ML20063N756

Response to Request for Production of Documents

ML20063N756
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	10/06/1982
From:	Sinclair M BISHOP, L.L., SINCLAIR, M.P.
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NUDOCS 8210070140
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Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board *26 UbhffE El t tap a 0 NVICf In the Matter of )

) Docket Nos. 50-329 CONSUMERS POWER COMP ANY, ) 50-330

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( Midland Plan t , Units 1 and 2 ) ) Operating License RESPONSE OF MARY SINCLAIR TO REQUEST POR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS Category I

1) Article attached

2) Sandia report not a ttached, as already in pos-session of all parties Category II Contention 3 :

a) No witnesses anticipated b), c) NUREG /CR /249 7 (June 1982) requested from Staff, not yet received. Will transmit when available.

Contention 5 : ,

a) No witnesses anticipated b), c) DES, FES not attached, as in possession of parties Contention 7 :

a) No witnesses anticipated b), c) Sandia report (see Category I) .

Category III Contention 3:

Relied on FES, (1982), DES, (1982), Lewis Report,

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Contention 5 :

Relled on PES, DOS, and Sinclair Memo to Gregg Taylor of Attorney-General's of fice based on visi t to Midland of James C ar so n , meteorologist of Argonne National 1. abo r a t or y to provide new data on the cooling pond based on observations of the Dresden pond. Not attached as already in possession of parties.

Contention 7:

Relied on abstract in Industrial Rese ar ch and Development, June, 1982, and Sandia Report sent by Applicant in response to Contention 7.

See response to Category I .

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LANL study disputes work as melanoma cause l The number of melanoma cases among workers at Los Alamos Nationa

' Lab (LANL)in New Mexico is no higher than what is expected, and exposure to low-level occupational radiation does not appear to be a factor in the onset of this form of cancer, according to a recently published report. The study was initiated by the surprising results similar study conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL)in California. That study found that the incidence of melanoma among g

LLNL employees was as much as three times higher than expected

(IR&D August 1980, p. 68).The LANL study found six cases of maligna. *y amcng LANL workers from 1969 to 1978 while 5.69 cases i had been coccted. Because the LANL report is in sharp conn ast with the LLNL re, ort despite the fact that workers at both labs perform similar work and the studies used similar analytical techniques-suggests there are other reasons for the melanoma increase at LLNL "Our inability to confirm the results of the LLNL study raises the possibility that personal factors . . are a likely explanation for the Livermore findings," the report concluded.

. The 34th Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition on Analytical Chemistry 1983 Pittsburgh Conference and Applied Spectroscopy will meet again in Atlantic City from Marc will run March 7 to 12 to 12. Organi:ers of the show are requesting papers from all areas of analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy for the conference. Som specific topic areas are: atomic fluorescence spectroscopy; automa

analysis; electrochemistry; applicationn and instrumentation of gas chromatography; and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Persons wishing to present papers at the conference are asked to submit five copies of a 300 word abstract no later than August 15 to

Linda Briggs program secretary, Pittsburgh Conference,437 Donald Rd., Dept.

Pittsburgh, PA 15235. Those wishing to reserve space at the exposition

, are asked to write to Paul Bauer at the same address.

Mere than 100 professors from a number of North America, universitie i Society wP.! provide forum have formed a society that will provide a forum for discussion of on 'anor talous science' " anomalous phenomena" such as unidentified flying objects and

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parapsychology. The crganization, called the Society for Scientific Exploration, will provide an outlet for " serious at Stanford Univ., and the first president of the society. Sturrock add that, unlike past organizations of this nature, the society will remain neutral on the phenomena it will report on, which will be through a journal to be published by the society. Membership presently inc

' physical scientists, astronomers, anthropologists, historians, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists. The first meeting of t society is scheduled for this month at the Univ. of Maryland.

r"Scientists at Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, have fou I Sandia tests find long term, that long-term, low-level doses of gamma radiation degrades many ,

l low dose radiation harmful to polymers-mainly through embrittlement-more than do equal doses d many polymers used in reactors administered at higher rates in shorter testing times. The tests, d

sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, were condu u

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/ polymer cable insulation and jacketing used in n r O-rings, and gaskets. Besides the dose rate effect, the researcher j " found that synergistic effects, can occur when polymers are exposed t

! radiation and mildly elevated temperatures. Dr. Roger Clough of S

explained that for years it has been assumed that total radiation d

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• Independent of done rata, gavstnsd d:m:ni. Ths pr:mnt tetting m:th:d,

• he said," underestimates the long term effects of radiction exposure on RlI polymers by not taking into account dose. rate efTects and synergisms that display themselves only in longer tests." Wi. 7 I Q -- 1 An agreement has been reached for a cooperative program of nuc! car Los Alamos Lab and Mexico research between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Mexico's sign agreement for nuclear Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares. The agreement will research coHaboration

' specifically help "the Mexican government in its thruct to develop up to g.p .y.

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/ 20,000 MW of electricity from nuclear power by the end of this century,"

4 aid Donald Kerr, director of LANI.. Present:y. Mexico has one hght-water reactor under construction, with most ofits electricity needs coming from conventional gas, oil, and coal sources. The five year agreement willinclude other fields of collaborative research such as fusion, basic nuclear physics, and the economics of nuclear energy. An exchange of scientists and technologies will be involved, Kerr added.

Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz, chairman of the board, emeritus, Avco Everett Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz is Research Laboratory, has recently been elected chairman of the Board of

. elected cha!rman of the Board Directors for the L-5 Society. The 1-5 Society was formed in 1975 and

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N of Directors for L-S Society promotes space development in governmental, industrial, and private t---_ -

sectors. The society played a significant role in lobbying against the controversial Moon Treaty, which would have provided guidelines on future uses of the Earth's moon and outer space (IR&D August 1981, p.

761. Kantrowitz is a member ofIndustrial Research & Deulopment's Editorial Advisory Board. Other o!Ticers that were elected are: Phiiip Chapman, president; Mark llopkins, vice president; Jerry Pournelle, secretary; and Frederick Osborne, treasurer.

Conference will explore lluman behavior in fires, combustion toxicology, hazard analysis, and fire detection and suppression are among topics to be discussed at the applied aspects of Sixth Annual Conference on Fire Research.The meeting will be held at fire research the National Bureau of Standards (NBS)in Gaithersburg, MD, 1 September 20 to 22. This year the focus will be on applied aspects of fire research.The conference will provide averviews of applied research j projects conducted at the NBS Center for Fire Research. For additional i

information en the conference write to Sonye Cherry, Polymers Building I B250 Center for Fire Research, NBS, Washington, DC,20234.

l A process for the extraction of aluminum and other usable metals from Process extracts aluminum, Oy ash has been developed by a team of researchers at Oak Ridge other metals from fly ash National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. The process not only recovers usable metals from fly ash-a waste product from coal combustion-but also could help electric utilities dispose of the fly ash in an 1 environmentally acceptable manner. In the process, fly ash is mixed with i hydrochloric acid to produce a liquid that later crystallizes into a aluminum chloride. From this compound, aluminum can be recovered.

1 The direct. acid leaching process produces a chemically inert by. product 1 that can be easily disposed of after metal recovery, according to the researchers. In terms of numbers, the process could be quite beneficial.

3 U.S. coal-fired steam plants produce 60 million tons of Gy ash a year, ant there are more than 300 lb of alumina and 150 lb ofiron in each ton waste, the researchers said.

4 Scientiste at NASA Lewis Rncarch Center, Cleveland,011, and Genera Material could be used to Electric Co., Schenectady, NY, have developed a ceramic material that strengthen gas turbines shows promise for heat exchangers in gas turbine engine applications.

! The materialis a mix of oxides of zirconium, magnesium, aluminum, an<

1 silicon, and is being called ZrM AS. A benefit of using ZrM AS is that it holds its shape better than single-phase glass ceramic materials, according to the scientists. So far, several full size heat exchanger honeycomb regenerator cores have been made. When tested against a I reference material, ZrM AS was more stable at 2000 F (1100 C) in the presence of sodium and provided expansion characteristics similar to th reference material Scientists are studying marine Scientists from the U.S., Mexico, and Frt..ca are engaged in submersibt dives to study marine life at hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean.

life located at hydrothermal The expedition, called Oasis, marks the first intensive study of marine vents off Mexico's coast communities surrounding hydrothermal vents located about 150 mi (24 km) south of the tip of Baja California, Mexico. The vents are at depths (

about 8,500 ft along the East Pacine Rise, a spreading center of two of Earth's tectonic plates. The plates at the site are separating at about 2 se WMTmAt PESF AnCH & DEVELOPMENTmlVNE 1982

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