ML19254D247
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| Issue date: | 10/11/1979 |
| From: | Rehm T NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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October 11, 1979 For:
The Comissioners From:
T. A. Rehm, Assistant to the Executive Director for Operations
Subject:
WEEXLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 5,1979 A sumnary 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
St' ate Programs I
Management and Program Analysis J
e Controller K
Calendar of Speaking Engagements L
Items Approved by the Commission M**
Calendar of Sicnificant Ev N
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an Executive Director for Operations
Contact:
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SUMMARY
OF KEY EVENTS WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 5, 1979 Davis-Besse 1 On September 26, 1979 the plant suffered a reactor trip due to a faulty main turbine throttle pressure limiter. The fault caused a turbine power runback resulting in a high p.-imary system pressure reactar trip. Following the trip, the primary system cooled down sufficiently to cause pressurizer level to drop below the bottom of the indicating range for approximately 21 seconds.
Another recent event in which the prassurizer level dropped out of sight prompted the licensee to readjust the code safety blowback setpoint to a higher value.
The plant was returned to operation September 27.
H. B. Robinson 2 On Sunday morning, September 30, 1979, a fire in containment was detected while the plant was at about 40% power. The fire was causc' by an oil drip which was blown onto the pipe lagging by the reactor ecolant pump's stator cooling system.
It was extinguished with dry chemicals by plant oersonnel. The plant, which was shutdown after the fire was detected, has been returned to power.
On October 2,1979 Unit No. I expe-iencem tube rupture in one of its two steam generators while at 100% power. The reactor trip / turbine trip and safety injections were initiated by low RCS pressure and all safety systems functioned normally.
Cooldown was initiated by natural circulation through the B steam generator and later one RCS pump was restarted. Cooldown is being completed using the RHR system.
Fort St. Vrain The Public Service Company of Colorado has restaned the Fort St. 7 rain reactor which has been experiencing a secondary water chemistry problem.
NFS Erwin Several NMSS staff members are participating as part of 'Je team inve'stig. ting the excessive HEU inventory difference at NFS Erwin. A new inventory is scheduled to take place this week following preparation activities and verification /
inspection activities by NRC personnel. NRC personnel will accompany the NFS inventory teams and observe the taking of the inventory.
60 Minutes CSS television staff of "60 Minutes" to interview staff member oc construction times for nuclear power plants. Show to be aired sometime in November.
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OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending October 5,1979
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ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS Initial Appeal of.
Request Initial Decision Received 450 28 Granted 307 9
Denied 75 14 Pending 68 5
ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received George E. Monroe, Requests four documents pertaining to a contract PRC Energy Analysis Company issued under RFP No. RS-NRR-79-ll8.
(79-404)
George E. Monroe, Requests four documents relating to a contract PRC Energy Analysis Company issued under RFP No. RS-0IE-79-254.
(79-405)
Richard L. Robbins, Requests copies of Volumes 1 through 3 of Lake Michigan Federation NUREG-0575, " Final Generic EIS on Handling and (79-406)
Storage of Spent Light Water Power Reactor Fuel" August 1979.
M. Ann Spudis, Requests a copy of the socioeconomic survey on Sullivan & Cromwell the impact of Three Mile Island prepared for the (79-407)
NRC by Mountain West Research, Inc.
Nancy Burks Requests information on uranium milling permits (79-408) for facilities in South Dakota.
Victor M. Glasberg, Requests all documents relating to the discharge Attorney-At-Law of radioactive gas into the atmosphere at the (79-409)
North Anna plant.
Harold J. Gabriel, Requests two documents referenced in an August 8 Attorney-At-Law 1978 letter to James G. Keppler from Jalwyn (79-410)
R. Davidson regarding the Perry nuclear power plant.
R. Trembetta Requests three documents relating to the SL-1 (79-411) accident in Idaho.
CONTACT:
J. M. Felton 492-7211 1189 293 ENCLOSURE A
2 Received, Cont'd (An individual requestieg Requests information concerning his Reactor information about himself) and Senior Reactor Operator licenses.
(79-412)
Ed Gee Requests copies of " Barrier Penetration Catabase" (79-413)
" Advanced Admittance Systems", " Guards", and
" Resources Requirements for Malevolent Actions".
Peter Penner, Requests informeion on Clinton Units 1 and 2 Prairie Alliance regarding the effee of partial repudiation of (79-414)
WASH-1400; documents r?lating to the " Reed Report" by the General Eiectric Company, and documents utilizing the " Reed Report" in its applic?. tion to Clinton Units 1 and 2; Appendix A, Revision 1 to Task Action Plan for Generic Tasks; and documents regarding the effect of the recent NRC staff position that the accident at TMI was a class 9 accident.
Betty Johnson, Requests documents relating to the unresolved League of Women generic issues of nuclear power plants, applicable Voters of Rockford to the Byron, IL plant or a Byron type nuclear (79-415) power plant.
John R. Emshwiller, Requests investigations by the NRC inu possible The Wall Street improper practices by NRC inspectors during Journal the course of their duties for the past 10 years.
(79-416)
Ter y Colvin, Requests information on the effects of nuclear Riverside Press-Enterprise atmospheric testing in the Nevada desert upon (79-417)
Southern California before 1963.
(An NRC employce)
Requests records of appraisals and/or (79-418) evaluations of all applicants in the selection of NRC Vacancy Announcement 79-261.
(An NRC employee)
Requests information regarding ratings and (79-419) information relied upon to make those ratings for all candidates for Vacancy Announcement 79-15.
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3 Granted Anthony Z. Roisman, In response to a request for documents prepared Natural Resources by the NRC staff and/or its consultants relative Defense Council, Inc.
to the question of alternatives to the proposal (79-246) by the Duke Power Company to transship spent fuel from their Oconee plant to their McGuire plant, made available 13 documents.
Stephen Laudig, In response to a request for documents concerning Attorney-At-Law defects in cencrete made during April, ky, or (79-263)
June 1979, concerning the Marble Hill facility, maf! available six documents.
John W. Sullivan In response to a request for documents pertaining (79-359) to Makepeace, Inc. or Engelhard, Inc., made available records on Engelhard, Inc. in the PDR.
Dean Hansell, In response to a request for records relating to Assistant /.ttorney procedures and conditions under which persons General, State of Illinois outside the agency may obtain access to classified (79-378) documents, made available 26 documents.
Thomas V. Vakerics, In response to a request for documents related to Attorney-At-Law economic or market studies regarding the (79-386) radiopharmaceutical industry, made available a copy of the report, " Determination of the Economic Parameters of the Radionuclide and Radionuclide Devices Industry with Special Reference to the Nuclear Medicine Market".
I Gerald D. Stoltz, In response to a request for information concernin:
Atto rney-At-Law AEC nuclear tests and studies measuring health (79-388) effects resulting from exposure to low-level radiation, informed the requester that the NRC has located no documents.
Jeremiah S. Gutman, In response to a request for information pertainin-Attorney-At-Law to fuel used or acquired for the U.S.S. Sea Wolf, (79-392) informed the requester the NRC has no records on this subject.
Denied Ellyn R. Weiss, In response to a request for communications betweer Sheldon, Harmon, Three Mile Island personnel and NRC, between Roisman & Weiss, various offices, and the log books of the on behalf of UCS Licensing and Operating Project Managers for TMI, (79-100) made available documents in the PCR.
Denied five documents in their entirety and portions of 88 documents (primarily those relating to personal privacy).
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4 Denied, Cont'd Lynn Connor, In response to a request for portions of Doc-Search Associates Form 171 containing professional qualifications, (79-361) education, work experience, and publ' cations for five named NRC employees, made available the requested portions of three employees.
Denied portions of one employee's 171, the release of which would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. On one employee, did not provide any information, since he was not employed by the Federal government prior to joining the AEC.
Ellyn R. Weiss, In response to a request for reports to the NRC Sheldon, Hannon, from the Swiss government concerning an event Roisman & Weiss, which occurred at the Beznau reactor, made on behalf of UCS available two documents.
Denied two documents (79-366) in their entirety and portions of one document containing proprietary information submitted in confidence to the NRC by the Swiss government.
Mariljn Zarski In response to a request for seven categories (79-375) of information pertaining to shipments of irradiated reactor fuel from the San Onofre nuclear power plant to the temporary storage facility in Morris, IL, made available one document.
Denied portions of one document considered to be commercial or financial (proprietary) infonnation.
(An NRC employe )
In response to an appeal for four documents (79-A-21-79-235) relating to the basis for selecting a candidate for Vacancy Announcement 79-317, the ED0 released three documents and continu?d to deny portions of one document.
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DIVISION OF CONTRACTS Week Ending October 5, 1979 PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION RFP RS-NRR-80-102 Title - Energetic Thermal Interacticns, Recriticality, and Coolant Flow Phenomena Associated with Advanced Nuclear Reactor Concepts Description - This project will provide to the NRC technical assistance in the areas of energetic thermal interactions and recriticality associated with advanced reactor concepts, Period of Performance - Three years Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Status - Best and final proposals are due on October 12, 1979.
CONTRACT AWARDS 1.
NRC-02-79-032 Title - System Analysis of Shallow Land Burial Description - The contractor will be required to (1) identify potential radionuclide release pathways from shallow land burial waste disposal. (2) develop a model to assess shallow land burial sites, (3) perform a parametric study based on the model, and (4) assess pathway and isotope doses and total side iipacts usirig the model.
Period of Performance - Twenty months
, S:ensor - Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards S atus - A ccst-plus-fixed-fee contract in the amount of $277,832 was jawarded to Science Applications, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, on September 28, 1979.
2.
'P.C-03-79-118 Title - Engineering Support for Operating Reactor Licensing Actions Description - The NRC is seeking assistance with its review and evaluation of pending operating reactor licensing actions.
Assistance is needed to:
(1) review licensee submittal, (2) perform compara-tive evaluations relative to established regulatory guides, (3) provide a report documenting conclusions reached, and (4) provide a definition of additional information needed to complete the action.
Period of Performance - Three to five years 5:ensor - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Status - A cost-plus-award-fee contract was awarded to the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1979, for a total amount of $1,519,830.
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2 3.
NRC-10-79-660 Title - Implementation of the Supply and liaintenance Subsystems of the Property and Supply System (PASS)
Description - This was an SBA Section 8(a) set-aside procurement.
Functional and data base requirements, system design specifications and program specifications for the supply and maintenance sub-systems of PASS have been developed. This procurement is for the implementation of the supply and maintenance subsystems.
The work includes program coding and debugging, system testing, training, acceptance testing, and documentation.
Period of Performance - Six months Sponsor - Office of Administration Status - A cost-plus-fixed-fee contract in the amount of $110,884 was executed with SBA concurrent with the award of a subcontract by SBA to Technassociates, Inc., an eligible 8(a) minority concern.
4.
NRC-05-79-257 Title - Region III Mobile Laboratory Description. - Special vehicle designed to be used for conducting the confirmatory measurements program to evaluate the capability of the licensee to measure radioactivity in effluents.
Period of Performance - 120 days Sponsor - Office of Inspection and Enforcement Status - A fixed-price contract in the amount of $35,927 was awarded to Mobile Systems, Indian ~apolis, Indiana, on September 28, 1979.
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DIVISION OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION AND DOCUMEi1T CONTROL
- WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 5,1979 TRANSLATIONS Deleted from PDR copy.
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DIVISION OF SECURITY Items of Interest Week Ending October 5, 1979 Information Security Oversight Office (IS00) review of NRC Information Security Program. An 1500 team conducted a five day review of the NRC Information Security Program during the week of October 1,1979.
The review involved discussions with a substantial number of NRC personnel in a wide variety of offices.
A comprehensive report of the 1500 findings will be provided to NRC later this calendar year.
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WEEKLY ITEMS OF INTEREST (Week Ending October 5,1979)
Turkey Point, Units 3 and 4_
The ASLB considering the proposed steam generator repair program issued an Order Relative to Contentions and Discovery dated September 25, 1979. The Order defines the contentions and sets the hearing for January 8,1980.
Briefly, the contentions include:
An environmental impact statement should be prepared; 1.
The program will not be ALARA and individual exposure limits will be 2.
violated; 3.
Handling of discharges will not be ALARA; 4'.
Releases from the stored assemblies will not be ALARA; 5.
The dimeralizers have not been considered; The cumulative offsite releases do not comply with 10 CFR Parts 20 6.
and 50; The steam generator repair report is inadequate because certain costs 7.
are not accurate; The radiation monitoring program will not provide accurate information; S.
The measures for pIotection against fire hazards are inadequate.
9.
Da'vis-Besse 1 At 8:56 p.m.' on September 26, 1979, the Davis-5 esse 1 plant suffered a reactor The fault trip due to a faulty main turbine throttle pressure limiter.
caused a turbine power runback resulting in a high primary system pressure Follcwing the trip, the primary system cooled down sufficiently reactor trip.
to cause pressurizer level to drop below the bottom of the indicating range for approximately 21 seconds.
It is estimated that the minimum level reached was 10 inches below zero indication.
The loss of pressurizer level is in part attributable to the lifting of a steam generator code safety valve which reseated at a lower pressure than expected (i.e., the blowback setooint was too low). Another recent event in which the pressurizer level dropped out of sight prompted the licensee to readjust the code safety blowback setpoint to a higher value.
The plant was returned to operation September 27. The licensee has made additional adjustments to the code safety blowback setpoint for the valve in question following plant startup, and is considering the necessity of further adjustrants to the other code safety valves.
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Palisades During surveillance required by I&E Bulletin 79-13, radiography of pipe to transition piece welds at Palisades revealed cracks in both A and generator feedwater lines.
The in the horizontal runs of piping upstream from the stea that the cracking is limited to the horizontal runs. Palisades was shutdown for refueling of piping will be replaced in each line. September 8,1979, and the have minimum impact on the scheduled return to power.
Maine Yankee the licensee submitted a license amendment 18, 1979, By letter dated September requesting a spent fuel storage capacity increase from 953 to 1545 spent This increase would be accomplished through a modified spent fuel pin storage concept by first disassembling a spent fuel assemb fuel assemblies.
after a suitable cooling period, and reassembly into the modi fuel bundle.
This concept has not been previously be affected by this modification.
reviewed on other facilities.
University of California at Berkeley License No. R-101 for the University of California at Be This renewal includes new Technical opera' tion until February 3, 2005.Specificat. ions, emergency plan safety analysis report.
H. B. Robinson 2 30, 1979, a fire in containment was detected On Sunday morning, September The by the fire detector system while the plant was at about 40'; power.
fire, which was in the lagging of the RCS "C" leg in a 12" x 4" area, was caused by an oil drip which was bicwn cnto the pipe lagging by the reactor The fire was extinguished with dry coolant pump's stator cooling system.
chemicals by plant personnel.
The plant, which was shutdown after the fire was detected, has been returne to pcwer.
Indian Point, Unit 3 Inspection of all four steam generators at Indian Point 3 during the current refueling outage indicates hourglassing and possibly minor cracking of the Eddy current testing of Steam Generator 32 was performed.
l support p ates.
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Appr,oximately 200 tubes of about 500 tested indicated denting (failure to Only two tubes did not pass a 610 mil probe; all pass a 720 mil probe).
passed a 540 mil probe.
Further NRC discussions with the licensee and Westinghouse are planned prior to return to power.
Prairie Island, Unit No.1 At about 3:14 p.m. EDT, on October 2,1979, Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant Unit No. I experienced tube rupture in one of its two steam generators (SGl A) while at 100% power.
(Unit 2 was also at 100% power and continued to operate unaffected by the event.) The reactor trip / turbine trip and All safety injections were initiated by low RCS pressure (1800 psig'.
safety systems functioned normally.
Both RCS pumps were manually tripped One atmospheric relief imediately following SI, as required by procedure.
valve (on A generator) opened for 1-2 seconds at the time of the turbine The power operated relief valve (PORV) on the pressurizer inside tri p.
The containment was intentionally opened for a short period of time.
discharge of steam through this valve into the quench tank inside containment caused a rupture disk on that tank to open allowing discharge to the contain-ment atmosphere.
Cooldown was initiated by natural circulation through the B steam generator and later one RCS pump was restarted. Cooldewn is being completed using the RHR system.
Preliminary estimates.of the initial radioactive releases from the plant stack due to this event indicated that on the order of 10% of Technical Specifications limits or less were reached and that these had dropped to dne percent or less of these limits within one hour.
Environmental Oualifications Verification Test _
As a result of a 1977 petition filed by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Commission recuested the staff to repeat tests related to the verifi-cation of the methodology of environmental qualification of electrical ccm-ponents (Browns Ferry convectors) which had previously been tested by Wyle Laboratories and found environmentally qualified. Pre-test runs performed at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, on September 25, 1979, failed to duplicate the environmental profile needed to confirm qualification procedures.
Further analysis and modifications to the test facility are now in progress and are necessary before the verification test can be performed.
Fort St. Vrain The Public Service Company of Colorado has restarted the Fort St. Vrain reactor.
The plant is at approximately 30% power generating 90,vde.
A sac-dary aater chemistry problem still plagues the reactor.
Organic iron
.u s0 2n plugging the demineralizers and hciding up startup due to high iron concentrations in exccs; of lechnical Specification alicwances for cperation 0
with temperatures over 400 F.
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0FFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT IMPORTANT EVENTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 5,1979 1.
On October 4 and 5, Mr. F. D. Anderson participated in the IAEA Nuclear Power Course on Siting for Nuclear Power Plants as a lecturer on population evaluation methods at Argonne National Laborato ry.
The siting course is given to an assemblage of developing country people from IAEA Member States.
[
Contact:
F. D. Anderson]
rublications Issued During Neek of October 1-5, 1979 Draft Regulatory Guide and Value/ Impact Statement: LWR Core Reloads; Guidance on Applications for Amendments to Operating Licenses and on Refueling and Startup Tests, Task SC 521-4 [ Comments requested by December 3,1979]
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OFFILE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS
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Items of Interest Week Ending October 5, 1979 NFS Erwin James G. Partlow and members of his staff are at the Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Erwin, Tennessee this week as part of the team investigating the excessive HEU inventory difference at that facility. A new inventory is scheduled to take place this week following preparation activities by NFS personnel and verification / inspection activities by NRC personnel.
NRC personnel will accompany the NFS inventory teams and observe the taking of the inventory.
U.S. Procram for Technical Assistance to IAEA Safeguards On September 17-21, 1979, Mr. Paul Morrow, Division of Safeguards represented NRC in the Annual Technical Support Coordination Committee's review of the U.S. Program for Technical Support to IAEA Safeguards.
Representatives of DOE, ACDA, State, NRC, BNL/ISP0, and the IAEA met in Vienna to review and update some 125 specific program tasks.
In addition, discussions were held on approximately 50 new tasks that the IAEA is considering proposing.
Non-Pcwer Reacter Fuel Members of the Division of Safeguards met with Dakridge National Laboratory (ORNL) representatives to initiatu an CRNL study on the possibility of giving safeguards credit for the difficulty of reprocessing non-power reactor fuel. The first task in this effort will provide preliminary results in support of a Commission paper due in November 1979, on the status of staff studies related to safeguards for non-power reactors.
Bioassay Study - Yellowcake Staff merters of NMSS, RES and SD met to establish performance objectives and priorities for yellcwcake research studies to be carried out by the Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The results of these studies will be used in establishing, or upgrading, programs of bioassay at operating uranium mills.
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Items of Interest 2
Public Hearina on Proposed Mill Tailinas Reculation On October 1 and 2,1979, the Uranium Recovery Licensing Branch held an informal public hearing in Denver, Colorado, to receive comments and answer general questions related to the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Uranium Milling and associated regulations which were proposed on August 24, 1979. Another hearing on this subject has been scheduled for October 18 and 19, 1979, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Presentation of Paper at ANS Decommissioning Meetinc On September 19, Barry flingst presented the paper, "An Analysis of Decommissioning Costs and Funding," at the Decontamination and Decommissioning Topical Meeting of the American Nuclear Society. The paper is a technical study of funding methods based on NUREG-0514 (draft).
NUREG-0514 is a decommissioning cost and financing computer code. Minor questions were asked on the results and the basic apprcach seemed acceptable.
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0FFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT Items of Interest Week Ending October 5, 1979 1.
The following Notification of Significant Enforcement Action was dispatched during the past week:
a.
EN-79-08B Virginia Electric and Power Company (Surry Unit 2) - On October 1,1979, an Order Imposing Civil Penalties in the amount of
$15,000 was issued to the subject licensee. This action was based on five items of noncompliance which involved the exposure of an indi-vidual to a whole body dose of approximately 10 rems during an entry into the incore instrument room.
2.
Preliminary Notifications relating to the following actions were dispatched during the past week:
a.
PNO-I-79-03 Maine Yankee - Unscheduled Release of Radioactive Material b.
PNO-I-79-04 Indian Point Unit 3 Inadvertent Initiation of Containment Spray System c.
PN0-II-79-4 H. B. Robinson Unit 2 - Reactor Coolant Pipe Lagging Fire d.
PNO-III-79-5 Cotter Corporation, Hazelwood, MO - Whole Body Count of Former Employee
' e.
PNO-III-79-6 Clinton Unit 1 - TV Interview Relative to Clinton Site f.
PNO-III-79-7 Cavis-Besse - State of Ohio Emergency Drill g.
PNO-III-79-8 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois - Personnel Overexpcsure h.
PNO-III-79-9, -9A, & -9B Prairie Island Unit 1 - Tube Rupture in Steam Generato. A i.
PNO-III-79-10 Clinton Unit 1 - Media Interest in Setting the Clinton Reactor Vessei j.
PN0-V-79-2 University of California at Los Angeles - Group Advocates UCLA Reactor Shutdown k.
PNS-II-79-102H & -102I Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., Erwin, TN -
Inventory Difference in Excess of License Condition 1.
PNS-IV-79-03 Fort St. Vrain - Threat of Scmbing by Black Militant Group
- tinuclear Demonstration m.
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3.
The following Information Notices were dispatched during the past week:
a.
IE Information Notice No. 79-24, "Overpressurization of Containment of a PWR Plant After a Main Steam Line Break," was issued on October 1,1979 to all power reacter facilities with an _ operating license or construction permit.
b.
IE Information Notice No. 79-25, " Reactor Trip at Turkey Point Units 3 and 4," was issued on October 1,1979 to all power reactor facilities with an operating license or construction permit.
s.
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Important Items - Week Ending October 5,1979 RSR IEEE contacted NRC, Roger Mattson (NRR) and Saul Levine (RES), with a proposal for a Technology Transfer Conference. They proposed that their members in other high technology industries (aerospace, petro-chemicals, etc.) could offer their experiences thAt may be applicable to update the state of technology in the nuclear power area.
RES proposes to co-sponsor such a conference and is meeting with IEEE representatives to develop an agenda.
Th.e proposed dates for this cer., 2nce are the evening of January 15, 1980, and January 16 and 17,1980.
SAFER A description of the RES program on high level waste research and risk assessment was presented at the NRC briefing to DOE cn Thursday, October 4 at Germantown. MD by C. Jupiter and M. Cullingford.
The RES briefing was conducted in conjunction with a general NW.SS summary of the status of NMSS's regulatory program development and its technical assistance program.
A description of the research projects being conducted and planned, was presented in the areas of:
- 1) waste package performance, 2) site characteristics, 3) repository design, construction, operation and closure,
- 4) environmental and health impact assessment, 5) monitoring and verification, and 5) radionuclide transport modeling and risk assessment.
Regulatory objectiv.es for each of the research projects were identified, together with their funding level and schedule for performance.
This presentation and the accompanying discussion by the participants provided a basis for further coordination of NRC research projects with the DOE research program.
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0FFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 5,1979_
Allens Creek Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 1 On October 1,1979, the Appeal Board issued a Memorandum (ALAB-565) stating that it believed that intervenors and petitioners to intervene should be given an opportunity to be heard in response to staff or applicant opposition to contentions at the prehearing conference scheduled for October 15-19, 1979, to consider over 200 contentions submitted. The Memorandum was issued as comment on a previous Licensing Board Order denying a motion by an intervenor to allow oral argument and additional submissions in support of the contentions at the conference. On October 2, the Licensing Board issued an Order allowing oral argument to be presented at the conference in response to objections to admissibility of contentions by staff or applicant.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST 0FFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 6, 1979 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Research and Technical Program Summaries IP provided to the Depari.mant of State summaries of NRC light water reactor research and technical assistance safety programs. These summaries are being exchanged with the Government of Japan prior to halding a joint meeting to review these programs. This review is being undertaken at the suggestien of the J anese Government with the intent of possibly expanding our joint cooperative LWR safety activities.
- Foreign Reports Deleted from POR copy.
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OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 5, 1979 P'rocram Develocment Robert Ryan, Sheldon Schwartz and Frank Young met wit $ Washington Sthte officials on Thursday, September 27 to discuss a Water Quality subagreement under the broad general agreement signed a year ago.
A model agreement was lef t with the State as a starting point for their consideration.
They indicated considerable interest.
On September 25-27 State Programs conducted a workshop for State officials in Seattle, Washington on Deccmmissioning Nuclear Facilities.
Approximately 70 State officials representing 19 States participated.
Emercency Precaredness S tate Programs received two requests for appearances next week, one be fore the Oklahoma State Legislature and one before Governor-Edward King's (Massachusetts) Advisory Panel on Three Mile Isla'nd.
Both groups will be seeking,information on emergency planning issues.
Hal Gaut. participated in an intra-agency panel chaired by H. Collins on emergency preparedness at the Agreement S tates meeting on October 3.
A major complaint of attendees was acceptance criteria being proposed by NRR in site visits that cEffer in some respects from the criteria in NUREG-75/lll.
This issue was also raised by the State and locals at NRR site visits to TMI and Beaver Valley in which SP participated.
Eugene McPeek, en detail from NRR, will provide additional assistance and liaison with State agencies in the preparation of their Radiological Emergency Response Plans.
On September 25, 1979 Tom Elsasser, Region I SLO, and Dick Van Niel, OSP, HQ, along with representatives from FEMA met in Richmond with Virginia S tate officials.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss changes necessary in the Virginia Radiological Emergency Response Plan needed to secure NRC concurrence.
On September 27, 1979, Tom Elsasser, along with members of RAC II observed a radiological emergency response drill in the State of New Jersey.
On October 2, 1979, Tom Elsasser, Region I SLO addressed the Annual Conference of the U. S. Civil Defense Council in New York City on the topic of Nuclear Safety and Emergency Planning.
Other speakers the program were John Ccnway, American Nuclear Energy Council and on Richard Pollack, critical Mass Energy Project who joined Mr. Elsasser for a panel discussion on the same tcpic.
On October 2, 1979 R.
G. Ryan and R. T.
Jaske attended a meeting of New York S ta te, Westches ter County and u tility representatives at Albany, New York to discuss a demonstration installation of ARAC at Indian Point and at the New York State Emergency Operations Center.
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. NRC will probably be asked to coordinate an installation.
State Programs has also received informal expressions of interest from California and Illinois.
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The Region V, SLO, co-chaired a Region X Federal Regional Advisory Committee meeting in Seattle October 4, 1979.
The purpose of this
' meeting was to plan the committee's participation in the forth-coming Emergency planning exercise during the week of October 22 at the Troj an Nuclear Generating Facility.
The meeting was also attended by.approximately 25 Federal agency representatives.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS Items of Interest WEEK ENDING - Octoter 5, 1979 Congressional Correspondence (1) Letter to Sen. Riegle on Michigan nuclear power plants; (2) letter to Rep. Patterson on NRC research projects. Also, sent index of past NRC Congressional correspondence to the PDR.
Policy, Planning and Programming Guidance (PPPG)
Interviewed several Office Directors in connection with preparation of the FY 82-86 PPPG.
60 Minutes
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CBS television staff of "60 Minutes" to interview staff member on con-struction times for nuclear power plants.
Show to be aired scmetime in November.
I Recort to Congress cn Alternative Reactor and Fuel Cycle Conceots Resolving final office comments so report can be forwarded to Commission.
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Office of the Controller Items of Interest Week Ending Oc.ber 6, 1979 FY 1980 The OMB appor'ionment of FY 1980 funds was received and the initial financial plans and allotments were issued to each allottee.
FY 1981 Budget Additional OM3 hearings were held on the standards Development budget raquest.
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CALENCAR OF SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS OCTOBER October 3-5 Robert E. Baker will participate in the EURTAOM Symposium en Optimization of Radiation Protection. His paper will be on the Appendix I 10 CFR Part 50 rulemaking.
(Luxembourg)
October 26 Edward Podolak will address a ceminar in the Bionucleanics Decartment at Purdue University on the subject: Regulatory Controls over the Medical Uses of Isotopes.
NOVEMBER Nove-ber 8 Edward Podolak will address FDA's Radiopharmaceutical Crugs Adviscry Cc=mittee en "NEC Regulations for Medical Uses of Radioisotopes."
November 12 Cr> Allen Brodsky, Keeping Radiation Exposures as low as Reascnably Acnievable, NC State University with Chapters cf Professicnal Societies, NC State University, Raleigh, NC.
NcvemberII Cr. Allen Bredsky, Epidemi.cgy and Radiation Protection (Wright H. Langham Memorial Lecture), University of Xentucky, Cepartment of Health Radiatica Sciences, Lexington, KY.
Neumber 15 Dr. Allen Bredsky, Public Health and the Peaceful Atem: The Radiaticq Debate - Symposium: The Significance of Lcw-level Radiation to Human Health, University of Kentucky Inter-Oisciplinary Cc=nittee, Lexingten, KY.
November 2S Informatien Securtiy Oversight Office (ISCO) Annual Symposium, " Executive Order 12055 - A Year later,"
NRC's Cevelcpment and Use of Classification Guides -
Ray ond J. Brady.
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CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS For Two Week Period Ending October 22, 1979 October 5,1979 Palo Verde 1, 2 & 3 - OL Application to be tendered.
Callaway 1 - OL Application to be tendered (first of SNUPPS plants).
October 11, 1979 LaSalle 1 & 2 - Meeting with applicant to discuss open items re instrumentstion and control and reactor systems.
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