ML20084J250
| ML20084J250 | |
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| Site: | Arkansas Nuclear  |
| Issue date: | 04/13/1984 |
| From: | ARKANSAS POWER & LIGHT CO. |
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ARKANSAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY Arkansas Nuclear One SOLID RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT PROCESS CONTROL PROGRAM Table of Contents Page GENERAL POLICY STATEMENT 3
- 1. PURPOSE 4
- 11. WET WASTE 4 A. Liquid Wet Waste 4 B. Containers, Shipping Casks and Packaging 4 C. Shipping and Disposal 5 D. Laboratory Mixing of Samples 5 E. Solidification Process 5 F. Sampling Program for Solidification 6 G. Free Standing Water (FSW) 6 H. Corrective Actions for Free Standing Water (FSW) 6
- 1. Exothermic Processes 7 111. OILY WASTE 7 IV. SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS 7 V. SPECIAL CASES 8 VI. ALARA 8 Vll. ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS 9 A. Responsibilities 9
- 8. Quality Assurance 9 C. Records 9 D. Reports 9 E. Procedures , 10 F. Changes to the Process Control Program 10 WP84338 PAGE 2
GENERAL POLICY STATEMENT Arkansas Power & Light Company's policy on Solid Radioactive Waste is to conscientiously apply emphasis and attention to those activities i .volved in the Solid Radioactive Waste Management program at Arkansas Nuclear One to main-tain a high level of assurance that radioactive waste products are properly processed, packaged, and shipped in such a manner as to meet or exceed ap-plicable federal and state regulations and Radioactive Waste Burial Site License Criteria.
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- 1. PURPOSE The purpose of the Process ConQol Program (PCP) is to define the neces-sary program guidance used at Arkansas Nuclear One to ensure that Solid Radioactive Waste Management activities result in solid waste products meeting the criteria contained in the Code of Federal Regulations, State Regula-tions and Radioactive Waste Burial Site License Criteria for Solid Radio-active Waste shipment and disposal.
II. WET WASTE A. Liquid Wet Waste Liquid wet wastes at Arkansas Nuclear One are processed by the Radioactive Waste Management program to a condition meeting shipping and disposal criteria on Free Standing Water (FSW). Specific instruc-tions on processing and required FSW limits are contained in plant approved procedures and/or qualified vendor procedures approved by Arkansas Nuclear One.
B. Containers, Shipping Casks and Packaging Solid Radioactive Waste is processed, packaged, and shipped in accordance with Arkansas Nuclear One approved procedures and/or qualified vendor procedures which have been approved by Arkansas Nuclear One. These procedures provide specific instructions which ensure the containers, shipping casks and packaging methods comply with applicabic Code of Federal Regulations, State Regulations and Radioactive Waste Burial Site Criteria.
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l C. Shipping and Disposal Solid Radioactive Waste is pr,epared, loaded and shipped to a Federal and/or State Licensed Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility (Burial Site) in accordance with Arkansas Nuclear One approved procedures and/or qualified vendor procedures which have been approved by Arkansas Nuclear One. These procedures provide specific instructions which ensure the shipments meet the intended Burial Site License Requirements as well as applicable federal and state regulations.
D. Laboratory Mixing of Samples Qualified vendor procedures approved by Arkansas Nuclear One provide written instructions on sample processing and handling to determine process parameters prior to actual solidification.
Included in these procedures is a description of the laboratory mixing method used for these samples.
E. Solidification Process Qualified vendors utilized by Arkansas Nuclear One for radioactive waste solidification are required to provide a Process Control Program and written procedures approved by the vendor and subse-quently approved by Arkansas Nuclear One prior to use. included in these documents are:
- 1. A description of the Solidification Process
- 2. Type of Solidification agent used
- 3. Process contr'ol parameters WP84338 PAGE 5
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- 4. Parameter boundary conditions
- 5. Proper waste form pro (erties
- 6. Specific instructions to ensure the systems are operated within established process parameters F. Sampling Program for Solidification Vendors utilized by Arkansas Nuclear One for radioactive waste solidification are required to include in their approved procedures requirements to sample at least every tenth batch to ensure solidi-fication and to provide actions to be taken if a sample fails to verify solidification. These procedures are approved by Arkansas Nuclear One prior to use.
G. Free Standing Water (FSW)
Vendors utilized by Arkansas Nuclear One to process wet wastes are required to include in their approved procedures provisions to verify that the FSW Criteria in federal and state regulations and Burial Site License Criteria are met for the specific type of waste being processed. These procedures are approved by Arkansas Nuclear One prior to use.
H. Corrective Actions for Free Standing Water (FSW) i Vendors utilized by Arkansas Nuclear One to process wet wastes are required to include in their approved procedures provisions t
j for correcting processed waste in which free standing water in excess of FSW Criteria is detected. These procedures are approved by Arkansas Nucle 5r One prior to use.
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- l. Exothermic Processes Vendors utilized by Arkansa,s Nuclear One for radioactive waste solidification are required to include in their approved proce-dures specific process control parameters for exothermic solidi-fication methods that must be met before capping the container.
These procedures are approved by Arkansas Nuclear One prior to use.
111. OILY WASTE A. Oily wastes at Arkansas Nuclear One are processed in accordance with approved plant procedures. These plant procedures specify the proper methods to treat oily waste to comply with the criteria in the Code of Federal Regulations, State Regulations and applicab'e Burial Site License Requirements.
IV. SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS Arkansas Nuclear One utilizes vendors for wet waste processing. Vendors are required by Arkansas Nuclear One to provide Top.' cal Reports or equivalent documents sufficient to allow the necessary approvals of their process to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Arkansas Nuclear One prior to use of their processing system at Arkansas Nuclear One.
Sketches and diawings of the processing systems currently used at Arkansas Nuclear One are contained in Topical Reports previously submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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V. SPECIAL CASES Based on previous industry experience, Arkansas Power & Light foresees the potential for situations arising that may be beyond existing plant capabilities. Anticipating this possibility, provisions are made herein to accommodate such situations in a timely manner by using special techniques cr processes. These special cases would be con-trolled as follows:
A. Implementing procedures would be developed comparable to those used for normal plant solid waste activities based on the guidance of this PCP and incorporating the applicable pro-visions for process control and testing.
B. The implementing procedures would be subjected to reviews by the Plant Safety Committee (PSC).
C. A recommendation would be made to the Arkansas Nuclear One General Manager for approval of the procedure and approval granted .
D. Use of this provision and supporting information included in the next Solid Radioactive Waste report described in Section VilD.
VI. ALARA Solid Radioactive Waste Management activities at Arkansas Nuclear One are conducted in accordance with the plant ALARA Manual and ALARA implementing procedures.
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9 Vll. ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS A. Responsibilities The Arkansas Nuclear One General Manager has overall responsibility for Solid Radioactive Waste activities at Arkansas Nuclear One.
The specific plant personnel responsible for the various activities involved in processing, packaging and shipment of radioactive waste material are identified by job functions in plant admini-strative procedures.
B. Quality Assurance Reviews of Solid Radioactive Waste activities at Arkansas Nuclear One are performed annually by Arkansas Nuclear One Quality Assurance.
The results of these reviews are evaluated by Arkansas Nuclear One and Arkansas Power & Light management.
C. Records Solid Radioactive Waste shipment records are developed, reviewed and filed in accordance with Arkansas Nuclear One station procedures.
Specific retention periods for these records are addressed in the plant administrative procedures.
D. Reports Information on Arkansas Nuclear One Solid Radioactive Waste shipped offsite is reported semi-annually to the Nuclear Regulatory Commis-sion. Information reported includes:
- 1. Container volume
- 2. Total curie quantity and method of determination (measurement or estimate)
- 3. Principal radionuclides and method of determination (measure-ment or estimate)
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- 4. Type of waste (e.g. spent resin, DAW, etc.)
- 5. Type of container (e.g; LSA, Type A, Type B, Large Quantity)
- 6. Solidification agent (e.g. cement, envirostone)
- 7. Supporting documentation of changes to the Process Control Program, and special cases.
E. Procedures Procedures are written, approved, and implemented covering the activities and requirements addressed in this Process Control Program.
F. Changes to the Process Control Program Changes to the Process Control Program are made as follows:
- 1. The change is properly described in the proposed revision and submitted to the Arkansas Nuclear One Plant Safety Committee for review. Sufficient information is provided with the proposed revision to support the rationale for the change.
- 2. Upon completion of the review, if the Plant Safety Committee determines that the change does not reduce the overall con-formance of the Solid Radioactive Waste program to existing criteria for- solid waste, the Plant Safety Committee documents that the change has been reviewed and recommends approval.
- 3. The change becomes effective upon approval by the Arkansas I
Nuclear One General Manager.
- 4. The change to the Process Control Program and the supporting documentation are included in the next Solid Radioactive Waste report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission described in Section VllD above.
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f ENCLOSURE 5 TO 6CAN648468 OVERVIEW OF ANO-1&2 RETS COMPLIANCE' ANO UNIT # SPECIFICATION # , DESCRIPTION OF CHANGE STATUS 1 3.25.1.2A Reduce the radioactive liquid effluent Numerical dose commitments reduced' 2 3.11.1.2 numerical dose' commitment by approx- as requested.
imately a factor of-.three.
1 3.25.2.1A Reduce the radioactive gaseous effluent Numerical dose rates reduced as 2 3.11.2.1 numerical dose rate (varying amounts). requested.
1 4.29.1.3:(Bases) Additional information was requested to This requested information was put 2 3/4 3.3.10 (Bases) expand the channel test and: channel in the appropriate bases sections, calibration descriptions for the radio- rather than. included as specifica-active liquid effluents. tions. NRC agreed to this.
1 4.29.2.3 (Bases) Additional information was requested to This requested information was put 2 3/4 3.3.9 (Bases) expand the channel test and channel in the appropriate bases sections, calibration descriptions for the radio- rather than included as specifica-active gaseous effluents, tions. NRC agreed to this.
1 6.5.1.6.k Added review of changes to the Process This was added to the PSC review 2 6.5.1.6.k Control Program to the list of Plant responsibilities.
Safety Committee review responsibilities.
1 6.5.2.7j Added review of changes to the Process This was added to the SRC review 2 6.5.2.7j Control Program to the list of Safety responsibilities.
Review Committee review responsibilities.
1 6.5.2.8k Required audits per 10CFR50 Appendix "B". This was added to the SRC audit responsibilities.
1 6.8.1h Required that procedures be established, Requirement added.
2 6.8.11 implemented and maintained for the PCP.
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ANO UNIT # SPECIFICATION # DESCRIPTION OF CHANGE STATUS 1 6.9.2m Required records to be maintained on Requirement added.
the Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program.
1 6.12.2.6 Misc. changes to the semiannual All changes were made except those 2 6.9.3 Radioactive Effluent Release Report. proposed in item "e" of the
" mark-up." The routine reporting of this information was viewed as unnecessary. However, should NRC have a need for any specific infor-mation therein, it will be made available for NRC's review on an "as needed" basis.
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