ND-18-0300, Westinghouse Electric Co., Application for Withholding Proprietary Information from Public Disclosure

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Westinghouse Electric Co., Application for Withholding Proprietary Information from Public Disclosure
ML18060A446
Person / Time
Site: Vogtle  Southern Nuclear icon.png
Issue date: 02/27/2018
From: Monahan J
Westinghouse
To:
Document Control Desk, Office of New Reactors
Shared Package
ML18060A442 List:
References
CAW-18-4711, ND-18-0300
Download: ML18060A446 (11)
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Southern Nuclear Operating Company ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (VEGP) Units 3 and 4 Westinghouse Application for Withholding Proprietary information from Public Disclosure CAW-18-4711, accompanying Affidavit, Proprietary Information Notice, and Copyright Notice (Enclosure 5 consist of 11 pages, including this cover page)

ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 February 28, 2018 SVP_SV0_005166 Page 2 of 11 Page 2 of 11 ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 February 28, 2018 SVP_SV0_005166 Page 3 of 11 Page 3 of 11 Westinghouse Non-Proprietary Class 3 Westinghouse Electric Company 1000 Westinghouse Drive Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania 16066 USA Enclosures to CAW-18-4711

1. AFFIDAVIT
2. PROPRIETARY INFORMATION NOTICE and COPYRIGHT NOTICE

© 2018 Westinghouse Electric Company LLC. All Rights Reserved.

ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 February 28, 2018 SVP_SV0_005166 Page 4 of 11 Page 4 of 11 Enclosure 1 to CAW-18-4711 AFFIDAVIT ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 February 28, 2018 SVP_SV0_005166 Page 5 of 11 Page 5 of 11 ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 February 28, 2018 SVP_SV0_005166 Page 6 of 11 Page 6 of 11 3 CAW-18-4711 (1) I am Manager, Licensing Inspections and Special Programs, Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Westinghouse), and as such, I have been specifically delegated the function of reviewing the proprietary information sought to be withheld from public disclosure in connection with nuclear power plant licensing and rule making proceedings, and am authorized to apply for its withholding on behalf of Westinghouse.

(2) I am making this Affidavit in conformance with the provisions of 10 CFR Section 2.390 of the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (Commissions) regulations and in conjunction with the Westinghouse Application for Withholding Proprietary Information from Public Disclosure accompanying this Affidavit.

(3) I have personal knowledge of the criteria and procedures utilized by Westinghouse in designating information as a trade secret, privileged or as confidential commercial or financial information.

(4) Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (b)(4) of Section 2.390 of the Commissions regulations, the following is furnished for consideration by the Commission in determining whether the information sought to be withheld from public disclosure should be withheld.

(i) The information sought to be withheld from public disclosure is owned and has been held in confidence by Westinghouse.

(ii) The information is of a type customarily held in confidence by Westinghouse and not customarily disclosed to the public. Westinghouse has a rational basis for determining the types of information customarily held in confidence by it and, in that connection, utilizes a system to determine when and whether to hold certain types of information in confidence. The application of that system and the substance of that system constitute Westinghouse policy and provide the rational basis required.

Under that system, information is held in confidence if it falls in one or more of several types, the release of which might result in the loss of an existing or potential competitive advantage, as follows:

(a) The information reveals the distinguishing aspects of a process (or component, structure, tool, method, etc.) where prevention of its use by any of ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 February 28, 2018 SVP_SV0_005166 Page 7 of 11 Page 7 of 11 4 CAW-18-4711 Westinghouses competitors without license from Westinghouse constitutes a competitive economic advantage over other companies.

(b) It consists of supporting data, including test data, relative to a process (or component, structure, tool, method, etc.), the application of which data secures a competitive economic advantage (e.g., by optimization or improved marketability).

(c) Its use by a competitor would reduce his expenditure of resources or improve his competitive position in the design, manufacture, shipment, installation, assurance of quality, or licensing a similar product.

(d) It reveals cost or price information, production capacities, budget levels, or commercial strategies of Westinghouse, its customers or suppliers.

(e) It reveals aspects of past, present, or future Westinghouse or customer funded development plans and programs of potential commercial value to Westinghouse.

(f) It contains patentable ideas, for which patent protection may be desirable.

(iii) There are sound policy reasons behind the Westinghouse system which include the following:

(a) The use of such information by Westinghouse gives Westinghouse a competitive advantage over its competitors. It is, therefore, withheld from disclosure to protect the Westinghouse competitive position.

(b) It is information that is marketable in many ways. The extent to which such information is available to competitors diminishes the Westinghouse ability to sell products and services involving the use of the information.

(c) Use by our competitor would put Westinghouse at a competitive disadvantage by reducing his expenditure of resources at our expense.

ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 February 28, 2018 SVP_SV0_005166 Page 8 of 11 Page 8 of 11 5 CAW-18-4711 (d) Each component of proprietary information pertinent to a particular competitive advantage is potentially as valuable as the total competitive advantage. If competitors acquire components of proprietary information, any one component may be the key to the entire puzzle, thereby depriving Westinghouse of a competitive advantage.

(e) Unrestricted disclosure would jeopardize the position of prominence of Westinghouse in the world market, and thereby give a market advantage to the competition of those countries.

(f) The Westinghouse capacity to invest corporate assets in research and development depends upon the success in obtaining and maintaining a competitive advantage.

(iv) The information is being transmitted to the Commission in confidence and, under the provisions of 10 CFR Section 2.390, is to be received in confidence by the Commission.

(v) The information sought to be protected is not available in public sources or available information has not been previously employed in the same original manner or method to the best of our knowledge and belief.

(vi) The proprietary information sought to be withheld in this submittal is that which is appropriately marked in ND-18-0300, Crediting First of a Kind Testing from China AP1000 Units, for a meeting to be held on March 8, 2018, for submittal to the Commission, being transmitted by Southern Nuclear Operating Company letter. The proprietary information as submitted by Westinghouse is that associated with NRC technical exchange meeting on crediting first of a kind testing from China AP1000 Units, and may be used only for that purpose.

(a) This information is part of that which will enable Westinghouse to:

(i) Manufacture and deliver products to utilities based on proprietary designs.

ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 February 28, 2018 SVP_SV0_005166 Page 9 of 11 Page 9 of 11 6 CAW-18-4711 (b) Further, this information has substantial commercial value as follows:

(i) Westinghouse plans to sell the use of similar information to its customers for the purpose of licensing new nuclear power stations.

(ii) Westinghouse can sell support and defense of industry guidelines and acceptance criteria for plant-specific applications.

(iii) The information requested to be withheld reveals the distinguishing aspects of a methodology which was developed by Westinghouse.

Public disclosure of this proprietary information is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of Westinghouse because it would enhance the ability of competitors to provide similar technical evaluation justifications and licensing defense services for commercial power reactors without commensurate expenses. Also, public disclosure of the information would enable others to use the information to meet NRC requirements for licensing documentation without purchasing the right to use the information.

The development of the technology described in part by the information is the result of applying the results of many years of experience in an intensive Westinghouse effort and the expenditure of a considerable sum of money.

In order for competitors of Westinghouse to duplicate this information, similar technical programs would have to be performed and a significant manpower effort, having the requisite talent and experience, would have to be expended.

Further the deponent sayeth not.

ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 February 28, 2018 SVP_SV0_005166 Page 10 of 11 Page 10 of 11 Enclosure 2 to CAW-18-4711 PROPRIETARY INFORMATION NOTICE and COPYRIGHT NOTICE ND-18-0300 Enclosure 5 February 28, 2018 SVP_SV0_005166 Page 11 of 11 Page 11 of 11 PROPRIETARY INFORMATION NOTICE Transmitted herewith are proprietary and non-proprietary versions of a document, furnished to the NRC in connection with requests for generic and/or plant-specific review and approval.

In order to conform to the requirements of 10 CFR 2.390 of the Commissions regulations concerning the protection of proprietary information so submitted to the NRC, the information which is proprietary in the proprietary versions is contained within brackets, and where the proprietary information has been deleted in the non-proprietary versions, only the brackets remain (the information that was contained within the brackets in the proprietary versions having been deleted). The justification for claiming the information so designated as proprietary is indicated in both versions by means of lower case letters (a) through (f) located as a superscript immediately following the brackets enclosing each item of information being identified as proprietary or in the margin opposite such information. These lower case letters refer to the types of information Westinghouse customarily holds in confidence identified in Sections (4)(ii)(a) through (4)(ii)(f) of the Affidavit accompanying this transmittal pursuant to 10 CFR 2.390(b)(1).

COPYRIGHT NOTICE The reports transmitted herewith each bear a Westinghouse copyright notice. The NRC is permitted to make the number of copies of the information contained in these reports which are necessary for its internal use in connection with generic and plant-specific reviews and approvals as well as the issuance, denial, amendment, transfer, renewal, modification, suspension, revocation, or violation of a license, permit, order, or regulation subject to the requirements of 10 CFR 2.390 regarding restrictions on public disclosure to the extent such information has been identified as proprietary by Westinghouse, copyright protection notwithstanding. With respect to the non-proprietary versions of these reports, the NRC is permitted to make the number of copies beyond those necessary for its internal use which are necessary in order to have one copy available for public viewing in the appropriate docket files in the public document room in Washington, DC and in local public document rooms as may be required by NRC regulations if the number of copies submitted is insufficient for this purpose. Copies made by the NRC must include the copyright notice in all instances and the proprietary notice if the original was identified as proprietary.

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