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                                                              . UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION I-ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS In the Matter'of:                                                    .)
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                            '349th ACRS MEETING-                                                      )
Thursday, May 4, 1989 Room P-110, Phillips Building 7920 Norfolk Avenue Bethesda, Maryland The meeting convened, pursuant to notice, at 8:30 a.m.
BEFORE:      DR. FORREST J. REMICK Vice Chairman, ACRS.                  .
Associate Vice-President for Research Professor of Nuclear Engineering The Pennsylvania-State University University Park, Pennsylvania
    .O                                                            ACRS MEMBERS PRESENT:
MR. CARLYLE MICHELSON Vice-Chairmar.
Retired Principal' Nuclear Engineer Tennessee Valley Authority Knoxville, Tennessee, and Retired Director,' Office for Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
MR. JAMES CARROLL Retired' Manager, Nuclear Operations Support Pacific Gas & Electric Company San Francisco, California (Continued on next page.)
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DR.' WILLIAM-KERR Professor of Nuclear Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor,. Michigan DR.. HAROLD W. LEWIS-Professor of Physics Department of Physics University of California Santa Barbara, California MR. CHARLES J. WYLIE                              ,
Retired Chief Engineer'                          H Electrical-Division Duke Power' Company, Charlotte, North Carolina MR. DAVID A. WARD Chairman Research Manager on Special Assignment E.I. Du Pont de Neumours & Company C" -
Savannah River Laboratory Aiken, South Carolina
        .().                  DR. CHESTER P. SIESS Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois DR. PAUL G. SHEWMON Professor, Metallurgical Engineering Department                      <
Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio DR. IVAN CATTON Professor of Engineering Department of Mechanical, Aerospace &
Nuclear Engineering School of Engineering and Applied Science University of California (Continued on the next page.)
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  ]o 1                                              E R Q Q E E p_ 1 E Q E 2                                    DR. REMICK:                                    Good morning.              The meeting will come
;        3.                        to order.
4                                    This is the second day of the 34Sth Meeting of the 5                          Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.
6                                    During today's meeting, the Committee will hear 7                          about and discuss the following.                                      Radiobiological Exposure 8-                        Criteria; Evaluation of Operation Experience; NUREG 1150; i
9                          Severe Accident Risk; and Assessment for Five U.S. Nuclear 10                          Power Plants; Limerick Nuclear Power Station Unit 2; and 11                          ACRS Subcommittee Activities.
12                                    Topics for consideration on Friday and Saturday 13                          are listed on the scheduled posted on the bulletin board
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15                                    The meeting is being conducted in accordance with 16                          provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and the 17                          Government in the Sunshine Act.
18                                    Raymond F. Fraley is the Designated Federal 19                          Official for the initial portion of the meeting.
20                                    A transcript of portions of the meeting is being 21                          kept.
22                                    It is requested that each speaker use one of the 23                          microphones, identify himself or herself, and speak with 24                          sufficient clarity and volume so that he or she can be 25                          readily heard.
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4                            And J. Carroll is our Subcommittee Chairman.
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7  Occupational and Environmental Protection Systems met on 8~  April 20th.                  We had two consultants, Dr. Mel Carter and Dr.
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10                                    We also invited Dave Moeller to be here in some 11            capacity.- I guess we called him an " invited expert."
12                                    At that meeting we met with the staff, the 13          National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements 14            and NUMARC.
        -15                                        And the issue, of course, is a pending draft 16          . Generic Letter which gives the industry some relief from the 17            existing limits on exposure to the skin from hot particles.
18                                      During the past few years, most nuclear plants 19            have installed high-sensitivity personnel contamination 20            monitoring equipment to improve their Radiation control 21            Programs.
22                                      A side effect of this has been the occasional 23            discovery of microscopic hot particles on workers' skin and 24            clothing.                  These are typically fragments of stellited 25            components containing Cobalt 60 and irradiated fuel Heritage  Reporting Corporation (202) 628-4888
 
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1 fragments from fuel defects. The latter often referred to 2 as fuel fleas. Common to these particles is the fact that                  l 3 they are highly charged and, in fact, do jump around like 4 fleas.
5            It's clear that hot particles have always been 6 around nuclear plants but were not generally detected.                      l 7 We've been told that there's no evidence that these hot                      j 8 particles have historically caused any adverse worker health 9 effects.
10            The staff has concluded that the existing 10CFR20 11 limits which are intended for exposure of large areas of the                j 12 skin are overly restrictive when highly localized exposure 13 results from a hot particle.
()  14            The staff's intention is to amend Part 20 to 15 provide a new limit for exposure of the skin by hot 16 particles. This process is expected to take at least two 17 years.
18            In the interim, until the amendment becomes 19 effective, the staff is proposing to use a draft Interim 20 Standard, which is inclosed with their draft Generic Letter.
21 Incidentally, it's Handout 5, and has that Generic Letter 22 and some other information in it.
23            Industries representatives have been expressing a 24 concern about hot particles since at least 1987. Their 25 view, and I think the staff shares it, is that the current 1
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1 regulatory situation focuses an unusually high degree of 2 attention and emphasis on hot particles.
3          This situation has resulted in unnecessary fear 4 and concern among nuclear plant workers, which I think, from 5 my own experience, is a very serious issue.
6            Industry has also provided data that shows that 7 radiaLJon workers are receiving substantial full-body 8 exposure because of the hot particle situation. Most 9 licensees are removing people from work in hot particle 10 areas, such as steam generator platform work at intervals 11 like every ten or fifteen minutes to take them out to an 12 area where they can be surveyed for hot particles to avoid 13 overexposure with the present limits. And that, of course, I
()                14 impacts their whole-body exposure because it takes longer to 15 do the job.
16          Other concerns expressed by industry are the 17 costs, that is, worker productivity and the need for more 18 health physics technicians, increased rad waste volume, 19 because of the difficulty in surveying for hot particles and 20 contaminated clothing that's often thrown away, for example.
21          Although the NRC has used their regulatory 22 discretion in citing people on hot particle issues, the 23 industry has a concern about the impact of these NOVs on 24 their SALP ratings and also potential insurance and legal    i 25 considerations.
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( 'i 1            Industry representatives have emphasized that a 2 change in the NRC position would not result in a decrease in 3 the protection of workers or the general public nor in the 4 controls that have been established to prevent hot particles 5 from being transported off site.
6            The staff in March of 1989 asked NCRP to study the 7 health significance of exposure from hot particles on the 8 skin. And provide recommendations based on the findings of 9 this study.
10              As you know, NCRP has an international reputation 11  for excellence in the field of radiation protection and has 12  been chartered by the Congress to work with federal agencies 13  and others in developing guidance in radiation protection y) f' 14  matters.
15              We've been told that a very well-qualified five-16  person NCRP subcommittee performed this study and provided a 17  draft document entitled " Recommendations on Limits of 18  Exposure to Hot Particles on the Skin" to the staff on June 19  17th 1988.
20              This draft report was subsequently reviewed and 21  approved by the full seventy .five member council. Both Mel 22  Carter and Dave Moeller, incidentally, are on that seventy-23  five member council.
24              The NCRP recommendations are based on ensuring 25  that ulceration of minute areas of the skin do not occur.
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O                    1  The risk of' radiation-induced skin cancer from exposure to 2~ hot particles was not considered to be significant or 3  controlling by NCRP.
4                        Their recommended exposure limit--and it's very 7                          5  specifically for particles less than 1 millimeter in 10 6  diameter--which typically is what is being found, is.10 7  beta. particles emitted from the surface of a hot particle.
8  The caveat that any overexposed individual would be provided 9  with follow-up medical evaluation with respect to skin 10- ulceration.
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15                        . Depending on particle size and isotopic 16  composition, this results in a dose limit ranging from 17  something like 300 to 800 rad.
18                        One bit of perspective for this is that the 19  radiation dose that's generally accepted as a limit for 20  radiotherapy treatments involving large areas of the skin is 21  something like 2,000 rad.                But that's a different situation 22  than occupational exposure.
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2            Their letter indicated that their report would be 3= published in final form in the fall of 1988.
4            -The NRC staff subsequently raised a number of 5  technical and philosophical concerns with respect to the 6' NCRP recommendations. And these are currently in the 7  process of being resolved.
8            'In February of '88, NCRP asked NUMARC to provide 9  comments, and in May the provided these comments and 10  supported NCRP's approach to'the hot particle problem, and 1
                      ' ll. pointed out a number of conservatism  that existed in the 12  NCRP recommendations.
13              So the situation is that the final NCRP report is 14  undergoing'some revisions and there is no firm schedule for 15  its final publication.
                        - 16            As I said earlier, the staff plans to revise Part 17  20'through rulemaking and have stated that they will
: 18. consider the final NCRP recommendations in that process.
19            But this is, of course, going to take 20  approximately two years.
21              The staff did consider implementing the draft NCRP l                        22  report but for a variety of reasons did not think it 1
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(_)    1    which changes the limits for exposure to the skin from hot 2    particles from 7.5 rem per skin of the whole body or 18.75 3    rem for skin of the hands and forearm, feet and ankles per 4    calendar quarter, to 50 rad per hot particle exposure.
5              It's of note that the current revision to Part 20 6    that is in the rulemaking process right now uses a 50 rem 7    annual limit for large areas of the skin, so the staff is 8    saying one hot particle per calendar quarter is the limit.
9    The new Part 20 for large areas of the skin will be 50 rem 10    per year.
11                Industry in its presentation has made a very 12    strong case that the proposed Interim Standard would provide 13    very little relief to them in addressing the hot particle
()  14    problem. And they believe that the Interim Standard should 15    be based on some conservative interpretation of the draft 16    NCRP report.
17                The staff, on the other hand, has the obvious 18    difficulty in basing an Interim Standard on a draft report.
19                There's a couple of other technical issues, but 20    the Interim Standard that--: think we' d like to hear more
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23    particle is involved. And this is very central to the 24    determination as to whether the limits for large areas of 25    the skin should be used or whether the particle is a hot I
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  ~ O.            1              particle.                                                  As I said, NCRP says'1 millimeter is the 2                Appropriate limit.
3                                                                          A second issue is one of regulatory philosophy, I 4              guess.                                                It's in Section 4 of the Interim Standard.                            There 5                the NRC states they will not issue an NOV for a single hot 6              particle exposure to an individual-if this is less than.the 7                exposure limit and'in effect--well, one per customer per 8              quarter I guess is my way of saying it.
9                                                                          And they indicate that if an. individual is exposed 10                      to two hot particles in a single incident in a quarter or to 11                      two or more hot. particles in separate events during a 12                      quarter, they may issue an NOV.
13                                                                                And I guess I'd like to hear more from the staff 14                      on this, but I' find that a somewhat strange regulatory e( )
15                      philosophy.                                                  And in my mind it's also inconsistent with the.
16                      staff's position that hot particle exposures are not to be 17                      added to skin exposure for record keeping purposes and are 18                      not themselves additive unless they occur in the same                                                                                          i 19                      location.
20                                                                                I can see this causing problems, inhibiting people 21                      from using an individual who has had one hot particle 22                      exposure because of fear of an NOV.
23                                                                                Well, that's kind of a summary of what we heard at L          24                      the Subcommittee meeting and I guess what I'd like the staff 25                      to do is to deal with those last two specific issues.
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5  NCRP recommendations.                                                  j 6            My view has historically been that the Commission 7  has always based their rad protection regulations on NCRP 8  recommendations and I would feel much more comfortable if' 9  this Interim. Standard were based on that with some 10  appropriate level of conservatism.
11            .You might end up with a 50 rad, but at least you'd 12  have the basis of having the best experts in the country as 13  your basis for the regulation.
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16            DR. KERR:  Did the staff discuss how they measure 17  50 rads or 1 sq. centimeter and a depth of 7 milligram per 18  sq. centimeter?
19            MR. CARROLL:  Yes. I think people understand how 20  to do that.
1 21            DR. KERR:  I said " measure" not calculate.
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3                              DR. KERR:  So what one measures is the activity of 4  the particle and from that deduces--                                                                                                    1 5                              MR. CARROLL:                        How long-it's been on a person's                                        ';
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3 7                              DR. KERR:  Okay.
8                              MR. CARROLL:                        Which often is a very conservative 9  assumpciva because timekeeping you assume the guy got the-
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f          11                                DR. KERR:  So the.50 rad is not a measurement.                                                          Of
          ~ 1:2  course,. a whole-body 50 rad is not a measurement either, 13    but--okay.
_( )  14                                MR.-CARROLL:                        Any other questions?- I should ask 15  . Charlie.if he has any comments.
16                                MR. WYLIE:        No, I think you covered it very well, 17    Jay.                    The only thing I.would just. call the members attention 18'  to, the letters in there attaching from Dave Moeller and Dr.
19    Carter of NUMARC I think.                                            It would be informative to read 20    those.
21                                MR. CARROLL:                        Yes. I should comment on 22    particularly Dr. Carter's letter.                                                    I spoke to him on Monday.
23    I guess it's page 41.                                  And he, of course, has been very E          24    concerned about this hot particle issue and I guess feels 25'  that it is not really a very significant contributor to Heritage                  Reporting Corporation (202) 628-4888 L______            ____ _ _ _ _. - - _ _                  . - _ _ . - - - - - - - _ _        - - - - -    _
 
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2                                                                                    In his letter he does support the Interim Standard 3 proposed by the NRC staff.                                                                                          Says it's reasonable at this 4 time and relatively conservative and so forth.
5                                                                                    The question I posed to him was, "Well, would you 6 feel better, Mel, if we could wave a magic wand and had the 7 NCRP recommendations and a standard were based on those 8 recommendations?"                                                                            And he said, " Absolutely.                And'if we can 9 find some way to get the NRC and NCRP off of dead center and 10 get this standard on the street--or this recommendation on 11 the street, I would certain do my part internally with NCRP 12 to facilitate that process.                                                                                          And I'm sure Dave would do the 13 same thing."
()                              14                                                                                    So he would prefer, although the letter doesn't 15 say that, that the Interim Standard be based on an NCRP 16 recommendation.
17                                                                                    Any other questions or comments before we let 18 Frank Congel hold forth here?
19                                                                                    DR. LEWIS:  I need just one bit of education.                              '
20 Dade's letter speaks of stochastic versus non-stochastic 21 limits.                                                                          And that's a new use of the word " stochastic" to 22 me.
23                                                                                    MR. CARROLL:                  No, it isn't. Not among--oh, for 24 you, okay.                                                                                                                                                    ;
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2                                MR. CARROLL:      The health physics community has 3              been using that terminology for eons-I-guess.              Stochastic 4              .effect translate to a probability that a radiation exposure 5              - of.some sort may induce cancer, it may cause genetic 6              effects.
7                                Non-stochastic effects is one where particular 8              -radiation exposure will cause an effect.                                  I 9                                DR. LEWIS:    I see.                                    l 10                                          MR. CARROLL:    X neutrons is going to'cause --
11                        X betas to a localized area of the skin is going to cause 12                        skin reddening.
13                                          MR. WARD:    You mean stochastic is below clinical 14                        .c t.dence, damage below clinical evidence?
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15                                          MR. CARROLL:      I wouldn't say that.
16                                          DR. LEWIS:    I think I just understood what is 17                        going on.          With some probability.      I think the use of the 18                        word " stochastic" intrudes upon but doesn't duplicate the 19                        really--
20                                            MR. CONGEL:    Could I start off by one thing. You 21                        mentioned Dade Moeller's letter.              I talked with Dade Moeller 22                          this week and you focused in on the one part of his letter 23                          where he actually mixed stochastic and non-stochastic in his 24                          reply.
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6          DR. LEWIS:    Okay. The word " stochastic" in 7 statistics includes the "may or may not appear" but has no 8 reference to delay, to time delay.
9          MR. CONGEL:    No. In this context, it is used that 20 way. In the radiation protection cantext.
11          DR. LEWIS:    It's misused t'ais way, but you are 12 telling me to switch gears. I unoerstand. That's okay.
13          MR. SHEWMON:    You'll have to realize Professor
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15            (Laughter.)
I 16          MR. CONGEL:    My name is Frank Congel. I am the 17 Director of Division of Radiation Protection and Emergency 18 Preparedness.
19          And this morning I am going to give an overview 20 that is based on the presentation that was given to the 21 Subcommittee by my staff people on April 20th.
22 Unfortunately I was not able to attend that.      I was at the 23 Regulatory Information Conference in downtown Washington.
24 Nevertheless, I certainly spent some time talking to my 25 staff about the results of that April 20th meeting.
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                  '/          1            As I mentioned earlier, I had > rhone conversation 2 with Dr. Moeller and as a result of reading his letter and 3 Mel Carter's letter and other comments that have been fed 4 back to me, we prepared this morning's briefing. And what I 1
5 hoped to do is to present once again with a slightly 6 different twist the perspective that we, the NRC staff, had 7 that led us to the recommendations that you have in front of 8 you.
9            Just as an overview of what the Interim Standard 10 has stated or as it's stated in our Generic Letter,  I' d like 11 to emphasize some points. It is indeed an Interim Standard.
12 And we are gathering more information in order to come up 13 with what will ultimately be a final standard. This final 14 standard will be manifested in the form of a rule change, as
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16            I'd like to also point out a couple of times 17 already this morning that a two-year time frame has been 18 mentioned. Well, two years is the clock that we have that 19 starts when we have a recommendation in hand. Something 20 that we feel comfortable with. And since there are studies 21 going on right now gathering information that we would use 22 for the formation of a final recommendation, it may be more 23 than two years before we come up with a final rule. In 1
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12              Yes, sir.
13              DR. SHEWMON:  hel Carter in his letter talks about
: 14.                                      Are those both phrases
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15  that are used?    And can you comment here on the difference?
16              MR. CONGEL:  There is no difference. It's the 17  same concept, the same thing, that we' re talking about in 18  any cases. In some cases the particle might be a. piece of 19  material that comes from a stellite.      And other times it may 20  be an actual fuel fragment.
21              DR. SHEWMON:  But Mel feels that somebody--that 22  the licensee presumably is called upon to make a distinction 23  between hot particles and hot fragments and he's not clear 24  how one can do it. So apparently the rule must be somewhat 25  different or he thinks they are.
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  \-          1                                                                                                      MR .' CONGEL:    I don't know. Th'e only standard we
: 2.                                                                apply, as you know, the activity associated with the 3                                                              particle and calculate the dose associated with that 4                                                              particle using a method is approved.
          ,  5                                                                                                      MR. CARROLL:      You also have to know the dimensions 6                                                              of the particle.
7                                                                                                      MR. CONGEL: 'That goes into the computer program, 1
8                                                              that's right.                                  But in terms of the definition, I don't 9                                                              understand that point.
10                                                                                                        DR. LEWIS:    Well, Paul, I don't know why you are 11                                                                quibbling about the meaning of words.
12                                                                                                        (Laughter.)
13                                                                                                        DR. KERR:    Excuse me. If there's no distinction j)        14                                                              between the particle and the fragment, how does'it go into 15                                                                the computer program?
16                                                                                                        MR. CONGEL:    In terms of the isotopic makeup, the 17                                                                activity.
18                                                                                                        DR. LEWIS:    Do they guess a size or do they have 19                                                              to find the particle?
20                                                                                                        MR. CONGEL:    No, define the particle, measure the 21                                                              dimension of the particle, and know the isotopic makeup of 22                                                              the particle.                                  And that forms the input data for the code 23                                                              that's used to determine the dose.
24                                                                                                        DR. KERR:    What part does the dimension of the 25                                                              particle play in the code?
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U                        4                                          MR. CARROLL:          It's more than that, Bill.                            It also
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6                                          MR. CONGEL:        But I don't know all the' details of 7              the code.                    Does any of my staff here know it enough to 8              answer thatoquestion?
9-                                        MR. WARD:        The' dimensions do go into the code, 10'              into the calculation.
11                                          DR. KERR:        No, I said what part.do they play.                              I'm 12              trying to find out if there's some way of telling a. fragment 13                from a' particle?                        The computer' code kicks off once you.put 14              the dimension in and it says, "This is a fragment" or "This
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16                                          MR. CONGEL:        No.
17                                          DR. KERR:        Oh, it doesn't?
18                                          MR. CONGEL:        No.
19                                          DR. KERR:        It doesn't distinguish?.
20                                          MR. CONGEL:        No.
21                                          MR. CATTON:        They have to tell it what the 22              isotopic content is.
23                                          DR. KERR:        Obviously Mr. Carter i: ...; up to date 24              on computer codes.                            Okay.
25                                          MR. CATTON:        How do they find the particle?
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I 3                                    MR. CATTON:  They are going to miss some.                        :
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7                                    MR. CATTON:  So if it jumps on and jumps off, they 8                        won't find it at all.
9                                    MR. CONGEL:  That's possible. And in fact, when I 10                        discuss some case histories in a little bit, you'll see that 11                        that probably has occurred a couple of times already.
12                                    MR. CARROLL:    I couldn't guess how many hot 13                        particles I've had on my hide over the years.
14                                    VOICE:  You are probably sitting there retting
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16                                    MR. CARROLL:    Yeah, I know.
17                                    DR. REMICK:  Let's move on.
18                                    MR. CONGEL:  As was mentioned earlier by Mr.                    ;
19                        Carroll, it applies to a single exposure of an individual in 20                        a calendar quarter.
21                                    We have the limit that's proposed. The threshold              i 22                        limit is to stay below 50 rads. It was calculated over 1                l 23                        cm  at a skin depth of 7 mg/cm    . As I'll mention later, 24                        though the data is consistent with almost the radiation 25                        protection committees worldwide.
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3                                            MR. CARROLL:                                                  But only one per customer per 4    : quarter?
5                                            MR. CONGEL:                                                That's correct.                                              And I'm just saying 6'      though, we want to have the flexibility to look at a 7        specific circumstance that may result in some single 8        individual getting more than one of these in any calendar 9      quarter.                                We don't want--we aren't in the position yet to 10      write off entirely on that eventuality.
11'                                          MR.' CARROLL:                                                Yes. But you already have in the 12      regulations and in fact you've used it in hot particle 13      exposure incidents, a requirement that people have, quote, 14        " adequate surveys,"
15                                            MR. CONGEL:                                                Surveys, that's right.
16                                            MR. CARROLL:                                                  That gives you all the enforcement 17      discretion you need, it seems to me.
18                                            This other one, you know, the reaction of a 19      licensee is going to be, well, if Joe here, one of my best 20      workers, has gotton one hot particle, I'm going to keep him                                                                                                                                i 21      out of hot particles areas.
22                                            DR. KERR:                                                Well, now, is a hot particle a hot 23      particle even though the exposure is below 50 rads?
24                                            MR. CONGEL:                                                Sure. Yes, sir.                                                                        ;
25                                            DR. KERR:                                                What is meant by "No Notice of A                                                                          Heritage                                              Reporting  Corporation (202) 628-4888 1
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                      \'    1 Violation for single exposure below 50 rads"?    If the 2 exposure is a 10th of a rad--
3          MR. CONGEL:  No Notice of Violation. The point 4 is--                                                          l 5          DR. KERR:  No , wait a minute. You get a single 6 exposure for a 10th of a rad. Now, the second exposure at a 7 10th of a rad you enter the stochastic region where there's 8 a possible Notice of Violation and a possible violation of a Is that--                                            !
9 failure.
10          MR. CONGEL:  That's a possibility, yes.
11          I want to be able to determine what practices are 12 being followed, what the circumstances are at a particular 13 facility, that would result in something like that,
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14 especially considering we haven't seen such a thing yet.
15 Maybe it's an over conservatism on our part, but--
16          DR. KERR:  I'm not trying to determine whether 17 it's conservative or not. I'm trying to understand what the 18 possible Notice of Violation means. It means a licensee 19 beforehand can't really know whether he going to get a 20 violation or not, is that--
21          MR. CONGEL:  That's right. That's right.
22          MR. CUNNINGHAM:  Frank, Jay Cunningham, Branch 23 Chief, Radiation Protection Branch.
24          I believe your question is--what you are trying to 25 get at is the 50 applies to that single exposure which is e
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2    That is the single exposure less than 50.
3              Obviously, if.it is less than the current Part 20
                '4    limits, there is no citation--
5              DR. KERR:  Well, there isn't anything obvious
                .6    about that on the slide, and that's the reason I asked the 7    question..
8              MR. CARROLL:    So what you are saying, Jay, is that 9    for skin of the whole body, two of them between 7 and 50 10      might invoke that.
11                MR. CUNNINGHAM:    Might. That is correct.                Because 12      obviously the Interim Standard does not change the 13      regulations. We are exercising enforcement discretion at
            - 14 '  this point.
: 15.                DR. KERR:  As far as the licensees are concerned, 16      you will interpret "possible" as meaning "for certain."
17                MR. CONGEL:  You could.
18                DR. KERR:  And therefore his practice will be the 19      same as if instead of "possible" you said, " Notice of 20      Violation."    I mean I think you ought to take that into 21      consideration if it makes a difference.
22                MR. CONGEL:  The point that I wanted to make is 23      that we're going to be carefully looking at these kind of 24      exposures. That was my only point.
25                DR. KERR:  But your careful looking has some
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      'k)      1  implications as far as practice in the field, and, indeed, 2  could have implications as far as exposure of individuals.
3            MR. CONGEL:    That's correct.
4            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    May I?  Jay Cunningham again.
5 May I just add for clarification--rather than have no limit 6 'on the number of particles on an individual that are less 7 than 50 but greater than the current Part 20 limits, and 8  decided to specify an event and when it became more than one 9  event over the current Part 20 limits, we obviously have the 10  option not to impose the new enforcement discretion of the 11 proposed standard of 50.
12            DR. LEWIS:  At t he risk of again quibbling over 13 words, the term " enforcement discretion" sends chills down
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14 my spine. Because it suggests an environment in which 15 nobody knows what the rules are until the event is over and 16 then somebody will decide, namely you, whether or not to 17 cite somebody for violation of fuzzy rules.
18            It's a general principle of regulation that a i              19 person ought to be able to decide whether he's violating a i
20 rule while he's in the midst of the act.      And are you 21 abandoning that general principle here?
22            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    No, certainly not.
23            DR. LEWIS:  Okay. Well, what does " enforcement 24 discretion" mean?
l              25            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    It means that the current Part 20 Heritage  Reporting  Corporation l
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          . . 1              1'      limits are still applicable, because we have not changed the, 2        rules.
3                  DR. LEWIS:                                                    Yeah.
4                  MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                              Legally we are,still bound by the                                                  :)
5        Part.20. limits that exist currently.                                                                                                                                                                      j E        E                        6                  DR. LEWIS:                                                    Then what.is this--                                                                                                                ,
7'                  MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                            And the staff is.saying, however, 8        that we will chose not to issue a violation for an event-                                                                                                                                                  l 9        dealing with a. hot particlo as long as it does not exceed-                                                                                                                                                ;
10            the 50 rad.                                                                                                                                                                                      ,
11                      DR. LEW.'S:                                                  I'm really confused.                                                                          I thought that-12            the existing Part 20 is the set of rules.                                                                                                                            And you have no                      l 13            choice on.whether to enforce them.                                                                                              They are the rules.                                            So          .
14            I'm really quite confused about- what this is adding to the                                                                                                                                                l 15            situation here.                                                                                                                                                                                            j
                          '16                        This is adding a domain in which people are in                                                                                                                                                    !
l 17'          conformity with Part 20, but may still be cited by-you or                                                                                                                                                  j 18            not?
19                      MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                            No.
20                      DR. LEWIS:                                                  No.
21                      MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                            No, sir.
22                      DR. LEWIS:                                                  So is it adding an area in which they 23            are in violation of Part 20 but are not going to be cited by                                                                                                                                                ;
I 24            you?                                                                                                                                                                                                        j 25                      MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                          Absolutely correct, yes.
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28 1          DR. LEWIS:  How do you have that option?
2          DR. SHEWMON:    Because of the carry over which they 3 get this radiation is small enough, they think maybe it's a    '
4 "no, never mind" even though it could be interpreted as 5 violating the rule, which was originally set up for the 6 whole-body 50 rem.
7          DR. LEWIS:  Yes, I understand. I understand that, 8 Paul.
9          DR. SHEWMON:    So why are you asking it?
10          DR. LEWIS:  Just because I'm slow.
11            So this is to replace Part 20 then?
12          MR. CUNNINGHAM:    We will proceed with rulemaking 13 to change Part 20.
()    14          DR. LEWIS:  Why not wait until then?
15          MR. CONGEL:  Well, we want to respond to a problem 16 that is occurring right now.
17          DR. LEWIS:  I see. Okay.
18          MR. CONGEL:  That's the essence of what we're 19 going here. We recognize the inapplicability in most 20 circumstances of Part 20 to hot particle exposures.
21          DR. LEWIS:  Okay. You are saying that Part 20 was 22 written sloppily because people didn't recognize the hot 23 particle problem?
24          MR. CONGEL:  You can use those terms--
25          DR. LEWIS:  Is that in effect what you are saying?
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I 2 wide community that doesn't have a good standard on hot 3 particle exposure.        So the sloppiness continues.                      f I
4                MR. CARROLL:        But just to finish this subject off,      l 5 you will agree, Frank, that you really don't need this in 6 the sense that you do have already in Part 20 Section 7 whatever the heck it is, that in effect says that we make a 8 judgment as to whether you've done adequate surveys?
9                MR. CONGEL:      I agree with that statement. That's 10    correct, sir.          If we weated to find another basis for 11    enforcing an aspect of a licensee performance that we don't 12    like, most likely we can find another portion of the rule to 13    use.
14                  DR. LEWIS:      But when you exercise this regulatory
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17                  MR. CONGEL:      Always. Courts are always open--
18                  DR. LEWIS:      And they would win.
19                  MR. CONGEL:      Well, I wouldn't go to that judgment.
20                  DR. LEWIS:      Because you would have declared that 21    you were not enforcing the rule.
j                                                          22                  MR. CUNNINGHAM:        If I may, Jay Cunningham again.
l 23                  Part 2 of 10CFR identifies the enforcement policy 24    of the Commission and in that regulation, Part 2, it 25    includes the option and grants the staff certain enforcement Il
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30 1                discretion, certain latitudes are spelled out.                And that's 2              what we have used in the.past and that is also the basis for 3                the proposal of implementing this Interim Standard.
4                                      DR. LEWIS:  I'll have to reread that wording. I 5                didn't think it was quite that loose, but I'll reread it.
6-                                    MR. CONGEL:- And we certainly are completely 7              within the procedural requirements of making the 8                recommendations for enforcement purposes.
9                                      The only other--thing we already talked about the 10              possible failure for meeting other requirements, 11                irrespective of the dose that's calculated for a hot 12              particle.              And I want to point out that this approach does 13              not change in any way our record keeping notification and 14'              other reports.
15                                      DR. REMICK:  One other question. Let me take the 16              hypothetical situation that in one quarter there are several 17              hot particles found on protective clothing, not on the skin.
18;            And that protective clothing is adequate to protect the 19                individual from the exposures.
20                                      I assume there's no violation there.
21                                      MR. CONGEL:  That's correct. Because the dose--
22                                      DR. REMICK:  Well, I wasn't sure, from the first 23              bullet, it says " body or clothing."                And I just assumed that 24              if it's on the body--
25                                      MR. CONGEL:  You are getting to something that I
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31 l' want to discuss that is really the basic essence of the                                l l
2  problem that we have with the NCRP recommendations.            Namely, 3 that it doesn't go far enough.      And so when there is a ~                          ;
i 4  particle in the clothing, if it's found obviously, you have  "
: 5. three layers of clothing on and it's on the outside layer,                            l 6 and the activity is such that the betas won't even penetrate                          j 1
7  the three layers, the dese'you calculate from that in this i
8  hypothetical case is zero.      And that's the number-you use to                      l i
9  compare for enforcement purposes.                                                      ;
I 10            DR. REMICK:    Thank God for rationality.                                  .]
t 11            MR. CONGEL:    Okay. Thank you.                                          l t
12            MR. CARROLL:      Just so you can pace yourself,                            l 13  Frank, I guess you have until about 9:45.                                              l
()                                      14            MR. CONGEL:    Well--
15            MR. CARROLL:      To give industry theirs.                                  ]
i 16-          MR. CONGEL:      I'll skip the next slide that you                          !
1 17  have in your package and just go to the comparison of the                              i 18  exist Part 20 limits and the Interim Standard that we have
                                            -19  as our proposal.
20            And the column that is of interest here, of 21  course, is the ratio of the limits.      The skin of the whole 22  body is 7.5. Our proposed standard of 50 changes that by a 23  factor of nearly 7. And if you are talking about just the 24- skin of the extremities, and there's the hands, arms, feet 25  and ankles, it's a little bit less than a factor of 3.
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32 0                            1            The issue of whole body exposure, of course, is 2  not applicable to this standard.
3            Just for comparative purposes or for reference 4  purposes, that when you have particles in the microcurie 5  range, that clearly the dose from betas dominates strongly.
6  And that the skin dose from any gamma component is very 7  small.
8            That the whole-body dose,-thatJis, the' dose at the 9  'l em depth layer from such particles is typically very 10  small. And that the skin dose is definitely controlling.
11            When you reach the hundreds of microcurie range as 12  the activity of the particle, you've got circumstances where 13  the 50 rad skin dose could easily be exceeded using the 14  accepted programs that we have for calculating those.                          And
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15  that at that point you can also run the risk of exceeding 16  the whole-body dose, the 3 rem per quarter number.
17            So that when you are having controls at the 18  ' licensing level, it has to consider both of those 19  eventualities.
20            DR. KERR:        What is the significance of the 21  parenthetical statement under whole body, 1 gram per cm 22  depth?
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2            DR. KERR:  So if you take a layer that's about a 3 centimeter deep around a body, that's considered a whole-4 body dose?
5            MR. CONGEL:  That's what the calculational 6 approach uses. Yes. As opposed to the skin depth, the 2
7 active part, the skin layer, which is 7 ml. per cm    .
8            What was the basis for our change?    Why did we 9 want it?  Well, as we mentioned a number of times already, 10 the current limits are inappropriate simply because they 11 were based on exposure of significant areas of the skin.
12            And the other thing is that we know that there's 13 the possibility of saving whole-body dose. It was mentioned r~                          14 by Mr. Carroll's summary that industry believes that with
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23          MR. CONGEL:    Yes, yes.
24          DR. KERR:    And the idea here is that if you have a                l 1
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2                      MR. CONGEL:  Very, very small if not negligible.                                )
3                      I want to point out though that the 50 rem limit                                i 4        that is proposed by ICRP 26 is based on the non-stochastic 5          effects.      Namely, that number was chosen to eliminate any 6        possibility of effects such as erythema of the possible skin 7        effects.      It's not based on.the possibility of skin. cancer.
8                      DR. KERR:  But if one is willing to go from 3 to 9        50, then does that mean the likelihood of skin cancer is 10            vanishingly small?      I mean the.judgmentLis that that's-the 11            case?
12                          MR. CONGEL:  Let me make sure we've got all the 13            number straight.      The 3 rem is a whole-body dose.
(f  14                          DR. KERR:  Yeah.
15                          MR. CONGEL:  That's based on the protection of the 16            individual worker frem all forms of cancer.
17                          DR. KERR:  Yeah.
18                          MR. CONGEL:  The existing dose of 7 1/2 rem that's 19            in Part 20--
20                          DR. KERR:  Per quarter.
        '21                          MR. CONGEL:  Yes, per quarter.
22                          DR. KERR:  Which is 30--
23                          MR. CONGEL:  Is based on the stochastic, the 24            possible stochastic effects.        Namely, skin cancer.
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35 lL'    factors'that are applied to doses, if you were going to base 2    protection factors for the skin solely on stochastic 3    effects; namely, on skin cancer, the calculated. dose that 4    you'could receive would be somewhat larger.        I mean 5    probably, if I remember correctly, at least an order of 6    magnitude larger than 50 rem.
7                  DR. KERR:  Okay.
<                        8                  MR. CONGEL:  If they adopted that as the limit, i                        9    they are then in the realm where people getting that number 10          would still have a small possibility of skin cancer in the 11            future but a very real possibility of prompt effects.
: 12.                        DR. KERR:  Okay, thank you.
13                        MR. CONGEL:  Okay.
14                        MR. CARROLL:    One thing that was brought out in 15            the Subcommittee meeting with respect to skin cancer is 16            that, (a), it is a very common disease.        40 percent of the 17            U.S. population at age sixty-five has had skin cancer'in one 18            form or another.
19                        DR. LEWIS:  Is this the same form?    There are two 20            kinds of skin cancer.
21                        MR. CARROLL:  Non-melanomas.
22                        MR. CONGEL:  Yes. Non-melanomas.
23                        MR. CARROLL:  And the other interesting statistic 24            was that only about 2,000 people a year die of skin cancer 25            and in general those are people that don't get any kind of
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3                DR. LEWIS:  Yes, but that's again a sloppiness in 4'  words, because the one that's due to ultra-violet light is 5    usually a basal cell epidelioma and that's universally non-6-  fatal. And so lumping those large numbers'in with the 7    really serious skin cancars gives I think a misleading 8    impression.
9                MR. CONGEL:  Okay. How are we going to make the 10-  change?. What did we choose to do?
11                Well, of course, the root that we have available 12    to us at all times.is rulemaking.      I mentioned earlier that 13  the~one critical thing about rulemaking is that it takes 14  time. And it takes a substantial amount of time.
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18                But when you have a rulemaking that has plenty of 19  opportunity for public comment and we have a very well 20  substantiated technical base.
21                The Interim Standard that we are proposing can be 22  used--I chuckle a little--I wanted this out.        I think 7 told 23  people, my people, that definitely November of ' 88 was the 24  drop dead date for getting this out.        And it's now May of 25    '89 and we haven't got it out.      But theoretically, in any Heritage  Reporting  Corporation (202) 628-4888
 
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3                      And we can, of course, use it until the rulemaking 4 is complete, but, but, it will be more conservative than the 5 position we expect to be our final position after a formal                ,
6 rulemaking.
7                      I say that. I expect it. Ho guarantee.
8                      Now, the NCRP draft recommendations. We did get 9 the report, as was summarized by Mr. Carroll, in June of 10 last year.              And the recommendations included a new unit of 11 exposure, and that was the 75 microcurie hours.                And it 12 applied to a particle that is in contact with the skin.
13 Specifically stated only in the case where the particle was 14 in contact with the skin.                Because that is the primary
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15 database upon which they base that recommendation.                Namely, 16 where a particle was placed on the skin of pigs, $n most 17 cases, and of the consequences evaluated from it.
1B                      It also dealt with particles that were only Imm in 19 diameter or less.
20                      It was also stated explicitly in the report that 21 there is no safety factor in that estimate,                That, in fact, 22 there is a statement in there that the regulatory agency may 23 choose a safety factor of something above and beyond the 77                  I 24 microcurie hours.
25                      DR. KERR:  What is meant by the statement that
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2                                                          MR. CONGEL:  That:that' was the number'that was 3  evaluated--they came up with that value as the threshold 4 .upon which effects would be observable on the skin.
5                                                          DR. KERR:  So if you had 51 rads, you'd see 6 effects.- And if you had 50, you wouldn't, is that it?
7                                                          MR. CONGEL:  Well, 76.
8                                                          DR. KERR:  I'm sorry.        76.            Yeah.
9                                                          MR. CONGEL:    I don't know if you could call it
            '10    that' closely,-but my answer to that would be yes.
: 11.                                                          'MR. CABROLL:    However, Frank,-I.think a fair 12    reading of what NCRP said is we have not put in an explicit 13    safety factor of 5 or whatever.                                                        But I think they also make
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17                                                            MR. CONGEL:  In and of itself.                  But as Dr. Kerr 18    pointed out,.it still was an extrapolated value above which 19    you would expect to see some effects.                                                                  I think that's very
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21                                                            If you wanted to ensure that you would see 22    nothing, then you would take some multiples under that.                                                                                2, 23    5,              10, whatever you choose.
24                                                            MR. CARROLL:    Yeah.
25                                                            MR. CONGEL:  Also an estimate of uncertainty.
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2              DR. REMICK:  Just to make sure I understand, using 3 their' figures which I believe, Jay, you said works out.to 10 4 10    particles per second--
5              MR. CARROLL:    Correct. Particles.
6              DR. REMICK:  Oh, particles.  .I'm sorry, yeah.
7              So why can't what they give you be extrapolated?
8 It seems to me they are saying that the limit works out to 10 9 10    particles in an area of the skin roughly a millimeter 10  in diameter.      Because if it's on the skin, the exposure is 11  going to be pretty close to that diameter.
12              MR. CONGEL:  That's right. Yes.
13              DR. REMICK:  So it seems to me that if this is 14  removed on the outside of clothing and if you can accurately
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20              MR. CONGEL:  That might be true.                    And it formed 21  some of the thoughts that we had in coming up with the 22  recommendation we did.      Instead of using the number of 23  particles as a basis, we went to dose and we permit the 24  calculation of dose for a source that is removed from the
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40 k l. 1                      DR. REMICK:            Yeah.            But something in the handout 2 says that you've gone back to NCRP and asked them to clarify-3 that.- To me it doesn't seem like'it's~a major clarification.
4 required.                        Am I just being too simpleminded?
5                        MR. CONGEL:            If it was an easy one, I think we 6 would have heard from them already.                                    But we haven't..
7                        Let me go on.                      Perhaps some of your questions may E be answered by my subsequent--
9              .MR. CARROLL:                            Isn't it fair to say that what NCRP 10 was specifically asked to do was to look at the hot particle 11 in contact with the skin?
12                      MR. CONGEL:            Absolutely correct.              Absolutely 13 correct.              And they stated in their conclusion that their 14 results only applied to that.
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15                      MR. CARROLL:                  But you are right, Forrest.                              It's 16 not a difficult thing'to remove the particle--
17                      D'R . REMICK:          Yeah.
18                      MR. CARROLL:                    --from the area of the skin and--
19                      DR. REMICK:            Sure.
          .20                      MR. CONGEL:            And I could argue both ways.                                    If it 21 was easy, then they could have said it.                                    On the other hand, 22 if we had known it, we could have asked for it in advance.
          '23                      But it was stated in the report, this is the limit 24 of their applicability as they have interpreted the data.
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5                              straightforward.        I guess I can't see why--I don't-know.
6-                            Maybe we're held up on asking NCRP for clarification on.that 7                              point.        It seems to me pretty elementary calculations.
8                                              Go ahead. I'm sorry.
9                                              MR. CARROLL:    We're under time constraints.
10                                                  MR. CONGEL:  Here was our thought process, and why.
11                                  not implementing the NCRP draft recommendations.
12                                                  Well, we don't have a final report. yet and the
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16                                                  MR. CARROLL:    Let's focus in on that for a minute.
17                                  What are the hang ups to getting a final report?          When are 18                                  you going to have a final report?          You obviously need one to 19                                  move ahead with the rulemaking?
20-                                                  MR. CONGEL:  Alan, do you want to give--Alan 21                                  Rocklein is from the Office of Research and is managing the 22                                  contract with NCRP.        Perhaps you can give a summary of that?
23                                                  MR. ROCKLEIN:    We are placing an extension of the 24                                  contract with NCRP which includes as the end of this fiscal 25                                  year a deadline for the final report.          We are negotiating J
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2                                                      MR. CARROLL:      End of the fiscal year.
3                                                      11R . ROCKLEIN:    September 30th.
4                                                      MR. CONGEL:    September 30th.
5                                                      MR. CARROLL:      And so the. report should be:out 6                                    before September 30th?
7                                                      MR. ROCKLEIN:      We hope so, yes-8                                                      MR. CARROLL:      And what'are the present stumbling 9                                    blocks?        Where.are you hung up?      Or where is NCRP hung up?      i 10                                                      MR. ROCKLEIN:      We're not. In my opinion we are 11                                    not hung up.            It just takes some time to get this extension 12                                    through our own contracting process.
13                                                      MR. CARROLL:      So I guess I understood that the 14                                    Subcommittee was going to meet again sometime in June?'
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15                                                      MR. ROCKLEIN:      The contract will include I believe 16                                    two additional meetings of the Subcommittee.              The extension 17                                    of the contract.
18                                                    .161. CARROLL:    And at that point this report will 19                                    be on the street in September, following that.
20                                                      MR. ROCKLEIN:      I believe'so, yes. That's what 21                                  . we're discussing.
22                                                      MR. CARROLL:      Okay. And you indicated that there    !
23                                    may be some changes?            Do you--
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                                        '3                                      I'd like to address two or things that have been 4          brought up at this point.                              The NCRP report has been referred 52        to as a draft report.                      That isn't NCRP's position.                  The NCRP 6          forwarded the' report to the NRC in-June of last year for
* 7          contractual purposes to fulfill the contractual obligation 8          that NCRP had with the NRC.
9                                      The report at that point in time'was an approved 10          report by the Council and under normal circumstances would 11          have gone ahead to publication.
12                                      It did turn eut, and the reason it maybe can be 13          called an interim repor*.at this point in time, is that the 14          NRC staff did come back with many questions concerning the 4
15          basis on which the NCRP draft report had been made.
16                                      Being a scientific organization, we didn't go 17          ahead with publication.                          The NCRP decided that it would.try                          I 18          to attempt to.look at those questions that the NRC had 19          forwarded.                    That we are trying to do at this present time.
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        .7            MR. BECKNER:          I can't make a prediction other                                                                      -j 8: than, you know, to address what my own. feelings would be.                                                                            1 1
9  And_at this point in time I would guess that there probably 10'  won't be a change.          But I don't know.                                                                                        j 11              MR. CARROLL:          It seems to me from what we heard at l
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15  60 concern because of its very-soft betas.
16              MR. BECKNER:          Yes. Now, I'd like to address a 17  second point and that.was that the NCRP recommendation-is 18  being criticized because it only addresses the hot particle 19  on the skin. In fact, that was what we were requested to 20  address. The hot particle on the skin.                                                                        Not to-address hot 21  particles on some other location.
22              And the data that's'available is for particles 23  that are in contact with skin.            There's very little data 24  available with regard to particles that might be a 25  millimeter off or they are on top of some protective                                                                                    ,
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4          Then a third point has to do with the safety 5 factor. The NCRP didn't put a safety factor in its 6 recommendation for a single purpose, and that was that the 7 end point that was chosen of the non-stochastic effect of an 8 ulceration was considered, in fact, in itself to be a very 9 mind effect. And even if it occurred, it wouldn't be a 10 substantial detriment to the worker that it occurred on.                So 11 it would be no more than like a hot pin making a small burn 12 spot on the skin.
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16          MR. CONGEL:  Thank you, Bill.
17          DR. REMICK:  Could I interpret your last comment 18 then that NCRP believes that perhaps there's no need for a 19 safety factor on that figure. Is that correct?
20          MR. CARROLL:    That was correct.
21          DR. REMICK:  All right.      Thank you.
22          MR. CONGEL:  Let me offer just a small olive 23 branch. i am not here criticizing the NCRP report. I am l              24 talking about the report, the use of the report, and how we 25 could take the results of that report and translate it into l
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6                                          All I'm doing now is evaluating where we are and                                                                                                              J 7                          I'm aware of the problems that we are facing and the' answers' 8                          we are looking for before we can come up with a more-9                          definitive recommendation.
10                                            MR. CARROLL:                                        But didn't you, Frank, actually'the 11                            original draft ofLthis Interim Standard, as I was reading 12                            some of the correspondence, wasn't that original draft 13                            actually based on-the NCRP recommendations and because of 14                            some concerns others on the staff had?
15                                            MR. CARROLL:                                          The original proposal that my staff 16                            brought up to me, yes, indeed. It was based entirely on the 17                            NCRP' report.
18                                            MR. CARROLL:                                        And what was the limit in that first 19                            draft?
l        -20                                            MR. CONGEL:                                      Well, the number was 75 microcurie 21                            hours. We had adopted in our early drafts that value as our 22                            proposed limit.
          ;23                                          MR. CARROLL:                                        With no' conservatism.
24                                            MR. CONGEL:                                      You asked me what the first drafts--
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2'            MR. CARROLL: 'Okay.                                        .
3'            MR .' CONGEL:. I'm telling you, yes,_ indeed.
4            MR. CARROLL:      Well, could'I ask,-what changed-5  'that?- 'Were they legal considerations?      Or were they-6  technical conservatism      in the staff.that changed the draft 7  without getting--
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l                                                9:  was technical exchanges.amongst staff members.                    ,
10              Just quickly, if you'll run down.      One of the.-
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16              We had that in front of us.      To my knowledge, it 17    has not been resolved. It could' result-in a difference in--
18              DR. KERR:    It must surely have-been resolved by.
19    the NCRP because they gave you a report.
20              MR. CONGEL:    I don't know the answer to that.
21              DR. KERR:    Well, I mean clearly you have a report.
22    They had the same data, didn't they?
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5          And that led to some questions with the published 6 Hopewell data which they disagreed.                            They were not 7 consistent. And one of the questions the NRC gave back to 8 this subcommittee was why the difference?
9          MR. CARROLL:    Forbes is a member of the 10    subcommittee.
11              MR. CUNNINGHAM:    That is correct.
12                MR. CARROLL:    And I guess my understanding at our 13    Subcommittee meeting was that there was some plan for him to 14      publish the data.
15                MR. CUNNINGHAM:    I have heard that.                                I don't know 16      for sure certainly. But it was unpublished but available to 17      the subcommittee because he was on it, yes.
18                DR. KERR:  And so the subcommittee had the data 19      and all I'm saying is if they gave you a report, they 20      certainly must have resolved the issue as far as this 21      committee is concerned.
22                MR. CUNNINGEAM:    Well, I think that was one of the 23      questions when we talked to some of the representatives, and 24      they had not really looked at some of the other published 25      data such as the Hopewell and some of the English authors.
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                    )-                            1                                              MR. CARROLL:-                                                                  Oh, they looked at Hopewell.                                    I'm 1
2                                    looking at their report right now.
3                                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                                    But there were some'of the 4                                    English data that I don't think was looked at in any detail.
5                                              DR. KERR:                                Well, if you have this little 6                                    confidence in what the committee did, I don't see how you 7-                                    can use the report as a basis for anything.
8                                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                                    It was not that we'did not have 9                                    confidence. We simply had a few questions that appeared to 10                                            be in conflict and before using that as a basis for action 11                                            by the NRC, we' asked the question of how can these apparent 12                                            differences be resolved?
13                                                        DR. KERR:                                  So they are now in the process of 14                                            resolving or did the committee itself have'any feeling that
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16                                                        MR. BECKNER:                                                                  Bill Beckner, NCRP again.
17                                                        The committee did look at the Forbes/Mikhail and 18                                            they did.look at the Hopewell data at the time of their 19                                            deliberations.
20                                                        It was their opinion at that point in time that 21                                            the Hopewell data only had one or two data points that were 22-                                            really applicable to hot particles.                                                                                                        Those being a 23                                            millimeter in diameter or less.                                                                                                                                        1 24                                                        The other data points that were in the Hopewell 25                                            reports really are not applicable to that kind of a source.
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2            Now, there has been a dialogue between Hopewell 3 and some investigators in this country, principally Dr. Baum 4 from Brookhaven and Dr. Reece from Bechtel as well as the 5 Chairman of the NCRP Subcommittee, of trying to again look 6 at the small particles that were utilized in the Hopewell 7 studies to      a  if those could be made to look the same as 8 the Forbes/de, . ail data.
9            Dr. Baum at this point in time says there's a 10 factor of 5 difference.                    The committee person that looks at 11 dosimetry is Dr. Resh.                  He will report to the committee this 12 summer on whether he really feels that the differences are a 13 factor of 5 or what it is.                    Dr. Resh is a very well known 14 dosimetrist and the committee has based its recommendation
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16            DR. SHEWMON:                  The draft recommendation--the NCRP--
17 even though the NCRP says it's their report, because you 18 want them to answer more questions, is that why the draft 19 keeps coming up?
20            MR. CONGEL:                  That's my understanding until--it has 21 not been issued as a final report.                                                                                                                          l 22            DR, SHEWMON:                  Is your understandir.g of the staff 23 position, is that what you are answering me?
24            MR. CONGEL:                  No. My understanding of the NCRP is 25 that it's still a draft report.
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            )-                            l'            DR. SHEWMON:        Well, he just got done saying it was y                                          2  the final report that was put out by the body.                                                                                                        You don't.
3  think he understands the sit'uation, is that.it?
4              MR. CONGEL:      Clearly somebody doesn't understand 5  the-situation. I don't have a piece of paper in. hand that 6  says to.me that the NCRP has issued a final. report numbered 7  -101. Now, if he can point out a report to me that says 8  here's the NCRP report final 101, then I guess I'll say I'm 9  wrong.
10              But in the meantime, let me hear it.
11              DR. LEWIS:      Final means " interim" you understand.
                                        .12                MR. BECKNER:        In our June 17th letter to you which 13  we've forwarded the report, we stated that the 14  recommendations were final and I think that's already been 15  brought up once today.
16'            And Mr. Rocklein's letter back to us with the 17  questions in September recognized the fact that the report 18  was final.
                                      -19                MR. CONGEL:      The recommendations I think are final 20  based on your letters.        Has there been a report published by 21-  the NCRP?
22                MR. BECKNER:        No.                                          It has not been published but 23    it still is an approved report by the Council and it's been 24    delayed for the very purpose of looking at the questions 25    supplied by NRC.
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3                                                                    MR. BECKNER:    I think it is at that time because 4                                                      at this point in time he obviously would say that if it was        !
5                                                      a final report, how come NCRP hadn't published it.
6                                                                    MR.'CONGEL:    Yes.
7                                                                    MR. BECKNER:    And the reason we haven't published.
8                                                      it because you asked us additional questions.          Now, that 9                                                      doesn't mean the report is going to change.
10                                                                    MR. CONGEL:    It doesn't mean it won't change.
11                                                                    MR. BECKNER:    That's correct.
12                                                                    MR. CONGEL:    Okay. Do we want any more dialogue 13                                                      on this or is the disagreement understood?
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16                                                                    MR. CONGEL:    You can probably appreciate why we-17                                                      didn't get this out in November.
18                                                                    A quick summary here. We talk about the use of 19                                                      the NCRP report and we looked at the seven principal cases 20                                                      of overexposure that have occurred over the past few years 21                                                      or so. What I wanted to do is just show use of the NCRP-22                                                        report as it's presently constituted.        And the use of the 50 23                                                      rad limit as we propose in our draft standard, Interim 24                                                        Standard.
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3                          DR. REMICK:  Those are all the cases?    Those seven 4              are all the cases that have occurred, okay.
5                          MR. CONGEL:  Those are all of them. There are 6              some other cases that .< ave allegedly involved hot particle 1
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7              overexposure, but we were not able to' ascertain the manner 8              in which the exposures took place.      So consequently--I can 9              go over those, but in terms of enforcement actions,~these 10              are the only.seven.
11'                      . VOICE:  If I may, Frank, those are the only seven 12              that are presently completed actions at this time.
13                          MR. CONGEL:  Oh, okay. .Thank you. Completed
          - - 14              ones. There are some others that are still being 15              investigated.
16                        Now, if you apply the NCRP standard, two of the 17              seven right off the bat were not applicable because the 18              particle was not in contact with the skin.
19                          MR. CARROLL:    That's a little bit of sophistry 20              though, isn't it?    You could use the standard as a basis 21              for--
22                          MR. CONGEL:  I looked- you know, we go through the 23              discursion of accept the standard from NCRP, why didn't you, 24              a discussion of the final version of it.      On the other handy 25              when we talk about using it as it says verbati my they said,
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9'            Now, if you apply that standard, here's what you 10  run into. I don't think you can have it both ways.
          'll -            MR. CARROLL:                                                                            Well, all right.
12              MR. CONGEL:                                                                    That's my position.
13            Now, these two are not applicable because they are 14  not on the skin.
15            MR. CARROLL:                                                                            Okay. Go ahead.
116              MR. CONGEL:                                                                      These are.        And of all of them that 17  would be an exposure greater than a standard, one of the 18  two, either the 50 rad or the NCRP standard, you'll note                                                                                                    I 19  that the case with Summer, where there's a calculated dose 20    of like 420 . rads, it would exceed either standard.
21              The 50 rad standard yields no to all of the othere 22  with the exception of this fairly recent one at Arkansas 23  with a calculated dose of 61 rads.                                                                              And it still would have 24    involved an enforcement action on our part.
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: 4. determined by--as near as people, the health physicists can 5  tell--be the work environment that the person was in.
6              MR. CARROLL:    It usually is conservative, Bill, 7  because you say, well, I-don't know--I kept track of the 8  time when the guy went into this area, I know that.                                          And I 9  know when he came out to be monitored when I found the 10  particle, but I don't know when the particle got on his skin 11  through his clothing or whatever.
12              DR. KERR:    Okay.
13              MR. CARROLL:    All right. So you assume the whole 14  interval.
15              MR. CONGEL:    In any case, this quick summary shows 16  two out of seven of these instances would have resulted 17  still in enforcement action under our Interim Standard.                                            Two 18  of the seven would not have been directly applicable to the 19  NCRP Standard.
20              I looked at these data and with my staff decided 21  that the 50 rad standard would indeed give enough relief 22  until we gave more thought and consideration to the 23  theoretical anpects.
24              IlR. WYLIE:  Frank, let me ask a question.
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2    because the sensitivity of the instrumentation was not 3    available?
4                  MR. CONGEL:  That's a partial explanation.                    That's 5    as far back as we've had hot particles.
6                  DR. KERR:  Just out of curiosity.                    Do you know 7    whether the Summer case resulted in ulceration, an 8  . observable ulceration?
9                  MR. CONGEL:    I don't believe we've had any 10              evidence of skin effects whatsoever in actual incidents.
11                            DR. KERR:  So he knows about nine times the 50 12              that you are recommending, the 50 rad?
13                            MR. CONGEL:  Yeah.              That's correct.        Eight to nine 14                times.
15                              DR. KERR:  Okay.
16                              MR. CONGEL:  All right.              Let me go quickly to the 17                other consideration.      The NUMARC summary that asks the 18                question of how much dose facilities estimate their spending 19                just in potential responses to hot particle exposures.
20                Let's see if you can see this.                  This is NUMARC data.
21                              At any case, it does range from zero to as much as 22                50 per outaget.      The only thirig I wanted to say is to toll E3                you that no nemes were given to the facilities when we got                          l l
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7    estimation-on how much is actually spent, but there's a fine 8    line between good radiation protection practices and a 9    practice that's specifically oriented toward one mode of 10      exposure.
11                In any case, if you did a weighted average of 12      this, it comes out on the order of two person rem a year or 13      so. ' Something on that order.
14                MR. CARROLL:    Per year.
              -15                MR. CONGEL:  Yes. And two person rem a year is' 16      pretty much in the noise range when the averages are running 17      3 to 600 a year. But nevertheless, I regard it as a real 18      number.
19'                MR. CARROLL:    It isn't in the noise range when 20      you've got the workers in the power plant very concerned 21      about the health effects and why am I taking this additional 22      exposure if hot particles aren't really e problem.
23                I mean, you know, whether it's two out of the 400 24      and some odd man rem per year isn't important in their 25      minds. It's the fact that I'm receiving exposure that's
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2                      MR. CONGEL:    Okay.. But--
3                      MR. CARROLL:    To the individual that does steam 4            generator work, it's important.
5                      MR. CONGEL:    Okay. The conclusions, I think I've 6-          stated a number of times, but our position is that there are 7            some differences in the scientific data that we'd like to 8            see a stronger resolution of.      We recognize the 9            conservativeness of the 50 rad limit.      But it does give a 10            relief factor of about 3 to 7, as I showed in one of my 11            earlier slides.
12                      .When we do look retrospectively at the experiences 13            to date, five of the seven would not have been violations 14            using this Interim Standard.
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15                        If we used the 75 microcurie hours proposed, only 16            four of the same seven and our position, in spite of my
                                        !.7            desire for last November to have it in place, I still think 18            we should implement it as socn as possible.
19                        MR. CARROLL:    Well, let me ask a question in that 20            regard. Would you feel better in terms of being able to 21            defend what you are doing if you Interim Standard was 22            delayed and based on the, quote, " final" NCRP report, 23            delayed it three or four months, whatever it's going to be?
24            And I'm not necessarily saying you should use whatever 25            number they come up with, say, it's 75.      You might want to
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6 That settlement of the technical issues, and what I mean as 7 a true settlement, should be reserved for the rulemaking.
8 It's more appropriate there.
9          And I think it may take more than the next three 10 months to come up with something that I would have to defend 11 in various forms.
12          I think that what we have is ready to g:..
13          MR. CARROLL:  Yeah, but the industry I guess, and 14 they'll be telling us this in a minute, doesn't think it
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16          MR. CONGEL:  I understand that.
17          MR. CARROLL:  --what their answer to the same 18 question is, but it could be that we' d rather wait three 19 months and have more relief. Is that acceptable to you?                        Do 20 you feel more comfortable with that?
21          MR. CONGEL:  I want to point out something.              I'm 22 not here to really give the industry relief. My scientific 23 group is here to give the best estimate in a short period of 24 time for an interim measure that we would feel comfortable 25 still protects the workers' health and safety.
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4          Just the issue of the particle being away from the 5 skin I don't think is going to be resolved in three months.
6 Even if the NCRP report became final tomorrow.
7          MR. CARROLL:  Okay. All right. We're running 8 short on time.
9          DR. KERR:  Let me just ask one more question.
10 Back to the possible issuance of a citation. Is that 11 language due to the fact that you don't want--that you are 12 afraid you'll run into some sort of legal hassle if you 13 don't put in "possible"?    It still puzzles me that you are 14 unwilling to make that specific. So that a licensee will
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17          MR. CONGEL:  From what I've heard this morning, 18 I'll take another look at that cause. I certainly don't 1
19 want to leave that as sort of a sword hanging over their 20 head that can be released at any moment.
21          DR. KERR:  Okay.
22          MR. CONGEL:  If that's the way it came across, and 23 clearly it did, I will relook at those words.
24          DR. KERR:  Thank you.
25          MR. CARROLL:  Tom, do you want to proceed?
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2.-                          since we are. running a little late and we have two                                j
                          .3-                          presenters here, what I'd like to do.                  I'm Tom Tipton, 4                            Director.of.the NUMARC Operations Management and Support i-5                            Services Division.
6-                                        We appreciate the opportunity to discuss with the 7                            full Committee our position on the staff's draft interim 8                            guidance on hot particles.
9                                          With me today is Lynne Fairabin, passing out the 10                              chronology that I will not go.through unless you have some                      -
11                              questions.          Lynne is our NUMARC Project Manager on the 12                              issue. Also with me is Mike Williams, Manager of Nuclear 13                              Services, and Principal-Health Physicist for Union Electric.
14                            And also Chairman of the EEI Task Force on Skin
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                        '16                                          Pat Robinson is with me.              She's Manager of the
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17                            Low-Level Waste Programs within EPRI, and will be giving a-18                            presentation.
19                                          What I would like to do is, like I say, in the 20                              interest of time, I had some thoughts, but I'd like to 21                              reserve that until I conclude, if you don't mind, and go 22                            right in with Pat talking about the studies that EPRI has 23                            been performing.
                        .24                                          MS.~ ROBINSON:        Good morning, gentlemen.
25                                          My name is Pat Robinson.              I do work for the              I
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4              Since we are short on time, I am going to'run 5  through an already abbreviated presentation over what'your L                            -6  Subcommittee has heard to even a further abbreviated 7  presentation. So we might make the more important salient 8  points here'without belaboring a lot on theory.
: 9.            I do want to just fill the framework for you'a 10    little bit about where we are on hot particles.      You have 11-  heard some introductory words this morning that we really
                            .12  :are dealing with two types of particles.      One Cobalt 60 or 13    activation product particles, fragment, particles from The other of fuel fragments which are released'
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16              Several important points for you to keep in your 17    mind as I work through the discussion.      Of all the particles 18    that we found in our industry, and before we started 19  ' detecting these, we probably would have just called them 20  ' general area contamination, because they in essence you 21    could think of general area contamination on a very 22    microscopic level as actually being the sum total of a lot 23    of very small discrete radioactive particles, which is the 24    nomenclature that we use. You'll hear hot particles and 25    fuel fleas, and so forth.
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5                      The other important part that was briefly touched 6          on is that over 90 percent of the skin dose, and remember, 7          we are concerned about skin effects in this radiation i
8          protection area, come from just the beta rays, 9                      EPRI completed a survey to attempt to get some 10          definition around the occurrence of hot particles. We 11          surveyed sixty-one stations. I'm sorry you can't quite read  l 12          the green shade here, but the overall survey showed that we 13          had about an occurrence of seventy plants of the sixty-one
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2                        rolling, because you are, but-the Interim Standard defines 3                        hot particle--it says means a discrete radioactive fragment.
4                        I'm not quite sure what that means.      But both of the types 5                        that-you are describing would fit within that definition,~ or 6                        is there a disagreement between you and the staff on this?
7                                  MS. ROBINSON:    Well, I'm not really sure what the 8                        staff means by a fragment.
9                                  DR. LEWIS:  Good. We're in the same boat.                              Go on.
10-                                MS. ROBINSON:    So if you really want to know, we 11                        can try again with them.
12                                  The overall objective of what we are looking for 13                        and what we always seek to do in our radiation protection at 14                        our nuclear power plants is really to balance risk, and we
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17                                  And now we're dealing for the first time in our 18                        radiological protection history an effect that is not based 19                        on cancer induction. I'm going to touch on just the 20                        stochastic word, even though we slightly misuse it a.little 21                        bit here.
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4 of a teaser. I want'to go through the impact cf having hot 5 particles and the response that the industry has had in-6 implementing controls, and what they've resulted in.
7          I believe the NRC's mentioned that it has                                                                      ;
8 increased whale-body exposure.                      I consider increase in 9 whole-body exposure to be significant even if it averages 10 out to be on the order of 2 rem per year.                                                                                i 11          Significant less in worker productivity.                                                              We'll 12 come back to all these issues.                      In' fact, if you don't                                              ;
13 understand every-one of these points that I have up on the
    /    14 board by the time Mike Williams from Union Electri'c 15 concludes his presentation, please remember this slide and.
16 come back to it so we can. answer your questions.
17          We have had an increase in feet stress incidents,                                                              i 18 We have incurred an increase in manpower requirements.                                                              And 19 currently as the NRC has presented and' structured their                                                                q 20 Interim Standard, their interim guidance, on this issue,                                                                i 21 there is a further threat to adversely affect the quality 22 and assurance of maintenance work and to further remove                                                                  i 1
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                                                '2          actually quite a' bit about hot particles. We can assess.the_
                                                .3'          risk to workers. And we have a fair amount of research data
                                                '4-          that' supports this effect. The effects that we can measure.
5          The research data largely comes from work on animals.      And 6          EPRI is continuing to extend out knowledge on the effects of.
7          hot particles by doing experimental work on pigs.
8                      There is some human data also'in the database.
9          NCRP I know has reviewed all available literature that we 10            found to be of importance. As I have had my researcher 11            responsible'for this area, Dr. Reece, perform'the same kind 12            of literature search and analysis.over cvailable research-
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14                      MR. CATTON:  Did anything come up in a foreign'
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16                      MS. ROBINSON:    Yes. There are several things that 17            I think that have been mentioned, largely by Hopewell in the 18            UK that have been done. There are other things that have 19            actually been done in the United States very early on in        i 20            some of the work that was done up in Hanford.
21                      Just a few words on the difference between 22            stochastic and non-stochastic as we are using it here.
23            Classically in radiation protection regulations, we've 24            always been regulated on the stochastic response. That is, 25          the probabilistic endpoint of cancer induction.
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6          Our threshold response and the effect that we're 7 concerned about is ulceration, and this effect can be 8 predicted based on several parameters of dose radiation 9 field fractionation and so forth, and I'll explain a little 10 further.
11          So for skin exposures, particularly for non-12 uniform skin exposures, the non-stochastic effects are the 13 ones that we are concerned with.
14          DR. LEWIS:  I want to put on the record that I
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15 have no problem whatever with those definitions. You've got 16 it right.
17          MS. ROBINSON:    Thank you.
18          Notice I left out the part about the time 19 dependency.
20          Stochastic risk--I suppose this is a little--I'm 21 in a little bit of a repetition. In fact, I did say it.
22 The important part off of this slide was that the risk from 23 skin cancer is very low and I think the bottom adds the 24 point that it's so low that there are essentially no good      l 25 measurable data on humans.
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68 l'                    So now'a little bit on'with our effective concern' 2-          here which is non-stochastic response.              The non-stochastic t'
3          response is dependent on these variables.              The dose, the 4          size of the irradiation field, the beta energy, the depth of 5            the critical tissue that we are concerned about, and
;                              6          fractionation of that dose.
7                      DR. REMICK:      Could you explain fractionation of                              ,
L                            8          the dose?  I'm not sure I understand.
9                      MS. ROBINSON:        There's acute. exposures that you.
10                can get'all at once, or'you could take that'same dose and 11                deliver it over a time frame..
12                            DR. REMICK:      Okay.
13                            MS. ROBINSON:        So there's a different effect
                    - 14                whether it's acute or distributed over what we call the 15'                fractionated' dose time.
16                            The skin effects that one might see, the non-17                stochastic part of the response we're concerned about, the 18                very first thing you might see is skin reddening.                If you 19                all have been out in the sun, I'm sure you've seen the 20                erythema on yourself.
21                            Further, if you've been out in the sun a little
                      .22-                too long, you've probably seen the dry desquamation which is                                  ~I 23-                the white flaky dry appearance.        And if you fell asleep out 24                in the sun, you are in real trouble.              Because you may even 25                have put water blisters on yourself.
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15 /            1:                                                                    The'NCRP'has-stated in their' draft report, their 12'                                  draft final position report, that the effect of' concern is 3                          . ulceration and they indeed' consider that to be a minor-4'                                  effect.
5                                                                    'This"is a little' bit of information I'm going 61                                through very. fast.-                          Please stop me'if I'm too fast. That I 7-                          . wanted to point out about the size effect of irradiation.
L-                    8                                  We have research-information data that shows that for an-
                      .9.                                  irradiation field of.1 sq cm'or above, the dose relationship 10,                                    is a constant--the dose effect relationship'is a constant                            ,
: 11.                                    function.of' dose.
12'                                                                      For irradiation smaller.than 1 sq cm,.which'is 13                                    indeed where we are with'.all our DRPs, deliver: tremendous 14-                          ; doses but little damage.
15                                                                      I'll explain'for you very simply what the. biology 16                                    schematic of the skin here in just'one second..
                  -17                                                                        The other important parameter I had on my list was 18                                    energy.                          Low energy beta spectra that don't penetrate the 19                                  bottom of the hair follicle and into the capillary beds"of 20                                    the dermis, do not produce as much damage as beta rays that 21                                    do penetrate deeply into the skin.
22                                                                      So this is a real general schematic of what the 23                                    skin looks like.                            This area up on the top, of course, of 24-                                  your skin are all dead cells.                              They move up or are 25                                    regenerated from the bottom to the top.                            Down in this area
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                                -3 capillary bed can go as deep as 1500 micro:is or so.
l 4                We took the research information that we had from 5 Hopewell who uas looking at ulceration and several other 6 endpoints, which, by the way, the discrepancy that people 7 refer to between the Forbes/Mikhail data and'the Hopewell 8 data, according to Dr. Reece, is really a misinterpretation 9 of the endpoint that the two researchers use.                                              And in fact, 10  when you correct for the endpoint, there's not the factor of -                                            ;
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12                  These are reconstructed dose profiles of the 13    Hopewell work.        And what I really want to show here is for i
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17    modeled to reconstruct this dose profile.                        It's a little bit                        j 18    elongated here.
19                    Really this in reality would be a sphere.                                        It      q 20    would be, you know, equally irradiating from the source in                                                l 21    the different directions.
22                    This 20 line, by the way, is in gray.                                        For those 23    of you, like me, who have problems with gray, you multiply 24    by 100 to get rad.        So this is the 2,000 rad area.
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3                                                      Now, if you remember my brief schematic'of a 4      -biology slide that the top layer of cells above the basal 5                areas is on the order of 70 micron, so.it's kind of in this 6                area.                              This.is penetrating deep into the' capillary beds, and 7                in fact, you can get ulceration by penetrating deep into the '
8                capillary beds.                                                  But it is a function of size and dose.
9                                                        So I've shown you the Strontium 90 and now I'd 10                like for you to take a look at what the Cobalt 60 looks 11              like.
12                                                      The Cobalt 60 is a very low energy beta compared                      I 13              to Strontium 90.                                                    It therefore does not have the' depth 14        . penetrating power, so to speak, to really do significant
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15              damage in the skin to where you would get ulceration.                                                      And 16              as you can see, here's the 2,000 rad line is very, very 17              shallow in penetration to the depth of the skin.
18                                                      We worked on these dose--
                                                  '19                                                      DR. KERR:                      What is the peak beta energy?  Is it 20              300 KEV?
21'                                                      MS. ROBINSON:                      Here are the energies of the 22              sources that we looked at.                                                      So the Cobalt 60 is--
23                                                      DR. KERR:                      300 KEV.
24                                                      MS. ROBINSON:                      Yes. 300 KEV or so. And 2.2 MEV  f 25              for the Strontium 90.                                                    Quite a bit of difference in the 8                                                                                                                            Heritage  Reporting  Corporation l                                                                                                                                            (202) 628-4888 1
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3 and because of the past research work that has been done has 4 not accurately characterized the type of particles that we 5 have in the industry, in either size or beta energy, and 6 there were considerable problems that researchers have had                      j 7 in trying to unravel the dosimetry question, nobody was 8 really terrible confident in how much dose was actually laid 9 down as an example in the Hopewell study.
10          EPRI has undertaken a research effort to do one 11 thing and that is determine the ulceration threshold for 12 DRPs characteristic of our industry.
13          And then by doing that we are going to study or 14 are studying the non-stochastic skin effects from the energy f-)N, 15 in the beta and the skin of the irradiated area.
16          I only just flashed this slide for you once again 17 because it really does more or less define for you the study 18 that we are conducting. We are using pigs for this study, 19 which is the animal of preference for skin effects.
20          And we have chosen a variety of sizes. But all of 21 our sizes are more in the range of where we need to be.      In 22 fact, they are quite large. They are a thousand times 23 larger of what we really see.
24          But there is some practical difficulty in trying 25 to deal with a 100 micron source or less. In fact, the
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(:  have the mid to high energy betas with the Strontium 90                          4 7    cerium isotopes which are what you'll find in.the fuel 8    primarily.
9                    The reason we picked Calcium 45-instead of just 10    working with Cobalt 60 is that it's within 20 percent'of the 1:L    energy of each other, but there's no strong gamma component-12    to Calcium 45 which makes my researchers'very happy because 13    they. don't have to pick up very much gamma exposure by
                                    .14    dealing with Calcium 45.                  And they can lay down huge doses, 15    beta doses, in the skin without isotope.
16=                    As I mentioned pig skin is the animal of choice 17    largely because it roughly matches our skin in both depths 18    and structure.
19                    How am I doing on time here?
i 20                    MR. CARROLL:            Charging.                                '
21                    MS. ROBINSON:            Charging.        Okay.
22                    I just want to kind of flash this up.                It probably 23    doesn't mean too much.                  Doesn't mean a lot to me.      But what 24    it does mean to me is that the research Jollars that I'm                            j 25    spending, and by the way, this is the most expensive hunk of Heritage      Reporting        Corporation (202) 628-4888 i
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74 1                                                pork ~I've ever purchased.        In fact, I have a $600 a month 2                                                hotel bill from housing six pigs.
3-                                                                I wanted to make sure we did things right.                      And.
4                                                when we went back and looked at everybody else's past 5                                                ~ research protocol and so forti                it was clear that Hopewell 6                                                is an excellent biologist but hs*s not a great health 7                                                physicist and his dosimetry was questionable.
8                                                                So we are spending a good deal of money on the 9                                                source characterization by using several methods of which we 10                                                          are in fact using the VARSKIN model which is an NRC-11                                                          developed codenas a predictive model to our test.
12                                                                        Well, besides the fact that pork is really 13                                                          expensive for me these days, just to give you an idea of 14'                                                        what this experiment might look like in reality, we do take
                                                              .15                                                            ' sources and irradiate the flank ef the pig.
16                                                                        And this is kind of a rough layout for you.                      We 17                                                        had fifty-three irradiations all of different doses randomly 18                                                        placed on the pigs and there were three pigs we were using 19                                                          for the first phrase study.                Multiple sources, of course, of 20                                                          each to get some semblance of a statistical analysis.
21                                                                          These irradiations are underway.                      And now what I                i 22                                                        want to do for you is just talk to you a little bit about 23                                                          how much dose did we in fact lay down.                                                              l 24                                                                        Well, you have to talk in real big numbers because 25                                                          one instruction that I gave to Bechtel Northwest as a                                              l O                                                                                                                            Werie 9e aegerei e cereer tie-(202) 628-4888 i
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3            So Dr. Reece has been working very'hard under 4 that. And in doing that we are doing the first phase 5 studies which are the larger particle size, and we started 6 with the larger to work smaller on the basis that if you 7 don't get ulceration from the large particle sizes, you are 8 certainly not going to get them from the small particle 9 sizes.
i 10            And the reason is which, by the way, was one 11 important point that I forgot and that is when you irradiate 12 a small area of the skin and you kill the cells directly 13 under or within the reasonable perimeter of that source, the
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15 can pick a small enough source and in the case of Cobalt 60 16 where we don't believe you can get ulceration period.                          And 17 hence, it's important to recall that my efforts to 18 distinguish Cobalt 60 as a low energy beta emitter from the 19 mid to high energy beta emitter is important, when we think 20 about what we really need to regulate here.
21            So these are some of the doses that we are laying 22 down expressed in terms that the NRC can relate with and 23 what the NCRP can relate with.
24            But you see that we are in the 21,000 or so rad 25 level for the Cerium 144 sources or 3200 microcurie hours.
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2            DR. LEWIS:  Have you gotten them yet?
          '3            MS. ROBINSON:    We have not-got ulceration. We
        '4  have gotten some intermediate affects. You know, the' air                  ]
5'  semen, I think there has even been some wet disclamation, i
6  There have been some very transient responses that weren't
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8            And again, the mid to high energy beta you see-9  that for the strontium 90. These large sources that we'are 10    laying down, what really are tremendous skin doses.
11              Now to the low energy betas, the' reason I use 12    calcium 45 is because I could lay down 64,000 RAD.      Now I
      .13    never really filled in the gap for you in my brief                              ,
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15'  'only expect a first phase response and'that first phase 16    response will occur within the first 5 weeks after 17    irradiation. With those deeply penetrating mid to high 18    onergy beta, you can get a second phase response.      In other 19    words, you can see an affect that may be reddening or it may c
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2'            I am going to tell you what the results are here 3  in a minute as soon as I flash all this technical data.at 4  you.
5            The Cobalt 60 radiations, I want.to slow-down for 6  just a minute and make sure we all grasp the amount of 7- exposure'that we have delivered.here. This is on the order 8  of 12 to 18,000 RAD. Recall that the NCRP was, you know, 9  really derived. There were 75 micro curies hours, I~
10  believe, off of an exposure of 2000 RAD as conservative as 11  it is. And that brought them to the 75 micro curie hours.
12            So you see that even the 75 micro curie hours is 13  extremely conservative and how would you say that she can 14  support that statement. Well, she can support that
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15  statement because there are not now 28 days after this 16  research effort, we are now into the 5th week and we have no-
                                                                              -l 17  ulceration, absolutely no ulceration from Cobalt 60 or 18  Calcium 45 particles 19            We had seen--on the cerium strontium 90, on some 20  of the very high end, large particle doses, we have seen dry 21  disclamation. In other words, it had gotten red and it        j
          '22  looked like a sun burn, you started to peel a little bit.
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24  results, we still have to follow the full 16 weeks to make      4 25  sure we see any second phase response, should there be any.
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2:            I grow more and.more confident that we cannot get 3-          . ulcerations from the cobalt 60. particles of the size.
J4              - characteristic to our. industry.
5                            WhatLdoes that mean?                                  Well, what it really means 6-            is that',.in reality, at some point in time, I'm not sure 7            where it isL in time, that1we should think about some sort
:8              of exemption        or some much higher, level for cobalt 60 so 9            that cobalt?60 is not--that we are'not sending real whole 10'              bodyfexposure for an,effect-that we can't even get,                                                                              i.e.
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12                              MR. .. CARROLL:                          In fact,- NCRP alluded to this:same-13              point in.their report, right?
                ' J14 MS, ROBINSON:                            Yes, I believe they did.
15                              'Another interesting point is that we spoke to 16                Hopewell last' week and discussed our preliminary results and
: 17.              he told.my researcher that they are now considering an 18-              exemption 'in.the UK for low energy beta, as far-as 19                exempting from any regulatory control.
20                              I borrowed this slide from the NRC which they 21              - showed a couple of weeks ago which was the DRP exposure that L                  -22              had exceeded regulatory limits and had put up really 23                information on their NRC enforcement discretion.
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3              MR..SHEWMON:    None of these exposures, even 4    including the assumption of the fuel, could you get 5    ulcerations from, nor has that been our observable affect.
6'              But now let me just point out San Onofre for a 7    little bit. San Onofre was kind of a mystery in this case 8    because it was on a finger ring of a badge radiation worker 9    and it was not discovered until that ring was sent off to 10    the laboratory for quantification of whatever that dose was 11-  on the finger ring. It was reportedly on that ring, 12    however, Southern Cal Edison tells me that they were 13    unsuccessful at recovering the ring and so because o.    *. hat, 14    they didn't have the opportunity to' characterize that
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15    particle to make the distinguishing characterization on what 16    it fuel or was it activation. So their worst case 17    assumption was that it was fuel, although this is not a 18    verified case.
19              The point here is that there has been a lot of or 20    there has been the NRC enforcement discretion and you can 21    see they could have imposed much higher severity levels with 22    current regulations. But in all of these cases, there is 23    not any threat of ulceration with the one exception of San 24    Onofre.
25              And this--
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  \                            1            DR. LEWIS:    Is that one possible exception or one 2  real exception?
3            MS.-ROBINSON:            One'possible.
4            DR. LEWIS:    Okay.
5            MS. ROBINSON:            One worst case, if all things.
6  happen. You couldn't get ulceration at that does level even 7  in the worse case calculation, but clearly.with CobaltL60, I
                            '8    am much more-confident in stating that, you know, you can't 9 -get ulcerations from Cobalt 60 in these small particles, as 10            supported by the-research results that we have to date.
11                      So~75 micro curie hours is extremely conservative
              -12                for Cobalt 60. But as an interim guidance, I think that.it 13            is a good number if we're not going to distinguish between
: 14.          exposures from fuel particles or Cobalt 60 particles.
15                      In the future, I think.it is critically important-16            that current'research results be factored into any final 17            rulemaking. Perhaps even if there is any delay in issuance 18            in the interim' guidance, that consideration of the recent 19            research results be included.
20                      I would conclude my presentation here and open it 21              up to whatever questions that you have by saying that EPRI 22              is in the process right now of establishing a research 23-            workshop that will be conducted up at Hanford in the mid 12-4                June time frame, in which case, we have invited, in fact, 25              are paying the ticket for Hopewell, Charles and Wells who
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l      (_/              1      are the three' key researchers in the United Kingdom, to 2      . participate;in this workshop. At this point, I would like 3        to extend the invitation to the ACRS that they also 4        participate, if that be their interest    and I encourage-Mr.
                      .5-      . Carroll to pass that word on to the subcommittee to your 6      consultants or he himself. I also extend the same invitation 7        to the NRC.
8                  The focus.of this workshop is really to present,
                        'fL      formally,.the research'results on the first phase test for 10        Cobalt 60. Additionally I.would like to use it as an-11          opportunity to. resolve any open technical questions that
: 12.        have come up in the areas of uncertainties around past 13          research work and further, I would.like to use that 14          expertise of that group to really provide input into what li '                15          the second phase research work would look like so that once
                    -16          and for all we can use science to put an issue to. bed and
                    -- 17        get back to-focusing our. resources on the more important 18          part of what I think radiation protection is and that is-19        protection against whole body exposure.
20                    Now, we can take questions now Tom or we can wait 21          until Mike finishes.
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                      .2                    MR. TIPTON:  What I would suggest is, if the      j 23          committee wouldn't mind, if we could go through Mike's very 24          quickly and then answer questions. He may have answers to 25-        some of your questions you have right now.
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3    NCRP draft recommendations, provided detailed comments. He        1 4    will present to you, first of all, some of the conservatism 5    that we have found within the NCRP recommendation of 75 6    micro curie hours and then he will explain some of the 7    activities  that actually occur at the plant that are 8    causing us some of the expenditure of man rem that we have 9    talking about.
10                        DR. REMICK:  Do you know, Mr. Tipton, how long his 11              presentation will be?
12                        MR. TIPTON:  We were running about 15 minutes.
13              Can you cut that down, Mike, do you think to about 15
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15                        MR. WILLIAMS:    It will be tight but we will go as 16              fast as we can.
17                        MR. TIPTON:  Mr. Chairman, about 15 minutes.
18                        DR. REMICK:  All right. Hopefully shorter, if you 19              can make it.
20                        MR. WILLIAMS:    I appreciate the opportunity to 21              address you today on this issue and what I would like to do 22              is basically cover 4 major areas. First of all, I would 23              like to briefly go over some technical considerations with 24              regard to NCRs recommendation, as well as NRCs proposed 25              interim guidance. I would also like to cover how, from an A,
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                                              '4  to point out a few things to you with regard to regulatory 5  enforcement issues and then give your our recommendations.
6                          First of all, in  referencing what I am going to' 17  say about the NCRP recommendations, I would like to say that 8  I have talked to Tom Giselle who was Chairman of the NCRP 9  subcommittee.                Talked to him just before the-subcommittee 10  meeting a couple of weeks ago and Tom said, basically the 11  same thing that Mr. Beckner said this morning, that is, the 12  biological end point of concern is ulceration, it's 13  stochastic or cancer affects, it's only ulceration of the 14  skin and it's such a small ulceration that they felt that
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17                          The other thing I would like to point out is that 18  while the note is in the NCRP recommendations, that there is 19  no arbitrary safety factor applied to their recommendation.
20  It does not say that there were not conservative assumptions 21  in developing those recommendations and,indeed, there are 22  and that is what we would like to point out to you this 23  morning.
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11                                                                                                                                          NCRP included a figure of 5 in their report.                                            This 12                                                              is the figure and it is put on paper that is lined so that 13                                                              you can see it easily.
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12            There is also another researcher named Krebbs who 13  sometime ago said that the threshold at the critical radius 14  should be based on 4 millimeters instead of 1.8 millimeters.
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15            Now, to put this in practical terms, here is how 16  the dose varies with respect to distance from directly under 17  the particle a radial distance out and at a critical radius 18  of 1.8 millimeters for fuel particles that are 75 micro 19  curies hours, which is NCRPs recommendation, you can see 20  that the dose, indeed, is 300 for point source cnd 500 for a 21  disc source, well below the 2,000 threshold of ulceration, 22  so there you have a significant factor ranging from a factor 23  of 4 to a factor of 6 and a half, just due to the fact of 24  the range of the beta particles and the critical radius.
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                                                  '4                      the break point.                  The isotopes below the break point are 5                      those that have a range and this is the range.                                                      'The range is 6                      such that it cannot irradiate beyond the critical radius of 7                      1.8 millimeters, above the isotopes can.
8                                                So the conservatism here is, if you will note, it 9                    -takes a total.of almost 200 micro curie hours                                                      in order to 10                            get 75. micro curie hours of isotopes that can irradiate 11                            beyond the critical radius.
12                                                      NCRPs recommendation is a total of 75 micro curie 13                            ~ hours, so what that means is at least a factor of two and a 14                              half to 3, conservatism, because only 38 percent of those-
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15                            isotopes can indeed, irradiate beyond the critical radius.
16                                                      If Krebbs is right and the critical radius is 4 17                            millimeters, then it drops back top 34 percent.
18                                                      And in this slide, it will confirm basically,-what 19                              Pat has said and that is for 75 microcurie hours, and this 20                              is the dose profile that was run using varskin for cobaJ t 21                              60.                  What you'll see is cobalt 60 cannot get anywhere close 22                              to the critical radius of 1.8 millimeters and that is why 23                              the researchers are saying it's virtually impossible to get 24                              ulceration                  with cobalt 60.
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4                      said' basically the gamma component doesn't contribute much 5                      at all. You can read that quote for yourself.                        ;
6                                  They recommended a total of 75 micro curie hours.
7                      They did not relate that to any specific isotope and what 8                      that means is that if a dose is going to vary, for'the 9                      different isotopes, and that depends on the particle range 10                                  as well as other factors.        So the 75 micro curie hours can 11-                                cover a range of doses even as high as 800 to 850 RAD 12                                  averaged over 1        square centimeter. However, they did not 13                                  relate it to a dose and they didn't relate it to a specific 14 -                                volume or area of skin and you can red the quotes there as
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16                                              With respect to stochastic risk,        I think that Pat 17                                  covered it pretty well. Stochastic is cancer induction and 18                                  these are the risk numbers in the NCRP report and basically 19                                  if you take 75 micro curie hours, which equates to about 300
:20                                  RAD, then you get a lifetime risk of cancer induction of 3 x 21                                  10 -6.
22                                              And basically NCRPs conclusion in their 23                                    recommendations was that stochastic effects are so small;l 24                                    and the risk is so small that they should not be considered 25'                                  as the end point of concern, only the ulcerations should be.
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                                            .4'    -and the arer_ exposed and then a key point,.is that the 5      multiple hot particle exposures'to the same' point of.the-6    -skin and are a large number'of. hot particle: exposures to the 7      same individual are. extremely.unlikely.                                              And' based on"this, 8    .they came up with a recommendation of 75 micro curie hours.
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15        minimal amount of exposure 16                              MR . WILLIAMSON:                        Basically NCRP-is-not and I think 17        that is what Mr. Beckner indicated this morning, that they 18        felt that they chose that as the' biological end point but--
19                              MR. CATTON: It's nothing.
20                              MR. WILLIAMSON: It's nothing.                                    Indeed, that's 21        ' correct.            As they say, no more consequence than a small burn 22          or a paper cut.
23                              And I quote to you, again from the committee 24-        meeting and Mr. Beckner has already indicated several times 25          this morning, that the recommendations are firm.                                                that here 1
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5                          Tom Gissell, when I talked to him                    said the NCRPs 1
6 approach is going to be take their time and to basically do                                                        !
7 it right.                  Their contractual obligation was to produce the 8 recommendation that they came out with within the time 9 period required and now they're going to sit back and 10 incorporate new experimental evidence as well as reviewing 11 additional information and questions and they're going to 12 take their time and Tom wouldn't even hazard a guess as to 13 how long it might take for h is committee to do anything 14 else in this area.
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                  %J 15                          I would like to turn now to the technical 16 considerations with NRC recommendations.                                    They're 17 recommending 50 RAD average over a 1 square centimeter area 18 at a depth of 7 milligram per square centimeters.                                    The basis 19 for the one square centimeter and the 7 milligram per square 20 centimeter is ISRP 26.                                    We certainly don't have any argument 21 with  that or disagree with that.
22                          They quote a British journal of radiology as well                                        i 23 as the Society or Journal of Society Radiological Protection 24 of which we have both articles and the article that is                                                              .
1 25 quoted in justifying the 50 RAD really says that this 50 RAD
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3              So the 50 RAD is not applied to ulceration, as 4    we're talking about it. It's a completely different 5    biological end point and that's why we believe 50 RAD is 6  extremely conservative.
7              NCRP is talking about one hot particle exposure 8    per incident.per quarter and that exposure is not 9    cumulative. If you had two hot particle exposures, you 10              wouldn't add one to the other and we certainly agree with 11              that.
12                        But, we have real problems with the one incident 13              per quarter and I'll address that in just a moment.
g3          14                        DR. LEWIS:  Out of curiosity, how do we 15              distinguish point eryth'ema from ari erythema at a millimeter 16              or something like that?
17                        MR. WILLIAMSON:    From all that Doctor Reese has 18              presented and what Pat has said, it is extremely difficult 19              to even identify it.
20                          DR. LEWIS:  I see.
21                          MR. WILLIAMSON:    Point erythema.
22                          DR. LEWIS:  So it depends on the sensitivity of 23                the naked eye or--
24                          MR. WILLIAMSON:    That's right. Based on visual 25                observation.
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2          MR. WILLIAMSON:    The next slide that you have and 3 this is drawn to scale and I drew it up yesterday and I have                    !
4 to apologize for the second dot. The first dot is the NCRP 5 defined particle size and on your paper, it's the true size 6 even though it does not appear on the screen and that is one 7 millimeter diameter particle. That is the maximum size that 8 would be allowed.
9          The typical size found in industry is 100 microns 10 or less which you couldn't even see as a dot on your paper.
11 That's why you don't see anything there.
12          The second size is the critical radius and you 13 need to correct this. This is 1.8 millimeters in diameter
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17          But this is the correct size and this is 11 18 millimeters and this is the 11 millimeter size of which that 19 2,000 RAD threshold was based, on the figure that I showed 20 you previously.
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22 outside diameter and that's the difference there, the 23 thickness of a line width. That represents 1 square 24 centimeter of area. So in your handout you can see what 25 size we're talking about irradiating.
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6                        We would like to show you that the NRC.
7                recommendation of 50 RAD is here. NCRP recommendation'for 8              fuel, this comes out to be 425 RAD, I think is the number 9              and'then if you look at the 2,000 RAD threshold for 10                          ulceration, what you can see clearly here is that there is a 11                          very significant factor of conservatism. There is a factor l'
12                          of 5.3 conservatism between the threshold for ulceration for 13                          a large area versus NCRPs recommendation.
14                                    There is also a factor of 7 and a half difference 15                          between NRCs recommendations and NRCPs recommendations.                  !
16                          That is why we feel that NCRPs recommendations are extremely 17-                          conservative and NRCs recommendations are unreasonably 18                          conservative beyond that.
19                                    Here is the same slide for Cobalt 60. It shows 20                          you basically the same thing, a factor of 6 difference 21                          between the threshold versus NCRPs recommendations.
22                                    So to put it in other terms, I converted this to 23                          micro curie hours and this showed the same thing. This is 24                          fuel particles micro curie hours and it shows the 25                          relationship and this is cobalt 60 micro curie hours
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3                      Going back again, NRCs recommendations, as 4- mentioned already before, it would be interim guidance.for 5  at least two years, possibly longer.                      That's why it's of 6  great ~ concern to us, as an industry. What we get now, we 7  will have to live with for a good while and so we are very 8  concerned that we get good solid guidance to use.
9                      We have concern over'their definition of a 10  fragment.            We had not heard that definition until the ACRS 11  Subcommittee and basically some quotes from the transcript-
              .12  are given here and from reading all of this, we have a real 13  problem, from a practical application in the field of 14  determining what a fragment would be.                      There is no. clear 15  definition and we don't know how we would do that.
16                      With regard to enforcement, the NRC's interim
              -17  proposal is that if it's greater than 50 RAD and lese than a 18  100 RAD, it would be a level 4 violation.-                      If it's greater 19  than 2,500, it would be a level 1 and we don't believe 20  that's. reasonable.            I'll address this again in just a 21  moment.            But there is no guidance either given that we know 22  of as to how that would be placed in the individual's record 23  from a practical point of view, as far as recording that.
24                      Now, I would like to get down as to how we 25  implement these.              Most important of all, in understanding
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                        '2      zones for a worker. What I would like to do is show you is o                      3    how we set up our zones.
4              Basically when we have hot particle areas, we rope 5      off and establish a separate boundary and a separate step 6    off pad and we have a buffer zone between the hot. particle 7      area and what is normally a contaminated area. The buffer 8    zone, there are several reasons for that. One is so that'we.
9    can bring an individual out and monitor him and then send
  ,                    10      him back in wit yut him having to completely undress and 11      redress again.
                      '1:2                Another reason is that because of the nature of-13      hot particles, they are highly charged and that is how they 14      got the name fleas, they jump _from place to place and you 15      never know where you're actually going to find the. In 16-      fact, many hot particle contamination incidents occur within 17      the radiological controlled area outside of contamination 18      areas and they're not directly related~and necessarily found 19      only in contamination areas.
20                So we put a buffer zone there to assure that when 21      we bring workers out and monitor them, that if they do have 22      hot particles, we're also not going to get those spread out 23      into other places in the plant.
24                Some key points are the fact that we increased low 25      level RAD waste tremendously because of the additional        !
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particles that we have'actually found, they can go through-7  the cloth and, indeed, lots of them have and in many cases, 8  hot; particle exposures have resulted from contaminated 9  laundry and the fact that it comes back to the worker on the 10  laundry.        So'tyvek we use, and it has a very small weave and 11  the particles can't get through.          Also Tyvec does not tend 12  to attract the particles because of static charge. So that 13  is why we use an outer set of tyvec.
1' I                        14                  By using all that, it increases a little RAD 15  waste, but another. thing that increases our low level waste 16  is the fact that a lot of things that we normally would take 17  time to decontaminate when we move from a contaminated area, 18  if we remove from a hot particle area, we just bag it and we 19  throw it away as waste.          Because in opening it up and trying 20  to decontaminate it, we' re liable to spread hot particles 21  all over the plant.
22                  And also, it results in tremendous loss of 23  productivity and also a tremendous increase in whole body 24  exposure which we will show you in a moment.
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(_)                    1 because it is so comfortable?                                  3 2            MR. WILLIAMSON:    Right. In fact, I would like to 3 point out the fact, I'm glad you mentioned that. In the 4  last two weeks, we're in a refueling outage in Calloway 5  right now and in the last two weeks, we have had 5 cases of 6 heat exhaustion, all had to be treated by ENTs within the i
i 7 plant and one person had to be sent to the local hospital 8 and this was because of increased protective clothing 9 requirements in hot particle areas.
10            There is actually a greater physiological hazard 11 due to the clothing requirements as well as respiratory 12 protection requirements to the workers than there is due to 13 the hot particle exposure itself, even if it resulted in rx                    14 ulcerations.
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16 objection from the members of the committee, I wonder if you 17 could jump to your final conclusions or recommendations.
18            MR. WILLIAMS:    Okay. If you don't mind, I would  j 19 like to n.ention the fact that based on our recent survey of 20 31 plante and the data in the survey that up had earlier was 21 done in June of ' 88 and this survey was done in the last two 22 weeks, we are expending and arrange from 10 to 50 man rem 23 per year, per reactor for hot particle controls.
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</                                        5        you look at the risk related to whole body exposure versus                                  R 6        the risk related to hot body exposure, that you have to, 7        from an ALARA perspective certainly take the greatest 8        exposure benefit.
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10            here and that is--this is how often we have to monitor based' 11            on the particles we find in the areas in which we have hot 12            particles. We don't base it on it on hot particles on 13            individuals, we base it on the particles that we actually 14            find. For 10 micro curie sized particles, we will have to
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15            pull the worker out. This green line is the 50 RAD limit 16              proposed by NRC. We have to pull the worker out, at least 17              every hour and monitor him. With the existing limits of 7                                  i 18              and a half and 18 and three-quarters, we have to pull the 19              worker out more frequently than an hour and right now, Palo 20              Verde, they are pulling workers who are doing primary 21              coolant pump work every 5 minutes to monitor for hot 22              particles.
23                        With the NCRP recommended limit, the worker could 24              work 7 and a half hours maximum, on a practical aspect, 25              because of the clothing a worker normally wears, we don't i
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1 L                              2:    could clearly keep a worker in for his normal work period-3,    without ever pulling him out and monitoring him, if we.had 4      the NCRP limit.
5                And'here is the 2,000 RAD limit which shows, this-6      is log scale, that even a 100 micro curies of the 2,000 RAD 7      limit, the 2,000 RAD threshold limit, we could do the same.:
8                I'll skip over those and down to this slide here 9      and that is, do we~actually have particles in those size 10      ranges and.you can see--again this.is a survey of 31 plants.
11      Here.are about 230 particles in'the 10 to 20 micro curie 12      range. This goes on up-to a 100 micro curies.          This is one 13      millicurie range. This is one curie and this is greater than:            "
                            - 14      a curie so, indeed, we have a lot of particles in that range-15      and so the monitoring frequency is very critical to.us.
16                You increase that frequency and you increase whole 17      body exposure. How many individuals get multiple hot 18      particles on them and this is the key and I guess I would 19      have to.say that if NRC is offering this interim guidance to 20      us, in terms of the 50 RAD coupled with the one exposure per 21      quarter, then we say we would rather have what we have now.
22      If you would give us the 50 RAD alone, we would have to say 23      that is better than what we have now, but if you only allow 24      us one incident per quarter, as someone suggested earlier, 25      once an individual gets one incident and let's say we're O                                            seriease    aegerein, (202) 628-4888 cergeration
 
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7                                      from 2 to 15 individuals who get multiple hot particle
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8                                      exposure. Not in excess of the limits and that is why you 9                                      haven't had them reported to you that they are getting 10                                      multiple exposure and-annually, these 31 plants range a 11                                      total of 5 to 77 individuals who had multiple hot particle 12                                      exposures. So they are occurring.
13                                                  I would like to go to our recommendations.                      We 14                                      recommend that we use NCRPs guidance of 75 micro curie 15                                      hours. We do not believe that a limit should be applied on 16                                      the number of incidents or the ti' , period allowed for those 17                                      incidents because NCRP did not apply such a limit. We also                      3 18                                      believe you should allow correction for self absorption, 19                                      .which NCRP also agreed to and we agree you should allow for 20                                      particles directly on-the skin and we say that that is very 21-                                      easy to do.
22                                                  In our previous presentation to NRC staff,.we 23                                      showed them that it is a very simple matter to apply NCRPs 24                                      recommendation by just means of a relative absorption 25                                      factor. It's very simple to find out the absorption factor Heritage  Reporting  Corporation (202) 628-4888
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[)              .1  for'the protective clothing and apply it through the varskin 2  _ code and do the dose calculations which is a perfectly valid 3  way to do'that.              So that is not a problem 4  applying the 75 micro curie hours that is not directly on 5:  the skin.
6'                      Also we recommend that if you find it necessary to 7  express it as dose,-then it should be from 300 to 500 RAD L                      8  averaged over 1 square centimeter.              The 300 RAD is what we 9  calculated as the most. conservative case              NRCs' presentation 10'  to this ACRS subcommittee last time said they had calculated 11  '500 but at either rate, whichever and of that you choose, 12-  you're still going to be.very conservative.              About 75 micro 13    curie hours can apply to a wide range of doses up to over 14    800 RAD.
15                        And then finally on enforcement, we don't believe 16    that if you exceed 75 micro curie hours that that should be 17    greater than a level 5 violation, just based on, again, the 18    risk to the individual and the total impact and then we do 19  not believe you should ever have greater than a level 3.
                    '20    even if you exceed the threshold dose for ulceration as a
                    - 21    critical radius.
22                          And I'll conclude with that and encourage you to 23    review the handouts that you have for the slides that we 24    skipped.
25                          MR. TIPTON:  Mr. Chairman, we basically have three rh                                        Heritage  Reporting  Corporation                      {
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                  -1    concerns as Mike alluded to. One isLthat feelf the 75 micro-2  curie hours, although conservative, would be a very good 3- interim guideline until we get the final rule in place.
4              Secondly, we are very concerned about this one 5  particle per employee per quarter because we may think it's 6  not too bad in Washington, but when it gets out in'the 7  field, we'll have to start tightening up what we're'doing in 8  some of these plants. It's a function where you're at on
                  '9    the SALP rating, where you are on other things.
10                The third point is the enforcement and that is the-11    level-of enforcement, the violation rather of 2,500 RAD 12    level 1. I just want to repeat something that was said at 13    subcommittee that.I found was very interesting from Mr.
14    Beckner. Quote, "Even though acute ulceration, in'itself,
                -15    was considered to be a relatively benign affect, its higher 16    probability of occurrence, as compared to the other 17    potential affects caused the committee to recommend to.the 18    counsel'that acute ulceration:be the affect of concern for 19    radiation protection purpose."
20                And the second was, quote "The affected individual 21    should be aware that the risk of skin cancer from such 22    events is extremely small. Now,.if we are cited, we haven't 23    had a situation where we have 2,500 RAD, but we could have 1
L                24    situation like this and the level 1 violation with a fine, l-25    it's very difficult to explain to this individual that it is
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2                      With that, I'll conclude.
3                      DR. REMAK:                    Thank you, Mr. Tiptoe.                            Questions from 4            the committee.
5                      MR. SHEWMON:                      I would like to ask Mike one 6            question, if I could.                    _I read this phrase from Mel Carter's 7            letter where he distinguished between fragments and whatever 8            the other words was, particles, I guess.                                                When I asked 9            Congel about this, he didn't know what I was talking about 10            or at least couldn't tell me what was concerning Carter.
11            Can you explain what you heard at the subcommittee that 12            caused you concern?
13                      MR. WILLIAMS:                      That is where it came up and 14            basically we heard fragment definitions and there was
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21            things such as size would be a fragment.
l 22                      MR.-SHEWMON:                      Why am I--is a fragment worse, the 23            different ground rules apply there?                                                Are they supposed to be 24            bigger or what?
25                      MR. WILLIAMS:                      What they said is that if it is a
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7              MR. SHEWMON:    Did you get.the impression it was
                                        .8- the staff's feeling that a fragment was bigger than a
                                        '9  particle?'
10                  MR. WILLIAMS:    I would say they felt it was bigger                          j
: 11.      than a particle, at least activity wise and probably
                              .12          physical size wise, but we couldn't come up with a good 13      definition 14                  MR. CARROLL:    But the one problem is that if you 15      look at their definition and the interim standard, Paul, 16      they define a hot particle as a fragment.
17                  DR. LEWIS:  As a discreet radioactive fragment, 18      whatever that means.
19                    MR. CARROLL:    That is what I think was bothering 20        Mel and I think, you know, we ought to give some attention 21        to this.
22                    MR. TIPTOE:  Mr. Chairman, my Project Manager just 23        punched me in the ribs to remind me that I need to emphasize 24        we do not have the draft generic letter, so we're working 25        from what we heard at subcommittee.
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2                                                                                    The next topic on the agenda is the discussion of 3                                                      Evaluation of Operating Experience by AEOD staff.
4                                                                                    The Subcommittee Chairman is Hal Lewis.
5                                                                                    DR. LEWIS:  Okay. I will make my contribution to 6                                                      getting us back on schedule by not saying a word except to 7                                                      eay just that you're right.                        This is a presentation about 8'                                                      Operating Experience from the AEOD staff.                        You got it Jack.
9                                                                                    MR. ROSENTHAL:    Thank you.
10                                                                                            This is an information meeting and we thought we 11                                                              would just fill you in on what we have been doing recently.
12                                                                                            I am proud of our AEOD work products. When I look 13                                                              back over the last year, virtually everyone of our reports 14                                                              has resulted in a generic letter or an IN or some industry
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16                                                                                              You' re well aware of the struggles over air 17                                                                systems.                      Let me just point out that a generic letter did go 18                                                                out.                      Licensees are looking and are reporting back that 19                                                              they are finding problems and they are fixing the problems 20                                                                and that is surely a measure of closing the loop when it 21                                                                finally gets out to licensees and something happens.
22                                                                                              Service water, you were briefed on. The last time 23                                                              we were down her^e about 6 months ago and we're in the final 24                                                                stage--NRR is preparing a general letter on Service Water.
25                                                                                              The last time we were down here, we briefed you on
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4            happened. That.was good.
          .5                        MR. MICHELSON:    Let me ask you'a question before
          '6            you get started on this.
7                        You have a tracking system that. keeps track of 8            what happens to you, the recommendations that you make and 9            the case studies that you issue.
10                        MR. ROSENTHAL:    Right.
11                        MR. MICHELSON:    How far back does that tracking 12              system now go?
13                        JMR. ROSENTHAL:    Day one.
14                        MR. MICHELSON:    It starts from the first case 15              study issued?
16                        MR.-ROSENTHAL:    Right. In the annual report, 17              you'll see tabulated every outstanding recommendation that L        18              came out of a special study or a case study and--
19                        MR. MICHELSON:    The annual report is the best 20              place to go to see the status of the recommendation?
21                        MR. ROSENTHAL:    Right. And we have just prepared 22              another one-and it'will be out shortly.
23                        MR. MICHELSON:    Okay. Thank you.
24                        You said you just prepared another one.      Is that 25              available to look at?
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3- you'll it. We'll make sure you get a copy as soon as it is              1 4  off the press.
5            MR. MICHELSON:        Okay. Thank you.
6            MR. ROSENTHAL:        Let me just run down what we are 7  doing now and then you will be hearing from Sandy Israel on
                              .8  two classic systems type looks that we do.        One from Ted            l 9  Cintula, a little bit different.        It's a good news story but 10    rather'than--it's more of a passive system and then Chuck 11    Hsu is going to talk about a very different kind of work                  !
I 12    that we do and that is to look at component at some depth.
13              So what is going on now, we have got many things 14    on the books, and I thought I might just touch on these for
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16              As an outgrowth of the air systems study, Hal                  i 17    Ornstein is going a follow up study, it's a case study, it 18    should be out shortly, on solenoid valve problems. We hit 19    lots of manufactures, lots of systems finding problems.
20              There has been an awful lot of work done on a 21    Station Blackout, diesels, A-44, et cetera and we thought we 22    go back and take one more look and simply, at common mode 23    failures of the diesel system itself, not the reliability.
24    We will tabulate that and play that off against what we 25    think is going on with the rulemaking--with the rule.
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(    I      1                      We have seen a few fuel oil--lube oil common mode 2=        ' problems and we'll.either incorporate that into the first l3            study or break it out.
4                    We have seen a number of situations. permitted by 5          the Tech = Specs in which licensees, in shut down modes, are 6        ' permitted to take lots of trains--engineered' safety features 7          out of service because they're in Modes 4, 5 and 6, a'nd they 8          .can put themselves in precarious situations where.just one 9          more fault. puts them in a tizzy and they have far less than 10-          the compliment to VSF that they would have in the high loads 11            to cope with that event.
12                      Another way of looking at this is to say, what is 13            the prudence of operations in these high modes.                                                          There were 14            two reports down by INSAC, which were PRas for b's and p's 15            in high modes which argued that the risk was comparable to 16            at power because so much of the equipment is out of service 17            at the initiator of the event.                    We're taking another look at 18,            that.
19                      We've got, maybe aa 100 specific events in that
            '20            study.
21                      MR. WYLIE:        Are you approaching that from a 22            probabilistic standpoint when the core melts?
: 23.                      MR. ROSENTHAL:                    We're compelled to attempt to put 24            a risk perspective on our work.                      We're surely not doing PRA 25            work, per se.
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4              MR. WYLIE:  Does that mean increased risk to core 5    melt by being in these various modes, is that what you end 6    up with is a--
7              MR. ROSENTHAL:  Well, you'll end up with an 8    incremental risk, sure, and we ought to somehow address that 9    and be able to relate the safety significance to other,s.
10    And, if we can't do that, we can't get action, so somehow 11    we're compelled to do it. Now he degree that we do that, 12    will vary from study to study.
13              MR. WYLIE:  Pretty interesting. Thank you.
14              MR. WARD:  To follow up on that a minute. If the 15    risk perspective you take in the higher modes is committed 16    to core melt risk, I mean use that definition of risk, might 17    be missing something important because the containment 18    conditions can also be very different in these modes.
19              MR. ROSENTHAL:  Surely--right. and a generic--
20              MR. WARD:  It has to go away to--I don't mean a 21    full blown PRA, but look at risk in the Level 2 PRA or Level 22    3 PRA perspective. I mean, are you planning that?
23              MR. ROSENTHAL:  AEOD is not planning that. We'll 24    have to work with the rest of the staff on that.
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2          MR. ROSENTHAL:    In a core melt perspective.
3          Let me point out that earlier AEOD had concerns 4 about loss of decay heat removal and a generic letter went 5 out on that over a year ago and one of the things that was 6 pointed out in that letter, two licensees, was that in those 7 modes the containment was often open and one of the 8 recommendations was to minimize the time of the containment 9 hatches is opening.
10          We're looking at a flooding of safety related 11 systems and not getting too much, but it is an interesting 12 area but it is an interesting area to try and pursue.
13          I'll hit two aspects and one is to look at large 14 ingresses of water where you get forced flooded, a fair b'N 15 amount of water and also a totally different aspect is 16 dripping, where you have something that drips on something 17 else which drips on a cabinet which causes something to 18 happen.
19          With the solenoid study, I'm talking about over 20 500 LERs as a data base for the effort. We're looking, 21 we're not finding that level of data.
22          MR. MICHELSON:    Somewhat related to the external 23 event of flooding is the question of the inner system LOCA 24 which represents a potential release outside of containment.
25          MR. ROSENTHAL:    Yes.
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3-                                      MR. ROSENTHAL:    We're doing relatively little.
1 4          Let me get to that in a second.                      Here I am talking about 5            internal flooding, Carl.
6                                        MR. MICHELSON:    Well internal means within the 7        plant?
8                                        MR. ROSENTHAL:    What?
9-                                      MR. ROSENTHAL:    Internal flooding means within the 10        plant, but external to the system.
11                                        MR. ROSENTHAL:    Yes. And internal flooding--it's 12        within the plan and caused by a fault within the plant.
13                                        MR. MICHELSON:    Yes.
MR. ROSENTHAL:    I'm now looking hurricanes and--
O . 14                              15                                        MR. MICHELSON:    Precisely.
16                                        MR. ROSENTHAL:    Okay. NOR has a fairly large 17            initiative on Event B and their defining Event B in a broad 18            scope sense to talk about leakage between the primary 19          system and an outside, where the original Event B really is, 20        you have an initiating event which both causes the LOCA and 21        takes out ESF as well.                          They're looking far more expansively 22          at leaks across the containment boundary.
23                                        Given that large effort, I am not going to do it, 24-      but--
25                                        MR. MICHELSON:    But generally the consequence of
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4            MR. MICHELSON:                    That's how I understand it and you :
5  said you were doing some flooding of safe related equipment 6  and I was just trying to see whether that, in any way, 7  related to the event.
8            MR. ROSENTHAL:                    If it is in the data base, yes.
9            MR. MICHELSON:                    But we haven't had event.B's very-10  much--
11            MR. ROSENTHAL:                    Right.
12            MR. MICHELSON:                    --of any consequence so it's not 13  in the data base.
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15  say NRR has got an activity going that way and we will focus 16  on things supported by the operating experience.
17            Electrical bus box failures.                    We have seen several 18  failures due to poor housekeeping, of major electrical buses 19  and we have got problems with--there is a short report on 20  normal installation.
21            Now a bigger problem is that we have seen several 22  events in which electrical power was available to the site 23  but not to the actual plants.                    You had yourself--and, in 24  turn, you had demand diesels.                    So you're giving yourself the 25  problem right in your own switch yard.
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2  what is the probability of a loss of off site power                                                                                                    and 3  then the probability the diesels would work.
4                            There'are just any number of events where, because-5-            of the switch yard configuration,. breaker' failures,
                            '6  breaker coordination, whatever, they end up in a situation 7  where there is the power at the. site bound'. J, but you can't 8  get it in the building and they seem more probable and so 9  we're starting a study of them.
10                            MR. WYLIE:                                                              This is restricted then to the switch 11  yard bus bar failures, is that what that is?
12                            MR. ROSENTHAL:                                                                                  Yes.
13                            MR. WYLIE:                                                              Not all bus bar failures?
14                            MR. ROSENTHAL:                                                                                  No. This will be the -from the 15  election of start of transformers and what provides the 16  power, down to the 4160 process, 17                            MR. WYLIF:.                                                            Okay, so you do include the auxiliary 18  system them?
19                            MR. ROSENTHAL:                                                                                  Yes.
20                            MR. WYLIE:                                                              Okay.                        Like the Oconee failure?
21                            MR. ROSENTHAL:                                                                                  Yes.
22                            MR. WYLIE:                                                              M sy.
23                            MR. ROSENTHAL:                                                                                  We h? te a review study on 24  thermostratification.                                                                                  We hu,                  got it--of there was an 25  earlier work                                that you are well familiar with, with
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6 egress of water from the system ar.1 so we're trying to 7 integrate all of this and stick it together.
                                  -8          And then the last, we have published one version 9 and we're about to come'out with a revised version, is a 10  look at LERs that we categorized as maintenance related 11  LERS. Say, what are the problems, a look at an attempt to 12  trend those as a function of time and then a look at case 13  studies and other reports that we have'done, ins and 14' bulletins, SOERs and OMRs and try to get some picture, from 15  that aspect, of what has been reported of maintenance at 16  plants and how it seems to be going.
17            MR. MICHELSON:    Since check valve failures seem to 18  be a contributor to thermal stratification as well as the 19  inner face LOCA and so forth--
20            MR. ROSENTHAL:    Right.
21            MR  MICHELSON:  --what are you doing on check 22  valves as opposed to the motor operated valves which I am 23  fairly familiar with what you did there.
24            MR. ROSENTRAL:    Well the motor operated valves are 25  progressing although agonizingly slow--
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2            MR. ROSENTHAL:    I don't have an active study on 3  check valves now. We did do some quick MPRDS type searches 4  on check valves and what you should have seen was an 5  improvement in the reported failure rate of check valves in 6  the last couple of years because there was all this 7  attention paid to them in prior years 8            At least on a preliminary basis    , I don't see that                      !
9  improvement, so it is a ripe study--topic study, but we're 10  not doing it at this minute.
11            MR. MICHELSON:  Do you have any underway or intend 12  to have one underway anytime soon?
13            MR. ROSENTHAL:  We have discussed it with my 14  management and it looks ripe now. I can't say I have one 15  underway now.
16            MR. MICHELSON:    That's an answer but it doesn't 17  help me much.
18            MR. NOVAK:  Carl, I think it's a balance. We'll 19  look at what NRR is doing and we'll look at what industry is 20  doing, we'll look at what we can contribute.
21            These case studies  , and you know it, it's a 22  commitment, once you make it, you're going to follow through 23  and it's going to take a full year and it's going to take a 24  fraction of your staff. So, if we go ahead, we want to make 25  it clear that we are--
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3                              HMR. NOVAK:        We have not decided yet and we'll get 4        back.          You're absolutely right, but it is'a topic that is 5        ripe.
6                                    DR. KERR:  Jack, what was it you said about the 7        observation of check valves?                        Did you say failures or LERs 8        or what, that you weren't seeing a decrease.
9                                    MR.'ROSENTHAL:      If you look at reported failures 10                of_MPRDS--of check valves to the MPRDS system'and you search 11                on failuresHas distinct from incipient failures--
12                                            DR. KERR:  Yes.
13-                                            MR. ROSENTHAL:      You know, the licensee --I haven't 14'                read through each record.                        You just do an automated search--
15                                              DR. KERR:  Yes.
16                                              MR. ROSENTHAL:      --and the licensee says, hey, here 17                  is my check valve failure.
18                                              So if you plot those as a function of time, over 19                  the last couple of years, given all the attention that they 20                  received since the IIT, you would have expected to see, 21                  first an up swing in the reported failures, because people 22                  would have gone out and looked found it fixed.                        And then 23                  over time, a decrease in the failure rate, if they had fixed 24                  their problems.
25                                            And we're not seeing that.        I'm seeing, but it's Heritage  Reporting    Corporation (202) 628-4888
 
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l 4                            DR. KERR:              Well, the flat line could suggest that 5'            that is a failure rate one should expect to see.                                                I mean 6            after all you're going to get failures.                      And I guess--
7                          MR. ROSENTHAL:                  I know you have to.ask about the 8            level of failure rate, right.
9                            So, for example, we play the MOV failure rate 10                    reported to MPRDS'or up against what is used in 1150 as the 11                    failure rate and say if that is acceptable or not.                                                  The-12                    answer.is that it is not.
13                                  MR. MICHELSON:                  Have you determined--
14-                                  MR. ROSENTHAL:                  With the check valves, it's a 15                    little bit different story, because the licensing basis for 16                    the plant assume that those check valves wouldn't fail. For 17                    right or wrong, we modeled those as passive components that 18                    wouldn't fail when we postulated different events and so 19                    licensees often had to put in more than one MOV because you 20                    would postulate that this one would fail or that one had to 21                    work. On the check valves, it's a bigger problem.
22                                    As I said, because of the licensing basis was 23                    because they would fail like pipe, as passive and they're 24                    not that reliable.
25                                    MR. MICHELSON:                  Have you attempted to estimate
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6-                MR..MICHELSON:    You have done some of this--
7                MR. ROSENTHAL: --and it spits it out for you.                          It 8    spits out the failure rate.
9                MR. MICHELSON:    Could you send us the results of.
10      the searches that.you did do to find the failure 11      estimates?Did you actually get some reliable data?'
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12                  MR '. ROSENTHAL: .We_got numbers for.the check 13    . valves. I don't remember the numbers for'the check valves.
14                  MR. MICHELSON:    No. .You did get the--
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16                  MR. MICHELSON:    Could you send them.to us, please 17-    or send them to me, ,please?
18                  MR. ROSENTHAL:    Sure.
19                  MR. MICHELSON:    Thank you.
20                  MR. ROSENTHAL:    Okay. Sandy-Israel.
21                  MR. ISRAEL:  The next two reports that I am going
      ,                22      to discuss deal with a recurring theme that we have.seen,
    ,y                23      deficiencies in design fabrication installation of various 24      systems.
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7            Let me show you a diagram of a ventilation system 8 for a control room. And, basically for the emergency 9 ventilation, what you really want to do is you want to 10 pressurize the control room relative to its environment so 11 that you have out leakage of controlled air.
12            Under normal ventilation, you have air intakes 13 coming into the duct work and you have a recirculation 14 system, air movers that essentially pressurize the duct
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19            What happens is that you have control leak off 20 from these various areas, control room and these other 21 areas, so that as you are recirculating the air and 22 pressurizing the control room, you're also drawing in air 23 from the outside to make up for the leak OFF.
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                !)                1    reduce the air intake, start up your pressurizing fans which 2    then draw air thorough the filter system and provide air to 3    the system.                You would close off the various exhaust systems 4    as well, presumably.
5                            The whole purpose is,.obviously, to provide a 6    controlled atmosphere in the control room.                  That is, again, 7    I say, higher pressure than the surrounding rooms.
i 8                            DR. KERR:  Excuse me. Did you say that would 9    occur in the event of a LOCA?
10                            MR. ISRAEL:  That's right, in case of a LOCAS, you 11    get emergency ventilation system--
12                            DR. KERR:  Automatically?
13                              MR. ISRAEL: Yes.
14                            DR. KERR:  No matter what the size of the LOCA?
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15                            MR. ISRAEL:  That is correct.
16                            DR. KERR:  That doesn't seem very reasonable to 17  me, but I won't pursue it at this point.                                      f 18                            MR. MICHELSON:    You're not locked in now to that l
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22                            MR. ROSENTHAL:    Correct. Obviously there has to 23  be some manual over ride. The LOCA condition is probably a                    '
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5          MR. MICHELSON:    If it once goes in--if you 6 realigned the manual, is there then the radiation detection 7 or something that puts you back into recirculation mode?
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5                            Another situation, this goes back to Ornstein's 6        air systems.            The dampers that control the system are air 7        operated.            The air systems are not safety, so they usually 8      have.a bottled gas back up with a check valve in the line so 9      .that if they lose normal air, that the back up would provide 10      the air.            'In this case, the check valves were improper for 11      use in this situation and they didn't provide isolation like 12      they were supposed to.
13                            Another situation, you had dampers on the same 14      power supply sop that loss of a single power supply would-15      defeat the system. This situation, no back draft dampers, 16      was a situation where you have redundant air circulators.and 17      if one of their circulators is~not operating, and                              hese 18      redundant circulators run parallel, you would essentially.
19      just keep recirculating air from the operating air mover 20      through the idle one in a loop not to ventilate the control 21      room door.
22                            The single power switch, this dealt with the 23      temperature control and the air control system for the 24      ventilation system and it would have a power switch that-I 25      would move to change power supplies.
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                      ~2                                            in'this case, a single power switch failure would result in 3                                          losing the air conditioning and the air movers as well.
4                                                      There were several instances of disposition
                      -5                                            dampers, such that they would not be able to pressurize the 6                                          control rooni because of the damper arrangement.
7                                                      one of these was very interesting was that if the 8                                          exhaust fan continued.in the rest room, it would end up with 9                                          a negative pressure in the control room, so that was a 10                                              problem.
11                                                        And this last one, one utility has a very 12L                                            complicated automatic isolation arming procedure. It has 4 13                                              or 5 steps to it and they essentially were--well, the plant 14                                              wasn't operating at the time, but they had essentially spent 15                                              a long time in a mode where they automatic isolation was not 16                                              on.
17                                                        These were the types of events that have occurred.
18                                              These will be the follow-ons to work that has already being 19                                              done by NRR, you're probably aware of, in this general area.
20                                                        And our report came out at about a time that NRR 21                                              was wcrking on an information notice, so this work was 22                                              incorporated into the information notice that went out last 23                                              summer,. 88-61.
24-                                                      A more interesting report came out last fall that 25                                              this was a contractor for NRR, Argonne issued the report
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5                      Consequently, NRR is now in the process or is 6          moving through the concurrent system, a generic letter, 7            dealing with emergency ventilation system for control rooms, 8          essentially asking the utilities to go back and confirm that 9          the control rooms ventilation systems will perform the way 10                      they said they would in their FSARs.
11                                The second topic deals with NPSH for high pressure 12                      safety injection systems during recirc.
13                                I stumbled on to this because, oh more than a year
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15                      during recirc, inadequate NPSH and within a period of two 16                      weeks, the two LERs showed up dealing with problems, 17                      potential problems of MPSH in this mode.
18                                Let me show you a diagram. of what I am talking 19                      about. In PWRs, in the recirc mode, water is drawn from the 20                        containment sump through the low pressure pumps and for a 21                        large LOCA, this would then be discharged directly to the 22                        reactor vessel. For smaller LOCAs, where the pressure hangs 23                        up, probably above a about a 100 psi, you have to use the 24                        high head injection pumps to maintain cooling to the cooler.
25                        In this case, the high pressure cooling pumps are piggy
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3    here and goes to the high pressure pumps which the inject 4    into the vessel.
5                  In addition to which, at this plant--in fact, at 6    both plants, the low pressure discharge was also used to 7    provide suction to the containment spray system.                ,
8                  What the utility discovered--one u'tility 9    discovered, when they looked--when they went back and locked 10      and tried to reconstitute their safety analysis, was that 11      they weren't sure they would have adequate NPSH, both at the 12      containment spray pumps or at the high pressure injection 13      pumps and the reason for that is that there are a couple of f3 14        throttle valves that are in the discharge of the RHR lines.
U 15      There was no control over whether those were throttled or 16      not.
17                    In addition to which, evidently the length of 18      piping that was run was larger than--was longer than 19      originally used in the calculations and the piping size had 20      been changed from 6 inches down to 3 inches.
21                    As a result they had larger pressure drops in the 22      interconnecting pipings than some original calculation had 23      anticipated.
24                    MR. WARD:  You just sort of casually said the 25      piping size had been changed from 6 to 3 inches?
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                                          .2                              MR. WARD:  That's a pretty major change.
3                              MR. ISREAL:  I can't deal with the inner workings                    I I '
4          of how the utility and the architect engineer dealt with one 5          another and why this came about, but there must have been a i
6          miscommunication along the line.            Originally it was 6 inches                l 7          and then somebody did new calculations when he plant was 8          built. We're now talking 10 - 15 years ago and they said, n 9          o, we can get by with 3 and--
10                                  MR. WARD:  Did they rip out the system?
11                                  MR. ISRAEL: No, they didn't rip it out. Before it 12              was built--before it was built.            That was one plant.
13                                  The other LER dealt with, they had a throttle 14                valve in the line to the high pressure injection pumps in
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21                                  MR. MICHELSON:    Are the fixes on all those pumps 22                at low MPSH7 i
23                                  MR. ISRAEL: No.
l 24                                  MR. MICHELSON:    No?
25                                  MR. ISRAEL:  No.
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3                MR. CATTON:  How would something like that get 4    mixed in the review process?
5                MR. ISRAEL:    I don't know Ivan.
6                All of these problems represent things that are 7    missed in the review process.      Obviously we' re not talking 8    about something that requires higher mathematics.        It's 9    pretty straight forward hydraulic type calculations and yet 10    it was missed in the review process?
11                MR. CATTON:  It's possible that the pipe shrunk 12                MR. ISRAEL:  I was told, in changes the pipes from 13      6 inches to 3 inches, the problem there was that they made 14    different assumptions about the number of pumps that would
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16                In other words what I showed you there, if you 17    look, I had one containment spray pump and I had 3 high                I 18    pressure injection pumps, driven off of one--
19                MR. WYLIE:  Let me ask you as question. The            j 20    drawings--what did the original drawings show, 6 inches?
21                MR. ISRAEL:  I was told that originally the 22    calculations were 6 inches.      Now whether those whose--
I 23                MR. WYLIE:  Oh the drawings--what did the drawings i
24    show?                                                                    l 25                MR. ISREAL:  I don't know what the drawings
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l 2                                                MR. WYLIE:  I mean, that's the key.to the thing is 3                            whether or not--
4                                                MR. ISRAEL:  What was told to me was that the 5                            original calculations indicated 6 inches and then subsequent 6                            calculations said no, they.could get by with 3 inches.
7                                                Now whether the original calculation ended up in a 8                            drawing showing 6 inch pipe or the evolution of how the 9                            plant is designed--
10                                                MR. WYLIE:  This plant was designed in the ' 60's--
11                                                MR. ISRAEL:  Right.
12                                                MR. WYLIE:  for a QA program, Appendix B and all 13                            of that came about an so there was a lot of latitude by the 14                            designers at that time.            That wouldn't happen today because 15                            :you got to have independent reviews, but--
16                                                MR. ISRAEL:  But the problem is that today we're 17                            dealing with about a 110 operating plants and they have 18                            whatever they have and--
19                                                MR. WYLIE:  I think you'll find in the ' 60's--
20                            early ' 60's, when those plants were designed, you're not 21                            going to find the same reviews that took place in the later 22                            plant.
23                                                MR. ISRAEL:    Let me just mention, in my previous 24                            talk about the containment ventilation systems, many of 25                            those plants are plants that were licensed, one was Limerick
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2                  MR. WYLIE:  The pipe change was done in the ' 60's, 3'      that's my point.
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7                .MR. NOVAK:  On this pump, on this configuration, I 8      think, normally when you look at the high head safety n
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10        at see that you could accommodate.the single failures and 11      - again, it was just the motor operated valve. Check valves 12        were assumed to do what they were supposed to do.
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18                  So those kinds of analysis never show up in an 19        FSA. All you're doing is looking at a P&ID and you're 20        looking-at the typical flows.
21                  I, in fact, when Sandy and I talked about this, I 22      was surprised that the shut off head is as low as it is.                    In 23        other words, it's no more than--if you got more than a 100 24      pounds to work against, you got to go piggy back and I 25      thought, these RHR pumps could do more, but that is what O                                              Heritage  Reporting  Corporation (202) 628-4888 1        _ _ _ ________ _ _
 
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2          Now, this is not, of course--some designs use the 3 same pump for high pressure injection and recirc, so they 4 don't have a piggy back mode and that is the combustion 5 design.
l 6          The Westinghouse design is and I guess the B&W 7 design have this configuration. And all we're looking at is 8 the operational experience.                                                                  ;
9          MR. MICHELSON:  In another arena, at the present 10  time, there is an MOV generic letter, as you're well aware.
11            In that generic letter, the staff is attempting to 12  deal with the so called position changeable valves in which                                  i 13  they, for whatever reason, the valve changes position and r~3  14  you like to make sure you can be re position the valve.
V 15            If you study these in dealing with the 16  probabilities that valves on the suction that pumps are 17  indeed position changeable and you take the finite time to 18  discover they have been closed, the finite time to get them 19  open and in the meantime, what has happened to the pump, 20  especially if you have no MTSH trip on it.
21            Have you looked into that issue and whether or not 22  you're really--
23            MR. ISRAEL:  No, I haven't looked at that problem.
24            MR. MICHELSON:  Okay. But you know other people                                  l 25  worry about the valve. I just hope somebody is integrating
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3          We're pushing this position changeable thing real 4 hard on valves, but we don't seem to worry quite so much 5 about the other equipment that is being now directly 6 affected by the positions changeable valve.
7          I was just kind of curious. I thought'I knew what 8 the answer would probably be. Thank you.
9          MR. WYLIE:  I might just say one other thing about 10 this particular one where the pipe changes.
11          Those pumps are 300 percent pumps. It only takes 12 1 of 3 to do that. That may have been--I don't know--that 13 change, the original design, they were going to use 2 of 3, em  14 but those are 300 percent pumps in there and you only need U      15 one of them 16          Now they may have went back and recalculated mon 1
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18          MR. ROSENTHAL:    Several years ago, I took a course 19 by a guy named Haas, who was teaching an early PRA    course 20 in which he talked about the numerical theory of PRA.
21          We surely did a lot of focusing on, you got two 22 pumps and one has failed and will the other one deliver the    ,
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                          '2-  out that some~ damper,._which'is a flow control' valve that'.was-3- ' adjusted and then wedged or something, has to be. changed.We 4  'just' keep . finding..these : things.
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8-              MR. CINTULA:      Thank-you.
9              .This is my.look at large openings in containments 10    when the containment should not be open.          It.was published.
                      '11      as E-808.      For a data; source, we.used LARs and.the time' span-12    is from 1980 until.early 1987 and we used-the sequence                #
13    coding system to find these breeches in the containment.
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15                What.we were looking for were. events of really 16-  excessive leakage through~the primary containment where it i
17    would be likely or.certain to occur during an accident with
                        ' 1Ef  a probable release to.the' environment.                                              )
19                In other words, we were lookingLfor.more'than one 20    failure in the system or something beyond the tech spec 21    reporting requirements for LERs.
22                  There are three methods that the LERs seem to 23    report for rather large breeches in containment.
24                  The first one is both doors of a large penetration 25'  being opened simultaneously.          The second one is a reportable
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3  takes a measurement through penetrations of the containment, 4  sums:them together. . This would be a-type of test where all                                7
                                                                                                          -i 5  the. equipment, valves-and so forth are in their proper                                      r 6  position and it will be leakage through these components 7  when they are in the proper position.
8'            The third type is the failureLof the containment 9  isolation valves, both of them, the inner and.the outer, to 10  ~close during a valid containment iso).ation signal or unknown 11  or undetected pass through containment.
12            Going back to the three of these, the first one 13  that we looked at were'both the inner and the outer door of 14  a large penetration or open when the tech specs say they V''N .
15  should not be open.
16            Both doors being open represent a massive-17  containment leakage, probably in the magnitude of thousands 18  of square inches.
19 20            We found 34 events' reporting both doors being open 21  and the 34.LERs had 39 separate occurrences of both doors                                  ;
22  being open. Fortunately, only 8 of these events occurred 23  during power operations.
24            Secondly, these events seem to be of very short
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2                          In reviewing the LERs, it seemed the licensee
                                ;3      personnel had salve,.they knew if both doors were open,
:4'    something was-wrong and one of the 2 doors was secured 5      quickly.
6                        .MR. WARD:    Ted, you commented that fortunately 7      only 8 of these occurred during power operation, but a 8      little while ago, we had a discussion about'the risk of core 9    melt might be as high as during shutdown condition, shutdown
    /-                        10        modes at power.
11                              MR. CINTULA:    That might be true, but I think with 12        both doors open, I would rather be shut down.                I'm not sure 13        of this, but as I recall, the 8 events of power operation,
,            es.              14        it's my recollection is that they were at very low power, 15        say less than 10 percent.
16                              The longest event was both containment, air lock 17        doors were open for 21 and a half hours.
18                              MR. CARROLL:    Open meaning wide open or there was    !
19        a leakage factor.                                                            ;
20                              MR. CINTULA:    Open that much, it's a tremendous 21        amount of leakage taking place.                IF it's wide open, you 22        know, it's more, but it's definitely to me, at least, a 23        significant breech of containment even if it's just--
24                              MR. CARROLL:    What was the circumstance there?        ,
i 25                              MR. CINTULA:    The circumstance for what?  The one 1
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2                Let me make one additional point.        I'm. jumping 3      ahead of myself.but the total. time'for all containment doors D                    "4    .being open was 43 hours so this.one represented half.the 5      time'of all the LERs that I reviewed.
6                As I recall, the event happened at San Onofre Unit 7      I in 1985. They were at zero percent power.        They requested 8-    a non license person to unlock the containment doors and he 9      thought he would help them out and he opened them after 10      unlocking them.
11                In'looking at the failure data of why containment 12      doors-arecopen, it's predominantly component failures or 13      personnel errors. Component failures basically involve the 14      latching mechanism of the door or the latching mechanism f{
15      failing to grab the door, a rebound affect.
16                MR. MICHELSON:  When you looked at the door 17      failure mechanisms, did you consider the inflatable--the 18      case of the inflatable seals?
19                MR. CINTULA:  No , sir.
20                MR. MICHELSON:    You didn't include those?
21                MR. CINTULA:  Not at all.
22                MR. MICHELSON:  How many of those have been I
23      involved?  They also constitute a leakage, but I've seen                        i 24    various claims and in some cases it's apparently a very 25-    large leakage once you lose the air pressure--
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.                                                      '2  'isn't.it, Mr. Michelson?
l 3              MR. MICHELSON:    No, not really new.
4-            MR. CINTULA:    The LERs are just as important as 5  containment. doors.being open.
1, 6              MR. MICHELSON:. Beg pardon.
7            'MR. CINTULA:    The LERs, at least in the time 8  period I. looked at, are just reporting the containment doors.
9  being open.
10_              MR. .MICHELSON:  I have seen LERs  in which they 11    reported the loss of the air pressure on the inflatable seal a                                              12    and there have been several of those, particularly on some 13'  boiling water reactors but also on some PWRs, but I don't know how--I don't recall how they---it was in an LER,.but O - 14                    15    how the.LER was quoted, I don't recall.
16              MR. CINTULA:    Those would not be included in the 17    information I am presenting here.
18              MR. MICHELSON:    But you searched for failure of 19    the doors, but it apparently wasn't recorded as a failure of R20    the door then,    It was probably reported as a failure of the 21    air system backed into, telling you what the affect was.
22              MR. CINTULA:    Probably. Those types of failures 23  would not be in here.
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2              MR. CINTULA:    Basically, I searched for LERs on 3  ' containment failure and then reviewed them myself.
4              MR. MICHELSON:    Oh, okay, then you could
                                          '5  potentially miss it because it probably came through the air 6  system route.
7              MR. CARROLL:    How about the equalizing valves, are
: 8. they in this body of statistics?
9              MR. CINTULA:    There were no failures of the 10  equalizing valves. After the report was concluded, a 11  failure of the equalizing valves came in very directly      in 12  the LERs. but I might have made a cut off on the data and 13  that's a good size. failure. That's like a three inch 14  opening, I believe.
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15              MR. CARROLL:    Yes indeed.
16              MR. CINTULA:    No, that one is not in here and if 17  there were others, I have missed them, but they're not in 18  here.
19              MR. CARROLL:    That's a fairly common problem, that 20  they leak at least a little bit.
21              MR. CINTULA:  Not both though. I was really 22  looking for an opening, not a loss of redundancy.
23              MR. CARROLL:  All right, okay.
24              MR. CINTULA:    You do some simple statistics on 25  this data and we're basically saying if there has been 39 Heritage  Reporting  Corporation (202) 628-4888
 
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                    ~1  events in 500 reactor years of operation over the time-span 2  in this-study, we're talking somewhere in the range of 10 -2 3  probability of both doors of an occurrence of both doors 4  being open when they should not be or not permitted by the 5  tech specs.
6            Or if we look at it from the time. standpoint, the 7  39 event represented 43 hours and that comes out to a                                  ,
8- probability of 10 -5 of both doors being open when the tech 9  specs require them being close and this is consistent with 10  previous safety assumptions.
11            The second type of excessive containment leakage 12  as reported by the LERs was a type B and C leak rate 13  measurements tests which are done under Appendix A, Jay and
  ,                  14  they're done during refuelings.
15            We found 10 events of significant containment 16  leakage. Tliis would be the type of event where all of the
                  . 17  valves, components in their proper position and it's just 18  plain leaking through.                                                                    ,
19              It's rather difficult to quantify the amount of 20  leakage. If you look at it from one standpoint, there was
                    ;21  one plant that measured 19.3 percent late per day.                              Another 22  one at 8.7, 3 others above 6 percent or if you look at it 23  from a tech spec standpoint, one plant was 22.8 times the 24  tech spec and a couple others, another big multiple.
25            Or if you look at it from a flow rate, we had one
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2 These numbers here are not nee.essarily, say the 2 or 3 worst 3 cases presented in the order. The numbers hop around 4 depending on the particular containment volumes, the FSAR 5 design pressures and so forth, tech specs.
6          However, there was only one containment that was 7 leaking at above 10 percent late per day. Those other two 8 numbers would be less than that.
9          You take this one and extrapolate it to the 110 10 operating plants, so if we shut down all the plants today 11 and done a Type B and C leak rate test, there is probability 12 of 10 -3, that one of them would be leaking above 10 13 percent.
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15 my opinion, is very conservative. In an accident condition 16 I would not expect the rates of the measured leakage to be 17 leaking at that rate. One thing that struck me while 18 looking at the LERs on this, is although some of these are 19 what I would call fairly significant leak rates. When the 20 licensee repaired and adjusted the defective components, the 21 leak rates reduced almost to zero.
22          But unfortunately, the next time they came by, 23 there was no guarantee that the same component would not be 24 leaking again at a significant rate.
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4 containment isolation signal.
5            We thought there were 8 events worth remarking 6 about. The largest was a 3 inch diameter opening. Both 7 containment isolation valves fail to close.      System went 8 from the containment sump. We considered it to be a valid 9 . leak of about a 100 percent per day.
10            MR. MICHELSON:    What kind of search did you do to 11 find these events?
12            MR. CINTULA:    This is all going through the same 13 search of containment problems and just reading each LER.
14            MR. MICHELSON:    Well that's not--well okay.
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V 15            You didn't search again the air system and when 16 the air system had problems in the LER then they talked 17 about it branched out into all the valve problems they had 18 because they lost the air or the air degraded.
19            Would you pick those up in these 8 events?
20            MR. CINTULA:    Once again we' re looking--I'm not 21 sure I'm answering your question directly. If I'm not, stop 22 me.
23            We were looking for events where containment 24 leakage would be likely to occur in an air system that is a 25 pressurized system and I--
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2  The concern is the isolation--the containment isolation 3  valve which, as a result of the loss of the air system may 4  now not  function properly if called upon. That's the 5  problem.
6            MR. CINTULA:    Once again we're looking for both 7  inner and outer to fail.
8            MR. MICHELSON:
9            MR. WYLIE:  Yes.
10            MR. MICHELSON:    7t would take- you're saying a 11  single failure due to the lack of air?
12            MR. MICHELSON:    Yes.
13            MR. CINTULA:    These valves should be fail closed.
      .        14            MR. MICHELSON:    Look at that carefully. Some are 15  and some aren't. The spring assist is not sufficient to 16  close them in the event that you have a rapid 17  depressurization in the containment. For some valves they 18  even require the air pressure to get them closed, in 19  addition to the spring.
20            MR. CINTULA:    The highest design pressure during 21  an accident during an accident, at least from the FSAR--
22            MR. MICHELSON:    You answered my question. You 23  didn't search for those kind of failules, at least as a part 24  of the air system reports. Okay.
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E 7            Our conclusion in doing this study or at least my 8  conclusion is that, from the time span that I looked.at it, 9  containment integrity has been maintained by the licensees.
10            MR. MICHELSON:    One other question now. Certain 11  plants still operate with containment ventilation, they just 12' can't stay totally bottled up, so they have routinely both 13  valves open.
14            Then in the event of an accident, you have to
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15  insure closure.
16            MR. CINTULA:    Right.
17            MR. MICHELSON:    Have you looked for the potential' 18  of those valves not to close upon demand as a part of this 8 19  event study?
20            MR. CINTULA:  No, sir, this would not be an LER 21  unless--
22            MR. MICHELSON:    Oh yes it would be.
23            MR. CINTULA:  Unless they failed to close.
24            MR. MICHELSON:    No, no. It would be an LER if the l                                  25  utility found that they, for whatever reason, could not 1
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                              . 1. -            'close if' called upon and that is a reportable event, if it's 2              a: loss of containment, particularly if it's both valves.
3                                  MR. CINTULA:          I saw no.LERs of that nature.
4-                                MR. MICHELSON: .Did you look for'them or you just 15                didn't see them?
6                                  MR. CINTULA:          I looked'for them and I didn't see 7              them.
8                                  MR. MICHELSON:          Okay. Thank you.
9                                  MR. CINTULA:          The other conclusion I would draw ,
10                that my looking.at the containments says what has been 11                ongoing is certainly no worse than what has been assumed in 12                the safety analysis.                  Thank you.
13                                  MR. MICLELSON:          The real question here has to be 14                though,fI believe if you have got a problem a$ all, it's 15                with the containment isolation valves that are venting the 16                containment to the atmosphere.
17                                  Did you do a search of the operability of those 18                valves under potential accident conditions and look, through 19                the LER system to see what kind of experience people were 20                having with problems with those air operated valves?
21                                  MR. CINIULA:        Yes.
22                                  MR. MICHELSON:          I'm not convinced yet that this 8 23                event--I've got some--I'll send them to you.                    I've been 24                collecting some of these on containment isolation, just 25                because I was a little concerned.                    I'm not sure whether you
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3            MR. CINTULA:    I do recall that the sequence coding 4 gave me something like 650 LERs and--
5            MR. MICHELSON:    These 8 events came from 650 LERs, 6 is that what you're saying?      That sequence coding should    t 7 find it.
8            MR. ROSENTHAL:    I told Dr. Remick that we would 9 try to give you a respectable lunch time so we're just going 10 to take 5 or so minutes to go over the last part, but we do-11 want to show you this pump problem.
12            MR. HSU:    The pump damage is caused by low flow 13 operation. In this diagram you find operation of 73          14 centrifugal pump, the flow, with the design creates full V            15 recirculation inside the pump.      This circulation--this kind 16 of full circulation induces some cavitation, hydraulic 17 pressure and sometimes vibration which can da.nage--which can 18 cause damage to the pump.
19            I have another picture here that will help us to 20 explain how this internal circulation works against the pump      i 21 operation.
22            This is a cut out drawing here with only half.
23 The other half is missing.      So this is essentially is half 24 and this is the impeller. This is the case.
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3      We are very low, lower-that the breaker pressure of the 4      water, you know. That would cause water to vaporize.
5                  When the you see the high pressure here again, 6    then it will crack. That will create a so called 7-    cavitation.
8                Another thing that this recirculation will also 9      create a voltage force and the pressure comes back down.
10          This kind of pressure surge    will create some direct force 11          which may be high enough to vibrate the pump. That's called 12          vibration.
13-                    Also we are creating an even force around the 14          impeller created through the pump.
15                    This is the circulation cap depend on the design 16          of the impeller. Every impeller design must begin to 17          recycle at some point of the flow. This recirculation- will 18          become more pronounced as the pump-as the flow is decreased 19          away from the design flow.
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23                    MR.'MICHELSON:  But the point is that the 24        . manufacturer specifies what these minimum flow requirements
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2            1G1. HSU:  Wait, wait. This phenomenon--this type 3  of phenomena is not fully recognized by the industry until-4  1985.
5            MR. MICHELSON:    Well MPSH requirement of a minimum 6  flow has been recognized for the last 30.- 40 years, but l[
7  think the manufacturers perhaps haven't recognized the 8  extent to which damages are occurring when you do have 9  minimum flows and as a result they started raising their-10  minimum flow requirements over the years quite:a bit.
11            Now the question I have in my mind which I 12  wondered'if you hadsfound is, have you, indeed found that i                                          13  even now the minimum flow requirements are still too low as g go 14                                  specified by the pump manufacturer?
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16            MR. MICHELSON:    That's still to low.
17            MR. HUS:    Yes, still too low.
18              MR. NOVAK:    What we have seen is that the 19    manufacturers revised the minimum flows.
20              MR. MICHELSON:    Yes, they have. That's been going 21    on since 1965 and--
22              MR. NOVAK:    Well, and also as late as 1985.
23              MR. MICHELSON:    They're still changing them.
24              MR. NOVAK:    That's right. So the feedback is L                                        25    getting back and it's too bad we're short of time, but I
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I)    1 think what Chuck should do is just show you--it's a variety 2 of different kinds of failures.                          People, I think, were too              i 3 quick to judge certain other reasons for lack for MPSH and 4 so forth because these failures have been going on for 5 years.
6          MR. MICHELSON:                          Yes.
7          MR. NOVAK:                          I think all that Chuck is saying is 8 that a half a dozen or so events we have'seen and it's been 9 recognized that it's due to the operating conditions that 10  they're putting these pumps under and even flows as low as 11  half flow can be too low to--
12            MR. MICHELSON:                          There's also a problem of too high 13  a flow with the resulting drop in the suction head available
      ,f- 14  to the pump such as during a run out and then you have to go V)  15  back--
16            MR. NOVAK:                          That's possible as well.
17-            MR. MICHELSON:                          --and then you had to go back and 18  start orficing close to pull it back in line.
19            MR. NOVAK:                          All we're saying is and we're not t
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23            MR. CATTON:                          Are there any tests being run?
24  That's a complicated flow problem.                          You're not going to do 25  that by analysis.
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(                        1              MR. MICHELSON:    This is not a new problem. They 2      have run flow tests. Bingham has run big loop tests in the 3    past.
4              MR. CATTON:    Normally you just accept the wear and 5      then replace the impeller now and then.
6'            MR. MICHELSON:    Well, not quite. It's a little 7      more complicated than that. The vibration-might catch yout 8    first. Have you found any cases where the minimum flow by 9    pasa valve has failed to open on pump start and therefore 10      the pump had no flow and what happened?
11                MS. HSU:  I don't quite follow you.
12                MR. MICHELSON:    Have you found any events wherein 13      the minimum flow valve failed to open, any reported events?
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15                MR. MICHELSON:    It seems incredible that that 16      hasn't happened some time or other on just a simple 17      probability basis. This wasn't reported then. Apparently 18      it's not sufficient to damage anything or it was recovered 19      quickly enough.
20                DR. REMICK:    Jack, could we summarize, perhaps?
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3            I was surprised.that if you looked,at the slides, 4  there's a variation depending on the pump design, the 5  failures weren't the'same, but it just suggested that the
                              .6      minimum flow is not~something as low as 10 percent.                                                          It may 7  be greater than half flow for the configuration and in the.
8 multi purpose pumps, where they try to operate over a wide 9  range of flows, any sustained period of operation can result 10          in what you don't recognize to be a problem developing and I 11          think that was what we passed on to industry.
12                    There was an information notice that went out this 13          year and I think we're going to continue to' watch and see 14        how this problem is handled.                                                I think it is a very practical 15          approach and I think Chuck did a good job in looking at it.
16                    Thank you very much for the opportunity of coming 17          down.here and talking about these studies and if things work 18        .out-right, we'll be down next month and talk to you'about 19          some of the work we are doing on performance indicators.
20                    DR. REMICK:                                              Thank you very much.            Those were all 21          interesting presentations and we are sorry that you were 22        pushed for time but we appreciate your trying to help us get 23        back on schedule.
24                    Bill Kerr, will you need your full 2 hours?                                                        I 25          assume you will,
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1                      AFTERNOON            SESSION 2                  DR. REMICK:  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
3    The next topic on our agenda is a discussion of the revised 4  NUREG-1150, particularly from the standpoint of the 6    appropriateness of its interim use, particularly in the IPE 6  process.        Dr. Kerr is Subcommittee Chairman, so now I turn 7  the Meeting over to you.
8                  DR. KERR:  You recall that we reviewed a draft of 9  NUREG-1150 and prepared a report dated July, 1987.            We have 10  within the past couple of weeks received a copy of a new 11  draft, the main report and several appendices, but not a 12    large number of supporting documents.          We plan to review 13  this draft in some detail using our normal subcommittee r^s,                      14 meetings to precede consideration of the report by the full V
15  committee.        However, the Commissioners have asked us to 16  offer whatever suggestions we can, based on the limited 17  contact with the draft, and to give them a report if we can 18  do this, prepared during this meeting.
19                  one of the things that they have asked us to give 20  advice on is the appropriate use of this draft in the 21    interval during which this draft will be subject to peer 22  review by a Committee that has been set up by the Commission 23  for that purpose.        The NRC staff members associated with the 24 preparation of the report have agreed to spend the time 25  allocating this afternoon giving us some of the conclusions
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2                          I've asked that in so far as feasible, they 3              emphasize, in so far as they can within the time 4                limitations, differences in the method used in this draft 5              and differences in the results and conclusions of this draft 6              .of the report, compared to those of the original draft.
7                          I will turn over the rest of the time to them and 8              to us, unless there are some of you that want to raise 9              particular issues.
10                            (Slides being shown.)
11                            DR. ROSS:  We will have a two part discussion.
12                I'm going to give some introductory remarks.
13                            Mark Cunningham, Chief of the PRA Branch in the l'4              Office of Research, will do what Professor Kerr just said, 15                which.is highlight some of the differences-between 1987 and 16-                1989.
17-                          The outline for this afternoon, shown on page 2.
18                So we'll discuss where we are as of the fifth of May --
19                discuss a little bit about the very large amount of
: 20.              supporting documentation.      Professor Remick mentioned uses, 21                and we're certainly here to elaborate on that as needed.
22                            The last half of the differences, method, 23                differences and results and summary is the part that Mark 24                Cunningham will give. And I think that's the substantial 25                portion of the presentation.
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              'l              DR. LEWIS:      Denny, on the front it says this was
              '2 . presented to ACRS, May 3, 1989, which was yesterday.                                                        Is
              -3  that a measure of the kind of uncertainly associated with.                                                        .,
4  the other numbers in the draft?
5            ' DR, ROSS:    I knew this was going to happen.
J  Before the meeting started, we considered consulting _an 7  -astrologer as the most appropriate kind to give this 8  presentation.
9-            DR. LEWIS:      And he said yesterday?
10              DR. ROSS:      Yes, I'm sorry.                                You know, you go with 11    the flow.
12              DR. LEWIS:      Okay.                        I'm willing to pretend that 13    today is yesterday.
14              DR, ROSS:      If the Committee wasn't ready to meet
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16              DR. LEWIS:      But 3:00 in the morning was already 17    today.
I 18              DR. ROSS:      They assembled the report and delivered 19    it to the commission almost on schedule, the 17th.                                                        As 20    events have unfolded the last several weeks, our principle 21    contractors and NRC staff are doing a final QA.                                                        And we're 22    going to meet early next week in New Mexico.                                                        And then 23    hopefully any residual errors of arithmetic and so on were 24    corrected. We send it to the printer, and in due course, a 25    couple of thousand copies will come out.                                                        It will be labeled (f                      Heritage      Reporting                        Corporation (202) 628-4888
 
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5 I'll give a little more in a minute -- the organization 6 proceeding more or less smoothly.        And I hope to have the 7 first meeting, July 10th.
8          There's a couple of other reviews that are going 9 to take place. The American Nuclear Society had a special 10 committee two years ago on the draft.              They're going to have 11 another one on this version, and they'll start getting some                                                      j 12 briefing as to the methodology next week.              And then when the 13 report issues, they do not have it; this report is pre-l l 7~    14 decisional at this time. They'll start their substantial l k.
15 review in June or July, and presumably be approved around 16 the end of the year. So that's the second review, the 17 external peer review, the NS Special Committee.
18          The third one is the ACRS itself.              And before this l      19 meeting concludes, we probably will have some discussion as 20 to how the substantial review by the Committee is 21 accomplished.
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2          What we've found in this study was that, depending 3 on the hazard curve, some of the low probability 4 earthquakes,.but with high intensity, high acceleration at 1'
l 5 the site, not only can damage the plant, but also.could have 6 significant.non-nuclear consequences; you know, buildings 7 falling down and bridges and so on.
8          We did not at the time we finished this study have 9 the expertise, the analysis methods, to calculate this non-10 nuclear seismic loss in terms of injuries, deaths and 11 property damage. We didn't want to present the nuclear 12 consequences out of context with the non-nuclear, so we 13 carried the seismic review up through core-damage frequency.
14 and containment performance, but we do not present off-site
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                                  .15 seismic nuclear consequences.
16          Our contractors are working on some sensitivity 17 studies. And in the next, oh say, 12 to 18 months, we'll 18 try to get a better handle on what we think a reasonable 19  thing to do is for seismic consequences. We like the final-20  version, which probably we'll issue near the end of calendar 21  '90, to have seismic risk analysis, but in perspective.
22            DR. SIESS:  Denny, does that include looking at 23  what the seismic event might do to the emergency plan?    Take 24  out bridges, put people under piles of bricks so that you 25  couldn't evacuate --
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3: exitation, we built that in to some of the work we were                                1 4  looking at; yes. But I think the whole thing should be-5  coupled ~into some larger studies.by FEMA, and they're 6- looking at the issue broadly.                                                          j 7            We did have, in the last several days, received a 8  National Academy report. I showed a copy to Professor 9  Siess, entitled " Estimating losses from future earthquakes."
10  It's a National Academy Report; it was sponsored by FEMA.
11  They go quite a bit into, not only the philosophy but some 12  of.the. nuts and bolts on how to do this, this being
    -13  estimating the injuries and deaths and property damage from 14  seismic events.
15            One of the things we'll be doing in the next year-16  or so is studying that report and seeing what application, 17  if any, it has to our work. My initial view is it has a lot 18  of applicability, and perhaps the ACRS might want to 19  consider it in its detailed review of 1150, also.
20            I mentioned we had an external peer review, we 21  have a charter which is in the final stages of approval.
22  The Committee, the Peer Review Committee, will of course 23  have fairly wide latitude in exploring the document and 24  setting its review. There are some questions that we would 25  particularly like answered, but these questions do not O                      Heritage    Reporting  Corporation (202) 628-4888
 
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                  .3  And these I think are some' fairly standard questions and I' 4  don't want to waste your time by reading them.                                                                I want to 5' point out the third billet,.that~is of particular interest.
c6' to some of us, is the use of expert elicitation.
7              We were criticized in the ' 87 version of the
                  '8  report as,to the methods of calculating and displaying the 9- uncertainty.      We made some extensive changes involving the 10;  fairly wide-spread use of expert opinion to calculate some 11  uncertainties, and they're appropriately displayed just 12  about every graph in the report.                              And we'd be interested in 13  comments cni whether or not that makes good sense of not.
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15  of these people'have been contacted and are willing to 16  serve. As I said, we hope to get started in a couple of 17  months.                                                                                                            ,
18                DR. CATTON:    What's.the background on --
19                DR. ROSS:    Lars Hoegberg?
20                DR. CATTON:    Yes.
.                :21              DR. ROSS:    He's been in -- SKI being the 22  regulatory organization.                        His current title is Director of 23  Research and Regulations and he's been associated with that
                ~24  regulatory body for at least 11 years.                                                              That's as long as 25  I've known him.
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2                                DR. ROSS:              He's been very prominent in T                  3                    international. committees in both the CS and Nuclear Energy 4                    Agency and the IAEA.
5                                MR. CATTON:                              And Leo LeSage?.
6                                DR. ROSS:              Leo LeSage was the. Chainman of the ANS -
7                    Special Study Committee,.and I believe he's a physicist.
8                                DR. CATTON:                              These are all big picture people.                                                            Do:
9                    you have anybody.that's going to give you peer review'of the 10                    nuts and bolts?
                    '11                                DR. ROSS:            Are'you talking more of a peer of an 12                    expert review?          I don't know if George Apostolakis would                                                                                    .
13                    agree with that characterization.                                                                                He does a lot of nuts and-s~    14                    bolts work.
A 15                                DR. CATTON:                            He's my. colleague.                                                    I know him well.
16                                DR. ROSS:            Yes, that's what I thought.
17                                DR. CATTON:                              I didn't make the statement without 18                    thinking a little bit about it.
19-                              DR. ROSS:            Well, he does a lot of very detailed 20                    work.
21                                DR. CATTON:                            Yes, but he doesn't understand 22                  phenomena very well.                        That's not his game.
23                                DR. ROSS:            No.                                            But these are not Renaissance 24                  people. They don't all know something -- but George is l
25                  very, very well informed on expert opinion, for example.
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8            DR. CATTON:  Well, they got the answers.
9            DR. ROSS:  For the purpose, I think it's an                                    :
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11            DR. LEWIS:  Just one more second on the same 12 point, forgive me. Will these people have a staff available 13 to them?
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15 through Brookhaven Lab. What we expect is they will be very 16 demanding and ask for lots of calculation          or whatever.                To 17 the extent they need technical support, we'll provide it 18 through our contractor. But they won't have a staff as 19 such.
20            DR. LEWIS:  Okay. But that was in response to 21 Ivan's question who's going to do the --
22            DR. ROSS:  If they work anything at all like the 23 APS study group, they'll be very demanding as to wanting 24 more and more and more. It will be up to the Research 25 Office through its contractors to provide it.
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                . 7. that we have to do and-then have the first committee meeting 8:  on July 10th. And we don't know how long it's going to' 9-  take, but I hope in the vicinity of 9 to 12 months, closer-10'    to 9,  I hope. But then, we don't know.
11                Now, NUREG-1150 is~600-700 pages long.        There's a 12    whole bunch of. supporting reports,.perhaps more than a meter 13    tall. I don't:know. Mark, going to guess?    More than a 14    meter?    More than a meter tall.
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I 17    but there's a number of volumes, seven volumes.        One of the 18    . criticisms in the draft was there wasn't enough supporting
                -19    rationale. So these reports are quite a bit thicker than 20    .they used to be.
R21 '              Then getting over to the back-end accident 22    progression.and risk analysis; again, seven volumes, again, 23    being thick; and then supporting reports on external events; 24    methodology, altogether should be about 20 backup reports.
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!                      5              MR. CUNNINGHAM:  As you're well aware, we had a 6    large number of comments on the draft report.                                                    Based on 7-  these comments and our own knowledge of what we-wanted to-8    change from the draft report, we made a-tremendous number of 9    changes in the methods that have been used for~this version 10    of the report.
11              We thought we would try to pick on four today that 12    seemed to be relatively more important to the overall 13    results. These are the, as Denny mentioned, the expert
                      '14-  -elicitation. process that we're using now is substantially 15    different, involving a larger number of panels, more 16    specialized panels, training, and what they call the 17    normative skills for the experts and increased 18    documentation.
19              We have worked to expand the amount of technical 20    information that we've brought into the report, particularly 21    in the area of severe accident phenomenological research.
22  Again, the quality of it depended on making use of the 23    documentation on expert elicitation                                        to explain better how 24    the experts interpreted the data, what data they used, 25    etcetera.
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6'                                                                                      DR. LEWIS: .Are you getting a new group of 7                                                                      experts, or just reviewing the way the original group was:
8                                                                      used?
9                                                                                        MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                          We have used new panels, q
10                                                                                              DR. LEWIS:                        You're forming new panels.
11                                                                                              MR.LCUNNINGHAM:                                          We did form new panels.
12                                                                                              DR. LEWIS: . Okay,.very good.                                                      And with overlapping 13                                                                            membership or completely independent?
14                                                                                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                          Some overlap.
15                                                                                              DR.' LEWIS:                      I see.
16                                                                                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                          The number -- let me put this up.
17                                                                          At-this point we -- in effect the overlap between expert 18-                                                                          groups was -- we-didn't start out with the assumption that 19-                                                                    owe wanted to overlap the group.
20                                                                                              When we set this expert elicitation process shown
: l.                          21                                                                            here, we went out and asked people in various parts of the 22                                                                            industry, indicating we're interested in looking for experts 23                                                                            on this type of issue, and this set of issues.                                                                Please 24                                                                          provide who you think experts would be in each of these i                            25                                                                            areas.          That was the selection of experts, and the selection I
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        ')                1  'of~ issues went along with that.
2                                                              We got probably 100 names or more.                                                  We went in'and 3  tried to cull then down to look for experience based on 4  publications and so forth.                                                                                                  Also, we're looking for a; 5  diversity of opinions.                                                                                                  One of.the comments on the draft was 6  that we used, we emphasized too much, the opinions and 7-  judgments of staff members of national labs.                                                                                                    And so in this 8  set of experts we looked for contributors from national 9  labs, from the industry, from academia, and what have you.
10  I'll show you an example of the composition of a group in a 11  moment.
12                                                              The experts went through a half a day of training 13  in the normative techniques, understanding the concepts of 14  probability, how to provide subjective opinion, how to 15  quantify subjective opinions.                                                                                                  At the same time the staff, 16  our contractor staff, were working on the preparation of 17  issues.                                                We wanted to provide to the experts what we knew of 18  as to the available data base with references, with 19  published papers, and what have you, on the individual 20  subjects that we wanted them to consider.
21                                                              At that time that we brought them together and we 22  had a meeting, the second meeting.                                                                                                    The first meeting 23  covered elicitation training.                                                                                                  We had a second meeting then 24  'that discussed the issues we wanted to cover, make it clear 25  to the experts what the definition of these issues, why we
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i_)/      'l          chose-those particular issues, and then tried to provide the 2        -technica1' evidence that we have, which we were aware of,
: 3.        that addressed that particular issue.      In those meetings --
4                    DR. LEWIS:  Did they in general look for more 5          evidence, or did they work from the package that'you gave 6          them?
7                    MR. CUNNINGHAM:    In general, they took it upon.
8          themselves to look for more information, do their own 9          calculations, and in some cases perform experiments.
10                      The experts also had the' opportunity to either 11          indicate that an issue that we wanted to consider that they 12          believed was not necessary to consider because there was 13          enough data available already; they also had the opportunities to add issues that they thought were
{~ ) 14 15-          important. They also had the opportunity to decline to even 16          deal with an issue. In the case of the accident frequency 17          analysis, our first panel indicated on one particular issue,
            .8          that they believed that specialists should be brought in on 19          one particular area, and those experts used to develop the 20          information that we needed.
21                      DR. SIESS:  Have you ever had an opportunity to 22          validate this process?    By that I mean has there been a case 23          during this long time we've been working on this, where the 24          information was not available. An expert panel was formed 25          to provide the information, and subsequently the information
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(-                                1 became available as a result of research, to check out how 2 good the expert panel was?
3          MR. CUNNINGHAM:    I can't think of a case in our 4 particular work with the experts. There have been cases in 5 other places, other circumstances where this has happened.
6          DR. SIESS:  And it proved that the experts, that 7 the system worked.
8          MR. CUNNINGHAM:    The system works reasonably well, 9 perhaps. One of the things we told the experts early on in 10 the elicitation training was the literature on the subject 11 clearly shows one trend. The experts tend to be more 12 confident in the results than they should be, that 13 subsequent data tends to indicate large uncertainties than I
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15 them to that type of information to say, " Consider this as                j 16 you're developing your information."
17          DR. SIESS:  Have you ever tried to experiment with 18 two groups of experts to see if they came up with --
19          DR. LEWIS:  They just did because they formed new 20 groups on this same issue.
21          DR. SIESS:  Yes, but they gave them different 22 ground rules.
23          DR. LEWIS:  I can provide a partial answer to your 24 question check, because I've been involved in this kind of 25 thing for 30 years or something like that, and in particular
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    .A 7            1                  in a domain I could only elude to.                      But in trying to I
2                  ' understand-something.about.other countries, very often one 3                  ' forms a group of experts and elicitsLtheir. opinion'by these c                    4                  delphic or modified delphic' techniques'and then subsequently-51                'the.information you were trying-to guess becomes available,-
6~                and there's no evidence that the expert pane 1~is any. worse.
: 7.                  than just picking people off the street and asking them for l-                    8                  their views.          No statistically significant evidence.
9-                          DR. KERR:                Please continue, Mark.
10                                  DR. LEWIS:-                I,was going to add one more thing.
: 11.                        And that.is than when the Germans did their risk study on 12                        the. breeder reactor, they added one extra dimension to'this 13                        game, which is to ask'each expert to rate the expertise of the other experts that were involved, which produced, after
        ) 14 15                        all, more data.
16-                                  MR. WARD:                Mark, you mentioned that in some cases 17                        the experts actually performed experiments.
18                                    MR. CUNNINGHAM:                  Yes, that's right.
19                                    MR. WARD:                Can you give me an' example of --
20                                    MR. CUNNINGHAM:                  I'll get to that in a -- get 21                          these slides down, that's right.
22                                    I won't say that was a frequent occurrence.                    I 23                          believe at least in one case something like that happened.
24                          A frequent result was that they would go back and perform 25                          calculations, either with computer models or hand O                                                            erieeee Ree-eine c-e-ati-(202) 628-4888
 
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2 Experiments happened a few times, I would say.
3            MR. WARD:  I wonder what the budget is for this 4  activity.
5            MR. CUNNINGHAM:  Not very much in those cases; 6 that's right.
7            One thing I should mention that I neglected before 8 was in the elicitation training and the preparation of 9  issues and what have you, we tried to make'use of people 10          outside the nuclear business who had experience in this type 11          of decision analysis to help us avoid some of the pitfalls.
12          that you can get into very easily in this sort of thing, and 13          in fact some of the pitfalls - we ran into in the draft 14          report.
15                      After this first presentation and discussion of 16          issues, the individual panel members went away and spent 17          anywhere from one to four months deliberating on their own, 18          considering the issues, performing the calculations and the 19          experiments that they wanted to perform.      In some cases they 20          came back together as smaller groups and met with each other 21          to talk about information.      That falls into this box down 22          here:    the expert preparation of the issues and the 23          analysis.
24                      Following this period of, I guess, a few months, 1,
1 25          the experts were brought back together to discuss the
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                                                ~1                  analysis that they had performed.                  This was intended not so 2                nuch to sway people, or to drive people to one person's 3                  opinion, but more. ensure.that the information base the 4                people were working from,'to ensure that the. issues they 5                'were trying to answer were consistent among the experts.
    #                                            6                  It's very easy in these circumstances to get into a 7                  situation where one issue, one expert, will have a slightly-8-                different definition of an issue, and he will go off on a 9 --              different track.              One of the purposes of the meeting is to.
                                              '10                  get them back focused on exactly what we were trying to.
11                  obtain-'from them.
12                              DR. LEWIS:              You may have said it, and I may missed 13                  it; typically, how many experts were there on-a given
: 14.                  subject 15                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:                  Typically, three to four --
16                              DR. LEWIS:              Three to four.
17                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:                  -
per issue. We had on the
: 18.                  order of six to eight on a panel, but they were split up.
19                  into subcommittees, if you will.
20                              Following the discussion, which lasted typically 21                  one to two, three, four days, we obtained the elicitation 22                  of the experts, what their results were for the particular 23                  issue and the rationale; equally importantly, the rationale 24                  for coming to a particular conclusion.                    These were done.
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    .(_j                l'  one of our technical experts, if you will. And one or our 2  normative experts, the normative expert being there to help 3  pull the information out from them in the format that we 4  were seeking; the technical expert there to help make sure i                        5  that what was being said made sense, was logical and 1.
6  consistent and what have you.
l 7            The individual expert opinions or judgments were 8  then combined, aggregated, whatever you want to call it. We 9  didn't go into the type of thing, as you mentioned before, 10  of waiting. individual experts. That was brought up as a 11  possibility. We said, no, we don't want to get into that.
                      '12  So what we did then was simply say each expert is equal.
13  All of them were treated equally in the aggregation process.
14            We then drafted initial documentation of the 15  rationales based on tapes and the notes that were taken in 16  the elicitation sessions. This information was provided by 17  the -- to the experts, the individual experts. Let me back 18  .up. One expert's rationale, his conclusions, was provided 19  back to that expert for review. They did not see, at this 20  point, other people's information, or conclusions. They 21  know the information; they did not see the individual 22  conclusions. Again, to avoid potential -- or having one 23  person bias the results of others.
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2                                What I'm going to do is go through and show now an1 3          example of some of ;he panels that we had, some of the 4'        information, some of_the members, what have you.                        Most of 5          the elicitation information was obtained in the. area of 6          severe accident phenomena, containment response, containment 7          loads and source-term information..
8                                In the area of accident progression and structural 9          issues, we had four panels:                        in-vessel accident progression; 10          containment loadings; the molten core-containment 11          interaction panel, which was basically looking at 12          interactions from a molto . core after it has left the
:13      vessel, was in the reactor cavity and the potential impacts 14      there; and then a different set of experts on containment 15        structural performance.
16                                Again, as an example in the area for the panel on 17      molten core-containment interactions, this panel considered 18        two issues:                the potential for drywell shell melt-through in 19        the Peach Bottom Plant, and the potential for pedestal 20        erosion causing pedestal failure in core-concrete 1
21        interactions in Grand Gulf Plant.
22                                In this case there were six members of the panel, 23        two from National Laboratories, two from universities and 24      two from what we would call the industry representatives.
25                                DR. CATTON:          That's kind of a captive group.
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2    This'is tricky transfer problems.                        I don't see a single 3-    person there who's a recognized expert.in the country.
4              MR. CUNNINGHAM:      The particular issue they were considering here was' heat transfer, was the chemical
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7-              That's right.      One thing I should say is in order 8    to keep the number of issues to a manageable level, we had 9    to keep-them at a fairly high level. One way to deal with 10            this is to.go in.and have experts dealing with.the heat 11-            transfer-aspects of a problem or the chemistry of a problem 12            and then combine that information.
                              '13                          maat we:were looking here for were people who-were' somewhat more generalist than that, but could deal with'the
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17                      DR. CATTON:      You're looking at molten core-l                                  18            concrete interaction.      And supposedly you chose a group of 19            experts.
1 L                                  20                        MR. CUNNINGHAM:      Yes.
21                      DR. CATTON:      There's complicated processes.                    They 22              have to decide on what's happening based on experiments that L                                  23              may or may not be scaled properly.                        It's all sorts of l
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3 going to provide an example of what type of information was 4 brought to bear as these people work on the problem. I 5 should back off, also. In this case, all six members of the 6 panel worked on each issue. So there's six elicitation  for 7 the issue of dry-well shell melt-through.
8            All members of the panel used codes, such as 9 CORCON, to calculate the characteristics of the melt as a 10 function of time if you will. I won't read all these 11 things. The point here was a number of types of 12 calculations were formed. This was the case I was thinking 13 of. I believe that was Dr. Greene --
DR. CATTON:  That's right.
      } 14 15            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    -- who performed some additional 16 experiments back at Brookhaven to help him improve his 17 information base. As I said before, after all these l
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19 Dr. Greene. The panel was brought back together. They 20 shared this information, discussed over, I think, about a 21 two-day period. And then using that information base, they 22 developed their own elicitation    -- they developed their own 23 probability distributions. That's what we're looking for in 24 this case. And we elicited the information on what that 25 probability of distribution looked like and why they (q)
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2            MR. WARD:    So the experiment that Greene series 3 ran --
4            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    Yes.
5            MR. WARD:    BNL was supported by this program.
6            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    It was supported by the research 7 program. We didn't fund it directly, but it was funded 8 under the general auspices of the Office of Research.
9            DR. ROSS:    We've had this type of research going 10 on at Brookhaven for quite some time.      And we've been 11 refocusing in the last year or two towards some of the more 12 immediate problems. As you know, George has done some of 13 the small-scale modeling work.      The likely flow
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19            MR. WARD:    Okay. But 1150 inspired him to do a 20 couple more t ests.
21            DF. ROSS:    Evidently. As a member of this group, 22 if he had the desire to run, we certainly would have paid 23 for it, sure.
24            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    If there are no other questions 25 on the expert elicitation process, we're going to move on to 1
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2                    We have incorporated external events analysis into 3 the study of Surrey and Peach Bottom.            This was a fairly 1
4 detailed analysis of accidents initiated by seismic events 5 and by fires within the plant using methods that are                        1 6 described in a reg that will be out in -- I guess it was in 7 the list that Dr. Ross showed.            It will be out in a few 8 months.
9                    One of the particular things that complicated the 10 analysis of the seismic events was the existence of two sets 11 of hazard curves for eastern U.S. sites, for both the Surrey 12 and Peach Bottom sites.            We'll come back to that in a 13 minutes.
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v    14                    Other types of external events, we had some 15 bounding analysis performed to screen, to see if we would 16 have to pursue them, particular events any further.            In 17 general, these things didn't show up as significant relative 18 to the seismic and the fire.
19                    The next three slides in your handout look like 20 this.          These are the hazard curves, seismic hazard curves, 21 in this case, for the Peach Bottom site.            That by itself 22 probably doesn't tell you much.
l                          23                    The next one is -- I'm sorry. Back up a second.        .
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: 1.                                        parhicular t'o the. Peach Bottom site. .I-believe it was done:
: 2.                                        for  all of the. East Coast sites.
L                  :3-                                                    .DIL LEWIS : _Let me just-understand one thing 4                                          about -- I don't want to go into detail, but these, it says 5                                        ~hore, 15, 50 and 85 percentiles?
6                                                    MR. CUNNINGHAM:          'Yes..
7                                                    DR. LEWIS:      And the middle one, the 50th    -
/                    8                                        percentile, is therefore a mean.
9                                                    MR. CUNNINGHAM:            Yes,:that's correct.
10                                                      DR. LEWIS:      It's a mean.          And yet the 15 andL85 11                                          percentiles seemed to-be about equally spaced on a 12                                          logarithmic ' scale, which is a little ' odd.
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13                                                      DR.-ROSS:      Fifty's the median.
L      14                                                      DR. LEWIS:      It's the median.
                '15                                                      DR. ROSS:      Yes.        The dotted line's the median.
16                                                      DR. LEWIS:      I have no dotted line in mine. . kn I 17                                          looking at the wrong curve?- Ah, the previous one.              Okay,-
18                                          fine. I understand.      So you're plodding medians and n            19                                          percentiles, then.        These are not really percentiles.          These 20                                          are percentiles on a log scale.            Okay, so they' re not 21                                          percentiles.      Now I understand.        But that's true, then, 22                                          throughout, including the next curve.                So you've abandoned 23                                          the Commission policy of using the mean to characterize 24                                          hazard.
25                                                      DR. ROSS:      We use the mean.          He's trying to show
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1 2                                                                                1 51. CUNNINGHAM:                                    What we used in the analysis is-3                                                  'the probability-distribution, the entire distribution, not                                                                                              _
4                                                    just the mean, or the median or what have you.
5                                                                                  The third slide in this group is cimply a 6                                                      comparison of the two mean values.                                                                                                The principle point of 7                                                      this is to'show that for the Peach Bottom site, they're very 8                                                      different based on the two sets of work.
9                                                                                DR. SIESS:          You qualified that.                                                                      Is that the only 10                                                                site at which they were very different?
11                                                                                        MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                        I'm sorry.
12                                                                                        DR. SIESS:          You said for the Peach Bottom site, 13-                                                            they were very different.                                                        Does that mean they are not 14                                                              different at other sites?
15                                                                                        MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                      They are also different at other 16                                                              sites as well                    .
17                                                                                          DR. SIESS:          That's what I would expect.
18                                                                                          MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                      That's right.                                          They are more 19                                                              different at the Peach Bottom site than the Surry site which h                                  20                                                              are the two we were particularly concerned with.                                                                                                So I put 21                                                                this up as more of an extreme example -- that in this case 22                                                              you see quite a bit of difference between the two.                                                                                                This 23                                                              will reflect right through the analysis, the analysis of the 24                                                                frequency of core damage, given one of these curves.
25                                                                                          DR. SIESS:          This does not represent a difference
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                                      .3  these things.
4              MR. CUNNINGEAM:      Both of these curves, both of 5  these' sets of' curves, the Livermore set and the EPRI set,
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6  were developed using expert judgment.
7              DR.'SIESS:      But by a completely different process.
8            .MR. CUNNINGHAM: -By different processes.          Again,
                                      .9 -this was done --
                                    '10                DR. SIESS:      It was grouped differently.-              <
11              MR. CUNNINGHAM:        Yes. -Different sets of panels,        i L12    They also had different' assumptions on --
13              MR. WARD:      Different assumptions on:what?
MR. CUNNINGHAM:        The EPRI panel considered, I
{ j ' 14 "15  'believe,Jthe initiating event frequency, if you will, didn't 16    consider as a panel the transmission of a seismic energy 17    source through the ground.. Whereas the Livermore curves had 18    panels considering both sets'of issues.          There was a 19    difference in method in that sense here.          iney are a lot of 20    other differences.
21              MR. WARD:      They subdivided the --
22              DR. ROSS:      The zonation --
!-                                  '23              MR. WARD:      -- differently there, too.
24              DR. ROSS:      The EPRI zonation was much higher.      Our 125    Appendix, C-11, goes into this in a bit more detail.          The
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i 2 accomplished by the licensing office of NRC, I believe with                              l 3 a few exceptions of not a cataclysmic nature.      They're 4 prepared to accept its use.                                                              1 j
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I 7            DR. ROSS:  With some exceptions, that I don't 8 thing big, but I don't have them with me.      Leon Ryder is 9 responsible for preparing the evaluation.      It isn't written 10 off on that.
11            DR. SIESS:  But keep it in context. They accept 12 it essentially for the seismic margin studies.                                          i 13            DR. ROSS:  True, except how you would use this in
(~}    seismic margins is not yet revealed, because you don't need v 14 15 a hazard curve explicitly for margins.
16            MR. WARD:  You say these two are derived by 17 different methods. I see they're also derived by different 18 institutions, 19            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    Different institutions.
20            MR. WARD:  And I guess I might explain the 21 difference in che curve if you consider the institutions.                    I I
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23 sort of similar explanation you can -- difference in 24 methods. I mean, would methods used by EPRI tend to give 25 you a different -- from methods used by Livermore.
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( f 21                                                    DR. SIESS:            What:you're saying that if Livermore 2      had organized their expert groups and-run it in the same way 3      as EPRI would, they would still come out with this much 4      difference.
5                MR. WARD:          Yes.
6                DR. SIESS:            Would the regulatory basis have still 7      been in there.
8                DR. ROSS:          One thing, I' d urge the Committee to, 9      in the future when you're doing your detailed substantive 10              review of the report, to allow a bit more time.              But there's 11              a message that you can't get from looking at the slide.
12              Comparing means may be a fairly poor way of looking at the 13              problem. The story is deeper-than just one means higher
    =cg 14                                          than the other.
L)                                                                              Did the uncertainties that they 15                        DR. LEWIS:
16              generated differ a great deal?
17                        DR. ROSS:          I'm sorry, Hal.
l                                    18                        DR. LEWIS:            This just shows the means. They each 19              produced a full curve, including uncertainties.
20                        DR. ROSS:          There is an uncertainty depiction.      1 21              don't know i f we put it in this graph, due to seismic.
22              There's a rectangle.            And core damage frequencies ere l                                  23              computed at different percentiles, if that's what your 24              question is.
25                        DR. LEWIS:            No, not. I'm wondering Livermore and E                                                                  Heritage            Reporting  Corporation I    ~
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2  Because this sort of thing can come about if.they even had 3 .very similar medians, but big difference in uncertainty.            8 4 'That would make the means separate by a great deal.. I'm 5  sort of_ groping through.                                          q 6            DR. ROSS:    At the risk of revealing.the punchline, 7 -the Livermore mean value curve is driven by one of five 8  ground motion experts whose equally weighted assessment 9  brings the whole mean value way up.      That's the story you 10  need to spend a bit more time on.
11            DR. SIESS:    But that sounds bad until you realize 12  that that-expert did a far superior job of predicting ground 13  motion from-that last earthquake in Canada.
{            14            DR. ROSS:    That's part of the presentation that we 15  have prepared to show you.      I'm not trying to discredit him 16  in any sense. I'm just trying to say this is one of the i
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21  b2ing summed. The tails of his distribution are being        l 22  influenced by the tails of the other expert.      It's juvt part 23  of the price you pay.
24            DR. SIESS:    There's also the probability that that 25  expert was right. His values shouldn't be pulled down by l
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4                                                            DR. ROSS:  We've seen graphs that could persuade 5                                              you to that end.        But I'm telling you that the Butler did it 6                                              at the end of the book.        Maybe you better wait and read the 7                                              whole book first.
8                                                            DR. SIESS:  Actually, I wonder if this Committee 9                                              shouldn't look at that seismic issue somewhat separately 10                                              from 1150.      You could almost separate the sides, and not 11                                              clutter up the 1150, 12-                                                            DR. ROSS:  You sort of have a forum coming up 13                                              within the next 12 months.        It's called the IPEEE Commission policy, which I'm sure the Committee will review.
(}.14 15                                                            DR. LEWIS:  The point that Chet is raising about 16                                              the expert elicitation processes, is really a deep and 17                                              fundamental one.        Because these equally weighted delphic y
                                  '18                                              techniques tend to give everybody equal weight, although we 19                                              know in our hearts that that isn't right.        And the German 20                                              method of asking experts to rate each others expertise is a 21                                              way to try to get around that.        And the other extreme way is 22                                              just not have experts, just find the best person you can and 23                                              take his word for it.        And somewhere in there, there's a 24                                              good track record, and I don't think it goes with either 25                                              extreme.
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        \4    1                                        DR. SIESS:      It is, however,'of getting the 2                            uncertainties broadened.
              -3                                        DR. LEWIS:      It's a.way of~getting an uncertainty.
4                                        DR.EKERR:      Gentlemen, we've used'up about half of 5                            our time, and I doubt if the presentation is half finished 6                            yet.  .I think this is an important issue, but I would like 7                            for us to go ahead with whatever we can out of this session 8                            toward possibly writing a letter to the Commission.
9'                                      DR. SIESS:      Of what?
10                                        DR. REMICK:      As we mentioned at the beginning, 11                              it's to look at possible -- uses, while peer review process 12                              is going on, the same thing we told the Commission 13                            yesterday.
14                                        MR. MICHELSON:                          Could you tell me in just a few
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15-                            words your position or approach on the fire initiated 16-                            external events.        That's one of the two items on your' slide.
11 7                            They talk seismic ,and fire initiated events.                            And your 18                              saying your using NUREG-4840.                          Just sammarize in a few 19'                            sentences what you're doing about fire.
20                                        liR. MURPHY:      The methodology we~use is basically 21                            the same that was used in the station backup studies.
22-                                      MR. MICHELSO!I:                        But that methodology doesn't 23                            reflect some of our understandings, or potential 24                            understating, of how a fire and the fire hazards might 25                            really behave. How will those eventually be factored into
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6                                                                MR. MURPHY:            I think this represents basically the, 7            state of'the art as to thentime'it was initiated, which was--
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9            continuing. problem in these areas where we'have a lot of 10                  methodological development going on.                                                        You~can never catch up 11-                to the state of the art.                                                        I'd rather publish'1150 using what-1:2                we have unless we find egregious faults on it, and then look
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14                  necessary.'as we learn more.
15                                                                      !@R . MICHELSON:            Thank you.
16                                                                      MR. CUNNINGHAM:              Joe's last point'there was 17                  actually relevant to all the information we've been talking 18                  about here.                                            We've indicated in the report that.the 19                  phenomenological data base and the medels, the methods, that 20                  we're using were frozen as of about a year ago.
21                                                                      m. MICMLSON:                l'm not sure all of our Enowledge 22                  was even factored inte those models of a year ago.-                                                                          I think 23                  the -- on fire are quite c. bit older than a year ago,                                                                                    hey
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2                                                        DR. KERR:  Please continue, Mark.
3                                                        MR. CUNNINGHAM:    The last point on this slide is k
4                                      'the approach that we've taken in the 1150 in analyzing                                              1 5                                        frequency of core damage from seismic events is that we've 6                                        done it twice.        We've done in.using Livermore curves and 7                                        we've done it using the EPRI curve.          You'll see the results 8                                        like that in a little bit.
9                                                        One last difference in assumptions, or methods,                                    1 10                                                    that I should talk about is assumptions on offsite 11                                                  protective actions.          This figure shows essentially the                                      l 12                                                    assumptions that we made in terms of immediate response and 13                                                    long-term interdiction of crops and land.
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20                                                                    We've received considerable criticism that five 21                                                    percent was not justi fi ed, it was too very, very 22                                                    conservative.        A half-a percent was based on analysis of                                      I 23                                                    event where at the Waterford Plant, I believe, where the 24                                                    Waterford nuclear emergency plan was used in response to a 25                                                    chemical accident near the plant.                                                                    !
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        '2'  not participate in the-initial evacuation.                                                                That came out to 3  .be quarter or a half-a percent.                                                            That's the basis that we 4  have here.
5                  The results that you see in early fatalities can 6  be very sensitive to that assumption of how many people 7  don't evacuate immediately.                                                It also can be very sensitive 8'  to the warning times that you have.                                                                So you'll see 9  . differences between plants because of difference in the 10    types of accidents that we think are going to be most 11-  probable, and warning times association with it to.get the 12    evacuation started.
13                  DR. REMICK:                          There's something I don't understand
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17                  MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                    We're assuming that if the plant 18    goes into a general emergency, that this evacuation will 19    start with seme delay time; there's a warning time.
20                  DB. REMICK:                          You're assuming that evacuation would 21    be called for in contrast to sheltering.
22                  MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                    That's right.                        In the report in a 23    couple of places, we have sensitivity studies on the                                                                                        1 24    effectiveness of the evacuation, on the relative l
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                .1                              you.        So the risk is shown, I believe, in the plant specific 2                              chapter three through seven.                                                                                          I'm sorry it's not in there 3                              now; It will be for the published version.                                                                                            But there is 4-                              some information in chapter 11, I think it is, on different 5                              evacuation assumptions.
6                                                Again, we are sensitive.                                                                                    The risk results, in 7                              general, are going to be sensitive to some of these things.
8                                                DR. LEWIS:                                                                              Am I wrong-in believing that NRC 9-                            policy does not provide for automatic evacuation.
              '10                                                MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                  That's correct. It's not 11                                automatic; it's recommended.
12                                                DR. LEWIS:                                                                              No, it's --
13                                                MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                  I'm'sorry, it's not.
14                                                DR. LEWIS:                                                                              It's a judgment matter.at the time of 15                                the event.
              '16                                                MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                  It's a judgement matter, that's 17                                correct.
18                                                DR. LEWIS:                                                                              So this is a fairly radical 19                                assumption.
20                                                MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                                                  I wouldn't say it's a radical 21                                assumption.
22                                                DR. LEWIS:                                                                              I would.
23                                                MR. CUUNINGHAM:                                                                                  When the licensee gets to the l-1 24                              point of having a general emergency, there's a decision that 25                              has to made on their part and on the part of local and state i
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2    What we assume is that, yes, in the cases that where they 3    'get to a general emergency --
4'              DR. SIESS:    It's always an evacuation.
5              MR. CUNNINGHAM:    It's always an evacuation.
                            .6-              DR. SIESS: 'No sheltering permitted by the U                          7    Commission' ruling?
8              MR. CUNNINGHAM:    I'm sorry,.what?
9              DR. SIESS:    It is-not possible simply to shelter 10    people?
11                MR. CUNNINGHAM:    Yes, it's possible to shelter.
12                DR. LEWIS:    But that's not assumed here.
13                MR.- CUNNINGHAM:    In the analysis here it's assuming that evacuation is the preferred --
                      } 14 15                MR. WARD:    Do any utilities actually'have plans 16    that involve sheltering?
17                DR. ROSS:    We had a drill last wtek, a w(iek 18    before, involving South Texas, and we got the general 19    euergency and the drill. And they had a precautionary 20    evacuation in the drill out to five miles, but there was 21    some sheltering, I think in the-keyhole, from five to ten.
                          '22    I think there's a lot of flexibility.
23                MR. CUNNINGHAM:    Again, we tried to acknowledge 24    that in the report by showing the consequence and the risk, 25    assuming different protective actions, early protective
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            '3 MR. WARD:    Mark, you said the Waterfor'd 4  experience, or the near Waterford experience and: actual-                '
5  evacuation confirmed 99,5 -- 'Isn't that.what'you saidla few-                ?
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7            MR. CUNNINGHAM:      I wouldn't put it'quite that way.
            '8              DR.'KERR:    He said the Waterford plan was.used in
: 9. ' evacuation'in connection with a chemical release.
10              MR. WARD:- Yes.
11              MR. CUNNINGHAM:      I won't say that justified.that.
          .12    That was'the basis for that 99.5.
13              MR. WARD:    That-was the basis for 99.5.
14              MR. CUNNINGHAM:    That was the basis; that's right.
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15              DR. REMICK:    Did'you look at the Susquehanna case?
16    There.was a similar evacuation here.      The Susquehanna Plant 17    with a chemical fire about two years'ago.      Do you have any 18    data on that?
19              MR. CUNNINGHAM:    The data we have was just for the 20    Waterford event.                                                              >
21                DR. REMICK:    I see.
l 22                DR. KERR:    Mark, I'm sorry. Would-you put that 23    last slide on. I didn't understand what was meant by those.
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l ',                                                                                                                                                                1 189 dr'  1                                      MR. CUNNINGHAM:                  Yes.
2                                      DR. KERR:                Thank you.
3                                      MR. CUNNINGHAM:                I will discuss for basically the
              -4  remainder of the presentation here, some differences in
              'S results.                              I'm going to shore that in terms of core damage 6  frequencies. containment performance, risk and then 7 ' comparisons with the safety goals.
8                                      This slide compares the core damage frequencies 9  for the five plants, the 1987, the original draft of 1150 10  versus the current second draft.                                            For some of the plants, 11  you'see essentially no difference.                                              Surry, Sequoyah, are not 12  very different between the two drafts.                                              Grand Gulf is 13  probably the most dramatic in the sense that it dropped by l-  14  perhaps, roughly in the order or magnitude, something like
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21                                      MR. WARD:                So that's not a differencs in 22  methodology.
23                                      MR. CUNNINGHAM:                  That's not a difference in 24  method; that's right.                                            Embedded in these are differences in                                            ,
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3                          In the Zion case, core damage' frequency went up        i
                                                                                                                                                      .I 4          somewhat.      This was based on, I would say, more analysis,-
5            that the dominant accident sequence in the Zion plant 6          involves loss of pump and cooling water, and reactor. coolant 7            pumps seal failure.        And the modeling for reactor coolant 8          pump seal failures was considerably changed from the draft 9-          of the final -- to draft to the final, to draft to the 10                      present version.        And that had somewhat of an increase --
11                      led to somewhat of an increase in core damaga frequency.
12                                      I should note, though, that since, well, in the-13                      last month or two, Commonwealth Edison had indicated that 14                      they intended to make modifications to their plant that will
: 15.                      eliminate-the dependency that was identified in 1150.            We 16                        expect, depending on how they make those modification, the 17                      core damage frequency will            come down; the mean will come 18                      down roughly a factor of two to six.
19                                      DR. LEWIS      Could you help me understand these 20                        displays.      These are 5th and 95th percentiles according to
                                                      .31                      whatever distribution came from concatantting the 22                        distributions of everything that went into the calculations, I                                                      23                        which can be done on a computer.            Presumably, it ends up 24                        something approximating log normal, but it isn't precisely, 25                        because you've done it right.
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                            '6  the logs, so that's a very, very high claim for accuracy, 7  really quite remarkable.
8            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    Yes.
9            ~ DR. LEWIS:  Do you believe.that it's true, that 10  these results are good to better than a factor of two?
11              MR. CUNNINGHAM:    Do I?
12              MR. MURPHY:  Let me give a personal view.
13              DR. LEWIS:  Factor of two.                    They've got four sigma 14  in less than one order of magnitude.
15              MR. MURPHY:  I think as long as you've recognized 16  the things the PRA does not do well, and the things that 17  are, therefore, not part of the analysis.
l 18              DR. LEWIS:  I've heard something about the 19'  subject.
20              MR. MURPHY:  I think for the analysis of what was 21  done, these are correct representations.                                                      I think you can 22  notice, as we've gone from the '87 version to the present 23  version, in almost every case the uncertain band has 24  increased a little bit. Again, that comes from better 25  modeling and looking for more things.
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l-l 2  representation of the uncertainty.                                                                                                                      I. notice that it's gone 3  up a little bit.                                                But when you fit an order of magnitude in 4  between the 5th and 95th percentile, on' roughly a log normal l-L                                            5  curve, and I'm not-going to quarrel, it's bound to come out 6  something like that.                                                That really is a small sigma in the 7  log. In particular, it's far better than what was claimed 8  by WASH-1400, example.                                                Okay, I'm just noticing.                                                                                                l n                                          9                                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:                    I would tend to agree with Mr.
: 10. Murphy in the sense that biggest --
11                                              DR. SIESS:              Why does Zion keep getting worse every 12  . time you do a PRA?
13                                            MR. CUNNINGHAM:                  That's what I mentioned before.
J In this case, in the Zion case, it was a difference in the
                                  } 14 15  way that.the failure of the reactor pump seals were treated 16  in the analysis.
17                                            DR. SIESS:                The PRA they did on Zion, they didn't 18  even have that; did they?
19                                            MR. CUNNINGHAM:                    I'm sorry.
                                            '20                                            DR. SIESS:                The first PRA they did on Zion, they 21  didn't even have reactor coolant pump seals.
22                                            MR. CUNNINGHAM:                  That's correct.
23                                            MR. MURPHY:                The First PRA did not identify their 24  dependency.                                                One of the things that happened here is in the 25  expert elicitation process, we were faced with the question
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6              DR. SIESS:        The failure of low pressure piping is 7  an area where we don't have enough data.                                    You have to use 8  experts?
9              MR. MURPHY:        We felt that that was the case,.and' 10  that there's very.few failures reported.                                    But we do know 11  that --
12              DR. SIESS:        It's not how many failures are 13  reported, it's how many years of -- how large the data base 14  is. If'there are no failures, you've got a large enough 15  data base, you've got a pretty good information --
16              DR. KERR:        Professor Siess, can I ask:one area 17  because'it's very short.            I think the whole ---about 10 18  pages long, the summary of the elicitation.                                                  It's a good 19  example to read as to what the procese was.                                                  It goes into 20- the question of presence or absence of data.
21              MR. SHEWMON:          What he's concerned about is why you 22- won't have better data --
23              MR. MURPHY:        The problem is that we're talking 24  about numbers in ten to minus four to ten to minus six per 25  year range.          That's the area in which the experts had most
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6                                                                      The experts generally had a feeling that they hated to get 7                                                                      down into the ten to minus seven, ten to minus eight per 8                                                                      year range, because they didn't think those numbers made a 9                                                                    heck of a lot of sense.                                                              I was one of the panelists and I
                                    ' 10 -                                                                                      think all of us on there felt that way.                                                              At some point the 11                                                                                numbers approach theology rather than science.
12                                                                                                                                                      So the upper ends of the distribution tend to be-13                                                                                  driven by the possibility that those mechanisms that we j            ) 14                                                                                                            haven't thought of yet would cause failure of component, 15                                                                                  including water piping.                                                            And it made an allowance for such 16                                                                                  an occupance.
17                                                                                                                                                      The end result of this was a highly skewed 18                                                                                  distribution.                                                              The difference between the mean and medium 19                                                                                  was well over an order of magnitude.                                                              For some experts, the 20                                                                                  mean fell outside of the 5 and 95 percent spread because of 21                                                                                  the skewness of the distribution.                                                              And because one of the 22                                                                                  experts-had a high total, when you're aggregating three 23                                                                                people and grading them equally, the aggregate mean can't be 24                                                                                  less than one-third of the highest member.                                                              And he tended to 25                                                                                  drive that up.
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        )  :1            I think it's important to note, though, as Mark
            '2  said, that Commonwealth Edison has reacted to this by 3' providing -- by making a commitment to providing independent                                  s 4  cooling for the charging pump, oil coolers, which is one'of 5  the problems associated with this.        And that will U            6  effectively lower the frequency of the sequence failure a 7  substantial amount. approaching -- well, I guess you said a 8  factor of two to six.
9            DR. LEWIS:        So they're responding in hardware to a 10  skewed expert opinion distribution.
11            MR. MURPHY:        That's true.
12            MR. CUNNINGHAM:        They're responding in hardware to 13  a dependency of a system where they can have one failure 14  leading.to a small LOCA and defeat of the emergency core 15  cooling system that's required to respond to it.
16            DR. ROSS:        I asked their Executive Vice-President 17  more or less the question you just asked.        I~said, "Are you 18  just trying to get out of the pickle you' re in with respect 19  to 1150 or is this a good idea?"        And he said that he 20  thought the fix was a good idea and 1150 had never been 21  published; but he had done an IPE, which he was going to do.
22  He would have proposed this as part of his IPE submittal.
          -23            DR. LEWIS:        I was not suggesting that it was a bad 24  idea just because it came up in connection with 1150.                                      So 25  I'm prepared to believe it's a good idea.        I'm just
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19                      DR. REMICK:  I would think, scanning through the 20            slides, people can, I think without even --
21                      DR. ROSS:  I understand.
22                      DR. REMICK:  They can go through themselves, and 23            if they have questions, then 24                      DR. ROSS:  Maybe we should pick out in the next 10 25            minutes, maybe the more provocative things, and skip to I
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                  '2                        DR. REMICK:      Right. 'Because what comes later on-3-    this afternoon,Lwe must: keep on schedule of being finished 4'    here.at 3:10.
5                      DR. KERR:        Let me ask about one' thing which may be
                    ' fi -  one of the provocative things you're going to talk about.
7      In our discussion of the first draft, I believe the 8      statement was made that the staff had concluded that one
                  '9.    -could really not tell anything, or certainly not very much l'0      about plants that have not had'PRAs by looking at these five 11        plants that had careful analysis.                In effect, there was so 12        much difference that one could not draw general conclusions.
13        Is that still the staff position after having done the work leading to draft 27              And if you're going to answer that
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                ~16                        MR. MURPHY:        I answered it last time.                                I'll answer 17        it again.
18                      lt think the results are very highly plant 19        specific.              I don't think it's as black and white as you can 20      .say there's nothing you've learned from these PRAs as 21        applicable to any other plants.                That clearly isn't true.
22'      But also clearly the numerics are very, very plant specific 23        and they deal with design details.
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4  .better word, .had the potential to bite you.            I think those 5  are basically generically applicable .. They're the kind.of 6  thing that says if you're looking for dependencies, at least 7  -look for the.ones that we've found before to-make sure,they; 8  don't exist in your plant.            To that extent, they're very 9  applicable across the board.            But you just can't look at the
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7            The statistical commonality comes from the fact 8 that you've got one sequence for one plant, one for another 9 plant, one for ability at one plant, and one for another, 10 and statistically they add up to a picture of the plant.      So 11 that there's some information you get about the population 12 from two plants, as was the case in WASH 1400, and even more 13 you get from five.
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20            MR. MURPHY:  Well, I agree with that completely.
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3-                      MR. MURPHY:      If I may, Mark, there's an important
: 4.      -point'tolbe made as you look at the two hazard curves.                  In 5:        thatfif you look at what sequences are driving the risk, 6        what type of failures are driving the risk looking at both 7        sets of curves, it's driven by the same thing.                So the
                                                                          -8            vulnerabilities-identified are the same although the 9        numerics are different.
10                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:      I' won't pursue that one further,
                                                              'll                      then.
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the plants.      The ones that are partially shaded here, if you 15                will, tend to be on the left, are from the present version 16-                of the report.      The open ones are from the draft' report.
17-                The biggest changes occur in Surry where we have seen now a 18-                substantially lower probability of early containment failure 19                than in the draft.
20                                This is tied in'in the draft report.
                                                            -21                                      DR. KERR:  The one on the left is the second 22                  draft?
                                                            -23                                      MR. CUNNINGHAM:      Yes, the one on the left is the l
24                  present draft.
25                                DR. KERR:  Thank you.                                        j i
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l 4        analysis of the containment structure and containment loads, 5        and analysis of the potential for the reactor coolant system 6        being depressurized before the reactor vessel lower head 7        fails have led to the conclusion that direct containment 8        heating is not as significant a threat to the Surry 9        containment as it was in the '87 draft.                                            t 10                    DR. KERR:  And I could conclude from that that the 11        conditional probability of failure for Peach Bottom and 12        Grand Gulf is somewhere between zero and one?
13                    MR. CUNNINGHAM:    That's what this is saying, yes, fw  14                    In the case of Peach Bottom, where I showed you U
15        the six experts before, the six experts considered the issue 16        of containment performance and the potential for dry well 17        shell melt through at Peach Bottom.      that's the physical 18        mechanism that's occurring that's causing this containment 19        failure, hypothetically, that Peach Bottom is dry well shell 20        melt through.
21                    In the dominant cases for station blackout and 22        others, you had six experts. Three believed that dry well 23        shell failure would occur essentially every time, you had 24        three experts believe that it would occur never.      So this 25        distribution is bimodal. There's a great deal of
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                              .4                DR. CATTON:        What side of the fence was George 5  Greene on?
6'              MR..CUNNINGHAM:        I'll let you guess on that.
7                MR. WARD:        Mark, what's the -- let's see, this is-8  the conditional probability of failure.                      And how is the i-                            9  challenge-defined?            I mean, conditional probability.given 10  what?
11                MR. CUNNINGHAM:        Given a core melt.
1 12                MR. WARD:        What kind of core melt?. I mean, that's 13  what Ifm driving at.            How do you get that?
14-                MR. CUNNINGHAM:        This is based on in'a sense of we 15  took there's a conditional probability of core melt given a 16  station blackout or given a large LOCA, what have you.                      This 17  is the frequency rated average of those.                      So that it's --
18                MR. WARD:        This is a core melt that is proceeded 19'  to melting through the bottom?
20                MR. CUNNINGHAM:        Yes, that's right.
21                DR. ROSS:        The elicitation is.in the form of a CDF 22  as an ordinate and the time after vessel failure is the 23  abscissa.      So there's a vessel failure in the elicitation.
24                MR. WARD:        So the low probabilities aren't because u                            25  it didn't even get out of the vessel?
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    '2  ' assuming essentially'that you've gotten out of the vessel.'
: 3.            DR. CATTON:  But it didn't get all the way across 4'  the floor. This is highly sensitive.                        Whether it's going to 5  fail or not is very sensitive to the amount and temperature 6  rate?
7              MR. CUNNINGHAM:          -Yes.
8              DR. CATTON:  What did you give your expert panel?
      '9              MR. CUNNINGHAM:            We gave them a series of case 10-  studies with different assumptions on amount of mass 11    involved, amount of superheat in the melt, zirconium content 12    in the melt. I think there was high pressure low pressure 13    in the reactor pressure vessel at the time of failure.
() 14    There may have been other. parameters.                        And they were to 15    define these conditional probabilities for each of those 16  . cases individually.
17              DR. CATTON:  Is this just for a particular one of 18    those cases?
19              MR. CUNNINGHAM:            This is for the frequency 20    weighted average of all those cases.              Each of those cases 21    ended up with a particular --
22              DR. CATTON:  Then don't you have to weight the 23    initial conditions and then weight ~what they do with it?
24              MR. CUNNINGHAM:            Yes. That's right.                                          They are 25    weighted. All of that weighting is embedded in this.                                                      This
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2                                                          DR. ROSS:                                                        Well, now look, this discuesion could 3  take hours, and we just don't have time to get into it.
4                                                    'DR.                                      CATTON:                      No.
5                                                        MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                          If you go into Appendix C --
6                                                        DR. ROSS:                                                        We' d be ' glad to do so. We just don't 7  have time this afternoon.
i 8                                                        DR. CATTON:                                                        It's not necessary.
r      9                                                        MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                          Appendix C in 1150 discusses --
10  Section 8 of Appendix C discusses how, what information was 11  used in the drywell shell failure, who considered it and the 12  different cases, and the conditional probabilities for the-13' different cases.                                                                                                      That's where the information is,-at least-14  in.1150.
15                                                        DR. KERR:                                                        Mark, on a different subject, the 16  contribution of the interfacing LOCA seems to be 17  significantly greater for the second draft than it was in 18  the first draft if I'm interpreting things correctly.
19                                                        MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                          For Surry?    Yes, for the PWRs.
20  Surry and Sequoia.
21                                                        DR. KERR:                                                        And this appears to be driven by, among 22  other things, a greater frequency of occurrence on the part 23  of --
24                                                        MR. CUNNINGHAM:                                                          No.
25                                                        DR. KERR:                                                        Well, you tell me what it is driven by, O                                                                                            aerie 9e aeverti 9                              cerror eio=
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2                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:                Two things: one, the impact of 3                  containment bypass is greater today because this impact is-4                -so much less, especially in Surry.                    If you had the early 5                  containment failures occurring with high probability, the 6                impact of the bypasses is relatively diminished.
7                              DR. KERR:            Oh, I see. So it was affected, the DCH 8                  is out which contributed.
9                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:                That makes the bypass more 10                      important.
11                                    DR. KERR:            That's one of the things.
12                                    MR. CUNNINGHAM:                There's a second aspect. There's 13                        a set of accidents involving an' initial steam generator tube 14-                      rupture which is a bypass with subsequent human errors 15                        leading to a core melt that was, it's in this. version of the 16                        report, it was not in the draft report.                    So there's another 17                        accident sequence that comes into.that containment bypass.
18                                    Today, the most important risk important accidents 19                        in Surry -- not Sequoia, are --
20                                    DR. KERR:            How did one get at the frequency of
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21                        that event?        Was that' expert opinion?
22                                    MR. CUNNINGHAM:                The frequency of the?
23                                    DR. KERR:            Steam generator tube bypass?
24                                    MR. CUNNINGHAM:                The tube rupture was based on the 25                        limited data that were available.                  The rest is a series'of
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: 1. . '    l'                                  human errors. I don't believe -- they were not expert l            2                                  panels, they were using'some of what I call standard human i
3                                    reliability models.                                                                                u 4'                                              DR. KERR:    Thank you.
5                                              MR. CUNNINGHAM:    There are a large number of 6                                    figures'in here that show different risk measures for the 7-                                  individual. plants from 1987 to 1989.' What I propose to'do
: 8.                                  is just skip towards the.end where the show the comparisons.
9                                    This is the comparison with the individual latent cancer 10                                    fatality safety goal.      The. safety goal is the horizontal
          .'11'                                  line here. In the '87 draft they were well below.                                      In-the 12                                    '89 version they dropped perhaps'even somewhat more.
13                                              This is a similar figure for the early fatality 14                                    safety, goal. It's not new to see that the early fatality 15                                  safety goal, risk from plants tend to be closer to the 16                                    safety goals for the early fatality measures than the latent 17                                    fatality measures.      That's not an unusual thing.
18                                              Again, wo see decreases from '87 to '89.                                        You see 19                                  Peach Bottom and Grand Gulf that have dropped rather 20                                  considerably. From what we can tell at the moment, that's a 21                                  combination of the decreased core damage frequency,- and the 22                                  assumptions on the non-evacuation fraction.
23                                              DR. REMICK:    And what's the effect in Surry and 24                                  Peach Bottom with the external initiators?
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1 2                                        DR. SHEWMON:    -- five minutes ago on core damage  i 3                            frequency that has gone up on the risk to the public it's 4                            gone down between '87 and '89. Is the -- more comforting 5                            now than it was?
6                                      MR. CUNNINGHAM:    Yes, that's the difference.      J 1
7                                        MR. MURPHY:  Yes. But one other aspect is that in i;
8                            Zion, the one that went up had to do with the loss of          j 9                            component cooling water and the sealed LOCA.      You have 10                                    containment sprays available in that type of sequence so 11                                    that while it was a dominant sequence from a core melt 12                                    standpoint, it wasn't very important from a risk standpoint.
13                                                DR. REMICK:  Denny, are we going to switch to uses
              /~T                                    14                                    at this time?
U 15                                                DR. ROSS:  Do you see the probability of a large 16                                    release?
17                                                MR. CUNNINGHAM:    Yes. A probability of a large 18                                    release. Using the definition of I guess it's at least one 19                                    early fatality, potential for at least one early fatality, 20                                    the goal here in ' 87 and the ' 87 --
21                                                MR. WARD:  Are you calling that a large release?    !
22                                                MR. CUNNINGHAM:    That's, that was the definition 23                                    in '87 that was believed by the staff to be the most 24                                    (;ppropriate. It's my understanding that the Staff has 25                                    considered that a lot over the last couple of years, and        [
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3            DR. LEWIS:  We'll have something to say about 4  that.
5-            But what is meant by " potential"?
6            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    To me, it's the probability of 7  one or more early fatalities in there.
8            DR. LEWIS:  I'm sorry. The potential for an early 9  fatality means an early fatality?
10            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    To me it does, yes.
i 11            MR. MURPHY:  As we've defined it for this study, 12  it's the probability of one or more --                                                                                          l 13            MR. CUNNINGHAM:    Early fatalities.
        ~N 14            DR. ROSS:  You're talking about the implementation (d
15  paper uses the word " potential"?
16            DR. LEWIS:  Yes, it does, and I don't understand 17  the word. Because a power plant sitting out there working 18  has the potential for one fatality.
19            DR. ROSS:  To quote the late Saul Levine, it may 20  be a distinction without a difference.
21            DR. LEWIS:  I'm just quibbling about words.
1 22            DR. ROSS:  Yes, well it wasn't much of a response, 1
23  either. I admit that. But I mean, -- on to uses.
24            DR. KERR:  Okay, on to uses.
25            DR. ROSS:  We can turn the lights on now if you'd
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2            I've got one thing to say on Uses.                                                        Chapter 13 3 unfortunately has 13 pages in it which dwells a little bit 4 more on uses. But I think the best thing we can do is see 5 do you have some questions you'd like to ask us on uses, 6 that is.
7            MR. WARD:  How do you plan to use it?
8            DR. LEWIS:  What are you' going to do with this 9 mess of potage?
10            DR. ROSS:  There's been a lot of dialogue back and                                                                  ;
11 forth. I think in the last few months, we've been fairly 12 consistent on the subject of uses. And the blurbs that are 1
13 on page 13-1 are the same as in a status report we sent to the Commission on March 14th. And in fact, it's also h          } 14 15 included in the Charter to the Special Peer Review.                                                                      And we 16 list -- I assume that the Committee has this.                                                                      I hope you l                          17 do.
l l                          18            Do you have anything in writing at all from us or 19 the Commission on this topic?                                                                                                  l 20            DR. KERR:  I gave at the last meeting we had.
21            DR. ROSS:  Presentation, okay, on uses.
22            DR. LEWIS:  I can't swear I don't have it.
23            DR. ROSS:  We would have received it, what, in the 24 last week or so?
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_1  some copies. But by and large, it's connected with the 2  Commission's integration plan. A lot of this is extracted 3' .directly from the Commission's Severe Accident Integration          l l
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6  internal'and eventually external IPEEE. Using it to develop 7  the containment performance improvement program and the 8  accident. management program as input'to safety goal policy.
9            And then there's some subsidiary uses about 10    prioritization of research prioritization of generic issues.
11~  That's a real broad picture of the uses. Now, I think l
12    there'll be an additional uses, which is really not what          '
13    we're asking for. I suspect that one or more of the i
        -(T v 14 utilities will use this in part, and maybe in large part as 15    a submittal, a resubmittal back as an IPE. But that's not 16    our, we didn't care whether they did that or not.
17              DR. KERR:  Denny, let me see if I understand. You 18    say that these can be used in IPEs. And I can see that in a 19    sense that they are PRAs, if one chose to do a PRA, one 1
20  might use these.as a method of learning how to do a PRA or 21    knowing what to look for.
22              But I can't see that these would be any more-23    useful than any other well-done PRA in determining how one 24    goes about doing a PRA for a plant. So you apparently don't l            25  mean that. What do you mean when you say --
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211 1            DR. ROSS:  I think that's a true statement.                        If 2  we'd had five recent PRAs that we were comfortable with and 3  understood well, and thought they were pretty good stuff, 4  they would have done just as good.
5            DR. KERR:  Oh, okay. So.
6            DR. ROSS". Now, the one thing that is different, I 7  think, is the updated methodology, severe accident 8  phenomenon methodology.      You know, some of the older PRAs
            '9' don't take into account recent phenomena.
10              DR. KERR:  Yes, but I thought, my impression is 11  that the way the source term is treated in 1150, for 12  example, is still rather arbitrary.      And indeed this method 13  was-adopted as a matter of convenience because of time and 14  resources.
15              Isn't that the case?
          .16              DR. ROSS:  Well, that may be just a tad bleak.
17  Certainly, you know, the driver code, the MARCS code has got 18  some very crude approximations in terms of key accident 19  times, you know, such as vessel boils dry and so on.                Coarse 20  lumps, that sort of thing. And there are more advanced L          21  exotic codes that do it better. But I think it represents 22  the state of the art in PRA assessment.      And some of the 23  other codes, like the SPRC code for suppression pool credit 24  is I think is more than just approximate.      If that was the 1          25  sense of your question.
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(_)                1          DR. LEWIS:  Denny, on this page 13-1 that's being 2 distributed here, it says that the information provided --
3 it's quite explicit, I'll give you credit for that -- it 4 says the information provided and how it will be used 5 include the following:    It says, probabilistic models of the 6 spectrum of possible accident sequences, containment events 7 and offsite consequences of severe accidents far use in.
8 And then there follows the stuff about guidance for IPEs and 9 containment performance and operations and safety goal 10  implementation.
11            Now, the probablistic models of the spectrum, you 12  know, are really the end result of a PRA. That's all the    ,
13  information you get out, probability versus the event. So 14  if you want to use those in developing guidance for all
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17            Is that an unfair comment?
18            DR. ROSS:  Well, if you qualify it a bit, I'd 63v, 19  no, it's not unfair. Any cosmic changes.
20            DR. LEWIS:  I don't think " cosmic" is a pejorative 21  term.
22            DR. ROSS:  You know, I think we're approaching the-23  mentality of approaching the boiling water reactor, for 24  example, is that with redundant and diverse water make-up 25  systema probably station black out and ATWS are the two big Heritage  Reporting  Corporation
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2              What if that assumption.got completely overturned 3  and Sequence X, not heretofore identified, I should be 4  worrying about?    And IPE ignored it. That's a cosmic.
:5  change. But I think that's such a degenerate postulation, 6  that I'm not sure it.should affect our dealings.
7              DR. LEWIS:  Yes. ~Well,1 the thing I'm groping for 8  is that if you were to have said that you know, we've 9  learned a lot doing that. And of course, as we learn 10    things, we get better at-our jobs, and we're going to use 11    the information in helping to formulate our strategy, that 12    would be almost unexceptionable in the other direction.      But 13    instead what it says is that you're going to use the 14  ~ detailed probabilistic curves to formulate policy, and those J( )
15    are the things most likely to be changed by a decent peer 16    review.
17              I would think those were, to borrow terminology' 18-  from another world, these are the weakest outcomes and the l-19    least likely to survive a tough review.
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21    don't'think any logical outcome of the peer review would 22    overturn the IPE letter, for example.
23              DR. LEWIS:  Would overturn what?
24              DR. ROSS:  Would not overturn the IPE letter.
25    See, one could have read this a bit different.      We could
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                      .5            DR. LEWIS:          No ,. you didn't.                                                                    l l
6            DR. ROSS:      But that's what we meant.                                                                ]
7            DR. LEWIS:          Well, that's what I'm groping for.                                                j 8 Because if you had said that, I might not have had any l
9 problems. .Because I think everyone will agree that you're                                                          ?
10  smarter than you were a year ago.
11            MR. MURPHY:                      We don't have the intent of saying 12  that you use the bottom lane distributions.
13            DR. LEWIS:          Well, that's what it says here.
  /~N                14            MR. MURPHY:                      I don't read it that way.
  'd 15            DR. ROSS:      I don't see that either, Hal.                                                    Where 16  does it say that?
17            MR. MURPHY:                    All right.          It says the probabilistic 18  models are to be used in the development of guidance.
19            DR. LEWIS:          The probablistic models of the 20  spectrum of accident sequences.                            Doesn't that mean the 21  probability versus event curves?
22            MR. MURPHY:                    No, to me, that means the physical 23  models of the plant, the fault trees, the event trees, the 24  understanding of the interactions of the systems and 25  components of the plante                          That information -- not so much
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l'                                    the quantitative as the. qualitative information gained
                                              =2                                      there.
3                                                                                  DR. LEWIS:. That's what some experts.would call rr                      4                                      the Master Logic Diagram?
5'                                                                                  MR. MURPHY: _ Comething of.that order, yes.
6                                                                                  DR. LEWIS:                                                I see, okay.
7                                                                                  MR. MURPHY:                                                An example. :We made a mistake on one 8                                      of the plants that we assumed that~a component needed 9                                      external cooling when it didn't.                                                                                    But the' fact that -- and-10                                      we were later corrected by the utility who showed us that we 11                                    ' did not need such cooling.                                                                                  But that insight told us that if 12                                      such a component existed in another plant, it did need
                                            =13                                      cooling.                                      So it showed what we had to look for.
14                                                                                    So it's not bottom line.                                                That's not the intent
                                            ~ 15'                                    here.            If'you got that impression, we said it poorly.
16                                                                                  DR. LEWIS:                                                Okay,.so I should read that and just 17                                      ignore the word, probabilistic, and I'll be in pretty good 18                                      shape.
19                                                                                  MR. MURPHY:                                                Yes.
20                                                                                  DR. LEWIS:                                                Okay.
                                            ' 21                                                                                  DR. KERR:                                                Any further questions?
22                                                                                      (No response)-
                                            ' 23                                                                                  DR. KERR:                                                Mr. Chairman, I see no additional 24                                      questions.                                                      So I think.we should thank the staff for a 25                                      succinct presentation and I turn things over to you.
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: 2. further questions?
o 3-                  Staff have any additional-comments you'd like to
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                                    <5                                DR. ROSS:  Yes. We' d like, and we can do.this 6    with Professor Kerr,- we'd like to engage upon some long term 7    substantive discussions on thiscreport and maybe take 8  ; upwards of a year.for the committee to finish.          But we'can 9    do that with Professor Kerr.
10                    DR. REMICK:  Sure.
11                    DR. LEWIS:  I don't think there's any way either-12    of us can avoid that eventuality, much as each of us would 13    probably like to.
14                    DR. REMICK:  All right, nothing further on that.
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15    Surprisingly, we're ending up a little bit early.
16                    Bill, do you know if we'll be ready to go on the 17    next issue before 3:157 18                    DR. KERR:  From the people I see in the audience, 19    I would just that we could start at 3:00 o' clock.
:20                  DR. REMICK:  3:00 o' clock. All right, let's take 21    then-a 15-minute break and return at 3:00 o' clock, taking up-22    the Limerick Unit'2.
23                    (Whereupon, at 2:45 p.m., a brief recess was 24    taken.)
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2                                                The next agenda topic is the Limerick Nuclear
: 3.                                    Power Station Unit-2. . We have had a request from a member 4'                                    of the public, Mr. Lewis. We are. starting-early and he is 5                                      not here and I'm sure that's because we are starting early.-
6                                    So I suggest that assuming Mr. Lewis arrives at the 7                                      appropriate-time that perhaps we could have his presentation 8                                    after the. staff presentation and before that of the 9                                    Applicant.
10-                                                          So withoat'further comment from my standpoint, Dr.
11                                                Kerr, I turn the meeting over to you.
12                                                            DR. KERR:  In a report of November 1984 the ACRS 13                                                commented on the application for an operating license for g        14                                                  Unit-1 of the Limerick Generating Station.
J 15                                                            At'that time the Applicant, Philadelphia Electric 16                                                  Company, had asked for an operating license for both Units-1 17                                                  and 2. We, however, chose not to comment on Unit-2 at the 18                                                  time because it was felt that the schedule for construction 19                                                  and operation were rather uncertain.
20                                                              Unit-2 is now being' considered for an operating 21-                                                  license, some four and a half years after approval of the 22                                                  operating license for Unit-1. However, the two units have 23                                                  the same rated power level. Use the same nuclear steam 24                                                  supply system and are generally very similar.
25                                                              on April 25th a subcommittee visited the Limerick
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2 NRC staff and the Applicant at a cite near Philadelphia to 3 review the materials associated with this application for an ,
4 operating license.                                          I S          You will recall that we have performed a review of 6 the Philadelphia Electric Company new management in l
7 connection with our consideration of Peach Bottom restart.
8          We looked more specifically at the personnel 9 associated with the management of Limerick No. 2 in our 10 subcommittee meeting. We observed that the NRC staff 11 recently completed a SALP rating and gave what I have come 12 to believe is an unusually high rating to this group on the 13 basis of their most recent review.
14          In our review I think it reasonable to say that
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15 the subcommittee found no reason to question this rating, 16 although certainly our review is not nearly as thorough as 17 that of the staff.
18          We mention in our report on unit-1 that 19 Philadelphia Electric had performed a PRA in connection with 20 consideration of unit No. 1 for licensing. Philadelphia 21 Electric has a staff of people who were involved in the 22 formulation of that original PRA, and then updating that PRA 23 and also applying it to unit No. 2.
24          Interest ingly enough their recent calculations 25 based on some experience and some changes, and maybe better
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            ,1          methods-of calculations indicate a somewhat lower core 2 damage frequency for the two units than-was.the case in
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5 minus six per year; although that does not include any'                                                    )
6 contribution from seismic events. . And you recognize that at 7 least in some units that has proven to be a significant 8 contributor to core damage frequency.
9            It also appears that the licensee for unit-1 is 10  using the insights from PRA not only in plant design and in
              -11      testing but in training and in the planning'of their 12  maintenance program.
13            In the course of preparing operating organization in the plant for operation, and this will be elaborated on
[ } 14 15  in more detail, the Applicant has performed a readiness 16  program assessment and readiness verification program.                              And 17  the staff has reviewed those.
18            I think a great deal about the plant and its 19  organization has been reviewed, re-reviewed, and re-20  rereviewed, and the conclusion seems to be that, as far as 21  the applicant and the staff are concerned the plant is ready 22  for startup.
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                )          1                    Mr. Remick I see is here.                                                      Did you have any 2            additional comments, Mr. Remick?
I 3                      DR. REMICK:    No additional comments.
4                    DR. KERR:  Any questions or comments before we go 5          to the presentation?
6                      (No response) 7                      DR. KERR:  I see none so I will call on Mr. Clark 8          of the NRC staff who I think will open the staff's 0          presentation.
10                            Mr. Clark.
11                              (Slides:being shown.)
12                            MR. CLARK:  Thank you, Mr. Kerr.
13                            My name is Dick Clark.                    I'm'the licensing project 14                  manager in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation for-
              .O  15                  Limerick Units-1 and 2.      We have requested that you and the 16                  committee review the Limerick Unit-2, as Mr. Kerr, today.for
                  '17                  a full power license.
18                            The first slide is just a chronology and I guess L                  19                  .the only thing I wanted to point out here is that the l
20                  construction was resumed on unit-2 in February of 1986.                                                              So t
21                  in just a little over three years they have brought it from 22                  less than 30 percent or about 30 percent to construction is 23                  essentially finished.
24                            May I have the second slide, Jim.
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            \-)      1                          conducted a very comprehensive assessment and arrayness 2                          verification program. And as part of this they have also 3                          conducted an extensive independent design and construction 4                          ansessment.
5                                    And we on the NRC have sent out teams on a number 6                          of inspections with some of our contractors and have 7                          assessed both-the design aspects and the construction part.
8                          In fact the team just came back last Friday from San 9                          Francisco at the Bechtel offices wrapping up the last of the 10                          design assessments.                                                  j 11                                    And from this we have drawn some conclusions that 12                          they have a very thorough design documentation and 13                          verification program.
14                                    And more importantly, that they FSAR reflects the
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15                          as-built plant and that plant was actually built and 16                          constructed in accordance with the design.
i 17                                    May I have the next slide.
18                                    We're doing some other conclusions from these 1
19                          multiple inspections in addition to the one that Jim will be 20                          talking about from Region 1. That their construction 21                          activities have been controlled. We found that they had 22                          experienced PEPCO and Bechtel management on site. Bechtel 1
l                    23                          pulled together better people that they've had on some of 24                          the other project such as Hope Creek, Susquehanna.
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4              It seemed that every place you turned there was 5    somebody from quality control or assurance looking over 6    their shoulder.
7              And based on this we feel that based on their past il    performance we have a high confidence that the plant is 9    ready for safe operation.
10              Jim, may I have'the next slide.
11              Now we've had two cycles of operation of unit-1 to 12    be able to assess the readiness of Philadelphia Electric for 13    operating the plant. We've had, like I say, in that four years to look over and see about the site organization. How
          } 14 15    they've been doing. And we found that based on the SALP and 16    the other documented records that they do have a strong 17    orientation toward safe plant operation.
18              They have demonstrated their ability and 19    willingness to proactively identify and predict problems, 20    and critically self-evaluate the performance.
21              I've sat in on a number of their PORC meetings and  i 22    -to see just how they do work unannounced. In operations as 23    well as construction they have had a strong QA/QC 24    organization in the programs.
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                    )              1                mentioned -- talked about the SALP ratings on-construction, 2                which Jim will talk more about later.        But so far as 3                operations the SALP. ratings are some of the best in the 4                region, anyway.
5                              Can I have;the next slide.
6                            Mr. Kerr also mentioned to you that you had an 7                occasion just recently to review the Philadelphia Electric 8              . corporate organization in connection with the Peach Bottom 9'                operation. I'll just mention that they have had some. major 10                reorganizations, which I think most of you are aware of.
11                              And one of the more important parts of this is 12                that they have~ consolidated their QA/QC functions into.a-13                single organization.      That they have strengthen and l                                  14                increased the scope of their.ISICs programs.
O                  15                              I think you've already favorably commented on that 16                reorganization.
17                              Jim, the next slide.                                  ,
18                              I just show this list. We have very few open 19                items. In fact since this was made up yesterday we have 20                dropped a couple off of that, like the turbine system 21                maintenance program.      So that we really have very'few open 22                items insofar as our licensing review is concerned.
23                              The next slide.
24                              On the generic issues we only have two that we 25                have to resolve.      The non-conforming materials and the Heritage Reporting    Corporation O'                                                              (202) 628-4888 l
 
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4              What we conclude from this is subject to the 5  satisfactory resolution of the pending issues we conclude 6  'that Limerick Unit-2 can be operated safely by Philadelphia 7  Electric and without any undue risk to the health and safety 8  of the public.
9              I'm willing to take your questions.
10              MR. CARROLL:    I'm curious about what the turbine 11    system maintenance program open item consisted of?
12              MR. CLARK:  We're closing our review or their 13    submittal'on that. Because they had an unfavorable 14    orientation on the turbine.
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15              MR. CARROLL:    So it's limited to turbine missiles.
16              MR. CLARK:  Yes, the turbine missile program.
17    It's a GE program that we have approved for Hope Creek and a 18    number of other plants.
                    -19              DR. REMICK:  Mr. Clark, the committee is aware of 20    Appeal Court decision, Limerick Ecology Action versus the 21    NRC on the possible need to consider severe accidents 22    alternatives under NEPA.
L 23              Has the staff given consideration on what effect, 24    if any, this might have on this licensing action?
25              MR. CLARK:  Do you want to take that, Walt?
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225 1          DR. REMICK:  Without getting into the details of 2 it.
3          MR. BUTLER:  Yes.
4          At this point in time the staff does not believe 5 it has a direct impact en the low power licensing. We 6 believe that a portion of the court's order having to do      l 7 with the Gradiford prisoners is something that likely will 8 need to be closed out before full power licensing.
9          The issue dealing with severe accidents is 10 something that we await guidance from the Commission on.
11 And we are gearing up to undertake a program to be 12 responsive to that aspect of the court's order as well.      l 13          DR. REMICK:  Has that issue of the prison personnel been remanded back to a Licensing Board?
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16          A Licensing Board has been convened for that and a 17 prehearing conference already scheduled.                      j 18          DR. REMICK:  Thank you.
19          MR. McNEILL:    If I might interject, Mr. Chairman.
20          DR. REMICK:  Yes.
21            MR. McNEILL:    There was a Supreme Court decision 22  this past Monday which I think will have a great deal of 23  relevance to this case. And I'm not a lawyer, but in 24  essence, I think there was -- the Department of l                                            25  Transportation appealed a similar type of finding earlier.
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                                  '5-                                                            I think that's going to have a significant impact.
6                                                on this~particular case, if I have read it right.                        And our 7                                                lawyers are in fact reviewing that decision for its
: 8.                                              implications on'this case and will be consulting with the 9                                                staff, Commission staff on that issue.
10                                                              DR. REMICK:        Thank you..
11                                                              For the record that was Mr. Corbin McNeill.
12                                                              DR. KERR:        Are there'other questions for Mr.
13                                                  Clark?
      ,                          14-                                                              -(No response) 15                                                              DR. KERR: -Thank you, Mr. Clark.
16                                                              MR. CLARK:        Thank you.
17                                                                (Slides being shown.)
18                                                              MR. LINVILLE:              Good afternoon.
19                                                              I'm Jim Linville, the Project Section Chief in 20                                                  Region 1 responsible for the oversight of the Philadelphia
                                -21                                                    Electric Company's nuclear power plant inspection program.
22'                                                            -Prior to assuming that role I-was a section chief 23                                                  of another facility that was about the same stage of 24                                                  construction nearing licensing, another boiling water 25                                                  reactor in Region 1.
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1                                                                    Prior to that I served as a resident 1 inspector at L                          2  both boiling water reactors and pressurized water reactors 3  in Region 1.
4                                                                    And I worked for an architect engineer on a.BWR in 5  Region 1.
6                                                                    Next slide, Dick.
7                                                                    These are the things I would like to cover briefly
                            ~8    this afternoon.
9                                                                    First, a brief chronology. The results of the 10      Region 1 construction inspection program.                                                            Preoperational 11    testing program.                                                            Recent SALP results. The readiness of the 12    : facility for operation as viewed by Region 1.                                                          Summary and p                        13      our conclusions, f
      /g 14                                                                                        Just to put the construction.of this plant in
    .O 15    perspective.                                                            I mentioned that I was responsible for the 16      oversight.of an' inspection program at another BWR in the 17      region.                                              I took over that project about the same phase as 18    this one was.
19                                                                        In about the same period of time, three years, 20      this plant has come farther with better quality results and 21      it has done it with about half the number of people that 22      that other facility did.
23                                                                        So our view is that this has been a very well 24      managed project.
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5 February 1986.      At that time we reassigned construction 6 senior resident inspector and a resident. inspector and 7 they've been'there through March of.this year.                                Now we have 8 four resident inspectors who are more oriented towards 9 operations and startup testing.                              That includes the ones 10  responsible for the inspection program at unit-1 as well as 11  two for unit-2.
12                Next slide, Dick.
                  '13                The inspection program at Limerick is virtually 14  complete.      The construction program rather and the 15  inspection of that program.                              Roughly 99 percent. The last 16  activity is in progress, the structural integrity test.
17                During the three years since the resumption of 18  construction of the project we have invested a comparable 19  number of hours to inspection of that facility that we have 20  at other facilities.      Something over 6,000 hours.
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(_)            1        inspection in July of 1987 which was about 10 percent of 2        those hours, focused on the high pressure coolant injection 3        and core spray systems. And had no significant problems on 4        that inspection.                                                                      ,
l 5                  Also in September of ' 87 our mobile NDE lab 6        performed an inspection of the NDE program at Limerick, and 7        our findings in that team inspection were in agreement with 8        the results of the licensee with respect to NDE with one 9        exception there.
10                  The overall results of the program, there's been 11        on escalated enforcement. And the number of violations has 12      been comparable to that of other plants.                There's been about 13        20 violations since the completion of construction or since (g            14        the resumption of construction in 1986.
V 15                  Reporting construction deficiencies has improved 16        since the resumption of construction and is consistent with 17      that of other facilities.      By that I mean that they have                            j 10      been quick to report things that have potential significant 19        deficiencies. In some cases they have evaluated them to not 20      be reportable, but the licensee has done a good job of 21      keeping us appraise of anything that was a potential 22        significant deficiency.
23                  Lastly, there's been relatively few allegations.
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3                                                One of those is a QA hotline where they can go the
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4                              licensee's QA organization if they're not comfortable with 5                              going up'the line'or don't get the answer that they would' 6                              like to hear.
7                                                Also, there's an exit interview and: letter program
                      '8                                to assure that employees who are leaving.the site identify 9                              any concerns they might have relative to construction.
10                                                    So as I said, there's only been about 20, 25 11'                                allegations since the resumption of construction, which is a 12                                  very small number.-            That's.to the NRC that is.
                  '13                                                    Preoperational test program.        .The region has 14                                  completed-about 75 percent of.the result review.                There's
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15                                  only one major test-remaining and that's a' containment 16                                  integrated leak rate test which will follow shortly after 17                                  the structural integrity test which is in progress now.
18                                                    There have been relatively few test exceptions.
19                                  And no major problems identified within the preop test 20                                  program.
21                                                    We attribute that to the licensee's efforts to 22                                  incorporate the lessons learned during the unit-1 startup 23                                  program.          And to incorporation of the startup experience 24                                  from other recently licensed facilities in the region such 25                                  as: Susquehanna; Hope Creek; and Nine Mile.
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11                        And in the most recent SALP which ended in 12              December of 1988 all areas were rated category 1. The 13              reason for the difference in the number of areas is that the 14              1986 SALP there was a lot of construction activity and we 15              had a number of construction arean such as mechanical 16              components, electrical componenta, I&C, structural.
17                        In 1987 their construction progras was nearing the 18              end. The period that just ended in December of '88'rather.
19              So all the construction areas were lumped into one and then 20              there was also added the preoperational test area which 21              wasn't included in the previous SALP.
22                          And our results is that they were all viewed very 23              well.
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This brings us to the 2                    readiness of the facility for operation.
i-                      3                                                        (Slides being shown) 4                                                      MC. LINVILLE:                                                                                                      Some of the principal strengths we 5                    see are the nuclear dedicated organization which occurred 6                    subsequent to the Peach Bottom shutdown and in our view 7                    enhances the organization at Limerick'which was already 8                  performing quite well.
9                                                      Also the-site management has extensive nuclear 10                      operating experience of BWRs, since 1984, and a number of 11                    people who have operated the BWRs earlier.
12                                                        Six shifts are fully staffed for two-unit 13                      operation.                              All the operators are licensed on both units at-this point and they are manning tha staff position which.
{ } 14 15                    will be required by tech specs after the license is issued 16                      for the pre-operational test program at Unit 2.
17                                                        A number of the programs associated with Limerick                                                                                                                                          i 18                      are common to both sites.                                                                                                                              An emergency preparedness program 19                    has been exercised several times.                                                                                                                                They have common 20                      emergency operating response facilities -- the emergency 21                      operating facility, the technical support center and the 22                      operations support center.
23                                                        The radiation protection program and rad. waste 24                      programs are common. programs, common facilities, and the l-25                      performance at Unit 1 has been very good in terms of low 1
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3~                The security program has incorporated the entire    .
4  protected area now including both units as of March and it
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6                DR. REMICK:  How about the maintenance program?
7  Is that common?
8                MR. LINVILLE:    Yes. The maintenance and 9  surveillance program is also, is a common group within the 10    facility.
11                  Now, there would be procedures for Unit 1 and Unit
: 12. 2 just as there are operating procedures, but they are very, L                                    13    very-similar.
: 14.                We have completed our review, the proof and review-    !
s 15    of. technical specifications, which are very common, very 16-  similar to Unit 1.
17                  Probabilistic risk assessment and its use sa 18    mentioned earlier.      It is also used by the staff in the 19    operating inspection program at the facility.
l L                                    20                  We have a risk inspection guide developed by I-21    Brookhaven National Lab which helps us focus our inspection 22    attention on systems that are important from a risk 23    standpoint.
24                  And this slide indicates that the startup 25    procedures are 76 percent complete.        As of yesterday we had l
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3                  In summary, there have been no major construction
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7                And the-licensee has many years of nuclear BWR 8  experience.
9                  In the future, we intend to have augmented 10  inspection coverage during the fuel loading. activities, as 11  we typically do, and during startup testing.        And we will 12  have an operational assessment team inspection sometime 13  between fuel load and the issuance of a full power license.
14                  .Overall, the region has found that the 15-  construction program at Limerick has'been effective.        Our 16-  review gives us confidence that PECO has built a quality 17  nuclear plant.
18'                  In addition, our review of the pre-operational 19  test program and the licensee's EWR operating experience
: l.          20  with Unit 1 indicate that PECO is capable of safe operation        i 21  of the facility.
1 22                  Are there any questions?
23                  DR. REMICK:  During our tour of the facility the    !
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        .3            MR. LINVILLE:  The which?
4            DR. REMICK:  Painting.
5            MR. LINVILLE:  Painting. Okay.
6            DR. REMICK:  -- marking of pipes with layman's 7 terms of what was in those pipes rather than just code 8 numbers, and so forth, the valves indications, the direction 9 of flow.
10            My own reaction sa it is perhaps the best job I 11 have seen in the U.S. of the facilities I visited.
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13            MR. CLARK:  Yes. They went out on this and 14 actually visited most all of the other plants who had any
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15 real strong effort toward identifying the wrong train, wrong 16 unit, one of the human factors concerns.      And we agree with 17 you. We feel that it did probably have one of the best 18 programs to try and prevent that potential problem.          They 19 had greens and yellows and procedures are the same color as 20 the unit. Everything was identified. They can tell you how 21 many tags, it's in the thousands of tags.
22            MR. LINVILLE:  We have seen a number of other                      !
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2                  MR. LINVILLE: 'Other questions?
3-                  (No response) 4                  DR. KERR:  I see none.
5                    DR. REMICK:    If not, I wonder if Mr.. Lewis is 6        here?                                                                                      ,
7                    Let us proceed then with the --
8-                  DR. KERR:  May I, before we proceed, point out to 9        the Committee'if you have not already seen it that you have-10                    available a ' transcript of that part of the meeting in 11                    Philadelphia at which presentations were made.        You also                              !
12                    have copies of written presentations in your folder.                                        !
13                              And I told the people who made presentations that 14                    these.would be made available to the Committee.                                          .)
15                              Mr.'McNeill 16                              MR. McNEILL:    Thank you, Mr. Kerr.                                            ,
                                                                                                                                                '1 17                                (Slides being shown) 18                              MR. McNEILL:    I.am Corbin'McNeill. I am the 19                    Executive Vice President-Nuclear of Philadelphia Electric 20                    Company.
21                                We had the pleasure of briefing you on our 22                      organization and structure during a Peach Bottom 3
23                      presentation earlier this year, and I will not go through my 24                      own introduction since I was introduced at that time.
25                                The presentation that we are making today is a
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I 3                  our agenda today will follow with a presentation              ;
1 4'      on the design, construction and startup by Mr. Ullrich, who t
5        is our Startup Manager; a review of the Unit-1 operating              {
6'    experience end the readiness of the plant staff for 2-unit s
7-      operation which will be presented by Mr. Graham Leitch, who 8        is the Vice President and Site Director for Limerick.
9                .Mr. Dave Helwig, who is the Acting General Manager 10                  of Nuclear Services and was just recently the General 11-                Manager of Nuclear Quality Assurance will discuss our self-12                  assessment process?
13                            Mr. Al Marie, who is the Branch Head in our PRA 14                  'section in Nuclear Engineering Department will give a review i( )
15                  of our probabilistic risk assessment study for Limerick and 16                  the updates that have happened since the last presentation 17                  to the Committee.
1 18                            Mr. Dave Honan, who is the Branch Head for Nuclear          l i
19                  Licensing will provide a status of the licensing from our 20                    viewpoint in the activities that remain.
21                              And I will have a brief conclusion at the end, 22                              Additional Philadelphia Electric People from                ;
23 '                  senior management that are in the audience today include Mr.
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(_/  1 activities at Limerick, both Unit-1 and Unit-2,. for many,                                                                j 2 many. years; Mr. Joe Kowalksi, who is the Vice President of                                                                -
3 Nuclear Engineering; and Mr. Marty McCormick who is the 4 Plant Manager at Limerick.
5          To refresh you for just a minute on our 6 organization, we do have a dedicated nuclear organization.
7 It has a Senior Vice President of Nuclear Construction as I 8 mentioned, Site Directors at both Peach Bottom and Limerick, 9 a dedicated Nuclear Engineering Department of about 400 10 people.
I 11          We have a Nuclear Services Department that                                                                      }
12 includes the oyriad of activities such as licensing,                                                                      {
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i 14 radiological health, and rad. waste.
(V3 15          It also includes a computer department and has a                                                                l 16 large mobile maintenance force who does corporate 17 maintenance not only at our nuclear stations but at our 18 fossil facilities.                                                                                                        ;
19          And we have a separate Nuclear and a combined 20 Nuclear Quality Assurance Department headed by a General                                                                .i 21 Manager.
22          We also have a full time Chairman of our Nuclear 23 Review Board and a Bueiners Unit and Human Resources Support 24 Units in the organization.
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3                I do want to review very quickly though why we 4    believe.that Limerick as an organization is vastly different 5    than the: culture that had developed at Peach Bottom in the 6    years prior to shutdown.
7                First of all, Limerick had developed in the 8    culture of the Engineering and Research Department rather 9    than Electric Production, which was very fossil-oriented.
10                For the years of construction, the licensing 11    activities, the organizational structure that was put 12    together, the support of the construction and operation and
: 13.  ' free startup operation was in fact under the control of the Engineering and Research Department, was much more' cognizant.
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15    of the developing criteria and standards in the nuclear 16'  industry and therefore set a tone.that was quite a bit 17    different than the fossil driven production organization 18    under which Peach Bottom developed in the years following                      i f                          19    its licensing.
20              And we have been able to retain that culture i                          21    through the early years of the operation of Unit-1 at 22    Limerick.
23              We have strong site management.        One of our                  j 24    weaknesses at Peach Bottom sa a lack of good managerial i
25    talent and the development of that talent, and good strong
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2                                                  We have in fact had our best people at Limerick 3                                      and they have produced quality results in the operation of                                                          .)
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5                                                  Obviously, Limerick has developed in the post-TMI 6                                      era where the increased demands and standards are well 7                                        understood and have been implemented as a part of the i'
8                                      licensing process'for the plant.
9                                                And finally, we did have key Peach Bottom 10                                            personnel-that had transferred to Limerick.
11                                                      As with almost all companies that I know of, when 12                                            you have a large investment such as a new generating 13                                            station, you tend to put your principal, your best people
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15                                                      For those reasons, we have quite a different 16                                            operating record at Limerick than we had at Peach Bottom, 17                                            and you will see that in some of the ::esults that are                                                                :
18                                            presented today in the various presentations.
19                                                      That concludes my remarks.                Are there any i
20                                              questions, before we bring the next speaker up, who.is Mr.
21                                              Ted Ullrich?
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J 4  for component testing, electrical che:kout and then finally 5  for dynamic operation pre-op testing and mechanical work.
6            I was assigned in 1986 and was somewhat 7  -responsible for developing the startup program as well as 8  implementing-it.
9            Before I get to the startup phase, I want to go 10  back and talk about some of the construction and design 11  'information just to get us on. board.
12            The construction effort restarted in February.of 13  1986 and the philosophy at that time was to build two plants j } . 14    that would be nearly identical as we could make them.
15            So at the restart, all those modifications that 16  had been put into Unit-1 as a result of their startup                                                                          !
i 17  program were' included in the Unit-2 design as well as the                                                                    l 18  modifications which were scheduled to go into Unit-1 were 19  also put in the Unit-2 design and during this last Unit-1 20  outage most of those modifications were put into Unit-1, 21            So today, with Unit-1 coming out of its second 22  refueling outage, and Unit-2 ready to license, we have two 23  duplicate plants that are as close together as we can make 24-  them.
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4 4          The work areas were cut down into manageable 5 sections, each section provided with a construction manager 6 for that area.
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We work packaged every work item. There were some 8 70,000 work packages developed that gave the craftsman all 9 the tools he needed to do the work, and in some cases the 10 Midnight shift would bring in the components, so that they                                                            j 11 would be there for him in the morning.
12          We were able to negotiate Union contracts so that 13 we were able to construct on a two-shift basis with about 70
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16          All this completed construction and the management 17 things we put in place resulted in minimum construction 18 interfaces, almost no rework and craft productivity sa very 19 high.
20          We experienced about 30 percent higher craft 21 productivity on Unit-2 than we did on Unit-1.
22          All that got us to completing the construction 23 about eight months ahead of schedule, which was the target 24 schedule, and during that time we were able to maintain the 25 quality of the ccustruction because our QC and QA people 1
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3 time that those plants experienced a 30 percent complete 4 status to fuel load.
5          And you will notice the dark orange line on the 6 slide shows that Limerick was able to go in 42 from 30                      I 7 percent complete to what we hope is fuel load in June or 8 July.
9          The next best was St. Lucie which was the industry 10 leader for many years. They've done it better than anybody 11 else. And then you see Hope Creek is in there as first unit 12 BWR but it's a recent one. And then you see Susquehanna and              j 13 LaSalle, and they got hung up a little bit in the TMI 14 modifications which delayed them.                                            I
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18 I think the NRC has covered that. And unless there's l                19 question I go by it. But it does show that we have had a 20 very high quality program.
21          Design features: Limerick is a BWR-4 and rated at 22 3293 megawatts thermal. It has direct injection of the RHR I
23 LIPSI mode into the reactor vessel by its own nozzles and 24 the HPCI does inject both the core spray and feedwater, so 25 it's a little bit beyond the BWR-4 that we have at Peach 1
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7            model. So it's a good structurally very sound hunk of
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r,            9                      There are five incoming transmission lines to                i 110              Limerick. Three at 500 kv and two at 220.,    Those come into-11-              two different substations on' opposite sides of the plants.
12            'The' generators feed out on those and those lines are' capable b
13              of=providing power to our. auxiliary transformers as well as
              ' 14 -            to our emergency buses.:
15                          DR. REMICK:    Ted, how many different corridors do
: 16.            those transmission lines come in on?
17                          MR. ULLRICH:    There's four.
18                          DR. REMICK:    Four.
19                          MR. ULLRICH:    Two 500 are dual lines going to wet 20              pane. So the other four go to-other locations.                        1 l
21                          DR.'REMICK:    Thank you.                                    I 22                          MR. ULLRICH:    Four diesel generators per unit, and
    ,        -23              of course, one natural draft cooling tower.      The cooling 24              tower has some ability to provide service water from one 25-            cooling tower to both units.      And fire water comes from both
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2                              MR. MICHELSON:      Is that a three divisional
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b                        3.                  electrical system with four diesels?
1' 4                              MR. ULLRICH:      I'm sorry 1 didn't understand'the 5                    question.
6                              MR. MICHELSON:      Is that a three divisional.
7                    electrical'or four divisional?
8                              MR. ULLRICH:    Four divisional electrical system.
9                              MR. MICHELSON:      Four divisional.
10                              MR. ULLRICH:    Yes.
11                              MR. MICHELSON:      Thank you.
12                              MR. ULLRICH:    Major shared systems of course at 13                    Limerick are the control room and the control room 14 '                  ventilation system. NRC staff already said that the "f"'f
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l15.                    radwaste system is common to both units.- And unit-2 now 16                    drains. The unit-2 facilities will be tied in by the middle 17                  Hof next week, so that all the drains from unit-2,. turbine 18                    and reactor buildings, will be going to the radwaste system 19                    next week.
20                              MR. WYLIE:    Excuse me, could I back up to Carl's 21                    question of four divisional.
22                              Is the safeguards basically an N plus two 23                    arrangement?
24                              MR. ULLRICH:    One out of two twice, if that's what 25                    your question is. Logic throughout.
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1:                                                                                'Does that help?
2                                                                                  DR. REMICK:    No.
3                                                                                  MR. WYLIE:    They're 100 percent safeguards --
4'                                                                                MR. ULLRICH:- Excuse me.
5                                                                                  MR.' WYLIE:  Basically they're four 100 percent 6                                                    pumps.
7                                                                                  MR. ULLRICH:      There are -- no. No , that's not-8                                                    true.
9-                                                                                MR. WYLIE:    Four 50s.
10                                                                                  MR. ULLRICH:      There are four -- well, RHR there's.
11-                                                    10,000 each.                      So, yes, there's two 50s in the RHR.      There's 12                                                    two.50s in-each core spray loop.                          There's two loops.
13                                                    Emergency service water, there's two 1-00 percent pumps in
    ,{)              14                                                .each loop'but there's two loops.                            You-need both to maintain 15:                                                    all your ECCS operable.
16                                                                                  MR. WYLIE:    I guess what I was getting at, if you 17                                                    take any one of those'out of service can you still meet your 18                                                -single failures?
19-                                                                                MR. ULLRICH:      If you take anyone.of those out of 20                                                    service.you can still -- yes.
21                                                                                  MR. McNEILL:      This is a relatively early design 22                                                    even though it's in late construction.                          And I'm not sure it-23                                                    is designed with those concepts of N plus two in the l
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2                                                      MR. MICHELSON: ENo, no.                                Which, four or five?
3                                                      MR. McNEILL:        It's a- mark IV.
4                                                      MR. MICHELSON:        No , nor.BWR.
5                                                      MR. McNEILL:        It's a BWR-4.
6                                                      -MR. MICHELSON:        With a mark II' containment.
7                                                      MR..McNEILL:      With a mark II containment. -But it-8                    has some enhancements to the mark IV design.
9                                                      DR. SIESS:      The new bold island enhancements,.
10                        basically.
11                                                          MR. McNEILL:        It's very similar to Hopa Creek.
i Somebody 1l2                                                          DR. SIESS:      Yes, that was new bold.
13                        called it the four and a half.
14                                                          MR. McNEILL:      That's probably true.-
  ' pJ 15                                                          MR. ULLRICH:      The shared system'again are the 16                        standby. gas treatment system.                                                      That serves both the 17                        ' refueling floor which is common to both units; and the two 18                        reactor buildings.                              Preop test on that system is completed 19                        and the draw down tests were successfully run last week.
20                                                          The emergency service water system which provides 21                        cooling to the eight diesel generators as well as to the 22                        ECCS room coolers and ECCS equipment is shared by botn 23                        units.                          It comes from the common spray pond which is the 24                        ultimate heat sink, as well as the RHR service water system                                                                                        l 25                        is shared by both units.                                It basically has one pump for each                                                          l
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3          We talked about the refueling floor, I said is 4 common as well as the refueling floor crane. That's not a 5 safety concern but it has been a difficult scheduling                              i 6 problem from the standpoint of trying to get all the work 7 done on the refueling floor by construction the preop test 8 in one unit and having a refueling outage on the other one.
9          The condensate and refueling water transfer system 10 which provides water for back wash. And provides water to 11 some of the staple systems. It's common to both units. And 12 since it's in-service on unit-1 and slightly contaminated it 13 has not been tied into date. The schedule for us tying that
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2'                                                We made a conscious effort to --
3                                        - MR . MICHELSON:                                Excuse me. Did you apply that 1
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5                                                  MR. ULLRICH:                        I think it was only outside of I
L                                    6  containment.                                                  The pipe break is-inside.
7                                                  MR. MICHELSON:                          Did-you take any leak before 8  break?
9                                                  DR. SHEWMON:                        I don't think they allow that on 10  BWRs.                    Let me --
                                    -11                                                MR. MICHELSON:                          No, I didn't know if they had 12  .something that might qualify it in carbon steel.
13                                                DR. SHEWMON:                        Do you have 304-L piping or what do 14  you have for your research?
                              ' 15                                                      MR. ULLRICH:                        I believe it's 316-L.
16                                                MR. McNEILL:                        316-N.
17                                                DR. SHEWMON:                        Any stress adjustment on it?
18                                                MR. McNEILL:                        That I do not know. But we will 19  attempt to find that out.
1 20                                                DR. SHEWMON:                          Is it a mechanical or --
21                                                MR. McNEILL:                          Oh, yes. We did -- on unit-2 on the 22  nozzle wells we have done-mechanical stress improvement, on 23  those.                      On most of the others, that has not been 24  accomplished.
25                                                We only have on that unit a handful of wells that
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4                DR. SHEWMON:    The 316-N is not susceptible.
F                                  5              .MR. McNEILL:  Right. Not susceptible. And we did-p                                  6    the nozzle wells because they still had some. overlay 7    material in them that is susceptible to cracking and we were 8    trying to eliminate the potential for cracking in that 9    material.
10                DR. SHEWMON:    Thank you.
11                DR. KERR:  Please continue, Mr. Ullrich.
12                MR. ULLRICH:    The control rod blades were shipped 13      to GE in early '86 to remove all stellite and high cobalt material. That GE believes will reduce our cobalt content
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16                There were some differences which were identified 17      during the procedure writing effort and durinT the review of' 18      the design which were of some importance to t'ae operator.
19      They were relatively minor and were covered in the operator 20      licensing training and examination courses.
21                The most significant of those was really,-unit-2                        !
22      has its own independent process computer which includes all 23      the SPDS functions. Does the core calculations and does the 24      dynamic transient analysis work for us.
25                It's also heavily used during the power ascension
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2          The rod worth minimizer on unit-2 is also a little L                                    3 different in that it's a Numac microprocessor and receives 4 hard wired input from the rod position indication system.
5 And it has some advantages over the'old style in that it 6 will stop the operator before he makes a mistake; not stop 7 him after he makes a mistake. Go it's a little bit of 8 improved model.
9          There are some differences in our startup program.
10    Specifically we're going to use the source range monitors to 11    monitor count rate during the fuel loading process. And 12    instead of using previously irradiated antimony beryllium 13    sources we're going to use californium 252 and unirradiated 14    beryllium sources.
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15              DR. KERR:  Mr. Ullrich, just out of curiosity, how 16    does this computer stop an operator before he makes a 17    mistake?  It somehow knows he is going to make a mistake.
18              MR. ULLRICH:    It will not let him select the rod.
19    In other words, if he selects the wrong rod out of sequence 20      the rod will not be selected.
21                DR. KERR:  Oh, okay.
22                bE. ULLRICH:  All right, startup, my favorite 23      topic.
24                Back in 1987 we took a look at all the systems 25      that had to be brought from construction into an operational                                ;
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                                  )      -1                                      phase and laid out'those activities.                                  Things like' writing of 2                                  the preoperational test, doing component testing, flushing 3                              -
flow balancing preoperational testing, looking at the 4                                results review and getting those approved, and, turning the 5                                  system over to the plant were all weighted with respect to 6                                that system.
7                                            And then we took all the systems and weighted that 8                                and we came up with a total work scope for startup which 9                                ended up to be actually 97 percent.                                  We kept three percent
  ;-                                  10                                          in our pocket in case we'needed.it.
11                                                    ife looked at all those and then developed the 12                                          critical path through all those systems.                                  And_the critical 13                                          path said that we could make June 1st,.1989 for fuel load.
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15                                          activities, and if we said everything went perfect we had 16                                          the early finish. curve.                          And if everything didn't go our way 17                                          then things could end as late as the late finished curve and 18                                          still make our June 1st date.
19                                                    So that's how we got the two lines on the curve.
20                                          The orange line and the yellow line.
21                                                      DR. KERR:                  When you talk about a percent, is that 22                                          a percent of hours or components?
23                                                      MR. ULLRICH:                          No. That's a percent of activities.
I 24                                          For instance, when we complete the integrated leak rate test 25                                          we will get one and a half percent on this curve.                                      So you
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3'                                              MR. McNEILL:    However, there is an' implied 4                                    relationship between. effort and activities.        100 percent of
    <                        5L                                    the activities. complete would equate to,100 percent.of the 6                                    predicted work' load that was scheduled back at the'beginning.
7                                    of time.
DR. KERR:    Thank you.
                          '9                                                  MR. McNEILL:    And hopefully, there is'a one-to-one 10                                            relationship between the two.
11                                                      MR. ULLRICH:    We-are presently at -- this was a 12                                            May 1st' slide. We are now about 88 and a half.      We are 13                                            getting about three percent per week now.
14                                                      The two major tests left of the integrated leak
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15                                            rate test which is scheduled for this weekend; the loss of-
                  '16 '                                            air' test which'is scheduled for next weekend.        All the ECCS 17                                            systems are done. . Loss of power test is done.        Diesels are 18                                          -finished. So all the big systems are done.        In fact, most 19                                            of them are turned over to the: plant staff at this time.
20                                                      MR. CARROLL:      Ted, could you describe the loss of 21                                            air test?    What sort of a test is it?
22                                                      MR. ULLRICH:      Yes.
23                                                      First of all, we' re- doing an overpressure test for 24                                          'both the air system as well as the air system that feeds the 25-                                          containment. And that test, overpressure test is based on 1
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                        )            1                          -having the first thing that would limit pressure fail.      But 2                            then go to the second.one.
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l 5                            there's an A and.a B header-and the major users are fed ~from l                            f6                                  both headers-through check valves.
7-                                      Now we have been,,for the last couple of months, 8                          doing independent loss of air test on one header or the 9                          other to verify that those check valves are in fact 10                                    operable. And we've had to do a lot of maintenance on those 11                                    check valves. That's -- we did the last one in the turbine 12                                    building last night which was successful.
13                                                The test then does two things:    it takes down one header at a time and verifies nothing happens.      It then
[ } 14 15                                    takes down the other header and verifies nothing happens.
: 16.                                    It then takes down both headers fast and also repeat it slow
                          -17                                    to verify that the safety related parts that are fed by this 18                                    non-safety related air system fail in'the appropriate 19                                    direction.
20                                                The overpressure test verifies that nothing 21                                    changes state. The same thing is being done on the 22                                    instrument gas system for the containment.
23                                                But let me just say, we took a long look at Reg i
24                                    Guide 1.68, I think it's 3; and also NUREG-1275, Volume 2 to 25                                    make sure that we were doing the test that would meet those
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2                                              MR.' CARROLL:  Would you care to repeat those tests 3              after'the plant goes into operation?
4                                              MR. ULLRICH:    I'll have to defer to the plant
                    ,5                manager.                        But.I think it's worthwhile during shutdowns 6            verifying.that the check' valves are in fact still working.
7            Because there's a design feature that is unique I think to 8        .actually Peach Bottom and Limerick.                              Maybe it's a typical 9            design,.I don't know.                          But that criteria, unless you check 10                    it it's not going to be there in a couple of years.
11                                                  MR. CARROLL:    How about the test where both 12                  headers are depressurized?
13                                                    MR. ULLRICH:    Well, the biggest thing -  you can't j } 14                            do-it while the plant is one, because immediately the plant 15                  will shut down; we know that.                            So you got to do it during an 16                    outage.                        It affects primarily ventilation systems, take a 17                  beating.
18                                                  I don't see any reason why you couldn't repeat it.
19                                                    MR. McNEILL:    If I could interject in this.
20                                                    The test is designed to see that components fail 21-                  tuo the design safety condition.                          I don't think that you need-22                  to repeat'the test for that reason too often.
23                                                    I do think that there are maintenance tests on 24                    your air header that tests the condition of the check valves 25                    and things of that nature that are worth doing.                          And I don't
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3                      MR. CARROLL:    Or as risky.
4                      MR. McNEILL:    Right.- Or as risky.
                            -5                      MR. ULLRICH:    But the maintenance test.that you 6  ' described is.what we've been doing now.                Really, with one-                                                            :j l                            7  header at a time to verify check valves are still there and 8  work.          That's really what we've been doing.                                              Getting' ready 9  for the real. test.
10                      MR. CARROLL:    Thank you.
11                      MR. ULLRICH:    Preoperational test program is shown 12  -on -- the status.is shown here, there were 92 preoperational 13    tests required.
14                      I've got to look at the chart.
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15                      There's about 88 completed as of today.                                                                    Started 16    as of today.            79 are completed. Now once we complete the 17    test'we write up a summary report and submit it to the Test 18  Review Board which is shown here as TRB.                    And there's 70 of 19    those.
20                      Now, at Limerick we have a Test Review Board made 21  up of about five Philadelphia Electric Company senior 22:  engineers and some 15 or so vendors who were chosen based on 23  their resumes and qualifications.                  They report directly to 24  the plant manager and they provide an independent technical 25  review of both the preoperational test and the
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5          That program has been very useful. It's 6 independent of startup. And there have been occasions where 7 they said, we can't see what you did well enough, go do it 8 again. And we have repeated at least two preoperational 9 tests over the last six months, just to satisfy these folks.
10          They have reviewed and approved 56, the test 11 result packages. Following their approval it goes to QA.
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15          And once QA approves it, it goes to the plant 16 manager for signature. And then to the NRC for review. And 17 there's 48 or so that have been turned over to the NRC.
18          Once the preop test is completed we work off any 19 test exceptions or maintenance items or anything else and 20 put together a turnover package for the plant. There's    182 21 systems or subsystems that we've identified that we need to 22 turn over to the plant staff. 95 of those including all of 23 the ECCS systems have been submitted to the plant for their 24 approval. The plant has accepted 62 of those to date.      I 25 think they've accepted core spray and recire. The others                j l
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                                    -3  all:the tags,:all the permanent tags for that system'are in-                            i 4'  fact installed. -That the check off lists have been worked g
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l'                                    6  And'any surveillance test that would relate.to that systems-                          q 7  are done and approved.
8              So once we turn the system over to-the plant' 9  staff,' then we start surveillance testing. .We've identified.
                                  .10    389 surveillance' tests to support fuel load of which 95 are-11    completed; and 708 surveillance test to support initial 12    criticality. You need them both to go critical. -That's an 13    additional 708. And of those 170 are complete.        So we are into our surveillance testing program.
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15              Power ascension program. Management guidance in 16  .1986 and '87 when we started to develop our power ascension 17  . program is, do not suggest any power ascension program which
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20              We put together a program'between Philadelphia
                                  .21    Electric Company and GE. Had it reviewed by the plant 22-  staff, company management, Region 1, NRR,-and eventually 23    submitted that program to the NRC on June of 1988, 24              The scope is.similar to Hope Creek, River Bend, 25    and some of the others. We have included in our program
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261 1                                both a single recirc pump trip and a double recirc pump trip 2~                                which we thought was a good idea because you don't see.that 3                                ve ry. ~ o ften, but it's going to happen to you some day.                                                                So it 4                                was a good idea to do it while you.were waiting for.it.
5                                            All the startup test procedures, to support that 6                                power ascension program have been written and approved and 7                                turned over to the NRC.                              And,I believe the.NRC has reviewed 8                                about 22 of the 32 procedures available.                                                    So they're about
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10                                              All the hardware and cabling to support data 11                                    accumulation, pipe motion, pipe vibration has been 12-                                  installed. Lanuer pots are there, they haven't,been strung 13                                    out yet. But all that equipment is there, checked out and ready to go.
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16                                    Go through low power testing which would include' fuel load, 17                                  hydro and heat up to full temperature and pressure.                                                    About 18                                  August 1st we will be ready to exceed our five percent low 19                                  power license. Test conditions 1, 2 and 3.                                                  Take the 20                                    reactor from about five percent to 75 percent power with a 21                                    75 percent rod line as max.                                                                                                    l f                            22                                              The first synchronization of the generator would l                            23                                    be about.a week and a half after we get our full power 24                                    license.
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      -(      1                    That's .where you would hit -- first achieve 100 percent 2                    power and it would include the 100 hour warranty run. We.
20                  couldLeonceivably be commercial by the-end of the year..        1 4                              The test program would certainly make it unless 5                    there's some' major equipment problems that would shut us
            .6-                  down for an outage, we would probably make the end of the 7                    year.
8                              We think that we've got a quality plant. Unit-1 9                    had demonstrated its reliability.- We don't foresee any 10                    major equipment concerns during this power ascension 11                    program.
12                              Yes, sir.
13                              DR. SHEWMON:  Let me ask a question that's not as near or dear to you heart, but what I missed in this
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          .15                    condensed presentation is the pretty pictures that show how 16                    well you have landscaped the site. But also how close the-17                    nearest large population centers are.
18                              Could you comment on that or maybe Mr. McNeill.
19                    Because I don't think it's going to'come any place else in 20                    the agenda. And compare it perhaps with Peach Bottom.
21                              MR. McNEILL:  This unit is the second highest 22                    population density plant in the country. There are three 23                    million people within 25 mile radius. Pottstown is the 24                    nearest town, it's about five miles away and it's in the 40 25                    or 50,000 population range.
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3  'there. And that's one reason that this plant has been given-4  such high attention with respect to PRA,'was the. fact that 5  it is a high population density' plant.
6'              DR. SHEWMON:  This is a river in the lower left                                                                  >
7  corner?
8            .MR. McNEILL:    Yes. That's the Schuykl River in 9  the lower left hand corner.
10              DR. SHEWMON:  And beside it is a railroad.
11              MR. McNEILL:  Railroad track that is a major
                      '12  ' east / west travel for cargo heading toward Harrisburg.
13              DR. SHENMON:  That's your water supply in the background.
(])'14 15_              MR. McNEILL:  Yes. That is in fact-the spray 16  pond. That's the ultimate heat sink in the background.                                                                  We 17  have two' water sources for the plant.                        One is just off the 18  picture. It takes the. suction from the Schuyk1 River and 19  then we have an elaborate 30 some mile alternate water 20  supply from the Delaware River that is the principal water 21  supply for the plant.
22              DR. SHEWMON:    Is it a premium there?                                                  You seem to 23  be a little bit more cramped on that site than some I've 24  seen.                                                                                                                          :
25              MR. McNEILL:    It's a peninsula but I would tell
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4          MR. ULLRICH:  With respect to landscaping, though, 5 they are moving trailers offsite so fast that my people 6 can't sit down anymore.
7          DR. SHEWMON:    I'm not interested in the 8 landscaping.
9            (Laughter) 10          DR. SHEWMON:  All the cars in back, really, 11 because you've got more people on construction now --                            !
12          MR. ULLRICH:  Yes.
13          MR. McNEILL:  And most of those are now gone.
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16          MR. ULLRICH:    This picture is about "wo years old.
17 See, the diesel building is not there yet. The diesel 18 building is just coming out of the ground.
19          DR. SHEWMON:    Thank you.
20          MR. WYLIE:  That's your switchyard on the left 21 hand, lower left hand corner.
22          MR. McNEILL:    That is one --
23          MR. ULLRICH:    The 220 switchyard.
        ~4          MR. McNEILL:  The 220 switchyard.                                    l 25          MR. ULLRICH:  The 500 kv is across the river on O)
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2                                                    ML McNEILL:    Across the river.                                      There's a 3-                                  ' railroad bridge that you can see in the l'ower right hand 4                                        corner at the other end of-that and across the road there's
                                                ~5                                          a 500 kv switchyard.
                                                '6                                                      This is a funny plant..      Unit-1 has got a 220,000 7                                        output voltage. Unit-2 has got a 500,000 output voltage.
8                                                  DR. REMICK:  Ted, looking at both unit-1 and 9                                      unit-2 are the suppression pools vented?                                                                                      ;
10                                                          MR. ULLRICH:  The suppression pools vented?                                                                    j 11                                                        DR. REMICK:  Yes. Do you have a vent capability on 12                                        -the suppression pools?                                                                                                          ,
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                                        -13                                                            MR. ULLRICH:  Yes, we do.
14                                                        MR. McNEILL:  There is a containment ' veinting 15                                            potential.
16                                                        MR. ULLRICH:  But it can come from either the 17                                            suppression pool or the -- either way.
18                                                        MR. McNEILL:    It's the six inch integrated leak 19                                            rate test vent line, is what it is.            It is not a specific.
20                                              containment design hardened vent of any kind.
21                                                          DR. REMICK:  Oh, it is not.        I see.
22                                                          MR. ULLRICH:  We'll talk about that under PRA.                                                                  l l
23                                                          MR. McNEILL:  Under PRA we'll have a slight 24                                              discussion of that.
25                                                          DR. KERR:  It is not a hardened?
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                                  .4                                          pressure:containing' boundary up to'the design pressure of-5                                      the containment.
6                                                                                DR. KERR:  Okay.
7                                                                                  MR. MICHELSON:    Where'is it vent.to?
8                                                                                'MR. McNEILL:    It vents at ground level,, external' 9                                      to'the reactor. building.
10-                                                                                      MR. MICHELSON:    Relative to air intake.                    To the 11-                                          control room where is it venting?
12                                                                                      MR.'McNEILL:    Somebody might be able to come.up I
13                                            and show us on the plant.
This'is Mr. Al Marie.
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15                                                                                      MR. MARIE:  I'm supervisor of the PRA' branch.
16-                                                                                      The six inch line vents to the diesel generator-17                                            building. corridor which then is -- there is procedures to 18~                                          open that door to the outside to open a path directly to~the                                                                  d
                          '19                                                outside.
t 20                                                                                        MR. McNEILL:  How about the ventilation intake for
: 21.                                            the control room.
22                                                                                        MR. MARIE:  It's on the opposite side of the 23                                            reactor enclosure.
                            .24                                                                                          MR. MICHELSON:    Opposite side of the building?
25                                                                                        MR.-MARIE:  Yes.
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i 1            MR. McNEILL:  Right.
2            MR. MICHELSON:  Thank you.
3            DR. REMICK:  One other question.
4-          MR. CARROLL:  Why didn't you invest in a piece of 5  a six inch pipe and bring it up to the top of the building.
6-          MR. MICHELSON:  You would think so.
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8            MR. CARROLL:  I suggested you might want to invest 9  in a six inch piece of pipe and bring it up to the top of 10  the building.                                                !
i 11            MR. McNEILL:  After we finish our IP we may in I
12  fact come to that conclusion.
13            DR. REMICK:  Ted, this might come later --
r's 14            MR. McNEILL:  Wait, let me -- excuse me just one N-]
15  minute.
16            DR. REMICK:  Yes.
17            MR. McNEILL:  I don't want to be too strong here, 18  but I don't like investing even relatively small amounts of  ;
19  money in something where a year later the regulator turns 20  around and says you've got to do something else.
21            When the issue.is resolved we will move quickly to i
22  implement those simplistic things that can be done. I've 23  been through too many things where I rip out after I install 24  because it doesn't quite meet the regulation.
25            DR. REMICK:  Maybe the others will cover it, Ted,
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2  . unit-2?                      Maybe that's not an appropriate question for you.
3                                              MR. ULLRICH:      I can answer that, but it will.be 4  covered later.                                      It's EPG-3,.Rev.13. We have the information
                                                                                                                                                                  '1 5  for EPG-4 here'and our operators are trained on EPG-3 now.                                                                    U 6  They qualified on that and later this year we'll start-J
      ,                      7  developing.our procedures for the fourth revision.                                                                              '
8                                              DR. REMICK: .Thank.you.
9                                              MR. MICHELSON:      That is an inerted containment?
10                                              MR. ULLRICH:      It is an inerted containment, yes..
11                                            MR. MICHELSON:      Are you using hydrogen water
                            '12  chemistry?
13                                              MR. ULLRICH:      Excuse.me?
14                                      ' M1. MICHELSON:          Are you using hydrogen water 15  chemistry?
16                                            MR. ULLRICH:      Not yet.
                                                                                                                                                              'l 17                                            MR. MICHELSON: ,Not yet.
18                                            MR. ULLRICH:      Not yet. We will not use it on 19-  unit-1 or unit-2 for the.next cycle.                                        But it's in the plans.
l 20                                            MR. WYLIE:      On your five transmission lines, one 21  unit feeds the 500 and'one 230.                                      Is-there an auto 22  transformer on site tying those together?
23                                            MR. ULLRICH:      Yes. There are two tie-lines 24  between the substations.
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  ,      2 sitet 3          DR. KERR:                1 hank you, Mr. Ullrich.
4          MR. McNEILL:                                Mr. Wylie, I might also note that we                                                          !
5 have a 69 kv line that we have, that is not permanently                                                                                              ;
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8 to in fact connect that into the plant.                                                                                                              !
9          MR. WYLIE:                          Where does that come from?
10          MR. McNEILL:                                That comes from our Kromby 11 Generating Station which is further down the Schuyk1 River
        '12 about five miles.
13            (Slides being shown.)
rm                MR. LEITCH:                                Good afternoon.
x) 1415          My name is Graham Leitch, I am the Vice President 16 of Limerick Generating Station.                                I have been employed by 17 Philadelphia Electric for 33 years.                                        All of that time in the 18 business of operating power plants.
19          I have had the overall responsibility for the 20 operation at Limerick since 1975, having various titles and 21 with various spans of responsibility depending upon the 22 organizational structure.
23          Five years ago when Limerick-1 was at this stage I 24 had the privilege to speak to you as plant superintendent.
25 I am here today to tell you about our operating experiences
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2-                  Since'the beginning of staffing for Limerick we 3        have emphasized values such as: quality; safety; and the 4        impo~rtance of people.      But it has'only been within the past' 5        year that we as a nuclear group formalized statements of our 6        vision; our mission; and our values.
7                  As this slide indicates, our vision is to be a 8        leader in the nuclear power industry.
9                  And our mission is the safe, economical, reliabin 10          generation of electric power.
11                    The values to which we adhere are, first of all, 12'        safety. And then in no particular order of priority, since 13          they-are all extremely important, quality, dynamic business j      ~ 14          focus, team work, people, and integrity.
15                    We the management of the nuclear group;and of 16          Limerick station firmly believe in these values and consider 17          them not only in what we write and in what'we say,-but also 18        .in our day-to-day decision-making processes.
19                    We believe as we communicate these values to the
            ~20          employees at Limerick, we~see these values reflected back in 21          a positive culture. We feel that such a culture has always 22          existed at Limerick, and the formalization of this statement 23          of values serves to reinforce that culture.
24                    MR. MICHELSON:      What does a " dynamic business 25          focus" mean?
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1                                                      MR. LEITCH:        Dynamic refers to the fact that we 2-                                        believe that we are in a changing environment and we'have to              1
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                                          -3                                              be receptive to change.              Changing in our thinking.-
4                                                      Business, of course, refers to doing work-in an 5                                        . economic way.          We believe that we have a fine technological
                                              '6                                          process here, but that the challenge for Limerick, indeed 7                                        perhaps the challenge in the nuclear power. industry in these
                                              .8                                          next.few' years-is to make it a viable. economic process.
9                                                      And we think the challenge is to be receptive to 10                                                    change and-to bring about change with no compromise to 11                                                  safety or no compromise to quality.              But to bring.about-12                                                  change in such a' fashion that will make the process more 13                                                  economical.
14                                                                A reflection of the culture at Limerick is our pJ 15                                                  ability.to manage a number of variables at or better than 16                                                  -imposed best quartile. .Among these variables are rad 17                                                    control.      Our volume of low-level rad waste and the square 18                                                  feet of surface contamination at' Limerick are both better 19                                                  than the INFO best quartile.
20                                                                  Our radiation exposure of 53 man-rem in 1988 is 21                                                    not only better than the INPO best quartile; it is the best 22                                                    in the United States and one of the best in the world.
23-                                                                We also point with pride to our industrial safety.
24                                                    record. Since commercial operation at Limerick there have 25                                                    been only two lost time accidents.              And in April we passed l
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2                            DR. REMICK:    Mr. Leitch,.how does that compare
+            '3          -with the goal you set for the'INPO performance indicator,                            4 i
4'          that figure?                                                                        )
5                            MR  LEITCH:  That makes-us better than the INPO-6          best' quartile in that regard.
7                            DR. REUICK:    How about your.own. corporate goal 8          .that.you must have set at the time that INPO was setting?
9                            MR. LEITCH:    A corporate goal?
            '10                            .DR. REMICK: :Yes.
11                            IGL LEITCH:    We had a corporate'-- we surpassed 12-            our corporate goal.          In 1988 the corporate goal for Limerick 13            was four lost. time accidents.          And we had one very'early in 1988.      So what I'm saying is, we passed two million man
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16                            In 1989, this year, we have made that corporate 17'          goal even more aggressive and lowered it to two lost time 18'            accidents for Limerick in 1989.
            -19                            DR. REMICK:    Thank you.
20                            MR. LEITCH:    We are also proud of our safety 21              system performance.. Because in 1988 there was no forced 22            unavailability of HPCI, RICI or RHR systems.
23                            We have also demonstrated our ability to operate 24            at or better than INPO's best quartile.            An. example of this
            '25            is our very low forced outage rate.            It has been 19 months
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5 scrams in the almost four years of commercial operation.
6          We attribute this to very low -- this very low 7 number of scrams to a conservative design combined with 8 conservative quality approach to operations.
9          At Limerick the major downtime has been for 10 planned outages.
11          MR. CARROLL:  Out of curiosity, what has been your 12 cumulative forced outage rates since commercial?
13          MR. LEITCH:  I don't know that I have that data.
MR. CARROLL:  I can look it up in the grey book I
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16          MR. LEITCH:  In 1987, I cannot remember a forced 17 outage. In 1987 there were two forced outages of short 18 duration, two or three days a piece. One caused by a false 19 indication of moisture separator drain tank high level. One 20 caused by a scram on the rupture of electra-hydraulic 21 control fluid line.
22          I would say that that represented a total of, 23 perhaps no more than 10 days forced outage. I can think of 24 no other forced outage in '87.
25          In '86 there was a scram caused by an instrument
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                                                                                                                                          . Dj
      ,                                                                                                                                      i 274-i, )                                      1-                _ technical grounding a probe.- And that forced outage lasted 2                  for perhaps two days.
3                            Later in 1986 there was a packing leak into 4                  containment. And we~had some problems with the recirc pump 5-                  seal. So while we were off to repack that containment
: 6.                valve, we-also replaced the recirc pump seal.      I would think 7-                  that was of the order of a 10 day outage as I recall.
                                                                                            .                                                I p                                                  8                            I don't-know. Jay, do you  -- Jay Derring is the 9                  . superintendent of operations. Do.you remember any'others, 10                              Jay?
11                                        MR. DERRING:    I think you got them all.
12                                        MR. LEITCH:    Okay.
13                                        MR. CARROLL:    Impressive record.
14                                        MR. LEITCH:    Between these outages we have
: 15.                              achieved long periods of continuous powerLoperation.      In 16                              1986 there was 198-day run. 1987 through 1988 there was a 17                              200 day run.. And the run which ended with the'second 18-                              refueling outage was a 268 day run.
19                                        We continue to track our performance against all-L                                      20                              published'INPO performance indicators as well as a. number of 21                                other indicators. This performance information is reported-22                                to me on a monthly basis, so that.I can be aware and take
                              -23                                      appropriate corrective actions, if I observe trends toward E
24                              degradation.
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2                                        number of LERs,' licensee _ event reports.                    Although not an 3'                                      INFO indicator,-it_was clear that 132 LERs in the first year 4                                      of operation was an unsatisfactory level.
5                                                                  We applied special attention to this indicator.:          '
6                                      The root cause of each LER was determined and appropriate 7                                      corrective actions were taken to prevent recurrence.
8                                                                  In most cases this consisted of special training; 9'                                    procedure revision; or plant modifications.                        We continued.to
                          'O                                              work to further reduce the number of'LERs.                        But we feel that 11                                            the' number we are. presently experiencing is ind'cative1of        i          a 12                                            maturing plant.
13                                                                        Unit-2 will be started with the benefit of this 14                                            experience.                  We do not expect to see a repeat of-these high 15                                            numbers experienced on unit-1.
16                                                                        DR. KERR:  You don't want to get that down too 17                                            low, the-NRC staff will think you're trying to avoid the.                            I 18                                                                        (Laughter)-
19                                                                        MR. LEITCH:  Well, we sure are trying to avoid 20                                            them.
21                                                                        MR. McNEILL's    I would like to get on a -- I forget
: 22.                                      .what the exact terminology is -- but I'd love to get this 23:                                          plant on one of those extended inspection cycles or reduced 1
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(~                                                                                                1 ke)                            1            MR. LEITCH:  We have been well pleased with the 2 quality of operations at Limerick.      It is important to us, 3 though, to consider how others view our performance.      And it 4 is gratifying to notice in this tabulation of NRC's SALP 5 ratings that our performance has improved and continues to i
6 be strong. The NRC has, in their presentation, already 7 addressed these ratings.
8            MR. MICHELSON:    Let me ask, what is your present 9 status and experience with the motor operated valve problem 10 such as -- you know, your 80 bullet in 8503 response and so 11 forth?                                                          l 1
12            MR. LEITCH:  We have a very aggressive program.
13 In fact, 'we believe we're an industry leader in the field of
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20            And unit-2, of course, we're doing the same thing 21 but it's more traditional now to be doing that type --
22            MR. MICHELSON:    I sense that perhaps you extended 23 your rework and examination beyond the requirements of 8503; 24 is that correct?
25            MR. McNEILL:    Yes, that's correct.
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277 1                                                  MR. LEITCH:  Bob Lees is,in the audience and I 2                                1think he can perhaps give us some additional details in 3                                that.
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4                                                  ~ Bob, could you amplify in that area a:little bit.'
5                                                  MR. LEES:  Yes. I'm Bob Lees, I'm manager of'
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7                                                  Yes, we did extend the program beyond the 8503 8                                requirements into essentially all of the Q listed motor
                            ;9                                  operators.          And essentially,'the similar program was also 10                                      extended to our Peach Bottom Station, and I think we talked 11                                      about that when we were down discussing Peach Bottom with
["                      12                                      you.
13'                                                        So it's become more or less standard operating procedure to use the MOVATS program and to measure these
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16                                                        MR. MICHELSON:  Are you somewhat familiar with the 17                                      proposed generic letter to extend the requirement to all 18                                      valves?
19                                                        MR. LEES:  Yes, but not in detail.
20'                                                        IE. MICHELSON:    I just wondered if you had 21                                      evaluated its impact.
22                                                        MR. KEMPER:  Unit-2 all valves, motor operated 1
R23                                      valves is MOVATS.                                                        l 24                                                        DR. KERR:  Would you identify yourself.
25                                                        MR. KEMPER:  John Kemper, Senior Vice President of
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3 Senior Vice President of Nuclear Construction.            And 4 indicates that all Limerick-2 valves have been MOVAT tested.
5 I'm not sure that we have done the differential calculations 6 or let me say, differential pressure demonstrations that are 7 required by 8503.          I think we've taken the calculational 8 methodology into account in determining the settings.
9              MR. MICHELSON:        At least you've done the initial 10 part.
11              MR. McNEILL:        That is correct.
12              MR. MICHELSON:        To all valves.
13              MR. McNEILL:        Yes, we have.
                  . (~g 14                                                  MR. MICHELSON:        Thank you.
V 15              MR. McNEILL:        We intended to do that through both 16 plants over a period of time.
17              MR. MICHELSON:        Thank you.
18              DR. KERR:        Thank you.
19              MR. LEITCH:        There has been one significant 20 technical problem with Limerick No.            1, fuel cladding 21 failures which we experienced in the second cycle.
22              The problem was crude induced localized corrosion 23 commonly referred to as CILC.            Limerick is a high power l
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(_)                  1 2                    For these reasons it is considered a CILC 3          susceptible plant.
4                    We experience fuel failures not only with the 5          initial core fuel, but in fuel that was installed during the 6          first refueling outage.
7                    Although the CILC mechanism is well known and 8          understood in the industry the phenomena was unusual at 9          Limerick because of the speed with which it progressed and 10          led to the cladding failures.
                                                                                                                  .l 11                    The contributing factors to this accelerated 12          cladding failure were found to be the synergistic effect of 13          the reload one fuel cladding surface condition, which was em                              not as corrosion resistant as we had first thought.
N) 14 15                    Secondly, the levels of copper in the feedwater 16          were somewhat in excess of recommended values.
17                    And thirdly, in the second cycle we experienced a 18          rupture in the electra-hydraulic control fluid line. I 19          referred to that earlier in causing one of the scrams. And 20          scme of this fluid spilled into sumps and found its way into 21          the reactor system.
22                    Because of the fuel cladding problem we have 23          instituted a number of corrective and preventive measures.
24                    A short term actions are to improve the reactor 25          water chemistry, including enhancing on-line chemistry
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            '5              Longer term actions include the-installation of
: 6. ' deep bed.demimeralizers which will be installed at the next 7  refueling outage on both units. And to support efforts to-8-  improve the' manufacturing process to find the most corrosion 9  resistant cladding me.terial.
10              DR. REMICK:  Am I correct in remembering that the 11    deep bed demineralizers would be-in series with the present    -
12    filter demineralizers.
13              MR. LEITCH:  Yes, that's correct.
14              DR. REMICK:  In addition to --
15              MR. LEITCH:  That's correct. Yes, sir.
16              These efforts supply equally to unit-1 and to 17    unit-2.
18              MR. CARROLL:  What are the bad actors from ak 19    cladding corrosion point of view in EH fluid?
20              MR. LEITCH:  We had high total organic -- well, we 21    had the introduction of total organic compounds into the 22    reactor water. And although the linkage between those 23    fluids and the CILC failure is-not well understood, it is 24    clearly a distinction which occurred at Limerick early on in 25    the second cycle right after this, you know, reload fuel had l
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        ,                        '3          in some:way disturbed the formation of an oxide film on the 4      zircalloy tubing.- That is-clearly a distinction'in this 5      second cycle of operation.                        To exactly link that as cause 6'    and effect is not entir'ely we31 defined.                      But we do believe 7      there is some relationship there.
8                                    Because there have been other plants that have 9      operated-at the copper levels that we have experienced.
10              Yet,lwithout this very rapid progression of the CILC 11              failure.
12                                            MR. CARROLL:    Do the organic decomposition 13              products that you end up with in the reactor, are they 14              organic' sulfur compounds or --
                      -15                                                  MR..LEITCH:  I'm sorry,-I'do not know the answer.
                              'e            to:that.                      I know that they are not readily processed by the 17              demineralizers that we have.                        We believe that a carbon bed lf                          18              would perhaps be more effective in the removal of these 19              organic compounds.                      But the exact nature of the compounds, 20              I'm sorry I cannot address that issue.
21                                              MR. McNEILL:    These are a phosphate ester, I 22              believe,.is at least one major constituent of this electra-23              hydraulic fluid.                      And'I think you would therefore see some 24              phosphate higher than normal in that water.                        But I don't 25              think we understand the full decomposition products.
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8            MR. LEITCH:  Yes.
9            MR. MICHELSON:    Could you give an example of what 10-  is now going to be change?
11              MR. LEITCH:  Let me say that there's rtwil some 1:2  ongoing changes that may occur in the future and that's
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17              We found that there was a difference in the way 18    the material was tested versus the way it was manufactured.
19    In other words, after the fuel cladding was manufactured a 20    test specimen was removed. And that test specimen was 21    etched'and then tested for its corrosion resistant ability.
22              Whereas the run of the plant, the manufacturing 23    run uss not etched at that point. We believe that that
                                              -24    etching masked.to a certain extent the fact that some of 25    this tubing that was being manufactured was not up to
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2                                And in fact we went back and tested the archive 3                ' samples and found that it passed properly when using those 11                    techniques. But then when not etched, when just tested on
: 5.                  an as-received basis it failed and would not have passed the 6                    standards that the manufacturer --
7                                MR. MICHELSON:                  What puzzles me is why the problem 8                    appeared recently.                  Apparently they must have changed then 9                  the heat treatment process earlier.
10                                MR. McNEILL:                They did.
11                                MR. LEITCH:                There are a number --
12                                MR. MICHELSON:                  That's what in part, at least, 13                    contributed --
14                                MR. McNEILL:                The etching sequence was changed on
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18                                MR. MICHELSON:                  Because I've often been puzzled on 19                    why does this appear all of a sudden.
20                                  MR. McNEILL:                Right.        They changed their 21'                    manufacturing process and without fully comprehending what.
22                _the effect of that would be.                            And their testing processes 23                  .did not highlight it.
24                                  One other potential change that we might see is 25                    the cool down rate of the heat treated; and therefore the
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3' in manufacture,-among-the different manufacturers. And the              1 4  higher tolerant ones use a different cool down process than 5  the one that our fuel manufacturer employs.
6            I should hasten to add, though, that there are 7' reactors operating with fuel that has been manufactured like 8  ours and they're operating quite satisfactorily.
9            That's why I say I believe it to be the 10  synergistic effect of this manufacturing process which was 11  not as corrosion resistant as we had thought, the high~
12  copper. And then the abnormal occurrence of the 13  introduction of admittedly but rather'small quantities of EHC fluid into the system.
          } 14 15            MR. MICHELSON:    I thought Browns Ferry, for 16  instance, had this same problem and theirs was to high 17  copper.
18            MR. LEITCH:  Yes. Theirs, as I understand it, 19  though, was non-heat treated fuel that failed. You see we 20  had -- this fuel was installed in'1987 at the first 21  refueling outage and we were really shocked to find problems              i 22  with this fuel. It was all heat treated and we believe that 23  we would not have this problem.
24            MR. MICHELSON:    I assume that that was supposed to 25  have been an improvement.
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2            MR. MICHELSON:    A cost improvement or material 3 improvement. But improvements don't always works out it.
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5            MR. LEITCH:  That's exactly right, sir.
6            MR. McNEILL:    That's correct.
7            MR. CARROLL:    What was the, quote, " failure rate 8 of the fuel" or what is it?
9            MR. LEITCH:  Failure rate?
10            MR. McNEILL:    We have been forced to replace one-11 third of the fuel in the core that we had not anticipated                                -
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13            MR. LEITCH:  Our calculations indicated that there were 55 pins that failed at that. Now we have not examined
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21            MR. MICHELSON:    Did you have to rerod the fuel in 22 the pool or how did you take care of the problem?
23            MR. LEITCH:  We did some of that. We replaced 24 basically two-thirds of the core with brand new fuel.              That 25 is, one-third was already scheduled for replacement, i
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l 2            the core.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            l 3                                                                                          The remaining third then we did some                                                                                                                    .
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: 4.          reconstitution or reroding.                                                                                                                                  I think that.same term we're                                            j 5            using interchangeably where we reconstituted bundles in the'                                                                                                                                                                        ,
6            fuel in the pool and made good bundles of high visual 7            standards.
8                                                                                            Then we also took some fuel that had been                                                                                                            I 9            discharged at the first refueling outage and was in the 10-                ' spent fuel pit and inspected that and reused that fuel.
11                                                                                                  So we fully reassembled the core with either brand 12                  new fuel or' fuel which has a very high visual standard
                ' 13 '                  effectively equal to that of brand .new fuel.
14                                                                                                MR. MICHELSON:                                                            It didn't affect every fuel rod
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15~                equally, then, apparently.
16                                                                                                MR. LEITCH:                                                            No, it did not.
17                                                                                                MR. MICHELSON:                                                            Also puzzling.                                                              ;
i 18                                                                                                MR. LEITCH:                                                            There seemed to be a propensity for 19                  it to be near the center of the bundle.                                                                                                                                              And in those 20                  bundles that were affected, the bundles were in the high 21                  power density zone of the core.                                                                                                                                  There are outliers though, 22                  what I'm saying is not rigorously true in all cases, but                                                                                                                                                                            !
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                                                      '3-  believe that one important factor ic communications.      We
                                                    '4      have improved' inter group communications in a number of 5  ways. We have initiated a site newsletter which is 6 published twice weekly for distribution to all employees 7  quickly disseminating information down through the 8  organization.
9            We have had and will continue to have all-hands        I I
10          meetings to discuss with off-site personnel issues of common 11          interest.                                                          j
                                          -12                          'We also have had meetings with supervisors to 13          discuss specific concerns that they may have and to share.
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V 15                      In addition, we have embarked on a supervisory 16          training program designed to upgrade the supervisory skill's 17          of incumbents.
18                      In the future, supervisors will be selected based 19          on assessment of their individual skills rather than by 20          seniority and new supervisors will be trained in supervisory 21          skills prior to assuming their duties.
22                      We also' plan to provide additional training at all 23          levels in the organization in 1989 and 1990.      This training 24          will be primarily focused on inter personal relationships.
25          We have instituted annual face-to-face performance
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2    sustaining performance trends which currently exist.                                                                  I 3    believe that one important factor is communications.                                                                  We 4    have improved inter group communications in a number of 5    ways. . We have initiated a site newsletter which is 6    published twice weekly for distribution to all employees 7    quickly disseminating information down.through the 8    organization.
9                            We have had and will continue to have all-hands 10      meetings to discuss with off-site personnel issues of' common
              -11        interest.
12                              We also have had meetings with. supervisors to' 13-    discuss speciric. concerns that they may have and to. share 14      information of interest to them.
15                              In addition, we have embarked on'a supervisory 16-      training program designed to upgrade the supervisory skills 17      of incumbents.
18                              In the future, supervisors will be selected based I
19      on assessment of their individual skills rather than by 20      seniority and new supervisors will be trained in supervisory 21        skills prior to assuming their duties.
22                                We also plan to provide additional training at all 23        levels in the organization in 1989 and 1990.                                                    This training 24        will be primarily focused on inter-personal relationships.
25      We have instituted annual face-to-face performance
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(              1                  evaluations for all employees.
2                                    One of the things that any organization must do is 3                  to continue to evaluate the climate that exists within that 4                  organization.        To that end, we plan to do, as INPO has 5                  suggested, a self-assessment of personnel practices that 6                  support professionalism in the work place.
7                                    It is our objective to have this self-assessment 8                  accomplished during 1989.
9                                    Our demonstrated good performance on Unit 1 points                                i 10                  toward our readiness for two-unit operation.
11                                    Unit 2 procedures have been written and approved i
12                  and are being used to conduct the surveillance test as Ted 13                  has already discussed earlier.
g 14                                    At Limerick we have always had cix shift teams in
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15                  place. And we have been planning for a two-unit operation 16                  for years.        We now have more than adequate numbers of senior 17                  reactor operators, reactor operators, and non-licensed 18                  operators available to fill all six shifts for two-unit i
19                  operations such as scheduled overtime will not be required 20                  to fill these positions.
21                                    In fact, operations have been performing the Unit 22                  2 functions around the clock for the last nine months.        Not 23                  only do we have enough operatcrs to fill the shift 24                  positions, but we also have enough excess people to provide 25                  for a deliberate flow of operators to off-shift assignments.                                        !
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            ]I                  1                                        Some of this has already occurred.                                        And indeed, 2                            two of the. original shift superintendents have been~ moved                                                    4 3                            off shift to other.important operator-related functions.-
4                                        We also have as temporary off-shift assignment a 5                              shift supervisor and a reactor operator working in the 6                            blocking and permit-writing area.
7                                        Finally, as I muntioned at the outset, we believe 8                              that as management, it is of the utmost importance that we L                            9                              continue to convey to all the people who work-at Limerick 10                                  our sense of values.                                                                                          4 11                                              We believe that as we continue to live t nese 12                                  values the culture will continue to reflect them.
13                                              In summary, we have learned a great deal-from the 14                                    operational experiences that we have had with Unit 1.                                            We 15                                  believe the plant has operated safely and in a high quality 16                                  fashion.                                                                                                        '
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18                                    operating the second unit.
19                                                Subject to your questions, that concludes my 20                                    presentation.
21                                                DR. REMICK:                    Mr. Leitch, during our tour, you 22                                    introduced us to several of your shift supervisors and we 23                                    had the benefit of discussion with them.                                          And we also met 24                                    one of your young STAS, if I recall, who had been on shift j              ,
25                                    for five years already.
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l 2  different philosophy at Limerick than you do at Peach Bottom
                                                    '3  on how you                engineering expertise on shift.      Since.the
                                                    '4  Committee last heard your Peach Bottom presentation, could 5  you tell'us the difference of the two philosophies at 6  Limerick and Peach Bottom?
7                  MR. LEITCH: 'Yes.            And let me mention that we have 8  in the audience Joe Monaghan who is one of our shift 9  superintendents and I think Ed Evans is here who is one of 10    our shift technical advisors.                  And those fellows may want to 11    approach the microphone.                  I don't know if they would have
                                                .12      some additional remarks on this topic.
13                      But let me say first of all that at Limerick we 14    have shift superintendents as the management representative 15    on shift. He is exactly analogous in my mind to the shift 16    manager at Peach Bottom.                  He has all the same                !
17      responsibilities as the Shift Manager at Peach Bottom.                    He E18          'is in every sense a part o:? the management team here at 19      Limerick and he is my representative, the Plant Manager's
: 20. representative, and is responsible for all ongoing 21      activities.
22                        MR. WARD:          That's for both units?
23                        MR. LEITCH:          For both units. One man for both 24      units. He is at the top of the organization.                  And the 25      difference is that the shift superintendents have basically
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1 come up through the ranks and have been carefully selected 2 at the beginning of the operation of Limerick.            I selected 3 the people.          And I feel that we have a very good group of 4 shift superintendents who are dedicated to the safe 5 operation of the plant and who understand the public                  q j
6 responsibility and the public trust that they have.
                                                                                              .i 7                  They do not have engineering degrees. As
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8 contrasted from the shift managers at Peach Bottom, who have 9 engineering degrees, but have somewhat less experience than 10        the people that are the shift superintendents at Lime 2ick.            j 11                        We have on shift as well shift technical advisors 12        who are engineers, who do have engineering degrees, who 13        rotate with the shift and are in every sense part of the 14        shift.        They train with the shift.      They rotate with the
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        .16          provide engineering expertise on shift.
L          17                        We think this gives us a good strong leadership 18        position and I don't think you need to be around Limerick 19        very long to really feel that the shift superintendents are l
20        definitely in charge of what's going on in that plant.
21                          So that's our approach to the situation.
22                          DR. REMICK:    Thank you.
23                          Are there other questions <4 Mr. Leitch?    If not, 24-        I would suggest we take a ten-minute creak.            In fact, we'll 25          expand that to-twelve minutes, returning at five o' clock.
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2            DR. REMICK:        Please proceed,.Mr. Helwig.-
3            M R .'' H E L W I G : . Thank you.                                                            ;
4            My name is David Helwig.            As Mr. McNeill 5  introduced.me, from November '87.to March of this year I was 6  GeneralLManager and Nuclear Quality Assurance with 7  Philadelphia Electric.          In this capacity, one of major 8  responsibilities was to define, organize and' implement a.
9  thorough ^ coordinated program for assessment of Limerick Unit 10  2 :and our readiness to operate it.
11            Our Unit 1 experience had demonstrated,.we 12  believe, the adequacy of our programs for construction 13  start-up and. operation, but we desired added assurance that everything would go smoothly on the aggressive-schedule that
          ) 14 15  we had set for ourselves.
16            After quite a bit of study and deliberation, we 17  ended up with a three-level process of assessment comprised I
18  of, first, a readiness program assessment.            .Next, an                                        l 19  organizational readiness assessment, and a Readiness 20  Verification Program.                                                                                  l 21            I will talk about each of these in turn.
22            As the first step of our assessment, which began 23  about the summer-of 1987, called our Readiness Program 24  Assessment, we inventories and examined all of the programs 25  in place for design, construction, start-up and initial Heritage      Reporting      Corporation (202) 628-4888                                                            i
 
293 1--      operation. We uvaluated the completeness of those programs, 2        their interrelationship-and.the assigned responsibilities 3      -forth$ inexecution.
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                                                          =5                programs in place were generally adequate, but that our                                                                  j 6        readiness could be better assured._if we implemented two 7        additional programs.        The Organizational Readiness:
8        Assessment and the Readiness Verification Program.
    .                                  ~9                                            .The second step of our assessment process, the 10                Organizational. Readiness Assessment, was really our process 11                to formally identify and track those specific activities 12                required'to ensure the readiness of each of the functional 113-                    tareasl involved with operations and start up and support of 14                operations.
15                            .Through this process we catalogued, s heduled and.
16                  haveEcontinued to track the completion of somewhere over 250 17                  specific activities for these functional areas.                                                              They've 18                  primarily.been comprised of items in the categories of                                                                    !
19                  staffing procedures, equipment and training.
20                              The third step of the program is a Readiness
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23                              Up to this point the program aspects I've talked 24                  about have been kind of planning in nature.                                                              They are 25                  assessing ahead of time what it is we're doing.                                                              In 0                                                                                rie e-(202) 628-4888 verei-e cereer eie-
 
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                            .1          contrast, the Readiness Verification, the. third component of 2          this program, is specifically targeted to verify that these 3          activities are, in fact, completed effectively.
4                    In the development of this. program, we looked at a 5          great deal of information', a large number of sources, and 6          selected somewhere over 300 elements of the program for 7          verification.            Sources we looked at in developing this 8          program encompassed various sources of information about 9          Limerick and particularly our Unit 1 operating experience, 10            our Peach Bottom experience and lessons learned, and the 11            experience of other plants, contemporary boiling water 12            reactors, in particular, in terms of NRC and utility self-13            inspection initiatives.
14                      Each of these elements was then reviewed in one of
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15            three ways. It was either reviewed by programs within our 16            Nuclear Quality Assurance Organization.                                    What we did here 17            was target the audits and reviews over this year-and-a-half, 18            two year period, target the audits and reviews of our 19            Quality Assurance Organization, our independent safety 20            engineering groups, and our Performance Assessment Division 21            to specifically focus on these aspects of the program.
22                      We used a number of outside consultants to conduct 23            reviews of the independent oversight organization.                                    We 24            didn't feel it would be quite appropriate to do that 25            ournelves so we employed some outside consultants to do a (f                                      Heritage                  Reporting Corporation (202) 628-4888
 
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3                          In addition to this, we had a large program that 4        I'll discuss in detail called our Independent Design and 5        Construction Appraisal which was conducted for us by Stone 6        and Webster at my direction.
7                          That's comprised in three boxes here. As you see, 8        the Independent Design and Construction Appraisal, it was                                  3 9        one integrated process but it can be conceptually divided 10        into two major areas.          An appraisal of our construction 11        activities and an appraisal of our design activities.
12                          We can't take credit for this being an entirely 13        original approach.          We patterned it after a combination of                        i
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14        NRC initiatives in the IDI--Independent Design Inspection--
15        and Construction Appraisal Team Inspection processes.                            And, 16        in fact, we employed a deep vertical slide review technique 17        for which we focused on the combination of systems that 18        comprise the containment heat removal mode.
19                          This combination of systems is predominantly our 20        RHR system and residual heat removal service water system, 21        but the review encompassed all of the major supporting 22        system, power, HVAC, and service water, et cetera.          And the 23        program expanded its focus.          If this was a heat vertical 24        slide review, it expanded its focus horizontally to bound 25        any problem or question areas that Stone and Webster f
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1 8  involved at four agreed-upon times during the program in 9- terms of reviewing the depth of the review and the conduct 10  of the program.                                                    f 11            A very large program, as I've indicated here on            j 12  the bottom bullet, between Stone and Webster and Bechtel 13  Engineering alone, we expended greater than 100,000 man
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18            And just as a measure of the number of things 19  examined and looked at, I can count up over 45,000 specific 20  checks and verifications of hardware attributes and design 21  features.
22            I have here a summary of the results of the 23  construction appraisal. I had summarized them. While there 24  were a number of items that required engineering review and 25  some document changes, and in fact there were a few program
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6  concerned, the construction quality had been extremely good 7  and the NRC staff, upon their overview-of that activity and 8  their independent inspection of the activities at the site, 9  concluded similarly.
10              As far as the design appraisal is concerned, the 11  results are somewhat similar to those I just characterized 12  for the construction appraisal. There were a number of 13  calculation revisions and document changes required, or document corrections required.
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15              And, again, there were a few programmatic 16-  enhancements recommended.
17              In this case, I indicate here conservatively that 18  there was one item found that required a design change.
19  Actually that's I' d say under dispute and I'm not sure I'll 20  ever know the honest to goodness truth about that.      It turns 21  out there was an IE Bulletin 88-15 about undervoltage relay 22  set points and designs. And that was being reviewed within 23  Philadelphia Electric and Bechtel at about the same time i            24  Stone and Webster focused their review on that activity.
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L            5                    I indicate here that there were six open items at L                                                                                      l 6          the conclusion of Stone and Webster's' design review. These 7          are six items I characterize as the sort of issues that 8          architect engineers just kind of don't see eye to eye on.
9          And I was pleased to note that the NRC staff was not at all 10          surprise that there were six issues that Stone and Webster 11          and Bechtel didn't see entirely the same way.
12                    As a matter of-fact, last week the NRC staff spent 13          the entire week'in San Francisco reviewing the conclusion of 14          this_ design appraisal effort and each of those six-items has 15          been resolved to the staff's satisfaction.
16                    The net result of this very extensive design 17          appraisal review, and I would have to characterize that 18          there were many more items of questions and evaluation in
: 19.        order to satisfy Stone and Webster in the design appraisal 20          area than there were in the construction appraisal area.
21                    The bottom line is that any deficiencies found in 22          this regard were minor and in fact they had no effect on the 23          design adequacy. This has enabled Stone and Webster and we 24          believe the NRC staff to conclude that the engineering and 25          design of the project has been satisfactory based on the
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41            In. conclusion, I am very confident that we have 5  employed a-thorough process for self-assessment of our 6  readiness'of construction, design and readiness to operate e,                                      7  Limerick Unit 2. I believe that this. process has provided 8  ' effective confirmation of our readiness.                                                                        And I would like 9  to point'out that in my mind this very much exemplifies the' 10    sort of-meaningful self-assessment that we have set as a 11  -standard within-the company and is characterized in the 12    four-level process of self-assassment that Mr..McNeill 13    explained to you during the' Peach. Bottom presentations to
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15              Any questions?
16              DR. REMICK:    Any questions of Mr. Helwig from the 17    Committee?
18                (No. response. )
19              If not, we thank you, Mr. Helwig.
20              MR. HELWIG:      Thank you.
21              I'd like to introduce Alan Marie who will be our 22    next speaker.
23              MR. MARIE:    I'm Al Marie and I'm Supervisor of the 24    PRA Branch.
25              I'm going to give an overview of our PRA program
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2  results have changed. And also the PRA applications that we
: 3. have' underway in support of engineering and operations.
4-            The Limerick PRA was initiated in 1980 at the 5  request of the _ NRC. This was originally a Level 3 internal
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6  events analysis and expanded in 1983 to include external 7  events in our Severe Accident Risk Assessment Report.                The 8  results of all these analyses-were described in detail to 9  the ACRS in 1983 and ' 84 prior to the Unit 1 full power 10          license.
11'                    Since then, we have updated the Level 1 internal 12          events portion twice and I will describe these in subsequent 13          slides. We do. plan future updates which will be responsive to the individual plant evaluation and external events
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16                      We also plan ongoing updates to quantify any 17          effects of future station modifications and procedure                                  '
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19                      The first update incorporated the as-built design I
20            changes for Limerick and this included the specific valving
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5                                        Previously the.PRA was based on generic'EPG Rev 0.
6                                      The second update completed the incorporation of                                              _j 7                            the procedures that reflected two-unit operation by modeling 8                            the two-unit demands on the shared systems by namely RHR 9                            service water and emergency service water.
10                                                  We updated the initiating event frequencies per 11                                        the EPRI/NRC database. We provided more complete modeling 12                                        of common cause failures. And this was applied to all 13                                        systems per NUREG/CR-4780.
  ]      )                        14                                                  We added a reactor protection system fault tree.
15                                      -This was previously handled through engineering judgment.
16                                        We accomplished full linking of our fault trees to account 17                                        for any commonalities across events.            And this addressed a 18                                        Brookhaven National Lab comment on the original PRA.
19                                                  We investigated several special initiators 20                                        separately and this included internal flooding, loss of 21                                        instrument air, and reactor water level reference legbreak.
22                                                    Juni finally we installed the PRA model on a self-23                                        contained PC-based work station which provided greater 24                                        efficiency in use and responsiveness to request.
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(/    1 vintage fire risk PRA you did?    In other words when did you 2 do it, with what knowledge and at what level?
3            MR. MARIE:  The fire-risk analysis was done in 4 1982/83 time frame.
5            MR. MICHELSON:    Has it been repeated since or 6 upgraded since?
7            MR. MARIE:  We have not updated that analysis.
8 But we do plan to do it as-part of the update for the IPEEE.
9            MR. MICHELSON:    Thank you.
10            MR. MARIE:  This chart illustrates the integrated 11 effect of these changes on the results. As you can see by                  ,
12 the smaller circle, the' core damage frequency decreased to 13 about one half of that in the original PRA.
The same initiators are present but the percent of
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16            Most noticeable is the ATWS category which has 17 increased. And the absolute increase here is about 50 18 percent in terms of ATWS contribution to the core damage 19 frequency.
20            This is primarily due to incorporation of the 21 EPRI/NRC database for initiator frequencies.      When we 22 compare these frequencies to our first two cycles at 23 Limerick, we find that this database is high and we will 24 review this further for a future analyses. We expect that 25 if we use site-specific data, the analysis would decline
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4          MR. MARIE:  I'm sorry. I can't hear the question.
5          MR. WARD:  You have incorporated the ATWS 6 procedure in your EPGs or in your emergency operating 7 procedures.
8          MR. MARIE:  That's correct.
9          MR. WARD:  If you hadn't done that the 10 contribution from ATWS would be even higher?    I'm trying to ,
11 find out how much difference has that made in calculations 12 of risk from ATWS?
13          MR. MARIE:  Okay. We have not quantified each of g-  14 the pieces of the update.
              '%)s 15          MR. WARD:  Have you quantified that one?
16          DR. KERR:  Well, Dave, you see the total risk is 17 about half and originally ATWS was 8 percent and now it's 24 18 percent. So it would have been about--let's see--
19          MR. WARD:  No. But two things have happened, 20 Bill. One he said they've used a different database for 21 frequency of--they used the EPRI database. The other thing 22 is in that time span they've incorporated the improved ATWS 23 emergency procedures.
24          DR. KERR:  Yeah.
25          MR. WARD:  I'm trying to find out how those two
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2            DR. KERR:            Contributed to ATWS you mean?                                                          Or 3 contributed to the total--
4            MR. WARD:            To the risk that ATWS--
5            MR. MARIE:            In terms of. trend, the initiator 6 frequencies were upward, of course.              And the incorporation 7 of the EOPs were downward.              The overall effect was about a 8 50 percent increase in the ATWS contribution.
9            MR. WARD:            Okay. I was just trying to get a feel.
: 10. I agree.
11            MR. McNEILL:            We don't have any quantification of 12  what it would have been if we would have just implemented 13  the EPGs--
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17            MR. McNEILL:            It's a half again more.
18            MR. WARD:            And he's already said that.
19            MR. McNEILL:            Yes.
20            MR. WARD:            But two things are different and I'm 21  trying to find out--okay.              You don't know, so just go ahead.
22            MR. MARIE:            I'd like to also mention that a subset
        '23  of the loss of off-site power category is station blackout 24  which represents about 20 percent of the core damage 25  frequency.
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3                LAt' Limerick administrative guidelines have been developed 4                  that incorporate PRA into the work process. . These are in
                                                          '5                _the' areas of prioritization of maintenance activities and 6                  planning system outages in a manner that minimizes risk.
7                              Our guidance is based on system importance as 8-                indicated ,by the' PRA model, and this guidance is in addition 9                  to other requirements such as tech specs or equipment 10                  qualification.
11                                Examples of this guidance include giving 12                  scheduling priorities to systems of higher importance when a 13                  backlog of corrective maintenance exists, Minimizing out-of-service time for preventive
            ,          vN-s] 14 15-                maintenance by pre-planning and assuring that all 16                  prerequisites are in place prior to removing equipment from 17                  service. And this includes parts, procedures and or.rmits.
18                                System outages are both planned and tracked using 19                  a method that relates to the outage time of the system to 20                  effect on core damage frequency.            This allows these system 21'                  outages to be compared to targets and there is provision to 22                  either shorten or defer the planned outages in order to 23                  achieve goals.
24                                In addition, only one system at a time is planned 25                  for outage in order to prevent synergistic effects on risk.
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(/                  1                      PRA has also been used in the design and 2 modification process.              The original PRA provided several 3 insights which influenced the final design.                      And these are 4 also described to the ACRS prior to Unit 1 full power 5 license.            The systems affected were the standby liquid 6 control, the MSIV and ADS air supply systems, and fire 7 propagation barriers and reactor enclosure.
8                      Since then, we have implemented the integrated 9 management process for modifications.                      And this is our 10 version of the integrated living schedule process which is a 11 cost benefit evaluation method used to rank and prioritize 12 modifications.              Of risk impact based on a PRA is one 13 component of this evaluation.              And this looks at the potential modifications impact on both initiator frequency
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16                      Other factors in the evaluation include dose, dose 17 reduction, regulatory requirements, station availability and 18 personal safety.
19                      Several potential modifications have been reviewed 20 with PRA.            One example was potential bypass of diesel-21 generator protected trips following the loss of off-site
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()  1 damaging the diesel if the signals are real plus there is 2 sufficient time following the loss of off-site power event 3 to override any false trip signals if they occur and restore 4 the diesel to service. In fact, our analysis indicated that 5 this component of the long-term diesel reliability is about                      I 6 100 times greater with the protective trips in place than if 7 they were bypassed.
8          A PRA proyzam plan which has been developed and                        )
9 approved by the nuclear group includes additional 10 applications that are just now getting underway. In the 11 area of reliability-centered maintenance, we are working 12 with our central maintenance organization to develop a scope 13 of study and a pilot program.
14          A task force has been established and a PRA Branch O  15 is represented. The PRA models will provido an excellent 16 basis for the development of these RCM models.
17          In area of operator training, we have provided PRA                    ;
18 insights to the training organization and these have been                        j 19 incorporated into the training program.
20          MR. MICHELSON:    Let me interrupt just a moment on 21 your diesel protective trips. I gather you've decided to go 22 back and leave them in.
23          MR. MARIE:  Yes.
24          MR. MICHELSON:    And are these all safety-grade 25 trips to begin with that you are leaving in now?    There was i
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()                                              1                a time when a number of these trips were not safety grade 2                but they were bypassed on a ECCS signal so people didn't 3                worry about it.
4                          MR. MARIE:  Yes. These are bypassed on a LOCA 5                signal.
6                        MR. MICHELSON:    Oh, they are still bypassed on the 7                ECCS.
8                          MR. MARIE:  Yes.
9                        MR. MICHELSON:    They are just not bypassed on 10                            other starts. Okay.
11                                    This still can give me a little trouble. It 12                          depends upon what the event is, if it's a seismic event, for 13                          instance. But you haven't yet got a LOCA signal, but you've 14                          got a loss of off-site power. Will you bypass these trips 15                            for that case?  It's more than an ECCS signal. Because 16                          that's not ECCS.
17                                      MR. McNEILL:    The ECCS would over--
18                                      MR. MICHELSON:    No, this is not an ECCS signal.
19                                      MR. McNEILL:    Okay.
20                                      MR. MICHELSON:    You've just lost off-site power.
21                            You now have--can you bypass that?    If it's a seismic event 22                            that's induced it and if these trips fail because they are 23                            non-seismic, you may damage all the engines for other 24                            reasons.
25                                      MR. McNEILL:    I believe that these are seismic--or
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2          MR. MICHELSON:    All right.                                        So these are not non-3 seismic--
4          MR. McNEILL:  Right.  .These are not.                                                      I'm fairly 5 confident they are not non-seismic.
6          MR. MICHELSON:    Thank you.
7          MR. CATTON:  Does your operator training include 8 the venting process?
9          MR. MARIE:  Yes. We have procedures for training 10 and the operators are trained in that procedure.
11          MR. CATTON:  I heard no mention of what happens 12 following vessel failure. Is that part of your PRA?
13          MR. MARIE:  Yes. The original analysis was a Level 3 analysis. We have maintained, and I described it in
                    } 14 15 the updates here, the portion that we have maintained since 16 1983. And that is the core damage frequency part of it.
17 The Level 1 portion.
18          We will be updating the back end of the analysis 19 as part of the IPE and we are now developing our plans for 20 that.
21          MR. CATTON:  Is your pedestal filled with 22 concrete?
23          MR. MARIE:  No. There is suppression pool.
24 Beneath the diaphragm slab.
25          MR. CATTON:  Just out of curiosity, what do you do
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3            MR. MARIE:  Quench it.
4            MR. CATTON:  So you are using the 1983 vintage 5 Henry position of what goes on?
6            MR. MARIE:  Yes. And that has been the analysis 7 performed to date. As we go through the revision of the 8 back end analyses, we will review that as well as other 9 available information and models.
10                      MR. MICHELSON:    Now, early on in a core melt, if 11            you come through the vessel, you lose the suppression pool 12          capability if you postulate that you've eaten through the 13            floor. You bypass the suppression pool capability, is that fg                  14            correct?  Or is that part of your model?
U 15                      MR. MARIE:  Yes.
16                      MR. MICHELSON:    So your pressure rises very 17            rapidly because you can no longer suppress the pressure?
18                      MR. MARIE:  Yes. As a matter of fact, our 19            containment of entry which we will be developing for our 20            back end analysis will include that as a possibility and we 21            will have to assign a probability to that.
22                        MR. MICHELSON:    Do you have guard pipes on the 23            tailpipes of the relief valves going into the suppression 24            pool?
25                        MR. MARIE:  Sorry?
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3'          MR. MARIE:  No, we don't.
4            MR. MICHELSON:    You do not. Thank you.
5            MR. MARIE:  I was discussing operator training.
6  These insights have been provided to.the training 7  organization and incorporated into their training program.
8  These insights include the important initiators such as 9  transients and loss of off-site power.      As well as the 10  important systems, such as.the emergency service water and 11  high pressure injection. And this is an activity that we 12  expect to grow in the future.
13            We also believe that PRA can help make emergency exercise scenarios more realistic. These sceneriosz are (qJ. 14 15  presently being developed by an in-house team and the PRA 16  Branch is represented on this team also.
17            As illustrated by these examples, we use a team 18  approach to applications with the PRA Branch functioning as 19  a resource group that facilities the implementation of PRA 20  practices throughout the nuclear organization.
21            MR. MICHELSON:    In the case of your RHR system 22  where you draw suction from the suppression pool, do you 23  postulate a break between the first isolation valve and the 24-  pool itself?  Or how do you prevent the draining of the pool 25  if you do postulate a break?
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3                                                MR. MICHELSON:  Well, he hasn't answered the whole 4                  question yet.
5                                                  Do you not postulate a break?
6                                                MR. MARIE:  Let me ask Mr. Philibaum--
7                                                  MR. MICHELSON:    The question is do you postulate a 8                break between the suppression pool and the first isolation 9                valve on systems like RHR?
10                                                    MR. PHILIBAUM:  And the answer is when we looked 11                      at the internal flooding initiating event, that is one of 12                      the possibilities that we did consider although we gave it a 13                      low probability.                      We have included that as one of the potential losses of--
                  } 14 15                                                    MR. MICHELSON:  And find the water by what?
16                                                    MR. PHILIBAUM:  By the physical place where it 17                      drains from the--
18                                                    MR. MICHELSON:  Well, you get it from something 19                    because it's doing to drain in the equilibrium with the pool 20                      depending on the piping.                        And so you are talking about 21                      fifteen or twenty feet of water.
22                                                    MR. PHILIBAUM:  But those rooms are designed water 23                    tight and have water tight enclosures.
24                                                    MR. MICHELSON:      Okay. Thank you.
25                                                    DR. REMICK:  You indicated you are using the PRA
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3          MR. MARIE:  I'd like to ask Mr. Doerring to 4 address that.
5          MR. DOERRING:    Yes, we are doing it in the tech 6 staff training program. There is a PRA module for that.
7          DR. KERR:  Would you state your name please, sir?
8          MR. DOERRING:    I'm sorry. I'm Jay Doerring, 9 Superintendent of Operations, Limerick Station.
10          DR. KERR:  Thank you.
11          MR. McNEILL:    We have trained several hundred 12 people in PRA utilization across the tech staff spectrum of 13 people.
MR. MARIE:  In conclusion, I'd like to summarize
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19          And finally the value of PRA is being recognized 20 as is evidenced in the growing areas of application which I 21 have described.
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                            .3  power through that 69 KV line because up to now it doesn't 4  have the capability of being recovered within the length of 5  time that would be beneficial: to consider.
6                              DR. KERR:  Remind the Recorder of your name 7  .please, sir.
l 8                              MR. PHILIBAUM:      Jerry Philibaum.
9                              DR. KERR:  Now, you said that came from one of p                          10    your other generator stations.                                      Is that a hydro plant or--
l l                          ~11                                MR. MARIE:  No, it's not.                    It comes.out of the-1 12    switch yard there so that.if you did not lose the entire 13    system, you would have some increased probability that it 14    would be available.
15                                Also at the other end of the line is some gas 16    turbine generators.
17                                MR. WYLIE:      How long did it take to get that 18    power from that line into the plant?
19                                MR. McNEILL: About one hour.
20                                MR. WYLIE:  But that was too long to help you out?
21                                MR. PHILIBAUM:      Well, no.                There may have been 22    modification during this recent outage.                                      Before that it 23    would have been quite a number of hours and now it's going 24    to be, with further procedural changes, it's going to 25    reduced down to an hour.                        And then at that time it would be
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                    )        1                a reasonable thing to try-to take credit for.                Up to this 2'              point in time it's too long.
3                            MR. WYLIE:      And that would be part of your 4                training?
5                            MR. PHILIBAUM:      That's correct, for the operations 6'              people to make those changes.
                          '7                            MR. SHEWMON:      Since to a simple metallurgist 8              electricity travels at the speed of light, could you tell me 9            -just what's happening during this four hours or one hour 10                  that you assumed that it takes for the electricity to get 11                  from here to there?
12                            MR. PHILIBAUM:      What's happening with the reactor 13                ' vessel?
14                            MR. SHEWMON:    No. You are apparently assuming 15                  some sequence that started this that now has to be fixed,~
                                                        ~
16                  and I'm curious as to what that is.
17                            MR. McNEILL:    We have to hook up some cables to 18                  bring this 69KV and hook it up to the rest of the plant.
19                              DR. KERR:    I want you to tell this simple 20                  metallurgist that electricity in a transmission line doesn't 21                  travel with the speed of light.
22                              (Laughter.)
23                              MR. SHEWMON:    There's additional cable--
24                              MR. McNEILL:    Right. This is not normally 25                  connected to the switch yard and the modifications that we
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316 L    ()      1      have made have been designed to allow us within a reasonable 2-      period of time to hook it up so it's available in the plant.
3                                                            This happened to have been a construction power 4      supply to the site which we have decided to retain because 5      loss of-off-site power is a relatively high risk in the PRA 6      and, you know, the alternatives to that are on-site gas 7      turbines or things of that nature.                                                And we already have this 8      line and so we took advantage of it and we tried to modify                                                                  i 9      it such that we can get it into use within a reasonable 10      period of time.
11                                                            MR. SHEWMON:    Fine, thank you.
12                                                              MR. MICHELSON:    How did you get your valve 13        reliability numbers?                                              Did you develop those from experience within the plant or were you using other peoples?
{ } 14 15                                                              MR. MARIE:  Mr. Philibaum will address that 16        question.
17                                                              MR. PHILIBAUM:    At this point in time we've 18        looked--Jerry Philibaum--at this point in time we've used 19        extensively the generic numbers.                                                Ne were looking at 20        building upon a plant-specific database but with about two 21        and a half reactor years of operation, reactor years at 22        Limerick, we're not to the point of being able to really use 23        a lot of plant-specific information yet.
24                                                              MR. MICHELSON:    Thank you.
25                                                              MR. CATTON:  What do you use as the basis for
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2                                MR .~ MARIE:            Mr. Doerring.
3                                MR. DOERRING:              We specifically follow the EPG Rev-4                      3 guidance for venting.                The parameter which limits us is L                                              5                      the instrument gas pressure to the ADS valves.                  If your 6                      pressure gets I think above 75 pounds, you would not be able
                                              ~7                      to open ADS valves and that's when you would begin venting 8                      the containment per the EPG implementing procedures which we 9                      have. I'm Jay Doerring.
10                                  Below 75--the criteria.for venting is pressure, is 11                      containment pressure.                Okay. And there are several 12                      parameters used in your Appendix C calculations from the 13                      Emergency Procedure Guidelines.                The actual parameter that 14                      causes us to vent would be the limitations of instrument gas -
15                      in lifting JUNS valves.              We don't take the pressure up to 16                      challenge the containment ultimate pressure.                  The limitation 17                      that we have to go on is this ability to continue to vent 18                      the vessel.
19                                  MR. MICHELSON:                Question.
20                                  DR. KERR:            Would you speak into the microphone 21                      please, Mr. Michelson?
22                                  MR. MICHELSON:                Okay. I got the answer.
23                                  MR. CATTON:              Don't go away yet. If venting is to 24                      help you with a core melt, I don't quite understand how it's
: 25.                      going to do that. Could maybe you help me?
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                                      )                -! 1:            MR. DOERRING:    The purpose of the venting in the
: 12. EPGs is to maintain the integrity of your containment so
                                                        '3,    that you breach.the. containment in a controlled fashion.
                                                        ~4    rather than a catastrophic fashion.      That's one of the 5    bases. That's the--
6            MR. CATTON:  I understand that.
7              MR. DOERRING:    Yes, sir.
8            MR. McNEILL: ' Boiling water reactor containment
                                                        .9    venting is for containment--maintaining the containment.
10      You would depressurize the reactor system through the 11      automatic depressurization system to prevent core melt.      So 12      you can get'your low pressure injection in.
13                MR. CATTON:  So this all takes place before core melt?
{ } 14 15                MR. McNEILL:    That is correct. If the systems 16    -operate normally--let me say, you have to get'into severe 17      accident almost before you get enough pressure.      Your 18      supposition is that you have gone beyond design basis and 19      you are into severe accident, and that is generating the 20      high pressure in the containment because normally the 21      pressure in a containment under a LOCA won't exceed 30 some 22    pounds I would expect. Somewhere in that range.
23                MR. CATTON:  I understand that part of it. And I l                                                      24    understand why in a Mark I you might do it.      But in the Mark 25      2 it seems to me that if you have a core melt you are going
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2                                              MR. DOERRING:                                                Well, the venting procedures are
                                          '3                      structured to first vent via pads from the suppression pool.
4                      that gets the scrubbing action from the-suppression pool.
5                                              MR. McNEILL:                                            You would vent scrub gasses.
6'                                            MR. CATTON:                                        The gasses won't necessarily go 7                      through the suppression pool like they will in the other
                                          '8                      systems, will they?
9                                              MR. McNEILL:                                              Sure they will.
10                                              MR. CATTON:                                          If the stuff falls--well, you are 11                      going to lose those big headers that stick up through the 12                      floor.
: 13.                                              MR. MARIE:                                    You are speaking of post-vessel                            l 14                      failure.                .The biggest advantage of venting from a PRA 15                      perspective in reducing risk has been to-really reduce the 16                      frequency of loss of decay heat, removal type sequences.
17                      The TW type sequences.
18                                              MR. CATTON:                                        That different.              I understand that.
19                                              MR. MARIE:                                    Okay.
20                                              DR. KERR:                                Please continue.
21                                              MR. MICHELSON:                                                      I'm bothered now by the previous 22                      answer.                Apparently you are thinking of this venting at 75 23                      pounds of pressure.                                              Is that correct?
24                                              MR. MARIE:                                    Yes, sir.                  75 pounds--                    ;
25                                              MR. MICHELSON:                                                      I'm a little skeptical I guess Heritage                                          Reporting            Corporation (202) 628-4888                                          ;
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320 (f  1                                    Ebout'that 6 inch line that dumps into the corridor of the 2                                    diesel' building with 75 pounds of gas behind it and have you 3                                    really looked at that?      You aren't going to blow doors off, 4'                                  that sort of thing?
5                                              MR. DOERRING:      The procedure for doing that does 6                                    open the doors.
7-                                            MR. MICHELSON:      No, no. But there'sEdoors to the 8                                    other parts of the building.      There's no way to get from the 9                                    rest of the building into that--
10                                              DR. KERR:      Mr. Michelson, since this is part of 11                                    the BWR EPGs, we probably ought to review those, don't you 12                                    think?
13                                              MR. MICHELSON:      We'd have to look at the-plant 14                                    specific one, yes.      I thought he could'give'me assurance 15                                    that he's really thought this through for 75-pound air, and 16                                    I guess he has.      I'm a little--
17                                              MR. McNEILL:      Let'me say that-we vent, although 18                                    not a full flow, we vent the containment through this line 19                                    from the integrated leak break test pressures which are in 20                                    the 30 pound range.
21                                              MR. MICHELSON:      But you intend this to be a wide 22                                    open line for this vent that's going to do it during the 23                                    accident, is that correct?
24                                              MR. McNEILL:      I believe it would be a--I'm not 25                                    sure it needed to be wide open.        It would be controlled at a
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_    1 rate to cause depressurization.                                l 2          MR. MICHELSON:    Okay. You put an appropriate 3 throttle valve in.
4          MR. McNEILL:    Yes. We would be able to throttle 5 the valve that was there.                                      !
6          MR. MICHELSON:    Is it air operated?
l 7          MR. McNEILL:    No , there's at least three motor-  '
8 operated valves in the pad.
9          DR. KERR:    Any further questions on this?
10            (No response. )                                      ;
11          DR. KERR:    Please continue.
12          MR. MARIE:    Our next speaker will be Dave Honan.
13          MR. HONAN:    My name is David Honan, Branch Head of LGS-2 Licensing.
              ./ } 14 15          The purpose of my presentation today is to update 16 you on the status of ongoing licensing activities for 17 Limerick 2, and a good place to begin would be with the 18 activities of this Committee.
19          Dr. Kerr mentioned earlier that the ACRS has 20 reported twice on Limerick. In October of ' 83 an interim 21 report which, while deferring to report on Unit 2, endorsed 22 operation of Unit 1 at 5 percent power.
23          And the second, in November of ' 84, which again 24 deferred on Unit 2, endorsed full power operation at Unit 1, 25 and included three recommendations for future action.
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3 3'                                These are the subjects of those recommendations 4  and the rationale for each is slightly different.                                                Due to 5-  the limited attention given the subject'of severe accident 6  ' mitigation' features, Dr. Okrent recommended that further 7  consideration be given at a later date.                                              Because of 8  Limerick's demography, special attention to systems 9  interaction was recommended by the Committee.
10                                And finally due to large uncertainties associated 11  with the determination of seismic risk, the ACRS recommended 12  that the NRC and the industry work to better quantify those-13  risks.
NRC staff efforts to date have focused primarily
{ } .14 15  on generic resolutions for these issues and for each of 16  these I'll now describe the current Limerick status.
17                              As Al Marie indicated, our original PRA showed a 18  very low risk =due to severe accidents and our 1988 update 19  showed even lower risks.                                          Identified no design 20  vulnerabilities and showed some value in procedural 21  upgrades.
22                              Again, as Al mentioned in passing, Limerick does 23  -incorporate some features analogous to those suggested for 24  Mark l's.                              Specifically six-inch hard pipe containment vent 25  is installed together with the usual larger duct-type vents.
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3          We have at Limerick the ability inject water into 4 the vessel independent of AC power using our diesel water 5 pumps via reactor water clean up which gives us an 6 additional decay heat removal pathway.
7          MR. MICHELSON:    Is that a hard pipe derangement?
8          MR. HONAN:  Yes, it is.
9          MR. MICHELSON:  How do you isolate it from reactor 10 water clean up?
11          MR. HONAN    Let me see if I can--Jerry, can you h      12 help us with that one?
13          MR. PHILIBAUM:    Let me make that correction.
14 Jerry Philibaum. What has to happen is the operators have 15 to take a hose, fire hose, and run it from the fire header 16 over to the reactor water--
17          MR. MICHELSON:    It's not hard pipe?
18          MR. PHILIBAUM:  No, not all the way.
19          MR. MICHELSON:    Thank you.
20          MR. HONAN:  And, again, as Al mentioned and Jay 21 Doerring expanded on a bit, we are in the process of                                                                          {
22 upgrading our procedures to Rev 4 of the EPGs.                                                        Specifically 23 adding new provisions for secondary containment control,                                                                      j 24 radioactivity release control, and primary containment 25 flooding.
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2  control, what is it?
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4  don't want to characterize myself as an expert, focuses on 5  controlling the rate at which radioactivity which has made      j l
6  its way into the secondary containment is released and
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7  thereby reducing the risk to the public by controlling that 8  to the maximum extent possible.                                i 9            Jay, can you expand on that?
10            MR. CATTON:  I understood your answer.
I' 11            MR. HONAN:  The first of these two issues have 12  already been incorporated into the station procedures and 13  the third is in work.
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t 16  sources of injection or EPG Rev 4. These features will be 17  modeled as part of the PRA update plan in support of the 18  individual plant evaluation program.
19            MR. CATTON:  Doesn't that vent become a short 20  circuit to outside once you've had a core melt?
21            MR. HONAN:  I'm not sure I understand your 22  question.
23            MR. DOERRING:    Yes, it would. This is Jay 24  Doerring. As a matter of fact, the reason for that portion 25  of the procedures is to take into account the effects that l
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6            MR. CATTON:            So do you close.it down if you have a.
7  core melt?
8-            MR. DOERRING:              It does not address core melt.
9            MR. CATTON:            I can't. hear you.
10              MR. DOERRING:              It does not address core melt 11    specifically.
12              MR. CATTON:            I thought EPG Rev 4 did, but--
13              MR. DOERRING:              No , it does not.
14              MR. McNEILL:              That's under review right now in'the
                                            -15          development of'the Severe Accident Management Plan, which is 16    an NRC staff initiative, in which NUMARC has formed a 17    working group and they are working to define severe accident 18    management measures'and programs, which would be implemented 19    I think within the next couple of years at the various                                                              y 20    stations.
21              MR. MICHELSON:                Did I misunderstand, or is the 22    venting a local manual operation?                  I heard something.about 23    hand wheels.                                                                                                        I 24                MR. DOERRING:              There are manual steps, 25    prerequisite steps to the venting.
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t' 1                                        MR. MICHELSON:      And that's local along the pipe?'
2                                        MR. DOERRING:      Yes, sir.
3                                        MR. MICHELSON:      Well,.if.you ever get very high.
                                  '4                              activity you may not be able to do those steps.
5-                                        MR. DOERRING:      If youlgot high activities in the 6                              particular areas.
7                                        MR. MICHELSON:      Yes.            Thank you.
8                                        MR. HONAN:      The subject of systems interaction was 9                              addressed at the 1983 Subcommittee meeting on Limerick'and-10                                at that time we described how the processes and programs 11                                that.were in place at the time combined with insights we 12                                gained form our PRA activities, operating plant feedback 13                                programs and various special studies yielded a plant as free of adverse systems interactions as we could make it.
                      ) 14 15                                          Since then we've focused our efforts the 16                                continuing improvement of those processes and programs 17                                through the application of feedback and lessons learned.
18                                            Some of the tools that we've developed to help us.
19                                  do that are a design process improvement program, an 20                                  enhanced operating experience program, improved non-21                                  conformance corrective action deportability processes, and 22                                  the strengthened self-assessment capabilities you've heard a 23                                  great deal about already.
24                                            The goal of all these efforts, relative to systems 25                                  interaction, is to capture events or problems, evaluate them I
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(_)                  1    for root cause, and feed the results to cognizant line 2    organizations for long and short-term corrective actions.
3              MR. MICHELSON:    To what extent do you look at 4    other people's experience in the process of deciding whether 5    you have a potential. systems interactions problem?                                              !
6              MR. HONAN:  That's the essence of operating 7    experience assessment program.
: 8.              MR. MICHELSON:    So you are saying you are looking 9    at your own operating experience?
10              MR. HONAN:  The scope of the operating experience 11    assessment program includes industry.
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14              MR. HONAN:  We capture those--
15              MR. MICHELSON:    Reading all the LERs, for                                        .
16    instance, how are you capturing it?
17              MR. HONAN:  We capture those principally through 18    our participation in INFO's SER and SOER programs.
19              MR. MICHELSON:    Yes. But you know that's a pretty 20    high level stuff when it comes to a lot of this system 21    interaction problem, but I'll leave it pass as a comment.
22              MR. HONAN:  George Hunter, would you like to 23    expand on the scope of that program?
24              MR. HUNTER:  I'm George Hunter, Director of 25    Licensing. And part of the activity under my cognizance is
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              .f x,  1 the operating experience assessment initiation.                  We receive 2 the information from the NRC, from INPO. We do receive 3 other reports but not all LERs from all the industry.
4          We send them directly to the technical 5 superintendents at both stations. Technical superintendents 6 at both Limerick and Peach Bottom then initiate a technical 7 review of that information as it terms its applicability.
8          MR. MICHELSON:    How many of the LERs from other 9 than your own plants do you look at?
10          MR. HUNTER:  We look at those that are captured by 11 INPO in the SERs. We do not look at specific LERs from 12 other utilities.    ,
13          MR. MICHELSON:    They don't even send you the LER 14 when they capture it in an SER.
15          MR. HUNTER:  That's correct.
16          MR. MICHELSON:    Okay. Thank you.
17          MR. HONAN:  At the bottom though, our objective is 18 to keep Limerick as free from adverse systems interaction as 19 the information available to us allows.
20          As part of our ongoing effort to constantly 21 improve these programs, that is our goal.
22          Again, as Al Marie mentioned, our original PRA
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329 (G_)                                        1                    Since we originally performed those calculations 2          in the '82/83 time frame, PECO has worked as part of the 3          Seismicity Owners Group formed to assess the impact of the 4          1886 Charleston earthquake on seismic safety of nuclear 5          plants in the region.        That effort is nearing completion and 6        their preliminary results indicate that a general increase 7          in seismic hazard doesn't result when the Charleston 8        earthquake is considered.
9                    Their Limerick-specific results show essentially 10                    no change in seismic hazard for Limerick.          And of the fifty-11                    seven sites examined as part of that effort, Limerick shows 12                    up in the middle of the pack.
13                                I'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject to definitively state that this effort has reduced
{J} 14 15                    uncertainties.        I think it's better characterized 16                    uncertainties.        It does support I think the conclusion that 17                    Limerick is not an outlier relative to seismic risk.
18                                I should mention that PECO is also a member of the 19                      NUMARC Severe Accident Working Group working with the NRC to 20                      define acceptable methodologies for quantifying seismic risk 21                      and the results of the NRC/NUMARC efforts which include the 22                      results of the Seismicity Owners Group work will go to 23                      support the individual plant evaluation, external events 24                      evaluations, to come.
25                                  Looking at our list of to go licensing activities,
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                                                                                                                                                                                          .i 3                                                                                        Those changes are comprised principally of Unit 1
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4                                  modifications which have been incorporated into the Unit 2-5                                  based design.                                              Unit 2-unique information which was earlier                                    i 6                                  unavailable.                                              Our response to generic correspondence, 7                                  bulletins, Generic Letters, and what have you.                                                                              And the 8                                    development of technical specifications.
9                                                                                        As Dick Clark earlier mentioned, a number of these 10                                    issues are under review with the staff, but at this point' 11                                  none are in dispute.
i 12                                                                                        We are also working closer with Region I personnel 13                                  day to day to assist in closure of their open items.
14                                                                                        We plan to certify readiness ~to load fuel late 15                                  this month.                                            We anticipate low power licensing around the 16-                                  9th of June.                                            And if all goes well, we'll be looking for a 17                                    full power license late in July.
18                                                                                        In conclusion, we see no impediment to licensing 19                                  other than work punch-list items, and look forward to a 20                                  successful licensing.
21                                                                                        And if you have no further questions I'll turn the 22                                  podium back to Corbin McNeill for his conclusion.
23                                                                                        DR. KERR:  Any further questions?
24                                                                                        (No response.)
25                                                                                        DR. KERR:  Thank you, sir.
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331 (b        1                                      MR. McNEILL:        Before I do conclude, I think there 2  would be'two appropriate comments.                                                      First-is on the issue of 3  venting.
4-                                    Even though--venting is a debatable topic which 5  has received a lot of debate and really the issue that I 6  think is' unresolved is the political issue of venting.
7  There is a lot of discussion that even if the EPGs would 8  allow you to vent, whether at that time there would be 9  enough political support to vent the containment.
10                                      So that issue in my mind is really not just a 11  technical issue.                              It's one of. policy and politics.
12                                      MR. CATTON:        Part of it's a technical issue.                              If 13  you have vessel failure and you've got that six-inch line open, you have a hold to outside.                                                    So you have to seigh
        .( y 14 15  that, the benefits of having it there versus what will 16  happen to you if you. lose the vessel.
17                                      DR. KERR:    I'm with Mr. McNeill.                          I don't believe 18  anybody will ever decide to vent.                                                    Because in order to vent 19  and do any good, you have to vent before the thing has 20  happened that will rupture your containment.                                                        So you've got i                21  to have a pretty good predictor.
22                                      DR. LEWIS:        Well, you know, if the pressure inside l
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24                                      MR. McNEILL:        You are running up against the 1
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                      \_/    1                                  DR. KERR:  But you also at the same time you are 2                      working to get back electric power or water, either of which 3                      will get you out of trouble.
4                                  DR. LEWIS:  I make the same argument.
5                                  MR. CATTON:  I would just stick the end of that 6                      pipe in a sandbox.
7                                  MR. McNEILL:    The second item that I would like to 8                      comment on is the fact that although we do not review every 9                      LER, there are two events that occur which do provide for 1 10                      think LER review.
11                                  The first is through the INPO communications 12                      system everyday we get a synopsis of events at operating 13                      units that are reported to the NRC as part of the. reporting
                      /~    14                      mechanism. So although we do not get the details and do not V) 15                      necessarily analyze those, unusual events are highlighted in 16                      relatively near term.
17                                  Secondly, the AEOD Branch does in fact, and I can 18                      tell you by the volume of their correspondence lately, has 19                      been doing more review of events in the field and publishing 20                      them in some manner to the industry to provide information 21                      that might be appropriate where there is common mode failure 22                      or interaction issues involved.
23                                  And I personally think that the quality of that 24                      has increased as we have moved from the construction phase 25                      of this industry to the operating phase.
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l 333 :i 1                                          MR. MICHELSON:                                                                                Do you review all the AEOD 2        reports?
3                                          MR. McNEILL:                                                                                I look at the AEOD quarterly or 4        semi-annual summary.                                                                                                        I forget which it is. But when they-5        do put out a specific bulletin or Generic Letter or 6        something, they generally are for'the purpose of informing 7'      the industry of some event that has that kind of implication 8        to it. You know, the molten circuit breakers issues and 9        things.                  I feel that they are in that category of. event 10            review.                                                                                                                                                                      .. i 11                                                I would like to conclude today by indicat 9 .g that 12            we do have a dedicated organization focused on and capable 13            of supporting the operation of Unit 2 at Limerick.
14                                                'Jhe quality of our design, construction and 15            testing has been proven through the. testing program, through                                                                                                                    )
16            reviews, the IDCA and the IDA.                                                                                                        Through the quality 17            assurance reviews that have been conducted internally within 18            the company.                                                                And by the NRC inspection process.- And have                                                        1 19            been found to be extremely good.
20                                              Our Unit 1 experiences have been incorporated into 21              the design and the procedures for Unit 2 and we expect that 22              they will have an immediate payback in the early operation 23              of the plant.                                                                                                                                                                  l 24                                              Ltd finally we have a well-trained, well-25              qualified, and dedicated staff who are prepared in all O                                                                                            aerie ee                                              aegereine corror eie-(202) 628-4888 i
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l'                                respects to operate Unit 2.                        And I believe that we as an 2                                  organization are dedicated to the quality and safety 3                                  necessary to protect the general public in the operation of 4                                  that plant.
5                                                Thank you very much.
6                                                MR..WYLIE:      Mr. McNeill, do you have a projected 7                                  cost for the completion of the plant?
8                                                MR. McNEILL:              Yes.      We do. It's~$3 billion for 9                                  the Unit 2 plant and it's around $600 million for the Unit 2 10                                            portion of the common plant-for a total cost of about $3.6 11                                            billion.
12                                                            MR. WYLIE:      $3.6.
13                                                            MR. McNEILL:              That is $200 to $300 million below 14                                            the estimate at the time that construction was resumed and 15                                            the cost cap that was imposed by our. Public Utility 16                                            Commission.
17                                                            MR. WYLIE:      Do you have an estimate as to how much 18                                            that delay cost you?
19                                                            MR. McNEILL:              I do not.
20                                                            John, do you know what the delay cost us in terms 21                                            of cost?'
22                                                            MR. WYLIE:      Well, it would basically be what you 23                                            had it projected originally to cost I suppose versus what                                    ,
24                                            it's going to cost you?
25                                                            MR. McNEILL:              It would certainly--we are running l
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2                                        What was the construction delay, John?
3                                        VOICE:              Two years.
4                                        MR. McNEILL:              Two years of AFUDC at the end of the 5                            project would rcughly be another $600 to $700 million.
6                                        MR. WYLIE:              Thank you.
7                                        DR. REMICK:              Mr. McNeill, back in the early days 8                            of Limerick I remember there was some kind of a flap on 9                            assuring back-up water supply.                    Remind me of how that was 10                            resolved for the Limerick site?
11                                        MR. McNEILL:              Well, it's not reso1* red 100 percent 12                            yet. As I indicated earlier, there are two make-up water 13                            supplies for Limerick Generating Station.                                                              The first is from 14                            the Schuylkill River and the second is from the Delaware 15                            River. The water from the Delaware River is processed 16                            through a series of projects, the first being a pumping 17                            station and transmission line which is owned and operated by 18                            a public agency under Bucks County in Pennsylvania.                                                              It then 19                            goes into a reservoir which is owned by Philadelphia 20                            Electric and the water is then pumped to a creek, runs 21                            twenty miles or so down a creek, and is picked up by a 22                            second pumping station that then pumps it another ten miles 23                            or so to the plant.
24                                        That whole project will be complete later this 25                            summer. And there remain three elements of risk in that
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(_)                      1 project. The first is that we have not completed 2 condemnation of the riparian rights to run water down the 3 creek. We expect that that will be completed by the end of 4 June.
5            The second one is that we have been issued a 6 permit to put water in the creek. However, that's under 7 appeal in the courts because of erosion considerations.
8            The legal case is under review by an Environmental 9 Quality Board, Administrative Law Judge, who will complete 10 the hearings at the end of May and we're hoping for an 11 expedited resolution by the first of Auguet. If it does not 12 occur, we have an option that we will run. There is a 13 certain flow in the stream below which there is no 14 contention of erosion and we would run below that flow rate, 15 which is--well, I don't want to get into details.
16            The third item is that for the first time in the 17 history of this country an inner basin water transfer is 18 subject to a National Pollution Discharge Environmental 19 Permit. Our permit has three very difficult restrictions in 20 it. The first is water temperature in that the stream that 21 we are discharging to is a trout stocking stream and from 22 February to the end of July we cannot exceed 74 degrees 23 water temperature on our discharge. And during the months 24 of June and July the water temperature in the Delaware River 25 exceeds 74 degrees.
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                                )  1'                The second item is that we cannot have any            l 2      detectable inercury or cadmium.
3                  And the third one is that we must limit the fecal 4      coliform on the discharge during the swimming season which 5      runs from May through September to 200--whatever the 200 6      parts per billion or something. Fecal coliform. And the 7      rest of the years 2000.
8                  We have just submitted a compliance plan. In 9-      fact, on Tuesday of this week, submitted a compliance plan 10      which indicates that we will put in a cooling system to cool 11      the water in the summer months so that we would stay below 12      74 degrees. This is 6,000 tons of air conditioning.
13                  We will also put in a purification system to meet the fecal coliform limit. And we have proven that
{ } 14 15      statistically we will not have any mercury or cadmium limits 16      above the nondetectable level.
17                  So that we right now are hopeful of putting that' 18      system into service on August the 1st which would meet our 19      needs for power production at about the schedule that was 20      shown earlier in the power test program.
21                  DR. REMICK:  Are there any risk-significant 22      aspects of those limitations or is it--
23                  MR. McNEILL:  The one ri'tk that we really think we 24      have is the zoning to locate the cooling water process 25      system for cooling the water.
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()              1                          DR. REMICK:  My point was if those limitations, 2                let's say, are at the most adverse, are there safety 3                implications from operating the plant, or are they capacity-4                factor related?
5                          MR. McNEILL:    They are capacity-factor related.
6              To give you some feel for that, in 1990 without this 7                supplemental cooling system--yeah, this year without the 8                supplemental--no. For an average year of water flow in the 9                Schuylkill River, which would be our principal source at 10                          that point, we would have about an 81 percent capacity 11                          factor with both units in operation. We would have to back 12                          them down during the high temperature season.
13                                    So that's the rish we run. We are somewhat
(~g 14                          confident that this issue is time driven and that we will QJ 15                          resolve it with time, but it's been through the courts for 16                          five years and it's probably going to be there for a few 17                          more years.
18                                    DR. REMICK:  Thank you.
19                                    Dr. Shewmon, did you have a question?
20                                    DR. SHEWMON:    No.
21                                    DR. KERR:  I see no more questions. I turn things 22                          back to you, Mr. Chairman.
23                                    DR. REMICK:  All right. Thank you.
24                                    Mr. Marvin Lewis had asked to address the 25                          Committee. Is Mr. Marvin Lewis in the audience?    He's not.
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1 4          DR. REMICK:    If not, we thank the staff and      !
5 Philadelphia Electric personnel for their presentations.
6          And gentlemen, we were scheduled for a report of 7 your Planning and Procedures Committee. I'm certainly not 8 tired, but some of you might be, so I suggest that the 9 Handout No. 9 is a report. You read it and we'll pick it up 10 sometime later.
11          Yes, Bill.
12          DR. KERR:  Could you give me some idea of the kind 13 of letter that I should draft?    I need to know specifically 14 whether we look favorably on this--
15          DR. REMICK:  I personally look favorably on the, 16 letter. How do others feel?
17          MR. CARROLL:    I see no reason why we shouldn't 18 look favorably on the letter.
19          DR. REMICK:  Anybody wish to the contrary?
20          All right. Is that enough direction?
21          DR. KERR:  That's enough direction.
22          DR. REMICK:  All right. With that, we'll close 23 the record and adjourn the meeting.
24            (Whereupon, the meeting was adjourned at 6:05 25 p.m.)
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3    This is to certify that the attached proceedings before the 4    United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the matter 5    of:
6  , Name:    349th ACRS meeting 7
8    Docket Number:
9    Place:    Bethesda, Md.
10      Date:    5-4-89                                                    .,
11      were held as herein appears, and that this is the original 12      transcript thereof for the file of the United States Nuclear 13      Regulatory Commission taken stenographically by me and, 1                                              14      thereafter reduced to typewriting by me or under the O                    15      direction of the court reporting company, and that the 16      transcript is a true and accurate record of the foregoing 17      proceedings.
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9  Place:  BETHESDA, MARYIAND 10    Date:  May 4, 1989 11    were held as herein appears, and that this is the original 12    transcript thereof for the file of the United States Nuclear 13    Regulatory Commission taken stenographically by me and, 14    thereafter reduced to typewriting by me or under the 15    direction of the court reporting company, and that the 16    transcript is a true and accurate record of the foregoing                    -
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INTERIM STANDARD FOR OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE OF THE SKIN T0 RADIATION FROM SMALL RADI0 ACTIVE PARTICLES (HOT PARTICLES)
                    -PRESENTATION BEFORE THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS MAY 4, 1989 O                        BY FRANK J. CONGEL, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF RADIATION PROTECTION AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION j
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INTERIM STANDARD IN GENERIC LETTER I
IS AN INTERIM. STANDARD FOR EXERCISE OF ENFORCEMENT DISCRETION  !
i APPLIES TO OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE OF SKIN FROM HOT PARTICLE OF ANY SIZE OR ACTIVITY ON BODY OR CLOTHING APPLIES TO SINGLE EXPOSURE OF INDIVIDUAL IN A CALENDAR CUARTER
* 2 NRC WILL ENFORCE LIMIT OF 50 RAD AVERAGED OVER 1 cM    AT A DEPTH OF 7 MG/CM NO NOTICE OF VIOLATION FOR SINGLE EXPOSURE BELOW 50 RAD g*                    POSSIBLE NOTICE OF VIOLATION FOR MORE THAN ONE EXPOSURE PER CUARTER ABOVE CURRENT PART 20 LIMITS POSSIBLE NOTICE OF VIOLATION FOR FAILURE TO MEET OTHER REQUIREMENTS (E.G., FAILURES TO SURVEY)
DOES NOT CHANGE REQUIREMENTS FOR RECORDS, NOTIFICATIONS, AND REPORTS I
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REPEATED AND MULTIPLE HOT PARTICLE EXPOSURES.
NO NOTICE OF VIOLATION IF HOT PARTICLE EXPOSURES OF AN. INDIVIDUAL ARE:
LESS THAN 50 RAD EACH, AND
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NO MORE ThAN ONE EXPOSURE PER CALENDAR QUARTER ABOVE PART 20 LIMITS POSSIBLE NOTICE OF VIOLATION IF AN INDIVIDUAL RECEIVES,-IN A CALENDAR QUARTER:
MORE.THAN ONE EXPOSURE ABOVE PART 20 LIMITS L O 3 ASIS NOT RISK BASED INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE TO DATE STAFF NEED TO CONSIDER CIRCUMSTANCES OF UNUSUAL CASES INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE TO DATE SINCE'1985, NO INDIVIDUAL HAS RECEIVED MORE THAN ONE HOT PARTICLE EXPOSURE ABOVE PART 20 LIMITS O
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QUARTERLY LIMIT'(REM)  RATIO 0F LIMITS PART 20    INT, STD,  (INT, STD,/PART 20)
SKIN OF WHOLE BODY          7,5          50                      6,7 SKIN OF HANDS AND FOREARMS, FEET, AND ANKLES                18.75'        50                      2,7-WHOLE BODY-(1,000 MG/cM2 DEPTH)        3.0          N.A.                    N.A, O
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RULEMAKING PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TAKES 2 YEARS OR MORE BETTER TECHNICAL DATA BASE NEEDED
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INTERIM STANDARD FOR ENFORCEMENT DISCP.ETION USE UNTIL RULEMAKING COMPLETED CONSERVATIVE - RECOGNIZES LIMITATION OF CURRENT TECHNI-({}
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NCRP DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS l!
ON LIMITS OF EXPOSURE TO HOT PARTICLES ON THE SKIN (NCRP DRAFT REPORT-NO, 101, JUNE 1988) i RECOMMENDED LIMIT OF 75 MICR0 CURIE-HOURS APPLIES TO PARTICLE ON (IN CONTACT WITH) THE SKIN PARTICLE LESS THAN 1-MM DIAMETER RECOMMENDED LIMIT'DOES NOT If4CLUDE A SAFETY FACTOR OR ESTI-flATE OF UNCERTAINTY O
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FINAL NCRP REPORT NOT AVAILABLE YET - COULD DIFFER SIGNIFI-CANTLY FROM DRAFT UNRESOLVED DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FORBES-MIKilAIL AND HOPEWELL ET AL, CONCERNING THRESHOLD FOR ULCERATION - Il0PEWELL TilRESH-OLD AE00T 1/5 FORBES-MIKHAIL (NCRP SC-80-1) THRESHOLD i
NARROW APPLICABILITY PARTICLE IN CONTACT WITH SKIN NOT PARTICLE ON HAIR OR CLOTHING NEED FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS NCRP LIMIT COULD ALLOW VISIBLE NON-STOCHASTIC EFFECTS O                -      tIniT exeResSED AS EniSS10n, NOT DOSE                                      j SAFETY FACTOR NOT INCLUDED ICRP RECOMMENDATIONS PENDING ONG0ING RESEARCil l
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HOT PARTICLES ON SKIN OR CLOTHING                    )
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8/87    NORTH ANNA            YES              NO                  N0 5/88'  WATERFORD              YES              NO                  N0      i N0 l
                    .5/88    WATERFORD              YES              11 0 11/88  ARKANSAS              YES              (NA*)              YES      ;
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CRGR APPROVED 50-RAD INTERIM STANDARD SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING:
DO NOT CHANGE INCIDENT REPORTING, ETC.
CLARIFY                                                  l REPEATED OR MULTIPLE EXPOSURES THAT STAFF IS NOT ADVOCATING REDUCED PERSONNEL MONITORING THAT INTENT IS TO CHANGE INAPPROPRIATE REQUIREMENT IMPLEMENT RULEMAKING PROMPTLY NRC STAFF ACCEPTED CRGR RECOMMENDATIONS O
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NUMARC-SURVEY OF 25 POWER PLAllT SITES f                                    ESTIMATED INCREASE ~IN MAN-REM DOSE THAT CAN BE ACCREDITED TO INCREASED SURVEY REQUIREMENTS
                                        ' TOTAL                    ' NUMBER MAN-REM                      OF SITES (N0 RESPONSE)                  7 0                              3 1                            '3 1-2                            1 2                              1 3                              2 5                              1 15,6                          1 20                            1 24                            1 26                            1 10-50                          1 50/0VTAGE + 5/M0              1 O
 
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CURRENT UNRESOLVED DIFFERENCES IN SCIENTIFIC DATA LED THE NRC STAFF TO USE AN INTERIM STANDARD OF 50-RAD THE 50-RAD INTERIM STANDARD IS CONSERVATIVE THE'50-RAD STANDARD WILL EFFECTIVELY INCREASE SKIN DOSE LIMITS BY A FACTOR OF 3 OR 7 RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION OF THE 50-RAD STANDARD WOULD HAVE ELIMINATED 5 OF 7 VIOLATIONS.
RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION OF THE NCRP 75 MICR0 CURIE-HOUR STANDARD WOULD HAVE ELIMINATED 4 0F THE SAME 7-VIOLATIONS    ,
THE 50-RAD INTERIN STANDARD SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED AS S00N AS Q                    POSSIBLE 4
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O CHRONOLOGY DECEMBER 4, 1987      NUMARC LETTER TO DR.
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NEED FOR AN INTERIM STANDARD DECEMBER 22, 1988    LETTER FROM DR. MURLEY AGREEING BUT WAIT FOR    l NCRP RECOMMENDATIONS O
FEBRUARY 10, 1988    NUMARC LETTER TO DR.
MURLEY TRANSMITTING EEI  l SURVEY RESULTS MARCH 10, 1988        MET WITH STAFF TO        l DISCUSS IMPACT ON INDUSTRY
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MAY 6, 1988            NUMARC COMMENTS SENT TO NCRP/SENT A COPY TO NRC ON MAY 9, 1988 O
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l AusuST 1, 1988        NUMARC SENT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO NRC            I AucuST 24, 1988        MET WITH STAFF TO            l DISCUSS IMPLEMENTATION OF NCRP'S RECOMMENDATIONS I
20, 1989      MADE PRESENTATION TO c) APRIL ACRS SUBCOMMITTEE i
APRIL 28, 1989        NUMARC LETTER TO JAMES        l CARROLL TRANSMITTING CORRESPONDENCE AND          l NUMARC POSITION
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                -h:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        =              **++~    . - .
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I NUREG-1150 O    " Severe Accident Risks: An Assessment for Five U.S. Nuclear Power Plants" Presented to ACRS May 3,1989 O        Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
 
O Topics for Discussion
* Status of NUREG-1150 and Peer Review a Status of Supporting Documentation
* Uses of NUREG-1150 0
* Differences in Methods    .
* Differences in Results
* Summary O                                        2
 
O Present Status
* Report assembled and delivered to Commission
* Final QA review on May 8-9
* Plan to send to printers in May, issue in June
* To be published as second draf t for peer review
* Same wide distribution as February 1987 draf t O
* Peer review organization proceding smoothly first technical meeting week of July 10
* ANS special committee to be briefed in May O                                                            3
 
O Present Status (continued)          !
* NUREG-1150 has performed external events analysis.      I on 2 plants: Surry and Peach Bottom.
* Seismic analysis includes consideration of low probability, high intensity earthquakes which
              -could have significant consequences in surrounding population.
* Pending further review, seismic analysis in NUREG-1150 will be limited to core damage frequency and containment performance.
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* To aid review of work, contractor documents will include sensitivity studies on seismic risk.
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O                            STATUS OF NUREG 1150 PEER REVIEW TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF ACTIONS REQUEST TO GSA FOR AUTHORIZATION TO FORM COMMITTEE                        APRIL 14    1
                                                                                    -l GSA AUTHORIZATION RECElVED                MAY 1 COMMISSION PAPER ON FORMAL APPOINTMENTS etc                  MAY5 O
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m Accident                      Accident Frequency                    Progression Other Analysis              and Risk Analyses NUREG/CR-4660                  NUREG/CR-4 661 Supporting
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O  - Vo l.1: Methods                Vo l.1 Methods        -
      - Vol.2: Expert                - Vo l.'2: Expert External Ever's Judgments                      Judgments              -
      - Vol.3: Surry                  - Vol.3: Surry Source Term
                                                                , Analyses
      - Vo l. 4 : Peach Bottom        - Vol.4: Peach Bottom
                                                                ~ Accident Management
      - Vo l. 5 : Sequoyah            - Vol.6 Sequoyah            Analyses
      - Vol.6: Grand Gulf            - Vol.6: Grand Gulf      - QA Studies
      - Vol.7: Zlon                  - Vol.7: Zion            ._ code Descriptions O
 
O DIFFERENCES IN METHODS
                                  .                  IMPROVED EXPERT ELICITATION PROCESS:
MORE REPRESENTATIVE PANELS; NORMATIVE                                    i TRAINING FOR EXPERTS; BETTER EXPERT ELICITATION DOCUMENTATION.
                                  .                  IMPROVED QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
                                  .                    EXTERNAL EVENTS ADDED FOR TWO PLANTS.
                                  .                  DIFFERENT EVACUATION AND WARNING TIME ASSUMPTIONS USING DATA FROM EMERGENCY O                              PLANS.
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* Analysis of seismic and fire initiated events using NUREG/CR-4840 methods
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* Bounding analysis performed for other external initiators
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O Offsite Protective Action Assumptions
* Emeraency Resoonse
* Evacuation of 99.5% of population in 10 mile EPZ (delay and speed derived from licensee studies)
* Relocation of population with projected doses of 50/25 rem within 12/24 hours of plume passage
* Lona Term Countermeasures
* Decontamination, temporary interdiction, or condemnation of property and foods to avoid doses of:
* 4 rems in 5 years of continued living 5 rems from consumption of milk and standing crops in first year 0.5 rems from consumption of crops in subsequent years i
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l 89
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==SUBJECT:==
LIMERICK GENERATING STATION, UNIT 2 OPERATING LICENSE DATE:    May 4, 1989 PRESENTER:    Dick Clark O~
PRESENTER'S TITLE / BRANCH /DIV:      Limerick Project Manager l
Project Directorate I-2 NRR PRESENTER'S NRC TEL. NO.: 492-3041 SUBCOMMITTEE:        GE Reactor Plants i
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U LIMERICK UNITS 1 AND 2 OPERATING LICENSE REVIEW JllNE 19, 1974      UNIT 2 CONSTRUCTION PERMIT MARCH 17, 1981      OL APPLICATION TENDERED JULY 1981            OL APPLICATION FOR UNITS 1 & 2 DOCKETED JUNE 1983            DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT, PART I (NUREG-0974)
AllGUST 1983        SAFETY EVALUATION REPORT (NUREG-0991)
FOR UNITS 1 8 2 OCTOBER 1983        DES, PART II, FOR UNITS 1 a 2 OCTOBER 1983        ACRS MEETINGS ON LOW POWER LICENSE DECEMBER 7, 1983    LICENSING BOARD HEARINGS BEGIN
(])                                    DECEMBER 1983        CONSTRUCTION ON UNIT 2 STOPPED OCTOBER 1984        ACRS SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS OCTOBER 26, 1984    LOW POWER LICENSE FOR UNIT 1 NOVEMBER 6, 1984    ACRS REPORT ON UNIT 1 AUGUST 8, 1985      FULL POWER LICENSE FOR UNIT 1 FEBRUARY 1986        CONSTRUCTION ON UNIT 2 RESUMED JANUARY 11, 1989    UNIT 1 COMPLETES SECOND CYCLE OF OPERATION I
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APPLICANT PERFORMING COMPREHENSIVE READINESS VERIFICATION PROGRAM APPLICANT HAS CONDUCTED EXTENSIVE IDCA WITH INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR NRC HAS CONDUCTED TEAM INSPECTION OF THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION ASSESSMENTS THOROUGH DESIGN DOCUMENTATION AND VERIFICATION PROGRAM FSAR ACCURATELY REFLECTS AS-BUILT PLANT. AS-BUILT PLANT O                                CONSTRUCTED IN ACCO'RDANCE WITH DESIGN.-
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O'            READINESS ASSESSMENT PROGRAM (CONTINUED)
I CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN WELL CONTROLLED.
EXPERIENCED PEC0 AND BECHTEL MANAGEMENT PROVIDED ACTIVE OVERSIGHT.
THE PRE 0PERATIONAL TEST PROGRAM HAS BEEN WELL PLANNED AND EXECUTED. TEST PERSONNEL HAVE RIG 0ROUSLY ADHERED TO APPLICABLE TEST INSTRUCTIONS. OVERVIEW BY QUALITY ASSURANCE AND TEST REVIEW BOARD PERSONNEL HAS BEEN THOROUGH,  THE PLANT OPERATIONS STAFF HAS BEEN FULLY INTEGRATED INTO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TEST PROGRAM.
OPERATIONAL READINESS PROGRAM HAS SUCCESSFULLY INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTION, TESTING, QUALITY ASSURANCE, OPERATION AND CRAFTSMEN TRAINING, SAFETY AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT.
BASED ON PAST PERFORMANCE, HIGH CONFIDENCE THAT PLANT IS READY FOR SAFE OPERATION.
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O LIMERICK UNITS 1 AND 2 CONDUCT OF OPERATIONS EXCEPTIONAL SITE MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION PROVIDE LEADERSHIP TO SUPPORT CONTINUED STRONG PERFORMANCE, GOOD MORALE AND STR0i4G SAFETY PERSPECTIVE.
STRONG ORIENTATION TOWARD SAFE PLANT OPERATION BY OPERATORS EXCELLENT LICENSED OPERATOR ATTITUDES.
GOOD WORK ON DRUG ALLEGATIONS AND FITNESS FOR DUTY.
MANDATORY ROUTINE DRUG TESTING PROGRAM GOOD ABILITY TO PROACTIVELY IDENTIFY / PREDICT PROBLEMS, CRITICALLY SELF-EVALUATE PERFORMANCE AND TAKE EFFECTIVE lll                      CORRECTIVE ACTIONS.
STRONG QA/0C ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAMS PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR UNIT 1 ABOVE AVERAGE. LOW SCRAM RATE. LOW FAILURE RATE FOR SAFETY SYSTEMS.
PERFORMANCE OF SITE ORGANIZATION HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY ARE CAPABLE AND QUALIFIED TO SAFELY OPERATE UNIT 2.
UNIT 1 SALP RATINGS AMONG BEST IN COUNTRY ACTIONS BEING TAKEN TO PREVENT FUTURE FUEL FAILURES AND TO MINIMIZE GROWTH 0F INDICATIONS II: RECIRCULATION INLET N0ZZLE.
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  ,                                                                      OPERATING STAFF WHICH HAS BEEN THE KEY TO PAST SAFE PERFORMANCE OF UNIT 1 RE0 ORGANIZATION OF NRB FROM A COMPLIANCE FOCUSED REVIEW TO AN EXAMINATION OF PROCESSES, EQUIPMENT AND PLANT PERFORMANCE STRENGTHENED AND INCREASED SCOPE OF ISEG PROGRAM l
CONSOLIDATION OF ALL PREVIOUSLY FRAGMENTED QA AND OC FUNCTIONS INTO A SINGLE QUALITY ORGANIZATION 1
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NRC REGION I STAFF PRESENTATION TO THE ACRS
 
==SUBJECT:==
LIMERICK GENERATING STATION, UNIT 2 DATE:                MAY 4, 1989 PRESENTER:            J. LINVILLE PRESENTER'S TITLE / BRANCH / DIVISION:
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                                            .SALP
                                            ' FACILITY READINESS FOR. POWER OPERATION
 
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                      ! CONSTRUCTION PERMIT ISSUED:.                                      JUNE 19, 1974-
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CONSTRUCTION SUSPENDED (UNIT 2)-(30% COMPLETE):                      DECEMBER 1983 OPERATING. LICENSE (UNITL1):                    OCTOBER 26, 1984 FULL POWER LICENSE-(UNIT 1):                    AUGUST 8, 1985 CONSTRUCTION RESUMED (UNIT.2):                                    FEBRUARY 1986 O                        .
CONSTRUCTION COMPLETION (UNIT 2):                                    MAY 1989 O
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CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION PROGRAM INSPECTION EFFORT COMPARABLE TO OTHER PLANTS TEAM INSPECTIONS SINCE RESUMPTION OF CONSTRUCTION REGIONAL CONSTRUCTION TEAM INSPECTION INDEPENDENT NDE VERIFICATION INDEPENDENT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION ASSESSMENT OVERSIGHT NO ESCALATED ENFORCEMENT AND NUMBER OF VIOLATIONS COMPARABLE TO OTHER PLANTS REPORTING 0F CONSTRUCTION DEFICIENCIES IMPROVED SINCE RESUMPTION OF CONSTRUCTION AND CONSISTENT WITH OTHER FACILITIES FEW ALLEGATIONS AND NONE WITH MAJOR SAFETY SIGNIFICANCE O
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D' PRE 0PERATIONAL TEST PROGRAM 1
INCORPORATED LESSONS LEA'RNED DURING UNIT 1 START-UP INCORPORATED START-UP EXPERIENCE FROM OTHER UTILITIES PREOP TESTING AND.NRC REVIEW IDENTIFIED N0 MAJOR ISSUES O
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1-              0 SALP 1986 SALP (1/11/86 - 6/31/87) 7 AREAS RATED CATEGORY 1 2 AREAS RATED CATEGORY 2 ENGINEERING CONTROL 0F DESIGN INTERFACES BETWEEN THE ARCHITECT ENGINEER AND BOTH EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ORGANIZATIONS INDICATED SOME WEAKNESSES.
0THERWISE GOOD CONTROLS OVER CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES.
1987 SALP (8/1/87 -12/31/88)
ALL 4 AREAS CATEGORY 1 DURING THIS SALP PERIOD.
                                    -    ENGINEERING CONTROLS CORRECTED, ALL AREAS GENERALLY CONTROLLED VERY WELL.
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FACILITY READINESS FOR POWER OPERATION FACILITY STAFFING AND ORGANIZATION NUCLEAR DEDICATED ORGANIZATION SITE MANAGEMENT WITH EXTENSIVE NUCLEAR OPERATING BWR EXPERIENCE AT UNIT 1 SINCE 1984 SIX SHIFTS FULLY STAFFED FOR TWO UNIT OPERATION.
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RADIATION            PROTECTION AND RADWASTE SECURITY PROOF AND REVIEW TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION VERY SIMILAR TO UNIT 1 ISSUED AND REVIEWED REGION 1 APPLICATIONS OF PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT START-UP PROCEDURES 76% COMPLETED O
 
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NO MAJOR CONSTRUCTION DEFICIENCIES PRE 0PERATIONAL TESTS AND RESULTS. REVIEW FOR FUEL LOAD.
IN PROGRESS MANY YEARS OF NUCLEAR /BWR EXPERIENCE REGION I ACTIVITIES O                        -
AUGMENTED INSPECTION COVERAGE DURING FUEL LOADING AND STARTUP TESTING OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT TEAM INSPECTION AFTER FUEL LOAD  ,
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IN ADDITION, OUR REVIEW 0F THE PRE 0PERATIONAL TEST PROGRAM 1
AND THE LICENSEE'S BWR OPERATING EXPERIENCE WITH LIMERICK UNIT I INDICATE THAT PECO IS CAPABLE OF SAFE OPERATION OF THE' FACILITY, O
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Transcript of ACRS 349th Meeting on 890504 in Bethesda,Md. Pp 1-339.Supporting Documentation Encl
ML20246H308
Person / Time
Issue date: 05/04/1989
From:
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
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References
ACRS-T-1737, NUDOCS 8905160064
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