ML20246H260

Requests That Suppl 2 to WCAP-12093, Addl Info in Support of Evaluation of Thermal Stratification for Beaver Valley Unit 2 Pressurizer Surge Line, Be Withheld from Public Disclosure Per 10CFR2.790

ML20246H260
Person / Time
Site:	Beaver Valley
Issue date:	08/28/1989
From:	Wiesemann R WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY, DIV OF CBS CORP.
To:	Murley T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ML19292J513	List: ML20246H255 ML20246H260 ML20246H265
References
CAW-89-094, CAW-89-94, NUDOCS 8909010199
Download: ML20246H260 (10)

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Box 355 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15230-0355 n August 28, 1989 CAW-89-094

Dr.' Thomas Murley, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. '20555 APPLICATION FOR WITHHOLDING PROPRIETARY INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE

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Additional Information In Support Of The Evaluation of Thermal Stratification For-The Beaver Valley Unit 2 Pressurizer Surge Line-(WCAPs 12093/12094 Supplement 2)

Dear Dr. Murley:

The proprietary information for which withholding is being requested in the enclosed letter by Duquesne Light Company is further identified in Affidavit CAW-88-129 signed by the owner of the proprietary information, Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The affidavit, which accompanies this letter, sets forth the. basis on which the information may be withheld from public disclosure by the Commission and addresses with specificity the considerations listed in paragraph (b)(4) of 10CFR Section 2.790 of the Corraission's regulations.

The proprietary material for which withholding is being required is of the same technical type as that proprietary material previously submitted as affidavit' CAW-88-129.

Accordingly, this letter authorizes the utilization of the accompanying affidavit by Duquesne Light Company.

Correspondence with respect to the proprietary aspects of the application for withholding or the Westinghouse affidavit should reference this letter, CAW-89-094,-and should be addressed to the undersigned.

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CAN-88-129 AFFIDAVIT STATE OF CALIFORNIA:

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Before me. the undersigned authority, personally appeared -

Robert A. Miesemann who being by me duly sworn according to law, deposes L and says that he is authorized to execute this Affidavit on behalf of Westinghouse Electric Corporation (" Westinghouse") and that the averments of fact set forth in this Affidavit are true and correct to the best of his knowledge. Information, and belief:

Il 'MMM Robert A. Miesemann. Manager Regulatory and Legislative Affairs Sworn to and subscribed before me this f day of O&dv 1986.

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PROPRIETARY INF0FATION NOTICE TRANSMITTED HERDiITH ARE PROPRIETARY ANIVOR NON-PROPRIETARY VERSIONS O 30CLMEh7S FURNI5tED TO THE NRC IN CONNECTION WITH REQlESTS FOR GENERIC AND'OR PLAh7 SPECIFIC REVIN AND APPROVAL.

IN ORER TO CDNFOM4 TO THE REQUIRDGh75 CF 10CF7t2.790 0F TE OW.ISSION'S REULATIONS CONCERNING YHE PROTECTION OF PROPRIETARY INFORMATION SO SUBMITTED TO THE NRC THE INFORMATION WHICH IS PROPRIETARY IN THE PROPRIETARY VERSIONS IS 00h7AIED hTTHIN BRACKETS AND WHERE THE PROPRIETARY INF0FATION HAS BEEN N12TED IN THE NON-PROPRETARY YERSIONS ONLY THE

) RACKETS RDMIN, THE INFORMATION THAT WAS 00h7AINED WITHIN TE BRACKETS IN THE PROPRIETARY VERSIONS HAVING BEEN ELETED. TE .* JUSTIFICATION FOR CLAIMING THE INFORMATION SO ESIGNATED AS PROPRIETARY IS INDICATED IN BOTH VERSIONS BY MEANS OF LCEER CASE LETTERS (a) THROUGH (g) CDh7AIED WITHIN PARENTrFESES LOCATED AS A SUPERSCRIPT IMMEDIATELY FOLla7NG THE PRACKETS DCLOSING EACH ITD$ OF INF0W.ATION BEIN3 IIEhTIFIED AS PROPRIETARY OR IN THE MARGIN OPPOSITE SUCH IhTOWATION. THESE LOWER CASE LETTERS REFER TO THE TYPES OF IhTOW.ATION WESTINGHOUSE CUSTOMARILY HOLDS IN COhTIIENCE IIENTIFIED IN SECTIONS (4)(11)(a) THROUGH (4)(ii)(g) 0F TE AFFIMVIT ACCOMFAhTING THIS TRANSMITTAL PURSUAh7 TO 10CF7t2.790(b)(1).

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(1) I am Manager, Regulatory and Legislative Affairs, in the Nuclear q and Advanced Technology Division, of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and as such, I have been specifically delegated the 3 function of reviewing the proprietary information sought to be withheld from public disclosure in connection with nuclear power plant licensing and rulemaking proceedings, and am authorized to apply for its withholding on behalf of the Westinghouse Energy Systems, Nuclear Fuel, and Power Generation Business Units.

(2) I am making this Affidavit in conformance with the provisions of 10CFR Section 2.790 of the Commission's regulations and in conjunction with the Westinghouse application for withholding accompanying this Affidavit.

(3) I have personal knowledge of the criteria and procedures utilized by the Westinghouse Energy Systems, Nuclear Fuel, and Power Generation Business Units in designating information as a trade secret, privileged or as confidenth1 comercial or financial information. .

(4) Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (b)(4) of Section 2.790 of the Comission's regulations, the following is furnished for consideration by the Commission in determining whether the information sought to be withheld from public disclosure should be withheld. .

(1) The information sought to be withheld from publir: disclosure is owned and has been held in confidenta by Westinghouse.

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'l (ii) The information is of a type customarily held in confidence by Westinghouse and not customarily disclosed to the public.

Westinghouse has a rational basis for determining the types of information customarily held in confidence by it and,. in that l

connection, utilizes a system to determine when and whether to hold certain types of information in confidence. The _!

application of that system and the substance of that system constitutes Westinghouse policy and provides the rational basis required.

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

- (a) The information reveals the distinguishing aspects of a process (or component, structure, tool, method, etc.) where prevention of its use by any of Westinghouse's competitors .

without license from Westinghouse constitutes a competitive economic advantage over other companies.

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

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

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

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

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

(g) It is not the property of Westinghouse, but must be treated as proprietary by Westinghouse according to agreements with ,

the owner.

i There are sound policy reasons behind the Westinghouse system which include the following:  !

i (a) The use of such information by Westinghouse gives Westinghouse a competitive advantage over its competitors.

It is, therefore, withheld from disclosure to protect the 1 Westinghouse competitive position.

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

(c) Use by our competitor would put Westinghouse at-a

' competitive disadvantage by reducing his expenditure of resources at our expense.

(d) Each component of proprietary information pertinent to a particular competitive advantage is potentially as valuable as the total competitive advantage. If competitors acquire components of proprietary information, any one component may be the key to the entire puzzle, thereby depriving Westinghouse of a competitive advantage.

(e) Unrestricted disclosure would jeopardize the position of prominence of Westinghouse in the world market, and thereby ,

give a market advantage to the competition of those countries.

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

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CAW-88-129 (iii) The information is being transmitted to the Commission in confidence and, under the provisions of 10CFR Section 2.790, it is to be received in confidence by the Commission.

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

(v) The proprietary information sought to be withheld in this submittal is that which is appropriately marked in " South Texas Units I and 2, Pressurizer Surge Line and Residual Heat Removal Line Stratification", WCAP-12067, (Proprietary), for South Texas Projects Units I and 2, being transmitted by the Houston Lighting and Power Company (HL&P) letter and Application for Withholding Proprietary Information from Public Disclosure, M. A. McBurnett, ,

Manager, Operations Support Licensing, HL&P, to NRC Document Control Desk, attention Dr. Thomas Murley, December,1988. The proprietary information as submitted for use by Houston Lighting and Power Company for the South Texas Project is expected to be applicable in other licensee submittals in response to certain NRC requirements for justification of the integrity of the pressurizer surge line for its design life under thermal stratification conditions.

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This inforattion is part or that which will enable j Westinghouse to: )

(a) Provide documentation of the analyses and methodology used in the evaluation of the thermal stratification phenomenon.

(b) Establish revised design transients for the pressurizer surge line based on plant monitoring data and Westinghouse test programs.

1 (c) Demonstrate the structural integrity of the pressurizer surge line for the 40 year design life, and the acceptability of leak before break and fatigue crack growth, under thermal stratification conditions.

(d) Demonstrate the low likelihood of stratification in the RHR lines, and the integrity of these lines in the ,

event such a condition did exist.

(e) Assist the customer in obtaining NRC approval.

Further this information has substantial somercial value as follows:

l (a) Westinghouse plans to sell the use of similar ,

l information to its customers for purposes of demonstrating adequate design life for surge lines and RHR lines.

(b) Westinghouse can sell support and defense of the technology to its customers in the licensing process.

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.. V CAW-88-129 Public disclosure of this proprietary infomation is likely to cause substantial ham to the competitive position of Westinghouse because it would enhance the ability of competitors to provide similar analytical documentation and licensing defense services for commercial power reactors without commensurate expenses. Also, public disclosure of the infomation would enable others to use the information to meet NRC requirements for licensing documentation without purchasing the right to use the infomation.

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

In order for competitors of Westinghouse to duplicate this infomation, similar technical programs would have to be performed and a significant manpower effort, having the ,

requisite talent and experience, would have to be expended for the development, verification, and licensing of adequate methods for evaluation of this phenomenon.

Further the deponent sayeth not.

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