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Responds to NRC 860529 Request for Addl Info Re Fracture Toughness Requirements for Protection Against Pressurized Thermal Shock.Values for Best Estimate Weight Percent of Copper & Nickel Obtained from WCAP-10786 & WCAP-11029
ML20207B717
Person / Time
Site: McGuire, Mcguire  
Issue date: 07/10/1986
From: Tucker H
DUKE POWER CO.
To: Harold Denton
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
REF-GTECI-A-49, REF-GTECI-RV, TASK-A-49, TASK-OR TAC-59962, TAC-59963, TAC-60427, TAC-60428, NUDOCS 8607180189
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DUKE POWER GOMPANY P.O. nox 33180 CliARLOTTE, N.O. 28242 ILG B. TUCKER m......,

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July 10, 1986 Mr. Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation i

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Consaission Washington, D.C.

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Subject:

McGuire Nuclear Station Docket Nos. 50-369, 50-370

Dear Mr. Denton:

By letter dated May 29, 1986, NRC requested additional information relative to the fracture toughness requirements for protection against pressurized thermal shock.

In response to this request, Duke notes that the values for best estimate weight percent of copper and nickel were obtained from Westinghouse Capsule Reports 1

WCAP-10786 and WCAP-11029. These have been previously submitted to NRC by Duke letters dated April 5, 1985 and April 2, 1986, respectively.

Combustion Engineering had supplied the weld qualification values given in these Westinghouse reports.

The weld wire heat numbers for McGuire Unit I are as follows:

Intermediate longitudinal welds (M1.22) - #20291 and 12008 Lower longitudinal weld (M1.32) - #21935 and 12008 Lower longitudinal weld (M1.33) - #21935 Lower longitudinal weld (M1.34) - #305424 Based on the PTS screening criteria, the most bounding weld is M1.34.

However, M1.34 is located at an azimuthal angle of 60 degrees, which places it behind a neutron pad.

19 The neutron fluence associated with this location is approximately 2.50 x 10 n/cm (WCAP-10786, Figure 6-3, which relates flux with azimuthal angle). The calculation submitted in Duke letter date Januap 15, 1986 employed a conservative value of fluence of 2.9 x 10 n/cm.

(This maximum occurs at an azimuthal location of approximately 70 to 73 degrees.) Thus, using the realistic value of fluence for this weld, the value of the reference temperature for pressurized thermal shock (RTPTS) is reduced to 257 degrees F.

The weld materials data has been reviewed with Westinghouse. Weld wire #305424, which corresponds to M1.34, has average chemical composition values from Westinghouse material data bank of Cu - 0.28 and Ni - 0.63.

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Mr. Harald R. De;;. ton July 10, 1986 Page 2 on weld qualification reports.) When these adjusted values, as well as the realistic fluence value, are input into the 10 CFR 60.61 equations, the resulting RT is 238 degrees F.

PTS Very truly yours, r*

Hal B. Tucker RLG/75/jgm Attachments xc:

W.T. Orders NRC Resident Inspector McGuire Nuclear Station Darl Hood, Project Manager Division of Licensing U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 Dr. J. Nelson Grace, Regional Administrator U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region II 101 Marietta Street, NW, Suite 2900 Atlanta, Georgia 30323

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