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| Site: | Three Mile Island  |
| Issue date: | 09/11/1985 |
| From: | NRC - ADVISORY PANEL FOR DECONTAMINATION OF TMI UNIT 2 |
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6 Environmental Matters Committee Room 160 7 Ilouse of Delegates Office Building 8 College Avenue Annapolis, Maryland 9
Wednesday, September 11,. 1985 10 6:101p.m.
11 PANEL MEMBERS PRESENT:
12 'ARTIIUR MORRIS, Chairperson TIIOMAS SMITHGALL O 13 TIIOMAS COCIIRAN
.JOEL ROTH 14 NIEL WALD JOSEPii-DI NUNNO 15 KENNETil MILLER
' THOMAS GERUSKY 16 ALSO PRESENT:
17 BERNARD SNYDER, NRC
'18 ; FRANK MIRAGLIA,'NRC BILL TRAVERS, NRC 19 RANDY IIALL, NRC FRANK STANDERFER, GPU 20 . JACK DEVINE, GPU WILLIS BIXBY, DOE ~
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f UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY PANEL FOR THE DECONTAMINATION OF THREE 111LE ISLAND UNIT 2 Agenda for the September 11, 1985 Meeting in Annapolis, MD Minutes
- 1. Chairman's Opening Remarks - Chairman Morris 15
- 2. Status of the Tl11-2 Cleanup - General Public utilities 30 Nuclear Corporation (GPUNC)
- 3. NRC's Oversight Role - NRC 15
- 5. EPA and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's TMI Radiological 10 Monitoring Program - EPA
- 6. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Role in the Cleanup -_ T. Gerusky 5
- 8. Processed Water from the TMI-2 Accident Stored at the 20 TMI-2 Site - GPUNC
- 9. NRC's Role in the Ultimate Disposition of the Processed 10 Accident Water NRC
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i 2 MR. MORRIS: Good evening. I would like to call
- 3 the meeting of the panel to order.
4 I have some very brief introductory remarks this l
5 evening. I would like to welcome everybody to this meeting.
] 6 Just to explain in a few words what the panel is about for
, 7 those that have not been to panel meetings before, we have 8 been in operation I believe since late 1980. We meet, at 9 least initially we were meeting something like six or seven 10 times a year. More recently we have been meeting monthly.
11 We are established by the NRC to provide public comment on
- 12 cleanup activities for TMI unit 2. We neet with the ,
i 13 commissioners several times a year to update them, and we t(:)
14 raise any concerns that we have with the NRC.
15 The reason the meeting has been scheduled in 16 Maryland is that, is because in the past a person by the 1
17 name of Henry Wagner, who is a member of the panel, raised 18 concerns from the state of Maryland, particularly in 1
i j 19 regards for the potential for dumping of the water that is 20 now on the island. It has not been decided just how that
- 21 water will be disposed of. Dr. Wagner had raised concerns i
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22 and voiced opposition to any option regarding dumping the l 23 water into the Susquehanna River which ultimately would [
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\- 1 never met in Maryland before, we thought it would be 2 advantageous for both the panel and the public if we would 3 schedule the meeting in Maryland. That is why we are here 4 this evening.
5 That completes my initial comments. I would 6 like to go to the second item on the agenda. That is the 7 status of the TMI-2 cleanup. That will be given by General 8 Public Utilities. Since most of the panel members do not 9 have mikes this evening, if you cannot hear us, please wave 10 or something like that and we will try to speak louder.
11 MR. STANDERFER: I am director of the cleanup, 12 GPU Nuclear. A brief summary of status of the project.
7- 13 The last meeting I mentioned that we were having some U 14 trouble with late delivery of some of the reactor 15 components. The transfer shield inside the containment 16 which transfers the cannisters from the reactor to the pool, 17 transfer shield outside of the reactor -- the other one.
18 That transfers the cannisters into storage and then the 19 storage racks at the bottom of the pool.
20 Since that July meeting, the first three storage 21 racks have been delivered. The fourth storage rack was 22 shipped today. The fuel transfer shield inside the fuel 23 handling building has been. delivered and it is mounted and 24 being assembled and tested in the fuel handling building 25 now. The second transfer shield will be shipped Saturday.
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.REE 1 I also talked about cannisters and indicated 2 that the cannisters were placed with the same -- the 3 building contractor's shop was overloaded. At that time 4 the 250 cannisters that-have been ordered, they are broken 5- down to 77 fuel cannisters, 33 filter cannisters and-134 6 knockout cannisters. They go on the vacuum system for'250.
7 Since that time we have split that order and 81 of the 8 original 250 are still with the original vendor. 21 9 cannisters are all filter cannisters are now being 10 completed by Babcock & Wilcox. Oat in Philadelphia has 148 11 and we ordered 30 more cannisters from him so the total 12 cannisters on order now are 280.
13 With regard to schedule, at the last' meeting on O 14 July 18, I indicated because of these equipment delivery 15 questions, we were no longer going to be able to start 16 defueling in September. We were looking at starting 17 defueling in October. Now that we have those components in -
18 hand or will be receiving them this week, our schedule now 19 has been put together and we are looking at starting the 20 defueling the last week of October, which is the schedule 21 on the bottom of this handout that you have.
22 Another significant activity that was just 23 completed last month was a review of the cost estimate for 24 the cleanup program. After -- a year ago after the new 25 defueling concept was agreed to and was put in place, the O
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}- 1 estimate was reviewed. A year ago we concluded that the I i
r 2 cleanup would be completed in the third quarter 1988. Cost i
3 estimate at that time was $967 million.. The cost estimate 1
4 review that was just completed in August still indicates 5 that the cleanup.will be completed third quarter '88, total i
l 6 program cost of $965 million. It is broken down slightly j 7 differently, but basically the cost estimate has held over 8 the last year. Each of you will be getting a copy of that 9 estimate as it comes off the press .this month.
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11 last two or three meetings is the status of receiving ,
j 12 funding from the private utilities, the EEI funding. I 13 indicated.that we had received $20,900,000, of the $25 '
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19 One other thing I'would like to mention, last 20- month, we made a number of management changes,
! 21 organizational changes on the-project'to get ready for the l
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23 At the end of the year we will have completed most of the-24
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! 4 handling waste, packaging and shipping waste. So it is
- 5 broken down roughly a third, a third, a third between
- 6 defueling, waste management activities.
7 Last month I took the three different groups 8- working on decontamination activity and combined them into 9 n single organization headed with a decontamination project 10 manager. There were five different activities on the 11 project under different organizations doing waste
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13 waste management head.. So we are starting to consolidate 14 the organization to address the opsrating activities that l
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15 will be the main thrust over the next..three years.
16 The remainder of my time, if it is not used, I 17 think Jack Devine would ~use more than 15 minutes for his 18 presentation on the -- for the 20 minutes for the 19 presentation.on the water activities.
20 MR. SMITHGALL: Your source of funds.beyond, for 21 1985.or '86, you talked about EEI. How do the other 22 sources of funds stand as far as --
23 MR. STANDERFER: Again, I am sure you'have seen 24 funding rack up there, funds from GPU. There'are funds i
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2 believe all the insurance funding has been received. Those 3 continue to be in place.
i' 4 I have a budget of $126 million next year. I I ,
5, show this because as you may remember, this was the last 6 piece of the funding that got put in place about a year ago.
7 There had been some question as'to whether the contributing 8 utilities would contribute and if not, then the 9 Pennsylvania and New Jersey utilities would make that 4
10 difference up through deducting that from some of their EEI 11 contribution. It is my understanding that the contributing
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12 utilities have contributed this year and we expect S25 ,
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14 MR. SMITHGALL: You are saying the customer 15 rates are staying close to'the schedule that you gave us? .;
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i 17 MR. SMITHGALL: 55 million for '85 and 49 l 18 million for '86?
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21 MR. SMITHGALL: The schedule that you had given 22 us, I guess it was in -- I am not sure of the'date of it.
f 23 MR. STANDERFER: There is a schedule from the I 24 different sources.
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l 2 MR. STANDERFER: Those are in place.
j- 3 MR.-MORRIS: 'Any other questions?
! 4 MR. ROTH: On the list of your organizational l
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! 6 MR. STANDERFER: I can provide you with that.
b l 7 MR. ROTH: In other words, names to go along ,
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- 9 MR. STANDERFER: The copy'you will receive is 10 the new project estimate which is.a complete breakdown of f 11 the work left to go and of the costs-and schedules and that i
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j 18 MR. STANDERFER: No. The decontamination activities, for example, was an engineering activity, an 19 I 20 operating activity.and a planning activity in three I
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1 3 The consolidated waste management activities, j 4 again there were five spread through the organizational j 5 planning activity, two handling activities and a shipping i '
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j 11 MR.' MORRIS: Anybody else?
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i 15 MR. STANDERFER: Yes. That is scheduled for 20 ,
J 16 minutes. I think we would prefer 30, if he can use some of ,
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i 19 Let me just mention before we go to item 3, l
20 which would be the NRC oversight role, I should have y ,
l 21 mentioned this at the beginning but the Commission has
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- 1 them to do the last time we met with them. We have been 2 notified that we can, we will be permitted to do it.
3 However, prior to final approval, all final 4 approval has to be given, I believe, to the charter by the 5 General Services Administration. It is my understanding 6 that a letter has been sent to them. Bernie,-if you are 7 the one that would be talking to us or Bill, if you have 8 any undate as to where that stands, I would appreciate 9 hearing. Until we have final approval, we are proceeding 10 as if we do.
- 11 If anybody has an update on where that stands, 12 we would like to hear it, if possible.
13 Who will be giving the presentation?
O 14 MR. SNYDER: I am going to start and then 15 introduce some other members.
16 I am Bernie Snyder, the NRC director of the TMI 17 program office who has the oversight responsibility for 18 regulating cleanup. With regard to your question, my 19 understanding is that the letter to GSA has been sent and 20 it takes a little while for them to act but I think it is 21 more pro forma than anything. So I think for your purposes, 22 I think it is -- you probably ought to assume that your 23 charter is as proposed to be amended and proceed as you 24 choose along those lines.
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carrying out their responsibilities.
10 In addition, we have revised within the last six~
11 months or so a document which is a 0 and A document about 12 the cleanup which I think most people find fairly
. l 13 interesting. It is re,asonably up to date.
O 14 This is something that we actually revised it 15 and requested the panel. If any members of the panel would 16 like copies, we have got more in the back probably than s
17 there are people that are here'at the moment.
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18 Also I would like to mention that there are 19 copies of the agenda at the entrance;to the meeting.
20 The NRC is the lead ' government agency for 21 overseeing the cleanup and providing approvals.for the i -
22 licensee who is GPU Nuclear, the owners and operators of
, T 23 the facility. It is a unique arrangement in that we have a 24 fairly large contingent of NRC people, both at the site and 25 currently in Bethesda at the NRC headquarters. '
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3 and about one-third are in Bethesda.
4 Basically what we do is review and approve the 5 cleanup activities and inspect the company's carrying out 6 of those activities as well as carrying out of certain 7 surveillance requirements that are in their license; and we i 8 have a very.large on-site presence, as I mentioned, to 9 assure that the public health and safety is protected and s
10 that the environment is also protected, which is basically 11 the NRC's charter in all licensed reactor facilities.
12 It is the company's responsibility to carry out 13 the cleanup and our responsibility to oversee those actions.
O 14 The uniqueness also comes about in that in this 15 case, as opposed to a normally operating reactor, we ,
16 actually approve and it is a condition of their license 17 that they require our approval before they can proceed with 18 any major cleanup activity. That is not normally the rule 19 that the NRC place at a normal reactor facility, but this 20 one is unique and, therefore, we instituted not only an 21 independent project office like mine but a fairly tight '
22 control over the activities.
23 We have many interfaces with other government 24 agencies -- and DOE will be speaking after me -- with the <
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_ 1 cetera, and local government agencies.
2 I wanted to mention now, for the benefit of the 3 panel primarily, that to answer any questions that you 4 might have or reinforce the note that Mike sent you, Mike 5 Maznick who isn't here tonight sent you on the 20th of 6 August with regard to a change in arrangement in our office.
7 Ue can make copies available for members of the public that 8 are interested.
9 At the end of July, my boss Harold Denton, who 10 is director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 11 did inform the NRR, informed the NRR employees that a 12 reorganization of his whole office, of which my office is a
,, 13 small part, would be taking place in the near future. That --
14 the changes I am talking about haven't quite been 15 implemented yet but are well on the way and probably in the 16 next month or so they will be taking effect.
17 The effect on our office is that the focus of 18 our activities is going to shift from the headquarters in 19 Bethesda to the site. And in fact, the director of the 20 office will eventually be located there and probably in the 21 next few months before that arrangement is put into effect.
22 I will not be that individual. I want to make 23 that clear from the first. Of course, as you know, 24 Dr. Travers is sitting on my right and has been my deputy.
25 He will remain at the site and presumably will be acting in G
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1 the position as director of the office. But there is a 2 formal procedure that has to be gone through to select a l 3 new director.
4 The office function that is being shifted up to 5 the site and the management of our activities is basically 6 because the action is really there now. That is where it 7 ought to be. During the defueling and the rest of the 8 decontamination work that needs to be done it should be 9 there.
10 The staff will be reduced somewhat. There will 11 be a net reduction of four over what we currently have. So 12 there will be -- and there are some vacancies with an 13 office that size, there is always a little bit of turnover.
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- 16 There will remain back at Bethesda a small j 17 two-person contingent to serve as a liaison function back 18 to the home office organization, but those two in'dividuals, 19 as it.is presently set up, will report to the director who 20 will be at the site. They will provide service function to 21 him.
22~ Importantly for the panel's information, Mike 23 Maznick will remain in Bethesda and will remain as liaison 24 to the panel. So from that perspective, the interface with 25 the panel really will not change.
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6 As I say, the primary emphasis was to put the 7 director where the real action is going to be in the near ,
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11 until this change takes place to Harold Denton, who in turn
! 12 reports to our executive director, the new director at the 13 site office will report to a gentleman who is with us i(:)
1 14 tonight. I want to introduce them very shortly: Frank j 15 Miraglia, who 'in turn -reports then to Harold Denton. So it
- 16 is a change in that arrangement. But I think the important 17 thing is that you have got the director on the site and I 18 don't see that that operation will change all that much..
19 More importantly, the arrangement which I am 20 going to ask Frank to explain, under his office it'has 21 available a fairly large staff of technical people that 22 service a number of different projects in his area of
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24 So I think that that is a real plus'in.this organization, 25 that we can call upon, more readily call upon technical-
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- 3 If there are any questions on the subject, I 4 would be happy to answer them. If not, I was going to 5 suggest that we have Frank Miraglia just explain a little 6 bit better how this fits into the whole slew of things.
7 MR. MORRIS: Any questions from anybody?
8 Okay. Thank you, Bernie.
9 MR. SNYDER: Frank. '
i 10 MR. MIRAGLIA: This is an organizational chart.
11 MR. MORRIS: While all this is being handed out, 12 are you going to tell the panel what it is you are going to 13 be doing or is that your business?
i O. 14 MR. SNYDER: The only thing I can answer is that 15 is I can tell you what I am not going to be doing. I am j 16 planning on leaving the NRC and my plans-very honestly are
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17 not firm at this moment. I was thinking of running for 18 mayor of Lancaster, but I really don't think I could beat 19 you.
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21 MR. MORRIS: You might do real well. 'I wasn't
. 22 sure that the panel. members realized that you were in fact 23 living. Are you going to be at the next meeting?
24 MR. SNYDER: I will try to be there. I expect 25 to be able to be there and go through the same thing for O
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1 the benefit of the people in the Harrisburg area. It just 2 so happened that this meeting was scheduled coincidentally 3 with the time that we made this reorganizational plan.
4 MR. MORRIS: I don't want to see you leave 5 without the panel thanking you and if you are going to bc
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1 7 MR. SNYDER: Give me an appropriate greeting 8 there.
9 MR. MORRIS: Seriously, we would be happy to do 10 that. I- want to. I don't want to see you just leave a
11 without acknowledging your work with the panel. But if you j 12 are going to be in Harrisburg, we should leave it until 13 then.
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15 MR. MIRAGLIA: Thank you. My name is Frank 16 Miraglia. I am currently deputy director...of licensing 17 within the division. As Bernie has outlined, the overall 18 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation is being1 reorganized.
19 The current status of that reorganization is a detailed
, 20 staffing plan has been developed and it has been processed 21 through personnel and management and the staff will i
22- probably be receiving notification of-the roles of all the 23 individuals within the office sometime in October. We-24 still have a target and a goal of early October. It will I
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1 As with any reorganization of the size
< 2 contemplated, there will be a period of transition until 3 the new organization becomes fully effective and working.
4 I have'provided the panel the announcement of i 5 the re' organization that was made by Mr. Denton at the end 6 of July. The charts in this handout only go to the level 7 of management and down to the branch chief level. It 8 doesn't show the full staffing.
9 I don't propose to walk you through all of those, 10 but the very first chart gives you an idea of the overall 11 organization that will exist in NRR after reorganization.
12 There still will be five divisions within the office, but 13 the complement and makeup of those divisions will be O 14 different from the existing five divisions. .There will be 15 three projects divisions, one division is called .
16 pressurized water reactors licensing-A, that essentially 17 will have the responsibility for all of the Westinghouse 18 pressurized water reactors.
19 There will be a division of boiling water 20 reactors that are essentially the GE reactors. And there 21 is also the Alice Chalmers' reactor at La Crosse.
22 The division of most interest to the panel will 23 be the division of pressurized water reactor licensing-B, 24 and that will have responsibility for the Babcock & Wilcox 25 design pressurized water reactors as well as the combustion l
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2 In addition, there will be a division of safety 3 review and oversight and a division of human factors 4
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5 I think that you can turn.about three pages back 6 from that first chart and this will give you an idea of the i
j 7 size of the organization, of the division of pressurized 8 water reactors licenaing-B.
9 We struggled hard to try to come up with a 10 better name than that, but it-is the best we'can do.
11 In that division, I think an important point 12 that Bernie made is that it is set up-in that each division,'
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O 14 project managers that follow each of the reactor projects 15 but it is also concerning a technical staff. That is ,
16 different from our current structure. We have a matrix
'17 structure of a project management organization which is the j 18 current division of licensing with the technical 19 disciplines in three or four different divisions. Those 20 technical divisions serve as all of the project pointers.
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21 The reorganization does align projects and 22 technical functions within the division.- The-size of this 23 division will be about 150 people. There will be l 24 approximately 70 people on the~ technical side and the equal 25 amount on the project side.
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3 housed at the site with support staff in Bethesda of two i 4 persons, Mike Maznick and Randy Hall. So Mike and Randy 5 will provide the liaison with the site but they will also 6 have the access to the technical organization that is 7 housed in that division.
8 Within that technical arm, there are four 9 technical branches. We have an engineering branch and the 10 sizes of those organizations are on the order of 15 people.
11 Engineering branch we also have~ a reactor 12 . systems branch, a plant and electrical systems branch and a 13 facilitie~s operations branch.
O 14 In addition to the project directorate of the 15 TMI cleanup project, there are five'other project-16 directorates from which I will be responsible for, one 17 being directorate number 6 which.is all of the B&W reactors 18 including the activities at TMI-1.
19 The project directorate of. number 7 will have
- 20 combustion engineer reactors. Those are~the newer designs
21 Palo Verde, San Onofre, Waterford. The project-directorate 22 8 would be the combustion engineering reactors of older
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24' For the people here in Maryland, Calvert Cliffs would be in 25 that project directorate.
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v 1 In addition to those, there are two other 2 programs that would be assigned to that division. One 3 would be the safety assessment project directorate which 4 will have two projects. It is a pilot program that we are 5 attempting to demonstrate a technique for reexamining older 6 reactors and to look at the requirements that are j 7 outstanding on the reactor to see what is the most 8 expeditious and cost-effective way of implementing the 9 requirements and upgrading perhaps some of the older design 10 facilities. The two projects that are in that directorate 11 right now would be Haddam Neck and Millstone 2.
12 The special projects and standardization project 13 directorate will have responsibility for non-power reactors, 1
O 14 standardization and decommission.
15 That gives you a broad overview of the
! 16 organization in Washington. As Bernie has pointed out, the a
17 one plus of this reorganization is a dedicated staff of 18 technical people for the program office to draw upon.
19 They had a dedicated staff previously. However, 20 they were in competition across, from a priority point of 21 view,in competing with all the reactor types.
l 22 So I think the priorities and the reassignment 23 of people will be able to focus on the B&W reactors perhaps 24 a little bit more effectively.-
25 I have.had the pleasure of meeting Mayor Morris.
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~/ 1 I was introduced to some of you previously before the 2 . meeting. I look forward to seeing you at some of the 3 upcoming meetings.
4 MR. MORRIS: Thank you.
5 Anybody on the panel have any questions at this 6 point?
7 MR. DI NUNNO: Frank, I think from a.public j 8 standpoint, public interest standpoint that one needs some 9 assurance that this reorganization which one can understand 10 from a technical s'andpoint t will not in any way degrade the i
11 attention to the interest or refl~ect a lack of interest, if 12 you will, in any way on the part of the Regulatory 13 Commission. I think that the public would want some O 14 reassurance that this is in no way a diminishment of the 15 interest of the NRC in the entire program.
16 The other aspect that you might want to comment 17 on, I would like to have your comments on, is the TMI 18 experience is an experience that is of interest to the
! 19 total reactor technology and certainly not just the 20 combustion and B&W designs. So one of my questions is, how l
21 does that experience fit into the other reactor concepts, 1
i 22 ~ the other reactor designs as well. I would hope that 23 having this' unit reporting to you that is specializing in 24 like reactors will not lessen the flow of whatever comes
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2 MR. MIRAGLIA: Let me try-to respond to those.
3 The question about the' emphasis, that concern 4 and that perception would be perhaps a reporting level of i 5 the director of the office to a division director and then 6 to the office director. That could be perceived as a 7 de-emphasis.
8 I think in the establishment of the office and 9 the staffing of the office, extra consideration for 10 staffing has been considered. In addition to myself as the 11 division director, I myself have a deputy assigned to the 12 division so between the two of us, along with Bill an'd the 13 two extra support staff in headquarters, I would hope that O 14 we would be able to maintain the appropriate focus and 15 emphasis. I am sure that this panel will be watching'the 16 performance of this new organization and will not hesitate 17 in making comments or expressing those kinds of concerns.
18 I don't believe it is a de-emphasis. I think the focus has
! 19 shifted to the site and I think the shift to the site has 20 been contemplated for some time, even separate and apart 21 from such a reorganization.
22 With respect to your second comment, I don't 23 think that the focus of the experience at TMI is going to 24 be limited to the B&W reactors in any sense. I think 25 within the community with respect to the support by DOE, f
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.l 5 lot since the accident, a lot of changes have been made at 6 the reactors of all types. Certainly consideration of new 7 designs.
8 I think the organization also provides some 9 other unique opportunities in that I have, along with
- 10 Bernie's help, tried to maintain the experience of some of 11 the people that -- the reductions that Bernie talked about
] 12 in staff. I made sure that I got as many of those people 13 within my organization, because the fact that they are not
) 14 assigned to the TMI-2 project in my mind is not important.
15 Those people will be in my organization and their expertise 16 will be available regardless of where they sit within that 17 organization. I think that will be true even of 18 individuals that might sit in other divisions as well.
19 In addition to that, as I say, one of the 20 project directorates that I have here is a:special projects 21 directorate that has a decommission kind of function, to be 22 a focus for decommissioning kind of. activities. There is a 23 natural link-up between the activities that are being' 24 conducted with respect to TMI-2 and th't a general program.
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5 MR. DI NUNNO: Thank you.
6 MR. COCHRAN: Does the reorganization at the 7 TMI program office level or the NRR level reflect or was it
] 8 triggered by budget reductions?
1 1 9 MR. MIRAGLIA: Yes, a certain amount of that 10 certainly came into that consideration. The budget 11 reductions are a factor in federal life, state life and 12 local life. There was consideration of~where to make d
13 certain reductions. Various options were looked at and 4
14 discussed with the Commission. This is part of those 15 reductions.
16 MR. COCHRAN: Could you give us those numbers, 17 sort of the before and after for TMI and NRR?
18 .MR . MIRAGLIA: Before and after TMI, you mean --
19 MR. COCHRAN: Before and after reorganization.
20 How much money -- the reorganization is to save money. How i 21 much money ---
22 MR. MIRAGLIA: I am not sure from an agency 23 point of view what those numbers would be. But from an 24 overall NRR perspective I can give you some gross numbers 25 and. don't hold me to the absolute accuracy of these things.
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3 staffing of the office itself has been about on the order 4 of 640 persons. I think this year we will come out
- 5. probably in the 638, 636, that kind of area. In addition, 6 there have been some reductions in the technical support 7 and assistance and dollars that were available. So it is a 8 question of overall offico needs and the allocation of that i
9 essentially constant pool of resources . that Mr. Denton has 10 to work with that 640 total number. It 1:s a reallocation t
11 and redistribution of those numbers within that overall 12 constraint.
13 MR. SMITHGALL: Should I assume from your O 14 comments that your policy of May of '85 of providing 15 information to the panel, relevant and significant 16 information to the advisory panel, pretty much stays the 17 same? Does that have to go through another review process?
18 Will it still come through our liaison?
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20 _the agreements that have been reached in the working 21 arrangements that have been reached with the panel, they
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23 federal designate for the panel and I don't see any changes.
i 24 MR. SMITHGALL: No difference in the approval.of-25 possibly nonpublic information on that to the panel as i~t l
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2 MR. MIRAGLIA: None that I am aware of.
3 MR. SNYDER: I don ' t think that is going to be 4 affected. In fact, that policy is still under 5 consideration by the Commission, as you probably are aware.
6 I wouldn't want to predict how that might come 7 out. However it comes out, I don't think the relationship 8 will really change all that much. You will see Maznick, 9 you-will see a different person in my job, but most of the 10 faces you will be pretty familiar with.
11 MR. MORRIS: You are not willing to predict,
- 12 even though you are leaving next month?
13 MR. SNYDER: That is, those two things really '
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16 MR. MORRIS: You are better off?
17 MR. SNYDER: You are better off not saying anymore.
18 Anybody else?
19 MR. MORRIS: Okay. I know you_ won't answer this:
l 20 Is the director's spot, is that one that is always highly 21 competitive and sought for or does Bill have a pretty. good ;
22 shot at it?
23 'MR. MIRAGLIA: I don't believe it would be
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2 MR. ROTH: Spoken like a true politician.
3 MR. MORRIS: I wasn't trying to put anybody on 4 the spot. I didn't know if it was just a technicality or 5 whether it was competitive. Fine. Thank you.
6 Next item 4 is DOE's role in the cleanup.
7 MR. BIXBY: I will touch on part of your 8 question which you asked Frank from DOE's perspective 9 during my presentation.
10 Mr. Mayor, when Bill called me about the agenda, 11 he said basically 15 minutes of commercial air time. So I 12 decided I would use that. Let Bernie into the secret of
() 13 what we do before he' leaves.
14 (Laughter.)
15 MR. BIXBY: Seriously, I would like to spend the 16 next 15 minutes telling you who we are, where we come f rom, 17 what our mission is, what we have done, how we get it done 18 and what our current focus is.
19 I happen to be employed by the Department of 20 Energy's Idaho operations office and that office, through 21- its prime operating contractor EG&G Idaho, operates the 22 Idaho National Engineer Laboratory. The INEL is located in 23 southern Idaho,.about 50 miles west of Idaho Falls. And up 24 until about 10 years ago, the INEL was known as the 25 National Reactor Testing Station. It. derived its name from i
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4 Along with that program also evolved a large 5 expertise for reactor safety research. That has been -
6 manifested in two major facilities, one the Loss Of Fluid 7 Test Facility, which is a 150th test facility. And you may 8 be aware, the people in the public may be aware that about l
9 . two months ago, the LOFT facility conducted its final test 10 of 38 in which it tried to simulate the TMI-2 accident and 11 achieved a fuel melting temperatures. In fact it did. I 12 would expect that within about six to eight months we ought
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14 There is also another facility referred to as 15 the Power Burst Facility. .That facility is important
- 16 because it provides data on the performance of light water i
17 reactor fuel under severe accident conditions. That
! 18 facility, both facilities, I should point out, have been 19 funded by the NRC as part of their confirmatory research 20 program, except in the recent LOFT has been funded by the j - 2:1 Organization for Economic. Development. They will provide a 22 significant data base for questions associated with source
! 23 term.
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1 laboratory for the low level waste management, the 2 department asked us to set up a site office at TMI. In 3 January of 1980, I and six other EG&G employees came back 4 to set up a site office. You can tell how temporary that 5 assignment has been but hopefully we are seeing the light 6 at the end of the tunnel.
7 Just what is our -- what was the DOE's mission?
8 It has been to obtain data to enhance reactor safety along 9 the lines that we have talked about with respect to LOFT 10 and PBF. And to provide recovery.
11 When we came here, this was our, principally our 12 only charter was to obtain data to enhance reactor safety.
() 13 That function has really been focused and is 14 taking on increased focus to assess where the fission 15 products were~ transported during and following the accident.
16 The reactor vessel containment building _and the auxiliary 17 building and also to obtain information to understand how 18 TMI arrived at its final state. Both of those two pieces 19 of information, the data from that examinat' ion, will 20 provide data along with-LOFT and PBF to allow us to ~
21 . validate current generation computer codes used in design 22 and licensing of current' generation PWRs and current 23 generation LWRs.
24 In addition we.also have-the -- in addition we 25 also have a. charter to look at the performance of the O
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3 components to meet their intended design. We are 4 essentially done with that. But that program provided a
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7 though many of the instruments may have died, when they 8 died and how they died are important in understanding what i
j 9 actually happened during the course of the accident.
10 As we get more data, we are going to be able to 11 go back and hopefully reconstruct to a finer level of 12 detail what actually occurred during the course of the TMI
, () 13 2 accident.
14 'This really was our charter from January of 1980 15 until about the summer of~1981, just after the Reagan 16 administration came in. We included the second part of the 17 mission to provide technology for.the recovery from 18 significant accidents. .'This is a two-way street, providing 19 technology.
l 20 The department has technology that existed in 21 its national laboratories, particularly with respect to 22 waste management -- the ability to be.able to handle high 1
23 specific activity waste, high transuranic waste, and that 24 expertise was brought to bear at TMI-2. I will touch'on 25 some specifics in a minute.
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7 have a leg up on how we go about handling this problem.
8 We work with GPU in two ways. We provide a J
9 direct technical support to GPU. And like I said, this is 10 a 15-minute commercial.
11 MR. ROTH: Who is paying for it?
12 MR. BIXBY: The panel asked for it.
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() 13 MR. MORRIS: Go for it, Ross.
14 MR. BIXBY: Back in 1980 when we first got here, 15 one of the concerns in the public_was the, I guess the 16 believability of the public, of the federal agencies to be 17 able to believe the radiation readings that were being
- 18 monitored off-site, both EPA and NRC. One of the ideas 19 that came up was to let the people in the local communities 20 measure-for themselves what the releases were during the 21 krypton venting.
22 DOE provided equipment to 12 cites around TMI, 23 sponsored a course through Penn State to educate 50 people 24 in the area and they were able to conduct their own 25 monitoring during the krypton venting.
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1 With respect to the water that was processed in 2 the auxiliary building, GPU used the EPICOR system, 3 generated 50 high specific activity liners. There was some 4 concern imriediately af ter those liners were put in storage 5 that they may have the potential for leaking. So the best 6 thing to do is to get one out and to analyze it. We 7 shipped one to Batelle Columbus, analyzed it there.
4 8 Determined that there neede~d to be means to safely vent and-9 inert these liners. That equipment was provided by DOE.
10 We also made arrangements and shipped all 50 of 11 those liners to the INEL. Put them in interim storage '
1 12 until a commercial. solution was developed.
() 13 That solution was a high integrity container.
14 We commercially. disposed of one last May. And subsequent 15 to that, 46 out of 50 have been placed in the commercial 16 burial ground in Richland. That was done at GPU's expense.
17 MR. COCHRAN: I just got in the mail a copy of 18 this request for a license exemption. Is that related to 19 burial at EPICOR?
20 MR. BIXBY: No,.I think that is different --
21 that is the strontium request.
22 MR. COCHRAN: What is the difference?
23 MR. BIXBY: Can you speak to that?
24 MR. STANDERFER: . Basically there is the ratio of
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4 That exemption is for EPICOR-2 resin that we are now 5 sending to the Washington State burial ground has been 6 approved.
7 MR. COCHRAN: Have there been any variances 8 requested or approved with respect to the EPICOR?
9 MR. STANDERFER: I don't think so.
10 MR. MORRIS: Who are you asking the questions to?
11 MR. COCHRAN: Anybody.
12 MR. BIXBY: I think you have got to separate the
() 13 problem into two. One part of the problem is the low level 14 EPICOR liners that GPU has routinely generated. We are 15 talking about the high specific activity EPICOR liners that 16 had upwards of 2000 curies of activity on possible high 17 transuranic contents. DOE licensed that HIC through the 18 state of Washington.
19 MR. COCHRAN: And with no variances requested 20 with respect to that?
21 MR. BIXBY: Not that I am aware of, no.
22 Uhen it came to processing the water in the 23 basement, they used the SDS system. DOE through the Oak 24 Ridge National Laboratory used those services to determine 25 what the right ion exchange medium was.
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I 6 took all 19 of those SDS liners. We used three as part of 7 a glass-making demonstration at Richland and we used the 8 remaining 16.as part of a monitored and treatable ~ burial 9 demonstration program.
10 Finally with respect to reactor disassembly, we 11 provided the equipment to obtain the core debris, the 12 initial core debris samples. We analyzed those in Idaho.
() 13 It may be an opportunity to help set the record straight.
f 14 There was some question about the analysis of these samples i
15 and the timeliness. I should point out that we took those 16 . samples and our principal emphasis when we took them was to
, 17 provide GPU with information to assist them in.the 18 defueling. We did that and we continually provided l 19 information.
20 The last part of that.information, the stuff l 21 that the researchers are really interested in is what is 22 the metallography of those samples so you can determine
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6 To speak to the other avenue of what we call 7 technology transfer, which is to take the information from 8 TMI and put it out to the industry, GPU is doing some 9 things that will have generic benefit to the rest of the 10 industry. DOE funds those efforts to the tune of between 11 S115 million a year, depending upon the scope of work.
12 Principally our contributions have been initially in the
() 13 gross decontamination experiment that we funded. We funded 14 the initial quick look at the TMI-2 core. We provided 15 about half funding for the head removal effort. We 16 provided for funds for the plenum removal tools. And we 17 have just recently provided funds for the, all of the fuel, 18 the initial fuel removal tooling.
19 All of this activity results in not only the 20 tools but it results in a report for us, design reports 21 that are then sent to over 750 people on the standard 22 distribution list to have in their libraries, all the 23 utilities around the country to have in their libraries so 24 they can have this technology at their disposal. Plus we 25 have a system set up where we try to look at this data from
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REE 1 a generic standpoint and find out what is important and use 2 EPRI's mechanisms to get that information out to their 3 utility users.
4 Our focus in the next year is in the development 5 of the tools to remove the fuel in the lower plenum as well 6 as operations funds for selected operations during the 7 course of the overall fuel removal operation.
8 How do we carry that out? DOE headquarters and 9 DOE-ID, very similar to NRC on-site, have a pretty tight 10 relationship. This is the kind of job of policy and 11 implementation of sort of real time in a way.
12 We have established a pretty good communication.
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15 They have the responsibility through a contract 16 with GPU to write scopes of work and to allocate funds for 17 work that is of generic benefit to the industry.
18 What is our focus for the next year? Well, as 19 Yogi Berra would say, it ain't over until it is over. I 20 guess from a DOE standpoint it is not over until the fuel 21 is shipped off the island and stored in Idaho.
22 Our attention right now is to see that we get to 23 that point of start of fuel shipping by March of 1986. And 24 to that end, DOE and EG&G are in the process right now and 25 we have briefed the panel on the acquisition of two rail v
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4 And I think I did that one in 15 minutes.
5 MR. MORRIS: Close.
6 MR. ROTH: You are a fine spokesman for DOE. Ed 7 McMahon, watch out.
8 You mentioned in number 25, how many DOE staf f 9 are on-site?
10 MR. BIXBY: There are two assigned.
11 MR. ROTH: Including yourself?
12 MR. BIXBY: Yes. And there is one back in Idaho.
I )' 13 We have an organizational structure. We too are going 14 through somewhat of an organizational change.
15 Before there were sort of split responsibilities.
16 " The site did its thing and the Idaho operations did its 17 thing.
18 What is happening is that both of those pieces 19 are coming together under myself, so that we will have 20 responsibility for both the on-island as well as the INEL 21 activities. Such things as you see here.
22 MR. ROTH: The other question would be on the 23 funding. Do you see a decrease or cutback as NRC has seen, 24 as far as you are aware?
25 MR. BIXBY: I see next year somewhere in the
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6 The majority of the effort that GPU is going 7 through to remove that fuel takes place over the next year.
8 Partly into '87. So our funding is going to be tied to 9 selected activity. We may see a big share in '86 and a 10 very small share in 1987. But I think '86 is. sort of the --
- 11 I would look on it as the hump year. I think the important 12 part of getting the fuel out will probably take place in
,() 13 1986. ,
14 MR. ROTH: Thank you.
15 MR. COCHRAN: Where are you going to store the --
l 16 MR. BIXBY: In the test area north of the pool.
17 We will take up half of the pool. That. test area north.
) 18 We have -- GPU has designed the cannisters to, for a 30-year
{ 19 storage life time. That is what our current design base is 20 right now, to store it out there for 30 years, j 21 MR. COCHRAN: Tell me about that pool. What was 22 it-built for? What else --
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2 MR. COCHRAN: They didn't build the pool in 3 contemplating a Three Mile Island accident.
4 MR. BIXBY: What they were going to use the test 5 area north for was the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program.
. 6 That program died. In the last.several years, the last 7 eight to 10 years, the industry has gone down and in a way,
- 8 TMI has sort of rejuvenated that test area north area and 9 has gotten the facilities upgraded in a way. And.in 10 '- addition, there are going to be other programs coming in 11 there as part of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management I
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13 MR. COCHRAN: What happened to the fuel that was 14 there?
15 MR. BIXBY: There wasn't any fuel there.
16- MR. SMITHGALL: I feel compelled to ask this. I 17 will take the generic problems and leave the specifics.
18 How do.you respond to your critics who might say 19 that you will be a promoter of the nuclear power industry 20 as opposed to just a researcher? $15 million a year, 750 21 people that you --
22 MR. MORRIS: Can you answer that'in a minute or 23 so that -- we want to stay at least close.
24 MR. SMITHGALL: A promoter versus a regulator or 25 a promoter versus a researcher.
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4 the rest of the industry and I think we would be remiss in 5 not making that information available. In the unlikely 6 event this thing, this situation like this happens again.
7 MR.-COCHRAN: DOE was established as a promoter.
8 What is the purpose of-your question?
9 MR. MORRIS: Willis, thank you very much.
10 Appreciate it.
11 What I would like to do -- this was suggested by l 12 Joel Roth, .I hope everybody would agree -- that is if we
() 13 could go' right on to item 5, Bill Kirk is willing to do 14 ~ that. Before Bill begins, those from the public that are 15 here, I would be interested in seeing just how many people 16 are present.that are from the Maryland area that have not i
17 been to a panel meeting before but are strictly people with 18 the public and not with the state organization or not 19 related to.the government. Can I just see hands?
20 (Show of hands.)
! 21 MR. MORRIS: I think we see about six people 22 here.
23 None of you have been to any.of our meetings 24 before, I assume?
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1 many people showed up for this particular meeting from the 2- public.
3 Bill, are you ready to go?
L 4 MR. KIRK: I am trying to figure out this 5 machine. We will figure this out yet. You get some -- I 6 think Tom Maznick or Mike Maznick was --
2 7 MR. SMITHGALL: How soon we forget. He missed 8 one meeting.-
4 9 MR. KIRK: I have reason for this. He called me 10 up and said I had 20 minutes to summarize something that 11 the last time was presented to this committee took an hour.
12- Then he put me on the agenda for 10 minutes. I am going to
() 13 get him for this.
14 MR. SMITHGALL: There is five minutes.
15 MR. KIRK: ~I will turn up the speed. I find 16 myself compelled to make, instead of a scriptive 17 presentation, a summarized thing on a bunch of slides.
18 There are copies of them on the table there if anybody 19 would like to be able to read the numbers. I know you are 20 not going to be able to read them from the slides.
21 Everybody starts out with a picture of the 22 ' island. I started out this time with a picture of the back 23 side of the island. This is not'the usual one that you'see 24 in the newspaper. This is a picture from the river side, 25 and if you look down at the far lower right-hand corner, O
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2 been monitored and this is the thing that is of prime 3 interest down in this area. So I thought I would show the 4 point where it starts.
5 There is a complete description of the .
6 monitoring program in a joint monitoring plan. I have left 7 copies of it on the back table. It is a joint monitoring 8 plan conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency, the 9 NRC and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental 10 Resources, the Department of Energy, the several agencies-11 in the Maryland -- I don't know~whether it is the health 12 department or the environmental group. At any rate, there
() 13 are five or six agencies joined together to conduct 14 environmental monitoring around Three Mile Island. They 15 asked me to summarize EPA. I decided why should I just 16 stop there so I put all of them on the same slide.
17 We are monitoring for a combin~a tion of things.
18 The first and the.one that-is usually seen by the public is 19 ambient gamma radiation. This is a measure of the levels 20 of penetrating proton type radiation present at various i 21 locations aroun'd the island.
l 22 We do this in two different manners. One is a 23 continuous monitoring method using pressurized ion chambers a
24 with telemetered data coming back to computerized central
-25 processors in the office. There are two setups like this,
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- 2 we have a total of 29 locations where continuous gamma i 3 monitoring is done and continuous readout is available.
4 There are some telemetered exchanges of data going.back and 5 forth between GPU, EPA, NRC, ~ the state --- several 6 transmissions on this.
2 7 The.next method, which is designed to get a l 8. cumulative level, a cumulative dose of gamma radiation at i
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the levels being monitored is thermoluminescent dosimeters, a
10 which is little crystals that essentially absorb energy and 11 save it until you heat it up and then you get light out 12 proportional to the radiation that the dosimeters have 13 l ( )- absorbed.
I 14 We have a total of 200 different locations being 15 monitored between the four programs with about 8500
[ 16 readings per year - 8512 per year.
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17 Tom Gerusky likes to say.that there are so many i 18 TLDs around Three. Mile Island that'a gamma proton can't~get 19 out unintercepted.
- 20 The next thing-we monitor is the air for 21 radioactive p~ articulates, radiciodine, Krypton-85 and for 22 tritium.
23 For. airborne radioactive particulates' there are l 24 :a -total of 25 stations;. 1560 readings are samples analyzed 25 per year. These are broken up with eight being with GPU, O
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3 The readings on these are primarily done by high 4 resolution gamma spectroscopy to identify isotopes of 5 interest that might might be of reactor origin. Radioiodine 1 6 is sampled by drawing air through activated charcoal 7 cartridges. And we look at the cartridges on high
- 8 resolution gamma spectrometer to see whether there is any 9 iodine present.
10 EPA is doing 14 locations with weekly samples.
11 GPU has eight locations. Pennsylvania has three with a 12 total of 32 locations and 1300 analyses per year.
() 13 Because of the release of krypton during the 14 purging in 1980 and the possibility of pockets of krypton 15 in the core yet that may be released during the cleanup, 16 this would seem to be rather remote given the condition of 17 the core but we have continued to monitor for krypton at 18 four locations around the island. We have four locations, 19 GPU has four, for a total of eight places krypton is 20 monitored, 312 readings per year.
21 Tritium in' air is a sort of unusual thing to be 22 monitored around the reactor. It is not standard at all.
23 What we do is collect the atmospheric moisture by drawing 24 air through a molecular absorbent and then distill the 25 water off the absorbent later in the laboratory and analyze O
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1 the water for tritium. We have five locations that we do 2 'this in, the four in the immediate vicinity and one located 3 about 40 miles away as a comparison. We are the only 4 agency doing this at the present time.
5 The next thing we are looking at is water, which 6 is of primary interest down here. There are four different 7 varieties of sampling being done on the water coming into j
8 and leaving the plant. On' surface water downstream from 9 the plant, the number of wells around the island, and 10 precipitation, which is sort of just to see what is coming 11 in from above.
12 The monitoring I think is of most interest to L() 13 most people is the monitors that we-have on the island, on 14 the water coming into the plant and the water leaving the
- 15 -plant. We take a continuous sample on both. GPU takes a 16 continuous sample on both. The only difference is we 17 analyze ours daily and they are composited over a two-week 18 period. This leads sometimes to some. differences in 19 answers.
The're have been very, very few samples .in the 20 21 last five years that had detectable levels of activity.
22 Most of this time it has been radiciodine which has later 23 been traced back to patients in'Harrisburg getting iodine 24 for medical conditions.
25 Surface water,.we are collecting water on the
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\J 1 runoff on the island. There is a surface runoff catch 2 basin where all the water that falls in precipitation on 3 the island runs off. We sample that one. GPU has got a 4 number of sampling stations on the river that they are 5 sampling.
6 We are picking up a sample with the cooperation 7 of the City of Lancaster at Lancaster and we have, that 4
8 adds up to a total of 13 locations and 700-and-some samples ,
9 a years.
10 Wells, we have five. wells around the island, 11 mostly downstream of the middle center line of the island.
12 We started monitoring these in 1981 because of some high
() 13 levels of tritium in ground water on the island which 14 occurred due to a freezeup in a line on the borated. water
-15 tank.
16 At any rate we are still doing these monitorings.
i 17 We have not.seen any activity in them. So we.have reduced 18 our monitoring from.a monthly to a quarterly basis, b'ut we 19 will continue to do this.
20 Precipitation, GPU is doing five locations, we 21 are doing one, a. total of six locations for 72 readings.
22 And miscellaneous -- excuse me, aquatic, this is 23 all being done by either GPU or by the state. In most 24 cases what is being done'is GPU is collecting the sample, 25 .the state is splitting the sample with GPU and they.are O
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24341.0 48 REE 1 being analyzed in parallel to see if they come out with the 2 same answers. Their sediment samples are done on a 3 semiannual basis, vegetation on a semiannual basis and fish 4 samples taken in the river in the immediate vicinity.
5 Miscellaneous, there are a number of milk 6 samples, vegetation samples, fruit.and soil samples being 7 done by the utility primarily with cooperation and 8' crosscheck samples with the Pennsylvania Department of 1
9 Environmental Resources.
1 10 In addition to the program that-is conducted at 11 Three Mile Island, by the program director specifically at-1 12 Three Mile Island, EPA has another program known as the 13 l l( ) environmental radiation ambient monitoring system which 14 collects water samples. They are collecting surface water 15 -at Danville, Columbia, Conowingo and Leslie along the 16 Susquehanna and Chesapeake. They are also analyzing 17 drinking water at Baltimore, Conowingo, Columbia and 18 Harrisburg. That is a rather complete -- these samples are 19 generally collected quarterly. They are not a continuous 20 sample but they do serve as a reading of what is present.
! 21 MR. MORRIS: About how much longer do you have?
22 MR. KIRK: I am just going to show a couple 23 pictures.and quit.
l 24 For the benefit of the --
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2 That is all right. Go ahead.
3 MR. KIRK: When I prepare something with 20 l
4 minutes, I have a hard time cutting it off'. This is a 5 picture of the water monitor at Three Mile Island. Inside 6 this -- can.anybody see this with the lights the way they i
, 7 are? Who has got the controls?
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8 This is the monitoring as it-leaves Three~ Mile l 9 Island, as far as EPA is concerned. We have -in here a f 10 continuous glow gamma monitor which gives us a reading on 11 gamma radiation on a continuous basis. Data is telemetered
- 12 back to my office in Middletown. It is also hooked up to a (f 13 dialer'that we have nicknamed "Mortimer." If the. levels go 14 any place above the set points which is about one-tenth of 15 the level permitted in drinking. water for cesium, it rings
- 16 up one of four people and says things like, "the present 17 reading is" -- it tells us to do something about it. This
- 18 only happens in electrical storms so far.
19 We also have the. contin ~uous monitor-in this 20 building.
21 This is a closeup of the reporting and 22 monitoring instrumentation. This is the runoff pond.
23 Typical air monitoring station and my 10 minutes is five 24 . minutes gone. I will shut up and - -I will answer any 25 questions anybody may have generated.
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2 MR. DI NUNNO: I think you ought to make some 3 comment. These are all the stations out there. But are i 4 you really seeing anything of any significance? I know the 5 answer to that but I think you ought to tell the people out 6 there something about these results that you are either 7 seeing or not seeing.
8 MR. KIRK: The only positive results that we 9 have gotten in the la't s five years have pertained to 10 tritium in air at the TMI observation center which is about 11 a' half a mile from the island. We have seen detectable 12 levels of tritium in at atmospheric moisture. These levels
() 13 'have been about a factor of 10,000 below the appropriate 14 limit for tritium in air. So they have been detectable but i
15 not of any significance. We have seen activity in water, 16 mostly tritium at levels slightly above the detection
'17 limits that we would have with the equipment.
18 There hasn't been any -- I think on one occasion 1
- 19 we managed to see some barely detectable levels of cesium
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20 .come out of unit 1 when they were cleaning a tank. This 21 would be about the sum total of what we have seen.
22 We do see iodine in the river periodically. In 23 fact it is probably a given that as long as you have a 5
24 bunch'of hospitals operating along the river, if you sample i 25 at a sensitive enough level you will see some radiciodine.
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24341.0 51 REE l 1 MR. MORRIS: Thank you. We will take a 10-minute l 2 . break and reconvene. -It is my understanding from Tom 3 Gerusky that he gives up his time. So under those 4 circumstances, we will go right through item 7 after the I
5 break. i 4
6 (Recess.)
7 MR.* MORRIS : I thought it would be important to
-8 announce that the game with Pete Rose did not yet start.
9 So hang in.
10 First item of business now is item 7 on our i
11 agenda. The Maryland Power Plant Siting Program. I am 12 going to ask each person from here on in to please try to
() 13 stay within the time allotment. This one is scheduled for
- 4 10 minutes. The next one is 20 minutes although Frank said 15 it might take up to 30. I am going to ask that you try to l 16 kee ) it within 20 minutes. And'then the final presentation
- 17 wou ld be NRC, 10 minutes because I do not want to see this 18 cut the public comments short. I think it is important to 19 prc ride adequate time for the public. So let's, if we can, 20 try to stay on schedule.
21 I guess, Frank, that means you are going to have i
22 o qive some. thought to watching the presentation. Thank 23 f' '.
. 24 MR. MAGETTE: My name is Thomas Magette. I am.
- . 25' the alministrator of site evaluation for the Maryland Power
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] 4 Maryland for any environmental impact in Maryland and 5 evaluating proposed sites for power plants. Because we 6 haveEbasically extended our role to look at power plants 7 that are not in Maryland but may have some effect on i
8 Maryland, we of course have a concern with Three Mile 9 Island. We also have a concern with Peachbottom because it 10 is on the Susquehanna River just north of the Maryland 11 Pennsylvania border. Our radiological monitoring prograr.
12 is therefore established to look at not only Calvert Cliffs
() 13 which operates in Maryland, but those two in addition.
- 14 In 1980 we have just begun extending our 15 monitoring program to fully look at the effects of the 16 Peachbottom atomic power station and as part of this effort
! 17 we also extended our monitoring program all the way up 18 river to the island,-to Three Mile Island. And in a period 19 of approximately two years after the accident, we have 20 actually collected environmental
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21 of Three Mile Island. We have since discontinued that 22 because we never found anything in any of.the samples. We 23 feel that our control stations for Peachbottom, which is I .24 north of the influence of that plant in the Susquehanna 25 River, are adequate to show any downstream influence from j
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1 Three Mile Island at least to the extent that it would be a 2 concern in Maryland. So we feel that the monitoring 3 program we have in place is adequate for looking at any 4 effects from Three Mile Island and the environment and fish 5 and submerged vegetation and shellfish in the Susquehanna 6 -River and the- Chesapeake Bay.
f 7 As part of this program, we also do cooperative 8 programs with the utilities both in Maryland and also as i
, 9 far-north as GPU. We have at least one program presently 10 going where we swap samples. We have the program where 11 mussels and crayfish are caged in Conowingo pond, Holtwood
- 12 pond, which is north of Peachbottom and then up in the l ) 13 Susquehanna River next to the plant site, and we both
- 14 collect samples from each other's stations and do our own i 15 independent analyses.
16 So we do cooperate very closely with the utility.
17 We'also cooperate quite closely with the Nuclear' Regulatory -
l 18 Commission. We have been involved with Bernie Snyder's i 19 ' office since the time before it was Bernie Snyder's office 20 and after that-time.
- 21 MR. MORRIS
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- 22. (Laughter.)
23 MR. MAGETTE: We have provided extensive I 24- commentsuon the environmental impact statements for the I 25 cleanup and we have also worked with-them on draft ACE-FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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2 One of the major activities in Maryland 3 concerning the cleanup of Three Mile Island is the 4 existence of the Governors Advisory Committee on the 5 cleanup. This is a panel that is similar in its objective 6 and its mandate to your own and it reports to the governor 7 and is expected to basically provide him with an 8 independent look at all aspects of the cleanup and an 9 independent confirmation of what he receives from his own 10 staff and our office.
11 There is one representative of the committee 12 here tonight, Mr. Mitch Kaplan who is on the committee, who I')
%s 13 along with Dr. Henry Wagner, a former member of your own '
14 panel, would be more than happy to receive any comments or 15 questions that you might have relative to their function.
16 They are still active and we along with the 17 committee have taken several trips to the island. They 18 have had upwards of 20 meetings over the past two years and 19 essentially now we have annual visits to the island where 20 GPU gives us an update of the cleanup and we meet with the 21 NRC staff and are briefed as to the status of cleanup.
22 The last thing I would like to mention is if 23 there are members of the public that are here tonight that 24 would have any comments or questions about our role, we 25 would be more than happy to help them and also, as (J
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'3 you are going on and also showing them that there is an 4 interest in the Maryland state government as to what is
, 5 going on, and we are maybe a little disappointed that we 6 have a small turnout but if people feel that there may be 7- avenues for contacting them about activities related to the 8 cleanup, then I just ask them if they would give me their 9 name and address.and could you make sure they are contabted
- 10 in the future so that they may provide a better conduit for 11 information flow to citizens in this part of the world.
i 12 I would be happy to answer any questions that
() 13 anyone on the panel has. ,
,' 14 MR. MORRIS: Where is Henry Wagner tonight?
15 MR. MAGETTE: Henry Wagner'has a prior 16 obligation, as I understand it.
-17 VOICE: Dr. Wagner is in Michigan. He had --
18 MR. MORRIS: Tell him we look forward to seeing; 19 him and we are sorry he did not make it.
20 VOICE: I brought with me a list here of the=
21 meetings, places and also the membership of the Maryland 22 Governors. Committee.
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. 23 MR. MAGET'TE : I have copies to provide '$or'your 24 transcript, if you like.
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3 MR. MAGETTE: Thank you very much.
4 MR. MORRIS: Thank you very much. Appreciate 5 your coming.
6 MR. DI NUNNO: I think, Mr. Chairman, that Tom --
7 again, the same question that I asked the EPA
- 8 representative here, I think some comments need to be made 9 as to whether you found anything in your monitoring 10 activity. So much attention is given that there are lots 11 of monitoring out there. But what people want to know is, i
12 are you finding anything?
() 13 MR. MAGETTE: We have analyzed samples, edible 14 fish and bait fish species, shellfish, crayfish, submerged vegetation, water, and sediments in the Susquehanna River
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16 and we have found no radioactivity that we could attribute 17 to the operation of Three Mile Island. We have found 18 radioactivity that we could attribute to Peachbottom.in the i 19 area of that plant, but.never in any consumable seafood i
- 20 species, only in the bait species or in sediments. We also l
21 have collected our own independent samples of the processed l 22 water from the site and confirmed that GPU concentrations 23 as they record. We have discontinued that when the water, l 24 when the decontamination was completed, the large 25 quantities of water.
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j 2 MR. DI NUNNO: Thank you.
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J 7 MR. MORRIS: I missed you.
8 MR. COCHRAN: What would trigger your concern t
j 9 with respect to radioactivity in the Susquehanna from Three i
10 Mile Island? Do you have different criteria than, say, the l 11 federal standards that you -- at some lower level that you j 12 get concerned and the federal government does, or what are r
() 13 you standar'ds?
14 MR. MAGETTE: We are not a regulatory agency so l 15 we don't have standards as such. We do samples, or do
- 16 analysis of samples,-to detect levels as low as background i 5 l 17 and our concern, certainly in the case of finding something 18 from Three Mile Island as far south as Hopewood, would be l
i j 19 triggered by finding anything at all.- Our general baseline 20 monitoring program is conducted to serve the. objective of 21 finding how radionuclides are transported throughout the 1
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5 MR.-COCHRAN: You find activity from Peachbottom.
L 6 It is evidently at a level that you don't get concerned
. 7 'enough to ask that it be reduced, the emissions'be reduced; 8 is that right?
9 MR. MAGETTE: That is correct. We find activity 10 from Peachbottom and we consider it to be, as I am sure the j 11 utility does also, well within their tech spec limits and I
12 we don't find it in any edible species, and so even our
() 13 projections from other species as far as a human dose are 14 several orders of magnitude below any levels of regulatory 15 limits.
I 16 MR. COCHRAN: I trust that since you know the
- 17 concentrations in the cleanup water, I trust that if one 18 bled the cleanup water after it has been~ cleaned up, as it 19 has been, into the Susquehanna say over a year, you would F
- 20 not be concerned about the activity levels in the water?
21 MR. MAGETTE: That is correct. We feel that the j 22 activity levels present in the processed water would not be 1
23 possible to be detected above existing background 24 concentrations.
25 MR. COCilRAN: You would have no problem in i
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2 MR. MAGETTE: I can't say that. That is a 3 policy question that is a little bit beyond whether or not-
- 4 this radioactivity that we can find --
5 MR. COCHRAN: Let me just ask you personally, 6 without getting into your -- without getting into your 7 policy, what do you personally believe.
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! 8 MR. MAGETTE: I personally would have no problem i
i 9 if they bled the water into the Susquehanna River, from a l
10 health and safety point of view.
i 11 MR. COCHRAN: And you seem to indicate that
- 12 there is some sort of potential problem there with other i
() 13 members of the panel.
l 14 MR. MORRIS: Let me cut in here.
i 15 MR. COCHRAN: Don't cut in here.
, 16 MR. MORRIS: As the chairman I will cut in here.
17 I will cut in at what point I think is appropriate. We
- 18 have on our agenda items 8 and 9, accident stored water.
l 19 Do you plan on being around at that particular time? If l 20 there are questions that come up at the time on this issue, )
i l 21 I would be happy to have you come back, but I see no s
22 purpose in continuing.
23 MR. COCHRAN: He hasn't answered.the question.
24 'You cut in before he answered the question.
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2 MR. MORRIS: Fine. Stick around, please. Thank
, 3 you.
i 4 Now, if we could go into that subject matter 5 which is item 8, processed water from the Three Mile Island 6 2 accident stored at the Three Mile Island 2 site, with GPU 7 making a presentation.
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, 8 MR. DEVINE: I will try to be brief.
- 9 MR. MORRIS
- You don't have to be brief. Just l 10 20 minutes.
4 11 MR. DEVINE: I will take my time.
12 (Laughter.)
() 13 My name is Jack Devine. I am a technical 14 planning director at Three Mile Island 2. The subject is 15 an outline of our current situation with respect to 16 processed water. I would like to point out at the outset
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! 17 that there is nothing particularly noteworthy about this 18 juncture of the project with respect to processed water.
i 19 Simply the fact that you have asked for an update and that 20 we are in Maryland and certainly people in Maryland have an 21 interest in the subject.
l 22 In fact, I had to try out some files to 23 refamiliarize myself with the subject because we are not 24 actively pursuing the' subject of disposition of the i
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1 I will try to brief you in a very quick fashion I
2 on the background, for the benefit of those who have not I 3 been involved in prior discussions on this; summarize where 1
4 we are and outline our plans which really involve simply a 5 timetable for making a decision rather than any projected 6 ' decision.
7 A few items which I thought would be valuable to 8 discuss just for a moment as an opener are listed on this 9 slide. First of all, we all are concerned with processed 10 water. But in fact the real focus of our attention is on 11 the contamination in the processed water that often is a 12 source of some confusion because in large measure they are
() 13 separable, have been separated and then continue to become 14 intermixed over the course of time. They are separate 4
15 issues. I will try to describe where the processed water 4 >
16 is but where the fission product activity is.
- 17 Certainly from a standpoint of water, our prime
18 interest early in the project was control of water because i 19 we are a power plant on an island in a river and leakage of 20 contamination in liquid form is certainly of primary i
21 concern. But having removed the bulk of the radioactivity
{ 22 from that water, our concern diminishes accordingly.
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() 13 I have taken liberal use of approximate numbers 14 in this presentation. I really want to highlight that 15 ahead of time. We have tons of data; statistics en 16 radioactive contaminants vary with time. The radioactive 17 materials decay continually. There is mixing from one body 18 of wat.r to another. We monitor 29 different locations 19 on-site. There are differences in accounting statistics.
20 There are differences in operational treatments, et cetera.
21 It is always difficult to try to get a complete snapshot in 22 time and express exactly how much exists at any one place 23 and compare that with perhaps a previous measurement.
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3 I have done my best to provide information that j
4 gives you an honest overview and beyond that we can explore j 5 specifics.
! 6 Just for simplicity, also, I have listed only
. 7 cesium and strontium and tritium and fission products or 8 contaminants of interest. Those are by and large the most 9 significant ones. Our evaluations and our data include the j 10 full spectrum. I didn't want to complicate the i
11 presentation with discussion of contaminants that were 12 hundreds or thousands of times less concentrated than those.
- () 13 Briefly going through the background, we started 14 out with about a million gallons plus. I guess it was 1.1 15 million gallons of highly contaminated' water. It became 16 contaminated by being in contact with fuel during the i
17 course of the accident. So the fission products contained 18 in fuel in an operating reactor in our case got into the 19 water which surround the reactor. As that water then 20 leaked into the reactor building, we distributed fission 21 products through a million gallons of water. We weren't 22 able to deal with that water very well at all initially.
l 23 We didn't have any way to handle it. The early years in 24 the project were involved in building facilities to do that.
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5 On your handout you have seen these numbers 4
6 before. You can examine at your leisure. On for brevity.
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! 7 Let me point out a few items. First of all it 8 really is important to note just how effective the 9 processing was-in removing fission products from this water.
10 In the reactor building basement water,-about 600,000 5
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() 13 gallon gallons of processed water was about one-thousandth 14
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, 17 and processing of the very highly contaminated water l 18 on-site.
I 19 You will note that in the case of processing of 20 reactor coolant system water, I haven't listed processed 21 water. That is because of the way we dealt with that water.
i 22 It was a feed-and-bleed process, which means that we were
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1 where it started. We wouldn't consider it processed water 2 because it is then in contact with the damaged fuel and is 3 exposed to new fission product activity. So it is 4 continually becoming contaminated.
5 MR. COCHRAN: Were those concentrations before 6 you started then?
I 7 MR. DEVINE: These are total curie content. The j 8 middle column is basically the total fission product 9 content in these respective bodies of water before we 10 started. In the case of the reactor coolant system water, 11 it was basically an equilibrium concentration, in our 12 samples of reactor coolant before we started processing.
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14 presented the data at the time of processing which was a 15 couple years after the start. Early fission product 16 contaminations for many cther isotopes are much, much l
17 higher.
18 MR. COCHRAN: I am just curious, in the reactor 19 coolant system, is the water getting any cleaner?
20 MR. DEVINE: Yes.
21 MR. COCHRAN: What would -be the numbers? For 22 example, for the 800 curies of cesium.
23 MR. DEVINE: The quantity of water has changed 24 as well as the fission product activity. The cesium 25 activity is about a hundreth of what'it was at that point.
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2 Strontium has continued to reintroduce itself to the water.
3 The reductions there are more like a factor of 5 or so.
4 MR. COCHRAN: When you get in there with tools, 5 these numbers don't go back up again.
6 MR. DEVINE: They haven't been affected by 7 physical manipulation so far. We haven't found a great 8 deal of correlation nor would the experimental data suggest 9 there should be. But certainly there will be some 10 continued reintroduction of the fission product activity in 11 the fuel. Strontium is kind of important because we have 12 only removed about 6 percent of the total strontium. So 94 I~)
V 13 percent is available for continued introduction into the 14 water. That is in the reactor.
15 Moving on, very briefly, with respect to 16 background, a lawyer could spend several hours describing 17 all of the iterations that involved our discussion with you 18 and others about discharging, but in a nutshell all of 19 those are currently embodied in an NRC tech spec which 20 forbids us to discharge processed water without their 21 expressed approval. They have a procedure for doing that.
22 That is a currently operative limitation on our operation.
23 Our policy, I would call your attention to it, 24 with respect to processed water really is very clear. That 25 we are retaining ecqcessed water on-site and we are not n
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I l 5 on-site. It is quite useful to us. We have many uses for 6 cleaned up water in the recovery process. And we simply 7 have no incentive to dispose of it now. We will at the end 8 of the project and our attention will be focused on it at 9 that time.
10 MR. WALD: Is that agreement with the City of 11 Lancaster indefinite in time?
12 MR. DEVINE: It is no longer valid. It had a
() 13 . specific time frame. I believe it terminated according to
-14 the original agreement in December 1981. Mayor Morris j 15 probably recalls.
16 But in any event, it was replaced by an 17 identical agreement or a ruling, a directive from the 18 Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In fact the definition of 19 " processed water" in our tech specs was extracted' verbatim 20 from the City of Lancaster agreement. So it is in effect 21 the same limitation.
? 22 Where are we now? As I described, the processed
- 23 water remains on-site. We are using it routinely for 24 shielding purposes, for' decontamination purposes. When we
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i 6 The quantity of processed water has gradually 7 increased, roughly from about 1.1 or 1.3 million to 8 currently almost 2 million. .That is because of continual 9 sources of additional water. We try to minimize that but 10 it is unavoidable to a large degree. For example, the 11 condensation in the reactor building, that drips in the 12 basement, mixes with the contaminated water in the basement.
() 13 We then collect it and control it in the same fashion that 14 I we controlled the orig 1nal processed water.
I 15 So the overall quantity is increasing but it is 16 Eargely increasing in the form of pure water which is.being 17 added to the contaminated water, so in general the fission --
18 product has to be controlled. It is a question of volumes 19 rather than contamination.
20 We have not evaluated processed water disposal 21 options beyond those preliminary ones which we have 22 considered in 1979, as I mentioned a few minutes ago.
23 I will talk in a minute about what some of those 24 obvious choices might be.
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16 because the processing steps which we used to clean the i 17 water have no effect on Tritium. So the only way to get i
j 18 rid of tritium is basically by natural decay and to a
- 19 lesser extent by evaporation.
r j 21' I look at your other page, you have got 2500 curies
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i 24 had 2500 curies. About 35 percent of that is gone by decay.
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15 MR. DEVINE: I accept that. It goes with the -
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17 water, then the bulk of the total quantity may look t
l 18 different. I think the basic inconsistency is in the 19 timing. If most of that occurred before the water is j 20 removed from the reactor building basement, it was removed
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2 Looking at some of the other quantities of water.
3 Spent fuel pool, just as an example of how we used this 4 water, the submerged mineralizer system. It is slightly 5 contaminated from the submerged mineralized system but it 6 is clean. Fuel transfer canal is the water which is 7 currently shielding the. plenum which we removed in May.
8 The reason those numbers are higher in concentration is 9 simply that the plenum is contaminated and that has be'n e a 10 source of recontamination of the water.
11 Reactor coolant system is continually in contact 12 with the core. Consequently there are some rather high
() 13 numbers of radioactivity in that water, although obviously 14 this would be reprocessed after it is removed, after 15 defueling. Finally that last category, which is difficult 16 to understand without looking at the many contributors, 17 includes such things as the water in the reactor buildings
- 19. basement which is still in contact with the sludge on the 19 floor, which is highly contaminated and is usually picking 20 up a lot of that fission product activity.
21 What are we going to do? First of all, as far 22 as our perspective on the problem, we are looking at about 23 2 to 2-1/2 million gallons of water to be processed before 24 the end of the recovery. Our projected growth rate would
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1 So conservatively we are planning to deal with about 2-1/2 2 million. Our end point objective is not to leave water on 3 the site. That has been identified as one of the 4 alternative plans but our position is that we are not sure 5 what we are going to do with it but we are not going to 6 leave it on the site because that is not an appropriate 7 place for long-term storage of water that is considered 8 necessary for control.
9 The anticipated timing, we will be examining 10 options next year and plan to propose to NRC our preferred 11 disposition by the end of next year. We would expect NRC 12 to have, to take about six months to r'eview that, which
() 13 would leave the last year of the project to implement that 14 disposal option. That is a very approximate time frame, 15 l but it is certainly consistent with our overall plans for 16 the program.
1 17 What our options are, I just interestingly 18 picked up the NUREG which Bernie Snyder mentioned which 19 happens to talk about this subject. They listed about a 20 dozen options. We initially studied about a dozen options.
21 I rather arbitrarily selected four specific ones as ones 22 which seemed to be particularly sensible, at least in 23 comparison to the others, but this isn't a complete list.
24 We could transport the water off-site and 25 discharge of it somoplace else or let someone else dispose
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3 hazard and would be very low in contamination level 4 compared to the other solid products on the site.
5 We could evaporate the water to the environment.
6 That would get rid of all of the tritium and would leave 7 liquid concentrates which would be solidified and disposed 8 of. We could remove the radioactivity from the water and 9 release it with dilution assuming it met acceptable 10 standards. Those are obvious options.
11 We are not proposing any at this point. To l
l 12 evaluate them will take into account environmental and l 13 public health and safety and regulatory requirements. I 14 will assure you that we are not going to propose anything
( 15 which we are not a hundred percent satisfied is fully 16 acceptable with respect to those two. The resources l 17 involved have to be taken into account, including the 18 dollars and time it will take to affect the disposition.
19 Public concerns as well.
20 Obviously those same factors will be taken into 21 account by the NRC when we evaluate offers.
22 I arbitrarily listed some important conclusions.
23 99 water is on-site now. It is useful in the cleanup and 24 it is not hazardous in terms of offact on the cleanup or 25 the cleanup workers or the public.
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6 Are there any questions?
7 MR. MORRIS: Jack, I have a quick one. When you 8 say legal, it is my understanding that as part of the 9 funding that was approved by Congress, Congress did place 10 the condition that the recommendation of Congressman Walker 11 from Lancaster, that the wording -- I am not clear on that, 12 but I think it had something to do with if any of the
() 13 federal money -- that no federal money could be used that 14 would ultimately result in a discharge of the water into 15 the Susquehanna River.
16 I don't know if you are familiar with that. If 17 not, I am going to ask the NRC what their interpretation of 18 it. Is there any question at this point that the water can 19 be discharged into the river under the, given the condition 20 of the Congress on the funding?
21 MR. DEVINE: My understanding is that that is 22 not applicable to any of our funding but it is applicabio 23 to NRC.
24 MR. SNYDER: I can speak to that in the next l 25 discussion.
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R-1 MR. MORRIS: Fine. I will be happy to wait 2 until then. Thank you very much.
3 There is a question. He always likes to wait 4 until you get two steps away.
5 MR. COCHRAN: Can you compare these tritium 6 levels, on the annual release of tritium from Three Mile 7 Island 1, should it operate?
8 MR. DEVINE: I have that data with me. My 9 understanding, as a matter of fact it was part of the 10 presentation that I forgot. I just today pulled out an 11 NRC document that tabulates all of those. I could look it 12 up tonight. Scanning the data, it appears that about 1000
() 13 curies per year is a good average number for tritium 14 release from an operating power plant. We are talking l
15 about something like that total over a long period of time.
- 16 There is a wide spectrum there.
17 MR. MORRIS: Jack, to continue that question, 18 where is the thousand released to?
19 MR. DEVINE: Basically liquid streams. Just --
20 let me follow up just for a minute. In qualitative terms, 21 comparing this water with normal discharged water from a i
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1 fuel don't have failed fuel. Maybe 10 times as high as 2 that. Activation products, which are a result of the 3 operating history of the plant, are much lower because our 4 plant has a poor operating history. So it is a different 5 mix. It is that same mix which drove us to the variance on 6 EPICOR liners.
7 MR. MORRIS: Thank you.
8 Bernie, are you making this presentation?
9 MR. SNYDER: Let me answer your first question, 10 Art, so we won't forget about it. The question had to do 11 with restrictions on the use of funds to facilitate the 12 discharge of the water that is processed to the river.
() 13 There was an amendment that was attached to l 14 either an authorization or appropriations bill of the NRC a 15 couple of years ago. That placed a restriction on the fund 16 that we got from the Congress to run our agency. It said 4
17 none of that money could be used to facilitate the 18 discharge of this body of water. It was further clarified 19 at some point to allow us to expend our resources, manpower, 20 consultants if necessary, to review a proposal that the 21 company might make, but the interpretation at the time that 22 I got it was that we actually couldn't go forward and 23 approve the discharge of the water because in. order to 24 carry cut that activity, we would have to expend some 25 monies, some monies which have been appropriated under this i
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2 The amendment which was called the Walker 3 Amendment -- Congressman Walker from your area, Art, had 4 introduced -- only applied, as I recall, only applied to 5 that one year's appropriations. That doesn't mean that it 6 couldn't be reintroduced. But it is no longer operative.
7 We have passed that year -- I can't remember whether it was 8 fiscal year '83 or '84. But it is long passed at this 9 point.
10 Does that answer your question?
11 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Thank you.
12 MR. SNYDER: Let me very quickly indicate what
() 13 our role will be on this question of processed accident 14 water disposition. As Jack correctly pointed out, there is j 15 an absolute restriction in their license that prohibits the 16 discharge of the water and any move in that direction would 17 obviously require a modification of their license. That 18 would be the mechanism by which any disposition by -- the 19 mechanism that most plants use would require that. But 20 there are a lot of things that would have to take place 21 before that. So that would be the end point.
22 Lot me back up a little bit.
23 We would require of GPU a comprenonsive analysis 24 on their part and a well-justified proposal when they 25 choose to make it. In fact, you have heard just a few
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V 1 minutes ago what their anticipated schedule might be on 2 that. But it is going to take an initiative on their part 3 before wa are going to do anything of any significant 4 review of the question. Upon receipt of a proposal from 5 them which will be publicly available, the -- we will have 6 to satisfy a number of requirements, the principal of which '
7 will be the requirements that are stated in the National 8 Environmental Policy Act, NEPA. He will have to do an 9 environmental review, the extent of which is to be 10 determined.
11 In carrying out that review, we will, as wo 12 always have, solicited input from the public and we will
() 13 certainly take input from the public into serious 14 consideration in this matter.
15 There has been some reference made to some other 16 legal restrictions. My understanding of the situation on 17 the so-called City of Lancaster agreement, which was 18 reached shortly after the accident, is that the City of 19 Lancaster agreement was basically ,satisfied with one 20 exception, with the issuance of the Programmatic 21 Environmental Impact Statement in 1981. There was also a 22 time limit in that. But both of those have been satisfied.
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4 I won't go into too details of that, but that is available.
5 The one remaining agreement that the NRC has 6 with the City of Lancaster under this particular agreement 7 is one that specifically gives the City the opportunity to 8 appear before the Commission on this issue, which even if 9 it weren't in agreement I am sure would be available in any 10 case. But the fact is it is clearly laid out.
11 Art, you are familiar with that probably as much i 12 as I am. That is my understanding of where we stand on
]() 13 that agreement at this point.
Is that -- I have to ask you 14 l the question at this point. Does that square with your 15 understanding?
16 MR. MORRIS: As far as I know, it does. I do 17 believe that outside of the agreement, GPU has made public 18 comments that -- and obviously they can't discharge anyway
- 19 because NRC has regulations, but that they would not do l 20 anything in conflict with that agreement until they go 21 through the process that they have to with the NRC. So I 22 think you stated it accurately.
23 MR. SMITHGALL: Somehow I remember that any 24 communications between the licensee and the NRC about 25 disposition of water was to be sent to the City and other O
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i 2 MR. SNYDER: I was going to come to that. That 3 is the stipulation that was agreed upon between the NRC and 4 the Susquehanna Valley Alliance and SVA. We did have a 5 case that was brought, some time after the City of
- 6 Lancaster agreement was reached. And I don't recall the 7 exact timing of that. But in any case there was an 8 out-of-court settlement, I guess is the right te rm -- i t 9 was called a stipulation, in which we agreed to keep SVA 10 and the City, I believe, informed on any matters relative 11 to the subject. In fact we recently had some
, 12 correspondence with one of the representatives of SVA,
() 13 questioning us why haven't we received anything. The l 14 answer we just gave back to them, our solicitor signed out 15 from our legal office, was that there isn't anything to 16 give you. But when there is in the future, you will 17 certainly get it.
18 I think both of these agreements, the operative 19 portions of them really just f orma G ze things that would 20 have been done in any case. I think we have kept the j 21 public pretty well inforned on this subject.
22 There are some other unique aspects of any j 23 approval action that we might take, no matter what 4
24 direction the disposition of this water might take.
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1 Commission themselves, the NRC commissioners themselves 2 have reserved for themselves to make the final 3 determination. Back in April of 1981, my office was given 4 the authority by the Commission to approve all cleanup 5 activities that were within the scope of the Programmatic 6 Environmental Impact Statement, with the exception of the i
7 water question, this processed accident water disposition 8 question. They have required us by that agreement, which 9 remains in effect, not agreement but policy statement that 10 remains in effect to ultimately come back to them. So 11 before the staff takes action on any-proposal, it will be 12 concurred in or agreed upon basically by the heads of our
() 13 agency. So that is the importance which they place on this.
14 I know that the present commissioners are well 15 aware of this. We have discussed it with them on occasion.
16 I am sure that they are going to require a very 17 comprehensive review both by us and by the licensee.
18 So I think the bottom line here really is that 19 there are a lot of mechanisms that are in plece to make 20 sure that the public interest is obtained and the highest 21 levels of the agency will be involved in any decision and 22 very frankly, it is not a paramount issue by any means in 23 the cleanup today. A year and a half from now or 24 thereabouts, the end of 1986, if and when we get a proposal 25 from GPU, then I think it will become a significant issue G(_)
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2 If you have any questions, I will be glad to 3 answer them.
4 MR. MORRIS: Anybody have any questions?
5 Thank you very much. We can go right to the --
6 MR. DEVINE: I want to correct a number which I I 1
7 gave to Tom. I had indicated about 1000 per year, he asked 8 about Three Mile Island 1. The four years that TMI was 9 operating steadily, it ranged from about 155 to 463.
10 MR. MORRIS: Sorry you asked now, aren't you?
11 MR. COCHRAN: No.
12 MR. MORRIS: What we would do is go right to the
() 13 public comment. I thought you might catch me. There is an 14 outstanding question to be answered.
15 Is Thomas still in the crowd? .
16 Would you come forward? Do you recall the 17 question?
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5 The position of the state is that we don't have 6 a position. We don't necessarily oppose it. We certainly 7 don't accept that discharge is on the face an acceptable "
8 solution, even though we do say that there are no health 9 impacts associated with that discharge.
10 So we would basically participate in the process 11 that Bernie outlined as far as commenting on the draft 12 environmental impact statement, making any such
() 13 determinations as we were able to in order to quantify or 14 evaluate some sort of perceived avoidance of Chesapeake Bay 15 products, and reach a position on the part of the state 16 which would be basically entered into the regulatory 17 proceeding. So that is why I can't say that the state 18 doesn't find no problem with discharging the water.
19 MR. MORRIS: Tom?
20 MR. SMITHGALL: Would there be a difference in 21 your opinion if the discharge point were at the Mason-Dixon 22 line Or at the TMI site?
23 MR. MAGETTE: No.
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2 MR. MAGETTE: That is correct.
3 MR. MORRIS: Okay. Fine.
4 MR. GERUSKY: You would need a permit from DER 5 to have a host that long. So I think they are in trouble.
6 (Laughter.)
7 MR. MORRIS: Okay. If there are people from the 8 public that would like to be recognized, I have been -- I 9 know there are two. I have been asked to allow time for 10 Joyce Corradi and Deb Davenport. If they are present, I 11 g would remind them, I knov that they have been at other 12 meetings, in order to allow public comment, I am going to
() 13 ask that they limit their involvement to five minutes each 14 at the most. And so, we haven't started your clock ticking 15 yet. Who else would like to be recognized?
16 I see about seven, okay. Which means we are 17 going to go on to probably about 9:25. I am going to 18 really be prepared when you como up here; I am going to be 19 very tough on the five-minute rule. We have to do that to 20 give everybody an opportunity and particularly in the 21 beginning. So you are on.
22 MS. DAVENPORT: I just wanted to ask for half an 23 hour in the next meeting in October so that Harjory Mott 24 can address the panel on her response to Dr. Topaz' 25 Pennsylv,ania health study.
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3 MS. DAVENPORT: For Marjory to respond to the 4 Pennsylvania State Health Department study on cancer 5 effects.
6 MR. MORRIS: I will make a note of that for the i
7 next meeting because we are going to discuss agenda items 8 when the public comments finish.
9 MS. DAVENPORT: I wanted to say that there will 10 be a press conference on Friday morning in the Barclay 11 Hotel in Philadelphia at 11:00 whera there will also be a 12 response to the health department study.
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21 well informed on that subject, I am sure of that.
22 MS. DAVENPORT: That was my question. Thank you.
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3 MR. TRAVERS: I am Bill Travers, deputy director 4 of Three Mile Island program. You are talking about an 5 item that we listed under work in progress or work being 6 evaluated by the NRC staff. Basically what we are 7 ovaluating is a request by GPU Nuclear to receive an 8 exemption to certain seismic criteria normally applied to 9 operating reactors. They made a justification that argues 10 that for systems, mainly temporary systems used in recovery 11 or cleanup operations, that the same criteria normally 12 applied to operating plants ought not to be applied to
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14 p MS. CORRADI: Do they not have to have the i
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I 16 MR. TRAVERS: It means that certain structural 17 requirements that might be applied to demonstrate seismic 18 qualification and purchasing of tested and validated 19 equipment would not be necessarily required in somh of the 20 systems that we are proposing to use or that they are using.
21 MS. CORRADI: What in the reason for this?
22 MR. TRAVERS: Part of the rationale is that the 23 systemt in question are temporary and they won't be uned 24 over the normal 30-year, 40-year life of the plant. As a 25 result, the opportunity for a noismic event is minimized.
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, 6 MS. CORRADI: Even though we have had a seismic 7 happening in the last three years.
8 Okay. My next question is on the loading of the 9 cannisters. I would like some clarification. I didn't 10 really understand when the presentation was presented.
11 Exactly how many cannisters are totally needed for the 12 operation and when will all of those cannisters be present
() 13 on the island?
14 MR. STANDERFER: I might ask -- answer that. We 15 are currently projecting 280 cannisters total. And those 16 should be shipped from the island by the early part of 1988.
3 17 MS. CORRADI: Okay. One other question I would 18 like to ask is, we recently heard about marijuana plants at 19 the island. Our concern isn't so much the narijuana plants 20 as did someone actually have access other than people who 21 work there to get these plants on the island, llow good in 22 security as far as the protection of the island?
23 MR. STANDERFER: This was on the southern end of 24 the island. Anybody operating a boat on the Susquehanna 3
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1 boat on the southern end of the island and step off. That 2 part of the island is removed from the nuclear facilities 3 and are not included within the plant's security area.
4 MS. CORRADI: Am I correct to understand that 5 you don't actively patrol the entire island, just the 6 secured --
7 MR. STANDERFER: We patrol the island, but it is 8 possible that someone could step off onto the island and 9 that would be --
10 MS. CORRADI: They plant the plants and then 11 take care of them?
12 MR. STANDERFER: Yes. In fact fisherman fish 7
() 13 around the island.
14 MS. CORRADI: That has been acceptable by the 15 NRC -- is that a procedure that the NRC finds acceptable as i
16 far.as their protection of the island from people who are 17 not supposed to be there? i i
18 MR. TRAVERS: Yes. The NRC's requirements deal 19 mainly with the nuclear facilities and this is an area far 20 removed from that.
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2 MS. CORRADI: So it boaters who wish to be, say 3 suppose in our wildest imagination antinuclear activists 4 went on the island and potted signs there, there would not 5 be anyone interested in confiscating those signs?
6 MR. MORRIS: That is --
first of all, the time 7 limit is gone, but I think that they explained it that 8 people are not supposed to be on the island but it is 9 possible outside the fenced in area that people could get 10 on the island while they are not supposed to be there. I 11 would assume if somebody is putting up signs they would be 12 removed or arrested or whatever the people want to do. But
() 13 , the NRC is concerned about the fenced-in area particularly.
14 If I am speaking out of line, somebody should direct me, 15 but I am trying to koop it going a little bit.
16 MS. CORRADI: If boaters actually trespansed on 17 the island, they would be, that would be considered an 18 illegality, too.
19 MR. MORRIS: Again, I think GPU has said that 20 they are not supposed to be doing that, but they could do 21 it. It is possible.
22 HR. COCilRAN: The purpose of the dose 23 assessments, is that into the island off-site or on-site?
24 MR. TRAVERS: Maybe you could clarify the 25 question. Are you asking me a question?
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1 MR. COCHRAN: When you do an analysis, is the 2 man growing the marijuana at the end of the island on-site 3 or off-site?
4 MR. TRAVERS: One of the things that you 5 probably know is assumed is that the person at the fence 6 post is there 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> a day, seven days a week. So if the 7 marijuana grower happens to be three miles down from the 8 north end of the island, it is highly unlikely he is going 9 to be a maximum dosed individual.
10 MR COCHRAN: The hypothetical individual at the 11 fence post does not have to be there --
! 12 MR. TRAVERS: I don't know where the fence post
() 13 in this case is.
14 MS. KINNEY: Paula Kinney. With all due respect, 15 the agenda says public comment, 60 minutes. That is only 16 fair. We have to drive home to Middletown, too.
17 MR. MORRIS: Let me remind, so that everybody 18 clearly understands what I have outlined as public comment 19 parameters, I explained at length at the la; t, meeting --
I 20 am not going to go through this every meeting"-- that 21 public comment will be five minutes, limited to five 22 minutes so that we can get everybody in. When there is 23 only one person, that could be five minutes of public 24 comment. It doesn't mean to say we have. to go for 60 25 minutes. There are five minutes of public comment for
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j 5 more than five minutes, say you want 40 minutes. We are 6 going to discuss them as an agenda itcm. If we agree, we
) 7 will put them on the agenda so they will get 40 minutes.
! 8 If you want more than five, we will consider that
- 9 separately so that we can have an agenda completed within a
] 10 certain time period. If you don't ask for that, if you 11 just call up and say, I want on public comment, you are 12 only going to get five minutes.
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() 13 MS. KINNEY: I understand. I am not going to 14 even take three minutes. My question is, if there are
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- 16 give them the --
i j 17 MR. MORRIS: We will give people the opportunity.
18 But it is going to be limit to five minutes. If there are 19 enough, then we will go.an hour.
i 20 MS. KINNEY: Okay.
! 21 MR. MORRIS: I said that means we will be done
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23 MS. KINNEY: But a question may arise while we 24 are talking.
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1 The first one concerns you. I am certainly not going into 2 the mislableing of the waste and so on and GPU losing the 3 license for the week. My point, my question is, when that 4 happened and they lost their license for the week, for the 5 period of time, I know that you weren't notified either by 6 the NRC or GPU. A, I want to know if that is acceptable to 7 the panel, if that is okay. And if it is not, has anything 8 been done? Is there any other, have you talked to them?
9 MR. MORRIS: I made contacts specifically on 10 that because quite honestly I was called by two people from 11 the public. I didn't know what was going on. I contacted 12 the NRC directly and I indicated that I was not real happy
() 13 about the fact that I had not been notif'*d. I told them 14 in the future when events like that happened, that I would 15 appreciate at least getting'some kind of notification 16 because people call me. I wanted to be able to tell them 17 what I wanted.
18 MS. KINNEY: So now they know that they are to --
19 MR. MORRIS: It is judgmental. They have to 20 decide for themselves.
21 MS. KINNEY: I would think losing their license 22 for a week --
23 MR. MORRIS: For the most part they do a pretty 24 good job on that. On that particular case, I don't think 25 they did. I told them. I expressed that. But it is all
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i j 4 MR. GERUSKY: The state was notified by the J i l j 5 state of Washington and GPU and NRC. So we knew about it i l 6 as it was happening.
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12 the program office or you call'the state. But people have f
13 . told me they prefer to call me. That is what happened in t
14 this case. I am willing to speak to them if I know f
15 something. I think the NRC knows that as chairman I am '
16 going to get some calls.
Again, I have expressed that. So 17 you can feel free to-call the program office, DVR, or you 18 could call me. '
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j 20 to tell the other members of the panel. ,
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22 .MR. COCHRAN: .That is right.
23 MS. KINNEY: My'second qudst' ion was for. Ann, but 24 she is not here. -Because I h$ve four kids, three in high i* *
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i 7 MR. MORRIS: In which evacuation plan? The
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9 MS. KINNEY: Well, the state, the county, 10 whatever.
i 1 11 MR. GERUSKY: That is the school district's 12 responsibility and you have to ask the school district.
() 13 MS. KINNEY: It does not have to to be approved 14 by the state?
15 MR. GERUSKY: No.
l 16 MS. KINNEY: Just the school district. Nor the 17 county, just the school district. .
( 18 MR. GERUSKY: -That is right.
l-i 19 MS. KINNEY: What if they have done nothing?
l l 20 Where do we go from there?
21 MR. MORRIS: What.if the school district hasn't?
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25 MS. KINNEY: But'that is up'to the school iO .
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2 MR. MORRIS: I assume that they would coordinate 3 their efforts with their county's emergency management 4 . people. But apparently the school districts are the ones 5 that should be initiating that. If they are not, that is 6 where you should go.
7 MR. GERUSKY: The school district must have 8 plans, acceptable plans for changes in those. Minor 9 changes in those plans don't have to be approved. It there 10 are major changes in the plan and they haven't been made, 11 then the county and state civil defense people should be 12 contacted, either one, and ask them if the plans have been
() 13 changed. They will check for you.
14 4 MS. KINNEf: Okay. So you say to check with the 15 state?
16 MR. GERUSKY: With the county first. The 17 responsibility goes up.
I 18 I MS. KINNEY: Okay.
19 MR. GERUSKY: It starts at the lowest level.
20 They are the people responsible. And then it goes up to 21 the community, the county, the state.
22 MS. KINNEY: Thank you very much.
23 MR. KABLER: Mr. Morris, members of the 24 Commission, my name is John Kabler, I am director of the .
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1 regional division of a national environmental organization.
2 We have about 100,000 members in Maryland and 100,000 3 members in Virginia, all of whom I believe have signed a 4 petition as a party opposed to the dumping of radioactive 5 waste water from Three Mile Island into the bay. '
6 The last time that my organization was involved, 7 however, in working on this issue, I believe was 1980 8 during a time when there were a number of hearings put on 9 by the NRC in Maryland to talk about the Three Mile Island 10 cleanup and the focus at the time was on the possible 11 release of radioactive waste water.
12 At the end of those hearings and sometime around IT
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14 l articles that were similar to the statement made by 15 Mr. Gerusky that the perception of contamination of seafood 16- was something that was taken seriously in Maryland and that 17 no water would be released until such time as the public 18 opposition to it cooled down or people felt differently 19 about the problem. From my perspective and my organization, 20 the fact of the accident i.tself and the widely reported 21 improprieties by GPU staff haven't done very much to allay 22 fears that the cleanup is being handled safely or that the 23 waste water, were it to be considered for release, would 24 really be safe just because GPU said it was safe.
25 What I am trying to say is that I think we are l 1
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3 In any case, as I am sure most of you know that context in 4 Maryland around the bay has changed. The governor's bay 5 bills, 33 initiatives, $50 million approximately being 6 spent on those, we have a bill banning the sale of 7 phosphorous based laundry detergents and the one of the 10 8 initiatives, the critical areas bill which is b9ing voted 9 on and will be voted on finally in the legislature this 10 winter, will probably pass, has people in Maryland 11 concerned about the bay arguing about things like this:
12 Can you cut down a poplar tree within a hundred feet of the
() 13 bay or not. And can you build a house at all within a 14 hundred feet of the bay. People argue over whether a cow 15 shall be allowed to walk into the bay or near the bay or a 16 tributary of the bay or not because of the potential for 17 pollution.
18 The point I am trying to make is that I think 19 the context in Maryland is such that the idea of 20 radioactive waste water from Three Mile Island being 21 released into the Susquehanna would not be a popular idea 22 at all.
23 My organization, or speaking for my organization, 24 I would suggest that the panel advises NRC to keep the 25 radioactive waste water on the island, unless some method O
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- 6 inevitable if the water were released and peop'e l didn't 7 think it was safe, which would be organized and spawn )
8 opposition from fisherman and environmental groups and from 9 people who drink water, eat seafood or care about the bay 10 or politicians. ,
[ 11 .I appreciate the opportunity. to speak before you.
- 12 I would like to add, though, that I didn't
() 13 receive any notification of this meeting. I think if there J
14 is some way that I could arrange for my organization to be
- 15 notified when there is a meeting of this sort held in the 16 state, I would appreciate it. I used to be on the mailing 17 list.
1 18 MR. MORRIS: I think if you give your name
- . 19 tonight to Randy, he would notify you of every meeting we ,
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4 MR. MORRIS: As an individual, I would encourage 5 that. I appreciate your comments.
6 MR. COCHRAN: Your position or the position of 7 your organization with respect to that dumping of the water 8 and the petition, is that based on your own analysis of 9 whether it is safe or a fear that it might not be safe?
10 MR. KABLER: We are unable to make an analysis 11 in-house. During the initial months after the cleanup or 12 the year or so after the accident, we talked to a number of
() 13 scientists and we found that some scientists thought that 14 projected releases of water would be safe and other 15 scientists thought that it wouldn't be safe. There seemed 16 to be no clear consensus in the scientific community on 17 what the effects of tritium are. We went through that 18 whole long argument and the short answer to your question 19 is, it is based on our fear that it might not be safe.
20 MR. MORRIS: Thank you.
21 Back here.
22 MR. DONNAY: I am the director of Nuclear Free 23 America in Baltimore. I have a degree in radioactive waste 24 engineering disposal. I went to Johns Hopkins. I have 25 worked on low level radioactive waste disposal problems for l tO R> l i
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4 5 MR. MORRIS: Surely.
6' MR. DONNAY: First, for people who made the GPU 7 presentation on the status of the accident water at Three j 8 Mile Island 2: What is the total cumulative load of curies l 9 that has been removed from the accident water and shipped
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. () 13 MR. DEVINE: It is in the hundreds of thousands
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{ 19 be used in the cleanup operations, a great deal of 20 radioactivity is still going to be contaminating this water i
21 and this water will have to be cleaned and shipped off-site, 22 the contaminants. It seems very premature to think about ,
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12 discussing it tonight simply because of the concern that
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t 15 MR. DONNAY: I am concerned from an engineering
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i 5 MR. DEVINE: Just briefly. I hope the statement i 6 wasn't too reckless. We have six years of experience in l .
7 processing water. Regardless of how much, how high the f l
8 contamination is in the water when it begins to be I 9 processed, we have a very precise handle on how clean the I 10 water is when it is processed, when the process is complete.
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1- The thing I would like to say as a citizen of 2 Maryland again is that I am very unhappy with the position 3 of the Maryland Power Plant Siting Program. I can't 4 believe that they are speaking like that in public. But it 5 is the first time I have come out here to hear it.
6 The other thing I would like to say is that, or 7 I would like to ask is, has this panel as a body ever 8 received public health information from the state of 9 Maryland regarding any public health statistics in Maryland 10 since the accident? Infant mortality, anything from 11 neighboring states or any such data?
12 MR. MORRIS: I am not aware that we received any
() 13 directly. Quite honestly, until very recently, we aren't 14 really supposed to be getting into the health effects of 15 the accident. We have recently, as I said at the beginning 16 of the meeting here, been given the authority now, a change 17 in our charter for us to be able to be used as a conduit to 18 discuss the health effects, any health effects studies, so 19 that we could invite somebody to make a presentation on 20 what their study says, to give the public an opportunity to 21 ask questions and learn about the study. That I am 22 paraphrasing now but that is basically the role we are 23 supposed to be playing. Unless somebody else on the panel --
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2 MR. DONNAY: I don't question Dr. Wagner's 3 credentials. I know Dr. Wagner from the school of hygeine.
4 I am just wondering whether or not the state has come to 5 you and presented or studied --
6 MR. MORRIS: No.
7 MR. DONNAY: I ask that to bring up one point.
8 I haven't done a thorough study but I have one piece of 9 data that suggests more investigation is needed. This data 10 is from the U.S. Monthly Vital Statistics. It is a survey 11 of infant mortality in Maryland, specifically looking at 12 1980 when the Krypton-85 was vented from TMI. The
() 13 background level, at this level for many years in Maryland, 14 infant mortality rates per thousand births has been in the 15 range from about 9 deaths per thousand to 12 or 13. The 16 average is about 10. And in the months leading up to the 17 release, which I believe was in June and July, the rate 18 varied from 9, 13, 12, 11 -- it was 10.9 in May. It jumped 19 in June and then in July. In July it was 29.1. That is 20 almost a tripling. That spike quickly disappeared again.
21 By April it was back down to 15 and by August it was back 22 down to 15. And in September back down to 10. Then it 23 continued about 10 deaths per thousand through the end of 24 the year.
25 ~You can see from there, it is quite a tall spike.
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2 MR. MORRIS: What you could do, if you would, if 3 'you are interested in providing that to the panel, you 4 could either provide the statement for it as part of the 5 record or you could make copies and send them to the panel.
6 MR. DONNAY: I will make copies of this and 7 submit it to you.
8 MR. MORRIS: You could make contact with Randy 9 Hall and provide him with a copy of whatever the number of 10 copies he needs. He would see that we got it. What that 11 will do is give the panel members a chance to review it.
12 If they have any special interest and feel that they would
() 13 like to pursue that area, then we could invite the person 14 who was responsible for that.
15 MR. DONNAY: I am not suggesting that this is 16 the only interpretation. But the correlation is 1
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18 MR. COCHRAN: Is that from the state as a whole?
19 MR. DONNAY: That is the whole state, which of 20 course is skewed, and it should be looked at by county 21 because obviously the winds don't blow over the whole state.
22 MR. COCHRAN: Did you go back and look to see 23 where the plume went from the krypton venting?
24 MR. DONNAY: No. I am not even sure how I would 25 do that for that particular. month.
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1 MR. MORRIS: We cannot get into that tonight.
2 MR. DONNAY: I understand that. Thank you.
3 MR. MORRIS: I have been asked to give Tom a 4 chance to respond. I am not going to spend too much time 5 cutting into the public's time.
6 MR. MAGETTE: I can't address the health 7 statistics. I can only say that we did a TLD monitoring 8 program with TLDs that were specifically designed to detect 9 the krypton plume, and we deployed then all along the 10 Maryland-Pennsylvania border several months prior to and 11 during the venting and several months after the venting and 12 never detected any plume at all above background whatsoever.
() 13 that is just one point. I don't think you will ever be 14 able to statistically or any other way find a plume in i
i 15 Maryland. That doesn't bear on the data specifically but 16 you will never track a plume in Maryland, no matter what i
17 you do.
18 MR. OLIN: John Olin. I am a resident of 19 northern Baltimore County. I am here as a private citizen.
20 Listening to the testimony over the last three hours, I 21 feel like I have seen the trees but no forest. The larger 22 question of nuclear power in this country, I an sure all of 23 you gentlemen are more versed in it than I am, but it seems 24 to me that we have heard how -- we heard a lot of very 25 technical business as usual kinds of descriptions of the O
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9 attracted the attention from all over the world. It is l 10 central to the discussion of the future of nuclear power in 11 this country. We are given the impression tonight that all 12 is well. But for me, the lesson of TMI is that errors can 13 occur and potentially devastating errors can occur.
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16 Exceptionally so. Thirdly, there is no solution to the <
17 waste disposal problem. And fourthly, nuclear power -- TMI, t
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j 19 exceptional costly. We are talking multibillion dollar
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3 Because that was not what we were established for. We have 4 a specific role to play, that is to comment on the cleanup 5 activities of this particular plant.
6 I just want you to understand, it is not that we 7 don't have interest in other areas but you must understand 8 that we have a role to play and we have to stay'within that 9 role. We are not trying to sit here -- I don't think 10 anybody on this panel would sit up here and say that it is 11 business as usual at any time at TMI-2, because it was a 12 significant accident and that is why we spend three, four,
() 13 five, six hours of the month for five years volunteering 14 time on this panel.
15 We are not paid people for this. We are very 16 interested. We are also concerned as you.
17 MR. OLIN: Good luck.
18 MR. ADAMS: My concern is with the tasks that 19 the representative from DOE mentioned going out to Idaho.
20 They have a design life of 30 years. What happens with 21 these casks at the end of 30 years?
22 MR. BIXBY: I think you are talking about the 23 cannisters. The canaisters have a design life of 30 years.
24 It is expected that after 30 years that the repository will 25 be available for handling those particular fuel cannisters.
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! 2 MR. BIXBY: That-is mandated by Congress that j 3 that should be re pla c'ed . It is mandated that those i
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2 5 MR. ADAMS: That is all. Thank you.
. 6 MR. MORRIS: Thank you.
1 7 MR. AMOSS: I am a Maryland State Senator. I J
l 8 represent the area of almost all of Hartford County that 9 touches the Susquehanna River and all of Cecil County that 10 touches the Susquehanna River. That makes me border 11 Pennsylvania all along York County and Lancaster County.
12 MR. MORRIS: You are very fortunate, Senator.
() 13 MR.'AMOSS: I know. You are fortunate, too, 14 because you have a very nice town.-
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17 Havre de Grace many times over the issue of the discharge 18- of.the waste water and the outcome of it in the end. A i
19 gentleman made a nice statement -- sometimes it doesn't 20 take much command of the English language nor words, but he
- i 21 said he'would pipe it'to the Mason-Dixon line. I would 22 pipe it'on to the Virginia line, but our problem is, we 23 have tidal water to come back and get us. Besides, the 24 beautiful swimmers, the crabs, they also come from that 25 - area. So I really can't win.
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3 have Three Mile Island and you do have some other 4 facilities. So if there is another accident or spill or 5 something unforeseen, we will have more than our share of 6 something we don't want. I really -- the other thing is, 7 we are not sure of the outcome nor is there any political 8 support for dumping the water and mixing it in the ,
9 Chesapeake Bay. The bottom line is, we are not sure what 10 lt does. We will straighten out the planning, Power Plant 11 Siting Commission. We will take care of that.
.I 12 It really isn't funny because I was quite I
() 13 surprised and I think he is really speaking out of turn.
14 If he doesn't believe me, we will find out. But I do thank 15 you very, very much. I would like, I don't know if'it is 16 possible, Mr. Mayor, I would like a transcript of the Power 17 Plant Siting's words, if it is possible.
18 MR. MORRIS: You can probably get an entire '
19 tran' script of this proceeding if you would be willing to i 20 give a card to Randy Hall. It might really be easier to do 21 that so that.you can take out of it, because there have i 22 been different times when comments have been made.
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1 Senator Riley that was here earlier on that expressed a 2 concern about the dumping as well. So that --
3 MR. ADAMS: Well, Senator Riley represents --
4 Hartford County is split on the border. She represents the 5 Havre de Grace, Aberdeen and Edgewater that would border 6 the bay. I represent the northern section which.is the 7 Darlington, up in to Delta. The edge of Delta, 8 Pennsylvania. But we re31ize the plants are there. We' 9 realize we have to live with them. But we really are very 10 concerned about adding to something we don't know about.
11 MR. MORRIS: You know I represented the 12 community that sent $80- to $100,000 to block the dumping
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14 MR. AMOSS: We thank you very much.
15 MR. MORRIS: I have a concern as a member of 16 this panel.
17 MR. ROTH: Have you.done any polling among your 18 constituents on this as far as their feelings about dumping?
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19 MR. AB4M6: Well, we have the town of Parryville 20 and the town of Havre de Grace who also use the water of 21 the Susquehanna River. We have the Aberdeen proving 22 grounds which uses the water. But it would be hard to 23 convince a good military man that anything like that could 24 hurt them. However, I don't think the town of Hafdegras or 25 the mayor would politically want that to happen at all.
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2 confidently, nor the town of Port Deposit. You have Port 3 Deposit who draws water.
4 MR. ROTH: Do you find a number of people that 5 are very vehemently speaking against this, or is this i 4
6 something you are just mentioning there. In other words, 7 trying to get a feel for what the public is feeling on the 8 issue, if anything, at this point down here.
9 MR. AMOSS: I think the public that are involved i
10 on'the bay and those towns-drawing water from the bay would i 11 be very much' opposed to the dumping of the waste water into 12 the Susquehanna. I think they would have the same feeling
() 13 that I do. We are not sure of what it does. We know that 14 we have to take a certain amount from Three Mile Island.
, 15 And we would not want to take it voluntarily. In other
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l 21 toward the cleanup. We used.to kid Henry Wagner of when he j 22 was going to bring the check since Maryland had some l 23 interest, but they never paid, i'
24 MR. AMOSS: Let me express something to you.
25 You have what we cal,1 a dam in Maryland, it is called the 1
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t a 10 MR. COCHRAN: You cut him off.
2 11 MR. MORRIS: No. I am trying to treat everybody i 12 the same. So somebody doesn't say the Senator gets 10 /
() 13 minutes and they get five minutes. I am trying to be I 14 consistent.
j 15 MS. CHAVEY: I was actually about to leave when i
4 16 I am still puzzled by a statement made by the gentleman i 17 over on the end of the front row where he mentions the fact 18 that non-edible fish had a measure of radiation where the .
19 edible fish had none. I was wondering how --
20 MR. KIRK: That'wasn't me.
i 21 MR. MORRIS: He is on.the hot seat tonight.
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4 23 they are not smart enough to stay away from radiation; is 24 that right?
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1 of selecting it to avoid radiation on the part of the fish.
2 It is very unusual to even find radiation from a powsr 3 plant in the forage species or the bait fish. It can 4 happen. It has happened on occasion. We have found it.
5 But it is very rare. If every bait fish had a large amount, 6 then you would undoubtedly expect to see some in the larger 7 fish. Although you are not sure how much. So the fact 8 that it is very small and very rare is at least partially 9 explanatory for why you wouldn't see it in edible species.
10 MS. CHAVEY: Don't fish eat each other, so 11 wouldn't they transfer that to the other one?
12 MR. MAGETTE: It is not an automatic transfer.
() 13 There is not an instantaneous accumulation up the chain 14 just because something. accumulates or just because 15 something consumes another species. Just as you don't 16 necessarily retain everything you consume, the same thing 17 is certainly true of other species. It is not automatic.
{ 18 It does occur, but it is not automatic.
19 MS. CHAVEY: I am not sure you clarified that.
20 MR. MORRIS: Thank you. The panel does need to 21 talk now about what we would like to have on the agenda for 22 the next meeting. We have had one request for a 40 minute 23 response by AAMODT's. They have asked for 40 minutes on 24 the agenda to respond to what the state health department 25 study recently indicated.-
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24341.0 115 REE 1 MR. MILLER: I do not think we should have an 2 outside critique of the Department of Health comments, 3 studies or whatever until such time as we have the 4 Department of Health in to present their study to us and to 5 allow us an opportunity to request them to make sure we 6 know exactly what their study is about and where they are 7 coming from.
8 I would also suggest that we not schedule any 9 public debates.
10 Therefore, I would recommend that if we are i 11 going to go this route, we invite the Department of Health 12 or their representatives here for our next meeting and
() 13 postpone the AAMODT's until a meeting after that.
14 MR. MORRIS: I understand your point. Is there 15 anyone else who wants to speak to that?
16 I think it makes sense. There is no, there 17 should be no indication here that the AAMODT's would not be 18 given time on the following agenda to speak to it. But I 19 think it is only fair to have the health department --
20 MS. CORRADI : Are you guaranteeing that the 21 health department is coming next month?
22 MR. MORRIS: No. I think what I am hearing is 23 we would like to ask them to come and speak to the issue, 24 present it to us and allow us and the public, including the 25 AAMODT's, if they ch ao to ceme, to ask questions of the l
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4 MS. CORRADI: I don't think that was their 5 intent. Their intent was for information, not a 6 counterpoint.
7 MR. MORRIS: But they would only be as any other 8 public individual at this point, given an opportunity to l
9 ask questions. They would not be scheduled on the agenda 10 for 40 minutes.
11 MS, CORRADI: When would you know about the 12 health department coming? I assume you would have to go
() 13 through procedures. i 14 MR. MORRIS: I would assume that Randy ifall 15 would work with hopefully maybe Tom Gerusky or somebody 16 could try to help us arrange for that. I am just rambling 17 on here to see if anybody agrees or disagrees with that.
18 When we would know -- I would think the next one 19 to two weeks we would know whether they can make it or not.
20 MR. COCHRAN: I would, I don't have any problem 21 with putting the AAMODT's on the same program. I don't 22 think they would need 40 minutes. Certainly they haven't 23 t.ade a very convincing case so f ar through their 24 spokesperson. But it would seem to me to make as much 25 sense to put them cn the same program where they could talk O
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1 MR. MORRIS: The sense I am hearing at this 2 point is that we invite the health department to come. We 3 allow, I would assume, a pretty large segment of the agenda 4 for that purpose and give plenty of opportunity for 5 questions during and after the presentation from the public 6 and from the panel members. So that to me would probably 7 be maybe an hour-and-a-half or two-hour session.
8 MR. GERUSKY: That is a full agenda.
9 MR. MORRIS: Schedule nothing else for the next 10 meeting?
11 There is one other item that I wanted to bring 12 up. That was the transportation of the fuel. I would
() 13 personally like to see on this coming agenda, even if it is 14 only for an update and we limit ours to half an hour, 40 15 minutes, and then spend the rest of the time on this. I 16 think it is important that we --
17 MR. GERUSKY: As long as we make it really 18 separate from this.
19 MR. MORRIS: We would do that but we would make 20 sure we have plenty of time for this issue. Except for one 21 thing, that would be to give Bernie a chance to -- a chance 22 to give his good-byes and Frank a chance to explain again 23 as he did tonight, what we would probably -- we would give 24 the agency the chance, we will probably limit that to a 25 very, very brief update. And allow as mu P cime as ve can O
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, 3 MR. COCHRAN: I would like to put in a request 4 at least for the following meeting, that we take up in some 1 5 detail the disposition of the waste after it leaves TMI. I 6 would like to understand what the burial criteria are for 7 the low level and so forth, low level waste and so forth.
8 And any of these variances, why some of these epicurie 9 resins aren't being buried as high level waste somewhere.
10 MR. MORRIS: All right.
11 MR. COCHRAN: I would just like to understand 12 that and go into enough depth that you get some feel for
() 13 what the regulations say and why they say it and what the 14 activity level is in the waste and where it is going.
15 MR. MORRIS: Okay.
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- 18 up doing is something like this. Two hours for the health 19 department which-will' allow public questions and comment on 20 that issue, 30 minutesoon fuel transportation which would
- 21. allow public comment on and 30 minutes for the agency, and 22 so there would be no scheduled regular public comment. It 23 would be sticking to the agenda I just outlined.
24 Unless anybody has a problem with that, that is 25 what we will be doing at the next meeting.
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'2 process, if you still have the October on that? End of 3 October? In other words, you would not have anything to 4 report?
5 MR. STANDERFER: I can continue giving a status
.6 of the cleanup. That is no problem.
7 MR. ROTH: I mean anything in particular on the 8 defueling, that process itself?
9 MR. STANDERFER: Your meeting should be before 10 we are ready to go.
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10 MR. COCHRAN: If we want to do it. It seems 11 pretty reasonable to me. I don't know what other people 12 think.
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17 MR. WALD: I am going to be in New York.
18 MR. GERUSKY: Can you get a meeting room?
19 MR. MORRIS: What we do is pick a date and then 20 try to shoot for it. I am prepared to make the second 21 Thursday but I am not'sure of my schedule for the rest of 22 the time. If the panel members would prefer to pick 23 another night here, then we would ask Randy maybe to try to 24 arrange it for that night.
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18 MR. COCHRAN: That is f i r. e .
19 MR. MORRIS: 'Anybody object to the 16th?
20 MR. DI NUNNO: I won't be back, but that is all 21 right. Who can't make it on the 16th besides Joe? I doubt 22 if I can.
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15 Cont ingency Surveil l ance Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Re po rt i n g P roc ed ures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Immediate Notification' Procedures....................... 23 Entering Data Into Date B2se............................ 23 Reports................................................. 24 Quality Assurance........................................ .... 25 Appendices:
A. EPA Long-Term Surveillance Stations - 27 Air Samplers and "Sentri" Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B. Representative Detection Limits - Gamma 28 ~
Spectroscopy Analysis. EPA, TM1 Field Station. ...
C. EPA TLD Network................................... 29
- 0. Summ a ry o f EP A P ro g ram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 E. NRC Environmental TLD Locations................... 32 s F. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources , TMI TLD Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 G. Radioloc'.dt lTeironmental Monitoring Progr m Sample locations (GPUN). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 H. Three Mile Islar d Nuclear Station, REMP Sample
- Analy' sis Colle: tion and Analysis Frequency by S amp l e Me d i um ( GP UN ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
- 1. Key Staf'f and Offices for Long-Term Monitoring P r o g r am s - T M I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 l
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FOREWORD The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has conducted an environ-mental monitoring and surveillance program in the vicinity of the damaged Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor since March 30, 1979. Since i April 13, 1979 EPA has been the lead Federal agency for TM1 monitoring and public reassurance. The effort was started under the Office of Research and Development and reassigned to the Office of Radiation Programs beginning on October 1, 1981.
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The Office of Radiation Programs, EPA, continues to provide appropriate monitoring and surveillance and to coordinate release of environmental data to the public during the decontamination of Unit 2.
This involvement is expected to continue until the reactor core has been safely removed and shipped offsite.
This update of the long-term surveillance plan has been reviewed by and concurred in by the appropriate technical staffs of the Nuclear i Regulatory Commission, U.S. Public Health Service (FDA, HHS), the U.S.
Department of Energy, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of Maryland.
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'This Surveillance Plan, an update to the plans published 27 September 1979,17 ' March 1980 and 15 March 1981 has been jointly developed by the participating Federal and State agencies. The assigned technical staffs of these ' agencies have reviewed and concurred with this document.
Tu' Thomas M. Gerusky, Director Charles L. Cox Bureau of,Ridiaticn Protection Assistant Director for Special Projects Dept. of' Environmental Resources Office of Health Physics Ommnonwes1th of Pennsylvania Center for Devices and Radiological Health
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TMI Field Station TMI Program Office U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Agency Robert J. Mitkus L. Joe Deal, Acting Director Environmental Services Division Radiological Controls Division
~ Region 111 Office of Nuclear Safety U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Department of Energy Agency
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Environmental Protection Agency has coordinated the efforts of the involved Federal agencies, the Commonweal.4 of Pennsylvania, and the State of Maryland.
The public release of data obtained by the Federal agencies involved in the long-term monitoring program will be through the' U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, data will be provided simultaneously to the other Federal participants and to the Bureau of Radiation Protection (BRP) of the Pennsylvania Department of Environ-mental Resources (DER). In no way will this preclude any agency from fulfilling its statutory responsibility.
The purposes of the long-term env.ronmental radiation surveillance program include:
(1) providing a measure of the radiological quality of the environment in the vicinity of the Three Mile Island nuclear power facility during a period when large quantities of
' radioactive material will be dealt with during the cleanup of the facility;
- 1. Memorandum dated April 13, 1979 from Jack Watson to Joseph Califano (DHEW), James Schlesinger (DOE), and Douglas Costle (EPA).
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(2) providing a basis for informing the public as to the environ-mental levels of radioactivity; (3) providing an in-place monitoring program ready for imediate use if an accidental release should occur.
This long-term surveillance program is not a substitute for, but is in addition to and independent of, the environmental surveillance program conducted by GPU Nuclear, operators of the nuclear power station. .
The uncertainties of type and timing of cleanup operations resulting from both evolutionary nature of the overall process and from the various delays imposed by funding uncertainties and regulatory processes, as well as political / judicial interactions and the changing inventories and locations of radionuclides as cleanup progresses, necessitates periodic revision of any monitoring plan. This document is the third revision of the Long-Term Environmental Surveillance Plan for Three Mile Island dated Sept. 27, 1979. The first revision is dated March 17, 1980 and the second Parch 1981. The current revision was undertaken in 1983, placed in abeyance during the re-evaluation of EPA'.s long-term role at TM1 and completed following discussions of monitoring needs at the Feb.
12, 1964 meeting of the NRC Citizens' Advisory Panel for the Decon-tamination of TM1 Unit II.
- In developing the original plan, careful consideration was given to the potential for environmental contamination and public risk associated with the types and quantities of radionuclides that were in the Reactor Containment Building, the Auxiliary Building and the Fuel Handling Building, and associated tanks and systems. The Licer.see's surveillance-plan, which is closely monitored by the Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC), was also considered. Subsequent revisions have made adjustments
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crArT-o7/oa/84 A detailed description of the cleanup over the 5 years since the accident was published recently in ' Nuclear Safety'2 and will not be repeated here. Data prepared by the Licensee 3 ndicates that 99.96% of the original 1.27 x 10 10 curies of radioactivity present in the Unit Il core at shutdown on March 28, 1979 has decayed away. Of the major long-lived fission products, significant portions have been removed from TMI by the various decontamination operations, mainly by the decontamination of Reactor Building sump water with the submerged demineralizer system -
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Original Core Inventory % Shipped Activity Remaining Isotope (Curies) Delayed to 1/1/84 Off TMI (Curies) 90Sr 6.94 x 105 4.9 6.6 x 105 137Cs 7.57 x 105 42.3 4.37 x 105 134Cs 3.41 x 105 54.7 1.54 x 10 4 While high levels of radiation exist in a number of accident-contaminated areas in the Auxiliary and Fuel Handling Buildings as well as in the Reactor Building itself, especially in the sump / basement, the only compartment of radioactivity remaining at TMI II that has a significant potential for environmental contamination or public risk is the reactor core.itself and the surrounding coolant system. Even the radioactivity in the latter has been significantly reduced by " bleed and fee ~d" decon-tamination using the Submerged Demineralizer System (SDS). *
- 2. Kalman, G. and R. Weller.1984. Progress in the Recovery Operations at Three Mile Island, Unit 2. Nuclear Safety 25(1):88.
- 3. TMI 2 Technical Planning Dept. ,1984, Data Report. Radioactive Waste Management Summary Review. TP0/TMI-043, Rev. 2, Jan. 1984.
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Two isotopes which are much less hazardous than the foregoing, but which have received disproportionate public attention, are krypton-85 and tritium. Approximately 25-35,000 curies of krypton-85 are estimated to remain in the core; but, since the fuel cladding, which contains evolved fission gases in intact rods, is already mostly disrupted, it is improbable that any large pockets of free krypton gas remain and any release will be small and gradual. About 20", of the estimated 2900-3500 curies of tritium remaining is believed to be in the reactor core. Pbst of the remainder, about 2,000 curies, is contained in the 1.6 million gallons of processed water being stored on TMI pending decision on its disposal.4 Some of the processed water is used in ongoing decontamination work and then processed through the SDS again.
Pursuant to the February 12 presentations and discussions of TMI-monitoring before the NRC Citizens' Advisory Panel on the Decontamination of TMI Unit II, representatives of EPA, NRC, PA-DER (Bureau of Radiation Protection), and GPU Nuclear met on March 20, 1984 to review existing environmental monitoring at TM1 vis a_ vis the current situation and the projected cleanup schedule.5 It was concluded that EPA's monitoring program, which has been mostly configured to early detection of levels of radioactivity approaching Regulatory Limits, should be redirected to permit detection of radioactivity at/near ambient levels while retaining the ability to resume an " emergency" configuration on short notice.
Several alternatives were considered including putting parts of the j monitoring network on " standby." The revised program presented herein
- retains essentially all existing types of monitoring at all existing locations but substantially reduces the volume of analytical effort by l . sampling for longer periods of time and utilizing analysis of composites i
4 No. releases are permitted without NRC approval.
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where feasible. Substantial gains in sensitivity were achieved both by using larger samples and counting the samples for longer times to improve detection and counting statistics. The 85 Kr samplers at York l Haven and Middletown are being put in " standby" except when activities on the Island indicate potential for increased 85Kr release. Two high volume air samplers were added (TMI Observation Center and Goldsboro) to provide large air particulate samples for radiochemical analysis and an additional tritium-in-air sampler added at Red Hill. Several adjustments are being made in the water monitoring program, in particular, reducing sample frequency at Lancaster and the wells sampled for groundwater analysis and, also, relocation of the upstream water sampling point from City Island to a point south of the Swatara Creek juncture with the Susquehanna.
The revised plan provides for it: creased surveillance if a release is anticipated, or if a release occurs unexpectedly. For example, increased 85Kr monitoring will be provided during the head lift and, at least initially, during direct manipulatioI of the core while the pressure vessel is open.
ROUTIN! SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS Federal Agencies Environmental Protection Agency
.- EPA currently operates a network of 14-continuous air particulate
,. and ambient, gamma radiation monitoring stations (Fig.1) at radial distances r'anging from 0.5 to 3.5 miles from TMI. Each station includes a constant volume air sampler (Redeco Model 28A or B) and 13 have pressurized ionization chamber detectors (PIC's) with local strip chart recorders and dati telemetry capability (Reuter-Stokt s RS1011 "Sentri" System). A list of, sampling locations is shown in Appendix A. EPA did not install a "Sentri" PIC unit at the Harrisburg International Airport 1
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The constant voltrae air samplers draw air at a rate of 2 cfm through a 2" diameter fiber glass filter and then through an activitec charcoal cartridge. The filters collect atmospheric dust particles, including radioactive particles while the charcoal cartridges retain radiciodine and, to some extent, zenon. The filters and charcoal cartridges are changed at least weekly. At various times during the accident and post-accident period, changeout has been daily or every 2 days. Current changeout is weekly. Samples are analyzed by gamma spectroscopy at the TMI Field Station in Middletown using a GeLi or Intrinsic Ge detector. The lower limit of detection (LLD) varies principally with the detector analyzer system used, the isotope of interest, counting geometry and counting times. For example, the LLD for a 10-minute count on an air filter using the GeLi detector is approximately 25 pCi for.1311 or 137Cs. A more complete listing of LLD's for various isotcpes of interest and counting geonstries is given in Appendix B.
The minimum detectable concentration (MDC) of an isotope in a sample is deter:nined basically by dividing th.e LLD for that isotope and counting geometry with the sample volume. Using the previous example of 137Cs with an LLD of 25 pCi and 80 m 3 / day air volume, the IOC for 137Cs
, in a 48-hour sample would be 0.16 pCi/m3 and the M3C for a 168-hour sample woul'd be 0. A4 pCi/m3 . In practice, LLD's and MDC's may be affected adversely 6 to considerable extent by many things including:
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sampling variability, complexity of precounting preparations and attainable degree of uniformity thereof; counting interference from other isotopes present; representativeness of each sample, etc.
The high volume air samplers draw air through a 4" diameter polyester filter at the rate of approximately 32 cfm. Filters are changed out twice weekly. Analysis is done using procedures of the EPA's Environmental Radiation Ambient mnitoring System 7 (ERAMS). Field estimates of beta radioactivity are made using a GM survey meter at 5 hours5.787037e-5 days <br />0.00139 hours <br />8.267196e-6 weeks <br />1.9025e-6 months <br /> and 29 hours3.356481e-4 days <br />0.00806 hours <br />4.794974e-5 weeks <br />1.10345e-5 months <br /> after collection to allow for radon and thoron daughter decay. The filters are sent to the Eastern Environmental Radiation Facility, Nntgomery, Alabama for more sensitive analysis in a low background beta counter. Gamma scans are performed on filters showing a laboratory gross beta count greater than 1 pCi/m3 . On a quarterly basis, the collected filters are composited and analyzed for plutonium and uranium. After chemical separation, the coprecipitated uranium and plutonium are analyzed for specific isotopes by alpha spectroscopy. Concentration of plutonium -238, -239, and uranium -234,
-235, and -238 are reported. The LLD and m C for the plutonium and uranium isotopes are 0.015 pCi/ sample and 0.1 aci/m 3 , 8 respectively (sample volume 25,000 - 40,000 m3 ),
Thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD's) are placed at each monitoring station as well as at a representative number of population centers surrounding TMI. Locations are shown in Appendix C. These dosimeters are changed quarterly and are read at the Office of Radiation Programs Facility in Las Vegas.
- 7. The ERAMS provides nationwide monitoring for ambient radioactivity in air and water. Detailed description can be found in the Environmental.
Radiation Data reports issued by EPA's Office of Radiation Programs.
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Routinely - TMI Observation Station and Goldsboro.
Operate continuously with 2-week collection period.
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Atmospheric moisture is collected by drawing air through molecular sieve collectors at the TMI Observation Center, Goldsboro, Middletown, Red Hill and Wernersville. The moisture is separated from the collector in the laboratory and analyzed for tritium content. Sampling is continuous with a weekly. collection period.
EPA's water monitoring program at TM1 is conducted in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, Bureau of Radiation Protection and Bureau of Water Quality Management. The monitoring program for discharges from TMI and for the Susquehanna River below TMI is designed to: (1) provide an early warning system to notify downstream water supplies and other water users should any l ,
, high-level radioactive discharges occur; (2) provide an historical l account of the radiological quality of discharges from TMI and of the i i
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river to show what, if any, concentrations of radioactivity exist; (3) serve as an independent backup to the GPU Nuclear monitoring program and (4) provide some degree of public confidence in any decisions that are made concerning any discharges. Standard analytic procedures include gama spectroscopy at the TMI Field Station (EPA); gross alpha, gross beta and tritium analysis by PA-DER or TMI Field Station, and 895r and 90Sr at EPA, Easterr. Environmental Radiation Facility (ORP), >bntgomery, Alabama. The LLD's and MDC's for water samples vary with count time and isotope and are given in Appendix B. Samples are usually analyzed for gama radioactivity to a level of 10 picocuries per liter (100 minute count). Sampling locations and techniques are as follows:
(1) TMI Industrial Water Outfall -
(a) Continuous (real time) monitor of gamma radioactivity with a flow through monitor. Output of monitor to recorders on-site and at the TMI Field Station Office.
This monitor is equipped with an automatic telephone dialer which can be used as an alert mechanism to avoid contamination of downstream drinking water supplies. When in use, this system provides automatic notification to EPA and DER if the gamma radioactivity
- levels in the discharge exceed the equivalent of 1,000 pCi/1 of 137Cs. The automatic dialer is in standby at the present time to be reactivated if and when a substantial volume of water contaminated with high levels of gamma emitters again exists on TMI or when an emergency situation with potential for waterborne release develops.
Since the completion of decontamination of the con-tainment water in 1983 and substantial reduction of activity in the RCS reactor coolant processing .through 1
the submerged demineralizer system, there has not been a realistic potential for release of more than trace amounts of gamma radioactivity in water at TMI. The automatic dialer will be reactivated if such a threat occurs. All other features of the system remain operative.
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(2) Weekly grab samples are collected by DER /WQM personnel at City Island, Harrisburg for background data. The sample is delivered to the DER laboratory at the Evangelical Press Building and picked up by EPA personnel for gamma analysis. To avoid sample loss due to the river being iced over and to account for several potential sources of radioactivity entering the river between City Island and TMI, the location of this background sample will be changed, prior to the Fall 1984 freeze-up to the
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(3) The City of 1.ancaster's water inlet on the Susquehanna River is sampled every 2' hours and composited weekly. This sample is taken by City of Lancaster personnel and transported to the DER laboratory where it is picked up by EPA personnel for gama analysis at the TMI Field Station. It is returned to DER by EPA personnel for additional analysis by the DER laboratory.
(4) EPA personnel collect quarterly grab samples from wells at 5 locations near the Susquehanna River.
(5) Weekly grab samples are taken from the TMI East Dike runoff basin whenever possible. On occasion the pond is frozen 9
solid and samples would not be useful. ttre frequent samples are taken when the pond is overflowing into the river.
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Analysis for gamma radioactivity, gross alpha, gross beta and tritium are done on individual samples. Strontium analysis is done on composite samples made up of a week's daily samples (TMI outfall); a month's weekly samples (Lancaster, City Island, East Dike); or quarterly
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A sumary of EPA's monitoring program is given in Appendix D.
Department of Energy, The Department of Energy (DOE) accident response capabilities for aerial radiological survey and meteorological modeling support are available as required. The DOE will also provide for selected soil and vegetation analysis and h situ gama spectroscopy as may be requested by EPA or the Corxnonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Nuclear Regulatory Comission The Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC) operates one air sampling station located on site, within the owner controlled area. The air sample l's changed weekly and analyzed by gama spectroscopy by EPA. NRC places 2 sets of TLD's at 67 locations as shown in Appendix E. Each set contains 2 lithium borate and 2 calcium sulphate phosphors. Both sets are read on a quarterly basis; however, flexibility exists to read 1 set at more frequent intervals should conditions warrant. The NRC reviews the GPU Nuclear's monthly liquid and gaseous effluent release reports and quarterly groundwater reports. .The NRC periodically conducts QJality Control inspections and splits samples with Contractor laboratories that analyze samples for GPUN.
U.S. Public Health Service The U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will defer further monitoring of foodstuffs and milk in favor of a close following of the Corxnonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Resources (DER) routine surveillance program. FDA may, at
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mation. PHS/FDA will, however, be prepared to reinstitute and/or upgrade its former foodstuffs and milk sampling program in the event of an unexpected release from TMI.
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Quarterly composites of particulate filters are gamma scanned, and assayed for radiostrontium.
The Commonwealth's milk sampling has reverted to its routine surveillance program which consists of monthly sampling at two dairy farms near the site. The milk samples are gamma scanned for all reactor related gamma emitting radionuclides.
The Commonwealth has placed TLD's at 10 locations which are cycled monthly and 8 which are cycled quarterly (see Appendix F).
I As part of a routine QA/QC program with the Licensee, the Common-
' wealth also collects local produce, silt, and fish in season. These I samples are analyzed by gamma spectroscopy for any reactor related I radionuclides.
In addition to the water program conducted cooperatively with EPA, i the Commonwealth collects monthly composite water samples at Steelton
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In April 1982, the Maryland DNR expanded its aquatic surveillance of the Susquehanna River to include the placing of caged mussels and crayfish at Holtwood Reservoir and at Conowingo during the period of April 1 to December 1. The cages are pulled monthly and the biota analyzed for radioactivity. The program is intended to study uptake patterns by these animals, and the relative contributions from Three Mile Island and Peach Bottom to those uptakes.
In the Fall of 1983, Varyland DNR began a 3-year program designed to assess the chemical forms, mechanisms and removal rates affecting the fate of radionuclides in the Susquehanna River / Chesapeake Bay System.
Specific tasks include defining the distribution of the radiocesium, radiocobalts, In-65, and Ag-11Q) among water, suspended matter and sediments, across the salinity gradient of the System. Also included -is the determination of chemical forms and associations of these radionuclides in water and particulates. Another task is identifying the sorption /
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In the event of an emergency, MD-DNR will duplicate the routine sampling at the anticipated time of maximum impact.
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The monitoring program is subject to change based upon review of the results and requests for additional monitoring. In no instance will the program be reduced to less than that required by the Environmental Technical Specifications. All major reductions in scope or intensity will be discussed with the NRC and the Commona'ealth of Pennsylvania prior to implementation. GPU Nuclear Environmental data are published i annually in reports titled: Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Radiological Environmental Monitoring Report.
Appendix G describes the TM1 Radiological Environmental Monitoring Prbgram (REPP) locations and defines the types of samples collected at' each station and Figures 2, 3, and 4 show the geogt uphical location of sampling po'ints.. Appendix H describes by sample medium the collection frequency, analysis type and analysis ~ frequency. In addition to the monitoring program. defined herein, an extensive groundwater monitoring program and realtime gamma radiation monitoring system are also in operation.
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DRATT-o[/o3/64 CONTINGENCY SURVEILLANCE PROCEDURES Contingency planning for the protection of the public must address the possibilities of unplanned releases of airborne radioactivity to the general environment as well as waterborne releases in the Susquehanna River. The monitoring responsibilities of the Licensee and the Common.
wealth in case of emergency are set forth in appropriate emergency plans 10.
including the PA-DER Plan for Nuclear Power Generating Incidents responsibilities of Federal agencies are generally stated in the Federal Radiological-Emergency Response Plan (FRERP)11; and EPA's broad re.
sponsibilities are stated in the EPA Radiological Emergency Response PlIn.12 As a consequence of the 1979 Unit II accident, EPA conducts the previously described surveillance program which is expected to continue until Unit II is defueled and the fuel removed from TMI. The EPA procedures have been gradually modified from the initial accident oriented system put in place in Varch/ April 1979 to a more or less routine surveillance program while retaining the capability to be rapidly changed back to the accident mode. This EPA activity is unique to TM1 and, while not specifically included in the foregoing emergency plans, provides an initial Federal capability at the scene.
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- 12. United States Environmental Protection Agency Radiological Emergency-Response Plan, Office of Radiation Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Rept EPA 520/1-81-002.
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onAfr-o7/oa/s4 If a Site-or General Emergency is declared by the Licensee or if a release of air- or waterborne radioactivity from either TMl Unit in excess of Technical Specifications is detected by plant monitors, the Director, EPA TM1 Field Station will be notified by the EPA Emergency Response Coordinator through operation of FRERP notification procedures and, usually, directly by the Deputy Director, TMI Program Office, NRC.
In consultation with the EPA Emergency Response Coordinator, the Director, TMI Field Station will determine to what extent increased / modified EPA monitoring is required pending arrival of other Federal response. The Deputy Director, TMIPO, NRC will ensure that the Director, EPA TMI Field Station has access to current release data and meteorogical infonnation.
EPA TMI Field Station Personnel may be deployed to.. collect
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Radiological Emergency Response Plan and/or the Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan.
On-site NRC Health Physics personnel would be supported by NRC Regional and Headquarters personnel including the NRC Region I mobile i laboratory. Additional NRC personnel would be on-site within 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br />; the location of the mobile laboratory at the time of the occurrence would dictate its response time.
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During certain in-plant cleanup operations where an increase in the rate of gaseous releases to the environment may be expected, additional survey teams may be deployed to TMI by the EPA, the PHS, the NRC, and the PA-DER. The DDE helicopter may also be on standby in the Harrisburg area for such operations. (These critical points will be identified by the NRC as much in advance as possible.)
Air sampling will serve as a measurement of inhalation exposure as well as an indicator of potential contamination of milk and food crops.
Should a prolonged airborne release occur, supplemental air monitoring stations may be established, and PHS/FDA foodstuff and milk sampling programs can be reinstituted. It is noted that both the F.icensee and the Comonwealth have milk sampling programs routinely in effect and that EPA has capability at TMI Field Station to analyze milk for radio-activity if needed.
The contingency plan for release of contaminated water above the Licensee's permitted level for discharge to Susquehanna River includes prompt confirmation of the released activity by analyses of grab and composite samples as previously noted followed by notification of the .
impact to dowr. stream users. If release of radioactive material to the river in excess of Technical Specifications is indicated by any means, the Director, EPA TMl Field Station will contact the designated PA-DER representatives (BRP, BWQM) to activate confirmation and notification procedures. He will also notify the NRC and GPU Nuclear and request examination of in-plant monitors (RML-7) for confirmation and appropriate action if necessary. The Bureau of Radiation Protection will evaluate the significance of the discharge based on available data including '.
analyses of the " grab" samples, and in consultation with the Bureau of Water Quality Management and EPA, determine whether downstream water will be impacted.
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l In addition to the notification procedures of appropriate Pennsylvania agencies, the Director, EPA TMl Field Station will notify EPA's Region Ill Office and EPA's Office of Radiation Programs of the details of the release including anticipated impact to the adjoining states. EPA's Region 111 Office will then be responsible for notifying adjoining states. This plan does not alter the NRC standard operating procedures for notification of the EPA Regional Office.
The Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of Environmental Programs will provide additional monitoring capability as appropriate. Water samples will be taken at all Maryland drinking water intakes from the Susquehanna River. These intakes are:
- 1. Baltimore Big Inch Intake - located imediately above Conowingo Dam;
- 2. Conowingo Intake;
- 3. Bainbridge, it!. - Port Deposit Intake;
- 4. Perry' Point Veterans' Hospital;
- 5. City of Havre de Grace.
Milk samples will be taken at farms in Pennsylvania which are operating under Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene permits.
A list of telephone numbers of individuals responsible for the various monitoring programs at TM1 is shown in Appendix :.
l REPORTING PROCEDURES There will be two types of data reporting procedures. The first-type is designed to distribute information upon which imediate action might be taken and consists of informal reporting methods, while the second procedure is designed to provide a verified data base and formal reports.
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l Imediate Notification Procedures l Each of the monitoring agencies will inform the Director, EPA TM1 Field Station (or his designated representative) of the identification of statistically significant levels 13 offsite of radionuclides of potential reactor origin. If the reported levels are in excess of those commonly found in the environment as a consequence of weapons testing, the Director, TMI Field Station will relay the information promptly by telephone or in person to participating Federal Agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the State of Maryland, followed in either case by I written documentation of the event. If concentrations of radionuclides in excess of those permitted in the environment by 10CFR2'0, Appendix B, Table 2, Column 2, are found outside the controlled area, EPA shall be notified within 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> of discovery. Otherwise, notification shall be made by noon of the working day following discovery.
I Enterino Data Into Data Base t Pursuant to the April 13, 1979 White House memorandum EPA has attempted to gather as much relevant environmental data as possible into a computer data base. In addition to results of EPA monitoring, data fro:n FDA (PHS), NRC, DOE, the Comonwealth of Pennsylvania, State of Paryland, State of New Jersey, GPU Nuclear Corporation and several other organizations have been entered. mst Federal data was entered directly i by the monitoring agency using procedures provided by EPA while other ,
data were generally entered by EPA personnel working from data provided in a stipulated format. Since 1980 almost all data have been entered by EPA.
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environmental data to the media. All participants in this plan will i
keep each of the other participants advised in advance of pending news j releases concerning TM1 environmental matters. Releases will also be i furnished to GPU Nuclear Corporation.
1 EPA has issued two listings of environmental data including all data collected and reported through December 31, 1979 14 and plans to issue summary reports of data collected since the cutoff dates for those l
reports. Progress on these reports has been delayed by limited ADP resources in the Office of Radiation Programs.
EPA has issued regular reports of its ambient gamma radiation, air particulate, radiciodine, and radiokrypton findings in regular news.
letters since April 1980. Additionally, letter reports of ga :ma spectroscopic analysis results for water samples have been made to the
} NRC and PA-DER. The NRC regularly includes the data from both EPA i
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reports in the TMIPO weekly status reports.
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- l The Comenwealth of Pennsylvania and GPU Nuclear issue their own annual reports of data developed in their monitoring programs. The l Power Plant Siting Program, State of Paryland reports the results of their monitoring programs at three year intervals.
- 14. a. Bretthauer, E.W. , et al. "Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor
' Accident of ' Parch.1979 EnvTroiidiental Radiation Data." A Report to the President's Comission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. 7 vols.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory, Las Vegas, Nev. 89114 Sept. 7, 1979.
- b. Same autho'r and same title, Update, Dec. 31, 1979.
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1 QUALITY ASSURANCE in addition to the internal quality control activities practiced by the Federal agencies and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, organizations involved in TMI monitoring will participate in the intercomparison studies listed below. Samples will be prepared and distributed by the Quality Assurance Division of EPA's Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory - Las Vegas (EMSL-LV). The intercomparison samples are as follows. The schedule for their distribution is determined by EMSL-LV.
Milk Four-liter milk cross check samples containing potassium-40, strontium-89, strontium-90, iodine-131, and cesium-137 will be distributed to PHS, EPA, NRC, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the State of Paryland.
Water The following cross-check water samples will be distributed to PHS, EPA, NRC, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the State of Paryland.
Four-liter senples containing a mixture of photon emitting radionuclides (cobalt-60), ruthenium-105, cesium-134, cesium-137, chromium-51, and zinc-65).
. Four-ll'ter samples containing strontium-89 and stronium-90.
Four-liter senples containing iodine-131.
Fifty milliliter samples of tr'itiated water.
Each participating Agency laboratory is expected to carry out three independent determinations for each radionuclide included in a particular study and to report the results to EPA. Upon receipt of the reports of all participating laboratories, the data will be analyzed.
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A report will be distributed by EPA to participating laboratories containing results of each intercomparison study. EPA will immediately notify any participating Agency laboratory if it is determined that the laboratory cross check results exceed the quality assurance deviation level for any given type of analysis.
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APPENDIX A TREE MILE ISLAND EPA LONG-TERM SURVEILLANCE STATIONS Air Samplers and "Sentri" Locations DISTANCE STATION AZ (MILES) ASSOCI ATED TOWN 3' 325 3.5 . Middletown, PA - Harrisburg International Airport 5 040 2. 6 Royalton, PA . Londonderry Township Building 9 100 3. 0 Newville, PA - Brooks Farm (Earl Nissley Residence) 11 130 2. 9 Falmouth, PA - Charles Brooks Residence 13 150 3.0 Falmouth, P A - Richard Libhart Residence 17 180 3. 0 York Haven, PA - Drovers and Mechanics Bank 20 205 2. 5 Woodside, PA - Zane Reeser Residence 31 270 1. 5 Goldsboro, PA - Goldsboro Fire Station 34 305 2. 7 Plainfield, PA - Polites Residence 35 058 3.5 Royalton, PA - George Hershberger Residence 36 095 0. 5 TMI Observation Center 39 356 2. 8 -Middletown, P A - EPA-TMI Field Station 40 236 3.0 -Newberrytown, PA - Jacobs Fann 41 .
275 4.0 Yocumtown, P A - Newberrytown Water Company
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l Counting Time 600 Sec. 6,000 Sec. 50,000 Sec.
Isotope Detector Geometry Units 10 min. 100 min. 833 min.
GeLi Air Filter pCi 28 9 3 131g Charcoal pCi 25 ~8 3 Water pCi/1 50 15 6 Intrinsic Water pCi/1 20 6 2 G'e GeLi Air Filter pCi 24 8 3 137Cs ' - .
Water pC1/1 45 15 6 ,
Intrinsic Water' ~ pCi/1 ~ 26 3 3
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.GeLi . Air Filter pCi 29 9 3 60Co . Water pCi/1 45 14 6 Intrinsic Water pCi/1 21 7 2 Ge GeLi Air Filter pCi 55 17 6 125Sb Water pCi/1 50 15. . 6 GeLi Air Filter pCi 19 6 2 103Ru Water pCi/1 42 13 6 GeLi Air Fi_ Iter pCi 41 13 5 Water pCi/1 86 27 3 95Zr/Nb Geli Air Filter pCi 23 7 3
134 Cs Water pCi/1 40 13 7
" GeLi Air Filter pCI 27 9 3 pCi/1
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fater 54pn GeLi Water pCi/1 55 17 6
' 70 65Zn GeLi Water pCi/1 23 11 59pe GeLi Wi.ter pCi/1 94' 30 10 28.
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EPA TLD NETWORK DISTANCE STATI ON AZ (MILES) ASSOCIATED TOWN 001 290 6.2 Fishing Creek, PA - Robert Bean Gulf Station 002 320 5.2 Highspire, PA - Citizens Fire Co. #1 003 325 3.5 Middletown, PA - Harrisburg International Airport 004 360 3.0 Middletown, PA - Elwoods' Sunoco Station 005 040 2.6 Royaltown, PA - Londonderry Township Building 009 100 3.0 Newville, PA - Brooks Farm (Earl Nissley Residence) 010 095 6.8 Elizabethtown, PA - K. Hoffer ARCO Service Station 011 130 2.9 Falmouth, PA - Charles Brooks Residence 013 150 3.0 Falmouth, PA - Dick Libhart Residence 014 145 5.3 Bainbridge, PA - Bainbridge Fire Company 015 155 6.6 Saginaw, PA - United Methodist Church 016 180 7.0 Manchester, PA - Manchester Fire Department 017 180 3.0 York Haven, PA - York Haven Fire Station 019 205 10.7 Strinestown, PA - Brenner's Mobile Service Station 020 205 2.5 Pleasant Grove, PA - Zane Reeser Residence 021 250 4.0 Newberrytown, PA - Exxon Kwick Service Station 025 - 360 7.0 Hammelstown, PA - Keefer's Exxon Service Station 026 025 10.0 Hershey, PA - Good's 4RCO Service Station 030 180 13.0 York, PA - York Fire Station,'Springetts #16, 031 270 1.5 Goldsboro, PA - Dusty Miller Residence 0 34 305 2.7 Plainfield, PA - Polites Residence 035 068 3.5 Londonderry Township, PA - George Hershberger Residence 1
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DISTANCE STATION g (MILES) ASSOCIATED TOWN 036 095 .0.5 TMI Observation Center 039 329 5.3 Lower Swatara, PA 040 314 10.6 Steelton, PA 041 305 10.7 New Cumberland, PA - Capitol City Airport 042 174 4.9 Conewago Heights, PA 043+- 236 3.0 Newberrytown, PA - Jacob's Farm 044 + 275 4.0 Yocumtown, PA - Newberrytown Water Co.
011HSGBKG 110 31.0 Lancaster, PA - Visitors' Infomation Center 002HSGBKG 055 25.0 lebanon, PA - John Deere Equipnent Co.
003HSGBKG 275 31.0 Carlisle, PA - Myers EXXON Garage 004HSGBKG 180 25.0 Loganville, PA TOTAL STATIONS _ 33
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Q Saeole t oc a tion bethly hoae Game spec. 1M1 7 rarticwiste 1g sutions . Contsavevs.
(const. o)) 3-mile restos ft1ter Continwows. idice hone Gross 8/ TM]/EtRF tival TF.1 Ots. Ctr. Learea spec.
ft1ter Weekly f.elesteco M *teely Ashin9/ Alpha spec. (E RF Comoesite Ches. Sep. for PU. U.
betely hone Gaarna spec. TM1 Lacioiseine 11 sutions . Continwows-3.aile tacius charcoal cart.
2 weeks try09enic tiovid 1MI Radickrypten T*.1 Det. Ctr.. Continwows.
Golesboet.miedlettwn air compressor 1 week if sepa ra tion Scintilla tion Toes haven needed Conttavous. beekly Vececoid trap Lieute TMI leittiar TM1 Ots. Ctr.. estractica 5ctatfilation Golcsboro,Miedictown selecular steve led Mill, bernersville Daily 1. hone Game spec. TM1 deter- Seeface Inewstrial Continuous. PA.MR Outfall compositor 2. Distillation Lieute scia-kater best bank, tillation#M
- 3. Ivaporation Alpha / beta 1*.1 town ter* #3 ) PA-DER CtrPtesite G. Chet. Sep. Alpha /be ts
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2 1010 3.9 mi. 36 2670 1.2 mi.
3 1090 2.7 mi. 37 2560 1.4 mi.
4 1630 1.8 mi. 38 2250 1.9 mi.
5 1610 2.2 mi. 39 2000 2.1 mi.
6 1500 1.0 mi. 40 2040 2.5 mi.
7 1360 0.6 mi. 41 2530 3.9 mi.
8 830 0.4 mi. 42 2590 7.3 mi.
9 600 0.5 mi. 43 2680 5.8 mi.
10 10 1.7 mi. 44 2630 4.7 mi.
11 250 0.9 mi. 45 1750 3.2 mi.
12 460 2.8 mi. 46 1720 3.0 mi.
13 190 5.2 mi.' ~ ' 47- 1770 5.7 mi.
' 14 3580 2.5 mi. 48 1820 9.0 mi.
15 3570 2.7 mi. 49 2100 8.2 mi.
16 00 3.1 mi. 50 2140 9.6 mi.
17 3510 4.1 mi. 51 1850 12.6 mi.
18 3490 3.5 mi. 52 1330 9.0 mi.
19 3430 3.2 mi. 53 1450 4.9 mi.
20 3180 5.0 mi. 54 1440 4. 6 mi .
21 3480 1.3 mi. 55 2060 0.9 mi.
22 170 3.1 mi. 56 2300 0.5 mi.
23 640 3.8 mi. 57 2930 0.4 mi.
24 440 3.6 mi. 58 3350 0.5 mi.
25 470 7.6 mi. 59 3170 1.2 mi.
'26 00 5.1 mi. 60 On site ~
27 . 60 7.4 mi. 61 On site 28 00 9.3 mi. 62 On site 29 00 12.6 mi. 63 On site 30 3120 13.8 mi. 64 On site 31 3060 9.6 mi. 65 On site 32 2970 7.4 mi. 66 On site 33 3100 5.9 mi. 67 On site 34 2670 5.8 mi. .
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PENNSYLVANI A DEPARTMENT OF ENYlRONMENTAL RESOURCES THREE MILE ISLAND TLD LOCATIONS (Frequency: Monthly)
Azimuth and Distance from Reactor AZIMUTH DISTANCE (Degrees) (Miles) location TOMTg Middletown, Met Ed. Mill Street Substation 358 2.6 TOMT2 TM1 Observation Building, Rte. 441 So. 90 0.5 Laughlin Residence, Elizabethtown, PA 86 6.6 TOMT3 Squire Residence, Bainbridge, PA 145 5.2 TOMT4 York Haven PA Hydroelectric Plant 166 2.9 TNTS Newberrytown, PA Township Building 252 4.5 TOMT6 Falmouth Substation, Falmouth, PA 161 2.3 TOMT7 TOMT10 Goldsboro, PA Met Ed. Fbnitoring Station 254 1.3 TOMTgg Beaver Residence, Redlands Acres, Etters, PA 284 4.6 Highspire, PA Turnpike Comission Bldg. 321 5.4 TMT12 THREE MILE ISLAND TLD LOCATIONS (Frecuency: Quarterly)
T00T13 Duke Street Pumpine Station, Humelstown, PA 7 7.9 T00Tj4 Township Building, Hershey, PA 22 9.1 Paintenance Garage, Panchester, PA 178 7.0 T00T15 .
Public , Works Garage, York, PA 179 12.9 T0QT 16 Fire Company, Strinestown, PA 204 4.8 T0QT17 Sewerage Treatment Plant, &chanisburg, PA 284 16.4 T00T18 Borough Building, Camp Hill, PA 299 12.0 T00Tgg Evangelical Pr'ess Bldg., Harrisburg, PA 312 11.9 T00T20
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Coda Medium- Denc ri pt ion 1 0.4 0 Al-1 AP, AI,.ID N of site, North Weather Station 0.4 2 N of RB centerline on W. fence adjacent to N. Weather Station Al-4 ID THI 2 0.7 25 B1-1 ID HNE of alte on light pole in middle of North Drldge - 0.4 26 B1-2 ID NNE of RB centerline at top of dike-THI 0.5 15 NNE of RB centerline on W. Fence adjacent to S. end of N.
B1-3 ID bridge-THI 0.3 45 NE of RB centerline at top of dike-THI C1-2 ID 3 0.3 71 D1-1 ID ENE of site on top of dike, east fence 4 0.2 95 El-1 ID E of nite on top of dike, cant fence 0.2 90 E of RB centerline at top of dike-THI El-4 ID - 0.2 102 F1-2 ID ESE of RB centerline at top of dike midway within Interim Solid Wante. Staging Facility-THI -
SE of RB centerline at top of dike-THI 0.3 124 g C1-3 ID 5 0.4 167 %
111-1 ID SSE of site 0.3 148 Q SSE of RB centerline at top of dike-THI 111-9 ID 6 0.8 184 S J1-1 ID S of site at south beach of THI 0.3- 185 S of RB centerline on wooden pont by old S. Cate Guard Bldg-THI J1-3 ID 200
- 7 0.2 K1-1 EW On site, RML-7 station discharge 8 0.4 195 Ki-2 ID SSW of site - 0.2 208 i Ki-4 ID SSW of RB centerline on fence behind Warehouse #2-THI -
0.2 202 K1-5 ID SSW of RB centerline on fence behind Warehouse #3-THI 9 0.1 221 1.1-1 ID SW of site, went of mectvinical draf t towers on dike 0.4 270 W of nite on Shelley Island 10 N1-1 .ID 11 0.1 270 N1-2A SW On site, station intake (Unit 1) 0.1 270 W of RB centerline on fence adjacent to screenhouse entrance N1-3 ID gate-THI 12 0.4 293 P1-1 ID WNW of site on Shelley Island 0.5 317 NW of site on Shelley Island 13 Q1-1 ID - 0.2 325 Q1-2 ID NW of RB centerline on fence behind Warehouse #1-THI 14 0.2 340 R1-1 ID NNW of nite at gate in fence on W nide of THI, North boat dock 0.7 1 N of site at North tip of THI 15 Al-2 AQS 16 0.7 0 N of site at north tip of THI Al-3 AQS 17 0.6 35 C1-1 ID NE of site on Route 441 18 0.5 65 D1-2 ID ENE of site on Laurel Road
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RADIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMEtifAL MONITORING PROGRAM STATION LOCATIONS AND SAMPLE TYPE CO Map Distance Azteuth Station Sample .
' Designation (Miles) (Degrees)_
Code Medium Dencription 19 0.4 90 El-2 AP, AI, RW E of site on N side of Observation Center ID, CR, S 20 0.5 117 F1-1 ID ESE.of site on light pole on Route 441 21 0.3 137 Cl-1 AQS SE of site 22 0.6 143 Cl-2 ID SE of site on Route 441 23 0.5 188 J1-2 SW, .
S'of site below discharge pipe 24 0.8 202 K1-3 AQS. SSW of site 25 0.5 225 L1-3 AQS SW of site 26 0.5 221 L1-2 ID SW of site on Beech Island 27 0.7 332 R1-2 ID NNW of site .on IIenry Island 28 1.2 5 l
A2-1 MG, FPL N of site, f arm along Route 441 29 1.1 65 D2-1 H, FPL,'S ENE of site, farm on Gingrich Road 30 1.6 130 C2-1 M, FPL SE of site, f arm on the E side of Conewsgo Creek 1.5 182 31 J2-1 SW, AQS S of site above York flaven Dam 32 1.1 200 K2-1 ID SSW of site on S beach of Shelley Island 1.9 227 o 33 L2.1, ID SW of site on Route 262 34 1.3 253 MZ-1 AP, AI, WSW of site adjacent to Fishing Creek, Goldsboro Air Station -
y ID, CR W of site at Goldsboro Marina 35 1.2 262 N2-1 ID, 36 1.6 297 P2-1 ID WNW of site off of Old Coldsboro Pike 37 1.8 310 ID NW of site on access road along river ,
Q2-1 39 2.6 358 ;
A3-1 AP, AI, ID N of site at Middletown Substation RW, CR 40' 2.5 355 A3-2 SW N of site at Swatara Creek 41 2.3 159 II3-1 AP, A1, RW SSE of site at Falmouth-Collins Substation ID, CR 42 2.3 165 113-2 SW SSE of site, York flaven Ilydro 43 3.6 295 P4-1 H. FPL WNW of site at Fisher's farm on Valley Road 44 4.3 3 AS-1 ID N of site on Vine Street exit from Route 283 45 4.8 18 B5-1 ID NNE of site, School llouse 14ne and Miller Road 46 4.5 42 C5-1 ID NE of site on Kennedy Lane
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Coda Medium.
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ENE of site off of Beagle Road 47 5.2 65 D6-1 ID 48 4.6 81 ES-1 , ID E of site, North Market Street and Zeager Road 4.7 107 49 F5-1 ID ESE of site on Amosite Rond 50 4.8 131 C5-1 ID SE 'of site, Bainbridge and Rinner Ronds 4.1 160 51 11 5 - 2 SW SSE 'of site on neunner Island 52 4.1 157 H5-1 ID SSE of site at Guard Shack on Brunner Island 53 4.9 182 J5-1 S of site on Canal Road, Conewago fict ghts 200 I D.
SSW of site on Conewago Creek Road, Strinentown 54 5.0 K5-1 ID 55 4.1 228 L5-1 ID SW of site, Stevenn and Wilson Roadn 56 4.3 249 HS-1 ID WSW of site, Lewisberry and Roxberry Roads, Newberrytown 57 4.9 268 NS-1, ID W of site, of f of Old York Road on Robin flood Drive 4.9 281 WNW of site, Route 262 and Beinhower Road 58 P5-1 ID 59 5.0 318 QS-1 ID NW of site on Lumber Street, Ili ghn pi re 339 M NNW of nite, Spring Carden Drive and Route 441 60 4.9 RS-1 ID 61 9.4 21 @
B10-1 ID HNW of site, West Areba Avenue and Hill Street, liershey 7.2 48 7.
NE of nite, Shenks Church on School llouse Road 62 CS-1 ID ENE of site on Mt Cretna Road, nellaire 63 8.5 72 8 D9-1 ID X E of nite on llumacIntown Street, Elizabethtown 64 6.8 86 E7-1 ID 65 5.9 100 0 E6-1 FPF E of site, orchard at Manonic Ilomes 9.4 112 ESE of site, Donegal Springs Road, Donegal Springs 66 -
F10-1 ID 67 9.8 127 C10-1 AP, AI, RW SE of site at f arm of f Engle's To11 gate Road o ID, S 68 7.4 163 11 0 - 1 ID SSE of site on Saginaw Road, Starview 177 $
S of site on Maple Street, Manchester 69 6.5 J7-1 ID 70 7.4 196 KB-1 ID SSW of site, Coppenhaf fer Road and Rt 295, Zion's View SW of site on Rohler's Church Rd, Andersontown 71 8.0 225 Ul-1 ID 72 8.6 242 M9-1 ID WSW of site on Alpine Road, Haytown 7.8 260 W of site on Rt 382,1/2 mi North of Lewisberry 73 NS-1 ID 74 8.0 292 P8-1 ID WNW of site on Evergreen Rd, Reener's Summit WNW of site on Old York Rd, New Cumberland 75 6.7 293 P7-1 H NW of site across f rom pkg lot of Steelton Water Company 76 8.5 308 Q9-1 SW, ID
TilREE HILE ISLAND HUCLEAR STATION RADIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL HONITORING PROGRAM STATION LOCATIONS AND SAMFLE Azteuth Map Distance Station Sample , Designation (Miles) (De Arees)_
Code Medium Description 77 8.1 340 R9-1. ID NNW of site on Derry St, Rutherford ligts 78 10.5 10 A15-1 H, FPL NNE of site, f arm on Rt 39, ilumacIntown 79 19.6 47 C20-1 ID HE.of site on Cumberland St. Lebanon 80 10.9 63 D15-1 ID ENE of site, Rt 241 Iawn, PA 81 10.0 68 D15-2 HC, FPL ENE of site, Rt 241, 200 metern So of PA Tpk, Davidhizer Fara 82 21.1 113 F25-1 ID ESE of site, Steel Way and loop Roads, Iancaster 83 12.6 122 F15-1 SW ESE of site, Chicklen Creek 84 14.4 124 G15-1 SW, ID SE of site at Columbia Water Treatment Plant 85 13.6 128 G15-2 SW SE of site, Wrightsville Water Treatment Plant 86 14.8 124 G15-3 SW SE of site, lancaster Water Treatment Plant 87 13.2 157 1115-1 ID SSE of site, Orchard and Stonewood Roads, Wilshire ilills 88 12.6 180 J15-1 AP, A1, ID S of site in Het-Ed York load Dispatch Station 14.7 178 89 J15-2 SW S of site at York Water Compar.y 90 12.7 K15-1 ID SSW of site, Alta Vista Rd, Weiglestown at Dover Twsp Fire Dept Bids 204 91 11.7 225 L15-1 ID SW of site on West side of Rt 74, Mt Royal 92 11.9 ID WSW of site, West side of Rt 74, in front of Earth Crafts, Roseville M M15-1 237 93 13.6 253 H15-2 FPF WSW of site on W side of Rt 74, Larew's orchard 13.2 276 94 N15-1 ID W of site, Orchard lane and liertaler Rd, Mt Allen 95 10.4 274 N15-2 ID W of site, Lisburn Rd and Main St, Lisburn 96 12.2 300 P15-1 ID WNW of site on Erford Rd in front of Penn llarris Hotel, Camp N111 13.5 305 97 Q15-1 AP, A1, RW NW of site at West Fairview Substation ID, S 98 11.5 310 Q15-2 ID NW of site, Penn and Forster Streets, liarrisburg 99 11.2 330 R15-1 ID NNW of site, Rt 22 and Colonial Rd, Colonial Park 100 9.2 0 A9-1 S N of site of f of Union Depcsit Road 101 9.3 357 A9-2 FPL, S N of site on Union Deposit Rd, W of Iloernerstown 0.7 90 102 El-3 FPL E of site, 100 m W of Peck Rd and Zion Rd intersection 103 1.1 80 E2-1 FPL, S E of site on Zion Rd 104 1.3 133 G2-2 S SE of site on Engle Rd 7
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Map Distance Atinuth- l Stettso Sample Description Designation (Miles) ( De gre e s )
- Coda Medium 105 2.8 131 lC3-1 S SE of site on Covernor'n Stable Road 106 2.6 293 P3-1 FPL WNW of site on Rt 392 (Yocuatown Road) - - -
Indicator AQF, All locations where fish and plants are collected below the discharge AQP are grouped together and ref erred to an " indicator" (1.e., sectors 11 and geographically below) - -
Coxtt:1,, AQF, All locations where fish and plants are collected above the discharge AQP are grouped together and ref erred to as " control" (i.e., Sectors 12 and geographically above) 107 1.1 197 K2-2 AQS SSW of site E of Shelley Island 108 2.5 354 A3-3 S N of site at Junction of Swatara Creek and Route 441 109 1.1 93 y E2-2 M E of site on Peck Road 110 0.9 150 H1-2 FPL.FPF SSE of site, stand of f of Rt 441 111 0.5 65 i D1-3 FPF ENE of site, honne next to Y1nger's Creenhoune on Rt 441 112 1.6 112 i G2-3 S SE of site, near Conewago Creek IDEKfIFICATION KEY ID - Immersion Done (TLD) CR - Cryogenic Air Sample AQF - Fish RW - Rain Water AQP - Aquatic Plants SW - Surf ace Water AQS - Aquatic Sediment AI - Air Iodine M - Milk (Cow) FPL = Green Leafy Vegetation or Vegetables AP - Air Particulate HG - Hilk (Coat)
EW = Effluent Water FPF - Fruit S - Soll 4
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' St-90 Quarterly composite 8 Weekly 1-131 Weekly composite 4 Air Iodine E w .
Honthly Gr-Beta Monthly Composite g 5 Q, y -
Precipitation Camma Quarterly Composite 11 - 3 Quarterly Composite x St-89 Seelannual Composite _
Semiannual Composite e Sr-90 o
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- 8 w Cause Senteenthly Composite Sr-89 Quarterly Composite Sr-90 Quarterly Composite Seelannually Camma Semiannual Composite 2
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St-89 Seelannual Composite St-90 Semiannual Composite Seelannually Caena Semiannual Composite 3
Actuatic Sediment Sr-89 Seelannual Composite i Sr-90 Semiannual Composite
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Number of Analysis Sampling Co11cetion Analysis Sample Type Frequency Locations Frequency Hedlue Weekly 1-131 Weekly Composite & Crab S:rface/ Drinking Water 11 Biweekly Composite Biweekly I-131 Cr-Beta Monthly Composite Cassa Monthly Composite y 11 - 3 Monthly Composite y" Quarterly Composite M Sr-89
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$ ' Ef fluent / Influent Water 1-131 Biweekly Composite
- B1 weekly Cr-Alpha Monthly Composite g Cr-Beta Monthly Composite Monthly Composite ,$
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Sampling Frequency Locations Frequency Type Type Seelannually St-89 Seelannual Composite 2
Aquatic Plants Sr-90 Seelannual Composite Camma Seelannual Composite Annually I-131 Annual Composite Vegetables / Green 8 Cases Annual Composite leafy Vegetation Annually Cases Annual Composite 4
s , Fruits 1-131 Annual Composite a Quarterly Cassa Quarterly w Dosimeters (TLD) 86 P
' lesersion Dose Sestannually Cases Seelannual Composite Soll 11 Semiannual Composite Sr-89 i
Sr-90 Semiannual Composite Weekly Kr-85 Weekly Composite Cryogenic Air Sample 4
- During the grazing season, April 1 through October 31, milk aseple collection will be b1 weekly.
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APPENDIX 1 KEY STAFF AND OFFICES FOR LONG-TERM MONITORING PROGRAv. - TMI ORGANIIATION TITLE NAME DUTY PHONE NIGHT NtNBER EPA Director, TM1 Field Sta. William P. Kirk FTS 590-3909 (717) 533-6192 Region 111 - Environ- Robert Mitkus FTS 597-9390 (609) 654-7482 mental Services Div.
Director, Office of Glen L. Sjoblom FTS 557-9710 (703) 430-3714 Radiation Programs .
Ege 8P 8' Harry W. Calley FTS 557-7380 (301) 926-4279 t
USPHS Headquarters Coordinator John Villforth FTS 443-4690 (301) 424-5912 PHS Onsite Coordinator Charles Cox FTS 443-2850 (301) 299-9172 NRC Acting Deputy Program Philip J. Grant FTS 590-1120 (717) 566-3337 Director, TM1 Program Office Chief, Site Operations A. N. Fasano FTS 590-1120 (717) 367-8314 Chief Technical Support Ronald Bellamy FTS 590-1138 (717) 566-9447 Section Radiation Specialists Barry O'Neill FTS 590-1145 (717) 944-0700 Thomas Moslak FTS 590-1141 (717) 944-0377 Kim Barr FTS 590-1142 (717) 566-6417 DOE Acting Director, Radio- L. Joe Deal FTS 233-4093 (301) 353-5555 1ogical cen t rois- piv . , FTS 233-5555 Office of Nuclear Safety, 00E Emergency Center PENNSYLVANIA:
DER Director, Bureau of Thomes M. (717) 767-2480 (717) 763-9041 Radiation Protection Gerusky BWQM Director, Bureau of Lewis Berchini (717) 787-2666 (717) 432-5658 Water Quality Panage- Kenneth Walizer (717) 787-8184 (717) 657-0031 ment James Flesher (717) 787-9665 (717) 921-8765 R. Harry Bittle (717) 787-5027 (717) None give PEMA Pennsylvania Emergency FTS 783-8150 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> Panagement Agency 42.
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. APPENDlX 1 (continued) l MARYLAND:
DH&MH Chief, Division of Robert E. FTS 932-2774 (301) 823-8328 Radiation Control Corcoran Richard Brisson FTS 932-2744 (301) 83B-8359 Lancaster Water Company Michael Freedman (717) 291-4741 (717) 755-0120 Wrightsville Water Company Paul Cover (717) 252-3711 (717) 564-8220 David Walsh (717) 657-2147 (717) 938-5823 Donald Ziegler (717) 657-2147 Michael Gephart (717) 657-2147 Colunbia veter Company Charles Gohn (717) 6B4-2188 (717) 684-5862 Thre2 Mile Island Philing Addresses:
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency P. O. Box 103 100 Brown Street Pdddletown, PA 17057 U.S.. Public Health Service c/o U.S. EPA - TMl Field Station P. O. Box 103 100 Brown Street F3ddletown, PA 17057 NRC U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission TMI Program Office P. O. Box 311 Middleto n, PA 17057 43.
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OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING - EPA SEPTEMBER 1985 AMBIENT GAMMA RADIATION GPUN EPA PA-DER NRC TOTAL NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS
-TYPE (READINGSNR) (READINGSNR) (READINGSNR) (READINGSNR) (READINGSNR) 16 13 29 PRESSURIZED IONIZATION CHAMBERS (CONT.) ' (CONT.) NONE NONE- (CONT.)
(REUTER-STOKES "SENTRl" SYSTEM) l 86 34 18 67 200 THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS (TLD's)
(5504) (408) (456) (2144) (8512)*
- THE NUMBER GIVEN IS THE NUMBER PROVIDED IN THE CURRENT MONITORING PLAN.
(THE' NUMBER OF TLD READINGS MAY INCREASE DURING VARIOUS , OPERATIONS.) ,
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8 16 3 1 25-PARTICULATES (416) (936) (156) (52) (1560) 8 14 3 22 RADIOIODINE (416) (728) (156) NONE (1300) i 4 4 8 KRYPTON-85 (208) (104) NONE NONE (312) 5 5 TRITIUM NONE (260) NONE NONE (260)
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INFLUENT / EFFLUENT (78) (760) NONE NONE (838) l 11 2 13 SURFACE (572) (156) NONE NONE (728) 5 5 WELLS NONE (20) NONE NONE (20) 1 i
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i PRECIPITATION (60) (12) NONE NONE (72) l
! PROCESS STREAM ALTHOUGH THEY ARE NOT IN EXACTLY THE SAME LOCATION.
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- GPUN EPA PA-DER NRC TOTAL NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS NO LOCATIONS TYPE (READINGS /YR) (READINGS /YR) (READINGS /YR) (READINGS /YR) (READINGS /YR)
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NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS NO. LOCATIONS TYPE (READINGS /YR) (READINGS /YR) (READINGQYR) (READINGS /YR) (READINGS /YR) ie j 8 2 10 MILK (480) NONE (24) NONE (504) l 8 OA WITH 8 VEGETATION (8) 'NONE GPUN NONE (8-16) l l
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Department of Radiation Health l University of Pittsburgh Three Mile Island Unit 2 GPU Nucicar Corporation A512 Crabtree Hall P.O. Box 480 Pittsburgh, PA 15261 Middletown, PA 17057 The Honorable Robert Reid [
q Mayor of Middletown Dr. Gordon Robinson
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, Room 2001 Mrs. Ann Trunk
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