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!JUN 3 0 1983 MEMORANDUM FOR: Robert F. Burnett, Director Division of Safeguards, NMSS FROM: Karl R. Goller, Director Division of Facility Operations, RES
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF SABOTAGE SOURCE TERM FOR SHIPMENTS OF SPENT FUEL FROM GAS-COOLED POWER REACTORS AND NON-POWER REACTORS (RR-NMSS-83-3)
In response te your recent memorandum (undated), which was received on May 23, 1983, concerning the subject request, we believe that we will be able to provide the needed research assistance.
In order to meet your tight schedule and also to minimize costs, we plan to accomplish the requested research by modifying an existing related FY 1983 project,
" Fission Product Release: Transport Sabotage" (FIN B8997), to include experiments with spent fuel from gas-cooled reactors and non power reactors. My staff has dis-cussed this approach with your staff and with the contractor performing the study, h)
(' Battelle Columbus Laboratories (BCL). It was generally agreed that this would be an effective way to accomplish the new research requirement.-
The " Fission Product Release: Transport Sabotage" study was originally budgeted for $85K in FY 1983 and $65K in FY 1984. Because of the late start of this contract, there will be no additional funding for the modified contract (with the added new tasks) in FY 1983. We will have to increase FY 1984 funding for the nodified con-tract.
A draft of the additional work required is attached for your review. A copy of the original statement of work is also attached. The RES project manager for this work is Andrea K. Barnold (x35976). Please let us know if this approach and draft state-ment of work required is acceptable to you.
Karl R. Goller, Director Division of Facilities Operations, RES l
Enclosures:
- 1. Draft Additional Terms & Conditions
- 2. Original Statement of Work
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FISSION PRODUCT RELEASE: TRANSPORT SAB0TAGE FIN: B8997
- / S ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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v The Statement of Work dated March 25, 1983 is revised as follows:
Paragraph 2.0 WORK REQUIRED Add:
2.1.6 Perform the steps outlined in Tasks 2.1.1 - 2.1.5, using representative samples of spent fuel from a gas-cooled reactor in place of the samples of high level waste.
2.1.7 Determine which of the four major types of nonpower reactors (AGN, TRIGA, pool and tank) produces the kinds and quantities of radionuclides that would be most significant biologically if released through sabotage of a shipment.
,. 2.1.8 Perform the steps outlined in Tasks 2.1.1 - 2.1.5, using samples of the spent fuel from the selected type of nonpower reactor in place of the samples of high level waste.
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2.2 The contractor shall submit technical progress reports and a final report for each of the three sets of experiments. The technical progress reports shall be submitted following preliminary analysis of the experimental data.
Final reports shall be submitted in draft form. After NRC review and com-ment, the contractor shall submit a camera-ready copy and two additional copies of a final report to the NRC project manager. The reports shall be submitted according to the following schedule:
Equipment Progress Report Draft Final Report Spent gas-cooled reactor fuel November 1983 February 1984 Spent nonpower reactor fuel January 1984 April 1984 High level waste March 1984 June 1984
.. Paragraph 8.0 PERIOD OF PERT 0RMANCE The period of performance for the work described in this Statement of Work is July 1983 to September 1984.
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STATEMENT OF WORK MAR 2 5 1983
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. FISSION PRODUCT RELEASE:
'v TRANSPORT SABOTAGE B&R 60190102
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~! CONTRACTOR: Battelle Columbus Laboratories (BCL) l PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Ms. Audeen Walters
! SITE: BCL STATE: Ohio
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1.0 BACKGROUND
1 v The Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards has a technical assistance study underway to provide a detailed analysis of the potential need to safeguard high level waste during transport. According to the completed portion of the study, sabotage of casks containing vitrified high level waste during transport could result in a release that would be comparable to that from sabotage of a spent fuel shipment. The next task in the NMSS study is to estimate the consequences of radiological release as a result of sabotage of vitrified high level waste during
[ transport. This requires that an experimental determination of a source
, term likely to result from sabotage of vitrified high level waste during
{ transport be made. The Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research has an on-
. going study which has provided a source term characterization for sabotage of spent fuel casks during transport. The purpose of this project is to l extend the RES study to quantify experimentally the source term likely to
, result from sabotage of vitrified high level waste during transport.
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V 2.1 The contractor shall provide the personnel, facilities, materials, equipment, and services necessary to perform the following tasks:
2.1.1 Obtain or make up borosilicate glass samples containing appropriate concentrations of fission products and actinides which are representative of high level waste.
2.1.2 Apply the same attack scenarios defined in the study of the source term for sabotage of spent fuel shipping casks to sabotage of high level waste shipping casks.
2.1.3 Assess the physical / chemical form of high level waste which might be available for ejection through cask containment violations. For any experimental subtasks the ability to successfully model the necessary internal cask structures, closure designs, and the structural and geometric properties of the high level waste shall be evaluated.
2.1.4 Experimentally and analytically assess the potential radio-logical source term as it leaves the containment boundary.
This assessment shall define the chemical / physical properties and the dynamic behavior associated with any release. As in task 2.1.3, for any experimental subtasks, the ability to model the necessary cask and high level waste structure shall be evaluated.
2.1.5 Assess quantitatively and qualitatively the uncertainties associated with the evaluations of the chemical / physical form of the source term and its dynamic behavior as it leaves the containment boundary.
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- 2. 2 The contractor shall submit an interim report after completion of the ex-l\l* periments and preliminary analysis of the data. The interim report shall i- '
'be submitted by October 1983. After NRC review and comment, the contractor shall submit a camera-ready copy and two additional copies of a final report to the NRC project manager. The final report shall be submitted no later than May 1984.
4 2.3 The contractor may be required to participate in up to two meetings to be held at the NRC offices. No other travel is anticipated.
- 3. 0 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS J-t 3.1 Monthly Letter Status Report By the 20th of each month, three copies of a brief 1etter status report ,
shall be submitted to the NRC project manager which summarizes: the work performed during the previous month, personnel time expenditures during i the previous month, and costs generated against the work effort. The 9 first monthly letter status report after project authorization shall include the planned monthly rate of expenditures for the fiscal. year, if not provided with the Form 189, and include any changes to prior schedules '
or estimated costs. Also contained in each monthly report will be a breakout of (1) manpower utilized, (2) costs incurred for direct salaries, material and services, ADP support, subcontracts, travel, general and i administrative and other related items, and (3) current obligation status informationfortheproject.
1 3.2 Technical Reports l
Technical reports will be provided as specified in paragraph 2, Work Required.
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(n) 4 4.0 MEETINGS AND TRAVEL ,-
4.1 All travel requires prior approval of the NRC project manager.
4.2 Annual Light Water Safety Research Meeting If requested by the NRC project ma..'ager, by August 15, 1983, a draft report summarizing the current year research results will be prepared and submitted to the NRC project manager for review and possible presentation at the NRC's Annual Light Water Reactor Safety Research meeting. If accepted, a final version of the report will be presented at the October 1983 meeting in Gaithersburg, Maryland, by either the project's principal investigator or a mutually satisfactory alternate.
5.0 NRC FURNISHED MATERIAL None.
6.0 CAPITAL EQUIPMENT All capital equipment expenditures require the prior wr.itten approval of the NRC project manager.
7.0 SUBCONTRACTOR Subcontracts require the prior written approval of the NRC project manager.
8.0 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE The period of performance for the work described in this Statement. of Work is April 1983 to May 1984. ,
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. (n) 5 9.0 TECHNICAL DIRECTION 4 The NRC Project Manager is Andrea K. Barnold, FTS 443-5976, Human factors
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10.0 CONTACTS WITH NRC LICENSEES -
Any contacts with NRC licensees require prior written approval of the NRC projectmanager.
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