ML19254F629
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November 7,1979 For:
The Comissioners From:
T. A. Rehm, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO
Subject:
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 2,1979 A summary of key events is included as a convenience to those Comissioners 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*
Analysis & Evaluation of Operational Data L*
Items Approved by the Comission M**
Calendar of Significant Events N
Calendar of Speaking Engagements 0
i T. N. Rehm, Assistant for Operations Office of the Executive Director
Contact:
for Operations T. A. Rehm 49-27781
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SUMMARY
OF KEY EVENTS WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 2, 1979 Trojan Oregon recently enacted a state law requiring the Oregon Department of Energy to maintain a state inspector at Trojan Nuclear Plant at least 40 hours4.62963e-4 days <br />0.0111 hours <br />6.613757e-5 weeks <br />1.522e-5 months <br /> per week. The state inspector's duties and responsi-bilities parallel those of NRC resident inspectors. Trojan now has two resident inspectors.
Davis-Besse 1 On October 25, 1979, while operating at 70% power, Davis-Besse 1 experienced a reactor trip.
Plant personnel were conducting unloading and isolation procedures of a 480 V Bus to allow a new security system power supply hook-up when one of the three operating RCPs tripped resulting in a unit trip. Attemot to restart the tripped RCP was unsuccessful due to blown fuses in the component cooling water (CCW) pump permissive interlock. These same fuses had blown in the trip of October 15, 1979. Toledo Edison plans to keep the unit shutdown to allow replacement of the RCP seals. Region III is following up on the recurrence of the CCW interlock fuse problem.
Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit No. 2 Arkansas Power'& Light Company has chosen to reolace the engine for Diesel Generator No. 2 for ANO-2 rather than repair the original engine.
The original engine recently failed due to a main bearing failure, has experienced two similar failures since its installation and had a record of similar failures in the factory before installation at AN0-2.
Operability of the diesel generator and the plant is not expected until late December 1979.
Generic Task A-7, Mark I Containment Lona Term program In a letter dated October 31, 1979, the staff issued the "NRC Acceptance Criteria for the Mark I Containment Long Term Program", to the affected operating BWR facilities. This action represents a key milestone in the NRC staff's resolution of Generic Task A-7, which was reported to Congress as an " Unresolved Safety Issue" in the 1978 NRC Annual Report.
SAFER A subsurface survey of the low level waste disposal site at Beatty, Nevada was conducted by RES through its contractor Geo Centers, Inc as noted in the October 26 Weekly Information Report.
Preliminary results from the unanalyzed data indicate the presence of subsurface anomolies typical of large buried objects and disturbed soils in the vicinity of the 12 older trenches. However, there were also indications of such subsurface anomolies at locations suggesting an extension of four of the trenches 30 feet beyond t% north boundary fence.
Additionally, several of the observed anomolies suggesced that some trenches may be laterally offset by 15 or 20 feet from their markers.
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OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending November 2,1979 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision Received 503 30 Granted 347 10 Denied 82 15 Pending 74 5
ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received Janice Merrill, Requests a copy of the Proposal and Request for Kinetic Research Proposal for NRC-07-79-312, " Statistical Review
.(79-459) and Methodology Development, Automated Sciences Group."
Diane E. Findley, Requests a copy of the technical proposal submittec Science Applications, Inc.
in response to RFP No. RS-NRR-79-ll8, " Review (79-460) and Evaluation of Approximately 500 Pending Operating Reactors Licensing Actions."
Susan Baumann Requests a copy of NUREG 538 and information (79-461) on emergency response plans for Jackson County, North Carolina.
Ellen Flynn, Requests infomation on RFP No. RS-0SD-79-002, National Evaluation Systems, Inc.
" Standards for Psychological Assessment of (79-462)
Security Personnel."
Virginia B. Fcate, Requests the review by J. Kelleher Consultants Center for Deve?opment Policy and the NRC staff of the IAEA Report concerning (79-463) the proposed Philippine nuclear reactor.
David S. Fleischaker, Requests all documents pertaining to a meeting Attorney-At-Law held on October 19, 1979 on the Diablo Canyon (79-464) nuclear power plant and all records pertaining to Joseph M. Hendrie's participation in the review of the Diablo Canyon license application prior to becoming Chairman of the NRC.
CONTACT:
J. M. Felton 492-7211 l}47 g
ENCLOSURE A
2 Received, Cont'd Steve Gannis Requests information on the power and duties of the (79-465)
NRC.
Charles L. Gysi, III Requests information on radio frequences used by-(79-466) the NRC during the incident at Three Mile Island during March-April.
Ginger Rutland, Requests all documents compiled by the Mechanical Chronicle Broadcasting r.ngineering Branch for IE Bulletins 78-12,78-12A, Company 78-12B, a. copy of the report prepared by Babcock (79-467) and Wilcox on the possible presence and effects of atypical weld materials and all documents pertaining to possible atypical weld materials in the reactor pressure vessel at Rancho Seco Unit 1.
R. Lee Armbruster, Requests all documents relating to the low-level Nuclear Engineering Company, Inc.
radioactive waste disposal facility located (79-468) near Beatty, Nevada.
Janice F. Rutherford, Requests the winning technical proposal entitled, The BDM Corporation
" Behavioral Observation Program to Assure Continued (79-469)
Reliability to Employees."
S. P. Carfagno, Requests IE Bulletins and IE Circulars for 1975 and Franklin Research Center IE Information Notices for 1975 through 1979.
(79-470)
William Reynolds, Requests all documents relating to the American Friends Service determination of a route for the shipment of spent Committee nuclear fuel from foreign sources to the Savannah (79-471)
River Plant.
Severly Real Requests information regarding a proposed regulatic (79-472) pursuant to 29 U.S.C. 794 dealing with NRC policy of nondiscrimination in the hiring of handicapped persons.
Granted Gian Richard Cassarino In response to a request for documents regarding (79-390) the systems for the disposal of radioactive wastes, made available 21 documents.
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3 Granted, Cont'd Victor M. Glasberg, In response to a request for documents relating to Attorney-At-Law the discharge of radioactive gas from the North (79-409)
Anna nuclear power plant, made available 11 documents.
Betty Johnson, In response to a request for documents relating League of Women Voters to unresolved generic issues for the Byron, (79-415)
Illinois nuclear power plant, made available 10 documents.
Andrew B. Reid In response to a request for information pertaining (79-420) to possible citations or investigations by the NRC of seven listed companies and organizations, informed the requester that, after careful consideration, we have determined that this request is a broad, sweeping, indiscriminate request and does not " reasonably describe" the records sought.
Andrew B. Reid In response to a request for documents relating to (79-421)
NRC licenses issued to any person or organization in the States of South Dakota and Wyoning, made available a computer print-out list of NRC licensees located within the borders of South Dakota and Wyoming.
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(An NRC employee)
Made available a copy of the letter supporting (79-422) the high quality increase for a named NRC employee.
Jean M. Galloway, In response to a request for documents showing Attorney-At-Law the price per page charged to the public for copies (79-426) of transcripts of proceedings before the NRC under stenographic reporting, transcription and micrographic services contracts for fiscal years 1978-1980 and the name of each contractor, made available a copy of the only NRC contract.
Ellyn R. Weiss, In response to a request for a copy of a.
Sheldon, Harmon, September 26, 1979 letter from the Council on Roisman & Weiss Environmental Quality to Howard Shapar stating (79-437)
CEQ's position on NRC's regulations for environmental review under the National Environment.
Policy Act, made available this document.
Ronald J. Oberle, Informed the requester the NRC has no contracts Attorney-At-Law dealing with executive placement, counseling or (79-442) other employee related services from January 1, 1978 to the present.
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4 Granted, Cont'd James M. Moore, Informed the requester the NRC has no information Attorney-At-Law pertaining to his clients' deceased husband in (79-446) its personnel, security, or radiation exposure records.
Frank Askin, Made available eight documents indexed or Rutgers University maintained under the name of SEA Alliance.
(79-447)
Stanley Fleishman, Made available a copy of a proposed regulat1on Attorney-At-Law implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation (79-453)
Act of 1973.
Diane E. Findley, In response to a request for a copy of the technica Science Applications, Inc.
Proposal which resulted in the award modification (79-456)
No. 8 to NRC-02-77-165, " Review of the Environmental Impact of High Level Radioactive Waste Management," informed the requester no technical proposal was required to be submitted.
Denied Anthony I. Robichaux In response to a request for investigations of (79-367) his allegations regarding falsification of documents by Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio, Texas, made available 10 documents.
Denied portions of one document containing the name of a confidential source and information which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion cf personal privacy.
(An NRC employee)
In response to a request for information regarding (79-419) ratings and infomation relied upon to make those ratings for all candidates for Vacancy Announcement 79-15, made available 17 documents.
Denied two documents in their entirety and portions of two documents, disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion.
of the personal privacy of the individuals concerned.
(An individual requesting In response to a request for all information information) regarding the selection of Vacancy Announcement (79-432)79-562, denied the names of other candidates and their application documentation and individual evaluations of the "A" candidates, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
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DIVISION OF CONTRACTS (Week Ending November 2,1979)
PENDING COMPETITIVE REQUIREMENTS IFB RS-ADM-80-361 Title - Computer Output Microfilming and Production of 35mm Aperture Cards Description - Produce microfilm and duplicates from computer tapes and produce 35mm aperture cards from source.
Period of Performance - Twelve months with twelve month option Sponsor - Office of Administration Status - Solicitation being developed I347 iS3 ENCLOSURE A
DIVISION OF SECURITY Week Ending November 2,1979 1.
A revised draft Bulletin on " Automated Information Systems Security Program for Sensitive Data" has been issued for comment to Directors of Offices and Divisions.
The final Bulletin is due in January 1980.
2.
Raymond J. Brady, Director, Division of Security, attended the Department of Energy Safeguards and Security Directors' Meeting in Germantown on October 30, 1979.
3.
Robert F. Whipp, Chief of the Information Security Branch, conducted a classification appraisal of Region I.
4.
The Division submitted an NRC Information Security Program Data Report to the Information Security Oversight Office covering the period May 1 to September 30, 1979.
5.
NRC Manual Chapter 2101, "NRC Security Program," Part I, " Definitions,"
has been revised to conform to Executive Order 12065.
The revised version has been submitted to OMPA for concurrence and approval for publication ~.
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DIVISION OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION AND DOCUMENT CONTROL
- WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 2, 1979 TRANSLATIONS l347 ISS "This entry deleted from PDR copy.
ENCLOSURE A
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION WEEKLY ITEMS OF INTEREST (Week Ending November 2,1979),
Zien Units 1 & 2 26, 1979, representatives of Commonwealth Edison Corporation On October (licensee for Zion Station Units No. i and No. 2) and Westinghouse Electric Corporation met with the NRC staff. The meeting was requested by NRC to allcw CECO to discuss reports of indications detected during additional non-destructive examinations of steam generator (SG) feedwater piping.to steam generator nozzle welds at Zion Unit No.1.
CECO had reported indications on Octocer 15 when two SG feedwater nozzle welds had been reinspected and indi-caticns noted.
On October 24 CECO advised IE Region III by letter that exam' nations using more sensitive radiography techniques revealed indications (evidence of possible cracking in the weld preo counterbore to ramp angle areas) in all four SG feedwater lines.
At tne conclusion of the meeting the NRC staff advised CEC 0 representatives of the following positions:
(1) CEC 0 should proceed to replace piping on Unit No.1 during the current outage (refueling started October 6) for all SG's.
(2) CECO should prepare to bring Unit No. 2 to shutdown conditions to oerfonn similar inspections of the areas of concern using the latest techniques.
An analysis of any indications discovered should be :erformed to determine crack size, if existent, and safety c:nsecuences.
Foil: wing further discussion between CECO management and NRC management, Zion Unit N:. 2 was placed in shutdown conditions on October 26. Unit 2 radio-graphi: examination indicated feedwater line cracking at the nozzles for all stea
- enerators in this plant also.
CECO is cresently examining the feed-water lines in Unit 2 using more sensitive radiography techniques.
A 'eed..ater nozzle sample from Unit 1 was sent to Westinghouse for metallurgical exam' nations.
CECO has decided, and begun to repair the crack areas in Unit 1 in all steam generators based on the results of these examinations.
Ocint isach 1 Pcint Esach 1 is currently shut down for refueling and steam generator tube ins:sction.
The "A" steam generator has undergone a 100'; eddy-current irsce:ticn, the second such inscection since August of this year.
Results indi: ate that an additional 73 tubes must be plugged due to defects found in
.e tube sheet region, taking the total number of plugged tubes in this stea ;enerator to 320 (10';).
The need to plug an additional 73 tubes is in t-is brief time interval an increase over previous experience.
It is not clear at t.is time whether the increase is actual or apparent, since a more se.sitive inspection technique is being used this time.
A meeting has been schetled for "onday, November 5 to discuss the inspection results for both staa
- ene#ators, including a report of tubes rem.oved for detailed examination.
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isconsin Electric is continuing its investigation of ways to arrest the
" deep crevice cracking" which is occurring.
Flush $ng the narrow slot betneen the tube and tube sheet is being considered, as well as sleeving.
Eventual steam generator replacement is a possibility.
Trojan 0~tgen recently enacted a state law which will require the Oregon ' Department of Energy to maintain a state inspector at Trojan Nuclear Plant at least 40 nours cer week.
Oregon expects to fill this position in the next two mnths. The state inspector's duties and responsibilities parallel those of NRC resident inspectors. Irojan now has two NRC resident inspectors.
Monticello T'.a.t.t:mic Safety and Licensing Board proceeding involving Northern States Power Company's application to convert the Monticello Nuclear Generating olar.t provisional operating license to a full-term operating license was terminated and the case discussed on October 25, 1979. The Commission ciesignated this ASLB to conduct a hearing on the proceeding by notice of hearing dated December 19, 1972 (37 FR 28544). The intervenors in this proceeding sutsecuently withdrew and the proceeding became uncontested.
One issue raised unilaterally by the Board was satisfactorily resolved.
OELO advised that tne matter of Monticello's full-term license is now exclusively before the DirectoPof Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
Donald C. Cook, Unit No.1 The D. C. Cook Unit No.1 is being shut down for repair of a main reactor coolant pump.
In normal operation, a vibration of 2 to 5 mils is expected in these pumps and motors. The unit had measured up to 20 mils vibration in opera tion.
In an attempt to balance the pumo, the vibration went up to 60 mils. The utility is placing the unit in cold shutdown, degassifying the coolant, and draining the 1000 to the 1/2 level so that the 1000 can be coened and the au o can be inspected.
At present it appears to the licensee that tne lower motor bearing may be bad. The D. C. Cook facility has a spare reactor coolant pu.o on-site if required for the fix.
It is estimated that the unit will be out of service for two weeks to a month. There has been no hazard to the public from this inspection and maintenance activity and it is expected that all actions by the utility can be accomplished within their normal operating and aintenance procedures.
Unit No. 2 is presently down for refueling and scheduled to be back on line around mid-December.
Davis-Sesse 1 Cn October 25, 1979, the Davis-Besse 1 plant was operating at approximately 70i full power when a reactor trip occurred.
Prior to the trip, only three reactor coolant cumps (RCPs) were operating due to seal failures on the fcur-h pumo.
Plant personnel were conducting unloading and isolation pro-cedures of a 480 V Sus to allow a new security system power supply hook-up
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- n ene of the three operating RCPs tripped.
This resulted in a unit trip.
A:'.empt to restart the tripped RCP was unsuccessful and investication revealed 010.:n fuses in the cc ponent cooling water (CCW) pump permissive interlock.
These same fuses had blown in the trip of October 15, 1979.
Toledo Edison clans to keep the unit shutdown to allow replacement of the RCP seals.
Region III is following up on the recurrence of the CCW interlock fuse problem.
Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit No. 2 Arkansas Power & Light Com:any has chosen to replace the engine for Diesel Generator No. 2 for ANO-2 rather than repair the original engine. The original engine recently failed due to a main bearing failure.
It has experi-enced two similar failures since its installation at ANO-2.
In addition, the same engine had a record of similar failures in the factor before installation at ANO-2. The operability of the diesel generator and the plant with a new engine and associated facility recairs (a wall was removed in the process of removing the failed engine) is not expected until late December '79.
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Alfrac and Elinore Coleman of Pennsville, New Jersey, petitioned the Commission On Oc::bar 24, 1979 to withdraw the OL for Salem 1 and suspend the cps for Sale 2 and Hope Crcek 1 and 2.
They have asked that an evaluation be performed to determine the power plants' impact on the shortnose sturgedn, an endangered scecies und'e'r the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 (PL 93-205).
Two fish of tnis species were found on the Salem Unit 1 intake in 1978.
On October 29, 1979, informal consultation with National Marine Fisheries Service
(.T'FS) was initiated as specified by the ESA.
Representatives were present from EPA Region II, Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (the licensee),
Ichthyological Associates (the licensee's cor.sultant), NMFS and NRC.
Also cres ent were Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Coleman, Jr., and an attorney, Karin Sheldon.
At this meeting, the status of the license amar.dment for the Salem 1 core relcad
- as discussed. Salem I has been shut dcwn since April 1,1979 and was to receive a core reload amendment on October 26, 1979.
The Environmental Specialists Branch has prepared a preliminary assessment utilizing information provided at the meeting to serve as the technical basis for allcwing operation of Salem 1 while fcr: al consul tation,wi th NMFS is pending.
We have requested formal consultation with NMFS.
We will provide technical information for respcnse to the Coleman's petition to the Commission when requested by CELD.
In the meantime, there is adequate preliminary information available to su;; ort a technical justification for allowing the Salem 1 license amendment to be issued.
Fresentation at International School of Reactor Technology Dr. Jerry Kline participated on October 18 and 19 in the Reactor Technology course being conducted by Argonne National Laboratory for students from foreign nations.
Tv.: lectures and a panel discussion were held on the environmental censiderations ri:uired for environmental assessment and siting of nuclear power plants.
ENCLOSURE B Generic Task A-7, Mark I Containment Lona Term Program In letters dated October 31, 1979, the staff issued the "NRC Acceptance Criteria for the Mark I Containment Long Tern! Program", to the affected operating BWR facilities. This action represents a key milestone in the NRC staff's resolution of Generic Task A-7, which was reported to Congress as an " Unresolved Safety Issue" in the 1978 NRC Annual Report. The is-suance of these criteria begins the implementation phase of this program.
A generic Safety Evaluation Report (SER) is scheduled to be issued in December 1979.
Issuance of the SER will conclude Generic Task A-7.
ECCS Meetino On November 1, 1979, the NRR staff met with reactor and fuel vendors, and some re. actor licensees, to discuss recently developed staff views on clad-dina swellina and coolant flow blockage which could result from reactor accidents.
Based on a preliminary evaluation of correlations being developed, the staff had detemined that parts of the approved ECCS models might be non-conservative in this area, and therefore, might not be in compliance with Appendix K of 10 CFR 50.
As a result of the meeting, the staff concluded that, while the approved vendor models deviated significantly from the staff correlations on an overall basis, within the ranges of appliability, one of two circumstances prevailed:
(1) the vendor models were either conservative or very close to the staff correlations within these ranges, or (2) peak claddina temperature was relatively insensitive to the discrepancy.
In either case a check of the models used to evaluate operating plants by the vendors indicated that the plants would be in confomance with 10 CFR 50.46 (2200"F clad temperature limit) even using the NRC model.
A briefing on this matter was provided to the Comission on November 2,1979.
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OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT IMPORTANT EVENTS FOR THE WEEN ENDING NOVEMBER 2,1979 1.
Executive Order Establishing the Federal Radiation Policy Council:
NRC has been asked to comment on a proposed Executive Order establishing the Federal Radiation Policy Council as recommended by the Libassi Task Force. The Council would be composed of representatives ( Assistant Secretary or equivalent) of the EPA, DOE, 000, DHHS, VA, NRC, DOL, DOT and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Also included for comment were draft memoranda laying out the Council's responsibilities in 1) the areas of Public Information, Radiation Effects and Ways to Minimize Exposure and 2) reviewing the radiation guidance function of the EPA.
The Council will be chaired by EPA and coordinate the activities of Federal agencies relating to the use and control of ionizing radiation
[M. Parsont, 443-5854]
Regulatory Guides to be Issued in the Near Future Title :
Considerations for Establishing Traceability of SNM Accounting Measurements (Reg. Guide 5.58, Rev.1)
Ex::ected Issuance Date: January 1980 Des cri ction :
Reg. Guide 5.58 presents conditions and procedural approaches acceptable to the NRC staff for establishing and maintaining traceability of SNM control and accounting measurements. Traceability is the ability to relate individual measurement results to the national standards of measurement through the national measurement system by use of an unbroken chain of comparisons.
Contact:
S. Turel 443-5905 Publications Issued During the Week of October 29-November 2,1979 Reg. Guide 1.143, Rev.1 - Design Guidance for Radioactive Waste Management Systems, Structures, and Components Installed in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants
[ Issued to Reflect Comments]
3 raft Regulatory Guide and Value/ Impact Statement: Reporting of Safeguards Events, Task SG-901-4 [ Comments requested by December 31, 1979]
Proposed Revision 1 - Standard Review Plan - Section 9.2.2 " Reactor Auxiliary Cooling Water Systems" [ Comments requested by December 23,1979]
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Endina November 2,1979 Oconee-McGuire Transshioment Duke Power Company filed a motion with the Commission on October 24, 1979 pertaining to their application to ship spent fuel from Oconee to McGuire.
This motion requested expedited consideration of the question before the Comission concerning the release of proprietary routing information.
Duke cited timeliness as their prime concern. The delays of this proceeding have already forced them to consider other costly alternatives.
Concressional Connittee Briefino On October 29, Mr. Dircks of NRC and Mr. Dugoff of DOT jointly briefed the Senate Co:mittee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
The subject of the briefing was actions being taken to improve safety in transporting radioactive materials.
The topics of discussion included the transport of low-level waste to the burial grounds,D0T's rulemaking on routing, and the inspection and enforcement efforts of DOT and NRC.
Raden-222 Value for 10 CFR 51, Table S-3 A revised draft of the report on radon releases from the uranium fuel cycle has been prepared for internal review, using data from Battelle's revised reports on radon releases from underground and open pit uranium mines.
On the basis of new data from the Battelle reports on mining and from the GEIS on uranium milling, the radon-222 value previously reported as 5200 curies per Reference Reactor Year (RRY) in testimony at individual reactor licensing hearings has been reduced to 3500 Ci/RRY.
Fuel Fycle Costs A Fuel Cycle representative met with BPNL at Richland, Washington, to finalize the last interim report into a final report covering Fuel Cycle Cost Projections. This report summarizes the range of current and prospective unit costs associated with the various segments of the nuclear fuel cycle industry and projects to year 2020 overall fuel cycle costs (constant 1979 dollars) for LWR's operating on a once-through, or thermal recycle, mode for low, medium and high nuclear power growth projection scenarios.
It is anticipated that a master copy of this report will be received about mid-November for reproduction and publication as a NUREG document.
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Items of Interest 2
Use of Process Data for Enhanced Material Control A team from Pacific Northwest Laboratory visited the B&W-Lynchburg Plant on October 23-25 to obtain data in support of a study on the feasibility of using process and quality control data to enhance safeguards material control and accounting. Comparable data were obtained at B&W-Leechburg on October 3-5, 1979. This study is in support of the MC&A Upgrade Rule development.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT Items of Interest Week Ending November 2, 1979 Metro:olitan Edison Company (Three Mile Island) - Civil Penalty Action -
On Cctober 25, 1979, the Co. mission issued a Notice of Violation and a Notice of Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties in the amount of $155,000.
This a: tion was tased on alleged items of noncompliance associated with the accident that occurred on March 28, 1979.
2.
The following fio:ification of Significant Enforcement Action was dispatched during the past week:
a.
EN-79-07A University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin - On October 30, 1979, an Order Imoosing Civil Monetary Penalties in the amount of $1,800 was issued. A Notice of Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties in the amount of 52,300 was previously issued on August 15, 1979. Based on the licensee's reply, the staff concluded that the penalty proposed for one item should be mitigated from S300 to $200, and the proposed penalty of 5400 for another item should be remitted in its entirety.
3.
- reliminary Notifications relating to the following actions were dispatched curing the past week:
a.
PNO-I-79-13 Yankee-Rowe - Possible Safeguards Bus Voltage Degradation 3.
PNO-I-79-14 Westinghouse Plutonium Fuels Development Laboratory, Cheswick, PA - Plutonium 0xide Shipment to Savannah River c.
PNC-II-79-16 Oconee Unit 2 - Immediate Action Letter on Personnel Errors d.
PNG-II-79-17 Secuoyah Unit 1 - Emergency Planning Exercise e.
PNO-!I-79-18 Oconee Unit 3 - Unit Restart After Extended Shutdown 3
?NO-II-79-19 Harris Units 1, 2, 3, and 4 - Confirmation of Action
' e:ter on Cmission of Reinforcement Steel in Safety Related Structures g.
PNO-II-79-20 Farley Unit 1 - Unit Restart After Extended Shutdown h.
PNO-II-79-21 Sellefonte Unit 2 - Cooling Tower Crane Collapse i.
PNO-III-79-23 Dresden Unit 3 - Spent Fuel Pool Overflow 3
PNO-III-79-24 Prairie Island Units 1 & 2 - Chlorine Treatment of Cooling Tower Water Containing A,ceba Encephalitis
?NO-I!!-79-25 & -25A Dresden Units 1, 2, & 3; Zion Units 1 & 2; Lacrosse; 3E "or-is Coerations - Threatening Telephone Calls and Subsecuen: Trio a-Dresden 1347 163 ENCLOSURE E 1.
PNO-III-79-26 D. C. Cook Unit 1 - Excessive Vibrations on the Number 2 Reactor Coolant Pump PNO-III-79-27 Zion Unit 2 - Unit Shutdown Per IE Bulletin No. 79-13 n.
PNO-III-79-28 Davis-Besse Unit 1 - Unplanned Airborne Radioactivity Release o.
PNO-III-79-29 Zion Unit 2 - Twenty-Four Hour Notification of Crac. king in the Steam Generator to Feedwater Piping p.
PNO-III-79-30 D. C. Cook Units 1 & 2 - Local Media Reporting of Potential Large Fish Kills q.
PNO-III-79-31 Dresden Station - Federal Highway Administration Civil Penalty of $8,000 for Shipping Violations r.
PNO-III-79-32 Ohmart Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio - Shipment of Gauge Containing a 300 Millicurie Cesium 137 Sealed Source s.
PNO-V-79-8 Trojan - Reported Exposure of 3.7 Rems to Lens of the Eye t.
PNO-TMI-79-03 Three Mile Island Unit 2 - Cooling Tower Fire System Deluge Activiation PNS-IV-79-12 South Texas Project Units 1 & 2 - Bomb Threat u.
a.
The following IE Bulletin was issued:
a.
IE Bulltein No. 79-25, " Failures of Westinghouse BFD Relays in Safety Related Systems," was issued on November 2,1979 to all power reactor facilities with an operating license or construction permit.
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164 ENCLOSURE E
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Important Items - Week Ending November 1,1979 SAFER A subsurface survey of the low level waste disposal site at Beatty, Nevada was conducted by the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research through its contractor Geo Centers, Inc., at the urgent request of NMSS. to assist the State of Nevada in clarifying recently identified uncertainties in the location of waste burial trenches. These uncertainties were uncovered during a recent inadvertent excavation of waste from about 30 feet outside the site's north boundary by USGS.
Geo-Centers used a pulsed radar system to profile the subsurface to a depth of approximately 40 feet, using reflected electro-magnetic pulses.
The recorded data provided indications of buried objects, voids and regions of disturbed soils. Preliminary results from the unanalyzed data indicate the presence of subsurface anomolies typical of large buried objects and disturbed soils in the vicinity of the 12 older trenches, established between 1962 and 1969. However, there were also indications of such subsurface anomolies at locations suggesting an extension of four of the trenches 30 feet beycod the north boundary fence.
Additionally, several of the observed anomolies suggested that some trenches may be laterally offset by 15 or 20 feet from their markers.
A survey along the remainder of the site periphery produced no additional obvious subsurface anomolies.
An analysis and interpretation of these data will be conducted by Geo-Centers, Inc., and a mapping of all detected subsurface anomolies will be provided and correlated with existing trench location recorcs, to provide an improved definition of the boundaries of the waste trenches.
Geo-Centers will brief NRC on the results of a preliminary analysis within 2 weeks, and provide a final report on the survey within 90 days.
Battelle-Pacific Northwest Laboraborier
'l conduct a high resolution gar a ray survey of the site beginning oi..ionday, November 5, to detemine the isotopic concentrations of nuclear centaminants which may be present at the ground surface.
Reporting of these results will be coordinated with the report from Geo-Centers.
Results will be reported to the State of Nevada through the office of Mr. John Vaden, Supervisor of Radiological Health Program for the State nf Nevada.
Loss of Fluid Test (LOFT)
Plant preparations continue toward the performance of the first nuclear small break test on November 14, 1979.
Work is still being done on the low flow instrumentation, weatherprodfing of the air-cooled condenser and core physics testing.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 2, 1979 H. B. Robinson, Unit No. 2 On October 31 (ALAB-569), the Appeal Board completed its sua sponte ruview of the combined proceeding on environmental impacts of continuation of operation of the facility and on a proposed increase in authorized power level. The Appeal Board addressed two significant matters, holding that:
(1) Where EPA had granted a Section 316a exemption, thereby approving the facility's once-through cooling system, the Licensing Board correctly perceived that EPA's decision was binding on it. The Licensing Board's responsibility at that point was simply to factor the EPA determination into the cost-benefit balance.
(2) Where the Staff had advised the Board that no safety questions arising frem the TMI-2 accident would be made more serious by the proposed increase in power level (from 2200 to 2300 megawatts thermal), the Board properly determined that no uncontested matters were of such a serious nature as to warrant its formal attention.
Three Mile Island, Unit 2 On November 2,1979, the Appeal Board issued a Memorandum and Order (ALAB-570) rescheduling the hearing on the aircraf t crash probability issue, to commence on February 25, 1980.
The Appeal Board was satisfied that any findings it would make would retain their validity, that it was in the interest of the public and litigants to go forward even recognizing the uncertainty in the future of TMI-2, because of the relative freshness of the evidence and availability of witnesses and counsel and the generic implications of the issue (particularly considering the cresence of TMI-1). The Appeal Board also rescheduled the consolidated hearing on the radon issue (ALAB-566) to commence in Harrisburg immediately following the hearing on the aircraf t crash probability issue.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS WEEK Et4DIt;G I40VEMEER 2, 1979
- NTE:f:* :C';AL COCPERATION Cistribution of the President's Commission's Re:: ort Tne re::rt of the Presidential Commission on the accident at Three Mile Island has been sent to U.S. Embassies in 24 countries; the U.S. Missions to the Euro:ean Cer= unities, the IAEA, and OECD.
Tne report has also been provided to
'he local embassies or offices of these countries and organizations. Additional copies of the report have been sent to the official NRC contacts in the atomic ener;y regulatory organization in each Arrangement country.
Fo rei ec '.'i s i ts Members of the Japanese Atomic Power Company (JAPC0) met with NRR, IE, and SP officials on October 31 to discuss lessons learned in the areas of licensing, inspecticn activities, and emergency response, with respect to TMI-2.
Fembers c# the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate met with NRR, IE, and RES officials en October 29 to discuss conclusions of a general and generic nature en TMI-2.
The Swedish Head of the Nuclear Power Inspectorate, Mr. Lars Nordstrom, et with the Chairman and Commissioners and signed the renewal tf our Regulatory Exchange Arrangement.
Dr. Sig vard Eklund, Director General of the IAEA, met with the staff and Oc =issioners on Monday, October 29 to discuss nuclear safety and safeguards matters.
Ee:ause cf the LWR Research Review Meeting next week, we have received an unusually large number of visit requests.
The folicwing visits have been scnecuisd:
-- :r *;;ven:m-5: members of the Coordination Council for North American Affairs, Taiwan;
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8-member Japanese delegation;
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delegation of the Argentine National Atomic nergy Commission
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members of the Swedish Nuclear Training Center; on N vember 6: members from the GRS - Federal Republic of Germany; or. N:vember 7: members of the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate; Or *;;vember 8:
members from the French Ministry c; :ndustry}
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members of the Japanese Ministry of International _irade; on N:vember 9: members of the Belgian Society for Traction and Electricity Si;r nure of Renewal Arrancement
'ssioner Kennedy will sign the renewed Arrangement for the Excnance of
-e:--ical Information and Cocceration in Nuclear Sa:ety Matters etween ne Soanish Junta de Energia Nuclear w th JEN resident Jesus Olivares i
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169 EXPORT / IMPORT AND INTERNATIONAL SAFEGUARDS Meetine with OMB Regarding U.S. Technical Succort for IAEA Safeguards At the invitation of the State Department IP and NMSS (Ken Cohen and Ted Sherr, respectively) attended a meeting on October 29 at the offices of OMB to discuss budget matters dealing with U.S. technical support for IAEA safeguards. Also represented at the meeting were_ ACDA, DOE and DOE consultants.
The principal focus of the meeting centered on the FY-81 budget request.
The Executive Branch representatives provided an overview regarding why the USS provides technical support to the IAEA, how it fits into U.S. nonproliferation policy, and what the cresent and future needs are perceived to be.
OMB raised a particular concern regarding when one could expect to see this particular type of support come to an end.
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OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 2, 1979 S tate Aareements The Texas radiation control program will be reviewed during the week of November 5, 1979.
Procram Develocment On October 30 and 31, 1979 Mr. S. A. Schwartz participated in the Region VI Regional Radiation Training Meeting.
On October 31, 1979, Region I SLO addressed the Huntingdon Valley Rotary Club regarding the accident at Three Mile Island.
Emeraency Precaredness An exercise was held by the State of Tennessee in conjunction with the Seq'ucyah Facility.
It was observed by a regional advisory committee from Aclanta.
A one-week course for State Radiological Emergency Response Coordinators is being conducted by EPA and NRC in Auburn, Massachusetts.
Dick Van Niel participated in site visit with NRR at Quad Cities, Dresden, La Crosse and Zion, Illinois.
On October 26, 1979, Tom Elsasser, Region I SLO was in Augusta, Maine meeting with S tate officials to discuss the State Radiological Emergency Response Plan.
The Office of State Programs has issued a staff report, "Beyond Defense-in-Depth: Cost and Funding of State and Local Government Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Preparedness in Support of Commercial Nuclear Power S tations," by Dr. Stephen N. Salomon, Office of State Programs, NUREG-0553, in October 1979.
This report, on which work began in June 1978, describes the current hodgepodge funding approach to State and local government radiological emergency response plans and preparedness in support of commercial nuclear power stations.
The creation of a " Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Preparedness Fund for State and Local Government" is offered as the preferred solution.
Copies are being sent directly to Federal, State and local officials with responsibilities for radiological emergency plans and preparedness, environmental and public interest groups and utility industry groups and associations.
Other copies will be available in the headquarter's and local public document rooms.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS Items of Interest WEEK ENDING - NOVEMBER 2,1979 Emergency Precaredness Assisted Chairman Hendrie by preparing a draft of his testimony before Rep. Moffett's subcommittee.
Circulated draft on emergency preparedness organizational options to EDO and Office Directors.
Kemeny Reoort Compared Kemeny Commission's recommendations with NRC's TMI action plan and with draft FY 82-86 Policy, Planning and Program Guidance (PPPG).
MIS Publication Distributed October issue of Status Su::Tnary Report - Advanced Reactor Sa'fety Research (Buff Book II).
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CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS November 6, 1979 B&W Plants under Meeting with utilities who have B&W Construction plants uncer construction, to discuss 10 CFR 50.54 reauest regarding the design adequacy of B&W NSSS utilizing once thr ugn steam generators.
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CALENDAR OF SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS NOVEMBER Nove:-ber 7-9 Sanford Israel will present a paper at the CSNI Specialist Meeting on Regulatory Review in Licensing Process in Madrid, Spain - TMI-2 and Its Imoact on the Regulatory Process November 8 Edward Podolak will address FDA's Radiopharmeceutical Drugs Advisory Committee on "NRC Regulations for Medical Uses of Radioisotopes" November 12 Dr. Allen Brodsky, Keeping Radiation Exoosures as Low as Reasonably Achievable, NC State University with Chapters of Professional Societies, NC State University, Raleigh, NC November 14 Dr. Allen Brodsky, Eoidemiology and Radiation Protection (Wright H. Langham Memorial Lecture), University of Kentucky, Department of Health Radiation Sciences,
,Lexington, KY November 15 Dr. Allen Brodsky, Public Health and the Peaceful Atom:
The Radiation Debate - Symposium: The Significance of Low-Level Radiation to Human Health, University of Kentucky Inter-Disciplinary Committee, Lexington, KY November 28 Informatien Security Oversight Office (IS00) Annual Symposium, " Executive Order 12065 - A Year Later," "NRC's Develcoment and Use of Classification Guides - Raymond J.
Brady DECEMBER December 10-13 Stephen McGuire will speak before the Health Physics Society Mid-Year Symposium on " Safety Training for Industrial Radiograohers" in Honolulu, Hawaii December 10-14 John McGrath will present a paper entitled "The NRC Program for Training of State Radiation Control Personnel" before the Health Physics Society Mid-Year Syposium, Honolulu, Hawaii 1347 173
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