Consequential SGTR Analysis for Westinghouse and Combustion Engineering Plants With Thermally-Treated Alloy 600 and 690 Steam Generator Tubes, 36610-36611 [2016-13387]

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AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft NUREG, NUREG–2195, ‘‘Consequential SGTR Analysis for Westinghouse and Combustion Engineering Plants with Thermally Treated Alloy 600 and 690 Steam Generator Tubes.’’ This report summarizes severe accident-induced consequential steam generator tube rupture (C–SGTR) analyses recently SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\07JNN1.SGM 07JNN1 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 109 / Tuesday, June 7, 2016 / Notices performed by the NRC’s Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. The analyses described in this report include risk assessment, thermal-hydraulic analyses, and materials behavior analyses. Submit comments by August 8, 2016. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received before this date. 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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Selim Sancaktar, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 2391; email: Selim.Sancaktar@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DATES: I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2016– 0097 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this action by any of the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2016–0097. • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ adams.html. 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The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information. If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions available to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS. II. Discussion This report summarizes severe accident-induced consequential steam generator tube rupture (C–SGTR) analyses recently performed by the NRC’s Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. The C–SGTRs are potentially risk-significant events because thermally-induced steam generator (SG) tube failures caused by hot gases from a damaged reactor core can result in a containment bypass event and a large release of fission products to the environment. The main accident scenarios of interest are those that lead to core damage with high reactor pressure, dry SG, and low SG pressure (high-dry-low) conditions. A typical example of such an accident scenario is a station blackout with loss of auxiliary feedwater. The analyses described in this report include risk assessment, thermal-hydraulic analyses, and materials behavior analyses. This work builds on, and updates, previous NRC work. PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 36611 The current analyses evaluate replacement SGs with thermally-treated Alloy 600 and Alloy 690 heat exchange tubes and use the latest tube flaw data available in the 2010 time frame. A main focus of this work was to compare C–SGTR results for the different SG geometries associated with Westinghouse and Combustion Engineering plant designs. It has been previously understood that the geometry of the SG reactor coolant inlet plenum region and the hot-leg (HL) influences the temperature of the gases reaching the steam generator tubes during closedloop-seal natural circulation conditions. Hotter gases reaching the SG tube reduce the time before tube failure, which increases the likelihood of containment bypass. However, if a thermally-induced failure sufficient to depressurize the reactor coolant system (RCS) develops in another location, fission product release through failed SG tubes may be prevented or minimized. Therefore, the possibility of an earlier failure of other RCS components (such as the reactor coolant HL) is also considered. Pressureinduced steam generator tube rupture (SGTR) scenarios, which also may lead to tube failure and subsequent containment bypass, were also studied, but are deemed to be of lesser potential impact on overall plant risk. The methods developed were intended to address the contribution of thermally-induced SGTR during severe accidents and pressure-induced SGTR during a number of design-basis accidents. The methods and the pilot applications were developed in a manner that can establish the framework to perform a more comprehensive Probabilistic Risk Assessment that can address the C–SGTR at a level of detail suitable for other NRC needs. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of May 2016. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Kevin Coyne, Branch Chief, Probabilistic Risk Assessment Branch, Division of Risk Analysis, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. [FR Doc. 2016–13387 Filed 6–6–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P E:\FR\FM\07JNN1.SGM 07JNN1

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2016-0097]


Consequential SGTR Analysis for Westinghouse and Combustion 
Engineering Plants With Thermally-Treated Alloy 600 and 690 Steam 
Generator Tubes

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment a draft NUREG, NUREG-2195, ``Consequential SGTR Analysis 
for Westinghouse and Combustion Engineering Plants with Thermally 
Treated Alloy 600 and 690 Steam Generator Tubes.'' This report 
summarizes severe accident-induced consequential steam generator tube 
rupture (C-SGTR) analyses recently

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performed by the NRC's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. The 
analyses described in this report include risk assessment, thermal-
hydraulic analyses, and materials behavior analyses.

DATES: Submit comments by August 8, 2016. Comments received after this 
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission 
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received before this 
date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0097. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
    For additional direction on accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Selim Sancaktar, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2391; email: Selim.Sancaktar@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0097 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain 
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0097.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, 
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 
Draft NUREG-2195 can be found in ADAMS under at Accession No. 
ML16134A029.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2016-0097 in your comment submission.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into 
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove 
identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to 
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be 
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should 
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    This report summarizes severe accident-induced consequential steam 
generator tube rupture (C-SGTR) analyses recently performed by the 
NRC's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. The C-SGTRs are 
potentially risk-significant events because thermally-induced steam 
generator (SG) tube failures caused by hot gases from a damaged reactor 
core can result in a containment bypass event and a large release of 
fission products to the environment. The main accident scenarios of 
interest are those that lead to core damage with high reactor pressure, 
dry SG, and low SG pressure (high-dry-low) conditions. A typical 
example of such an accident scenario is a station blackout with loss of 
auxiliary feedwater. The analyses described in this report include risk 
assessment, thermal-hydraulic analyses, and materials behavior 
analyses. This work builds on, and updates, previous NRC work.
    The current analyses evaluate replacement SGs with thermally-
treated Alloy 600 and Alloy 690 heat exchange tubes and use the latest 
tube flaw data available in the 2010 time frame. A main focus of this 
work was to compare C-SGTR results for the different SG geometries 
associated with Westinghouse and Combustion Engineering plant designs. 
It has been previously understood that the geometry of the SG reactor 
coolant inlet plenum region and the hot-leg (HL) influences the 
temperature of the gases reaching the steam generator tubes during 
closed-loop-seal natural circulation conditions. Hotter gases reaching 
the SG tube reduce the time before tube failure, which increases the 
likelihood of containment bypass. However, if a thermally-induced 
failure sufficient to depressurize the reactor coolant system (RCS) 
develops in another location, fission product release through failed SG 
tubes may be prevented or minimized. Therefore, the possibility of an 
earlier failure of other RCS components (such as the reactor coolant 
HL) is also considered. Pressure-induced steam generator tube rupture 
(SGTR) scenarios, which also may lead to tube failure and subsequent 
containment bypass, were also studied, but are deemed to be of lesser 
potential impact on overall plant risk.
    The methods developed were intended to address the contribution of 
thermally-induced SGTR during severe accidents and pressure-induced 
SGTR during a number of design-basis accidents. The methods and the 
pilot applications were developed in a manner that can establish the 
framework to perform a more comprehensive Probabilistic Risk Assessment 
that can address the C-SGTR at a level of detail suitable for other NRC 
needs.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of May 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kevin Coyne,
Branch Chief, Probabilistic Risk Assessment Branch, Division of Risk 
Analysis, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2016-13387 Filed 6-6-16; 8:45 am]
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