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Summary of 981217 Meeting with Util to Discuss Plans & Activities Re Spent Fuel Storage at Plant.List of Attendees & Handouts Encl
ML20196K278
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Site: Vermont Yankee Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 01/04/1999
From: Croteau R
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TAC-MA3490, NUDOCS 9901110262
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l LICENSEE: Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation (VYNPC)

FACILITY: Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station

SUBJECT:

SUMMARY

OF MEETING ON DECEMBER 17,1998, REGARDING ACTIVITIES AT VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER STATION (TAC NO. MA3490)

On December 17,1998, representativeo of VYNPC, licensee for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station met with members of the staff to discuss plans and activities related to spent fuel storage at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station. Enclosure 1 is a list of attendees.

Enclosure 2 contains copies of handouts distributed at the meeting and enclosure 3 is a copy of the licensee's procedure titled " Radiological Controls for Underwater Diving Operations."

The staff requested that the licensee provide a letter documenting the correct enrichment tolerance used in it's analysis associated with the September 4,1998, submittal requesting an increase in the spent fuel storage capacity of the Vermont Yankee spent fuel pool from 2870 to 3355 fuel assemblies. The licensee agreed to provide the information in a letter.

Origimi signed by:

Richard P. Croteau, Project Menager Project Directorate 1-3

Enclosures:

1. List of Attendees Division of Reactor Projects - 1/11
2. Handouts Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
3. Radiological Controls for Underwater Diving Operations cc w/encls: See next page DISTRIBUTION wrencl.1 E-Mail Hard Coov w/encls.1&2 S. Collins /R. Zimmerman @ Docket File #

B. Boger Ve:mont Yankee r/f J. Zwolinski PUBLIC T. Martin (e-mail SLM3) ACRS T. Clark OGC NRC Meeting Attendees (see Enclosure 1)

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. . . . . ,o JCENSEE: Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation (VYNPC)

ExCILITY: Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station

SUBJECT:

SUMMARY

OF MEETING ON DECEMBER 17,1998, REGA.RDING ACTIVITIES AT VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER STATION (TAC NO. MA3490)

On December 17,1998, representatives of VYNPC, licensee for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station met with members of the staff to discuss plans and activities related to spent fuel storage at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station. Enclosure 1 is a list of attendees.

Enclosure 2 contains copies of handouts distributed at the meeting and enclosure 3 is a copy of the licensce's procedure titled " Radiological Controls for Underwater Diving Operations."

The staff requested that the licensee provide a letter documenting the correct enrichment tolerance used in it's analysis associated with the September 4,1998, submittal requesting an increase in the spent fuel storage capacity of the Vermont Yankee spent fuel pool from 2870 to 3355 fuel assemblies. The licensee agreed to provide the information in a letter.

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R.ichard P, Croteau, Project Manager Project Directorate I 3 Division of Reactor Projects - 1/11 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Enclosures:

1. List of Attendees
2. Handouts
3. Radiological Controls for Underwater Diving Operations cc w/encls: See next page 1

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December 17.1998 List of Attendees l LLAME ORGANIZATION Richard Croteau NRR Larry Kopp NRR Diane Jackson NRR Charles Hinson NRR Yong Kim NRR/DE/ECGB Bob Rothman NRR/DE/ECGB Ron Fish Vermont Yankee Thomas B. Silko Vermont Yankee Stan Miller Vermont Yankee John Hoffman Vermont Yankee l Kalyan K. Niyogi Holtec

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_ Jonathan M. Block, Esq.

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Main Street 475 Allendale Road P. O. Box S66 King of Prussia, PA 19406 Putney, VT 05346-0566 L

! Mr. David R. Lewis Mr. Raymond N. McCandless t Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Vermont Division of Occupational

. 2300 N Street, N.W. and Radiological Health l

Washington, DC 20037-1128 Administration Building l l Montpelier, VT 05602 l- Mr. Richard P. Sedano, Commissioner Vermont Department of Public Service Mr. Gautam Sen <

120 State Street,3rd Floor Licensing Manager l Montpelier, VT 05602 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation Public Service Board 185 Old Ferry Road State of Vermont Brattleboro, VT 05301 120 State Street Montpelier, VT 05602 Resident inspector Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station Chairman, Board of Selectmen U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Town of Vemon ~

P.O. Box 176 l P.O. Box 116 Vernon,VT 05354 i Vernon, VT 05354-0116 Mr. Peter LaPorte, Director Mr. Richard E. McCullough ATTN: James Muckerheide Operating Experler ce Coordinator Massachusetts Emergency Management Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station Agency P.O. Box 157 400 Worcester Rd.

Governor Hunt Road P.O. Box 1496 Vernon, VT 05354 Framingham, MA 01701-0317 l G. Dana Bisbee, Esq. Mr. Gregory A. Maret Deputy Attorney General Director of Operations 33 Capitol Street Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp.

Concord, NH 03301-6937 185 Old Ferry Road Brattleboro,VT 05301

, .. Chief, Safety Unit l Office of the Attorney General Mr. Michael J. Daley One Ashburton Place,19th Floor Trustee and Legislative Representative Boston, MA 02108 New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, Inc.

Ms. Deborah B. Katz Box 545 Box 83 Brattleboro, VT 05301 l Shelbume Falls, MA 01370 1

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- Everett Redmond, Holtec,

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Overview of Project

- Total 17 percent increase in storage capacity, from 2870 to 3355 licensed storage locations.

- Two racks (net increase of 219 storage locations - 8 percent) scheduled for installation in 2000-2001 operating cycle.

- Third rack (266 storage locations) will be available if needed for an unplanned full core discharge after 2004 refueling.

- Project philosophy is to simplify licensing by utilizing previously licensed technology (VY and other sites).

- hysical. parameters compatible with existing racks to simplify December 17,1998 4

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, l Comparison With Existing Racks ,

Same materials of construction (304L stainless steel). .

- Same fuel cell pitch (6.218 inche s).

- Same poison material (Boral).

- Same B io areal density (0.027 gm/cm2),

- Same top-of-rack elevation above spent fuel pool floor.

- Same construction codes and acceptance standards (ASME Section III, Subsection NF).

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  • m Design / Analysis Overview

- Both the existing racks and the new racks were included in the dynamic analyses.

- Both the existing racks and the new racks were included in the criticality and thermal / hydraulic analyses.

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- Reactor building structural loads (global and local) are bounded by the analyses performed to support Amendment No.104. .

- Heat load on Standby Fuel Pool Cooling System within system capability evaluated in Amendment No.130.

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StaffQuestions  :

- Emergency Preparedness and Radiation Protection Branch

- In-plant Dose Rates

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- DBA AccidentImpact

- Reactor Systems Branch .

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- CASMO-4 Code

- Neutron Cross Sections

- Treatment of Gadolinia

- K, and Enrichment Limits .

- Axial Burnup

- Enrichment Tolerance December 17,1998 .

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In-Plant Dose Rate Effects

- Dose assessment basis used for Amendment No.104 (largest rack fully loaded with freshly discharged fuel located in most adverse position) bounds the effect of the three new racks proposed in this submittal.

- Other changes in fuel design and operating history since the Amendment No.104 re-racking have been evaluated and result in less than a 1 mrem /hr increase in in-plant dose at the exterior fuel pool wall.

- There will be no change in any plant area radiation classifications as a result of the addition of the three new spent fuel racks.

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Installation 4

- Minimal amount of highly irradiated material anticipated in pool when installation of racks begins in year 2000. ,

- Any diving activities will be controlled by plant procedure AP-0515, which is a Continuous Use procedure.

- AP-0515 requires a physical barrier to maintain separation between divers and radiation source.

December 17,1998 10

9 Design Basis Accident Design Basis Fuel Handling Accident is the drop of a fuel assembly onto the reactor core, involving damage to two fuel assemblies.

Accident consequences are unaffected by the proposed' change in storage capacity

- maximum possible drop height over the spent fuel racks is less than over the reactor vessel. Thus a " head on" drop into a fuel storage cell will be no more severe than a drop in the reactor vessel

- spent fuel racks have been analyzed for a fuel assembly drop to ensure that a drop onto a rack will not damage any stored fuel assemblies or result in a geometry change in the racks that would affect the criticality calculations.

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CASMO-4 Code 1

- CASMO-4 cannot be directly compared to critical experiments '

since it is a two dimensional code.

- The code developer has performed limited comparisons to critical experiments.

- CASMO-4 has been compared to MCNP-4A, which has been benchmarked against~ critical experiments.

- Comparison demonstrates that CASMO-4 is conservative and can be used without the need for a calculational bias.

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Neutron Cross Sections  :

- CASMO-4 uses the 40 Group Library, Update L.

- MCNP-4A uses the cross sections in Appendix G of the User manual, which is based on the ENDF-B/V data. The benchmarking used the same cross sections.  ;

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m Gadolinia

- The statement that no credit is taken for gadolinia was  :

confusing in the context it was used.

- The Technical Specification requirement limiting K-infinity to 1.31 or less in the Standard Cold Core Geometry inherently considers the effect of gadolinia and therefore no additional consideration is required in the analysis. .

- The analyses performed in support of this amendment request were conservatively performed using a K-infinity limit of 1.33.

- There are no burnup requirements or restrictions on storage of fuel in any of the racks.

December 17,1998 14

O K ny and Enrichment Requirements

- Technical Specification 5.5.E "The maximum core geometry infinite lattice multiplication factor of any '

segment of the fuel assembly stored in the spent fuel storage pool or the new storage facility shall be less than or .

equal to 1.31 at 20o C." ,

- This K-infinity based Technical Specification aligns Vermont Yankee with the fuel vendor's design criteria, as specified in Section 3.5 of GESTAR-II (NEDE-24011-P-A)  ;

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e K ay and Enrichment Requirements - Cont'd

- Maximum Cold K-infinity " figure of merit" provides the most meaningful test of fuel reactivity as it relates to its insertion into the spent fuel pool.

- K-infinity of the fuel is a function of enrichment, gadolinium content, burnup, void history, and enrichment distribution in the lattice.

- All the above effects can be accounted for by means of the maximum cold K-infinity check that is required by Technical Specification 5.5.E, and administered via OP 1401.

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Axial Burnup Effects ,

- Reference to PWR fuel was confusing.

. BWR fuel has axial blankets which suppresses burnup effects.

- Analysis is performed at peak reactivity which is at a low burnup (<12 GWD/MTU). Potential axial burnup effects don't occur until higher burnups when assembly reactivity is lower than the peak. Therefore, it is not of concern.

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e k Enrichment Tolerance 1

- Vermont Yankee procures uranium from Cogema with a 0.013 w/o tolerance on enrichment and supplies the uranium. to General Electric Company. i

- Both the 1986 submittal and this application reported the Cogema enrichment tolerance in the submittal documentation.  ;

- Immediate action was to .#erify that the 0.01 delta-K reduction term used for j the existing rack criticality analysis would bound an enrichment tolerance of 0.05 w/o (DOE value). It does.

- Criticality calculations supporting this application were re-performed using a 0.05 w/o enrichment tolerance. Results still satisfy USNRC acceptance criteria.

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- A series of single rack and whole pool multi-rack simulations performed

- Dynamic Simulations performed for both SSE and OBE events i

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1 Dynarack Model A set of three DYNARACK models used in the analysis :

Whole Pool Multi-Rack Model (WPMR) - I

- all racks included

- 3 new racks

- 9 existing racks

- Whole Pool Multi-Rack Model-II

- used for Intermediate Configuration of the pool  :

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L Continued...

- Single Rack Model

- only one rack included

- rack with highest aspect ratio and weight (rack CA) selected for this model

- is simulated with different fuel array configurations

- is simulated to check the kinematic stability of an isolated rack in the pool a

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Modeling Details

- The geometrical and material properties of new and existing racks are calculated for use in the multi-rack analysis.

- Rack beam stiffnesses (shear, bending, extension and torsion) calculated for both new and existing racks.

- Coefficients of friction used 0.2, 0.8 and random.

- Seismic Input - Taft Earthquake,1% Structural damping.

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Analysis Results I

- Racks kinematic stability is ensured.

- No rack-to-rack and rack-to-wall impacts predicted by the analysis during the occurrence of SSE and OBE seismic i events.

- Stresses in the racks are within the ASME Code, Subsection i

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l a Thermal-hydraulic Analysis Overview

- Decay Heat Loads - Branch Technical Position, ASB 9-2

- Bulk Pool Temperature - Remains within Tech. Spec. Limit

- Pool heat-up/ loss of cooling - Normal refueling TTB 11-12 hrs.

- Full core discharge TTB 6-21 hrs.

- Maximum local temperature - 50 F below saturation temperature December 17,1998 25

Summary Minor (17 percent), conservatively designed expansion in storage capacity.

Consistent with the conclusions documented in SERs i for Amendments No.104 and 130.

Uses previously licensed technology (either at .

Vermont Yankee or other reactor sites).

We are prepared to support XRC fully in your review of the application.

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