ML063030187
| ML063030187 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | National Bureau of Standards Reactor |
| Issue date: | 10/23/2006 |
| From: | Mendonca M Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Brand P, Myers T, Richards W US Dept of Commerce, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) |
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| Download: ML063030187 (6) | |
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Ma'Wrvin_Mendonca - Fwd: Followk up clarification for NIST _Pag-1e Pg !-l From: Marvin Mendonca To: Paul Brand; Tom Myers; Wade Richards Date: 10/23/2006 7:41:19 AM
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Fwd: Follow up clarification for NIST Wade, Paul and Tom, Below and attached is request for additional clarification. Appreciate your help on this.
Marv
>>> "Miller, Beverly M" <Beverly.Miller@pnl.gov> 10/17/2006 4:32:04 PM >>>
> Jim,
> After reviewing the Site Audit information we brought back from the
> site visit, the review team had only a couple of things we need to
> have clarified. Could you forward these to Marvin Mendoza for
> clarification by the NIST team?
> 1. While on the tour, the question was asked how many employees work
> at the NBSR each day. The answer given was 250--are those all at the
> NBSR specifically or does that include the employees working with
> experiments at the NCNR, as well?
> 2. When talking about other facilities that do similar work to NBSR
> (in reference to alternative options if NBSR were not licensed),
> several facilities were mentioned that were fully booked. Could you
> expand on those options a little bit--we heard the HFIR at Oak Ridge,
> and ILL in Grenoble, France, any others we need to include? Where is
> the spallation source that was referred to located? Any other reasons
> other facilities wouldn't be able to fulfill the research needs?
> 3. Attached is the list of verbal information received at the site
> visit that we plan to rely on for our document. Could you ask the
> NIST team to review it to be sure we understood them correctly before
> we put them on the docket?
> <<Attachment 4.Verbal Information relied on.10.17.06.wpd>>
> Thanks so much, Bev!
> Bev Miller
> Research Scientist
> Environmental Technology Division
> Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
> P.O. Box 999, Mail Stop K3-54
> Richland, Washington 99352
> (509) 375-3668 (voice)
> (509) 375-2019 (fax)
> Email: Beverlv.Miller(&-Dnl.qov
MriMendonca -_Fwd: Follow up clarification for NIST -Page 2,'
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J[Maýq M-endo-nca --A ft--aich-rn--ent 4-. -Verbal-1n-fon-natio-n-re-lied on.1 0.1 7.06.wpd Page 1:1 I[L vnMnoc tahet4Vra noito eido.01.6wdPg ....... j INFORMATION RECEIVED VERBALLY FROM NIST STAFF AT SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 SITE AUDIT WHICH WILL BE RELIED ON FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
- 1. Approximate daily reactor water use is 150,000 gallons/day, when in operation
- 2. 250 Employees work at the NBSR each day.
- 3. Refuel every 38.5 day operating cycle with 10-12 day shutdowns
- 4. 4/30 fuel rods replaced each shutdown
- 5. Use NACLW-2 casks for shipping spent fuel Transport spent fuel every 4 1/2 years (126 elements, 3 casks) in 1 trip
- 6. Control Room 3 operators on duty at alI times, 4 shifts, 8 hour9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> rotations
- 7. No Threatened or Endangered species on site. Deer and goose populations are managed on site by Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Humane Society.
- 8. Air effluents continually filtered through HEPA filters on stack. Detectors on system divert air through special (charcoal) filters if limits are exceeded.
- 9. Liquid effluents released by batch after sampling.
1.0. Environmental sampling. Soil and vegetation sampling done onsite only. Water monitoring done on and offsite. TLDs on site fence line.
- 11. NIST site is now 575 acres. I acre used for freeway expansion a few years ago.
- 12. There are no alternatives available to relicensing the NBSR. There is nothing else currently available that can do this work. Other facilities with similar capabilities (HFIR at Oak Ridge, III in Grenoble, France, Spallation source [need location]) are all booked to capacity. Cold neutron source not available elsewhere. Replacement cost for a new facility would be over one billion dollars.
Attachment 4
Marin Medonca - F Folw-u-pcla-ifi-catio-nfo-r NIST Pae 1 CC: Beveriy.Miller@pnI.gov; James Wilson; kmw; wbk