ML19318B933
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 06/13/1980 |
| From: | Snyder B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Arnold R METROPOLITAN EDISON CO. |
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Docket No. 50-320 NRC PDR OPA Local PDR JBuchanan, NSIC t WRA RDiggs THI:P0 r/f TMI Site r/f Attorney, ELD Docket No. 50-320 JUN 13 1980 BJSnyder NRR r/f 0 Lynch /DBrinkman JTCollins MDuncan HThompson HRDenton Mr. R. C. Arnold EGCase Seni'e Vice President RHartfield, MPA Metropolitan Edison Cogany GBennington,fiPA P.O. Box 480 IE(3)
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Dear Mr. Arnold:
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Based on the Comission's instructions in its Memorandum and Order dated June 12,1980, the Secretary of the Comission has issued the enclosed Order for Tegorary Modification of License dated June 12, 1980. The Order for Tegorary Modification of License amends Facility Operating License No. DPR-73 for Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 2 for the period of the purge of the TMI-2 reactor building atmosphere. A copy of the related Negative Declara-tion is also enclosed.
These documents relate to the release of krypton-85 from the reactor building atmosphere by controlled purging.
Copies of the Order for Tegorary Modification of License and the Negative Declaration are being filed with the Office of the Federal Register for publication.
Sincerely, 6
Bernard J. Snyder, Program Director i
Three Mile Island Program Office i
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation i
Enclosures:
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Comission Memorandum and Order
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Order for Tegorary Modification of License dated June 12, 1980 3.
Negative Declaration cc: w/ enclosure:
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Metropolitan Edison Company Washington, DC 20036 P. O. Box 480 Middletown, PA 17057 Ms. Mary V. Southard, Chairperson Citizens for a Safe Environment Mr. R. W. Heward P. O. Box 405 Manager, Radiological Control, Unit 2 Harrisburg, PA 17108 Metropolitan Ecison Company P. O. Box 480 Dr. Walter H. Jordan Middletown, PA 17057 881 W. Outer Drive Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Mr. B. Elam Manager, Plant Engineering, Unit 2 Dr. Linda W. Little Metropolitan Edison Company 5000 Hermitage Drive P. O. Box 480 Raleigh, NC 27612 Middletown, PA 17057 Karin W. Carter, Esquire Mr. R. F. Wilson 505 Executive House
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Docket No. 50-320
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ORDER FOR TEMPORARY MODIFICATION OF LICENSE l
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Metropolitan Edisor. Company, Jersey Central Power and Light Company and Pennsylvania Electric Company (the licensee) are the holders of Facility Operating License No. DPR-73, which had authorized operation of the Three
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Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 2 at power levels up to 2772 megawatts thermal.
By Commission order dated July 20, 1979, the licensee's authority to operate the facility, except as provided therein, was suspended. The facility, which is located in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is a pressurized water reactor used for the commercial genera-tion of electricity.
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On March 28, 1979, an accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 2 resulted in substantial damage to the reactor core and to certain reactor sys
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2 is being maintained in a s+able, long-tenn cooling mode in accordance with the provisions of the Commission order, dated February 11, 1980.
That order did not affect the limits on release of gaseous radioactive effluents set forth in Appendix B, section 2.1.2 of the technical specifications attached as a condi-tion of the license. However, the krypton-85 (Kr-85) released into the reactor 1
building during the accident must be removed from the building so that workers can begin the tasks necessary to clear, the building, maintain instruments and equipment, and eventually remove the damaged fuel from the reactor core. Those tasks must be performed whether or not the plant ever again produces electricity.
Radiation from the krypton gas, although thinly dispersed through the reactor building atmosphere, nevertheless poses a threat to workers who would have to work in the building for prolonged periods. The preferred method for removing the Kr-85 is a kind of flushing or purging process by which the gases would be exhausted from the building and fresh air pulled in.
Section 2.1.2 of the Appendix B technical specifications contains both instantaneous and quarterly limits for releases of noble gases, including Kr-85, to the atmosphere. These limits were developed with normal facility operations in mind and were phrased as limits on releases rather than limits on off-site doses (the effects of the releases) so that canpliance with the limits would i
not ne;essarily depend on off-site dose measurements.
Instead, on-site measure-ments of the snounts of materials released would be used for determining canpliance. These limits could serve to unnecessarily delay the time required to complete the purging process. The revised limits described below would remove this difficulty. They are expressed as limits on off-site doses rather than as limits on releases. An extensive environmental monitoring network is set up in
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