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Email from Mary Jane Ross-Lee to Rebecca Sigmon, NRR News Reporting Criteria
ML100810258
Person / Time
Site: Three Mile Island  Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 11/23/2009
From: Ross-Lee M
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC/NRR/DPR/PRAB
To: Rebecca Sigmon
NRC/NRR/DIRS/IOEB
References
FOIA/PA-2010-0118
Download: ML100810258 (3)


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Cartwright, William From: Ross-Lee, MaryJane Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:29 AM To: Sigmon, Rebecca Cc: Thomas, Eric; Thorp, John; King, Mark

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RE: NEWS Reporting Criteria thanks Rebecca, looks like it is well handled. thanks for your time and efforts.

Mary Jane Ross-Lee (MJ)

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~b)(6) e-mail: marviane.ross-leeanrc.qov From: Sigmon, Rebecca Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:27 AM To: Ross-Lee, Mary~ane Cc: Thomas, Eric; Thorp, John; King, Mark

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NEWS Reporting Criteria Reading through our guidelines on this, though NEWS was set up for newsworthy events that might not otherwise meet submission criteria, from RIS 2002-01 (and reiterated in IN 2009-27),

"Only events rated at Level 2 or higher will be reported to the IAEA, unless another member country specially requests the rating of a particular event."

It's possible that the amount of media interest generated (and the fact that it's TMI) may result in another country requesting a rating. I'm not sure ifwe've ever submitted an event after an outside request before, but the option is there.

Rebecca Sigmon Reactor Systems Engineer NRR/DIRS/IOEB Operating Experience Branch (301) 415-4018 Rebecca.Siqmon@,nrc.qov From: Ross-Lee, MaryJane Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:06 AM To: NRRDIRSIOEB Distribution

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FW; CNN Headline news= TMI leak contaminates 100 _ NRR- PIs check to see ifINES reportable- see my comments Good morning, there was a lot of news and phone calls on this over the weekend. I'm not sure the threshold for putting something up on the NEWS sight, but that may be worth looking into. Beth Hayden in OPA may be able to help as I think that website was designed for public communication of news worthy items....

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,t7. e-mail: maryiane.ross-leenrc.gov From: HOO Hoc Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 7:39 AM To: Jones, Cynthia Cc: Ross-Lee, MaryJane

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RE: CNN Headline news- TMI leak contaminates 100 _ NRR- Pis check to see if INES reportable- see my comments Cynthia, Attached is a copy of the event report. I have also quoted the HOO highlight we sent out below. This contamination event involved very low contamination and dose to a number of workers (highest reported level is 26mR). T here was no release outside of containment and no exposure what-so-everto members of the public. We will contact MaryJane Ross-Lee this morning to make sure NRR evaluates the event. However, our read is that this is not reportable (less than level 2) under the INES scale.

HOO HIGHLIGHT: 'Three Mile Island - I is in a steam generator replacement and refueling outage. Sometime this evening, during maintenance activities, radiation alarms alerted inside containment and containment was evacuated. Personnel are being whole body counted out of the area. There is no public health and safety issue and no evidence of release to the environment. There has been significant media and federal partner interest in this evolution. The licensee is investigating the cause and Region I is following."

Headquarters Operations Officer U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Phone: 301-816-5100 Fax: 301-816-5l51 email: hoo..hoc(@nrc.gov secure e-mail: hoo1(@nrc.sgov.gov

.iU.S.NRC From: ]ones, Cynthia Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 7:02 AM To; Sigmon, Rebecca; HOO Hoc Cc: Dean, Bill; Wiggins, Jim

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CNN Headline news- TMI leak contaminates 100 _ NRR- Pls check to see if INES reportable- see my comments Importance: High Rebecca, HOOs 2

- I Just saw this on CNN and if the 100 people (as mentioned in the writeup) were members of the public (not occupational workers) it would an event we would rate and transmit to IAEA under INES. I look forward to your input on the event making news below to hold off Qs from IAEA IEC staff tomorrow, and hope they were all occupational workers....-

thanks Cyndi See http://abclocal. go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&idd=7131935 Cynthia G. Jones, Ph.D, Senior Technical Advisor for Nuclear Security Office of Nuclear Security & Incident Response U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop T4-D22A Washington, DC 20555 0: (3101)* 415i-023...

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