ML20044B713
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| Issue date: | 04/22/1980 |
| From: | Malsch M NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC) |
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...6,..~6 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION W A5HIN GT oN. D. C. 20555 April 22, 1980 SECY-A-SC-59
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ADJUDICATORY COMMISSIONER ACTION l
For:
The Cor. mission From:
Martin G. Malsch l
Deputy General Counsel l
Subject:
DIRECTOR'S DECISION UNDER 10 CFR 2.206 (METROPOLITAN EDISON COMFANY) (DD-60-1k) l l
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Three Mile Island Nuc] ear Station, Units 1 l
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To infor'n the Cor.ission of the den 141,of a g y ;)
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May 7, 1950 (as extended)
Discussion:
By petition dated February 25, 1980, Robert Gary requested the Cor. mission 1/ to take certain actions with regard to radiation monitoring at the Three Mile Island site before taking further clean up actions which might result in radiological-relea'ses.
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Gary suggested that if his proposed meni-toring program is not implemented, the publi::
will not have "an accurate or complete official ;
record" of radiological releases, and conse-Infamf.;n in this n:nd c5 Mid quently will be handicapped in deciding where in c;;dm..th the Reto d biMMIE' to live or in bringing 11tigation besed on
" radiogenic harns."
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widely distributed te members of the public feasible evaluation plans be prepared and residing near the Unit 2 reactor before there is any planned criticality.
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The petition was addressed to the Director of the Office cf Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards, and apparently referred to NRR for response.
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- n April 7, 1C51, tne Cirect:r cf the Office cf Nuclear Reactcr Regulaticr denied the request for enforcement acticn.
With regard to the prepcsed monitcring prcgram, the Directcr described the current program ano explained that to the extent that new or different i.cnitoring capabilities are necessary, the Ccmcissicn will prcvice them in the future.
The Director also fcund that Mr.
Gary had not shown that the current program at TMI is inadequate or that his own proposal has any special advantages.
He therefore saw no reescn to institute any proceeding to consider Mr. Gary's propcsed plan.
The Director aisv ' urned down Mr. Gary's request to prepare an evacuation plan prior to "any further clanned criticality of fuel in the Unit 2 reactor vessel."
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evacuation plans are the respercibility of state and local governments, tne NEC has propcsed changes to its emergency planning regulations which would require NRC con-currence in state and local response plans including review of any evacuation plans.
The Director found that the current pro-visicns for emergency preparedness at Unit 2 generally meet the Commission's require.ments, although the Director noted that Unit 2 cperation is currently suspended by order, and that further operation is not planned until after repairs, if at all.
- Mcwever, onscing efforts to impreve emergency pre-paredness at Unit 1 include plans by Metro-politan Edison and local government for evacuation in the event of a radiological emer6ency.
These plans are currently under review for adequacy by a federal inter-agency review committee.
In addition, the !!RC intends to assure that adequate evacuation plans will be widely distributed to the public prior to operation of the Unit 2 r2 actor.
For these reasons, the Directer also denied Mr. Gary's specific request for TMI-2 evacuation plan preparation and dis-semination.
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DISTRIBUTION:
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the-c Office of the Secretary by c.o.b. Wednescay, May 1 1980.
j Comdssion Staf f Of fice comments, if any, should be submitted to the Commissioners NLT April 30,_1980,- with an information copy to the Office of the Secretary.
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a' nature that it requires additional time for analytical review and comment, the Commissioners and the Secretariat should be i
apprised of when comments may be expected.
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Ircper d<tief,[i Before any further action is taken for 2 which involves any physical purposes of the cleanup of Unit alteratica that might result in unplanned releases of radicactive caterials into the envircr. ent, th e fcIlowir.g nonitoring pro-cedures are to be fully set up, in place and 100 percent operation-al, (1)
Pig, scat end ccw thyroids are to be collected froa animals fed of f pasturage or f rca vegetable raterials grevn within 50 miles of the reactor.
No less than 100 thyroids per ponth are to be fully tested for radio-iodine ar.d gross beta and g ar.~.a at all rel e vant e ne rgie s.
Geographic s a pling balance is to be maintained on a co= pass quadrant basis to a gross deviation of no = ore than 25 percent in each month.
Fifty cut of the 120 thyroids per =enth are to be pig thyroids.
Potted plants of clone KU-7 Tradescantia, spider-(2) wort are to be placed at 12 compe.s s point letatier.s around the O
plan t at distances of 1/4, 1/2, 1,
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C to be 72 potted plant boxes in all and 10 potted plants per are These are to be checked twice per week by e qualified box.
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Proper Actica A (Cen%imued) l (3)
Flesh, bones and teeth of fish, deer, rabbits, game birds, possum and other ghme animals or wild animals as practicably obtainable and obtained in ferrum naturae within 50 miles of the plant are to be tested for radio-strontium, radio-cesium and radio-iodine at'all relevant energies.
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20 animals are to be so taken and tested twice per month.
Geographical balance on a quadrant basis is to be maintained within 40 percent deviation.
this rec.uest parts The monitoring Program, per 1, 2 and 3 is to continue until one of' the three following con-ditions are =et:
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Both Three Mile Island units are permamently shutav,rn.
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Unit 2 cleanup is complete and one year has passed af ter the cleanup ccmpletion date.
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Unit 2 is shutdown permanently and one year has pissed af ter the shutdevn has been fully done.
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Be.fere any further planned criticality of fuel in the Unit 2 reactor vessel, whether for commerical or experimental or testing purpcses, an evacuation plan that is feasible 'and adequately rapid and complete is to be drawn up, printed and circulated.
At least ene versien or edition of this plan is to run no c e or less thtn 50 pages, have ty; of no i
less than rawspaper A:e and be written and edited to suit a reader of sverage vocabulary according to standards to be received from the Educational Testing Service of Princeton New Jersey.
The public manual version of the plan is to be distributed by Third Class mail, cne ecpy to each household situated within 20 miles of Unit 2 reactor.
In addition, copies are to be available free of charge to all persons residing or domiciled within 50 miles of the plant.
These copies are to be made available and made known to be available at Post Of fices, Courthouses, Schools and other public buildings and places.
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With regard to themoluminescent detsinetert
("TLD*) and dose-rate meters now in loci placed by various federal government agencies, the following requirement is to be
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TLD's or dese-rate meters from at 1 cast 50 percent of all federal measuring locations are to be put out in duplicate an d r e a d or. a doubic-b3ind basis by two separate laboratories that do not share information as to the locus f:cm which the rcad instruments are brought in.
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l Specification of facts that constitute the basis of thic requeos 6
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on, Wednesday, March 28, 1979, the nucle ar p:w er plan t Q-j.{
Unit 2'on Three Mile Island, Pennsylvasia, began to leak radio-SIj[
activity in large and uncontrolled and unmeasured a.recnts into Y
the envircnnent in cl u ding th e air, the water, and the land.
7 There was a series of equipment and nechanical failures.
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conseguences both severe and chiding.
A pump which circulated water in the secondary systen broke.
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The valve stayed open i
af ter it should hr.ve closed, however; and this caused a dangercus loss of primary coolant and a consequent increase in temperature and drop in pressure.
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emergency core cooling system but this was turned of f by the t
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On its way to the auxiliary building a certain amount of highly radioactive water leaked frem the pipes '
into the environment and Susquehanna River.
During this time on Wednesday there were uncontrolled releases of radioactive materials in steam and water as the operators of the reactor alternately counterna..ded and reinstated autenatic emergency 4
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O on Thursday, March 29, 19 79, hundreds of thousands oi gallens of waste water f rem the plant vere dumped into the Susquehanna River.
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on Friday, March 30,, 1979, beginning at 7:00 a.m.
and continuing through the morning there were ventings of radioactive stea:n from the auxiliary building.
This accident has had continuing radiological release
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The most recent najor release occurred on Fet: :a:y 11 sed 3
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Th e h e alth e f f e ct s to be expected frc= the releases
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presently recognized by the NRC. If we icek first at the National Acade=y of Sciences report of 1972 entitled the Biological Effects cf Ionizing radiation en page 183 ne j
find a suncary of the reports by Drs. Gof:an and Ta plin.
5 Thry say 104,000 excess lethal ca.cers per year is a U.S.
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U.S. populatien at that time was 200 =illion. So 34,000,000 f
c'en-rc es pr: duces 104,000 exc e s s lethal en c ers. The =e=o i
produced by lake Barrett. circa April 12, 1979 says that ti 13,000,000 Curie s w er e r ele a s e d up t o th at po int c f X e-133 f
and other roble gases in the nuclide profile that would 1
naturally ac ec-p any Ic-133. Tu.~._ir_; now to Fed eral Regis t cr 4j Volume 44 No. 249 Tsursday Dece=ber 27,1979 page 76741 ne j
find that for light water pressurized nater reactors 13,000 Curies of noble gases released gives 5 pers:n-re: per year (whole body) in the regional population, so 1000 tines
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that would be 5000 person-ren (whole body). Gef=ans figures isdicate 326.92 can-: e=s produc.e 1 excess enneer death, so 5000 can re s would produce 15.29 excess cancer deaths. Not included are releases since April 12, 1979, =en-lethal cance-s l
genetic, effects including lethal genetic eff ects, and ex;esur:
due to correes 6ther than noble gases. If these thinss were taken into e.ccount the health eff ects picture would be =cre i
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n.ere have been a number of other major accidents at the plant since last year.
In 'one such accident seven men received j
radiation doses in exces_s of that permissible by law when they F
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Dae to the above facts there is an or4oing injury to the local -
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__S not having an accurate or complete official record kept of -the radiological releases occasicned by the accident. - They thereby!
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In addition, the inju.m.y consists of a'd having to live under circumstances such that if.a major radio-d g
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retscrt, tne public wii) te unable to make "infomed decisions abcut where to situete themselves and/or reside" and will be precluded in the future from "being 4
put on successful litigation to receive compensation for radiogenic harms."
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I cali f:r imediate evecca-icn of the area were to occur, p11. w ereby the aree could be evacuated.* Id._
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ty ite '. :, the Environ ental Frotection Agency (E:A), the Ccamonaealth of 1
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te C: rission vili ensure Fat e;propriate capetilities are trovi:ed.
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ere irz:ecuate or that Mr. Gary's prop sal has 50 e special advanta;es, I see no
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- e e gency prepa edness, Mr. Gary raises ;trticu'arly tre 's we Of 5
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i e.t:;1t':- cf the erE! arcu9d the Three M'Ie Islf d site, 5:e:ifit!Ily, *. Ga ry t
"1 re.t::: * *et nr. a f t:uate ev!:vetion plan be pre;t-e: and disse
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ir. s.-i: 2 resti:- is n:t crit':al. "Flar.re: : '-iczi' ty" :f 0+ s -e t.::- i :;'es c
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res. e: ::t-!;':n of.' nit 2, and c;eratier cf U ":." vrai:
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r ur.til ; nit 2 tad teen -eceired.
The c;erating a;;5crity fc-the Unit 2 reat cr was i
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'crra'.'y s;soerded in Jbly 373.
Crder f or Modific1*i:*. cf License, Dublished ir 1
i 44 Fed. Eeg. 3 5271 ( Aug.1,1979).
The current provisicts f or eme rgency the Ctenission's current energer.cy plannin; f
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- -e:aredness fcr Uni 2 ger,erelly ree:
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Fowever, the Ctanissic. has taken signi#icent steps in recen e
re:Literents.
i T.:.:'4 ::.;;rade the qu 'ity and sce;e of erergency p'anning at all nuclear reac cr sites. Plans for TM!-2 will necessarily be revised in the future to
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cor.f orm to the Cornission's re;uirenents.
Althougn evacuation of the population f
is the responsibility of State and local officials, the NRC has proposed a I
revisic. to its rules on energency planning to require NRC concurrence in State
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and 1ccel governnent response plans.
See 44 Fed. Reg. 75167 (Dec.19,1979).
i As cescribed in the Mercrandsm of Understanding between SRC and the Federal l
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Erargency Manege:en Agency (FEMA), 45 Fed. Reg. 5347 (Jan. 24,1980), FEM
- 1". : tie the lead in reviewin; the adequacy of S:ete end 1ccel energency 1
- a3 In January 1980. NRC and FEMA jointly issued fcr ir. erim use and corren; i
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- r;; erie for Preparation and E valuation of Radiological Energency Resp'onse '
Plars and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants" (NUREG-065d/ FEMA-Ri ?- !'.
Mr. Gary has been provided a copy of this docurent with this decision.
l One c' the objectives of C ese criteria (see p. 42) is similar to Mr. Gary's 4
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that inforretion concerning erergency preparedness is available and cence n:
c sse-ir.ated to the public.
While the staff cannot say that the State, local and lice see plans approved f or TM:-2 will track Mr. Gery's proposal exactly (e.o.,
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wiP. ce consulted on the vocabalary used in the written plans), the Conmission 1 te :s c assure, prior to any p' ant.ed operaticn of :* e
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2 reactor, that i
ete: a:e e eege.cy resoc9se plans esis (cr TM*-2 anc are e;;eo;riately.d'striosted 9
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f The currer.: focus of ea :: :: irprove emergency :re-=-.' es s et the Three 3'
Mile Island si e concerns s;ecifically L' nit 1.
The "o rissi:n's Order and Netite of Fea ring, CLI-79-8,10 NFC l'1 (Aug. 9,1979), in the Three Mile Is1.,c Unit 1 4
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etr::o'.itan Ediscn :: in: :ve its e er;ency v
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restart precetting requires the f
preparedness :acability.
As des:-ibed in the ettac ed ::-tiens c' the staff's r
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" Status Report on the Evaluatien of Licensee's Com-liance with the NRC Order i
%F Ud dated August 9,1979" (Docket N:. 50-259, Jan.11,1920), Metropolitan Edison x3 n ~.tl6 Ifi Company has submitted an uograced emergency plan thet ccoforts to Fegulatory is
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Guice 1.101 (Rev.1, V. arch 197-) and NUREG-CE10. "Draf t Erergency Action Level v!'
3d Guidelines for Nuclear Power Flants* (Sept.1979).
In:1uded in the appendices t
kj to Metr:politan Edison's plans are supoorting energency plans for the Conr.onwealth 3,f cf Pennsylvania and for counties rear the Three Mile Island site. The Commonwealth's; h
th y::j and local ge.ernments' piars :-ovice fcr or:tettive actio.s, including evacuatien, w.sj l ir. the event of a radiological emergency. The Penr.sylvania Energer.:y F.anagement
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Agency is the lead State agency for the coo-dinatio. cf radiologital energency I.J
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respense plans. The State and local plans are under review by the Regional
$2 Advisory Committee, consisting of FE*.A. NRC. EPA, the U. S. Departrent of
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Transportation and the Food and Drug Administration.
In view of the foregoing, tih h3 I do not intend to institute an:ther pro:eeding on emergency preparedness based on a
id Fr. Gary's particular recuest. /
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