ML20217K642

Forwards Request for Addl Info Re Response to GL 92-01,rev 1,suppl 1 Issued in May 1995 Requesting Licensees to Perform Review of RPV Structural Integrity Assessments to Identify, Collect & Report New Data Pertinent to Analysis

ML20217K642
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	04/29/1998
From:	Eaton R NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Roche M GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP.
References
GL-92-01, GL-92-1, TAC-MA1202, NUDOCS 9805040055
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SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADCITiONAL INFORMATION REGARDING REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL INTEGRITY AT OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION (TAC NO. MA1202)

Dear Mr. Roche:

Generic Letter (GL) 92-01, Revision 1, Supplement 1 (GL 92-01, Rev.1, Supp.1), " Reactor Vessel Structural Integrity" was issued in May 1995. This GL requested licensees to perform a review of their reactor pressure vessel (RPV) structural integrity assessments in order to identify, collect, and report any new data pertinent to the analysis of the structural integrity of their RPVs and to assess the impact of those data on their RPV integrity analyses relative to the requirements of Section 50.60 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Reaulations (10 CFR Part 50.60),10 CFR 50.61, Appendices G and H to 10 CFR Part 50 (which encompass pressurized thermal shock (PTS) and upper shelf energy (USE) evaluations), and any potential impact on low temperature overpressure (LTOP) limits or pressure-temperature (P-T) limits.

After reviewing your response, the NRC issued a letter dated August 6,1996 acknowledging receipt of your response and noted that additional RPV information may become available as a result of Owners Group efforts and requested that you provide us with the results of the Owners Groups' programs relative to your plant. We further indicated that a plant-specific TAC Number may be opened to review this material. Following issuance of these letters, the BWR Vessel and Intemals Project (BWRVIP) submitted the report " Update of Bounding Assessment of BWR/2-6 Reactor Pressure Vessel Integrity issues (BWRVIP-46)." This report incluoed bounding assessments of new data from 1) the Combustion Engineering Owners Group (CEOG) database released in July 1997 which contains all known data for CE fabricated welds in PWR and BWR vessels; 2) Framatome Technologies incorporated (FTI) analyses of Linde 80 welds which are /

documented in NRC Inspection Report 99901300/97-01 dated January 28,1998; 3) FTI's analysis of electro-slag welds which was referenced in a Dresden and Quad Cities P-T limits submittal dated September 20,1996; and 4) Chicago Bridge and Iron quality assurance records.  ;

New data for one vessel fabricated by Hitachi was also included in the BWRVIP report.

The staff is requesting that you re-evaluate the RPV weld chemistry values that you have previously submitted as part of your licensing basis in light of the information presented in the 9M CEOG, FTl and BWRVIP reports. The staff expects that you will assess this new information to l

' determine whether any values of RPV weld chemistry need to be revised for your facility.

Therefore, in order to provide a complete response to items 2,3 and 4 of the GL, the NRC requests that you provide a response to the enclosed request for additional information within 90 da*,s of receipt of this letter, if a question does not apply to your situation, please indicate this in your RAI response along with your technical basis and, per GL 92-01, Rev.1, Supp.1, provide a certification that previously submitted evaluations remain valid.

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M. Roche 2 The information provided will be used in updating the Reactor Vessel integrity Database (RVID).

Also, please note that RPV integrity analyses utilizing newly identified data could result in the '

need for license amendments in order to maintain compliance with 10 CFR Part 50.60, and Appendices G and H to 10 CFR Part 50, and to address any potential impact on P-T limits. If additional license amendments or assessments are necessary, the attached requests that you provide a schedule for such submittels.

If you should have any questions regarding this request, please contact me at (301) 415-3041.

Sincerely, ORIGINAL SIGNED BY Ronald B. Eaton, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate 1-3 Division of Reactor Projects - 1/11

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REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL INTEGRITY Section 1.0: A=massment of Best-Enfimate Chemistry The staff recently received the BWRVIP report " Update of Bounding Assessment of BWR/2-6 Reacter Pressure Vessel integrity issues (BWRVIP-46)".

Based on this information, in accordance with the provisions of Generic Letter 92-01, Revision 1, Supplement 1, the NRC requests the following:

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An evaluation of the bounding assessment in the reference above and its applicability to the determination of the best-estimate chemistry for all of your RPV beltiine welds. Based upon this reevaluation, supply the information necessary to completely fill out the data requested in Table i for each RPV beltline weld material. If the limiting material for your vessel's P-T limits evaluation is not a weld, include the information requested in Table 1 for the limiting material also.

With respect to your response to this question, the staff notes that some issues regarding the evaluation of the data were discussed in a public meeting between the staff, NEl, and industry representatives on November 12,1997. A summary of this meeting is documented in a meeting summary dated November 19,1997, " Meeting Summary for November 12,1997 Meeting with Owners Group Representatives and NEl Regarding Review of Responses to Generic Letter 92-01, Revision 1, Supplement 1 Responses" (Reference 1). The information in Reference 1 may be useful in helping you to prepare your response.

In addition to the issues discussed in the referenced meeting, you should also consider what method should be used for grouping sets of chemistry data (in particular, those from weld qualification tests) as being from "one weld" or from multiple welds. This is an important consideration when a mean-of-the-means or coil-weighted average approach is determined to be the appropriate method for determining the best-estimate chemistry. If a weld (or welds) were fabricated as weld qualification specimens by the same manufacturer, within a short time span, using similar welding input parameters, and using the same coil (or coils in the case of tandem arc welds) of weld consumables, it may be appropriate to consider all chemistry samples from that weld (or welds) as samples from "one weld" for the purposes of best-estimate chemistry determination, if information is not available to confgm the aforementioned details, but sufficient evidence exists to reasonably assume the details are the same, the best-estimate chemistry should be evaluated both by assuming the data came from *one weld" and by assuming that the data came from an appropriate number of" multiple welds". A justification should then be provided for which assurrption was chosen when the best-estimate chemistry was determined.

Section 2.0: P-T Limit Evaluation if the limiting material for your plant changes or if the adjusted reference temperature for the limiting materialincreases as a result of the above evaluations, provide the revised RT,, value for the limiting material. In addition, if the adjusted RTa value increased, provide a schedule for revising the P-T limits. The schedule should ensure that compliance with 10 CFR 50 Appendix G is maintained.

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