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| Issue date: | 01/14/1987 |
| From: | Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
| To: | Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
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1/14/87 g fp7 ACRS Subcommittee Meeting Summary / Minutes For Severe-(Class 9) Accidents December 19, 1986 Washington, DC Purpose The ACRS Subcommittee on Severe (Class 9) Accidents met on December 19, 1986 in Washington, DC. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the Staff's (NRR) proposed generic letter for Individual Plant Examinations (IPEs) as part of the Implementation Plan for the Severe Accident Policy Statement in regard to the evaluation of existing nuclear power plants.
Included in the discussion were:
(1) Guidelines and Criteria for Five Reference Plants, and (2) IDCOR-Individual Plant Examination Methodology (IPEM). Copies of the agenda and selected slides from the presentations are attached. The meeting began at 8:30 a.m. and adjourned at 4:00 p.m., and was held entirely in open session. The principal attendees were as follows:
Attendees ACRS BNL (NRR Consultant)
W. Kerr, Chairman R. Bari M. Carbon, Member K. Perkins C. Mark, Member W. Lucas P. Shewmon, Member R. Fitzpatrick C. Wylie, Member I. Catton, Consultant IDCOR M. Corradini, Consultant l
P. Davis, Consultant J. Carter (ITC)
J. Lee, Consultant R. Henry (FAI)
D. Houston, Staff M. Kenton (FAI)
J.Gabor(FAI)
NRC/NRR K. Vavrek (W)
R. Brown (Delian)
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Severe Accidents Meeting Minutes December 19, 1986 Discussion In his opening comments, W. Kerr noted that the subject of the meeting was considered important and difficult. He indicated that perfection in the methodology would most likely not be achieved the first time around and that the Subcommittee had a considerable responsibility in the review of this matter.
T. Speis (NRR) introduced the topics for discussion with a brief over-view of the NRR Implementation Plan for the Severe Accident Policy Statement. In his discussion of accomplishments to date, he indicated that 16 of the 18 NRC/IDCOR technical issues of concern had been re-solved. He briefly reviewed the documentation status for the IPEs and the tentative schedule for the generic letter and the completion of individual plant analysis.
R.Landry(NRR)presentedthebackground,structureandcontentofthe proposed IPE generic letter. He emphasized that the letter would instruct utilities to consider only internal initiators. He discussed the scope of the examination and listed five acceptable methods for application in performing an IPE. These are as follows:
(1) 10COR-IPEM as approved, (2) Level II or III PRA with update, (3) Level I PRA with IPEM source term, (4) Simplified or Smart (Phase I) PRA as approved, or (5) Other systematic evaluation method as approved.
The NRR review of the acceptable methods is tentatively to be completed by January 8, 1987. He discussed the tentative schedule for completion of the IPEs and the regional / quarterly interfaces with the utilities while perfonning the IPEs.
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Y Severe Accidents Meeting Minutes December 19, 1986 Z. Rosztoczy (NRR) discussed, in detail, the scope of the IPE. He listed four expected accomplishments:
(1) identification and assessment of potential severe accidents, (2) plant improvements to prevent severe accidents, (3) improved containment performance, and (4) development and implementation of an accident management program.
He indicated that extremely unlikely events need not be considered, only those giving a core damage frequency (CDF) greater than 2x10-6 per year.
Also, sequences with a contribution to CDF of greater than 5%, irrespec-tive of the frequency limit, should be considered. He used the current analysis for the BWR Mark I reference plant in discussing how one would apply plant specific valuas in the performance of the IPE.
For accident management, he discussed three areas:
(1)approachandorganization, (2) training and procedures, and (3) instrumentation and equipment. He indicated that existing Emergency Operating Procedures would be reviewed and revised as necessary for accident management.
The severe accident guidelines and criteria for the five reference plants were presented by three BNL personnel:
R. Bari - outline and overview, R. Fitzpatrick - guidelines and criteria for RCS integrity, RCS heat removal, RPV depressurization, ATWS response, station blackout response and support system failures, and K. Perkins - guidelines and criteria for containment integrity and control of hydrogen burning. BNL has produced a series of reports for the five reference plants. The reports for BWR Mark Is and IIIs and PWR ice condenser containments had been provided to the Subcommittee. The report for BWR Mark IIs was now available and the one for PWR large dry containments would soon be available. The guidelines highlighted essential functions and the criteria were based on system availability, operating / emergency proce-dures or maintenance surveillances.
r Severe Accidents Meeting Minutes December 19, 1986 The IDCOR-IPEM presentation was given in three parts:
(1) BWR-IPEM by R. Brown (Delian), (2) PWR-IPEM by K. Vavrek (W) and (3) Source Term Methodology by R. Henry (FAI).
J. Carter (ITC)gavetheintroductionto the IDCOR activities. He indicated that the methodology is a screening methodology, not a PRA technique but based on PRA techniques.
IDCOR believes existing plants are safe enough and is searching only for those cases of unusually high core damage frequency or unusually poor contain-ment performance. The IDCOR presentation was planned to inform the Subcommittee of the revisions to the methodology that had been made since the previous presentation on this matter on September 24, 1986.
He stated that IDCOR has some serious disagreements with the NRC/NRR efforts and feels that NRR is mixing other agenda or programs with the guidance in the Severe Accident Policy Statement.
R. Brown (Delian) presented an overview of the BWR-IPEM, some results obtained on various BWR reference plar.ts and some responses to NRC/EPRI comments on the BWR-IPEM.
Four plants were identified for the verifica-tion phase:
PeachBottom(MarkI),Susquehanna(MarkII),Shoreham (MarkII)andGrandGulf(MarkIII). The resources estimated to perform an individual plant analysis ranged from 24 to 48 man-months.
In most cases, the core damage frequencies were higher by using the BWR-IPEM as compared to other PRA (ASEP) results. The dominant accident sequence differed in the two studies: station blackout and transient initiated sequences about equal for IDCOR, station blackout the dominant one for ASEP.
K.Vavrek(}{}presentedanoverviewofthePWR-IPEMandindicatedthat revisions to the methodology were only in.the form of an expansion of the earlier model. He discussed the plant walk-through checklist and the control room / man-machine interfaces system interaction checklist.
He mentioned that the IPEM document would be expanded in the following l
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(1) Section/ Chapter 3.0 would be the User's Guide, (2) Appendix
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R. Henry (FAI) reviewed the IPE source term methodology. As with the PWR-IPEM, significant revisions to the source term methodology were not apparent. He discussed the severe accident sequences considered for the Zion, Indian Point 2, Peach Bottom and Limerick analyses.
F.Coffman(NRR)presentedtheNRC/NRRcommentsontheIDCOR-IPEM. A major concern to NRR was that the IDCOR analysis failed to identify any vulnerabilities in the reference plants. He indicated that the IDCOR position was derived from a 1983 draft of the safety goals while the NRC position was based on the 1986 final version of the safety goals. He discussed the numerical differences in the two positions and indicated that IDCOR was less conservative than NRC. He further discussed the two positions in terms of consistency with generic resolutions, specifically in details regarding the use of the MAAP code and consideration of uncertainties. The IDCOR results appear to be insensitive to uncertainties, thus IDCOR feels that uncertainties can be ignored. He indicated that NRC was concerned about non-uniform results obtained with the IDCOR methodology when applied to similar plants by the same personnel. There were unexpected differences. NRC feels that the IDCOR-IPEM is not yet complete and in its present form, allows too many options. A schedule for the NRC evaluation of the IPEM was discussed.
The present schedule calls for a final evaluation report on January 30, 1987, contingent upon receipt of three or four key IDCOR documents by early January:
revised source term methodology, PWR-IPEM, Sequoyah IPE and Grand Gulf IPE. He concluded with a listing of documents that formed the basis for the IDCOR-IPEM review. At least three of these are forthcoming and have not been provided to the Subcommittee for review.
Rosztoczy (NRR) requested another meeting on this matter later in January 1987 and W. Kerr indicated that while the
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Severe Accidents Meeting Minutes December 19, 1986 request would be considered, it appeared to be premature based on the schedules for IDCOR documentation submittal and NRC review and approval.
During the meeting, Subcommittee members and consultants expressed concerns and opinions as follows:
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W. Kerr questioned the Staff about the application of the safety goal and their assignment of numerical values to it when the Commission had deliberately chosen not to put in specific values.
He also expressed concerns about the selection process based on an aggregate probability of extremely unlikely events being less than E-6.
If one summed a large number of sequences in the E-8 range, the limit (E-6) would be exceeded and all of the low probability sequences would have to be considered. He asked about the qualifications required of the staff that will perform the IPE study.
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P. Shewmon also questioned the selection process based on the aggregate probability.
In regard to the evaluation of only in-ternal initiators at this time, he expressed concerns about the resources required to perform the first IPE, to be followed in the near term with another IPE which considers external events as well.
He thinks that direct containment heating (DCH) is incredible, and that the review of DCH needs to be performed by someone with an understanding of heat flow and failure mechanisms.
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M. Carbcn questioned the goai of the proposed generic letter and indicated that for low probability sequences, he felt that the letter went beyond the safety goal.
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C. Mark asked if the IPE would provide assurance that the plant was built properly. He also questioned how operator performance was evaluated, e.g., a review of operating procedures, an interview of the operators or other.
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I. Catton asked how Bernero's proposed Mark I containment require-ments are related to the Implementation Plan. He also stated that systems parameter display should be a line item on the PWR human factors checklist.
(6). M. Corradini questioned the Staff about comparison of the IPE results. There seems to be a disconnect between the BNL guidelines and criteria and the IPE results.
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P. Davis expressed a concern related to on-going programs at NRC, e.g., resolution of station blackout, decay heat removal and ATWS, and a possible conflict between new requirements from these pro-grams and the guidelines and criteria. He also indicated that the IDCOR-IPEMs do not seem to be directed toward giving CDF and containment failure probability values in a manner desired by NRC.
He doubts that NRC will get an approved IPEM from IDCOR. He predicts that the IPEM will need to be modified by NRC for-acceptability.
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J. Lee questioned the Staff's reason for not providing a list of instrumentation and operating procedures for severe accident management. He asked if there were hardware modifications that could be made to relieve operator stress. Also, he asked if BNL f
had compared their guidelines and criteria with the IDCOR IPE for l
any reference plant.
In regard to the systems interaction checklist for PWRs, he asked if or how the IPEM was set up to use the six decision factors.
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Additional meeting details can be obtained from a transcript 4
of this meeting available in the NRC Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., or can be purchased from ACE-Federal Reporters, 444 North Capitol Street, Wash-ington, DC 20001, (202) 347-3700.
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12/11/86 ACRS Severe (Class 9) Accidents Subcommittee December 19, 1986 Washington, DC Individual Plant Examination Generic Letter A.
Subcommittee Chairman's Remarks W. Kerr 8:30am B.
Introductory Remarks T. Speis, NRR 8:40am C.
Generic Letter 1.
Structure and Content R. Landry, NRR 8:55am D.
Scope of the Individual Plant
- 2. Rosztoczy, NRR 9:35am Examination Performed by Licensees
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Guidelines and Criteria T. Pratt, BNL 10:45am
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- PWR Large Dry
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IDCOR-IPEM Revisions and J. Carter, IDCOR 1:30pm i
Responses to ACRS Comments
- BWR Methodology E. Burns. Delian
- PWR Methodology M. Hitchler, W
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- Source Term R. Henry, FAI Methodology G.
NRC Comments on IDCOR-IPEM F. Coffman, NRR 4:15pm l
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NRR STAFF PRESENTATION TO THE ACRS
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS DATE:
DECEMBER 19, 1986 PRESENTER:
THEMIS P. SPEIS PRESENTER'S TITLE / BRANCH /DIV:
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SEVERE ACCIDENT GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA FOR THE FIVE REFERENCE PLANTS DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR ENERGY BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY UPTON, NY 11973 PRESENTED AT ACRS SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING l
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GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA FOR FIVE REFERENCE PLANTS:
PREVENTION MITIGATION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
SPECIFIC GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA FOR EACH REFERENCE PLANT BROOKHAVEN Nail 0NAL LABORATORY l} g)l ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC.(1lll
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APPROACH:
TO DEVELOP THE GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA FROM INSIGHTS i
DERIVED FROM PAST PRAs AND OTHER AVAILABLE SEVERE ACCIDENT INFORMATION TO MAINTAIN A BALANCE BETWEEN BOTH SEVERE ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND CONSEQUENCE MITIGATION WITH THE APPROPRIATE WEIGHT BEING GIVEN TO CONTAINMENT PERFORMANCE BROOKHAVEN Nail 0NAL LABORATORY l}l)l AS500ATED UNIVERSITIES, INC.(llll
EVALUATION PROCESS SCREENING OBJECTIVE:
TO SEPARATE THE POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT SEQUENCES FROM UNIMPORTANT SEQUENCES CRITERIA:
1 SEQUENCE CDF GREATER THAN 1E-6/RY.
2 SEQUENCE CDF GREATER THAN 510F THE TOTAL CDF.
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INTERNAL EVENTS ONLY) 3 CONDITIONAL FAILURE PROBABILITY FOR CONTAINMENT WITHIN ONE DAY GIVEN VESSEL PENETRATION GREATER THAN 0 1 4
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5 SEQUENCES JUDGED TO BE UNIQUELY IMPORTANT, E.G.,
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MAINTAIN RCS INTEGRITY GUIDELINES A.
PREVENT OVERPRESSURE n.
PREVENT STEAM c.
PREVENT PUMP (LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS)
GENERATOR TUBE SEAL LOCA RUPTURE RELATED CRITERIA
- TESTING AND MAINTENANCE
- TECH. SPECS.
- CCW/ESW AVAILABILITY
- RELIEF. CAPABILITY
- EMERGENCY PROCEDURES - EMER6ENCY PROCEDURES
- OPERATOR TRAINING
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- TECH. SPECS.
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INJECTION FLOODING AVAILABILITY RELATED CRITERIA
- EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY
- RECIRC. PROCS.
- SEPARATION
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MAINTAIN RCS HEAT REMOVAL (CONT'D)
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FEED & BLEED AVAILABILITY COOLING RELATED CRITERIA
- DEPRESSURIZATION
- DIVERSITY
- EQUIP. AVAILABILITY
- RECIRC. COOLING
- REDUNDANCY
- TRAINING
- EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
- WATER SUPPLY
- PROCEDURES'
- CONTAINMENT HEAT REMOVAL - TRAINING
- WATER SUPPLY
- VENTING
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AUTOMATIC ADS s.
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OPERATOR RESPONSE AND EQUIPMENT RELATED CRITERIA
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MAINTAIN CONTAI M ENT INTEGRITY GUIDELINES A.
VENTING s.
PREVENT POOL c.
ASSESS DIRECT n.
CONTAIMENT
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- DIVE!;SE POWER
- TRAINING
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PWR ICE CONDENSER NOT APPLICABLE YES l
PWR LARGE DRY NOT APPLICABLE IGNITERS ARE NOT IMPORTANT jl TO RISK UNLESS SPECIFIC PLANT IS VULNERABLE TO OVERPRESSURE FAILURE BY HYDROGEN BURNING (PENDING RESULTS OF GENERIC ISSUE 121).
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BRIEF REVIEW OF IPE
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FOCAL POINT FOR PLANT SPECIFIC DESIGN, OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, AND TEST INFORMATION e
SUPPORT SYSTEM DEPENDENCY MATRICES:-
IDENTIFY AND MODEL IMPORTANT INTERACTIONS e
AVAILABLE DATA:
00ANTIFY THE E0DELS (GENERIC DATA, AND REFERENCE PLANT DATA IS PROVIDED IF PLANT SPECIFIC DATA IS NOT AVAILABLE) e ENGINEERING INSIGHTS:
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PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF IPE VERIFICATI.0N PHASE i
IPE COMMENTS IFDATES
- 1. NEED EXPLICIT
- 1. PROVIDE:
ROAD MAP OF THE DIRECTIONS ON PROVIDE NUMERICAL MECHANICS OF PROCESS EXAMPLES (COMPLETE) l
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- 2. MODIFY RECOMMENDED TEAM ON TEAM MAKE UP "O IDENTIFY PRA PERSON, l.E. DELETE ~
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- 3. INCORPORATE SOME QUANTITATIVE (IN PROGRESS)
ESTIMATES
- 4. CLARIFY SELECTED
- 4. UPDATE THE METHODOLOGY ENGINEERING INSIGHTS (COMPLETE)
TO MAKE THE ISSUES OBVIOUS AND THE ACTIONS CLEAR
- 5. PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF
- 5. UPDATE THE ETHODOLOGY THE DEPENDENCY (COMPLETE)
MATRICES
- 6. PROVIDE ADDITIONAL
- 6. IIPDATE THE METHODOLOGY EXAMPLES OF SERVICE
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- 7. CORRECT ERRORS
- 7. IIP 9 ATE THE METHODOLOGY (COMPLETE)
- 8. MAY REQUIRE MORE
- 8. INCLUDE DISCUSSION IN TIME THAN IDENTIFIED METHODOLOGY (COMPLETE) e
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Motor-Operated Valve Rupture 1.7E-7/hr NUREG-1363 Check Valves Rupture 5.2E-8/hr NUREG-1363 Tank Rupture 8.6E-10/hr WASH-1400 Piping (> 3" Diameter)
Rupture 8.6E-10/section-hr WASH-1400
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SOURCE TERM METHODOLOGY R. E. Henry J. R. Gabor M. A. Kenton Fauske & Associates, Inc.
Burr Ridge, Illinois Presentation to:
ACRS Severe '(Diass 9)
Accident Subcommittee December 19,1986 Washington, D.C.
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I Environmental IPE Sequence Sequence Source Term Approximate Designation Description Calculated by Source the MAAP Code Term Station Recovery of one No core damage.
Insignificant Blackout vital bus at (containment With 2.5 hours5.787037e-5 days <br />0.00139 hours <br />8.267196e-6 weeks <br />1.9025e-6 months <br />.
Recovery heat removal available)
Station Station blackout No core damage.
Insignificant Blackout with a seal LOCA (containment With with recovery of heat removal Recovery one vital bus at I hour.
available)
Station Station blackout Core damage without Insignificant Blackout with a seal LOCA containment failure.
(containment With with recovery of heat removal Recovery one vital bus at 2.5 hours5.787037e-5 days <br />0.00139 hours <br />8.267196e-6 weeks <br />1.9025e-6 months <br />.
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Station Station blackout Core damage, vessel Insignificant '
Blackout with a seal LOCA failure but no con-(containment With with recovery of tainment failure.
heat removal Recovery one vital bus at available) 6 hours6.944444e-5 days <br />0.00167 hours <br />9.920635e-6 weeks <br />2.283e-6 months <br />.
Station Station blackout Core damage, vessel Insignificant Blackout with a seal LOCA failure but to con-(containment With with recovery of tainment failure, heat removal Recovery one vital bus at 15 hours1.736111e-4 days <br />0.00417 hours <br />2.480159e-5 weeks <br />5.7075e-6 months <br />.
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Small LOCA Small LOCA with Core damage, vessel Insignificant With initial failure failure but no con-(containment Recovery to achieve recir-tainment failure.
heat ramoval culation for available) injection.
Re-circulation capa-bilities recovered at 10 hours1.157407e-4 days <br />0.00278 hours <br />1.653439e-5 weeks <br />3.805e-6 months <br />.
TableH.1(Continued)
SEVERE ACCIDENT SEQUENCES CONSIDERED IN THE IDCOR ZION CONTAINMENT ANALYSES Environmental IPE Sequence Sequence Source Ters Approximate i
Designation Description Calculated by Source the MAAP Code Term Large LOCA A large break No core damage.
Insignificant with only one (containment charging pump heat removal operational and
'available)
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limited RWST refill capability.
Station Loss of all AC Csl - 0.002 CsI < 0.01 Blackout power and aux-Te - 2 x 10-5 Te - 0.004*
With a Seal iliary feedwater LOCA with a 50 gpm per pump seal LOCA at 45 minutes.
. Station Loss of all AC CsI - 0.002 Cs! < 0.01 jBlackout power and aux-Te - 2 x 10-5 Te - 0.004*
j iliary feedwater without a seal LOCA.
Small LOCA Small (2 inch)
Core damage, vessel Insignificant cold leg break, failure but no con-(containment failure of ECCS tainment failure.
heat removal recirculation but available) fan coolers and l
containment sprays are available.
Large Break Large cold leg Core damage, vessel Insignificant LOCA break, failure of failure but no con-(containment ECCS recirculation tainment failure.
heat removal but fan coolers available) and containment sprays are avail-able.
V Sequence'
'Assiimed failure of Noble gases.
Noble gases.
the isolation valve discs and consequential failure of the RHR pump seals.
- 5r and Ba assumed equal.
Table L-1 SEVERE ACCIDENT SEQUENCES CONSIDERED IN THE IDCOR PEACH BOTTOM CONTAINMENT ANALYSES Environmental IPE Sequence Sequence Source Term Approximate Designation Description Calculated by Source the MAAP Code Term TW With Loss of suppres-No core Insignificant Recovery sion pool cooling degradation.
(containment with refilling of heat removal the condensate available) storage tank and containment venting.
TC With ATWS with injec-No core damage.
Insignificant Recovery tion flow throt-(containment tied to TAF and heat removal containment available)
Small LOCA Small LOCA with Core damage without Insignificant With failure of injec-containment failure.
(containment Failure of tion.
Crywell heat removal Injection sprays initiated available) at 22 hours2.546296e-4 days <br />0.00611 hours <br />3.637566e-5 weeks <br />8.371e-6 months <br />.
venting.
Transient Transient with No core damage.
Insignificant With Loss loss of injection (containment-of Low and containment heat removal Pressure heat removal with available)
Injection on-site power re-and Con-stored at 9 hours1.041667e-4 days <br />0.0025 hours <br />1.488095e-5 weeks <br />3.4245e-6 months <br />.
tainment Heat Re-moval With Recovery Transient Transient with NG - 1.0 NG - 1.0 With Fail-failure of con-I - 0.2 I - 0.1 ure of Heat tainment heat Cs - 0.2 Cs - 0.1 Removal removal and no recovery.
ATWS with no oper-NG - 1.0 NG - 1.0 (Case 1) ator actions taken.
I - 0.1 I - 0.1 Cs - 0.1 Cs - 0.1
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SEVERE ACCIDENT SEQUENCES CONSIDERED IN THE IDCOR PEACH BOTTOM CONTAINMENT ANALYSES Environmental IPE Sequence Sequence Source Term Approximate Designation Description Calculated by Source the MAAP Code Tem ATWS(TC)
ATWS with wetwell NG - 1.0 NG - 1.0 (Case 2) venting at 115 I - 0.03 I < 0.01 psia.
ATWS with refill NG - 1.0 NG - 1.0 (Case 3) of the CST.
I - 0.03 I < 0.01 Cs - 0.03 Cs < 0.01 ATWS(TC)
ATWS with wetwell NG - 1.0 NG 1.0 (Case 4) venting and refill I - 6 x 10-4 I < 0.01 of the CST.
Cs - 6 x 10-4 Cs < 0.01 Station Station blackout NG - 1.0 NG - 1.0 Blackout without recovery.
I - 0.05
.I - 0.02 Cs - 0.05 Cs - 0.02 Small LOCA Small LOCA with t'G - 1.0 NG - 1.0 Without failure of all I - 0.04 I - 0.02 Injection injection and no Cs - 0.04 Cs - 0.02 recovery.
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NRR STAFF PRESENTATION TO THE ACRS
SUBJECT:
NRC COMMENTS ON IDCOR IPEM DATE:
DECEMBER 19, 1986 PRESENTER:
FRANKLIN C0FFMAN PRESENTER'S TITLE / BRANCH /DIV:
SECTION LEADER /
REGULATORY IMPROVEMENTS BRANCH /
DSRO PRESENTER'S NRC TEL. NO.: 492-4609 SUBCOMMITTEE:
SEVERE (CLASS 9) ACCIDENTS e
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4 EVALUATION STANDAPDS FOR SEVERE ACCIDENT METHODS 1.
CAPABILITY TO FIND VULNERABILITIES 2.
CONSISTENCY WITH GENERIC RESOLUTIONS 3.
SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATIONS A,
INTEGRATE CONSIDERATIONS OF SAFETY CONCERNS B.
BALANCE PREVENTIONS AND MITIGATIONS C,
ACHIEVE UNIFORM EXAMINATIONS D.
PROVIDE REASONABLE COMPLETENESS 4.
LIMITATIONS AND CAUTIONS
. 5.
COVERAGE OF GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA 6,
DOCUMENTATION AFD PRESENTATION 7.
APPLICABILITY BETWEEN EXISTING PLANT AND REFERENCE PLANT 8.
ROLE OF VISUAL INSPECTION 9.
COVERAGE OF CURRENT INSIGHTS
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CAPABILITY TO FIND VULNERABILITIES A.
IDCOR (POSITION DERIVED FROM 1983 DRAFT SAFETY GOALS)
OUTLIERS
.1, CDF> 3E-4/RY (INTERNAL EVENTS) 2.
SEQUENCE > 30 TIMES SIMILAR IDCOR SEQUENCE 3.
" CHECKLIST OF EXAMPLES" (TABLE 3.2-3) 4.
TWO NEGATIVE ANSWERS ON SIMPLIFIED EVENT TREE POTENTIAL AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT 1.
KEY SYSTEMS UNAVAILABILITY >> IE-2 FOR INTERNAL INITI ATORS >-
0.1/YR 2.
SEQUENCE t> 0.2 EQUIVALENT IODINE AT > IE-5/RY INTERNAL UTILITY RESTRICTIVE CRITERIA POSSIBLE B.
NRC VULNERABILITIES (UNDER CONSIDERATION) 1.
MEAN CDF POSITION BEING DEVELOPED FROM '86 SAFETY G0AL (BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL) 2, MEAN PROBABILITY OF LARGE RELEASE 2> IE-6/RY POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES (UNDER CONSIDERATION)
I.
SEQUENCE > 5% TOTAL CDF 3.
PROB, OF CONT, FAIL, GIVEN CORE DAMAGE 0,01 4.
CONTAINMENT BYPASS SEQUENCES 1> IE-7/RY 5.
UNIQUELY IMPORTANT SEQUENCES C.
TEST APPLICATIONS BY UTILITY AND IDCOR
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1.
NO " OUTLIERS" WERE DISCOVERED 2,
MANY PLANT-SPECIFIC " INSIGHTS" WERE HIGHLIGHTED d
2.
CONSISTENCY WITH GENERIC RESOLUTIONS-A.
IDCOR USE OF MAAP CODE 1.
REVIEW OF MAAP BEING DISCUSSED WITH NRC MANAGEMENT 2.
NO REVISIONS TO MAAP PLANNED CONSIDERATION OF UNCERTAINTIES 1.
IDCOR IPEM RESULTS ARE INSENSITIVE TO UNCERTAINTIES 2.
UNCERTAINTY STUDY UNDERWAY EVENT "V" CHECKLIST 1.
REVISIONS PLANNED SIMPLIFIED CET REVISIONS 1.
REVISIONS PLANNED B.
NRC USE OF MAAP CODE 1.
MAAP IS NOT A REVIEWED CODE 2.
MAAP REVIEW IS SEPARABLE FROM APPROVAL OF IDCOR IPEM CONSIDERATION OF UNCERTAINTIES 1.
IPE CRITERIA MUST ADDRESS PHENOMEN0 LOGICAL UNCERTAINTIES 1
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SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATIONS A.
IDCOR ACHIEVE UNIFORM EXAMINATIONS 1.
BWR AND PWR METHODS ARE EQUIVALENT i
B.
NRC ACHIEVE UNIFORM EXAMINATIONS 1.
TEST APPLICATIONS REPORTS ARE DIVERSIFIED 2.
TEST APPLICATIONS APPEAR TO HAVE SIGNIFICANT VARIATIONS AMONG UTILITIES EVEN THOUGH IDCOR IPEM CONSULTANTS WERE USED.
3.
NO TEST APPLICATION WITHOUT BEING SUPPLEMENTED BY PRA-TYPE ANALYSES 4.
IDCOR IPEM STILL APPEARS TO BE UNDER DEVELOPMENT 5.
IDCOR IPE METHODS MANAGEMENT ALLOWS MANY OPTIONS WITH THE POTENTIAL TO INTRODUCE DEVIATIONS 6.
SOURCE TERM METHODS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY SIMPLER THAN ACCIDENT SEQUENCE METHODS e %*
DOCUMENTS FOR REVIEW 0F THE IDCOR IPEM:
- 1. DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, TECHNICAL REPORT 85.3-A1; PWR ACCIDENT SEQUENCE - INDIVIDUAL PLANT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY, APRIL 1986
- 2. DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, TECHNICAL REPORT 85.3-A2; PWR SOURCE TERM - INDIVIDUAL PLANT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY, APRIL 1986
- 3. DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, TECHNICAL REPORT FAI/85-58, APPROXIMATE SOURCE TERM METHODOLOGY FOR PRESSURIZED WATER REACT 0PS, FAUSKE 8 ASSOCIATES, DECEMBER 1986
- 4. DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, TECHNICAL REPORT 85.3-B1; BWR ACCIDENT SEQUENCE - INDIVIDUAL PLANT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY, APRIL 1986
- 5. DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, TECHNICAL REPORT 85.3-B2; BWR SOURCE TERM - INDIVIDUAL PLANT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY, APRIL 1986 6.
DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, TECHNICAL REPORT FAI/86-1, l
APPR0XIMATE SOURCE TERM METHODOLOGY FOR BOILING WATER REACTORS, FAUSKE 8 ASSOCIATES, DECEMBER 1986 l
- 7. DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, BWR IPE PLANT SPECIFIC ACCIDENT SEQUENCE EVALUATION METHODOLOGY, USER's GUIDE. REV. 1, DEC 1986
- 8. DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, INDIVIDUAL PLANT EVALUATION, PEACH BOTTOM' ATOMIC POWER STATION, PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC COMPANY, MAY 1986
- 9. DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, INDIVIDUAL PLANT EVALUATION FOR SUSQUEHANNA STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, P.R. HILL, C.A. KUKIELKA, AND C.A. BOSCHETTI, SUBMITTED TO IDCOR APRIL 1986
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DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, SHOREHAM NUCLEAR POWER STATION, IDCOR INDIVIDUAL PLANT EVALUATION, LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY, APRIL 1986 11, DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, INDIVIDUAL PLANT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO THE OCONEE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION.
SUBMITTED T0:
AIF/IDCOR PROGRAM, MAY 1986 12, DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, INDIVIDUAL PLANT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO THE ZION NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, SUBMITTED T0:
AIF/IDCOR PROGRAM, FEBRUARY 1986 13.
DRAFT IDCOR PROGRAM REPORT, IDCOR/IPE REPORT, CALVERT CLIFFS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT UNIT 1, SUBMITTED TO IT CORP BY BG8E WITH LETTER DATED OCTOBER 20, 1986.
14.
LETTER FROM T. P. SPEIS, NRC, TO A. BUHL, IDCOR WITH PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE IDCOR IPEM, SEPTEMBER 9, 1986 15.
LETTER FROM A. BL'4L, IDCOR, TO T,P. SPEIS, NRC
SUBJECT:
IDCOR RESPONSE TO NRC COMMENTS ON THE INDIVIDUAL PLANT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY, DEC 1986 16.
LETTER FROM J.W. HICKMAN, SNL, TO M.D. HOUSTON, ACRS STAFF, TRANSMITTING COMMENTS FROM A REVIEW 0F THE IDOCR IPEM, SEPTEMBER 22, J986 17.
LETTER FROM A. BUHL, IDCOR, TO W. KERR, ACRS,
SUBJECT:
'IDCOR RESPONSES TO SNL COMMENTS ON THE IDCOR IPEM, OCTOBER 30, 1986 l
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