ML19276H555
| ML19276H555 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Zion File:ZionSolutions icon.png |
| Issue date: | 11/16/1979 |
| From: | Carr J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Quigg C POLLUTION & ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, INC. |
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| ML19276H556 | List: |
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| FOIA-79-135 NUDOCS 7911290409 | |
| Download: ML19276H555 (1) | |
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!./ e November 16, 1979 Docket Nos. 50-295 and 50-304 Ms. Catherine Quigg Pollution & Environmental Problems, Inc.
Box 309 IN RESPONSE REFER Palative, IL 60067 TO F01A-79-135
Dear Ms. Quigg:
This supplements our letter to you dated June 12, 1979, and is in further response to your letter dated April 20, 1979, in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, access to all records which refer or relate to the leaks in the spent fuel pool of the Zion Nuclear Station from 1970 to the present.
As a result of our continued search for any documents subject to your request, we have located PN0-79-63, A Preliminary Notification of Event or Unusual Occurrence Report, dated March 26, 1979, concerning " NEWS MEDIA INTEREST IN SPENT FUEL P00L LEAKAGE", a copy of which is enclosed.
A copy of this document is also being placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) located at 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC and in the NRC Local Public Document Room (LPDR) located in the Zion-Benton Public Library, 2600 Emmaus Avenue, Zion Illinois.
We have not located any additional documents subject to your request.
This completes action on your request.
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Because none of the statutory exenptions from the Act a mandatory disclosure provisions applies, access to the request-ed records should be graried within ten wo.rking days. In the unlikely event, however, that access is denied to any part of the requested recordo please describe the deleted material in detail and specify the statutory basis for the denial as well as your reasons for believing that the alleged statutory justification applies in this instanse.
Please separately state your reasons for not invoking your discretionary powers to release the requested documents in the public interest.
I anticipate that you will make the requested materials available within the statutorily prescribed period. We aise request that waive any applicable fees since disclosure meets the statutory standard for waiver of fees in that
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PRELIMIrlARY fiOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURREtiCE--Pt:0-79-63 This o_r_eliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of an event of_
POSSIBLE safety or oublic interest sianificance.
The information Dresented is as initially received without verification or evaluation and is basically all that is known by IE staff on this date.
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Commonaealth Edison Company Zion f;uclear Power Station Units 1 and 2 (DNs 50-296 and 50-304)
Subject:
NEWS l'.EDIA INTEREST IN SPENT FUEL P0OL LEAKAGE Pollution and Enviror. mental Problems (PEP), a Chicago-area. environmental group, issued a news announcement on March 26, 1979, concerning leakage from the spent fuel pool at the Zion fluclear Pecr Station, operated by Commonwealth Edison Company. The news announcement wcs critical of the NRC Staff for its lack of concerr with the leakage.
The spent fuel pool has a stainless steel liner surrounded by reinforced concrete walls which are 4 feet thick.
Minor leakage through the stainless Eefore it steel liner has occurred since the pool was placed into service.
was placed into service it was filled and drained twice to repair pinhole leaks in welds which were identified at the time.
The leakage has averaged about 3 quarts per hour and has been gradually decreasing.
It is collected in a drain system within the reinforcement concrete pool and processed in There is no leakage from the plant's radioactive waste treatment system.
the pool itself and no releases to the environment are involved.
Inspectors from Region III (Chicago) routinely check on spent fuel pool Because operating experience, including the leakage through the liner.
the amount of leakage is small and because it is collected and processed in the radwaste system, the ma'.ter is not considered serious enough to require corrective action by the licensee.
Region III will continue to review the leakage problem.
There has been considerable Chicago area news media interest in this matter.
The State of Illinois has been notified, G. Klingler, IE x28019; F. Nolan, IE x28019; S. Bryan, IE x28019
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Chairman Hendrie Commissioner Bradford S. J. Chilk, SECY Conaissioner Kennedy Commissioner Ahearne C. C. Kammerer, CA (For Distribution)
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