ML20055C597

Advises That 900410 Changes to Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Inst Triga Reactor Facility Emergency Plan Decrease Effectiveness of Currently Approved Plan & Therefore Not Acceptable

ML20055C597
Person / Time
Site:	Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
Issue date:	05/22/1990
From:	Alexander Adams Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Irving G ARMED FORCES RADIOBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
References
RTR-REGGD-02.006, RTR-REGGD-2.006 NUDOCS 9005290007
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May 22,1990 Docket No, 50-170 Colonel George W. Irving, III, BSC, USAF Director.

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SUBJECT:

REVIEW 0F THE ARMED FORCES RADI0 BIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (AFRRI)

TRIGA REACTOR FACILITY EMERGENCY PLAN The staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has reviewed and evaluated the changes to the AFRRI TRIGA Reactor Facility Emergency Pian that you submitted on April 10, 1990 as supplemented on May 3, 1990 in compliance

!. with10CFR50.54(q). The changes were reviewed against the requirements of Appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50, the guidance criteria set forth in Revision 1 to Regulatory Guide 2.6 and ANSI /ANS-15.16-1982, " Emergency. Planning for Research Reactors."

Based on its review, the staff has concluded that the proposed changes decrease the effectiveness of the currently approved emergency plan and therefore should not be incor) orated into the currently approved emergency plan. Accordingly, we request t1at you revise the plan to include the additional information identified in the enclosed staff Emergency Plan Review within 30 days of the date of this letter. Following receipt of your revisions, the staff will continue its review.

The reporting and/or recordkeeping requirements contained in this letter affect fewer than ten respondents; therefore, OMB clearance is not required under P.L.96-511.

If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 492-1121.

Sincerely, Original signed by:

Alexander Adams, Jr., Project Manager i Non-Power Reactor, Decommissioning and l Environmental Project Directorate Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V and Special Projects  !

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definitions of terms unique to the facility.Section 2 of NUREG-To help define the site and s operational boundaries or your f acility, the emergency plan should include diagrams showing and-defining the site boundary and operational boundary s .

Organization and Responsibilities Section 3 of NUREG-0849 discusses the need for arrangements and agreements, confirmed in writing, with local offsite support groups. Such letters of

• agreement with offsite support organizations should be provided.

Section 3 of NUREG-0849 states that the Emergency Plan should list.the line of. succession operatirns. by title for the individual in charge of directing emergency The roster should list the successors by title.Please provide a line of suc i

Emergency Response Section 7 of NUREG-0849 and Reg. Guide 2.6 indicates that the Emergency Plan i should include a notification list of emergency response personnel. The Emergency Plan chould direct the reader to a procedure which includes a .

notification list providing names and telephone numbers of emergency response personnel.

j Section 7 of NUREG-0849 states that the Emergency Plan should describe the proposed method to ensure personnel accountability. In the revised Emergency Plan, the method is not provided.

p description of the proposed accountability procedure.Please provide in the Emerg Emergency Action Levels (EALs)

Section 5 of NUREG-0849 states that the Emergercy Plan should contain EALs.

In your revised implementing pruedures. plan, the EAls were removed f rcm the plan and moved to the adjacent to the emergency classification system.They should be returned to t Emergency Procedures Regulatory Guide 2.6, Section C.5 states that implementing procedures should

'be in an annex to the Emergency Plan, of procedures is available, nor is the reader directed to the procedures inin some other document.

Maintaining Emergency Procedures Section 10 of NUREG-0849 discussed the review and update of the Emergency Plan.

Please the plan. provide in the Emergency Plan the frequency for reviewing and updating

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