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Trip Rept of ACRS Subcommittees on Extreme External Phenomena & Diablo Canyon 850321-22 Meetings in Los Angeles,Ca Re NRC Seismic Margins Program & Long-Term Seismic Program of Diablo Canyon Power Plant
ML20127E136
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Site: Diablo Canyon  Pacific Gas & Electric icon.png
Issue date: 05/25/1985
From: Scavuzzo R
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
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Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
References
ACRS-CT-1805, NUDOCS 8505170481
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ACRS Subcommittee Meetins, March 21-22,1985

1. NTRODUCTION Two major topic areas were discussed at the ACRS subcommitte meetins:

(1) NRC Seismic Marsins Prosram (SMP)

(2) Lons Term Seismic Prosram (LTSP) of the Diablo Canyon Powe'r Plant (DCPP)

Presentations were made t y the NRC Staff, Consultants to the NRC. PGLE Staff, and Consultants to PG&E.

Listed below are some of my Comments relevant to these two TOPIC areas.

2.0 DISCUSSION 2.1 ELECTRICAL RELAYS There is concern about the response and operation of electrical relays durins a seismic event. A frasility test Prosram is Planned. This test Prosram is very imPortant to insure Plant safety.

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  • The US Navy has developed sisnificant experience on the response of Circuit breakers and the behavior of other electrical equipment to hish impact shock loads. It is recommended that the NRC Staff make use of this experience in their evaluation of electrical components for nuclear Power plants.

2.2 CAST / BRITTLE MATERIALS Materials with low ductility respond Poorly to dynamic loads. Specifically,' Gray and White Cast Irons, Cast Aluminums, Fiber Glass Epoxy Composites and Ceramics historically have failed when subjected to vibration or shock loads. This statement does not mean that every component With ga Part fabricated from one of these materials Will fail.

  • However failure of one of these components is much more I likely than those fabricated from ductile materials. For example, the only failure in a fossile fuel Power Plant (not seismically desisned) that I know of occured in a cast iron Pipe fittin9 or flan 9e. It should be emphasized that the type of' cast iron' used ice this fittins'(sray ductile, etc.) is not known.

As a result, it is recommended that a survey be made of the materials used in safety related items of nuclear Power Plants and that sPeCial Consideration be siven to the

  1. !frasility-of these items fabricated from brittle materials usins both test and analysis.

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U 2 ACRS Subcommittee Meetins, March 21-22,1985 2.3 ANCHORS Failures of equipment from earth 9uake excitation haVe often occured from bolt or anchor failures. Furthemore, equipment is often anchored into concrete. As a resulte frasility of anchors of safety related equipment must be throushly evaluated.

2.4 BOLTS It was mentioned in the Presentation (by Dr. R. Kennedy) that bolt yieldins is sometimes considered in Joint analyses.

Furthermore, it is understood that hish strensth bolts are sometimes used to anchor major Components to the Containment structure.

It is stronsly recommended that anchor bolts be desisned for maximum enersy absortion by cuttine the shank diameter to the root diameter of the bolt if this desien feature is not already beine employed. If this modification is not done and if the bolt is loaded beyond the yield Pointe Plastic strains concentrate at the first few threads of the bolt. In seneral, the stronser the bolt the less the Plastic strain before fracture. The fatisue impact strensth of bolts can be increased by a factor of two to four (or more) by cuttins the bolt shank to the root diameter.(Ref. Harris & Crede "SHOCH AND VIBRATION HANDB00K",2nd Edition, McGraw HilleP 43-8).

Thus, this simple modification can increase the marsin of safety for dynamic loads sisnificantly and , therefore, should be considered in both the SMP and the LTSP of DCPP.

2.5 SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION The LTSP Proposed by PGLE is to be commended of its throushness. A few susestion are offered related to the soil-structure interaction Problem.

(1)Prosram The Proposed Prosram ProVides a uni 9ue opportunity to further understand soil structure interaction and the_ tau effect for a stiff soil (soft rock) site (Vs about 4000fes).

(2) Free Field Ground motion Three triaxial accelerometers at different

' locations on the Plant Property Can be used to record free field sround motion. However, because of the complex toPo9PaPhy, it is expected that recordines at these three

" free field" locations may be sisnificantly different. This Problem should be investi9ated by ComParin9 both time-history motion and response spectra of the motion at these three

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ACRS Subcommittee Meetins, March 21-22,1985 different, consideration should be siven to FEM analysis of the Plant site in an attempt to understand recorded motions and to. extend that work to study soil-structure interaction effects.

(3) Calculated Ground Motion It is understood that an estimate of site free motion will be made startins with an assumed fault motion. It is sussested that an attempt be made to calculate free field motion of small recorded earthquakes measured at the site in order to assess the accuracy of the analytical procedure.

2.6 FIRE SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS The interrelationship betWeen fire started by an earth 9uake and Plant safety should be evaluated. For example, a Ceramic hish voltase insolator could fail startins a fire. How would Plant safety be compromised?

2.7 EMPHASIS The orisinal seismic desien of the DCPP was based on a Peak scound acceleration of 0.2G. Reevaluation of this motion in lisht of the Hossri fault and additional earthquake data will probably lead to analyses of seismic marsins based on scound motions f rom O'.5 G to 1.0 G Peak 9 Pound accelerations. As a result Code allowable stress criteria may be exceeded at some locations. Howevere because of the enersy absorbtion Capability of ductile metalse failure of ductile Components or structures is not expected. Failures of anchors, materials with low ductility and control systems is much more likely.

Emphasis should be Placed on these failure modes.

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