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Submits Status Rept on Development of Prompt Alerting Sys to Provide Early Warning to Public Surrounding Facilities in Event of Emergency,Per NRC 810720 Ltr
ML20049J313
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Site: Perry  FirstEnergy icon.png
Issue date: 03/10/1982
From: Davidson D
CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO.
To: Tedesco R
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8203150044
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March 10, 1982 D9" ~ Id8 L T ig% 8 Robert L. Tedesco 9 e, Assistant Director of Licensing Division of Licensing Licensing Branch No. 2 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Perry Nuclear Power Plant Docket Nos. 50 440; 50 441 Prompt Notification in the Event of an Emergency

Dear Mr. Tedesco:

In response to your letter of July 20, 1981, we have prepared this status report on development by CEI of a prompt alerting system (PAS) to provide early warning to the public surrounding the Perry Nuclear Power Plant (PNPP) in the event of an emergency.

This letter expands on our PAS commitment expressed in our February 1982 responses to NRC Emergency Plan questions of December 1981 Initial planning for installation of a PAS surrounding PNPP began during the fall of 1981. After several PAS design contractors' proposals were evaluated by CEI, the firm of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. (BB and N), a s selected by CEI to assist with the design, equipment bid evaluation, and installation of a PAS. BB and N began work on the project in December of 1981. BB and N will submit a preliminary system deuign to CEI for our review during the week of March 15, 1982. CEI, government officials, and BB and N will work diligently to establish a final PAS design by April 15, 1982. Current CEI plans call for installation of the system to begin in December 1982. This date is well in advance of PNPP's fuel load date, now scheduled for November 1983.

We also note with great interest statements by CRGR and DOE that C

there is no technical basis for a 10-mile basic emergency planning zone and that the source term used for exposure calculations may be qg/

U j conservative by a factor of 50. The source term may be even more conservative for a BWR/6 Mark III due to the scrubbing effect of our suppression pool. /D hh F

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Mr. Robert L. Tedesco March 10, 1982 As you are aware, emergency planning activities age a burden on both the utility and local community in terms of both financial and human resources.

If the basic emergency planning zone were reduced by NRC from ten to five miles, for example, the planning area would be reduced by a f actor of four. In our specific case, a five mile planning zone would encompass only one county instead of three and contain significantly fewer people.

Ef fective planning and development of a prompt notification system depends upon an accurate estimate of exactly where the public-at-risk resides. Thus, NRC should direct prompt attention to the task of reevaluating the basic emergency planning assumptions to assure that the scope of emergency planning efforts is accurately defined.

To address your other concerns--potential PAS project implementation problems and adequacy of CEI's schedule for installation of the system--

dl this time would be premature. We will provide you with additional information on our PAS as it becomes available. Contact Rebecca B. Coffey at (216) 259-3737, ext. 506, if you have any questions.

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D. R. Davidson Vice President System Engineering and Construction DRD: dip cc: Jay Silberg, Esq.

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