ML20065C277

Disputes Conclusions in Wi Environ Decade Re Intergranular Attack Detection by Eddy Current Insp.Svc List Encl

ML20065C277
Person / Time
Site:	Point Beach
Issue date:	09/21/1982
From:	Churchill B SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE, WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO.
To:	Bloch P, Kline J, Paxton H Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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NUDOCS 8209230303
Download: ML20065C277 (3)

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Dear Administrative Judges:

We have received a letter dated September 15, 1982 from Decade's Peter Anderson providing further argument on the ques-tion of inter-granular attack (IGA) detection by eddy current inspection. While we believe that Decade's letter was not appropriate in the instant procedural context, and that the erroneous logic therein does not require a response, we feel a brief response is necessary to avoid creating the inference on the record that Licensee accepts Decade's argument.

Decade's argument is that Mr. Porter's letter of February 28, 1980 (Appendix III-B of Decade'a July 21, 1982 Motion Con-cerning Litigable Issues) infers that eddy current testing is 8209230303 820921 PDR ADOCK 05000266 - .Q G PDR ( .

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SHAW PITTMAN, Po1Ts & TROWBRIDGE A pas?NE RSMap OF pmOFESSsONAL COmpomattONS Administrative Judges Page Two September 21, 1982 unreliable in the region above the tubesheet. Decade arrives at this conclusion by asserting that the Porter letter infers that grain separation (cracks) in a steam generator tube will reseal once the primary pressure inside the tube is removed, and will therefore be undetectable.

Nothing in the Porter letter or the discussions during the September 9, 1982 telephone conference could possibly lead to that remarkable inference.

As the Board correctly noted at "r. 1286, the Porter letter said that IGA above the tubesheet would be detectable because the internal pressure would cause detectable grain separation; grain separation for the IGA within the tubesheet '

simply had not occurred.

Thus, the Porter letter provides no contradictions, or

. negative inferences, with respect to the statement of material fact in Licensee's Motion for Summary Disposition that eddy current testing is adequate and sufficient for the inspection of sleeved tubes (Statement 21, Contention 3) or that eddy current inspection of the sleeve within the tubesheet is actually enhanced relative to the unsleeved tube (Statement 18, Contention 3).

Licensee's opinion on the legal. sufficiency of the Porter letter, as used by Decade in opposition to the Motion for Summary Disposition, remains as expressed during the telephone conference.

Respectfully submitted, SHAW, PITTMAN, POTTS & TROWBRIDGE By -t V Wee W. Mchill Counsel for Licensee cc: Service List

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board In the Matter of )

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WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY ) Docket Nos. 50-266

) 50-301 (Point Beach Nuclear Plant, ) (OL Amendment)

Units 1 and 2) )

SERVICE LIST Peter B. Bloch, Chairman Stuart A. Treby, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Office of the Executive Board Legal Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wasington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. Hugh C. Paxton Richard G. Bachmann, Esq.

1229 - 41st Street Office of the Executive Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544 Legal Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Dr. Jerry R. Kline Wasington, D.C. 20555 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Kathleen M. Falk, Esq.

, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wisconsin's Environmental Decade Washington, D.C. 20555 114 North Carroll Street Suite 208 Atomic Safety and Licensing Madison, Wisconsin 53703 Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Francis X. Davis, Esq.

I Washington, D.C. 20555 Monroeville Nuclear Center Westinghouse Electric Corporation l Atomic Safety and Licensing P. O. Box 355 Appeal Board Panel Pittsburgh, PA 15230 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Barton Z. Cowan, Esq.

I John R. Kenrick, Esq.

Docketing and Service Section Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott Office of the Secretary Forty-Second Floor l

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 600 Grant Street i Washington, D.C. 20555 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 l

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