ML20199F221
| ML20199F221 | |
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| Site: | Humboldt Bay, 05000000, Bodega Bay |
| Issue date: | 02/19/1986 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Firestone E GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. |
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| FOIA-85-665 NUDOCS 8603270569 | |
| Download: ML20199F221 (1) | |
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FEB iS 1R Mr. Edward A. Firestone Counsel-Litigation General Electric Company 175 Curtner Avenue IN RESPONSE REFER San Jose, CA 95125 TO F01A-85-665
Dear Mr. Firestone:
This is in further response to your letters dated September 27 and November 6, 1985, in which you requested, pursuant to the. Freedom of Information Act (F0IA), several categories of documents regarding pressure suppression containment. During the course of numerous telephone conversations between you, Edward Shomaker, Office of Executive Legal Director, and Carol Ann Reed of my staff, the scope of this request was clarified to include only 1) the Humboldt Bay docket file up to December 31,1976,2) the Bodega Bay docket file, 3) information on the 4 x 4 tests, and 4) information concerning the 1972 incident at the Wuergassen plant in Germany.
The documents listed on the enclosed Appendix J are responsive to item four of your request. These documents are enclosed. These documents are not being placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) because they contain information which your company considered proprietary at the time the documents were submitted to the NRC.
In your letter dated November P.5,1985, you agreed to pay the appropriate search and reproduction costs associated with the processing of your request.
As specified in 10 CFR 9.14(b)(3), the cost for searching for documents by a clerical or administrative employee is $5.00 per hour and by a professional or supervisory employee is $12.00 per hour. The search for document subject to your request entailed I hour at $5.00 and 22 hours2.546296e-4 days <br />0.00611 hours <br />3.637566e-5 weeks <br />8.371e-6 months <br /> at $12.00. With the exception of this response, all documents subject to your request were placed in the PDR and you obtained copies from the reproduction contractor servicing the PDR. The cost of reproducing documents not located in the PDR is five cents ($0.05) per page.
Therefore, the cost of reproducing the documents enclosed with this letter is $1.15. You will be billed by our Division of Accounting and Finance in the amount of $270.15.
This completes action on your request.
Sincerely, LH$%
B603270569 860219 Donnie H. Grimsley, Director ES
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Enclosures:
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GENERAL $ ELECTRIC NUCLEAR ENERGY BUSINESS OPERATIONS GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY e 175 CURTNER AVENUE
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Director Division of kules and Records U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
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Dear Mr. Felton:
-Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (5 USC 552) and 10 CFR Part 9, on behalf of the General Electric Company I hereby request information pertaining to Pressure Suppression Containments of the type associated with boiling water reactors (BWRs).
I recognize that a large amount of technical y
and licensing information is available in NRC concerning these containments and that much of the material is readily obtainable from the NRC Public Document Room.
Nevertheless, it is possible that there is other information concerning pressure suppression contaiuments that for one reason or another may not have reached the Public Document Room.
Some, for example, may deal with early license applications for the first plants which used pressure suppression containment concepts or came in draft form from NRC or AEC contractors, was the subject of internal NRC or AEC discussions, or may have been obtained from international sources. Therefore, General Electric Company requests the following information about pressure suppression containment that may not be in the Public Document Room for the time period 1955-present:
1.
All files of the NRC or AEC that pertain to pressure suppression containment, including, but not limited to: a) all general files and all files of all current and former personnel, members, managers and employees of the Containment Systems Branch and its predecessors created while they were employed in that branch; b) all general files and all files of all current and former personnel, task managers, members and employees of the Generic Issues Branch and its predecessors pertaining to generic or unresolved safety issues relating to pressure suppression containments created while they were employed by that OT OQ
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GENER AL $ ELECTRIC Mr. Joseph Felton September 27, 1985 branch. The above request encompasses all information received by the NRC or AEC from any source, including, but not limited to licensees, applicants, contractors, vendors and other domestic or international sources.
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All communications, including contracts and draft and final reports, between the NRC or AEC (and any branch of the NRC or AEC including the Office of Research and its predecessors) and its contractors, including technical assistance contractors, concerning pressure suppression containments.
3.
All NRC or AEC files, including personal files, of the following NRC or AEC employees, past and present, pertaining to pressure suppression containment:
a.
Robert Tedesco b.
Darrell Eisenhut c.
Victor Stello d.
Morris Rosen e.
Stephen Hanauer f.
Roger Mattson g.
Joseph Hendrie h.
Edson Case 1.
Harold Price j.
Peter Morris k.
Saul Levine 1.
Herschel Sp'cter m.
Robert Lowenstein 4.
All communications by and between the NRC or AEC and the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), including material originating with the ACRS or its consultants on the subject of pressure suppression containment.
5.
All files of the ACRS, including the files of ACRS members, consultants, employees and personnel on the subject of pressure suppression containment.
Please note that General Electric is defining files and communications to include records as defined in 10 CFR 9.3a and, in addition, all data, including published and unpublished memoranda, personal notes, notes of telephone conversations, films, photographs, microfiche, microfilm, tapes and other electronic means of recording data, published and unpublished reports and any other material in the possession of the Agency from whatever source on the subject of pressure suppression containment.
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Mr. Joseph Felton September 27, 1985 As noted earlier, we understand that much material is already in the NRC's Public Document Room. This request is not intended to encompass material already available in the Public Document Room.
It has come to our attention that NRR is about to be reorganized and that the Containment Systems Branch will soon be dissolved. Therefore, we wosid appreciate your making every effort to preserve all the files of that branch and files of employees of the branch (including personal files).
Please do not hesitate to contact me regarding any question you may have concerning this request.
Very truly yours, N
Edward A. Firestone Counsel-Litigation e
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E-4 GENERAL $ ELECTRIC NUCLEAR ENERGY BU$lNESS OPERATIONS GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY e 175 CURTNER AVENUE e SAN JOSE, CAUFORNIA 95125 November 6, 1985 Ms. Carol Ann Reed FOIA Officer Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts Branch Division of Rules and-Records Office of Administration U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
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Dear Carol Ann:
As the result of our recent meeting, I have been.able to identify some additional information which might help you in your efforts to respond to our request.
I have organized the information into three categories, additional persons (to be placed in Item #3 of our' original request), general topics, and specific documents. _Regarding the last category, it would be very helpful to know when the Agency first received a particular document and who submitted it to the-Agency.
A.
Additional Persons 1.
Clifford Beck (Division of Licensing and Regulation) 2.
Lyle Johnson 3.
-R. B. McCalley (Reactor Safety Branch of Reactor Development) 4.
R. S. Brodsky (Naval Reactors) 5.
C. R. McCullough 6.
Howard Hembree (Division of Reactor Development) 7.
Randolph.R. Newton ~
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Stanley.A. Szawlewicz 9.
C. A. Pursel (Chicago Operations Office) 10.
A. G. Lane 11.
Francis X. Gavigan 12.
Richard Doan M 3.
Gus Lainas 14.
Richard DeYoung
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Clifford Anderson i
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-Nelson Hsu.
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Walter Butler
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e GENERAL $ ELECTRIC Ms. Carol Ann Reed November 6, 1985 B. General Topics 1.
Containment Tests run by Sargent & Lundy (Alf Kolflat) between 1956 and 1959.
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Containment work by the Armour Research Foundation and/or Illinois institute of Technology,1959-early 1960's.
3.
Any pressure suppression testing at Moss Landing, 1959-63 or PG&E, GE or Bechtel submissions regarding it.
4.
Torus suction ring header failure at Quad Cities during relief valve testing, 1972.
5.
Size or pressure rating reduction of Brunswick pressure suppression containment and submissions and questions regarding it, 1969-1971.
6.
Wuergassen relief valve incident, 1972. KKM relief valve incident, 1972.
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The work of Herbert Isbin and personnel at the University of-Minnesota regarding pressure suppression and 2-phase flow.
8.
The removal of baffles from the Mark 1 suppression pool designs, 1967-70.
9.
Lateral loading, waterhammer, and vibration concerns re Mark 11 vents raised in Shoreham (1969) and Zimmer.(1970) licensing proceedings.
10.
Damage to baffles from relief valve blowdowns - 1970-72.
11.
Material from the Hazards Evaluation Branch, the Chicago Operations Office and the San Freacisco Operations Office on each of.the subjects discussed in this and my prior letter.
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Documents 1.
"Results of 1959 Nuclear Power Plant Containment Tests," by Alf Kolflat, paper No. 10, Nuclear Engineering & Science l
Conference, April 4-7, 1960.
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Information concerning PG&E submissions re containment for Humboldt Bay Plant PSAR or FSAR, 1959-mid 1960's.
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Information concerning PG&E submissions re containment for
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Bodega Bay Plant, 1960-1964.
l d y GENER AL $ ELECTRIC Ms. Carol Ann Reed November 7, 1985 4.
Information concerning Appendix 1 & 2 to Bodega Bay PSAR (Docket 50-205), Dec. 28, 1962.
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GEAP 3596, Tests of a Full Scale 1/48 Segment of the Humboldt Bay Pressure Suppression Containment, Nov. 17, 1960, by GE (C. H. Robbins & D. H. Imhoff).
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" Pressure Suppression Tests with Multiple Nents," by C. P. Ashworth and D. B. Barton, October 25, 1963.
7.
" Pressure Suppression Containment for Nuclear Power Plants,"
by C. C. Whechel and C. H. Robbins, ASME paper No. 59-A-215.
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" Predicting Maximum Pressures in Pressure Suppression Reactor Containment," by D. B. Barton, C. P. Ashworth, Earl Janssen, and C. H. Robbins, ASME paper No. 61-WA-222.
9.
" Pressure Suppression," by C. P. Ashworth, D. B. Barton, and C. H. Robbins, Nuclear Engineering, August 1962.
10.
"NPR Primary Loop - Emergency Dump Tests," by H. G. Johnson, AEC, Richland, Washington, HW-68609, March 1961.
11.
" Closed-Tank Vapor Suppression Test Program," by F. L. Hovanec and R. C. Luken, BAW-3198-2, May 1964.
12.
Information concerning Amendment No. 5 to Quad Cities PSAR, Nov. 10, 1967, baffle removal.
13.
Information concerning Amendment No. I to Cooper PSAR, Dec. 1, 1967, baf fle removal.
14.
Information concerning Amendment No. 2 to Quad Cities PSAR, Sept. 9, 1966, AEC Question and Commonwealth Edison Answer No. 5 re: stresses caused by vibrations observed in the Moss Landing Tests.
15.
" Pressure Suppression Pool Investigations - Report #1,"
GE document NEDM-13036-1, July 1970, by Cramer and Myers and Murray.
16.
" Additional Information, Pressure Suppression Concept, Test Data Report," GE document NEDE-10182, May 1970, by D. R. Miller and F. J. Moody.
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Any materia.1 received by Clifford Beck from anyone re:
pressure suppression testing at Moss Landing 1959-63.
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GENERAL $ ELECTRIC Ms. Carol Ann Reed November 6, 1985
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GEAP 3143, " Test Report for the Pressure Suppression Develop-ment Program," prepared by Pacific Gas & Electric Company 3 April 2, 1959.
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GEAP 3122, " Safeguards Analysis for Pressure Suppression System Concept," April 3, 1959.
20.
GEAP 3171, " Considerations in Design of Pressure Suppression Systems," May 21, 1959.
As we discussed, material in the Public Document Room is not intended to be em ered by our request, nor are formal docket communications or any GE technical reports, except for the material specifically-listed above.
I appreciate the time and effort you have already expended to work on our request. Please let me know if we can provide any additional assistance or direction.
Very truly yours, 2--
Edward A. Firestone Counsel-Litigation
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