ML17257A489
| ML17257A489 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Ginna  |
| Issue date: | 07/17/1981 |
| From: | Crutchfield D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Maier J ROCHESTER GAS & ELECTRIC CORP. |
| References | |
| TASK-02-01.A, TASK-2-1.A, TASK-RR LSO5-81-07-065, LSO5-81-7-65, NUDOCS 8107240086 | |
| Download: ML17257A489 (7) | |
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July 17, 1981 Docket No. 50-244 LS05-81-O7-O65 Mr. John E. Maier Vice President Electric and Steam Production Rochester Gas 8 Electric Corporation 89 East Avenue Rochester, New York 14649
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Dear Mr. Mafer:
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SEP TOPIC II-1.A, "EXCLUSION AREA AUTHORITY AND CONTROL" (GINNA)
Enclosed is the staff's final evaluation of SEP Topic II-1.A, "Exclusion Area Authority and Control" for the R. E. Gfnna Nuclear Power Plant.
This assessment incorporates the revisfon to your Exclusion Area Boundary pro-vided in your letter dated June 26, 1981.
Although the area has been changed, your authority to control that area has not and therefore the conclusions reached in our May 18, 1981 safety evaluation remain the same.
This evaluation will be a basic input to the integrated safety assessment for your facility unless you identffy changes needed to reflect the as-built conditions at your facility.
This assessment may be revised in the future ifyour facility design is changed or ff NRC criteria relating to this subject are modiI'fed before the integrated assessment is completed.
Sincerely,
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GINNA 0'OPIC II-1.A, EXCLUSION AREA AUTHORITY AND CONTROL I.
INTRODUCTION The safety objective of this topic is to assure that appropriate exclusion area authority and control are maintained by the licensee as required by 10 CFR Part 100.
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REVIEM CRITERIA Section 100.3(a) of 10 CFR Part 100 requires that a reactor licensee have the authority to determine al'1 activities within the designated
- area, including the exclusion and removal of personnel and property.
III. RELATED SAFETY TOPICS Topic XIII-l, "Conduct of Operations" will assure that the licensee can adequately specify proper operation in routine, accident and emergency conditions.
The topic is being covered as part of the NRC TMI Task Action Plan.
Topic XIII-2, "Safeguards/Industrial Security" will evaluate the licensee's capability to protect the operating unit(s).
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REVIEM GUIDELINES The review was conducted in accordance with the guidance given in SRP 2.1.2.
The capability of the plant to meet the dose criteria of 10 CFR Part 100 at the exclusion area boundary will be evaluated in the Design Basis Event'hase of the SEP review.
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EVALUATION The R.
E. Ginna plant is located on the south shore of Lake 'Ontario 16 miles east of Rochester, Rew York, a city of 241,539 people
(,Rochester metropolitan area,:
population is 701,745)
The site exclusion area is completely within the plant boundaries.
The distance from the containment to the nearest site boundary (excluding the boundary on the lake front) is 1550 feet but the minimum exclusion distance is assumed to be 450 meters or 1476 feet.
The site boundary is shown in the attached Figure 1 of this evaluation (note that additional land to the west has been purchased since Figure 2.2-3 of the FSAR was submitted).
No public highways or railroads traverse the exclusion area.
Rochester Gas and Electric Corp.
(RGEE) owns and controls all of the land, including mineral rights, within the exclusion area.
Regarding the lake-shore, frontage within the exclusion area,
- RGLE, by New York State procedures, owns the land above 243.8'sl.
This is well below the average lake stage
'f 246 feet msl, but is above the Extreme Low WaterlLevel of 242.23 feet msl and the lowest regulated level of 243 feet msl.
However, since the low period is generally in the winter and the high period in the summer, it is not expected that there would be any "beach use" of this area.
Previous experience confirms this; thus, no special precautions for potential beach users are in place.
The exclusion area is not defined over the waters of Lake Ontario adjacent to the R.
E. Ginna site.
The NRC staff in recent cases involving shore front sites has interpreted the definition of an ex-clusion area in 10 CFR Part 100.as applying to the entire area surrounding a reactor including the overwater portion.
In these
- cases, applicants have been required to make appropriate arrangements to control water traf-fic within the exclusion area in the event of a plant emergency.
While RGKE has not specifically defined an exclusion area over the water, arrange-'ents have been made with the Ii0. Coast Guard, as documented in the Ginna Plant Radiation Emergency Plan
, for the control of.water traffic in the event of a plant emergency.
The lack of a defined exclusion area over the water adjacent to the plant site is a deviation from the staff's current interpretation of the criteria in 10 CFR Part 100.
However, the arrangements made by RGSE with the U.S.
Coast Guard meet the intent of the criteria.and, therefore, it is considered that the lack of a defined exclusion area over the water does not constitute a significant safety issue for the SEP. review.
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CONCLUS I ONS Based on the above evaluation we conclude that RG8E has the proper authority to determine all activities within the exclusion area, as required by 10 CFR Part 100.
This completes the evaluation
'of this SEP topic.
REFERENCES 1.
Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, Robert Emmett Ginna Nuclear Power Plant Unit No.
1 - Final Facility Description and Safety Analysis Report (FSAR), Sections 1.1, 2.1, 2.2 and Appendix 2C.
2.
Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant Unit No. 1, Environmental
- Report, Volume 1, Section 2.1.
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Nuclear Regulatory Comnission HUREG-75/087, Standard Review Plan, Section 2.1.2, September 1975.
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,",Official Preliminary 1980 Census Figures,"
taken from'the Rochester Times-Union," September 15, 1980.
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RGEE Procedure "Radiation Emergency Plan" (SC-l).
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New York State Policy as established by the Land Utilization Department within the NYS Office of General Services.
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Letter from John E. Maier to Dennis M. Crutchfield, June 26, 1981.
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