ML050620234
| ML050620234 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Browns Ferry  |
| Issue date: | 01/25/2005 |
| From: | Masnik M Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs |
| To: | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| Masnik MT, NRR/DRIP/RLEP, 415-1191 | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML050620210 | List: |
| References | |
| TAC MC1768, TAC MC1769, TAC MC1770 | |
| Download: ML050620234 (32) | |
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Preliminary Results of Preliminary Results of Environmental Review Environmental Review Browns Ferry Nuclear Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3 Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3 Nuclear Regulatory Commission January 25, 2005
2 Purpose of Todays Purpose of Todays Meeting Meeting 3/4 Discuss NRCs license renewal process 3/4 Describe the environmental review process 3/4 Discuss the results of our review 3/4 Provide the review schedule 3/4 Accept any comments you may have today 3/4 Describe how to submit comments
3 Browns Ferry Nuclear Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3 Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3 License Renewal License Renewal 3/4 Current operating licenses expire 3/4Unit 1 - 20 Dec 2013 3/4Unit 2 - 28 Jun 2014 3/4Unit 3 - 2 Jul 2016 3/4 Application requests authorization to operate units for an additional 20 years
4 NRCs NRCs License Renewal License Renewal Review Review 3/4 Safety review 3/4 Environmental review 3/4 Plant inspections 3/4 Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS)
5 License Renewal Process License Renewal Process License Renewal License Renewal Application Application Safety Safety Review Review Environmental Environmental Review Review Onsite Onsite Inspection Inspection Activities Activities Inspection Inspection Report Report Safety Safety Review Review Safety Safety Evaluation Evaluation Report Report ACRS ACRS Review Review ACRS ACRS Report Report Scoping Scoping Activities Activities Draft Draft Supplement Supplement To GEIS To GEIS Comments Comments On Draft On Draft Final Final Supplement Supplement To GEIS To GEIS Hearings*
Hearings*
Agency Agency Decision on Decision on Application Application Formal Public Participation
- If a request for hearing is granted License Renewal Process License Renewal Process License Renewal License Renewal Application Application Safety Safety Review Review Environmental Environmental Review Review Onsite Onsite Inspection Inspection Activities Activities Inspection Inspection Report Report Safety Safety Review Review Safety Safety Evaluation Evaluation Report Report ACRS ACRS Review Review ACRS ACRS Report Report Scoping Scoping Activities Activities Draft Draft Supplement Supplement To GEIS To GEIS Comments Comments On Draft On Draft Final Final Supplement Supplement To GEIS To GEIS Hearings*
Hearings*
Agency Agency Decision on Decision on Application Application Formal Public Participation
- If a request for hearing is granted
6 National Environmental National Environmental Policy Act Policy Act 3/4 NEPA requires Federal agencies to use a systematic approach to consider environmental impacts 3/4 Commission has determined that an environmental impact statement (EIS) will be prepared for a license renewal action
7 Decision Standard for Decision Standard for Environmental Review Environmental Review To determine whether or not the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2, and 3, are so great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable.
8 Environmental Review Environmental Review Process for License Renewal Process for License Renewal Application Application Submitted Submitted December 31, 2003 December 31, 2003 Notice of Intent Notice of Intent March 10, 2004 March 10, 2004 Scoping Scoping Process Process Environmental Review Environmental Review Site Audit Site Audit March 2004 March 2004 Requests for Additional Requests for Additional Information (RAI)
Information (RAI)
July 7, 2004 July 7, 2004 Draft SEIS Draft SEIS November 2004 November 2004 Final Final SEIS by SEIS by July 2005 July 2005 Formal Public Participation
9 Team Expertise Team Expertise Nuclear Nuclear Safety Safety Regulatory Regulatory Compliance Compliance Radiation Radiation Protection Protection Terrestrial Terrestrial Ecology Ecology Atmospheric Science Atmospheric Science Socioeconomics/
Socioeconomics/
Environmental Justice Environmental Justice Land Use Land Use Archaeology/Cultural Resources Archaeology/Cultural Resources Hydrology Hydrology Aquatic Aquatic Ecology Ecology Water Water Quality Quality
10 Analysis Approach Analysis Approach Generic Environmental Impact Statement Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS)
(GEIS)
Category 1 Issues Category 2 Issues Category 1 Issues Category 2 Issues GEIS: Impacts Same GEIS: Impacts Same At All Sites At All Sites GEIS: Analyze GEIS: Analyze Impacts At All Sites Impacts At All Sites New and New and Significant Significant Info?
Info?
NO NO Adopt the Adopt the GEIS Conclusion GEIS Conclusion YES YES Perform Site Perform Site--
Specific Analysis Specific Analysis YES YES Potential Potential New Issue New Issue Validated Validated New Issue?
New Issue?
NO NO No Further No Further Analysis Analysis
11 How Impacts are How Impacts are Quantified Quantified 3/4NRC-defined impact levels:
3/4SMALL: Effect is not detectable or too small to destabilize or noticeably alter any important attribute of the resource 3/4MODERATE: Effect is sufficient to alter noticeably, but not destabilize important attributes of the resource 3/4LARGE: Effect is clearly noticeable and sufficient to destabilize important attributes of the resource 3/4Consistent with the Council on Environmental Quality guidance for NEPA analyses
12 Information Gathering Information Gathering Draft Draft SEIS SEIS License Renewal License Renewal Application Application Staffs Staffs Site Audit Site Audit Public Public Comments Comments Government Government Agencies Agencies Social Social Services Services Permitting Permitting Authorities Authorities
13 Environmental Impacts Environmental Impacts of Continued Operation of Continued Operation 3/4 Cooling System 3/4 Transmission Lines 3/4 Radiological 3/4 Socioeconomic 3/4 Groundwater Use and Quality 3/4 Threatened or Endangered Species 3/4 Accidents
14 Cooling System Cooling System Impacts Impacts 3/4 Category 2 Issues 3/4Entrainment of Fish and Shellfish in Early Life Stages 3/4Impingement of Fish and Shellfish 3/4Heat Shock 3/4Water Use Conflicts 3/4Microbiological Organisms 3/4 Preliminary findings 3/4Impacts are SMALL 3/4No additional mitigation required
15 3/4 Category 2 issues 3/4 Electromagnetic fields, acute effects (electric shock) 3/4 Issue not categorized 3/4 Electromagnetic fields, chronic effects 3/4 Preliminary findings 3/4 Impacts are SMALL 3/4 No additional mitigation required Transmission Lines Transmission Lines
16 Radiological Impacts Radiological Impacts 3/4 Category 1 issues 3/4 Radiation exposures to the public 3/4 Occupational radiation exposures 3/4 Preliminary findings 3/4 No new and significant information identified 3/4 GEIS concluded impacts are SMALL
17 Socioeconomic Socioeconomic Impacts Impacts 3/4 Category 2 Issues 3/4 Housing 3/4 Public Services: public utilities 3/4 Offsite land use 3/4 Public services, transportation 3/4 Historic and archaeological resources 3/4 Issue not categorized 3/4 Environmental Justice 3/4 Preliminary findings 3/4 No new and significant information identified 3/4 GEIS concluded impacts are SMALL
18 Groundwater Groundwater 3/4 Category 2 Issues 3/4 Groundwater use conflicts (cooling towers) 3/4 Preliminary findings 3/4 No new and significant information identified 3/4 GEIS concluded impacts are SMALL
19 Threatened and Threatened and Endangered Species Endangered Species Rough Rough pigtoe pigtoe Gray bat Gray bat Bald eagle Bald eagle Slackwater Slackwater darter darter Leafy prairie clover Leafy prairie clover
20 Cumulative Impacts Cumulative Impacts of Operation of Operation 3/4 Considered impacts of renewal term operations combined with other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions 3/4evaluated to end of 20-year renewal term 3/4geographic boundaries dependent on resource 3/4 No significant cumulative impacts were identified
21 Other Environmental Other Environmental Impacts Evaluated Impacts Evaluated 3/4 Uranium Fuel Cycle and Solid Waste Management 3/4 Decommissioning
22 Alternatives Alternatives 3/4 No-action 3/4 Alternative energy sources 3/4 New generation facilities (Coal, Coal Gasification, Natural Gas, Nuclear) 3/4 Purchased electrical power 3/4 Other alternatives (Oil, Wind, Solar) 3/4 Combination of alternatives 3/4 Environmental effects of alternatives in at least some impact categories reach MODERATE or LARGE significance
23 Generic Environmental Impact Statement Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS)
(GEIS)
Category 1 Issues Category 2 Issues Category 1 Issues Category 2 Issues GEIS: Impacts Same GEIS: Impacts Same At All Sites At All Sites GEIS: Analyze GEIS: Analyze Impacts At All Sites Impacts At All Sites New and New and Significant Significant Info?
Info?
NO NO Adopt the Adopt the GEIS Conclusion GEIS Conclusion YES YES Perform Site Perform Site--
Specific Analysis Specific Analysis YES YES Potential Potential New Issue New Issue Validated Validated New Issue?
New Issue?
NO NO No Further No Further Analysis Analysis Analysis Approach Analysis Approach
24 Preliminary Preliminary Conclusions Conclusions 3/4 GEIS Conclusions on Category 1 issues adopted.
3/4 Impacts resulting from Category 2 issues are of SMALL significance.
3/4 No new impacts identified.
3/4 Environmental effects of alternatives may reach MODERATE or LARGE significance.
25 Postulated Accidents Postulated Accidents Design-basis accidents 3/4 Severe accidents 3/4Severe accident mitigation alternatives (SAMAs)
26 SAMA Evaluation SAMA Evaluation Process Process 3/4 Characterize overall plant risk 3/4 Identify potential improvements 3/4 Quantify risk reduction potential and implementation costs 3/4 Determine whether implementation of any of the improvements is required to support license renewal
27 Preliminary Results of Preliminary Results of SAMA Evaluation SAMA Evaluation 3/4 Approximately 135 candidate improvements considered 3/4 Set of SAMAs reduced to 43 based on multi-step screening process 3/4 Detailed cost/benefit analysis shows that none candidates are cost beneficial
28 Preliminary Preliminary Conclusions Conclusions 3/4 Impacts of license renewal are SMALL for all impact areas 3/4 Impacts of alternatives to license renewal range from SMALL to LARGE 3/4 The staffs preliminary recommendation is that the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for Browns Ferry are not so great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable
29 Environmental Review Environmental Review Milestones Milestones 3/4 Draft SEIS issued - December 3, 2004 3/4 Draft SEIS comment period ends - March 2, 2005 3/4 Issue final SEIS - July 2005
30 Point of Contact and Point of Contact and Reference Documents Reference Documents 3/4 Agency point of contact:
Michael Masnik (800) 368-5642, Ext. 1191 3/4 Documents are located at Athens-Limestone Public Library, Athens, Alabama 3/4 Draft SEIS can also be viewed at the NRCs Web site (www.nrc.gov) at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1437/supplement21/sr1437s21.pdf
31 NRC Addresses NRC Addresses Provide written comments:
3/4 By mail at:
Chief, Rules and Directives Branch Division of Administrative Services Mailstop T-6D59 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 3/4 In person at: 11545 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 3/4 E-mail at:
BrownsferryEIS@nrc.gov