ML20011E071
| ML20011E071 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 02/01/1990 |
| From: | Loysen P NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Sjoblom G NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| REF-PROJ-M-45 NUDOCS 9002070226 | |
| Download: ML20011E071 (7) | |
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Project No. M-45 MEMORANDUM FOR:-
Glen L. Sjoblom, Acting Chief
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Division of-Industrial and L4 Medical Nuclear Safety, NMSS 1 ;
FROM:-
Peter Loysen, Licensing Project fianager Advanced Fuel and Special Facilities Section Fuel Cycle Safety Branch.
Division of. Industrial and 1
Medical Nuclear Safety, HMSS l
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF MEETING WITH LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES n
The NRC staff met with representatives of Louisiana Energy Services (LES) on January 11, 1990, to continue detailed discussions on' licensing matters. The-
- topics that LES wished to discuss included:
timing of construction, centrifuge installation and operation; interpretation of accidents versus H
normal operation; revision of safety / quality assurance (QA) classes; LES' OA program; NRC resources for licensing review; and updates on site acquisition and activities, LES partnership formalization, facility security plans, performance requirements for material control and accounting, and. legislative
. developments. is a list of meeting attendees.
After introductions, including fron Region IV Donald Carrison who will be
'following QA and construction activities on the project, Wayne Burnsido from the< Division _of Se:urity explained that the facility security plan for Urenco,
.Inc.,~had been-approved, and that the plan for Fluor Daniel, Inc., was nearing the point where an inspection could be scheduled as the final step in the approval process.
Burnside pointed out that when centrifuge machines'are landed'in the United States, a carrier who has Q-cleared drivers will be needed to transport this classified material to the LES site, and that Q clearances can take as much as one year to process.
Peter LeRoy stated that settlement on the LES site purchase would occur on January 12, 1990 (it did), and that an LES contractor would start baseline-
. environmental sampling prior to any exercise of the former owner's one-year rights to harvest timber on certain areas of the site.
Bill Shields
. informally provided a memorandum to Robert Fonner, OGC, on the issuance of an operating license while construction is ongoing.
Further discussion of this issue will be an agenda item at the next meeting.
Negotiations toward formalization of the LES partnership are proceeding on schedule, according to Howard. Arnold, with completion expected about the end of February 1990.
Philip Ting updated LES on the status of the development of material control and accounting requirements for uranium enrichment plants.
He stated that performance objectives would now be available by March 1990, and that a standard format and content document for a fundamental material control plan, I /
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either a Regulatory Guide or' a NUREG, is expected in mid-1991. The fact that the standard format and content document would not be available until after LES expects to submit a license application should not be a problem, Ting said, so long as LES commits to performance objectives in the application and prepares its fundamental material control plan later. Ting also said that NRC's material control and accounting guidance may be more stringent than that of the IAEA, based on the existing differences in guidance for similar tynes of facilities.
In connection with the development of material control and j
accounting guidance and other matters, the NRC staff expressed an interest in making another visit to one or more of the operating Urenco plants in Europe, probably in the spring of 1990.
Inasmuch as no representatives from Urenco, Inc., were in attendance, it was not possible to pursue this further at the meeting.
Howard Arnold agreed to review it with Urenco, Inc., and LeRoy would get back to us at a later date.
LES described its proposai ta establish three classes of safety and related QA for plant structures, systems, and components.
These classes would be based on prevention or mitigation of probabilistically determined accidents leading to:
a) unacceptable exposures offsite; b) unacceptable worker exposures; and c) acceptable exposures. The staff agreed with LES' concept of safety classes and graded QA, but not all of the proposed details. Using probabilities for natural phenomena events and airplane crashes may be acceptable, but they are not for in-plant accidents. The measures of unacceptable exposures proposed by LES are not consistent with the guidance that is being prepared by NRC.
In that regard, Stephen McGuire of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research presented the principal results of his report on the relative equivalence of acute exposures of 25 rems to similar exposures of uranium hexafluoride and hydrogen fluoride. Dr. McGuire's values of 10 milligrams of uranium and 500 milligram-minutes per cubic meter of uranium hexafluoride are lower than LES' for-plant siting purposes and may be inapplicable for occupational exposure purposes. LES indicated that it would reconsider.the bases for its safety I
classes, and provide additional information on its bases for occupational exposures to uranium hexafluoride and hydrogen fluoride, in connection with LES' safety /0A classifications, additions to its SAR outline were described, expanding SAR sections to include normal system operation, normal system l
upsets, abnormal operation, and accidents. These additions appeared to be logical.
Robert tlustice described a quality assurance organization, plan, and audits program (see enclosure 2). The program is essentially that of Duko Power Company, one of the LES partners. -Since elements of the program will need to be used in-the near future, we asked LES to submit information on how it will adopt the Duke program. LES said that it will provide a submittal time at the next meeting.
LES asked if we could estimate the NRC resources that will be required to process the LES license application. We said that a rough estimate is about
$2 million of fee-chargeable costs through issuance of an operating license.
About two-thirds of those costs might be incurred through issuance of a construction permit.
LES also asked about the status of Congressional legislation which would change licensing requirements from 10 CFR Part 50 to Parts 40 and 70. We advised LES that we were aware of discussions by Senate
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.other:information on progress-of S.83 or Senator Johnston's separate amencment. Neither LES nor NRC was relying on licensing requirement changes for submitting or processing-the LES application.
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Enclosures:
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Attendees 2.-
QA Handouts
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Project M-45 PDR NRC File Center IMAF R/F IMSB R/F NMSS R/F JBecker, OGC TCombs RFonner, OGC BBordenick, 0GC CNilsen WFisher, RIV-
'DKasun, SG PTing, SG RBrady, SEC JSwift PLoysen RHurt GComfort FBrown DGarrison, RIV (PL/LESMEETING) o l
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Affiliation Peter Loysen NRC/NMSS r
Chuck Nilsen NRC/RES I
L Bill Griffin LES/ Fluor Daniel Joe Brennan LES/ Fluor Daniel Peter LeRoy LES/DESI Howard Arnold LES Robert Justice LES/ Duke Power Co
'i Wayne Burnside NRC/ Security Jessie W. Barnes NRC/ Security Lois Telford NRC/ Security Robert L. Fonner NRC/0GC Bernard M. Bordenick NRC/0GC Bill Shields Bishop, Cook, Pure 11 & Reynolds Philip Ting NRC/HMSS Don Joy NRC/NMSS Bill Mowry Fluor Daniel Glen Sjoblom flRC/NMSS Davis Hurt NRC/NMSS Gary Comfort NRC/NMSS D. L. Garrison NRC/RIV i
Stephen McGuire NRC/RES Harvey Zibulsky NRC/SGIB L
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QUALITY ASSURANCE-1-
Quality Assurance organization i
Interface between LES and Duke Power Company Scope of Quality Assurance Activities l
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. Audits of Contractors l
Quality Assurance Plan-l:
Plan written using ASME NOA-1 to implement 10CFR50 Appendix B L
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applies to Safety Class 1 (important to safety) l
. Safety Classes 2 & ? are described in the l
implementing' procedures Quality Assurance Audits Treating Fluor Daniel, Urenco, and Duke Engineering.
and Services as Vendors Creating an Approved Vendors List for LES l
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