ML20034C233
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| Site: | 05000054, 07000687 |
| Issue date: | 04/25/1990 |
| From: | Michaels T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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April 25L 1990 Docket No. 50-54 70-687 LICENSEE: Cintichem. Inc.
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Of MEETING-TO DISCUSS DECOMMIS$10NING OF CINTICHEM FACILITY, APRIL 11, 1990, NUCLEAR REGULATORY C019t!SSION (NRC)
HEADQUARTERS,ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND The NRC staff (Staff) reviewed the NRC decomissioning procedures (Enclosure 1):
and distributed a guidance document entitled " Guidance and Discussion of.
Requirements for an Application to Terminate a.Non-Power Reactor Facility-Operating License, Revision 1," (Enclosure 2).
Representatives of Cintichem, Inc. (Cintichem) discussed their decomissioning plan for the Cintichem facility. They. plan to submit one plan which will address the d'smantling and decontamination of the structures, systems and-components included in licenses R-81, SNM-639 and the New York State License.
l One of the guides they are planning to use to develop.this plan-is a draft guide " Standard Format and Content for Decomissioning Plan for Nuclear
-Reactors" Task DG-1005. The staff remarked that submittal of. one decomission-ing plan was acceptable provided that reference.is made:in the plan, where necessary, to identify-the licenses applying to areas being: addressed. Also, use of the draft guide is acceptable provided that:Section 1.4.1" Environmental Report" and Section II.1.6,'" Regulations, Regulatory Guides-and Standards,"
included in Enclosure 2 are addressed.
Cintichem has chosen the DECON option i.e.. complete dismantling'of the'reactori and hot cell building (Building 1 and 2) and decontamination of the remaining The radiopharmaceutical production area, which is in Building 4, will area.
not be dismantled because this phase of production.is expected to continue.
That is, radioisotopes will be purchased from external sources and. packaged:
into radiopharmaceuticals. A decomissioning plan is expected to be submitted to NRC within-three to six months and Cintichem would=like to have all their-radioactive waste removed by December 31, 1992. This date has been chosen because the South Carolina / Washington / Nevada burial sites and their respective compacts have informed Cintichem that they.will not' accept waste outside their, area after that'date and the N.Y. compact will not be' ready to-accept waste in 1993. Cintichem is presently negotiating with the Department of Energy (DOE) for removal of the fuel; a small fraction of.the fuel would' decay by July 1990 to a level where it would not'be self-protecting fromia safeguards l standpoint.
They would like to ship-the fuel before'any decontamination-work begins.
Cintichem owns the shipping casks and'could ship the fuel in seven shipments:
over a period of three months if DOE were'able to accept it.
An area of concern is the disposal'of. radioactive lead shielding in the reactor and the hot cells; The issue is whether this' material is mixed waste i.e.,
both radioactive and hazardous. Cintichem believes.that this material-is not mixed waste and is discussing with the Environmenta1' Protection Agency and~ the-South Carolina Department of Health and Environmenta'l Control.the disposition i
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cf the material. Cintichem believes it should be disposed of as low-level radioactive waste.
If it is judged to be mixed waste, the staff noted that in_
previous situations of this kind, the State, if it was an agreement State, accepted the material on a state byproduct license.
Near-term actions being undertaken by Cintichem are as follow:
1)
Development of a decomissioning plan and a funding plan.for.
decomissioning.
If the decomissioning plan is not submitted by July 26,1990 the funding plan has to be submitted separately by that date as required by-10 CFR 50.75(d) and 50.33k(2)..
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Development of a plan to repair and use the; transfer canal.and. gamma.
pit for the removal of fuel and other radioactive material ~. This plan in-addition'to plans for the continuance of ground water monitoring, will be-submitted to the NRC.
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Under their present licenses, they are beginning to remove loose radioactive material, cleanin up the gloveboxes and disposing of a
processing apparatus, and shi ping it to low-level waste facilities,
$. h Theodore S. Michaels, Project-Manager
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and Environmental Projects Directorate Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor' Regulation Enciosures:
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2 of the material. Cintichem believes it should be disposed of as low-level radioactive waste.
If it is judged to be mixed waste, the staff noted that in previous situations of this kind, the State, if it was an agreement State, accepted the material on a state byproduct license.
Near-term actions being undertaken by Cintichem are as follow:
1)
Development of a decommissioning plan and a funding plan for decomissioning.
If the decomissioning plan is not submitted by
-July 26, 1990 the funding plan has to be submitted separately by that date as required by 10 CFR 50.75(d) and 50.33k(2).
2)
Development of a plan to repair and use the transfer canal and gamma pit for-the removal of fuel and other radioactive material. This plan in addition to plans for the continuance of ground water monitoring, will be submitted to the NRC.
3)
Under their present licenses, they are beginning to remove loose radiaoctive material, cleaning.up the gloveboxes and disposing of processing apparatus, and shipping it to low-level waste facilities.-
Original signed by:
Theodore S. Michaels, Project Manager Non-Power Reactor, Decommissioning and Environmental Projects Directorate Division of. Reactor Projects --III, IV, V and-Special Projects Office of~ Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Enclosures:
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of the material.
Cintichem believes it should be disposed of as low-level radioactive. waste.
If it is judged to be mixed waste, the staff noted that.in.
previous situations of this kind, the State, if it was an agreement State,.
accepted the material on a state byproduct license.
Near-term actions being undertaken by Cintichem are as follow:
1)-
Development 'of a decomissioning plan and a funding plan for l
1 decomissioning.
If the decomissioning plan is not submitted by-l July 26h1990 the funding plan has to be submitted separately by.
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that date as' required by 10 CFR 50.75(d) and 50.33k(2).
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Development'of a plan to repair and use the transfer canal and gama
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pit for the removal of fuel and other radioactive material.
This plan in addition to' plans for the continusnce of ground water monitoring, will be submitted to the NRC.
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Under their presentLlicenses, they are beginning to remove loose radioactive materiali cleaning up the gloveboxes and disposing of processing apparatus,\\and shipping it to low-level waste facilities.
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Attendance for Meeting Between NRC and Cintichem April _11, 1990 Name Title /0boanization Charles J. Haughney Chief. FCSB, USNRC Gary C.. Comfort, Jr. '
NHSS Project Manager, FCSB/USNRC-Glen Sjoblom
' Deputy Dir., Div. of Industrial-and Medical Nuclear-Safety-Robert Bores-Chief. Effluents: Rad. Prot. Section,,
Region 1 Jerry 'J. Swif t Section Leader, FCSB, NMSS,-NRC Jim Caldwell Regional Coordinator /EDO Tony Huffert
.HP,-LLWM/LLRB/Decom. Section Eugene ~ Holler Attorney, Office of General Counsel Susan C. Quine Attorney, NYS Dept. Envir. Conservation Steve Zobel.
NYS Dept. Env. Conservation-Kathleen-N. Schneider State Programs / State Agreement Program Etoy Hylton Licensing-Assistant /NRC John Austin Special Assistant to Director, NMSS Bob Burnett Effective 4/17 Acting Deputy-_ Regional' Administrator,. Region I--
Don Erb
.00E, Director, Isotope Prod.:
Al Adams Project Manager, PDNP, USNRC S. H. Weiss PD/PDNP,: NRC P. B. Erickson Project Manager /PDNP Joseph Wang RPB/NRR Nency Osgood NRC Transportation: Branch Tim Johnson NRC/LLWM Lynn Deering
- NMSS/LLWM/ Technical Branch Fred Morris MGR. Engineering, Cintichem Tracy Vaughn MGR. Health Safety and CNN a
Affairs,Cintichem.
William G. Ruzicka Manager of Nuclear Operations, Cintichem--
James McGovern Plant Mgr., Cintichem~
Robert J. Ross Attorney for Cintichem Theodore S. Michaels Project Manager, PDNP, USNRC 4
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Docket No. 50-54 cc:
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ATTN: Director, Office of.
Environmental Analysis' Albany, New York 12223 I
Mr. William G. Ruzicka Manager of Nuclear Operations-Union Carbide Nuclear Center Union Carbide Subsidiary B, Inc.
P. O. Box 324-Tuxedo, New York 10987 Director, Technical Development Programs State of New York Energy Office Agency Building 2 Empire State Plaza Albany. New York 12223-Supervisor Annette Dorozynski Town of Tuxedo P. O. Box 725 Tuxedo. New York 10987 Berle, Koss and CaseJ l
145 Rockerfeller Plaza New York, New York 10111 ATTN: Ava Gartner 3
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