SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Independent Technical Review of the South Texas Plant Units 3&4 Storm Surge Analysis
- Notice Date
- 8/2/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Administration, Division of Contracts, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, Maryland, 20852-2738, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20852-2738
- Solicitation Number
- RES-11-264-265-266
- Archive Date
- 8/25/2011
- Point of Contact
- Adelis M. Rodriguez, Phone: 301-492-3623
- E-Mail Address
-
adelis.rodriguez@nrc.gov
(adelis.rodriguez@nrc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission intends to award three non-competitive purchase orders to Dr. Richard Luettich, Jr., Dr. Jennifer Irish and University of North Florida for the work related to the review of the sufficiency and technical adequacy of storm surge analysis for the South Texas Plant (STP) Units 3&4 combined operating license (COL) application. The period of performance for each purchase order is approximately four and a half months. NRC regulations require the COL applicant to perform analyses to determine the design basis flood. A design-basis flood is a flood caused by one or an appropriate combination of hydrometeorological, geoseimic, or structural-failure phenomena, which results in the most severe hazard to structures, systems, and components (SSCs) important to the safety of a nuclear power plant. For the STP Units 3&4 COL application, the applicant concluded that flooding resulting from the breach of the main cooling reservoir (MCR) dam constitutes the design basis flood. The NRC license review contractor concurred with that conclusion, as explained in the Safety Evaluation Report (SER). However, others have argued that hurricane-generated storm surge flooding and particularly the combined occurrence of storm surge and MCR dam breach (i.e., storm surge causing MCR dam breach, which compounds storm surge flooding) was not properly considered by the applicant or the NRC license review contractor. In order to resolve this issue, the Office of New Reactors (NRO) has requested that the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) select leading experts in the areas of dam breach analysis and hurricane storm surge modeling to assess the technical adequacy of the dam breach and storm surge analyses conducted by the applicant and the NRC contractor. Three technical experts will independently examine the dam breach issue and three technical experts will independently examine the storm surge issue. The technical disciplines for these two issues (ocean engineering and geotechnical engineering, respectively) do not overlap, so it would be very difficult to find a person who is an expert in both dam breach analysis and in storm surge modeling. Three non-competitive orders are expected to be issued for the technical review of the storm surge issue. To inform the NRC staff with respect to resolution of the storm surge modeling issue, an independent reviewer must have recognized expertise in the theory and application of coastal storm surge models and be very familiar with the climatology of hurricanes impacting the US Gulf coast. The three experts aforementioned have recognized expertise in a combination of two or more of the following: (1) a body of analytical research disseminated in peer-reviewed technical publications, e.g., addressing aspects such as coastal engineering, hurricane climatology, mathematical modeling of coupled storm surge and wind wave effects, high-resolution storm surge simulation, effects of near-shore bathymetry on storm surge propagation (2) national or international recognition for leadership in research in coastal engineering and analysis of storm surge; (3) past or current participation on national review panels for coastal engineering issues (5) specialized consultancy and advisory for industry, federal, state or local government agencies. This notice of intent is neither a request for quotation nor a solicitation of offers. Interested respondents must submit a written capability statement, including technical information sufficient to demonstrate a bona fide written capability to meet this requirement, to the point of contact of this posting no later than 7 calendar days from the date announcement appears in the Federal Business Opportunities. Telephonic, email and responses providing insufficient information for evaluation by the NRC will not be considered. If no response is received within 7 calendar days award of the purchase orders will be made to each one of the three entities mentioned above.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/NRC/OA/DCPM/RES-11-264-265-266/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: contractor's address - various, United States
- Record
- SN02518615-W 20110804/110802235221-42485255bb042e1186053e25f41bf51f (fbodaily.com)
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