ML19273B317
| ML19273B317 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Browns Ferry  |
| Issue date: | 03/19/1979 |
| From: | Ippolito T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Parris H TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7904060123 | |
| Download: ML19273B317 (2) | |
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- 9 1979 Docket Nos. 50-259, 50-260 and 50-296
-:m Mr. Hugh G. Parris Manager of Power Tennessee Valley Authority 500A Chestnut Street, Tower II Chattanooga, Tennessee 37401
Dear Mr. Parris:
The Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation is in the process of completing guidance for implementation of the Federal Regulation, 40 CFR Part 190, Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations.
This rule becomes effective December 1,1979 for licensed reactors. This guidance on the method of implementation was anticipated on page 11 of
!'UREG-0133, Preparation of Radiological Effluent Technical Specifications for Nuclear Power Plants. The draft Radiological Effluent Technical Specifications for BWR's, NUREG-0473, require compliance with 40 CFR Part 190, as specified in Section 3.11.2.5, Radioactive Effluents, Dose, Limiting Conditions fon Operation.
In order to most effectively finalize the guidance for use by nuclear plant operators in assessing the dose to the most affected individual for compli-ance with Section 3.11.2.5 above, the NRC needs available infomation on the (direct, "skyshine", and plume) radiation that has been measured in the vicinity of the turbine building and the site boundary of BWR nuclear stations. We, therefore, request that you supply any available data from
@.I on-site survey instruments, area radiation monitoring instruments, and I
environmental radiation monitoring instruments that would indicate.-adiation levels attributable to plant operation (i.e., direct and "skyshine" radiation l'
and radiation from the gaseous effluent plume).
Instrument readings taken during full power operation are desired that would give an indication of the radiation dose rate reaching various points on the site boundary or in the plant vicinity where members of the public are actually expected to be
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A description of the instruments used and their perfomance speci-
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H. S. Sanger, Jr., Esquire General Counsel Tennessee Valley Authority 400 Comr.erce Avenue E 118 33 C Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 fir. Dennis McCloud Tennessee Valley Authority 400 Chestnut Street, Tower II Chattanooga, Tennessee 37401 Mr. E. G. Beasley Tennessee Valley Authcrity 400 Commerce Avenue W 10C 131C Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 Robert F. Sullivan U. S. fluclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 1863 Decatur, Alabama 35602 Athens Public Library Scuth and Forrest Athens, Alabama 35611
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