ML20027C902
| ML20027C902 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/09/1982 |
| From: | Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
| To: | Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
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. b y MEETING, JUNE 8, 1982, WASHINGTON, DC DATE ISSUED: AUG. 9, 191 The ACRS Waste Management Subcomittee met on June 8,1982, in Room 1046, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Purposes of the meeting were:
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- 1) to review the DOE Public Draft of the National Plan for Siting HLW Repositories and Environmental Assessment (00E/NWTS-4), 2) to review and comment on the proposed NRC research program and budget in waste management;
- 3) to discuss the revisions to the proposed HLW disposal rules, 10 CFR 60; and 4) to hear a briefing on advances in comercial radwaste processing.
Notice of the meeting was published in the Federal Register on May 19, 1982.
A copy of this notice is included as appendix A.
A list of attendees for the meeting is included in Appendix B.
The schedule for the meeting appears in Appendix C.
A complete set of handouts has been placed in the ACRS files.
There were no written or oral statements from the public.
John C. McKinley was the Designated Federal Employee.
Opening Statement D. Moeller opened the meeting, stating that the purpose was to review the DOE Siting Plan, to review and comment on the NRC researcn program, to discuss the 10 CFR 60 revisions, and to hear an EPRI presentation oa com-mercial radwaste processing.
The Subcommittee would hear from DOE and the NRC research and licensing staff on these topics, and would prepare comments to be presented to the full ACRS at the July 1982 Meeting.
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00E Presentation on National Siting Plan W. Bennett, of DOE's Office of Waste Isolation, initiated the DOE presentation on the National Siting Plan.
He focused on the siting process on DOE-owned lands, at Hanford and Nevada Test Site (NTS). The Siting Plan, NWTS-4, which was issued in late February, went through a long evolution.
Originally proposed for issuance in late 1980, it was recalled for revision with the change in administration.
In the interim, major changes were made. The 10 CFR 60 requirement for at-depth exploration at candidate sites prior to license application was incorporated. Also, the Test and Evaluation (T&E)
Facility, as required in recently-proposed legislation, was added.
S. Philbrick asked whether the T&E Facility was required to be located at repository depth, and if not, whether it might be faster and less costly to establish the facility at or near the surface.
W. Bennett replied that the facility need not be at depth and that DOE would consider putting it at the surface.
He noted that the T&E Facility is not a significant part of the National Siting Plan.
W. Bennett stressed that the Siting Plan under discussion was not a detailed document, but only a framework. The details of the process by which a site will be selected will be published at some time in the future, as will the l
full environmental assessment of the siting process.
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ti. Steindler commented that the plan as published does not supply enough detail for an outside reader to evaluate. More significantly, it does not indicate the order of importance of the various aspects of tne siting process.
No DOE document thus far published has offered more than a framework of the siting process.
It would appear that the first time the hierarchy of the siting decision process will be exposed to the public will be at about the time the first site is selected.
W. Bennett agreed with this statement.
F. Parker asked if compensation is being considered for the communities affected by the siting process.
W. Bennett replied that compensation is provided for in the Senate HLW bill, and it is DOE's intent to provide some form of compensation.
D. Orth asked if psychological impact to the selected communities would be considered in the Environmental Assessment (EA) process.
W. Bennett replied that, prior to beginning extensive site work, this would not be done.
1 R. Foster and S. Philbrick discussed the fact that the Environmental Assess-ment under consideration covers only the exploratory drilling aspect of the siting process.
Such impacts would be minimal.
J. Neff, head of the DOE Columbus office, described the implementation of the siting plan.
He stated that, in terms of the stepwise screening process, Hanford and NTS are down to the area or location phase.
For the third site,
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in salt, the screening process nas been narrowed to four Gulf Coast salt domes in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, as well as two bedded salt sites in Utah's Paradox Basin and Texas' Palo Duro Basin.
The crystalline rock screening program is still at the national stage, involving 17 states.
G. Thompson asked why shale has not been considered.
J. Neff replied that shale is less desirable due to a lower stability, and has been deferred for later study.
S. Philbrick asked if coal mine fire experience had been used in determining the extent of the heat pulse due to canister emplacement.
J. Neff said this was a good idea and would be looked into.
J. Martin asked about population density siting criteria, in light of tne fact that some of tne proposed legislation includes maximum population requirements.
J. Neff indicated tnat the only site that might be excluded due to population is the Richland dome.
In conclusion, J. Neff said that location studies would be started tnis summer in the Paradox and Palo Duro Basins.
Location studies for the Gulf Coast sal t domes will begin at some later date.
J. Duguid of Battelle then outlined the hydrological investigations required by the site screening process. At the national and regional, or province, levels the screening process works exclusively with existing data.
This work nas been undertaken by the USGS.
The first stage at w;1ich any field
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work takes place is the area stage.
Field work consists of geophysical tests in new or existing deep drill holes.
At the location stage--an area of 10.to 100 square miles--DOE begins to develop hydrological models, with data from additional drilling and testing.
Flow rates, water age dating and travel times are measured at this stage.
Some expected problems are: lateral inhomogeneity and high water content in tuff, vertical fractures in basalt, shear zones in dome salt, and dissolution fronts in bedded salt.
G. Thompson asked about how fractures affect the hydrologic models.
J. Duguid replied that the models allow for variable permeability, provided that the extent of the fractures is understood.
S. Philbrick asked how fracture permeability is to be determined.
J. Duguid answered that either pumping or pulse tasting can be used.
J. Donoghue asked if dissolved oxygen is measured at depth in the boreholes, in light of the 10 CFR 60 requirement for reducing conditions in the repository.
J. Duguid stated that the basalts are reducing, as are the salt sites, in all likelihood. At NTS the oxidizing condi-tions that have been encountered in the aquifers will probably be avoided by moving the repository up to the unsaturated zone.
NRC Staff presentation on 10 CFR 60 M. Bell, MiSS, described some of the changes that have been made in the HLW rule, 10 CFR 60.
He focused on the way the revisions respond to the ACRS' suggestions in a September'16, 1981 letter to the Commission. The ACRS
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suggested that the numerical criteria in 10 CFR 60 are too rigid and should i
be applied on a site-specific basis. The criteria remain, essentially unaltered, but the rule now allows DOE, on a case-by-case basis, to prepare alternative numerical criteria as long as the overall system performance objectives are met.
The ACRS letter suggested deletion of the detailed i
design and construction portions of the rule. Most of tnese requirements nave been deleted.
The ACRS further suggested that the 110-year retrieval period prescribed by the rule was excessive. The rule has been changed to allow DOE to propose alternative retrieval periods, and also to allow closure of the repository before the end of the retrieval period.
The ACRS had suggested that TRU wastes not be included in the rule.
In its revision the staff has removed any reference to TRU.
The disposition of TRU and other waste, such as that resulting from decommissioning of plants and the TMI cleanup, will be taken up on a case-by-case basis at a later time.
Another ACRS recommendation dealt with disposal in the unsaturated zone. The rule as originally proposed would exclude unsaturated zone disposal. With the help of the USGS, the staff has incorporated requirements for unsaturated zone disposal in the rule.
R. Axtmann asked if TRU can still be emplaced in a HLW repository.
M. Bell stated that it is the staff's intention rot to prevent this, but to deal with it on a case-by-case basis.
M. Steindler asked if the 1,000-year waste package requirement in the rule would stand up in court to a challenge as to
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its achievability.
M. Bell said that the court would consider all parts of the record, and not just the rule itself.
S. Philbrick noted that the rule requires DOE to retain all drill cores and core logs, but contains no requirement that the cores be protected from deterioration.
M. Bell said this would be noted.
J. Donoghue asked about the revised definition of " accessible environment," which now encompasses the entire earth's crust, including aquifers, outside the controlled area.
The new wording thus makes it more difficult to achieve the required 1,000-year groundwater travel time.
H. Bell answered that the extent of the controlled area would be site specific but it would be on the order of miles, thus making the 1,000-year travel time achievable.
D. Moeller asked if the ICRP-30 upgrading of the Np-237 hazard would have any effect on 10 CFR 60.
M. Bell said the ICRP revisions would have no effect.
NRC (tNSS) Presentation on Licensing Activities and Technical Assistance Program H. Miller reviewed the staff's licensing activities in regard to the HLW l
repository.
He stated that the first key event is the construction authorization stage, when DOE applies to the NRC for a license to construct a repository.
At present the staff is in the pre-licensing stage, attempting to reach agreement l
with DOE on specific information needs for licensing.
Included in this informa-tion are the site characterization reports for each repository, and the semiannual updates of these reports.
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NMSS expects the first license application in early 1988, followed by a 3 -4 year NRC review.
Prior to that, site characterization reports for the first three repositories will be submitted in late 1982 and early 1983.
Drilling of exploratory shafts will then comence, whicn will take about two years, hydrologic and geochemical tests at depth will take another lh-2 years.
S. Philbrick asked why more tests aren't going to be done at the surface, rather than waiting two years for construction of an exploratory shaft.
H. Miller answered that some tests will still be performed at the surface but permeability, in order to be fully understood, must be measured at depth.
F. Arsenault commented that NRC is not excavating the shafts; DOE is.
M. Steindler noted that the present schedule practically precludes salt, which was for a long time the chosen medium for the first repository. The acceleration of the schedule seems to rule out everytning but basalt for the first repository.
H. Miller agreed, adding that pending legislation would accelerate the schedule even further.
G. Thompson asked if the exploratory shaft was expected to be incorporated into the repository workings.
H. iiiller replied that it probably would.
F. Parker asked if the shafts would have to be excavated at all three sites, and hydrologic tests completed, before the first repository could be licensed.
i H. Miller answered that some of the testing at the second and third sites would be carried out after the first site was licensed.
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H. Miller concluded, noting that the SER for Hanford will arrive in September for the staff to review. The staff is at present preparing for the review.
One of the pressing questions to be taken up in the near future will deal with the extent of and necessity for underground testing.
The staff is still uncertain about their ability to develop the necessary constructive working relationship with DOE on these matters.
NRC (NMSS) Presentation on HLW Legislation J. Surmeier briefed the Subcomittee on the current status of HLW legisla-tion in Congress.
The bills still active are S-1662 (passed by the Senate on April 29), HR-5016 (reported out by the House Science and Technology Committee), HR-3809 (reported out by the House Energy and Environment Sub-committee), and an unnumbered substitute to HR-3809 (due for hearings before the House Energy and Commerce Subcomittee in the next month).
From the three House bills only one can be selected for a vote before the full House.
If the selected bill is passed, a conference committee will have to work out differences between the House and Senate versions.
If tnis occurs, it will probably not be until October.
The various bills differ in a number of ways.
Each proposes a slightly different schedule for site characterization and licensing.
The bills allow NRC between three and four years for evaluating the construction application.
For financing, the Senate bill would impose a $.001/kwh fee for nuclear electric use.
The House bills would authorize DOE to charge utilities for waste disposal.
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WASTE MANAGEMENT 10 Only one of the bills, HR-3809, mentions population der.sity as an exclusionary criterion.
Most other provisions of this nature have been carefully left out.
One exception is the issue of defense waste.
The Senate bill directs the President to determine whether defense waste should be disposed in the same repository as civilian waste.
It also requires that defense waste disposal be licensed by NRC. The House bills either remain silent on this matter or exempt defense waste from NRC licensing.
EPRI Briefing on New Developments in Commercial Radwaste Processing M. Naughton made a presentation before the Subcommittee on three recent Electric Power Research Institute projects for which he served as project manager. These projects dealt with ultrafiltration of radwaste, use of hydrocyclones for radwaste processing, and use of microwave drying of nuclear plant wastes.
The first project (EPRI-NP-2335) investigated the potential for using cellulose and polyamide ultrafilters (approx. pore size 0.01 micron) to remove high-weight organics and suspended solids from waste streams.
The results indicate that ultrafiltration is about as effective as cartridge filters in decontaminating wastes, and can be used as a means of reducing l
personnel exposure in a nuclear power plant.
Tne second project tested two centrifugal hydrocyclone models for use as mechanical separators for suspended solids in a waste stream.
The results of this work indicated that a hydrocyclone can efficiently remove most of l
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1 WASTE MANAGEMENT 11 the particulate matter from liquid waste before filtering. This process can reduce filter backwash frequency by about a factor of five.
The third investigation used microwave heating of wet resins, evaporator bottoms, dissolved salts and boric acid as a means of volume reduction.
Waste volume was reduced by about a factor of two for resins.
Results indicated that microwave technology is applicable to nuclear plants, although more investigation is needed on the emanation of gases by this process, particularly iodine.
NRC (RES) Staff Presentation on Waste Management Research F. Arsenault began a presentation on the NRC waste management research program by focusing on research efforts in support of the soon-to-be approved HLW disposal rule--10 CFR Part 60.
He stated that the basic objectives of this rule are long-term waste isolation, operational safety, and retrievability.
He added that it is DOE's job to design, construct, and operate the repository facilities, and that NRC is responsible for evaluating DOE's decision and determining whether it meets the established criteria.
Mr. Arsenault said that there are three functional stages in the life of the repository that are considered:
- 1) from closure of the repository until failure of the first container occurs, and the waste comes into contact with water; 2) release and transport of radioactivity into the geologic medium in significantly disturbed areas; and 3) radionuclide migration through the geologic media, and transport by the ground water through relatively undisturbed systems.
WASTE MANAGEMENT 12 M. Steindler (consultant) commented that the stages are scenario dependent, i.e., where they occur in the life history of repository operation depends strongly on the kind of scenario chosen. Thus some decision-making in choosing the scenarios is needed prior to designing the stage one research proj ects.
F. Arsenault replied that NRC has established performance criteria for the repository. A range of possible scenarios must be established in order to evaluate whether the repository system meets these criteria. The events that have sufficiently low probability of occurrence are ruled out from licensing review.
Regarding waste form, F.
Parker (consultant) said that he had heard that DOE was seriously thinking of doing research to explore waste forms other than glass. Mr. Arsenault replied that the communication and coordination between NRC and DOE need improvement.
F. Arsenault said that prioritization of 'various research projects is determined by the consensus among the technical people who proposed these problem areas. The Division of Waste f4nagement and the Office of RES and the Office of IMSS are the principal actors in making the final decision.
t When necessary, experts are also broJ9ht in for Consultation.
Other issues raised include:
a) inadequate staffing that results in an inability to coordinate research efforts with foreign governments; G
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WASTE KANAGEMENT 13 b) inadequate peer review of research efforts which could be improved by increasing peer review frequency, or by encouraging publication in the open literature; c) lack of close coordination with DOE with respect to interchange of research ideas and results; d) a need for better utilization of existing data in the areas of rock mechanics, mining engineering and geochemistry from other government i
agencies.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.
NOTE:
For additional details, a complete transcript of the meeting is available in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20555 or from Alderson Reporters, 300 - 7th St., SW, Washington, D.C.
(202)554-2345.
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Cooper Nuclear Stationlocated in Ch:Irman as necessary to facilitate the public attendance except for those Nemaha County. Nebraska.De sessions which may be closed to prevent amendment is effective as of March 23, conduct of the meeting. persons planning to attend should check with the premature disclosure of budgetary and 1982.
ACRS Executive Director if such otherinformation(Sunshine Act he amendment modifies the rescheduling would resultin major Exemption (9)b).One or more closed Technical Specifications to permit sessions may be necessary to discuss operation of the facility dur'ng startup for a period not to exceed 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br />,
inconvenience.
I have determined in accordance with such information.To the extent...
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beection 10(d) Pub.p.92-463 that it is.
practicable, hoe closed sessions will mmaw A
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PROPOSED AGEND4 FUR JUNE 9,1982 JolNT MEE. ING T
ACRS SUBMTTEES Ot3 REAC'IOR PADICIDGICAL EFFK"IS AND SITE EVAUATION Roat 1046,1717 H Sr. NN., WASHIN310N, D.C.
8:30 a.m.
OPENIN3 STATD5NT Dr. Dade W. hiler, Subcamittee maiman 8:45 a.m.
IRC Staff Presentation en Decision Unit 4 (Siting and Health), Subelements covered:
1.
Earth Sciences (4.a.)
2.
Siting and Environment (4.b.)
3.
Health Effects (4.c.)
(F. Arsenault, RES/DHSe!)
BREAK 10:15 a.m.
1 10:30 a.m.
NRO Staff Presentation on Decision Unit 2 (Pacility Operations):
1.
Subelernent 2.c., Occupational Protection (R. Alexander, RES/OPBR) 2.
Subelement 2.a., Emergency Preparedness (H nan EngEeering
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and Man-+1achine)
(M. Ja:ngo:hian, RES/HFBR)
IUNCH 12:00 Noon 1:00 p.m.
1EC Staff Presentation on Decision Unit 6 (Accident Evaluation & Mitigation), Subelernent l
6.d.:
Fission Product Source Tem (M. Silberberg, R. Sherry, (RES/FBBR) 2:15 p.m.
NRC Staff Presentation on Decision Unit 1 (Reactor and i
Facility Engineering),
Subelement 1.d. Ebel Pacility Process Control l
(D. Solberg, RES/'IMRB) 1.d. Reactor Pacility Process Cbntrol 2:45 p.m.
(K. Steyer, RES/CEBR) 1.d. Deecrmissioning (Process Control Subelement) 3:15 p.m.
(K. Steyer)
Sabecmittee discussion a:x5 preparaticn of pertinent 3:45 p.m.
mapters of Safety Research Program Report j
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/fTTitCHAIEtH b 4:30 p.m.
Adjournment
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.c ATTENDEES JOINT MEETING OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES ON REACTOR RADIOLOGICAL EFFECTS AND SITE EVALUATION JUNE 9, 1982 WASHINGTON, D.C.
D. Moeller, Chairman E. Podolak R. Axtmann, Member W. Mills J. Ebersole, Member L. Beratan F. Parker, Consultant W. Ott S. Philbrick, Consultant A. Murphy D. Orth, Consultant T. Schmitt R. Foster, Consultant R. Alexander J. McKinley, Designated Federal Employee F. Arsenault R. C. Tang, Staff P. Hayes J. Donoghue, Fellow J. Foulke M. Silberberg R. Sherry
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M. Jankowsky P. Worthington C. Nilsen G. Calkins D. Solberg S. Bernstein M. Jamgochian -
Others D. Townsend, New Mexico Technology Review R. Carr, Bechtel 1
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