ML020440797

Response to November 20, 2001, Letter Concerning Public Release of EPRI Proprietary Information

ML020440797
Person / Time
Issue date:	01/10/2002
From:	Bateman W NRC/NRR/DE/EMCB
To:	Marion A Nuclear Energy Institute
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IEB-01-001
Download: ML020440797 (3)

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Mr. Alex Marion, Director Engineering Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, N.W., Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006-3708

SUBJECT:

RESPONSE TO NOVEMBER 20, 2001, LETTER CONCERNING PUBLIC RELEASE OF EPRI PROPRIETARY INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Marion:

By letter dated November 20, 2001, you requested that the staff release to EPRI the complete proprietary version of the NRC report, Preliminary Staff Technical Assessment for Pressurized Water Reactor Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles Associated with NRC Bulletin 2001-01, Circumferential Cracking of Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles, dated November 2001. A non-proprietary version of the report was publicly released by the staff on November 6, 2001.

The staff has discussed this report with EPRI, and by electronic mail (e-mail) dated December 3, 2001, Mr. C. Welty of EPRI agreed that the report can be publicly released as written with the following editorial corrections:

1) Reference 1 should read: Presentation by P. Scott at Meeting of MRP Crack Growth Review Team for Alloy 600 and Alloy 182, Arlie, VA, October 2-4, 2001," and

2) In the Reference Section the following references are EPRI Proprietary documents /

items: 1, 3, 13, 15, 19, 22, 28, 33 and 34.

The NRC staff has made the appropriate modifications to the report, as requested, and the revised report has been issued. A copy of the revised report is enclosed.

If you have any question regarding this letter, please contact Mr. Allen Hiser of my staff at 301-415-1034.

Sincerely,

/ra/

Mr. William H. Bateman, Chief Materials and Chemical Engineering Branch Division of Engineering Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Enclosure:

As stated cc: See next page

Mr. Alex Marion, Director Engineering Nuclear Energy Institute 1776 I Street, N.W., Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006-3708

SUBJECT:

RESPONSE TO NOVEMBER 20, 2001, LETTER CONCERNING PUBLIC RELEASE OF EPRI PROPRIETARY INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Marion:

By letter dated November 20, 2001, you requested that the staff release to EPRI the complete proprietary version of the NRC report, Preliminary Staff Technical Assessment for Pressurized Water Reactor Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles Associated with NRC Bulletin 2001-01, Circumferential Cracking of Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles, dated November 2001. A non-proprietary version of the report was publicly released by the staff on November 6, 2001.

The staff has discussed this report with EPRI, and by electronic mail (e-mail) dated December 3, 2001, Mr. C. Welty of EPRI agreed that the report can be publicly released as written with the following editorial corrections:

1) Reference 1 should read: Presentation by P. Scott at Meeting of MRP Crack Growth Review Team for Alloy 600 and Alloy 182, Arlie, VA, October 2-4, 2001," and

2) In the Reference Section the following references are EPRI Proprietary documents /

items: 1, 3, 13, 15, 19, 22, 28, 33 and 34.

The NRC staff has made the appropriate modifications to the report, as requested, and the revised report has been issued. A copy of the revised report is enclosed.

If you have any question regarding this letter, please contact Mr. Allen Hiser of my staff at 301-415-1034.

Sincerely, Mr. William H. Bateman, Chief Materials and Chemical Engineering Branch Division of Engineering Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Enclosure:

As stated cc: See next page Distribution:

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