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UNITED STATES 3
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 f
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INFORMATION REPORT SECY-82-106 March 10, 1982 For:
The Comissioners From:
T. A. Rehm, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO
Subject:
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING MARCH 5,1982 A summary of key events is included as a convenience to those Commissioners who nay prefer a condensed version of this report.
Contents Enclosure Administration A
i Nuclear Reactor Regulation B
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards C
Inspection and Enforcement D
Nuclear Regulatory Research E
Executive Legal Director F
International Programs G
State Programs H
Management and Program Analysis I
Centroller J
Analysis and Evaluation of Operaticnal Data' K
Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rignts L*
M Regional Offices CRGR Monthly Report N*
Items Approved by the Co: mission 0
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- No input this week
Contact:
Comissioners
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North Anna 1 & 2 The Appeal Board (ASLAp) has completed its preliminary examination of recently prepared NRC staff and VEPCO written testimony regarding turbine missiles.
i Absent further word to the contrary, the utility may now assume that the issue will be decided by the Board on the record as it now stands.
R. E. Ginna On March 1,1982 RG&E presented an outline of its overall recovery program for the "B" S/G. At the same meeting the staff concurred in RG&E proposal to remove a small number of S/G tube sections for metallurgical examination to l
gain information necessary to finalize repair plans. RG&E expects to be able j
to present a finalized recovery program in the.next two or three weeks.
Clinch River EIS t
At a meeting on February 26, 1982 the Clinch River EIS Project Manager gave 7
the Safeguards staff the 1976/77 interrogatories, staff responses and admissions related to safeguards; schedules were set for reviewing and updating this i
material.
West Valley r
Written notification has been received from DDE that they assumed possession l
and control of the West Valley facility on February 25, 1982, in accordance with the West Valley Demonstration Project Act and as permitted by the amend-ment of the facility license issued September 30, 1981 by the staff.
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Uranium Milling and Mining (Nebraska)
By letter dated February 18, 1982, Governor Thane of Nebraska requested that I
the Commission reassert its authority over uranium mining and milling activi-ties in that State since the State does not have the necessary legislation or regulations to protect the public health and safety from such activities.
The State expects to receive a license application for such activity in the next few months.
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0FFICE OF ADMINISTRATION m
Week Ending March 5,1982 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision Received 147 6
Granted 100 0
Denied 11 4
Pendino 36 2
1 ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received John W. Sullivan Requests a microfiche copy of WASH-1520.
(82-108)
Jed Stone, Requests, on behalf of his client, the NRC file Stone & Grimes containing allegations about his client.
(82-109)
Nina Bell, Requests three categories of records regarding the
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Coalition for treatment of Show Cause petitions by the NRC.
Safe Power (82-110)
Marvin Resnikoff, Requests a copy of a staff memorandum from the Office Council on Economic of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards to the Priorities Commissioners regarding shipments of high level (82-111) nuclear waste.
(NRC employee)
Requests specific information on 46 listed Vacancy (82-112)
Announcements.
H. Milton Smith Requests a copy of the successful propesal for project, (82-113)
Career Counseling, RFP No. ADM-82-358.
K. Michael Stewart, Requests a list of Pennsylvania researchers, clinicians LKB Instruments, Inc.
and industrial activities licensed to utilize (82-114) radioactive compounds.
CONTACT:
J. M. Felton 492-7211 ENCLOSURE A
Received, Cont'd Theresa Souza, Requests a copy of Contract NRC-10-82-356 with al1~
Frost & Sullivan, Inc.
modifications and a list of respondees to the RFP.
(82-115) i (An individual requesting Requests information on herself in the NRC.
information about herself)
(82-116)
Warren Liebold Requests seven categories of documents regarding the (82-117)
Hayward Tyler Pump Company of Burlington, Vermont.
Steven C. Sho11y, Requests four categories of information regarding a Union of Concerned 7/11/80 memorandum from Dircks to OD's regarding Scientists submissions by NRC staff offices relating to the TMI l
(82-118)
Action Plan.
Douglas E. Lee, Ph.D.
Requests the full name and addresses of listed (82-119) individuals, the identity of 14 listed " letter codes" l
and a listing of each of the " technical questions" l
which were asked by the NRC to the Rochester Gas and Electric Company and the reply that was given to each of the questions.
Granted l
lbicolm H. Philips, Jr.,
In response to a request for five categories of Debevoise & Liberman information pertaining to the Proposed Rule on (S2-96)
Interim Requirements Related to Hydrogen Control, made available eight documents. Informed the requester 11 additional documents subject to this request are already available at the PDR.
David Rosenbaum, In response to a request for a sanitized copy of Technical Analysis Inspection Report 50-317/81-15, made available a Corporation copy of this document.
(82-105)
Denied David S. Fleischaker, In response to a request for four categories of Attorney-At-Law documents regarding the investigation of false (82-51 )
information conveyed by representatives of Pacific Gas and Electric during a November 3,1981 meeting on the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Facility, made available four documents.
Denied 11 documents in their entirety containing advice, opinions and recommendations among Commissioners and their staff.
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3 Denied, Cont'd In response to an appeal to the Comission for access l
Paul Leventhal, to documents relating to the Morgan memorandum, l
The Nuclear Club, Inc.
continued to deny five documents in their entirety (81-A-21-81-471) because they have been properly classified " Secret, i
National Security Infomation."
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L DIVISION OF CONTRACTS Week of March 5, 1982 i
PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION f
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RFP No. RS-NMS-82-030 Title - Technical Assistance for Design Review Description - Provide technical assistance to the NRC by performing tasks related to the review, evaluation and comment on the safety aspects of the design of a geologic repository.
Period of Performance - 2 Years Sponsor - NMSS Status - Competitive negotiations are being conducted 3/3/82 through 3/12/82.
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RFP No. RS-NMS-82-034 4
Title - MCLAMS Modification Description - The objective is to incorporate additional statistical features l
into the AMASS model that will permit obtaining a probability distribution for the estimated inventory difference taking into account such factors as the uncertainty associated with the i
estimates for measurement error variances that result from the licensee's analysis of measurement control data as well as i
estimates for process and non-measurement errors (These are features that were incorporated into the earlier MCLAMS Model).
i Period of Perfomance - One year from date of contract award Sponsor - NMSS Status - Best and Final Proposals due March 10, 1982 at 3:30 p.m.
RFP No. RS-NMS-82-033 3.
Title - Development of a Material Accounting Data Storage / Analysis System Description - The contractor shall develop a simple computerized Material Accounting Data Storage / Analysis System utilizing the NIH computer facility in conjunction with NRC based hardware.
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Period oT Performance - 18 months after award Sponsor - NMSS Status - Proposals under technical evaluation 3/02/82 through 3/12/82 CONTRACTS AWARDED NRC-19-82-491 1.
Title - Material Balance Capability of a Process Similar to that at NFS, Erwin, TN.
Description - The study will provide basic technical information needed to review general safeguards issues related to complex chemical i
processes in the manufacture of nuclear fuel containing highly enriched uranium.
j Period of Performance - Two months
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Sponsor - Office of Policy Evaluation Status - Sole Source Cost plus Fixed Fee Contract Totaling $11,18S.58-awarded March 2, 1982 to NUSAC, Inc.
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. Contracts Awarded (Cont'd.)
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RS-NHS-82-038 Title - Licensing Assistance /Geotechnical and Hydrological Evaluation, Moab, Utah, Mineral Mill Description - The contractor shall review and make an assesstent of the adequacy of the Geotechnical and Hydrological Design of a proposed raise to the tailings embankment system at Atlas Minerals Moab, Utah.
Period of Performance - Jne year with six month option Sponsor - NMSS Status - Award was made to Geotechnical Engineers, Inc. on February 25,1982 in the amount of $12.018.14 on a time and material baris.
CONTRACTS CLOSED OUT (All administrative action completed and final payrent made)
NRC-10-79-676 Dr. Marvin L. Roush 2/26/82 NRC-06-80-302 Memorial Sloan-Kettering 3/01/82 Cancer Center NRC-19-81-492 Dr. Lester Lave 3/04/82 AT(49-24)-0294 Science Applications, Inc.
3/02/82 NRC-03-80-105 Teknekron Research, Inc.
,3/04/82 NRC-04-76-175 University of Florida 3/03/82 NRC-04-78-266 Stanford University 3/03/82 ENCLOSURE A f
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Division of Facilities and Operations Support Week Ending March 5, 1982
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Protected Comunications for Safeguards Information On March 1,1982, limited protection devices for voice comunications were activated in IE, NMSS NRR, and each Region. The primary purpose of these devices is to facilitate the exchange of Safeguards Information among designated NRC offices.
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WEEK ENDING MARCH 5,1982 North Anna Power Station, Units 1 and 2 l
i The Appeal Board (ASLAP) has completed its preliminary examination of recently prepared NRC staff and VEPCO written testimony regarding turbine missiles.
l Turbine missiles has been an open issue in the North Anna ASLAP proceedings l
since February 27, 1978.
The ASLAP has informed the utility that there is no necessity for an additional evidentiary hearing regarding turbine missiles. Absent further word to the-i contrary, the utility may now assume that the issue will be decided by the Board l
on the record as it now stands.
,i Crystal River Unit 3 (CR-3)
.At 8:40am on March 2,1982, CR-3 started operation following a one month shutdown to repair a leak in the makeup line to loop A reactor i
inlet line. The repair consisted of replacing the safe end, the thermal sleeve, the check valve and adding about 5 inches of pipe between the safe end and the check valve. In addition, strain gages, i
thermocouples and accoustic monitoring was added to the line. The minimum by pass flow through the makeup line was also increased from l
IGPM to about 15GPM.
g R. E. GINNA On March 1, 1952 members of the NRC staff met with RG&E to discuss the preposed recovery program for R. E. Ginna. RG&E presented results of its steam generator (S/G) inspections to date, including videotape of the damage l
sustained by seme of the peripheral tubes. RG&E presented an outline of its overall recovery program for the "B" S/G. They presented a written submittal j
re:;uesting permission to remove a small number of S/G tube sections for metallurgical examination in order to obtain additional information necessary 1
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to finalize repair plans and to assist in determination of the failure mechanism.
The NRC staff concurred with the proposal and instructed RG&E to inform the NRC if additional tubes that might provide valuable information are to be removed.
Upon completion of the tube sample removal, RG&E will perform previously planned-maintenance to the upper portions of the steam generator while formulating its final course of action. The licensee expects to be able to return for a meeting with the staff to present its finalized recovery program in the next two or three j
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Later in the day on March 1,1982, the pilot hole was completed in the side of the "B" 5/G in the vicinity of the ruptured tube. Visual inspection through the hole showed that the two tubes (R43C55 and R44C55) in front of the ruptured tube (R42C55) are severed near the tube sheet.
The By pushing these t.ubes to the side, RG&E was able to view the burst.
burst is facing directly towards the two tubes betw'een the ruptured tube The licensee is proceeding to expand the hole to and the tube wrapper.
3 inches in diameter in preparation for removing the ruptured tube and other tubes as described in their submittal.
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NRC TMI PROGRAM OFFICE WEEKLY STATUS REPORT February 28,1982 - March 5,1982
-Plant Status-i Core Cooling Mode: Heat transfer from the reactor coolant system (RCS) loops to reactor building ambient.
Available Core Cooling Modes: Decay heat removal systems.
Long term cooling "B" (once through steam generator-B).
RCS Pressure Control Mode: Standby pressure control (SPC) system.
Backup Pressure Control Modes: Mini decay heat removal (MDHR) system.
Decay heat removal (DHR) system.
Major Parameters (as of 0500, March 5,1982) (approximate values)
Average Incore Thermocouples: 103*F Maximum Incore Thermocouple:
133*F RCS Loop Temperatures:
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Hot Leg 95'F 98'F l
j Cold Leg (1) 80*F 82'F (2) 86*F 87'F RCS Pressure: 96 psig Reactor Building: Temperature :
63*F Water level:
Elevation 283.1 ft. (0.4 ft, from floor) i Pressure:
-0.2 psig Airborne Radionuclide Concentrations :
4.0 E-6 uCi/cc H3 (sample taken 3/1/82) 7.5 E-6 uCi/cc Kr85 (sample taken 3/1/82) i Effluent and Environmental (Radiological) Information 1.
Liquid effluents from the TMI site released to the Susquehanna l
River after processing, were made within the regulatory limits and in accordance with NRC requirements and City of Lancaster Agreement dated February 27, 1980.
During the period February 26, 1982, through March 4,1982, the effluents contained no detectable radioactivity at the discharge point and individual effluent sources, which originated within Unit 2, contained no detectable radioactivity.
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1.l Airborne releases to the environment, as measured Airborne Effluents.
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Dy licensee installed monitors at discharge stacks, are listed below.
The airborne releases were well within regulatory limits.
d January 1982 Unit II
_EPICOR II Noble Gases (Ci)
<1.60 x 102
<2.13 Particulates (C1) 4.85 x 10-5 9.76 x 10-7 Tritium (Ci) 6.78 3.06 x 10-2 3.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Data.
The EPA Middletown Office has not received tha analytical results for Kr-85 measurements around the TMI site from the EPA's Counting Laboratory at Las Vegas, Nevada. When these results become available, they will be included in a subsequent report.
No radiation above normally occurring background levels was detected in any of the samples collected from EPA's air and gamma rate networks during the period from February 24, 1982 i
through March 4, 1982.
4 NRC Environmental Data.
Results from NRC monitoring of the environment around tne TMI site were as follows:
The following are the NRC air sample analytical results for the onsite continuous air sampler:
I -1 31 Cs-137 Samp1'e Period (uCi/cc)
(uCi/cc)
HP-309 February 24,1982 - March 3,.1982
<6.0 E-14 <6.0 E-14 5.
License Radioacti_ve Material and Radwaste Shipments.
On Tuesday, March 2,1982, four one liter EPICOR II samples from Unit 2 were shipped to the State of Maryland Laboratory and Research Facility, Baltimore, Maryland..
I On Thursday, March 4,1982, six liquid samples from Unit 2 (various plant locations) were shipped to the Westinghouse Electric Corp. Laboratory, Waltz Mills, Pennsylvania.
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Major Activities 1.
Submerced Demineraliier_ System (SDS). Processing of batch 22 continued Baten 23 will process accumulated auxiliary during the week.
building bleed tank water and is scheduled for next week after SDS will then enter an outage prior to completion of batch 22.
processing of reactor coolant system water, now scheduled for May.
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EpICOR II. The EPICOR II system continued to process SDS effluents during the week, Performance parameters are included in Attachment 1.
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Reactor Buildino Entries.
Four reactor building (RB) entries were concutted during the past week. Entries were originally scheduled l
for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (March 2, 3, and 4,1982).
Due to mechanical problems, all the scheduled gross decontamination experiment tasks were not completed during the entries and an additional entry was made on Friday in an attempt to get back on schedule.
On Friday, minor operational problems arose with the high pressure pump which supplies flush water to the RB and the entry was terminated.
Despite the problems, a low pressure flush of the 305 f t. elevation surfaces was completed and some decontamination was performed on the polar crane.
The pump leak is being repaired and it is expected that the gross decontamination experiment will continue next week.
The following list of decontamination tasks will be performed when the pump is repaired:
1 Iow pressure flush of the polar crane 2.
low pressure flush of the refueling pool 3.
low and high pressure flush of the 347 ft. elevation surfaces 4
high pressure flush of the 305 ft. elevation surfaces The effectiveness of the completed low pressure flush of the 305 ft.
elevation is being evaluated from the data collected before and after the decontamination.
Prior to the start of the gross decontamination experiment, the water level in the RS was pumped down to approximately six inches (s30,000 gallons) above the RB sump. The decrease in water depth from approximately eight feet to six inches did not produce a detectable change in the RB ambient radiation levels. The decontamination experiment in addition to removing some of the loose surface contamination, will dilute the radioactive water remaining in the RB basement. Several thousand gallons of water will be added to the sump during the decontamination experiment.
The sump water will be eventually processed with the SDS.
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_4 Future Meetings On Saturday, Mar.ch 13, 1982, Lake Barrett will address the Society 1.
of Panufacturing Engineers in Williamsport, PA, on the cleanup of TMI and general aspects of nuclear power.
On Wednesday, April 14, 1982 Lake Barrett will be the keynote speaker for the Southern Pennsylvania Association of Occupational 2.
Health Nurses, to be held at the Holiday Inn in York.
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ATTACHMENT 1 EPICOR II Performance February 23, 1982 to March 1,1982 Average Average Average Radionuclide Infl uent_
Ef fluent DF lut/mi)
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Cesium 137 7.4 x 10-4 5.4 x 10-7 1.4 x 103 Strontium 90 6.0 x 10-3
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Antimony 125 1.0 x 10-2
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0FFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending March 5,1982 Korean Safecuards On February 25, 1982, a Division of Safeguards representative met with Dr. Kang, Director General of the Korean Atomic Energy Bureau, to discuss the status of material control and accounting regulations. The US has been providing assistance to the Republic of Korea in the development of a State System of Accounting and Control (SSAC) during the last several years. Dr. Kang indi-l cated that a final draft should be forthcoming in early CY83.
1 Exxon LEU Nuclear Material Control Licensing Section personnel met with Exxon managenent staff on February 26, 1982, to discuss proposed changes to the Fundamental Nuclear Material Control Plan for the low enriched uranium operations. Topics l
included the concept of a single material balance area, loss localization, l
and improving the item control program.
Exxon is expected to make a formal l
submittal of changes by late spring.
Clinch River EIS A meeting was held on February 26, 1982, with Paul Leech, Clinch River EIS Project Manager, and ELD.
Mr. Leech gave us the 1976/77 interrogatories, staff responses, and admissions related to safeguards and schedules were developed for reviewing and updating this material.
ELD agreed that our proposed approach of reviewing DOE's EIS at a general safeguards systems and performance capability level is appropriate. Subsequent meetings on CRBR were held with the NMSS technical assistant contractor (PNL) on March 1 and with DOE on March 2 to discuss the deficiencies in DOE's submittal.
Homer Lowenberg indicated that the fuel cycle and safeguards environmental review would be considered to have started on March 1,1982. We informed DOE that we would need all additional information, except the cost data, by March 10,1982, and the cost data by March 17, 1982, and that any delays in completion of their submittal would adversely affect our ability to meet our schedule.
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2 Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS)
On February 25 a member of the Fuel Cycle Licensing staff attended a meeting at NRC's Region II office with the Region 11 staff and the Nuclear Fuel Services' (NFS) Erwin, Tennessee' staff. The meeting was called at the request of NFS to discuss the results of Region II's evaluation of the radiation safety practices at NFS. After the discussion NFS agreed to provide Region II with formal responses to the significant findings.
West Valley Written notification has been received from DOE that they assumed possession and control of the West Valley facility at 11:45 p.m., February 25, 1982, in accordance with the West Valley Demonstration Project Act and as permitted by the amendment of the facility license issued September 30, 1981 by the staff.
Formal notification of the transfer also is being transmitted by the co-licensees.
Spent Fuel Storace On March 1,1982 NMSS and NRR staff met with VEPC0 representatives to discuss spent fuel storage options being considered by VEPC0. These options include increasing capacity through re-racking of the North Anna 1&2 pool and construc-tion of a large capacity pool as part of North Anna 3.
VEPC0 also expressed interest in dry cask storage of fuel at its Surry site if trans-shipment of fuel from Surry to North Anna is not permitted. VEPC0 is considering such an application in 1984 to take advantage of staff evaluation of topical reports from dry cask vendors and the TVA demonstration of dry cask storage (TVA is expected to file for license authority in late FY83 or early FY84 for license authority for the demonstration). Timing of the license review on the VEPCO application was discussed because the Surry site is expected to lose full core reserve in 1985 and fill the existing pool in 1987.
Further reracking or rod consolidation at Surry does not appear feasible because of structural considerations.
On March 2, 1982 NMSS staff met with Ridihalgh, Eggers and Associates (REA) on a topical report to be submitted by REA for its dry spent fuel storage cask design. The topical report will describe the cask design selected by DOE for demonstration testing, probably at the TVA Browns Ferry site. The steel and lead cask will have a capacity of 52 BWR assemblies (10 MTU) or 24 PWR assem-blies (11.5 MTU) that have aged 5 years or more. The REA topical report was delayed as a result of the DOE proposal, but is now scheduled for submittal to NRC by July 1982.
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3 Meetino with the Veterans Administration On Tuesday, March 2,1982, Dr. William Walker and Patricia Vacca of the Material Licensing Branch, Medical and Academic Section, m6t with Dr. James Smith, Veterans Administration's Nuclear Medicine Program Coordinator. They discussed the VA's electronic transmission system for remote nuclear medicine services. Diagnostic studies are perforred at a remote site and the resulting image is then transmitted to a large center for interpretation. Some problems of isotope user qualifications must still be resolved before the system can be expanded. The NRC staff proposed a solution involving additional VA sponsored training for the physician at each remote site. The VA will study the new proposal.
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Meetincs - Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety l
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Subject:
Discussion of Transportation of Nuclear Material with public officials at meeting arranged by Congressman Harkin in Creston, Iowa.
Date/ Time:
March 4, 1982, 7:00 pm Location:
Creston, Iowa Attendees:
C. E. MacDonald and C. Hillman (NMSS); Representative l
from Region III and Congressman Harkin.
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Subject:
Meeting to discuss American Society of Mechanical Engineering nuclear packaging code.
Date/ Time:
March 5, 1982, 8:30-3:00 Location:
Room 106, Willste Building Attendees:
H. W. Lee, C. R. Chappell and D. T. Huang (NMSS),
1 NRC Consultant and Representatives from RES and TransNuclear Corp.
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Subject:
Meeting to discuss licensing actions with Kerr-McGee.
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March 10-12, 1982
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Oklahoma City and f;immaron, Oklahoma Attendees:
W. Burkhardt and Eep esentatives from Kerr-McGee Meetinos - Division of Safecuards l
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Subject:
Quarterly meeting between the NRC and the INMM Date/ Time: March 9, 1982, 1:00 p.m.
Location:
Willste Building, 9th Floor Conference Room Attendees: Bob Sorenson, Charles Vaughn, Roy Nilson, F. G. Molen Div. of Safeguards Branch Chiefs Division Directors j
IfM4 Safeguards Co=ittee Members 2.
Subject:
Orientation of Safeguards Developments Date/ Time: Trip 1 - March 10-12, 1982 Trip 2 - March 24-26, 1982 Locaticn:
AGNS - Barnwell, SC Attendees: Jim Ellis and others (AGNS)
Trip 1:
L. Wirfs, G. Gardes, O. Smith, T. Sherr, D. Joy, M. Miller Trip 2:
D. Chape11, D. Mausshardt, C. Nulsen, A. Giarratana, M. Smith, R. Rentschler, B. Mendelsohn 3.
Subject:
IHt*M Technical Workshop on Physical Protection Date/ Time: March 16-19, 1982 Location:
Osage Beach, Missouri Attendees:
R. F.Burnett - Invited Speaker L. Quinn - Workshop coordinator ENCLOSURE C l
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L Meetinos - Division of Maste Managm_ent, 1.
Subject:
Symposium on Land Disposal of Hazardous Waste; Landfill Design and Operation, Pollutant Movement; Landfill Control Technology--Liner Systems; and Land Treatment--Reredial Action Economics Date/ Titre:
March 7-10, 1982 Location:
Ft. Mitchell, KY Attendees:
Roger Pennifill, UMLL/NRC; EPA Representatives 2.
Subject:
Discussion of Future Tailings Management Program for Sweetwater Mill Date/ Time:
March 9, 1982, 11:00 a.m.
Location:
4th Floor Conference Room, Willste Building Attendees:
John Abraro, Minerals Exploration; Ross Scarano, WKJR/NRC 3.
Subject:
Feeting with University of Arizona Contractors Date/ Time:
March 9-12, 1982 Location:
Tucson, AZ Attendees:
Ellen Quinn, WMHL/ftRC; University of Arizona contractors l
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0FFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT 11 EMS OF INTEREST Fbrch 1,1982 - March 5,1982 1.
There were no Significant Enforcement Actions imposed during the past week.
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Preliminary Notifications relating to the following actions were dis-patched during the week:
PNO-I-82-22, Northeast Nuclear Energy Company (Millstone Unit 1) -
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Potentially Generic Failure Mode of General Electric Type HFA Relays.
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PNO-II-82-22, Potomac Hospital Corporation (Potomac Memorial Hospital) - Possible Theft of M099/TC-99M Spent Generators From Interstate Comerce.
PNO-II-82-23, Tenneseee Valley Authority (Sequoyah Unit 1) - Shut-c.
down of More Than Two Days.
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PNO-II-82-24, 24A, and 24B Duke Power Company (0conee Unit 3) -
Extended Outage.
PNO-II-82-25, Tennessee Valley Authority (Hartsville Units Al and e.
A2, and Yellow Creek Unit 1) - Deferral of TVA Units.
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PNO-III-82-25A and 25B, Connonwealth Edison Company (Zion Unit 1) -
l Hinge Fragments Found in Two Steam Generators, Updates.
PNO-IV-82-07 Cleveland X-Ray Inspection, Inc. - Building Containing l
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Radioactive Devices Destroyed in Fire.
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PNO-V-82-ll, Exxon Nuclear Company - Uranium Hexafluoride Gas Release.
- i. PNO-TMI-82-04; GPU Nuclear Corporation (Three Mile Island Unit 2) -
Reactor Building Basement Water Transfer.
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IE Information Notice No. 82 Environmental Tests of Elec Wifel. Terminal _ ~.
Blocks was issued on March 4,1982 to all power reactor facilities holding l
an operating license or construction pemit.
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Other Items:
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Division of Fuel Facilities, Materials,and Safecuards j
IE staff members are visiting selected nuclear utilities to obtain information about company policies and programs dealing with drug and alcohol abuse. Discussions have been held with VEPCO, Duke Power, Northeast Utilities and General Public Utilities. Although varying somewhat in detail, each utility has invested significant resources in an effort to screen out candidates for employment with undesirable tendencies or records and to prevent employees from working who were under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance.
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Division of Emercency Preparedness l
i EPLB staff members participated in the emergency preparedness implemen-l tation appraisal at McGuire, which began on March 2,1982.
Director, DEP, participated in the Zimmer hearing on emergency l
preparedness issues on March 2,1982.
Chief EPLB, participated in the exit briefing on March 4,1982 for j
the emergency preparedness implementation appraisal at Trojan.
l Director, DEP, testified as part of a Federal Agency Panel on Potassium 1
Iodide before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation (Interior t
Committee ) on March 5, 1982.
Chief. EPLB, and an EPLB staff member visited the Oregon State University radiation center and IMW Triga fueled research reactor and i
met with licensee management to discuss emergency planning on March 5, i
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problem recently identifed at the Millstone and Monticello reactor facilities. A " Generic Issue Identification and Progress Report" was distributed to Regional Administrators and the Directors of NRR, RES, j
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Enforcement Staff Payment of Civil Penalty - On Februa ; 26, 1982, NRC received payment in full of $200,000 from Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company for civil penalty imposed on November 24, 1982.
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Debris / Concrete Interactions Tests are being conducted at Sandia to evaluate the interaction of hot core debris with concrete and to determine the effects of pre-or post-A test, completed March 2,1982, consistgd of water flooding with water.
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A stable added to a 10 inch thick bed of steel particles heated to 1340 pool of water was established over the debris bed. Erosion of the limestone concrete, downward and outward through the 4 inch wall of the crucible, occurred in a couple of hours. The debris bed was induction heated and consisted of 100 lb. of 3 m diameter steel particles.
The test was instrumented with numerous thermocouples, gas emission samplers, boiling and steam generation sensors, and upward heat flux measurement devices.
Preliminary results will be presented at the RES midyear review in the latter part of March.
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As part of the TRAC-PD2 Independent Assessment Program, BNL completed 1.
the following reports:
" Analysis of BCL Transient ECC Bypass Test with TRAC-PD2/ MODI Code" a.
by G. Slovik and P. Saha, paper accepted for presentation in ANS meeting, report number pending.
"Use of Separate Effects Experiments in Verification of System Thermal b.
Hydraulics" by P. Saha, paper invited for presentation in ANS meeting, BNL-NUREG-30779.
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A draft of COBRA / TRAC Develcomental Assessment Data Comparisons was released by PNL for NRC coments.
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NRC received a request for COBRA / TRAC code from Battelle Institute in Frankfurt, West Germany.
The RAMONA-3B code (which has 3-D nucleonics capability) was used at BNL, 4.
to calculate a postulated partial ATVS. Calculations of this test problem were performed in order to test and demonstrate the capabilities of the code.
The results show continuous relief valve cycling and oscillations of system pressure, core power with flow rate, voids, etc.
Critical heat flux conditions were not reached during these calculations.
These calculations and results will be presented in the RAMONA-3B Manual Report to be released to NRC by March 15, 1982.
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l OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING MARCH 5,1982 Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant, Units 1 and 2 l
On March 5,1982, the Commission issued an Order denying a request of Governor Brown that the Commission take direct review of the December 23, 1981 decision of the Licensing Board in this proceeding disallowing the l
Governor's contention that: "Neither PG&E's onsite plan nor the County or State offsite preparedness plans address the complications arising from l
attempting emergency responses during an earthquake situation." The l
Commission concluded that the request was an impermissible interlocutory appeal under the Commission's Rules of Practice.
Seabrook Station, Units 1 and 2 On March 3,1982, the Appeal Board issued a Decision on Remand regarding certain seismic issues which had been remanded to it by the Commission.
l Specifically, the Appeal Board addressed: (1) the question of the acceptability of Dr. Michael Chinnery's methodology for determining the maximum intensity earthquake which could be expected at the Seabrook site; and (ii) whether the staff's methodology for correlating vibrating motion with the SSE is consistent with Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 100. With regard to the first question the Appeal Board concluded that Dr. Chinnery's methodology has l
not been shown to be a credible means of predicting the maximum intensity l
of seismic motion at a particular site.
Concerning the second question, the l
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Berthier is one of several foreign regulatory personnel with immediate responsi-bility for emergency preparedness activities in their own countries who are being.
selectively scheduled to participate as a part of the NRC observation team in emergency preparedness exercises at U.S. facilities.
On Thursday a thirteen-member delegation, headed by the Japan Power Plant Inspection Institute, met with R. Serbu of the NRR Radiological Assessment Branch and R. Senseney of IP for an overview of NRC and radiation protection philosophy during accident and maintenance situations.
On Friday Mr. Esko Ruokola of the Finnish Institute of Radiation Protection met with F. Costanzi and S. Wastler of the RES Waste Management Branch to discuss the status of rulemaking for waste disposal (10 CFR Parts 60 and 61).
House Hearing on IAEA Safeguards Matters On March 3 a meeting of the Subcomittees on International Security and Scientific Affairs and on International Economic Policy and Trade was held.. The subject of the j
meeting was improving IAEA safeguards. Testimony was presented by Senator Gary Hart, Mr.
Myron Kratzer of International Energy Associates, Ltd., Dr. Lawrence Scheinman of Cornell University, Mr. Paul Leventhal of the Nuclear Club, and Mr. Henry Sokolski of the Heritage Foundation. Copies of the testimony are being made available to interested offices. On March 18 a meeting of these subcomittees will be held to hear testimony from Government witnesses, including State and NRC. Draft testimony for the Chairman to present was prepared by NMSS ELD, and IP.
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- Foreign Reports The following foreign reports were received in IP March 1-5:
(For further information contact Eva Szent-Ivany. IP, X27788.)
From Belgium:
Study of the Corrosion Products in the Primary System of BLG 552 PWR Plants as the Source of Radiation Fields Build-Up**
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KTA - Annual Report 1980 From Italy:
CNEN-RT/ DISP (81)8 - Procedures for Handling Accidentally Irradiated and Contaminated People CNEN-RT/ PROT (81)21 - Complete Daily Diet samples Collected of the Normal Italian Population Living in an Environment Unexposed to Local Releases of Plutonium CNEN-RT/ PROT (81)23 - Method to Evaluate Frequencies of the Various Stability i
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l CNEN-RT/ PROT (81)24 - The Results Obtained in Structural Analysis From Sweden:
SKI - Summary of the Present Swedish Licensing and Regulatory Position and Mitigation of Radioactive Releases in the Case of Severe Accidents **
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0FFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING MARCH 5, 1982 18, 1982, Governor Thone of Nebraska requested By letter dated February that the Commission reassert its authority over uranium mining and milling activities in that State since the State does not have the necessary legislation or regulations to protect the public health and safety from such activities. The State expects to receive a license application for such activity in the next few months.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS Items of Interest WEEK ENDING - MARCH 5,1982 Briefine Paper for Chairman Prepared backgrounder for Chairman Palladino prior to his meeting with V/Adm. McKee (Rickover's successor). Paper summarizes NRC's activities with DOE Division of Naval Reactors and D00.
Publication Distributed " Licensed Operating Reactors, Status Summary Report" (Gray Book), Vol. 5, No. 11 NUREG-0020.
Annual Report Sent draft of Report to Commission for review. Draft due Rep. Bevill's staff 3/17.
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FY 1982 Pay Supplemental Contrary to past practices, the President did not submit legislation for a pay raise supplemental along with his submission of the FY 1983 budget to OMB has, however, allowed agencies to resubmit their requests On March 4, the NRC Congress.
for a pay raise supplemental by early March.
resubmitted a request for an FY 1982 pay raise supplemental for the j
currently estimated unfunded portion of the October 1,1981 andThe amo January 1,1982 pay raises.
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Prooosed LER Rule (SECY-82-3)
On March 3, representatives of AEOD met with the ACRS Reactor Operations Subcommittee to discuss the proposed LER rule now before the Commission (SECY-82-3). Following the agenda provided by the Subcommittee, discussion covered: formulation and coordination of the rule to meet Commission-wide needs; design of the Sequence Coding and Search System (SCSS); plans for i
sof tware development to support trends and patterns analyses; and coverage l
of the rule and its relationship to NPRDS and current data gathering efforts.
On March 4, Dr. Mathias indicated to the full ACRS the Subcommittee's findings that the proposed LER rule was a substantial improvement over the present LER reporting requirements and that it should be issued without delay.
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On March 1,1982, Mr. William B. Menczer, Regional State Liaison Officer -
Region III was in Elk River, Minnesota meeting with the Regional Assistance Committee, Region V, Northern States Power Company and the State of l
Minnesota regarding arrangements for the Monticello exercise.
On March 2,1982, Mr. Menczer was in St. Paul, Minnesota at the State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) leading a teem of federal observers during an exercise of State emergency plans in support of the Monticello Station.
During the exercise Mr. Henczer met with Governor Al Quie, Stanley Anderson, Acting Director, Division of Emergency Services, and other senior State i
officials to discuss the operation of State activities.
On March 3,1982, Mr. Menczer was in Buffalo, Minnesota neeting with the Regional Assistance Committee to consolidate observer comments on the exercise. Generally, the exercise demonstrated adeountely, the State's capabilities to respond to a radiological emergency. A major deficiency still existing is the lack of a single joint information center.
Infor-mation centers were located in Wright County, Sherbourne County and the State capitol and at the utility's headquarters office, resulting in confusion and lack of coordination among spokespersons.
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j Station to the General Electric-Morris facility. Representation from the Nebraska Public Power District, Burlington Northern Railroad, NMSS, General Electric Corporation, and the Iowa Office of Disaster Services served on a panel to explain their responsibilities to local officials. NRC repre-sentation at the meetino was at the request of U.S. Representative Thomas Harkin of Iowa.
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Fuel loading was completed at 2:03 p.m. (PST) on 2/26/82. A detailed video tape recording of the core loading was prepared for record purposes, and l
mechanical and electrical assembly of the reactor internals and control rod system was initiated.
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l San Onofre DN 50-206 The plant shut down about midnight on the morning of 2/27/82, for a scheduled 12 to 14 week outage. Preparations for steam generator inspection and seismic upgrading of portions of the turbine buildino were initiated.
The modified safety injection system was satisfactorily tested on 2/28/82 and exhibited no measurable increase in valve opening forces.
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The dose equivalent iodine concentration of the primary coolant appears to have decreased slightly or reached a plateau. The latest analytical results indicate a range of 70 to 80 percent of the Technical Specification (TS) limit. Cross specific activity is 45 to 50 percent of the TS limit, and steam generator leakage is now less than five gallons per day.
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STAFF REQUIREMENTS -- EMERGENCY PLANNING (REF: SECY-81-622A - DRAFT COMMISSION ORDER ON SAN ONOFRE SUA SPONTE), Memo Secy to Dircks, 3/1/82 1
i The San onofre Licensing Board has identified emergency planning areas which, in the Board's opinion, deserve further consideration.
The Commission has removed this issue from
,the hearing, and requests that the staff now take several actions to follow up on the issues raised by the Board.
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Should the emerg'ency planning activities of NRC licensees include consideration of the possible effects on emergency plans of a very large earthquake?
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If the staff concludes that rulemaking is appropriate, then it should prepa,re the necessary documents l
for Commission consideration.
The Commission should also 4xr informed if the staff concludes rulemaking is not necessary.
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DCE Commissioner Ahearne agrees with the Licensing Board that the identified areas deserve further consideration.
He believes plans should be designed so thay have flexibility and can provide protection even in-the event of a plant accident at the same time as the occurrence of a natural phenomenon (i.e. earthquake, flood, tornado, blizzard, etc.)
which would be expected to occur at least once in the lifetime of a p1' ant.
The objective is not to develop new requirements to assure the plans will function normally during these disa. ster s.
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the flexibility of the plans so we can evaluate the extent to which plans remain capable even in the face of such once i
in a lifetime events.
Consequently he believes the following actions should be taken:
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The staff should, in conjunction with FEMA, dev,elop an approach for checking the ability of emergency plans to cope with natural phenomena which would be expected to occur during the life of the plant.
Examples are:
earthquakes, blizzards, tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and floods that might be expected once every 40 years.
FEMA and the staff should develop quidelines for examining plans for flexibility and should identify measures which can be used to assure flexibility.
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STAFF REOUIREMENTS (Cont'd) 2.
The staff should develop a list of the once in a lifetime natural disasters nost likely for each plant either holding an operating license or in the OL process.
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Existing emergency plans should be examined to determine whether adequate flexibility is present.
He would then amend the emergency planning rule to incorporate whatever flexibility features are determined to be required.
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SECY-82 PROPOSED AMENDED AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NRC AND THE STATE OF COLORADO PURSUANT TO SECTION 274 0F THE ATOMIC ENERGY ACT OF 1954, AS AMENDED, Memo Secy to Dircks, 3/1/82 This is to advise you that the Commission (with three Commissioners approving) has approved the proposed amendment to the existing section 274b Agreement with the State of Colorado.
Commissioners Gilinsky and Bradford disa'pproved the paper
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because they do not believe that a program without civil penalty is compatible with that of NRC.
The Office of State Programs was informed of this action by telephone on February 26, 1982.
It is requested that you forward to the Office of the Secretary a copy of the agreement for the signature of Chairman Palladino by c.o.b. Friday, March 12, 1982.
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SECY-82 PROPOSED TRANSFER OF SWISS PLUTONIUM FOR USE IN THE SUPER PHENIX BREEDER REACTOR (FRANCE) OR THE SNR 300 BREEDER REACTOR (FRG), Memo Secy to Dircks, 3/2/82 This is to advise you that the Commission (with Chairman
, Palladino and Commissioners Ahearne and Roberts approving) has approved the proposed letter to the Department of l
Energy (DOE) with comments that are contained in the attached final draft of the letter.
I Commissioner Gilinsky disapproved the letter with the following statement:
"This represents another step toward loss of U.S.
control over plutonium produced through use of U.S. supplied i
fuel."
Commissioner Bradford has separate views.
I The Office of International Programs was informed of this action by telephone on March 2, 1982.
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