ML20100C557

From kanterella
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Direct Testimony of Kb Cole on Issue 1,Contention M Re Radiological Monitoring Teams.Related Correspondence
ML20100C557
Person / Time
Site: Perry  FirstEnergy icon.png
Issue date: 03/25/1985
From: Cole K
CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO.
To:
Shared Package
ML20100C521 List:
References
OL, NUDOCS 8503290155
Download: ML20100C557 (16)
v • d • e


Text

e -

b amarescox.e nmoe.nce. .

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 00 METE 3 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION USMC BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARQ5 4 MR 28 CFilCE y : gggp In the Matter of ) din'C 4 SEnVJCi.'

SRAACH

)

THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ) Docket Nos. 50-440 ILLUMINATING COMPANY, ET AL. ) 50-441

)

(Perry Nuclear Power Plant, ) E 4 ~ ~ . %_

Units 1 and 2) )

APPLICANTS' DIRECT TESTIMONY OF KENNETH B. COLE ON ISSUE NO. 1 - CONTENTION M

1. The State of Ohio Disaster Services Agency. (DSA) maintains three fully trained and equipped radiological monitoring teams for response to any radiation emergency in

. Ohio. The members for the teams are drawn from the 8-10 fully qualified technicians who work daily in the agency's Nuclear Section. Each technician has received training in the area of nuclear response, and in most cases is qualified as an instructor in the subject. In addition to the classroom training, each technician actively participates in response to 15-30 non-nuclear power plant related incidents per year. To insure familiarity with instrumentation and procedures, each team member is required to participate in two additional training sessions per year which are designed around response to nuclear power facility accidents. A list of training received by each is attached as Attachment 1.

8503290 5 050325 PDR A K 05000440 PDR O

2. In 1980, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Emergency Managment Agency jointly produced a guidance document for off-site nuclear power plant planning (NUREG-0654). Under the guidance of this document, Ohio DSA augmented its field monitoring capability with the purchase of additional equipment. The new equipment is more sensitive, more accurate, and exceeds the NUREG-0654 criteria for identifying iodine concentrations down to 1 x 10-7 uCi/cc. Air sampling capability was also developed with the purchase of Eberline RAS-2 samplers, which provide the means of collecting particulate samples on filter paper and iodine samples in silver zeolite cartridges. The equipment lists are attached as Attachments 2 and 3.
3. The composition of a field nonitoring team for nuclear power related incidents consists of one or more technicians from Ohio DSA and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Members of these two agencies work together to collect environmental samples and obtain gross gamma readings, which provide the data needed by the State's Dose Assessment Group. The data is transmitted to a centralized command and control facility in the State emergency operations center (EOC) in Columbus which includes a dedicated computer system for analysis and evaluation of radiological data and related dose rates for the key isotopes and for converting parameters for these isotopes.
4. The placement of a field monitoring team in an accident area reqvs.res several specific and simultaneous actions:
1. Unusual Event - a. Team members are identified and I placed on " Alert". The resources necessary for rapid response are consolidated.
2. Alert - a. Field monitoring teams are dispatched.
b. The mobile communications van is dispatched.
c. The response team supervisor is dispatched by air to the site.
5. On arriving ct the site area in one of the State's helicopters, the ODSA response team supervisor performs an aerial survey, to confirm the general plume direction and I centerline. This monitoring is performed with a PRM -7 micro R meter. The helicopter's response time to the Perry site is about one hour and 15 minutes.
6. In the case of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, the field teams are in place 3 to 3 1/2 hours after they are dispatched. The staging area for field monitoring personnel is the Ohio Highway Patrol Post in Chardon, Ohio. The communications van sets up at the Ledgemont School at 16200 Burrows Road, Thompson, Ohio. Once at the local staging area, the Ohio DSA members meet the Ohio EPA members and form three field monitoring teams. Personnel dosimetry and record forms are issued and field sample kits are loaded into vehicles. The teams' direction and control comes from the response team supervisor who operates out of the communications van. The team supervisor directs each field team to preselected sites to collect environmental samples. The type of sample or information to be collected is determined by the Dose Assessment Group in the State Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The information received from the monitoring teams will allow plotting of the plume and identification of plume parameters.
7. The communications van's capabilities allow the response team supervisor to have direct communications with the State EOC, County EOC's, the Perry Emergency Operations Facility (EOF), and each monitoring team, regardless of where they might be in the 10 mile emergency planning zone. Each monitoring team has radios with both hand-carried and in-vehicle capabilities which operate on the Ohio Disaster Service Agency Direction and Control frequencies. The response team supervisor is responsible for maintaining records indicating:
1. Requested sampling sites
2. Gross gamma readings from each site.
3. Counts per minute from each air sampling cartridge.
4. Type of sample taken.
8. The State of Ohio's field monitoring teams now have participated in eight exercises. Each was graded by experienced Department of Energy representatives and in each case the teams' performance resulted in no catagory "A" deficiencies, and few suggestions for improvement. The State's field monitoring teams are adequate in number, equipment and communications capabilities to effectively track the radiation plume independently of the radiation monitoring teams which are dispatched from the Perry plant.
9. In addition to the State, the Department of Energy, US Environmental Protection Agency, and NRC all have capability for gross gamma monitoring, environmental sampling and analysis, independent meteorological capability, and plume identification and tracking in the event of an accident at the Perry facility. A central location for consolidating and coordinating all field data - the Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center - would be set up by DOE and would relay information to the EOC's, the EOF and FEMA.
10. As a result of working together on many different types of radiological emergencies, Ohio's nuclear incident response capability is recognized and respected by both the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and represents an effective independent radiation monitoring system for the plume exposure pathway emergency planning zone for the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. All three of the counties within the Perry plume exposure pathway EPZ rely on the State's field

monitoring capabilities, as shown in their emergency plans (Lake Plan, 5 I-02 Ashtabula Plan, 5 I.2; Geauga Plan S I-2). I 1

4 m

G ATTACHMENT 1 i

.i 1

4 e - ----,. - , . -., 4 r-- s v. ,-,, - . . . -. . - -m-r-. - _ ---, ---. - ,

TRAINING OF FIELD MON 11tRING PERSONNEL  !

l COURSES TAKEN l MAINTENANCE AND CALIBRATION Radiological Monitoring SUPERVISOR Radiological Emergency Response Team Radiologleal Offleer Radiological Monitoring Instructor

, Radiological Response Team Instructor Radiological Offleer Instructor

, Radiological Accident Assessment Course Radiological Emergency Preparedness Planning Basic Radiological Health Aerial Radiologici Monitoring Radiological Emergency Response Course RADIOLOGICAL DEFENSE OFFICER Radiological Defense Officer Managers Radiological Monitoring Radiological Emergency Response Team Radiological Officer Radiological Monitoring Instructor Radiological Response Team Instructor Radiological Officer Instructor Radiological Accident Assessment Course Radiological Emergency Preparedness Planning Basic Radiological Health Aerial Radiological Monitoring Radiological Emergency Response Course INDUSTRIAL SAFETY HYGENIST Radiological Monitoring Radiological Emergency Response Course Radiological Officer Radiological Monitoring Instructor Radiological Response Team Instructor Radiological Officer Instructor

(cont'd.) Radiological Accident Assessment Course Radiological Emergency Preparedness Planning Basic Radiological Health Aerial Radiological Monitoring Radiologleal Emergency Response Course RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH INSTRUCTOR Radiologleal Monitoring Radiological Emergency Response Team Radiologleal Officer Radiological Monitoring Instructor Radiological Response Team Instructor Radiological Offleer Instructor Radiological Emergency Response Course Aerial Radiological Monitoring RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH SPECIALIST Radiological Monitoring Radiological Emergency Response Team l Radiological Officer Radiological Monitoring Instructor Radiological Response Team Instructor Radiologleal Offleer Instructor Radiologleal Emergency Response Course Aerial Radiological Monitoring ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN 2 Radiological Monitoring Radiological Emergency Response Team Radiological Offleer Radiological Monitoring Instructor Radiological Response Team Instructor Radiological Officer Instructor Radiological Emergency Response Course

, Aerial Radiological Monitoring Radiological Monitoring ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN 2 Radiologica'l Emergency Response Team Radiological Offleer Radiological Monitoring Instructor Radiologleal Response Team Instructor I

n .

(cont'd.) Radiological Officer Instructor Radiological Emergency Response Course Aerial Radiological Monitoring ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN 3 Radiological Monitoring l Radiological Emergency Response Team '

Radiological Officer Radiological Monitoring Instructor Radiological Response Team Instructor Radiological Officer Instructor Aer i al Radiological Moni tor ing t*

b-

I-e ATTACHMENT 2 4

I

1 OHIO DISASTER SERVICES AGENCY EIER0ENCY RESPONSE EQUIPMENT (AYAILABLE) 3 - CDV-715 !on Chamber . 05 R/hr to  ;

500 R/hr 3 - CDY-700 Geiger Muller .C5 mR/hr to 50 mR/hr 1 - SAM 2 Stabilized Assay Meter 1 - RD-19 Stabilized Detection Probe 5 - PRS-1P Rascal 5 - PRM-7 Micro R Meter .005 mR/he to 5 mR/hr 5.- SPA-3 Scintillation Probe (High Energy) 2 - HP-200 Gama Probe 5 - HP-210 Pancake G.M. Probe 5 - HP-270 Beta /Cantna Probe 5 - A-C-3-7 Scintillation Alpha Probe 5 - PG-2 Scintillation Probe (Low Energy) 5 - Small Screwdriver 3 - Regulated Air Sampler 24 - S!!ver Zeollte Cartridges 60 - Carbon Cartridges 3000 - Pilter Paper 47 m i 3 - Portable Generator 16 - TLD Badge t

_.,_.._m _ . _ , - _ _ . . . _ _ . -

36 - CDV-138 15 - CDV-730 15 - CDV-742 8 - Fi1m Badge Pencils Note Paper

e 4

ATTACHMENT 3

OHIO DISASTER SERVICES AGENCY RESPONSE EQUIPMENT (PER TEAM)

CDV-715 lon Chamber .05 R/hr to 500 R/hr CDV-700 Geiger Muller .05 mR/hr to 50 mR/hr 4

RD-19 Stabilized Detection Probe PRS-1P Raaea1

PRM-7 Micro R Meter - .005 mR/hr to 5 mR/hr SPA Scintillation Probe (High Energy)

HP-200 Gama Probe IIP-210 Pancake G.M. Probe HP-270 Beta /Gama Probe A-C-3-7 Scintillation Alpha Probe PG-2 Scintillation Probe (Low Energy)

Small Screwdriver

, Regulated Air Sampler Silver Zeolite Cartridges Carbon Cartridges

Filter Paper 47 mm l Portable Generator TID Badge CDV-138 e

-m., ..,,g-,--,- - - - - - -

l

. l CDV-730 l 1CDY-743 ,

1 Film Badge Penells Note Paper Radiologleal Monitoring SOP County Map - at scale of 1" = 1 mile County Map - at scale of 1:24,000 i

l 1

i i

i s

t

.-- - - - - - - - - ,- - - , - - - - - , , - - , - - - - , - --,----n-- - - -,nv--_- ,- w-wn .,-- ----- - -- ---v,,,eo-r-,,--e,-,-,--ngm-m

Retrieved from "https://kanterella.com/w/index.php?title=ML20100C557&oldid=2778159"