ML061700379

Tritium Questions - Portions Outside the Scop of the Request

ML061700379
Person / Time
Site:	Braidwood
Issue date:	06/13/2006
From:	- No Known Affiliation
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
FOIA/PA-2006-0115, FOIA/PA-2010-0209
Download: ML061700379 (2)

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Questioni:.Have there:been other Tritium releases from nuclear power plants into the public domain .

Region IIl Braidwood On November 30, 2005, the licensee informed the NRC Resident Inspectors of higher than expected tritium levels (-58,000 picoCuries per liter) measured in on-site monitoring levels wells at the norther edge of the owner controlled area. The licensee attributed the higher, line to blowdown of tritium to historical vacuum breaker valve leakage in the circulating water blowdown line to the Kankakee River that occurred in 1998 and 2000. The licensee uses the perform liquid effluent releases to the river.

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FOIA-

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As o Decmber4, 205,the licensee has detected measurable levels of tritiuinofst grondwte. AthughnerbY r6!idenba~l \wels have not shown an0rtu aoenta backroud the uicensee detected elevatedI levels of tritium (as hig aaprxmtely 33,700 monitoring wells, in a.vacant deyelopmetimeaelofst.Th pico~pies pr liter) in6 licofense cotne toutoitor. and to, develo-p plnsfr rerediation..