ML20008E654

Estimated Airborne Release of Pu from Exxon Nuclear Mixed Oxide Fuel Plant at Richland,Washington as Result of Postulated Damage from Severe Wind & Earthquake Hazard

ML20008E654
Person / Time
Site:	Framatome ANP Richland
Issue date:	02/28/1980
From:	Ayer J, Mishima J, Schwendiman L Battelle Memorial Institute, PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATION, NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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PNL-3340, PNL-3340-01, PNL-3340-1, UC-11, NUDOCS 8103090345
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An Increment of Analysis ESTIMATED AIRBORNE RELEASE OF PLUT0NIUM FROM THE EXXON NUCLEAR MIXED OXIDE FUEL PLANT AT RICHLAND, WASHINGTON AS A RESULT OF POSTULATED DAMAGE FROM SEVERE WIND AND EARTHQUAKE HAZARD J. Mishima L. C. Schw9nqiman J. E. Ayerta; E. L. Owzarski, Editor February 1980 Prepared for Division of Environmental Impact Studies Argonne National Laboratory i

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ABSTRACT The potential airborne releases of plutonium from postulated damage sus-tained by the Exxon Nuclear Company's Mixed 0xide Fabrication Plant at Richland, Washington, as a result of various levels of wind and earthquake hazard, are estimated. The releases are based on damage scenarios that range up to 250 mph for wind hazard and in excess of 1.0 g ground acceleration for seismic hazard, which were developed by other specialists. The approaches and factors used to estimate the releases (inventories of dispersible materials at risk, damage levels and ratios, fractional airborne releases of dispersible materials under stress, atmosphere exchange.ates, and source term ranges) are discussed. Release estimates range from less than 10~7 g to greater than 14 g of plutonium over a four-day period.

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AND CONCLUSIONS The potential mass of airborne releases of plutonium (source term) that could a result from wind and seismic damage is estimated for the Exxon Nuclear Company's Mixed Oxide Fabrication Plant in Richland, Washington.

The postu-lated source terms will be useful as the basis for estimating potential dose to the " maximum" individual by inhalation and to the total population living within a prescribed radius of the site. The respirable fraction of airborne particles is thus the principal concern.

The estimated source terms are based upon the damage ratio, i.e., the fraction of enclosures crushed or punctured during events of varying severity and the potential airborne releases if all enclosures suffer particular levels of damage.

In an attempt to provide a realistic range of potential source terms that include most of the normal processing conditions, a "best estimate" bounded by upper and lower limits is provided. The range of source terms is calculated by combining a high, best estimate, and low damage ratio based upon a fraction of enclosures suffering crush or perforation, with the airborne release from enclosures based upon an upper limit, average, and lower limit inventory of dispersible materials at risk. Two throughput levels are con-sidered. Factors used to evaluate the fractional airborne release of mate-rials and the exchange rates between enclosed a.id exterior atmospheres are discussed.

The postulated damage and source terms are discussed for wind and earth-quake hazard scenarios in order of increasing severity.

The largest postulated airborne releases from the building are for the maximum wind hazard (maximum velocity of 250 mph) and for seismic hazard greater than 1.0 g ground acceleration.

Both hazard scenarios postulate vir-tually complete destruction of the facility. Wind hazard at higher air velo-cities and earthquakes with higher ground accelerations should not result in significantly greater source terms. The source terms are expressed as the i

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(AED) or less released with time (up.to 4 days). From 0.5% to 91% of the source term is generated from 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> to 4 days after the event. The overall source terms for the damage scenarios evaluated are shown in Table 1 in order of increasing severity of wind and earthquake hazard.

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_t}per Mt_ 8est Estimate tower L imit 3 per liett Best Estimate tower t.imit Wind Hazard Manimian WinJ Speed 95 mph (42.5 m/s), 6 a 10-3 per Year Probability of Occurrence Instantaneous less than 10-7 AJJational mass released in neat 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> Additional mass released in neat 6 hours6.944444e-5 days <br />0.00167 hours <br />9.920635e-6 weeks <br />2.283e-6 months <br /> AJJitional mass released in neat 16 hours1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br /> t

AJJitional mass released in neat 3 days' Masietna Wind Speed 150 mph (61 m/s), 3 m 10 6 2

per Year Probability of &currence Instantaneous 0.01 4 m 10-5 0.1 0.03 6 a 10-6.

Additional inass in nest 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> 4a 10-6 3g 30-0 1a 10-5 8m 10-6 4, go-6 AJJitional mass la neat 6 hours6.944444e-5 days <br />0.00167 hours <br />9.920635e-6 weeks <br />2.283e-6 months <br /> Ia 10-5 g x 304 3, 30-5 2 = 10-5 g a 30-5 Adattional mass in neat 16 hours1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br /> 3 a 10-5 3a 10-5 g a 30-5 6 a 10-5 4 m 10-5 AJJitional mass in neat 3 days Ia 104 I a 10-4 4a 10-4 3a 10-4 2 a 10-4 Haalmin Wind Speed 190 mph (85 m/s), 6 a 10-8 per Year Probability of &currence Instantaneous 0.3 (0.1)(d) 0.2 (0.2)(J) 0.02 0.9 ( t)('ll 0.6 (0.8)(1) 0.06 AJJitional mass in neat 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> 0.1 0.06 6a 10-4 0.3 0.1 2 a 10-3 Additional mass in next 6 hours6.944444e-5 days <br />0.00167 hours <br />9.920635e-6 weeks <br />2.283e-6 months <br /> 1

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0.06 Maaimum WindspeeJ 250 mph (112 m/s), 3 a 10-9 per Year Probability of &currence instantaneous 1 (2)(d) g (3)[1) o,g y (j)(1) y(3}[1) 0,3 Additional mass in neat 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> 0.2 0.1 0.01 0.4 0.3 0.0/

Additional mass in neat 6 hours6.944444e-5 days <br />0.00167 hours <br />9.920635e-6 weeks <br />2.283e-6 months <br /> 0.6 0.4 0.03 1

0.8 0.1 Addit ions' mass in neat 16 hours1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br />

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Adlitional mass in neat 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> 0.2 0.1 0.01 0.4 0.3 0.0?

Ad.littonal mass in neat 6 hours6.944444e-5 days <br />0.00167 hours <br />9.920635e-6 weeks <br />2.283e-6 months <br /> 0.6 0.4 0.03 1

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INTRODUCTION 1

BUILDING AND PROCESS DESCRIPTION 3

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WIND HAZARD 13 EARTHQUAKE HAZARD 15 APPROACH AND FACTORS USED IN ESTIMATING SOURCE TERMS 17 FRACTIONAL AIRBORNE RELEASE OF PARTICULATE MATERIAL 17 ATMOSPHERIC EXCHANGE RATE 19 SOURCE TERM RANGES 21 SOURCE TERM ESTIMATES 23' SOURCE TERM ESTIMATES FROM WIND HAZARD 23 SOURCE TERM ESTIMATES FROM EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE.

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4 2 Exxon M0FP Building Arrangement for 72 kg per Day Design Throughput.

7 3 Schematic Representation of the M0FP Fabrication Area Ventilation System 9

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A potential radiological hazard to ',he general population could result from the impact of natural phenomena uran licensed commercial mixed oxide fab-rication plants. This report presents estimates of the potential release of plutonium from the Exxon Nuclear Company's Mixed 0xide Fabrication Plant (M0FP) at Richland, Washington, as a result of wind and earthquake hazards.

The plutonium release estimates were developed by identifying damages sustained by hazard situations of varying severity. The Pacific Northwest Laboratory (a) staff gathered facility and hazard probability information from several sources. The Engir.aering Decision Analysis Company (EDAC) pro-vided the description and condition of the facility (EDAC 1978).

Features whose failure might have a significant effect on the release of radioactive material were identified (Mishima, Schwendiman, and Ayer 1978). The proba-bility of various levels of wind hazard at the site was assessed by Fujita (1977), while Teknekron Energy Resource Analysis Corporation (TERA) provided the same services for the earthquake hazard (1978). Mehta, Mcdonald and Smith (1979) provided the potential responses of the structure and contained equip-ment to various degrees of wind hazard, and EDAC (1979) provided the analysis for the response to seismic events. These last two analyses provided the

" damage scenarios" upon which the estimates of the potential airborne releases of the contained radioactive material from the facility (source terms) were based. For each damage scenario developed, the amount of plutonium released was estimated at five time intervals af ter the accident for the two levels of processing throughput. The estimates are given as a range of values: upper limit, an average estimate, and a lower limit.

This report is a portion of an interdisciplinary study sponsored by the United Statos Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and coordinated by the Division of Environmental Impact Studies of the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). The estimated airborne releases of contained radioactive material (a) Pacific Northwest Laboratory is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Battelle Memorial Institute.

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presented here form the basis for calculating dose, which is one component of the overall risk analysis, NRC'S objective in the entire study. The primary concern in the calculation of downwind dose for this study is inhalation (McPherson and Watson 1978, p.3), and in this increment the primary emphasis is the release of plutonium particulate material of a size range that can be carried downwind and inhaled. Particles 10 um Aerodynamic Equivalent Diameter (AED)(a) or less are conservatively assume'd to be the respirable fraction.

Such an assumption overstates the potential effect by a factor of 1.5 to greater than an order of magnitude, depending upon the lung deposition model chcsen (Mercer 1977, Figure 1). The behavior of the structure and equiprent in accident situations is not precisely understood. With such uncertainties, the estimates of airborne releases tend to be conservative, that is, estimates are probably greater than the releases that would actually be experienced.

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BUILDINi AND PROCESS DESCRIPTION To develop estimates of potential releases from the Exxon M0FP, we begin by identifying the facility features and plant oper3tions that may have an effect on the quantity of material released. The information was gathered from documents issued by EDAC and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (USAEC).

Included in this information are engineered safeguards that may detect and prevent certain conditions such as fires, or that may mitigate some airborne releases. The locations where powdered plutonium may be accumulated, the quantity present, and the dimensions of the volumes into which the plutonium may be injected are used to estimate the amount of particulate materials that may be released ~during severe wind or seismic events.

BUILDING DESCRIPTION (EDAC 1978)

The Exxon M0FP is a combination pre-cast / cast-in-place concrete building 100 ft in the east-west direction, 114 ft in the north-south direction, with 28-ft high walls. Figure 1 is an isometric sketch of the facility as it is currently arranged. The mixed oxide fuel is prepared in the east portion of the high-bay area, which has plan dimensions of 76 f t in the north-south direction and 100 ft in the east-west direction.

The exterior walls are pre-cast, tilt-up reinforced concrete panels, 6 in. thick by 9 ft wide by 28.2 ft high, joined to 13-in. by 14-in. cast-in-place columns. A cast-in-place roof edge beam 12 in. by 14 in. (called a parapet beam) joins the columns and panels around the entire periphery of the building. The roof is metal decking with built-up roofing.

Support is pro-vided by a long-span open web joist, supported by the north, center, and south walls, that spans the high-bay and office areas.

The storage vault is located in the northeast corner of the facility and is cast in place. The exterior walls are 18 in. thick and the interior walls are 24 in, thick. The roof is an 8-in. thick reinforced concrete slab with wide flange steel beams.

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The SNM license for the MOFP includes a limit of 10 kg of unencapsulated plutonium.

The plutonium, for license purposes, is considered dispersible until it is loaded into fuel rods. Operating data indicate that, at maximum plant throughput, the 10 kg limit is approached and inventories in the various process stations are approximately as shown in Table 2 under case 1.

Table 2 also indicates the form of the material present.

Experience with plant operations indicates that a maximum of 36 kg of mixed oxide fuel can be processed per 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> day using the current equipment arrangement.

It is the throughput, not the quantity of plutonium, that con-trols plant capacity. Thus case 2 in Table 2 (72 kg/ day throughput) is double case 1 ( 36 kg/ day throughput) and assumes use of two mirror-image, parallel glove box lines. The arrangement is shown in Figure 2.

Ine pug is trucked to the facility in 5 kg packages in approved con-2 tainers and stored before use in a safe configuration in the vault.

The Pu0 rom the vault and U0 from the Uranium 0xide Fuel Plant next door 2

2 are blended in glove box (glbx) 2a, which is located in the M0 processing area (the east end of the high-bay section; see Figure 1). The M0 is slugged in gibx 2b and pelletized in gibx 2c. The green pellets are placed in boats in gibx 3a and sintered in the sintering furnace (glbx 3c) at 1650 to 1700 F in a 15% hydrogen-85% nitrogen gas mixture.

This gas is mixed outside the building and piped into the building through the south wall.

The sintered pellets are brought to final dimensions by a dry, centerless grinder equipped with a vaccum system to trap the airborne particulate mate-rial generated in gibx 4a.

Inspection, rod loading, and cleaning are per-formed in gibx 4b and 4c. Rods are welded shut in the special helium-filled l

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glove box in the northeast corner of the M0 area; decontamination of the welded areas occurs in the open-faced enclosure along the north wall. There is no dry or wet scrap recycle.

EfGINEERED SAFEGUARDS (USAEC 1974) l Directional airflow is utilized in the facility to aid in the control of airborne particulate material (see Figure 3). Ambient air, filtered through high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters, enters the M0 processing area via distributors located in the ceiling and exhausts through HEPA filter-sealed floor registers at a rate of at least ten air changes per hour. HEPA-filtered air is supplied *o all glove boxes that use an air atmosphere and is exhausted via HEPA filters. Exhaust from the glove boxes is again filtered before it is combined with room exhaust.

These combined gases are filtered again by two banks of HEPA filters located in another area before exiting from the plant. Approximately half of the room air from the processing areas is recycled.

Gas from the sintering furnaces is discharged to the building exhaust system through a duct equipped with an explosive gas detector. Explosive gas detectors are also situated around the sintering furnace to detect uncon-trolled leaks of the cover gas. The exhaust ducts feeding the final filter bank are equipped with heat detectors; if the gas temperature exceeds 160*F, a spray is activated in the duct upstream of the final filter banks.

Rate-of-rise heat detectors are located in all processing hoods and on the ceiling of the processing area. The detectors in the ceiling activate an alarm. The detectors in glbx lines 2, 3, and 4 also activate Halon extin-guishment systems.

AREAS OF CONCERN (MISHIMA, SCHWENDIMAN, AND AYER 1978a)

The amount of plutonium available for release in the event of severe winds and earthquakes depends not only upon the plutonium normally available as a part of process operations but also on the amounts accumulated on surface areas of process hoods and exhaust filters.

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Furthermore, the radiological significance and ease with which a material form can be made airborne help prioritize the concern over materials.

The radiological significance of plutonium is greater than that of uranium used in the process. The downwind dose is dependent upon the injection into and the 4

airborne transport of radioactive particulate material by the ambient atmos--

4 phere. Given the same level of force, more preformed particles of the size range that can remain suspended and be transported (powder) will be made air-borne than will solids (pellets).

This is because, in the latter case, some of the force is required to subdivide the solid and appreciable forces may be required to reduce a significant fraction of the solid to the size range of the powder.

Thus plutonium powders are of the greatest concern follov:ed by M0 pow-der. The Pu02 p wder in gibx 2a is the greatest concern followed by M0 pow-der in gibx 2b and 4a (centerless grinder swarf). The remaining M0 is present as pellets or encapsulated pellets. Neither form appears to be susceptible to the generation of significant quantities of particles in the size range that can be inhaled under the level and type of stresses considered in this study.

Two other sources of fine particulate materials are surface contamination and airborne materials collected in filters. Even in glove boxes handling pellets, the long-term buildup of the compounds handled in the glove box may result in the accumulation of significant quantities of material. Although there are indications that a signi" ant portion of the material accumulated over long periods of time is tightly bound to surfaces, a conservative value of 7.5 g of powder /m2 (this amount corresponds to a coating of powder vis-ible to the unaided eye) is used (Mishima, Schwendiman, and Ayer 1979, p. 44).

Pu0, M0, or unencapsulated pellets are handled in all of the boxes 2

listed in Table 2.

Five glove boxes (2a, 2b, 2c, 4a, and 4b) are each I

approximately 36 in, high by 72 in. long. by 36 in. deep (EDAC 1978, p. 5-14, Figure 5-6) and are estimated to have a total of 16.7 m of contaminated interior surface area. Pu0 is processed in gibx 2a and M0 is processed in 2

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in gibx 2b, 2c, 4a, and 4b--16.7 m x 7.5 g M0/m x 0.44 x 0.88 = 4.4 g Pu.

The furnace inlet and exit boxes (glbx 3a and 3b) have the approximate dimen-sions of 48 in high by 48 in. long by 30 in. deep (EDAC 1978, p. 5-11, Fig-2 ure 5-3) and an estimated 13.4 m of contaminated surface area. M0 is the material handled in these enclosures and the Pu inventory due to surface con-tamination is 3.5 g Pu per box.

The boat return conveyor is housed in an enclosure approximately 24 in.

wide by 168 in. long by 24 in. high. Although no M0 material is handled, some material may be available as dust from pellets.

This anclosure is assumed to be contaminated to the same level as the other process enclosures.

The esti-2 mated total internal contaminated surface area is 20.7 m and tne Pu inven-tory due to surface contamination is 5.5 g at a production rate of 36 kg M0/ day. At a production rate of 72 kg M0/ day, the Pu inventory for surface contamination in the glove box is 11 g.

An inventory of 1 g Pu is assumed for exhaust HEPA filters on glove boxes, 100 mg Pu per filter for the first stage of the final HEPA filter banks, and a loading of 0.05 mg per filter for the final stage (Mishima, Schwendiman, and Ayer 1979, p. 35).

Each glove box listed in Table 2 is assumed to have a filter loaded with 1 g Pu. The filtration system is com-plex.

The system normally operates with partial recycle but has full single pass capability. All Exhaust emitted to the ambient atmosphere passes through 3 stages of filtration. Although the exact number has not been ascertained, it is assumed that there are sufficient filters (30) to treat all exhausts at the rated flow of the filters. The total Pu inventory on filters at a produc-tion rate of 36 kg M0/ day is 11 g; at a production rate of 72 kg M0/ day the Pu inventory is 19 g Pu.

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along the west wall of the area near gibx 2c and under the northeast corner of gibx 4a.

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occurrence Mixed Oxide Preparation (M0P) Area:

Standard-size door in east wall fails outwards. Exterior filters on glbx 4a are damaged.

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e occurrence MOP Area: A 20-ft section of south wall at southeast corner i

fails and a 20-ft sect'.on of roof collapses as a unit. Three-quarters of the glove boxes (upper and lower bound are one and one-half respectively) under the collapsed section of the roof are crushed.

Half of the glove boxes (upper and lower bounds are three-quarters and one-fifth respectively) in the remaining area are perforated.

Cl-MS-PRF Area: Portions of the east and west interior walls collapse crushing one half of the glove boxes within 15 ft of the walls (upper and lower bounds are three-quarters and one-half respectively).

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I Nominal Wind Soeed 250 moh (112 m/s), 3 x 10-9/yr orobability of e

occurrenca MOP AREA: Portions of outside walls collapse.

Interior wall betweei. A0P and CL-MS-PRF areas collapses.

Roof collapses down-ward as a single unit crushing all glove boxes and filters.

CL-MS-PRF Area: The south wall collapses. The roof collapses as a single unit crushing all glove boxes and filters in area.

Vault: No significant damage occurs.

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acceleration range from minimal to roof and wall collapse.

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e occurrence Damage does not lead to loss of component; therefore, no unfiltered release of contained radioactive material occurs.

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of occurrence Beyond 1.37 g, south wall fails and roof collapses as a single 1

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l APPROACH AND FACTORS USED IN ESTIMATING SOURCE TERMS Source terms are estimated to provide data for the calculation of poten-tial radiation dose to the general population from the MOFP. A principal con-cern is that fraction of the airborne particulate material that can be transported downwind, inhaled by humans, and deposited in the deep lung (alve-clar region).

In addition, the remaining fraction of airborne particulate material (on the order of 100 to 200 um AED) that is redistributed beyond the area of the facility is also considered in this study since it poses a poten-tial surface-contamination and long-term resuspension problem.

Answers to several questions are required to arrive at a source term estimate. How much material can be affected by the event? What is the size distribution of the airborne material? What is the behavior of the airborne material in the time span required for release? What are the release rates and characteristics of the airborne material released to the ambient atmos-phere? The factors and considerations used to answer these questions fall into two broad categories: fractional airborne release of materials and, if the material is injected into a constrained volume, the exchange rate. The factors involved in these categories are discussed below. A description of the upper and lower bounds placed upon the estimates is also presented.

FRACTIONAL AIRBORNE RELEASE OF PARTICULATE MATERIAL The various factors applied to estimate the airborne release of plutonium as a result of the dmnage scenarios are listed in Table 3 Some considera-tions that influence the applicability of these factors for the six damage situations described are noted in the following paragraphs.

e Crush of a Glove Box Containing Powders: Crush is defined as a com-plete loss of containment such as rupture of the metal shell or loss of one or more of the large viewing windows. The glove box is sub-jected to stress that results in damage and provides the force to inject the powder into the air. Bouncing the powder into the air does not appear to provide as much dispersion of the powder as 17

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Fractional Airborne Release Factors Used To Estimate Consequences of Damage Due to Wind and Earthquake Hazard From Exxon MOFP Event Factor 3

Crush of glove box containing powder Volume of glove box x 300 mg powder /m Crush of glove box containing surface 10-2/m of contamination airborne contamination.

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Perforation of glove box containing Volume of glove box x 300 mg powder /m powder.

i Perforation of glove box contain-10'#/m of contamination airborne ing surface contamination Perforation of fully loaded filter 10-2 of contamination airborne Aerodynamic entrainment of powders, 10-10/s i

air velocity less than 5 mph Aerodynamic entrainment of powders, 10~0/s air velocity greater than 5 mph tumbling. An airborne mass concentration indicated by experimental data for powder remaining airborne in a volume after tumbling is used.

(Mishima, Schwendiman, and Ayer 1978b, p. 30).

e Crush of HEPA Filter. Filters attached to glove boxes are enclosed in a metal container whose strength appears comparable to the glove box itself. Building filters are also enclosed in metal housings.

l Thus it is assumed that the filters suffer the same level of damage as the glove boxes to which they are attached. The filter frame and media are much more fragile than the metal housing but the pluto-nium-bearing material accumulated in the media (along with other components such as condensed organic vapors *nd lint) may not readily be dislodged. A conservative value of 10% of the accumu-lated material released is assumed in the absence of experimental data.

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e Perforation of a Glove Box Containing Powder.

Perforation is defined as a partial loss of containment that allows air to circu-late through the glove box.

Depending on the size of the opening and velocity of the air striking the opening, the particulate mate-rials airborne within the volume are released from the glove box with time. Release of greater than 99% of the airborne particulate material within 30 min. is considered instantaneous. A mass air-borne concentration found approximately 1 min. after tumbling a fine 3

powder and considered quasi-stable, 100 mg/m, is considered to represent the airborne particulate material in a portion of the glove box (Mishima, Schwendiman, and Ayer 1979, p. 39).

e Perforation of a Glove Box Containing Surf ace Contamination. The stress imposed upon the glove box by perforation appears to be sub-stantially less than the stress imposed by crushing. A factor sub-stantially less, 10-4/m, is applied (Mishima, Schwendiman, and Ayer 1979, p. 44).

e Perforation of HEPA Filters. Perforation of the filters can occur i

not only through penetration of the filter but also through damage caused by displacement of the enclosure. A factor of 10-2 is applied for the instantaneous airborne release of accumulated mate-rial to reflect the reduced level of stress required for this level of damage (Mishima, Schwendiman, and Ayer 1979, p. 47).

ATMOSPHERIC EXCHANGE RATE The two principal areas of concern for atmospheric exchange are the MOP area for the current design throughput (see Figure 1) and the M0P and ll I

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e Nominal Wind Speed 95 mph. Air enters the area through a 28 in, by

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box through a 0.9-f t opening. Calculated airflow through the box under pessimistic conditions (air flows into one opening and out the 3

other adjacent opening) is approximately 9 m per minute and the volume of the glove box is displaced e&ch 11 seconds.

Under these flow conditions, particulate materials airborne in the glove box are considered to be released to the room instantaneously.

e Nominal Wind Speed 150 mph.

In addition to the damage inflicted at 95 mph, the double doors in the south wall are lost. The calculated average air velocity through the MOP area is approximately 1 mph and airborne release from the damaged glove box da is essentially instantaneous.

Air entering from the south wall causes a collapse of part of the west interior wall of the CL-MS-PRF area. The calculated average i

air velocity through the area is approximately 2.5 mph, o Nominal Wind Speed 195 mph. A 20-ft section of the south wall col-lapses and causes the collapse of a 20-ft by 76-ft strip of the roof over the MOP area. The existing wind field is assumed to flow through the area. Particulate material from crushed and perforated l

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through the area. Particulate material airborne in glove boxes (which may be under wind-generated debris) is conservatively assumed to be instantaneously released.

e Nominal Wind Speed 250 mph. The roof over the entire high bay area (which includes the MOP and CL-MS-PRF area) and most of the support-ing walls collapse. Although much of the equipment in the facility may be buried by the debris, it is conservatively assumed that the material is exposed to the existing wind field.

e Ground Shaking of 1.0 g or Greater (EDAC 1979, p. 5-2). Beyond 1.37 g the south wall is unsupported and initiates collapse.

It is assumed that all areas except the vault (which remains unaffected in excess of 1.85 g) suffer some degree of structural damage. An aver-age wind speed of 10 mph (4.5 m/s) is assumed for calculating the atmosphere exchange rates for the earthquake damage scenario.

One of the mechanisms for crushing gloveboxes is rupture by impact of a falling roof section.

If it is assumed that the volume of a glove box decreases at the same speed as the roof f alls, air could be ejected at a velocity of 48 mph. The release of particulate material made airborne by the damage is thus considered to be instantaneous.

SOURCE TERM RANGES In order to provide some quasi-realistic bounds to the quantity of pluto-nium estimated to be released from the damage scenarios, three estimates are provided: upper bound, average, and lower bound. The assumptions under which the estimates are made are:

e Uooer Bound:

The upper bound damage occurs.

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All exhaust filters are fully loaded.

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The best estimate damage occurs.

The stated inventory at each location is recce.ed by the fraction of time it is normally found at that location.

All locations have a maximum loading, on the average, of surface cont amination.

All exhaust filters are fully loaded.

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The lower bound damage occurs No process material is present and the maximum loading, on the average, of surface contamination is found at each location.

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SOURCE TERM ESTIMATES In the previous sections of this document, inventories of dispersible materials in various areas, damage levels, fractional airborne releases, and atmospheric exchange rates required to estimate the source terms for the pos-r tulated damage scenarios were described. These components are combined in this section with the specific conditions postulated for each hazard to arrive at three source term estimates for each scenario--an upper limit, a best esti-mate, and a lower limit.

The estimates are divided into the mass of airborne plutonium particulate material in the respirable size fraction released during five time intervals covering a four-day period.

The quantity designated as instantaneous is the mass released from the facility within a few minutes following the hazardous event. The mass estimated in the renaining four time periods comes from two sources--the delayed release of material airborne in enclosures and the resus-pension of dispersible materials exposed to the snbient wind field.

Drawings are used to illustrate the type and range of damage that could result in key areas from the scenarios described.

The illustrations are not an attemot to show what actually happens--the data available and the state-of-the-art are not sufficient to predict the precise levels of danage that would be inflicted upon each item. Certain details of the facility have been omitted for clarity in the drawings.

The discussion is divided into wind and earthquake hazard in order of increasing severity.

SOURCE TERM ESTIMATES FRCM WIND HAZARD Ncminal Wind Speed 95 mph, 6 x 10-3/yr probability of occurrence.,

e The only significant structural damage inflicted upon the MOP at this wind speed is the loss of the standard-sized door in the east exterior wall of the area. Air circulating in the vicinity of glbx 4a damages the exterior filters.

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It is assumed that the disturbance to the glove box is equal that incurred during perforation; a resuspension factor of 10-4/m is applied and 4 x 10-5 g Pu are made airborne in the glove box. Airborne material is released instantaneously to the area. The remaining Pu is assumed to be entrained at rate of 10-10/s by the air circulating through the glove box and released into the air. All released material is assumed to be in the respir-able size range.

Air enters the MOP area at the rate of approximately 14,600 cfm and does not appear to overload the exhaust system.

Thus the particu-late material released to the ambient atmosphere around the f acility is assumed to pass through a functional exhaust system and is reduced by a factor of 2.5 x 10-7.

The estimated releases from the facility (see Table 1) range from 10-9 to 10-12 g Pu over the four-day period and are reported as less than 10-7 g Pu.

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A portion of the interior wall is postulated to collapse, crushing one-third of the glove boxes (upper and lower bounds for damage are one-half and one-fifth respectively) within 15 ft of the wall. The calculated average air velocity in the area is approximately 2.5 mph. The situation is illustrated in Figure 5.

Since significant damage is postulated for the CL-MS-PRF, the throughput is important because the CL-MS-PRF area is not used for M0 processing under the current process scheme.

Furthermore it is postulated that the addition of 480,000 cfm of air exceeds the capa-city of the exhaust system.

It is thus assumed for the sake of con-servatism that particulate material released to either area is released to the ambient atmosphere around the facility unfiltered.

The release of particulate material from the M0P area is the same as at 95 mph except that it is not passed through the exhaust system.

The instantaneous release is based upon the release of 1% of the material accumulated on the filter from glbx 4a and the surface con-tamination shaken from interior surfaces during the incident. The time-dependent release is a result of the aerodynamic suspension of particulate materials--accumulated on the surface and contaminated surf aces inside gibx 4a--exposed by the incident.

At a design throughput of 72 kg M0/ day, the CL-MS-PRF is assumed to be a single area with an equipment arrangement that is a mirror image of the M(P area.

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gibx 4'a, which contains 7.5 g Pu in 213 g MO (swarf) grindings, M0 accumulated on the exhaust filter and present as surface contamination.

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i The instantaneous release estimated is the total of the 10% released from each crushed filter (2), the 10-2/m of the surface contamina-tion made airborne during the crushing of glove boxes, and powder suspended by the event.

The time-dependent airborne release of particulate material is estimated from the material exposed to the wind field in both areas--

powder, particulates accumulated on filters, and surface contamina-tion. The calculated windspeed in both areas is less than 5 mph and a rate of 10-10/s is used. The releases range from 2 x 10 to 0.1 g Pu for the four-day period and were shown in Table 1.

Nominal Wind Soeed 190 mph, 6 x 10-8/yr probability of occurrence.

e A 20 ft section of the south wall near the southeast corner col-lapses, causing the collapse of the roof section supporting the wall. Three-quarters of the glove boxes under the roof section (upper and lower damage bounds are all to one-half respectively) are postulated to be crushed and half of the remaining glove boxes (upper and lower damage bounds are three-quarters to one-third respectively) are assumed to be perforated.

All the glove boxes in the MOP, and thus the inventory listed in Table 2 for 36 k,a/ day throughput plus all the material postulated to bepresentonfiT$ersorassurfacecontamination,areinvolved.

The instantaneous release is the sumation of the powder made air-borne in glove boxes by the incident, the material released during the crush or perforation of filters, and the contamination dislodged from surfaces. For the sake of conservatism, it is assumed that all particulate material released from filters or from surfaces is in the respirable range. The powder made is assumed to have the same size distribution as other process powders and only 10% is in the i

respirable range. Two values for the instantaneous release were shown in Table 1: the mass in the respirable fraction and the total mass released (in parentheses).

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The time-dependent release is estimated from the total mass of plu-tonium exposed by the incident multiplied by a suspension rate. The wind field in the area exceeds 5 mph and a rate of 10-8/s is applied.

The types and range of damage are illustrated in Figure 6 and the estimated airborne releases from the facility at this wind speed were listed in Table 1.

At the higher design throughput (72 kg/ day), the CL-MS-PRF also con-tains plutonium and damage to that area will contribute to the air-borne release from the facility.

Both interior walls (east and west) are postulated to collapse into the area crushing half of the glove boxes in the area. The upper and lower damage bounds are three-quarters and one-third respectively. The plutonium inventory present in the area is half the quantities listed in Table 2 under case 2.

The factors governing the instantaneous and time-dependent airborne releases from the facility are the same as outlined for the MCP area. The ccmbined estimated airborne release (MOP plus CL-MS-PRF area) was shown in Table 1 under case 2.

Nominal Wind Soeed 250 mph, 3 x 10-9-/yr orobability of occurrence.

e Loss of portions of the south and. interior walls causes the roof over the entire high bay area to fall.

It is postulated that all the glove boxes in both areas are crushed. The situation is illustrated in Figure 7.

The instantaneous release is estimated from the quantity of powder (Pu0 r M0) and surface contamination made airborne by the crush-2 ing of glove boxes and the quantity of accumulated particulate mate-rial released by the crushing of the glove box and building HEPA I

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SOURCE TERM E_S_T,IMATES FROM EARTHOUAKE DAMAGE Ground Shaking of less than 0.3 g,10-5/yr probability of occur-e rence at 0.3 g.

There is no significant effect on the facility.

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No significant structural damage resulting in the air-borne release of plutonium is postulated. Concrete damage, yielding of some steel connections, and minor slippage of wall foundation joints may occur.

Ground Shaking of 1.0 and Greater, much less than 10-5 g/yr oroba-e bility of occurrence. As the ground shaking increases beyond 1.0 g, wall slippage increases and, at a level of 1.37 g, roof truss con-nections begin to f ail. Somewhere beyond this level, the south wall initiates the collapse of the entire high bay area.

It is estimated that three-quarters of all glove boxes (upper and lower damage bounds are seven-eighths and one-half respectively) are crushed.

The situation is illustrated in Figure 8.

The basis for estimating the airborne releases caused by earthquake damage is the same as outlined for a wind speed of 250 mph.

In both sce-narios, there is complete collapse of the high bly area where all the process plutonium is held. The estimated airborne releases from the f acility for the two levels of processing are listed in Taole 1.

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