ML19208C462
| ML19208C462 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 08/24/1979 |
| From: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 7909260473 | |
| Download: ML19208C462 (7) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION NOTICE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR PARTICIPATION IN HEARING FOR RESTART OF THREE MILE ISLAND UNIT NO. 1 On August 9,1979 the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission issued an order in the matter of Metropolitan Edison Company (Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit No. If_(TMI-O _ Docket No. 50-289, inviting public participat_fon in a hearing on the restart of TMI-1.
Notice was also published in the Federal Register on August 15,1979.
The Ccmission directed that the following subjects should be considered at the hearing:
(1) Whether the "short term actions" reccmended by the Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (set forth below) are necessary and sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that the TMI-l facility can be operated without endangering the health and safety of the public, and should be required before resumption of operation should be permitted.
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Whether the "long term actions" reccmended by the Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (set forth below) are necessary and sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that the facility can be operated for the long term without endangering the health and safety of the public, and should be required of the licensee as soon as practicable.
Short term actions which will ce required of the licensee are as follows:
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The licensee shall take the following actions with respect to TMI-1:
(a) Upgrade the timeliness and reliability of the Emergency Feedwater (EFN) system by performing the items scecified in Enclosure 1 of the licensee's June 23, 1013 075 U
1979 letter. Changes in design will be submitted to the NRC staff for review.
(b) Develop and implement operating procedures for initiating and controlling EFW independent of Integrated Control System (ICS) control.
(c) Install a hard-wired control grade reactor trip on loss of main feedwater and/or: turbine trip.
(d) Complete analyses for potential small breaks and develop and implement operating instructions to define operator action.
(e) Augment the retraining of all Reactor Operators and Senior Reactor Operators assigned to the control room including training in the areas of natural circulation and small break loss of coolant accidents including revised procedures and the TMI-2 accident. All' operators will also receive training at the B&W simulator on the TMI-2 accident and the licensee will conduct a 100 percent reexamination of all operators in these areas.
NRC will administer complete examinations to all licensed personnel in accordance with 10 CFR 55.20-23..
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The licensee shall provide for NRC review and approval of all applicable action specified in IE Bulletins79-05A, 79-053, and 79-05C.
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The licensee shall improve his emergency preparedness in accordance with the following:
(a) Upgrade emergency clans to satisfy Regulatory Guide 1.101 with s:ecial attention to action level criteria based on plant parameters.
(b) Establish an Emergency Operations Center for Federal, State and Lccal Officials and designate a location and an alternate locaticn and provide c:mmunications to plant.
(c) Ucgrade offsite monitoring cacability, including additional thermolumin esc 9nt cosimeters or ecuivalent.
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(d) Assess tne relationship of State / Local plans to the licensee plans so as to assure the capability to take emergency actions.
(e) Conduct a test exercise of its emergency plan.
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The licensee shall demonstrate that the decontamination and/or restoration operations at TMI-2 will not affect safe operations at TMI-1. The licensee shall provide separation and/or isolation of TMI 1/2 radioactive liquid transfer lines, fuel handling areas', ventilation systems, and sampling lines.
Effluent monitoring instruments shall have the capability of discriminating between effluents resulting from Unit 1 or Unit 2 operations.
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The licensee shall demonstrate that the waste management capability, including storage and processing, for solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes is adequate to assure safe operation of TMI-1, and that TMI-l waste handling capability is not relied on by operations at TMI-2.
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The licensee shall demonstrate his managerial capability and rescurces to operate Uni: I while :.aintaining Unit 2 in a safe configuration and carMng cut clanned decentaminatien and/or rest: ration activities.
Issues to b'e addressed include One adecuacy of groups providing safety review and o:erational advice, the canagement and tachnical ca: ability and t aining of coerations staff, the adecuacy of tne coerational Cuality Assurance program and the facility cr:cedures, anc :ne :a: ability of im: -tant su::cc c gani:ations such as Hea!tn Physics and
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P00RORGNAL.
-4 The long term actions which are required of the licensee are:
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submit a faijure mcde and effects analysis of the ICS to the NF.C staff as scen as practicable;
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give continued attention to transient analysis and procedures for management of small breaks by a formal program set up to assure timely action of these matters; 3.
ex.cly with the Category 3 reccmendations as specified in Table 3-1 of !;UREG-0578; and, 4
improve emergency preparedness in accordance with the folTowing:
(a) modify emergency plans to address changing. capabilities of plant instrumentatien, (b) extand the capability to take apercoriate emergency actions for the population arcund the sita to a dis-tance of ten miles.
In additton, the Ccmission indicated that in the proper circumstances the issues of financial qualifications and psychological distress may be en artained.
he hearing will be conducted in accordance witn tne apolicable = revisions cf fer.n in 10 C?
Fad 2-Tce sub:a - :- cf the Occmissien's Fies of ?"actice sa
=revisi:ns of 10 CFR 2.715a (censolidation f :arties), 2.7511 (s:acial :renear-Iy t:
1 g ::nference and eger), 2.752 (prenearing c:nference and order) shall 1::
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P00RORGNAL The last day for petitions for intervention was set by the original Comission Order as September 4,1979, but was subsequently extended by the Secretary of the Commission to September 14, 1979.
As recuired by 10 CFR 2.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularity the interest of the_petitiener in the proceedjng, and how that interest may be affected by the msults of.the proceeding.
The petition should specifically explain the reasons ey intervention should be permitted with particular reference to the following factors:
(1) the nature of the petitioner's right under the Atcmic Energy Act to be made a party to the proceeding; (2) the nature and extent of the petitioner's pre:erty, financial, or other interest in the proceeding; and (2) the cossible effect of any order which may be entered in the preceeding on the petitioner's interest.
Tne petition shculd identify the scecific as:ect(s) of the sucjece =at::er of :ne creceeding as to which oetitioner wishes to intervene".
An answer to this flotice or ietition for leave to intervene should be filed with the Secretary of the Ccmission, U. S. ?luclear Regulatory Ccmission, Wasnington, J. C.
20555, Attention:
Occketing and Service Section, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Recm, 1717 H Street, fl.
W., Wasnington, D. C. by September 14. 1979.
A copy of tne petition should ce sent to the Executive Legal Director, U. S..'luclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C. 20555 and to Mr. Iieorge F. Troworidge, Shaw, oittman, Potts and Trewbridge,13CC M Street, 't.
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Washington, D. C. 20036, attorney for the licensee. Any questions or requests for additional information regarding the content of this Notice should be addressed to fhe Chief Hearing Counsel, Office of the Executive Legal Director, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C. 20555.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions or supplemental petitions will not be entertained absent a determination that the petitioner has made a substantial showing of good cause for the granting of a late petition. That determination will be based on a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(i)-(v) and 2.714(d).
Copies of the following documents are available for inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room at 1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. and are being placed in the Comission's local public document room at the State Library of Pennsylvania, Government Publications Section, Education Building, Comonwealth and Walnut Streets, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17126.
August 1,1979 Comission Order August 9,1979 Comission Order April 16 Ltr. Herbein to Denton (prior r.otice will be given before restart)
June 28 Ltr. Herbein tc Denton (modifications to be completed before TMI-1 restart)
June 28 NRC Staff Meeting Summary on TMI-l restart NUREG-0578 I&E Bulletins79-05A 79-05B 79-05C
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Reference:
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