ML19270G915
| ML19270G915 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | West Valley Demonstration Project |
| Issue date: | 05/21/1979 |
| From: | Rouse L NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Michael Brown AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7906210129 | |
| Download: ML19270G915 (2) | |
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Docket No. 50-201 Mrs. Madelyn Grant Brown
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Dear Mrs. Brown:
Last Janrary you wrote me a letter with several questions and sugges-tions concerning the defect in the " saucer" or pan under the high level liquid waste tank at the Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc (NFS) reprocessing plant in West Valley, New York.
I appreciate your interest and suggestions, and I am enclosing copies of two documents which should provide you with additional information on the status of efforts to investigate the cause and nature of the defect in the pan.
The first of these documents, a Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC) staff memorandum from C. J. Haughney to me dated January 23, 1979, includes a description of the tests that determined the presence of the defect in the pan under waste tank 8D-2.
In your letter, you referred to a drawing of the waste tank system on page 3-30 of the Department of Energy's Companion Report to their Western New York Nuclear Service Center Study (TID-28905-3).
In the upper left corner of this drawing is a piece labeled moisture test tube, which is the tube through which the test water was added.
For a more complete description of the testing program, please refer to the memorandum described above.
The second enclosed document, an NRC memorandum dated March 29, 1979, is the staff's evaluation of the safety associated with the defect in the pan. This safety cvaluation describes the status of the ongoing efforts to determine the cause, size and location of the defect. Repairs to the defect may or may not be feasible, but any repairs could be considered or attempted only af ter a determination of the location and nature of the defect has been made.
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Mrs. Madelyn Grant Brown MAY I
In your letter, you asked questions concerning the temperature and pressure of the region surrounding the defect.
The temperature is approximately 180 F, and the pressure is atmospheric.
I would like to again thank you for your interest and suggestions expressed in your letter.
I hope that this response is helpful and informative.
If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Si ncerely, fM Leland C. Rouse, Acting Chief Fuel Reprocessing and Recycle Branch Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety
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f@rm to LCRouse fm CJHaughney dtd 01/23/79 2.
Meno to LCRouse fm CJHaughney dtd 03/29/79 cc:
G. K. Certel, Depari. ment cf Energy
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