ML19256C671
| ML19256C671 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Surry  |
| Issue date: | 08/27/1979 |
| From: | Liza Cunningham, Higginbotham L NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | |
| References | |
| PNO-79-367, NUDOCS 7910110653 | |
| Download: ML19256C671 (2) | |
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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION
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August 27, 1979 g
PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PND-79-367 fs This orelim'inary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest sionificance.
The information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation and is basically all tnar is known by IE staff on this date.
Facility:
Virginia Electric and Power Company Surry-2 Docket No. 50-281 Surry County, Virginia
Subject:
TRANSPORTATION AND STUDIES ON RADI0 ACTIVE STEAM GENERATOR A contract has been awarded'-to Battelle-Northwest Laboratories in Richland, Wasnington to conduct exami. nations and studies of the Surry-2 failed steam ge ne ra tor.
This reactor has been <>perating since 1973 so significant radio-activity is present inside the steam generator.
The radioactivity is Type A cuantities, and the packaging i's under the jurisdiction of the Depcrtment of T a sportation (DOT).
DDT has reviewed and approved the packaging and trans-Oc tation plans.
The scaled body of the steam generator, with some lccalizec shielding, will ccnstitute the " package."
It will be placed on a barge and towed cown the James U <er, south to the Panama Canal, through the Canal, north to the Columbia River, a.d up the river to Richland, Washington.
The ship.ent will be acco.panied oy Battelle-Northwest represeritatives.
The shipment is plannec for tne middle of Nc cember 1979, with arrival in Richland, Washington sometime in December.
~..e NRC will have regulatory jurisdiction during rereval and loading at the Sur y site.
The actual examinations and studies will be concucted by Battelle-Ncr:nwest as a DOE prime contractor and will be exempt from NhC jurisdiction.
'is ratter has already received media attention in the Washington D.C. press, and considerable local media coverage ir, the Richland, Washington area.
Acditional redia ccverage is anticipatec..
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' was notified of this matter by telephone cali frer Satteiie-hcrthwes:
_ac: ateries at 11:30 a.m. on August 23, 1979.
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LJCunningham, IE x28188 LBHigginbotham, IE x28454 Distribution:
Transmitted H.'St Chairman Hendrie Commissioner Bradford S. J. Chilk, SECY Com(issionerKennedy Commissioner Ahearne C. C. Kammerer, CA Commissioner Gilinsky ACRS (For Distribution)
Transmitted:
MNBB P. Bl dg /,'/co.m V. Stello, IE L. V. Gossick, EDO H.
L. Ornstein, EDO H. R. Denton, NRR Region T[
R. C. DeYoung, NRR J. J. Fouchard, PA R. J. Mattson, NRR Landow N. M. Haller, MPA D. Vassallo, NRR J. J. Cummings, OIA R. G. Ryan, OSP D. Eisenhut, NRR H.
K. Shapar, ELD SS Bldg (MAIL)
W. J. Dircks, NMSS R Minogue, SD S. Levine, RES rrduMIWnRT NOTIFICATION -
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