ML19330B041
| ML19330B041 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | McGuire, Mcguire  |
| Issue date: | 07/23/1980 |
| From: | Tedesco R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Parker W DUKE POWER CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8007300077 | |
| Download: ML19330B041 (16) | |
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JUL 2 31980 Docket Nos.: 50-369 and 50-370 6
Mr. William 0. Parker, Jr.
Vice President - Steam Production Duke Power Company Post Office Box 33189 422 South Church Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28242
Dear Mr. Parker:
Subject:
EMERGENCY PLANNING - McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 & 2 We have reviewed the McGuire Emergency Plan transmitted by your letter of March 20,1980. As a result of our review and our meetings held on June 17 and 18, 1980, at the McGuire Station, we have several observations and recommendations. A summary of these are presented in the Enclosure.
I We request that the matters discussed in the Enclosure be reflected in your emergency plan. Please provide a revised plan no later than August 25, 1980.
Sincerely, S
Robert L. Tedesco, Assistant Director far Licensing Division of Licensing
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/ encl:
See next page 80073'00809
o Mr. Willian 0. Parker, Jr.
Vice President, Steam Production Duke Power Company P. O. Box 2178 422 South Church Street Charlotte, Nor th Carolina 28242 cc: Mr. W. L. Por ter Duke Power Company David Flesichaker, Esq.
P. O. Box 2178 1735 Eye Street, N. W.
Suite 709 422 South Church Street Washinoton, D. C.
20006 Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 Mr. R. S. Howard Richard P. Wilson, Esq.
Power Systems Division Assistant Attorney. General State of South Carolina Westinghouse Electr ic Cor poration 2600 Bull Street P. O. Box 355 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 Mr. E. J. Keith i
EDS Nuclear Incorporated 220 Montgomery Street San Francisco, California 94104 Mr. J. E. Houghtaling NUS Corporation 2536 Countryside Boulevard Clear water, Flor ida 33515 Mr. Jesse L. Riley, President The Carolina Environmental Study Group 854 Henley Place Charlotte, North Carolina 28207 J. Michael McGarry, !!!, Esq.
Debevoise a Liberman 1200 Seventeenth Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
20036 Rober t M. Lazo, Esq., Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board V. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20555 Dr. Emmeth A. Luebke Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20555 Dr. Cadet H. Hand, Jr., Director Bodega Marine Lab of California P. O. Box 247 Bodega Bay, California,94923
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Mr. William O. Parker, Jr. cc: David Flesichaker, Esq.
1735 Eye Str eet, N. W.,
Suite 709 Washington, D. C.
20006 Richard P. Wilson, Esq.
Assistant Attorney General State of South Carolina 2600 Bull Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Office of Intergovernmental Relations 116 West Jones Street Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 County Manager of Mecklenburg County 720 East Fourth Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ATTN: EIS Coordinator Region IV Office 345 Courtland Street, N. W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308 3
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ENCLOSURE JUL 2 31980 Duke Power Company McGuire Nuclear Station 1.
A definition of the Crisis Management Center should be included in the plan.
It is suggested that this center be identified as an Emergency Operation Facility (EOF).
2.
Revise plan to show those organization which have 24-hour per day response including 24-hour per day manning of communication links.
Show primary and backup means of communication.
3.
In Section 4.1-1 under the Emergency Action Level notification of an unusual event, line 6, the word " prompt" should be placed before
" notification" according to the requirements of NUREG 0610.
4.
Section 4.2, the Alert Action Level, Part 2 of Section 4.2, line 12 in the section.
In the sentence starting with " periodic plant status updates," there should be an insertion after updates: "(at least ery 15 minutes)" according to NUREG 0654, page 1-6, Licensee Action No. 5.
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Section 4.3, Site Emergency, Part 3.
Item Letter K in the plan.
Item K ends with three underlined words for actual meteorology while page 1-10 of NUREG 0654, example 12a refers to adverse meteorology.
The plan should specify adverse meteorology according to NUREG 0654.
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6.
After Item No. K, there are notes 1 and 2 in the plan.
There is no reference in the text to these notes.
How do the notes relate to the initiating examples for this section?
7.
Section 4.4, General Emergency.
There's no discussion of the FSAR accidents explicitly in any of the emergency action level discussions in the plan.
8.
The table of contents in the plan says that in Section 10.3 of the Appendix, plots of containment radiation monitor versus time for each emergency classification is given.
The plots in the Appendix 10.3 are labeled Release of Reactor Coolant Activity. Release of Gap Activity, and the Design-Basis Accident.
The plan should make a clear and unambiguous reference to the proper emergency action levels enumerated and annunciated in NUREG 0654.
Each of the plots of containment monitor reading should correspond to source terms as described under Release Potential for each of the emergency classes in NUREG 0610 except for Notification of an Unusual Event.
9.
The plan must provide for. direct notification of responsible officials
-within 15 minutes of detecting a " general" emergency condition.
This notification must include the protective actions recommended by the site.
- 10. The plan must designate an individual as emergency coordinator who shall be onsite at all times and who shall have the authority and responsibility to immediately and unilaterally initiate any emergency actions, including l
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providing protective action recommendations to authorities responsible for implementing offsite emergency measures.
11.
Among functional responsibilities assigned to emergency coordinator that cannot be delegated is the decision to notify and make recommendations to authorities responsible for offsite emergency measures.
12.
Plan must specify the onsite emergency organization of plant staff personnel for all shifts and its relation to the responsibilities and duties of the normal staff in accordance with Table B-1 of NUREG 0654.
13.
Staffing must be available within Y2 following the declaration of an emergency as indicated in Table B-1.
14.
Plan must specify by positions or title the qualifications to be met by tne persons assigned to the functional areas of emergency activity.
15.
Plan must be revised to resolve the following criterion from Section E Notification, Methods and Procedures from NUREG 0654:
Criterion 3, Page 38, NUREG 0654 is not satisfied.
Criterion 4, Page 38, NUREG 0654 is not satisfied.
Criterion 6;, Page 39, NUREG 0654.
There's no mention or discussion of 1
the physical means and the time required in the Emergency Plan.
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There's no satisfaction of Criterion 7, page 39 of NUREG 0654.
16.
Plan must be revised to resolve the following Criterion from Section H.
Emergency Facilities and Equipment from NUREG 0654:
Criterion 2, Page 44, NUREG 0654.
There's no discussion of an alternate EOF.
Is the technical training center within one mile of the station?
The technical training center is referred to in Section 7.1-2a lines 2 and 3.
Relating to Criterion 6b, page 45 in NUREG 0654.
Does the dosimetry meet the NRC Radiological Assessmerc Branch Technical Position for the Environmental Radiological Monito'ing program?
Page 46, NUREG 0654, Criterion 8.
There is no provision noticed in the plan for providing olternative meteorological information from other sources as required for Criterion 8.
Do the procedures and equipment satisfy the criteria expressed in Appendix 2?
Criterion 9, Page 46, NUREG 0654.
There's no discussion of ventilation and shielding for the onsite operational support center or a full discussion of the equipment to be contained in it.
Page 46, NUREG 0654, Criterion 10.
The plan does not provide for the inventory, inspection and operational checking afteIpeach use as specified in the Criterion.
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Criterion 11, Page 46, NUREG 0654.
Communication equipment is not mentioned in the Apper. dix 10.5 general category list.
J Page 46 of NUREG 0654, Criterion 12.
Plan gives no detailed discussion of s entral point for the receipt and analysis of all field monitoring
. data.
17.
Plan must be revised to resolve the following criterion from Section I.
Accident Assessment from NUREG 0654:
1 Relating to Criterion 1, page 47 of NUREG 0654.
Are the parameter values and corresponding emergency class in the emergency procedures as required in Criterion 1?
Criterion 2, Page 47, NUREG 0654.
Do the post-accident sampling capability, radiation and effluent monitors, inplant instrumentation, and containment radiation monitoring conform with the requirements spelled out in NUREG 0578 with regard to extended range, discrimination from noble gas noise, etc?
Page 47 and 48 of NUREG 0654, Criterions 3 and 4.
There is not really clear correlation between curves in Appendix 10.2 and specific instrument i
readings.
Ph) magnitude of the release of radioactive materials based on L
plant system' parameters and effluent monitors is given in the plan.
Page 48 of NUREG 0654, Criterion 5.
Do the meteorological data and equipment meet the criteria of Appendix 2? Are there readouts for the 5
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4 meteorological information at the nearsite Emergency Operations Center, Technical Support Center, the Control Room, and for the offsite NRC Center?
Page 48 of NUREG 0654, Criterion 6.
There's no discussion of the methodology for determining the release rate of projected doses if the instrumentation used for assessment is off scale or inoperable.
2 Page 48 of NUREG 0654, Criterion 7.
In the plan, there's no mention of the capability to measure radio iodine concentrations in the air in the
-8 vicinity of the site as low as 5 x 10 micro curies per cc under field conditions in any kind of weather regardless of the interference from the i
presence of radioactive noble gas and background radiation.
3 Page 49 of NUREG 0654, Criterion 9.
There's no mention of communication equipment or the estimated deployment times.
- 18. Must establish ~ procedures which describe mutually agreeable bases for notification of offsite authorities consistent with NUREG 0610.
These procedures must include means for verification of messages.
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Must establish the contents of the initial emergency messages to be
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sent from the plant.
20.
Your plan must describe the public notification system to include:
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The initial offsite contact who will be responsible for notifying the affected population.
(Either the specific organization or individual.)
b.
The capability for_24-hour per day notification.
(To offsite authorities.)
c.
The physical alerting system to be used, sirens, NOAA weather of emergency alert, telephone automatic dialers, aircraft with loud-speakers.
(Which will be used to alert public.)
(10 db above average daytime ambient background is a target level for design of an adequate siren system.)
Distance
% Notified in 15 Minutes 5 miles 100%
5 to 10 miles 90%
The design objective for the remaining 10 of the public within 10 mile zone is notification within 45 minutes after notification of local officials.
d.
The basic for any exceptions (e.g., for extended water areas with transient boats or remote hiking trails must be documented.
e.
Every year, eperator must tape a statistical sample of the residents of all areas within the ten mile EPZ to assess the public's 7
twareness of the prompt notification system and the availability of information on what to do in an emergency.
Pian must also include a provision for corrective measures to provide reasonable assurance that coverage approaching the design objactives is maintained.
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The provisions for use of a public media system (Radio, T.V.) to provide clear instructions to the public.
a.
24-hour station - total plume coverage.
b.
Include _in the plan the messages to be transmitted to the-
'public (cover a range of protective actions.)
It is the operators responsibility to ensure that the means exists for notifying and providing prompt instructions to the public.
It is the responsibility of.the State and local governments to activate the system.
f-21.
Plan must be revised to resolve the following criterion from Section J.
Protective Response from NUREG 0654:
Criterion 3, Page 50 of NUREG 0654.
There's no discussion of providing for the radiological' monitoring of people evacuated from the site in the Plan as requested and required in this criterion.
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Page 51 of NUREG 0654, Criterion 4.
There's no discussion of decontamination at or near the offsite location in the area of the Plan that describes evacuation of onsite personnel in the event of a site or general emergency.
Page 51 of NUREG 0654, Criterion 5.
Plan does not provide for accountability of individuals within 30 minutes.
Page 52 of NUREG 0654, Criterion 10.a, b, and c are not provided for in the Plan.
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Plan must be revised to resolve the following criterion from Section K.
Radiological Exposure Control:
4 Page 57 of NUREG 0654, Criterion Sa.
No specific action levels for determining the need to decontaminate are given.
Criterion 5b.
Few details are given about the means for radiological decontamination onsite or offsite, but especially with regard to the offsite capabilities.
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Page 57 of NUREG 0654, Criterion 6.
Regarding 6a, no details are given relating to area access control.
Regarding 6b, no details are given regarding the treatment of drinking water and food supplies.
Regarding 15c. no specific criteria for permitting the return of areas or items to
~ normal use are given.
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Page 58 of NUREG 0654, Criterion 7.
There's no discussion in the Plan of the capability for decontaminating relocated onsite personnel.
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Plan must be revised to resolve the following criter'on from Section M.
Recovery and Re-entry Planning and Post-Accident Operations from NUREG 0654:
1 Criterion 1, Page 60, NUREG 0654.
There's no discussion of the means to i
relax ota-ive reasures in the plan.
Page 60, NuxtG 0654, Criterion 2.
Insufficient detail of the organization is given in the plan.
There are just one or two key positions that are discussed.
Page 60, NUREG 0654, Criterion 3.
No discussion is given in the plan of the means for informing members of the response organizations that a recovery operation is to be initiated.
Page 60, NUREG 0654, Criterion 4.
The plan does not establish a method for periodically estimating total population exposure.
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Annual-exercise must include both State and local personnel.
Must conduct independent audits of the emergency preparedness program at least'every two years.
Results must be documented and retained for a period of-five years.
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Expand your plan to provide for periodic dissemination of information to the public regarding how they will be notified and what their actions should be in an emergency, this should include:
a.
Educational information on radiation A
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' Contact for additional information c.
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Evacuation routes Means for accomplishing this dissemination are:
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Information in telephone books b.
Periodic information in utility bills c.
Posting in public areas
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Information program is acceptable if the permanent and transient
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adult population within the 10 mile EPZ is provided an adequate opportunity to become aware of this information annually.
If the public.information program is to be administered by local officials this must be stated in the plan.
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Comments on Technical Support Center Must provide the main ccmmunication link between the plant and the hkC for plant ope ations matters.
Also must have communication with Control Room.
Must be habitable to the same degree as the control room.
If not habitable must provide a backup TSC which does meet the habitability requirements.
Parameters transmitted by a nuclear data link installed to meet future I;RC requirements should be available for display in the TSC and the EOF.
Comments on Emergency Offsite Activities EOF must have the capability to display the same plant data and radiological information as will be required for transmittal to the NRC.
E0F must have sufficient space to accommodate representatives from the Federal, State and local governments, plus facilities for NRC ' representatives (10).
Management of resources including recovery operationc shall be managed from this facility.
1 Must provide for facilities for about 20 press personnel.
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'T E0F should be a substantial structure, providing significant shielding factors from direct radiation.
Filtration systems (at least fiPA filters) shall'be -
provided in new. structures.
Must make arrangements to activate an alternate EOF in the event that the.
nearsite becomes uninhabitable.
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