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,c JUN k i 1979 Jur.e 21, 1979 For:
The Commissioners From:
T. A. Rehm, Assistant to the Executive Director for Operations
Subject:
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING JL'NE 15, 1979 A summary of key events is included as a convenience to those Commissioners who may prefer a condensed version of this report.
Contents Enclosure Administration A
Nuclear Reactor Regulation B
Standards Development C
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards D
Inspection and Enforcement E
Nuclear Regulatory Research F*
Executive Legal Director G
International Programs H
State Programs I
Management and Program Analysis J
Controller K
Calendar of Significant Evens L
items Annroved by the Commission M**
Cal ei...
Speaking Engagements N
Status of t'uclear Power Plants
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SUMMARY
OF KEY EVENTS Week Ending June 15, 1979 Arkansas Nuclear One - Unit 2 kr lent 12 to the operating license was issued on June 12.
This amendment removed the license conditions that restricted software changes and that re-quired valve position indicator modifications.
M kansas Nuclear One - Unit 1 On June 14 an Order was issued authorizing resumption of plant operations.
Edwin I. Hatch Unit 2 On June 3, the unit excerienced a trip of one of the 2 feedwater pumps which caused a reactor trip on low water level.
Modifications were made by the licensee and the unit is expected to return to operation on June 13, 1979.
Three Mile Island Unit 1 On June 11, NRC met with Met Ed to discuss retraining of operators, the modifica-tion of plant equipment and the review of procedures, Emergency Plan and Safety Analysis.
The licensee suggests August 15 for startup of the unit.
Regulatory Council Meeting The council met June 12 to discuss Regulatory Reform Bills and Legislative Veto provisions.
Information from the meeting has been distributed to the Commission.
Briefing for Senator McGovern The Uranium Recovery Licensing Branch will brief Senator McGovern June 20 on NRC's role in uranium development activities around Edgemont, SD.
Physical Protection of Soent Fuel Shioments The Interim Rule for Physical Protection of Spent Fuel Shipments is expected to bc published in the Federal ' Register June 15, 1979.
Comoliance with FY 80 Authorization Bill The NRC FY 80 Authorization Bill was reported out bf committee with a provision requiring Commission approval of contracts greater than $20K on domestic safe-guards studies.
NMSS requested from all offices sumaries of croposed FY 80 safeguards contractual projects for inter-office review.
Safeouards for Exports A commission oaper was prepared outlining issues on procedures to develoo information on international safeguards adequacy with respect to export licensing.
Differing Professional Opinions MPA prepared a new draft of policy and procedures for circulation to all NRC employees and the publir for comment.
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OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending June 15, 1979 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision Received 251 17 Granted 121 2
Denied 37 6
Pending 93 9
iC? IONS Ti TS WttK Received (An NRC employee)
Requests documents concerning his repromotion (79-209) priority.
Ruth M. Ferrell, Requests documents regarding inspections of the Attorney-At-Law premises, machinery, and equipment of NL Industries, (79-210)
Inc from 1970 to 1977.
Kyle Cline, Requests a copy of the Reed Report by the General The Sunbelt Education Electric Company.
Foundation (79-211)
John Edward Thrush, Requests information regarding the discharge of (79-212) radioactive water from TMI to the Susquehanna River.
Troy B. Conner, Requests a memorandum of March 29,1979 from Law Offices Leonard Bicknit to the Comission regarding events (79-213) leading to the NECO Order, and any other documents relating to this Order.
Victor M. Glasberg, Requests documents relating to the North Anna, Law Offices Virginia nuclear power plants.
(79-214)
Nicholas I. Filocco, Requests all Regulatory Guides relating to THI, Waters, McPherson, Hudzin a copy of the Report to the Congress on Abnormal
& McNeil Occurrences, copies of transcripts of NRC (79-215) investigatory proceedings, and any additional information concerning the incident.
CONTACT:
J. M. Felton 492-7211 398 226 ENCLOSURE A
2 Received, Cont'd Stephen L. Kass, Requests the Commission's license for TMI and Butzel & Kass all indemnification agreements entered into by the (79-216)
Commission.
Stephen M. Irving, Requests documents on or after March 28, 1979 Public Law Utilities Group regarding the delay in the Waterford 3 proceeding (79-217) for six months.
Richard B. Hubbard, Requests documents related to probabilistic MHB Technical Associates techniques for reactor safety evaluation exchanged (79-218) between the NRC and the Italian government since January 1, 1974.
David W. Reager, Requests seven categories of documents regarding Attorney-At-Law Hatch I and II plants owned by Georgia Power Company.
(79-219)
Milton T. Shockley, Requests NRC's travel expenditures for FY 78, the NRC' NBC Television budgetary allotment to sponsor and attend (79-220) conferences, travel vouchers for the Chairman and Commissioners, the total travel expenditures for ACRS, ASLBP, ASLAP, and the travel expenditures for the EDO and Directors of I&E, IP, NMSS, and NRR.
Granted Richard Gazarik, In response to a request for information concerning Tribune-Review the Babcock & Wilcox uranium enrichment facility (79-152) in Apollo and the Waltz Mills plant of Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pennsylvania, the requester agreed to visit the LPDR in Apollo, Pennsylvania.
William L. Fauth, In response to a request for documents relating to W.L. Fauth Associates, Inc.
Light Water Reactor Inspection Program MC-2512 and (79-190)
MC-2515 for construction and operating phases, informed the requester this information may be found in a publication entitled "I&E Manual which is available in the PDR.
Richard Price, In response to a request on behalf of two employees Attorney-At-Law for all appraisals and/or evaluations of (79-191) applicants in the selection of NRC Vacancy Announcement 79-009, sent to the requesters applicable portions of NRC Form 178, " Candidate Evaluation, Certifi: ation, and Selection Record".
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3 Grpnted, Cont'd Thomas B. Cochran, In response to a referral from the Department of Natural Resources Energy of two NRC documents concerning MB-10 Defense Council, Inc.
applications for the retransfer of spent auclear (79-198) fuel from Japan, Switzerland, Spain, and Sweden, made available these docunents.
Brian D. Hunt, In response to a request for a' detailed description (79-202) of the organizational structure, composition, and authority of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, made available nine documents.
Victor M. Glasberg, In response to a request for documents relating Law Offices to the North Anna, Virginia nuclear power plants, (79-214) informed the requester that documents subject to this request are available at the LPDRs in Charlottesville and Louisa, Virginia.
Denied None
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DIVISION OF CONTRACTS Week Ending JJne 15, 1979 PENDING COMPETITIVE REQUIREMENTS RFP RS-RES-79-203 Title - NRC Monitor for Heissdampfreaktor Seismic Tests Description - Assistance in monitoring earthquake investigations at the super-heated steam reactor (Heissdampfreaktor) at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center in Germany.
The contractor shall assist in formu-lation of pretest predictions and observation of intermediate level explosive, shaker and snap back tests.
Period of Performance - Two years Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status - Solicitation being prepared.
Scheduled issue date is June 29, 1979.
RFP'S ISSUED RFP RS-NRR-79-155 Title - Buckling Behavior of Steel Containment Shells Description - The objective of this program is to develop a current staff position on buckling of steel containment shells for NRC review of applicant designs.
Peried of Performance - Two years Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Status - RFP issued on June 8,1979.
Proposals due on July 11, 1979.
CONTRACT AWARDS RFP RS-NRR-79-134 Title - Tearing Stability Analyses for Light Water Reactor Piping Description - The contractor shall perform elastic-plastic tearing stability analyses for LWR piping using various anticipated and postu-lated flow sizes and stres.e conditions.
The NRC will use the results of this program to determine if unstable ductile crack extension will occur for the anticipated and postulated flow and stress conditions for LWR piping.
Period of Performance - One and one-half years Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Status - Cost-type contract in the amount of $74,998 awarded to Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, on June 6,1979.
398 229 ENCLOSURE A
2 ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS Our Contractor, Neal R. Gross and Company, Inc., Court Reporters and Transcribers, for transcription of TMI cassettes (Contract No. NRC-10-79-400) may submit a claim under the contract for additional cost incurred by the Contractor for work performed outside the scope of the contract. Ccatractor has alleged in numerous conversations with Division of Contracts and technical staff that the cassettes have not been previewed properly and that his transcribers have had to rescreen the tapes and are spending hours and hours listening to material that is inaudible.
A meeting was held on June 4,1979 with attendees as follows:
Neal Gross and Bernard Gross (Contractors); Sal Zungoli/Hugh McVeagh, NRC technical; and Mary Jo Mattia/Elois Wiggins, NRC Contracts. The Contractor provided three cassettes as evidence that the previewers were not accurately previewing the tapes and that it appears that they were randomly marking the shaded areas with no differentiation between shaded and unshaded areas.
It was pointed out to the Contractor at this meeting that the previewers were to indicate where conversation started and not merely audible conversation.
The Contractor disagreed with NRC's concept of "conve sation" being both audible and inaudible conversaticn.
Contractor was advised to submit any claims under the contract to the Contracting Officer.
Subsequent conversations were held with the Contractor regarding NRC's position on the previewing.
Letter was transmitted to Contractor on June 8,1979 confirming our position in writing.
ENCLOSURE A 398 230
DIVISION OF SECURITY Items of Interest Week Endina June 15, 1979 National Telecommunications Information Administration The U. S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) initiated its survey of NRC's unclassified telecommunica-tions on June 13, 1979.
NTIA offices have been approved to receive and store NRC classified matter.
Congressional Security Visit Representatives of the Division of Security, in coordination with the Office of Congressional Affairs, reviewed the security procedures of the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Inforration Security Oversight Office Briefing (IS00)
- The Director of Security briefed the Director of 1500 on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission including its Information Security Program.
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR PEGULATION WEEKEY~ITEliS OF INTEREST (Week Ending June 15,1979)
Arkansas Nuclear One - Unit 2 Amendment 12 to the operating license was issued on June 12.
This amendment removed the license conditions that restricted changes.
to the Core Protection Calculator System software and that required the licensee to complete modifications for a redundant valve position indication in the control room.
D. C. Cook As a result of feedwater line cracks found at the D. C. Cook facilities (May 19-23,1979) a 20 day letter was issued on May 25, 1979 to all pressurized water reactor licensees requesting information on the design, fabrication history, inspection, and operating history of these lines.
On June 4,1979 radiographs revealed feedwater line cracks at the San Onofre 1 facility.
Action is being taken to notify hearing board, of this preliminary information.
In the meantime, the Office of Inspection and unforcement is contacting all licensees of PWR facilities that are presently shutdown and available for '
inspection to obtain their cooperation in inspecting the feedwater lines on these plants.
The Division of Systems Safety has also been alerted to this potential generic problem.
Evaluation of this matter is continuing.
Edwin I. Hatch Unit No. 2 On June 3,1979 Hatch Unit No. 2 experienced a trip of one of the 2 feedwater pumps which caused a reactor trip on low water level.
The initiating event was a momentary decrease in suction pressure on one of the two Condensate Booster Pumps.
The Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC) turbine started but tripped due to a ruptured exhaust diaphram.
The High Pressure Coolant Injection (HPCI) pump was then signaled to start but did not because the steam supply valye did not open.
Water level in the reactor was recovered and maintained with the non-tripped feedwater loop.
The ruptured exhaust diaphram on the RCIC wa.s caused by failure of the internals of a check valve in the exhaust line.
A temporary flow blockage occurre'd causing the diaphram to rupture.
The licensee has replaced the valve internals of this valve.
The HPCI steam supply valve failed to open due to water in the valves' oil control system.
Licensee investigation found a valve closed which caused drain water to get into the oil control system.
The licensee, as an interim measure has locked the drain valve open.
Plans are to remove this valve at the earliest opportunity.
All licensee actions have been completed.
Hatch Unit No. 2 should return to operation on June 13, 1979.
This item is related to PNO-79-139 dated June 6,1979.
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Oconee Unit No. 1 On June 11,1979 at 0300 hours0.00347 days <br />0.0833 hours <br />4.960317e-4 weeks <br />1.1415e-4 months <br />, the Unit 1 turbine tripped due to a defective control circuit card in the intercept valve electrical control circuitry.
This cascaded into trips, in sequence, of the extraction valves, heater drain system, condensate booster pumps and the two steam driven main FW pumps.
The main FW pump trip caused the reactor to trip through the recently installed
" hardwired" control grade trip circuitry and also resulted in autostart of each of the emergency (Aux) FW pumps on all three units thus pressurizing the-common header, making emergency FW available to Unit 1.
Reactor pressure, according to early (June 11 - 0830) reports, did not reach the primary system high pressure trip setpoint of 2300 psi.
By preliminary report the primary
{ystem pressure reached 2260 psi.
The pilot operated relief valve setpoint is 2450 psi.
All systems automatically operated as designed.
Three Mile island' Unit l' On June il,1979, the NRC staff met with the licensee Met Ed/GPUSC of TMI-l at Bethesda to discuss open items for restarting TMI-1.
These items arising from the TMI-2 event and which will be reviewed by the staff include '.he retraining of operators, the modification of plant equipment and the review of procedures, Emergency Plan and Safety Analysis.
Currently the staff is reyiewing the information presented by licensee and future meetings are in the planning stage. The licensee has suggested August 15,1979 at a target startup date for TMI-1.
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OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT IMPORTANT EVENTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 15, 1979 1.
Regulatory Council Meetina:
Ray Smith attended a meeting of the Regulatory Council on June 12.
Doug Costle chaired the meeting and gave a brief status report on Council activities. Good progress has been made in acquiring Council staff.
The first Regulatory Calendar has been published and this publication will be updated semi-annually.
A number of coordination projects were announced, one of which is development of a national policy framework for carcinogen regulation.
Of the topics discussed, the ones of most interest to NRC appeared to be the Regulatory Reform activitien and the discussion of the legislative veto.
(a) Regulatory Reform: Thern is a lot of interest and activity ir the Congress and Admin _cration on Regulatory Refcm. The Administration's Regulatory Reform Bill was submitted to Congress at the end of March.
Hearings are being held on the Administration's Bill by the Senate Government Affairs Conmittee.
They expect a mark-up in July.
Senator Kennedy has introduced his own Regulatory Reform bill and there is some discussion of merging his bill with the Administration's bill in time for the Government Affairs Committee mark-up.
(b) Legislative Veto: There was discussion of the legislative vetc which is a concept which would require any agency's regulations to go to Congress for review for 60 to 90 days of " continuous session of Congress" (3 to 6 months' actual time) before the regulation can go into effect. There are at least 9 separate legislative veto provisions in Congress now.
The Administration is strongly against this concept and is lobbying agencies to take positions against it.
If the Congress does pass a legislative veto provision, the Administration will resist implementation on the basis that it is unconstitutional.
Information discussed at the meeting and a letter to Regulatory Council members about th legislative veto have been distributed to the Commission and t the major program offices.
2.
Meeting on EPA Hiah Level Waste Standard: The NRC ar EPA staff met at Crystal City on June 8,1979 to discuss the problems NRC would have in implementing an EPA probabilistic High Level Waste Standard.
The EPA staff requested the meeting to learn more about the NRC licensing process and, therefore, why a probabilistic standard would be difficult to implement in that process.
398 234 ENCLOSUPE C
. M. Malsch discussed the procedures for NRC rulemaking and for holding ASLB licensing hearings. The inability of expert witnesser Co assure that a quantitative probability of a future event would b
-> thin a specified numerical value, given the state of the art of ling geologic events, was described tc the EPA staff.
The EPA technical staff acknowledged that the current capability for probabilistic risk assessment modeling is not sufficiently advanced to be able to demcnstrate that a HLW repository complies with the proposed EPA probabilistic standard. They estimated that at least two years would be required to develop adequate probabilistic models to show such compliance.
It was agreed that during the next week or two a joint NRC/U A staff working group will explore alternatives to the prese'.t draft standard, to eliminate explicit probability specificatin" so as to be satisfactory to EPA and implementable by NRC.
M. Cullingford will represent the NRC on this working group.
(E. F. Conti) 398 235 ENCLOSURE C
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending June 15, 1979 Meeting with Governor of Nevada Representatives of NMSS and SP participated in a meeting with Chairman Hendrie and the Honorable Robert List, Governor of Nevada.
Governor List and his Director of Human Resources, Dr. DeSilbio, expressed their concern over the circumstances that led up to the fire in the low-level waste truck at the Beatty, Nevada disposal site.
In particular, they stressed the need for proper segregation and packaging of wastes.
Meetino with NRC On-Site Personnel at TMI Staff from WM and FC met with NRC on-site personnel at the Three Mile Island to discuss the generation of low-level waste as the result of processing of contaminated water and facility decontamination.
Of most immediata concern is the need for coordination and planning to assure that anticipated burial ground requiremer.ts, such as solidification of reactor generated wastes, are factored into the TMI plans.
Early and intensive reviews of new shipping containers will be required to facilitate the transportation of wastes to disposal sites.
Briefina for Senator McGovern Ms. Robin Carpenter of Senator McGovern's staff called to request that the Uranium Recovery Licensing Branch brief Senator McGovern and his staff regarding the NRC role in uranium development activities around Edgemont, South Dakota.
Of particular interest is:
(a) Potential mine/ mill projects by TVA and Union Carbide; (b) Decommissioning of the TVA-owned forrier mill site in Edgemont, S.D., which would include relocating the 2.3 million tons of tailings to an isolated area.
Arrangements have been set for a 9:30 a.m. meeting on June 20, 1979, in Senator McGovern's office.
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Iters of Interest Meetina with General Electric - Wilmington, N.C.
Representatives from the General Electric Company-Wilmington, North Carolina met with Robert F. Burnett on Junc 8,1979 to further discuss their amendment application concerning material accounting procedures for in-process material.
Spent Fuel - Meeting at Virginia Port Authority, Norfolk, Virginia On June 12, 1979, Robert F. Burnett, Director, Division of Safeguards and members of his staff, met with marine terminal operators and local law enforcement representatives to discuss NRC's interim rule for protection of spent fuel shipments.
This meeting received some attention from local news media.
In a related action, NRC safeguards personnel commenced coordination with law enforcement agencies during a survey over the spent fuel shipnent route fron Portsmouth, Virginia to DOE's Savannah River facility.
Oconee-McGuire Testimony A staff member of the Division of Safeguards will provide testimony at a licensing hearing concerning the risk posed by the shipment of spent fuel from the Oconee reactor in South Carolina to the McGuire reactor in North Carolina.
The hear-ing is scheduled to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the testimony is to be given sometime during the period June 20-29.
Physical Protection of Spent Fuel Shipments Arrangements have been made to publish the Interim Rule for Physical Protection of Spent Fuel Shipments in the Federa_l Reaister.
The anticipated publication date is June 15.
The rule will become effective 30 days following publication.
Meetina with DNA Personnel on Safeguards On June 12, 1979, members of the Division of Safeguards staff met with repre-sentatives nf the Defense Nuclear Agency for information exchangc concerning ongoing or proposed projects each agency supports in the aret of safeguards /
threat.
Preliminary discussions were aimed at precluding sverlap and exploring the desirability / feasibility of possible joint funding.
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Items of Interest 3
Compliance with FY80 Authorization Bill H. R. 2608, the NRC FY80 Authorization Bill, was reported out of committee witi a provision requiring Commission approval of contracts greater than $20K on domestic safeguards studies.
To comply with this provision, NMSS has requested Office Directors to submit descriptive summaries of proposed FY80 safeguards contractual projects for inter-office review and consolidation prior to submission to the EDO and Commission for approval.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT _
Items of Interest Week Ending June 15, 1979 1.
Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1 - Order Authorizing Resumption of Operation -
Following discovery that the Emergency Feedwater System was locked out of the automatic initiation mode, an Order was issued requiring return to cold shutdown until the licensee had satisfied certain conditions. The actions taken by the licensee with respect to the conditicis required by the June 2, 1979 Order are discussed in a letter dah.o June 12,1979, to the NRC.
NRC inspectors have confirmed that the conditions of the Order have been met. Accordingly, on June 14, 1979, an Order was issued authorizing resumption of operation of the plant.
2.
Preliminary Notifications relating to the following actions were dispatched during the past week:
a.
PN0-79-67AS Three Mile Island Unit 2 - Nuclear Incident at Three Mile Island - This Preliminary Notification was issued to provide updated status information.
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PNO-79-141 Midland Units 1 & 2 - Paper in Containment Spray Line -
The licensee discovered a wad of paper in a vertical sectior, of the 8" containment spray line.
The licensee has initiated an investigation.
(Closed) c.
PNO-79-142 Zion Unit 1 - Reactor Trip - Potential Feedwater Hammer -
Unit 1 tripped off line while operating at 100% power due to low steam generator level caused by loss of a main feedwater pump.
Plant systems functioned normally to maintain the unit in hot shutdown.
Shortly after the trip, pipe vibrations were experienced on all four steam generators.
Examination of the main feedwater and steam systems piping revealed no apparent damage.
The plant will be returned to service following a cooldown to perform NDE of the steam generator feedwater nozzles.
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PNO-79-143 E. R. Squibb Co., New Brunswick, NJ - Release of Material to the Public Domain - The licensce informed Region I (Philadelphia) of the discovery that a worker had been receiving molybdenum generators from three hospitals and taking them to his home for radioactive decay and then selling the lead.
Investigation.s are in progress.
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PNO-19-144 Millstone Unit 2 - Media Interest in Unit Shutdown - On June 10, 1970 the plant was taken to hot standby because of unidentified leakage of 1.8 gpm to the containment building which exceeded the Technical Specification limit of 1 gpm.
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PNO-79-145 Oconee Unit 1 - Reactor Trip Due to Loss of Main Feed Pumps -
On June 11, 1979, the reactor tripped from 99% power due to the loss of all main feedwater pumps. All three auxiliary feed pumps started and steam generator level was controlled correctly. All systems installed as e result of the Three Mile Island 2 incident functioned as designed.
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PNO-79-146 Zion Jnit 1 - Plant Shutdown Extended Because of Pipe Cracks Found in Feedwater System - Following the unit trip on June 8, 1979, (PNO-79-142) the plant was taken to cold shutdown to perform radiogrpahic examinations of all steam generator (S/G) feedwater nozzle to feedwater pipe welds. Preliminary results of these examinations reveal radiographic indications in all four of these welds. The licensee estimates a three-week outage will be necessary if weld repair is required.
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PN0-79-147 Sequoyah Units 1 & 2 and Watts Bar Units 1 & 2 - Negative Movement of Containment Not Properly Considered in Analysis of Pipe Stresses Following a Design Basis Event (Seismic) - TVA reported that pipe snubbers could lock up on the initial positive movement of the containment liner and remain locked up during subsequent negative movement. Pipe stresses associated witn this negative movement have not been recalculated for all required piping. TVA estimates that the required recalculation of stresses and modification of pipe supports may delay the scheduled fuel loading for Sequoyah 1 until October 1979.
(Closed) i.
PNG-79-148 Palisades - Ground Contamination at Site - Localized ground contamination was discovered on the plant site and plant-owned beach after about two cubic feet of depleted powdex resins was washed by rain-fall from a storage bin, through a storm drain to Lake Michigan. The plant yard and beach have been cleaned up to background levels.
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PNO-79-149 Robinson br.
2 - Canopy Leal Weld Leaks Extend Outage -
During plant heatup, pi hole leaks were identified on two control rod drive mechanism housing canopy seal welds.
The repair of the canopy seals will extend the current refueling outage to June 16.
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PNO-79-150 Zion Unit 1 - Plant Snutdowc Extended Because of Radiographic Indications in Feedwater System Piping Welds - This Preliminary Notifi-cation provides supplementary information to that contained in PNO-79-146.
(Closed) 1.
PNO-79-151 Big Rock Point - Reactor Coolant Pressure Boundary Leak (Reference PNO-79-90) - This Preliminary Notification was issued to provide supplemental information to that.ontained in PNO-79-90.
(Closed) m.
PNO-79-152 Robinson Unit 2 - Steam Generator Tube Leak - During reactor cooldown to repair canopy seal weld- (PNO-79-149), steam generator tube leakage was identified when a high radiation alarm automatically isolated steam generator blowdown. There was no release of radioactivity to the environment and no personnel erpo.ures occurred.
The licensee does not anticipate any outage extension asseciated with repair.
(Closed) n.
PNO-79-153 Brunswick Unit 2 - Main Steam Isolation Valve Closure and Reactor Trip - The reactor tripped from 50% power due to closure of the four inboard main steam isolation vlaves.
The trip was caused by blown fuses in the AC and DC power supplies to the air control solenoids for the four inboard valves. The cause is atcributcd to a wiring error associated with an intennittent ground.
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PNO-79-154 Oyster Creek Unit 1 - Breach of Secondary Cort.ainment -
On June 13, 1979, a breach of secondary containment occurred during the transfer of equipment out of the secondary containment building through the Railroad Airlock Doors.
No radioactive release occurred. The licensee is investigating the even!.
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PNO-79-155 Marble Hill Units 1 & 2 - Alleged Cover-up of Nonconforming Concrete Consolidation Repair Deficie1cies - Save the Valley, a local intervening group, filed a 24-page lejal deposition on behalf of a site concrete craftsman. The deposition reportedly describes collusion between the licensee's QA orgainzation and the site concrete contractor's QA orgainzation for the purpose of either " covering'up" or misrepresenting nonconforming concrete repairs on the containment and steam tunnel structures.
Further inquiry and investigation by Region III (Chicago) is planned.
(Closed) q.
PN0-79-156 Privately Owned Lcndfill, Norton, Mass. - Radioactive Material in Private Sector - While representives from NRC Region I (Philadelphia),
USGS, the town of Norton, and the State of Massachusetts were examining the area, television reporters at ived at the site.
Inspectors were inter-viewed by the television reporters. Media interest is expected.
(Closed) r.
PNO-79-157 Indian Point Unit 2 - Onsite Spill of Spent Resin - About a pint of spent resin and 10 gallons of water were spilled onsite when a hose failed during backflushing operations.
There was no release offsite.
(Closed) s.
PN0-79-158 Peach Bottom Unit 3 - Reactor Blowdown Due to Relief Valve Lifting - A Target-Rock relief valve lifted and remained open causing a reactor blowdown to 135 psig.
The reactor was manually scrammed to be cooled down for valve replacement.
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PNO-79-159 Rancho Seco - Trace Amounts of Radioactivity in Creek - The licensee reported that analysis of a routine quarterly sample of algae collected from Clay Creek downstream from the plant showed trace quantities of radioactivity.
The licensee is investigating possible sources.
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PNO-79-160 Robinson Unit 2 - Indication of Crack in Feedwater Nozzle -
Preliminary review of radiographs taken on one of three main feedwater nozzle welds indicates a linear indication which may be an inside surface crack on 90% of the pipe circumference. The licensee is continuing his invrstigation.
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PNO-79-161 Turkey Point Units 3 & 4 - Unplanned Release of Water to On-Site Storm Drain - About 900 gallons of water overflowed from a waste processing tank to auxiliary floor drains as a result of operatcr error.
Sample results indicated that a total of about 0.01 millicuries of radio-activity was discharged to tF storm drains located on site. 7he water was within specifications for a controlled release.
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PNO-79-162 Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 2 - Loss of Off-Site Power Caused by Faults in Unit 2 High Voltage Distribution System - While the reactor was engaged in startup testing at 20% power, a loss of off-site power occurred.
Both diesel generators started and accepted all auto-matically actuated loads on the engineered safety features busses.
The licensee is continuing his investigation.
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PNO-79-163 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection, Hartford, CN - Reported Overexposures - Radiographers at Nine Mile Point - A consultant for the licensee rported that film badges for four of their radiographers indi-cated exposures ranging from 3.18 to 4.19 rems for the period April 1 -
May 15, 19/9. These exposures were received while working at Nine Mile Point.
The licensee believes that these exposures did not result from the use of radiographic devices but from radiation from reactor piping.
Region I (Philadelphia) will examine this matter during an inspection.
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PNO-79-lE4 Midland Units 1 & 2 - Worker Overcome from Argon Gas in a Tank - A Babcock and Wilcox employee died and two others were in stable condition in a hospital after being overcome after entering a tank filled with argon purge gas.
Nine other site workers were treated and released by the hospital.
OSHA representatives have been informed.
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PNO-79-165 Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1 - Emergency Feedwater System -
The Order issued on June 2,1979 was rescinded by Order issued on June 14, 1979.
See Item 1 above.
(Closed) 3.
The following IE Information Notices were issued:
a.
No. 79-14, " Safety Classification of Electrical Cable Support Systems,"
was issued on June 11, 1979 to all power reactor facilities with a construction permit.
b.
No. 79-15, " Deficient Procedures," was issued on June 7 1979 to all power reactor facilities with a construction permit or operating license.
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OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR lHE WEEK ENDING JUNE 15, 1979 Stanislaus Nuclear Project, Unit 1 (Antitrust)
On June 15, 1979, the Appeal Board upheld the authority of the Licensing Board, pursuant to sections 2.720(a) and 2.740(f)(3) of the Commission's Rules of Practice, to issue a subpoena duces tecum to a non-party electric utility for the production of documents during the discovery phase of the proceeding. The Appeal Board held that section 161c of the Atomic Energy Act provides specific authority for the Conmission's rules allowing parties to obtain from Licensing Boards subpoenas issued against non-parties for discovery documents. The Appeal Board further held that although the Licensing Board had the authority to order the party which obtained the subpoena to reimburse the subpoenaed non-party for its costs of saarching its files for responsive documents, reim-bursement was not appropriate under the facts of this case because the sub-poenaed non-party did not establish that compliance with the subpoena would be unduly burdensome or unreasonably costly, considering the relation of the requested documents to the business activities and size of the subpoenaed non-pa rty.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS WEEK ENDING JUNE 15, 1979, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION International Nuclear Safety Activities On June 8 Mr. Kurihara, Science Counselor of the Embassy of Japan, informed IP that the Prime Minister of Japan hac' received a le' :er from Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of the FRG proposing a program of international collaboratio.1 in the area of nuclear safety under the auspices of the IAEA.
Mr. Kurihara was seeking to consult with agencies of the U.S. government to determine U.S. reactions to this proposal.
Responses are desired prior to the IAEA Board of Governors meeting (June 26-28) and the upcoming Economic Summit meeting in Tokyo.
The staff is working with DOE ead the Department of State to develop a proposed U.S. position with respect to the FRG initiative for use at the IAEA Board Meeting and in response to Mr. Kurihara.
In a related area, the Department of State informed IP that Japan is proposing an expansion of bilateral nuclear safety activities between Japan and the U.S.
Representatives of IP will meet with the Department of State, DOE, and officials of the Embassy of Japan on June 18 to obtain additional details of this proposal.
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OFFICE OF STATE PROGRANG ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING JUNE 15, 1979 Program Development Arrangements are being completed for the workshop for State comment on NRC's decommissioning policy, September 12 - 14 in Columbia, South Carolina.
A tour of Summer I and the low-level waste burial ground at Barnwell will be conducted on September 11 for the State participants.
State Agreements By letter dated May 17, 1979 Governor Milliken of Michigan has informed the NRC that he accepted NRC's proposed language for a section 274 agreement.
However, because of the State's fiscal situation at the present time, Governor Milliken indicates the S tate cannot finalize arrangements for the Agreement at this time.
The Assistant Director for State Agreements Program and representatives of the offices ut Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards and Inspection and Enforcement will appear at a hearing being held by the Arizona Atomic Energy Commission in Tucson, Arizona beginning on June 16, 1979.
The subject of the hearing is to consider modifying, suspending or revoking American Atomics Corp. License No. 10-15.
The licensee handles and processes large quantities of hydrogen 3 (tritium) for the manufacture of tritium activated luminous signs and devices.
New York Department of Labor has informed us tha t they have in-s truc ted Self Powered Lighting Co., Elmsford, N.Y.
to cease receipt of bulk quantities of tritium gas until further notice.
The State has requested the company to submit revised handling procedures for evaluation due to the licensee's increased possession limits and production.
Manuf actured products can still be received by the licensee.
Egercency Preparedness On June 11-12, 1979, the Regior 5 SLO met with Washington State officials to discuss Federal Energency Planning activities in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident.
During the two-day meetings, Mr. Robar t met with officials from the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, the Department of Emergency Services, and the Department of Health to discuss the effects of new Federal planning guidance on the Washington State Emergency Plan.
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. On June 12 Messrs. Harold Gaut, Richard van Niel, SP and Bert Davis and Bill Axelson of IE-III met with Illinois State officials to discuss procedures to be followed in development of their Radiological Emeroency Response Plan.
Mr. Van Niel proceeded to Iowa to discuos their recent exercise, and on June 14 and 15 met with Nebraska and the Regional Advisory Committee to review their recently submitted plan.
Only a few items remain to be covered.
On June 11 Bob DeFayette met with Vermont officials in Montpelier to discuss the status of the Vermont plan and development of a regional plan for a regional New England plan.
Final arrangements were made for the training session for all rolcgical emergency Federal reviewers of State and local re i response plans.
The session will be cc. duc ced in Kansas City, MO on July 24-25, 1979.
Both Headquarters and Regional representatives of the involved Federal agencies are expectec to attend.
Tom Elsasser spent June 5 and 6 in Westchester County at an Emergency Preparedness Workshop.
On June 5, he addressed a group of approxi-mately 250 State and local officials on two topics:
1)
NRC responsibilities; and 2) Federal responsibilities as they relate to emergency planning.
On June 6, he attended a Workshop conducted by the State of New York for Westchester County officials concerning a postulated incident at Indian Point and appropriate county response.
Tom Elsasser appeared before a meeting of members of the New York City Council (:N.B. this was not a meeting of the New York City Council as suggested in the lett7r of invitation to Chairman Hendrie.
He was treated rudely, subjecte to abuse by members of the audience.
At one point, the Council members left the chamber and the interrogation of Mr. Elsasser was conducted by audience members.
The subject of the meeting supposedly was emergency preparedness at Indian Point, but the meeting was used as a harangue against nuclear power in general.
Mr. Elsasser also appeared on a closed circuit television interview with New York State and City officials on Indian Point Emergency Plans on June 12.
On June ~,
J.
T.
Shedlosky, Millstone Resident Inspector, and Tom Elsasser attended a meeting with selected State and local officials concerning emergency response planning for the Millstone site.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS Items of Interest June 15, 1979 Week Ending 1.
Abnormal Occurrence Report Sent EDO a commission paper containing information to be included in the report to the Congress on the TMI accident.
2.
Congressional Correspondence Prepared a letter for the Chairman to Rep. Walker on health and safety in central Pennsylvania after the TMI accident.
3.
Safeguards for Exports In cooperation with IP and NMSS prepared for EDO a commission paper outlining issues oetween Department of State and NRC (and within NRC) on procedures to develop information on international safe-guards adequacy with respect to export licensing.
4.
NASAP Sent NRC staff comments on preliminary safety and environmental information documents to DOE.
5.
Operator Exam System In response to NRR's request established a system and reports on reactor operator exams.
The system will allow assessments to be made of all test scores of operators at each facility.
6.
Differing Professional Opinions Prepared draft of new policy and procedures for circulation, at Chairman's request, to all NRC employees for their comments and to general public.
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Office of the Controller Items of Interest Week Ending June 15, 1979 FY 1981 Budget Eight of the 23 Offices have yet to submit their FY 1981 budget request to CON.
This information was due on May 25, 1979.
FY 1980 Budget A letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee, appealing the House Appropriations Comittee mark and certain Senate Authorization initiatives, was signed by the Chairman on June 14, 1979.
The Senate Subcommittee or Energy and Water Development is scheduled to consider fiRC's appropriation early next week.
Mid-Year Financial Review & FY 1979 Reorogramming On June 7, CON briefed the Commission on (1) the results of the mid-year financial review, (2) its analysis of FY 1979 TMI funding requirements and (3) recommended reprogramming actions. On June 8, the ED0 forwarded to the Comission proposed letters to Congress requesting approval of necessary programning actions. The letters are anticipated to be approved by the Comission and forwarded to Congress early next week.
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CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TWO-WEEK PERIOD ENDING JULY 2.1979 June 20,1979 Forked River Meeting with management officials of Jersey Central to discuss CP extension.
June 22,1979 Waterford CP extension should be issued during the week ending June 22.
June 22,1979 tiorth Anna 1 Amendment No.11 to North Anna 1 operating license to be issued regarding VEPC0's reorganization of station personnel.
June 26,1979 North Anna 1 Amendment No.12 to North Anna 1 operating license to be issued regarding technical specification limits for pump house set tl ement.
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CALENDAR OF SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS July 8-15 Health Physics Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA -
Practical Imolications to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the ICRP Recommendations (1977) - Robert Alexander Time and Dose Factors in Carcinocenesis; Resuspen-ion Factors and Probabilities of Intake of Material in Procer - A. Brodsky Environmental Radiation Monitorino Objectives -Report of Subcommittee on Objectives of the Health Physics Society Committee for Vograding Environmental Radiation Data - E. C nti 98 i?E0 ENCLOSURE N
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STATUS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS MAY 31,1979
~
Number Rated Capacity Of Units (MWe)
- 70 LICENSED TO OPERATE......
~
51,000
- 92 CO NSTR U CTlO N PE R MiT G R ANTED................................. 101,000 37 Under Operating License Fmiew..
40,000 55 Operating License Not Yet Applied For 61,000 27 U N D ER CONSTR UCTION PERMIT REVIEW.....................
31,000
- 4 Site Work Authorized, Safety Review in Process.
4,000 23 Other Units Under CP Review.
.27,000 4 ORDERED................................................................................
5,000 LJ 2
P U B L I C LY A N N O U N C E D...................................................
2,000
-e 9
1 95 T O TA L...........................................................................
1 90,0 00 im o
"To < late there have been 461 reactor years of operation. Not inclinfect are two operable DOE-ownect reactors with a combineci capacity of 940 MWe.
- Total of units authorized construction (Construction Pennit Granted plus Site Work Authorized): 96 units,105,000MWe.
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