Indian Point 2 and Indian Point 3: Marketing Dominates Licensing and Regulation

So, look at chapter 12 of the PSAR for each of those units.

Indian Point 2, ML100341270, 12/06/1965, entered in ADAMS 06/03/2010
and
Indian Point 3, ML093180473, 04/26/1967, entered in ADAMS 06/01/2010

It was nice of NRC to place those PSARs into ADAMS during early June 2010 and I wonder why NRC did that. Nevertheless it is revealing to compare the two documents.

In the case of Unit 2, the 1965 document, a word search on "zirconium water reaction" yields 18 hits. However, in the case of Unit 3, the 1967 document, that word search yields 2 hits and one of those is in the title of the Baker-Just reference. In 1965 the marketing gang missed the negative implications of "zirconium water reaction," but by 17 months later they caught up with that.


And here is and entirely separate set of facts that is interesting and revealing, but precisely what does it reveal? If you enter GAEP-3279 at the very front of the NRC’s web page and hit the search bar, you get this:

Search Results
Results 1 - 4 of about 4 for GEAP-3279. Search took 0.05 seconds.

[PDF] 1.0 Site and Environment., 1.1 Summary of Conclusions.
... (1) Baker, L., ANL 6548 (2) Epstein, LF, Metal-Water Reactions, VIIIGEAP-3279 (3) Lustman, B., Zirconium-Water Reactions WAPD-137 ... pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1000/ML100040297.pdf - 2010-09-24

[
PDF] ANL-6548, "Studies of Metal-Water Reactions at High ...
Page 1. 6 5 4 :~ ANL-6548 i1 cF z ! .-- * 4 JL x).L * .- .. itlm1 STUDIES OFMETAL-WATER REACTIONS AT HIGH TEMPERATURES III. ... pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0505/ML050550198.pdf - 2010-09-23


[PDF] Chapter 12 to Indian Point,Unit 2 PSAR, "Safety Evaluation."
... (1) Baker, L., ANL 6548 (2) Epstein, LF, Metal-Water Reactions, VIIIGEAP-3279 (3) Lustman, B., Zirconium-Water Reactions WAPD-137 ... pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1003/ML100341270.pdf - 2010-09-25

[PDF] Chapter 12 to Indian Point,Unit 3 PSAR, "Safety Evaluation."
Page 1. CHAPTER 12 SAFETY EVALUATION 12.1 CORE ANDCOOLANT BOUNDARY PROTECTION ANALYSIS 12.1 ... pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0934/ML093480173.pdf - 2010-12-02

However, it you go to an ADAMS simple search you get this:


ANL-6548, "Studies of Metal-Water Reactions at High Temperatures, III: Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Zirconium-Water Reaction."
ML050550198
05/30/1962 12:00:00 AM
tjb2
89
Publicly Available
Argonne National Lab (ANL)
4,025 Kb
03/04/05
08:57:22 AM

Chapter 12 to Indian Point,Unit 2 PSAR, "Safety Evaluation."
ML100341270
12/06/1965 12:00:00 AM
Retrofit
05000247
60
Publicly Available
Consolidated Edison Co of New York, Inc
3,072 Kb
06/03/2010 03:14:10 PM

1.0 Site and Environment., 1.1 Summary of Conclusions.
ML100040297
06/01/1966 12:00:00 AM
wjd1
05000247
477
Publicly Available
US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
21,862 Kb
06/02/2010 10:47:52 AM

Chapter 12 to Indian Point,Unit 3 PSAR, "Safety Evaluation."
ML093480173
04/26/1967 12:00:00 AM
Retrofit
05000286
82
Publicly Available
Consolidated Edison Co of New York, Inc
3,506 Kb
06/01/2010 03:23:56 PM

In each case you get the same four references (ML numbers), but there are differences in the data. For ML050550198, entry dates are 2010-09-23 and 03/04/2005. For ML100341270, entry dates are 2010-09-25 and 06/03/2010. For ML093480173, entry dates are 2010-12-02 and 06/01/2010. For ML100040297, entry dates are 2010-09-24 and 06/02/2010.

What may be useful is that in the first set of four references, the blog user may bring up each document by clicking on the blue URL, that is not allowed in the second set.