ML20125B424

Notifies of Creation of Special Panel to Review Radiation Protection Program at Tmi.Charter for Panel & List of Members Encl

ML20125B424
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	10/17/1979
From:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Arnold R METROPOLITAN EDISON CO.
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Dear Mr. Arnold:

" The Commission 'and some Congressional Committees have-recently expressed concern 7 about. the adequacy of the health ~ physics program at TMI.. As a result of thi's, I .have established'a. special panel of' health physics experts from within and.

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,outside the NRC to review the radiation protection ' program of the Metropolitan l

~ Edis,on Company at TMI, as curently constituted and planned to support the '

recovery program, and make their findings in a report to me by December 7,1979.

i. I have attached tothis letter a 1.ist of the panel members and a copy of the i.-

. charter for this panel.

i Over the coming weeks the panel will have.a'need to meet with you and members of -

your staff to discuss the health ' physics program in mo're detail. Tbe panel will

' work ,to, minimize the impact these interviews may have on your ongoing programs. ,

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! Recogn12ing the attention this' matter has received, I' solicit your cooperation .

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in assisting the panel in' carrying out its' charter.- -

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l I;have been advised by my staff that you have recently engaged the services of ~

two highly qualified health physics consultants to appraise your current health

physics program and to define actions that will strengthen your program. I endorse and support your effort 'in this regard. I believe'this action together j , with the special panel I have established should result in a well balanced pro-gram to cope with the' unique decontamination and recovery programs planned at

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.Mr. R. W. Conrad j .Vice President Nuclear Operations' Pennsylvania Electric Company Metropolitan Edison Company 1007 Broad Street

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P.O. Box 480 ~ ...J Johnstown, Pennsylvania lb907' .

Middletown, Pennsylvania' 17057 s 3, ' . .

.N - Mr. George F.' Trownbridge, Esq. ' '

Mr. E. G. Wallace, Licensing Manager .

Shaw, Pittman, .Potts & Trowbridge

~ Metropolitan Edison Company- +- 1800 M Street, N.W. 'f ,i i' 260 Cherry Hill Road .

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-Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 l Metropolitan Edison Company ~~'

l l 260 Cherry Hill Road Ms. Mary V. Southara, Chairperson l

! Parsippany, New' Jersey 07054 . Citizens for a Safe Environment {

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I Mr. -J. B. Lo'ga'n, Supt. , Uni t r2 -

Parsippany, New Jersey 07064 l l Metropolitan Edison Company 260 Cherry Hill Road . '

Ch'auncey R. Kepford, Esq., Chairman

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• York Committee for a Safe Environment 433 Orlanco Drive Mr. - J. J. Coli tz, . .

' /. State College, Pennsylvania 16801 Manager P1 ant Engineerthg ,

2 Metropolitan Edison Company U.S.- Environmental Protection Agency l

-260 Cherry Hill Road Region III Office j Parsippany, New Jersey 07054. Attn: EIS Cooroinator '

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Mr. R. F. Wilson,. Director 6th and Walnut Streets

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Metropolitan Edison Company i 260 Cherry Hill Road Director, Of fice of Raciological Health

. Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 Department of Environmental Resources c, , P.O. Box 2063 Mr. 1. R. Finf rock , 'J r. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 ..

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Mr. 'Wel' don B. Arehart, Chaf rman " . Dauphin County Of fice Emergency .

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Mr. Harry B. Re,ese, Jr. ,' Chairman Director, Tech.' Assessment Division

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P.O. Box 1295 Arlington, Virginia 20460 I Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 ' '

Mr. Robert' B. Borsuni

'Dr.. Ernest 0. Salo,, Professor ' Babcock & Wilcox .

i Fisheries ResEarch Institute, WH-10 Nuclear Power. Generation Division College of Fisheries _ -

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' University of Washington l

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Governor's Office of State Plan'ning t ,. .

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Atomic Safety & Licensing Board -

' Attn: Coordinator, Pennsylvania l U.S. tjuclear Regulatory Commission. State Clearing house

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Alan S. Rosenthal; Esq., Chairman ~ -

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Dr. 'W. Reco Johnson, Member -

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Mr. Jerome S. Sharfman, Esq. , Member .

Atomic Safety & Licensing Appeal Board '

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' CHARTER FOR THE PANEL -

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The panel fis.herebh cons,tituted with the following charteri Objective: To ieview thefradiation protection program of the Metropolitan Edison C:mpany at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, as currently constituteo and planned to support the decontamination and recovery of Unit 2. ' To determine ,

whether the organization, management and planned program will be capaDie of support- ,

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', ing the recovery stages,~with exposures to plant workers.and contractor personnel '

that will meet the requirements of the Convaission's regulations and that will. assure '

'that occupational radiation exposures will De as low as is reasonaoly achievaole.

Scope: The recovery operations at the TM1 Nuclear Station will involve m'any activ-ities and associated health physics problems that were not anticipated prior to the

! accident at TMI-2. Extensive decontamination of structures and systems and opera-i tions necessary to maintain the facility in a safe shutdown condition are accom-l panied by an unusual. distribution of radioisotopes throughout the containment i

Duilding, the fuel' handling' building and the auxiliary building. The particular spectrum of radionuclides encountered,in tnese operations is unique to tne occurrence l at the station. < -

Deficiencies in the rabiation protrItion program have previously been identified in the imS Corporation study prior to the accident, in I AE inspections and their repor ; of the accident, 'ano in reports by the NRR TMI-2 Support Task Force. The Comr ittee should become familiar with'the plant programs, review appropriate reports and Ju.ites and should conduct meetings as necessary with the licensee, the NRC, and

, others as necessary in order to carry out its objective of reporting to the Director, NRR, on both the current capability and competence of the Het-Ed program and of reconinendations for actions that may be needed in order that operations can De

(' accompitsbed within NRC requirements. -

i The Committee should function so as to make its final report to the Director, fMR, no later than Decenter 7,1979.

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