ML20138D254
| ML20138D254 | |
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| Issue date: | 03/25/1983 |
| From: | Pamela Baker NRC |
| To: | Sherr T NRC |
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| CON-FIN-B-8997, FOIA-84-682 NUDOCS 8512130177 | |
| Download: ML20138D254 (8) | |
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NOTE FOR: Ted Sherr .- .. . ; .-,
SUBJECT:
FISSION PRODUCT RELEASE: TRANSPORT . . .&{ ,
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March 29,1983 any comments or questions that '
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. STATEMENT OF WORK MAR 2 5 198' O
a FISSION PRODUCT RELEASE: .
TRANSPORT SABOTAGE ,
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CONTRACTOR: Battelle Columbus Laboratories (BCL) ,
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Ms. Audeen Walters SITE: BCL STATE: Ohio I
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1.0 BACKGROUND
The Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards has a Iechnical l ' 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 l 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
- i.J in the HMSS study is to estimate the consequences of radiological release
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as a result of theft or sabotage of vitrified high level waste during l
[ This requires that an experimental determination of a source f
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I term likely to result from sabotage of vitrified high level w'aste during l
transport be made. The Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research has an on-
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.) of spent fuel casks during transport. The purpose of this project is to extend the RES study to quantify experimentally the source term likely to o\ result from sabotage of vitrified high level waste during transport.
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- 2.0 WORK REQUIRED 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 icvel 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, -
. ^t closure designs, and the structural and geometric properties of the high. level waste shall be evaluated.
A 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 saste 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 l
containment boundary. .
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, ; . . (n) 3 2.2 The contractor shall submit an interim report after completion of the ex-(g periments and preliminary rnalysis of the data. The interim report shall be submitted by October 1983. After NRC revie,i and comment, the contractor shall submit a camera-ready copy and two additional copies of a final report j to the NRC project manager. The final report shall be submitted no later -
I than May 1984. .
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 ,
3.1 Monthly Letter Status Report By the 20th of each month, three copies of a bri'ef letter st'atus report i
shall be submitted to the NRC project manager which summarizes: the work
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performed during the previous month, personnel time expenditures during the previous month, and costs generated against the work effort. The first monthly letter status report after project authorizatio$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 t administrative and other related items, and (3) current obligation status information for the project. '
3.2 Technical Reports Technical reports will be provided as specified in paragraph 2 Work Required.
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- 4.1 All travel requires prior approval of the NRC project manager.
4.2 Annual Light Water Safety Research Meeting
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If requested by the NRC project manager, 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 If, accepted, a final Annual Light Water Reactor Safety Research meeting.
version of the report will be presented at the October 1983 meeting in Gaithersburg, Maryland, by either the project's principal investigator or a cutually satisfactory alternate.
5.0 NRC FURNISHED MATERIAL .
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. A 6.0 CAPITAL EQUIPMEhT
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All capital equipment evpenditures require the prior written approval of the NRC project manager.
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!, 7.0 SU8 CONTRACTOR j[U Subcontracts require the prior written approval of the NRC project manager.
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j 8.0 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE l 6 The period of performance for the work described in this Statement of Work is April 1983 to May 1984.
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The NRC Project Manager is Andrea K. Barnold, FTS 443-5976, Human Factors and Safeguards Research Branch, Division of Facility Operations. *RES.
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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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JUSTIFICATION FOR PLACEllENT OF i !
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WORK WITH BATTELLE COLUltBus
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The Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards has a technical as-sistance' study underway to provide a detailed analysis of the potential .
According to the need to safeguard high level waste during' transport.
completed portion of the study, sabotage of casks containing vitrified
. high level waste dur,16g transport could result in a release that would The next be comparable to that from sabotage of a spent fuel shipment.
- task in the HMSS study is to estimate the consequences of radiological release as a result of theft or sabotage af th:ft = :&t:M vitri- (
fied high level w'aste during transport. . This requires that an experi-mental determination of a source term (i.e. the magnitude and chemical /
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physical form of any released radioactive material) likely to result from sabotage of vitrified high level waste during transp, ort be ciade, o Battelle Columbus Laboratories (BCL) recently coopleted a study for the
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- Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research that resulted in a source term characterization for sabotage of spent fuel caskrduring transport ,
The study was conducted in three phases: . (1) Definition of the refer-ence basis threat, design of the experiments, and design of equipment;
~ (2) construction and testing of theIsystem; and (3) conduct of the.ex-periments and data analysis.f The proposed work on high level waste will require the same equipment, eypertise, and experimental setup as the -
BCL has the unique capability to con-spent fuel sabotage source term.
duct the proposed study in that it is the only organization that has the l
, required equipment, expertise, and experimental design already availab e.
Any organization other than BCL would have to duplicate the existing '
i equipment and experimental setup and possibly acquire the expertise, all at a considerable additional cost.
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- This would al'so require more t'ime thEn is available.4,The HM55 study re-
, (s quires development of the source te'rm no later than October 1983. . Because BCL has the necessary system,readily available, they could meet this mile-stone. Any other organization could not.
Fina11y', BCL has easy access to the borosilicate glass samples that will be experimented with, through Batte11e's Pacific Northwest Laboratories. ,
Any other organization would have difficultp acquiring or fabricating the l samples, which would affect the timelinets and cost of conducting the study. !
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