ML20036C008
| ML20036C008 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Rancho Seco |
| Issue date: | 05/28/1993 |
| From: | Taylor J NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | |
| References | |
| CON-#394-14015 DCOM, SECY-93-153, NUDOCS 9306080278 | |
| Download: ML20036C008 (4) | |
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POLICY ISSUE May 28, 1993 SECY-93-153 (Informat;on) c i
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The Commissioners i
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James M. Taylor 0
Executive Director for Operations I
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SUBJECT:
QUARTERLY REPORT ON THE STATUS OF PREMATURELY SHUT DOWN PLANTS PUR?OSE:
To inform the Commission of the status of open issues and the progress of specified facilities toward decommissioning.
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BACKGROUND:
l In COMJC-92-002 of March 3,1992, the Commission directed the staff to submit quarterly reports on the status of pending license and regulatory actions of prematurely shut down plants.
DISCUSSION:
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Price-Anderson Exemotion Since November 1990, the NRC has received Price-Anderson exemption requests from the licensees of Shoreham, Rancho Seco, Yankee Rowe, Fort St. Vrain, and j
San Onofre 1.
Compliance with the Price-Anderson indemnity agreement provisions of 10 CFR Part 140 is of potential significance to all of the l
prematurely shut down plants. The NRR staff and the Office of the General Counsel have reviewed this issue and these requests on a generic basis and i
l Save made recommendations for resolution in SECY-93-127, " Financial Protection 1
Required of Licensees of Large Nuclear Power Plants During Decommissioning,"
May 10, 1993. This issue is before the Commission for consideration.
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CONTACTS:
UPON ISSUANCE - THIS PAPER l
S. Weiss, ONDD/NRR WILL BE SERVED ON PARTIES 504-2170 TO ONGOING DECOMMISSIONING l
PROCEEDINGS M. Webb, ONDD/NRP, 504-1347 N O22: 73c;e5 N
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4 The Comissioners II. Current Plant Status A.
Rancho Seco 1.
Decommissionino Plan Sacramento Municipal Utility District submitted the Rancho Seco decommission-ing plan in May 1991. The Environmental Conservation and Resources Organiza-tion (ECO) has actively intervened in the decommissioning process.
In its Order CLI-93-03 of March 3,1993, the Commission remanded three issues raised by ECO (i.e., loss of offsite power, decommissioning funding plan, and decommissioning environmental assessment) to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board for further consideration.
The staff is modifying its decommissioning environmental assessment and associated safety evaluation to reflect information recently submitted by the licensee as a result of CLI-93-03. The staff plans to issue these documents by early June 1993.
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Decommissionino Fundino Plan The staff has evaluated the Rancho Seco funding plan and will include its findings in the decommissioning plan safety evaluation.
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Yankee Rowe 1.
Decommissionino Plan Under 10 CFR Part 50.82(a), the decommissioning plan is due by February 1994.
The licensee has scheduled submittal of the plan for the fall of 1993. The staff estimates that it will take approximately one year to review the decommissioning plan from the time of its submittal from the licensee.
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Completed Actions The staff has issued seven license amendinents, granted six exemptions, and-approved the certified fuel handler program and the defueled quality assurance program. The major amendments and exemptions dealt with Appendix J to 10 CFR Part 50, emergency planning, the final safety analysis report update rule, operator staffing, fire protection program, water chemistry, and the safeguards program. The remaining actions were miscellaneous administrative changes related to plant shutdown.
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Actions in Prooress A license amendment request involving the defueled technical specifications is being processed.
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Regoval of Laroe Components Under 10 CFR 50.59 By letter dated November 25, 1992, the licensee described its proposed program to remove the four steam generators, the pressurizer, and the reactor vessel internals from the site for shipment to Barnwell before NRC approval of the decommissioning plan for Yankee.
In response to staff recommendations in SECY-92-382, " Decommissioning - Lessons Learned," the Commission issued a staff requirements memorandum dated January 14, 1993, which stated that early component removal would be acceptable under certain conditions and that the staff could permit licensees to pay for such activities with decommissioning trust funds. An NRC letter to the licensee dated April 16, 1993, stated that the staff has no objection to withdrawals from the decommissioning trust fund for these activities before NRC approval of the decommissioning plan. The staff is currently reviewing the proposed component removal program to ensure that it is consistent with recent commission guidance.
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Public Interest The NRC received two letters from the Citizen's Awareness Network, a local group, expressing concern that local residents did not have a voice in the decision-making process for issuing the license amendments and exemptions.
t The NRC has responded to both letters and is planning a public meeting near the site on June 9, 1993, to discuss the Yankee Rowe decommissioning process.
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San Onofre. Unit 1 T
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Possession Only License The possession only license, which the staff issued on October 23, 1992, became effective on March 9,1993, when the licensee certified that defueling i
of the reactor was complete.
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Actions in Proaress The staff is processing three requests for licensing actions:
an exemption request from the annual fee requirements of 10 CFR Part 171 for FY93, a license amendment regarding defueled operator qualifications and staffing, and
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an exemption from 10 CFR 50.54(y) requirements that a licensed senior reactor operator must approve any emergency action that departs from a license condition or technical specification.
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Decommissionino Plan The licensee submitted a preliminary decommissioning plan to the NRC in December 1992. The licensee projects that its proposed final decommissioning plan will be submitted in November 1994.
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- 1. ' Possession Oniv License i
By letter dated January 27, 1993, the licensee submitted a license change application requesting that the Trojan operating license'be amended to a-possession only license (POL), and by letter dated February 2,1993, the licensee informed the NRC that the reactor fuel had been permanently off-l loaded from the reactor vessel and placed in the spent fuel pool.. By lette'r dated February 17, 1993, the licensee certified to the NRC that fuel would not-be moved back into the Trojan containment building without prior NRC approval.
1 The NRC staff issued a confirmatory order on March 24, 1993, confirming-the commitment of the licensee not to transfer fuel'to the reactor building i
without NRC approval. On April 9, 1993, in SECY-93-093, the staff requested that the Comission approve issuance of the Trojan POL. 'Comission approval was received on May 4, 1993. The POL for Trojan was issued on May 5, 1993.
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Completed Actions The' staff approved the Trojan certified fuel handler training program submittal and approved a license amendment to delete technical specification a
requirements for licensed operator staffing and training.
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Actions in Proaress The staff is reviewing the proposed defueled emergency plan. The principal issue involved in this review is the elapsed time after shutdown ~when offsite emergency planning is no longer required.
In addition, the staff is i
processing technical specification change requests regarding the fire-protection program and radiological effluents.
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Indian Point I and Dresden 1 l.
Decommissionino-Plans Following issuance of.the Fort St. Vrain decomissioning order, the staff was able to apply resources to continue reviewing the decomissioning plans for Indian Point 1.and Dresden 1.
A detailed status of the Dresden 1 review was provided to the Comission on March 16, 1993. The staff anticipates completing both reviews in the sumer of 1993.
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