ML20129G800
| ML20129G800 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 09/27/1996 |
| From: | Bell L NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Vandermolen H NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES) |
| References | |
| REF-WM-3 NUDOCS 9610070296 | |
| Download: ML20129G800 (1) | |
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September 27, 1996 MEMORANDUM T0: Harold J. Vandermolen, Section Leader Probabilistic Risk Analysis Branch Division of Systems Technology, RES i
FROM:
Lawrence G. Bell, Section Leader
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Facilities Decommissioning Section Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch Division of Waste Management, NMSS
SUBJECT:
LEE ABRAMS0N'S ASSISTANCE IN LICENSING CASES INVOLVING STATISTICAL ISSUES This letter serves to acknowledgo Lee Abramson's excellent support to the Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch to help resolve issues involving statistical applications.
Lee has been very responsive in answering a variety of questions related to the application of statistics in the assessment of sampling results from decommissioning facilities.
However, his primary help over the last year was related to a specific case, the Cimarron Corporation decommissioning site.
In the Cimarron case, the licensee submitted a proposal describing an equation to account for the components of variability in the background concentration of radionuclides in soil samples.
Lee reviewed this proposal in a timely fashion and provided comments which were transmitted to the licensee.
He developed a model to evaluate the variability in the soil samples and discussed this model, and the licenses approach, with the licensee in three or four teleconferences.
Lee's participation was crucial to the successful review of the licensee's proposal, since it required detailed statistical expertise that is not available in the Division of Waste Management. We hope that Lee will continue to be available for future assistance related to statistical issues.
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MEMORANDUM T0:
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Lawrence G. Bell, Section Leader Facilities Decommissioning Sectior I
Low-Level Waste and Decommissioni i
Projects Branch Division of Waste Management, NMSS l
SUBJECT:
LEE ABRAMS0N'S ASSISTANCE IN LICENSING CASES INVOLVING STATISTICAL ISSUES i
This letter serves to acknowledge Lee Abramson's excellent support to the Low-l Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch to help resolve issues involving statistical applications.
Lee has been very responsive in answering l
a variety of questions related to the application of statistics in the assessment of sampling results from decommissioning facilities.
However, his primary help over the last year was related to a specific case, the Cimarron Corporation decommissioning site.
In the Cimarron case, the licensee submitted a proposal describing an equation to account for the components of variability in the background concentration of radionuclides in soil samples.
Lee reviewed this proposal in a timely l
l fashion and provided comments which were transmitted to the licensee.
He developed a model to evaluate the variability in the soil samples and discussed this model, and the licensees' approach, with the licensee in three or four teleconferences.
Lee's participation was crucial to the successful I
review of the licensee's proposal, since it required detailed statistical expertise that is not available in the Division of Waste Management.
We hope that Lee will continue to be available for future assistance related to statistical issues.
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September 27, 1996 MEMORANDUM T0:
Harold J. Vandermolen, Section Leader Probabilistic Risk Analysis Branch Division of Systems Technology, RES FROM:
Lawrence G. Bell, Section Leader
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Facilities Decommissioning Section Low-level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch Division of Waste Management, NMSS
SUBJECT:
LEE ABRAMS0N'S ASSISTANCE IN LICENSING CASES INVOLVING STATISTICAL ISSUES This letter serves to acknowledge Lee Abramson's. excellent support to the Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch to help resolve issues i
involving statistical applications.
Lee has been very responsive in answering a variety of questions related to the application of statistics in the assessment of sampling results from decommissioning facilities.
However, his primary help over the last year was related to a specific case, the Cimarron Corporation decommissioning site.
In the Cimarron case, the licensee submitted a proposal describing an equation to account for the components of variability in the background concentration of radionuclides in soil samples.
Lee reviewed this proposal in a timely fashion and provided comments which were transmitted to the licensee. He developed a model to evaluate the variability in the soil samples and discussed this model, and the licenses approach, with the licensee in three or four teleconferences.
Lee's participation was crucial to the successful review of the licensee's proposal, since it required detailed statistical expertise that is not available in the Division of Waste Management. We hope that Lee will continue to be available for future assistance related to statistical issues.
DISTRIBUTION: Central File LLDP r/f NMSS r/f PUBLIC JSurmeier LAbramson RNelson KKalman MWeber TCJohnson
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