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Forwards Technical Evaluation of Deviation in Licensee 810303 Response to Requirements of NUREG-0737 Item II.F.1-1. Technical Evaluation Should Be Forwarded to Licensee for Justification of Deviations
ML20064L057
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Site: 05000000, Robinson
Issue date: 12/15/1981
From: Kreger W
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Novak T
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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FOIA-82-389, TASK-2.F.1, TASK-TM NUDOCS 8201200658
Download: ML20064L057 (2)


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DEC 151931 Docket No. 50-261 MEP.ORANDUM FOR:

Thomas M. Novak, Assistant Director for Operatina Rc= tors. DSI F R0".:

William E. Kreger. Assistant Director for Radiation Protection. DSI

SUBJECT:

H. B. ROBINSON, UNIT NO. 2, TRANSMITTAL TO LICENSEE OF TECHNICAL EVALUATION OF LICENSEE RESPONSE TO ITEM II.F.1, ATTACHMENT 1, NUREG-0737 The licensee's submittal of March 3,1981, in response to requirements of Item II.F.1-1 of NUREG-0737, was identified as being in deviation with respect to the use of detectors mounted externally and internally to ducts containing potential plant gaseous effluents.

A technical evaluation of these deviations was perfonned by the staff's contractor, EXXON Nuclear Idaho Company, and submitted November 2,1981.

The technical evaluation concludes that a radiation detector mounted ex-ternally to the effluent duct is not sufficient to meet the requirements of Table II.F.1-1 of NUREG-0737 for the upper ranges of noble gas effluents, e.g., 10 to 105 2

uCi/cc.

Similarly, a radiation detector mounted internally

_ to the duct, but not shielded from ambient radiation, is not sufficient to megt the requirements of Table II.F.1-1 for concentrations less than 10 uCi/cc, with the exception that if the detector is responsive only to beta radiation, e.g., a beta scintillation detector, such an arrangement could be considered acceptable.

Our concerns over these deviations have been transmitted through the NRR Operating Reactors Project Manager, who has made several phone calls to the licensee concerning this matter, without a resolution of the deviations.

Since no resolution of the deviations has been made, we request that a copy of the enclosed technical evaluation be forsarded to the licensee with a request for either a technical justification of his position or a change of that position by way of a commitment to meet the requirements of Table II.F.1-1 of NUREG-0737.

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