ML022760277
| ML022760277 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Saxton File:GPU Nuclear icon.png |
| Issue date: | 10/09/2002 |
| From: | Alexander Adams NRC/NRR/DRIP/RORP |
| To: | Kuehn G GPU Nuclear Corp |
| ADAMs A, NRC/N RR/DRIP/Rorp, 415-1127 | |
| References | |
| TAC MB5029 | |
| Download: ML022760277 (7) | |
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October 9, 2002 Mr. G. A. Kuehn, Jr.
Vice President SNEC and Program Director SNEC Facility GPU Nuclear, Inc.
Route 441 South P.O. Box 480 Middletown, PA 17057-0480
SUBJECT:
SAXTON NUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL CORPORATION - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RE: CV REMOVAL LICENSE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB5029)
Dear Mr. Kuehn:
We are continuing our review of your amendment request for Amended Facility License No. DPR-4 for the Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation Facility which you submitted on April 22, 2002. During our review of your amendment request, questions have arisen for which we require additional information and clarification. Please provide responses to the enclosed request for additional information within 30 days of the date of this letter. In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation. Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your amendment request.
If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 415-1127.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Section Operating Reactor Improvements Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-146
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/enclosure: See next page
Saxton Nuclear Docket No. 50-146 Experimental Corporation cc:
Mr. Michael P. Murphy Bureau of Radiation Protection Department of Environmental Protection 13th Floor, Rachel Carson State Office Building P.O. Box 8469 Harrisburg, PA 17105-8469 Mr. Jim Tydeman 1402 Wall Street Saxton, PA 16678 Mr. James H. Elder, Chairman Concerned Citizens for SNEC Safety Wall Street Ext.
Saxton, PA 16678 Mr. Ernest Fuller 1427 Kearney Hill Road Six Mile Run, PA 16679 Saxton Borough Council ATTN: Judy Burket 707 9th Street Saxton, PA 16678 Mr. David J. Thompson, Chair Bedford County Commissioners County Court House 203 South Juliana Street Bedford, PA 15522 Mrs. Alexa Cook, Chairman Huntingdon County Commissioners County Court House Huntingdon, PA 16652 Saxton Community Library P.O. Box 34 Saxton, PA 16678 Carbon Township Supervisors ATTN: Penny Brode, Secretary R. D. #1, Box 222-C Saxton, PA 16678 Hopewell Township - Huntingdon County Supervisors ATTN: Reba Fouse, Secretary RR 1 Box 95 James Creek, PA 16657-9512 Mr. D. Bud McIntyre, Chairman Broad Top Township Supervisors Broad Top Municipal Building Defiance, PA 16633 Mr. Don Weaver, Chairman Liberty Township Supervisors R. D. #1 Saxton, PA 16678 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District ATTN: S. Snarski/P. Juhle P.O. Box 1715 Baltimore, MD 21203 The Honorable Robert C. Jubelirer President Pro-Temp Senate of Pennsylvania 30th District State Capitol Harrisburg, PA 17120 Mr. James J. Byrne Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station P.O. Box 480 Middletown, PA 17057 Mr. Robert F. Saunders First Energy Corp.
76 South Main Street Akron, OH 44308 Ms. Mary E. OReilly First Energy Legal Department 76 South Main Street Akron, OH 44308
Mr. Manuel Delgado 2799 Battlefield Road Fishers Hill, VA 22626 Mr. Eric Blocher 216 Logan Avenue Wyomissing, PA 19610 Mr. David Sokolsky 1000 King Salmon Avenue Eureka, CA 95503 Mr. Gene Baker 501 16th Street Saxton, PA 16678 Mr. Dick Spargo 1004 Main Street Saxton, PA 16678 Mr. Mark E. Warner AmerGen Energy Co., LLC P.O. Box 480 Middletown, PA 17057 Mr. G. A. Kuehn, Jr.
Vice President SNEC and Program Director SNEC Facility GPU Nuclear, Inc.
P.O. Box 480 Middletown, PA 17057-0480 James Fockler, Chairman Saxton Citizens Task Force 1505 Liberty Street Saxton, PA 16678 Dr. Rodger W. Granlund Saxton Independent Inspector Radiation Science and Engineering Center The Pennsylvania State University Breazeale Nuclear Reactor University Park, PA 16802-2301 Mr. Gareth McGrath Altoona Mirror 301 Cayuga Avenue Altoona, PA 16603 Dr. William Vernetson Director of Nuclear Facilities Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences University of Florida 202 Nuclear Sciences Center Gainesville, FL 32611 Mrs. Bunny Barker Box 143, RR 1 James Creek, PA 16657 Mr. William Kanda
First Energy Operating Corp.
10 Center Road Perry, OH 44081
October 9, 2002 Mr. G. A. Kuehn, Jr.
Vice President SNEC and Program Director SNEC Facility GPU Nuclear, Inc.
Route 441 South P.O. Box 480 Middletown, PA 17057-0480
SUBJECT:
SAXTON NUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL CORPORATION - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RE: CV REMOVAL LICENSE AMENDMENT (TAC NO. MB5029)
Dear Mr. Kuehn:
We are continuing our review of your amendment request for Amended Facility License No. DPR-4 for the Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation Facility which you submitted on April 22, 2002. During our review of your amendment request, questions have arisen for which we require additional information and clarification. Please provide responses to the enclosed request for additional information within 30 days of the date of this letter. In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation. Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your amendment request.
If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 415-1127.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Section Operating Reactor Improvements Program Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-146
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/enclosure: See next page DISTRIBUTION:
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REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SAXTON NUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL CORPORATION FACILITY DOCKET NO. 50-146 1.
The purpose of applying the concept of exclusion area to the site was to provide security and control access to portions of the SNEF where radioactive material was located. Will portions of the SNEF be maintained as restricted or controlled areas as defined in 10 CFR Part 20 after approval of your proposed license amendment? If restricted areas will exist, and given your proposed removal from the TS of requirements on securing the exclusion area, please explain how you will limit access for the purpose of protecting individuals against undue risks from exposure to radiation and radioactive materials.
Will licensed materials be located in controlled or unrestricted areas? If so, please explain how the requirements of 10 CFR Part 20, Subpart I will be met.
2.
The purpose of the DSF was to facilitate the decommissioning process and allow the preparation and packaging of radioactive material for shipping. To allow removal of the CV dome, your application stated that part of the DSF would need to be removed.
Where will the preparation and packaging of radioactive material be carried out after removal of the DSF? Also, when activities involving radioactive waste are conducted in the DSB, the requirements of TS 2.1.1 apply, as applicable. Will any activities involving radioactive waste after issuance of this amendment have the potential to have a measurable release as defined by the TS? If so, what ventilation requirements will apply? Please add these ventilation requirements to the TSs or justify not needing the requirements.
3.
Your TSs refer to the requirements of 10 CFR 50.59. Please review these TSs to confirm that they remain applicable or propose changes to agree with the changes made to 10 CFR 50.59.
4.
You have proposed removing TS 1.0.2, CV secured, from the TSs. While the definition is not directly used in the TSs, TS 3.2.1, to which you have proposed no changes, places requirements on the initial CV entry of the day which is assumed to bring the CV out of a secured status. TS 3.2.2 also discusses CV entry, however, you have proposed removing CV entry from this TS. The reason given for removing CV entry from proposed TS 3.2.2 is that with removal of the upper half of the CV, there will no longer be an entry to control. Please discuss if an inconsistency exists between TSs 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 and if an inconsistency exists, please address. While the staff agrees if the CV has been removed, there cannot be entries into the CV, will there be any control of CV entries after issuance of the proposed TSs but before CV removal begins and during CV removal?
5.
Your proposed TS refers to the use of appropriate ventilation during activities involving removal of the upper half of the CV. Please clarify what you mean by appropriate ventilation and how will the decision be made that an approach to ventilation is appropriate.
6.
At some point after issuance of you proposed amendment, parts of the DSF will be removed and removal of the CV dome start. At this point, the inside of the DSF and CV will be exposed to the environment. What levels of removable contamination will exist on the inside of the CV at that point? Is it possible that wind or rainfall could transport this radioactive material out of the CV? What would be the impact of this transport?
7.
Please provide survey information on radiation levels on the operating floor level of the CV after backfilling and isolation activities are complete.