ML19350B701
| ML19350B701 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane, Hatch  |
| Issue date: | 03/13/1981 |
| From: | Snyder B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Lewis M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8103230430 | |
| Download: ML19350B701 (2) | |
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Dear Mr. Lewis:
q' This responds to your post card dated January 27, 1981 in which you raise a question regarding my letter to Gale Hovey dated January 13, 1981. Since your question; "Isn't NRC going to make an independent chemical analysis of the wastes...",
indicated your basic misunderstanding of the context of my letter to Mr. Hovey, I will clarify.
The discussion in my letter to Mr. Hovey, which is in small part excerpted in your post card, refers to waste forms which may be generated during the TMI-2 cleanup. Prior to authorizing any major cleanup alternative pro)osed by Met. Ed., the NRC staff will independently evaluate the technical specifics of the proposal. Such an NRC staff evaluation will necessarily include consideration of the type of waste forms which would likely be generated y
as a result of taking the proposed action. Hence, at the stage of events referenced in my letter to Mr. Hovey, there are no wastes on which to perform
" independent chemical analysis".
Aside from evaluations of future cleanup acticas and potential resulting wastes, the NRC staff is fully cognizant of and actively interested in wastes whict. have already been generated at THI. On a continuing basis, NRC personnel stationed onsite (approximately 20) approve detailed procedures, and monitor i
activities and information relating to all aspects of the cleanup. To date
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-information relating to radioactive wastes supplied by Met. Ed. has been found acceptable by the NRC staff.
'I I should ~also note here that a cooperative effort (Department' of Energy, f
General Public Utilities, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission) is underway to perform immobilization and integrity tests on a sample of the relatively high I
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Mr. Marvin I. Lewis specific activity wastes generated by decontamination efforts to date.
It is expected that within several months a sample of this waste will oe shipped from the TMI site to a Department of Energy facility for this testing.
I hope this information proves useful.
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Bernard J. Snyder, Program Director TMI Program Office Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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7 you state "following the receipt from NetBd of data which provide characteristics of the proposed Wastes." Isn't NRC going to make an independent ch(mical analysis of the wastes or are you just taking Met Ed's word? Taking "etEd's word without checking fully is what Met Ed is suing NRC about in court right now.
Can't NRC ever learn a lesson? Must the TMI accident be repeated and repeated ?
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