ML19337D529

Permission Granted to Framatome to Receive Data and Data Reports for Rocom Testing Conducted as Part of the PKL2 Project

ML19337D529
Person / Time
Site:	99902041
Issue date:	12/30/2019
From:	Hoxie C NRC/RES/DSA
To:	Peters G Framatome
Rowley J
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December 30, 2019 Mr. Gary Peters, Director Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Framatome Inc.

3315 Old Forest Road Lynchburg, VA 24501

SUBJECT:

PERMISSION GRANTED TO FRAMATOME INC. TO RECEIVE DATA AND DATA REPORTS FOR ROSSENDORF COOLANT MIXING MODEL TESTING CONDUCTED AS PART OF THE PKL2 PROJECT

Dear Mr. Peters:

I. Summary The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) grants permission to Framatome Inc.

(Framatome) to use the Rossendorf Coolant Mixing Model (ROCOM) data that was previously delivered to AREVA NP Inc. Framatome may apply the ROCOM-II data for benchmarking boron-dilution events, evaluating lower-plenum mixing during an inadvertent high-pressure-coolant-injection event, or for any other application that supports nuclear power plant safety. Justification of the application of the ROCOM-II data is the sole responsibility of Framatome. The NRC provides no warranty, or guarantee, whatsoever including warranties of fitness for purpose.

The ROCOM-II data are not public information and, therefore, should be protected by Framatome. Framatome should use all reasonable efforts to protect the use of the ROCOM-II data and to keep this information restricted using a standard of care no less than the degree of care that Framatome would be reasonably expected to employ for its own similar proprietary information.

Framatome should not directly or indirectly disclose, allow access to, transmit, or transfer the ROCOM-II data to a third party without the NRCs prior written consent.

Framatome has permission to disclose the ROCOM-II data only to those Framatome employees and Framatome consultants who have a need to know. Prior to disclosing the test data to such Framatome employees and Framatome consultants, Framatome should issue appropriate instructions to them to satisfy its responsibilities described above and to obtain their written agreement to receive and use the ROCOM-II data on a proprietary basis on the same conditions as specified in this letter.

G. Peters II. Background ROCOM is an un-heated, 1:5 volume-scaled model of the primary coolant loop found in German KONVOI-style pressurized water reactors. The ROCOM test facility is operated by Helmholz, Zentrum, Dresden-Rossendorf in Dresden, Germany. The ROCOM-II data requested by Framatome was generated in the ROCOM facility as part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development / Nuclear Energy Agency - Primrkreislauf-2 Project, which was conducted from April 2008 through September 2011.

III. Legal Disclaimer Neither the NRC nor any person acting on behalf of the NRC: a) makes any warranty or representations, expressed or implied, with respect to the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of the information contained in this report, or that the use of any information, apparatus, method, or process disclosed in this report may not infringe privately owned rights; or b) assumes any liabilities with respect to the use of, or for damages resulting from the use of, any information, apparatus, method, or process disclosed in this report.

IV. Condition of Use Permission to use the ROCOM-II data is granted to Framatome upon receipt by the NRC of a written statement that Framatome agrees to these terms.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Dr. Chris L. Hoxie, Chief Code Review and Analysis Branch Division of Systems Analysis Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research

G. Peters FRAMATOME agrees to the terms and conditions in the above letter from the NRC.

Signature: ________________________________________ Date:__________________

Mr. Gary Peters, Director Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Framatome Inc.

3315 Old Forest Road Lynchburg, VA 24501

ML19337D529 *via email OFFICE NRR/DORL/LLPB/PM NRR/DORL/LLPB/LA* NRR/DORL/LLPB/BC RES/DSA/CRAB/BC NAME JRowley DHarrison DMorey CHoxie DATE 12/3/19 12/12/19 12/30/19 12/26/19