ML20215E972
| ML20215E972 | |
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| Site: | Grand Gulf  |
| Issue date: | 06/17/1987 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM) |
| To: | Thomas P SIMPSON, THATCHER & BARTLETT |
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| ML20215E975 | List: |
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| FOIA-87-40 NUDOCS 8706220178 | |
| Download: ML20215E972 (2) | |
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KEQU($TER Peter Thomas, Esquire PART 1.-RECORDS RELEASED OR NOT LOCATED ISee checked boxes) l No agency records sub ect to the request have been located.
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1 No additional agency records subsect to the request have been located.
Agency records subject to the request that are identified in Appendix are already available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Room.
1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.
Agency records subpect to the request that are identifed in Appendix are being made available for public inspect on and copying in the NRC Public Document Room.1717 H Street. N.W., Washington. DC, in a folder under th;s F04A number and req uester name.
The nonpropnetary version of the proposaltsi that you agreed to accept in a telephone conversation with e member of my staff s now being made avadable for public inspection and coying at the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N W, Washington. DC, in a folder under the FOIA number and requester name.
Enclosed is informaton on how you may obtain access to and the charges for copying records placed in the NRC Public Document Room.1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.
X Agency records subject to the request are enclosed. Any applicable charge for copies of the records provided and payment procedures are noted in the comments section.
Records subject to the request have been referred to another Federal agencyhes) for review and direct response to you.
In view of NRC's response to this request, no further action is being taken on appeal letter dated PART li.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Certain informaton in the requested records is being withheld from public disclosure pursuant to the FOIA exemptons desenbed in and for the reasons stated in Part it, sec-tions B, C and D. Any released portons of the documents for which only part of the record is being withheld are being made available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Room.1717 H Street, N.W., Washington. DC. in a folder under this FOIA number and requester name.
Comments i
The enclosed documents are in response to category one of your request and are the nine additional Central Files documents.
The reproduction charge for the enclosed documents is $2.35.
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F01A-87-40 APPENDIX FOR 9 CENTRAL FILES, RECORDS 1.
3/19/62 Memo for Commissioners from D. Clark, re:
"Public Announcement-of-MIT Lontract" w/ attachment (2 pages).
2.
11/3/65 Memo for McCool from Price, re:
" Proposed Design Criteria.for Nuclear Power Plant Construction Permits" w/ attachments (4 pages).
11/12/65 Memo for Commissioners from Price, re:
" Proposed Design 3.
Criteria for Nuclear Power Plant Construction Permits" w/ stated enclosures (13pages).
4.
11/18/65 Letter to Congressman Holifield from Acting AEC Chairman t
w/ attachments (3 pages).
5.
1/21/69. Memo for Con;11ssioners from Kratzer, re:
" Accident at Swiss Lucens Reactor" w/ stated enclosure (3 pages)'
6.
10/li3/72 Memo for Comissioner Doub from Hendrie,.re:
" Safety Evaluation of the'GE Mark III Containment" w/ attachment (10pages) 7.
6/7/73 Memo for Commissioners from O' Leary, re: *' Status of the Marviken Project" w/ attachments (8 pages).
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4/16/75 Memo for Commissioners from Harris, re:
"Public Announcement on NRC Request for Additional Information on Design of Some Reactor Containment Systems" w/ stated enclosure _(3 pages).:
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Undeted Memo for Commissioners from Shaw, re:
"Marviken Reactor Blow-Down lests" (2 pages).
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January 16, 1987 EREEDOM OF lHFORMATiON ACI REQUESI Donnie H.
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Dear Mr. Grimsley:
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Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA")
(5 U.S.C. 552) and 10 C.F.R. Part 9, on behalf of Simpson j
Thacher 6 3artlett, I hereby request information relating to pressure suppression containments of the type associated 1
with boiling water reactors ("BWRs").
This request does not encompess (1) material already available in the Public Document Room and (2) material already produced to Edward Firestone on behalf of General Electric Company ("GE") (FOIA request 85-665).
Correspondence concerning FOIA request 85-665 indicates that the scope of the original request was narrowed to four categories.
Many of the requests below relate to categories of information apparently not sought by or made available to GE after discussions between Mr. Firestone and NRC employees.
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Lepa p t o N T H A G H 0 8* & E9AAibLTT Donnie H.
Grimsley January 16, 1987 The following information about pressure suppression containments is requested for the time period 1955 to the present:
1.
Documents, including. files and communications, i
which pertain to these subject matters:
a.
Containment tests run by Sargent & Lundy (Alf Kolflat) between 1956 and 1960 (see, e.g., Exhibit A).
b.
Containment studies by the Armour Research Foundation and/or Illinois Institute of Technology between 1959 and the early 1960s.
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Pressure-suppression tests conducted at the condensing test facility at Moss Landing,~ California in 1958 and 1959 and reviewed by the AEC and ACRS in 1959 and 1960 (see, e.g., Amendment No. 3 to the Preliminary Hazards Summary Report for the Humboldt Bay Power Plant Unit No. 3, September 21, 1959).
d.
Pressure suppression tests conducted at the transient test facility at San Jose, California in 1958 and 1959 and reviewed by the AEC and ACRS in 1959 and 1960 (see, e.g., Amendment No. 3 above).
e.
Pressure suppression tests conducted in the Humboldt Bay 1/48th segment test facility at Moss f
Landing, California in May and June, 1960 and reviewed by
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the AEC and ACRS in 1960 and 1961 (see, e.g., Amendment No.
8 to the Preliminary Hazards Summary Report for the Humboldt i
Bay Power Plant Unit No. 3, May 27, 1960).
f.
Pressure suppression tests conducted in the Bodega Bay 1/112th segment test facility at Moss Landing, California in 1962 and 1963 and reviewed by 'the AEC' and ACRS between 1962 and - 1964 _(see, e.g., Appendix I and II to the Preliminary Hazards Summary Report for the Bodega Bay Atomic Park Unit No. 1, December.28, 1962).
g.
Pressure suppression tests conducted in the Bodega Bay 1/8th segment, 1/4 scale multiple vent test facility at Moss Landing, California in_1963 (see, e.g.,
C.P. Ashworth, D.B.
Barton, " Pressure Suppression Tests With Multiple Vents," October 25, 1963).
h.
AEC question and Commonwealth Edison answer No. 5 regarding RCIC operations and vibrations
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Grimsley January 16, 1987 observed in.the condensing tests-at Moss Landing in 1958 and 1959-(see, e.g., Exhibit B).
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Removal of baffles'from the torus or suppression pool of Mark I containments, 1967-70-(see, e.g.,
L Amendment No. 5 to the Quad Cities. Preliminary Safety Analysis Report, dated. November 10, 1967, Amendment No. 1 to.
the Cooper Preliminary Safety Analysis Report, 1967 and, e.g., Exhibit C).
December,1, j.
Size or pressure rating reduction of Brunswick pressure suppression containment and submissions, i
including possibly:NEDE-10182. (see request 4m below), and questions regarding it between-1969 and 1971 (see,. e.g.,
Exhibit D).
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AEC.and ACRS concerns.;(including those 'of Herschal Specter, Herbert S.
Isbin, Victor Stello and Robert Tedesco) pertaining to lateral loading, water hammer and 1
vibrations.on Mark'II downcomerslorsvents raised in connection with the Shoreham docket (1968-70), Zimmer docket (1970-71) and Limerick docket (1970-71) (see, e.g.,
Exhibit E).
1 Pressure suppression. work of GE's ' nuclear I
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i safety development subsection in.1969 and 1970.
Small-scale horizontal vent tests m.
conducted by General Electric between 1971 and 1973 j
(see, e.g.,
Exhibit F).
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Damage to and. dislocation of baf fles in n.
the torus or suppression pool:of Mark I containments due to relief valve discharges between 1970. and 1972.-
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-Failure of torus suction ring header due o.
to relief valve discharges at Quad Cities'during start-up tests in May 1972.
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Ac61 dent at the Wuergassen plant in West Germany, April 1972.
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Incident at the 'KKM plant in Switzerland,.
July 1972.
Pressure suppression tests-conducted at r.
Marviken plant, Studsvik, Sweden between 1972 and 1974.
Communicitions between GE and the AEC or s.
ACRS between 1969 and 1975 cencerning hydrodynamic loads,-
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Grimsley-January 16, 1987 including pool swell and chugging, in Mark I, Mark II or Mark III containments, including, but not limited to, f
documents which refer or relate to (i) the ACRS GE I
subcommittee meetings at GE's San Jose offices on August 1-2, 1973, (ii) visits of AEC staf f employees (e.g.,
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Lainus, Robert Cudlin and Jack Kudrick) to GE's San Jose offices in September and November 1973, (iii) the ACRS Grand Gulf Subcommittee meeting in Los Angeles on October 25, and (iv) 1973 GESSAR question 3.35 and the answer thereto (see, Exhibit G).
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Materials from the Hazards Evaluation Branch, the. Chicago Operations Office.and the San Francisco Operations Office on each of the subject matters listed.
above.
2.
NRC or'AEC files and communications of.the following NRC or AEC employees which pertain to the subject matters listed in request 1 above:
a.
Clifford Beck b.
Merson Booth c.
Roger Boyd d.
R.S. Brodsky e.
Howard Brown l
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Edson Case l
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Robert Cudlin l
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Richard DeYoung j
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William F. Finan l
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N. Grossman i
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Stephen Hanauer (also ACPS files) j 1.
Joseph Hendrie (also ACRS files) m.
Lyall' Johnson n.
Donald Knuth o.
Jack Kudrick p.
Gus Lainus l
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Robert Lowenstein r.
A.R. Luedecke s.
R.B. McCalley 4
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John A. McCone u.
Peter Morris v.
J. Newell w.
Randolph Newton x.
W. Oakley.
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J.F. O' Leary z.
Frank K. Pittman aa.
Harold L. Price bb.
Larry Shao cc.
Herschel Specter.
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Grimsley January 10, 1987 dd.
Victor. Stello ee.
Tsung Ming.Su ff.
S.A. Szawlewicz i
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Robert Tedesco-l hh.
P.
Waterfield ii.
Allen J. Vander Weyden jj.
Robert Wilcox 3.
ACRS files and communications of these ACRS members or employees which pertain to the subject matters listed in request I above:
a a.
R. L. Doan (also AEC files) b.
Dick Duffey c.
W.K.
Ergen d.
R. Fraley
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F.A. Gifford f.
J.B.
Graham g.
Herbert S. Isbin (also AEC files)
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David Okrent i.
K.R. Osborn j.
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Palladino k.
M.S..Plesset 1.
Chester Siess m.
Leslie Silverman n.
W.R.
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Theos
(" Tommy") Thompson I
4.
The following specific documents:
a.
GEAP 3143, " Test Report for the Pressure Suppression Development Program," prepared by Pacific Gas &
Electric Company, April 2, 1959 (see, e.g., Exhibit H).
b.
GEAP 3122, " Safeguards Analysis for Pressure Suppression System Concept," April 3, 1959.
c.
GEAP 3171, " Considerations in Design of Pressure Suppression Systems," May 21, 1959.
d.
Memorandum by Dr. Frank K. Pittman i
identified in the memorandum from Chairman John A. McCone to.
the General Manager, dated March 31, 1960 (see Exhibit I).
Memorandum by Howard Brown to the General e.
Manager May 18, 1960, identified in a memorandum from Alexander J. Weyden through the General Manager to Chairman McCone, May 27, 1960 (see Exhibit J).
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Report Evaluation Branch on the Humboldtby Merson Booth of the Hazards Bay 1/48th segment tests, identified in a memorandum by the General Manager to Mr.
Oakley, June 30, 1960 (see Exhibit K).
g.
GEAP 3596, Tests of a Full Scale.1/48 Segment of the Humboldt Bay Pressure Suppression Containment, November. 17, 1960, by GE (C.H. Robbins & D.H..
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Imhoff (see 4m below).
h.
"NPR Primary Loop - Emergency Dump Tests,"
by H.G. Johnson, AEC,'Richland, Washington, HW-68609, March l
1961 (Exhibit L).
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" Pressure Suppression Tests with Multiple Vents," by C.P. Ashworth and D.B. Barton, October 25, 1963.
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" Closed-Tank Vapor Suppression Test Program," by F.L. Hovanec and R.C. Luken, BAW-3198-2, May 1964.
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NUSA-86, Pressure Suppression Systens," by F.J."Some Thoughts on Condensation in Moody, approved by A.P. Bray, October 12, 1964.
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NUSA-94, "A Comparative Evaluation of Current Pressure Suppression Designs,"
by F.J. Moody, approved by A.P. Bray, November 9, 1964.
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" Additional Information, Pressure m.
Suppression Concept, Test Data Report," GE document j
NEDE-10182, May 1970, by D.R. Miller and F.J. Moody,
" Pressure Suppression Pool Investigations n.
- Report #1," GE document NEDM-13036-1, July 1970, by E.R.
Cramer and L.L. Myers, approved by J.L. Murray.
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NEDM-13120, G.E. Wade, approved by J.L. Murray, July 1970," ACCESS IV Containme p.
NEDM-13036-2, " Pressure Sup/ression and Weir Vent Test Program, Mini-Weir Horizontal Vent Tests,"E by R.C. Augenstein, approved by H.E. Townsend and J.L. Murray, April 1971 (also dated May 1972).
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.NEDM-13036-3,'" Pressure Suppression Test Program, Small-Scale Horizontal Vent Tests," by L.L.'Myers,
'l approved by H.E. Townsend and J.L. Murray, October 1972.
I, NEDM-13351, " Pressure Suppression Test-r.
Program, Small-Scale Pool Suell Tests," by,T.R. McIntyre,
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l approved by H.E. Townsend and J.L. Murray, August 1973.
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Reports,. including theGE Nuclear Safety Development-Quart following1 reports:
erly (1)
Report, First Quarter 1969; Nuclear Safety Develcpment Quarterl y
(2)
Second Quarter 1969, July 1969;NEDM-1 Quarterly Report, (3) i Quarterly Report, Third Quarter 1969, October 1969NED (4)
Fourth Quarter 1969; January 1970;NED Quarterly Report, (5)
First' Quarter 1970, April 1970;NEDM-130 Quarterly Report, (6)
Quarterly. Report, NEDM-13127, Second Quarter 1970, July 1970; Nuclear Safety De (7)
Third Quarter 1970, October 1970;NEDM Quarterly Report, 18)
Quarterly Report, NEDM-13163, Fourth Quarter 1970, Nuclear Safety Development January 1971; (9)
NEDM-13184-01, Nuclear Safety Development Quarterly Report, 1971; First Quarter 1971, April (10)
Development Quarterly Report,NEDM-13184-02, Nuclear Safety i
1971; Second Quarter 1971, July
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I Development Quarterly Report,NEDM-13184-03, Nuclear Safety.
1971; Third Quarter 1971,. October (12)
NEDM-13184-04, Development Quarterly Report, Fourth Quarter 1971 Nuclear Safety i
1972; January (13)
NEDM-13281-01, l'
Development Quarterly Report, First Quarter 1972 Nuclear Safety.
1972; April g'i (14)
Development Quarterly Report,NEDM-13281-02,- Nuclear Safety 4
1972; Second Quarter 1972, July 4
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NEDM-13281-03, Nuclear Safety Development Quarterly Report, Third Quarter 1972, October 1.972;
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NEDM-13281-04, Nuclear Safety Development Quarterly Report, Fourth Quarter 1972, January 1973; i
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NEDM-13330-01, Nuclear Safety l
Development Quarterly Report, First Quarter 1973; j
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NEDM-13330-02, Nuclear. Safety Development Quarterly Report, Second Quarter 1973; and (19)
NEDM-13330-03, Nuclear Safety j
Development Quarterly Report, Third Quarter 1973.
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For each of the documents listed!in request 4, I
would appreciate learning (i) if the document was submitted to the NSC or AEC or ACRS, (ii) if so, whether it was submitted as part of a regulatory filing, (iii) who submitted it, fiv) when it was submitted, (v) if it still
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exist's in NRC or AEC or ACRS files and (vi) if it was submitted as a proprietary or confidential document and, if so, its current status.
For the purposes of this request, files and communications include records as defined in 10 C.F.R.
- 9. 3' 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 Commission from whatever source on the subject of pressure suppression containments.
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. truly?yours, j
-Peter C. Thomas
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