ML19310A189
| ML19310A189 | |
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| Site: | Zion File:ZionSolutions icon.png |
| Issue date: | 05/05/1980 |
| From: | Tramm T COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO. |
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| NUDOCS 8006060246 | |
| Download: ML19310A189 (2) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD IN THE MATTER OF
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Docket Nos. 50-295
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50-304 (Zion Station Units 1 and 2)
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Proposed Amendments to
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My name is Tom R.
Tramm.
I am employed by Commonwealth Edison Company as Project Enginear for Zion Station.
My background and experience are described in the prepared testimony I gave in June, 1979 (following Tr. 564).
At the request of Dr.
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Common-wealth Edison presently plans to send a piece of one of the old spent fuel racks to Battelle Northwest Laboratory.
The old Zion racks are of interest to Dr. Johnson because they are made of stainless steel and have been resident in a 4
borated spent fuel pool for several years.
I understand that the specimen will be examined by BNWL as part of a continuing program to document the condition of such materials i
as they become available.
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The specimen is to be cut from an old rack after it has been removed from the Zion pool.
The work will be 6006 060 1
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done bv either Zion personnel or contract labor.
The intent is to remove representative welds so it will be necessary to take a piece approximately two feet by two feet by two feet.
At the same time, Commonwealth Edison intends to cut a second peice of about the same size from the old racks to be sent to BNWL or another laboratory to undergo advanced decontamination processes.
The purpose of this research is to determine whether such decontamination techniques can affec-tively and economically be employed in spent fuel rack replace-ment jobs and similar applications to reduce the total volume of materials which must be disposed of as radioactive waste.
Some radiation exposure to the workers is there-fore anticipated.
This exposure was not included in our earlier estimates of total exposure for the reracking job.
We expect the two or three workers directly involved in the cutting to receive 50 millirem or less of additional exposure due to this project.
This is considered to be a very small dose, which does not add appreciably to the total occupa-tional exposure for the job.
For that reason I do not
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consider this action to present an unreviewed safety question.
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Tom R.
Tramm Subscribed and sworn to before me this A day of May, 1980.
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