Documentation of Sizing of Hardened Venting of Boiling Water Reactors

It has been difficult, but via Senator Risch, documentation of the NRC basis for sizing hardened vents has become available.

http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1322/ML13221A011.pdf

The third page of the above link is dated August 9, 2012.  The correct date is August 9, 2013.   Also, the document is not identified as having been produced at the request of this blogger, Robert H. Leyse.  I e-mailed NRC asking for corrections and received the following non-commitment:

Subject:	RE: Satorius letter to Senator James E. Risch, August 29, 2013
Date:	9/26/2013 12:40:49 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time
From:	JLD_Public.Resource@nrc.gov
Reply To: To: Bobleyse@aol.com

Thank you for contacting the NRC’s Japan Lessons-Learned Project Directorate. Your comments will be considered to the extent possible.

Japan Lessons Learned Project Directorate 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Below is the e-mail that I sent requesting action:

From: Bobleyse@aol.com [mailto:Bobleyse@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:15 PM
To: JLD_Public Resource
Subject: Satorius letter to Senator James E. Risch, August 29, 2013

Mark A. Satorius

Executive Director for Operations

The attachment consists of five pages.  Page 1 is your cover letter to Senator Risch, August 29, 2013.   Page 2 is a copy of an e-mail that was allegedly sent to me on August 9, 2013.  Pages 3, 4, and 5  constitute a three page document that responds to my request for references that document the basis for technical requirement 1.2.1 that is in Order EA-13-109.

Page 5 of the attachment is page 3 of the three page document that responds to my request for references that document the basis for technical requirement 1.2.1 that is in Order EA-13-109.  This page 5 has the following in its final two lines. 

Date: August 9, 2012

ADAMS Accession No.: ML13221A011

Now, I have conducted an Advanced Search via the ADAMS Accession No.: ML13221A011 and I find that the Document Date is 08/09/2013 and that the date that it was added to ADAMS was 08/13/2013.

I believe  that you should correct the date of the three page document from August 9, 2012, to August 9, 2013.  I also believe that the three page document should acknowledge that it was prepared at the request of Robert H. Leyse.

Robert H. Leyse       bobleyse@aol.com

Following are the first two pages of the five page attachment that is referenced above.  The last three pages are the documentation that I requested and that also opens this entry, http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1322/ML13221A011.pdf