ML20116G622

Intervenor Exhibit I-GANE-74,consisting of Minutes of Nuclear Safeguards Committee Meeting of 900719

ML20116G622
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Site:	Neely Research Reactor
Issue date:	06/28/1996
From:	Desai P AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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REN-I-GANE-074, REN-I-GANE-74, NUDOCS 9608080223
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MINUTES OF THE NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS COMMITTEE MEETING OF M J1 18 Pi2 :33 July 19, 1990 nr oy Members,rirr nr e rne TlEc Present:

% Cobb, P.V. Desai, N. Gordon, L. Gucwa, B.

1. ' '{ h y "'K$hn (Chair), L. Petherick, J. Vickery Others Present: B. Copcutt, R. A. Karam, G. Poehlein Distributions: (i) Agenda for the current meeting (ii) Copy of Letter from the Georgia Dept. of Human Relations to B. Revsin I

(iii) Form A approval draft from R. A. Braga Chairman B. Kahn called the meeting to order at 1:07 P.M. The minutes of the previous committee meeting of June 28th were not ready, and will be available at the next Committee meeting on  !

I August 30th.

1. In response to the letter from the Georgia Department of Human Resources concerning conflicting roles of the Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) and the manager of the Office of Radiation Safety (MORS), the Committee decided to do away with the title of RSO for the chair of the i NSC. It was recommended to ask the MORS to keep the NSC l 4 informed on issues related to radiation safety. The Commi.ttee asked R. Karam to send a copy of his response to the Georgia DNR to the members of the NSC.

2. The Committee heard from Dr. Poehlein regarding the advisability to limit the period of service on the Committee to three consecutive years. It was agreed to divide the members into those serving for three years, those for two years and those for one year. Each year, one-third of the membership will be appointed for three year terms. B. Kahn encouraged the members to suggest possible candidates to serve on the Committee.

3 The Committee gave Form A approval to Dr. R. A. Braga.

4. The Committee approved a minor change in previously approved Procedure 9155.

The Secretary of the Committee had to leave the meeting at ~ this time (3305 P.M.). L. Petherick prepared the remaining minutes which follow.

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! 5. Dr. Karam briefed the Committee on the responsibility and i liability to Committee members. He stated that the l Nuclear Safeguards Committee Members rendered their i

decisions based on the information given them by the j Neely Nuclear Research Center personnel with no liability j for decisions or recommendations made by the Committee f members. However, Institute faculty and staff who are i members of the Committee are afforded protection through.

i Board of Regents' insurance policies. Non-Institute members of the Committee, of which there are two, may not i be protected as Institute members are. The two non-Institute Committee members recommended that they be

furnished a letter from the Institute guaranteeing them

, indemnity against any liability charges brought against

them for service on the Committee they render free of charge to Georgia Tech, with the exception of their j knowingly giving false or misleading information.

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The two non-Institute members stated that they would send to Dr. Karam a suggested or recommended wording for a

! letter of indemnification.

] Dr. Karam also briefed the Committee on present reactor operations: Mitsubishi contract; Department of Energy considering the reactor ~as a back up for research and

development; and the Savannah River Project is still on go awaiting approval from the NRC.

} Dr. Karam briefed the Committee on hot cell operations:

They have a contract with TVA for radiation qualification j testing of cables and circuits. They would be irradiating this material with 80 to 100 mega-rads of

radiation.

1 There were two NRC inspections held at the Neely Nuclear

, Research Center. One inspection resulted in 0 violations. The other inspection resulted in one violation in which the NRC inspectors discovered a graphite stringer with an excess of 100 milli-rems of radiation per hour that was not locked in a physical space. This violation was abated immediately upon being found and response to the NRC is being prepared.

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Reactor has been in operation up to a power output of 4.5 megawatts. The reactor has been operating mainly during the night time hours because of the high daytime temperatures. .

l Everything appears satisfactory in all reactor operations.

6. The meeting was adjourned at 3:15 P.M.

Respectfully submitted, Prateen Desai

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