ML19291B804
| ML19291B804 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 11/01/1979 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 7911130107 | |
| Download: ML19291B804 (1) | |
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
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IMPLEMENTATION OF HIGH RANGE EFFLUENT MONITORS AT OPERATING
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REACTORS Your memorandum (attached) requested that power reactor licensees be notified of the requirement to have methods of quantifying high level accidental radio-activity releases by January 1,1980. This has been done.
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As discussed in the September 6th Commissioner's meeting, the licensees have been required to have methods in place for estimating high level gaseous re-leases of radioactivity from plants during accidents by January 1,1980, and to have pemanent high range gaseous effluent monitors installed by January 1, h
1931. These requirements were listed in Enclosure 8, "Near Tem Emergency k
Preparedness Improvements Schedule," item 2.2.1.8(b), of the September 13th Z..
letter and specifically referred to by D. G. Eisenhut in his opening state-ments at each regional meeting for TMI Short-Tem Implementation Action. Ad-
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attached viewgraph). Our October 29, 1979, letter to power reactors providing additional clarification of the short-term Lessons Learned items also addressed
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