ML22033A172
| ML22033A172 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Framatome ANP Richland |
| Issue date: | 01/27/2022 |
| From: | Travis Tate Framatome |
| To: | Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
| Shared Package | |
| ML22033A177 | List: |
| References | |
| TJT:22:001 | |
| Download: ML22033A172 (10) | |
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framatome January 27, 2022 T J_T:22:001 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attn: Document Control Desk (03-H8)
One White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 20852-2738 Gentlemen:
Subject:
Submittal, of Integrated Safety Analysis (ISA) Summary Annual Update for Framatome lnc.'s (Framatome's) Richland, Washington Fuel Fabrication Facility; License No. SNM-1227; Docket No. 70-1257.
Enclosed with this letter, in CD format, is the annual update of the ISA Summary for Framatome's Richland, Washington nuclear fuel fabrication facility. Attachment A provides a listing of the files contained on this CD. Framatome requests that this CD-Rom in its entirety be withheld from public disclosure in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 or 10 CFR 2. 790 in that portions of all files are either commercially proprietary in nature or contain security-related information, respectively. Attachment 8 provides an affidavit attesting that these files are either proprietary in nature or contain security related information. The annual update is being submitted in accordance with 10 CFR 70.72 (d)(3) and documents the changes to the Richland site's ISA summary. The changes are highlighted in yellow. PDF files with an expanded sized copy of the revised figures are provided on a separate CD. A list of the files contained on the ISA CD-Rom, including the file name, size, and sensitivity level (commercially proprietary or security-related) for each file, is included as* Attachment C to this letter.
Technical contact information relative to the Richland Site ISA is as follows:
Framatome Inc.
Attn: William L. Doane, Manager Nuclear Safety 2101 Horn Rapids Road Richland, WA 99354 Phone: 509-375-8717 Email: william.doane@framatome .com Additionally, I can be reached at 509-375-8550 or via email at timothy.tate@framatome.com.
Very truly yours, T. J. Tate, Manager Environmental, Health, Safety & Licensing Framatome Inc.
2101 Horn Rapids Road Richland, WA 99354 Tel: (509) 375-8100 www.framatome.com
TJT:22:001 USNR C Page 2
- January 27, 2022 c: Richard Jervey, NRC
USNRC TJT:22:001 January 27, 2022 Page 3 Attachment A: List of Electronic Files : Affidavit requesting that the Framatome ISA summary be handled as proprietary information.
Attachment C: Table of Contents and File Designations
Enclosure:
Two Computer Discs with the electronic files (separate CD for revised figures)
ATTACHMENT A FOLDER: Chapters Part 1 - Chapters 1 through 8 (One File}
File Name: 001 E15-01-1 Chapters 1-8 Version 27.pdf Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Horn Rapids Road Site Information Chapter 3 - Overview of AREVA Facilities, Operations and Hazards Chapter 4 - ISA Team Credentials and Standard Methodologies Chapter 5 - Quantitative Standards for Acute Chemical Exposures Chapter 6 - Definition of Terms Chapter 7 - General External and Facility Hazards Chapter 8 - Horn Rapids Plant Administrative and Management Measures Part 2 - Chapter 9 through 19 (Various Files}
Chapter 9 - UO2 Building File Name: 002 E15-01-2.9A Version 19.0 - UO2 Building.pdf Chapter 9 - UO2 Building File Name: 003 E15-01-2.9B Version 20.0 - UO2 Building.pdf Chapter 9 - UO2 Building File Name: 004 E15-01-2.9C Version 20.0 - UO2 Building.pdf Chapter 9 - UO2 Building File Name: 005 E15-01-2.9D Version 19.0 - UO2 Building.pdf Chapter 9 - UO2 Building File Name: 006 E15-01-2.9E Version 19.0 - UO2 Building.pdf Chapter 10 - Dry Conversion Facility File Name: 007 E15-01-2.10 Ver 19.0 - Dry Conv Facility.pdf Chapter 11 - SF Building File Name: 008 E15-01-2.11 Version 20.0- SF Building.pdf Chapter 12 - ELO Building File Name: 009 E15-01-2.12 Version 19.0 - ELO Building.pdf Chapter 13 - UF6 Cylinder Recertification Facility File Name: 010 E15-01-2.13 Version 14.0- UF6 Cyl Recert.pdf Chapter 14 - Ammonia Recovery Facility and Industrial Waste Water Treatment System File Name: 011 E15-01-2.14 Ver 19.0 -ARF and Ind Waste.pdf Chapter 15 - Blended Dysprosium and Uranium Processing Facility (BOU)
File Name: 012 E15-01-2.15 Version 12.0- BOU Proc Fac.pdf Chapter 16 - Detached Storage and Waste Handling Systems File Name: 013 E15-01-2.16 Version 20 - Detached Storage.pdf Chapter 17 - Fuel Services Building File Name: 014 E15-01-2.17 Ver 12.0 - Fuel Services Bldg.pdf
Chapter 18 - Ventilation Systems (Plantwide)
File Name: 015 E15-01-2.18 Ver 19-Vent Syst Plantwide.pdf Chapter 19 - Product Development Test Facility File Name: 016 E15-01-2.19 Version 12.0 PDTF.pdf Chapter 20 - Ancillary Systems File Name: 017 E15-01-2.20 Ver 12.0 Ancillary Systems.pdf Chapter 21 - Uranyl Nitrate Storage Tank Building File Name: 018 E15-01-2.21 Ver 10.0 UN Storage Tank Bldg.pdf Chapter 22 - Scrap Uranium Recovery Facility (SURF)
File Name: 019 E15-01-2.22 Ver 3.0 Scrap Uranium Rec. Fac.pdf Chapter 23 - Generic Comingled Chemical Exposure File Name: 020 E15-01-2.23 Ver 2.0 Gen. Comingled Chem Expsr.pdf Revised Figures (Separate CD-Rom)
Chapters E15-01-2.98 File Name: 021 E15-01-2.98 Version 20 Figure 9-7.pdf Chapter E15-01-2.9C File Name: 022 E15-01-2.9C Version 20 Figure 9-11.pdf Chapter E15-01-2.10 File Name: 023 E15-01-10 Version 19 Figure 10-1.pdf Chapter E15-01-2.10 File Name: 024 E15-01-10 Version 19 Figure 10-4.pdf Chapter E15-01-2.15 File Name: 025 E15-01-2.15 Version 12 Figure 15-1.pdf Chapter E15-01-2.16 File Name: 026 E15-01-2.16 Version 20 Figure 16-4.pdf
STATE OF WASHINGTON )
ss COUNTY OF BENTON )
Timothy J. Tate, being duly sworn on oath, states as follows:
- 1. I am employed by Framatome Inc. (Framatome) as Manager, Environmental, Health, Safety and Licensing in Richland, Washington. I am responsible for the overall administration of the safety programs at Framatome's Richland, Washington nuclear fuel fabrication facility, including regulatory licensing and permitting. This affidavit is based on my first hand, personal knowledge and is submitted in my capacity as Manager, Environmental, Health, Safety and Licensing.
- 2. I am familiar with the contents of the "Submittal of Integrated Safety Analysis (ISA) Summary Annual Update for Framatome Inc., Richland, Washington Fuel Fabrication Facility" (Annual ISA Summary Update), which provides the annual update to the Richland Site ISA as required by 10CFR70.72(d)(3). This Annual ISA Summary Update has been classified and designated as "Proprietary" by Framatome in accordance with the document control system and policies established by Framatome for the control and protection of proprietary and confidential information.
- 3. Framatome is engaged in the business of designing and manufacturing nuclear fuel assemblies for commercial nuclear reactors. Within the United States, there are two additional firms that design and manufacture nuclear fuel for commercial nuclear reactors and there are several other companies outside of the United States that engage in the same business as Framatome.
Competition among these companies including Framatome is fierce and manufacturing costs of the nuclear fuel are critical to the maintenance of market share and to the growth of market share among utility customers.
Affidavit of Timothy J. Tate ISA Submittal (2022)
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- 4. The Annual ISA Summary Update contains commercial information of a confidential nature that is not available in public sources or available to the public. Sections also contain information that is considered security sensitive in accordance with USNRC RIS 2005-31. This information contained in the Annual ISA Summary Update is commercial and confidential because it:
A. Reveals distinguishing aspects of Framatome's manufacturing processes by relating sequences of operations and/or sub-operations to optimize the efficiency and performance of manufacturing operations which a competitor within the field of nuclear fuel manufacturing may adapt for their own processes, reducing the competitor's expenditure of resources to achieve the same efficiencies, thereby gaining a competitive advantage to the disadvantage of Framatome.
B. Reveals the use of process chemical additives for the enhancement of chemical processes which are believed to be unique in the industry both in terms of type and application, which if revealed to a competitor would provide for an unfair competitive advantage by reducing any expenditure by the competitor to develop and test the same concepts.
C. Reveals aspects of privately funded development of process controls and parameters derived by Framatome over the course of optimizing the performance of waste treatment and other processes.
D. Reveals technical rationale developed by Framatome relating to plant layout, structure, process flow and other technical information which a competitor could readily use without expenditure of funds and replicate in its facilities thereby gaining a competitive advantage to the disadvantage of Framatome.
Affidavit of Timothy J. Tate ISA Submittal (2022)
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- 5. Framatome Inc. will suffer considerable competitive harm if the contents of the license amendment package are made available to Framatome domestic and international competitors. Finally, this material cannot be reasonably segregated from other material which may not meet the criteria set forth in 10 CFR § 2.390.
Dated this -Z. ( day of January, 2022.
Timothy J. Tate Manager, Environmental, Health, Safety and Licensing STATE OF WASHINGTON )
ss COUNTY OF BENTON )
On this jl 7 day of January, 2022, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Timothy J. Tate to me known to be the Manager, Environmental, Health, Safety, and Licensing of Framatome Inc., the corporation that executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged the said instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said corporation, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and on oath stated that he is authorized to execute the said instrument.
Witness my hand and official seal hereto affixed the day and year first above written.
DEBBIE COYNER Notary Public Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, State of Washington , residing at Benton, Washington.
My Commission Expire$* My commission expires: April 26, 2022 April 26, 2022 .-_
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Attachment C -Table of Contents (2021)
Commercially Size in Sequence Number & File Name Proprietary or KB Security Related File: 001 E15-01-1 Chapters 1-8 Version 27.pdf 8,536 Yes File: 002 E15-01-2.9A Version 19.0 - UO2 Building.pdf Includes systems:
- System 065 (UFs Cylinder Washing) fl System 070 (ADU Precipitation and Drying) 3,812 Yes 6l System 080 (ADU Uranium Recovery) ll System 090 (ADU Powder Production)
- System 100 (ADU Process Offgas (POG))
File: 003 E15-01-2.9B Version 20.0 - UO2 Building.pdf Includes systems:
tl System 120 (UNH Reprocessing)
- System 130 (Conversion of UO2 Pellets to U30a Powder)
- System 150 (Miscellaneous Uranium Recovery System (MURS))
ll System 186 (Supercritical CO2 Extraction) 5,812 Yes
- System 190 (UO2 Pellet Dissolution) fl System 335 (TNF-XI Inner Powder Filling, Storage, and On Plant Movement)
C, System 322 (UOx Powder Download Operation)
I) System 350 (Powder Drum Warehouse)
- System 360 (Lube Blend Press Feed)
File: 004 E15-01-2.9C Version 20.0 - UO2 Building.pdf Includes systems:
a System 370 (UO2 Pellet Pressing)
I) System 380 .(UO2 Pellet Sintering) 3,312 Yes
- System 390 (UO2 Pellet Grinding and Inspection)
- System 400 (UO2 Pellet Storage) e System 410 (Powder Characterization Facility)
- System 420 (Pellet QC Inspection)
File: 005 E15-01-2.9D Version 19.0 - UO2 Building.pdf Includes systems:
e System 460 (Rod Loading) ll System 470 (Rod Testing)
II System 480 (Rod Transport and Storage) 4,570 Yes e System 490 (Rod Downloading)
- System 540 (Bundle Assembly and Storage)
- System 550 (Bundle Disassembly)
- System 790 (Analytical Laboratories) )
File: 006 E15-01-2.9E Version 19.0 - UO2 Building.pdf Includes systems:
- System 323 (BLEU Receipt and Download) 4,500 Yes
- System 355 (BLEU Powder Storage)
II System 325 (BLEU Powder Preparation)
- System 365 (BLEU Lube Blend)
Commercially Size in Sequence Number & File Name Proprietary or KB Security Related e System 375 (BLEU Pellet Pressing) fl System 385 (BLEU Pellet Sintering)
- System 395 (BLEU Pellet Grinding/Inspection)
- System 135 (Line 6 BLEU Scrap Recovery) e System 405 (BLEU Pellet Storage)
File: 007 E15-01-2.10 Ver 19.0 - Dry Conv Facility.pdf 7,705 Yes File: 008 E15-01-2.11 Version 20.0 - SF Building.pdf 7,094 Yes File: 009 E15-01-2.12 Version 19.0 - ELO Buildinq.pdf 3,672 Yes File: 010 E15-01-2.13 Version 14.0- UF6 Cyl Recert.pdf 1,151 Yes File: 011 E15-01-2.14 Ver 19.0 -ARF and Ind Waste.pdf 2,072 Yes File: 012 E15-01-2.15 Version 12.0 - BOU Proc Fac.pdf 572 Yes File: 013 E15-01-2.16 Version 20 - Detached Storage.pdf 6,358 Yes File: 014 E15-01-2.17 Ver 12.0 - Fuel Services Bldg.pdf 417 Yes File: 015 E15-01-2.18 Ver 19-Vent Syst Plantwide.pdf 3,970 Yes File: 016 E15-01-2.19 Version 12.0 PDTF.pdf 470 Yes File: 017 E15-01-2.20 Ver 12.0 Ancillary Systems.pdf 511 Yes File: 018 E15-01-2.21 Ver 10.0 UN Storage Tank Bldg.pdf 1,970 Yes File: 019 E15-01-2.22 Ver 3.0 Scrap Uranium Rec. Fac.pdf 4,160 Yes File: 020 E15-01-2.23 Ver 2.0 Gen. Cominqled Chem Expsr.pdf 337 Yes