Natural CONF-8910192 - _ Phenomena '* C> if..' Hazards Mitigation Conference Proceedings October 3-5, 1989 Holiday Inn, World's Fair Knoxville, Tennessee HIHHIIHUHi Organized by mmwm• • Lawrence Livermore iuiiiLkiiiil National Laboratory •iimni Sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy Headquarters Office of Nuclear Safety MASTER fUSTWflUTrOH OF THIS nOCUUTN: IS dBr'W Organizing Committee James R. Hill U.S. Department of Energy Office of Safely Appraisals Washington, DC Robert C. Murray Conference Chairman Lawrence Livcrmorc National Laboratory Livcrmore, CA Karen L. Anderson Conference Administrator Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livcrmore, CA Lilian S. Deem an Proceedings Administrator Lawrence Livermorc National Laboratory Livermorc, CA Lynn M. Costa Proceedings Layout Coordinator Lawrence Livcrmore National Laboratory Livcrmore, CA Janet Crampton-Pipcs Layout Support Lawrence Livcrmorc National Laboratory Livcrmore, CA L. Carole Austin Photographer Impell Corporation Mission Viejo, CA Technical Committee Robert C. Murray Lawrence Livermore National Laborr.tory Livermore, CA James R. Hill U.S. Department of Energy Office of Safety Appraisals Washington, DC Jean B. Savy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livcrmore, CA Stephen A. Short Impell Corporation Mission Vicjo, CA James R. McDonald Institute of Disaster Research Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX Frank E. McClurc Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Berkeley, CA CONP-8910192— DE90 006928 Table of Contents Foreword v Conference at a Glance vi Session 1: DOE Natural Phenomena Guidelines 1 Earthquake Design and Evaluation 2 Stephen A. Short, Robert C. Murray, Roben P. Kennedy Wind and Tornado Guidelines 12 James R. McDonald Flood Design and Evaluation 18 Martin W. McCann, Jean B. Savy Session 2: Seismic Analysis 27 Seismic and Cask Drop Excitation Evaluation of the Tower Shielding Reactor 28 Steven P. Harris, Roger L. Stover, James J. Johnson, Basiiio N. Sumodobila Seismic Evaluation of Safety Systems at the Savannah River Reactors 35 Gregory S. Hardy, James J. Johnson, Stephen J. Eder, Thomas Monahon, Darrel Ketcham Session 3: Seismic Design 45 Base Isolation for Nuclear Power and Nuclear Material Facilities - Report On the Status of the Practice , 46 John M, Fidinger, F. F. Tajirian, C. A, Kirctier, N. Vaidya, M. Constantinou, J, M. Kelly, D. Ovadia, R. Seidensiicker Cost-Benefit Assessment of the Seismic Design of the TUFF Repository Waste Handling Facilities 58 Chiller V. Subramanian Seismic Procurement Requirements at the FPR Facility at INEL 66 Greg S. Hardy, Michael J. Griffin, Gait E. Bingham Seismic Qualification of Safety Class Components in Existing Non-Reactor Facilities at Hanford Site 73 Ernesto C. Ocor.ia Session 4: Modification of Existing Facilities 79 Wind/Seismic Comparison for Upgrading Existing Structures 80 Richard A. Ciller Poslearthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings at DOE Facilities 89 Ronald Gallagher Study to Evaluate the Feasibility of Constructing a Retrofit Containment for the 105-L Reactor at the Savannah River Plant 99 Robert D. Quinn Practical Approaches to Implementing Facility-Wide Equipment Strengthening Programs 109 Raymond II. Kincaid, Elwood A. Smielana Session 5: Poster Session 119 Comparison of Proposed Seismic Design Criteria for the INEL 120 Hans J. Dahlke, Robert J. Secondo Consistent Application of Codes and Standards 121 Mark A. Scott Design of Buried Concrete Encasements 122 Richard M. Drake Failure Probability Estimate of Type 304 Stainless Steel Piping 129 William L. Dougherty, Nabil G. Awadalla, Robert L. Sindelar, llardayal S. Mehta, Santath Ranganaih Second DOE Natural Phenomena Hazards Mitigation Conference - 1989 Nonlinear Seismic Analysis of u Thick-Walled Concrete Canyon Structure 135 Bob V, Winkel, Gary R. WagenbUist Seismic Analysis Procedures for the Plutonium Processing Building of the Special Isotope Separation Plant 142 Carl P. Chen, Fredrick F. Tajirian, Ricardo A. A. Todeschini, ItansJ. Datilke Natural Hazard Losses: A DOE Perspective 151 James R. Hill Seismic Analysis and Testing of Clay Tile Walls at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant 162 Kenneth E. Fricke, W. Dale Jones Seismic, High Wind, Tornado, and Probabilistic Risk Assessments of the High Flux Isotope Reactor 172 Steven P. Harris, Roger L. Stover, Philip S. Hashimoto, John O. Dizon Variability of Relative Seismic Site Response at Los Alamos, NM 179 Leigh House. W. Scott Phillips Session 6: DOE Orders/Codes/Standards 185 Application of Project Design Peer Review to Improve Quality Assurance 186 Frank E. McClure Equivalent Static Seismic Analysis Approach for Process Equipment in Moderate and High Hazard Facilities 192 C. Richard Hammond Seismic Design Criteria at (he Idaho National Engineering Laboratory 199 Brent G, Harris Session 7: DOE Orders/Codes/Standards 205 Comparison of Evaluation Guidelines for Life-Safety Seismic Hazards 206 Loring A. Wyllie, Richard Jay Love Probability-Based Justification for Reduction of Seismic Demand for Short Durations 214 Masoud Moghtaderi-Zadeh, Sohrab Esfandiari Seismic Design Criteria for Special Isotope Separation Plant Structures 220 Matthew W. Wrona, Steven J. Wulhrich. David L. Rose, Jedd G. Starkey Simplified Seismic Analysis Applied to Structures Systems and Components With Limited Radioactive Inventories 226 John D. Stevenson Session 8: Seismic Hazard 237 Probabilistic Assessment of the Seismic Hazard for Eastern United Slates Nuclear Power Plants 238 Jean B. Savy, Don Bernreuter, Richard Mensing Keeping Pace With the Science: Seismic Hazard Analysis in the Central and Eastern United Slates 252 Kevin J. Coppersmith, Robert R. Youngs Keeping Pace With the Science: Seismic Hazard Analysis in the Western United Stales 262 Robert R. Youngs, Kevin J. Coppersmith Session 9: Seismic Hazard 271 Earthquake Recurrence Rate Estimates for Eastern Washington and the Hanford Site 272 Alan C. Rohay Geologic Aspects of Seismic Hazards Assessment at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Southeastern Idaho 282 Richard P. Smith, William R. Hacked, David W. Rodger.? Variations of Earthquake Ground Motions with Depth and Its Effect on Soil-Structure Interaction 290 Ching Y. Chang, Wen S. Tseng, Y.K. Tang, Maurice S. Power Natural Phenomena Analyses, Hanford Site, Washington 299 Ann M. Tollman Second DOE Nat viral Phenomena Hazards Mitigation Conference - 1989 Session 10,' Po*stiT Session A Portable Backup Power Supply to Assure Extended Decay Heal Removal During Natural Phenomena -Induced Station Blackout .'. 310 Lurry D. Proctor, Larry D. Merryman, William /:. Sallce Earthquake Strong Ground Motion Studies ai the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory 317 iva/fG, Wong, Waller J. Silva, Robert B. Darragh, Cathy L. Stark, Douglas II. Writ-lit, Suzetle M. Jackson, Glen S. Carpenter, Richard Smith, Dennis M. Anderson, llollie K. Gilbert, Don L. Scott Probabilistic Seismic Hazards: Guidelines and Constraints in Evaluating Results 329 Ross K. Sadigh. Maurice S. Power Site-Specific Response Spectral Attenuation Relationships: Significance on Ground Motion Predictions 330 Maurice S. Power, Khosrow Sadigh Structural Evaluation of Safely Class Components to Natural Phenomena Loading 336 Thomas J. Conrads Transmission of Low-Magnitude Seismic Excitation Into Hanford Site Structures 337 Evan O. Weiner Advances in Seismic Criteria to Qualify Structures, Systems and Components in Operating Reactors 343 Miguel A. Manrique, Walter R. Bak Session 11: Probabilistic Risk Assessment „ 351 Overview of Seismic Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Structural Analysis in Nuclear Facilities 352 John W. Reed Probabilistic Evaluation of Main Coolant Pipe Break Indirectly Induced by Earthquakes Savannah River Project L & P Reactors 365 Stephen A. Short, Donald A. Wesley, Nahil G. Awadalla, Robert P. Kennedy Large-Break Frequency for the SRS Production Reactor Process Water System 375 William L. Dougherty, Nabil G. Awadalla, Robert L. Sindelar, Spencer II. Bush Session 12: Probabilistic Risk Assessment 381 External Event Probabilistic Risk Assessment for the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) 382 George F. Flanagan, David II. Johnson, David R. Buttemer, Harold R. Perla, Shan II. Chien N Reactor External Events PRA 3% John T. Baxter Use of a Phased Approach to Evaluate the Seismic Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Production Reactors at ihc Savannah River Site 405 //. Elwyn Wingo Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Earthquakes at the Rocky Flats Plant and Subsequent Upgrade to Reduce Risk 414 Sandra A. Day Invited Speakers 419 The Performance of the Armenia Nuclear Power Plant and Power Facilities in the 1988 Armenia Earthquake 420 Peter I. Yanev International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction 427 Walter W. Hays Natural Phenomena Hazards Bibliography 430 List of Attendees 431 Index of Authors 436 Sconcl DOE Natural Phenomena Hazards Mitigation Conference - 1989 iii Foreword I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for attending the Second U.S. Department of Energy Natural Phenomena Hazards Mitigation Conference in Knoxvillc, Tennessee. I hope this meeting was productive for you in sharing ideas, hearing about ongoing programs, and taking results of previous studies back to yfHir office for further dissemination. This conference has been organized into ten presentation sessions which include an overview of the DOE Natural Phenomena Guidelines, Seismic Analysis, Seismic Design, Modifying Existing Facilities, DOE Orders, Codes, and Standards (2 sessions), Seismic Hazard (2 sessions), and Probabilistic Risk Assessment (2 sessions). Two poster sessions