki, Esq.

Staff Counsel U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 John F. Doherty 4438 1/2 Leeland Houston, Texas 77023 Madeline Bass Framson 4822 Waynesboro Drive Houston, Texas 77035 Robert S. Framson 4822 Waynesboro Drive Houston, Texas 77035 Carro Hinderstein 8739 Link Terrace Houston, Texas 77025 D. Marrack 420 Mulberry Lane Bellaire, Texas 77401 Brenda McCorkle 6140 Darnell -

Houston, Texas 77074 F. H. Pott &off, III 1814 Pine tillage Houston, Texas 77080 Wayne E. Rentfro P. O. Box 1335 Rosenberg, Texas 77471 James M. Scott, Jr.

8302 Albacore Houston, Texas 7'074 C. Thomas Biddle, Jr.

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