ML20031F313
| ML20031F313 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Byron  |
| Issue date: | 10/13/1981 |
| From: | Goldberg S NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| To: | Von Zellen DEKALB AREA ALLIANCE FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY |
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| NUDOCS 8110190524 | |
| Download: ML20031F313 (2) | |
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In the Matter of
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Docket Nos. 50-454, 50-455
Dear Professor Von Zellen:
I am in receipt of your September 26, 1981 lette: inquiring into the Staff response to three questions raised in your September 8, 1981 letter to fonner NRC Staff member, James Snell.
Consistent with my September 29, 1981 letter (copy attached) your latest letter will be treated as an informal discovery request for which the NRC Techincal Staff has supplied me the following information.
First, as stated at the construction permit stage, low-level waste will be nacked in drums and shipped to a licensed offsite burial site. The disposal system is to solidify the waste in cement. See Section 11.4 of the FSAR. The Applicant will no longer use a cement vermiculite mixture b'cause the NRC has found that vermiculite is no longer acceptable.
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- standard Review Plan, ETSB 11-3 Revision 1, Branch Technical Position B.I.2.a. (copy attached).
Second, the reactor water storage tank was damaged during a filling operation on July 28, 1981.
Apparently, a blocked vent pipe on top of the tank caused the tank to overpressurize and buckle open. The NRC i
Office of Inspection and Enforcement is aware of the situation.
Finally, the anticipated issuance dates for the SER and FES are February and April,1982, respectively.
You have been placed on the Staff service I
list to receive future Staff pleadings and correspondence in this proceeding as the DAARE/ SAFE representative in this matter.
Sincerely, ldv Q:A Steven C. Goldberg Counsel for NRC Staff
Enclosure:
As stated cc: w/ enclosure Service List DEGICIIATED ORIGINAL hk O 00 4
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This psitten paper sets fcrth cinlaum branch rcquircments'and is not intend d to prehlbit the implcmentation of more rigorous d; sign ccdes, stcndards, or quality assurance mecsures than those indicated,
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BRANCH TECHNICAL POSITION 1.
PROCESSING REQUIREMENTS 1.
Dry Wastes Compaction devices for compressible dry wastes (rags, paper, and a.
clothing) should include a ventilated shroud around the waste container to control the release of airborne dusts generated during the compaction process.
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Activated charcoal, HEPA filters, and other dry wastes which do not normally require solid (fication processing should be treated as radioactively contaminated solids and packaged for disposal in accordance with applicable Federal regulations.
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evaporator and reve.rse osmosis concentrates should be rendered immobile by combining with a suitable binding agency (cement, urea formafdehyde, asphalt, etc.) to. form a homogeneous solid matrix (absent of free water) prior to offsite shipment. Adsorbents such as vermiculite are not acceptable substitutes for binding agents.
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Spent cartridge filter elements may be pack' aged in a shielded container with a suitable adsorber such as vermiculite, altisough it would be desirable to solidify the elements in a suitable binder.
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a process control program or by methods to detect free liquids within container contents prior to shipment..
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Solidification (binding) agents and potential waste constituents should be tested and a set of process parameters (pH, ratio of waste to agent, etc.) established which provide boundary conditions within which reasonable assurance can be given that solidification will be
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The solid waste processing system (or Ifquid waste processing system, as appropriate) should include appropriate instrumentation and wet waste sampling capability necessary to successfully implement and/or
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September 29, 1981 DAARE P. O. Box 261 DeKalb, Illinois 60015 In the Matter of COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY (Byron Station, Units 1 and 2)
Docket Nos. 50-454, 50-455
Dear Professor Von Zellen:
I am in receipt of a September 16, 1981 letter from you to Myron Karman of the office regarding your initiation of document requests concerning the Byron operating license proceeding.
Mr. Karman is no longer associated with the case.
Future correspondence should be directed to me.
According to your letter, intervenor DAARE-SAFE is no longer represented by counsel in this proceeding.
Your former counsel should file a notice of withdrawal with the Licensing Board to that effect.
If you are the newly authorized representative of these organizations in this proceeding
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for purposes of future correspondence and service of pleadings, you should so advise the Board and parties in writing.
As I indicated to you in rqy September 21, 1981 letter, discovery must be completed by November 1,1981. Accordingly, interrogatories and requests for the production of NRC documents must be filed sufficiently in advance 4
of that date to confonn to the timing requirements of sections 2.740a and 2.744 of the Consnission's regulations.
Any such requests must be filed on the docket with service on the Board and other parties to the proceeding.
The information requested in your September 8,1981 letter to James Snell (copy attached), formerly with the NRC Staff, is not directly related to any contention and, therefore, may not be discoverable.
Nonetheless, for this once, I will attempt to obtain che requested information for you.
The dates for the issuance of the FES and SER have already been supplied to the Board and parties.
Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this or related matters.
(301-492-8674).
Sincerely, W- $/l Steven C. Goldberg Counsel for NRC Staff cc:
Kenneth F. Levin. Esq.
Paul M. Murphy, Esq.
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