ML20032B676
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| Issue date: | 10/28/1981 |
| From: | Rehm T NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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For:
The Comissioners f
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T. A. Rehm,-Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO
Subject:
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 23, 1981 A sumary of key events is included as a convenience to those Comissioners who may prefer a condensed w esion of this report,,,
Contents Enclosure Administration
'A Nuclear Reactor Regulation B
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Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards C
Inspection and Enforcement D
Nuclear Regulatory Research E
Executive Legal Director.
F International Programs G
State Programs H
Management and Program Analysis I
Controller J*
Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data K
Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization L*
Items Approved by the Comission M
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ssistant for Operations Office of the Executive Directcr for Operations
- No input this week.
FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Contact:
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SUMMARY
OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT Week Ending October 23, 1981 Millstone Units 1 and 2 On October 21, southern Connecticut experienced an earthquake rated at 3.7 on the Richter scale. The quake was noted at the Millstone site but had no effect on operation of either unit.
Oyster Creek Oyster Creek returned to power on October 15 after a 64-day non-scheduled maintenance outage for condenser vacuum problems.
TMI-2 At the joint hearings of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources and Environmental and Public Works Cannittees on October 21 concerning the cleanup financial situation, Governor Thornburg, DOE Secretary Edwards, NRC Chairman Palladino, and others presented testimony and responded to questions from the Senators.
The Reagan Administration announced at the hearings via DOE Secretary Edwards, and in a letter to Governor Thornburg, that the Administration would request funds from Congress to participate in Unit 2 cleanup activities which are "useful research and development activities of broad national benefit."
Kerr-McGee, West Chicago Site The City of West Chicago has been granted a temporary restraining order from a United States District Court to prohibit further dismantling of buildings at the thorium site and to prohibit receipt and storage of thorium which would originate from the Illinois State program to remove contaminated soil from discrete off-site areas in West Chicago.
Comment Period on 10 CFR Part 61 Extended The comment per'.od on Part 61 (low-level waste) has been extended to January 14, 1982, to coincide with the comment per iod for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement which supports Pant: 61.
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Occupational Radiation Protection The Executive Director for Operations approved for publication a clarifying amendment to 10 CFR Part 20. Subsection 20,201(b) was amended to make it clear that licensees are to perform radiation protection surveys not only to ensure compliance with the regulations in Part 20, but also to evaluate in advance the extent of any radiological hazards that may be present in the work place.
s OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending October 23, 1981 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM 0F INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision i
Received 465 16 Granted 336 3
Denied 77 8
Pending 52 5
ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received Thomas J. Dignan, Jr.,
Requests, on behalf of the Verment Yankee Nuclear Ropes & Gray Power Corporation, four categories of information (81-417) regarding the Generic Safety Evaluation Report on BWR Scram Discharge System.
Jim Thomas, Requests four categories of information on SES NTEU, President members employed by the NRC.
(81-418)
Charles W. Elliott, Requests a copy of SECY-81-88.
Thomas and Hair (81-419)
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Peter J. Nickles, Requests, on behalf of Kerr-McGee Corporation, Covington & Burling 11 categories of documents relating to the KE.rr-(81-420)
McGee Chemical Corporation.
Rodney J. Mueller, Requests a copy of the radioactive materials Saunders-Roe license and any amendments issued to Safety Developments, Inc.
Light Corporation of Bloomsburg, PA.
(81-421)
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(NRC employee)
Requests copies of the job descriptions for all (81-422) employees, Grades 11 through 13 in the Licensee Fee Management Branch, Office of Administration.
Amy Goldsmith, Requests a list of all licen ed users of
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Northern Sun Alliance radioactive materials in the State of Minnesota (81-423) to include the location of the licensee, type of radiocctive isotope used, what process it is used for, how it is contained, and the method of disposal and the location of disposal.
CONTACT:
J. M. Felton 492-7211
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2 Received, Contc Douglas Lowenstein, APPEAL TO THE EDO AND THE COMMISSION for a lack Cox Newspapers of response to a request for a copy of a report (81-A-15-81-376) by the Office of Inspector and Auditor reviewing the adequacy of work performed by the Region III Office of Inspection and Enforcement at the William Zinuer Nuclear Power Station and documents relating to this report.
Carlos Byars, APPEAL TO THE ED0 for a lack of response to a Houston Chronicle-request for documents known as the Systematic (81-A-16-81-386) '
Analysis of Licensee Performance Review.
Granted Ezra I. Bialik, In response to a request for six categories of State of New York, documents pertaining to the transportation of Department of Law radioactive materials from January 1,1970, made (81-360) available 79 documents.
Robert Guild, In response to a request for documents concerning Attorney-At-Law the Allied General Nuclear Services facility at (81-398)
Barnwell, South Carolina since January 1,1980, informed the requester the NRC has referred documents and his request to the Department of Energy for direct response to him.
Michael Kuzma In response to a request tor documents regarding (81-399)
NRC's employment of the surveillance technique known as the mail cover, both routine and covert coverage, informed the requester the NRC has no documents subject to this request.
Gregory McCauley In response to a request for five categories of (81-404) documents relating to fusion energy research, informed the requester the NRC has no documents subject to this request. Suggested that he contact the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense.
,w Lisa A. Lcngwell In response to e request for information concerning (81-41 5) the storage and maintenance of computerized data about the general public, made available one document.
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De,nied Fred: rick C. Williams, In response to a request for four categories of Isham, Lincoln & Beale documents relating to occupational radiation (81-77) exposure, made available 350 documents. Denied 38 documents in their entirety containing advice, opinions and recommendations of the staff.
Malcola H. Philips, Jr.,
In response to a request for all documents Debevoise & Libergan prepared by the NRC staff and/or its consultants (81-1 31) relating to the preparation, development and review of SECY-80-491 and SECY-81-84, made available 60 documents.
Denied 21 documents in their entirecy and a portion of one document containing advice, opinions and recommendations.
Lynna A. O'Reilly, In response to a request, an behalf of an NRC NTEU Steward employee, for five categories of information (81-383) pertaining to Vacancy Announcement No. 81-3755, made available five documents. Denied portions of five documents, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
(NRC employee)
In response to a request for several categories (81-395) of information pertaining to the selection for Vacancy Announcement No. 81-4699, made available eight documents. Denied portions of one document, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
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DIVISION OF CONTRACTS Week of October 23, 1981 RFP'S ISSUED 1.
RFP No. RS-NMS-82-030 Title - Technical Assistance for Design Reviews Description - The contractor shall provide technical assistance to the NRC by performing tasks related to the review, evaluation; and comment on the safety aspects of the dasign of a geologic repository particularly as they relate to excavation, mining, and underground construction.
Period of Performance - Twenty-four (24) months from d ce of contract award.
Sponsor - NMSS Status - RFP issue date October 16, 1981; closing date Ntvember 16, 1981.
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RFP No. RS-NMS-82-033 Title - Development of a Material Accounting Data Storage / Analysis System Description - The contractor shall develop a simple computerized material accounting data storage / analysis system ut'.s r ing the NIH computer facility in conjunction with NRC based hardware.
Period of Performance - 18 months Sponsor - NMSS Status - RFP issue date, November 4. 1981; Closing Date, December 4, 1981
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RFP No. RS-NMS-82-038 Title - Licensing Assistance /Geotechnical and Hydrological Evaluations, Atlas Minerci Moab Mills Description - The contractor shall review and assess the adequacy of the Geotechnical and Hydrological Design of a proposed raise to the tailings embankment system at Atlas Minerals' Moab, Utah, Uranium hill, wnich primarily utilizes the upstream method of construction.
Period of Performance - 1 year Sponsor - NMSS Status - RFQ Issue date 22 October 1981; Closing Date 06 November 1981.
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RFP No. RS-NMS-82-029,
.e Title - Transparent Armor Testing Description - The objective of this project is. to support the development of a standard for transparent Armor Design and Testing to assure that licensees are provided effective guidance to meet current safeguard upgrades.
Period of Performance - April 29, 1981 - June 30, 1982.
Sponsor - NMSS Status - The RFP was issued on September 4, 1981 with a closing date of October 30, 1981.
An amendment was issued on October 21, 198'.
substantive changes to the Statement of Work to clarify NRC's regon e-ments.
A new closing date of November 16, 1981 has been established for receipt of proposals.
ENCLOSURE A
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. PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION 1.
RFP tio. RS-NMS-82-031 Title
" Assessment of Waste Retrieval Alternatives" Description - Identify and evaluate alternatives being considered by the DOE for retrievability or recoverability of high level waste from geologic repositories as defined in existing conceptual designs.
Period of Perfomance - 2 Years Sponsor - NMSS Status - Competitive range has been established.
Competitive negotiations are scheduled for the week of October 26, 1981.
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RFP No. RS-NRR-81-136 Title - Technical Assistance in Support of NRC Reactor Licensing Program Description - The contractor shall perform 360 technical evaluations in support of NRR Reactor Licensing Actions to include Construction Pemit and Operating Licensing applications; Operating Licensing Amend-ments; implementation of new or revised regulatory requirements; the application of infomation resulting from research or other technological advancements; the implementation of Three Mile Island accident lessons learned reauirement and Systematic Evalua-tion Program.
Period of Perfomance - Three (3) Years.
Spont',r - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Status - Contractor selected.
Clean up negotiations scheduled for week of October 26-30, 1981.
Anticipated award date November 1, 1981.
CONTRACT AWARDED 1.
RFP No. RS-NMS-82-026 Title
" Environmental Assessments and Impact Statements For Low-Level Waste Disposal Facilities" Description - A Basic Or pying Agreement program will be established (multiplee d
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awards) unaef whichliRC may obtain c~ontractor services to assist in responding to Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility application from non-Agreement States and requests for technical assistance from Agreement States.
Period of Performance - One year with an option to renew for a second year.
Sponsor - NMSS Status - Awards of Basic Ordering Agreements have been made to the follouing list of organizations to date.
Several other awards are in process.
H & R Technical Associates Roy F. Weston, Inc.
Ertec Atlantic, Inc.
Versar, Inc.
Kaman Tempo Waste Management Group, Inc.
ENCLOSURE A
CONTRACTS CLOSED CUT (All administrative action completed and final payment made)
CONTRACT NO.
CONTRACTOR CLOSE-0UT-DATE NRC-10-81-394 Techniques in Wood 10/19/01 NRC-05-78-318 General Dynamics 10/15/81 NRC-01-77-109 National Oceanic and 10/25/81 Atmospheric Admin.
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 24, 1981 MILLSTONE, UNIT 1 ND,2,
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(1) inspection of the intake an'd discharge tunnels, (2) condenser tubes jf. E.'2 7 2 -
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.On August 27, 1981, while still in the cold shutdown condi. tion, the145 67W.. 6..
M-A F "C" Shutdown Cooling Heat Exchanger (SCHE) developed a tube leak resulting' M in reactor water. leaking into the RBCCW.
On August 28, 1981, a similar~ ~
incident occurfed in..the "A" SCHE.. Preliminary evaluation indicated that.25f$l?$fM fatigue and not' chloride stres: corrosion was the tube failure mechanism.. M."#I M Thefollowinhcorrectiveactionwascompleted:
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MEETING NOTICE 1.
There will be a meeting at 9:00 a.ni. on October 20, 1981 with GPU Nuclear -
Parsipany, New Jersey to discuss NRC requirements on-site storage of low-level radioactive waste at existing nuclear. power plants. A contact is
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There will be a meeting at 1:00 p.m. on October 22, 1981 with.LP&L.
LP&L will present a summary of its methodology for environmental qualification.
A contact is S. Black, NRR.
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There will be a meeting at 9:00 a.m. on October 22, 1981 with BWR Licensees and Applicants to discuss operating experience with single loop operation.
A contact is D. Clark, NRR.
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There will be a meeting at 10:00 a.m. on October 23, 1981 with Owners of Operating Babcock & Wilcox NSSS concerning Experimental Verification of Accident Models to discuss the need for experimental data to confinn the prediction capabilities of B&W models for small break loss of. coolant accidents. A contact is G. Vissing, NRR.
ENCLOSURE B
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NRC TMI PRCGRAM OF' ICE WEEKLY STATljs REPORT Gli F
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Licens'ee TLD (Thermoluminescent Dosimeter)i.'-
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,.in.the Municipal Building'lto discusd the current status of cleanup x y-At:;th
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has undertaken a review o'f :its. participation :izi..the c1 san-up..t.i.:be iv
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the identified DOE program of research and development at TMI.
This will include ajtotal of approximately S75 million, (including FY 1982) to carry out.the program approved by the,4 3,..
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0FFilCE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending October 23, 1981 Kerr-McGee, West Chicago Site The City of West Chicago has been granted a temporary restraining order from a United States District Court to prohibit further dismantli.ng of buildings at the Kerr-McGee, West Chicago thoriuni site and to prohibit receipt and storage of thorium which would originate from the Illinois State program to.
remove contaminated soil from discrete off-site areas in West Chicago. The court held a hearing on this matter in Chicago, Illinois, en October 21,1981.
The Kerr-McGee plant in West Chicago was used from 1932 to 1973 for the pro-duction of chemicals containing thorium or rare earth elements. The plant was shutdown in 1973.
Since late 1976, NRC has been working with Argonne National Laboratory, Kerr-McGee and federal, state and local officials to define the safety and environmental impacts of the site and to determine disposition of the wastes.
ANL is now preparing a draft environmental im-pact statement on decommissioning the site.
NRC has granted Kerr-McGee per-mission to dismantle certain buildings on-site prior to completion of the EIS because (1) the buildings are in bad repair, are unsightly and, in some cases, have collapsed or are near collapse and (2) dismantling of buildi.ngs.
does not foreclose any practical alternatives which may be considered in the EIS.
On September 28, 1981, the Kerr-McGee license was amended to authorize the dismantling of six buildings as was requested by their application dated August 4, 1981, and to authorize the receipt of contaminated soil which the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety proposed to remove from several con-taminated areas in the City of West Chicago. These contaminated areas are among about 80 areas in'the city which were contaminated with thorium ore residues in the 1930's or 1940's..The volume of contaminated soil which the State proposed to move to the Kerr-McGee site is insignificant compared to the total volume of contaminated material now present onsite and will not impact on any alternative considered in the EIS.
Authorization to receive the con-taminated soil was granted as a public service.
A copy of the court's order will be obtained as soon as possible for study as to its implications, if any, for NRC materials-licensing procedures.
t Duke Power Company On October 19, 1981, Materials License No. SNM-1885 was issued to' Duke Power Company authorizing the receipt, possession, inspection and storage of uranium enriched.in the U-235 isotope contained in fuel assemblies and in fissica chambers at the McGuire Nuclear Station, Unit 2.
DOE Workshop on Nonproliferation Kenneth Sanders (SGMD) presented an invited paper on " International Safeguards"
, at the October 20-22 DOE (Office of International Affairs) Workshop on the
" Nuclear Weapons Proliferation" in Washington, D. C.
Attendees were from NSA, CIA, State. D00, DOE, and ACDA.
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Request for NMMSA Data Representative Markey has requested a NMMSS printout showing all U. S.
exports of nuclear material enriched to 20% or greater for five countries:
Taiwan, Pakistan, South Korea, South Africa and Romania.
Staff is expe-diting the retrieval to meet the deadline of Friday, October 23, 1981.
Reactor Safeguards Rulemaking Division of Fafeguards personnel recently discussed a package of safe-guards ruler designed to protect against reactor insider sabotage at a meeting of the Edison Electric Institute Security Committee,' Denver, Colorado.
The package will include the reactor access authorization (screening) rule, revisions to pat-down search. requirements, and_a new-amendment dealing with vital area designation and protection.
The com-mittee, representing approximately 40 licensees, indicated that the. rules were generally consistent with their views'and that they were looking for-ward to a prompt publication of the package.
Comment Period on Part 61 Extended The comment period on Part 61 has been extended to January 14,.1982, to coincide with the comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact State-ment which supports 10 CFR Part 61.
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Meetings - Division of Waste Management 1.
Subject:
First Contractual Meeting with Golder Associates, Inc.,
on Contract No..NRC-02-81-027 Entitled " Performance of Engineered Barriers in a Geologic Repository" Date/ Time:
October 27 and 28, 1981 Location:
Room 130, Willste Building Attendees:
David Pentz and' George
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Golder; Thomas Kabele and Benjamin Ross, TASC; David Lester, SAI; Paul Edgeworth, CON /NRC; C. L. Pittiglio, L. Hartung, J. Greeves, WMHT; E. Quinn, WMHL 2.
Subject:
Review of Task 1 Report entitled " Parameters for Characterizing Sites for Disposal of Low-Level ljuelear Waste" Prepared.for FIN B-7324 by COE Date/ Time:
October 30, 1981, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Location:
Room 130, Willste Building Attendees:
Richard Lutton, C0E; R. Pennifill, E. Hawkins, D. Siefken, J. Starmer, M. Dunkelman, WMLL; S. Wastler, WMBR
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DIVISION OF SAFEGUARDS - PLANNED MEETINGS 1.
Subject:
FY82 Budget Planning Date:
October 27, 1981 Location:
Willste Building Attendees:
Gene Sparks, NMSS, Representatives of DOE, Union Carbide, MPA 2.
Subject:
INMM Safeguards Committee Meeting - MCA& Reform Amendments Date:
9ctober 27, 1981 October 29, 1981 Location:
Battelle Building 3Al Washington, D. C.
LaJolla, California Attendees:
Bud Evans, Bob Dube, Barry Mendelsohn 3.
Subject:
University of Virginia TRTR Managers Meeting Invited Speaker Date:
October 28 - 27, 1981 Location:
Charlotte'sville, VA Attendees:
R. F. Burnett 4.
Subject:
Meeting with Westinghouse to discuss material control and accounting concerns Date:
October 20-30, 1981 Location:
Columbia, South Carolina 4
Attendees:
H. Foster, D. Huff, NRC 5.
Subject:
Meeting with INMM, Safeguards Committee, to discuss MC&A Reform Amendment Date:
October 27 & 29, 1981 Location:
Washington, D. C. (October 27), San Diego, CA (October 29)
Attendees:
BJ Evans, B. Dube, M. Smith (NRC) 6.
Suoject:
Meeting with General Electric to discuss material control and accounting concerns Date:
November 2-4, 1981 Location:
Wilmington, North Carolina Attendees:
D. Huff (NRC), C. Vaughan Absences of the Director or Deputy Director
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D. R. Chapell October 28-29, 1981:
Robert F. Burnett 1
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Meetings - Division of Fuel Cycle and Mater.al Safety 1.
Subject:
Packaging for Transuranic Waste Date/ Time:
October 23, 9:30-11:30 Locati( n:
- Willste, Sth floor conference room C. MacDonald (FC), L. Rouse (FC),(K. Carlson (DOE),
Attendees:
R. Jefferson (Sandia), K. Gablin Consultant) 2.
Subject:
TN-9 Spent Fuel Cask Demonstration Date/ Time:
October 27, 8:30-4:00 Location:
Barnwell, South Carolina Attendees:
C. MacDoaald (FC), Personnel from Transnuclear, Inc.
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Subject:
Correspondence regarding Part 51 Date/ Time:
October 29, 3:00 Location:
Washington, D.C.
Attendees:
J. G. Davis (NMSS), R. Cunningham (FC), G.-Cunni:1gham (ELD),
Personnel from the Council on Environmental Quality 4.
Subject:
Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri on Waste Sites -
At the request of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) the League of Women Voters of Missturi is sponsoring a peblic informational meeting regarding the six radioactive waste sites in the St. Louis area. The sites include four which are or were DOE /AEC/MED sites:
(1) Mallinckrodt Chemical Co's Destrehand Street Plant, (2) Disposal site adjacent to the St. Louis airport, (3) Weldon Spring Quarry, and (4) The Weldon Spring raffinate pit areas.
Also included are two sites which are the responsibility of NRC:
(1) the fonner Cotter Corporation site in Hazelwood, Missouri, and (2) the Westlake Landfill in Bridgeton~, Missouri. The following agencies have been asked to participate as follows:
AGENCY SUBJELT Missouri DNR Role o.' the State EPA Radiation Standards
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MED Sites NRC Status of the Hazelwood and Westlake Landfill -
Bridgeton Sites Date/ Time:
October 29, 7:30-10:30pm Location:
Bridgeton Comunity Center, Bridgeton, Missouri Attendees:
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Technical meeting to discuss alternative designs for covers for radioactive waste material storage or disposal sites.
Date/ Time:
October 30, 2:00 Location:
Willste Building Attendees :
Members o f the Argonne National Laboratory staff who are preparing the EIS.
Members of Fuel. Cycle and Waste Management staffs, NMSS.
Members of Kerr-McGee staff.
The meeting previous ~iy scheduled for October 27 and 28,1981 at Idaho Operations Office has been postponed and is now being rescheduled for a later date.
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1 0FFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT i
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The following Notifications of Significant Enforcement Action were dispatched during the past week:
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EN-81-17 Isotope Measurements Laboratories, Inc. - The Commission was previously notified of IE's intent to issue a Notice of Violation, a Notice of Proposed y
Imposition of a Civil Penalty in the amount of $5,700 and an Order to Show Cause why all activities under that license should not be suspended, to l
subject licensee (EN-81-17 dated May 26, 1981). This actionWas based on an alleged item of noncompliance relating to the licensee receiving byproduct material from client hospitals which were not authorized to manufacture and distribute.radiopharmaceuticals and in turn, distributing these materials to other of the licensee's client hospitals. After consideration of the licensee's response, the IE staff concluded that sufficient cause had been shown why the license shouid not be suspended and the proceeding on the Order to Show Cause is being tenninated. However, no adequate reasons were given by the licensee for mitigation or remission of the proposed penalty. Accordingly, an Order imposing a Civil Penalty in the amount of $5,700 was issued to subject; licensee on October 22, 1981.
An Order Imposing Civil Penalty in the b.
EN-81-23A Georgia Power Company amount of $40,000 was issued to subject licensee on October 19, 1981. A Notice of Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty was previously issued on July 28, 1981.
The propos3d. penalty was based on two violations relating tc the operation of-the t
i E. I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, Unit 2, for ten days in excess of a. Technical Speci-fication Limiting Condition for Operation as a consequence of isolating the
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EN-81-26A Mustang Services Company - An Order Imposing Civil Penalties in the 1
amount of $4,000 was issued to subject licensee on October 20,1981. Previously, a Notice of Violation and Proposed Impocition of Civil Penalties in the amovat of $6,000 was issued *bised on:- (1) failure to perform a radiation survey during
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i transfer of a source holdtr from one vehicle to another, during which loss of control of the sealed source in the source holder occurred, resulting in a probable radiation exposure to a member of the general public in excess of NRC limits, and (2) the licensee's failure to have an employee authorized by the license
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perform the sealed scurce transfer. As a result, the sealed,ource remained ir.
the trailer from which the sealed source was thought to have been transferred.
l Subsequently, a nonlicensee who purchased the trailer lost the source when it fell onto a bridge enroute from Otictcpa City, Oklahoma to Houston, Texas.
4 The source was later found and recovered. After consideration of the licensee's response, the IE staff concluded that the violations occurred; however, the licensee provided adequate reasons for mitigation of the proposed penulties.
i Therefore, the penalties were mitigated in the cumulative amount of $2.000.
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A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $38,000 was issued to subject licensee on October 22, 1981.
This action was based on an apparent violation relating to the modification of a pressure sensing line from the Containment Building which resulted in the temporary loss of the automatic actuation signal for certain safety-related components and was made without conducting an evaluation of the safety significance of the change and without following procedures.
This was a repetitive violation in that the licensee was previously found in noncompliance for a similar failure to control safety related modifications.
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EN-81-38 Stepan Chemical Company - A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $20,000 was issued to subject licensee on October 23, 1981. This action is based on one violation involving the knowing omission of infomation pertaining to the number of burial sites on Stepan Chemical pmperty. This deliberate omission occurred during NRC interviews of Mr. O'Brien, Stepan Chemical Company, General Manager, Maywood, New Jersey plant.
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Preliminary Notifications relating to the following actions were dispatched during the week:
a.
PN0-I-81-116 Shoreham Unit 1 - Earthquake at Shoreham b.
PN0-I-81-ll7 Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station - Plant Shutdown for Repair of Off Gas Holdup Volume Isolation Valve c.
PNO-II-81-87 Oconee - Press Briefing on Reactor Vessel Thermal Shock Problem d.
PN0-II-81-88 Turkey Point 3 - Conb.ninated Individual Transported to Local Hospital e.
PNO-V-81-50A Diablo Canyon Unit Nos.1 & 2 - Inoperability of the Residual Heat Removal'(RHR) System - Incorrect Seismic Analysis Updated Infomation f.
PN0-V-81-53A Pacific Testing Laboratories - Possible Overexposure to Radiographer (Update) g.
PNO-V-81-54 Diablo'tanyon Unit Nos.1 & 2'- Cracking in Cells of Station Batteries h.
PNO-V-81-85 No Specific Facility Involved - Posting of Radioactive Warning Signs in Public Domain i.
PN0-I-81-56 Veterans Administration Medical Center - Misadministration of Radiopharmaceutical j.
PNO-TMI-81-21 Three Mile Island, Unit 1 - Personnel Injury 3.
The following IE Information Notice was issued:
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IE Information Notice 81-32, " Transfer and/or Disposal of Spent Generators",
was issued on October 23, 1981, to all medical licensees (G and G1 for Regions II, IV, V; G, G1 and FIA for Regions I and III).
In addition, copies were mailed to major manufacturers / suppliers of generators.
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Other Items a.
Region II reported that a construction worker fell from the turbine building at the Vogtle construction site and was seriously injured. There was local news media interest No PN was issued.
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Activities of the Division of Emergency Preparedness -
October 20, 1981 EPLB staff member participated in the hearing on Susquehanna relating to emergency preparedness matters.
October 21, 1981 Director, DEP, and the DEP staff member responsible for National Emergency Plans accompanied Chairman Palladino and Commissioner Roberts on a tour of the FEMA Special Facility and conducted a briefing on NRC response preparations for national emergencies.
Director, DEP, and IRB staff members participated in a meeting with PNL cantractors on the redesign of the Operations Center.
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OFFICE OF ?!UCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH ItiPORTAN' EVEf!TS FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 23, 1981 Experimental Programs Branch 1.
BDHT An overview of the final results of the Blowdown Heat Transfer Program will be presented at the Ninth Water Reactor Safety Research Information Meeting on October 27, 1981. The presentation will sumarize results obtained in the bundle uncovery and film boiling tests perfonned in the Thermal Hydraulics Test Facility.
2.' ECC Bypass Program Battelle Columbus Laboratory has completed the steam-water mixing and system hydrodynamics studies requested by Research. Contract closecut procedures have been initiated and all NRC equipment obtained in performance of this contract will be disposed. The ECC bypass data will be stored at BCL.
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NRC/RSR Data Bank The necessary rewrite of the Users Manual was completed enabling the manual's contents to be accessed through the INEL ISDM DOC's comand. Also, the GE test, TLTA-6423 was entered into the Data Bank.
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All testing in the SSTF has been completed and the facility crew is being disbanded. The DAS will be moved to San Jose for use in processing and qualifying the data. Preliminary review indicates that a large amount of interesting and useful data has been analyzed and a final report will not be available until October 1982.
However, summaries of test results will be included in monthly reports as it becomes available.
A decision on the future of the SSTF is still pending. :.GL has t
not identified any future use for the facility or any organization l
willing to maihtilh' it. This is a $140M facility' owned mostly by,
l GE. However, salvage value has been estimated to be slightly less than j
demolition costs.
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Semiscale Technical discussions are under way with B&W regarding testing of reactor instrumentation in Semiscale. We anticipate an arrangement similar to the testing of Westinghouse instrumentation where device test data are obtained during the planned Semiscale testing program.
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A flow instability occurred during the S-NC-7 when the secondary side level in one of the steam generators was reduced to expose a significant portion of the tubes.
It appears to be due to alternate formation and collapse of steam void in the upper portion of the U-tube which stops loop flow. There is no apparent impact on core cooling. We are continuing data evaluation.
Test S'-NC-8, a 0.4 percent break without ECCS, is anticipated on October 21, 1981.
Recovery schemes will be evaluated following initiation of core heatup.
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LOFT Operations is prt33 ring to begin reactor pressure vessel removal procedures on November 2,1981. This is in preparation for removal of the unpressurized center f 'l assembly and replacenent with the F1 pressurized fuel assembly. The operation is to be finished and the plant ready for startup and physics tests by mid-4 January.
The Quick Look Report on intermediate break tests L5-1 and L8-2 is due out next week.
4 Fuel Behavior Branch 1.
Fission Product Source Term A meeting was held at ORNL on October 15 and 16 to review and coordinate technical interfaces, plans, and schedules for (1) on-going source term research at BCL and ORNL, and (2) a recently initiated NRR technical assis-tance program at ORNL on interim criteria for alternatives to Reg. Guide i
4 1.3 and 1.4 for use in emergency planning and equipment qualification.
The BCL-ORNL interfaces involve data needs for TRAP-MELT development and C
verification in terms of the"0RNL experiments on core melt aerosol source term and aerosol behavior in a condensing steam environment (NSPP).
This work involves interfaces with the Severe Accident Assessment Branch.
Similar meetings will be held with contractors in other elements of the program to reassess timeliness and priorities for projected regulat9?y applications.
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3 Severe Accident Assessment Branch 1.
Core / Concrete Interaction and Core Retention Assessment The Ta-10W crucible for the first large core melt test has been welded, X-rayed and shipped to Sandia.
Final machining will be done at Sandia before flame spraying with tungsten.
LANL is prepared to press the fuel charge and load the crucible.
A new susceptor is i:eing made for the steel-pour calibration test of the ultrasonic thermometry. Alignment and instrument lead difficulties found in the f.irst steel heating run are believed to be solved.
A successful steel test will be required before the fuel test is conducted.
Preparations for the steel test should be completed by November 6,1981.
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Workshop on LWR Hydrogen Manual A meeting was held on October 13, 1981 at General Physics Corporation (GPC) in Columbia, Maryland to discuss the development of a LWR Hydrogen Manual. The objective of this project is to develop generic infomation on the behavior and control of hydrogen during accidents. The information in this manual could then be used by plant operators / designers to develop plant specific procedures for operators or shift technical advisers to handle incidents involving the generation of hydrogen. The meeting was hosted by Sandia and GPC with partici-pation from W. GE, CE, Bechtel, Stone & Webster, Mississippi Power & Light Co.,
Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., Cleveland Electric Illuminating and members of the RES steff.
The discussions generated useful information on data currently available, the types of data useful to the NRC and utilities and the suggested ways of presenting or formating this information in the manual.
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Technical Assistance - Research Plan for CRBR Licensing In preparation to developing a joint technical assistance-research plan for CRBR licensing, several members of the Research Branch attended a briefing by DOE, the CRBR Program Offico and Westinghouse on October 14-15, 1981.
Subject of the briefing was Hypothetical Core Disruptive Accident Considerations in CRBRP. The meeting was 4.he second in a series.of reviews by the NRC CRBR Pro-gram Office.
Occupational b d;ation Protection Branch 1.
On September 25, 1981, the Executive Director for Operations approved for publication a clarifying amendment to 10 CFR Part 20. The amendment, to become effective 30 days af ter publication in tLe Federal Register, amends subsection 20.201(b) to make it clear that licensees are to perform radiation protection surveys not only to ensure compliance with the regulations in Part 20, but also to evaluate in advance the extent of any radiological hazards that may be present in the work place.
Publications Issued During the Week of October 19-23, 1981 Reg. Guide 10.1 (Rev. 4) - Compilation of Reporting Requirements for Persons Subject to N E Regulations ENCLOSURE _E___
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Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 On October 22, 1981, the Commission issued a Memorandum and Order in which it determined not to grant the petitions for review of'an Appeal Board decision in this antitrust proceeding which imposed certain remedial antitrust conditions on the licensee. The Commission also denied the licensee's petition for a stay of the effectiveness of the Appeal Board imposed license conditions.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF INTERNATIDNAL FROGRAMS WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 23, 1981 Meeting With Senate Staff Member On October 21 IP staff met with Scott Ulm of the Senate Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Government Processes (Senator Percy, Chairman). The discussion focussed on NRC's role in reviewing subsequent arrangements under the
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Foreign Visits to NRC On Monday Mr. Klaus Stadie, Head of the Nuclear Safety Division of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), met with S. Hanauer, Director, and J. Kramer, Deputy Director of the NRR Division of Human Factors Safety. H. Shapar, Executive Legal Director, and J. Lafleur, IP, Deputy Director, to discuss various NRC/NEA-related activities.
On Monday Mr. Paul Dornsteter, representing a German corporation developing an on-line computer mordtoring system for the German Federal regulatory authority, met with J. Himes of the IE Incident Response Branch to exchange information on the systems under development in the U.S. and West Germany.
On Tuesday Mr. W. S. Gronon, Deputy Chief Inspector of the UK Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII), met with R. Vollmer, Director of the NRR Division of Engineering..
(DE), D. Muller, A/D for Environmental Technology (del W. Regan, Chief, and K. Kamp of the Siting Analysis Branch of NRR to discuss vapor cloud explosions and siting policy devel opments.
The siting discussions were also joined by Mr. Peter Pfund Deputy Director of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy and Mr. Ricardo Mueller, Energy Affairs Counselor of the Swiss Embassy.
On Wednesday Mr. Gronon also met with G. Klingler of the IE Division of Resident and Regional Reactor Ins :ection to discuss the current status of the resident inspector program.
On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Mr. Chang S. Rim, Manager of Reactor Core and Systems Engineering of the Korean Advanced Energy Research Institute (KAERI), met with P. Norian of the NRR Generic Issues Branch to discuss the monitoring of TMI Action Plan items, with G. Marino of the RES Fuel Behavior Branch to discuss safety limits to fuel failure, and with R. Meyer ard staff of the NRR Core Performance Branch to discuss fuel, behavior issues.
On Thursday and Friday Bengt Lydell, Lennarf Carlsson, and Bo Braun of the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate met with C. Michelson, AE0D Director, H. Heltemes, AE00 Deputy Director,and staff of AE00 to discuss the NRC system for analysis of operating data and with F. Rowsome, Deputy Director of the RES Division of Risk Analysis, A. Inadant and staff of the NRR Division of Safety "d,'2eidgy to discuss various aspects of safety system reliability.
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. Safety (IPSN) met with representatives of the NRR Geosciences Branch and other interested technical staff to discuss France's activities in the development of seismotectonic maps. Seismotectonic maps represent a synthesis of different maps which would include tectonic, neotectonic, and deep lying fractures based on geo-physical methods, lineaments, history of seismicity, and instrumental seismicity features.
On Friday a six-member delegation of Japanese utility reactor construction specialists met with representatives of the NRR Structural Engineering Branch, the IE Reactor Engineering Branch, the RES Mechanical / Structural Engineering Branch, and Dr. A. J. Philippacopoulos and Prof. C. Mil.ler from Brookhaven National Laboratory to discuss design criteria, inspection and licensing, and research and development for reinforced concrete containment vessels.
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O 0FFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 23, 1981 Public comments from four parties have been received concerning the FR Notice on Washington's proposal for an amended agreement pursuant to UMTRCA. These comments are being addressed in the staff paper which is currently being prepared.
1 The staff assessment of the proposed amended agreement submitted by Colorado was initially published in the Federal Register on October 14, 1981. The ce ment period expires November 13, 1981.
Texas expects to submit its proposal for an amended agreement next week.
Staff has furnished comments to Texas on their draft proposal.
On October 21, 1981 William B. Menczer,-State Liaison Officer, Region III, was in Viroqua, Wisconsin at the Vernon County Emergency Operations Center as a Teani Leader of Federal officials observing an exercise of the county's emergency response plan for the Lacrosse Station. On October 22, 1981 Mr.
Menczer attended a public critique of the exercise in Lacros'se, Wfsconsin at which time the State and local officials were informed that their organization demonstrated adequately a capability to protect the public health and safety at LACBWR.
l On June 3,1976 California's Governor Brown signed into law three bills limiting construction of. nuclear poter plants in Cal.ifornia. These laws were struck down in two previous separate U. S. District Court findings, one in Sacramento and one in San Diego.
Both District Court decisions were overturned by the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals October 7, 1981. The three California l
laws are as follows:
CALIFORNIA AB-2820.
No new nuclear power plant shall be permitted land use in California until the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission makes a finding that the Federal Government "has identified and approved, and there exists a technology for the construction and operation of, nuclear reprocessing plants."
CALIFORNIA AB-2821. mNo new nuclear power plant shall be permitted land use in California until the State. Energy Commission completes a study of the necessity for and effectiveness and economic feasibility of under-grounding and berm ;ontainment of nuclear reactors.
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CALIFORNIA AB-2822. No new nuclear power piant shall be permitted land Tuse in California until the State Energy Commission certifies that the Federal Government has approved and there exists a demonstrated technology
'or means for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste.
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w 0FFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS Items of Interest WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 23, 1981 4
Full Time Equivalency Reporting Delivered test user reports to 0&P for pay periods 19 and 21. When 4
institutionalized these reports will support the new personnel accounting system.
Information will be available at the Branch level i
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Trip Repor_t Working with the Regional Office and Program Offices, provided Commissioner Gilinsky with background information for his upcoming trip to North Carolina.
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OF OPERATIONAL DATA ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 23, 1981 l
J AN0-1 Seal Failure An engineering evaluation of the May 1980 AND-1 reactor coolant pump shaft seal failure was completed. This event has been selected for discussion at the Ninth Meeting of the Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI), Paris, France on November 3-4, 1981.
The AN0-1 event was significant because it revealed that the failure of one seal stage can lead to a total loss of seal integrity and the leakage rate from the failed seal was larger than previously predicted, although well within the installed system capabilities for recovery. A subsequent analysis of various seal failure events lead to the preliminary determination that the probability of small break loss of coolant events is larger than previous estimations due to the frequency of seal failures in operating reactors.
Discussion with the Swedish Inspectorate On Thursday, October 22, 1981, AEOD made presentations to and had discussions with three members from the Swedish Nuclear inspectorate (B. Lydell, L. Carlsson, B. Braun).
Discussions focused on AE0D programs and activities dealing with event reporting, screening and on data encoding and retrieval.
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PETITION FOR EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALIFICATION OF CLASS 1E ELECTRTCAL EQUIPMENT (SECY-81-486), Memo SECY to Dircks, October 20, 1981 The Commission desires that the staff develop a rule to establish criteria and schedules associated with environmental qualification of Class lE electrical equipment.
The rule should:
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provide criteria for continued operation pending final equipment qualification; 2.
establish a goal of final equipment qualification by the second refueling outage after March 31, 1982; 3.
provide for extensions by the Director of NRR based on criteri'a established in the r~le; u
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provide for a program requiring early notification of significant equipment qualification problems that may require extension requests; and S.
require that all extensions for qualification after November 30, 1985 be considered and granted by the Commission.
The staff is also requested to address seismic qualification in this rule for the reasons described by Commissioner Ahearne in his attached memorandum.
The staff should also furnish the alternatives requested by Commissioner Bradford (see attached).
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