ML19345H078

Intervenor Committee to Bridge the Gap Interrogatories Directed to Applicant Re Class of License,Adequacy of Managerial & Administrative Controls & Contention Iv. Declaration of Svc Encl

ML19345H078
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Site:	05000142
Issue date:	04/20/1981
From:	Pollock M COMMITTEE TO BRIDGE THE GAP, POLLOCK, M.
To:	CALIFORNIA, UNIV. OF, LOS ANGELES, CA
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION b 7 BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the hatter of )

) Docket No. 50-142 l THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY )

l OF CALIFORNIA ) (Proposed Renewal of l ) Facility License (UCLA Research Reactor) ) Number R-71)

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INTERVENOR'S INTERROGATORIES TO APPLICANT, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Dated: April 20, 1981 l

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/~ c/o 1724 North La Brea Avenue Los Angeles, California 90046 (213) 876-4700 Attorneys for Intervenor COMMITTEE TO BRIDGE THE GAP UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSICN BEFORE THE A*OMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING SOARD In the Matter of ) Docket No. 50-142

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THE REGENTS OF THE ) (Proposed Renewal of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ) Facility License)

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(UCLA Research F.eactor) ) "INTERVENOR'S INTERROGATORIES

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) THE UNIVERSITY OF CALITORNIA" TO: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AND THEIR ATIORNEYS OF RECORD, GLENN R. WOODS AND SISTINE HEL".CC'<.

Intervenor, COMMITIEE TO BRIDGE THE GAP, hereby requests tha* said Applicant answer the following interrogatories fully and separately under oath, pursuant to the stipulated discovery schedule in this action.

It is intended by this set of interrogatcries to elicit l

l information not merely within your own personal knowledge, but

! (' obtainable on your behalf, such as by your attorneys, employees, 1.

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investigators and representativ'es. Wherever the term "you" is i m used, it refers to you or anyone acting on your behalf including f

your attorneys, investigators, representatives and employees.

Definition of Terms Used in Interrogatories In answering the following interrogatories, understand the following terms used in the interrogatories to mean as follows:

" Applicant" -

The Regents of the University of California.

" Application" - Applicant's " Application for a Class 104 License for a Research Facility" submitted February 28, 1980.

"NRC" -

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission..

"Intervenor" -

The Committee to Bridge the Gap. .

"the reactor" - The UCLA research reacter, License No. R-71, docket 50-142.

" current Technical Specifications" - The Technical Speci-

k. fications of the UCLA reactor currently in force.

" proposed Technical Specifications" - The Technical Speci-fications of the UCLA reactor proposed in the Application.

" controls" -

"when used with respect to a nuclear reactor means apparatus and mechanisms the manipulation of which directly affect the reactivity or power level of the reactor"

" operator" - Any individual who manipulates a control of a facility. An individual is deemed to manipulate a control if he directs another to manipulate a control [10 CFR 55.4(d)]. Inter-venor hereby for the purpose of these interrogatories specifies that if one individual directs another to manipulate a control

! and that second individual does manipulate the controls, both individuals are deemed to manipulate the controls and thus both b are considered operators.

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" senior operator" -

Any individual designated by a facil- 7

.= ity license under 10 CFR 50 (in this case, the Applicant) to direct the licensed activities of licensed opera *wrs

[10 CFR 55.4(e)]. Intervenor hereby for the purpose of these interrogatories defines " direct the licensed activities of li-censed operators" to not include directing the: activities of i

unlicensed operators except students in an engineering co use, or ,

operator license trainees as exempted under 10 CFR 55.9. I

" Students in a nuclear engineering class" -

Students formally enrolled, for credit and to be evaluated by an instructor, in a formal course in nuclear engineering offered by an accredit-ed institution of learning. For the purposes of these interroga- l tories, students in a general science class, for example a high school physics class, would not be considered students in a .

k- nuclear engineering class. Likewise, people who visit the facil-ity on a tour would not be considered " students in a nuclear engineering class" unless they were receiving academic credit from an accredited institution of learning in a course in nuclear engineering and the tour was a formal part of that nuclear engine-ering course. t

" Operator trainees" - An individual in a formal training program to qualify as a licensed reactor operator.

" commercial use" - Use of the reactor, for which a fee is paid to the NEL or Applicant, by persons other than those official-ly associated with UCLA, other colleges and universities, or other non-profit organizations. In particular, use of the reactor by persons described as commercial users by the Applicant in

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Applicant's response of May 13, 1980, to an NRC infornation request of April 17, 1980.

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" Person" - A natural person, a corporation, a partnership, r

p. an association, or any other similar type of entity.

" Document" - Any printed, typewritten, or handwritten matter of whatever character, including, but not limited to, logs, minutes, computer printouts, contracts, data records, leases, diaries, letters, ledgers, memoranda, telegrams, state-ments of witnesses or persons having knowledge of relevant facts, catalogs, brochures, checks and check stubs, invoices, vouchers, orders, any carbon or photographic copy of any such material, and any magnetic, mechanical, or electrical recording.

Intervenor has for purposes of clarity in these interroga-tories defined with specificity the terms it has used so that Applicant can know specificallf what information is being sought.

None of the above definitions should be considered definitions I which Applicant, by answering the interrogatories that follow, has in any fashion indicated agreement with. If Applicant dis-agrees with the definitions herein, Applicant should so state, but should nevertheless answer the interrogatories according to the definitions above and thereafter give Applicant's definitions of these terms and answer the same questions'using Applicant's definitions.

GENERAL PROVISIONS l The following general provisions apply to each interrogatory herein:

A. In answering these interrogatories, furnish all infor-mation available to Applicant, including information in posses-I sion of your attorneys, investigators, agents, employees, and

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personally to the individual or individuals primarily responsible for drafting the answers.

B. If Applicant cannot answer any of the following inter-l regatories in full, after exercising due diligence to secure the information to do so, so state, and answer to the extent possible 4

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specifying your inability to answer the remainder, and stating whatever information or knowledge you may have concerning the unanswered portion.

j C. With rcpect to each of your answers which identifies a document, you may attach a copy of such document to your answers to these interrogatories in lieu of describing such document and the contents thereof.

l D. If an answer to these interrogatories includes a refer-l ence to an oral communication, please state with respect thereto:

(1) The date and place of communication; (2) The identity of each person participating and/or i

present during each oral communication; (3) The substance of what was said by each person who participated in each discussion; (4) If a written record was made of the communication, please identify each document as hereinafter set forth; and (5) If any magnetic, mechanical, or electrical record-  :

ing was made of the communication, identify the nature of same and the name of the person who has custody of same.

E. If you are asked to identify a document please state with respect to each such document:

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(1) The identity of.the person who signed it or in _r

, whose name is was signed; (2) The identity of the person (s) who prepared the documents if different from the person (s) signing the document; (3) The identity of the person or persons to whom it was addressed; (4) State the nature and substance of the document; (5) State the date the document was executed if dif-ferent from the date it bears; and (6) If the ' document or copy of it is not in your control or custody, state the identity and most recent known address of the person or entity who has custody or control of it.

F. If you are asked to identify a person, please state with respect to each such person:

(1) Full name by which the person is known; (2) Last known home address; -

(3) Last known business address; (4) Last known home telephone number; (5) Last known business telephone number; (6) Name and address of the person's employer; and (7) Relationship to plaintiff.

G. In answering interrogatories dealing with matters prior i

l to 1975, furnish all information available to those persons who l

now employed by or otherwise associated with the University of

, California who might have knowledge of pre-1975 NEL matters, l

including but not limited to Tony Zane, Charles Ashbaug'h III, Jack Hornor, and William Kastenberg.

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. A H. In determing which employees of the Applicant may have E information related to these interrogatories, include not only current employees of NEL (including but not limited to Neill Ostrander, Tony Zane, Charles Ashbaugh III, and Jack Hornor) and past and present NEL Directors Ivan Catton and William Kastenberg, but also all other persons known by your attorneys and principal NEL personnel to have knowledge relevant to the interrogatories asked, be they presently associated with University of Califernia facilities at UCLA, Berkely, Davis, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Los Alamos, Livermore, or any other facility operated or managed i by the Applicant, the Regents of the University of California.

I. Contentions are referred to herein by the Roman numeral by which they were identified in Attachments A, B, and C of the stipulation between parties of December ~1, 1980.

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J. You are required to supplement your answers to these interrogatories in accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR 2.740(e).

K. Interrogatories are divided herein by the contention to which they primarily relate, although interrogatories will often relate to more than one contention.

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I-l INTERROGATORIES AS TO COSusTION I

" Application Inadequate" Intervenor herein incorporates by reference pages i through vii of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Has the , person (s) preparing the answers to these interrogatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interrogatories which are set forth on pages i through v'i above?

2. h any person (s) , other than the Applicant's

( attorneya enished information of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparation of the following interrogatories? If so,

a. please identify each and every such person.

b. please state the number of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consulted.

c. please indicate the nature of the information or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in preparation of answers to these interrogatories.

3. On what date, or approximate date, did the preparation of the Acclication For Renewal Of Oceratine License For

( UCLA Research Reactor @pplication)begin?

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7. 4. State the name and title of the highest ranking university employee responsible for preparing the Application.

5. Approximately how many hours per month did the senior university employee responsible for preparing the Application spend in preparing the Application? How many months did this person devote to such preparation?

6. Was the highest ranking university employee responsible for preparing the Application assisted by consultants or contractors from outside the UCLA NEL7 If so, please give the names and addresses of such consultants or contractors and specify the nature of tasks that each consultant or contractor was employed to perform. And, if compensation

( was paid for such tasks, for how many hours of work was each consultant or contractor compensated?

7. Identify the UCLA NET. employees, by name and title, who assisted the highest ranking university employee responsible for preparing the Application. Specify the responsibility t

each employee assumed in preparing the Application and the total number of hours each such employee devoted to the preparation of the Application. Also specify the time interval during which each such employee was involved in the process of perparing the Application.

8. Identify all studies, if any, performed specifically to support the preparation of the Application and the dates ks during which these studies, if any, were performed.

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intervenor absent a formal motion to produce?

9. When was the first draft of the Application completed?

How many drafts of the Application were prepared before the Application was submitted to the NRC7 i

j 10. Identify the university employee who assumed i

responsibility for reviewing the accure.cy and completeness of the Application once the first draft was completed.

a. How many hours per month did this university employee devote to reviewing the Application?

b. Identify the major changes, other than spelling, grammar, and sentence structure, made in the Application as a result of this review process.

C'. c. How much total time was spent.in such review?

11. Are significant parts of the 1980 Safety Analysis Report (SAR) included in the Application virtually verbatim i - ' repitition of the 1960 Hazards Analysis? If so,

a. What studies, if any, were conducted during the preparation of the Application to assure the contin'ued validity of the 1960 SAR?

b. If no studies were done, how does the Applicant justify the failure to prepare new information?

12. What changes were made in the 1960 SAR in the process of incorporating it into the 1980 SAR?

( 13. Who was responsible for the preparation of the 1980 SAR? How many total hours did this person devote to the preparation of the 1980 SAR?

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14. a. Do substantial portions of the 1960 HAZARDS ANALYSIS constitute virtual verbatim copies of substantial portions of the University of Florida's research reactor's HAZARDS ANALYSIS?

b. If not, was the 1960 SAR substantially derived from

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the University of Floridas researen reactor?

c. If escher a. or b. is affirmative, on what basis does the Applicant assert that the U. of F. HAZARDS ANALYSIS is applicable to UCLA's facility?

15. Do pages II/3-1 through II/7-1 of the Environmental Impact Appraisal included in the Application contain a virtual verbatim copy of the language contained in the 1974 AEC memorandum on " Environmental Considerations Regarding the Licensing of Research Reactors and Critical Facilities?"

a. If so, what investigations or studies, if any, were performed to assure the validity of the substance of this memorandum in its specific application to the UCLA Research Reactor? .

b. If the University asserts that the above-mentioned section of the Environmental Impact Appraisal does not contain a virtual verbatim copy of this AEC

- memorandum, what studies, investigations, or documents were relied upon by the University in the preparation of these parts of the Environmental Impact Appraisal?

16. Will the university make available to intervenors

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17. a. Is the statement quoted from page five of the Application by contention I (3) (a) an accurate representation of the use to which the reactor facility will be put?

b. Is the information asserted by this statement material to the university's justification af the need for a renewed license to continue operating the reactor?

c. Identify the factual basis for the answers to a.

and b. above.

d. What academic courses require the use of the reactor?

e. How =any students have been enrolled in each of these classes for each of the last five years?

f. For each course, how many ti=es during the course is the reactor operated?

l g. How many hours of reactor operation during each course are actually spent?

h.Haveanyofthesecoursesfoeentaughtwithoutusing the reactor either because the reactor was down when it should have been used or because the instructor chose not to use the reactor?

! 1. If the answer to h. above is affirmative, detail 1

each such instance. .

l j. Which courses could not be taught without the reactor?

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the reactor for all or part of their research study?

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7. a. Identify these students and the projects they are involved in which require the use of the reactor.

b. How many hours of reactor use are required for each of these projects?

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c. Would it be feasible for these students to use other facilities--for example, the resc.rch reactor at UC Irvine?

d. If not, why not?

19. Is the statement quoted from page seven of the Application by Contention I (3) (6) accurate?

a. What factual basis does the university have to support this assertion?

b. Is the structural soundness of the reactor material i

to the university's justification of the need to renew the license?

c. What efforts has the university made to identify structural weaknesses in the reactor?

d. Is the statement meant to indicate that the university is asserting that the reactor has no structural weakness?

e. If the answer to d. is affirmative, what studies or analysis have been performed to support that assertion?

f. Will these studies or analysis, if any, be made available to intervenor absent formal motion to produce?

g. Who performed these studies or analysis?

( h. Over what period of time were these studies or analysis conducted?

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20. Is the statement quoted in Contention I (3) (c) from page V-1 of the Application cccurate?

4. If so, what is the basis for the assertion?

b. Does the university assert that 2.3% ak/k represents a reactivity level identical to $3.547

c. If the answer to b. above is accurate, ident.fy any analysis performed to substantiate this assertion.

d. Will this analysis be made available to intervenor absent a formal motion to produce?

21. Does the Application have the effect of proposing to change the definition of the word " annual".for the purpose of instrument calibration requirements?

a. Is the reliability of.such instrument calibration

(_ relevant to the safety of the reactor?

b. Can calibration at too long an interval affect l

instrument reliability at NEL7

c. What is the purpose of extending the calibration period from twelve to fourteen months?

d. If there is no purpose, does the university obj ect to allowing the period to be twelve months to conform with the conventional definition of " annual?"

e. If the answer to d. above is negative, why does the university object?

f. On what basis is either twelve or fourteen months felt to be adequate?

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22. Has the specific requirement for the heat balance instrument calibration been removed from the proposed reactor technical specifications?

a. If so, how does the university justify this removal?

b. What reliance is there on the accuracy of the instrumentation for which the heat balance is done?

c. If accuracy is not relied upon, what purpose does the heat balance instrumentation now serve?

d. If accuracy is relied upon, how does the university justify elimination of the calibration requirement, if such requirement ha:s been eliminated?

e. What analysis or studies have been conducted to support the answers to the above questions?

f. Will these analysis or studies be made available to i

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23. Has the written statement of the ALARA requirements been removed from the proposed technical specifications?

a. If so, what justification can the university provide I

to support this removal?

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reactor technical specifications?

24. Are the require =ects for

a. exhaust stack height,

b. flow rate out of the exhaust stack (as opposed to cacability of exhaust fans), and/or

c. access restrictions to the roof area inclufed in- the proposed technical specifications?

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d. If any of the requirements have been removed, how is such removal justified?

e. Identify the original purpose for each of these three requirements.

f. How are the purposes satisfied in the Technical Specifications submitted with the Application?

q. IfnosuhhprovisionsaremadeintheApplication's proposed Technical Specifications, what studies have been performed to determine that such requirements are no longer necessary? -

h. Identify-the author, title, and subject of each such study and indicate whether each will be made available to intervenor absent a formal motion to produce.

25. Is the assertion that no deep wells have been drilled l

en the canpus of UCLA or in the vicinity of the campus accurate?

a. What data were reviewed in preparation of the Application

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b. What hydrolic studies have been performed or reviewed to determine that no Lecrby aquifer is capable of being influenced by an accident or spillage of l radioactive material at the UCLA research reactor? l

c. Please identify the sources of data, the names of l '

of researchers, and the dates of data search or study performance for all data reviewed or studied =entioned l in the answer to the above questions in this interrogatory.

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d. Will these data and studies be released to intervenor absent a formal motion to produce?

26. Is the statement quoted in Contention I (3) (e) t from page II/3-1 of the Application accurate?

a. If it is asserted by the university to be accurate, was the conclusion arrived at independently through independent university /NEL studies or was it taken directly from the 1974 AEC memorandum on " Environmental Considerations Regarding the Licensing of Research l

Reactors and Critical Facilities?

b. If arrived at independently, identify the independent study or studies done to support the conclusion.

l provide the author, title, and date of study and indicate whether the study or studies will be made available i

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c. If no such independent study was performed, on what basis does the Applicant contend the statements to l

be applicable to the UCLA reactor?

d. In answering question c. above, please indicate precisely what the Applicant considers to be the

" largest core damage and fission products release" possible, what 10CFR part 100 guidelines are considered l

to either apply or to be relevant for comparison l

purposes, and how extensive an environmental impact

' is considered by the university to be negligible.

e. Indicate all analysis and studies which have been

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27. What alternatives have been analyzed or considered is any way as a basis for the statement quoted in Contention I (3) (f) from page II/5-1 of the Application?

a. Did the university analyze the possibility of using '

the research reactor at U.C. Irvine or any other  ;

existing reactor as a substitute for the campus reactor?

b. How =any trips to Irvine or another reactor would k

be required if tlis alternative was accepted?

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alternative was economical.

d. Will Applicant supply these analysis to intervenor

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e. What are the " educational and research obj ectives of of the facility" as referenced in the quoted statement? .

28. Is the statement quoted in Contention I (3) (g) fran page V/3-6 of the Application accurate?

a. What relevances have this statement to the UCLA Argonaut reactor? -

b. Has the Applicant undertaken any study to assess the correlation, if any, between SPERT, BORAX, and Argonaut reactor experience?

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c. If the answer to b. is affir=ative, what is the correlation?

d. Will the university supply these studies to intervenor absent a forsal motion to produce?

e. What specific SPERT and BORAX tests does the quoted statement refer to?

f. Do these tests provide direct data supporting the quoted statements or has some inference been made to arrive at the quoted statements?

! q. If by inference, what is the inference and how is it justified?

h. Describe the stnilarities and differences between the SPERT and BORAX tests referred to and the UCLA

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1. Do these differences in any way reduce the relevancy l of the SPERT and BCRAX tests to the UCLA reactor?

j. If the answer to 1. above is negative, why not?

k. Identify all studies, articles, reports, documents i

or data that support Applicant's statement os page l

V/3-6 of Application. Will Applicant produce these i

absent a for=al motion to produce?

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.r INTERROGATORIES AS TO CONTENTION II

" Wrong Class License" Intervenor herein incorporates by reference pages i through vii of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interrogatories read the definitions and general provisions ,

for these interrogatories which are set forth on pages i through vii above?

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attorneys, furnished information of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparatica of the follow-ing interrogatories? If so, (a) Please identify each and every such person.

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with respect to which that person was consulted.

f (c) Please indicate the nature of the informr. tion or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in preparation of the answers to these interrogatories.

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related to the Reacter; including but not lini*ad to a description of:

(a) Duties of the director other than these related *w the Reactor.

(b) Duties of the manager other than those related *w the Reactor.

(c) Dut:.as of the secretary other than those related ,

to the Reactor.

4. Are supplies and expenses for the Reactor cpera* den accounted for separate of similar supplies and expenses for other functions of the NEL?

c (a) If not, how were the figures regarding the alleca-(~

tien of NEL expenses an supplies to the Reacter cperation listed on Page I/2-1 of the Application arrived at?

5. Please identify all academic reviews of the NEL or the I

Reactor program which have been conducted during the current. ,

! cperating license period.

l (a) Will you produce these documents without a fornal l motion to produce?

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6. Please identify any and all letters, reviews or other documents which contain recc=mendations to the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) concerning the financial support of the Reactor progra=.

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(a) Will you produce these documents without a formal motion to produce?

7. Please describe in detail the process whereby the final budget appropriation for the NEL and/or the Reactor program is determined; including but not limited to the iden*dfica-tion of:

(a) Who prepares the initial budget regaest?

(b) Who reviews the initial budget request?

(c) Who makes the final budget appropriation decision.

8. Please identify any and all documents used in the budgetary process.

(a) Will you produce these documents without a formal motion a produce?

9. Has the NEL's final budget appropriation ever been less than the initial budget appropriation request.

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l there was such a shortfall please indicate what fac*ars caused or required the decision to reduce the appropriation to below the level of the initial budget request. i (b) Please identify for each year any and all docu-ments which would tend to support the existence of the facts or decisions identified in the answer to the previous gaes-tion.

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10. How is the programmatic need for the Reactor program within the University determined?

11. Many of the Interrogatories 8 through 29 pertain to Reactor run #2596, on April 10, 1980, logged on Pages 267-269 of the Operating Log A-I. For run 2596 Kalil was listed as the user. Please define the term user as it is used in the operating log.

12. On run 2596 did Kalil actually operate the reactor?

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13. Does Kalil ever operate the reactor?

! 14. Does the user ever operate the reactor?

15. Did Kalil actually conduct the experiments on run 2596?

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20. Is Kalil directly connected to the NEL?

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21. Is Uranium West Labs connected to the NEL?

22. Did Kalil or Uranium West Labs acquire reactor operat-l ing time on April 10, 1980?

(a) If not, how would Applicant describe the process l which led to the NEL running an experiment for Kalil?

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(a) If so, at what rate?

(b) How was the billing rate determined?

24. What relationship does the billing rate have to the actual cost of operating the reactor?

25. Please identify any and all reports, calculations or.

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(a) Will you produce these documents without a formal l

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26. During run 2596 were student operators involved in the run?

(a) If so please describe the student operator's duties and responsiblities.

(b) If so, did the student operators receive academic credit for their services?

27. Are student operators ever involved when the reactor is run solely or partially for a user who is paying a fee for his use of the reactor?

(a) If so please describe the studert operator's duties and responsiblities.

(b) If so, do student operators receive academic credit for such services?

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28. Are students ever involved in rendering technical assistance when the reactor is run solely or partially for a user who is paying a fee for his use. of the reactor?

(a) If so, please describe the technical assistance j rendered by the students.

(b) If so, do the students receive academic credit for i

their services rendered?

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(a) If so, were the students paid for their services?

(b) If so, please describe in detail what services, jobs, and functions the students performed and rendered.

(c) If so, did any of the students receive academic credit for their services?

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30. For each answer to Interrogatories 26.b, 27.b, 28.b, and 29.c far which the answer was affirmative, please indicate the course number and name under which the credit was received, and identify the instructor responsible for tha course.

31. If the students rendering technical assistance are not

, recieving credit for their services, does the Applicant claim that their work at the reactor is part of the reactor program's educational function?

(a) If so, on what basis is this claim made?

37. To the best of Applicant's knowledge, is there an official definition of education wi nin the University of California?

, (a) If so, what is the definition and in what docu-ment (s) is it found?

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(b) Will you produce said document (s) without a formal motion to produce?

33. Is reactor operating time required for any degree granted by the SEAS?

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required for any degree granted by the SEAS?

(a) If so, for which degree?

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35. Which engineering classas use the reactor as part of the regular course curriculum?

(a) For each course listed in answer;to interrogatory No. 35 please indicate the number of students enrolled in

'each class each year for which Applicant has records.

(b) In which of the courses listed above to the stu-dents actually operate the reactor?

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(c) In which of the courses listed above did the students conduct original research using t e reactor?

l (d) For each class listed above in which students do not actually operate the reactor or conduct original research please describe the use to which the reactor is put as part of the curriculum.  !

36. If the reactor were not relicensed, which of the courses listed in answer to Interrogatory No. 35 would no longer be offered?

(a) Which classes could no longer be offered?

37. Which of the courses listed in answer to Interrogatory No. 35 could utilize nuclear reactor facilities other than

, UCLA-NEL as part of the course curriculm?

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(a) For any class which could not utilize other facil-ities please explain in detail why other facilities could not be used.

38. Is the training of reactor operators done in conjunc-tion with any academic program?

(a) If so, please identify the program, specify the degree to which it leads, and identify the courses ender which credit would be received for training activiti.es.

39. Please describe any activities undertaken by students at NEL for which academic credit is received, which are not described in the answers to Interrogatories 35, 36 and 37.

(a) For each activity listed above, identify the 1

I course number under which academic credit is received and the degree to which it might lead.

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40. Please describe any and all activities undertaken by students at NEL for which academic credit is not received.

(a) For each activity listed above indicate whether students are paid for their services.

(b) If they are paid for their services indicate by whom they are paid.

41. For (A) the year 1980 and (B) January 1, 1981 through the present, please indicate reactor usage in port hours for l each of the following activities as defined by App ,icant in II-9. 3

Applicant's response to NRC staff questions dated April 17, 1980:

(a) Engineering classes.

(b) NEL Experiments.

j (c) Maintenance.

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(d) UCLA Users.

(e) Colleges and Universities.

(f) Demonstrations.

g (g) Commercial.

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1980.

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is a integral J

ll part of the educational function of the reactor program?

l ll (a) If so, please explain why.

44. Does the commercial use of the reactor serve an educa-tional function?

(a) If it does, please describe the educational func-l tii served.

l 45. Has the Reactor staff made any attempts to ascertain whether the fees charged for the commercial use of the l reactor fully defray the cost of operating the reactor for l commercial users?

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(a) If the Reactor staff has made any such efforts please identify all documents which pertain to such efforts.

(b) Will Applicant produce these documents without a formal motion to produce? ,

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46. For each year from 1975 to 1981 please identify all i sources of NEL income other than SEAS or University budget appropriations and fees received for the reactor operating services.

47. Assuming that there is only one port in use, what does it cost the NEL to operate the reactor for one hour at full power?

48. Is the cost of operating the reactor any different when l the reactor is run for the benefit of commercial users than when it is used for classroom instruction?

(a) If there is a difference, please describe in detail what factors account for this difference.

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49. Would the dollar figure arrived at by dividing the total operating cost of the reactor for a given year by the number of hours run during that year give a fair estimate of I the hourly cost of running the reactor?

l (a) If not, why not?

(b) If not, how would the Applicant derive a cost l

figure for an hour of reactor operation?

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50. Has the commercial use of the reactor increased over the last five years?

(a) If it has increased, to what does the Applicant attirbute this increase?

(b) What formal efforts has the NEL or its personnel undertaken to increase the commercial usage of the reactor?

51. Does the Applicant claim that the commercial use of the reactor provides an overall benefit for the NEL program and the University, other than as a source of income?

(a) If so, please describe the benefits?

52. What efforts has the NEL or its personnel made to

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encourage, increase or solicit use of the reactor by users from other colleges and Universities?

53. Does the Applicant have any knowledge of persons with the following last names, who were paid by Emil Kalil and Uranium West Labs for technical students assistance for the  ;

month of April 1980: Everett, Proffer, Schaffer, Smith, Ujithara, or Wheaton?

54. For each of the above listed persons which the Appli-cant has had any knowledge please provide their full names, current addresses, the academic program which they were enrolled in as of April 1980.

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55. Please describe the activities for which the individ-uals listed in Interrogatory No.53 were paid by Emil Kalil and Uranium West Labs in April 1980.

(a) For each activity described please indicate whether academic credit was received.

(b) For each activity described above for which aca-demic credit was not received please indicate whether Appli-cant claims ilhat the activities were part of its educational function. -

(c) If the Applicant makes such a claim please explain why the activities are considered to be part of the educa-tional function.

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56. For reactor run #2596 (described more fully in Inter-i rogatory No.11), please indicate whether the three port ske u m is hours for the run would be considered research as4used in Application, Page III/13. If so, t

(a) Please define the term research as use'd in this context, and explain why the three port hours fit within that definition.

(b) Does the Applicant derive any benefits from the reseach other than the fee received for the use of the reactor?

(c) If the answer to 56 is affirmative, please specify the benefit received.

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1 57 Some reactor runs refer to "Ashbaugh's~ diamonds" as being irradiated.

a. Do the diamonds belong to Pr. Ashbaugh?

b. If not, to whom do they belong?

c. To whom are tia<Hamonds given after irradiation and cooling?

( d. Does Mr. Ash k ugh pay any fee for the reactor use in cases of I

l reactor runs involving " Ash kugh's diamonds"?

e. Does Mr. Ashkugh sell these diamonds after irradiation?

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58. Have gold rings or other jewelry /ever been irradiated in the l {

{, reactor. If so, please provide details of such instances and the consequential radiation irduced in the jewelry from such exposure.

l 59. Intervenor has heard it contended that there are currently carely 5 or 6 students, graduates arz undergraduates combined, in the nuclear engineering program. Is this true? If not, how many is the correct number?

60. Annual (Specialiced Actidty) Report for 1967-68 contains at page 7 a table of student use, theses completed, reports issued, and faculty-staff publications 1960 through 1968. Please cosplete the chart for 1968-1981.

,- 61. Precisely who authored the Applicant's answer to the NRC staff question of April 17, 1980, in which a chart of reactor usage was placed? Frem what

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INTERROGATORIES AS TO CONTENTION III i

" Inadequate Managerial and Administrative Controls" i Intervenor herein incorporates by reference pages i l through vil of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interrogatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interrogatories which are set forth on pages i through vii above?

( 2. Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attorneys, furnished information of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparation of the following interrogatories? If so,

a. Please identify each and every such person.

b. Please state the number of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consulted.

c. Please indicate the nature of the information l or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in preparation of the III-1

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3. Page V/6-2 of the Application sets forth a table of organization for the management and operation of the reactor facility (hereinafter " Facility"). For each level 2, 3, and 4 position indicated on the chart, please identify each and every person who has held each position since 1960 through the present and indicate the dates for which they held such positions.

4. For each individual identified in response to interrogatory no. 3, please indicate whether they are

(~ currently employed by the Regents of the University of California, and, if so, indicate their position, title, campus and department within the University.

5. For each individual identified in response to interrogatory no. 3, please indicate the last address and phone number of such person known to the Applicant.

6. Please indicate for each and every position listed on the chart for levels 2, 3, and 4 referenced in interrogatory no. 3, any periods of time in which no individual held the position or title.

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7. For each period and position indicated in response to interrogatory no. 6, please identify any persons

! who were functionally or formally responsible for the du:ies of said position.

8. For the period 1960 through the present, was the organization for the management and operation of the Facility different from the organization indicated on the chart described in interrogatory no. 3?

9. If the answer to interrogatory no. 8 is in the l affirmative, please describe in detail the changes in organizational structure from 1960 to the present.

10. If the answer to interrogatory no. 8 is in the affirmative, please identify all documents in Applicant's possession that describe previous organizational structures

! and changes from 1960 to the present, and as to each such document:

a. Please indicate if Applicant will provide a copy of each such document to Intervenor without a Motion to Produce.

11. For each 7sar from 1960 to the present, please identify all individuals who were licensed to act as III-3

licensed reactor operators at the Facility.

12. For each year trem 1960 to the present, please iden:ify each and eve v individual licensed to act as a Senior Reactor Operator at the Facility.

13. For each and every person identified in response to interrogatories no. 11 and 12, please indicate the initial date when licensed, initial expiration date, and each subsequent renewal starting and ending date for their operator or senior operator license.

14. Has any operator or senior operator operated the

( controls of the reactor after expiration of his or her license or during an interval between expiration and renewal of his or her license?

15. If the answer to interrogatory no. 14 is in the affirnative, please provide the dates of such operation of the reactor, the name or names of all opera:or(s) or senior operator (s), and the cirew= stances which led to said operation.

16. If the answer to interrogatory no. 14 is in the affirmative, please iden:ify any and all records that document the occurence(s), and whether Applicant will u

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r provide said records to Intervenor without a Motion to Produce.

17. Please identify each and every individual currently licensed to serve as operator or senior operator j at the Facility, as well as the date when each license will expire.

18. Please identify each and every individual currently undergoing reactor operator training at the )

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( individuals have undergone reactor operator training at the i Facility? If an individual received training in more than one year, list them only in the initial year of their l

training.

20. Section 6.1.3.1.B. of the proposed Technical .

Specifications states that "a licensed Senior Operator shall be readily available on call." Please state precisely what is meant by "readily available on call."

21. Please state for each year from 1960 to the present, unless this information was fully included in the answer to interrogatory no. 3, the name and address of each us III-5 i

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I and every person who served as a member of the Reactor Use Committee and the Radiation Use Committee, including their tenure on such committees.

22. Please indicate whether at any time from 1960 to the present any committee other than those listed in interrogatory no. 21 has existed which served functions and had responsibilicies similar to those set forth in section 6.1.5. et seq. in the proposed Technical Specifications.

23. If the answer to interrogatory no. 22 is in the affirmative, please identify each such committee by name, describe its function and responsibility and state the name

( and address of each committee member.

24. Please identify for each year from 1960 to the present, each and every person who served as a member of the Campus Radiation Safety Committee, including their tenure on said comnittee.

25. Please state for all years 1960 to the present each and every time that the Reactor Use Committee, or its predecessors, have met, and further state:

a. For each meeting state if a quorum was present; and

b. For each meeting state if written ecords were u

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_ kept, and if so, state the name, address and phone number of the custodian of each written record, and whether Applicant will provide a copy of said records to Intervenor without a Motion to Produce.

26. Please state each and every action taken by the Reactor Use Committee and its predecessor committees which were considered to possibly " affect the operation and/or safety of the University community beyond the Nuclear Energy Laboratory fadility" (as referred to in Section 6.1.5.2.C.

of the proposed Technical Specifications) .

27. For.each and every action stated in response to

( ir.terrogatory.no. 26, state whether the action was brought to the attention of the Campus Radiation Safety Cdamittee.

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28. For each and every action stated in response to interrogatory no. 27, state the date of the Campus Radiation Safety Committee meeting at which the action was considered.

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29. Please state whether the Campus Radiation Safety Committee has ever vetoed any actions recommended by the Reactor Use Committee or its predecessor committees.

30. If the answer to interrogatory no. 29 is in the affirmative, please s tate:

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a. The date of each meeting at which an action was vetoed;'and

b. The specific action vetoed.

31. Please state for each year from 1960 to the present for each and every time that the Campus Radiation Safety Committee has met:

a. If a quorum was present;

b. If a written record of the meeting was kept;

c. State the name, address and phone number of the custodian of each written record and whether the Applicant will provide such written records to Intervenor without a Motion to Produce.

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32. Please state whether the Reactor Use Committee or its predecessor committees have ever appointed one or more individuals to perform the " Audit Function" defined in Section 6.1.5.4. of the proposed Technical Specifications.

33. If the answer to interrogatory no. 32 is in the l affirrative, state:

a. The name of each and every person so appointed;

b. The dates for which each person held the

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responsibilities at the Facility and at the University during their tenure of responsiblity for the " Audit Function."

34. Please indicate each date upon which an " Audit" was performed.

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35. Please identify any and all written records produced in performing the " Audit Function" and identify the name, address and phone number of the custodian of said records and if Applicant will provide a copy of said records to Intervenor without a Motion to Produce.

I 36. Please indicate the date of each and every in-depth review of the Facility operations made pursuant to Section 6.1.5.4.A of the proposed Technical Specifications or its predecessor section in the current Technical Specifications.

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37. For each and every review identified in response to interrogatory no. 36, please state whether there are written records related to each review, and if so, state:

a. Identify such written records with specificity;

b. The name, address and phone number of the custodian of each such written record;

_ c. If Applicant will provide a copy of each such written record to Intervenor without a Motion to Produce.

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38. The forward to the proposed Technical Specifications indicates on page V/i that four changes were made in the Technical Specifications. Did the Reactor Use Committee or its predecessor committees review and approve these changes? If so, state the date of the meeting (s) at which this action was taken.

39. Sections 6.1.5.3.G and 6.4.1 refer to section 6.5.3 of the proposed Technical Specifications. Section 6.5.3 does not exist in the Intervenor's copy of the Application. Please state whether section 6.5.3 exists, and if so, please set forth the text thereof in full; and if

([ not, please state which section should be the subject of the references in the above-mentioned sections.

l 40. For the Reactor Use Committee, the Radiation Use Committee, the Campus Radiation Safety Committee, and any predecessor committees, please identify any and all written by-laws, procedures or protocols for operation of these committees from 1960 to the present.

41. For each document identified in response to I interrogatory no. 40, state:

a. If Applicant will provide access to Intervenor without a Motion to Produce.

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42. Please identify all of the written procedures maintained by Applicant relating to the categories set forth below (as referenced in Section 6.2 of the proposed Technical Specifications):

a. Normal startup, operation and shutdown procedures for the reactor;

b. Procedures which delineate the operator action required in the event of specific malfunctions, abnormal occurrences, unscheduled shutdowns, and emergencies;

c. Radiological control procedures for all -

facility personnel;

d. Laboratory emergency procedures to guide the i

( behavior and action of all personnel in the event of an l

emergency condition; i

e. Procedures for the installation, determination l

of reactivity worth, and removal of experimental samples where reactor safety is concerned;

f. Procedures for experiments other than sample l

irradiation;

g. Procedures for handling irradiated and unirradiated fuel elements;

h. Procedures for operation of the Pneumatic Sample Transfer System.

43. For each document referenced in response to l

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interrogatory no. 42, please state:

a. The name, address and phone number of the custodian of such document;

b. If Applicant will make such documents available to Intervenor without a Motion to Produce;

c. Describe the normal location within the j Facility of the documents;

d. The procedures which an NEL staffperson associated with the reactor, or a reactor operator or trainee, must go through to gain access to said documents.

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44. Describe any and all efforts that the Applicant regularly takes to insure that reactor personnel are familiar with the written procedures identified in response

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to interrogatory no. 42.

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45. Please specify the interval at which these regular efforts referenced.in interrogatory no. 44 take place, and state the dates of such efforts from January 1, 1979 to the i

present.

l 46. Please describe any and all experiments which were i

reviewed by the Reactor Use Committee or its predecessor committee (s) from 1960 through the present as being "new experiments or classes of experiments that could affect reactivity or result in release of radioactive materials" as v

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Technical Specifications and whether the referenced in 6.3.1 of theA Reactor Use Committee or its predecessors reviewed said experiment or class of experiment.

47. Please identify all current Experiment Safety .

Analyses for the facility and if Applicant will provide access to said records to Intervenor without a Motion to Produce.

48. Please list all experiments conducted in 1980 and 1981 to date and state whether each experiment was approved prior to its operation by the reactor supervisor and the resident health physicist as specified by 6.3.2 of the

([ proposed Technical Specifications.

49. Please list all experiments conducted between 1960 and 1979 which were run without prior approval of the reactor supervisor and the resident health physicist. If the procedures in effect at the time required prior approval from someone other than the reactor supervisor or the resident health physicist, do not list those experiments, unless the personnel who were required to give approval also did not give approval. In such a case, list the personnel who were at the time required to give such approval.

50. Please identify all reports filed with the NRC or v

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its predecessor agency by NEL containing the information identified in 6.5.1 of the proposed Technical Specifications.

51. Please specifically identify any and all reports I

mat * .o the NRC or its predecessor agency described in 6.4.2.1 of the proposed Technical Specifications from 1960 through the present and identify the custodian of Applicant's copies of these reports.

52. Please specifically identify any and all reports made to the NRC or its predecessor agency described in 6.4.2.2 of the proposed Technical Specifications from 1960 through the present, and as to each report, state:

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a. The name, address and phone number of the i custodian of Applicant's copies of these reports;

b. If Applicant will make such reports available to Intervenor without a Motion to Produce, i

l 53. Section 2.0 on page VI/2-1 of Application describes monthly operator meetings that have been initiated for the purposes of critiquing the operating log. Please state the date(s)of each such meeting and whether this program has been extended and/or expanded.

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54. On Page 16 of the NEL Annual (Specialized Activity) Report for 1976 it is indicated that a group of students from Culver City High School "was able to come to UCLA to individually operate and observe the UCLA reactor."

a. What was the specific date or dates of the visit (s) by these individuals to the Facility?

b. Were visitor's log records kept for this visit or visits?

c. Did any of these visitors, with or without supervision, menipulate the controls of the reactor during this visit?

l d. If Applicant does not know or have records of which persons manipulated the controls please so indicate.

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(^ e. If the answer to e is yes, precisely which controls were manipulated and precisely which reactor i operations were manipulated. If power or reactivity was i

! altered by the visitor, please specify the range of t

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f. Identify all individuals who were supervising i this tour. Were all of the superv'isors with the group for the entire visit? If not, for each supervisor please specify the period of time they were present with the tour group and the groups activities during such time.

g. How many individuals who were on this visit l

operated the reactor?

h. Please specify the names, addresses and phone

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numbers of all persons who manipulated the controls.

L. If a teacher or tour leader from the visiting J

group accompanied the visit, please give name, address and I phone number. l

j. Please specify the age and educational l background in nuclear engineering for each visitor who operated the reactor. If Applicant does not have precise information, please given an approximation of the age and educational background and indicate that it is an approximation.

k. Was any screening done of the visitors prior to permitting them to operate the reactor?

1. If the answer to k above was yes, please indicate the manner of screening and specify whether

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psychological health, physical health, physical coordination, manual dexterity, or educational background were factors in the screening.

If the answer to c. was affirmative

m. A Was there specific Commiss' ion approval for this specific operation of the reactor by the visitors on this specific visit?

n. If the answer to m above was yes, please specify what form that approval took and what recorda exist of the approval.

o. Please specify all records that exist besides the visitor's log and the operator's log thnt document this specific visit to the t'EL facility.

p. Did visitors get academic credit in an

. accredited nuclear engineering course for their manipulation of the controls or for their visit?

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55. On Page 16 of the NEL Annual (Specialized Activity) Report for 1976 it is indicated that "approximately a dozen laboratory tours with a one-hour lecture on fission and fusion were given throughout the year to junior and senior high school students from the Southern California area." Please specify the name of each junior and senior high school which participated in these laboratory tours and for each specific tour, please answer the questions in interrogatory 54 above.

56. On Page 16 of the NEL Annual (Specialized Activity) Report for 1976 it is indicated that "as during

/ the past five years, two evening seminars on nuclear energy were given in March and November to Los Angeles City high school teachers from the Hollywood Community Adult School."

If either seminar involved a visit to NEL, please answer the questions in Interrogatory 54.

57. On page 17 of the NEL Annual (Specialized Activity) Report for 1976, it is indicated that On Saturday, September 11, 1976, a full-day seminar on nuclear energy was held at the NEL for high school and college professors. The subjects covered included basic nuclear reactor theory, fuel cycle, power plant operation and design, radiation measurement I

and effects, current controversial nuclear issues, and an actual hands-on operation of the UCLA Argonaut Reactor for all participants.

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. For the September 11, 1976 seminar, please answer all the questions in Interrogatory 54 except 54g.

Kf. On Page 17 of the NEL Annual (Specialized Activity) Report for 1976, it is indicated that " annually, the NEL provides one-hour lecture-tours of the laboratory to all but a few of the top management and the clerical staff of the UCLA Police Department.

For each and everysuch lecture-tour, 1960 through the present, please answer the questions in Interrogatory 54.

59. On Page 17 of the NEL Annual (Specialized Activity) Report for 1976, it is indicated that I

" Miscellaneous lecture tours were also given to UCLA Alumni, the UCLA CHAPTER OF THE SOCIETY OF Women Engineers, minority recruitment, and so on. The NEL participated as usual in the Annual Engineering Week at UCLA by providing tour and a lecturer." Please identify every cour referred to in the above quotation and for each cour given, please answer the questions in Interrogatory 54.

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60. On Page 17 of the NEL Annual (Specialized Activity) Report for 1976, it is indicated:

The NEL provides space, telephones, and secretarial support for the Student Chapter of the ANS.

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Meetings were held periodically in the laboratory lecture area, the elected officers were allowed to make chapter business phone calls, mail was sorted for the officers, and typing and mailing costs for the chapter were borne by the laboratory. When applicable, technical assistance was provided to the chapter by the staff and director of the NEL.

Have ANS members or visitors to ANS meetings from 1960 through the present ever operated the reactor other than those individuals who were licensed operators or senior operators or reactor operator ;rainees or operated the reactor as part of their work as students in a nuclear engineering course?

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62. Page 16 of the Annual (Specialized Activity) ~

Report for 1976 indicates:

One nuclear reactor operations experiment was given in support of the UCLA University Engineering Extension Division. The class, given once per year, is made up of degreed engineers from local industry, with l

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Certificate Program. The experiment consisted of a start-up, operation, and shut-down of a typical reactor. All students were able to operate and hence change the power of the reactor. A cadmium sample was also pneumatically removed from the core. The students took power / time data, and through the use of the Inhour equation were able to determine the " worth" of the sample.

a. For the extension class please answer the questions from Interrogatory 54.

b. In addition, please describe specifically the supervision measures taken, particularly regarding the

/ pneumatic res. wl of the cadmium sample from the core.

c. Was a uember of this class operating the reactor controls at the time?

d. Was this a nuclear engineering class?

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! a. If not, please indicate specifically what 1

k_ type of changes in the 1976 visitor patterns have occurred.

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6 24 a. Has the question of operation of the reactor's controls by unlicensed operators ever been reviewed by any of NEL's super _visorial committees? ,

b. If so, please identify the committee (s) and the date(s) on which those reviews took place, what records exist of those meetings, and whether you will produce said records without a motion to produce.

1 65 . Did Charles E. Ashbtugh III receive prior permission from any of the !.'EL supervisorial committees, or the Reactor *:irectw or Reactor Supervisor, before inviting Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, James 3 ridges and Jack Lemmon to " operate our .1 Fig nuclear reacter" in a letter dated April 9, 1979? .

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permission was received and whether any written records exist of that permission and if so, whether you will produce those records absent a formal motion to produce,

b. If Mr. Ashbaugh did not have prior permission before extending said invitations, did he receive any reprimnd thereafter?

c. If the answer to 65 b is affirmative, please describe the written records that exist regarding any such reprimnd and whether you will produce those records without a motion to produce.

I d. Does NEL have written procedures or policies re6ardin6 CPeration of the controls of the reactor by unlicensed operators?

e. If the answer to e above is affirmative, please describe in detail those written procedures or policies, what records exist re6arding them, and whether you will produce those records absent a formal motion C to produce'.

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66. Please identify each individual or group, not a licensed operator  :

and not identified in the inter:CEatories above, who has operated the controls of the reactor 1975 through the present ,

a. give date .

b. give name aM nature of the visiting party

c. indiate what records exist of the incident

d. ad whether Applicant will produce said records absent a formal motion to produce.

67. The Decket cibliography for this mactor refers to a series of communications between the Commission and the Applicant in 1965 and 1966 regarding Applicant's request to be permitted to let unlicensed operators run the reacter controls and the Commissien's unwillingness to per=it an exemption from the regulations.

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a. Please identify all documents and other records regarding this attempt by Applicant and the Com=ission's response. Vill Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

b. Has Applicant suher;2ent to 1966 received written permission from the Commission regarding operatien of the reactor controls tf unlicensed operaters? If som please identify all documents which record that per=ission and whether Applicant will produce said documents absent a forml motion to produce.

c. What docusents are in Applicant's possessien ' hat define " operator" "ccntrols", er " unlicensed operator"? What are those definitions, and will Applicant prod:ce said documents absent a forml motion 'A produce?

68 Does Applicant contend that instances in which visitors such as the v_,

high school students from Culver City High School manipulated the reactor controls did not constitute unlicensed operation? If so, please III-22

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69. Does Applicant contend that past instances in which visitors such as the high school students from Culver City Hi8h School manipulating the reactor controls did not constitute a violation of Commission regulations?

If so, please detail all facts in Applicant's possession +Jat support that contention.

70. Identify all periods during which the reactor Director was on sabb tical, 1960 to 1981.

a) What procedures are established for functioning of the facility during long-term absence of the Director?

What is the Director's teachin6 load, research load, consulting

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efforts, graduate student supervision, and supervision of the reactor operation in average hours per week?

a. What ferma document that division of time?

b. What documents exist regarding the current Director's consulting time outside UCIA? How many days per year does he do such consulting?

c. Will Applicant produce the documents identified in a and b above absent a formal motion to produce?

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INTERROCATORIES AS TO CO?rrE'?" ION IV

" Violation of Regulations and Technical Specificatiens" l Intervencr herein incorporates by reference pages i throu6h vii of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interro6atories.

1. Havetheperson(s)preparingtheanswerstotheseinterro6atories read the definitions and general provisiens for these interro6ataries which are set forth on pages i through vil above?

2 Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attorneys, furnished b information of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in tthe preparation of the following interrogatories? If so,

a. Please identify each and ever/ such person.

b. Please state the number of each interro6atory with respect to i

which that person was consulted.

l c. Please indicate the nature of the information or other assistance which that person sityplied to Applicant in preparation of the answers to these interro6atories.

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' a. Describe with specificity the violation

b. Identify the date of the violation

c. If recorded in an Inspection Report, provide the nunber and date of said Report 3

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d. If a Notice of Violation was received, indicate the date of said Notice

e. If a written response to the violation outlining corrective measures taken or to be taken was sent to the Commission, identify the author of the response and the date of the response

f. If no Notice of Violation was received, but a violation of Commission regulations or Applicant's Technical Specifications took place, indicate why no Notice of Violation was received.

g. Describe all other documents in Applicant's possession which contain information regarding the violations described above.

h. Vill Applicant produce documents identified in 3c, d, e, and g absent a formal motion to produce?

4 Please identify all Commission inspection reports, 1958 through the present, both for the construction license, operating license, and SNM license,

s. provide the date of issuance of the inspection report

b. its code number (i.e. 50-142/80-02)

c. the date of the inspection itself

d. the type of inspection conducted (e.g. radiological) t e. whether announced or unannounced

f. whethew the Inspection Report has been declared propr'.etary

g. whether Applicant will produce all non-proprietary inspection reports not available currently to Intervenor in public document room (the above interrogatory asked in part to determine which, if any, inspection reports Intervenor does not currently have access to through PDR.)

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5. N earliest inspection report Intervenor has seen to date is dated June 1968 Were there inspections prior to that date? jIf so, how many?

6. The Docket bibliography for the UCIA reactor refers to notices i

of non-compliance and inspections as early as January 1962.

a. What recozds regariing inspections and notices of non-compliance not listed in answer to interrogatory 1+ are in Applicant's possession?

b. Vill Applicant provide said documents absent a for al action to produce?

c. Were early inspections reported in forms other than Inspection Reports? If so, in what manner were they reported? '

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d. Were early notices of non-compliance or violation reported

( in forms other than Notices of Violation or Notices of Non-conpliance?

i i If so, in what manner were they reported?

l 7. Inspecticn Report 50-1142/80-02 refers to an incident involving an uncontrolled reactivity change and malfunction of the reactor's safety amplifier. Please provide a detailed description of each of these instrument failures and malfuncticas, including but not linited to the following details:

a. The date and time of the incident (s)

b. The duration of the failure or malfunction.

c. The cause of the failure or malfunction.

d. The manner in which the failure er m1 function was corrected.

e. Precisely what records were kept of the failure or malfunction and the efforts to correct it.

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8. Will Applicant produce the records identified in 7e above absent a formal motion to produce?

9. Did the Applicant report each of the failures or malfunctions described in Interrogatory 7 to the NRC?

a. If not, why not?

b. Was this a violation or area of non-compliance?

c. If the answer to 9b is affirmative, what corrective measures have been taken to prevent its recurrence?

d. What written materials (including but not limited to correspondence with the NRC and revised operating procedures) exist in Applicant's possession which document the corrective measures detailed in answer to 9c?

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e. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

l 10. Have there ever been uncontrolled reactivity changes at the reactor similar to those described in response to Interrogatory 7?

a. If so, please identify the date of each such incident, the nature of the incident, and its cause,

b. For each incident identified in response to interrogatory 10, 1

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occurrence?

c. If not, why not?

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heat balance calibration at the required interval?

a. If yes, when did that citation 'd e place?

, b. hat documents exist regarding Applicant's efforts to provent i

l recurrence of that violation or non-compliance?

c. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

12 Has Applicant ever failed to do the heat halance calibration at the required interval at any other time than the one identified in response to interro6atory 11 above?

a. If so, please identify each year in which the calibration was not done st the required interval. .

b. Indicate why no citation or notice of non-compliance or violation was received.

c. Indicate all records that exist of each such instance and whether Applicant will produce said records absent a formal motion to produce.

13. Has Applicant ever failed to calibrate the area radiation monitors and stack effluent monitor at the required interval? If so,

a. Indicate each period during which those monitors were not calibrsted

! at the required intervals

b. Which of the incidents noted in 13a above resulted in notices of violation or noncompliance from the Commission

! c . Whether any of the incidents in 13a did not result in such notice and if so, why not

c. What records document each instance, and whether Applicant will l

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! a. Detail each such instance, including the specific instrument calibration not done, the period of time when it was not done at the required interval

b. Whether a Commission Ziotice of Violaticn or Ison-Compliance was received and a licenses response sent

c. If so, whether Applicant will produce the documents identified in

! 14 b above absent a foral motion to produce ,

l l d. If no notice of violation or non-compliance was received, why not?

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a. please indicate each such instance, the date of the notice, I the date of the instance, and the specific details of the instance

b. Has Applicant ever violated the above-mentioned limits without receiving a Notice of violation or non-ccupliance?

c. If the answer to 15 b is affirmative, please detail each such instance, including date, nature of event, and what records exist which document the instance,

d. Will Applicant produce the records indicated in answer to 15c absent a fermi motion to produce?

e. If no notice of violaticn or ncn-compliance was received, why not?

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16. Fas Applicant ever been cited by the Commission for the height of the reactor's exhaust stack not being in conforsance with the Technical Specifications? If so, please provide details.

a. Was the nonconformance existent prior to the notice of noncompliance?

b. If so, for how long?

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a. During what periods prior to the notice of non-compliance was the nozzle also not on the top of the exhaust stack?

18. Has Applicant ever been cited by the Commission for conducting non-standard experiments (such as bypassing scram circuitry) without prior approval frca the ayyavyi-iate sources? If so, please detail each ins tance.

19. Has Applicant ever conducted non-standard experiments without prior approval from the ayyivyilate sources other than the instance (s) identified in response to interro6 story 18? If so,

a. please identify each instance by date, nature of non-standard experiment, whose approval was not received, and cause of instance,

b. If no notice of violation or non-compliance was received, why not?

20. Fas Applicant ever failed to comply with the regulations in force at the time for preparation for shipment of special nuclear materials?

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a. Please identify each instance whers such non-compliance occurred, what specific regulation provisions were not complied with, and wry those provisiorswere not complied with.

b. Applicant stated at a prehearing conference on FebruarI 5,1981, that no Notice of Non-Compliance was going to come from NRC Inspection and Enforcement headquarters. Precisely how did Applicant know that?

c. Does Applicant contend that no violation occurred during the June, 1980, shipment, or rather that the noncompliance er violation was not its fault?

d. Inspection Report 79-01 recommends that arrangements be made for an NRC inspector to be present at the time of shipment. Were such arrangements made and was such an inspector present at the shipment?

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21. Does Applicant have any facts, data, or other information by which to ecmpare or contrast its record of compliance with that of other similar facilities. If so, please detail that information,

a. In addition, what documents does Applicant have in its possession that provide such information. Will Applicant provide such records absent a formal motion to produce?

22. NRC Memo "Snforcement Conference and Subsequent Actions" dealing with an enforcement conference of April 11, 1975, states: "the revised calibration j figure on the gaseous effluent monitor had revealed that annual average discharge concentrations were above limits permitted by the Technical Specifications (essentially 10 CTR 20 limits)." For how long a period prior to that enforcement conference were emissions in excess of those levels?

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23. Have any employees of Applicant ever received reportable radiation doses that were not reported to the Commission? If so, please describe each such incident, including but not limited tot

a. the time and date of each incident,

b. the names and addresses of e ach employee involved.

c. why the incident was not reported.

d. the doses received by each such person.

e. identify all records for each such incident

f. will Applicant provide such records without a formal motion to produce?

24 A memo of October 15, 1974, from G.S. spencer to it.D. Thornburg, both of the Comaission, states: "The items of noncompliance appear to be oversi6 hts which indicate a need for more disciplined management. This conclusion is reinforced by previous experience with this licensee. Consequently, we intend i

i to broaden the inspection effort at this facility until improved perfor:cance is evid ent. "

a. Precisely to what is the memo referring regarding " previous experience with this licensee"?

25. a. Does Applicant contend that it does not have a history of non-compliance?

b. Does it contend that it has had such a history, but in recent years the situation has improved? c. Or does Applicant contend it has had such a hister/ a-d that the situation remains pretty much the same as in the past?

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" Excessive Exec sa Reactivtty" Intervenor herein incorporates by reference pages i through vii of this submission rolating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

I. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interro-gatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interro-gaterries which are set forth on pages i through vii above?

2. Has any person ors persons, other than Applicant's attorneys, i

furnished information of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering

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the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparation of the following interrogatories? If so,

a. Please indentify each and every such person.

, b. Please state the number of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consultad.

c. Please indicate the nature of the information or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicatn in pre-l l paration of the answers to these interrogatories.

3. Please specify all documents in Applicant's possession (in-cluding but not limited to safety analyses, Environmental Impact Assessments, Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Impact Appraisals, negative declarations, supporting studies, correspoMmoe between the Applicant and the Commission and such other documents) that exist regarding the following three amendments to Applicant's licenses t

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a. Amendment increasing power from i) kw to 100 kw thermal

b. Amendment increasing licensed limit on excess reactivity from

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c. Amendment permittirg ins +allation of pneumatic tube sytten and indicate whether Applicant will produce documents absent a formal motion to produce?

4 What is the largest positive worth sample ever inserted in the

, NEL reactor?

a. Please give the worth, the substance of which the sample was -

composed, and the dste of such irradiation.

b, If this was the largest sample of which the Applicant is currently aware, but larg,er samples may have been inserted of which Applicant is not currently aware, please so indicate.

5. Please answer question 4. for the largest negative worth sample.

6. What is the largest combined worth of experiments ever inserted in the reactor, positive or negative?

a. Please answer question 4 a and b for question 6.

7. Please give the interior dimensions and/or volume of the sample containers utilized in the pneumatic tube system, i.e., what is the maximum dimensions and volume of sample material that could be inserted into the reactor via Applicant's pneumatic tube a:rstem?

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a. If yes, what liquid dilutents are employed? '

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b. h t is the dilution range employed ( 1 cc solid sample  !

diluted in x cc's of dilutanti giving the marimum ard minimum dilution levels employed in such samples) ?

c. Total quantity of dilutent used.

d. h t effect on reactivity / moderation, reflection / absorption is there from the use of water and other liquids as a dilutent?

e. Please answer the same questions for the various irradiation ports.

C 9. Precisely what is meant by the term " rabbit' used in connection with the pneumatic tube?

a. ht is a rabbit?

b. ht is it made of?

c. ht are its dimensions, internal volume, ard wall thickness?

d. How is it opened or closed for sample insertion or with-drawal?

e. If there are structures within structures for ample containers describe with specifics all such structures, l

f. Please provide a drawing of a sample rabbit. ,

g. Are there different size rabbits- if so, specify the varying sizes.

h. h t is a" cracked rabbit cap"?

1. h t kinds of rabbit failure constitute a " Failed Rabbit" sa defined in " Failed Pabbit Proceef.ure" centained in NRC Inspection Report 80-02 on page 3?

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j. Vill you provide that proce dure absent c. motion to produce?

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sample containers, one that has never been used, absent a forssi l

motion to produce?

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Kalil's Uranium West, would the ore be placed in a solution and the solution inserted into the reactor? If yes, what would the dilutent be composed of, how much would be used, how much are would be placed into solution, and what would be the concentration?

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a. 15e

b. Joe

c. 4ee j d. $1.50 l e. $3 00 l

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12. How was the answer to 11 determined? '

a. Please provide all calculations, tables , charts etc. used in the preparation of the answer to question 11.

b. What written materials or documents support the answers to i

j question 11?

c. Will Applicant produce absent a formal motion to produce?

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a. 1 2.3%fk/k to physically fit inside a pneuantic tube " rabbit"?

b. t 2.1%fk/k to physically fit inside a pneumatic tube " rabbit"?

l 14 If the answer to 13 is yes, please indicate with specificity the reasons which form the 1msis of the Applicant's contention, and any and all documents (including studies, articles, etc.) which are in the Applicant's possession which back up or contradict Applicant's contention, and Whether said documents will be provided absent a formal motion to produce.

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16. Does Applicant contend that it is physically impossible for a sample worth t 2.3%dk/k to physically fit imide an irradiation port?

17. If the answer to 16 is yes, please answer questions 14 and 15 wil.h reference to irradiation port instea?. or pneumatic tube,

18. If the answers to 13 and 16 are no, please provide all cal-culations and documents which form the tasis of that answer and indicate whether the documents will be provided absent a formal notion to produce.

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a. If so, precisely what mechani=== would prevent such in-sortion?

b. Have those mechanisms ever failed?

c. Can they be overridden?

d. Do these mechanisms require some human involvement to be set, responded to, monitored etc.?

e. How often are those mechanisms maintained, calibrated, tested or serviced?

f. What documents exist that record information related to questions 19 a throu6h e and will Applicant provide them without a formal motion to produce?

20 Pleaseanswerinterro6atory19a-fforasampleworth12.150k/k.

21. Pleaseanswerinterro6atory19a-fforsampleworth12.%Ak/k be%NtN"wn frombe reactor without the control blades being inserted for,

a. A sample inserted throu6h the pneumatic tube

b. A sample in an irradiation port 22 Please .tnswer interrogatory 21 a and b for a sample worth 12.15dK/X.

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can be inserted in the reactor without intervention of physical pre-vention mechanisms and what records exist that document that answer and whether Applicant will provide said records without a formal motion to i

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24 Havepneumatictube" rabbits"overfailedand/orcrackedandor leaked? If yes, i

a. Please provide the date and details of each incident, includingthecause(s)ifdetermined.

b. Specify all records that exist of said incident (s) and whether Applicant will provide documents without a formal motion

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b. How often is the measuring system calibrated

c. What is the protability of error (error bars) on the measurement

d. Have calibration errors or measurement errors ever occurred:

if so, provide specific dets f.ls and dates of each incident

e. What written proce dures exist re6arding measurements?

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a. Is each and every sample independently calculated 7

b. If no to a above, on what basis is it determined that a particular sample worth should or should not be calculated?

c. If no to a above, who makes that determination?

d. Specify all experiment safety analyses related to determination of sample's worth and all proceedures so related and whether you will provide without a formal motion to produce?

e. How is the calculation performed, using what forwndma and methods?

f. What is the largest error found in ocupaing calculated worths

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27. On what forms is a sample's measured or calcua.ted worth written prior to insertion into the reactor? Vill Applicant produce these forms absent a formal motion to produce?

28. Has the worth of a sample ever failed to be recorded or calculated on the forms indentified in answer to interrogatory 27 above?

a. If yes, please indicate each time this occurred, its cause whether the NRC inspection and enfor cement division ever called this natter to Applicant's attention, and what documents exist regarding the failure to so record.

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29. Has a sample ever been inserted in the reactor prior to being measured or calculated?

a. If so, please indicated each and every time this occurred, the reason it occurred, whether the NRC inspection and on-forcement divisica ever called this matter to Applicant's attention, and what documents exist regazding this failure?

c. Will.. Applicant provide said documents without a formal motion to produce?

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or disconnected.

a. What is the largest sample that can be inserted without these systems coming into play?

b. If one of these systems prevent insertion and are overriden, is there any other system that prevent;i reactor operation or contml blade withdrawal? Can this systat be overriden or disconnected? Has it or the primary systen ever failed? If so, provide details, dhat documents exist upon which these answers l are based? '.1111 they be provided without a formal notion to produce?

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31. Please answer interrogatory 30 for a sample worih + 2.1'MK/K.

32. Please answer interrogatory 30 for a mechanin to prevent a sample worth t 2.$AK/E from being withdrawn from the reactor without )

the control rods first being inserted?

33. Please answer interrogato:y 32 for a sa=ple worth 2.1%A k/k.

34 For interrogatories 30-33, please identify the threshholds (in terns of sample worth) for each device so identified.

35. Identifyalloccasionsonwhichthedevicehrsystems

( identified in interrogatories 19-23 and 30-24 have been tested.

a. T.he date of such test.

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c. 'Inat records exist of said tests?

d. Whether Applicant will produce said records absent a fomal s tion to produce?

36. Regan:!ing page III/A-1, IABLE B-1 of Application: how is teen-perature coefficient of reactivity estimated?

a. Is a temperature coefficient of reactivity available?

If not, why? If yes, whatis it, and why wasn't it used here?

37. How is the void coefficient of reactivity calculated? Is a neasurecent available? If not, why? If yes, what is it, and why wasn't it used here?

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38. Regarding page III/A-2, bottom,of the Applications

a. Do these calculations implicitly assume a unifom temperature distribution acmss the coolant flow?

b. Since exit temperature is taken as 100 C, won't any .

inhomogeneity in temperature distribution result in boiling?

c. Are any measurements of temperature distribution availabid If yes, what were the results? If not, why not?

d. Why is the absolute magnitude of the water-temperature coefficient of reactivity no smaller than the water-density coefficient of reactirity referred to a temperature scale?

39, Regarding page III/A-3,the top line of the Applications -

a. What power would cause fuel plate bumout?

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c. '.ihat is the time period used here, and why?

d. Does any fuel plate damage occur before the aluminum _melti If so, how much damage occurs?

e. Is there any fuel plate distortion at temperatures less than melt-down? What would the effect be of such distortion?

f. If coolar.t boils, how uniform would fuel plate temperature rammin? May localized heating and consequent damage occur?

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40. Has the void coefficient changed, or the figure for it been altered, since the original calculations included in Attachment A of section III of the Application were done?

a. If there has been a change, what caused the chang *?

b. Would not that change alter the calculations, reducing the level of excess reactivity insertion necessary to cause molting of the fuel cladding?

c. If the answer to b above is affirsative, what would be the new " safe limit" of excess reactivity bLsed on the current void coefficient figure? Please provide all calculations?

d. If the answer to b above is negative, why is that so? Please

{ provide all facts in Applicant's possession that support or contradict that answer, and indicate all documents related to the answer and whether Applicant will prod _uce said documents absent a formal motion to produce.

41.. The Hazards Analysis of 1960, from which Attachment A was l

reproduced, includes graphs of excess reactivity versus period, i

a. From where were those gralha obtained?

b. Do they apply to any other Argonaut-type reactor as well?

c. Do they actually come from another Argonaut-type reactor?

d. Is there any reason why they would not apply to the UCLA reactor?

If so, what are those reasons?

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f. What are the error bars obtained with those graphs, particularly ths ene that correlates 9 millisecond period with 2.3% excess reactivity?

g. Does the 3 eta figure written on those graphs refer to the UCIA reactor?

h. Does the 3 eta refer to Beta or to 3 eta effective?

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1. explain the discrepancy with other figures for Beta or Beta effective appearing in other UCLA documents.

j. Is that 3 eta figure correct for UCIA (either as 3 eta or Beta )

effective)?

k. If it is not correct, how does that alter those graphs and the excess reactivity calculations?

42. The Application contains several other references to Beta.

a. what is the correct 3 eta for the UCLA reactor?

b. what is the correct 3 eta effective for the UCLA reactor?

c. how does Applicant know which 3 eta and 3 eta effective are correct?

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d. where did the discrepancies arise?

e. which 3 eta or Seta effective is the correct "means of exchange" for converting percent of excess reactivity into dollars and cents?

f. what records does Applicant have that document the answers to 41 and 42? Will Applicant provide said documents absent a formal motien to produce?

43 What degree of confidence (in terms of error krs) does Applicant believe can be given to the 3orax data?

a. What facts are in Applicant's possession on which it kses the above answer?

b. Which h data are questionable because of loss of instrunentation due to the sever'.ty of the destruction?

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a. Please provide all information available to Professor Catton or others associated with Applicant that can stpport that statement.

45 If the maximum possible Wigner energy stored by the year 2000 in the reactor graphite, given past operating history and maximum permitted ,

operation through a new 20-year license, were to be released in the midst of an excess reactivity initiated power excursion, how much heat to the

( fuel elements and cladding would that contribute and by how much what that then reduce the amount of excess reactivity insertion necessary to bring the hottest part of the fuel to the melting point of the cladding?

a. Please provide all calculaticms,

b. Please indicate all facts upon which those calculations are based.

c. Please indicate all documents upon which those calculations and facts are tuned: will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

46. Was the positive temperature coefficient of graphite ignored in the calculations included in Attachment A of part III of the Application?

a)ifso,why?

b) if so, what would be the effect on the calculations of including that matter into the calculations?

k c) Please provide all calculations related to be above and indicate all documents that relate to answers to 46, a,b, and c will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

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delayed neutron countin6 of d uranium content be worth 1/10th the reactivity worth of the same volume of uranium are that contained 10 times

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a) If not, what is the relationship between uranium content and reactivity worth?

b) precisely what is it in the ore that absorbs neutrons?

d) is it possible for an ore sample thus to have significantly greater concentration of those absorbers to increase reactivity worth ty a factor of 10 over nor ml?

e. is it possible for an ore sample to have a reactivitherth cf g 2.3f,just on the basis of significantly higher concentration of

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48. Does Applicant admit that the Sorax reactor was only moderated i

by water and that the UCIA reactor is moderated and reflected by graphite as well as moderated by water? If so,

a. How can the Borax results be reliably extrapolated to the UCIA situation?

b. If those results are extrapolated, through the calculations employed in Attachment A of Section III of the Application, hcw large should be the error bars in making the extrapolation?

c. On what tasis does Applicant answer interrogat.nries 48 and a and b; please provide all calculaticns and indicate all studies, experiments, and other documents consulted and whether Applicant will produce all such documents absent a formi motion to produce?

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49. What data more current.than the Sorax data has Applicant reviewed in determining the safety of its facility re6arding excess reactivity?

a. Please indicate all documents that relats to the answer to 49 and whether Applicant will produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

50. Attachment A, page 3, provides a formula for determining the minimum number of W-seconds necessary to bring the temperature of the hottest part of the fuel to 1000*F over the boiling temperature of water, which the analysis indicates is the molting point of the cladding. Iater parts of the analysis show how to convert W-seconds into5deltak/kofexcessreactivityandperiod,concludingthrough simple mth that a 9 millisecond period, corresponding to 2.3% excese reactivity, is the level that will bring the fuel to that temperature.

a. How does analysis get from the point of showing that that level of excess reactivity and that short a period trings you to the melting point to the conclusion that that excess reactivity ard period can be tolerated without melting?

b. is this merely a way of saying 2.3% is the safe limit, below which is OK and above which is possibly dangerous?

d. Vas not the analysis which led .o the estimation of 2.3% merely a way of showing that .6%, the limit at the time of the analysis, was safe because there was a big safety margin (up to somewhere around 2.3)

until one reached the danger zone?

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51. What level of excess reactivity and what cv ..spording period does Applicant currently contend represents a clearly safe?

a. What is the basis of that answer.

b. What documnts suppm ^h contradict that answer? Will Applicant produce said documents absent a for:nal : notion to produce?

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andgeneralprovisionstobeusedinanswefingthese interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interrogatories read the definitions and general provisions fo'r these interrogatories which are set forth on pages i through vii above? l

2. Has any person or persons,, other than Applicant's attorneys, furnished information of any type whatsoever used l

by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparation of the follow-ing interrogatories? If so, (a) Please identify each and every such person.

(b) Please state the number of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consulted.

(c) Please indicate the nature of the information or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in preparation of the answers to there interrogatories.

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the reactor, from 1960 through the present. The answer to this interrogatory should include but not be limited to:

(a) Identification of any and all tests or procedures rel& ting to radioactive emissions from the reactor from which data war. derived.

(b) The dates when such tests and procedures were j conducted.

(c) The frequency of any ongoing tests or procedures.

(d) Identification of raw data as well as summations, conclusions or final reports based on such raw data.

(e) For each source of data please indicate whether you will provide such data without a f6rmal motion to pro-duce.

l l 4. The following questions relate to the two year thermo-1 luminescent dosimeter (TLD) study conducted by the NEL and concluded in June 1978.

(a) Did the Applicant, employ or otherwise utilize an outside company in conducting or administering the thermo-luminescent dosimeter (TLD) program?

(b) If so, please identify the company or companies l utilized.

(c) If so, please explain the services performed by the company for the Applicant relative to the TLD program.

(d) Who was responsible for choosing the company used?

(e) Why was the particular company used chosen?

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(f) was the choice made by a formal bid process?

(g) If not, why not?

5. Please specify the location of all TLD's used in the program.

(a) Were any of these TLD's removed or lost during the program? If so which ones?

(b) were any of these TLD's replaced because of malfunctions or other performance problems?

6. Please specify the location of any and all TLD's which were considered control TLD's.

(a) were any measurements of backcround radiation at the site of the control TLD's taken during the program?

Other than readings of the control TLD's themselves?

(b) If not, why not?

(c) If so, what were the results of each control TLD?

(d) If so, how often were the measurements taken?

(e) Please explain how and why the sites for the control TLD's were chosen.

7. What is the operational life of the type of TLD's used in the TLD program?

8. Were any specific tests ever conducted to determine whether or not the TLD's were picking up radiation from the concrete or granite?

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(b) If not, why not? I (c) If not, on what informatien does the Applicant i

base its conclusions expressed on Page V/3-10 of the Appli-cation that the TLD readin s were being affected by such radiati7n?

(d) Why wasn't the program repeated with TLD place-ments which would not be affected by the concrete and granite i

or with TLD's shielded from the concrete and granite radi-ation?  !

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during such test? i

10. Other than the reactor itself, or the buildings them-selves, identify any and all sources of radiation on the UCLA campus which might have effected the TLD readings?

(a) Were any tests conducted to determine what the effect of these other radiation sources were on the' TLD readings?

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(a) If the Applicant has doubts please explain the nature of these doubts.

12. Does the Applicant believe that its efforts to monitor the radioactive emissions of the reactor have been suffic-ient to determine with confidence the amount of radiation emitted by the reactor?

(a) Please identify each test or study which has provided data sufficient to determine with confidence the amount.of radiation emitted by the reactor?

(b) Please answer the questions posed in Interrogator-ies 9 and 9a for the determination of radiation reaching the roof and interior of the Math-Sciences Building.

13. Is the statement "UCLA expresses no confidence in either the TLD data or its extrapolation" made by Walter Wegst in his December 9,1980 letter to Dr. John Ahearne of 1

the NRC true?

14. Does the Applicant intend to rely in any way on the l

September 24, 1980 Director's Decision (DD 80-30) in its defense against Contention VI?

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(a) If in any year there were more than one type of film badge used please indicate the type and location of each[11mbadge.

17. For each type of film badge indentified in response to Interrogatory No. 16, please indicate the sensitivity of the badge type.

18. hhen Applicant specifies in Applicant's response of 8/22/80 to NRC staff question No. 7'of 7/31/80 . that certain film badges have a threshold of 10 mr/ month or 10 mr/ quarter, does that

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indicated 10 mr total radiation or 10 mr over background?

(a) When a reading is expressed as o ar, does that indicate no radiation, o ar over background, or o mr over threshold?

19. Indicate each year and/or quarter which the film badges have been located in the same positions as are indicated on Pages II/2-la to II/2-4 of the Application.

(a) Please indicate all other locations where film badges have been placed and dates when in place.

l l 20. Are the figures whosn in Table II/2-1 of the Appli-cation derived solely from the film badge readings?

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, (a) If not, please indicate what other sources of data have been used and how the figures have been derived.

21. Please explain why the readings cited on Page II/2-la of the Application for film badges No. 265 and No. 203 i

located on the reactor stack are many times higher than the reading cited on Page 23 of Annual Report 1978 on the TLD that was located in the same position.

(a) Please explain the discrepency between the film ,

badge readings for badges No. 265 and No. 203 in Interroga-

• tory No. 21 and the statement in an October 11, 1979 press release from the SEAS that a persor sitting beside the stack

(_ all year long would receive an annual radiation dosage of l

less than 50 Millirems.

(b) Which reading does the Applicant deem to be more reliable and accurate and why?

22. Has film that was beyond its expiration date ever been provided to NEL for use in film badges?

(a) If so, please indicate each occasion on which this has occured?

l (b) Has such film ever been used by the NEL?

(c) Please identify the supplier of any expired film that NEL has received.

(d) Please indicate how the fact of the film's expira-tion was discovered by NEL?

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(e) What actions were taken by NEL in response to the provision of expired film by their suppliers?

23. Please identify any and all documents which would 1pecify the locations of all film badges used by NEL for radiation monitoring and any documents which contain any trla, raw and compiled, regarding the readings of the film badges, over the current license period.

24. Does the NEL do any of. its own film badge analysis?

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25. Was a TLD placed in Culver City as part of the TLD progra=S (a) If so, what was the precise address of the loca. -

tion?

(b) was the TLD located at the home of a University employee?

(c) If so, please identify the employee.

( 26. Was a TLD placed in the reactor supervisors office?

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(a) Was this TLD considered a control TLD?

(b) Why was the reactor supervisor's office chosen as the site for a control TLD?

27. The 1979 Annual Report for the reactor states on Page 9 that Argon 41 releases for that year totalled 82.9 Ci. The Application, states, on Page II/2-5 that the annual release of radioactive Argon 41 for 1979 was 65.5 Ci. Please indi-cate why there is a discrepency between these two documents, including but not limited to:

(a) Which figure Applicant considers more accurate.

(b) How the two figures were derived.

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28. Has the NEL ever purchased, built or utilized any device to monitor Argon-41 emissions that is capable of directl.y measuring Argon-41?

(a) If so, please describe the device and describe the manner, time and places in which it has been used by the NEL.

(b) If net, why has such a device never been obtained?

l (c) What would it cost to buy or build such a device?

, (d) Is it possible to mea: are with confidence the l

Argon-41 emissions of the reactor in the areas surrounding the reactor stack without the use of such a device? If so, please describe how this can be done.

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29. Is the number of curies of radiation emitted by the reactor each year directly proportional to the number of reactor kwh/ annum?

(a) If not, please describe the relationship between kwh/ annum of operation and curies of radiation emitted.

(b) Please indicate from what information or data the answers to Interrogatory No. 30 and 30a are based.

30. In 1975 in a November 5 letter written by William Kastenberg to Karl Goller it was stated that hold-up decay tanks could be installed for around $1,000.00 or more. Why were not the hold-up decay tanks installed?

(a) Who made the decision not to install the decay tanks?

(b) Please identify any and all documents which con-tain information about the need for decay tanks, the cost of installing them or the decision not to install them.

31. Please identify all devices for measuring neutrons located outside of the reactor room.

(a) For each such device specify the type of device, its threshold, its sensitivity, its accuracy and the fre-quency with which it takes measurements.

(b) Please identify all raw data derived from the neurton measuring devices.

(c) Will you provide the raw data without a formal

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33. What neutron measuring devices are placed in the area which contains the demineralizing tank if that area is different than the area described in Interrogatory No. 32?

34. For both Interrogatories 32 and 33 please identify any and 7.11 raw data derived from the neutron measuring devices described in response to those interrogatories.

(a) Will you produce such raw data without a formal

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35. Is the occupancy analysis of the roof areas, adjacent to the reactor stack contained in the Safety Analysis that attended the Application for Amendment 10 to the Facility License r-71 the most current occupancy analysis undertaken by Applicant?

l (a) If no, please identify any more current occupancy analyses conducted.

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(a) Precisely how was the roof occupancy determined?

(b) What efforts have been made to ascertain the continuing validity of the roof occupancy determination?

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(c) How was transit time considered in determining occupancy?

(d) How was planetarium occupancy considered in deter-mining occupancy?

(e) were any physical obersvations made, please ident-i ify any and all records of such obersations.

(g) If physical observations were made, please describe the time of day, duration and frequency of such ebserva-tions.

(h) What records exist upon which the occupancy of the i Math-Science Building was determined?

37. Was the occupancy of the portions of the Math-Sciences

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, into the air-conditioning system determined?

(a) If not, why not?

(b) If so, please describe how the occupal;cy figures were determined.

(c) If so, please describe how it was determined which portions of the Math-Sciences building would be effected?

(d) Was the occupancy factor for the affected portions of the Math-Sciences Building considered as the occupancy factor of the roof at the point of the air-conditioning i intake in determining the roof occupancy?

(e) If not, why not.?

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38. Were weekly counts of persons observed on the roof ever recorded in the operating log?

(a) If so, please indicate on which dates and log pages counts are recorded.

39. Were any devices ever placed inside the rooms of the Math-Sciences Building which have windows which open facing the reactor exhaust stack area?

(a) If so, please indicate the location and period of each such device and identify any records or data which were derived from such devices.

(b) Will you provide such data and records without a formal motion to produce?

40. What percentage of the gamma radiation from the emitted Argon-41, does Applicant believe, penetrates the walls, ceilings, floors, and partitions in the Math-Sciences Building?

(a) On what information or data is the response to Interrogatory No. 40 based?

(b) If some percentage of the Argon-41 gamma radiation may penetrate the walls, ceilings, floors and partitions of the Math-Sciences Building, was this factor considered in determining the possible radiation exposures to the Math-Sciences Building occupants?

, (c) If the penetration of gamma radiation was consid-ered please describe how it was considered in de.ermining

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(d) If *.he penetration of gamma radiation was not considered please indicate why it was not considered, and why it need not be considered.

41. On October 23, 1979, Applicant apprised the NRC of an increase in roof occupany due to a balloon release program atop the Math-Sicence Building. In determining the result-ing occupancy of the rooftop, did the Applicant determine only the occupancy created by the program, or did the Appli-cant add the occupancy created by the balloon program to the existing occupancy factor?

(a) If the occupany was not cumulative please indicate what the total occupany factor would be when cumulated.

(~ (b) If the occupany was not cumulative please explain why it was not cumulated.

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(a) For any efforts so described please indicate, the l date, duratIion and frequency of such efforts.

43. Has Applicant installed hold-up decay .. inks at the I

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45. Has the Applicant considered raising the level 5f the exhaust stack in order to reduce possible exposures dn the adjacent areas? j (a) If so, please indicate why this was not under-taken.

(b) Was it not undertaken primarily or partially because of the expense? f (c) Please estimate what it would cost to raise the stack twenty (20) feet.

C 46. In the period since 1974 have any modifications'or improvements to the facility which would reduce the radio-active emissions reaching the adjacent areas, andwhdch would cost under Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) been considered?

(a) If so, please describe any such modifications and l improvements.

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(a) How close (in feet or meters) would be tlie short-est distance from the MS air intake and the center of the exhaust plume under these assumed conditions?

48. Which radioactive element comprises the largest source strength (curies /Hr.), and which the largest internal dose rate (REM / DAY), next after Argon-41, at the exhaust stack?

(a) At nearby rooftop work or access areas?

49. What are the source strengths and dose rates at these locations?

50. What effects does the existence of this nuclide have on

( '. Argon-41 monitors?

51. Has Applicant ever stored a leaking Cobalt-60 source within NEL?

a. If so, precisely where in NEL was it stored?

b. Vas it ever stored in the spent fuel' storage area or near that ares?

I c. If so, give precise details on how it was stored?

d. Could it ever have come in contact with spent fuel or liquid around the spent fuel

e. Please indicate the causerof the leak, and the strength of the source?

f. For what was the scurce used?

g. Indicate all locations within NEL during which the Cotalt-60 source '

was ever placed.

h. when and how and to where was it shipped?

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i.. what records document the answers to 51 a through h.

j. will Applicant produce said records absent a formal motion I

to produce?

52. What are the corrosica and activation products present in i

secondary coolant'or other liquid effluent?

a. Is cokit-60 over present in the secondary coolant or other i

liquid effluent?

b. If so, why, in what quantities, ard how often.

53. Department of Transportation investigation dated December 4, 1980, indicates that Applicant apparently missed radioactive contamination of 100,000 counts per minute during its radiation check of the truck used for shipment of spent fuel. That truck was leaded in an area quite close to unrestricted public access areas, ard passed through highly populated areas.

a. Does Applicant center 4 that the shipment was not conhmimt+M

when it reached CE at Vallecitos?

b. Does Applicant contend that the shipment was not contaairAted when it was at UCI.A?

c. On what facts does Applicant has its answers to 53 a and b?

d. What records document Applicant's answers to 53 a and b and c?

e. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

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$.a. Did Applicant notify Joe Karbus, Ics Angeles County radiation protection official, prior to the allegedly contaminated shipment?

b. Did Applicant notify any other governmental radiation protection official, or other public safety official, either in Ics Angeles or along the route of transport, prior to the allegedly con +=minated shipment?

c. If the answer to $ b is affirmative, precisely who was notified?

d. Did Applicant notify Joe Karbus subsequent to being notified that the shipment had been allegedly found to be con +2m1nated?

e. Did Appli:: ant notify any other governmental radiatim protection official, or other public safety effocial, either in Los Angeles for along the route of transport, subsequent to being notified that the shipment had been allegedly found to to contaminated? If so, who was notified?

f. If the answer to $ a, b, d, er e is negative, please explain

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g. What records exist of any such notification? Vill Applicant produce said records absent a formal motien to produce?

55 Is it Applicant's contention that it was not the cause cf the contamination of the truckbed and tiedowns? If yes,

a. Please indicate how Applicant believes contamination episode occurred, precisely.

b. Please detail what facts Applicant has in its possession to support or contradict the answers to 54 and 54 a above.

c. Please specify what documents are in Applicant's possession which support or contradict the answers to 54, 54 a and b: will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to producs?

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56. The Department of Transportation study dated December 24, 1980, mentions a zwport that the driver of the allegedly contaminated truck allegedly picked up an unauthorized passenger, a woman friend, who tzsvolled in the truck cabin along with the drivers.

a. Does Applicant have any information to confirm or deny that raport, and, if so, please provide all such information.

b. If the Applicant has any information which confirms the report, what efforts did Applicant make to locate and notify that woman subsequent to learning about the alleged contamination so that she might be checked for possible contamination?

c. Were the driver (s) wearing film badges or other zsdiation protection devices? If so, what data exists regarding their radiation exposures?

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a. Is the Valley News report correct about the route traveled?

b. Did Applicant have anything to do with choosing the route

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d. If that was the route chosen by Applicant, why did it choose

' a route that involved so much additional travel through populated area?

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e. Once Applicant was notified of the alleged contamination, did it take any radiation readings along the route, at least the route travelled through campus and through Westwood Village, to see if any liquid con +==h=nt spilled along the route? If so, what were the results of such measurements? If not, why were not such measurements made?

58. The Department of Transportation study indicates the truck stopped at least one night in Ias Vegas. Precisely where was the truck parked while it stayed in Ias Vegas?

a. After being notified of the alleged contamination, did Applicant notify Ias Vegas officials or any other officials and recommend any radiation monitoring of the area where the truck had been parked?

b. If the answer to 58 a is affirmative, what were the results of the monitoring, l c. If the answer to 58 a is negative, why did it not so notify officials and so recommend such monitoring?

d. Is Applicant aware of any rainstorm through which the truck may have passed in its allegedly contaminated condition before reachir4 Vallecitos? If so, where? Did it stop anywhere where it encountered rain?

Vere any radiation readings subsequently taken there to see if the rain washed off any of the contaminant into unrestricted areas? If so, what were the results of said monitoring?

e. The DOT study indicates the driver said he had a faulty airline for his brakes and therefore stopped in las Vegas, but also reports an indication that this may not be true. 'ahLt information does Applicant possess that can shed light on where the truck was while in las Ve6as, for how long, and where its drivers, potentially carrying radioactivity into unrestricted areas, were during the time they were there?

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f. The shipment apparently left UCLA on a Saturday morning.

Was it intended for the drivers to drive straight through to Idaho Fans and deliver the mterial Saturday or Sunday, or was it intended an along that the transport involve stopover? If the latter, would it not have been morejprudent from a radiological protection standpoint, knowing what is now known about the contamination, for the most direct, quickest, and least populated route to have been taken?

59. Precisely why did Applicant choose not.to monitor the truck for Cotalt-60?

60. How does Applicant explain its apparent inability to detect

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l notification of radiation or other public safety officials in IA or along i

the route, all subsequent notification of officials after being informed of the alleged contamination, a u correspondence with the trucking company, the company from which the cask was borrowed (CE at Vallecitos Intervenor understands),thefacilitytowhichtheshipmentwastaken(Intervenor understands it was Exxon Nuclear at Idaho Falls), an other governmental agencies from which or to which documents related to the incident were l transmitted, and all other records of the incident in question, i

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. 62. What is Applicant's precise and complete definition of AIARA? l

< Does Applicant have other definitions for ALARA?

a. What documents contain .the above definitions? Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formi motion to produce?

63 How does Applicant assess compliance with AIARA? What standard does Applicant use?

a. What documents contain the above standards or measures or t

means of assessment. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formi motion to produce?

64 Applicant's answer to NRC question 2, answered on 8-27-80, states that if the avera6e value of dosimeters within 300 feet of the stack is attributed entirely to reactor operations and scaled to 1979 operating (h; -

level. the beta + gamma dose "is about 97 mr/yr."

a. Please estimte the beta + gamma dose if one takes the highest dosimeter location within 300 feet of the stack and scales it to maximum permitted operating level under the current terms of the license.

65. Will Applicant produce '1980 Annual Report to the NRC' absent a formal motion to produce?

66. ThelosAngelesTimesof4/12/81reportsthattheApplicant'sreactor at Berkeley entits Argon-41. A press statement by UC 3erkeley Ghancellor Hey mn referred to a numbe of studies and calculations done about the Argon emission.

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" Operational Unreliability" Intervonor herein incorporates by reference pages i through vii of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interro-gatories read the definitions and general prodsions for these interro-gatories which are set forth on pages i through vii above?

2. Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attomeys, i furnished information of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparation of the following interrogatories. If so,

a. Please identify each and every such person.

b. Please state the number of each interrogatory with respect

( to which that person was consulted.

l l c. Please indicate the nature of the infomation or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in pre-I paration of the answers to these interrogatories.

3. *lithin the context of these interrogatories, the tem " unusual episode" and/or " Unusual event" will include but not be 14-4 ted to

a. abnor=al occurrences

b. unscheduled shutdowns

c. unanticipated shutdowns

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e. reportable occurrences

f. accidents

g. radiation or radioactivity spills, leaks, or contamin-ation episodes

h. excursions 1, transients

j. non-standard radiation exposures or suspected exposures to personnel or visitors

k. equipment malfunctions with possible effects on operational reliability or safety with

1. personnel errors A possible effects on operational reliability or safety

m. violation of operating procedures

n. high, out-of-ordinary radioactivity or radiation levels

o. and all other incidents outside of the nomal operations of the reactor which might affect the operational reliability of the reactor and its supporting facilities

'!hich of the above-mentioned terms referring to " unusual epi-sodes" or " unusual events" are utilized by Applicant?

4 'thich tems are not utilized by Applicant and how are those occurrences or events described?

5. Indicate all other terms utilized by Applicant and not identi-fied in answer to interrogatories 3 and 4 that also refer to " unusual episodes or events" at the reactor and supporting facilities.

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l 6 What are the Applicant's precise, fomal definitions of each of the ter.us identified in answer to intermgatories 3,4 and 57

7. What are the applicant's sources for these fomal definitions 7

a. If they are I;uclear Regulatory Commission (::RC) definitions, what specific !;RC documents do they come from7

b. If these definitions have non-NRC origins, what are those are origins, and from what specific documents 4they taken?

c. Will Applicant produce copies of all such documents absent a formal motion to produce?

8. Does the Applicant have written operating procedures for reactor

.. personnsi to follow in the event of the occurrence of each of the kinds of

(' " unusual episodes" identified in interrogatories 3,4 and 57

a. For each type of " unusual episode" for which Applicant has written operating procedures, what are the titles and date of compilation of each such written operating proceduref

b. Will Applicant famish, absent a formal motion to produce copies of each and every set of written omerating procedures for responding to " unusual episodes," aside from those pertain-ing to the Physical Security Plant

c. For which types of " unusual episodes"does a written procedure not exist, and why?

9' 'ihGre does the Applicant keep copies of the written operating procedures described in interrogatory 967

a. Are these written operating procedures readily accessible to all reactor personnel involved in operating the reactor 7

b. How do reactor personnel obtain access to the copies of i

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c. Uhat specific efforts have been made by the Applicant to ensure that all reactor personnel are familiar with the written operating procedures described in interrogatory i87 10 Have reactor personnel ever actually undertaken any of the writ-ten proper operating procedures described in interrogatory f 87

a. If so, what specific actions have been taken in response to what specific" unusual episodes"?

b. Have these actions renited in a decrease in the number of

" unusual episodes"7

c. Have these actions resulted in a decrease in the severity of " unusual episodes" which still occurf

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d. If the actions undertaken in accordance with the written operating procedures in interrogatory f8 have resulted in a decrease in neither the number nor the severity of unusual epi-sodes which have occurred, then is it Applicant's contention that all of the unusual episodes which nave occurred are nor-t mal occurrences at a reactor of this type?

e. If the answer to d above is affirmative, please provide all facts in Appa.icant's possession to support that assertion, identify all documents in which those facts are found, and indicate whether Applicant will produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

11. Has the Applicant undertaken any administrative actions in response to the occurrence of any unusual episode?

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12. To exactly which governmental organizations does the Applicant send written reports of the types of " unusual events" specified in inter-rogatories 3,4 and 57 '

a. Will Applicant produce said reports absent a fomal motion to produce?

13. Are there any written forms the Applicant is required to complete by some governmental organization subsequent to the occurrance

( of an " unusual episode" in the course of reactor operation, but which Applicant only must keep on file in its offices instead of having to mail l to the governmental organization in question?

a. If so, exactly what foms are so requi.M and by what pa:ticular govemmental organizations?

b. Will Applicant produce said records absent a fomal motion l

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t 14 Does the Applicant maintain written records of the occurrence of any " unusual episode" at the reactor which are not reqaired specifically by a particular governmental organization?

a. If so, exactly what rccords does Applicant maintain?

b. '.lill Applicant produce said records absent a formal notion to pmduce?

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" Radiation Exposures in Case of Major Accident" l Intervonor herein incorporates by reference pages i through vii of this sutaission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interrogatories read the definitions and general provisionn for these interrogatories which are set forth on pages i through vii above?

2. Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attorneys,

( furnished information of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering the following interfogatories or provided other assistance in the preparation of the following interrogatories? If so,

a. Please identify each and every such person.

b. Please state the nuster of each interrosatory with respect to whidt that person was consulted,

c. Please indicate the nature of the information or other i assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in preparation of the answers to these interro6atories.

t l 3. In preparing Attachment 3 of the Argonaut Safety Analysis Report centained in Section III of the Application, precisely what radioactive core inventory was assumed? Please provide answers in curies.

a. What total core inventory was assumed?

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b. h t inventory was assumed for the volatile fission products?

(asreferredtoinApplicationatpa6eIII/3-1: '*Ihe volatile fission products are bromine, krypton, iodine, and xenon. Hence the fission product chains which must be considered are of atomic masses 82 to 90 and 131 to 135.")

c. ht inventory was assumed for the non-volatile fission products?

d. In the above-mentioned analysis, what were considered to be the non-volatile fission products?

e. In the above-mentioned analysis, were any fission products besides t

bromine, krypton, iodine and xenon considered to be volatile? If so, specify which isotopes were so considered.

f. ht specific invmtory was assumed for each of the iodine isotopes?

g h t specific inventory was assumed for bromine?

h. h t specific inventory was assumed for krypton?

I 1. h t specific inventory was assumed for xenon?

j. h t specific inventory was assumed for each of the strontium isotopes?

k. h t specific inventory was assumed for cesium?

4 a. h t specific inventory was assumed for plutonium?

b. ht inventory was assumed for the activation and corrosien materials in the primary coolant?

c. h t inventcry was assumed for induced radioactivity in the reactor materials and surrounding materials?

5 h t conditions were assumed in order to produce the inventory figures used for the analysis in Attachment 3 of Section III of the Application?

a. ht precisely was meant by the statement on page B-1 of the attachment that the " reactor is assumed to have teen operated continuously at the 10 kw power level long enough to have attained equilibrium concentrations of the U relatively short-lived fission products, i.e., the iodine, bromine, and krypton isotopes." How long was the reactor assumed to have run? How long does it take to reach equilibrium concentrations of those isotopes?

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6. What written materials (calculations, workbooks, analyses, source materials, computer printouts) document Applicant's answers t.o interrogatories 3, 4, ani 5? Will Applicant produce said documents absent a forsal motion to produce?

7. Page III/8-1 of the Application indicates that the calculations in Attachment 3 are "tased upon a steady state inventory at 10 kut" and argues that "in view of the current restriction of the UCIA Reactor operating hours to ST of the year, the muimum average power is now 5 kut, a factor of two less than the 10 kut used in the orighal calculations."

a. Please specify all facts and calculations upon which Applicant bases the above assertion that marhma core inventory for the reactor under current restrictions at 100 kut is half that of the volatile inventory assumed for the reactor at 10 kwt in the original 1960 calculations?

b. Please identify all docutents in Applicant's possession or of which Applicant is aware that support or contradict the quoted statement above and the answer to 7a.

c. Will Applicant produce all documents identified in 7b above which are in its possession absent a formal motion to produce?

d. What is Applicant's contention as to how long the reactor must run continuously at 10 kwt to build up a " steady state inventory" of the i volatile fiabian products analysed in Attachment 37 l

e. What is Applicant's contention as to how long the reactor must run continuously at 100 kwt to build up an equal inventory?

f. What is Applicant's contention as to how long the reactor nust run at 100 kwt 8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> per day five days a week to build up an equal inventory?

g. What is Applicant's contention as to how long the reactor must run at 100 kut 16 hours1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br /> per day five days a week to build up an equal inventory?

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h. Please provide all calculations upon which answers 7d through 7g above are based,

i. What documents, tables, computer runs, studies, articles, books, recmis of experiments, or other written source material are the answers to 7d through 7g based upon?

j. Will Applicant produce the documents identified in response to 71 above absent a formal motion to produce?

8. Would anything in the reactor's current license or technical specifications prohibit operation under the following conditions, so long as the total operation in any one year did not exceed 43,800 kilowatt (thermal) hours?

a. operating more than 5% of any given week at 100 kwt

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c. operating 16 hours1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br /> a day at 100 kut

d. operating 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> a day at 100 kwt

e. operating 6 days a week at 100 kut .

f. operating 7 days a week at 100 kwt

g. operating 7 days a week for 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> a day for 18 days straight at 100 kwt

h. operating 7 days a week for 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> a day for the first 18 days of one year and the last 18 days of the previous year at 100 kut.

i. operating at 25 kwt for 73 days straight, 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> per day J. operating at 25 kwt for the last 73 days of one year and the first 73 days of the next year.

9. If the answers to 8 a through j indicates that any of those operating conditions would not be permitted under the current license or technical specifications, for each item a through j so indicated, please specify what provision of the license or technical specification is the source of the limitation.

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10. In Attachment 3 of the Section III of the Application, did the 1960 analysis reproduced therein average power and operating time over a year's period in order to make its computations, or did it rather consider maximum operation for a portion of a year?

11. On what basis did Applicant conclude that only 10% of the volatile fission products would be released in the most severe accident considered credible?

a. What studies, experiments, calculations, investi ations, 6 and other documents in Applicant's possession support or contradict the assumption of only a 10% volatile fission product release?

b. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to

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12. On what insis did Applicant conclude that none of the non-volatile fission products would be released in the most severe accident considered credible?

a. What studies, experiments, calculations, investi ations, 6 and other documents in Applicant's possession seppw.i or contradict the assumption of

'zero non-volatile fission product zilease?

b. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a 1braal motion to produce?

! 13. Onpa6eIII/3-1ofApplicationitisstatedthattheassumptionof10%

volatile release and zero non-volatile release "is consistent with the reasonable assumption made here that the incident is not violent enough to blow off the top snd side biole61 cal shields so as to cause an intense spray of water-eteam-5

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a. Please provide all facts in Applicant's possession which show that that assumption indeed is reasonable,

b. Please indicate all documents which support or contradict that statement and the answer to 13a above.

c. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

14 Does Applicant have knowledge as to whether in the 3orax self-destruct experiment the biological shields were blown off and a spray of water-steam-radioactivity released?

a. If the answer to the above is affirustive, please provide all facts in Applicant's possession as to the results of that Borax experiment.

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15 What facts are in Appu cant's possession that indicate that should the maximum earthquake possible at the site occur, reactor biolo61 cal

( shields would stay in pitee?

a. What documents does Applicant possess that suppozt or contradict the above answers will Applicant provide said documents absent s. formal motion to produce?

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17. Has Applicant in its possession any additional facts or calculations which estisate radioactivity releases and consequential doses in case of a maximum accident? If so,

a. Please detail with specificity all analyses which have been done, their methodology, and their conclusions.

b. Please describe all documents which relate to said analyses and calculations and facts and whether Applicant will produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce.

18. ht is Applicant's most current estimate of the maximum radioactive

(~ . core inventory that can be contained within the reactor at any one point i

during the proposed license period given the proposed license and technical specifications limitations?

a. h t inventory is assumed for the volatile fission products?

b. ht inventory is assumed for the non-volatile fission products?

c. ht specific inventory is assumed for each of the iodine isotopes?

d. h t specific inventory is assumed for bromine?

e. h t specific inventory is assumed for krypton?

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f. h t specific inventory is assumed for xenon?

g. h t specific inventory is assumed for each of the strontium isotopes?

h. h t specific inventory is assumed for cesium?

19.a.ht specific inventory is assumed for plutenium?

b. h t inventory is assumed for the activation and corrosion materials in the W. mary coolant?

c. What inventory is assuned for induced radioactivity in the reacter materials t

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20. What calculations, charts, tables, computer printouts and other written materials exist in Applicant's possession which document the answers to interrogatories 18 and 19?

21. What conditions were assumed in answering the questions in 18 and 19?

a. How many total megawatt days over how many years had the fuel been assumed to be in the reactor?

b. How many hours per day for how many days per week over how many continuous weeks had the reactor been assumed to run and at what power?

. 22. a.How many megawatt days has the reactor run to date?

b. How many megawatt days could the reactor run if its 20-year

license renewal were granted and it ran and full operating authorized level for that period (how many me6awatt days in addition to those already run)?

c. How many megawatt days has the fuel now in the reactor produced?

If parts of the fuel loading have different histories, so indicate.

d. How many megawatt days are necessary before reloading is necessary?

What is the maximita number of megawatt days for maximum fuel burnup?

e. What is the fuel inventory-after maximum turnup-of the relatively long-lived isotopes (e.g. strontium-90 and cesium-137) given past history of thefuelandlimit,onfutureoperationsof438kwh/yearoverthenext20 years.

23. a. What is the equilibrium time for the principa7. iodine isotopes at continual operation?

b. What is the I-131 inventory for this reactor after 36 consecutive v days of operation 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> per day?

c. Fcat would be the-I-131 inventory for this reactor on a Friday afternoon a.fter 21 weeks of running at 100 kw 8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> a day five days a week?

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d. What would be the I-131 inventory for this reactor en a Friday evening after a 16-hour run preceded by 10 weeks of running at 100 kw 16 hours1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br /> a day five days a week?

e. Please show all calculations on which the answers to 22 ard 23 are based.

f. Please identify all documents upon which the answers to 22 and 23 are lased. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a forral motion to produco?

24 Please answer questions 18 and 19 for the fonowing conditions, all predicated on the present operating history of the reactor and the end of the requested twenty-year license renewal period, or anximum fuel

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a. 36 consecutive days of operation 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> per day,100 kw power

b. 21 weeks of running at 100 kw, 8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> a day, five days a week, at the end of an 8 hour9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> run and a five-day week.

c.10 weeks of running at lv0 kw, 8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> a day, five days a week, l

at the end of an 8 hour9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> run and a five-day week.

d. 21 weeks of running at 100 kw, 8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> a day, five days a week, at the end of a 16 hour1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br /> run and a five day week.

e.10 weeks of running at 100 kw, 8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> a day, five days a week, t

at the end of a 16 hour1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br /> run and a five day week.

25. Please show all thdcalculations upon which the answers to 24 above were based.

a. Please indicate all docunents upon which those any.ers were lased.

b. Will Applicant produce said docunents absent a formal notion to produce?

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26. Does Applicant have any inforn tion in its possession as to 4 of volatile and nonvolatile fisalon products considerei to be released into environment in accident scenarios at other reactors?

a. If so, please detail all such information, including the hypothesized percents'and the reactors in question.

b. If the answer to 26 is affirmative, please indicate all documents in Applicar.t's possession which provide said inforsation.

c. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

27. Does Applicant currently contend only 10% of the volatiles and

(, - none of the non-volatiles could credibly escape in a maximum accident?

a. If so, what facts form the basis of that contention?

b. If not, what new estimates does Applicant have and what facts and documents form the basis of those new estisates? (Please give the new percentages if new estimates do exist). Vill' Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

28. What infoznation does Applicant possess regarding properties of the reactor or the fuel to minimize fission product escape?

a. Precisely what capabilities of the fuel are there or coolant that wotild minimize such release?

b. What documents support or contradict the information provided in answer to 28 and 28ag will Applicant produce said documents absent a forml notion to produce?

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29. Page 62 of the 1960 Fazards Analysis makes reference to the reactor running at 205 operating time (this when operating limit vas 10 kut) in discussing Argon-41 releases. Since the section of the 1980 Safety Analysis Report dealing with releases in cases of accident is a verbatim copy of a part of the 1960 /42ards Analysis, did the accident analysis so included assume 100% operating time at 10 kwt over the year or 205 average operating time over the year or some other figure fer operating time?

30 On what basis are the estimates of leak rate from the tuilding made in Attachment 3 of Section II of the Application?

a. Pas the leak rate from the 1:milding ever been tested?

b. If so, what were theresults of those tests, what documents exist about those tests, and will Applicant produce said documents absent i a formal motion to produce? ,

c. Was it assumed that the reactor room and /or reactor hd1d*ng remained intact in assuming the various leak rates in Attachment 3?

d. What would be the fission product escape rate if the reac+4r roca and/cr reactor building were severely damaged (for instance in a steam explosion er an earthquake)?

e. Are the leak rate estinates incitzied in Attachment 3 =erely repititiens of the leak rate estimates made in the late fifties for the

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f. What documents are in Applicant's possession that support er contradict the answers in 30 a throu6h e above? Vill Applicant produce said dccuments ataen+. a formal motion to produce?

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31. Does Applicant contwui that no non-volatile fission products would escape the reactor core should the following types of accidents occurs

a. a Windscale-type uranium and/or gra*Aite fire j b. a Borax-type power excursion and steam explosion i

c. an earthquake which da n ged the fuel and was coupled with boiling cf primary coolant and steam feration

d. explosion in reactor core or nearby, caused by accident or intent.

32. Please provide all facts which suppcrt your answer to interrogatory 31.

a. What documents are in Applicant's possessim which support or contradict the informtien provided in 31: will Applicant produce said documents steent a formi motion to produce?

33. Please provide Applicant's estimates of fission product release (both for non-volatiles and volatiles and unless Applicant contends none of one or the other form of fission products can be released in such

a scenario) for each of the types of accidents described in 31 above.

l l a. What documents provide facts which supym.i. ani/cr contradict the estimates given to 33 above? Vill Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

l 34 The aralysis in Attachment 3 included in the current Application was written at least 20 years ago, when the reactor was in its own 2-story building. Since then considerable ccestructim has essentially envelopei the reacter structure. How does this affect the estimtes made in Attachment 3?

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m. What new estimates have hen mde by Applicant or of which Applicant is aware that take into consideration the current configuration I

of buildings surrounding and encompassing the reactar? (3y estimates, we refer to estimates of leak rates, public exposures of radiation, total i  ; population exposed, concentration of radioactivity in a2r on deposited on i

>. floors, walls, ceilings, etc. within the building).

b. Please specify how these estimates were made, and what the resulting estimates are.

c. Please identify all documents that record these estimates and their method of productions will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

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35. What would be th.e/dones to people within 3celter Fall given all the assunptions in Attachment 3 except that the kilding was as it was in 1960?

a. Please show all calculations leading to your answer.

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36. What would be the effect of the building ventilation system in case of an accident at the reactor?

a. If the reactor room itself remained intact, but the stack shut do m automatically and a steam explosion occurred filling the reactor room vid overpressure and radioactive stoma?

b. If the reactor room did not remain intact and a steam explosion occurred involving radioactive staan?

c. for the conditions outlined in a and b above, kt with a core fire instead of a steam explosion.

d. Please provide all calculatixs upon which your answers are ksed.

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to 36 a through dg will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

37. What is the effect on the surface deposition estimates found in Appendix 3 of assuming contamination of parts of the interier of Boelter Hall?

a. Please provide all calculations.

b. Please idet tify all documents that support or contradict your answerg will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

38. What attempt has Applicant made to update the estimates contained

( in Appendix B with new dispersion models, dose rate models, dose factors, i

l and other similar more cur.wnt data?

a. Please indicate all new models ard data reviewed and the results of utilizing these new models and data,

b. What documents exist in which these models ani data are contained l will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

39. PageII/3-6oftheApplicationestimtesan1800repexposureto the thyroid to a member of the public at 15 meters under certain air conditions.

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a. Does Applicant contend that its estimte contained in its Application for relicensing is incorrect?

b. If the answer to 39 a is affir mtive, what does Applicant contend is the correct estimte?

c. If 39 b has been answered, please provide all calculations and facts upon which that new estimate has been mde. In addition, please identify l

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14 0 . Given the estimate of 1h 3 rep to the thyroid found in the Application, what thyroid dose would result if the following assumptions upon which it is lased were changed? Please answer each individually,

s. Rather than 10.4 volatile release, 50% volatila release.

b. Rather than 10 % volatile release, 100 % volatile release .

c. Rather than the volatile inventory at 100 kut under current operating limits being considered half that of the volatile inventory

( assumed in the analysis at 10 kw, assume that under current conditions the volatile inventory would be 5 times that of the reactor at 10 kw.

d. The same as e above but the volatile inventory 10 times that assumed in the analysis in Attachment 3

e. Ikther than the leak rate assumed in Attachment 3, based on an assumption of no damage to reactor room or building, assume a leak rate lased on such damage (fra explosion or earthquake).

f. Rather than the radioactivity concentration in air assumed in the analysis in Attachment 3, based on an assumption of a leak of radioactivity from the reactor briilding to the outside and dispersing in the outside air, assume maximum possible concentration of radioactivity (with buildup) of leak into the nearest parts of Boelter Hall to the reactor that are occupied by the public.

g. same as f, but with damage to NEL structure due to explosion or earthquake, thus increasing leak rate.

h. Rather than the dose from surface deposition assumed in the i

VIII-16 analysis in Attachment 3, based on deposition outdoors, assume interior deposition of the interior of 30elter Hall and maximua deposition on the surfaces in unrestricted areas of Boelter where hi6 hest deposition rates are likely.

1. Same as h, but assuming leak rate consistent with physical damage to NEL structure from explosion or earthquake.

j. If conditions a,c.f, and h existed together.

k. If conditions b,d,e.g. and i existed together.

1. Please provide all calculations and facts upen which answers 40 a through k are based.

u. Please identify all documents upon which the answers to interrogatories

, 40 a throu6h 1 are tased will Applicant produce said documents absent a i

formal motion ioproduce?

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41. Assuming the severe inversion conditions upon which the 1800 rep thyroid dose was calculated in the Attachment 3, but assuming some release on non-volatile fission products, please estimate external beta dose, gamma dose, thyroid dose, and bone dose assuming 104 volatile release and the other conditions assumed in Attachment 3 excepts

a. 1.4 strontium release

b. 105 strontium release

c. 1" non-volatile release

d. 55 non-volatile release e.10< non-volatile release

f. 505 non-volatile release 4

42. Please provide all facts and calculations upon which the answers to 41 a through f are lased. Please indicate all documents in which those facts and calculations are contained; will Applicant produce said docunen+4 absent a

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43. Please answer interrogatory 41 a through f assuming that the non-volatile fission product inventory at 100 kut under curreid operating restrictions and the assumption of an additional twenty years of operation and with past operating history ist

a. 5 times that of the reactor at 10 kut under the operatirpnditions assumed in Attachment 3 b.10 times that of the reactor at 10 kut under the operating conditions assumed in Attachment 3.

44. Please provide all facts and calculations in Applicant's possession upon

{ which the answers to 43 a and b are based.

a. Please indicate all documents which support or contradict l

those answers will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

l 45 Please answer interrogatory 40 for external beta dose, samma dose.

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a. rather than the leak rate assumed in Attachment 3 to the cutside of the reactor structure, assume a leak rate tased on damage (from explosion orearthquake)

.;.sv.4e much and which fission products, detected by which specific instruments, with what sensitivity, threshhold, accuracy, and ability to measure for which isotopes?

d. How many fuel plates failed or suffered damaged in each case?

e. What was the extent of damage or failure in each case?

f. What was determined to be the cause of the damage or failure in each case.

g. What records exist that document any of the answers to the above subparts of question 53, and will f' Applicant produce those records without a motion to produce?

54. Have any other Argonaut-type reactors suffered any fuel failures or fuel damage of which Applicant is aware?

If yes

a. Specifically what failure or damage occurred;

b. At which facilities;

c. When?

d. What was the cause and extent of the failure or damage?

e. What records does Applicant possess or knows exist that provide additional information or document answers to 54a through d3 and will Applicant provide those C

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55. Please describe what information Applicant tas about failures or damage undergone by MTR type fuel in facilities besides Argonaut-type reactors including:

a. The date, location of each such incident;

b. The extent and cause of damage;

c. What records are in Applicant's possession that document said damage or failures and whether Applicant will provide without a motion to produce?

d. What records are not in Applicant's possession but which Applicant has knowledge as to their existence and possible source for acquisition.

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f. Will Applicant produce said records without a motion to perh?

56. a. What is the precise lowest melting temperature of the aluminum cladding used in Applicant's fuel?

b. What is the precise lowest melting temperature of the uranium-aluminum alloy used in Applicant's fuel?

c. What is the lowest burning temperature of the uranium used in Applicant's fuel?

d. What is the lowest burning temperature of the graphite used in Applicant's reactor?

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e. What is the lowest temperature at which an exothermic reaction between coolant water and aluminum cladding can take place in the Applicant's reaptor if the temperature is rapidly attained?

f. What error bars, if any, does Applicant contend should be given to the figures provided in 56a through e?

g. What records and other written material does Applicant have that document the answer for 56a through f, and will Applicant provide them without a motion to produce?

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i INTEP2J0GATORIES AS TO CD::TII TIC': XIII "Special Nuclear Material License Opposed:

Bomb Grade Enrichment-Excessive Quantity" Intervonor herein incorporates by reference pages i through v11 of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these inter-rogatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interrogatories which are set forth on pages i through vii above?

g, 2 Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attomeys, l fumished infomation of any type whatsoever used by Arm cant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparation of the following interrogatories? If so, (a) Please identify each and every such person.

(b) Please state the nuber of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consulted.

(c) Please indicate the nature of the infomation or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in preparation of the answers to these interrogatories.

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3. Precisely on what pages of the Application does Applicant provide the information required by 10 TR 70.22(a)(7) and (a) (8) and 70.24(a)(1), (2), and (3)?

4 What specific means are employe1 hy

• Applicant for monitoring for accidental criticality of the fresh fuel?

5 What specific means are employed by Applicant for monitoring for accidental criticality of irradiated fuel?

6. What specific procedures are employed by Applicant to avoid

, accidental criticality?

7. What documents are in Applicant's possession that provide information relative to the answers for interro6atories 4-??

Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

8. The original Argonaut reactor utilized 20d enriched fuel.

a) What problems does Applicant know of that the origir:a1 Argonaut reactor faced with 20% fuel?

b) The University of Florida originally utilized 205C enriched fuel.

What problems does Applicant have knowledge of regarding their experience I

with that enrichment fuel?

c) What problems would UCIA face if required to utilize 20 enriched i

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e) What doc.:ments are in Applicant's possession that provide the tasis for answers 8a through d? Will Applicant prod *tce said documents absent a for=al motion to produce?

9. Application indicates that criginal UCIA fuel loading was 345 2 grams U-235 and that cu=ent loading is 3556 g=s.

a. Why does Applicant contend it is essential that it be able to have 4700 gms irradiatai fuel when the core can only contain under present loading 3556 gms?

b. Why does Applicant request licensed limit of 4700 gms U-235 in fresh fuel when only 3556 can be loaded under current loading even if all the fuel needed replacing simul +meously?

c. Why does Applicant request licensed limitfof 4700 g:s 1.hted d 4700 g=s unirradiated? Cannot the reactor function with only irradiated fuel on site (when the fuel is in the core) or only unirradiated fuel on site (when spent fuel has been removed ani fresh fuel is to be added) or se7s lesser combination of both? -

d. What facts are in Applicant's possession which support or contradict its answers to 9 a through c?

e. What d ocuments are in Applicant's possession that either support or centradict its answers to 9 a through b? Will Applicant produce sai:1 documents absent a fermal motion to produce?

10. Vould Applicant be unable to have the reactor function if it were permitted to have on site at any one time only 3600 Ems fresh fuel g 3600 gas irradiated, or any combination r,f fresh and irradiated so that the conbination of "-235 totally present at any one time could be no : ore

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a. Present all facts in Applicant's possession that support or contradict the answer above.

b. Please indicate all documents in Applicant's possession that support or contradict the answer above. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

11. Would Applicant be unable to have the reactor function should the enrichment level of its fuel be reduced from 93# to 20%?

a. Please present all facts in Applicant's possession that support or contradict the answer to 11 above,

b. Please indicate all documents in Applicant's possession that

(~' support or contradict the answer to 11 above. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a form 1 motion to produce?

12. If the answer to 11 above is that the Applicant could not function the reactor on 204 enriched fuel, please specify precisely what is the minimum level of enrichment with which the reactor could function.

a. Present all facts which support your answers please indicate all documents which support the answers and whether you will produce said documents absent a formal moticn to produce.

13. If the answer to 10 above is that Applicant could not operate the reactor were such a limitation imposed, please indicate the minimum quantity of fuel, irradiated and ncn-irradiated, or any ccabination thereof, with which the reactor could operate.

v a. Present all facts which support your answers please indicate all documents which support the answers and whether you will produce said documents absent a formal notion to produce?

XIII-5 14 ht is the minimum amount of U-235 necessary at 9% enrichment to make an at;mic bomb?

a. ht percentage of that amount would the proposed licensed

limitfo$1sfacilityex.stitute?

b. what documents form the basis for Applicant's answers?

c. will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

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E"?ERRCCATCHIES AS TO CONICN XIV

" Failure to Analyze Problems Common to Similar Reactors" Intervenor herein incorporates by reference pages i through vil of this submission relatin6 to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interrogatcries read the definitions and general provisions for these interrogatories which are set forth on pages i through v11 above?

2. Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attorneys,

- furnished informtion of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in k

answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparation of the following interrogatories. If so,

a. Please identify each and every such person.

b. Please state the nunber of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consulted.

c. Please indicate the nature of the infornation or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in

! preparation of the answers to these interrogatories.

3. Please indicate the location and date on which it went critical I

i of all Argonaut-type reactors ever built.

4 Please indicate which of the above Argonaut-type reactors are

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6. Please indicate all Argonaut-type reactors built by American i

Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation. I 3

7. Please indicate all other manufacturers of Argonaut-type reactors and which specific reactors they built, r

8. Please indicate all efforts made by Applicant, 1958 timough the present, to learn from the operating experience cf these other Argonaut-type reactors.

(^ a. Please indicate all documents in Applicant's possession related to those efforts.

b. Will Applicant produce e Aid documents absent a formal motion to produce?

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9. Is American Radiation an,1 Standard Sanitary Corpcration.still i

in the businssa of making or servicing Argonaut-type reactors?'

10 Is any other company still in the business or making er servicing Argonaut-type reactors?

11. 7.e original Argonaut reacter ran at . $ excess reactivity.

Why does the UCIA reacter have a licensed limit of 2.T!I--what does Applicant centend is essential to be done that cannot be done at .%?

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% manufactures the fuel for the UCIA reactor? Who manufactures the fuel for the other Argonaut-type reactors?

a. ht has been the operatin6 experience of that kind of fuel?

b. Fave any reactors using it suffered fuel damage or failures?

c. If the answer to b is affirmtive, please give details and what efforts have been made by Applicant to avoid the same problems at its facility.

13. h t studies is Applicant aware of regsrding problems or characteristics common to Argonaut-type reactors?

a. Will Applicant produce said studies absent a formal motion to produce?

14 ,s. h t studies have employees of Applicant participated in regarding problems or characteristics common to Argonaut-type or s.".all research reactors?b.Have any UC employees, including but not limited to employees at Iawrence Livermore, Iawrence 3erkeley, and Los Alamos, participated in such studies? c. Please specify all studies identified in 14 a and all UC employees by name and location who have participated in such studies. d. ht documents exist in Applicant's possession which relate to said studies? e. Vill Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

15 ht levels of excess reactivity limits are found at each other existing Argonaut-type reactor in the country?

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of Argonaut-type reactors and the UCLA reactor to share experience and pool informtion, includirg date of such meeting and what records exist of l such meetings.

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18. What Fazards Analyses for other Argonaut-type reactors are in Applicant's possession? Will Applicant produce them absent a formal motion to produce?

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! documents absent a formi motion to produce?

a. Pas Applicant ever experienced any similar problems?

b. Iffso, please detail each such instance.

l 20. An AEC inspection report for the UCIA reactor in the late 1960s report a notification of UCLA via an AEC inspector of a positive temperature coefficient being observed at the University of Washington reactor.

a. F.ad Applicant previously observed a positive tempoerature coefficient for the graphite?

b. If so, Id.at was the earliest date at which Applicant was aware l of a positive temperature coefficient for the graphite?

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d. What docunents are in Applicant's possession regarding all such testing and all infor: nation regarding tenperature coefficients for the

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gra;hite? Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal 1 motion to produce?

e. Whenever Applicant first noted the positive coefficient, did it notify other Argonaut-type reactors? If so, please irdicate all records of such notification and whether you will produce them absent a formal motion to produce. If not, whdot?

21. One Comadssion inspection report noted that another Argonaut type reactor had problems with the lack of spare control blade motors and indicated that at the time UCIA also had no tackup motors. Does Applicant now have such spare motors?

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22. Irdicate all problems experienced at other Argonaut-type reactors of which Applicant is aware, the manner in which Applicant became aware, whether similar problems have existed at UCLA's reactor, what documents exist regarding such problems, and whether Applicant will produce those ,

documents absent a formal motion to produce.

23. Indicate all problems experienced at the UCIA reactor that UCIA has notified other Argonaut-type facilities about, what documents exist regarding such notification, and whether Applicant will produce said documents atsent a formal motien to produce.

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I;TEP30GATORIES AS TO CO !TElTIO I AV

" Densely Populated Site" Intervenor herein incorporates by reference pages i through vii of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

I. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interro-gatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interro-gatories which are set forth on pages i thmugh vil above?

2. Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attorneys,

( furnished infor:sation of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparaticn of the folic ^1ng intermgatories? If so,

a. Please identify each and every such person.

b. Please state the number of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consulted.

c. Please indicate the nature of the infomation or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in pre-paration of the answers to these interrogatories.

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'Jas an initial environ = ental impact report produced for the i

reactor building?

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c. Will the university produce this report without a fomal .

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4 'dere any subsequent environmental impact reports produced in conjunction with new constructions or modification of Boelter Hall or the Math Sciences building?

a. Does the university po sess s these reports?

b. If not, who is in possbssion of these reports?

c. Will the university produce these reports without a fomal motion to produce?

5 Does the university possess an original "as built" site plan for the reactor building?

a. If not, who is in possessin of the plan?

b. Will the university produce this plan without a fomal motion to produce?

6. Ilhat was the most recent construction or modification in the 1:: mediate vicinity of the reactor building?

a. Does the univorsity posess an original "as built" site plan for this most recent construction or modification?

I b. If not, who is in pcssessi::n of this plant

c. Will the university produce this plan without a femal motion to produce?

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7. Does the university possess original "as built" architectural i plans for Boelter Hall and the Math Sciences building?

a. If not, who is in possesshn of these plans?

b. Will the university produce these plans without a formal motion to produce?

8 Does the university possess architectural plans for all alter-

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a. If not, who is in possessin of these plans?

b. Will tne university produce these plans without a fomal motion to produce?

9. Does the university possess original "as built" air condition-ing plans for Boelter Hall and the Math Sciences building?

a. If not, who is in possesskn of these plans?

b. Will the university produce these plans without a fomal motion to produce?

10. Does the university possess"as built" air conditioning plans for all alterations in Bolter Hall and the Math Sciences building?

f a. If not, who is in possession of these plans?

b. Will the university produce these plans without a formal notion to produce?

11.- Does the university possess the original daily occupancy report I for the reactor bui1Mng?

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a. If not, who is in pmsession of this report?

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motion to produce?

12. Does the university possess daily occupancy reports for Boelter Hall and the Math Sciences Building for the years 1976 through 19807

a. If not, 'who is in possesskn of these reports?

b. Will the university produce these reports without an official motion to produce?

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13. Does the university posress projected daily occupancy reports for Boelter Hall and the Math Scioneds building for the ne.st twenty yeard

a. If not, who is in paseaston of these reports?

b. Jill the university produce these reports without a formal

motion to produce?

14 Does the university possess a copy of the design cri' aria for the reactor building?

a. If not, who is in 'possessin of the design criteria?

b. Will the university produce the design cri' aria without

. a femal motion to produce?

15. For which of the following does the university pensess figures for daily occupancy?

a. "The Treehouse" in Ackerman Union.

b. T.he Student Store in Ackeman Union.

c. The coffee house in Kerkhoff Hall.

d. The printing and duplicating facility in Kerkhoff Hall.

e. The "Bonbshelter" in Life Sciences quad.

f. The Snack bar in Soelter Hall.

g. Will Applicant produce above figures without a formal notion to produce?

I 16 How did the university derive the population figures used in f

1 Section 3.6 of part III of the application?

! 17. What is the total current population of UCLA, including stud-ents, facu1..t7 and staff?

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DTERROGATOPIES AS TO CONTCITION XVI "Too Old" Intervenor herein incorporates by reference pages i through vil of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

I. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interro-gatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interro-gatories which are set forth on pages i through vii above?

2. Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attorneys, f' furnished information of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparation of the following interrogatories? If so,

a. flease identify each aad every such person.

b. Please state the number of each intermgatory with respect .

to which that person was consulted.

c. Please indicate the nature of the infomation or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in pre-paration of the answers to these interrogatories.

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3. Precisely to which specific instruments and items of equipment did Dr. Catton refer when he wmte in his Annual (Specialized Activity)

Report for 1976, p. 35L "some of the reactor instrumentation is still workable, but sometimes unreldable, and is very difficult to repair due to

(" its age and the resultant problem of obtaining parts (e.g., vacuum tubes, specialized switches, indicators, and meters)." Please identify each and

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a. Had reliability problems.

b. Has proven difficult to repair due to its age,

c. Has experienced problems of obtaining parts.

5. Professor Catton also wrote in the above-mentioned report:

"If the NEL receives erca funds, the orderly updating of console instmmen-tation will proceed."

( a. Did !EI, receive the extra funds?

b. Did NEL receive all of the extra funds requested?

c. What was the size of the specific fund request and what was the size of the specific appropriation of " extra funds?"

d. Ilhich particular console instrumentation was to be updated?

e. Which particular console instru=entation was updated?

f. '.thich particular console instrumentation updating had to be postponed?

g. ;lhat documents exist that relate to proposed updating, bud-get requests, appm priations granted or turned down, actual instmment updating, and will Applicant pmvide without a l

fomal motion to produce?

l 6 Llere the Applicant to receive a grant for one =illion dollars, earnarked entirely for instru=ent updating, safety device addition, and

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7. Page 36 of the Annual (Specialized Activity) Report stated:

"If =cney is found, our antiquated activation analysis laboratory must be modernized. It is currently about 10 years behind the state of the art."

a. Nas money found?

b. Was it modemized?

c. What needed modernization?

d. 'Jhat was modernized?

e. '.Jhat modemization still needs to b3 done.

(~ f. How much money for modernization is still needed?

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of the age of the reactor, or its components?

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replacement for reasons Applicant associated with age?

10 Which major pieces of reactor or console equipment does

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1. Havetheperson(s)preparingtheanswerstotheseinterrogatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interrogatories which are set forth on pages i through vil above?

2. Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attorneys,

( furnished information of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided othld assistance in the preparation of the following interrogatories? If so,

a. Please identify each and every such person.

b. Please state the number of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consulted.

c. Please indicate the nature of the information or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in preparation of the answers to these interrogatories.

3. Page 10 of the NEL 1966-1967 Annual (Specialized Activity)

Report indicates "A U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey strong motion seismograph is presently housed in Engineering Unit I at UCIA. Early in 1968 the strong motion seismograph will be moved to the Nuclear Energy Iaboratory and the

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a. How long prior to 1968 was the strong motion seismograph i

housed in Engineering Unit I at UCIA? )

b. Was it indeed moved to NEL in 1968?

c. If the answer to 3b is negative, was it moved to NEL at some other time?

d. If the answer to 3c is affirmative, when was it moved?

e. Is the strong motion seismograph still in place at NEL7

f. If not, where is it located?

g. In what form (s) do data from that seismograph exist?

h. Does Applicant have any recczds of data from that seismograph?

1. If the answer to h is affirmative, specify all such recorIs

( Applicant has in its possession, including the period of time covered by said records, and whether Applicant will produce said records absent a formal motion to produce?

j. What other records of data from that seismograph exist or may exist tut are or may be in the possession of others than Applicant, and in whose possession .are those records (including institution, name of custodian of records, vidross, and phone number.)?

k. What is meant by the statement quoted in 3 above that "the reactor will be instrumented."? Precisely what kinds of instruments were to be associated with the reactor, and precisely where were they to be placed?

4 What other seismographs or other seismic instruments exist on the UCIA campus? Please specify the type of instrument, its pzscise Iccation on the campus, the nature and period of time of records of data from said instrument, the custodian of said records, and whether Applicant

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5 Besides those instruments identified in response to interro6atories 4 and 3, specify all instruments which mi 8ht provide l

data or other indications of the response of tha NEL reactor ard/or Boelter Hall to seismic activity.

a. Please indicate the nature of the instrument, its precise .,

location, the period of time it has or had been in place, the nature of the data produced and the form in which it is or was recorded..

the custodian of such records, and whether Applicant will produce nid records absent a formal motion to produce.

6. Page 10 of the 1966-1967 Annual (Specialized Activity) Report

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indicates that Professor Patthiessen "is conducting a two-year vibration study of the reactor building and its associated laboratory. These experiments have been conducted while part of the building has been under construction and provide detailed information about the building response."

a. What were the results of the two-year vibration study?

b. Were any seismic vulnerabilities of the building or the reactor indicated or suggested during the study?

c. If so, precisely what vulnerabilities were indicated or suggested?

d. If no vulnerabilities were suggested or indicated during the study, does Applicant contend the study was comprehensive and exhaustive enou6h to support a catclusion of no seismic vulnerability?

e. What published reports, papers, articles, or books resulted from a the study? Please specify date of publication & journal or publisher.

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f. What unpublished reports, papers, articles, or manuscripts resulted from the study? Will Applicant produce said materials absent a formal motion to produce?

g. What data was generated in the course of the study, in what form is that data, who is its custodian, and will Applicant produce records of said data absent a for:nal motion to produce?

7. Page 9 of the 1966-67 Annual (SpecializedActivity) Report refers to " vibration tests of reactor structures" and concludes: "Despite core accelerations reaching 0.1 G, the reactor operated without any anomlous behavior."

a. What is the maximum core acceleration possible (in the N-3, E-V,

( and vertical directions) from a maximum earthquake affecting the reactor?

b. If the maximum core accelerations possible are greater than 0.1 G, what relevance does Applicant contend the vibration tests have for indicating reactor response during a anximum earthquake?

c. Did the scram mechanism shut the reactor down at any point during .

the vibration tests?

d. If not, at what level of core acceleration would the reactor scram automtically?

i e How was the answer to 7d determined? Please provide all calculations, and indicate all studies, reports, ani other documents that support the answer to 7d and indicate whether Applicant will produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce.

f. Eas the Ucram mechanism that is to shut the reactor down autom tically in case of earthquake ever been tested? If so, please give dates of said tests, results of said tests, and indicate a;l documents related to said tents and whether Applicant will produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce.

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8. Page III/3-2 of Application states, "The Uniform Building Code, representing the accumulated wi:d.* or the engineering profession in this field, takes specific account of the earthquake hazard. Virtually none of the structures built ': cording to the specifications of this Code have suffered any damage from earthquakee."

a. Do these two sentences appear verbatim in the UCM 1960 Hazards Analysis on page 9?

b. If the answer to 8a is affirmative, what specific efforts were made by Applicant to determine that the accuracy of that statement had not been altered in the twenty years since it had been written? l

c. When was the Uniform Building Code, according to which the UCLA reactor N4Wng uns built, written?

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d. Has it been revised since? If so, please indicate the date of the l

revisions.

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e. Does the Uniform Building Code that was in effect at the time of '

the construction of the UCM reactor and th> reactor building take specific account of building code provisions for reactors and reactor buildings? I l

If so, please specify the sections of the Code that so apply.

f. According to applicable regulations today, could a nuclear reactor building be built today according to the Uniform Building Code provisions in effect when the UCIA reactor was built?

g. If the answer to 8f ia affirmative, please cite the various regulation sections which support that a.1swer. I

h. If the answer to 8f is negative, please cite the various regulation sections which support that answer.

1. Did Applicant assess the experience of Code-complying structures during the Imperial Valley earthquake of October 15, 1979, prior to making the above-quoted statement in its Application for license renewal?

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j. Did Applicant assess the espariance of Code-complying structures during the Imperial Valley earthquake of October 15, 1979. Prior to making the above-quoted statement in its Application fe license renewal?

4 If the answer to i or j is affirmative, please indicate how that assessment was unde and what its results were.

1. If the answer to i or j is negative, please indicate on what basis i

Applicant determined the 1960 statement to still be applicable in 1980, absent a review of such recent earthquake experience.

m. Please indicate all UCIA geologists, geophysicists, earth scientists, structural engineers, or other specialists in seisaic strength of structures i

who were consulted prior to making the above-quoted statement in 1980.and the nature of the information they provided.

n. Please indicate all non-UCIA geologists, geophysicists, earth scientists,

( .. structural engineers, or other specialists in seissic strength of structures who were consulted prior to making the above-quoted statement in 1980 l and the nature of the information they provided.

I o. Please indicate all geologists, geophysicists, carth scientists,

&witural engineers, or other specialists in seismic strength of structures <

w % have been consulted subsequent to the above-quoted statement being submitted in the Application and the nature of the informtion they provided.

9. Page 9 of the 1966-67 Annual (Specialized Activity) Report refers to " vibra h tests of reactor structures" and concludes: "Despite core accelerations reaching 0.1 G, the reactor operated without any anomalous behavior."

a. a Naster's thesis prepared by Richard Iac Rudman entitled

" Simulation of Earthquake-Induced Vibrations in a UCIA Rector Fuel Sundle" dated 1968 refers to the October,1966, vibration tests and

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b. Please indicate the cause of the discrepancy.

10 The master's thesis by Rudman referred to in interrogatory 9a states: "Vitti has shown that increasing the space between adjacent fuel plates results in a positive reactivity change. The moderator gap between adjoining fuel plates is approximately one-half of the optimum moderating distance. The present plate spacing is a nominal 0.137 in, while the spacing required for optimum neutron thermalization was experimentally determined by Vitti to be 0.290 in." (p. 3)

( a."Since the reactor lattice spacing is optimized for minimum i crititical mass, any structural rearrangements which might result from a severeearthshockwouldreducereactivity."(Application,pageIII/3-2).

Please explain the apparent contradiction between the Rudman statement and that from the Application.

b. If there is a contradiction, which statement is correct?

c. On what basis does Applicant make its answer to 10b?

d. Rudman indicates in his thesis that on ene run of the 1966 vibration tests a power oscillation was detected. His thesis concluded that seismically-induced vibrations could cause positive reactivity effects and power changes, but that at the rate of core accelerations being studied the effects from that alone would not be catastrophic. How does Applicant respond to Rudman's conclusions of possible positive reactivity effects which contrast with Applicant's statement quoted in 10a above that any severe seismic effect would reduce reactivity?

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11. Page III/3-1 of the Application states: "The nearest major fault is the Inglewood fault running in a north-westerly direction about two miles east of the campus."

a. Smith and Matthieson's " Vibration Testing and Earthquake Response of Nuclear Reactors" at page 16 indicates that the Inglewood fault is

" considered roeponsible for the 1933 Lord Bdch earthquake." Does Applicant take issue with this statement by Smith and Patthiesen?

b. If the answer to lla is negative, why was this information not included in the Application when discussing area seismology and the Inglewood fault in particular?

c. Fas Applicant assessed the ground motion, building accelerations, degree of destruction, and other relevant seismic information from the

. 1933 Long Beach earthquake as these relate to the maximum earthquake possible i along the Inglewood fault and the possible effects of such a maximum earthquake upon the reactor structure and upon Boelter Hall?

d. If the answer to lle is affirmative, please indicate the results of that assessment and describe all documents in Applicant's possession which provide information useful in that assessment and whether Applicant will l produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

12 In the third floor equipment room, is there a domineralized water system or part thereof? if yes,

a. describe precisely the system or the part thereof I

b. whether a tank of water is there and if so, the size of the tank and volume of water contained therein

13. On the eight floor in the area inside the windscreen wherein is contained the reactor exhaust stack, is there an airconditioning apparatus?

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a. describe precisely the system I

b. if water is present in that system, what is the volume of water therein?

14 Regarding the roof of the reactor roca (the floor of the 3rd floor equipment roca):

a. what is the thickness of the roof?

b. what is its composition?

c. does it contain steel reinforcement?

d. if so, what is the thickness of the reinforcing rods, to what are they anchored and in what fashion are they so anchored, how sany rods ,are there in the roof, what distance apart are they, and do they all run parallel to each other or do they cross over each other?

e. what is the area in square feet of the reactor room roof?

f. what is the area in square feet of the 3rd floor equipment roca?

g. what is the strength of the roof in pounds per square foot?

h. what is the capability of the rcot of bendhg upon impact before fracturing (in inches of bending before fracturing)?

1. what is the stopping velocity of the reactor roof?

j. if the columa supporting the floors of Boelter over the 3rd floor void area were to give way ani those above-3rd floor parts of the butiding l

l were to fall on to the reactor roof, what velocity would the falling h:11 ding attain and would the reactor roof be able to sustain that impact without fracturing?

k. were the roof unable to sustain such an impact and were it to fracture, bringing the roof arxi the several floors of upper building with it l

l cnto the reactor itself, what impact force would the falling materials have l

upcn the reactor, and would it be able to withstand that force without darage to the core?

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1. what is the stopping velocity of the reactor itself?

a. what is the strength of the reactor itself from a downward force in terms of the maximum force it can certainly withstand without sustaining damage to the core?

n. what is the density of the roof in pounds per cubic feet, and precisely what material is it rude of?

o. what is the maximum stress on the roof in pounds placed by the weight of the ten-ton crane and the maximum weight that the crane could conceivably be lifting for reactor purposes?

p. how is the crane atached to the rocctor roof and secured there?

q. were a seismic event to occur during unloading of spent fuel from the reactor core, by how much would that reduce the strer4th of the reactor to withstand a downward force as described in part a above?

l r. what is the strength of the fuel handling cask?

s. is there a time during fuel unloading when the reactor core is uncovered and when reactor fuel is not yet in a fuel handling cask?

t. for maintenance that requires dissantling of the reactor core or entry into the reactor core, describe precisely how that dismantling or entry is done?

u. what is the shortest time interval between last reactor run and in-core maintenance?

v. please answer question q above for maintenance that requires core entry or dismantling.

w. what is the reactor roof's weakest point, and what is the strength at that poin

15. Resarding the support columns in the 3ra floor void area containing the equipment roos

a. what is the composition of the columns?

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b. are they reinforced, and if so, with what thickness of reinforcing rods, how mny rods per columns, to what are they anchored, and in what fashion are they anchored? >

c. what weight does each column presently carry or hold up?

d. besides the colums identified in 15 above, what other structural i

supports are there for the portion of 3oelter Hall directly above the 3rd floor void area and reactor room?

e. what portion of the attendant weight of the Boelter portion directly above the 3rd floor void area do the structural supports identified in d above carry or hold up?

f. what mass do the columns in the 3rd floor void area and the additional supports described in answer to d above collectively support?

( g. how are the columns fastened and to what are they fastened?

h. what is the strength of the point at which they are fastened and is that point weaker or stronger than the columns themselves?

1. what force would be required to cause those columns to crack, buckle, or be sheared off-both the minimum force that sagd cause such damgo and the minimum force force that w2QA certain1v cause such damage?

j. were those colums to crack, buckle, or be sheared off, what is the probability that the portions of Boelter Hall directly above the third floor void area would fall onto the reactor roof?

k. were those portions of Joelter Hall to fall onto the reactor roof, l what is the pro h bility of the reactor roof cracking, buckling, or being l

sheared off its fastenings?

1. were the reactor roof and the above portions of Boelter Eall to fall on the reactor itself, what is the probability of the reactor suffering core dange?

m. were the reactor to suffer core damage as described above, what i .

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n. were the fuel to be damaged and fission products to be released, what is the maximum 5 of volatile fission products and anximum % of non-volatile fission products that could be released, were the radioactive i

l core inventory at the time the maximum possible? Please state precisely thefiguresusedformaximuminventory(including #ofcuriesofiodines) and numbers of curies of volatiles fission products and non-volatiles considered released, as well as the numbers of curies of specific isotopes released, including but not limited to the iodines.

o. were the damage to occur during core maintenance or fuel loading, and were that to increase the amount of fuel damage done due to lack of protection from core shielding, what would be the answers to n above?

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p. what are the consequential dose estimates, including but not limited to highest dose to nearest member of the public staying 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> and staying 8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> at that location, the total number of person-reas of exposure were the exposure to take place at time of maximum population occupancy near the reactor and were the seismic event to pin substantial numbers of I people, injured but alive, so that they were immobile for several hours i near the reactor, and the highest thyroid dose and total number of thyroid-person-rems.

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16. b' hat is the largest capable fault near the reactor sitet

a. Please detail all facts available to Applicant upon which its answer to the above question is based.

b. Please detail all documents in Applicant's possession upon which its answer is based.

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j c. ' Jill Applicant produce documents identified in b above absent a fomal motion to pmducef

d. Please indicate what specific efforts were made by Applicant i to obtain the infomation upon which its answer is based.

I f 17. Aat is the accelengram--that is, the shape of the curve of acceleration- for that fault at the reactor site in the worst case senario!

a. Please detail all facts available to Applicant upon which

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its answer to the above question is based.

b. Please detail all documents in Applicant's possession upon I

which its answer is based.

c. ' dill Applicant produce documents identified in b above absent a fomal motion to produce?

d. Please indicate what specific efforts were made by Applicant 7

to obtain the information upon which its answer is based.

18 'Jhat is the -**= ground acceleration possible and Wm=

cossible magnitude (in Richter Scale) for that fault?

a. Please detail all facts available to Applicant upon which its answer to the above question _is based.

b. Please detail all documents in Applicant's possession upon which its answer is based,

c. ' dill Applicant produce documents idetified in b above abset a femal motion to pmduce?

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d. Please indicate what specific efforts were :nade by Applicant to obtain the infomation upon which its answer is based.

19. Does Applicant contend that the frequency spectrum (frequency of the acceleration, duration of event, and number of pulses) experienced by the reactor during the experimental vibration tests is indicative of what would be expected in a real earthquake at the reactor site?

a. Please detail all facts available to Applicant upon which its answer to the above question is based.

b. Please detail all documents in Applicant's possession upon which its answer is based.

c. Llill Applicant produce documents identified in b above absent ,

a fomal motion to produce?

d.Please indicate what specific efforts were made by Applicant to obtain the information upon which its answer is based.

20. Does Applicant assert that the problems which led to pinning of a control blade sometime after the vibration tests and which was sus-pected of being caused by shifting of the reactor internals during those tests have been corrected so that there would not be shifting of reactor l

intamals and/or pinning of control. blades during an earthquake? If so, please detail with specificity:

a. those reactor alterations that have been made to prevent recurrences of this problem.

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c. all facts in Applicant's possession which indicate that the l

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d. all documents which support or contradict Applicant's answers to 20a-c and whether Applicant will produce said documents absent a formal motion to pmduce?

21. Has Applicant conducted a Newmark-type analysis modeled for the largest earthquake reasonably expected at the site? If so, identify all such analyses performed?

a. Could the operation of the control blades be maintained throu6h such an event- not just into the event, but through it?

b. Could the operation of the dump valve and its control mechanisms be maintained through, not just into, such an event?

c. Will Applicant produce all records of Analyses identified in 21 above absent a formal motion to produce?

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22 Please provide all information detailing the type, manufacture, placement, testing, operatirg experience of any and all earthquake sensors (e.g. seismic scram interlocks) built into the reactor designed to scram the reactor in case of earthquake or earthquake precursor.

a. What is its response time--from start of seismic event or precursor to time reactor is fully shut down?

b. What is its threshhold-how much acceleration, ground motion, .

or magnitude of triggering noment is necessar/ to be exceeded for the device (s) to shut the reactor down?

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c. Have the devices ever in the past shut the reactor down? If so, please provide dates and details,

d. Have the devices ever been tested? If so, please provide l

dates and results of said tests?

e. Given the accelerogram described in interrogator /17 above,

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how far into the seismic event would the reactor be completely shut down if the safety systems worked perfectly?

f. Could enough core shifting occur prior to that time so that control blade insertion was obstructed?

g. What facts does Applicant have in its possession indicating

, operating experience of reactors with such devices or of tests 4

involving such devices?

h. What efforts has Applicant made to secure such information?

1. Are the devices designed merely to sense an earthquake procursor?

j. Are they useful even if there is no precursos?

k. What are the probabilities of a precursor sufficient to activate the device prior to the earthquake itself.

1. What documents are in Applicant's possesen which form the basis of its answers to 22a-k and that support or contradict

{ those answers?

m.11111 Applicant produce said documents absent a fomal motion to produce?

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23. ht does Applicant contend is the maxi =um acceleration of the l reactor core possible in:

a. The east-west direction.

b. The north-south direction.

c. Vertical (up-down and down-up).

l 24 What does Applicant contend is the maxi:xn:m acceleration the reactor core is capable of sustaining without damage ins

a. The east-west direction.

b. The north-south direction.

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25. Please give all facts in Applicant's possession that support or contradict the answers given in 23 and 24 above,

a. In addition, please identify all documents of which Applicant is aware that provide infomation that caa support or contradies the answers given in 23 and 24

b. Please indicate which of the documents in 25a are in Applicant's possession.

c. ;lill Applicant produce documents identified in 25b absent a fomal motion to produce?

26 Applicant's answer of 8-27-80 to NP.C Question 14 regarding the status of a " secure experiment" in the event of an < 'We states: ,

"Neither the sample, the core, nor the top shi .fing are secured against I' vertical downward accelerations greater than ig. Cohesive forces sufficient to produce downward accelerations greater than 1 g are unlikely, the building and all of its contents would fall at no more than 1 g. The sample would not novo relative to the core."

a. Does Applicant currently view this to be an accurate statement?

b. Lihat precisely does applicant mean by " cohesive forces?"

! c. On what facts, calculations, studies, experiments, reports, and other docments does Applicant base its statement that neither

the sample, the core, nor the top shielding are secured against vertical downward accelerations greater than 1 g7 Please prov'.de all facts and calculations, particularly all dynamic analyses, (or the entire seismic event and buildir4 responses as opposed to a static response to a single force). Will Applicant provide all such documents absent a fomal motion to produce?

d. Precisely what level of downward acceleration are the sample, coq and top shielding secured against? Please provide all facts and

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and calculations and identify all documents from which this an-swer was taken. Will Applicant provide all such documents absent a formal motion to produce?

e. What level of accelerations are the sample, core and top shielding secured against il in the upward vertical direction ii) in the Eml direction iii) in the N-S direction iv) laterally

f. Please provide all facts and calculations upon whish the answer to e was made. Identify all documents upon which it was based. Will Applicant produce all such documents absent a fomal notion to produce?

g. Please provide a drawing of secured experiments in an irradi-

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ation port showing the spacer and graphite plug and means of a l

inserting the experiment into the port. What precisely is the spacer made of, and on what is it supported, and how is it secured?

- h. Please provide all facts, and calculations upon which this I statement is based: " Cohesive forces sufficient to produce down-i ward accelerations greater than 1 g are unlikely." Please i

identify all studies, experiments, articles, literature searches, reports, and other documents upon which that statement is based.

Will Applicant produce said documents absent a for=al motion I

to produce?

1. The above-quoted statement concludes: "The sample would not move relative to the core." Please provide all facts and cal-culations upon which that conclusion is based. Please identify I

all documents known to Applicant which support or contradict that conclusion. Will Applicant produce all such doc'ments in I

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its possession absent a formal motion to produce?

j. Has Applicant done any tests to confim the statement quoted at the beginning of this interrogatory? If so, please),dentify all such tests, their dates, and results: also any reconis that document those tests. Will Applicant produce those, records absent a formal motion to produce?

k. Would not an uoward acceleration send the sample flying out of the reactor oore? Please provide all facts and calculations that support or contradict your answer, and indicate whether you will produce said documents in your possession absent a formal motion to produce?

1. Would not the building falling on the reactor have a far greater impact force upon the reactor than the effect of the ground motion

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m. Could not the bnW43 fall on the reactor from the first

! wave of the quake and land upon the reactor at the moment that the second wave or motion produced a downward acceleration or upward acceleration?

n. Does Applicant contend that it is impossible for a dynamic effect of an earthquake event to include several forces acting upon the reactor in different directions within short intervals i

of each other, the resonance effect of which could jerk the sam-ple out of the core area?

o. Could a " ping-pong" type reaction occur that could cause the j

sample to bounce out of the reactor core?

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p. Could an earthquake crush a sample container? If so, could the contents be squirted out of the core area, or trickle down out of the core area? Please give all facts, diagrams, and calculations in your pos session that relate to your answer

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and identify all documents so related and indicate whether you will produce said documents absent a formal motion to produed

q. Does Applicant contend that no acceleration greater than i g in any direction is possible at this reactor? If so, pro-vide all facts that support that contention, indicate all docu-ments that support it, and indicate whether you will produce said documents absent a fomal motion to produce?

27. What is the most likely accelerogram spectrum to which W reactor design must be tested?

a. Has it been so tested?

b. What document (s) is answers to #27 and 27a based on?

c. Will Applicant produce said document (s) without a formal

(_ motion to produce?

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28 Since Applicant has found a natural frequency wit.W the reactor based on its experhental vibration testing, what dynamic tests has Applicant done at that frequency to simulate true earthquake dynamic conditions?

29. What failure testing (testing to failure) of the reactor's control blade system has been done to assure that they cannot be made to break off, fallout, jump out, or other wise move relative to the reactor core during an earthquake or other severe shock, causing a sudden reactivity inserticn and a potentially destructive power excursion?

m 30. What analyses have been done indicating the force, twisting, shifting, bending, etc. the blades can withstand without breaking;

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a. ilhat analyses have been done showing what force would be necessary to bound the blades out of the coref

b. What is the structurally weakest point for the control ,

blade system?

c. What documents are the above answers to interrogatory 30-30b based and will Applicant produce the documents absent a fomal motion to produco?

31. Would an earthquake causing the collapsing building to fall at 1 g onto the reactor stmeture cause additional accelerations of two or three g's?

a. What failure testing and other dynamic analyses have been done to determine what effect sach an impact on the reactor

' Q coupledwith ground motion would have on the control blades and their position relative to the core? (e.g., flipping control blade up with an upward force and then smack it with a 3 g downward force and see where it flips up and breaks.)

b. What documents is above answer based on and will Applicant produce said document (:-) absent a formal motion to produce?

32. Uhy is Applicant using the " seismic Zone" classification and the Uniform Building Code zoning system as a criterion for evaluationi

a. What does the seismic zone classification system have to do with nuclear reactors?

b. Mhat does the Uniform Building Code have to do with nuclear reactors?

c. 'Jhat document (s) are in Applicant's possession that support 4

or contradict the answerscontained above, and will Applicant I

produce said document (s) absent a fomal motion to produce?

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33. What is the principal capable fault which limits reactor design at the UCLA site?

$. What is the specific potential event at that fault which limits reactor design at the UCLA site? '

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a. What is the strain energy release on that fault which is l the liniting condition for reactor design heref

b. Uhat is the accelerogran that would be associated with the event identified in 334 above?

35. 'lhat data are in Applicant's possession reganfing response of UCLA's structures to the 1971 earthquake? Will Applicant produce said data

- absent a formal notion to produce?

36 What is the specific damage that occurred to the UCLA reactor from the 1971 earthquake referenced in the 1976 Annual (Specialized Activity)

Report on page 3: "The Feburary 1971 earthquake gave rise to airer problems that worsened with time and ultimately required a major maintenance effort in 1972." ,

a. Precisely, detail each and every problem that the earthquake gave rise to.

b. Precisely detail exactly how each problem worsened with time.

c. Precisely detail the maintenance effort made in 1972 to deal with these problems.

d. What documents are in Applicant's possession (including but not li=ited to engineering change orders, maintenance logs, etc.)

l s that relate to a,b.and c above. '.1111 Applicant produce said I

documents absent a formal motion to produce?

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37. Applicant's answer of 8-27-80'to ::.tc staff question 13 indicates that the control / shim blades are "fimly fixed to horizontal drive shafts."

a. Precisely how are they fixed to the drive shafts?

b. What is the thickness and width of the blade at the point of connection to the drive shaft?

c. What is the blade material at the point of connection with the drive shaft?

d. What is the tMckness and material composition of the drive shaft at the point of connection?

e. '.! hat is the lifeti=e use of those blades before the connection with the drive shaft becomes questionable?

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f. 'Jhat force can that point of connection between blade and drive shaft successibily withstand?

g. What failure testing experience and/or other tests and/or

{ analyses is Applicant aware of regarding the connection point between the blades and the drive shaft?

h. What documents are in Applicant's possession that above answers are based on, and will Applicant produce said documents absent a for nal motion to produce?

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What is the thieYcness of the magnesium shroud wall around the control blades?

39. Applicant's 8-27-80 answer to Nac staff question 13 indicates "In regard to the ' frozen-blade' senario with all four blades locked, it may be remarked that the reactor has been operated in a simulation of this

"' mode for many consecutive hours." Please detail the dates, nature, and results of this simulation and all documents relating to it. '.lill Applicant produce

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I 40 What were the accelergrams and m*Hmm accelerations at UCLA associated with the '52 and '71 earthquakes and how would trose compare to the expected nav4mna possible? .That docu:nents are in Applicant's possession I ~

that the answer is based on, and will Applicant produce said document (s) f

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41. What data does Applicant possess regarding the seismic experi-ence of the UCLA area during the Long Beach earthquake of 19337 What document (s) is answer, based upon, and will Applicant produce said document (s) absent a fomal motio to pmduce7 i

42 Were any imildings built according to Unifom Building Code

(, standartis damaged in Long Beach or nearby because of the Long Beach earthquake? .

What document (s) is answer based upon, and will Applicant produce said I i document (s) absent a femal motion to produce?

43. What is the failure point for the top floor of the reactor building-what is the shear stress that can be withstood before it fails? .that document (s) is answer based upon, and will Applicant produce said document (s) absent a fomal :r.otion to produce?

44 The UCLA Daily 3 ruin of April 30, 1980, indicates that " University architects are currently conducting a study of buildings on all UC campuses to rank them according to their need for seismic renovation."

a. What is the precise rank of the reactor building, and out of how many in the list?

b. What specific findings were made about the reactor building?

- c. '.. hat is the precise name of the seismic study referenced in i

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d. What other seismic studies related to the reac+4r building and other buildings on the UCLA campus is Applicant aware off

e. Will Applicant produce those studies identified in c and d which are in its possession absent a fomal motion to produed I

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a. Identify all documents upon which your answer is based.

b. Is Applicant willing to p2nduce all said documents in its possession absent a fomal motion to produce 7 b 46 What is the Maximum Design Earthquake Applicant currently believes reactor could withstandi j a. Identify all documents upon which your answer is based.

b. Is Applicant willing to produce all said documents in its I possession absent a fomal motion to produce?

47. 'dhat is the Maximum Earthquake the reactor could possibly experience given its siting?

a. Identify all documents upon which your answer is based,

b. Is Applicant v41Wg to produce all said documents in its possession absent a fomal motion to produce?

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48. Precisely on which pa6es and which sections of pages/does the informationrequiredby10CFR5034(b)(1) appear?

a.Pleasep2.ovideallinformationrequiredby10CFRSo.34(b)(1) that does not already appear in the Application.

49 A press statement relt;ased by the Chancellor of UC Berkeley about the Applicant's research reactor there indicates a number of seismic studies and analyses and scenarios have been prepared about the reaction of the Applicant's reactor in Berkeley to a potential seianic event.

Please describe with specificity the types of analyses Applicant has conducted regarding seismic questions of its 3erkeley reactor.

Please identify each and overy such study or document, prepared by Applicant (h ..

or by others, in Applicant's possession and whether Applicant will produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce.

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" Financial Qualifications" Intervenor herein incorporates by reference pages i through vii of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interrogatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interrogatories which are set forth on pages i through vii above?

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2. Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attorneys, furnished information of any type whatsoever used I

by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparation of the follow-ing interrogatories? If so, (a) Please identify each and every such person.

(b) Please state the number of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consulted.

(c) Please indicate the nature of the information or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in preparation of the answers to these interrogatories.

3. Please identify all academic reviews of the NEL or the

.; Reactor program which have been conducted from 1960 through the present.

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4. Please identify any and all letters, reviews or other documents which contain recommendations to the Dean of the SEAS concerning the financial support of the Reactor program from 1960 through the present.

(a) Will you produce these documents without a formal motion to produce?

5. Please describe in detail the process whereby the final budget appropriation for the NEL or the Reactor program is determined; including but not limited to a description of:

(a) Who prepares the initial budget request?

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t (c) Who makes the final budget appropriation decision?

6. Please identify any and all documents used in the bud-getary process from 1960 through the present.

(a) Will you produce these documents without a formal j motion to produce?

7. Has the NEL's final budget appropriation ever been less

, than the initial budget appropriation requistion?

l (a) If so, please identify each such year and the amount of disparity.

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(c) Please identify for each year any and all docu-ments which would tend to support the existence of the facts or decisions identified in the answer to the previous ques-tion.

(d) Will Applicant provide these documents without a formal motion to produce?

8. How is the programmatic need for the Reactor program

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9. Please indicate each year from 1970 to 1981 for which NEL expenditures have exceeded NEL appropriatios and reve-nues. -

(a) For each year indicated please specify the amount by which expenditures exceeded appropriations and revenues.

10. For each year from 1970 through 1981 please indicate l whether the NEL appropriations and revenues, exclusive of revenues generated by the commercial use of the reactor, have been sufficient to meet the operating costs of the reactor.

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m (a) Would efforts outside of the normal budegtary process be contemplated? If so, please describe such efforts.

(b) Who would need to approve increased expenditures?

12. On Page v/7-1 of the Application, Applicant describes plans to install Argon-41 hold-up decay tanks.

(a) How much would it cost the Applicant to install such tanks?

.. (b) Have any funds been expended to date for the

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(c) If the renewed license were to include a require-ment that such tanks be installed would the Applicant have to seek funds in addition to those currently budgeted for the NEL, in order to complete the installation?

(d) If extra funding would be required, how much extra funding would be needed?

(e) What problems, if any, does Applicant foresee in finding such extra funding?

(f) What records exist documenting ~ answers to 12a .

I will you provide these documents without formal motion to produce?

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13. If facility modifications were required by the renewed license that would require the expenditure of $10,000.00, would the Applicant forsee any problems in securing these funds?

(a) If the required modifications were to cost

$20,000.00?

(b) If the required modifications were to cost

$30,000.007 (c) At what level of required expenditure for modifi-cations would Applicant foresee problems in securing the necessary funding?

(d) At what level of required expenditure for modifi-cations would Applicant decide that the modifications were too costly to undertake? .

14. Has Applicant ever delayed, put off, or not undertaken modifications to the facility, improvements of its equipment, or replacement of its equipment because of difficult obtain-ing funds necessary for such modifications or improvements?

(a) If so, please describe each such instance that has occured during the years 1970 through 1981?

(b) If so, please indicate the modification or improve-ment foregone and the cost of completing it.

(c) What committee, or whom among the NEL personnel would make the decision to undertake modifications and improvements?

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"However, the required systems (to direct'sy measure the Agron-41] were not available at UCLA and building them would run into thousands of dollars for the ion chambers, and tens of thousands of dollars for a scintillation system.

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16. If equipment such as described by Rubin, and costing as much as he estimates were required to adequately monitor Argon emmissions, would the Applicant be able to obtain the funds necessary to buy or build the equipment?

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(a) Did the SEAS ever obtain University support for the revisions?

(b) If not, how did the SEAS and the NEL deal with the non-conformance of the ventilation system to the Technical Specification?

(c) Please estimate how much it would have cost in

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(d) Please estimate the cost in 1981 of bringing the ventilation system into conformance with the Technical Specifications.

(e) Please identify any and all documents which would tend to support the estimates given in answer to Interrog-atory No. 17 c and d.

18. In its budget requests and justification for the years 1974 through 1981 has the NEL specified the amount of funds needed for maintaining its equipment, updating its equipment, or generally improving its equipment and facilities?

(a) If so, please indicate each year for which this was done.

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19. Can Applicant estimate the cost of maintaining and updating the reactor facility equipment over the next ten years? The next twenty years? If so, please provide said estimate.

20. If the answer to Interrogatory No. 19 is affirmative please provide the cost estimates for each year for main-taining and updating equipment included in each of the following systems:

(a) Console panel and instrumentation.

(b) Activation Analysis Laboratory.

(c) Ventilation system.

(d) Radiation monitoring systems within the reactor facility.

(e) The reactor itself.

21. If the answer to Interrogatory No. 19 is negative, how does Applicant plan to give reasonable assurances that it will be able to obtain sufficient funds to operate the facility in compliance with the NEL regulations and without endangering the public health and safety?

22. If the answer to Interrogatory No. 19 is affirmative, but the Applicant is unable to specifically provide the information Interrogatory No. 20, please explain fully the reasons for the inability to respond to Interrogatory No. 20, XVIII-8.

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beingabletosecurethefundsnecessaryhomodifyormain-I tain the reactor in such a way as to fully protect the public health and safety, what would it do?

(a) If the reactor were shut down, please describe the process by which such a decision would be made.

(b) Ifthereactorwastobeshutdhwn,wouldthe  !

decision be dependent upon securing the funds necessary to ,

decommission the reactor? ,

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cate how the NEL and SEAS would proceed in securing funds l i l necessary for decommissioning. j

25. Page I/3-1 of the Application contains an estimation of the cost of permanently closing down the ' reactor, will these estimates necessarily increase over time, independent of inflation, due to the increasing contamination of the facil-ity and its equipment?

26. Page I/1-1 of the Application contains a table of NEL revenues for 1978, 1979 and 1980 (est). Please specify for each your sources of income included in the category "other Income".

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28. Has the Applicant made any provisions to cover the cost of decommissioning the reactor when it is shut down?

(a) If so, please describe such provisions.

29. Have decommissioning costs been considered in the long range budget projections of:

(a) The NEL.

(b) The SEAS.

(c) UCLA.

(. (d) The University of California.

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.or contain the long range budget considerations listed in 1

response to Interrogatory No. 29.

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32. Would it be necessary to obtain specific gubernatorial approval for the funds necessary to decommission the reactor?

33. Which of the following factors are considered in deter-(,,. mining the SEAS appropriation to NEL for the operation of the reactor?

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(c) The number of reactor operator traineees?

! (d) The quanitity and quality of research performed by NEL personnel which requires operation of the reactor?

(e) The amount of research performed by other UC researchers?

(f) The amount of research performed by non-UC re-searchers?

(g) The amount of use by commercial users?

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rogatory No. 33 please identify any and all documents which specify budgetary priorities, weighting or other means by which the factors are put in priority.

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" Maximum Credible - Design Basis Accident" Intervenor herein incorporates by references pages i through vii of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interrogatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interrogatories which are set forth on pages i through vii above?

2. Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attorneys, furnished information of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answeringthtefollowinginterrogatoriesorprovidedotherassistance in the preparation of the fo11owin6 interrogatories? If so, (a) Please identify each and every such person.

(b) Please state the number of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consulted.

(c) Please indicate the nature of the information or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in preparation of the answers to these interrogatories.

3. What is Applicant's definition of the term " maximum credible accident?"

a. What is Applicant's source for that definition?

b. In what documents is that definition found?

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a. What is Applicant's source for that definition?

b. In what documents is that definition found?

c. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

5. Should Applicant indicate that it has no definition for either the term "mximum credible accident" or the term " design tasis accident",

how does it intend to defend against Contention XIX in the absence of such a definition?

In the interrogatories which follow, please take the term " maximum credible accident" to mean a major accident, hypothesized for purposes of site evaluation or postulated from considerations of possible accidental events, that would result in potential hazards not exceeded by those from any accident ecmsidered credible. Such a postulated accident should be assumed to result in substantial molting of the fuel with subsequent release of an appreciable part of the maximum radioactive inventory of the core, unless other credible accident scenarios would result in potential hazards which exceed that of fuel melting.

In the interrogatories which follow, please take the term " design basis accident" to mean the most mjor accident which the reactor was designed to withstand without suffering major damage. " Design basis accident" is thus the most severe accident which the reactor was designed to withstand whereas "mximum credible accident" is to be considered for the purposes of these interrogatories the most severe accident that could credibly occur at the l

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6 What does Applicant contend is the maximum credible accident for this reactor? I l

a. Please specify the type and degree of core damage associated with )

such an accident, including fraction of fuel assumed to be dams,ged. )

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{ c. Please specify the postulated scenario or scenarios by which such an accident ! .s hypothesized to occur.

7. What does the Applicant contend is the design 1: asis accident for this reactor? ~

a. Please specify the maximum type and degree of core damage ,

associated with such an accident, including fraction, if any, of fuel 1

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b. Please specify the percentage of volatile and nonvolatile fission products assumed to be released in such an accident, with specific identification of the percent and amounts of the iodines and strontiums considered to be released.

c. Please specify the postulated scenario or scenarios by which such  !

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8. Please specify all documents, studies, investigations, calculations, tests, experiments, computer simulations, and all other records which form the his for Applicant's answers to interrogatories 6 and 7.

a. Will Applicant produce all such documents absent a formal motion to produce?

9. In answering interrogatory 6, did Applicant consider each of the following bzard scenarios

a. maximum credible sabotage

b. maximum credible airplane crash into reactor building

e. maximum credible multiple failure modes (including but not limited toamajorearthquakecoupledwithinstrumentand/orpersonnelfailures).

d. mximum operator error (s) considered credible.

10 If the answer to interro6atory 9a, b, c, and/or d is affirmative, for each one answered in the affirmative please indicate specific

a. all/ hazard scenarios of the type described that were considered by Applicant in providing answer to interrogatory 6.

b. the aximum core damage and radioactivity release and consequential dose estimate connected with that scenario

c. those specific hazard scenarios of the type described in 9 a, b,

c. and/or d that were considered but rejected as not being credible.

11. Please specify all documents, studies, investigttions, calculations, tests, experiments, computer simulations, and all other records which form v the hsis for Applicant's answers to interrogatory 10 and its subparts.

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a. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

12 In answering interrogatory 7, did Applicant consider each of the hazard scenarios outlined in interrogatory 9a throu6h 9 d?

13. If the answer to interro6atory 12 is affirmative, for each one of the scenarios 9a through 9d answered in the affirmative, please irdicates

a. all specific hazard scenarios of the type a-d considered by Applicant in providing answer to interrogatory 7.

b. the maximum core damage and radioactivity release and consequential dose estimate connected with that scenario,

c. those specific hazard scenarios of the type described in 9a-d that were ccrisidered but rejected as not being necessary to design against.

1 14 Please specify all documents, studies, investigations, calculations.

. tests, experiments, computer simulations, and all other records which form the basis for Applicant's answers to interro6atory 13 and its subparts.

a. Will Applicant produce all such documents absent a . formal motion to produce?

15 What specific accident or accidents was the NHL reactor initially designed to withstand: 1.e. what maximum accident was the NE1 reactor's initial design ksis accident?

a. What records document the ab;ve answer?

b. If there were no original design hsis accident, why not?

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16. In Applicant's " Statement of Position With Respect to Unstipulated Contentions" dated November 28, 1980, Applicant states on page 14 that

" Hypothesizing DC-10 or Boeing 747 airplane crashes is completely arbitrary and hardly credible since the flight paths of commercial airlines do not come anywhere near Appliant's facility nor do they overfly the facility at any altitude."

a. Please indicate with specificity all facts in Applicant's possession that form the basis of the above statement.

b. Please indicate all studies performed or investigations undertaken by Applicant that led to or give support to the above-quoted statement.

c. Does Applicant deny that commercial airliners on approach to los Angeles International Airport from midnight to 6:00 a.m. when the airport is k cked up are put in holding patterns the circles of which may

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d. If the answer to 16c is affirmative, that the Applicant does so deny, please specify all facts that form the basis of that answer and indicate all studies performed or investigations undertaken related thereto.

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1. arriving or departing Hollywood-Burtank Airport l ii. passing over Ios Angeles without arriving or departing IA l

iii. flying into or out of Santa Monica airport i

iv. small plane flying patterns, incluriing but not limited to traffic planes

v. helicopters, including but not limited to those taking off from or arriving at UCLA, in particular the hospital complex

f. Please indicate for all subparts of item e above

III-7 1.) whether any of the planes or helicopters could conceivably overfly UCLA 11.) if so, what the largest such plane or helicopter could be 111.) if not, what the nearest approach to campus could conceivably be and the larEest plane or helicopter making that approach

g. answer questions o and f above also for planes arriving or departing Los Angeles International airport

h. Please indicate all investigations and studies undertaken and all facts in Applicant's Possession as to the number of planes and helicopters entering the airspace of the Ios Angeles Basin in any one year and

i. the probability of any such plane-getting off course so that it passed over UCIA

( ii. the probability of a plane in trouble veering off course as it crashed

1. Please indicate all facts in Applicant's possession and all investigations and studies undertaken as to the consequences of a crash into the reactor building of

1. a large plane such as a DC-10 or Boeing 747 i 11. a smaller cosmarcial plane 111. a large private plane iv. a small private plane

v. a large helicopter v1. a small helicopter l

j. Where would be the worst place for such a crashing plane or helicopter to inpact the reactor building in terms of radioactive release consequences?

k. were a plane crash or helicopter crash of the variety identified in l 1 above, what would be the consequences for the reactor, what would be the fissien product release, and what would te the consequential public exposures?

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" Inadequate Security" Intervenor herein incorporates by reference pages i thmugh vil of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interro-gatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interro-gatories which are set forth on pages i through vii above?

2. Has any person or persons, other than Applicant's attorneys,

( furnished infontion of any type whatsoever used by Applicant in answering the following interrogatories or provided other assistance in the preparati:n of the following interrogatories. If so,

a. Please identify each and every such person.

b. Please state the nunber of each interrogatory with respect to which that person was consulted.

c. Please indicate the nature of the infornation or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in pre-paration of the answers to these interrogatories.

3 Precisely where is the fresh fuel kept?

4 Hou nany entrances and exits does the roon in which the fresh fuel is kept have?

a. Please indicate each entrance and exit location.

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6 Are there television monitors /ca=oras surveilling either the room itself where the fresh fuel is kept or the entrances to the room? l

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a. Where are the cameras placed and what is their field of vision?

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at what interval?

d. '.there are the view monitors sitnatod?

h e. Are the monitors " manned" 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> a day? ( " manned" meaning a human person is watching the monitor or a bank of monitors constantly).

f. If yes to e, are the monitors monitored by campus police f

personnel, UEL peisonnel, other personnel, or some combination?

Be specific.

g. If no to e, how many hours a day are the monitors monitored by a hunan person constantly? Anner_ question f in addition.

h. If the monitors are not =onitored constantly, are they monitored on a randon check basis?

1. If yes, at what interval are they monitored? ' ow d many times m.ait.e per day does someone check the', and for how long do they look l

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j. Is the signal from the camera (s) videotaped?

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1. Are the cam 3 ras on constantly, aside from unusual rare sit-uationst

m. If answer to 1 is yes, precisely what situations involve the cameras being turned off? Eust campus police or other so-curity personnel be notified prior to turning the cameras off?

If so, who must notify those personnel, in what fom, and what is the security personnel response if they do not receive prior notification, or if it is not in a proper form, with proper advance notice, or from the appropriate person?

n. If the answer to 1 is no, what portion (s) of the day and week are the cameras on, precisely? Are the cameras on or off during the work day? Are the cameras on or off at night? Are the cameras on or off during weekends and holidays, and vacations?

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p. If the answer to o is yes, please indicate the triggering mechanism, the manufacturer, make and model of the triggering device and location of the triggering mechanism (s) and sensor (s). If sensor (s) involve " electric eyes", please indicate the height of the light beam (s) and whether visible or some other form of light is used.

q. Is an audio signal involved with the cameras?

r. Is t'lere independent audio monitoring?

s. If :he answer to r is yes, please answer questions e through p, sr ostituting " microphone or other audio sancor" for " camera",

an'. ' listening post" for "videotapo monitoring",and"audiotapdf

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a. :The loading zo'ne next to the reactor room used for loading i

and unloading trucks.

i b.!The doors into the NE complex on ground level next to I

the loading zone (referring here to the side of the doors facing the loading zone as well as the other side of the doors inside the NE areas).

c.f The doors into the NE complex on the 2nd floor of Boelter Hakl, including the door (s) opening onto the second floor walk-way as well as the second floor hallway corridor, and referring to either or both sides of said doors.

( d., The doors into the NE complex from the first floor of the Soelter-i:ath Science complex, again referring to both sides of. those doors.

e. All areas not included in a through d that are identified in sections 1 and 2 of contention H.

f. Any other area in or near NE.

9. If the answer.to any part of 8 is yes, please identify each i

device, its precise location and type, and for audio and visual surveillance, please answer questions 7a through s for each device identified in response to interrogatory 8 l

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11. How many people and which individual pwople have keys to the area where the fresh fuel is stored?

12 Has anyone with a key to the fresh fuel area ever left NEL employ without immediate rekeying of the facility. If so, give details.

13. In what specific kind of " steel, fireproof safe" (Application,

p. V/5-6) are new fuel elements stored? Is it a cabinet with a lock or is

( it a safe?

a. How thick are the walls of the " safe?"

b. How thick is the door of the " safe?"

c. Does it have a combinati.n lock or a key lock?

d. Who has the combination? If there is a combination?

e. Who has keys, if there are keys?

f. How many keys are required to open the " safe" if keys are required?

g. How many combinations are required to open the" safe" if there are combinations?

h. Is the presence of campus security required in order to either enter the fuel storage area or to open the safe?

1. If yes, is the presence of campus security required by procedure or by some physical means (extra key needed: inter-Icek to be released that can only be released by campus security)?

j. Is the safe rated? If yes, please give its rating, particu-m

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saws, lock-picking equipment, pass keys, and skeleton keys.  ;

14 What is the mmM== amount of fresh fuel that has been kept at the facility during the last twenty years?

15. uhat is the m**== amount of irradiated fuel kept at the fac-ility during the last twenty years that has had a dose rate at the surface of less than 100 rems per hour?

16 Please provide inventory records for S;'d for the period 1906 through the present. 'a'ill Applicant so provide absent a formal motion to produce?

( 17. Please provide the current physical security plan. Will Applicant so provide absent a formal motion to produce?

18. Please provide all previous security plans. Will Applicant so provide absent a formal motion to produce?

19. Please provide all correspondence 1960 through the present dealing with physical security matters, safeguards, security plans, etc. Will Applicant so produce absent a formal motion to' produce?

21. Please indicate where all the devices are placed that can set off alams and what will set them off.

22. On the wall of the outer entryway to one of the doors to NEL from the loading zone there is attached at about ten feet from ground level what appears to be an alarm, with an electric wire coming down from the alam.

a. Is that an alam?

, b. What will set it off?

c. Can it be cut by cutting the wire?

d. Will cutting the wire set off the alam or otherwise notify

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23. For all of the devices and alams indicated in 20 and 21, please indicate whether they can be disamed

a. By key

b. By loss of power to I!E generally

c. By cutting specific power source for that device or alam

d. By cutting wiring connecting device with alarm 24 For those devices for which the answers to 23 b or c were affirmative, please indicate if there is backup power automatically avail-able, what the source of that, power is, and if that power can also be cut.

25. For those devices and alams for which the answer to 23 d is l affimative, please indicate whether cutting wiring sets off the alam or other-eise notifies security.

26. For each alam indicated in response to interrogatories 21 and 22, please indicates

a. What is the response supposed to be to that alam should it go off

1. during the day

11. during the night 111. on weekends or vacations

b. ',lho can cut off each alam and how.

c. Which alams are on 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> per day and which are off

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personnel when the alam is not functioni:ug properly.

e. List all incidents in which an alam(or alams) went off (other than planned tests) from 1960 to the present.

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a. What analyses has Applicant done or has knowledge of re6arding these points of potential vulnerability?

b. Will Applicant produce all documents related to these analyses absent a formal motion b produce?

28. Is there anything that would make it physically impossible to insert into the reactor cores

a. dynamite

b. a plastfc explosive charge

c. nitroglycerine

(~ d. an incendi. ary device

e. a flammable liquid?

29. For all parts of 28 above for which Applicant answered there is a ' physical impossibility, please describe in detail the device or devices which make such insertion physically impossible.

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y Will Applican educe all drawings of third floor equipment room and its components, and all analyses thereto, absent a formal motion to produce?

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a. If the domineralizer does service the primary coolant system, could foreign substances (high reactivity worth and moderating raterials that could lead to sudden reactivity changes, explosives or incendiar/

devices corrosives that could cause radiation leaks, or other such materials) be inserted into the reactor through modification of piping or other apertures fran the 3rd floor equipment room?

b. Could a surge of cold water through such a coolant system cause a sudden reactivity change?

(, c. Could a slowing of water flow, or temporar/ stopping of the flow, r

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moderator, and a sudden gush of water manipulated frca the 3rd floor, l

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d. What radiation readings are associated with the domineralizar system on the third floor? What could be the naximum hazard associated with sabotage or other damage of that system at that location?

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33 Are there any openings in the third floor open quad near the

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a. Please provide maps of all steam tunnels and indicate all documents which detail Applicant's analyses of the security implications of these steam tunnels. Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

35 Are there any crawl spaces in ceilings near NEL that can provide access for someone from the outside without having to go.through a locked or alarmed door,

s. Please provide drawings of all crawl spaces in ceilir4s near NEL and indicate all documents which detail Applicant's analyses of the security implications of these crawl spaces. Vill Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produci.?

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37. Are there any tunnels or crawl spaces under floors other than steam tunnels through which someone could go into IUi:L or in which someone couldhidefromcampuspoliceafterrapidexitfromNEL(withorwithout Sim)? Please detail, indicate all drawings and documents, and whether Applicant will produce said drawings and documents absent a formal motion to produce?

38. Intervenor heard NRC legal counsel at February 3, 1981, pre-hearing l conference to argue that Applicant is only required under the appropriate U

regulations to detect an intrusion, not prevent it. Does Applicant contend that that indeed is its only obligation in ter=s of security? Please l

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39. counsel for Imc staff at page 11 of ":ac staff Motion for ,

Sumrary Disposition" dated April 13, 1981, states: "Intervenor's assertion that the Licensee's security plan must protect against sabotage is legally incorrect..."

a. Does Applicant concur with the above statement?

b. Does Applicant's security plan not protect against radiological sabotage?

40. Does Applicant's security plan only provide for detection of ,

intrusion or theft, not means for prevention (besides the detection system) of intrusion or theft?

a. If not, please ' indicate with specificity all measures and devices and 1.rotections designed to prevent theft of SNI4.

41. What is the largest tour group ever taken through EL at one time?

Please give date and indicate how many IGL personnel accompanied the tour as security personnel.

42 What is the 2argest tour group permitted to tour EL at one time under NEL procedures? Please detail these procedurest will Applicant produce written procedures ateent a formal motion to produce?

43. Are tour members always signed in before entry on the tour?

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45. What training and instructions in security measures do all tour guides have? Please be specific and identify all documents that contain procedures for such training and contain the instructions.

Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

46. What is the frequency of searches of packages carried by people entering a)thereactorroom b)thefreshfuelstorageroom c)theIsbbitroom d)thecontrolroom e) any other part of the N31 faci,lity at which searches are undertaken.

47. What docunents contain informtion relatir4 to Applicant's answer to 46 above? Will Applicant produce said documents absent a formal motion to produce?

48. What is the frequency of presence of watchmen within SE ?

What is the frequency of presence of watchmen along the outside border of SE.

a. What documents provide infor: nation related to answer to 48 ateve?

Vill Applicant produce said documents absent a fornal motien to produce'?

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a. Is there any physical barrier to pouring an explosive, or flammable,toxicjdisablingliquiddowntheexhauststackandreaching the reactor room or its proximity? If affirnative, please identify ,

with specificity each and every such hLrrier.

b. If the top grating on the exhaust stack were removed, what physical barriers would prevent the dropping of solid explosive down the exhaust stack into close proximity of the reactor? Be specific.

c. Is there any physical manner by which someone could divert the exhaust from the exhaust stack (1)intoaconduitfortheairconditioning equipment located in the stack complex and thus into the populated building (2) downward into the Boelter-Math Sciences Quad, or (3) back down into NEL simply by preventing flow out of the exhaust stack, coupled with somoeone inside the NEL complex disconnecting the radiation scrams ard alarms.

50. Are there at NEL any a) gun detectors b)explosivedetectors c) SNM detectors

51. How much irradiated fuel can Applicant have outside of the core and still run the reactor within the licensed SNM limits? 'ihat is the minimum dose rate at 3 feet that any such stored fuel has had after longest

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does it take before that irradiated fuel gets down to a dose rate of less than 100 rem at 3 feet unshielded? Has the reactor ever gone that long a time without running in the past? Is there anything i in the license or proposed technical specifications that would prevent that long a "down" time? How much irradiated fuel is currently on site outside the reactor core and what is its dose rate at 3 feet unshielded? For how long a period was the irradiated fuel shipped out in June 1980 stored at NE outside the reactor core (by core we mean the six fuel boxes in which fission takes place)?

For what percent of that starage period was the dose rate less than 100 rems at 3 feet unshielded?

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54 'a' hat would prevent someone from having such a key copies by a person with locksmithing tools who was willing to ignore any note on the key to the effect of not copying it?

55 Is it possible to turn off all the alarms and enter all areas ofr NE with the keys in the possession of a single individual?

56. If the answer to 55 above is yes, how many individuals at NE have

, a set of keys that makes possible full access to the entire facility?

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set of keys to wish to do so, could he or she successfully remove the fresh fuel from hTL without immediate response by campus police?

a. could such an individual turn off all appropriate alarms?

b. could such an iciividual notify the campus police of alarms about to be turned off so that there was no response?

Please provide detailed responses as to how someone could do the above, 1 or what reasons make such a thing impossible.

58. If a single person at hTL with a single set of keys and access to any code required to dis-alert the campus police and any combination to open the SNM safe could indeed gain access to the SNM and remove it without detection (at least until SNM was noticed to be missing), how can Applicant say it has a security plan sufficient to detect an attempt to divert SNM?

59. If a single person at NEL (for example the lab Director, Panager, Supervisor, or Senior Reactor Operator) has access to all areas of the facility, and if only one individual is needed for entry into the fresh SNM area and opening of the safe, what part of the physical security plan could successfully prevent a saml1 group of terrorists from waiting outside the NEL door for one of the senior staff to leave at the end of the day, put a gun up against him, wait until late evening, and force that individual to open the vault and turn off the alarms a d notify the campus police of authorized entry (with a timaat of immediate death if the campus police were notified).?

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61. What in Applicant's physical security plan could successfully prevent a group of terrorists from taking a tour cf the reactor, part of a public tour with a single NEL guide, pull out guns, take hostages, force NEL staff to open fresh fuel room and safe, first forcing them to turn off the alarms and notify campus police of authorized entry (under threat of shooting hostages), and walk out of the reactor area into the adjacent loading zone and a waiting truck and drive off with bonb-grade uranium?

62. What would prevent a determined intruder from night after night setting off the alarms so that the campus police no longer respond or NEL personnel bypass them until they can find out what is mechanically wrong?

63. Should a Windscale-type fire, 3orax-type excursion, or other such accident occur at the reactor, could operation of the coolant system be vital to the diminution of the accident's impact on public health and safety?

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65 Were an accident to occur involving radioactivity release, the dampers in the exhaust stack or to close automatically to prevent radioactivity release into the environment. Is the proper function of those dampers considered vital in case of accident in terms of protecting public health and safety following such an accident? If not, why not?

a)Ifsoisthereanywaywherebyapranksterorsaboteurcould, by dropping something down the exhaust stack made the operation of those dampers incapable of performing their required function?

b) Are the dampers or any related structures made of a material that could corrode or rust should they come in contact with significant quantities of water?

c) Can the movement of the dampers be restricted by releasing into the exhaust stack a substance that could " goo" the dampers up?

c) Could movement of the dampers or complete closure be inhibited by dropping of a device that could " hang up" the dampers?

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vii of this submission relating to definitions and general provisions to be used in answering these interrogatories.

1. Have the person (s) preparing the answers to these interre-i gatories read the definitions and general provisions for these interro-l gatories which are set forth on pages i thmugh vii above?

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of the follouing interrogatories? 'If so,

a. Please identify each and overy such person.

b. Please state the number of each interrogatory with respect to which that person [was consulted.

c. Please ihdicate the nature of the information or other assistance which that person supplied to Applicant in pre-paration of the answers to these interrogatories.

3 Uhat personnel are required during the operation of the reactor, at the reactor site and elsewhere, without which operation does not take place?

4, % hen the reactor is shut down, how is the "on-duty" operator designated.

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5. Is there at g times a naned individual person (as opposed to a title) who is designated the "on-duty operator"7

a. Itho selects this person, and ho4 6 If this " o-duty operator" is, by ommission, not selected at any given time ir. accordance with procedure ( see previcus question),

is there an automatic default designation of a specific, named individua2

a. If so, please describe this designation precedure.

7. At all times does a unique, named individual know that he or she is the designated on-duty operatort

a. If so, how does this person know when he or she assumes,

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l 8. Is the name of the "on-duty operator" always available at the reactor site and to the campus police?

! 9 '.that program is there for assuring at any one instance the availability and accuracy of measurement and protective equipment as specified in section 2.2 of the Imergency Response Plan included in the Application " Equipment Available"t

10. Does procedure exist for notifying the "on-duty operator",

or for posting notice at the reactor control area, of the nonavailability f- of any listed (Section 2.2 of the Energency desponse Plan in the Application)

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11. Does a procedure exist that keeps up-to-date the Reactor Emergency Call List with respect to names and phone numbers. If so, how often is it updated?

12. Does a procedure exist for the simulation of a reactor en-ergency?

a. If so, describe this procedure.

b. Loes this pmcodure include detemining the location of and functionability of all emergency manuals, phone lists, signs,

" health physics suitcase" (Section 1.2.11 at IV/1-3 of the Emergency Response Plan found in the Application) and all

(~. necessary equi [ ment needed to implement emergency plans.

c. What is the m4nimum, average and maximum time needed to reach one of the " key personnel" on the Reactor Emergency Call List (Section 3.2 at IV/3-2 of the Emergency Response Plan found in the Application)?

d. List all dates when said simulations have taken place, 1960 through the present.

13 What is considered to be a reasonable response time by some-one on the " key personnel" of the Reactor Emergency Call List, in responding to a reactor emergency? How is this time determined, and by whom?

14 Is a pmcedure established which assures the availability of key personnel necessary for evacuation and/or other emergency decisions, and implementation of those decisions; during reactor operations and when 1

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a. If so, describe this procedure.

b. If so, what is the minimum set of such personnel needed, and how was the set determined?

15. What is the alternative emergency procedure if none of the key personnel (see question 12c.)can be reached in case of emergency?

16 Why is there a prohibition in the proposed Emergency Plan against notifying non-university persons or agencies until instructions to do so are issued by the campus police?

a. What advantages and disadvantages were foreseen in the said policy when it was established?

b. How were these advantages and disadvantages balanced against one another?

c. What was the final rationale for deciding not to notify non-university persons or agencies until instructions are issued by campus police? Who made the final decision?

17. To what extent will the prohibition policy delay the emergency response of other persons or organizations and how is this delay justified?

18 What criteria are the campus police to use in deciding to notify l non-university persons?

a. Are these criteria explicity posted where accessible v to the university police in a reactor emergency?

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19. 4ho must be notified and whose appmval is required for an evacuation of Boelter Hall and the Math-Sciences building?

a. 'dhat is the reason for requiring that these persons be notified or that these persons approve any such evacuation 7

b. If such person or persons are not imediately available at any time, who has the authority in his/her/their place?

20. Do personnel substituting for above said authority know the full extent of their responsibility regarding reactor emergencies?

( 21. Do the "on-duty operator" and campus police know, at all times, who must be notified for approval, and how to imediately reach such persons?

22 Describe any detemination mode, and any available estimate, of the delay time in obtaining approval to evacuate Boelter Hall and the Math Sciences building under the present plan, including during weekends, nights, and holiday periods.

23 What criteria are to be used by persons authorizing an evacua-tion of 3oelter Hall and/or the Math-Sciences bnWing, in detemining whe-ther to order such an evacuation, and how were the criteria established, and by when, and when?

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b. Do the personnel with this backup quthority know that they are on duty for this purpose?

25. Do the "on-duty operator" and campus police knew, at all times, who must be notified for approval, and how to immediately reach such persons?

26. Describe any detemination made and any available estimate and its determination, of the time delay in obtaining approval to evacuate the UCLA campus under the present plan, including during weekends nights, and vacation periods, t

27. Is the " health physicist" described in the proposed Emergency Plan a specific individual or a rotating position?

(~ a. Is someone designated "the health physicist" always imediately available, and does that person know that he or she is so desig-nated at the time 7

b. At all times is the name,of tr.: person designated "the health physicist," and the means of imediately reaching that person, l

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c. If the health physicist cannot be immediately reached, is l there a backup person with the same authority available and known to him/herself, the reactor "on-duty operator", and the campus police?

d. Describe any detemination of the time necessary to reach the health physicist including at night, weekends, and during vacation periods.

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r-28 What min 4=n= nunber and types of radiation monitors are required to be availshle to the "on-duty operator" during reactor operation, and again during reactor shut-down periods? (See Application,pg. IV/1-2, Sec-tion 1.26)

29. When a " nuclear hazard" is declared based on off-scale (hig.9 radiation-nonitor readouts, why does this deter =ination only occur when three of the eight monitors read off-scale from an undetemined causef (,pp.

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a. If one or more radiation monitors are off-scale (high) for known reasons, what criterion is used to designate a " nuclear .

hazartl," and why? _

b. If the number of operational radiation monitors is decreased

( or increased, what will the criteria be, with respect to number, location, and readouts, for a determinationof a" nuclear hazard"?

30. Describe the present quantity and type of radiation monitors used to detemine a nuclear hazarsi and a reactor emergency, and how they were detemined adequate for these purposes, and by whom, and when.

31. Describe present plans for the evacuation of the entire UClA ca= pus, including dur$ng weekends, nights, vacations, holidays, and during rush-hour traffic periods,

a. Have such plans ever been tested or implemented? If so, list all dates of said occurrances.

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34 Describe what criteria exist for the determination as to whether to evacuate the campus, and how those criteria were established, and by whom, and when.

35. Describe provisions for handling injuries in the case of an evacuation of an area which includes the UCIA Medical Center.

36 Describe pmvisions for handling injuries in the case of a radioactive contamination of the Emergency Medicine Center ( See Section C.3 at IV/C-2 of the Emergency Response Plan in the Application.

37. Describe provisions for supervising and handling of exposed or con +hted and/or injured persons in the case of exposure or contamin-ation of the Emergency !!edicine Center medical personnel.

38. What evacuation plans exist for the UCLA I!edical Center?

39. What assurance is there that equipment listed in the Emergency Response Plan will be in the listed locations in appropriate quantities and usable condition when needed?

1. 40 Who detemines what la adequate equipment and that it is pro-perly maintained and kept available?

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41. Describe all training exercises and emergency drills and the means and basis for assessing their adequacy in si:mlating or predicting real emergency responses .

a. List the dates of any such exercises and drills.

42. What documents exist regarding evacuation plans for 'iEL, Soelter Hall, UCLA Medical Center, and the entire campus?

a. Jill you provide said records absent a formal motion to produce?

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Fark S. Pollock Attorney for Intervenors COMMITTEE TO 3 RIDGE THE GAP

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/~ HUCLEAR REDULATORY COL:MISSICH BEFORE THE ATO:1IC SAFETY AND LICd!!SIUG WARD In the Matter of )

) Docket No. 50-142 THE REDENTS OF GE UNIVERSITY OF )

CALIFORNIA )

) (Proposed Renewal of Facility (UCLA Research Reactor) ) License)

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DECLARATION OF ShaVICE I hereby declare that copies of "Intervono/s April 20, 1981 Intern gatorzes to Applicant,. Regents of the University of California" in the above-cap-tioned proceeding have been served by me on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class, this 20th day of April,1981:

Elizabeth S. Bowers, Esq., Chairman Docketing and Service Section (3)

Atonic Safety and Licensing Board Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear degulatory Commission Ja=hington, D.C. 20555 washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. Fanneth A. Luebke, Hember Christine Helwick, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Boarti Glenn. R. Woods, Esq.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2200 University Avenue Jashington, D.C. 20555 590 University Han Berkeley, CA 94720 Dr. Oscar H. Paris, Member Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Counsel for NRC Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

'Jashington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555

.lilliam H. Comier, Esq.

Office of Administrative Vice Chancellor

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