ML13340A738

Texas Engineering Experiment Station/Texas A&M University System - Request for Additional Information Emergency Preparedness Plan Review for License Renewal

ML13340A738
Person / Time
Site:	05000128
Issue date:	01/07/2014
From:	Geoffrey Wertz Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch
To:	Skoda R Texas A&M Univ
Wertz G, 301-415-0893
References
TAC ME1584
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January 7, 2014 Dr. Radek Skoda, Director Nuclear Science Center Texas Engineering Experiment Station 1095 Nuclear Science Road MS 3575 College Station, TX 77843

SUBJECT:

TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION/TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RE: EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLAN REVIEW FOR LICENSE RENEWAL (TAC NO. ME1584)

Dear Dr. Skoda:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is continuing its review of your application for the renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-83, dated February 27, 2003 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML102920025), as supplemented, for the Texas Engineering Experiment Station/Texas A&M University System, Nuclear Science Center, TRIGA-type research reactor. The license renewal review includes an NRC staff review of your current Emergency Preparedness Plan, Revision No. 2, submitted to the NRC in accordance with the provisions of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Section 50.54(q), by letter dated December 14, 1999. We require additional information and clarification on questions that have arisen during our review. Please provide responses to the enclosed request for additional information (RAI) within 30 days from the date of this letter.

In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), you must execute your response in a signed original document under oath or affirmation. Your response must be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR 50.4, Written communications. Information included in your response that is considered sensitive, or proprietary, that you seek to have withheld from the public, must be marked in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding. Any information related to security should be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR 73.21, Protection of Safeguards Information: Performance requirements. Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your renewal request.

R. Skoda If you have any questions, or need additional time to respond to this request, contact me at (301) 415-0893 or by electronic mail at: Geoffrey.Wertz@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA Alexander Adams for/

Geoffrey A. Wertz, Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-128

Enclosure:

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Texas A&M University Docket No. 50-128 cc:

Mayor, City of College Station P.O. Box Drawer 9960 College Station, TX 77840-3575 Governors Budget and Planning Office P.O. Box 13561 Austin, TX 78711 Texas A&M University System ATTN: Dr. Dimitris C. Lagoudas, Interim Facility Director Nuclear Science Center Texas Engineering Experiment Station 1095 Nuclear Science Road MS 3575 College Station, Texas 77843 Radiation Program Officer Bureau of Radiation Control Dept. Of State Health Services Division for Regulatory Services 1100 West 49th Street, MC 2828 Austin, TX 78756-3189 Technical Advisor Office of Permitting, Remediation & Registration Texas Commission on Environmental Quality P.O. Box 13087, MS 122 Austin, TX 78711-3087 Test, Research and Training Reactor Newsletter 202 Nuclear Sciences Center University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611

Enclosure REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLAN FOR THE LICENSE RENEWAL FOR THE TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION/TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM NUCLEAR SCIENCE CENTER RESEARCH REACTOR LICENSE NO. R-83; DOCKET NO. 50-128 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is continuing its review of your application for the renewal of Facility Operating License No. R-83, dated February 27, 2003 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML102920025), as supplemented, for the Texas Engineering Experiment Station/Texas A&M University System, Nuclear Science Center, TRIGA-type research reactor. The license renewal review includes an NRC staff review of your Emergency Preparedness Plan, Revision No. 2. We have identified the following questions and request your responses within 30 days from the date of this letter. If your review results in a revision to the Emergency Preparedness Plan, provide a complete copy of the revised plan with your response.

1. Sections 7.6.3 and 7.7.3, state, in part, that response teams will be sent to search for injured personnel in the event of a fire.

a. What organizations comprise the team members for the response teams?

b. How are the team positions typically staffed?

c. Is there specific training provided to the team members? If so, identify the training.

2. Table 1, Emergency Classification Guide, provides emergency classification criteria based on the release of Xenon isotope 125 (Xe-125):

Xe-125 Release Release of Xe-125 more than 140 Ci

[Curies], but less than 700 Ci from the reactor building Notification of Unusual Event*

Release of Xe-125 equal to, or more than, 700 Ci from the reactor building Alert*

a. How are the indications of the release levels of 140 Ci and 700 Ci of Xe-125 made available to the operating staff responsible for timely event classification?

b. Are there any alarms associated with the above release levels of Xe-125?

3. Sections 10.4 and 11.0, state that, in part, that the RSB reviews the emergency plan and approves emergency procedures and standing operating procedures. The acronym RSB is not identified in the plan. Identify the acronym RSB, or justify why the acronym is not identified.