ML20062M919
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| Site: | Hope Creek, 05000355  |
| Issue date: | 12/17/1981 |
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IIOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION MONITORING OF LNG AND LPG SHIPPING AND CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES ON THE DELAWARE RIVER 4
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Docket Nos. 50-354 50-355 i
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o TABLE OF CONTENTS
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SUMMARY
- 2. INTRODUCTION
- 3. YEARLY REPORT 3.1 Total Number of Ships Per Year 3.2 Construction Activity 3.3 Conclusions M P91 162/15-1
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SUMMARY
On November 4, 1974, the Atomic Energy Commission issued Construction Permits (CP) for.the construction of the Hope Creek Generating Station in Salem County,.New Jersey..
The Hope Creek site is. located on'the Delaware River estuary near the southern end of~an artificial peninsula known as Artificial Island.
Amendment No. 5 to the Construction. Permits requires
' PSE&G to monitor activities related to .the shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) on the Delaware. River. This monitoring includes shipping rates of liquefied flammable gases and various types of construction activity. The chemicals clas-sified as liquefied flammable gases are propane, butane, butadiene, vinyl chloride and liquefied natural gas.
The results of this study show that the shipping activ-ity of interest has decreased slightly, and that no new or proposed construction which could have an effect on the probability calculations has apparently'been authorized.
- 2. INTRODUCTION The activities of interest are those which might result in an increased rate of shipping or which could'cause an increased probability of accident occurrence.
' An increase in the shipping rate would occur either should an existing facility increase its importation rate or because of the construction of a new storage or refining facility. PSE&G has monitored these events by keeping in touch with local authorities, contacting those refineries and import terminals on the Delaware River.which are capable of receiving liquid fuels and by reviewing the "Public Notices" issued by the Department of the Army "U.S. Corps of Engineers."
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Although there is currently no LNG shipping.on the river, there have been proposals to initiate such shipping. All have either been withdrawn or re-r jected by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Consequently, there are currently no out-standing proposals for an LNG facility that could possibly affect the' Hope Creek Generating Station.
PSE&G is continuously monitoring the applications received by FERC relating to LNG terminals.
Other types of construction on the Delaware River could also result in increased risk to the Hope Creek Generating Station. It has been estimated (PSE&G, Dockets 50-354 and 50-355 before the NRC,-
exhibits 9,-10, 11) that a flammable vapor cloud which forms as a result of an accidental spill of a liquid fuel on water could travel up to 12 miles.
I Therefore, any spill occurring within a distance of 12 miles up or downstream of the-nuclear facility has to be analyzed to determine if it presents a
, potential hazard to the plant. Currently, with the exception of Tower 97,* there are no rammable ob-jects in.the vicinity of the shipping channel near Hope Creek. However, in the future, docks, jetties, moorings, piles, or other potential obstructions could be constructed in the river. Therefore, PSE&G is monitoring construction activity of this type.
, .The eticulation of the probability of a flammable cloud reaching the Hope Creek plant is,made from a series of conditional probabilities. These proba-bilities involve the expected number of accidents per mile of river. transit, the probability that a spill will result given that an accident occurred, the probability that a vapor cloud will form given that there has been a spill, and the meteorological factor.
The NRC has established guidelines for the accept-able upper limit of,the probability that the Hope Creek Generating Station will be affected by a flam-maole vapor cloud formed as a result of an accident on the river. In an estimate in which the factors are determined based on conservative approximations, the' number of incidents cannot exceed 10 6 per year.
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HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION MONITORING OF LNG AND LPG SHIPPING AND CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES ON THE DELAWARE RIVER
- 3. YEARLY REPORT - 1980 (YR-2)
Docket Nos. 50-354 50-355 M P81 162/15-4.* November 1981
3.1 Total Number of Ships Per Year
.The total number of ships passing by the nuclear plant in 1980 and carrying each of'the designated chemicals was developed by Poten & Partners,.Inc.,
e shipping consultant. The data was derived from U.S. Coast Guard Records, Import'and Export Re-cords, and.the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The list presented in Table 1 specifies the discharge date, quantity, product, vessel, origin and, where possible, the importer. This information is sum-marized in Table 2, and graphically presented on Figures 1 through 5.
Also, the shipments of vinyl chloride have ceased.
This is due to the fact that the manufacturing facility, located in Puerto Rico, from which-the-vinyl chloride was being imported, went out of business.
3.2 Construction Activity The ' construction activity along the Delaware River was monitored through the review of "Public Notices" issued by the U.S. Army Corps, of-Engineers, by contacting various facilities located.
upstream 'of the plant - (see Table 3 and ~ Figure 6) and the Federal. Energy Regulatory' Commission, which is responsible for reviewing and approving any proposals for construction of LNG terminals.
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LIQUEFIELD GAS CAPCOS TRANSITING THE DELAWARE RIVER - 1980 DISCHARGE QUANTITY ~
DATE (METRIC ' IONS) PRODUCI' VESSEL ORIGIN IMPORTER 1/ 8/80 3,167 Butane Clerk Maxwell Venezuela Gulf 1/ 8/80 3,616 Butane Clerk Maxwell Venezuela Gulf 1/20/80 1,857 Butadiene Pascal United Kingdm Exxon 1/21/80 2,319 Butadiene Pascal United Kingdom ICI 1/23/80 7,308 Butane Lincolnshire Venezuela Warren 1/23/80 10,837 Butane Lincolnshire Venezuela Warren 1/14/80 35,605 Propane Hoegh Sword Saudi Arabia Sun 2/ 1/80 8,000 Butane Gay Lussac Venezuela Warren 2/18/80 3,546 Butane Lucian Venezuela Warren 2/18/80 4,489 Butane Lucian Venezuela Warren 6,515 #
2/18/80 t Butane Lucian United Kingdom Warren 3/12/80 2,000 Butadiene Benghazi United Kingdom 3/17/80 2,911 Butadiene Havfrost United Kingdm Exxon 3/16/80 8,692 Butaae Celsius Venezuela 4/20/80 605 Butadiene Bow Elm United Kingdom BP Chem.
4/24/80 1,608 Butadiene Permian Gas United Kingdm 4/24/80 2,500 Butadiene Permian Gas Netherlands 4/10/80 3,992 Butadiene Bow Elm United Kingdm BP Chem.
5/ 8/80 12,831 Butane Discaria Libya Warren 5/15/80 2,271 Butadiene Sunny Duke United Kingdom 6/ 9/80 2,263 Butadiene Sunny Duke United Kingdom 8/12/80 847 Butadiene Nestefox United Kingdom 8/12/80 1,041 Butadiene Nestefox Netherlands 8/19/80 3,912 Butadiene Eirik Raude Netherlands MSK 8/28/80 3,172 butadiene Benghazi France Mitsui 9/12/80 7,057 Butane Sine Maersk Venezuela Warren 9/10/80 2,997 Butadiene Sofie Maerr. Netherlands ICI 10/ /80 10,181 Butane Faraday Venezuela Gulf 12/ 6/80 9,330 Butane Hektor Venezuela Iagoven 12/20/80 10,160 Propane Faraday Venezuela M P81 162/15-6.*
Table 2 SunTnary of Liquid Gas Ships
'Ibtal Number of Ships Vinyl Year Propane Butane Butadiene Chloride IRG Total 1977 1 10 10 25 0 46 1978 5 10 1 25 0 41 1979 1 10 13 0 0 24 1980 2 9 12 0 0 23 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
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Table 2 - Continued Surmary of Liquid Gas Ships
'Ibtal Nunber of Ships .
Vinyl Year- Propane Butane Butadiene Chloride LNG Total I 2001-
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2004 2005 3
2006 2007
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2013 2014 2015 2016-2017 2018 2019 2020-2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 M P81 162/15-8*
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.The focus of our ' review of construction activity was on the following:
- a. Have any LNG or LPG facilities been licensed on the Delaware-River?
- b. Have_any new docking facilities been authorized which might result.in an' increase in transportation of pro-pane, butane,-butadiene, or vinyl chloride?
- 3. Has the. construction of any rammableJobjects in or near the shipping channel in.the 24 mile catchment distance near Hope Creek been proposed or authorized?
An ongoing activity, which has no impact on~the nuclear power plant, is the dredging of the river in front of Arti-ficial Island, on which the plant is located. This activity is sponsored by PSE&G.
3.3 Conclusions Based on our review of "Public Notices" issued by the.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,-responses to inquiry let-
, ters sent to the facilities 31sted in Table 3, and Fed-eral Energy Begulatory' Commission notices, weEconclude that no new or proposed construction which.could have an effect on the probability of a flammable fuel vapor cloud reaching the Hope Creek Generating Station has apparently been authorized.
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Table 3 LPG Facilities located on'the Delaware River Atlantic Richfield Company Box 7709 Philadelphia, PA 19101 (215) 339-2632 British Petroleum Oil Company Marcus Hook, PA 19061 (215) 494-3600 British Petroleum Oil Company Paulsboro, NJ 08066 (609) 423-4000 Cities Services Company Box 300 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74102 (918).586-2211 Getty Oil Company Delawdre City, Delaware 19706 Gulf Oil Company Girard Point, Pa. 19145 (215) 389-3500 Mantua Chemicals Terminal, Inc.
Crown Point Road Thorofare, New Jersey 08086 (609) 423-5400 Mobil Oil Company Paulsboro, New Jersey. 08066 (609) 423-1307 M P81 162/15-10
6 Table 3 - continued Sun Oil Company Marcus Hook, Pa. 19061 (215) 447-1244 Texaco Oil Company Eagle Point, New Jersey 08093 (609) 845-8000.
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