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Pre-Submittal Meeting - ANO-1 LAR Related to RCS Primary Activity and Primary-to-Secondary Leak Rate
ML21095A212
Person / Time
Site: Arkansas Nuclear  Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 04/08/2021
From:
Entergy Operations
To:
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Wengert T, 301-415-4037
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Download: ML21095A212 (16)


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Pre-Submittal Meeting ANO-1 LAR Related to RCS Primary Activity and Primary-to-Secondary Leak Rate April 8, 2021

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Purpose
  • Background
  • Methodology and Inputs

- Dose Models

- Source Term

  • Preliminary Results

- Proposed Technical Specification Values

- Preliminary Dose Results

  • Conclusions
  • CLOSED SESSION

- Thermal Hydraulic Model

- Determination of Flashing Fraction 1

Purpose Discuss the proposed changes to the ANO-1 Technical Specifications (TS) for RCS activity and Primary-to-Secondary leakage.

  • These changes are the result of a proposed revision to the steam generator flashing fraction due to the identification of a non-conservative TSs in 2018.
  • Describe how the proposed flashing fraction was determined and the subsequent impacts to applicable technical specifications.

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Background===

  • Current Technical Specification (TS) Values

- TS 3.4.12 Dose Equivalent Iodine

< 60 µCi/gm

- TS 3.4.12 RCS I-131 Primary Activity

< 1.0 µCi/gm

- TS 3.4.13 RCS Primary-to-Secondary Leak Rate 150 gallons per day

- Based on the use of Alternate Source Term (10 CFR 50.67)

- Approved in October 2009 3

Background (continued)

  • October 2018, it was identified that the off-site dose consequences for the ANO-1 Steam Generator Tube Rupture (SGTR) event were non-conservative.

- Failed to consider post-trip High Pressure Injection (HPI) flows during event.

- Maintains Reactor Coolant System (RCS) pressure at a higher level, leading to a higher primary-to-secondary leak rate.

- Extends timing to isolate the ruptured SG

- Potential higher release 4

Background (continued)

  • While working to resolve the issue, it was identified that a potentially non-conservative value was used for the flashing fraction.

- Flashing fraction is the fraction of the RCS leakage that vaporizes when it enters the secondary, rather than entering the SG liquid.

- Same flashing fraction was used in the Main Steam Line Break (MSLB) and Rod Ejection events dose analyses.

- ANO-1 took compensatory measures to limit the RCS Primary Activity and Primary-to-Secondary leak rate to bring the potential dose consequences under the acceptance criteria in accordance with current NRC guidance based on using a flashing fraction of 100%.

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Methodologies and Inputs

  • Dose Analyses performed with RADTRAD

- Maintained the previous release points

- Maintained the previous X/Qs

- ANSI 18.1 Source Term

- Revised Thermal-Hydraulics

- Revised flashing fraction

  • Thermal-Hydraulics analysis revised using RELAP5/MOD2-B&W
  • New flashing fraction determined using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and heat transfer calculation methods.

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Source Term

- With no event-induced fuel failures, just the RCS source term.

  • For Rod Ejection, maintaining the source term

- The Rod Ejection event induces fuel failures 7

Thermal-Hydraulic Model (closed)

  • Modeled with RELAP5/MOD2-B&W, performed by Framatome
  • Doubled-ended tube rupture at full power

- 9.6 minutes for early trip case (makeup/letdown mismatch), 21.6 minutes for delayed trip

  • Assumptions:

- No operator actions until 20 minutes after tube rupture

- Single failure of ADV Block Valve on Unaffected SG

  • Operator dispatched, opened at 70 minutes 8

Preliminary Results

  • A flashing fraction of 40% of the flow from the ruptured tube at 4 minutes after the scram in the SGTR event
  • A flashing fraction of 100% everywhere else in all other analyses.
  • Limiting values

- RCS Dose Equivalent Iodine (DEI) - 24 µCi/gm (60 µCi/gm)

- RCS Primary Activity - 0.25 µCi/gm (1.0 µCi/gm)

- Primary-to-Secondary Leak Rate - 39 gallons per day (gpd) per steam generator (150 gpd) 9

Preliminary Results

- Pre-Existing Spike:

  • Exclusion Area Boundary (EAB) 6.1 rem TEDE
  • Low Population Zone (LPZ) 1.0 rem
  • Control Room (CR) 4.8 rem

- Accident-Induced Spike:

Preliminary Results

- Pre-Existing Spike:

- Accident-Induced Spike:

Preliminary Results

- EAB 3.3 rem TEDE

- LPZ 2.2 rem

- CR 4.95 rem

  • Locked Rotor

- EAB 0.7 rem TEDE

- LPZ 0.5 rem

- CR 1.1 rem 12

Conculsions

  • Revised TS values

- TS 3.4.12 DEI

< 24 µCi/gm (< 60 µCi/gm)

- TS 3.4.12 RCS I-131 Primary Activity

< 0.25 µCi/gm (< 1.0 µCi/gm)

- TS 3.4.13 RCS Primary-to-Secondary Leak Rate 39 gpd (150 gpd) 13

Schedule

  • LAR submittal expected by the end of April 2021
  • Standard approval timeframe requested (13 months) 14

CLOSED SESSION 15