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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 yourself; Edward Shomaker, Office of Executive Legal Director; and Carol Ann Reed of my staff, the scope of this request was clarified to only include 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 entire Bodega Bay docket file is being placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR),1717 H Street, NW, Washington, DC, in PDR folder F0!A-85-665 in.
your name. We are enclosing a notice that provides charget and procedures for obtaining documents from the PDR.
The review of additional documents subject to your request is continuing. As soon as our review is completed, we will notf fy you.
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Dear Mr. Felton:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (5 USC 552) and 10 CFR Part 9 on i
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 and licensing information is available in NRC concerning these containments l
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Document Room.
l Nevertheless, it is possible that there is other information concerning pressure suppression containments 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 i
contractors, was the subject of internal NRC or AEC discussions, or may have l -
been obtained from international sources. Therefore, General Electric l
Company requests the following informat1on 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
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branch. The above request encompasses all information received by-the l
NRC or AEC from any source, including, but uot 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
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AEC employees, past and present, pertai71ng to pressure suppression containment:
a.
Robert Tedesco b.
Darrell Eisenhut c.
Victor Stello d.
Morris Rosen e.
Stephen Hanauer f.
Roger Matteen g.
Joseph Hendrie b.
Edson Case i.
Harold Price j.
Peter Morris i
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Saul Levine l
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Herschel Specter m.
Robert Lowenstein 4.
All communications by and between the NRC or AEC and the Advisory I
Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), incluuing material originating l
with the ACRS or its consultants on the subject of pressure suppression containment.
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All files of the ACRS, including the files of ACRS members, i
consultants, employees and personnel on the subject ~of pressure suppression containment.
l Picase 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 publ1shed and unpublished memoranda, personal notes, notes of.
telephone conversations, films, photographs, microfiche, microfilm, tapes and other electronic means of recording data, published and unpublished I
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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..i 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 would-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 nor hesitate to contact me regarding any question you may have concerning this request.
Very truly yours, k
. Edward A. Firestone Counsel-Litigation i
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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.
20555
Dear Carol Ann:
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As the result of our recent meeting, I have been able to identify l
some additional information which might help you in your efforts to respond to our request. I have organized the information into three i
categories, additional persons (to be placed in Item #3 of our original j
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)-
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Lyle Johnson
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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 8.
Stanley A. Szawlewicz 9.
C. A. Pursel (Chicago Operations Office) 10.
A. G. Lane 11..
Francis X. Gavigan 12.
Richard Doan
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Gus Lainas 14.
Richard DeYoung
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Clifford Anderson 16.
Nelson Hsu
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Walter Butler 18.
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Containment Tests run by Sargent & Lundy (Alf.Kolflat)-
- I between 1956'and 1959..
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. Containment work by the Armour Research Foundation and/or
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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.
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Size or pressure rating reduction of Brurswick pressure +
suppression ~ containment and submissions'and' questions regarding it. 1969-1971.
6.
Wuergassen relief valve incident, 1972. KKM relief valve incident, 1972.
7.
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 I suppression pool I
designs, 1967-70.
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Lateral loading, waterhammer, and' vibration. concerns re
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Mark II vents raised in Shoreham (1969) and ZimmerE(1970) j licensing proceedings.
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Damage to baffles from relief valve blowdowns - 1970-72.
11.
Material from the Hazards Evaluation Branch, the Chicago Operations Office and the San Francisco 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 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.
3.
Information concerning PG&E submissions re containment for
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Bodega Bay Plant, 1960-1964.
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Information concerning Appendix 1 & 2 to Bodega Bay PSAR (Docket 50-205), Dec. 28, 1962.
5.
GEAP 3596, Tests of a Full Scale 1/48 Segment of the Humboldt i
Bay Pressure Suppression Containment, Nov. 17,1960, by GE 4
(C. H. Robbins & D. H. Imhoff).
6.
" Pressure Supp ression Tests with Multiple Vents," by C. P. Ashworth and D. B. Barton, October 25, 1963.
7.
" Pressure Suppression Containment for Nuclear Power Plants,"
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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 l
Containment," by D. B. Barton, C. P. Ashworth, Earl Janssen, and C. H. Robbins, ASME paper No. 61-WA-222.
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" Pressure Suppression," by C. P. Ashworth, D. B. Bsrton, and j
C. H. Robbins, Nuclear Engineering, August 1962.
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"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.
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Information concerning Amendment No. S to Quad Cities PSAR, l
Nov. 10, 1967, baffle removal.
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Information concerning Amendment No. 1 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.
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" Pressure Suppression Pool Investigations - Report #1,"
GE document NEDM-13036-1, July 1970, by Cramer and Myers and l
Murray.
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" Additional Information, Pressure Suppression Concept, Test 1
Data Report," GE document NEDE-10182, May 19/0, by D. R. Miller and F. J. Moody.
17.
Any material received by Clifford Beck from anyone re:
pressure suppression testing at Moss Landing 1959-6).
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GEAP 3143, " Test Report for the Pressure Suppression Develop-ment Program," prepared by Pacific Gas & Electric Company, April:2, 1959.
19.
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.
1 As we discussed, material in the Public Document Room is not intended ~to be covered by our request, nor are formal docket j
l communications or any GE technical reports, except for the material specifically listed above, j
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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.
1 Very truly yours, i
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Edward A. Firestone Counsel-Litigation
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