ML022980609
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| Site: | Saxton File:GPU Nuclear icon.png |
| Issue date: | 10/31/2002 |
| From: | Alexander Adams NRC/NRR/DRIP/RORP |
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| ADAMs A, NRC/N RR/DRIP/Rorp, 415-1127 | |
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October 31, 2002 LICENSEES: Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation (SNEC) and GPU Nuclear, Inc. (GPU)
FACILITY:
Saxton Nuclear Experimental Facility (SNEF)
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF MEETING BETWEEN THE SNEC, GPU, AND NRC STAFFS On August 29, 2002, representatives of the NRC staff met at NRC Headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, with representatives of the SNEC and GPU, the licensees for the SNEF. Attachment 1 is a list of meeting attendees. Attachment 2 are the slides used by the licensees during the meeting. The licensees gave the NRC staff information at the meeting. A table of off-site laboratory analyses for transuranic and hard to detect radionuclides (1994 to present), a table of initial classification of site areas (Table 5-2), and three figures, Grout Sheeting and Well Location Plan, Anchor Bolt Installation Plan, and Containment Vessel, Sectional View have been placed in ADAMS under accession number ML022950368.
The plant was operated between 1962 and 1972, and it was shut down in May 1972. In February 1975, the plant was placed in SAFSTOR until 1986, when phased dismantlement began with the removal of the support buildings, contaminated soil, and some materials in the containment. The licensees decommissioning plan became the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report. The resubmitted License Termination Plan (LTP) was accepted for detailed technical review in March 2000.
Technical review of the LTP has generated requests for additional information (RAIs). This meeting was scheduled to discuss final issues associated with the licensees submitting an update of the LTP to the NRC and NRC plans for confirming the licensees final status survey.
The technical discussions included site groundwater, health physics, and dose modeling. The discussions with the licensees technical staff and consultants provided clarification and a better understanding of the site specific technical data and related information.
All groundwater issues pertaining to the LTP have been resolved. This was accomplished by utilizing the licensees responses to RAI 1 and RAI 3, (both the original and the supplemental);
a public meeting on August 6, 2001; and the radiological analytical results from the NRC groundwater confirmatory sampling for the April 2002 groundwater sampling event.
The licensees need to incorporate their responses to the RAIs, the radiological analytical results from the groundwater sampling events, and other appropriate hydrogeological data into their revised LTP. The licensees should update the text, tables, figures, and calculations in the LTP where these items have been replaced by more current analysis and data.
In the area of health physics, the licensees discussed the classification of the containment vessel (CV) saddle area and other site areas, and the use of classification buffer areas between the non-impacted area under the CV and adjoining impacted areas. The licensees provided site maps (referenced above) showing the CV anchor bolt, grout, sheeting, and well locations, and related gamma scan data for these areas. The licensees also explained their approach for the conduct of the subsurface final status survey for land areas to be included in the revised (LTP). In response, the NRC staff noted that the LTP needed to clearly state, using both figures and text, the locations and classifications of all impacted and non-impacted areas for the outer surfaces of the CV liner and adjacent surface/sub-surface land areas. According to the licensees, radiological surveys of all surfaces to be covered by the internal CV support rings were recently done before the rings were welded in place. These surveys will be used to support the determination that these CV liner areas, now covered, meet the release criteria.
Regarding outstanding health physics related issues, the NRC staff discussed the LTP RAI Status table (provided by the licensees in the letter dated August 20, 2002, ADAMS accession number ML022410195) which summarized the status of RAI questions and subsequent issues discussed at public meetings. The NRC staff concluded that the outstanding health physics issues had now been resolved (exclusive of affirming the final DCGL set) and reiterated that the review of the revised LTP would confirm that required changes were made as agreed to by the licensees.
In the area of dose modeling, the NRC staff still needs a correct, updated list of the volumetric DCGL values that the licensees will propose for demonstrating compliance with the 25 mrem dose limit. The DCGL values proposed by the licensees for Am-241, H-3, Pu-238, Pu-239, and Pu-241 during the meeting do not reflect the most limiting or restrictive values. The more limiting values for these isotopes, based upon the licensees analysis, should be derived using the all-pathways analysis, subsurface bedrock analysis.
Assuming that the licensees propose to use the most limiting or restrictive DCGL values (as discussed above), the NRC staff does not need any further information to resolve the dose modeling issues. It was noted that the NRC staff has identified a number of shortcomings with the approach used by the licensees to develop their DCGL values; however, these only appear to have an effect of making the proposed DCGL values more conservative than required. The NRC staff intends to document these shortcomings in the Safety Evaluation Report.
The NRC staff indicated that certain information needs to be put in the LTP update to close out questions 2 and 3 of RAI #2.
The licensees confirmed that there will be no remaining embedded pipes (i.e., above the surface) at the conclusion of decommissioning.
The NRC inspector for Saxton generally discussed NRC s plans for confirming the licensees final status survey results. The NRC would use contractor assistance as needed and would coordinate the timing of inspection activities with the licensees. The licensees discussed conducting some final survey activities before NRC approval of the LTP. The NRC staff had no objection to the licensees proposed actions. However, the licensees took on the risk, because the LTP is not approved yet, that aspects of the LTP could change during the remainder of the review and approval process, that their completed activities would not be in agreement with the approved LTP. The licensees acknowledged that they understood the risks.
/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 Attachments: As stated cc w/attachments: Please 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
MEETING BETWEEN THE NRC STAFF AND THE SAXTON EXPERIMENTAL CORPORATION August 29, 2002 NAME ORGANIZATION Al Adams NRC/NRR/DRIP/RORP Tom Dragoun NRC/NRR/DRIP/RORP Larry Camper NRC/NMSS/DWM Pat Madden NRC/NRR/DRIP/RORP G.A. Kuehn FENOC/SNEC DECOM.
Pat Donnachie FENOC/SNEC DECOM.
Barry Brosen FENOC/SNEC DECOM.
Robert D. Holmes FENOC/SNEC D&D Eng.
Art F. Paynter FENOC/RSO/Mgr. FSS Jon M. Peckenpaugh NRC/NMSS/DWM/EPAB Stewart Schneider NRC/NMSS/DWM/DCB Mark Thaggard NRC/NMSS/DWM/EPAB James Byrne FENOC/SNEC DECOM.
Sam Nalluswami NRC/NMSS/DWM/DCB Rodger Granlund Independent Inspector Ernest Fuller Concerned Citizens for SNEC Safety October 31, 2002 the LTP is not approved yet, that aspects of the LTP could change during the remainder of the review and approval process, that their completed activities would not be in agreement with the approved LTP. The licensees acknowledged that they understood the risks.
/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 Attachments: As stated cc w/attachments: Please see next page DISTRIBUTION:
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