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.1 April 19,.1990 For:
The Comissioners From:
James L. Blaha, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO
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WEEKLY INFORMATION-REPORT WEEK ENDING APRIL 13, 1990 A summary of key events is included as a convenience-to those, Commissioners -
t who may-prefer a-condensed' version of this report.
i Contents Enclosure-Nuclear Reactor Regulation A-3 Nuclear Material Safety and. Safeguards D'
Nuclear Regulatory Research'
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a Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data D
Governmental & Public Affairs E
General Counsel F*
r Administration G-Information Resources Management.
-H Controller I*
Personnel J
Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rights K
Enforcement L
l Consolidation M
Regional Offices N
Executive Director for Operations 0*
Iteras Addressed by the. Commission P
Meeting Notices Q-Proprietary or Other Sensitive Information (Not for R
1 external distribution)
- No input this week.
qW James L. Blaha, Assistant for Operations
'fice of the Executive Director for Operations
Contact:
James L. Blaha, OEDO 492-1703 9004250182 900419
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K'.GHLIGHTS OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT Rancho Seco WEEK ENDING APRIL-13, 1990 Oral arguments were heard from the NRC, SMUD, and employees at Rancho Seco (plaintiffs) on Monday', April 2, 1990, in U.S. District Court in northern l
California, concerning the lawsuit that challenges the NRC's random drug The NRC continued with the jurisdictional argument that testing requirements.
challenges to NRC regulations belong in the court of appeals on a petition for review, not in the district court under general federal question jurisdiction.
The district court judge is currently deciding whether to keep the case in e'
his court or throw it out.
It is expected that a decision might be reached by the end of April.
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Northwest and Rocky Mountain Low-Level Waste Compacts On March 16, 1990, Governor Booth Gardner of the State of Washington sent a letter to Secretary James D. Watkins Department-of Energy (DOE) infonning him that he had signed into law a biil affecting comercial low Ievel waste i
T disposal in Washington State.
One section of that law may have considerable impact on the status of low-level radioactive waste regional compacts. A provision of the law stated that the
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Rocky Mountain Compact, and States contiguous to the current member States of I
the Northwest Compact generating less than 1000 cubic feet of-low-level radio-active waste per year, could be authorized to contract for disposal of their waste at the Hanford facility.
The Rocky Mountain Compact has requested consideration for such authorization.
This request is scheduled for discussion during the next meeting of the North-west Compact Comission scheduled for April 23, 1990, in Hawaii. According to Governor Gardner in his letter to Secretary Watkins, "This provision permits Washington to contract with the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Waste Compact to ac-cept their waste after 1992. The effect of-this contract, if we are successful L
in our negotiations with the Rocky Mountain states, will be'that Washington will accept more low-level waste than we otherwise would have. This could include waste from the decomissioning of the Fort St. Vrain reactor."
New York Temporarily Refrains From Further On-site Work New York Governor Mario Cuomo announced that he has asked the State's LLW Siting Comission temporarily to-refrain from any further on-site pre-charac-terization work in Cortland and Allegany Counties until he has had the oppor-tunity to discuss possible modifications and improvements.in the siting program l.
with State legislators and local citizens. Some of the Governor's proposals will require legislation. The Governor indicated that he intended to visit l
Cortland County to familiarize the local communities with the content of his t
proposals as soon as the State FY 1990-1991 budget is adopted. The Governor l
said that the Siting Comission should continue with the site and disposal l
method selection process. Recent outbreaks of. violence against State Siting Comicsion officials has raised concerns in New York.
Florida Power and Light Company - Turkey Point i
At 9:43 a.m., on April 11, 1990, with both units shut down Turkey Point Units 3 and 4 declared an Unusual Event due to a fire in the main generator of the No. 2 fossil unit. The Turkey Point site has two fossil units, Units 1 and 2, in addition to the nuclear units, 3 and 4.
The fire was i
apparently caused by a fault in the hydrogen seal system causing a fire and explosion with additional fire on the Unit 2 generator exciter. The fire was extinguished within 15 to '20 minutes with site firefighting brigades and systems functioning as required. There were no injuries and the nuclear units were not affected. Both nuclear units were in outages with all normal and emergency power supplies available. There has been extensive media coverage, both local and national.
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Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Items of Interest Week Ending April 13, 1990 Arkansas Nuclear 'One, Units 1&2, Grand Gulf-Nuclear Station, Units 1&2, and -
j Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 On. Monday, April 2,1990, the Arkansas Public Service Commission gave j
approval to the consolidation of Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO) into the Entergy~
t Operations,.Inc. (E01).. E01 will be the operating company for. ANO, Waterford 3,-
and Grand Gulf. The City of New Orleans-is expected to act on the.Waterford remaining request in the near future and the Securities and Exchange Commission 1
t is expected to complete their review for all the facilities shortly thereafter, E01 currently expects the_ consolidation to' officially occur on June 1, 1990 if all the approvals go according to the above schedule.
Calvert Cliffs 1/2 ActionLetter(CAL)89-08for'CalvertCliffs,-
Supplement 2 to Confirmatory /10.The supplement confirmed the licensee's-steps 1
Units 1 and 2, was issued 4 that have been taken to resolve problems identified over the past year and agreed that Unit I could be restarted safely. The unit will.be operated-i approximately 2 weeks prior to a scheduled maintenance outage.
The supplement also confirmed the following:
Unit 1 - Prior to the restart of the Unit following the maintenance outage the licensee will:
(1) complete a startup self-assessment; (2) provide the-results in a report to the NRC; and (3) participate in a management meeting with the NRC to present the results and conclusions.
Unit 2 - Prior to the restart of the Unit the licensee will:
(1)assessthe penetration defc2s; (2) peration, including resolution of the pressurizer readiness-of Unit 2 for oassess the ability of the. site organization to l
control the operation of two units; (3) provide a report of the findings in 1 and 2 to the NRC; and (4) participate in a_ management meeting with the NRC to discuss the readiness for restart of Unit 2.
Rancho Seco Oral arguments were heard from the NRC, SMUD, and employees at Rancho Seco (plaintiffs) on Monday, April 2, 1990, in U.S. District Court in northern-California, concerning the lawsuit that challenges the NRC's random drug testing requirements. The NRC continued with the jurisdictional argument that challenges to NRC regulations belong in the court of appeals on a petition for review, not in the district court under general federal question jurisdiction.
The district court judge is currently deciding whether to keep the case in-r his court or throw it out.
It is expected that a decision might be reached by the end of April.
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Seabrook Unit 1 Edward A. Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer, New Hampshire Yankee (NHY), Division of Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH),
1990 that United Illumination (UI) agreed to support announced on April 9(NU's) effort to become the managing agent for Seabrook j
Northeast Utilities Station.
UI is one of the Seabrook joint owners with a 17.5% ownership share.
NU is-a joint owner because it is the parent company of Connecticut Light & Power Co. who is also one of the Seabrook joint owners with a 4% ownership share.
l With UI's 17.5% added to NU's 4% plus PSNH's 35.5% (PSNH's Board of Directors-L on December 13, 1989 had endorsed NU's proposal to acquire PSNK and resolve PSNH's 23-month-old brankruptcy), VI's support of NU's bid to take over as managing agent for Seabrook clearly gives NU the needed. votes. This will end any efforts to create the " Super Yankee" type of organization PSflH had announced several years ago.
7 Timing wise, NU will need many approvals before NY-can officially co plete their. takeover of PSNH. Mr. Brown noted-that one approval that seems to be on the critical path is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval which is not expected until the spring of 1991.
Division of Radiation Protection _and. Emergency Preparedness Federal Radiological Preparedness Coordinating Committee (FRPCC)
F. Congel and R. Erickson of NRR participated with D. Ross, G. Zech, R. Hogan, and E. Weiss of AEOD in a meeting of the FRPCC in the Hall of States building on April 11, 1990. The meeting, which is held periodically, is chaired by FEMA and attended by most major Federal agencies including DOE, HHS, Agriculture, State Department, FBI, 000, etc. Among matters discussed were an Executive Order (12657) providing federal assistance when State.of local governments.
decline to prepare emergency plans for licensed nuclear power plants.
Division of Reactor Inspection and Safeguards NASA-Interagency Working Group Meeting ThreerepresentativesfromtheVendorInspectionBranch(VIB)attendedthesecond meeting of the Interagency Working Group on Wednesday, April 11, 1990, at a NASA contractor's office in Washington, D.C.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the arrangements for interagency sharing of vendor-related information. Attendance included representatives from NASA, DOE, D00, FAA and GIDEP. A consensus was arrived at to use the Government Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP) system as the vehicle to collect and disseminate sensitive information on items procured by or under the auspices-of the various govern-ment agencies that involve or could potentially involve counterfeiting or-misrepresentation. Through GIDEP, information developed by each agency would -
t be made available to each of the other agencies for their use as appropriate.
Distribution would be restricted to the participating agencies. The third.
meeting of the group is planned in about a month. VIB staff anticipates that the information exchange process will be implemented within the next two months.
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Schedule for NTOL plants:
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h Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Items of Interest Week Ending April 13, 1990 Low Level Waste Managemer.t United Nuclear Corporation Wood River Junction Survey Representatives from Low-Level Waste, Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety and Research travelled to United Nuclear Corporation Recovery Systems (UNC), Wood River Junction, Rhode Island on March 29-30, to participate in the final con--
firmatory radiation survey conducted by Oak Ridge Associated Universities and to discuss the Commission's proposed releate criteria. UNC operated a nuclear fuel scrap recovery facility at the-1,100 acre site ~ from 1963 until 1980, when -
decommissioning operations commenced.
Based on preliminary data obtained during-the survey, the facility appears to be at or near background radiation levels.
Ground water contamination at one monitoring well remains elevated above the EPA' primary drinking water standard, but is below 10 CFR Part 20 limits.
Northwest and Rocky Mountain Low-Level Waste Compacts
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On March 16, 1990, Governor Booth Gardner of the State of Washington sent a letter to Secretary James D. Watkins, Department of Energy-(00E), informing him that he had signed into law-a bill affecting commercial low-level waste disposal in Washington State.
One section of that law may have considerable impact ~on the status of low-level radioactive waste regional compacts. A provision of the law stated that the.
Rocky Mountain Compact, and States contiguous to the current member States of
't the Northwest Compact generating less than 1000 cubic feet of low-level radio-active waste per year, could be authorized to contract for disposal of their waste at the Hanford facility.
The Rocky Mountain Compact-has requested consideration for such authorization.
This request is scheduled for discussion during the next meeting of the North-west Compact Connission scheduled for April'23,1990,. in Hawaii. According to Governor Gardner in his letter to Secretary Watkins, "This provision permits I
Washington to contract with the Rocky Mountain Low-Level' Waste Compact to ac-cept their. waste after 1992. -The effect of this contract, ifswe are successful in our negotiations with the Rocky Mountain states, will be that Washington ~will t
accept more low-leve1 waste than we otherwise would have. This could include waste from the decommissioning of the Fort St. Vrain reactor."
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Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety Fuel Cycle Safety Rocketdyne Division, Rockwell International By letter dated April 4, 1990, Rocketdyne Division, Rockwell International, notified the NRC that, pursuant to 10 CFR 70.38(b), it plans to terminate all activities involving materials authorized under License No. SNM-21, and to withdraw its license renewal application. Rockwell issued a press release on April 4,_1990, concerning its decision. Rocketdyne plans to submit its decom-missioning plan on April 15, 1990. The renewal application was the subject of l
1 an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board hearing.
By separate motion, the company requested that the Presiding Officer terminate the proceeding as moot. On u
April 5, 1990, the Presiding Officer ordered the proceeding terminated.
Safeguards and Transportation International 1
Meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Safeguards Branch staff met with IAEA representatives at the Department of State on April 9, 1990, to discuss issues related to IAEA j
verification of scrap materials on inventory at the General Electric Fuel i
Fabrication Plant in Wilmington, North Carolina. The IAEA officials, accompanied by International Safeguards and Region 11 staff, are currently at j
-the plant reviewing accounting records and measurements.for certain categories of scrap materials.
Domestic National Nuclear Security Conference Staff members from the Offices of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards and Nuclear Reactor Regulation participated in the 1st National Nuclear Security Conference on April 9-11, 1990 in Orlando, Florida. The conference provided an opportunity for nuclear security professionals representing-the five regional associations to meet collectively to share ideas and exchange information concerning the current status and future trends of the nuclear security industry. The NRC headquarters participants presented five papers at the conference covering both reactor and fuel facility safeguards current policy issues and several on-going regulatory programs.
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Nuclear Assurance Corporation (NAC) Model NAC-LWT Spent Fuel Cask On April 9, 1990, the Certificate of Compliance for the Model NAC-LWT spent fuel cask was revised to authorize only those casks which have acceptable welds.
In a meeting on March 27, 1990, and in a previous correspondence, NAC APRIL'13, 1990 ENCLOSURE B
,o 3-The-has disputed the indications on the radiographs as lack of fusion.
radiographs for the cask were read by an American Society of Nondestructive Testing-(ASNT) certified Level III radiographer employed by the NRC who had not participated in the previous inspections, reviews or meetings. His reading confirmed the initial determination made at the time of the inspection;.that NAC-LWT cask Units 2, 3, 4 and 5 contain one or more welds with indications of lack of fusion, not acceptable under.the code.
Meeting on Department of the Navy Quality Assurance-(QA) Program On April 5,1990, the. Transportation Branch staff had a meeting with repre-sentatives of the Department of the Navy to discuss a QA Program applicable-to There was transportation activities for all Naval ship and shore facilities.
The proposed QA Program will agreement that a single QA Program was feasible.
supersede approximately 50 QA Program approvals for various Naval ~ ship and shore facilities.
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Division of Operational Assessment (DOA)
During the period from April 8 to 13, the Amersham Incident Investigation Team (IIT) continued its work on the preparation of the Team's report. The Vogtle-IIT is continuing its fact finding activities and has started its initial efforts in preparing a draft of the Team's final report.
In addition, preparations are underway for several_Vogtle IIT team members to' return to the site next week for a followup visit to obtain additional information.
On April 11, the Deputy Director AEOD, Chief IRB, and staff members attended a meeting of the Federal Radiological Preparedness Coordinating Committee. 'The 4
items discussed included revision of the FRERP, forthcoming federal exercises, and interagency agreements regarding implementation of E012657, dealing with 4
'l FEMA assistance in Emergency Preparedness Planning of Comercial Nuclear Power Plants. The Chief IRB gave a brief description of the incident at the Vogtle
. Nuclear Power Plant.
- On April 10, 1990, a status report in response to congressional inquiries on the disposition of NRC staff action items that were assigned by the EDO to the various NRC offices associated with the San Onofre, Rancho Seco, and Davis Besse-IIT reports was transmitted to the EDO and Congressional Affairs Offices.
The report concludes that all actions assigned by the EDO have been adequately addressed. AE0D plans to document the results of this review in the.AE00.
Annual Report for CY 1989, which is currently under preparation.
The Chief, Specialized Technical Training Staff, TTC, participated in the first meeting of the PRA Technology Transfer Program Advisory Comittee held April 11, 1990 in Bethesda, Md. Representatives from NRR, RES, NMSS, OP, and Regions I, II, 'I! and IV also participated. An overview-of the current program was j
provided by the INEL program manager. Discussions centered on the content of' the current curriculum and the perceived audience for each course.
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curriculum changes were proposed and will be.followed up by memorandum and c
subsequent meetings.
Preliminary Notification The following Preliminary Notifications were issued during the past week.
PH0-I-90-27, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, Unescorted Access to a.
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PN0-II-90-18. Turkey Point Units 1 & 2, Fossil unit generator fire / explosion at Turkey Point.
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PHO-III-90-24, Sigma Chemical Company, St. Louis, Missouri, Overexposure.
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PHO-III-90-25 H. C. Nutting Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, Stolen Moisture-Density Gauge.
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PN0-IV-90-14, Barnett Industrial X-Ray, Stillwater, Okla., Report of Overexposure to radiographer's assistant.
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PNO-IV-90-14A, Barnett Industrial X-Ray, Stillwater, _0kla., Report of overexposure to radiographer's assistant.
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PNO-IV-90-15, South Texas Project, Unit 1, Borated water spill in the reactor containment during refueling cavity flooding activity.
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P!10-V-90-17, General Electric Co., Vallecitos Nuclear-Center, Alameda l
County, CA., Earthquake in Northern California.
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PN0-V-90-17A, General Electric Co., Vallecitos Nuclear Center, Alameda County, CA., Earthquake in Northern California.
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L Office of Governmental an'd Public Affairs Items of Interest Week Ending April 13, 1990 State Programs New Director of IDNS Named Illinois Governor James Thompson announced Thomas Ortciger as the Director of the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety, replacing Dr. Terry Lash, who resigned effective April 6, 1990. Mr. Ortciger had been Director of the t
- Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency.
New York Temporarily Refrains From Further On-site Work New York Governor Mario Cuomo announced that he has asked the State's LLW.
l Siting Commission temporarily to-refrain from any further on-site pre-charac-a L
terization work in Cortland and Allegany Counties until he has had the oppor-tunity to discuss'possible modifications and' improvements in the siting program with State legislators and local citizens. Some of-the Governor's proposals will require legislation. The Governor: indicated that he intended to visit Cortland County to familiarize the local communities'with the content of his'-
proposals as soon as the State-FY 1990-1991 budget is' adopted.,The Governor said that the Siting Commission should continue with the site and disposal-l method selection process. Recent outbreaks of violence against State Siting Commission officials has raised-concerns in New York.
Accompaniment of Kentucky Inspectors R. L. Woodruff, Region II State Agreements Officer,: accompanied inspectors from the Kentucky Radiation Control Program on inspections-of Kentucky licensees on a
April 9-12, 1990. These acccmpaniments were conducted in preparation for a program review scheduled for April 23-27,1990 in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Wayne County, Illinois Adopts Resolution Opposing LLW Disposal Facility The Wayne County Board adopted a resolution by a 12-1 vote which informs.the State of Illinois that it opposes the development of a LLW disposal facility in i
the County. The Board vote followed a non-binding referendum held on March 20, 1990 in which 69.8 % of the Wayne County residents voted against a disposal' facility. The other site being considered by the State is in Clark County.
l International Programs Incoming Spanish Assignee 1
The Spanish -Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) will send Mr. Jose Antonio Gomez, a nuclear engineer and PWR Systems Analyst in their Nuclear Engineering Divi-sion, to the NRC for a one-year assignment as a project manager in the Tech-nical Specifications Branch of NRR beginning in May. Mr. Gomez will be responsible for review and coordination of a plant technical specification i
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conversion to the new Standard Technical Specifications. His contribution to the program will help the NRC to maintain the current schedule of the Technical Specifications Improvement Project.
Canadian Nuclear Conference in June 1990 f-The-30th Annual Conference of the Canadian Nuclear Association and the lith.
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Annual Conference of the Canadian Nuclear Society will take place in Toronto, 3-6, 1990. Speeches will be given on such topics as-advanced Ontario, June reactor designs, advanced computer methods to design and maintain CANDU reac-tors, radioactive material storage and transportation, etc. Speakers will i
include, among others, Stan Hatcher, President of Atomic Energy of Canada and Dr. R.J.A..Levesque, President of the Atomic Energy Control Board. -
Limited,f the preliminary program for the Conference are available from Copies o Bill Upshaw, GPA/IP, x20330.
l International Agency Vacancy Notices The following vacancy notices from the International Atomic Energy Agency-have been posted on NRC bulletin boards:
P-3 Associate Area Officer, Latin America Section, Division of Technical l
Co-operation Programmes, Department of Technical Co-operation P-3 Translator, Russian Translation Section, Division of Languages, Department of Administration P-3 Isotope Hydrologist and Geochemist, Isotope Hydrology Section, 1
Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Department of Research and Isotopes P-5 Nuclear Engineer, Nuclear Power Technology Development Section,
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Division of Nuclear Power, Department of Nuclear Energy and Safety P-5 Head of Section, Arabic Translation Section, Division of Languages, Department of Administration i
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flerederson 04/19/90 9:30 Non-NRC Proposed Changes to Reps. Murphy / Petri Service Contract Act Labor Standards Education and Labor w
8 llenderson 04/24/90 9:30 Mon-NRC Implementation of the Reps. Valentine /80ehlert w
Metric System Science, Research and Technology House Science, Space, and Technology Tripathi 04/25/90 10:00 Non-NRC Groundwater quality Reps. Nowak, Stangeland Water Resources-flouse Public Works and Transportation Tripathi 04/26/90 10:00 Non-NRC Great Lakes water Reps. Nowak, Stangeland quality issues Water Resources House Public Works and Transportation Madden 04/26/90 9:30 DOE DOE's Plan to Open Senators Johnston/McClure 2:00 WIPP and WIPP Land Senate' Energy & Natural Resources Withdrawal Legislation Combs 05/01/90 9:30 TBA DOE's Uranium Enrich-Senators Ford /Domenici ment Program Energy Research & Development 4
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-Security Agreement f
On April. 10, 1990, Lois Telford, Acting Chief, INF0SEC/SEC attended a meeting.
at the State Department during which representatives of the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Federal Republic of Germany signed an agreement to permit URENCO to send certain classified information to the United States in conjunction with the Louisiana Energy Services (LES) licensing activities.
Security facility approval was recently granted to Fluor Daniel, Inc., Irvine CA under 10 CFR Parts 25 and 95 to handle Secret Restricted Data.
Fluor Daniel is an LES partner involved with the construction and engineering aspects of-a' a
privately owned classified uranium enrichment plant.
Significant F0IA Requests Received by the NRC for 5-day Period April 6 - 12, 1990 I
memorandum to R. F. Fraley(0phelia Request for a copy of the November 30, 1989 Williams, J/R/A Associates, F01A-90-163) pent fuel at reactor sites.
regarding the final rule on storage of s 4
Request for records containing information related-to the amount of radiosctivity resulting from the TMI accident, especially in comparison to the Dirksenbuilding.(MarvinLawson,TheLawsonCo.,Inc.,F01A-90-164)-
Request for copies of NRC Regional Instructional Manuals. (0phelia' Williams, J/R/AAssociates,FOIA-90-165)
Request for copies of NRC's most recent reports to 0MB and Attorney General required by Executive Order 12630. (Jack Taylor, Dallas ' Times Herald,.
Request for recordi, regarding U.S. Ecology. (Roger Tellinghuisen, State of I
l South Dakota, F01A-90-167) y Request for six categories of records related to Nebraska's application regarding LLW and U.S. Ecology's selection of specified Nebraska counties as LLW sites. (Roger Tellinghuisen, State.of. South Dakota, F01A-90-169)
Request for copies of all correspondence between NRC and licensees that pertain to NRC's letter (which was later dropped) to utility officials regarding verification of adequate safety plans. (Jim Donahue, Essential Information, F01A-90-170)
Request for records relating to agreements between the NRC and OSHA with-respectto(1)investigatingOSHArelatedmattersatornearnuclearpower plants and (2) all OSHA type claims, allegations, or concerns raised to.the NRC.
(Linda Bauman of Robinson, Robinson, Peterson, Berk, Rudolph, Cross &
. Garde,F01A-90-159)
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o Requestfor(1)acopyofOIG'sinvestigationreportonallegedregionalstaff misconduct from October 1988 to August 1989 regarding the Pilgrim nuclear power plant and (2) information regarding a named individual relating to the t
investigation. (Nicholas Tate, Boston Herald, FOIA-90-160)
Request for copies of two categories of records related to indemnification agreements between Commonwealth Edison Company and AEC/NRC and public liability insurance carried by that firm for specified nuclear power (Peter Crouse of Grant, McHendrie, Haines and Crouse, F01A-90-161) plants.
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Office of Information Resources Management Items of Interest l
Week Ending April 13, 1990 A New Approach to Scheduling Temporary Records 1.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requested that the Information and. Records Management Branch (IRMB) attend a meeting on May 2, 1990, to discuss the possible delegation of the authority to each NARA agency to establish retention periods for nonpermanent rec The new approach would allow estabitth retention periods for records.
agencies to decide how long to keep the records after NA protection of legal and financial rights of the government and the public.
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Pilot Class a pilot class will be conducted entitled "NUDOCS/AD -
Onhpril 18, 1990, The New User." This pilot will incorporate comments received from the pre-pilot and other refinements. The class will be composed of two students from Region I, GPA and IRM.
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lll Office of Personnel Items of Interest Week Ending April 13, 1990 Probabilistic Risk Analysis (PRA) Advisory Conmittee Activities The Training. Development and Employee Assistance staff spontored a meeting of John the PRA Advisory Committee on April 11 in the Office of Personnel.
Bickel, PRA Manager at INEL, EG&G Idaho, provided an overview of the program to Stuart Ebneter (Regional the-following members of the committee:
Administrator, RII), Richard Robinson (RES), Russell Anderson (AEOD/TTC),
Edward Butcher (NRR), Seth Coplan (NMSS), P.K. Espen (RI), Thomas Martin (RlII)
Pete Goldman (OP), Patricia Rathbun (Chief, TDEA), and Johns Jaudon (RIV).
Lillian van Santen (PRA Project Manager /TDEA) were also present.
Labor Relations Staff Conducts Trainina '
Mike Fox and Melody Topma, OP, Labor Relations, traveled to Region 11 to present labor relations training on April 9,210, and 11.- Sue Dickerson, Labor Relations, OP, and Jim Craddock, OGC, presented training to the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation on April 11. Carol Harris, Labor Relations, OP, and Marvin Itzkowitz, OGC, presented training to the Office of the Controller on The training covered such areas of personnel management as April 11.
performance appraisals, conduct of employees, and the development of elements and standards.
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Recruitment Efforts Continua The Office of Personnel continued its recruitment efforts to hire new talenti Frank Elizondo, Recruitment Officer, Curt Cowgill (Region 1), Floyd Des Champs (NMSS), and Ray Wharton (NRR) attended the National Association of l
for NRC.
Professional Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers in San Diego April 9-13.
Arrivals Sally Merchant, Health Physicist (PFT), NMSS Celeste Tobe, Secretary (PFT), NRR Laurette Moorin, Secretary (Typing), OP/CSU Cheryl Miskey, Word Processor Operator (PFT), RI Martha Bacon, Technical Intern (OPFT), Ril Sherry Burke, Office Resident Assistant (OPFT), RIl Roger Doornbos, Operator Examiner (PFT), RIII l
Retirements John Melville, Special Assistant (PFT), IRM Departures Natalie Pendergrast, Secretary (PFT), NRR Tonya Strong, Secretary (PFT), NRR Janet Burke, Team Leader (NRR Satellite), OP ENCLOSURE J APRIL 13, 1990 i
r Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and Civil Rights items of Interest Week Ending April 13, 1990
.[ederalWomen'sProgram The NRC Federal Women's Program Manager, Ms. Era Marshall, travelled to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, on April 11, 1990 to be the guest speaker at the Philadelphia Re.gion Federal Women's Program Managers Meeting. Ms. Marshall spoke to the topic: The Role of the Federal Women's Program in the 1990's.
Also in attendance and making remarks were the NRC's Regional Administrator for Region I, Mr. Thomas T.. Martin, and the Regional Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Admir,istration, Ms. Katherine Killian. The meeting, hosted by NRC, was attended by federal Women's Program Managers from nany.
agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. State Department.
Social Security, and the U.S. Marine Corp.
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Significant Enforcement Action in the amount of $50,000 was issued April 10, i
An Order Imposing a Civil Penalty (Indian Point 2).
1990 Consolidated Edison Company This action was based on a violation involving a revision to the licensee's emergency plan which would 4
have lowered the Emergency Action Level classification of certain events from what they would have been classified under the licensee's approved emergency plan.
I The licensee responded to the Notice in a letter dated January 25, 1990. After careful consideration of the licensee's response, the staff concluded that the violation did occur as set forth in the Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty and the licensee did not provide an adequate basis for reduction of the Severity Level or mitigation of the civil penalty.
(EN89-114A) t A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties in the amount of $7,500 was issued on April 11, 1990, to the Veterans Administration Medical Center Houston, Texas. The action was based on the NRC's identification of 38 separate violations. The violations, when aggregated and classified as three Severity level 111 problems, are of concern, as they indicate a breakdown of s
management control cver a broadscope program licensed for medical diagnosis, i
thera)y and research, and a separate program involving the use of a cobalt-60 teletierapy unit.
In addition, the breakdown created the potential for a signi-ficant radiation safety incident or problem.
The escalation and mitigation factors in the Enforcement Policy were considered and, on balance, no adjustment.
deemed appropriate.
The mitigation warranted for licensee's prompt and exten-the escalation warranted for NRC's sive corrective action was offset by(EN 90-042) identification of :he violations.
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $2,500 was issued on April 11, 1990 to Divine Providence Hospital, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The action was based on numerous violations that, in the aggregate, were considered to represent a breakdown in control of its radiation safety program. Mitigation for the licensee's prompt and comprehen-sive corrective actions was offset because NRC identified the violations.
(EN90-043) t A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $75,000 was issued on April 12, 1990 to Tennessee Valley Authority. The action was based on the failure to adequately evaluate and correct a design deficiency at Sequoyah relating to the susceptibility of RHR pump deadheading during miniflow conditions, as discussed in NRC Bulletin 88-04. The licensee failed to take adequate corrective action to preclude pump damage should deadheading develop.
Additionally, the licensee failed to adequately evaluate test data which demonstrated that deadheading would occur. This resulted in inaccurate information being reported in response to the Bulletin request. The civil penalty was escalated 50% because the NRC identified the violations.
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An Order Imposing Civil Penalty in the amount of $37,500 was issued to Duke Power Company (Catawba) on April 12, 1990. The action was based on the licensee's failure to take adequate corrective action and determine the root uuse of a turbine driven auxiliary feedwater pump overspeed event. The pump was declared operable following three successive failures without adequate understanding of.the root cause.
The licensee responded to the Notice in a letter dated January 31, 1990. After careful consideration of the licensee's response, the staff has concluded that the violation did occur as set forth in the Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty. The original proposed civil penalty has been reduced by 25%, because of the licensee's corrective action following the event.
Full mitigation was not deemed appropriate because those corrective actions did not address the aspect of determining equipment operability after multiple test failures without assuring that the root cause was satisfactorily addressed.
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An Order Modifying License was issued on April 12, 1990 to Barnett Industrial X-Ray, Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Order modifies the license to prohibit a radiographer and an assistant radiographer from engaging in any NRC-licensed activities on behalf of the licensee, pending further inspection by the NRC.
This action is being taken in response to a source disconnect incident in which the assistant radiographer may have received a radiation exposure that signifi-cantly exceeds NRC's regulatory limits.
In addition, the radiographer is known to have received an exposure of approximately 2.7 rem. The NRC investigation concerning this incident is continuing. Our preliminary inquiry indicates a failure on the part of these individuals to perform a radiation survey to confirm that the source had returned to the shielded position within the exposure device when the cable was retracted following a radiographic exposure.
In addition, although required to do so by NRC regulation, the assistant radio-grapher was not wearing a film badge at the time and there is some question as to whether the radiographer was wearing a film badge at the time.
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Civil Penalty Paid Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (Calvert Cliffs) paid the civil penalty ir, the amount of $100,000. The action was based on the failure to take adequate corrective action for deficiencies in meeting Low Temperature Overpressure Protection commitments. Several hardware and software commitments had not been implemented as required since initial plant startup.
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Office of Consolidation Items of Interest Week Ending April 13,1990 OWFN Cafeteria 1
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approval had been given by Tower to proceed with the test of the kitchen exhaust duct, preparation of the duct for testing would likely begin on Wednesday, April 18.
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The handicap ramp was partially completed during the week with the installation of the steel-frame and pouring of concrete ramp surface.
Representatives of the Offices of Consolidation and Administration met to discuss safety and security issues related to the ramp, its proximity to the stairwell door which opens into the corridor, and projected increases in traffic in the corridor that will result from the opening cf the cafeteria. Options to address both safety and security concerns are being developed by ADM.
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Safety Light Corporation /USR Industries The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) has scheduled a status conference on April 19 with all parties to review the progress and current status of the Safety Light /USR proceeding, including any unresolved-motions or discovery requests, and to establish a revised schedule for i
t The ASLB activities leading to the hearing requested by USR Industries.
ruled on January 29 that NRC has jurisdiction over USR, but USR asked for directed certification by the Appeal Board. The jurisdiction issue subsequently was argued before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board on March 6, but no decision has been issued.
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Comissioner Remick Visits Governor of Georgia On April 10 Comissioner Remick met with Governor Joe Frank Harris of l
i Georgia today. Comissioner Remick was accompanied by his Technical-Assistant; the Deputy Regional Administrator, and the Region II State l
Liaison Officer.
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Comission Visits On April 11, Comissioner Rogers, accompanied by the Deputy Director, Division of Reactor Projects and a DRP Section Chief, visited the Alabama Power Company's Farley Nuclear Power Station.
l On April 11, Comissioner Remick visited the Region II Office.
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PRA Advisory Committee Meeting On April 11, the Regional Administrator participated in the Probabilistic Pisk Assessrient Advisory Comittee Meeting held in Headquarters.
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Virginia Electric and Power Company On April 12, exit meetings for the Emergency Operating Procedures Inspec-tion and the Maintenance Team Inspection were held with Virginia Electric and Power Company for their Surry Station.
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Enforcement Conference On April 12, the Chief of the Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards Branch, the Director, Enforcement and Investigation Coorraaation Staff; l
the Regional Counsel; and other selected members of the kegional staff conducted an Enforcement Confereace at the Riverside Regional Medical l
Center in Newport News, Virginia. This was associated with a teletherapy misadministration.
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Georgia Power Company On April 12, NRC Management has approved the restart of Georgia Power Company's Vogtle Unit 1.
The unit was the subject of a Confirmation of Action Letter as a result of the dispatching of an Incident Investigation Team on March 23, 1990. Criticality is scheduled to be achieved on April 15, 1990. Unit 2 continues to operate at 100 percent power.
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Vogtle RER The NRR Regulatory Effectiveness Review (RER) Team was onsite during the-week of April 9-13.
Region 11 Security Inspector also participated in the RER.
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GE/IAEA On April 10 and 11, IAEA completed its investigation of inventory dif-ferences for low-enriched scrap material. Differences have been " satis-IAEA has telephonically reported results to the f actorily explained."Previously, the IAEA had found statistically signifi-State Department.
cant differences between GE's reported values and IAEA measurements of uranium concentrations and enrichnent in scrap materials for both the August 1988 and 1989 physical insantories.
- 10. Florida Power and Light Company - Turkey Point At 9:43 a.m., on April 11, 1990, with both units shut down, Turkey Point Units 3 and 4 declared an Unusual Event due to a fire in the main generator of the No. 2 fossil unit. The Turkey Point site has two fossil units, Units 1 and 2, in additsan to the nuclear units, 3 and 4.
The fire was apparently caused by a fault in the hydrogen seal system causing a fire The and explosion with additional fire on the Unit 2 generator exciter.
3 fire was extinguished within 15 to 20 minutes with site firefighting brigades and systems functioning as required. There were no injuries and the nuclear units were not affected.
Both nuclear units were in outages with.all normal and emergency power supplies available. There has been extensive media coverage, both local and national.
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Region III Items of Interest Week Ending April 13, 1990 1.
Zion Nuclear Power Station The Assistant Director for Region III Reactors, NRR and members of his staff, along with members of the Region III staff, met with Commonwealth Edison Company at the site on April 6, 1990, to discuss topict rf mutual interest.
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Clinton Nuclear Power Station On April 12,1990, A. Bert Davis, Regional Administrator; R. C. Knop, Chief, y
Projects Branch 3, and other members of the HRC staff toured the site and h
attended a routine management meeting with the licensee.
The Clinton_ Power Station went critical.on April 8, 1990, following a 57-day maintenance outage.
The outage, originally scheduled for 30 days, was extended to perform extensive flow balancing on all three shutdown service water divisions, when lower than design flows were discovered for most of the heat exchangers. The special NRC inspection team, which has been following the flow balancing, and NRC management concurred with.the plant startup.
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On April 9,1990, Region III granted a Waiver of Compliance to Wisconsin Electric Power Company. TechnicalSpecification(TS)15.3.7.A.1.e requires that 11,000 gallons of fuel oil be available for tk diesel generators (DGs) to be operable. An NRC inspection finding resulted in the licensee determining that the fuel oil piping from the underground emergency storage tank to the DG day tanks was not seismically qualified.
If a seismic event were to occur, the licensee could not demonstrate the fuel oil piping could perform its support function to supply the 11,000 gallons of fuel oil to the OGs. The liconsee declared the fuel oil supply system inoperable at 4:00 p.m. on April 9, 1990.
The licensee requested relief from TS 15.3.0.A that requires Unit 2 to be in hot shutdown in 3 hours3.472222e-5 days <br />8.333333e-4 hours <br />4.960317e-6 weeks <br />1.1415e-6 months <br /> with the inoperable DG.
Unit 1 is shut down for a refueling outage and the TS LCO does not apply)(.
The region granted an extension of the LC0 to 7 days to allow Unit 2 to continue to operate while installing a modification to seismically qualify the fuel oil piping. The relief was based on:
(1) declaring the fuel oil supply.
system inoperable was a censervative action; (2) the existence of a significant shortage of electrical generating capacity in northeast and east central areas of Wisconsin; (3)'the day tanks can provide 4 hours4.62963e-5 days <br />0.00111 hours <br />6.613757e-6 weeks <br />1.522e-6 months <br /> of diesel generator operation; (4) the probability of a seismic event is low; and (5) the compensatory measures taken by the licensee (two tanker trucks q
with 14,000 gallons of fuel oil on site and isolation of non-seismic fuel oil piping to protect both the fuel oil pump house and the required on-site fuel oil supply in an unlikely seismic event).
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Cyron Nuclear Power Station On April 11, 1990 the Unit 1A Emergency Diesel Generator (EDG) experienced a failure of a resistor in the governor speed control circuit which caused the speed to oscillate between 280 rpm and 600 rpm, when the EDS was started. The failed resistor was replaced and the 1A EDG was returned to service. The licensee had failures of two identical resistors on the speed control circuits for the 2B EDG at the licensee's Braidwood facility approximately one week earlier. The NRC r:otified Byron of the Braidwood failures on April 12, 1990.
The licensee subsequently inspected the Byron 2A EDG speed control circuit and discovered that one of the resistors was also in an inoperable condition. When one of the leads was pulled, the licensee noted that part of the resistor moved in the mounting frame which was also utilized as a heat sink. The licensee then declared the 2A EDG inoperable and entered the applicable 72 hour8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br /> TS LCO.
Instead of pulling any additional leads that might further damage the resistors the licensee has initiated a daily check of voltages across the resistors in the IB and 2B EDG until spare parts arrive on site. The licensee expects to replace the resistors for the IB 2A & 2B EDG this weekend. The licensee is pursuing a failure cause for the resistors with corporate engineering and the vendor.
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On April 11, 1990, at 7:38 am with reactor power at 25 sercent, Clinton opened the turbine bypass valves during control rod wit 1drawal in violation of Technical Specification 3.1.4.1.
The bypass valves ogned because of an improperly set generator load limiter. Reactor power was raised to 35 percent before the open bypass valves were noted. The Technical Specification action statement required the control rods to be immediately returned to their initial position before withdrawal; however, the operator raised the generator load limiter to close the bypass valves instead. The licensee decided to shot down the plant until their internal investigation is completed. The Reponal Administrator discussed this event with the licensee during the onsite management meeting on April 12, 1990. Region III established a special inspection team on April 12, 1990. The team was conducting interviews of shift personnel on April 13, 1990. The licensee issued a press release, and Region III issued a PN on April 13, 1990.
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A radiation specialist was dispatched to St. Mary Medical Center, Hobart, Indiana in response to allegations that a physician was treating patients with brachytherapy sources in an unsafe and c.areless manner. This i
included disregard for adequate administrative controls necessary to prevent a therapy misadministration.
An NRC medical consultant was contacted and is reviewing the medical aspects of the patients treated and the licensee controls relevant to misadministration identification and followup. A Confirmatory Action Letter was issued to ensure proper controls are in place for future therapy treatments.
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line circumferential, crack located in the area where the dome is welded to the head flange. Ultrasonic testing of the crack indicated that it had.
J The licensee, is not propagated into the design minimum well thickness.
The cause of.the.
repairing the crack using ASME Code repair standards.A meeting has been schedu cracks is unknown at the present time.
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The Fermi site has a history of high vibration on the RHR pumps and piping and had developed a program to repair 7 suspect areas and monitor several more through the next cycle.
Small bore attachments beyond the inmediate vicinity of the RHR pumps were not believed to be suspect due to less i
vibration levels and previous analysis. The licensee agreed to walkdown all similar connections to the RHR system inside the drywell. prior to A meeting with the licensee has been scheduled for= April 16, startup.
1990 in Region III to further pursue the RHR pipe cracking issues.
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Meeting with BP America The Director of URF0 and select members of his technical staff met on April 9, 1990, with the Manager of Environmental Properties, BP America, ato discussed the results of a recent special inspection of their ret.bmation activities at the L-Bar facility in New Mexico. NRC is concerned that corrections to the reclaimed site may be required.
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Overexposurc As a followup to the overexposure of a radiographer's assistant on April 6, 1990, a Region IV inspector was present at Memorial Hospital, Oklahoma City, when Dr. Carl Bogardus examined both the assistant and the radiographer on Monday, April 9.
The inspector further questioned both workers concerning the event.
The physician reported that although the dose to the skin of the neck of the assistant was calculated to be as high as 30,000 rem, the absence of erythema on the neck or elsewhere on the assistant's body provided contradictory evidence of such an acute exposure. The physician also stated that redness which appeared on the skin of the assistant's neck on Saturday was diminished l
at the time of the Monday exam. Neither worker has felt any adverse effects.
The physician reported that his examination of the radiographer's assis-tant on April 11, 1990, revealed no evidence as yet of physiological symptoms. The next examination is scheduled for April 13. The radio-grapher has been released by the physician 1ending his further reports of l
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during the event, and the radiographer is uncertain whether his was worn However, the badges have been processed by the vendor at that time.
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URF0 Meeting with Uranium Resources In_c.
On Tuesday, April 10, 1990, the Director and Deputy Director of URF0 will meet with the Vice President of Uranium Resources, Inc. (URI) in Denver,-
The meeting was requested by URI to discuss the status of their Colorado.
application for conunercial in-situ leach mining operations at Church Rock and Crownpoint, New Mexico, NRC's position on in-situ leach mining wastes, final cleanup and deconunissioning of URI North Platte project in Wyoming, and the potential impacts of the Clean Air Act requirements on in-situ i
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Enforcement Conference with Bass Menorial Baptist Hospital An enforcement conference was held April 10, 1990, with management representatives of Bass Memorial Baptist Hospital, Enid, Oklahoma, to 1990. The discuss the findings of an NRC inspection conducted March 7-9, led a lack inspection of the licensee's nuclear medicine operations revea Of particular concern was of management control of the licensed program.
the licensee's failure to perform adequate dose calibrator quality assurance checks and to monitor presence of molybdenum-99 contamination t
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River Bend Station The Region IV Deputy Regional Administrator and the Director, Division of Reactor Safety visited the River Bend Station on April 12 for discussions and briefings concerning the licensee's engineering staff and engineering initiatives.
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Louisiana Power & Light Company The licensee informed Region IV that J. G. Dewease, Senior Vice President Nuclear Nuclear Operations for Louisiana Power & Light Company, has been appointed to a position of Senior Vice President in Entergy Operations Incorporated. Among other functions reporting to him will be quality The appointment is to be effective June 1,1990.
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Rancho Seco Nuclear d nerating Station A campaign to collect signatures on a petition to merge, sell or otherwise liquidate SMUD was started on March 29, 1990. The petition needs 27,500 signatures (5%ofthevoters)byJuly4,1990tohavethemeasureplaced on the November 6 ballot. The methodology to turn SMUD into a private company, if the measure passes the general vote, has not been defined.
It appears possible that the petition may get enough signatures to have the issue put on the November 6 ballot, but further success may depend on economic factors, i.e.I the size of any rate measures in the summer months, and the public s confidence in SMUD management, including the SMUD Board of Directors.
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Ross Scarano, Director, Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards met with the management of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station on April 11, 1990 to discuss the findings of the Safeguards Team Inspection that was conducted April 4-11, 1990. The team was comprised of four inspectors from Region V and two members from NRR assisted by two members from the U.S. Arrqy Special Forces, b.
On April 10, 1990, the Recional Administrator met in APS Corporate Offices with William Conway and respective staff. The topics of discussions included: the status of activities in preparation for the restart of Unit 1, current plant events, maintenance initiatives, the engineering program, and quality assurance initiatives.
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l ITEMS ADDRESSED BY THE COMMISSION - WEEK ENDING APRIL 13, 1990 STAFF REQUIREMENTS - AFFIRMATION / DISCUSSION AND VOTE,11:30 A.M., THURSDAY, A.
APRIL 5, 1990, COMMISSIONER 5' CONFERENCE ROOM, ONE WHITE FLINT NORTH, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE) - SECY to William C. Parler, GC dated 4/12/90 SECY-90-075 - Decision on Certified Rulina in ALAB-919 I.
The Commission, by a 5-0 vote, approved an order which respond 1 The to a goestion certified to the Commission in ALAB-919.
order returned the matter to the Appeal Board for further consideration consistent with guidance in the order.
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04/23/90 50-219 RI Office SALP Board Meeting Selected RI Staff Ruland o
GPUM - Oyster Creek Members 10:00 am 04/23/90 50-317 Lusby, MD SALP Management Meeting Licensee and Selected Cowgill BG8E - Calvert Cliffs RI Staff Members 1:30 pm 50-318 04/25/90 50-244 RI Office Mid-Cycle SALP Meeting Licensee and Selected McCabe RG&E - Ginna RI Staff Members 1
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-04/25/90 Southport, NC Com. Rogers at the Comunissioner and Milhoan Brunswick facility selected RII staff I
for site familiariza-meder tion 04/25/90 Region II Enforcement Conference Licensee, RA,-and Ebneter DPC - Catawba facility selected RII staff 10:30 a.m.
meters 04/26/90 Region II Management Meeting Licensee, RA and Ebneter General Electric Co.
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members of RIII Staff 50-249 Management Meeting Detroit Edison Company, Licensee, Deputy Regional Miller 04/16/90 50-341 Region III Fermi 2 - Management Administrator and selected members of RIII Staff 1:00 p.m.
Meeting Union Electric Company, Licensee, Regional Greenman 04/19/90 50-483 Callaway Site Callaway - Systematic Administrator and selected 1:00 p.m.
Assessment of Licensee members of RIII Staff Perfomance 04/26/90 50-456 Braidwood Site Commonwealth Edison Licensee, Deputy Regional Greenman Company, Braidwood -
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50-457 of Licensec Performance Detroi Edison Company, Director, Division of Reactor Greenman 04/26/90 50-341 Region III Femi 2 - Management Projects and selected members of RIII Staff 1:00 p.m.
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Administrator, and selected Enforcement Conference 9:00 a.m.
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URF0 Meeting with UMETCO to discuss groundwater Ptyons & consultants; GKonwfnski
'4/19/90 corrective action progress.
1:30 DWickers & consultants; GKonwinski URF0 Meeting with Malapai - Resources Irigaray 4/20/90 Expansion 1:30 JCDeddens; RAzua 4/26/90 50-458 RIV' Meeting with Gulf States Utilities to discuss service water corrosion RIY management
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Marriott Hotel Denver Review and discuss empirical MRC/PG&E H. Rood 8:00-5:00 323 1717 Denver West ground motion studies Diablo Marriott Blvd.
Canyon Long Term Seismic Program.
4/16/90 50-416 Grand Gulf Nuclear Review building settlement data.
NRC/SERI L. Kintner 2:30 Port Gibson, Mississippi 4/17/90 50-416 Grand Gulf Nuclear Review building settlement data.
NRC/SERI L. Kintner Port Gibson, Mississippi 9:00 4/17-20/90 50-275/
One California Street Discuss Geology, Geophysics and NRC/PG&E H. Rood 8:30-5:00 323 San Francisco, CA 94106 Source Characterization for the Room 250 Diablo Canyon Long Ters Seismic Program.
4/18/90 50-50-387 White Flint Bldg.
To discuss several reactor NRC/WPPSS R. Samworth 1:30 Room 108-13 systems issues affecting the 1990 and 1991 refuelings.
4/18/90 50-280/
Surry Facility.
Discuss control room habitability. NRC/VEPCo B. Buckley 1:00 281 Surry County, VA
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To discuss findings and NRC/0 PPD A. Bournia 9:00-12:00 Room 138-9 resolution of different piping system discrepancies found as a result of performing a reconstitution of design basis analyses at the Fort Calhoun station.
4/18/90 50-382 Waterford 3 Site To discuss status of settlement, NRC/LP&LC D. Wigginton 8:00 Taft, Louisiana groundwater level, and basement Monitoring Program 4/19/90 50-269/
Vogtle Nuclear Plant Discuss the status of various NRC/ Duke &
L. Wiens licensing activities and safety Georgia Power 8:30-4:00 270/287 initiatives at Duke Power Co.
and Georgia Power Company's nuclear stations included in PDII-3 area of responsibility.
4/19/90 50-395 V. C. Summer Nuclear To discuss the Status of NRC/SCE&G J. Hayes Station Jenkinsville, licensing actions for the 9:00 V. C. Summer Nuclear Station South Carolina' and.the' proposed to incinerate contaminated oil.
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4/19/90 50-315/.
White Flint Bldg.
The licensee will discuss NRC/IMPC J. Glitter 9:00 316 Room 108-13 their cycle 8 reload analysis for D. C. Cook Unit 2.
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'4/19/90-669 White Flint Blda.
For EPRI to present to the NRC NRC/EPRI/
T. Kenyon staff its technical basis to-TENERRA 1:30-5:00 Room 88-11 support the ALWR design for hydrogen control.
4/20/90 675 Combustion Engineering This is a periodic meeting NRC/CE R. Singh 8:00-3:00 1000 Prospect Hill Road between NRR and Combustion Windsor, Connecticut Engineering (CE).. Topics of discussion will focus on the 06095 application of' human factors engineering in the design of System 80+.
4/20/90 50-289 White Flint Bldg.
To discuss OTSG Fouling at NRC/GPUN R. Hernan 9:30 Room 14B-11 TMI-1 Nuclear Station.
4/26/90 50-255 United Testing Lab.
Observe narrow-gap welding NRC/CPC A. DeAagzfo 5959 Shallow Ford Road process and. associated 9:00-5:00 Chattanooga, Tennessee discussions as related to the Palisades Plant Steam Generator Replacement Project.
4/30-5/1/90 50-275/
245 Market St.
Discuss ground motion for the NRC/PG&E H. Rood 323 1st Floor Conf.
.Diablo Canyon long ters seismic mM Room A program.
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.Date/ Time Number Location Purpose Applicant NRC Contact 4/13 OWFN 6-B13 To meet with United IMSS G. Sjoblom Nuclear Corp. (UNC) to UNC discuss Future Plans 4/16 72-8 OWFN 8-B11 To meet with the State NMSS F. Sturz 10:00 am of Maryland re: BG&E's OGC license application for GPA dry spent fuel storage MRR under Part 72 at Calvert Region I Cliffs site 4/17 70-27 OWFN 6-B13 To discuss w/ Babcock NMSS S. Soong and Wilcox (B&W) pre-B&W 1:00 pm licensing actions for receiving special nuclear material from i
United Nuclear Corpor-ation, Inc.
4/18 OWFN 6-B13 Meeting to discuss MMSS J. Hickey import of radioactive U.S. Customs Service gemstones 4/24 72-2 LLNL To meet with Virginia NMSS J. Roberts M
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Decket Date/ Time' Number Location Parpose Applicant NRC Contact 4/17 White Flint A Briefing for DOE and NMSS P. Ting 1:00-3:30 pm 6B11 its Contractors on NRC OGC Licensing review /AVLIS RES Enrichment Plant ADM DOE Contractors 5/29 71-9229 4B-11 OWFN Pre-application meeting l#tSS E. Easton Model Titan Shipping DOE 8:30-11:30 am Cask Westinghouse Division of High-Level Waste Management Attendeer/
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Docket Applicant Date/ Time Number Location Purpose Director's Office Nuclear Safety Research Review Committee (NSRRC) Meetings NSRRC Full Cosuiittee Meeting R. Shepard 6-4-5/90 Wash., DC area 492-3723 Division of Systems Research 4/25-26/90 NL/S 014 Program Review of BWR RES, NRR, AE00, BNL, H. Scott Stability BNL, INEL, ORNL 492-23563 R. Meyer-4/30/90-5/4/90 Brookhaven National Semi-Annual Severe Accident 492-3571 Laboratory Research Program Partners Upton, NY Review Meeting-
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Division of Engineering G.H.Weidenhamer.
4/18/90 Hyatt Regency Open Meeting on Review and 492-3839 Discussion of MOV Test Results 9:00-5:30 Bethesda, MD E
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