ML19339D075
| ML19339D075 | |
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| Site: | McGuire, Mcguire  |
| Issue date: | 02/11/1981 |
| From: | Curtiss J, Kevern T, John Kramer Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| To: | CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY GROUP |
| References | |
| PLED-810211, NUDOCS 8102170203 | |
| Download: ML19339D075 (10) | |
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Docket Nos. 50-3649 (William B. McGuire Nuclear 50-370 Station, Units 1 and 2)
NRC STAFF ANSWERS TO CESG INTERROGATORIES AND REQUESTS FOR DOCUMENTS The following are the NRC answers to interrogatories propounded by Intervenor Carolina Environmental Study Group (CESG) on January 25, 1981.
In each instance involving a request for documents pursuant to 10 C.F.R. 9 2.741, the documents provided in response have been made available in the Public Document Room located in Charlotte, North Carolina for inspection and copying.
NRC STAFF ANSWERS 30.
CESG Interrogatory:
Please provide the nuclear accident emergency plans of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson and the status of these plans regarding TEMA/NRC approval.
NRC Staff Answer:
The energency plans for Huntersville, Cornelius, and Davidson are incorporated into the Mecklenburg County Radiological Emergency Response Plan in Support of the McGuire Nuclear Station. There are no separate, 8102170dLo3
individual plans for these localities.
The 11ecklenburg County plan, as well as the other county and State plans pertaining to 11cGuire, are under FDiA review.
FEMA will provide to the NRC its findings and detenninations as to whether State and local emergency plans are adequate and capable of being inplemented. The NRC will then review the FEMA findings and detenninations along with NRC's determination of the adequacy of the applicant's emergency response plans made with respect to the standards in Section 50.47(b) of 10 CFR Part 50, the requirements of Appendix E thereto, and the guidance con-tained in NUREG-0654 in making an overall assessment of the integrated state of emergency preparedness for that site.
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CESG Interrogatory:
Please provide plans of counties within a 50 mile radius in regard to actions to be taken in the event of a particulate release within that radius and FBtA/NRC approval status.
NRC Staff Answer:
As provided in 10 CFR 50.47, emergency plans for the State and locai governmental entities within the plume exposure pathway emergency planning zone (EPZ) are to be submitted for NRC and FEftA review.
For the area out-side the plume exposure pathway EPZ, but within the ingestion pathway EPZ, the regulation requires the licensee to submit the State plans only. The plume exposure pathway EPZ includes the counties of Mecklenburg, Gaston Catawba, Iredell, and Lincoln and the State of North Carolina. The inges-tion pathway EPZ additionally includes the State of South Carolina.
Copies of the energency plans for the aforementioned counties and States have been placed in the Local Public Document Room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
32.
CESG Interrogatory:
Please provide a copy of 10 CFR 51.23 in regard to supplemental EIS.
NRC Staff Response:
A copy of 10 CFR 51.23 has been placed in the Local Public Document Roon in Charlotte, North Carolina.
33.
CESG Interrogatory:
Please provide a statement as to the period of involvement and the degree of effort of NRC in human factors studies.
Please provide any reports, draft or final, which have resulted.
NRC Staff Response:
As a result of a number of studies undertaken shortly following the Three Mile Island-Unit 2 accident, it became apparent that greater attention should be devoted to hunan factors studies in nucl!ar power plant operation and design.
Accordingly, in April of 1980 the NRC established within the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation a Division of Human Factors Safety.
This Division includes four branches: Human Factors Engineering, Procedures and Test Review, Operator Licensing, and Licensee Qualification. A copy of a report prepared by the XYZYX Corporation entitled " Human Engineering Guidelines for use in Preparing Emergency Operating Procedures for Nuclear Power Plants," has been placed in the Local Public Document Room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
34.
CESG Interrogatory:
What position does Staff intend to take in regard to the performaace of a McGuire containment in the event of the combustion of quantities of hydrogen
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NRC Staff Answer:
The Staff's position with respect to the foregoing issue will be set forth in testimony to be filed with the Board and all parties on February 17, 1981.
35.
CESG Interrocatory:
What were the Staff's reasons for supporting CESG's motion to reopen, l
November 7, 1980? For example, did Staff think that all the legal requirements had been met? Does Staff think that a hydrogen release and combustion accident resulting in serious consequences could occur?
NRC Staff Answer:
"The Staff's reasons for supporting CESG's motion to reopen" are set i
forth in "NRC Staff Supplement to NRC Staff Response to CESG's Revised Motion to Reopen the Operating License Proceeding; Motion to Deny Appli-cant's Request for Fuel Loading, etc., and Revised Contentions" (November 7, 1980).
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CESG Interroaatory:
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NRC Staff Response A copy of the referenced document has been placed in the Local Public Document Room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In addition to the foregoing interrogatories, CESG has supplemented interrogatories 4,10, and 29, in response to Staff's position that the interrogatories are either objectionable (4 and 10) or fail to identify with sufficient specificity the document requested (29). NRC Staff Response to CESG interrogatories 4,10, and 29, as supplemented, follows.
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CESG Interrogatory:
Provide the AEC or NRC statements, prior to licensing, in regard to risk of accidents and public health and safety for 1) Fenni, 2) Browns Ferry, arid Three Mile Island.
As Supplemented:
NRC objected to responding to this request on the grounds of relevance and admissibility.
In accord with our phone conversation CESG herewith provides its reason for making the request, viewing the matter as both relevant and admissible.
In McGuire OL, reopened, NRC Staff will presumably testify in regard to the likelihood of a hydrogen combustion accident and the possible consequences of such an accident.
Staff will undoubtedly present expert witnesses.
It is both relevant and admissible to examine the track record of the organization putting forth such testimony.
Prior judg-ments as to the likelihood of accidents at Fermi, Browns Ferry, and T!!I-2 are relevant in the highest degree.
NRC Staff Response:
Copies of the Safety Evaluation Reports for Fenni, Browns Ferry, and Three Mile Island have been placed in the Local Public Document Roon in Charlotte, North Carolina.
10.
CESG Interrogatory:
List, by plant and dates of occurrence, departures fran nonnal opera-tion both prior and subsequent to the TMI-2 accident in which there was a concern that the primary system would "go solid" or in which it did "go solid." Have Oyster Bay and Crystal River been involved in such incidents?
If there have been such incidents identify plant type and power rating.
Provide a full account of all such incidents.
As Supplemented:
NRC objected to this question as not relevant. The relevance lies in the fact that operators in the course of the TMI-2 accident were more con-cerned about going solid than about exposing the core. There presumably was a basis in fact for this concern.
Going solid is as much to be avoided as uncovering the core.
CESG seeks to learn what earlier industry experience and regulatory action may have led to this preeminent concern.
NRC Staff Response:
The " earlier industry experience..." that led to the " preeminent concern" about overpressurization is listed in Table 1 of the Attachment to Issue 15 in NUREG-0138, which is entitled Staff Discussion of Fifteen Technical Issues Listed in Attachment to November 3,1976 Memorandum From Director, NRR to i
NRR Staff, November 1976.
Subsequent related experience is listed in Table 1 of NUREG-0224, which is entitled Reactor Vessel Pressure Transient Protection for Pressurized Water Reactors, September 1977.
Copies of these documents have been placed in the Local Public Document Room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- 29. CESG Interrogatory:
Reference:
NUREG-CR-0400, p. 42, last paragraph.
Item:
Document 1, in entirety if reasonably convenient.
Pp. 180-212 as a minimun concerning PWR/BWR 0A/QC procedures.
As Supplemented:
Your response indicated that this request was insufficiently specified.
Please refer to the indicated reference, NUREG-0400, p. 42, last paragraph on page. The context is clearly defined.
In reference to "the RSS final report" '...pages 180-212 are possibly the most interesting parts of Docu-ment 1 [the complete (but undated) write-up of the PWR/BWR QA/QC proceduras]...'"
should prove adequate identification of work performed for the AEC and in major part undertaken by AEC staff.
NRC Staff Response:
If, in its request, CESG is referring to "the RSS final report," a copy of that document (WASH-1400) has already been placed in the Local Public Document Room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
If, on the other hand, CESG is referring to "the complete (but undated) writeup of the PWR/BWR QA/QC pro-cedures," Staff is unable, without a more precise reference (.e.g., title of document) to locate the document requested.
Intervenor has also requested copies of NUREG-0728, NUP,EG-0730, and audiovisual slides presented in a briefing for Commissioner Gilinsky on January 21, 1981.
Copies of these documents have been placed in the Local Public Document Room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I hereby certify that the infomation detailed above is true and accurate to the best of my personal knowledge.
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Joel J. Kfhmer (Interrogatory 33)
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMt!ISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of
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DUKE POWER COMPAI4Y
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Docket Nos. 50-369
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50-370 (William B. McGuire Nuclear
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Station, Units 1 and 2)
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of, "IlRC STAFF ANSWERS TO CESG INTERR0GATORIES A14D REQUESTS FOR DOCUt1ENTS", dated February ll,1981, in the above-captioned proceeding, have been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class, or as indicated by an asterisk through deposit in the Nuclear Regulatory Comission's internal mail systera, this lith day of February,1981:
- Robert M. Lazo, Esq., Chainnan, Mr. Jesse L. Riley, President Administrative Judge Carolina Environmental Study Group Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 854 Henley Place U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Charlotte, North Carolina 28207 Washington, D.C.
20555 Dr. John M. Barry
- Dr. Emmeth A. Luebke, Administrative Department of Environe ntal Health Judge Mechlenburg County Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 1200 Blythe Boulevard U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Charlotte, North Carolina 28203 Washington, D.C.
20555 J. Michael McGarry, III, Esq
- Dr. Richard F. Cole, Administrative Debevoise & Liberman Judge 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Washington, D.C.
20036 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington, D.C.
20555 William Larry Porter, Esq.
Associate General Counsel Duke Power Company P. O. Box 2178 422 South Church Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28242
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. Mr. David E. Smith
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Board City of Charlotte Panel Legal Department U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 600 E. Trade Street Washington, D.C.
20555 City Hall Charlotte, North Carolina 28211
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel Diane B. Cohn, Esq.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission William B. Schultz, Esq.
Washington, D.C.
2055S Public Citizen Litigation Group Suite 700
- Secretary 200 P Street, N.W.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20036 ATTN:
Chief, Docketing & Service Br.
Washington, D.C.
20555 la, R. LM Ja R. Curtiss
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