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Letter from Dr. Kenneth D. Bergeron Regarding Tennessee Valley Authoritys License Amendment Request to Produce Tritium at the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant
ML022540114
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Site: Watts Bar  Tennessee Valley Authority icon.png
Issue date: 09/10/2002
From: Berkow H
NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD2
To: Larkins J
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
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September 10, 2002 MEMORANDUM TO: John T. Larkins, Executive Director Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards FROM:

Herbert N. Berkow, Project Director Project Directorate II

/RA/

Division of Licensing Project Management

SUBJECT:

LETTER FROM DR. KENNETH D. BERGERON REGARDING TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITYS LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST TO PRODUCE TRITIUM AT THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT Your memorandum of October 18, 2001, to William D. Travers forwarded Dr. Kenneth D.

Bergerons letter of September 13, 2001. Dr. Bergeron was concerned about the ongoing U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissions review of Tennessee Valley Authoritys (TVAs) license amendment request to irradiate tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs) at the Watts Bar nuclear plant. You requested that the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards be kept informed of the staffs disposition of this matter.

Attached is Brian W. Sherons letter of September 6, 2002, to Dr. Bergeron responding to his letters of September 13, 2001, and January 16, 2002. We expect to issue license amendments to TVA this month in response to TVAs amendment requests of August 20, and September 21, 2001, to irradiate TPBARs in the Watts Bar and Sequoyah reactors.

Attachment:

Letter to Dr. Bergeron dated 9/6/02 cc w/ attachment:

A. Vietti-Cook, SECY J. Craig, EDO I. Schoenfeld, EDO A. Thadani, RES CONTACT: L. Mark Padovan, NRR 415-1423

September 10, 2002 MEMORANDUM TO: John T. Larkins, Executive Director Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards FROM:

Herbert N. Berkow, Project Director Project Directorate II

/RA/

Division of Licensing Project Management

SUBJECT:

LETTER FROM DR. KENNETH D. BERGERON REGARDING TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITYS LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST TO PRODUCE TRITIUM AT THE WATTS BAR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT Your memorandum of October 18, 2001, to William D. Travers forwarded Dr. Kenneth D.

Bergerons letter of September 13, 2001. Dr. Bergeron was concerned about the ongoing U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissions review of Tennessee Valley Authoritys (TVAs) license amendment request to irradiate tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs) at the Watts Bar nuclear plant. You requested that the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards be kept informed of the staffs disposition of this matter.

We expect to issue license amendments to TVA this month in response to TVAs amendment requests of August 20, and September 21, 2001, to irradiate TPBARs in the Watts Bar and Sequoyah reactors.

Attachment:

Letter to Dr. Bergeron dated 9/6/02 cc w/ attachment:

A. Vietti-Cook, SECY J. Craig, EDO I. Schoenfeld, EDO A. Thadani, RES CONTACT: L. Mark Padovan, NRR 415-1423 DISTRIBUTION: see next page ADAMS ACCESSION NO: ML PACKAGE: ML OFFICE PDII-2/PM PDII-2/LA PDII-2/ASC PDII-2/D NAME MPadovan BClayton KJabbour HBerkow DATE 9/10/02 9/10/02 9/10/02 9/10/02 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

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