ML20126B956

Responds to Re Waste Disposal Aspects of Facility Decontamination.Ltr Provided to Low Level Waste Licensing Branch for Consideration in Developing Waste Disposal Policies

ML20126B956
Person / Time
Site:	Dresden
Issue date:	02/19/1980
From:	Vollmer R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Berick D ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INSTITUTE
References
NUDOCS 8003240163
Download: ML20126B956 (2)

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'HECIPIENT AFFILIAfluN Assistant diFector for Systems & Projects

~SudJECT2 Responds to NHC 7912d0 lte re facility decommissioning &

petition wastes for puolic hearing. Disposal of decontamination is generic proolem. Suggests NHC nold public nearing.

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. . 9 Environmental Policy Institute 317 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E. Washington, D.C. 20003 2o2/544 8200 January 7,1979 Mr. Richard H. Vollmer.

Acting Assistant Director for Systematic Evaluation Program Division of Operating Reactors U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20555

Dear Mr. Vollmer,

Thank you for your letter of December 20 concerning the Dresden decomissioning and the petition for a public hearing by the Illinoit Safe Energy Alliance.

Your letter seems to confirm, by implication, that the NRC has determined that the permanent disposal of decontamination wastes re-quires disposal at " dry" sites such as Beatty or Hanford, and solidi-fication . While it appears that there may be some quality control problems with the solidification process and corrosion of cannisters, the basic question which I believe needs to be addressed is the ade-

quacy of Commonwealth Edison's " concessions". I believe that what we have here is a rather straightforward generic problem of how de-contamination wastes are to be disposed. The fact that the licensee has agreed to ship to a " dry" site does not air the problem.

I suggest to you, again, that the NRC should provide for a public hearing on the wastes generated from this decontamination. Quite frankly, you will get to this point in the Three Mile Island clean-up anyway and developing a record and examination of the general issue at this stage seems like a good idea.

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