ML19085A567
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| Site: | Turkey Point  |
| Issue date: | 03/25/2019 |
| From: | - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Division of Materials and License Renewal |
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1 TurkeyPoint34SLRPEm Resource From:
Saulsbury, James W <james.saulsbury@pnnl.gov>
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Monday, March 25, 2019 3:47 PM To:
TurkeyPoint34SLR Resource Cc:
Folk, Kevin; ^PNNL NRC TP3-4 SLR
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[External_Sender] FW: Information Release Request Approved.
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PTN SLRA - PNNL Site Audit Report.docx Bo Saulsbury Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 509-375-2688 From: Meyer, Philip D Sent: Monday, July 09, 2018 3:13 PM To: Lavrentiev, Lubov Cc: Prasad, Rajiv ; Saulsbury, James W
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RE: Information Release Request Approved.
- Luba, I addressed a comment from Paul and the request from Mark to define all the acronyms. The final memo is attached. Please transmit this to Kevin Folk as the Task 2B deliverable.
-phil From: ^PNNL Information Release Sent: Monday, July 09, 2018 11:08 AM To: Lavrentiev, Lubov <Lubov.Lavrentiev@pnnl.gov>; Meyer, Philip D <Philip.Meyer@pnnl.gov>; Cabe, James E <James.Cabe@pnnl.gov>; Prasad, Rajiv <Rajiv.Prasad@pnnl.gov>
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FYI: Information Release Request Approved.
2 Meyer P.D., and R. Prasad. 2018. Turkey Point Subsequent License Renewal Environmental Review Site Audit. PNNL-27668. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. [Unpublished]
Your request has been approved Your Information Release request titled "Turkey Point Subsequent License Renewal Environmental Review Site Audit" has been approved by all reviewers.
The IR number assigned to this Report (Technical Report, Thesis/Dissertation, Software Doc) is: PNNL-27668.
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3 Belsito, Erica T Intellectual Property Services APPROVED07/09/2018 Freshley, Mark D Other APPROVED07/09/2018 Comments: Define all acronyms. Most are, some aren't.
Schlahta, Stephan N PMO Director APPROVED07/09/2018 O'Neil, Tara K Project Manager APPROVED07/06/2018 Thorne, Paul D Peer APPROVED07/06/2018 Questions? The Information Release Office can help!
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Turkey Point Subsequent License Renewal Environmental Review Interagency Meeting and Site Audit Trip Report Memorandum Homestead, FL June 18-21, 2018 PNNL Staff: Philip Meyer (groundwater resources, PNNL lead) and Rajiv Prasad (surface water resources)
June 17, 2018 - Travel Pacifica Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) staff traveled on June 17, 2018 from Portland, OR (Phil Meyer) and Richland, WA (Rajiv Prasad) to Homestead, FL. PNNL staff briefly met with Kevin Folk, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Contracting Officers Representative (COR) and groundwater lead and William Ford, the NRC surface water lead reviewer on the evening of June 17 to preview the weeks activities.
June 18, 2018 - Interagency Meeting and Boat Tour PNNL staff drove with NRC staff from Homestead, FL to Biscayne National Parks Dante Fascell Visitor Center. After an orientation and safety briefing, PNNL staff accompanied several NRC staff and staff from Federal and Florida state agencies on a boat tour of Biscayne Bay. The PNNL staff observed the Biscayne Bay, the dredged portion of the barge canal, the turning basin, and Turkey Point plant facilities from the Bay side. PNNL staff also interacted with various agency representatives during the boat tour.
The interagency meeting was held in the afternoon. Participating agencies included the NRC, U.S.
National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), and Miami-Dade County Division of Environmental Resources Management (DERM). The NRC, NPS, and DERM presented slides during the meeting. The other agencies staff spoke and participated in discussions. Significant topics of discussion included NRCs regulatory authority, the effects of the Cooling Canal System (CCS) on groundwater and surface water quality, and the potential effects of sea level rise on the environmental impacts of the CCS.
June 19, 2018 - First day of Site Audit In the morning, a hydrology-ecology site tour was provided by the licensee. PNNL staff participated in this tour, interacted with Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) staff, and observed features and facilities of the site. The site features and facilities included: the CCS, the Recovery Well System (RWS) wells, the L31-E canal pumping locations, Floridan wells outfalls, the Interceptor Ditch (ID) and associated monitoring locations, north and south ID pumphouses, South Collector canal, the Grand Canal, and the Underground Injection Control (UIC) well.
PNNL staff were expecting technical discussions with FPL staff and contractors in the afternoon.
However, because of unavailability of FPL personnel, these discussions were postponed to 6/21/2018.
June 20, 2018 - Second day of Site Audit In the morning, PNNL staff arrived at the Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Units 3 and 4 (PTN) plant site with NRC staff. After badging, PNNL staff entered the site and participated in a safety briefing provided by plant staff. PNNL staff accompanied the NRC staff on a tour of the Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program (REMP) sampling locations. The sampling locations visited included air sampling, aquatic sampling, and biological (flora) sampling locations. During this trip, PNNL staff noticed an apparent upwelling in the discharge canal approximately 100 ft downstream from an aquatic sampling location in the PTN discharge canal. During subsequent discussion with FPL staff, PNNL and NRC staff learned that the apparent upwelling was caused by bubblers or aerators installed in the discharge canal.
In the afternoon, PNNL staff accompanied NRC staff on a PTN plant site walking tour. Locations visited included the discharge canal, several groundwater monitoring wells, intake location, and NPDES outfalls.
June 21, 2018 - Third day of Site Audit In the morning, PNNL and NRC staff participated in an ecology-hydrology breakout session with FPL staff and FPL contractors staff. Topics discussed during this breakout session included: purpose and status of the two fill projects in Biscayne Bay; the CCS characterization study completed in December 2016; stormwater management plan; effects of operation of RWS on wetlands; effects of the hypersaline plume on wetlands; access for NRC and PNNL staff to data in FPLs Electronic Data Management System; indirect impact of the CCS on aquatic species; barge traffic related to PTN Units 3 and 4; March 2017 water quality study; and degraded water quality in the turning basin.
In the afternoon, Scott Burns of FPL presented the details of two groundwater models - the Biscayne aquifer model and the Upper Floridan model. The Biscayne aquifer model was used to design the RWS system and has recently been revised to evaluate the effect of the CCS on the position of the saltwater-freshwater interface. The revised model uses an improved CCS water budget model. The CCS water budget model is a monthly 7-zone salt and water budget model calibrated to available data; as more data become available, the model calibration is updated every year. The largest uncertainties in the model come from the unknown groundwater inflows to and outflows from the CCS. Groundwater flows to/from the CCS are represented in the Biscayne aquifer model using hydraulic conductance parameters that are determined during model calibration. The Upper Floridan model was used to evaluate the impacts of Upper Floridan aquifer groundwater extraction for freshening the CCS on other groundwater users. The existing Upper Floridan wells are extracting groundwater at a rate of about 12.5 million gallons per day (MGD) via artesian pressure.
FPL stated that they are considering the option of using an additional 14 MGD from the Upper Floridan for CCS freshening to reach the CCS average salinity criterion.
At the end of the afternoon session, NRC staff walked through each water resources-related environmental information need to clarify its status with the licensee.
Conclusion Between the site tours and the audit meetings, much of the information needed for the groundwater and surface water environmental review was identified. Because of the unavailability
of FPL staff, pertinent documents, and draft responses to NRC environmental information needs, PNNL and NRC staff were unable to close out information needs and formulate final set of requests for additional information (RAIs) before the conclusion of the audit. PNNL staff will work with the NRC COR to provide input to RAIs.