ML19199A357
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/05/1979 |
| From: | Harold Denton, Fouchard J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS (OPA) |
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Sorry wa're late.
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ask Harold Denton to bring you up to date on where we stand.
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MR. DENTON:
Today has been a very routine day I
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We thought of 11 bringing you down a basketball and choosing up sides between 12 NRC and those of you who --
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i 15 Plant status remains the same; heat's still being removed 16 the same way.
Temporature in the core is unchanged.
The 17 j recombiner is still running.
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volume coming into the auxiliary b'uilding waste gas tank 16 system will be routed back to the containment, thereby reducing off-site doses.
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Mr. Denton, in Washington today a 3,fI li Ralph Nader task force said that Met Edison rushed reactor 4
number two into operation by December 31st '78 in order to i
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OUESTION:
Do you believe the reactor was safe 3[
when it went into operation?
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We don't issue a license to operate 5
a plant until our Inspection and Enforcement people tell us, 6
and the preoperational testing has been completed and every-7 thing is ready to go.
But I'd have to review our own files a
to look into that.
9 QUESTION:
Dr. Denton, about the decision as to 10 1 whether or not to prococd.with the B&W proposed procedure, II 1.s that entirely a technological decision that would be made 12 hero, or will the Commissioners in Washington be involved in 13 that?
14 What is the status of -- I mean, I know you said (y) yesterday.you 'were having the Staf look at formulas.and 15 16 Calculations, but where are we on that, on the status of rea i
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ing a decision on a preferred mode?
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3l We formed soveral technical safety corraittees in 4
1 reviewing the aspects associated with the B&W proposal, and 5
those meetings and revicws and calculations have been goinc) or 6
all day.
There is no rush to make a decision in that area.
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characterization or have they offered any explanation of it 16 to you in the last 24 to 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br />?
17 MR. DENTON:
I've not raised that issue with them.
13 yeve tried to deal with them on the situation at hand rather l9 than the situation at the time.
So I've not had any dis-20 i cussion with them about those particular aspects.
21 I'm aware of the findings of our Bethesda group 9
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at the test on the people who were in the control room, and 17 as I remember they all had passed the test and had rather 18 a gcod background in the nuclear field.
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We've got the report of more progre 4
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iodine that's in the water in the au:<iliary building has 6
been i:. mobilized.
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situations realized.than I'd hoped for.
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will reduce, I think, significantly, the offgas doses from II noble gases.
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At that point would you recommend to 13 the Governor that he remove his advisory?
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I I really haven't formed an opinion 15 on that yet.
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Tomorrow?
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Mr. Denton, what is the chance -- what i
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So that we can put it in a perspectiv how important is the sampic that the robot is expected to t 16 i
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I know.. But what are you trying to 21 1
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Mr. Denton, when you get your pump-bau e
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Due to the system problems you've
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Can you tell us what it is?
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In addition to the one violation of to regulations that you've already found, have you fcund any II others that -- involving the operation of that plant?
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MR. DENTON:
I can't really answer for sure.
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accident, one of which was the equipment problem, and that'c 5!
the relief valve sticking open, about four and a half of 6
which were related to the operation of the plant at the time 7
of the accident, such as the fact that the auxiliary feedpur (g
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auxiliary building.
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Any other violations, outright viola-15 ;
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They haven't used Herman as of the 11 time I came off the shift at 8:00 this morning.
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Who's that sentleman?
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This is William Kreger.
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AsrJ atant Director for Site Analysi:
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Spell it?
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any questions in that area, I'll turn them over to Bill.
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In addition to having him pour a shot i
4 of coolant, what other work do you have in mind for Hermt n?
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Herman is a robot with somewhet 6
limited capabilities.
He has one arm and one hand and two 7
and can only travel on level ground or ramps.
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an individual for any length of time.
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Is there any change that the radiatic 12 levels in the containment building?
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Yes.
The temperatures of the 14 containment building have been changing constantly since the h
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Most of the changes have been lowering of the radia-16 tion dose rates as a result of decay of the radioactive i
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the health physics staff of the Metropoli tan Edison.
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For Mr. Kreger..Any of the control 5
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maxinum allowable exposure limit?
How much have they been 7h exposed to so far?
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And they're in a new quarter now.
Duri 12-the first quarter of the year, which ended March 30th, I3 I believe there were only something like four individuals I4 who exceeded their qu rterly dose.
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Are you saying then that you could hav i
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I've been in the control room since II Friday afternoon about 2:00 o' clock on the night shift runnir 12 from 8:00 o' clock at night until 8 :00 o' clock in the. morning.
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Well,' the applicant was still in 11 3 j' charge of proposing changes and actually directing the Staf 4
to make some changes, although there is the monitor.
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their operations would have a potential impact on health-6 and safety.
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understanding.
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the core, the of fgas treatment systems, any other system th 1
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Why are we not getting information?
12 mean, why is it all coming from you?
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I might mention that their'st'aff hi 14 now been considerably augmented by representatives of other IS
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Have you checked the logs of the 16 pump surveillance to determine whether the company backstoppe 17 or company inspectors backstopped their own people who worked 18 on those valves?
And would you make those logs available to I9 the public?
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