ML20136D592
| ML20136D592 | |
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| Site: | Vogtle, 05000000 |
| Issue date: | 06/26/1984 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Foster D GEORGIA POWER CO. |
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| FOIA-85-426 NUDOCS 8511210329 | |
| Download: ML20136D592 (5) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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l June 26, 1984 Mr. Donald 0. Foster Vice President and General Manager Georgia Power Company Route 2, Box 299A Waynesboro, GA 30830 In the Matter of GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, ET AL.
(Vogtle Electric Generating Plant)
(Units 1 and 2)
Dockets Nos. 50-424 and 50-425
Dear Mr. Foster:
In your letter of June 6,1984, you requested on behalf of the Georgia Power Company that our office issue a certification of Pollution Control Facilities for the Vogtle Plant for certain facilities which were described in Exhibit A to your request.
The staff has reviewed your request. Based on that review, we are satisfied that portions of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 for which you requested NRC certification are " pollution control facilities" with the exception of the Radioactive Laundry. The information provided by Georgia Power Company on the Radioactive Laundry in the June 6 letter does not reflect the infonnation in the Final Safety Analysis Report. Accordingly, the attached certificate has been executed for the remaining facilities.
Copies of your request and this response will be available for inspection at the Local Public Document Room (Burke County Library, 4th St., Waynesboro, GA) and at the Comission's Public Document Room at 1717 H Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.
l Sincerely, f
w Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/ enclosure l
See next page 8511210329 851011 PDR FOIA BELL 85-426 PDR N!! M ~"
4 V0GTLE Mr. Donald Foster Vice President and Project General Manager Georgia Power Company P.O. Box 299A, Route 2 Waynesboro, GA 30830 cc: Mr. L. T. Gucwa Mr. William S. Sanders Chief Nuclear Engineer Resident Inspector / Nuclear Regulatory Georgia Power Company Commission P.O. Box 4545 P.O. Box 572 Atlanta, Georgia 30302 Waynesboro, Georgia 30830 Mr. Ruble A. Thomas Deppish Kirkland, III, Counsel' Vice President - Licensing Office of the Consumers' Utility Vogtle Project Counsel Georgia Power Company /
32 Peachtree Street, N.W.
Southern Company Services, Inc.
Suite 725 P.O. Box 2625 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Birmingham, Alabama 35202 Jame.1 E. Joiner Mr. R. E. Conway Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman, Senior Vice President - Nuclear
& Ashcore Power Candler auilding Georgia Power Company 127 Peachtree Street, N.E.
P.O. Box 4545 Atlanta, h'orgia 30303 Atlanta, Georgia 30302 Douglas C. Teper Mr. J. A. Bailey Georgians Against Nuclear Energy Project Licensing Manager 1253 Lenox Circle Southern Company Services, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia 30306 P.O. Box 2625 Birmingham, Alabama 35202 Laurie Fowler Legal Environmental Assistance Ernest L. Blake, Jr.
Foundation Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge 1102 Healy Building 1800 M Street, N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Washington, D. C.
20036 Tim Johnson Mr. G. Bockhold, Jr.
Executive Director Vogtle Plant Manager.
Educational Campaign for Georgia Power Company a Prosperous Georgia Route 2, Box 299-A 175 Trinity Avenue, S.W.
Waynesboro, Georgia 30830 Atlanta, GA 30303 Mr. James P. O'Reilly Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region II 101 Marietta Street, N.W., Suite 2900 Atlanta, Georgia -30323 l
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CERTIFICATE V0GTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT UNITS 1 & 2 POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITIES The Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the NRC) hereby certifies as follows:
(a) that it has examined Exhibit A attached hereto which describes certain facilities which have been
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constructed, are under construction or are to be constructed at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, a nuclear electric power generating plant located in Burke County, Georgia.
(b) that such facilities, as designed, are in furtherance 1-of 'the purpose of abating or controlling atmospheric poll'u-tants or contaminants or water pollutants resulting from the 9eneration of electricity at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Comission
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Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation i
i Dated at Bethesda, MD this 26th day of June,1984 i
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General Description of the Facilities The facilities consist of the*following systems at the Plant and, in each case, include related machinery, equipment and related facilities:
Sanitary Drainage and Treatment Systems.
The sanitary drain-i age and treatment systara collects, transports, treats, clarifies and i
returns wastewater to the water reclamation facility for reuse. 'The system may include a wet well, sewage lift station, surge tank, package i
sewage' treatment plants, chlorine contact chamber, sumps, pumps, piping i j
valves, controls and instrumentation.
Oily Waste and Nonradioactive Waste Systems. The oily and non-radioactive waste system for each unit at the Plant collects for process-ing and disposal, nonradioactive waste from normally nonradioactive areas where oil may be present.
Each system may include drains, sumps, oil /
water. separators and a retention basin.
Chemical Waste Systems. The chemical waste system for each unit at the Plant consists of subs'ystems that collect chemical wastes from various areas of the Plant, neutralize the chemicals in such wastes and/or transfer such wastes to the chemical drain tank, retention basin, evaporation pond or liquid radwaste holdup tank.
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drains, sumps, a chemical drain tank and related piping.
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Retention Basin. The retention basin and related ponds collect l
i and dispose by evaporation of yard drainage to prevent discharge of sedi-mentation to the Savannah River.
Evaporation Ponds. The evaporation pond collects start-up flush water and cooling tower blowdown wastewater for disposal by evapora-tion.
The evaporation pond allows for disposal-of gettleable solids and pollutants on a rubberized liner.
The system includ'es related environ-l mental monitoring wells and equipment.
l Gaseous Radwaste Systems. The gaseous radwaste system for each unit at the Plant collects and p'rocesses potentially radioactive
-gases generated within the unit so that offsite exposure is kept as low
.as reasonably achievable (ALARA). High activity gas containing primarily hydrogen and nitrogen is collected and stored in an oxygen-free environ-ment to guard.against a rapid hydrogen / oxygen reaction and to permit decay of short-lived isotopes prior to release to the environment. Each system may include a surge tank, prefilters, waste gas. compressors and decay tanks, a discharge filter and flow control valve and related radiation monitoring equipment.
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Solid Radwaste Systems. The solid radwaste system for each unit at the Plant collects and ch'emically processes radioactive waste consisting of trash, spent ton exchange resins, waste evaporator con-centrates, chemical drain tank effluents, crud tank effluents, used filter cartridges, contaminated steam generator blowdown demineralizer l
resins and contaminated condensate. polishing demineralizer resins.
Wastes are solidified in the waste solidification system and stored Each in a shielded storage location prior to shipment off site.
system may include a waste feed tank, chemical handling and storage equipment, cement handling and storage equipment and mixers a'nd related machinery and equipment. Each system provides for capping, decontamination, swiping and placement of solidified waste containers
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in~a shielded storage location in the unit. Each system also includes related radiation monitoring equipment.
Liquid Radwaste Systems. The Itquid radwaste system for each unit at the Plant collects and stores for processing and processes radioactive or potentially radioactive waste fluids from various areas of such u' nit. Such waste fluids are processed by fil'Aration, absorp-tion, ton exchange and evaporation. Water.is recovered for reuse in the reactor plant system and to minimize the quanti.ty of. liquid wastes l
which must be' solidified for off site disposal. - Each system also includes related radiation mon'itoring equipment.
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j Radwaste Transfer Facilities & Building.
ing for the Plant houses the systems used for the processing of Ifquid, l
solid and gaseous radioactive wastes generated in such unit and is j
functionally related and subordinate to such systems.
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f Filtration Equipment. The filtration equipment for each unit at the Plant collects and removes contaminants from gases prior to discharge to the environment in order to maintain off site exposure ALARA. Each system includes high efficiency particulate air filter banks and charcoal absorbers and related mechanical equipment.
Closed Loop Cooling Systems. The closed loop cooling systems include the Turbine Plant caoling water system and the nuclear service These systems remove heat from equipment used in cooling water system.
the plant and ensure thati thermal discharges from the site are minimized.
Heated water is recirculated through cooling towers where it is cooled and returned for use as equipment cooling water.
Effluent Collection, Treatment & Disposal Facilities.
TI e National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (" NPDES") Guidelines issued pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act limit the
. discharge of pollutants.
Fact 11 ties installed to collect and treat
' liquids from various sources include wastewater retention basin systems, dechlorination facility systems and sediment retention Pond systims.
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