ML19322C977
| ML19322C977 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/24/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Hummel J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8002070089 | |
| Download: ML19322C977 (3) | |
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Lebanon, Pennsylvania 17042 HBerkow/WRussell TERA DMuller Dea Mr. & Mrs. Humel:
FSchroeder Your letter to President Carter regarding the release of 4,000 gallons. of water to the Susquehanna River has been referred to me for response.
I regret that this' answer has been delayed. The accident and its consequences have created a substan-tial increase in the agency's workload, which has prevented us from responding to you as promptly as we would have liked.
All discharges of water to the Susquehanna have been carefully monitored since the accident occurred.
Your letter refers to the release of 4,000 gallons of water containing strontium-90, a radioactive element that emits beta radiation.
The entire event started as a normal routine release of waste water from the Unit I waste evaporator condensate test tank.
Prior to initiating a release, the licensee t is required by plhnt technical specifications to sample the contents of the tank and analyze the sample for the principal gama emitters.
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and add it to the composite sample of all previous batches of liquid releases made during the month. At the end of the month, the composite sample is analyzed for strontium-89 and -90.
The licensee completed both of these actions.
It should be noted that the NRC does not require that the analysis for strontium be perfomed on every batch prior to release because the concentration of strontium is normally well below the detection limits of the analytical method and is orders of magni-t tude lower than the principal gamma emitters, such as iodine and cesium.
t On July 26, 1979, the release from Unit I was initiated; during the release an NRC inspector questioned the licensee as to whether or not a gross beta analysis had been perfomed. At that point, Metropolitan Edison management suspended the re-l lease and performed a number of analyses. The analysis for concentrations of l
strontium-89 and -90 indicated that prior to discharge to the river, the effluent i
concentrations for these isotopes were within both federal and state government L
standards for radioactivity.
In the future, nevertheless, Metropolitan Edison will monitor all water discharges for beta radiation.
.I am pleased to provide you with this information.
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U Dear Mr. and Mrs. Rummel This is to acknowledge your message to President Carter about the Metropolitan Edison Company.
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Since the heavy volume of mall prevents the President from 1
responding-personally to each communication he receives, he has asked the departments and agencies of the rederal i
government to reply on his behalf in those instances where they have special knowledge or special authority under the law.
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July 31, 1979 "reciaent Jinmy Corter The "hite l'ouce
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20500 Deer President Carter:
Petrorolitt.n Edison Comprny is a nuclear cetcstro-phe!
"thct are you goinra to_do to protoc_t.the reorlo of centrol Pennsylvr.nis from them?
They have ogein been negligent of tnrteritrTrid welfare of un by dumrinc, l'000 gallons of water into the Sus-quche.nne. River without annlizing it for rediction contaminotion.
This is a violstion of an NRC and court order.
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