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Notice of Availability of Draft Report 

for Comment: ‘‘Estimating Loss-ofCoolant Accident (LOCA) Frequencies 

Through the Elicitation Process,’’

NUREG–1829 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comments. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

provided by November 30, 2005. 

Background: In support of an effort to 

develop a risk-informed revision of the 

emergency core cooling system (ECCS) 

requirements for commercial nuclear 

power plants, estimates of loss-ofcoolant accident (LOCA) frequencies 

have been developed which will enable 

redefinition of the design-basis break 

size for these requirements. These 

LOCA frequency estimates have been 

developed using an expert elicitation 

process by consolidating service history 

data and insights from probabilistic 

fracture mechanics (PFM) studies with 

knowledge of plant design, operation, 

and material performance. This expert 

elicitation to develop LOCA frequency 

estimates is described in draft NUREG–

1829, ‘‘Estimating Loss-of-Coolant 

Accident (LOCA) Frequencies Through 

the Elicitation Process’’ (June 2005). 

The ECCS requirements in the United 

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system can successfully mitigate 

postulated LOCAs. Consideration of an 

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instantaneous break with a flow rate 

equivalent to a double-ended guillotine 

break (DEGB) of the largest primary 

piping system in the plant generally 

provides the limiting condition in the 

required 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix K 

analysis. However, the DEGB is widely 

recognized as an extremely unlikely 

event, so NRC staff is performing a riskinformed revision of the design-basis 

break size requirements. 

A central consideration in selecting a 

risk-informed design basis break size is 

an evaluation of the LOCA frequency as 

a function of break size. The most recent 

NRC-sponsored study of pipe break 

failure frequencies is contained in 

NUREG/CR–5750 (Poloski, 1999). 

Unfortunately, these estimates are not 

sufficient for design basis break size 

selection because they do not address 

all current passive-system degradation 

concerns (e.g., primary water stress 

corrosion cracking) and they do not 

discriminate among breaks having 

effective diameters greater than 6 

inches. 

There have been two approaches 

traditionally used to estimate LOCA 

frequencies and their relationship to 

pipe size: (i) Estimates based on 

statistical analysis of service experience 

data and (ii) PFM analysis of specific 

postulated failure mechanisms. Neither 

approach is fully suitable for evaluating 

LOCA event frequencies due to the 

rarity of these events and the modeling 

complexity. This study used an expert 

elicitation process, which is wellrecognized for quantifying 

phenomenological knowledge when 

data or modeling approaches are 

insufficient. Elicitation responses from a 

panel of 12 experts determined 

individual LOCA frequency estimates 

for the 5th percentile, median, mean 

and 95th percentile of the frequency 

distribution for each of six LOCA 

categories. Group estimates were 

determined by aggregating the 

individual estimates using the geometric 

mean of the individual estimates for 

each frequency parameter (i.e., median, 

mean, 5th and 95th percentiles). Group 

variability was estimated by calculating 

95% confidence bounds for each of the 

group frequency parameters. A number 

of sensitivity analyses were conducted 

to examine the effects on the 

quantitative results from variation of the 

assumptions, structure and techniques 

of the baseline analysis procedure. 

Solicitation of Comments: The NRC 

seeks comments on the report and is 

especially interested in comments on 

the following questions: 

1. Is the structure of the expert 

elicitation process appropriate for the 

stated problem and goals of the study? 

2. Are the assumptions and 

methodology of the analysis framework 

used to process the panel responses 

appropriate and reasonable? Are they 

consistent with the type of information 

provided by the expert panel and the 

goals of the study? 

3. Is the geometric mean aggregation 

methodology appropriate for the panel 

responses and the study goals? Should 

other aggregation methodologies be 

considered and what are their 

advantages and disadvantages? 

Comment Period: The NRC will 

consider all written comments received 

before November 30, 2005. To facilitate 

the comment process the NRC will 

conduct a workshop on October 31, 

2005, to be held in room O4B6 at NRC 

Headquarters, 11545 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland. In the workshop, 

the staff will provide an overview of the 

report and address clarification of items 

identified by the public. A preliminary 

agenda is attached. A separate notice 

will be published in the Federal 

Register announcing the public 

workshop. Comments received after 

November 30, 2005, will be considered 

if time permits. Comments should be 

addressed to the contact listed below. 

Availability: An electronic version of 

the report and the accompanying 

experts’ raw data files, are available 

electronically at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/ 

sr1829/ and through the NRC’s 

Electronic Reading Room at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

From the latter site, you can access the 

NRC’s Agencywide Document Access 

and Management System (ADAMS), 

which provides text and image files of 

NRC’s public documents. The ADAMS 

accession numbers for the documents 

related to this notice are: 

Document title ADAMS accession No. File format 

NUREG–1829 ..................................................................................................................................... ML051520574 Adobe Acrobat Document. 

BWR Non-piping Raw Data for NUREG–1829 .................................................................................. ML051580341 Microsoft Excel Worksheet. 

BWR Piping Raw Data for NUREG–1829 ......................................................................................... ML051580344 Microsoft Excel Worksheet. 

PWR Non-piping Raw Data for NUREG–1829 .................................................................................. ML051580346 Microsoft Excel Worksheet. 

PWR Piping Raw Data for NUREG–1829 ......................................................................................... ML051580347 Microsoft Excel Worksheet. 

If you do not have access to ADAMS 

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Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–

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These documents may also be viewed 

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White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

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20852, telephone (301) 415–6177, 

facsimile number: (301) 415–5074, email cag2@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day 

of September 2005. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Andrea Lee, 

Acting Branch Chief, Materials Engineering 

Branch, Division of Engineering Technology, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

Attachment—Preliminary Agenda 

Public Workshop on Draft Report for 

Comment: ‘‘Estimating Loss-of-Coolant 

Accident (LOCA) Frequencies Through 

the Elicitation Process,’’ NUREG–1829 

October 31, 2005—9 a.m.–12 p.m., 

Room O–4B6 

Preliminary Agenda 

9 a.m.–9:15 a.m.—Introduction 

9:15 a.m.–9:45 a.m.—Overview of 

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