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| Issue date: | 06/21/2022 |
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Official Transcript of Proceedings NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title:
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards SHINE Subcommittee: Open Session Docket Number:
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Location:
teleconference Date:
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 Work Order No.:
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3 DISCLAIMER 4
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIONS 7
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS 8
9 10 The contents of this transcript of the 11 proceeding of the United States Nuclear Regulatory 12 Commission Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, 13 as reported herein, is a record of the discussions 14 recorded at the meeting.
15 16 This transcript has not been reviewed, 17 corrected, and edited, and it may contain 18 inaccuracies.
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1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 2
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3 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS 4
(ACRS) 5
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6 SHINE SUBCOMMITTEE 7
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8 TUESDAY 9
JUNE 21, 2022 10
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11 The Subcommittee met via Video 12 Teleconference, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, Ronald Ballinger, 13 Chairman, presiding.
14 COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
15 RONALD G. BALLINGER, Chairman 16 VICKI M. BIER, Member 17 CHARLES H. BROWN, JR. Member 18 VESNA B. DIMITRIJEVIC, Member 19 GREGORY H. HALNON, Member 20 WALTER L. KIRCHNER, Member 21 JOSE MARCH-LEUBA, Member 22 DAVID A. PETTI, Member 23 JOY L. REMPE, Member 24 MATTHEW W. SUNSERI, Member 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
2 ACRS CONSULTANT:
1 DENNIS BLEY 2
KEN CZERWINSKI 3
STEVE SCHULTZ 4
5 DESIGNATED FEDERAL OFFICIAL:
8 ALSO PRESENT:
9 MARC ANDERSON, Sargent & Lundy 10 MICHAEL BALAZIK, NRR 11 JEFFREY BARTELME, SHINE 12 JOSH BORROMEO, UNPL Branch Chief, NRR 13 CATHERINE KOLB, SHINE 14 ANDREW PRINARIS, NRR 15 TRACY RADEL, SHINE 16 ROGER THOMAS, SHINE 17 GLENN TUTTLE, NMSS 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
3 AGENDA 1
Opening Remarks and Objective..........
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Staff Opening Remarks..............
7 3
SHINE Medical Technologies, LLC/NRC Staff 4
Chapter Discussions 5
3-Design of Structures, Systems, 6
and Components
................. 10 7
8-Electrical Power Systems
........... 29 8
4-IU and RPF Facility Description........ 32 9
9-Auxiliary Systems............... 86 10 11-Radiation Protection and Waste Management
.. 90 11 12.7-Emergency Planning............. 96 12 12.13-Material Control and Accounting...... 97 13 13-Accident Analysis 101 14 Public Comments................
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4 P R O C E E D I N G S 1
(1:00 p.m.
2 CHAIR BALLINGER: The meeting will now 3
come to order. This is a meeting of the SHINE 4
Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Reactor 5
Safeguards.
6 I am Ron Ballinger, Chairman of today's 7
subcommittee meeting. ACRS members in attendance are 8
Charlie Brown -- let's see. I'll go right from here.
9 Matt Sunseri, Jose March-Leuba, Walt Kirchner. Who 10 else did I -- Vesna Dimitrijevic. Who did I miss?
11 Well, if I missed somebody, please say something. Oh, 12 Vicki Bier. Excuse me. She was sitting right here 13 for crying out loud. We have our consultants, Steve 14 Schultz and --
15 MEMBER REMPE: Member Ballinger, you 16 forgot the left side of the table.
17 CHAIR BALLINGER: Oh, Dave Petti, Joy 18 Rempe. I was taken over by the aura. We now have 19 consultant Ken Czerwinski here for the first time.
20 During today's meeting, the subcommittee 21 will have discussion with the NRC staff and SHINE 22 Medical Isotopes addressing technical issues 23 identified in our memorandums for Chapters 3, 4, 8, 9, 24 11, 12.7, 12.13, and 13.
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5 Part of the presentations for the 1
Applicant and the NRC staff may be closed in order to 2
discuss information that is proprietary to the 3
licensee and his contractors pursuant to 5 USC 4
552b(c)(4). Attendance at the meeting that deals with 5
such information will be limited to the NRC staff and 6
its consultants, SHINE, and those individuals and 7
organizations who have entered into an appropriate 8
confidentiality agreement with them.
9 Consequently, we need to confirm when we 10 get, when we do the closed meeting, if we have one, 11 that we have only eligible observers and participants 12 at those meetings.
13 The rules for participation at all ACRS 14 meetings, including today's, were announced in the 15 Federal Register on June 13, 2019. The ACRS section 16 of the U.S. NRC public website provides our charter, 17 bylaws, agendas, letter reports, and full transcripts 18 of all full and subcommittee meetings, including 19 slides presented there. The meeting notice and agenda 20 for this meeting were proposed there. We have 21 received no written statements or requests to make an 22 oral statement from the public.
23 The subcommittee will gather information, 24 analyze relevant issues and facts, and formulate 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
6 proposed positions and actions as appropriate for 1
deliberation by the full committee. The rules for 2
participation in today's meeting have been announced 3
as part of the notice of this meeting previously 4
published in the Federal Register.
5 Today's meeting is a hybrid meeting held 6
in person or over Teams. The telephone bridge line 7
allowing participation of the public over their 8
computer using Teams or by phone was made available.
9 Additionally, we have made a Teams link available on 10 the published agenda. This will be the same length 11 for the, for other meetings.
12 Okay. A transcript of the meeting is 13 being kept. Therefore, we request that meeting 14 participants and Teams, on Teams and on the Teams 15 call-in line identify themselves when they speak and 16 to speak with sufficient clarity and volume so that 17 they can be readily heard. Likewise, we request that 18 meeting participants keep their computer and/or 19 telephone lines mute when not speaking to minimize 20 disruptions. The chat feature on the Teams should not 21 be used for any technical exchanges.
22 Before we get going and introduce Josh for 23 an introductory statement, for my purpose, the purpose 24 of this meeting is to get closure on those chapters.
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7 So, during our review of those chapters that I 1
mentioned earlier, in our memos we identified 2
potential areas that needed maybe a little bit further 3
discussion, issues that needed to be clarified, or 4
other issues like that. The staff and the Applicant 5
has these memos.
6 And so hopefully the result of this 7
meeting will be what I would call closure on those 8
chapters. Closure either, to me, means either actual 9
closure or maybe we identify something that just we 10 can't get closure on. But that's where I'm going from 11 this meeting.
12 Now, are there other members that have 13 comments that they'd like to make related to this?
14 Hearing none, thank you. So I'll now turn it over to 15 Josh. And I think SHINE's going to start first, 16 right?
17 MR. BORROMEO: Yeah, yeah, SHINE's going 18 to start first. But, you know, my name is Josh 19 Borromeo. I'm Chief of the Non-Power Production and 20 Utilization Facility, Licensing Branch. And I 21 appreciate ACRS's continued timely review of the SHINE 22 operating license.
23 And as Professor Ballinger said, you know, 24 we hope the combination of the discussions today and 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
8 some of the documents that we have uploaded are going 1
to, you know, get us to closure, at least clarity, on 2
the dozen or so questions and concerns from the 3
previous engagements that we've had.
4 To us, the two I'll call more significant 5
items are the seismic margin discussion, as well as 6
the system actuation timing table. So those we'll 7
probably go into a little bit more depth when we get 8
to those areas. And we'll be leading with the seismic 9
discussion today.
10 And again, I want to thank ACRS for their 11 time and the staff and SHINE for their continued 12 efforts on this project. So with that, I'll turn it 13 over to SHINE.
14 CHAIR BALLINGER: Is SHINE on?
15 MR. BARTELME: Thanks, Josh. So we've got 16 sort of the summary concerns issue document that was 17 put together coming from the individual chapter memos.
18 We just kind of wanted to go through each chapter and 19 make sure each open items are identified if it was a 20 SHINE issue or staff issue and see if we can't reach 21 closure on each of these. Because of availability of 22 23 MEMBER REMPE: Excuse me for just a 24 second.
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9 CHAIR BALLINGER: Yeah, we're very garbled 1
here.
2 MEMBER REMPE: Yeah, we need more volume 3
or you need to get closer to the mic. I'm Joy Rempe, 4
and I'm in the room. And we're having trouble hearing 5
you.
6 MR. BARTELME: All right. Thanks. Is 7
that any better?
8 MEMBER REMPE: Not enough. Maybe we're 9
trying to do some stuff here in the room, too, hold 10 on, and maybe that will solve it. Sorry to interrupt 11 you. But we need to do it now rather than later.
12 Okay. Try again, please.
13 MR. BARTELME: Can you guys hear me all 14 right now? Is it less garbled?
15 MEMBER REMPE: That's much better. Thank 16 you.
17 MR. BARTELME: Okay. So we've got the 18 summary documents kind of with the concerns or issues 19 from each memo. We just wanted to work through 20 chapter by chapter.
Because of, you
- know, 21 availability of the folks supporting SHINE on these 22 requests that we start with Chapter 3 first and then 23 move to a discussion on the Chapter 8 items if we 24 could.
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10 CHAIR BALLINGER: This is Ron Ballinger.
1 Can the court reporter hear us okay? Oh, good, 2
because we have no slides for this meeting. And so 3
that's, the transcript is going to be the record. And 4
so it's important that while we might not be able to 5
hear people well enough, you do. Thanks. Okay.
6 Let's go.
7 MR. BARTELME: Okay. So, if we could 8
start with some of the actual items under the Chapter 9
3, coming from the Chapter 3 memo related to a basis 10 for the 25 percent margin in the seismic gap, we've 11 got Marc Anderson from Sargent & Lundy here to support 12 SHINE. And he can provide additional discussion on 13 the basis for the seismic gap and the structural 14 evaluations SHINE has performed. So, Marc, if you 15 could, please.
16 MR. ANDERSON: Sure. Thanks, Jeff. My 17 name is Marc Anderson from Sargent & Lundy.
18 So, just to follow on this item from our 19 previous discussion, you know, as we stated there as 20 a safety related portion of the facility and a non-21 safety related portion of the facility, the safety 22 related portion of the facility has been designed for 23 the SSE earthquake event. We did a very detailed 24 analysis, soil structure interaction analysis using 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
11 NUREG 0800 Section 371 and Reg Guide 161 input 1
directly from the NRC. And we generated an in-2 structure response spectra.
3 And essentially, in the analysis of the 4
facility, we did a few different types of seismic 5
analyses to determine what would control the building 6
design. And for deflections, we used an equivalent 7
static model. And we determined deflections at the 8
roof elevation of the facility, which is the highest 9
elevation. And we considered that to be controlling.
10 Additionally, we calculated deflections 11 for the what I'll call the admin annex or the non-12 safety related portion of the facility according to 13 the design basis for that facility. And we ensured 14 that the seismic gap between the two facilities was 15 large enough to accommodate the two deflections 16 assuming that they were added together.
17 Separately, we looked at what would happen 18 if there happened to be some interaction, if say the 19 non-safety related building were to experience the 20 larger earthquake that the safety related facility is 21 required to be designed for. We looked at what would 22 happen if the non-safety related building were to come 23 into contact with the safety related building.
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12 building is designed for the aircraft impact analysis 1
and the energy associated with that. And the energy 2
associated with that is significantly larger than the 3
energy that it would see if the non-safety related 4
building were to collapse or fall into or bump into 5
the safety related facility in this earthquake event.
6 CHAIR BALLINGER:
So this is Ron 7
Ballinger. So what you're saying is that the aircraft 8
impact deflection, if you will, dominates.
9 MR. ANDERSON: No, I'm sorry. Let me 10 clarify a little bit further.
11 So the seismic gap that we had described 12 in the previous meeting is sized based on the various 13 earthquake events that the two buildings are licensed 14 to be designed for. All right. So the safety related 15 facility is designed for this SSE event. And we've 16 determined deflections as a result of that SSE event 17 and the seismic gap appropriately.
18 Separately from sizing this seismic gap in 19 a way that we felt had enough margin to avoid any 20 interaction between the two facilities, we said, well, 21 what if the non-safety related building did come into 22 contact with the safety related building during this 23 SSE earthquake event. And we did evaluate that 24 scenario.
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13 And we determined that the energy that the 1
safety related building is designed for as a result of 2
the aircraft impact event is higher than the energy 3
that the safety related building would need to be 4
designed for if the non-safety related building were 5
to fall into the safety related building or to come in 6
contact with it.
7 So it's not that the deflections for the 8
earthquake, or excuse me, for the aircraft impact 9
controlled. It's that the design of the safety 10 related facility is such that there would be no 11 negative effects if the non-safety related building 12 were to come in contact with it. Its design is 13 bounded by the aircraft impact.
14 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay. So where do we 15 get to the 25 percent?
16 MR. ANDERSON: So the 25 percent margin 17 is, or approximately 25 percent margin is what remains 18 of the distance between the two facilities when you 19 add the deflection of the safety related building to 20 the deflection of the non-safety related building.
21 MEMBER PETTI: So, in absolute terms, what 22 is that distance?
23 MR. ANDERSON: I want to make sure I have 24 the right numbers in front of me.
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14 MEMBER PETTI: Sure.
1 MR. ANDERSON: One second. The seismic 2
gap is sized at one inch. The largest deflections of 3
the safety related facility are, at the highest 4
elevation are.35 inches. And that's as a result of 5
the SSE earthquake event.
6 MEMBER PETTI: And that's at the top.
7 MR. ANDERSON: And that's at the top of 8
the building. And then we determined deflections at 9
a few different areas of the non-safety related 10
- building, because there's a
couple different 11 elevations.
12 And those deflections
- are, at one 13 elevation, at the highest roof of the non-safety 14 related building, which is approximately five feet 15 lower than the highest roof of the safety related 16 building, the maximum deflection is.34 inches. And 17 that deflection is actually a result of wind loading.
18 We conservatively considered the wind loading in 19 conjunction with the SSE earthquake just because, you 20 know, we wanted to make sure there was a conservative 21 design.
22 There is a lower roof elevation on a 23 different side of the building that we checked for 24 deflections. The maximum deflections as a result of 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
15 the earthquake event at that roof are.45 inches, so 1
that ends up controlling.
2 So, when you add the.45 to the,.45 for 3
the non-safety related building to the.35 for the 4
safety related building, you actually get about.8 5
inches. So the margin is -- and I'm rounding up the 6
numbers here. So the margin is a little more than 20 7
percent between those two buildings.
8 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay. So I guess Dennis 9
Bley, who is a consultant, that asked the question 10 during one of the previous meetings is not here, is 11 not with us today. So I'm trying to be very clear in 12 the transcript so that when he reads it he'll see it.
13 But where does the 25 percent come from? Who decided 14 that it needed to be 25 percent, or what decided that 15 it needed to be 25 percent?
16 MR. ANDERSON: There was no --
17 CHAIR BALLINGER: Oh, oh, okay. Dennis 18 just came on. So he can ask the question more 19 directly.
20 MR. ANDERSON: Sure.
21 CHAIR BALLINGER: Dennis, are you there?
22 DR. BLEY: Yeah. Sorry. I just arrived.
23 And I take it you're talking about what we asked 24 about. Was there any answer? I don't see any slides 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
16 or anything up here.
1 CHAIR BALLINGER: Yeah, there are no 2
slides for this meeting. And we just went through --
3 and I'm not sure that we, that some of these numbers 4
might not be proprietary, but apparently they're not, 5
the numbers for the actual deflections. But my 6
question was still, where did the 25 percent come 7
from? How did you decide it was 25 percent?
8 DR. BLEY: Yeah, there were two related 9
things. One was where did it come from and how 10 confident are we that that covers all you need to 11 cover.
12 And the second thing was if you didn't 13 really look beyond the design-basis event, do we have 14 any confidence that we're not sitting on the edge of 15 a cliff. And even if everything was calculated 16 perfectly, the methods you used to calculate this 17 leaves about a 15, 20 percent chance that we'll get an 18 earthquake greater than the DBE at least in some of 19 the parameters.
20 So the question was, are we sitting on a 21 cliff? If we get a little bit bigger earthquake than 22 we planned on, do we have a serious problem or not?
23 And part of that, that all has to do with the 24 uncertainties in the calculation. So --
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17 MR. ANDERSON: Sure. So there's two 1
things. So the first thing is sort of the acceptance 2
criteria question. Who decided that the 25 percent 3
was sufficient? And the acceptance criteria is that 4
the seismic gap is simply larger than the calculated 5
maximum deflections, which we believe to be 6
conservatively calculated. That just happens to be 7
the margin, approximately, you know, 20 to 25 percent 8
in the gap.
9 The second question is do we have any 10 concerns. You know, if the margin is 20 to 25 11 percent, then is there a concern that if we see an 12 earthquake event that happens to go slightly above the 13 DBE, are we, you know, will we run into issues? And 14 I was trying to address that earlier. It seems like 15 my explanation may not be entirely clear. So let me 16 try to explain it again.
17 The safety related facility is designed 18 for this aircraft impact event. And I keep bringing 19 it up. I know it's separate from the SSE earthquake.
20 But it's related in this way. It has to do with a 21 pretty large mass traveling at a high velocity 22 creating a large impact energy. And similarly, you 23 know, if this non-safety related building were to 24 start shaking an earthquake event and were to impact 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
18 the safety related facility in some way, it would have 1
a similar type of dynamic energy effect.
2 And so what we've done is we've looked at 3
what happens if the non-safety related facility does 4
eat into that seismic gap margin and potentially 5
either bump into the safety related facility or even 6
collapse into it, does that cause a problem.
7 And what we concluded is that the 8
earthquake, or excuse me, the aircraft impact energy 9
that the building was designed for is significantly 10 larger than the energy it would see if the non-safety 11 related building were to collapse into it. And that's 12 how we justified it.
13 DR. BLEY: I have to think about that. I 14 mean, you're looking at -- generally when you do the 15 aircraft impact analysis, you're looking at some very 16 dense part of the aircraft penetrating into particular 17 areas of the facility. And here we're looking at kind 18 of the general effect over the building being moved.
19 And your argument might stick together 20 pretty well. But I have to think about that some.
21 And I don't think we have any details to look at to 22 let us understand this better. I don't know.
23 I'm not even sure who I'm talking to. I 24 apologize, because I was late. I had a medical 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
19 appointment this morning. And I just got back. So 1
you're with SHINE?
2 MR. ANDERSON: My name is Marc Anderson.
3 I'm the structural engineering manager with Sargent &
4 Lundy. And SHINE has contracted us to design the 5
facility and perform these analyses. So Jeff asked me 6
to be on the call today to discuss these issues.
7 DR. BLEY: Okay. And you are fairly 8
convinced that an earthquake a little bigger than the 9
SSE if it either can't lead to an impact on that 10 building or if it does it's not going to be, cause 11 significant damage. I think that's what I heard you 12 say. And it's based on an analogy to the aircraft 13 impact analysis.
14 MR. ANDERSON: That's correct. Yeah.
15 Now, for the aircraft impact, you know, as you know, 16 we analyzed the building for two sort of separate 17 failure modes. One is a local impact where we 18 consider a fairly dense portion of the aircraft to see 19 whether or not it penetrates any aspect of the 20 building.
21 And then second is the global effects. So 22 we check what happens to the entire building or, you 23 know, the portion of the building that the aircraft 24 strikes, what happens as the load distributes through 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
20 the building.
1 And, you know, we derive an energy based 2
on the mass and velocity of the aircraft. And we can 3
similarly derive an energy from the non-safety related 4
building based on these peak spectral velocities 5
associated with the SSE and the mass of the building 6
and conclude that the aircraft impact energy is 7
significantly larger.
8 DR. BLEY: And the step beyond that is it 9
doesn't cause any significant damage.
10 MR. ANDERSON: That's correct.
11 DR. BLEY: I'm assuming that like most 12 aircraft impact analyses I've seen this is in some 13 manner restricted information. I'm not -- I'm pretty 14 sure, well, I know I haven't seen any of it. Is it 15 available for the ACRS to look at, or has the staff 16 looked and inspected it and examined it?
17 MR. BARTELME: This is Jeff Bartelme from 18 SHINE. I'd have to look, but I do believe it has been 19 made available to the staff via our NRC Reading Room.
20 But we've not placed it on Box for the ACRS members to 21 view.
22 DR. BLEY: Okay. Is --
23 CHAIR BALLINGER: This is Ron. So should 24 we request that it be put on the Box?
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21 DR. BLEY: Well, I would like to hear from 1
the staff, if the staff has heard this argument, if 2
they've heard it before or just now for the first time 3
and their opinion of it, because I would hope they've 4
looked at the analysis that's being discussed here.
5 CHAIR BALLINGER: Should we save that for 6
the staff, or has the staff got an answer now?
7 MR. BALAZIK: This is Mike Balazik, NRC 8
staff. Andrew, is this something we can respond to 9
now, or is this something we need to address a little 10 bit later?
11 MR. PRINARIS: Mike, we can address it 12 right now. It is my understanding, it is my clear 13 understanding that the aircraft impact since the PSAR 14 has not been really modified by much and probably not 15 at all, and certainly a letter can confirm this.
16 So, and we did look, as Mr. Anderson said, 17 that there is a local and a global impact. And there 18 is an RAI to this effect. But the analysis, the 19 aircraft, the earthquake analysis and the aircraft 20 impact analysis are related. So I'm not so sure if 21 ACRS had the opportunity to look at these RAIs.
22 But the numbers that Mr. Anderson provided 23 at least for the safety related building I do recall 24 that number reading in the analysis. And what you 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
22 have is obviously a non-safety related, probably a 1
monitoring building, to the best of my recollection, 2
and a shear wall building. And the shear wall 3
building is the one that is going to absorb the 4
aircraft impact. And that's what Mr. Anderson I 5
believe is relating. Is that adequate to ACRS?
6 DR. BLEY: I can't tell you right now. I 7
guess, Ron, if we can get a look at the global 8
analysis and have a chance to think about it, it would 9
be helpful, because --
10 MR. PRINARIS: I think if you go to, to 11 the best of my recollection, again, to the PSAR ADAMS 12 accession numbers, I believe, to the best of my 13 understanding again, that PSAR aircraft analysis 14 hasn't changed by much.
15 CHAIR BALLINGER: So I guess, this is Ron 16 again, in order to get closure on this, can we work 17 through Chris and get whatever we need to get this 18 done?
19 MR. BALAZIK: This is Mike Balazik, NRC 20 staff. Yeah, we can work with SHINE to get up the 21 analysis into Box for Dr. Bley to look at.
22 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay.
23 MEMBER REMPE: It sounds like --
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23 from SHINE. We'll get a copy of the aircraft impact 1
evaluation on Box for your reading.
2 MEMBER REMPE: It sounds like there is an 3
RAI and a response from SHINE, too, that would be 4
helpful. Is that true? And if so, could we have 5
access to that, which doesn't require the Box?
6 MR. BALAZIK: This is Mike Balazik, NRC 7
staff. Yes, I will find that RAI. And I can send 8
that over to Chris.
9 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay. So the way I look 10 at we have two possible paths. One is look at the 11 RAI, and the other is put stuff in the Box to be, for 12 Dennis to look at. And it's probably not a bad idea 13 to take both paths.
14 DR. BLEY: I think that's right. And then 15 I think the committee needs to have a little 16 discussion about it. This is, I mean, it's kind of a 17 back door way to address the issue. But maybe it's 18 pretty reasonable. I'm not positive yet.
19 MR. PRINARIS: This is Andrew Prinaris 20 from the staff. So I'm trying to understand what ACRS 21 is looking for. You're looking for a seismic 22 acceleration exceeding the design requirements.
23 DR. BLEY: Well, we're not looking for it.
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24 way you design these things, the chance that you have 1
something somewhat above the design is not negligible.
2 It's a pretty substantial chance. And the question 3
was are we confident that we don't have any 4
significant problems if we go a little beyond that.
5 And --
6 MR. PRINARIS: So what they're looking is 7
for a seismic event beyond the design-basis event.
8 DR. BLEY: Well, that's what we're 9
thinking about. And to look at your global analysis, 10 and usually I've only seen the other ones where you're 11 looking into the penetrating aspects of the aircraft 12 crash, this sounds kind of reasonable to me. But 13 since I haven't seen anybody do it this way before, I 14 probably want to take a look.
15 MR. PRINARIS: Sure. I was just trying to 16 understand, you know, what is the driving force to go 17 beyond design-basis events.
18 DR. BLEY: Well, the driving force is --
19 well, the easiest place to point you to is when the 20 Mineral earthquake occurred, it turned out that some 21 of the parameters were above the design basis. And 22 everybody got a little excited about that.
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25 this analysis is done there's about a 15 percent 1
chance that an earthquake bigger than the design basis 2
will occur. And to me that's not a negligible chance.
3 And the related question is usually, and 4
people looked at this a lot 30, 40 years ago, the 5
worry was, gee, if we, is there a cliff at the design 6
basis earthquake. If we go a little beyond that, does 7
the plant fall apart? Do we get in serious trouble?
8 And for almost all aspects of the design, 9
the answer has always been no, it's kind of a gentle 10 degradation as you go beyond there, with the exception 11 of a few design issues associated with buildings.
12 And one of those that came up and led to 13 a change was the case where two buildings could bump 14 into each other. And that looked like it could lead 15 to substantial damage. And it ended up leading to a 16 change in the design, a modification to absorb that 17 energy without causing problems.
18 So, you know, if we had done a seismic 19 PRA, we would know for sure whether there was a cliff 20 edge here and we were getting into trouble. We 21 haven't done that.
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26 how close they were and what the margin was and how 1
that was decided and if that was enough to make sure 2
we wouldn't have any impact.
3 The way SHINE described it today, maybe, 4
maybe not, but that you would get some impact in the 5
global aircraft crash, and that looked like it would 6
be more severe than an earthquake a little beyond the 7
design basis. It might be a very reasonable argument.
8 But we haven't seen any details of it. And that's all 9
I'm asking for.
10 DR. SCHULTZ: Marc, this is Steve Schultz.
11 I've got a question that goes back to the portion of 12 the presentation you made before Dennis joined. And 13 that is when you were describing the evaluation and 14 analysis of the gap and its margin, you said that for 15 the non-seismic related building you had assumed a 16 wind loading, a high wind loading along with the 17 seismic event. How much margin would there be if you 18 took out that high wind loading?
19 MR. ANDERSON: For that portion of the 20 facility, the wind loading is -- let's see. So the 21 seismic deflection at that portion of the facility is 22
.18 inches instead of the.34 inches associated with 23 the wind loading. So the margin would increase to 24 about 50 percent probably, something like that.
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27 DR. BLEY: Oh, I missed that. Thanks, 1
Steve, for pointing that out. That sounds --
2 DR. SCHULTZ: They assumed it was 3
coincident, the wind loading and the seismic event.
4 DR. BLEY: And that's pretty, very 5
unlikely. So --
6 DR. SCHULTZ: That's why I brought it up.
7 DR. BLEY: Yeah. Okay. Thank you.
8 DR. SCHULTZ: I didn't expect it to be 9
that large. So, anyway, I agree with you, Dennis. It 10 would be nice to have these things lined up and have 11 the ability to see what would happen if one assumed a 12 slightly higher seismic loading would occur and what 13 likelihood that was.
14 CHAIR BALLINGER: But, in effect, taking 15 away the wind loading --
16 DR. SCHULTZ: It seems like it.
17 CHAIR BALLINGER: Yeah, that's what it 18 does.
19 DR. SCHULTZ: It provides some substantial 20 margin.
21 CHAIR BALLINGER: Yeah.
22 DR. BLEY: That helps a lot. But I think 23 I'd still like to take a look at that global analysis.
24 DR. SCHULTZ: I would, too.
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28 DR. BLEY: Yeah.
1 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay. So are we clear 2
on the path for this, the RAIs and the Box? Does that 3
satisfy everybody?
4 MR. BALAZIK: Yeah, this is Mike Balazik.
5 Yes, we're clear on the path and the RAIs and the 6
global response on the Box.
7 CHAIR BALLINGER: Great. Okay. So are we 8
okay with this discussion on this topic?
9 MEMBER BROWN: Where are we going?
10 DR. BLEY: Yeah. Thanks, Ron.
11 CHAIR BALLINGER: Answer yes.
12 MEMBER BROWN: I just wanted to make sure 13 we understood that it was not, the path is 14 undetermined --
15 CHAIR BALLINGER: No, I think --
16 MEMBER BROWN: -- because that's what I 17 took away from this, the discussion. They made their 18 points. But what's going to be done in response to 19 those --
20 CHAIR BALLINGER: They're going to provide 21 RAIs related to the analysis, as well as --
22 MEMBER BROWN: They're going to add, 23 they're going to provide additional --
24 CHAIR BALLINGER: Yeah.
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29 MEMBER BROWN: -- documentation.
1 CHAIR BALLINGER: Yeah.
2 MEMBER BROWN: That works.
3 CHAIR BALLINGER: And then --
4 MEMBER BROWN: I didn't -- that kind of 5
spun right past me. Sorry about that.
6 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, okay. Okay. That 7
actually was a pretty good discussion come to think of 8
it. Okay. I'm not -- what's next?
9 MR. BALAZIK: This is Mike Balazik, NRC 10 staff. The next item we'd like to talk about is 11 Chapter 8. There was a concern related to the 180-12 second time delay, that the target solution stays in 13 the TSV after a loop. And there were also some 14 additional input from Member Brown.
15 Jeff, do you want to start with talking 16 about the 180-second time delay?
17 MR. BARTELME: Sure. And Catherine's 18 going to lead the response on that particular concern 19 or issue.
20 MS. KOLB: Yeah, this is Catherine Kolb, 21 Senior Director of Plant Operations. The concern from 22 before was does the 180-second delay matter, you know, 23 was there anything that the operators could do in the 24 180 seconds that would make it be a reasonable delay 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
30 from an operational sense. And we believe yes, it is.
1 So, if there was a momentary loss of offsite power 2
from the grid, only the two main breakers would open, 3
presumably on under voltage, but they trip on a 4
variety of things --
5 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: This is Jose. Can 6
you speak slower and a little maybe further? You guys 7
have a terrible microphone. I can hardly understand 8
what you're saying. And this is continuously always 9
the same. Please speak more clearly, at least slower.
10 Okay? Okay.
11 MS. KOLB: Okay. We're switching our 12 microphone. Hold on.
13 CHAIR BALLINGER: And there's kind of an 14 echo a little.
15 MS. KOLB: Is this --
16 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: This is consistent.
17 The SHINE microphone is terrible. I mean, pick up the 18 handset --
19 DR. BLEY: It's much, this is much better.
20 MS. KOLB: Okay. Good. So I apologize.
21 So the concern from before was did the 180-second 22 delay matter, could an operator do anything in that 23 180 seconds that would make it worthwhile for 24 including it in the design. And we believe yes.
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31 So, on a loss of offsite power, the two 1
main breakers would open, presumably on under voltage 2
but could open on other things. If the grid was 3
restored, if this was a momentary transient or a 4
couple second transient, the control room operators 5
would have knowledge of the voltage available. And 6
they would be able to reclose those two breakers.
7 Those two breakers are controlled using 8
our process integrated control system, the PICS, that 9
they can operate from the control room. So they 10 wouldn't need to dispatch anyone to the field or 11 anything in order to take advantage of the 180-second 12 delay and restart the process cooling water, or 13 process closed loop cooling system, the PCLS, in order 14 to recover.
15 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: And this is Jose 16 again. And this is the only action they're supposed 17 to take, to close the breakers for the pumps, or do 18 they have to recognize -- well, obviously, they have 19 to recognize the high voltage. But do they have to 20 recognize any valve alignments or any other things?
21 MS. KOLB: No, the valves are not expected 22 to change states. In response to this, the -- if it 23 doesn't restart, the worst thing that would happen is 24 the 180 seconds would time out and it would, an IU 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
32 cell safety actuation would occur as designed.
1 So, yes, if power was off for a long time, 2
you know, 2 minutes and 59 seconds, then, yeah, there 3
would be nothing they could do. But if it was 4
momentary, we believe 180 seconds would be sufficient 5
to recognize that this had been restored, close the 6
two breakers, restore PCLS. And then they would have 7
sufficient time to restart the neutron drivers in 8
order to resume operation. And they wouldn't be bound 9
by any time limits at that point.
10 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: And the only reason 11 we dump all the TSV solution from the TSV tank, is it 12 because it cannot, the TSV tank cannot reject decay 13 heat without active cooling and it needs to be dumped 14 into the dump tank where it can possibly cool, 15 correct?
16 MS. RADEL: So, this is Tracy Radel, 17 SHINE's VP of Engineering. The system has been 18 evaluated for the thermal hydraulics of leaving it in 19 there for three minutes.
20 It is correct what you stated, that the 21 heat transfer through the PCLS and into the pool water 22 from the target solution Bessel would not be 23 sufficient to keep it in there long-term, with the 24 amount of decay heat that's going on.
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33 So, we've determined without heat transfer 1
out, it's fine for the three minutes, and then, we 2
transfer to the dump tank. And within the dump tank 3
there is enough surface area and cooling capability 4
from the light water pool.
5 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yeah, let me see if 6
I can express it in the way I think about it, and you 7
tell me if I'm correct or not.
8 I think that this dumping of the TSB 9
solution is not a reactor protection system function, 10 but an emergency core cooling system function. It's 11 equivalent to turning the ECCS pumps in an operating 12 reactor. So, it's a long-term decay heel removal 13 issue. Is that correct?
14 MS. RADEL: That is correct.
15 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yeah. And on 16 operating reactors, ECCS sometimes doesn't even come 17 on. And all time -- every single occasion -- they 18 come with a significant delay. So, this is not 19 inconsistent with operating reactors. That's the way 20 I see it.
21 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, thank you.
22 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Okay, well, this is 23 Vesna Dimitrijevic. I look on this from a slightly 24 different perspective. So, let me ask you again, 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
34 which of the two, on the loss of offsite power, which 1
breakers open automatically? The breakers to which 2
buses?
3 Because -- okay, so I'm going back to the 4
breakers, and I will get back to thermal hydraulic.
5 You said that the loss of offsite power, he only has 6
to close two breakers to de-energize buses. Which are 7
those two breakers?
8 MR. BARTELME: Those are the main breakers 9
for services A and services B into the building.
10 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Okay, so those are 11 the only two breakers, the UP breaker 1 and UP 12 breaker 2, that open on loss of offsite power, right?
13 MR. BARTELME: Correct, for the building.
14 There's are the UP breaker 3 and 4 out at the chiller 15 farm, for the chillers. Those also would be very 16 similar. Those also would need to be reset.
17 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Okay. So they will 18 automatically, just as loss of the power, they will 19 automatically open. Now, let's say that you get power 20 very fast, in the matter of seconds. That will be 21 procedure, right? Telling the operators to close 22 those breakers. Right?
23 MS. KOLB: Yes.
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35 closes these breakers, he has to check the loads also 1
disconnected. Right? He's not going to close 2
breakers on loaded buses, right?
3 MR. THOMAS: No. The system is 4
designed -- I'm sorry, this is Roger Thomas, Lead 5
Electrical Engineer for SHINE.
6 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Right.
7 MR. THOMAS: So, they would be closing, on 8
a momentary thing like that, into load. Now, a lot of 9
those loads will close themselves off. Major loads 10 like the chillers and stuff have their own restart 11 cycles. So, you have substantially reduced load of 12 the auxiliary systems.
13 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Okay, so in your 14 visualization, if he wants to get back the primary 15 cooling, so he will first check the status of the 16 loads, close those two breakers, and then has to go 17 and close the breakers on the primary cooling pumps.
18 Right?
19 MR. THOMAS: No, those would still be in 20 the original state. They would have --
21 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: So, you mean the 22 pumps will just automatically load on the buses?
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36 a soft start to them. But they would restart on 1
return of the power.
2 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Well, that's a 3
very -- well, at the same time you are loading, in the 4
loss of power, your standby generator will start 5
loading. Right? So, which will assume also that you 6
are disconnecting loads before your load your standby 7
generator.
8 So, I mean, when you guys thought about 9
these three, did you went through this procedure what 10 operator actually have to do to get those pumps back 11 running?
12 MS. KOLB: We looked at the design. The 13 (unintelligible) procedure is still in draft.
14 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: I understand that.
15 But I just want to say, because what is happening in 16 the loss of offsite power event is really sort of like 17 complicated scenario, where you have your standby 18 generator loading.
19 You have to think about this off-gas 20 system, nitrogen purge. There's so many different 21 timings there. So, I just want to see if anybody 22 brought the timeline, and had to visualize picture, 23 how would that work from procedure? That's one of my 24 concerns.
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37 Because I couldn't see nearly all of this 1
working out and happening in three minutes.
2 MEMBER BROWN: Vesna, can I inject 3
something. This is Charles.
4 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Sure. Sure.
5 MEMBER BROWN: When you lose offsite power 6
from Alliant, theoretically, our SGS starts and the 7
breakers, like you say, UP breaker 1 and 2 trip open, 8
as well as 3 and 4, but now your SGS is on, so your 9
buses are being supplied from another generator.
10 So, it's more complicated than just having 11 those breakers come back.
And they can't 12 automatically do anything until you synchronize them 13 and transfer load.
14 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Right.
15 MEMBER BROWN: Unless you de-energize 16 everything first, and then reapply the Alliant power.
17 So, this is a more complicated layout and was one of 18 the reasons for my questions about how these breakers 19 are interlocked.
20 Well, it's to the DC loads, which are 21 picked up and are still running, theoretically. So, 22 this is not as straightforward as it sounds. And 23 there's no discussion of restart and how loads behave 24 in the description.
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38 So, that's one of the questions I asked.
1 We didn't explicitly cover that, although it's implied 2
in one of my comments, relative to safe shutdown and 3
4 So, it's a little more complicated if 5
you've got -- you just can't apply Alliant power back 6
once you've got all those other AC loads running on 7
the SGS.
8 Even if it's a momentary loss of Alliant, 9
there's no discussion of -- is there a time delay 10 before the SGS starts? Does it wait for two minutes 11 or one minute?
12 Well, you've got to be careful, because 13 you're stripping loads down in the rest of the plant.
14 There's three-and five-minute walkaway load strip 15 situation.
16 It just seems to me this ought to be 17 enumerated or explained a little bit more than the 18 discussion.
19 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: But based on the 20 analysis, ATS starts loading within one minute, and 21 finish transfer in five minutes. That's what the 22 assumptions around loss of offsite power.
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39 of offsite power is always credited, and it could be 1
in different time frames.
2 Unfortunately, usually there is no 3
operator action associated with that. These operator 4
actions can be complicated. And we didn't really 5
learn too much about that through the operating 6
plants. So, this is what was our concern, because it 7
happened here, it has to be done within three minutes, 8
and it didn't really seem -- so, my question for your 9
thermal hydraulic catalyzer, so this is your 10 maximum -- I know Jose looked like, in your thermal 11 hydraulic catalyzer said -- I did too conclude that 12 that would not be boiling in three minutes.
13 But what is your maximum time frame before 14 you have to dump? Is it three minutes? Or would that 15 be a boiling in four minutes?
16 MS. RADEL: So, this is Tracy again. The 17 analysis is very simplified and has quite a bit of 18 margin in it. We did not define an exact amount of 19 time it could go beyond that.
20 We didn't calculate it out to what the 21 maximum time was. It was a calculation to confirm 22 that three minutes was safe and the safety system will 23 open the valves at that point and drain the solution.
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40 of time that it could potentially stay within the 1
unit.
2 The other aspect of that analysis is 3
assumed to start at the high-temperature limit of the 4
solution at the start of that analysis, versus an 5
actual expected temperature of the solution. So, 6
there's significant margin in there as well. But we 7
haven't defined a specific time.
8 DR. BLEY: Aren't you depending upon those 9
three-minute and five-minute load-stripping evolutions 10 to actually be accomplished though, to meet this 11 walkaway situation?
12 MS. RADEL: The three-minute opening of 13 the dump valves is within the safety system. So, the 14 safety system will initiate an IU cell safety 15 actuation after three minutes of having lost the PCLS 16 flow, and open those valves. And that is going to 17 happen whether or not there's power, or whatever is 18 happening within the facilities.
19 DR. BLEY: So, if the three-minute time 20 delay does not strip, you're saying the safety system 21 will take action anyway. That's what I got out of 22 your discussion.
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41 actuated by the safety system.
1 DR. BLEY: One of my comments that we 2
haven't gotten to yet but it's relevant to this 3
discussion, was you're talking about a safe-shutdown 4
configuration at which you arrive under these 5
circumstances, and you called it walkaway.
6 And what you've gone through in this 7
discussion is a more complex iteration of what's going 8
on. And all I was looking for, relative to my last 9
bullet, was what's the definition, and what has to 10 occur to accomplish that safe-shutdown configuration?
11 In other words, write it down inside 12 whichever the appropriate document is, whether it's 13 chapter 8 or not. Because you didn't define 14 explicitly what that configuration was, other than 15 orally. So, I'm just throwing that in --
16 (Simultaneous speaking.)
17 DR. BLEY: Excuse me, Vesna. Go ahead.
18 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Yeah. Are you 19 planning to address -- okay, so this is a separated.
20 So, this loss of the primary water flow, and it's in 21 the pattern of your stripping and the time 22 requirements, table 88221.
23 So, are you planning now to address 24 Charlie's concerns?
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42 MS. KOLB: Before we go into this -- this 1
is Catherine Kolb. We do define safe-shutdown in our 2
proposed technical specifications. That should be 3
where we define that term.
4 And then, just to clarify, I think some of 5
the complication of this discussion we've been having 6
is because we were postulating on how we would recover 7
after a loss of offsite power. A momentary one that 8
then returns.
9 Yes, that does become more complicated 10 than the safe-shutdown condition, which you wouldn't 11 be attempting this, because we -- and this is 12 essentially what we're attempting to operate again, 13 versus getting to not operating, if that makes sense.
14 MEMBER BROWN: I would suggest that 15 burying -- that's the wrong word -- incorporating the 16 safe-shutdown condition definition in the tech specs 17 is somewhat obscure.
18 And yet, you can talk about how you need 19 to accomplish that in not only this chapter, but 20 others. But it seems to me it ought not be just 21 limited to that, unless you want to reference it 22 somehow in chapter eight or the other chapters that 23 are necessary.
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43 assumes somebody's read though every one of the tech 1
specs to figure out what that is. So, just a 2
suggestion.
3 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Well, we were so far 4
discussing one of those things expressing concerns.
5 But there is also additional comments by Charlie. Is 6
the SHINE ready to discuss those one-by-one? Or you 7
are just planning to discuss this three-minute?
8 MR. BARTELME: We're also prepared to 9
discuss Member Brown's recommendations as well. And 10 we can move on to those now if we're ready to sort of 11 move on.
12 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Okay. All right, 13 that's fine. That's what I wanted to hear and I'm 14 thinking about that. Can you please go through 15 Charlie's comments now.
16 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Can we stay on this 17 topic for another two minutes?
18 MR. BARTELME: Sure.
19 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yeah. If I 20 understand correctly -- this is a question for 21 SHINE -- (audio interference).7-4, which ostensibly 22 shows the TSV solution temperature as function of time 23 following a loss of power.
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44 of the 180-second time delay, the temperature, the 1
TSV, raises but a couple of degrees Celsius. Am I 2
reading correctly? I don't know if you have access to 3
those figures.
4 MS. RADEL: Yes, that is correct.
5 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yeah, so the dotted-6 blue line, if the initial temperature, which is -- and 7
this is non-proprietary, because it comes from the 8
FSAR -- is 87 degrees, and the yellow line is the 9
182nd. It reaches like 88. Like, it only heats up 10 like one degree C over 180 seconds.
11 But when I finally understood what this 12 figure meant, that 180 second was of no safety 13 significance. As long as you dump it, you're not 14 overheating. The power density's so small.
15 So, from the thermohydraulic point of 16 view, I don't see any problem. That was my 17 conclusion.
18 MS. RADEL: So, I just want to clarify and 19 walk through the figure and make sure we're 20 understanding the same things here.
21 So, the figure is showing the temperature 22 profile --
23 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Why is this picture 24 is not proprietary?
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45 MS. RADEL: Oh.
1 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Because I also have 2
the problem understanding this when I was looking at 3
that.
4 MS. RADEL: Yes, so I'll share a screen 5
here.
6 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yeah, I apologize.
7 I cannot show you, because I have it on the wrong 8
computer.
9 MS. RADEL: It will just take a second 10 here. Trying to adjust screens.
11 MR. BARTELME: Can everyone see the figure 12 now?
13 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yes. Yes, we can see 14 now.
15 MS. RADEL: Okay. So, this figure, this 16 graph, is showing the temperature profile through the 17 TSV dump tank after we've dumped the solution.
18 So, node one is located on the inner shell 19 of the dump tank, and node 100 is on the outer 20 surface, the outer shell of --
21 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Can I interrupt you 22 before you go? Because I thought the figure captured 23 in the SFAR, I hope is incorrect. Because on your 24 document that you provided in the box, which is (audio 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
46 interference) is CALC-2018-0037, rev. 1.
1 That (audio interference) line two, which 2
has the same data, but the label is target information 3
temperatures, as function of location of selected 4
times. On the FSAR, you say it's the dump tank 5
temperature. Which of the two is it?
6 MS. RADEL: This is the target solution 7
temperature, the temperature through the target 8
solution. So, this one through 100 is a spatial --
9 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: If I miss just then, 10 I don't know if you can still modify the final 11 revision of the FSAR.
12 Make sure 092 on the CALC-2018-0037 agrees 13 with the caption here, because this caption is 14 confusing.
15 This caption tells me that's the dump tank 16 temperature, when it really is a TSV temperature.
17 MS. RADEL: It's the target solution 18 temperature within the TSV dump tank. So, it is 19 not --
20 (Simultaneous speaking.)
21 MS. RADEL: -- the temperature in the TSV.
22 So, I can walk you through -- let me walk you through 23 the figure here.
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47 review starts with the target solution in the TSV at 1
the maximum temperature, which is an average target 2
solution temperature of 80 degrees C.
3 It then takes the three minutes of time 4
delay, as well as -- and I'll have to look at the 5
table to make sure I get this right -- it takes a 6
total of 210 seconds worth of time following shutdown, 7
because we do open the driver breakers as soon as we 8
lose flow.
9 So, the driver is turned off as soon as we 10 lose flow. And then it takes all of the energy 11 available from decay heat, from delayed neutrons, and 12 any fission that's still occurring in the system, for 13 the duration of 210 seconds following the shutdown.
14 That includes the 180 seconds, or the 15 three-minute delay, as well as the one-second response 16 on the flow measurement, and the 500 milliseconds for 17 the safety system, and the two seconds for the dump 18 valves, and some additional margin.
19 And it assumes that all of that energy is 20 deposited in the target solution, without any cooling 21 occurring. It assumes flow has completely stopped and 22 that energy is all converted into heat in the target 23 solution.
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48 80 degrees C to approximately 87 degrees C. It then 1
is transferred into the dump tank, and we do account 2
for the time it takes to dump as well.
3 And this graph starts once it's in the 4
dump tank. So, this is the graph of temperature 5
profiles through -- of the target solution in the dump 6
tank once it has entered the dump tank.
7 So, the 420 seconds is the start of when 8
all the solution is in the dump tank, and it's gotten 9
up to 87 degrees from the original 80 degrees at this 10 point.
11 And then, we're looking at how the light 12 water pool cools the solution and prevents the peak 13 temperature from reaching the 90 degrees.
14 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Okay. So then, I 15 still don't understand why we waiting 16 420 seconds -- this is Jose -- 420 seconds to dump the 17 solution, instead of 180.
18 MS. RADEL: So, to account for all the 19 different delays and timing in a conservative way.
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49 dump valves fails to open as well on top of that.
1 And we take that amount of time and assume 2
that no cooling of the solution occurs in that 3
420 seconds.
4 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: So, mostly the 5
difference is the time for the solution to flow down 6
to drip through the valve into the lower tank.
7 MS. RADEL: Correct. Yes, the drain --
8 (Simultaneous speaking) 9 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: And even it's a 420-10 second delay before you start cooling it in the dump 11 tank, your temperature rise by seven degrees C, and 12 remain below (audio interference).
13 MS. RADEL: Correct.
14 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Okay.
15 MEMBER PETTI: And, Tracy, just to 16 confirm, there's no convection in the solution. It's 17 just conduction?
18 MS. RADEL: I would have to go look and 19 see the analysis.
20 MEMBER PETTI: These look an awful lot 21 like Bessel functions to me, or some modified Bessel 22 function. And that would imply it's conduction only.
23 Convection would smooth everything out, I would think.
24 Maybe I'm wrong.
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50 MS. RADEL: You're probably correct. I 1
just would have to go to the analysis to confirm.
2 MEMBER PETTI: Okay, thanks.
3 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: But, bottom line, 4
we're talking about the 180-second delay, where it is 5
concerned about how much margin we have.
6 So, even assuming this 420 seconds to dump 7
the tank, you only reach 87 degrees C, which is below 8
boiling. And apparently we have roughly a margin of 9
two or more?
10 So, we have taken 800, 1,000 seconds 11 before we have reached -- no, more than that. Like, 12 a factor of C?
13 MS. RADEL: Yes. And as I noted as well, 14 we start the analysis with all of the target solution 15 at 80 degrees C, which is significantly above our 16 maximum expected operating temperature.
17 (Simultaneous speaking.)
18 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: These calculations 19 are run at tech spec limits, because you're allowed to 20 operate a daily. You should prove that you're okay at 21 daily.
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51 tech spec limits, you only reach a maximum temperature 1
of 87 in 420 seconds.
2 So, you could have waited a thousand 3
seconds and it still would not have boiled, in my 4
opinion. I'll stop there. I don't have any problems 5
with this. I think I understand now what we're 6
looking at here.
7 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Okay, maybe then we 8
can continue with addressing Member Brown's comments.
9 MR. THOMAS: Sure. And the first comment, 10 it was specified that the offsite AC power sources 11 come from two different, and thus, independent, 12 aligned utility substations.
13 I do want to point out we do note in 14 subsection 8A2.1.2 of the SR, we identify the two 15 substations in which these sign-offs, like power 16 feeds, originate. It does mention the Alliant Energy 17 trip road substation and the venture substation, the 18 Alliant Energy venture substation.
19 MEMBER BROWN: Where is that?
20 MR. THOMAS: Subsection 8A2.1.2 of the SR.
21 MEMBER BROWN: Okay. I guess I was asleep 22 when I read that. I'm just teasing you. I really 23 wasn't asleep.
24 MR. THOMAS: Okay.
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52 MEMBER BROWN: You said 8A2.1.2?
1 MR. THOMAS: Yes.
2 MEMBER REMPE: And I assume that that's 3
not a more recent version that has been in the FSAR 4
for a long time?
5 MEMBER BROWN: No, that's the one we had 6
for review.
7 MEMBER REMPE: Well, there have been 8
updates to some sections of the FSAR, and I just 9
wanted to make sure that maybe Charlie had an older 10 version, or not. Has there been any change?
11 (Simultaneous speaking.)
12 MR. BARTELME: Not a recent revision from 13 an earlier revision that went in earlier this year in 14 January. I don't know if that was original, the 15 Rev. 0, when we submitted it in 2019. But it has been 16 in there for a while.
17 MEMBER BROWN: I've got Rev. 3, and that's 18 where it shows -- are those -- second question that I 19 didn't ask, the Alliant power source electric plant 20 iteration, is that a single generator operation of the 21 two? Are these two substations out of phase? Or do 22 we know that? It doesn't matter, I'm just curious.
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53 all the different power generators.
1 (Simultaneous speaking.)
2 MEMBER BROWN: Okay. They make up the same 3
generator or not, is all you're saying.
4 MR. BARTELME: Correct.
5 MEMBER BROWN: Okay. All right, thank 6
you. Well, let me make a note so I know I got an 7
answer here.
8 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, can we push 9
forward a little bit?
10 MR. THOMAS: Okay. Second recommendation 11 is to revise a couple of figures in chapter eight, 12 figures 8A2.1.
13 8A2.1-1 and 8A2.2-1, to show the power 14 supply of 125 volt DC UPSS Charlie, not hard-15 connected, but optioneered. As we discussed back in 16 May, those figures are the simplified depictions of 17 the normal electrical power system and the 18 uninterruptible electrical power system -- the NPSS 19 and the UPSS -- are provided in those two referenced 20 figures, to indicate the auctioneered power provided 21 to Division Charlie from Divisions Alpha and Bravo.
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54 in the SR, subsection 7.4.3.4 of the SR --
1 (Simultaneous speaking.)
2 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, the INC section?
3 MR. THOMAS: Yes, yes. -- discusses the 4
powering of TRPS divisions. It states, TRPS Division 5
Alpha is powered from Division Alpha of the UPSS.
6 TRPS Division Bravo is powered from Division Bravo.
7 The UPS test and TRPS Division Charlie received 8
auctioneered power from Division Alpha and Division 9
Bravo, of the UPSS, and we've got similar statements 10 in a couple of other chapter seven subsections about 11 that auctioneered power to the Charlie Division.
12 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, what section did you 13 say?
14 MR. THOMAS: 7.4.3.4.
15 (Simultaneous speaking.)
16 MEMBER BROWN: All right, that's good.
17 That's fine. It's there, I just wanted it talked 18 about and you all did.
19 MEMBER REMPE: This is Joy. And tell me 20 again about the two substations you mentioned?
21 Because I've got a 2.1.2. And again, I'm not sure 22 what version I have, because they don't label it, 23 unfortunately.
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55 from the Alliant Energy trip road substation, 1
singular.
2 MEMBER BROWN: And then, it goes on and 3
talks about the Alliant Energy venture substation.
4 MEMBER REMPE: I don't see -- I mean, 5
there's only two paragraphs in 8A2.1.2, in my version.
6 MEMBER BROWN: What revision do you have?
7 Go down to the bottom of the page. Bottom of the 8
page. Rev. 3.
9 MEMBER REMPE: Oh, I have an older 10 version. Yours does have --
11 MEMBER BROWN: Yeah, they're good.
12 They're fine. They've answered my question.
13 MR. BARTELME: Yeah, the current revision 14 of Section 8A2.1 is revision three. And you see that 15 in the bottom right-hand corner of each page of each 16 section.
17 MEMBER REMPE: I see that now. Thank you.
18 MR. BARTELME: Okay. All right, and then, 19 Member Brown, a couple of other, 7.5.2.2.4, and 20 subsection 7.5.3.3, another couple of mentions of that 21 auctioneered power in chapter seven.
22 MEMBER BROWN: 7.5.2.2.4?
23 MR. BARTELME: Yep.
24 MEMBER BROWN: And which is the other one?
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56 MR. BARTELME: 7.5.3.3.
1 MEMBER BROWN: Okay. And just for me, 2
when I keep going into chapter seven, I just want to 3
have those notes to look at them.
4 MR. BARTELME: And then, there's a similar 5
discussion of the powering of the Division Charlie of 6
the Neutron Flux Detection System, NFDS, in 7.7.1.3.3.
7 MEMBER BROWN: 7.7. --
8 MR. BARTELME: 1.3.3.
9 MEMBER BROWN: And that's for the NFDS 10 power?
11 MR. BARTELME: Yes.
12 CHAIR BALLINGER: Now, this is Ron.
13 Today, I think we got -- or I've noticed that we got 14 a revision to the FSAR, chapter seven. When Charlie 15 looks at this, does he need to have that revision?
16 MEMBER BROWN: What revision are you 17 talking about? All I've got is Rev. 3.
18 MR. BALAZIK: This is Mike Balazik, NRC 19 Staff. Yes, we just received a revision on chapter 20 seven from SHINE, and we'll provide that to ACRS.
21 MEMBER BROWN: Is that a complete 22 revision, or just add-ons and changes that you have to 23 find or search your way through a forest of trees?
24 CHAIR BALLINGER:
It's a
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57 version --
1 (Simultaneous speaking.)
2 CHAIR BALLINGER: -- but it's all related 3
to the pics.
4 MEMBER BROWN: Is it a complete chapter?
5 MR. BARTELME: It is not a complete 6
chapter. Now, what we submitted over the last couple 7
of weeks have been mark-ups reflecting design changes 8
and discussions from regulatory audits, and they're 9
mark-ups of the complete chapter that was last 10 provided in January.
11 MEMBER BROWN: Okay. Do you have to think 12 revision three, and then try to integrate this into 13 that to gain an understanding? Or is it a whole 14 chapter, or just the redlined markups in it?
15 MR. BARTELME: It's not a full chapter 16 with redlines. It's what you mentioned, sort of the 17 January submittal, plus then the mark-ups that have 18 been submitted since.
19 MEMBER BROWN: Okay.
20 CHAIR BALLINGER: You just need to be 21 playing with a full deck.
22 MEMBER BROWN: I've never played with a 23 full deck in my life, Ron, so -- okay.
24 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, let's keep going.
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58 Let's keep going.
1 MR. BARTELME: Okay, so the third 2
recommendation, revised -- same figures, 8A2.1.1 and 3
8A2.2.1, to show that ACUPSS Charlie is shown to be 4
connected by interlock, either/or AC circuit breakers 5
not hard-connected as shown.
6 It's, again, like at the DC level above 7
each of those figures, powered ACUPSS Charlie's 8
auctioneered from the Alpha and Bravo buses. Again, 9
those figures are the simplified diagrams, and the 10 mechanisms for auctioneered net power to Division 11 Charlie buses are not represented in the figure, 12 despite those descriptions we identified in the last 13 recommendation. The descriptions of the auctioneered 14 power is being provided elsewhere in the SR.
15 MEMBER BROWN: You're talking about the AC 16 comment?
17 MR. BARTELME: Yes.
18 MEMBER BROWN: The third thing?
19 MR. BARTELME: Yeah. Yeah.
20 MEMBER BROWN: Well, that's AC. You don't 21 auctioneer AC. You either supply it from one source 22 or another.
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59 believe auctioneering is necessarily a defined 1
definition anywhere that I could find.
2 So, we use it sort of generically for both 3
AC transfer switches and DC sort of dialed voting 4
system.
5 MEMBER BROWN: Well, I've spent 50 years 6
doing this, and it was always automatic bus transfers 7
is how they were referred to if you supply two 8
different sources from AC. Not auctioneering.
9 Auctioneering has always been, in my mind 10 in my lifetime, has always been DC. I understand your 11 point, but I guess I would disagree with you in terms 12 of the definition.
13 I just wanted to make sure it's clear 14 somewhere. It doesn't say anything, just two straight 15 lines. So, I'm paralleling two differing sources, 16 potentially, depending on what's going on in the plan.
17 DR. BLEY: So, to that discussion, when 18 you say it's an auctioneered AC source, does that mean 19 that there's an automatic bus transfer that's what's 20 happening?
21 MR. BARTELME: Correct. Correct.
22 MEMBER BROWN: Why didn't you say so.
23 That's the point of the comment.
24 MR. BARTELME: Understand. And we can --
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60 some of these recommendations, we'll look at revisions 1
we can make to the SR to clarify these items.
2 MEMBER BROWN: I know what it is. It's 3
just making sure it's documented. That's all. It's 4
an AVT-type operation. That'll satisfy me.
5 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, let's go.
6 MR. BARTELME: I sent recommendation-7 revised table 8A2.2-1, the UPS load-less, to identify 8
which UPSS each load is attached.
9 Clarification we want to provide here is 10 that tables 8A2.2-1, EPS load-less, and the battery 11 sizing table that follows, table 8A2.2-2 of the SR, 12 identify which loads are powered by the divisions 13 Alpha and Bravo of the UPSS.
14 UPSS Division Charlie is provided solely 15 to power the INC loads where a third division is 16 provided. That's where the third division is provided 17 within TRPS, FSAS or NFDS.
18 A subset of the load descriptions are 19 already provided in those chapter eight tables. We 20 didn't see a need to provide sort of an explicit 21 listing of loads powered by Division C in those 22 chapter eight tables.
23 MEMBER BROWN: So, those aren't important?
24 I mean, I saw the Table A, the UPS A and the UPS B.
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61 I did not see UPS C anywhere. And you're saying it's 1
not. Is that correct? It's not defined what those 2
are.
3 MR. THOMAS: The loads for UPS C are 4
incorporated in both the loads of A and the loads of 5
B because of the auctioneering aspect. We had to 6
support those loads all --
7 (Simultaneous speaking.)
8 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, I got it.
9 MS. RADEL: And this is Tracy. Just to 10 clarify, there's not a UPSS C. So, it's just taking 11 from A and B, and recounted for the loads on both A 12 and B.
13 MEMBER BROWN: Well, UPSS C is a load 14 thing. I mean, it's a bus. And you're just saying 15 that the load, regardless of what they are, they're 16 incorporated -- I'll look at the load table. Does 17 that mean A and B have an increased load demand based 18 on potentially supplying that particular load?
19 MR. THOMAS: Correct. We had to make sure 20 there was enough margin. And, for instance, UPS A 21 they have all of the UPS A loads, plus all of the 22 UPS C loads.
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62 UPS C loads are incorporated in UPS A and B. That was 1
just not clear, that's all. I said it would be nice.
2 MR. BARTELME: I understand. The next 3
recommendation, a request to revise Section 8A2.2, 4
state that the natural gas for the standby generator 5
system, supplied from an offsite utility service, 6
natural gas
- supplier, acknowledge that the 7
descriptions in Section 8A2.2 do not explicitly state 8
the source of the fuel for the natural gas-driven 9
generator.
10 The hazards associated with the onsite 11 natural gas pipeline were considered in chapter two, 12 so probably the hazard analysis of this feeder line 13 from the offsite utility. But because the standby 14 generator system provides a defense-in-depth and an 15 acid protection function not relied to protect public 16 health and safety, so I just didn't see this as a 17 necessary design detail to be included in the FSAR.
18 MEMBER BROWN: Well, you've got to get gas 19 from somewhere. I mean, it's just a big hole. I 20 think you have to discern that from some other 21 chapter.
22 Otherwise, you immediately start thinking, 23 well, where do I get my gas? And where are the tanks 24 has got to be supplied in it and how do I consider it?
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63 That just seems to be a big hole.
1 (Simultaneous speaking.)
2 DR. BLEY: Is it a field decision for 3
whoever's doing the construction, to just pick it?
4 MR. BARTELME: No. The design considers 5
the feeding of the natural gas from the utility, and 6
that it's communicated in the construction drawings 7
and work packages and such, and the utility 8
installation.
9 It's included in the design. It just 10 wasn't determined to be a necessary level of detail to 11 be provided in the FSAR.
12 MEMBER BROWN: Well, in the FSAR, we'd 13 normally consider, if you've got onsite, then you've 14 got one set of considerations. You've got offsite, 15 you've got something else, relative to the overall 16 safety analysis.
17 It seems a natural place to put it since 18 the SGS is the backup power source and it gets power 19 from a utility service, not an onsite.
20 I can't tell you what to do, but that 21 seems to be a -- ought to be made clear that it's an 22 offsite source, not an onsite source.
23 MR. BARTELME: Okay, understand.
24 MEMBER KIRCHNER: This is Walt Kirchner.
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64 To Charlie's point, the problem with using natural gas 1
from offsite is you don't have control. That you're 2
depending on that utility, that supplier.
3 You don't have storage, vis-a-vis diesel 4
generators or using jet fuel to fire a gas turbine.
5 So, it is an important issue in terms of reliability 6
and dependability, in terms of relying on that source 7
of backup power.
8 MR. BARTELME: Understand.
9 CHAIR BALLINGER: This is Ron Ballinger.
10 To that point, where I live the gas company literally 11 has a triage system in the winter, where certain 12 customers can be cut off before others.
13 You have a similar system where you guys 14 are going to be? It gets pretty cold in the winter up 15 there.
16 MR. THOMAS: This is Roger Thomas from 17 SHINEs. My understanding from the discussions with 18 Alliant, you would have to opt for a certain type of 19 service that allows them to cut you off. So, it would 20 be an intermittent service kind of thing.
21 CHAIR BALLINGER: Yeah. But they would 22 have to let you know.
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65 a lot on talking with them about the reliability of 1
their service and expectations of being cut off for 2
things like that.
3 MEMBER BROWN: How often are you going to 4
test if this thing automatically starts when you need 5
to, and so you know the gas is there?
6 MR. THOMAS: The standard for testing it 7
is typically once a month. But we also use that gas 8
service for our boilers. And so, we will be 9
monitoring that far more often than once a month.
10 MEMBER BROWN: Obviously, you know it's 11 running. The boiler's running for heat and stuff like 12 that, for site services?
13 MR. THOMAS: Correct.
14 MEMBER BROWN: Okay.
15 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay. Whoops, sorry.
16 Can we push on?
17 MEMBER REMPE: Can I ask Mike to talk a 18 little more about -- you've discussed this with them 19 and they are going to get service that allows it to be 20 cut off? Is that what you said?
21 MR. THOMAS: No. We would have to opt for 22 that type of contract.
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66 on, is what you're telling me. Right?
1 MR. THOMAS: Correct, barring some kind of 2
disaster where they have a service interruption.
3 Somebody back (audio interference), the whole gas 4
material.
5 MEMBER REMPE: Okay, and then your 6
discussion with Mike or with the staff, was it 7
documented somewhere, like in an RAI? Or it was just 8
informal meetings it was discussed?
9 MR. BARTELME: Which discussion with the 10 staff?
11 MEMBER REMPE: I think Mike came on and 12 said he discussed it with SHINE. Right? I saw his 13 little circle flash.
14 MR. BORROMEO: So, this is Josh Borromeo.
15 I'm not sure we had this discussion. I mean, this is 16 a non-safety-related backup system. And this might be 17 a level of detail that we wouldn't typically require 18 in an FSAR. So, I mean, we'll certainly take it under 19 advisement. But --
20 MEMBER REMPE:
I thought Michael 21 Balazik --
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67 discussing it earlier.
1 MEMBER REMPE: Oh. Okay, you're --
2 (Simultaneous speaking.)
3 MR. BALAZIK: I think that was a member 4
from SHINE that was discussing that.
5 MEMBER REMPE: Okay, sorry. You're circle 6
flashed and I thought it was you talking. Sorry.
7 MR. BARTELME: So, the last recommendation 8
in the list here, incorporate a definition of safe 9
shutdown configuration under loop conditions.
10 Response to the question.
11 SHINE stated that the plan is walkaway 12 safe when a redundant TC battery backup systems, there 13 are three-minute and five-minute stripping of loads.
14 We touched on this previously. We do 15 provide a definition of safe shutdown, a condition in 16 the SHINE technical specifications for the irradiation 17 units. It's a defined term in the front matter of the 18 tech specs.
19 And one thing we do want to clarify in 20 this response as well is, it kind of related to the 21 walkaway safe. Under loop conditions -- and Catherine 22 touched on this earlier -- with respect to the 23 operations personnel, would remain in the control room 24 and monitor condition of the facility, including 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
68 confirmation that the appropriate load shads had 1
occurred, the UPSS system.
2 So, the walkaway safe condition, there 3
would be personnel in the control room monitoring the 4
status of the facility and the --
5 MEMBER BROWN: My only concern is the tech 6
specs were at odds to your place to put the definition 7
of safe-shutdown configuration, that a definition is 8
supplied in the chapter under definitions section, is 9
a far better place to put it, so people know what 10 they're looking at when they go through and read this 11 or are considering the design aspects of the thing.
12 Can't make you do it. That's just an 13 obscure place to put it. I would have never thought 14 to look at the tech specs to find out what the safe 15 shutdown configuration is.
16 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Also, I mean, I 17 don't know. I mean, after six hours, they will not 18 have any instrumentation to monitor anything. Right?
19 Based on your load stripping things, right? Because 20 even this monitoring three-team sources and things 21 like that, this instrumentation is not going to be 22 available after six hours. Right?
23 (Simultaneous speaking.)
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69 correct. If the non-safety standby generator is not 1
functioning and its power was not restored, we are 2
relying solely on the safety-related, uninterruptible 3
power supply system. And yes, the batteries would run 4
out after six hours, at minimum.
5 MEMBER BROWN: Is that stated in the 6
chapter? I missed that if I did. The six-hour time?
7 MS. KOLB: The minimum required times for 8
the loads on the UPSS are in chapter eight.
9 MEMBER BROWN: Yeah, okay. Yeah, I see 10 the six hours. Okay, it's in table 8A2.2-1? That's 11 where I saw the six hours.
12 MR. BARTELME: Yeah, one of those two 13 Section 8A2.2 tables, either table one or two.
14 MEMBER BROWN: Okay.
15 MR. BARTELME: 8A2.2.
16 MEMBER BROWN: So, to take Vesna's point, 17 I was thinking about the six hours, and this is the 18 answer. So, after six hours, if you don't get power 19 from either the SGS and no restoration of Alliant, 20 what's the circumstances of the plant?
21 I took the comment from the previous 22 subcommittee meeting, this was literally a walkaway.
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70 of six hours, twelve hours, or 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br />. Is that 1
correct or not correct?
2 MS. KOLB: So, the design, there's nothing 3
that needs to be required, either during that six 4
hours or after, with the exception of ensuring that 5
the NGPS, the Nitrogen Purge System tanks, are 6
refilled after 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br />. They're only sized to last 7
for 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br />.
8 So, if power is not restored in order to 9
provide the hydrogen mitigation function, then those 10 tanks would need to be recharged with compressed 11 nitrogen.
12 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, but that's consistent 13 with the three-day requirements for getting some 14 offsite assistance to do that anyway. Right?
15 MS. KOLB: Correct.
16 MEMBER BROWN: Okay. I didn't think that 17 was an inconsistent consideration. All right, thank 18 you.
19 CHAIR BALLINGER: Are we through with 20 chapter eight?
21 MR.
BARTELME:
This is the last 22 recommendation.
23 CHAIR BALLINGER: Ah.
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71 something. Thank you.
1 CHAIR BALLINGER: Next chapter.
2 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: I want to ask one 3
question, which was on my list and we said the first 4
time. The recovery in the three minutes is not really 5
safety concern means that thing is going to be dumped 6
anyway in the three minutes.
7 So, one of my questions was, can operator 8
bypass opening dump valves? Let's say that he's 9
working on recovering power back and he has to do 10 duction and he's right there, but he wants to prevent 11 dumping. Does he have the power to bypass those 12 valves?
13 MS. KOLB: No.
14 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: No? So, he cannot 15 do anything about if the flow or the cooling system is 16 not restored, that's it. The things are going to 17 dump.
18 MS. KOLB: After 180 seconds, if the flow 19 or the temperature is not restored, there will be a IU 20 cell (phonetic) safety actuation, and the target 21 solution will dump.
22 The procedures that we are drafting will 23 reflect that configuration and those requirements as 24 well.
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72 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: Okay. Because I 1
thinking that he can make an operator error in trying 2
to preserve the solution in -- all right, so you said 3
it's not possible for him physically to bypass 4
dumping.
5 MS. KOLB: So, if we're going to talk 6
about what's physically possible, I mean, within 7
180 seconds, it's very unlikely. But, I mean, it is 8
physically possible to bypass things, but that would 9
be well outside of all the training and the procedures 10 and their license.
11 So, physically possible in the INC system, 12 sure. But that would need to be a concerted effort, 13 against all of their training and their requirements 14 and their license.
15 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: But we know what 16 happens occasionally. He can shut high-pressure 17 (audio interference) decide. So, I mean --
18 (Simultaneous speaking.)
19 DR. BLEY: When you say physically 20 possible, can you do it with switches?
21 (Simultaneous speaking.)
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73 inputs that are affected feed into, put them to 1
bypass, and then take them out of service.
2 And then, go into the fix system, the non-3 safety system, and reset the timing and the actuation.
4 So, I don't know whether it's physically possible to 5
do that in 180 seconds. But it is theoretically 6
possible, I suppose.
7 DR. BLEY: Sounds pretty darn hard to do.
8 And most of what you say about the training resonates, 9
except if you study lots of events out in the real 10 world, you find somebody gets clever one day and it 11 just makes sense to them, and they do things you 12 really don't expect them to do from their training.
13 MS. KOLB: Understand.
14 MEMBER DIMITRIJEVIC: But we have a 15 deficient training then. I mean, could be both. So, 16 the procedures, planning, and everything connected 17 with this, will be sort of important from.
18 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, so I'm assuming 19 that we're about to make a transition to another 20 chapter. We have been at this for an hour-and-a-half.
21 I'd like to take a ten-minute break before we pick up.
22 Is that agreeable to people?
23 So, we will take a ten-minute break. By 24 my atomic clock over here, we come back at 2:47.
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74 Thank you.
1 (Whereupon, the above-entitled matter 2
went off the record at 2:38 p.m. and 3
resumed at 2:50 p.m.)
4 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, it's 2:50, we're 5
back in session. I assume that we're going to be 6
dealing with chapter four based on what I can sort of 7
see on the screen. I can't read any of it, but I'm 8
assuming that the SHINE folks will tell us what all 9
these numbers are, because none of us can read it.
10 Except for Dave Petti, who is standing right next to 11 it.
12 MEMBER REMPE: So, this is Joy, and since 13 you're showing this in the open session, instead of 14 out on the Box, could you send it to Chris, and he can 15 forward it to all of the members, and we can all have 16 our own copy?
17 MR. BARTELME: This copy was placed on --
18 this redacted version was placed on Box this morning.
19 MEMBER REMPE: But we are not allowed to 20 take things from the Box, and have it on our NRC 21 computer, or our personal computer since this is open, 22 and so could you have this, and take it off of the 23 Box, and send it to Chris so we can have our own 24 version?
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75 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yeah, this is posted 1
by procedure, if it's shown in an open meeting, it's 2
part of the transcript, so it is already public.
3 MEMBER REMPE: It is, but I can't take 4
notes on it right now Jose, I mean it would be nice if 5
you could send a copy to Chris, and let him send it to 6
us.
7 MR. BARTELME: Yes, we can do that.
8 MR. BALAZIK: This is Mike Balazik for NRC 9
staff, Jeff I'll take care of this, I'll send it over 10 right now to Chris via email.
11 MR. BARTELME: Thanks Mike.
12 MEMBER REMPE: Great, thank you.
13 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, let's go.
14 MR. BARTELME: So, we made a request to 15 move forward to the discussion of the timing tables.
16 We put this timing table together, and made it 17 available to the members last week. Tracy can kind of 18 lead the discussion on what we've put together, and 19 made available here.
20 MS. RADEL: So, going through these, it's 21 laid out for each of the variables within TRPS, and 22 SFAS, what time was accounted for with respect to the 23 instrument response time, the logic solver, details on 24 any delay if applicable. And then the final element 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
76 is referring to say a valve, or a damper, or an 1
isolation, how long it takes for those physical 2
components to reach their fully closed position.
3 Or open, depending on what the item may 4
be. And then there's another column there with the 5
time used in either a safety basis calculation, or the 6
accident analysis. So, depending on which item we're 7
looking at, it may be a
thermal hydraulics 8
calculation, it may be an accidental dose calculation.
9 So, we did get a couple of comments, and I was going 10 to touch on those, and then open up to any other 11 questions, or things you wanted me to walk through in 12 particular.
13 So, one of the questions was related to 14 the ten second timing on the PCLS temperature seeming 15 to be overly conservative as far as response time for 16 an RTD. So, that was chosen based on the initial 17 design was to use thermal wells for the temperature 18 instrumentation, and we did an actual timing study on 19 the amount of time it would take to recognize 20 temperature changes based on heat transfer through the 21 thermal wells.
22 We, in the end, decided to place the RTD 23 directly in the process stream, so we no longer have 24 thermal wells there. So, that timing is conservative, 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
77 we would expect a much faster response time than that 1
with the instrumentation direct in the process stream 2
at this point, but the ten seconds was originally 3
chosen with thermal wells in mind.
4 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: So, this is Jose, we 5
do not have thermal wells.
6 MS. RADEL: In the PCLS, as well as the 7
TSV off gas system, that is correct, there are not 8
thermal wells there. So, there are thermal wells 9
within -- for the non-safety related RTDs within the 10 target solution vessel.
11 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yeah, this is a low 12 pressure system, it's not like in operating plants.
13 In operating plants those thermal wells can have as 14 much as 60 second time delays, but this is for a very 15 high pressure, thick wall. So, yeah, and you are 16 direct contact so ten seconds is more than 17 conservative. Okay, thank you.
18 MS. RADEL: And the second question was 19 related to the radiation monitor timing of 15 seconds 20 seeming conservative, and we do agree that we would 21 expect it to recognize the condition prior to the 15 22 seconds, but I wanted to go with the conservative 23 number, as well as allow for additional time for 24 averaging, and giving better statistics on the number.
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78 That kind of additional longer duration 1
averaging time has not been used in our uncertainty 2
calculation at this point, but is something that was 3
considered that we would be able to measure more 4
accurately if we have a little more averaging time.
5 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: This is again Jose.
6 You are speculating a total count measurement, not an 7
energy spectrum definition to identify a single energy 8
peak, correct? The total --
9 MS. RADEL: Correct, it's count based, 10 yeah.
11 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: 15 seconds, you'll 12 get extremely good statistics no matter where you put 13 it. Okay, so it's just conservatism, my concern was 14 that you were -- maybe we were trying to do an energy 15 spectrum to identify a particular isotope on an energy 16 peak, and then 15 seconds may not be sufficient. But 17 if you're doing total counts, 15 seconds is more than 18 enough. Okay, thank you.
19 MS. RADEL: Yeah. Okay, and another 20 question we received was looking for clarification on 21 the timing around the dump valves, and the flux 22 detection, and the total timing of three seconds 23 there. So, the safety analysis use the three seconds, 24 that three seconds is to account for the 450 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
79 milliseconds of instrument response time, the 500 1
milliseconds for the TRPS system, and then the two 2
seconds for the valve to fully open.
3 So, in the discussion that was noted here, 4
the SR notes within one second, the dump valves will 5
begin to open. That one second is that instrument 6
response time, and logic solver time, so that was not 7
referring to something inherent to the valve, but in 8
the time prior to the valve being told to open, or to 9
start opening. So, that one second it's referring to 10 is the instrument response time, plus the logic solver 11 time.
12 And then to go from starting to open to 13 fully open is a two second duration for the valves, is 14 what was allotted to those valves, they actually open 15 quicker than that, but the total time line is three 16 seconds. So, any further questions on that one?
17 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Not on that one, but 18 on a separate one. Are you done with your 19 presentation? It's one I don't think I have told you 20 in advance.
21 MS. RADEL: Yes, so I think I covered all 22 of the times that were sent, specific questions in 23 advance, so I open it up to you.
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80 that catches you a little on surprise. The power 1
range flux average time of 45 seconds, that's the 2
third row, are we ever achieving the neutron flux that 3
takes over 45 seconds, because you expect the neutron 4
driver to be very noisy, like you could have tritium 5
pressure oscillations that will give you a ten 6
millisecond spike.
7 And before you answer, let me say where 8
I'm coming from. Normally with licensed reactors, to 9
the peak hour, even if it's only for ten milliseconds, 10 and here we appear to be licensing the facility for 11 the 45 second average power, and I don't see in my 12 mind any problem with that, because as I always say, 13 the fuel is already molten, it's already a liquid, 14 there's nothing you can do to this fuel that will 15 damage it.
16 But is this what we're doing, the license 17 is for a maximum power of 100 and change kilowatts on 18 average of 45 seconds? Go ahead.
19 MS. RADEL: Yes, so the averaging time is 20 to account for variation in the neutron driver. So, 21 as it's operating it is expected to in the systems 22 that we are running now, and testing now do perform 23 very stably as they're operating within a few percent 24 of where they're at. But they do have -- it can have 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
81 these drop out moments that are very quick, less than 1
a second drop outs where it drops out, and comes back 2
in.
3 And that doesn't inherently affect the 4
system, either the solution, or the operation, but 5
could cause a slight spike in power due to some of the 6
void escaping during those very short drop outs. And 7
so that time averaging allows us to not trick off on 8
small driver dropouts.
9 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yes, so this, I'll 10 need to remember, because it's not currently in my 11 memo, to add a sentence to this, that it is -- there 12 is an echo -- there is a deviation from standard 13 practice. Whereas in operating reactors we license 14 for peak power, SHINE is licensed to the 45 second 15 average power. And because of the special nature of 16 the solution, where you cannot damage the fuel, that's 17 perfectly okay.
18 You worry about heat removal, not that --
19 there is no SAFDL with specified acceptable fuel 20 limits because the fuel is already molten. So, 21 probably the staff should recognize light radiation in 22 this, it is different than what we're used to do.
23 MEMBER KIRCHNER: Jose, this is Walt, I 24 looked at that, and I thought that was a typo. I 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
82 thought it meant to be 4.5 seconds. Let me ask a 1
question, at the power range, I mean this is a trip 2
signal on high power, or is this the low power range 3
limit. Is this startup instrumentation, or is this 4
full power operation instrumentation?
5 MS. RADEL: This is full power operation, 6
so in addition to the time average trip, we also have 7
a high live range neutron flux trip that is not 8
averaged, so --
9 MEMBER KIRCHNER: Okay, you should add 10 that to the note then, because the 45 seconds as Jose 11 was indicating, normally wouldn't be acceptable. I 12 mean you could do some serious damage in 45 seconds, 13 notwithstanding that the fuel is already in a molten, 14 or liquid configuration. I mean an overpower transit 15 could lead to boiling, and pressurization of the 16 system.
17 So, you've got, in addition to this, you 18 have a high flux trip --
19 MS. RADEL: Correct, and they work in 20 conjunction with each other. So, the wide range 21 neutron flux trip, and the time averaging on the power 22 range neutron flux trip both are used within the 23 safety basis thermal hydraulics calculation to 24 demonstrate that no matter what the scenario in that 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
83 45 seconds -- that those two trips in combination 1
protect the system.
2 MEMBER KIRCHNER: Great, okay, thank you 3
very much.
4 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: But isn't the wide 5
range of flux, let's call it a little inaccurate? I 6
mean that's why we use power range, because it's more 7
accurate. I assume that if you have a 20 percent 8
peak, wide range would see it.
9 MS. RADEL: So, the uncertainty on it is 10 fairly small, it's listed in table 7.4-1, I can pull 11 it up to confirm whether it's the one, or two percent.
12 But it's a small difference there.
13 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Over the full range, 14 a couple of percent?
15 MS. RADEL: Yes, and that's listed in 16 table 7.4-1.
17 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Okay, just the 45 18 seconds looks a little long, but given the special 19 circumstances, and characteristics of this reactor, in 20 my mind it's acceptable. Okay, thank you.
21 MEMBER REMPE: So, this is Joy, and I 22 appreciate you going through, and generating this 23 table, and explaining what some of the items are 24 today, like final element that I was puzzled about.
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84 The other thing I was puzzled about, and that's why I 1
really appreciate you doing this table, is that I know 2
when we discussed this before, often you'd say it's in 3
whatever section of the FSAR.
4 But even in this table you are citing 5
subsections of the FSAR, and providing numbers that I 6
don't see in the FSAR, is that true?
7 MS. RADEL: So, just to reiterate from our 8
previous discussion, for some of these, the timing is 9
not explicitly stated within the FSAR. The FSAR 10 contains a summary of the analysis that was performed, 11 and not all numbers in that analysis are explicitly 12 stated, but that cross references to where the 13 description of the analysis in which the timing was 14 used is listed there. And so you may not see every 15 single number explicitly stated within the FSAR.
16 MEMBER REMPE: And that's what motivated 17 this question, and the request for this table, because 18 it was not clear if enough time was there for 19 subsequent systems to take actions in a timely 20 fashion. So, I guess I'm curious how the staff, so 21 maybe this is a question for the staff rather than 22 SHINE had competence that things were appropriately 23 accounted for without this table, because you guys 24 weren't so concerned about it as us, right?
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85 MR. BORROMEO: So, this is Josh Borromeo, 1
we took a deep dive at this in chapter seven, and 2
that's where we were trying to figure out where each 3
of these things were cross referenced. We did a 4
vertical, and horizontal slice of these timings 5
through audits, and so we verified these times, and 6
their various calculations in audit space, that's 7
primarily where we got our confidence to move forward 8
9 MEMBER REMPE:
And is that audit 10 documented in a report so that we could also kind of 11 see it?
12 MR. BORROMEO: So, that audit report, 13 we're generating that now, it's not completed yet, but 14 we can certainly -- there are calculations where we 15 took a look at some of these items, where we sampled 16 these that we could potentially point you to, to take 17 a look at what we --
18 MEMBER REMPE: That would be helpful.
19 Again, I guess I'm thinking about with all the wave of 20 new applications coming, and the importance of 21 instrumentation, and timing, and especially if 22 operators are going to be less important, and systems 23 are going to rely more on passive features, or 24 whatever, it would be good to make sure everybody's 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
86 thinking about the instrumentation, and there's enough 1
time there to get things done.
2 So, yeah I appreciate seeing the audit, 3
and that's why I'm really glad we went through this 4
exercise.
5 MR. BORROMEO: Understood.
6 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, should we move on?
7 Whatever that means. Are we through with this?
8 MEMBER REMPE: Yeah, I guess I just wanted 9
to also emphasize something we talked about during the 10 break, that this plus that stainless steel 347 11 question, which you said has been addressed are the 12 only two items I had left on chapter four, because we 13 took care of them in other chapter discussions.
14 CHAIR BALLINGER: So, I think as far as 15 we're concerned, we're okay right? So, can we switch 16 to the next chapter? Are we going in order with the 17 agenda, or are we switching back, and forth?
18 MR. BALAZIK: Professor, this is Mike 19 Balazik again, NRC staff, I think we should just 20 continue in order, touch upon chapter nine, auxiliary 21 systems.
22 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, good, thanks.
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87 high level.
1 CHAIR BALLINGER: We're going to get to 2
chapter 13.
3 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yeah, we are in 4
chapter 13 now.
5 MEMBER REMPE: No, we're in chapter four 6
Jose.
7 CHAIR BALLINGER: Yeah, we're in chapter 8
four.
9 MEMBER REMPE: It's confusing because they 10 interact. By the way too, I still would like to see 11 the audit report from the staff Ron, as an action 12 item, just to follow through, and cross my T's, and 13 dot my I's.
14 CHAIR BALLINGER: Chris isn't here.
15 MEMBER REMPE: That's why I'm mentioning 16 it on the record here, but I think that the staff will 17 know, and take care of it.
18 CHAIR BALLINGER: All right, Chris is 19 there now. Okay, so onto chapter nine?
20 MR. BALAZIK: Yeah, this is Mike Balazik, 21 NRC staff. Chapter nine, there was a concern related 22 to the nitrogen purge systems, and the numbers that 23 SHINE has used in tech specs of 2100 pounds, and a 24 certain number of tubes before all the TSVs need to be 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
88 dumped, and there was a comment about deeming margin 1
on that tech spec to avoid unnecessary facility 2
shutdowns. Jeff, you guys are going to address this 3
one?
4 MR. BARTELME: Yeah, Catherine can speak 5
to that one.
6 MR. BALAZIK: Yeah.
7 MS. KOLB: Yes, this is Catherine Kolb.
8 So, yeah the comment was about the margin that we had.
9 So, the calculations that we have done require the 10 numbers that we have put into the technical 11 specifications, the 2100 pounds, and 11 out of the 12 12 provided tubes. I mean there is an opportunity for us 13 to recover some operational immersion there with the 14 relief valve on these tubes set, and they are rated 15 for 2800 pounds.
16 So, we can keep them filled higher than 17 the minimum number in the tech specs for some 18 additional margin. But that is the calculation that 19 we have right now in order to assure that we can 20 successfully deliver the minimum required flow for the 21 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br /> that we've put in the tech specs. So, while 22 we acknowledge your concern on our operational 23 philosophy there, we do have some margin, not infinite 24 margin, that is where we are.
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89 MEMBER SUNSERI: It's not a big concern, 1
it was just a comment based on practical experience, 2
it's just meant for your use, and information only, 3
it's really not a major concern for us. And that's 4
Matt Sunseri speaking.
5 CHAIR BALLINGER: That does it for chapter 6
nine.
7 MR. BALAZIK: Okay, this is Mike Balazik, 8
NRC staff, I'll continue on with chapter 11. There 9
was a concern, or observation related to addressing 10 strategies to avoid complacency, maintaining a 11 questioning attitude, and ensuring that reactor 12 protection staff are comfortable raising safety 13 issues, not only with the SHINE organization, but 14 directly with the NRC staff.
15 I will say that in chapter 12, conduct of 16 operations, within NUREG 15.37, safety culture isn't 17 addressed. That's usually something that the staff 18 addresses in inspection space. We have two 19 inspections that we do for safety culture to evaluate 20 a licensee's independent safety culture assessment.
21 I'll also say that there are numerous ways that SHINE 22 staff can report a safety concern directly to the NRC, 23 like when there's an inspector out there.
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90 provides guidance to all employees where they can send 1
safety concerns to. So, I mean again, we don't plan 2
on addressing anything related to safety culture in 3
chapter 11, just because there is no guidance in the 4
NUREGs that talks about that. And I know that SHINE 5
doesn't have any information related to safety culture 6
in the FSAR. I don't know if there's anything 7
additional that SHINE wants to add to the 8
conversation.
9 MR. BARTELME: SHINE, we do have a safety 10 culture program, an effort to foster a strong safety 11 conscious work environment. We do frequently remind, 12 communicate with all SHINE employees, we do have the 13 multiple avenues to raise concerns, to raise safety 14 issues either via our corrective action program, 15 immediately to an individual supervisor.
16 And we do communicate that we also have --
17 we do post form three, and to make it clear to SHINE 18 staff that they can go communicate directly, or raise 19 an issue directly with the NRC, and that directions 20 are on those posted form threes.
21 MEMBER BIER: Thank you, this is Vicki 22 Bier, I think that was in response to comments, or 23 questions that I had raised earlier, so I appreciate 24 it. I am not a regulatory person, so didn't know what 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
91 to expect under conduct of operations. The answer I 1
think makes sense to me, that it's not something that 2
belongs there. The one thing that I did want to 3
mention while we're on the topic, I once heard a talk 4
from I think a National Lab director, or whatever.
5 Who said that basically achieving safety 6
required being schizophrenic, because you spend every 7
morning telling every external stakeholder that things 8
are okay, right? The press, the legislature, your 9
local officials, et cetera, don't worry, we know 10 exactly what we're doing, this is a well understood 11 technology, everything is under control, we have a lot 12 of expertise.
13 And every afternoon telling your staff you 14 can never be too careful, don't get too complacent, 15 something could go wrong at any moment. So, that 16 underscores the importance of the issue, but I can 17 completely accept that that's probably not something 18 that belongs in the FSAR chapter.
19 MEMBER HALNON: This is Greg Halnon, Mike 20 you mentioned the inspections, is this the end of the 21 reactor oversight process, or is this under some other 22 inspection regime? Because the only safety culture 23 stuff's in the oversight process.
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92 NRC staff. It is not going to be under the ROP, but 1
we have used those inspection procedures, it's 95003, 2
and there's another inspection procedure, 4100. And 3
while we have used these, I'll say recently, to look 4
at a licensee's third party assessment for safety 5
culture.
For
- example, the NIST
- event, we've 6
incorporated it there.
7 And there was another licensee where we 8
did an assessment of that safety culture -- I'm sorry, 9
an evaluation of their third party safety culture 10 assessment. But no, it's not going to be under the 11 ROP. The research, and test reactors aren't under the 12 ROP, but we can apply those inspection procedures to 13 them.
14 MEMBER HALNON: Thank you.
15 CHAIR BALLINGER: This is Ron, seemingly 16 off topic, you want to know what happens when you 17 don't have a good safety culture, there's an article 18 in Aviation Week, which I will send out if anybody 19 wants it, where it describes what happened with the 20 Boeing 737 issues, and the crashes, and things like 21 that. It's a very informative article. I think I 22 sent a copy to Dennis, who might want to make a 23 comment. But if anybody wants it, I'm happy to 24 provide with this article. It's what happens when you 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
93 blow it basically.
1 MEMBER KIRCHNER: Just send it out to 2
everyone Ron, thank you.
3 DR. SCHULTZ: Mike, This is Steve Schultz.
4 You mentioned the inspections that could be done, what 5
kind of frequency would that be on?
6 MR. BALAZIK: Well, for the specific for 7
safety culture, if we were to request SHINE perform a 8
third party assessment, that's when we would do that 9
particular inspection on safety culture. Is this more 10 of a general ask of, I'll say the generic safety 11 inspections when we're performing those, or is it 12 related strictly to safety culture?
13 DR. SCHULTZ: It was related to safety 14 culture particularly.
15 MR. BALAZIK: Yeah, so we would do those 16 if we were to request SHINE do a third party safety 17 culture assessment, that's when we would do those.
18 So, it's not that we do it every year, every two 19 years, it's when we request them to do the third party 20 assessment.
21 DR. SCHULTZ: But when you do your 22 inspections, I mean you look at the corrective action 23 program, an inspector would identify the need for 24 safety culture improvements in a standard inspection 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
94 that might be done?
1 MR. BALAZIK: Correct, and to identify any 2
deficiencies with those corrective actions related to 3
the assessment.
4 DR. SCHULTZ: And that might lead you to 5
look into safety culture if you had something more 6
than a minor finding in an inspection.
7 MR. BALAZIK: Definitely, yes sir.
8 DR. SCHULTZ: Thank you.
9 MEMBER SUNSERI: This is Matt, and just 10 looking at the most recent construction inspection, 11 there are elements of the quality assurance program, 12 and corrective action program that were specifically 13 looked at, and those are all elements of safety 14 culture if you want to call it that. So, it is 15 happening, and there is evidence that you're looking 16 at, so that's good.
17 DR. SCHULTZ: Matt, this is Steve again, 18 that's what I was referring. I saw that in the 19 inspection that had been done, and I saw the 20 corrective actions that were developed as a response 21 to the inspection, and I had a question for SHINE 22 there. There were eight corrective actions that were 23 generated as a result of the May inspection, could you 24 give me a quick brief as to what the status of the 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
95 progress is on correcting those elements that were 1
identified?
2 MR. BARTELME: This is Jeff Bartelme from 3
SHINE, I'd have to pull those, and look for an updated 4
status on the IMRs initiated during the inspection, I 5
don't have it at the ready.
6 DR. SCHULTZ: Could you give us an update?
7 It could be in July, but I think they're probably all 8
done, but I'd like to know, I would appreciate that.
9 MR. BARTELME: Sure, I can certainly do 10 that.
11 MEMBER REMPE: This is Joy, and I need to 12 step back for a second about this table for timing.
13 You showed it in the public session, it has 14 information redacted, but yet the top header of the 15 sheet says proprietary information, so it has 16 incorrect markings, what is it? Proprietary, or open?
17 MR. BARTELME: This is Jeff Bartelme, the 18 version that was shared, there were a couple numbers 19 in there that are proprietary. We did redact those so 20 that the header was changed from withhold to withheld, 21 just to make clear that --
22 MEMBER REMPE: Okay, so it is public?
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96 public FSAR, where they want to identify those pages 1
where proprietary information was withheld from the 2
public.
3 MEMBER REMPE: Thank you, I missed the 4
withheld, I thought it said withhold, or something, 5
thank you.
6 MR. BALAZIK: Yeah.
7 CHAIR BALLINGER: Are we through with this 8
part? Hopefully. That leaves 12.7, 12.13, and 13, so 9
can we do 12.7?
10 MR. BALAZIK: Yeah, this is Mike Balazik 11 NRC -- go ahead Catherine.
12 MS. KOLB: Sorry, we were just going to 13 address 12.7 here briefly if that's what you were 14 intending.
15 MR. BALAZIK: Yes.
16 MS. KOLB: Got it. So, this is Catherine 17 Kolb, we appreciate the comments that we received last 18 time, and we are intending to implement items three, 19 and four about the clarifying tasks, and the EPZ 20 boundary in the next revision of the EQUIN (phonetic) 21 and then we have issued an item in our corrective 22 action program to track the disposition of the other 23 comments that were identified for future revisions, 24 and, or implementing procedures?
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97 MEMBER HALNON: Yeah, this is Greg, thanks 1
for taking care of that.
2 MR. BALAZIK: Yeah, this is Mike Balazik, 3
NRC staff, continue on, there was an item in chapter 4
12.13, which is MC&A related to certain limits that 5
were used. Jeff, SHINE's going to address these?
6 MS. RADEL: Yes, this is Tracy, I'll speak 7
to these. So, we do share the concern of the.125 8
percent being a challenge to achieve given the type of 9
facility that we have. We are performing an SCID 10 tabletop exercise right now to determine if that.125 11 is achievable, or if an exemption would need to be 12 sought for that.
13 CHAIR BALLINGER: Yeah, that was not a 14 safety issue, we just thought that it was not 15 achievable.
16 MEMBER PETTI: I think the issue for the 17 staff is could they come in, and say they want to use 18 the 4.5 kilogram that they discussed.
19 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Can you turn the mic 20 up?
21 MEMBER PETTI: The question for the staff 22 is whether they can use the 4.5 kilograms that they 23 discussed in the NUREG.
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98 to shoehorn something into the NUREG which has nothing 1
to do with --
2 MEMBER PETTI: That doesn't necessarily 3
fit with the staff looking at that.
4 MR. BALAZIK: This is Mike Balazik, NRC 5
staff, Glenn, do you have any thoughts on that?
6 MR. TUTTLE: Yeah, this is Glenn Tuttle 7
with Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, 8
the MC&A reviewer. The only comment I had, they're 9
doing the right thing by doing their tabletop. The 10 4.5 kgs that is referenced in NUREG 10.65, the 10.65 11 is for the category three facilities. And for 12 category three facilities, 4.5 kilograms is part of 13 the rule. So, they have the greater of 4.5 kgs, or 14
.125 percent of active inventory for the category 15 three facilities.
16 For the category two facility, we don't 17 give them that 4500 kgs limit. So, it's strictly.125 18 percent. So, what SHINE is doing is right. They've 19 got to figure out can they get near it, or not, and 20 they'll be doing that in the tabletop.
21 MEMBER PETTI: So, they're a category two 22 facility?
23 MR. TUTTLE: That's right.
24 MEMBER PETTI: Okay, thank you.
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99 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, so chapter 13?
1 MEMBER BROWN: 12.7 still.
2 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, 12.7, we're on --
3 okay.
4 MEMBER BROWN: That's what you just 5
finished wasn't it?
6 CHAIR BALLINGER: No, one three, 13.
7 MEMBER BROWN: Did we finish 12.7?
8 CHAIR BALLINGER: Right.
9 MEMBER BROWN: Boy, that one whizzed right 10 by me, yeah, I want to go back. This is just a head's 11 up. Number two under 12.7 says there is no mention 12 who oversees cyber security, or how cyber is 13 considered in the planned physical security is clear, 14 that the security department has the accountability, 15 however cyber security sometimes covered by 16 engineering, which is a corporate function, not 17 exactly.
18 Adding this description would be helpful.
19 I'm just giving you a head's up that when we do 20 chapter seven, none of the plant controls, the TRPS, 21 the NFDS, the other plant control, and monitoring 22 systems, you cannot incorporate cyber security 23 software into those systems, and make sure they 24 operate properly, because they cannot be continuously 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
100 updated.
1 They will be slowed down, might even not 2
respond. So, there will be a considerable questions 3
asked relative to how we ensure control of access is 4
exterminated relative to its ability to get into any 5
of those systems. That's based on the control of 6
access thought
- process, and the digital data 7
communications out of those systems to other systems, 8
or outside the plant.
9 Just giving you a head's up that we will 10 be discussing that in spades relative to the chapter 11 seven meeting in July. July the 20th, or something 12 like that.
13 MR. BALAZIK: This is Mike Balazik, NRC 14 staff, I know that we'll be discussing chapter seven 15 July 19th, and 20th, but the cyber security piece of 16 that is going to be in September. Understand that you 17 can ask questions that we can resolve at a later date 18 on that September when we discuss cyber security.
19 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, well cyber security 20 does not apply to the TRPS system, it's a control of 21 access issue, so I'm making sure you understand the 22 differentiation. You can't just build cabinets that 23 have fiber optic cables hanging out of them with no 24 communication device, and waiting for somebody to do 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
101 something later. We've been through this drill 1
before, and just wanted to make sure that subject, 2
they are separate subjects.
3 Control of access to those systems is 4
different than cyber security to all the other 5
numerous systems that you have within the plant.
6 MR. BALAZIK: Understand, thank you.
7 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, thank you Ron, I'm 8
done.
9 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, we're up to 10 chapter 13, and by my agenda, we also have a closed 11 session that's related to chapter 13. So, I guess my 12 question to everybody is, and the staff, and SHINE, is 13 do we need the closed session on chapter 13?
14 MR. BALAZIK: This is Mike Balazik, NRC 15 staff, and SHINE can chime in also, the only need for 16 the closed session was to discuss those proprietary 17 numbers, or any other proprietary information. So, I 18 mean are ACRS members looking for further discussion 19 on those two proprietary numbers?
20 CHAIR BALLINGER: My guess is Jose 21 probably has something to say here.
22 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: My question was not 23 proprietary. What proprietary numbers are you talking 24 about?
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102 MR. BALAZIK: They're identified in the 1
table. They were blanked out.
2 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: The chapter four 3
quote unquote table?
4 MR. BALAZIK: Yes, the timing table, 5
correct.
6 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yeah, I'm not 7
interested on those blacked out numbers.
8 MR. BALAZIK: Those are driver dropout 9
numbers.
10 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yes, I know.
11 CHAIR BALLINGER: What I'm trying to get 12 at is should we just proceed now, and complete 13 everything, and then that would finish us up, or 14 should we plan on a closed session?
15 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Let's leave that 16 decision to the end of the discussion, and if 17 something pops up, we close the session.
18 CHAIR BALLINGER: All right, so let's go 19 with 13.
20 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Okay, so since you 21 brought up the driver dropout, that is exclusively 22 (audio interference) enhancement function, has 23 nothing to do with reactor protection, is that 24 correct?
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103 MS. RADEL: Sorry, can you restate the 1
question?
2 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: The driver dropout 3
delay, which is a proprietary number, but that is an 4
exclusively an operational concern to improve 5
reliability, and has nothing to do with reactor 6
protection functions?
7 MS. RADEL: So, this is Tracy. Allowing 8
for a driver dropout is for operability reasons. The 9
duration that the driver is allowed to dropout is a 10 safety aspect, so the reason for that is that after 11 the driver drops out within a short period of time, 12 the void is expected to leave the solution. After 13 that, because the PCLS is still running, the target 14 solution will cool, which also is going to add 15 reactivity to the system.
16 And if the driver were to come back on 17 after a certain period of time, the system would risk 18 hitting that limit. So, we do 19 have that duration, which is proprietary, that 20 protects the system from hitting the power density 21 limit.
22 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: The delay does not 23 prevent this accident, if you were to restart so many 24 seconds later, you would be even colder, and with less 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
104 of it, and that's one of the accidents that is 1
analyzed. And it's shown that a trip would occur if 2
that happens.
3 MS. RADEL: Yes, the trip will occur, we 4
still would not want to hit the 5
limit, even if we trip the unit. We don't want 6
to reach that power density, even if it's for a short 7
duration. So, the flex trip isn't fast enough to stop 8
that really fast spike that comes in as the driver 9
comes back in, and so we only allow it to drop out for 10 that certain period of time.
11 Because after that, you would have built 12 in enough reactivity through the cooling of the target 13 solution that that peak could potentially reach the 14 power density limit.
15 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: So, let me see, what 16 you're trying to prevent is for the driver to come 17 back on its own at full power, what you want is to 18 have what they call a civilized restart, a ramp up?
19 MS. RADEL: Correct.
20 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Yeah, so we're trying 21 to prevent this spurious recovery, and you will only 22 have an operator driven restart, which will be as a 23 ramp up?
24 MS. RADEL: Yeah, correct.
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105 MEMBER KIRCHNER: So, Tracy, this s Walt 1
Kirchner, isn't this interlocked? I mean once it 2
drops out to prevent his restart, is there some kind 3
of interlock that once it drops out, the operator has 4
to manually override something to restart it?
5 MS. RADEL: After the driver dropout 6
duration passes, the breakers open, the breakers are 7
opened by the safety system after that delay, which is 8
proprietary.
9 MEMBER KIRCHNER: Well, yeah, but just 10 sticking on the safety part, not the numbers, which I 11 find odd. You get to -- what I'm having trouble with 12 is the concept of operations from the safety 13 standpoint. You would actually let the system go back 14 online by itself?
15 MS. RADEL: Yes. So, the system is able 16 to auto recover, and that's necessary because there 17 are very short dropouts that occur with this type of 18 accelerator system. So, it will see a momentary drop 19 of beam, and come back on in much less than a second, 20 that kind of drops out, and comes back on. So, we 21 have those dropouts. There are times where it'll 22 dropout for a few seconds as well, depending on what 23 it's recovering from.
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106 more driven from the safety side of it, of how long 1
can we allow it to drop out before we would not want 2
it to come back on for that power density reason.
3 MEMBER KIRCHNER: Yeah, but that seems 4
like a much longer delay period than the intermittent 5
operation of the accelerator.
6 MS. RADEL: It is.
7 MEMBER KIRCHNER: It seems to me that you 8
can average out the intermittence of the accelerator 9
performance, but when you come to an actual it's out, 10 and now the system as you described is cooling down, 11 the void's collapsed, you're adding reactivity, it 12 would seem to me that system shouldn't be able to turn 13 itself back on automatically.
14 MS. RADEL: Yes. So, the duration is 15 longer than what we would expect in those auto 16 recovery scenarios, so it's unlikely we'll see many 17 auto recoveries in the time frame between a few 18 seconds, and the limit that we put in place. But the 19 limit was driven by what is a safe duration to allow 20 it to come back on, so we approached it from, for 21 safety reasons, what amount of time can this occur.
22 So, I agree that it's unlikely that we 23 will have many auto recoveries that are past a few 24 seconds, just because if it's out for that long, it's 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
107 likely something that will keep it down for a more 1
extended period of time.
2 MEMBER KIRCHNER: Yeah, so that was my 3
point. For that contingency, I would think that the 4
system would be interlocked, and you would have the 5
operator have to intervene to allow a restart. That's 6
an observation, it's not a recommendation.
7 MS. RADEL: Yes, noted.
8 CHAIR BALLINGER: We're on 13.
9 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Okay, back to my 10 question I wanted to give earlier, and this is 11 completely different. The members have discussed on 12 the production of a memo for chapter 13, that the use 13 of the maximum hypothetical accident, MHA, was a good 14 idea, and it was a good idea to supplement it with the 15 SSA, the SHINE safety analysis. We talked among 16 ourselves that maybe other submittals would maybe want 17 to follow the example that SHINE has used.
18 Meaning if it worked for SHINE, it would 19 work for us. But we have some difference of opinion 20 on what you did. So, can you refresh for me how the 21 MHA was identified. Was it based on a thoughtful 22 process, a surge, or what could possibly be the worst 23 thing that you can do, or was it based on running the 24 SSA first, and picking the worst?
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108 MS. RADEL: So, this is Tracy. It was 1
chosen from -- it was chosen to be the worst design 2
basis accident that could occur. In order to find the 3
worst design basis accident that could occur, we did 4
not limit ourselves in any way. Going through the 5
HAZAP FMEA process, identifying all the potential 6
process upsets, and conditions that could occur within 7
the systems.
8 Identifying all of those accident 9
sequences, then we did categorize those according to 10 the categories that are within NUREG 15.37 for any 11 ones that did not fit into those categories, we put 12 those into the facility specific events to make sure 13 they were also captured. We did the radiological dose 14 consequence analysis for bonding scenarios in all 15 accident categories.
16 And then from those results, we determined 17 which scenario was bounding. As noted previously, 18 there is a tritium event that is slightly higher than 19 the fission product based event that was chosen as the 20 MHA, and there was quite a bit of discussion on which 21 of those to choose. We went with the fission product 22 based event there, but did capture the tritium event 23 as well in chapter 13.
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109 chosen based on the results of the hazard analysis, 1
and the SSA?
2 MS. RADEL: Correct.
3 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: Okay, thank you. I'm 4
glad you put this on the record, because as we said, 5
we thought that this is likely, at least possible that 6
other submittals would follow your example, so it's 7
good that we all know what you did exactly. Some of 8
us remember it differently, so thank you. And I don't 9
have any more questions for chapter 13. Anybody has 10 more questions, Walt, or Joy, or Vesna?
11 MEMBER KIRCHNER: I don't Jose, thank you 12 for asking.
13 DR. BLEY: This is Dennis, I don't have a 14 chapter 13 exactly question, but it was related to 13.
15 I apologize to Chris, I should have given you a call.
16 It might be my problem with using the Box system, but 17 I've recently gone back in to review the SHINE safety 18 analysis again, the tech report 2020-16 Rev 5, and I 19 find it's still listed in the ACRS file list.
20 But when I go to the review for February 21 16th, I don't find it there anymore. Is it there, or 22 am I just having trouble using Box, or can you put it 23 back there?
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110 SHINE, Mike Balazik, and I had identified some files 1
on Box that were no longer there, and Mike can speak 2
to the specifics, but I believe there's some time 3
limit, that they're removed after some time. But we 4
can put any of these X analysis related docs back on 5
the reading room.
6 DR. BLEY: That main SSA document I'd 7
really like you to put back up, because I'm going to 8
go back, and use it some more.
9 MR. BALAZIK: Yeah, this is Mike Balazik, 10 NRC staff, there is a time limit on how long documents 11 stay on Box. I believe it is 90 days, and what I have 12 requested through Box is an extension to 180 days, 13 we'll see if that gets approved, or not. But yes, 14 we'll get the SSA loaded back up to the Box account.
15 DR. BLEY: Thank you very much.
16 CHAIR BALLINGER: Questions from the 17 members, others? So, now I need to ask the question 18 again, do we need a closed session? If we need a 19 closed session, then we'll do public comments now, and 20 then switch to a closed session.
21 MEMBER MARCH-LEUBA: This is Jose, I don't 22 need a closed session.
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111 is ask if there are members of the public that would 1
like to make a comment. If there are members that 2
would like to make a comment, please state your name, 3
and make your comment. Reminding if you're on the 4
phone, I think you use star six again to unmute 5
yourself. I always wonder about dead silence.
6 But hearing none, then let's ask one more 7
time for members if there are questions that need to 8
be looked at, or consultants, excuse me, I apologize.
9 MEMBER BROWN: You could always ask 10 somebody just speak to make sure the phone line's 11 there, that's what we did in the old days, I don't 12 know what we do now.
13 CHAIR BALLINGER: Tap your hands on the 14 desk, or something. Okay, I haven't heard anything, 15 and it sounds to me like we're done for the meeting 16 today. Hopefully we'll get the transcript quickly, 17 because that's the only record, we have no slides of 18 this, except for the table I guess, but it's available 19 to the members anyway, it's being sent out.
20 MEMBER REMPE: It's already been sent out, 21 I just didn't notice it had switched from withhold to 22 withheld, the fine print, one letter difference.
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112 going to start working hard on assembling the 1
framework of the letter. I've got memos from people, 2
and there's a lot of text that I can use now. So, if 3
you've got comments related to this, at least up to 4
these chapters, now is the time to chime in, and send 5
them to me. Except we will not accept any comments 6
from Charlie.
7 MEMBER BROWN: They're still on the line, 8
right?
9 CHAIR BALLINGER: I think so.
10 MEMBER BROWN: I was making rough notes as 11 we went through chapter eight, and I forgot to write 12 something down in a couple places, and I wanted to 13 make sure if I could, as opposed to reading through 14 the transcript, I would like to ask the question to 15 make sure I knew where I was referencing something.
16 CHAIR BALLINGER: Should we all leave, and 17 leave you here for them?
18 MEMBER BROWN: No, this is short, this is 19 not going to be long. Is SHINE there?
20 MR. BARTELME: Yes, we're still here.
21 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, if you remember back 22 on chapter eight, we were talking about the AC UPSS C, 23 and the ABT configuration, and you commented that it 24 was talked about somewhere as an auctioneered 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
113 function. Forget about the difference between 1
auctioneering, and ABT, that's a separate issue. Just 2
I thought I remembered you telling me it was actually 3
discussed somewhere other than in chapter eight.
4 MR. BARTELME: Right, this is Jeff 5
Bartelme, we just had those more general discussions 6
of auctioneering power for those Charlie divisions 7
within the I&C systems, but we don't have any more 8
specific discussion about the mechanism for the 9
feeding of the AC UPSS Charlie.
10 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, so we kind of left 11 that hanging in a way, I referred to them as ABT 12 operations, and you all had called out some place 13 about auctioneering. I don't have a problem with the 14 DC part that you referred to earlier, because it was 15 covered in a number of sections in chapter seven, and 16 that's what triggered when I was looking, trying to 17 make my notes again, that there wasn't anything on the 18 C ones. So, you answered me, there is nothing.
19 MR. BARTELME: Yeah.
20 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, that's fine, I will 21 try to correct what I wrote down then. The other one 22 was the safe shutdown configuration, you referred to 23 it as being specified in the tech specs, is that 24 correct?
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114 MR. BARTELME: Correct, in the definitions 1
section of tech specs, a safe shutdown definition.
2 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, and I commented that 3
I thought this was an obscure location, and thought 4
you ought to have it in more easily recognized 5
sections as you go through the various chapters, but 6
anyway, that's just repeating myself. It was in the 7
tech spec, I got that, that's all I had. No, I had 8
one more. Natural gas, we had some discussion on 9
natural gas, and I was left hanging on -- I guess my 10 comment was we ought to note that it's supplied from 11 an offsite utility.
12 And then we kind of bounced around in a 13 couple of discussions, and other people said 14 something, and I lost track of how that one was left.
15 Is somebody going to consider noting that in chapter 16 eight as the supply for this SGS? Or someplace else?
17 MR. BARTELME: This is Jeff from SHINE, 18 that consideration, we can look at clarifying that in 19 the SGS discussion in chapter eight.
20 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, so you would look at 21 clarifying?
22 MR. BARTELME: Yeah.
23 MEMBER BROWN: Okay, I'm writing it real 24 quick here, before I forget it.
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115 DR. SCHULTZ: Ron, one quick comment, and 1
this is not associated with the discussion today, 2
although Matt did bring it up. Really appreciate the 3
report on the inspection that was performed in May.
4 I thought that the staff did an excellent job, very 5
comprehensive report on a detailed inspection of the 6
facility, and of course that's a compliment also to 7
the applicant.
8 Because usually when an inspection is done 9
so thoroughly with only minor comments associated with 10 findings, that reflects the cooperation, as well as 11 the detail that has been put in by the applicant in 12 moving things forward in an appropriate way. So, 13 really appreciated what the staff had done there, and 14 documented as a result of that inspection.
15 MEMBER REMPE: There's one other point, I 16 know we've talked about this chapter seven 17 instrumentation timing audit report, and do you have 18 an idea of when we'll be able to see it, and would it 19 be in time to do anything, including for this 20 discussion in the letter?
21 MR. BORROMEO: So, what we can do at a 22 minimum, is point at the calculations that we took a 23 look at, where we took a sample of the timings. We're 24 still completing the chapter seven review now, and 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
116 we'll have to get back to you on the exact timing.
1 MEMBER REMPE: The letter's not due until 2
October, I just was curious, because if so, we might 3
want to close out, because we brought this up in 4
chapter four, as well as chapter 13 trying to 5
understand the timing, but we can wait until later.
6 MR. BORROMEO: Okay, we'll work with 7
Chris, and get you a date.
8 MEMBER REMPE: Thank you.
9 CHAIR BALLINGER: I hear some shuffling 10 out there. Okay, I think that we are finished for the 11 day. So, hearing -- at the risk of hearing something 12 else --
13 MR. BALAZIK: Professor, this is Mike 14 Balazik, NRC staff, there was one item that we did 15 talk about, and that's kind of pulsing the members on 16 the August 17th trip out to SHINE, is that going to be 17 done during this forum, or a different forum?
18 CHAIR BALLINGER: That's probably a full 19 committee discussion, right? No?
20 MR. BALAZIK: On what they are interested 21 in seeing when they go out to the SHINE facility.
22 CHAIR BALLINGER: Yeah, Chris has reminded 23 me, we have periodic, frequent actually, informal 24 discussions about things like this, and so we'll have 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
117 input from the members, and do it in the informal that 1
we'll have. That means we'd like to have input from 2
the members before we have the informal.
3 MEMBER REMPE: So, you are opening up the 4
floor now for what members would like to see right 5
now, or you want to wait until later? I'm confused 6
now.
7 CHAIR BALLINGER: I'm not, I mean we don't 8
have the whole committee here, so we don't know who's 9
going, and who's not from the committee.
10 MR. BROWN: Yeah, this is Chris Brown.
11 So, we had planned an informal meeting with Mike 12 Balazik, and Shawn, and actually Shawn wanted to come 13 in in July, and we were going to actually try to talk 14 to them in person, so we thought about doing an 15 informal meeting. If you feel that it's appropriate, 16 you can get out some things that you want to see when 17 you go visit SHINE now, I don't see a problem with 18 that, but we can still have an informal meeting with 19 them later.
20 MEMBER REMPE: To help us with the 21 discussion, give us an idea of how the construction is 22 going along, and what all is installed, and not 23 installed, I'm not sure I've heard that in recent 24 times. Maybe Ron, and Chris had been up to date, but 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1716 14th STREET, N.W., SUITE 200 (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009-4309 www.nealrgross.com
118 what's the site look like right now?
1 CHAIR BALLINGER: The staff was there, 2
right? No?
3 MR. BORROMEO: Yeah, so we were just there 4
under construction, but Jeff, maybe you could provide 5
a quick update of where you're at in the construction 6
space.
7 MS. RADEL: Yeah, so this is Tracy, I can 8
provide a bit of a status. So, much of the build out 9
of the administration annex is pretty far along, built 10 out with all the framing, and the switch gear has been 11 set, and that auxiliary system installation is well 12 underway. Framing out of the control room area, 13 battery rooms, that portion, the entire building has 14 got the siding, and roofing, and exterior completed.
15 Installation of process piping is well 16 underway, both shock welding, and in the field down in 17 the trench. We are placing tanks within the tank 18 vaults in the sub grade area. The liners are 19 installed in all of the IU cells, and TSV off gas 20 system cells. The support structures for the neutron 21 drivers are arriving, and the installation of those 22 support structures will begin shortly.
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119 subcritical assembly system skins at the warehouse 1
waiting for installation. The super style shipments 2
are starting to arrive, so there's work going on in 3
the facility to install the base plates for the super 4
cell. So, lots of different activities going on right 5
now.
6 CHAIR BALLINGER: So, by the time we would 7
go out there, there's going to be a substantial amount 8
of work that's been done.
9 MEMBER REMPE: Are there some areas where 10 we would not be welcome to visit, so we should exclude 11 from our wish list, because of ongoing construction 12 activities, or just difficulties for access that we 13 should be concerned about, that you won't let us see?
14 MS. RADEL: There are not any areas that 15 we would limit other than to protect your safety, and 16 we would make sure that we follow the site rules as 17 far as confined space. We wouldn't allow entry into 18 a confined space, or entry into the room where the 19 switch gear is, because it has been hooked to power, 20 and energized. So, there's certain things safety wise 21 that we would make sure to observe the site rules on.
22 But for the most part you would be able to 23 see into all areas, just certain areas you wouldn't be 24 able to enter, because of the requirements for safety.
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120 CHAIR BALLINGER: Okay, so at least that's 1
a good starting point. Okay, at the risk of starting 2
another conversation, I think we are done for the day, 3
thank you very much for a really great discussion. We 4
are pretty unfettered in our questioning, so it's good 5
that everybody was here. So, thank you once again, 6
and we are adjourned.
7 (Whereupon, the above-entitled matter went 8
off the record at 3:58 p.m.)
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