ML19350D683

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Forwards Ltr Rept in Response to NRC 810429 Request for Addl Info Re Thermal Shock Issue.Also Forwards Summary of EPRI Programs
ML19350D683
Person / Time
Site: Rancho Seco
Issue date: 05/12/1981
From: Mattimoe J
SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT
To: Harold Denton
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ML19350D684 List:
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TASK-2.K.2.13, TASK-TM TAC-45202, NUDOCS 8105180368
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NUMBER ONE REACTOR VESSEL BRITTLE FRACTURE At your request, we met with the NRC on March 31, 1981.

At that meeting, your staf f presented information on overcooling transients with repressarization.

As a result of that meeting, we agreed to present a letter report by May 15, 1981 to put the thermal shock issue into perspective.

Again, on April 29, i

1981 your staff requested ano:.her meeting in which additional information was requested to 'ae presented in the May 15th report.

This additional request incit.ded justification for continued operation.

The attached letter report provides the requested in fo rmat ion.

This report has been discussed with representa-tives of the utilities with Babcock 5 Wilcox operating plants, and they concur with the conclusions.

Each Babcock 6 Wilcox licensee plans to make a submittal by May 22, 1981 which will identify the planned plant specific actions for thermal shock.

At the March 31, 1981 meeting, we agreed to furnish you with a review of the current industry research efforts in the area of reactor vessel thermal shock.

Attachment two is a summary of the ongoing programs by the Electric Power Research Institute.

b, John

. Mattimoe Chairman of the Babcock 6 Wilcox Regulatory Response Group Attachments:

1) Letter report on Reactor Vessel Brittle I

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Fracture concerns in Babcock 6 Wilcox 5

Operating Plants

2) Summary of the Electric Power Research j

Institute Programs pertaining to brittle fracture cc:

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P. Beatty, Jr. (FPC); K.

S. Canady (DPCO);

D. C. Trimble, (APSL); R.

F. Wilson (GPU); and W. C.

Rowles (TECO) 8105180 N

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