ML20087A701
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/06/1992 |
| From: | Jaffe D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISS10tl GPUNUCLEAR,CORPORATigy ppC((Lyp,3,}pyB9 fl0TICEOF_JSSUABCE,pf,EgyjR0hfEyTAL, ASSES,5fENT,AND f2 9]F9 9f 09 519FJfJC M JtfACJ The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Connission (the Connission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating Liccnse No. DPR-50, issued to the GPU Nuclear Corporation (the licensee), for operation of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (TMl-1) located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
I d e n t i f i c a tj p n, p,f, P rop o s eM,c t,i g ni The amendment would consist of changes to the Technical Specifications (TS) and would authorize an increase of the storage capacity of the spent fuel pool from 749 fuel assemblies to 1494 fuel assemblies.
The amendment to the TS is responsive to the licensee's application dated Novenber 14, 1990, as supplemented June 6, June 14 and September 18, 1991.
The NRC staff has prepared an Environmental Assessment of the Proposed Action.
Summary of Environmental Assessment:
The"FinalGenericEnvironmentalImpactStatement(FGEls)onHandlingand Storage of Spent Light Water Power Reactor Fuel" (NUREG-0575), Volumes 1-3, concluded that the environmental impact of interim storage of spent fuel was negligibleandthecostofthevariousalternativesrefjectstheadvantageof continued generation of nuclear power with the accompanying spent fuel storage.
Because of the differences in design, the FGEls recommended evaluating spent fuel pool expansions on a case-by-case basis, p$ b ObN b f
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f or TMI.1, the expansion of the storage capacity of the spent fuel pool will not create any significant additional radiological effects or nonradio.
logical environmental impacts.
The additional whole body dose that might be received by an individual at the site boundary and the estimated dose to the population within an 80 kilometer radius is believed to be too small to have any significance when compared to the fluctuations in the annual dose this population receives from exposure to background radi3 tion. The occupational radiation dose for the proposed operation of the expanded spent fuel pool is estimated to be less than one percent of the total annual occupational radiation exposure for this facility.
The only nonradiological impact affected by the spent fuel pool expansion is the waste heat rejected. The total increase in heat load rejected to the environment will be.small in comparison to the amount of total heat currently being released. There is no significant environmental impact attributed to the waste heat from the plant due to this very small increase.
FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT The staff has reviewed the proposed spent fuel pool expansion to the facility relative to the requirements set forth in 10 CFR Part 51. Based on this assessment, the staff concludes that there are no significant radiological or nonradiological impacts associated with the proposed action and that the issuance of the proposed amendment to the license will have no significant impact on the quality of the human environment. Therefore, pursuant to 10 CFR l
51.31, no environmental impact statement needs to be prepared for this action.
Forfurtherdetailswithrespecttothisaction,see(1)theapplication for amendment to the Technical Specifications dated November 14, 1990, as supplemented June 6, June 14, and September 18, 1991 (2) the FGEIS on Handling v.e 7
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and Storage of Spent Light Water Power Reactor Fuel (NUREG-0575), (3) the Final i
Environmental Statement for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unitt 1 and 2 dated December 1972, and (4) the Environmental Assessment dated January 6,1992.
These documents are available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC. 20555 and at the local public document room located at the Governn+ent Publications Section, State Library of Pennsylvania, Walnut Street and comonwealth Avenue, Box 1601, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of January 1992.
FOR THE N LEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION David H.
af g Director Project Directorate I-4 Division of Reactor Projects - t/11 Office of the Nuclear Reactor Regulation l
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