ML20140D842
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March 21, 1986 e
For:
The Commissioners From:-
T. A. Rehm, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO
Subject:
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING MARCH 14, 1986 A sumary of key events is included as a convenience to those Commissioners who may prefer a condensed version of this report.
Contents Enclosure Administration A
Nuclear Reactor Regulation B
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards C
Inspection and Enforcement D
Nuclear Regulatory Research E
Executive Legal Director F*
International Programs G
State Programs H
Resource Management I*
Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data J*
Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rights K*
Regional Offices L
CRGR Monthly Reports M*
Executive Director for Operations-N*
Items Addressed by the Commission 0
Meeting Notices P
Proprietary or Other Sensitive Information (Not for Q
external distribution)
- No input this week.
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T. A. Re m, ssistant for Operations Office of the Executive Director for Operations
Contact:
T. A. Rehm, EDO 492-7781 8603260522Ogo321 hhgh Y DR P PDR
HIGHLIGHTS OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT WEEK ENDING MARCH 14,1986 Vogtle Electric Generating Station. Units 1 and 2 On March 11, 1986, during the OL hearing, two ladies who are ex-employees (QC Inspectors) of Georgia Power Company made limited appearances, stating that they had been fired for bringing up safety concerns. Their concerns were expressed to the NRC who, in their view, 1
breached a written pledge of confidentiality. They further stated that they are appearing on the Phil Donohue show this Friday, March 14, 1986.
These and similar allegations by others are the subject of local media interest.
Update of Environmental Impacts of Transportation of Radioactive Materials, The 1977 "FES on Transportation of Radioactive Material by Air and Other Modes" (NUREG-0170) contains information on transportation impacts that is becoming dated. A contractor study to incorporate new information on the shipments of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste to the repositories provided under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) is being planned. Because the results of the study will be used in the NRC's licensing reviews for DOE's proposed MRS facility and high-level waste repository, the ELD staff has advised that the work of developing new information for the study must bt done by a contractor who is not involved in work under the DOE NWPA program! This
,,otential. conflict of interest problem is considered to rule out the i
possibility of having the work done at one of the DOE National Laboratories or at one of the major nuclear service contractors who is also working for DOE.
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under NWPA, or for a nuclear utility who will be shipping radioactive material.
Considering these limitations, the staff is investigating the feasibility of having the work done at the Federally Funded Research and Development Center which NMSS is proposing to establish for reasons which include the avoidance of conflict of interest problems with DOE programs.
i Safeguards Insider Rules l
OMB has rejected the reporting and recordkeeping requirements for the psychological testing and behavioral observation portions of the Safeguards Insider Rules..It was the OMB position that the burden was not justified.
It was recommended that industry should implement action on those components rather than require them by rule. OMB did not object to that portion of the rule requiring background investigations.
Category I Surface Transportation As a result of Tri-State Motor Transport Company's decision to cease hauling Category I shipments of SSNM there is no qualified carrier for such shipments. Transnuclear, Inc., the licensee for the export of Category I i
shipments, recently proposed alternatives for both near and long ters solutions to this situation. The near term approach involves arranging with Tri-State to continue operations for shipments pending in the next three to four months.
In the long ters, Transnuclear is proposing possible use of i
helicopters or exploring the possibility of arranging for surface transport by l
DOE on the domestic portion of these shipments.
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MAR 1/ 1986
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending March 14, 1985 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM 0F INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS
- Initial Appeal of
' Request Initial Decision Carryovers,1985 181 15 Received, 1986 166 32 Granted 122 11 Denied 39 1
Pending 186 35 ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received Billie P. Garde, Requests all records generated or prepared by Victor Stello Government beginning with his appointment as Acting Executive Accountability Director.
Project (86-131)
Billie P. Garde, Requests all records regarding an inspection during the i
Government period August 26-29, 1985, regarding TUEC's policies, Accountability procedures and implementation of the Comanche Peak site Project Ombudsman and SAFETEAM programs.
(86-132)
Billie P. Garde, Requests all records regarding all OIA investigations Government since 1980 involving allegations of wrongdoing by NRC Accountability personnel connected with Region IV.
Project (86-133)
Billie P. Garde, Requests all records related to OIA audits of 01.
Government Accountability Project (86-134)
Billie P. Garde, Requests all records regarding Commission considerations Government' regarding 01.
Accountability Project (86-135)
CONTACT: Donnie H. Grimsley 492-7211 ENCLOSURE A F.*N i s 1986
2 Received, Cont'd Kennari Sargent, Requests a list of SBIR proposal submitters for FY 1985.
The Small Business High Technology Institute (86-136)
Katina Cummings, Requests copies.of monthly and/or weekly reports showing McIntyre, Haviland deliveries to and consumption of nuclear power by Toledo
& Jordan Edison of Ohio and Consumers Power of Michigan for July (86-137) 1980 through December 1981, and monthly inventory figures of nuclear power held by both utilities.
Patty Day, Requests copies of the transcripts of ACRS meetings NUS Corporation dated July 30, 1985, and August 7, 1985.
(86-138)
Charles Collins Requests copies of the currently approved staffing plan (86-139) for FY 1986 for the NRR and any memoranda transmitting this plan from NRR to the EDO and/or ADM/0&P.
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Robert G. Werner, Requests a copy of the distribution mailing list for EDP Audit Controls, RFP RS-0RM-86-263.
Inc.
(86-140)
Gregory A. Holmes, Requests copies of records from Mr. Richard Vollmer's MHB Technical chron and reading files from January 1,1984, to the Associates present that concern the Diablo Canyon nuclear power (86-141) plant.
Gregory A. Holmes, Requests copies of records from Mr. Darrell Eisenhut's MHB Technical chron and reading files from January 1,1984, to the Associates present that concern the Diablo Canyon nuclear power (86-142) plant.
Gregory A. Holmes, Requests copies of records from Mr. Richard Vollmer's MHB Technical chron and reading files from September 1,1981, through Associates December 31, 1983, that concern the Diablo Canyon nuclear (86-143) power plant.
Gregory A. Holmes, Requests copies of records from Mr. Darrell Eisenhut's MHB Technical chron and reading files from September 1,1981, through Associates December 31, 1983, that concern the Diablo Canyon nuclear (86-144) power plant.
Gregory A. Holmes,
Requests copies of records from Mr. James Knight's MHB Technical chron and reading files from January 1, 1984, to the Associates present that concern the Diablo Canyon nuclear power (86-145) plant.
Gregory A. Holmes, Requests copies of records from Mr. Harold Denton's MHB Technical chron and reading files from September 1, 1981, through Associates December 31, 1983, that concern the Diablo Canyon nuclear (86-146) power plant.
ENCLOSURE A E.~..
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3 Received, Cont'd Gregory A. Holmes, Requests copies of records from Mr, James Knight's MHB Technical chron and reading files from September 1,1981 -through 3
Associates December 31, 1983, that concern the Diablo Canyon nuclear (86-147) power plant.
Gregory A. Holmes,-
Requests copies of records from Mr. Harold Denton's MHB Technical chr.on and reading files from January 1,1984, to the Associates pre'sent that concern the Diablo Canyon nuclear power (86-148) plant.
Brian Balogh, Requests copies of four specified ACRS records.
The Brookings Institution (86-149)
Patty Day, Requests copies of three handbooks mentioned in the NUS Corporation Generic Letter of June 21, 1978, to licensees.
(86-150)
Gregory A. Holmes, Requests records from Mr. Hans Schier11ng's chron and MHB Technical reading files from September 1, 1981, through December 31, Associates 1983, that concern the Diablo Canyon. nuclear power plant.
(86-151)
Marvin Resnikoff, RequestsallrecordswrittenfromJanuary1985tbthe Sierra Club present regarding the disposition of waste at DOE's Radioactive West Valley Demonstration Project.
Waste Campaign (86-152)
R. Kent Edwards, Requests copies of any Mallinckrodt nuclear licenses Syncor which authorizes use in Illinois.
International Corp.
l (86-153)
Cindee Virostek, Requests a copy of a June 7,1957, site survey by Kiski Valley-Nuclear Science and Engineering Corporation on the Coalition background radioactivity in B&W's Apollo plant.
(86-154)
Requests three categories of records regarding fines Joshua Gordon, Critical Mass levied against utilities.
(86-155)
Susan L. Hiatt, Referral from the DOE of a request for records concerning OCRE Representative the January 31, 1986, earthquake centered in Northeast i
(86-156)
Ohio and its effect on the Perry nuclear power plant.
Billie P. Garde, Requests records regarding agency communications Government regarding Joseph Macktal concerning the Comanche Peak Accountability nucle:r power plant.
Project (86-157)
ENCLOSURE A Est 11196
4 Received, Cont'd Melody Johnson Referral from the FBI of one record regarding (86-158)
Kerr-McGee's Cimarron facility.
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D.G. Swanson, Requests the names of all firms submitting proposals Applied Science under RFP RS-NRR-86-055 and the proposed amounts.
Associates, Inc.
(86-159)
D.G. Swanson, Requests copies of the proposals and best-and-final Applied Science offer submitted by the firm awarded the contract Associates Inc.
under RFP RS-NRR-86-055, questions asked by NRC about (86-160)'
the technical proposal, and the evaluations of the winning proposal and the requester's proposal.
D.G. Swanson, Requests the name of the firm awarded the contract Applied Science under RFP RS-NRR-86-055 and the contract price.
Associates, Inc.
(86-161)
Lori R. Davis, Requests copies of records relating to an individual Drinker Biddle &
who filed allegations in April 1983 against Stone &
Reath Webster at the Nine Mile Point location.
(86-162)
Craig Becker, Requests a list of all Grade 8, SES, or excepted civil Kirschner, service employees who are currently scheduled to transfer Weinberg & Dempsey to the DC Metropolitan area.
(86-163)
Bruce E. Caruthers, Requests copies of the NRC Merit Promotion Plan since (86-164) 1980 and all amendments and all extended or permanent delegations of authority during that period with respect to personnel management, specifically at or above the level of Division Director, for actions that terminate within the agency.
Joseph W. Cuthbert, Requests a list of the Phase I and II SBIR awards for Advanced Technology 1985 with seven specified categories of information.
Center of South-Eastern Pennsylvania (86-165)
Billie P. Garde, Requests all records generated or prepared by Victor Stello Government beginning with his appointment as Acting Executive Accountability Director.
Project (86-166)
Billie P. Garde, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for the release of three denied Government records and inacequate search for reccrds related to the Accountability presentation given by Commissioner Frederick Bernthal to.
Project the Atomic Industrial Forum in Dallas, Texas, on May 20, (86-A-32-85-487) 1985.
ENCLOSURE A MAR 141986
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5 Granted Ernest L. Blake, In response to a request for copies of Exhibits 1 through Shaw, Pittman, 113 to the Office of Investigation's Report 1-84-029, Potts & Trowbridge made available copies of the requested records.
(86-17)
(NRC employee)
In response to a request for information pertaining to (86-86) reference checks regarding her application for another NRC position, made available one record.
(NRC employee)
In response to a request for copies of the position (86-90) descriptions of all GG-14 Mechanical Engineers in the plant systems branches in the Division of PWR-A and BWR, made available two records.
Robin Gildersleeve, In response to a request for two copies of a list of CEEM low level nuclear waste licensees, made available the (86-103) requested records.
Stephen H. Hanauer, In response to a request for a list of all nuclear power Technical Analysis plants issued low or full power operating licenses since Corporation 1981 for which either a DVP or an IDVP was perfonned (86-106) prior to the issuance of the operating license, informed the requester that the NRC has no records subject to this request.
Marvin M. Turkanis, In response to a request for a copy of registration Neutron Products, number NR474S107S, made available a copy of the Inc.
requested record.
(86-108)
Lyle Graber, In response to a request for the enclosures to the NUS Corporation November 18, 1985, LER on Palisades, No. 50-255/85-23, (86-116) made available a copy of the requested record.
Jan Legnitto, In response to a request for records relating to NRC's CBS News use of outside finns to locate and buy land in Maine or (86-119) any of the other 16 proposed sites for dumping nuclear material, informed the requester that the NRC has no records subject to this request.
Denied Mark Robinowitz, Iri response to a request for copies of the docket files Health & Energy for all licensees who are authorized to irradiate Institute medical instruments or food, made available the requested (85-774) files. Denied five records in their entirety and portions of 75 records pursuant to exemptions 4, 6, 7A or 7D.
ENCLOSURE A MAR 141986
6 Denied, Cont'd Billie P. Garde, In response to a request for records relevant to and/or Government generated in connection with IE Information Notice 85-01,.
Accountabil.ity
" Applicability of 10 CFR 21 to Consulting Firms Providing Project Training," December 31, 1985, made available 15 records.
(86-37)
Denied 10 records in their entirety, release of which would tend to inhibit the open and frank exchange of ideas essential to the deliberative process.
(NRC employee)
In ' response to a request for records regarding the OIA (86-69) investigation pertaining to herself, denied these records in their entirety because they constitute' investigatory material compiled for law enforcement purposes the release of which would interfere with an ongoing investigation and would interfere with enforcement proceedings if disclosed.
ENCLOSURE A fdAR 141956
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT DIVISION OF CONTRACTS WEEK ENDING MARCH 14, 1986 PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION I
RFP No.: RS-NRR-86-054
Title:
" Program to Support Regional Operator Licensing Activities"
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Description:==
The work conducted under this contract will provide technical expertise to assist the NRC regional offices in administering initial, replacement and requalification examinations required in the process of licensing commercial nuclear power plant reactor operators (RO) and senior reactor operators (SRO).
Period of Performance: Three years Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Status: RFP closed and proposals forwarded to Source Evaluators for review on March 7, 1986.
RFP No.: RS-RG2-86-358
Title:
" Region II Data Entry Support Services"
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Description:==
Perform ADP Data Entry and ad hoc retrieval activities at NRC Region II.
Period of Performance:
24 months Sponsor: Region II Status: RFP clesed and proposals forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on March 11, 1986.
RFP No.: RS-0RM-86-264
Title:
" Development of the Corporate Data Network"
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Description:==
The contractor will develop shared data bases utilizing the Data Base Management System package IDMS/R and strategic data planning and information engineering methodologies.
Period of Performance: Three years Sponsor: Office of Resource Management Status: RFP closed on March 14, 1986. ' Proposals forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on March 17, 1986.
RFP No.: RS-ADM-86-250
Title:
Course, "NRC: What It Is and What It Does"
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Description:==
Presentation and development of material for the above course to be presented in Bethesda, Maryland and the regions.
Period of Performance: Two years Sponsor: Office of Administration Status: The competitive range has been established and negotiations are scheduled for the week of March 24, 1986.
ENCLOSURE A MAR 14106
Weekly Information Report Division of Contracts PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION (cont'd)
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RFP No.: RS-RES-86-104
Title:
" Cooperative Human Reliability Evaluation"
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Description:==
Compare and contrast NRC and EPRI analytic tools for conducting human reliability anhlysis with those of other participating nations to assess the current state-of-the-art and to guide future research.
Period of Performance:
12 months Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status: Best and Final offers received and forwarded to Source Evaluators for review on March 7, 1986.
RFP No.: RS-NMS-86-001
Title:
" Technical Assistance in Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessments"
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Description:==
Contractor shall provide technical assistance to NRC in the review of DOE programs relating to the development of Environmental Impact Statements.
Period of Performance: Three years Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Status: Best and Final offers received and forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on March 11, 1986.
ENCLOSURE A MAR 141925
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION ITEMS OF INTEREST Week Ending March 14, 1986 Palisades Plant Palisades Plant returned on-line on March 3, 1986 for the start of Cycle 7 operation from a refueling outage that comenced on November 30. 1985. During the outage. the remainder of equipment that did not have fully documented environmental qualification was replaced with fully qualified equipment.
Fire protection modifications, including the alternative safe shutdown capability from remote stations, were completed this outage. The only open items relating to fire protection are an exemption request and an analysis of the use of HPSI for make-up in the event of a fire in the charging pump fire area. Also, the unqualified wiring in limitorque valves was replaced with qualified wiring.
During the week of March 3, 1986, the plant escalated to 50 percent power and held pending determination of plans to correct some deficiencies. Two of the four primary coolant pumps had failed first stage seals, and leak-off was approximately 3 times nonnal (worst case 3.4 gpm). One of four inboard check valves on the safety injection system was leaking back through at a rate of 2.25 gpm. Two other valves in the same loop, closed to isolate the check valve leakage, leak through at 0.4 gpm. A drain and fill valve on one of the four safety injection tanks leaks 0.04 gpm, requiring recharging of the tank every 5 days. NRR and Region III met with the licensee on March 6, 1986. The plant was taken off-line late Friday night, March 7.
The licensee plans to repair the valves and primary coolant pumps' seals.
The outage is presently scheduled to last 17 days.
Crystal River Unit 3 - Reactor Coolant Pump Failures (Update)
Continuedultrasonictesting(UT)andothernon-destructiveexamination (NDE), as well as fracture analysis on the one broken RCP shaft, RCP "A", has shown that:
RCP "A" shaf t has failed completely within the hydrostatic bearing due to fatigue propagation of initial small cracks. Cause is still uncertain but may involve design inadequacies, manufacturing cracks, residual stresses, bending moments, and thermal cycling.
RCP seals were damaged but did not leak at the time of failure.
RCP "B" shaft has been removed and is extensively cracked at a slightly different location.
RCP "C" shaft UT indicates a crack less severe than "B" pump.
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All eight, cap bolts securing the impeller to the shaft on "A" and "B" pumps are cracked in multiple places (some broken) apparer.tly due to intergranular stress corrosion cracking.
Five of eight pins whjch take the torque between the impeller and i
cap bolts.
Appearance is similar to shaft on "A" and "B" p' umps.are cracked.
The licensee will disassemble "C" and "D" pumps and will replace all damaged components. Completion of this work and restart of the plant is expected in i
June 1986. The plant has been down since January 1, 1986.
Other plants with similar pumps have been following this situation closely with the CP-3 licensee. Considering this experience with Byron Jackson pumps and previous Westinghouse pump shaft failures, this concern may be generic to all reactor coolant pumps.
Vogtle Electric Generating Station, Units 1 and 2 On March 11, 1986, during the OL hearing, two ladies who are ex-employees (QC Inspectors) of Georgia Pcwer Company made limited appearances, stating that they had'bcen fired for bringing up safety concerns. Their concerns were expressed to the NRC who, in their view, breached a written pledge of confidentiality. They further stated that they are appearing on the Phil Donohue show this Friday, March 14, 1986.
i These and similar allegations by others are the subject of local media interest.
Palo Verde Unit 2 The licensee has informed us that initial entry into Mode 4 was achieved on March 10, 1986.
Initial Mode 3 entry is now projected for i
March 20, 1986 with initial criticality projected for early April 1986.
Turkey Point Units 3/4 Advance notification of results of requalification examination administered by Region II,' February 3-11,1986; 9 out of 13 licensed operators (4 of 4 R0's and 5 of 9 SRO's) failed the requalification exam. There were 29 utility comments on the examinations which had over 100 questions. Most of the comments were accepted by Region II.
These failures were based on the exams with the comments included. The utlity has now been notified of the results. Both units are currently shut down.
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NRC TMI-2 CLEANUP PROJECT DIRECTORATE WEEKLY STATUS REPORT WEEK ENDING MARCH 14, 1986 1.
DEFUELING As of March 16, 1986, 25 canisters with an approximate net weight of 26,490 lbs have been transferred from the reactor vessel-to the spent fuel pool. storage racks.
Defueling remaids hampered by poor visibility in the reactor vessel because of biologic growths. The " mature colony" contains aerobes, anaerobes, fungi, algae and bacteria.
Research continues in an effort to identify treatments to remove the growths. This' colony is about the same as found in river water.
Early in the week the debris bucket hanger apparently became Jamed in the canister positioning system, preventing movement. Upon removal and inspection, the canister system was unloaded, and a Quality Assurance (QA) inspection of the system was conducted. Upon QA release, the canister system was reloaded with five empty fuel canisters and defueling resumed. The pick and place operation now uses a wide-mouthed funnel to guide debris into the canister opening with a resultant increase in loading efficiency.
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PLANT STATUS The reactor remains in long term cold shutdown, vented to atmosphere. Core cooling is by natural heat loss to ambient building atmosphere. Calculated decay heat is 10.7 KW.
Incore thermocouples average is 81*F.
The defueling platform is mounted above the modified internals indexing fixture which is mounted on the rea: tor vessel flange.
These provide water coverage of 151 feet over the core region. This water level is about 5 feet over the top of any debris canisters in the reactor vessel. The airborne radioactivity on the platform is 8.9 E-8 uCi/cc Tritium and 2.8 E-11 uCi/cc particulates, predominately Cesium-137.
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WASTE MANAGEMENT The Submerged Demineralizer System (SDS) completed processing batch 129, (neutralizer tanks) to the monitor tanks (8,579 gallons) and began processing batch 130 ("C" reactor coolant bleed tank) to the monitor tanks. SDS total processed to date is 3,842, 869 gallons.
EPICOR II completed processing batch 277 (10,877 gallons); batch 278 (9,763 gallons); and batch 279(8,937 gallons) from the SDS monitor tanks to CC-T-2.
EPICOR II total processed to date is 2,854,371 gallons.
MAR 141986 ENCLOSURE B
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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sample analysis results show TMI site liquid effluents to be in accordance with regulatory limits, NRC requirements, and the City of Lancaster Agreement.
TMI water samples taken by EPA at the plant discharge to the river consisted of seven daily composite samples taken from February 22 through March 1,'1986. A gama scan detected no reactor related activity.
The.Lancaster water sample taken at the water works intake and analyzed by EPA consisted of a seven day composited sample taken from February 22 through March 1, 1986. A gama scan detected no reactor related radioactivity.
The NRC outdoor airborne particulate sampler at the TMI site collected a sample between March 5, and 13, 1986. No reactor related radioactivity was detected. Analysis showed Iodine-131 and Cesium-137 concentrations to be less than the lower limits of detectability.
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AUXILIARY AND FUEL HANDLING BUILDING ACTIVITIES Installation of the balance of Defueling Water Cleanup System (DWCS) continued.
f Preparations are being made for decontamination in the Seal Injection Room, 281' auxiliary building.
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NRC EVALUATIONS IN PROGRESS Technical Specification Change P.equest number 49.
Recovery Operations Plan Change number 31.
SDS Technical Evaluation and System Description Update.
Core Stratification Sample Safety Evaluation.
Containment Air Control Envelope Technical Evaluation Report, Revision 5.
Solid Waste Facility Technical Evaluation Report.
Reactor Building Sump Criticality Safety Evaluation Report.
TMI-2 Temporary Reactor Vessel Filtration System Safety Evaluation Report, Revision 1.
ER 141986 ENCLOSURE B
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending March 14, 1986 Near-Term NRC Actions Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA)
Section: 121(a) of NWPA:
-Status:
Staff briefed the ACRS on January 15, 1986, and NHSS Director on February 21, 1986 on proposed revisions to 10 CFR Part 60 for conformance with EPA HLW standards (40 CFR Part 191).
Action:
The proposed Federal Register notice of revisions to Part 60 are scheduled to be submitted to the Commission in early March 1986, for approval and publication.
Section:
114(e) of NWPA:
Project Decision Schedule Status:
DOE issued the draft Project Decision Schedule (PDS) on July 18, 1985 for comment.
NRC transmitted formal comments to DOE on October 24, 1985.
Action:
NRC and DOE staff have been meeting to resolve NRC comments on the draft PDS.
DOE is now scheduled to issue the final PDS in March 1986.
Section:
141(d) of NWPA:
Licensing of MRS Status:
NRC has developed revisions to 10 CFR Part 72 to provide the licensing framework for the MRS if it is authorized by Congress.
Action:
Theproposedruleon10CFRPart72wassubmitt/dtothe i
Commission (SECY-85-374) on November 15, 1985 and is awaiting Commission approval.
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Section:
141(b) o'f NWPA:
Comment on MRS Proposal Status:
Staff comments on the MRS proposal (SECY-86-9) were approved by the Commission on February 5,1986, and transmitted to DOE.
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Action:
NRC comments were to be submitted with the proposal to Congress on February 7,1986. However, a permanent injunction issued for the State of Tennessee has indefinitely delayed the submission of the MRS proposal to Congress.
DOE has filed an appeal to expedite a decision before the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincjnnati, Ohio.
Section: 223 of NWPA: J6 int Notice of Technical Assistance Status:
NRC and DOE must. update annually a joint notice in the Federal Register stating that the United States is prepared to cooperate and provide technical assistance to non-nuclear weapon states in the field of spent fuel storage and disposal.
Action:
The third annual joint update is currently being prepared for publication in early April 1986.
Section:
306 of NWPA:
.9egulations for Training of Power Plant Personnel.
Status:
The final rulemaking on Part 55 and three associated regulatory guides received ACRS approval in December 1985, and final office review has been completed.
Action:
The final rule was reviewed by the CRGR on February 26, 1986.1
- Pending their modifications, the final rule will be submitted to Commission in March, 1986.
Near-Term DOE Actions of Interest March 1986 - DOE to submit Fee Adequacy Report to Congress (Section 302)
March 1986 - DOE to submit Annual Report to Congress (Section 304)
March 1986 - DOE to issue Final Project Decision Schedule (PDS)
(Section 114(d)).
April 1986 - DOE to issue final five Environmental Assessments for first repository.
April 1986 - DOE to nominate and recommend candidate sites for site characterization.
April 1986 - DOE to issue Final Transportation Institutional Plan.
ENCLOSURE C W.R 141986
Araonne Representatives of NMSS and ELD met with Argonne personnel at Argonne on March 11, 1986, to discuss progress on the Supplement to the FES for the West Chicago Rare Earths Facility. A brief trip to the West Chicago site was made.
Update of Environmental Impacts of Transportation of Radioactive Materials The 1977 "FES on Transportation of Radioactive Material by Air and Other Modes" (NUREG-0170) contains information on transportation impacts that is becoming dated.
A contractor study to incorporate new information on the shipments of spent-fuel and high-level radioactive waste to the repositories provided under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) is being planned.
Because the results of the study will be used in the NRC's licensing reviews for DOE's proposed MRS facility and high-level waste repository, the ELD staff has advised that the work of developing new information for the study must be done by a contractor who is not involved in work under the DOE NWPA program. This potential conflict of interest problem is considered to rule out the possibility of having the work done at one of the DOE National Laboratories or at one of the major nuclear service contractors who is also working for DOE under NWPA, or for a nuclear utD ity who will be shipping radioactive material. Considering these limitations, the staff is investigating the feasibility of having the work done at the Federally Funded Research and Development Center which NMSS is proposing to establish for reasons which include the avoidance of conflict of interest problems with DOE programs.
Safeauards Insider Rules OMB has rejected the reporting and recordkeeping requirements for the psychological testing and behavioral observation portions of the Safeguards i
Insider Rules.
It was the OMB position that the burden was not justified.
It was recommended that industry should implement action on those components rather than require them by rule. OMB did not object to that portion of the l
rule requiring background investigations.
Category I Surface Transportation As a result of Tri-State Motor Transport Company's decision to cease hauling Category I shipments of SSNM there is no qualified carrier for such shipments. Transnuclear, Inc., the licensee for the export of Category I shipments, recently proposed alternatives for both near and long term solutions to this situation. The near term approach involves arranging with Tri-State to continue operations for shipments pending in the next three to four months.
In the long term, Transnuclear is proposing possible use of helicopters or exploring the possibility of arranging for surface transport by DOE on the domestic portion of these shipments.
ENCLOSURE C MAR 141986
4 Order to Show Cause -- Nonpower Reactors Based on available information, the staff has concluded that all affected licensees have satisfied the terms of the September 27, 1985, Order to Show Cause why all excess unirradiated HEU fuel should not be removed to secure locations away from nonpower reactor sites.
Information concerning the total amount of excess HEU shipped offsite and the amounts remaining onsite for normal operation will be acquired after OMB has approved our information collection request.
NFS-Erwin Strike by OCAW members continues.
There has been no progress made in resolving differences between the Union and NFS.
The Company has recently advertised for additional salaried workers to augment the current work force.
NFS continues to conduct limited operations of the HEU production and scrap recovery operations.
Institute of Nuclear Mate-ials Management (INMM) Workshop on Security Forces Mr. Nulsen, a member of the Safeguards staff, will be making a presentation in Albuquerque, NM, March 17-20, 1986, at the INMM workshop on Security Forces.
The workshop will focus on the qualifications, training, operations, and evaluation of security forces for federal and commercial nuclear facilities.
Mr. Nulsen will present the NRC perspective on security force matters.
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DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT 1
3/14/86 70-824 Lynchburg, VA To visit B&W NNFD, B&W Lynchburg N. Ketzlach'(FC)
Ketzlach 70-1201 Research Center and B&W Connercial M. Young (FC)'
70-27 Nuclear Fuel Plant. To review nuclear and radiation safety programs and to discuss renewal 1
application and inspection.
3/15-28/86
- Vienna, Attend consultants' meeting for C. MacDonald (FC).
MacDonald Austria compliance assurance guide and SAGSTRAM meeting.
3/19/86 Docket
- Willste, To meet with Carolina Power &
Reps of CP&L Roberts 9:30 'am 72-3 8th floor Light Co. to discuss application J. Roberts (FC) conf room for proposed ISFSI at H.B.
F. Sturz (FC)
Robinson site.
Division of Waste Management None i
Division of Safeguards None I
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Office of Inspection and Enforcement Items of Interest Week Ending March 14, 1986 1.
The following Significant Enforcement Actions were taken during the past week:
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The following IE Preliminary Notifications were issued during the past week:
a.
-PNO-II-86-21, Duke Power Company (McGuire Unit 1), Unscheduled Shutdown Greater Than 48 Hours, b.
PNO-II-86-22, Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (Erwin, TN), Grass Fire on Plant Property.
c.
PNO-III-86-18, Dairyland Power Cooperativ.e (Lacrosse), Control Rod Fails to Fully Insert.
d.
PNO-III-86-20, Comonwealth Edison Comapny (Zion Unit 1), Reactor Trip Breaker Exceeds Response Time.
e.
PNO-III-86-21, Comonwealth Edison Company (LaSalle Unit 1), Snubbers Found Inoperable.
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PNO-III-86-22, Union Electric Company (Callaway), Plant Threatened.
g.
PNO-IV-85-60B, Basin Industrial X-Ray, Inc. (Midland, TX), Radiography Source Disconnect Resulting in an Overexposure (Update).
h.
PN0-V-86-10, Pacific Gas & Electric Company (Diablo Canyon Unit 2),
Commercial Operation.
3.
The following IE Infomation Notices and IE Bulletins were issued during the past week:
a.
IE Information Notice No. 86-14, PWR Auxiliary Feedwater Turbine Control Problems, was issued March 10, 1986 to all nuclear power reactor f.acilities holding an operating license or construction
- permit, b.
IE Infomation Notice No. 86-15, Loss of Offsite Power Caused by Problems in Fiber Optics Systems, was issued March 10, 1986 to all nuclear power reactor facilities holding an operating license or a construction permit.
c.
IE Information Notice No. 86-16, Failures to Identify Containment Leakage Due to Inadequate Local Testing of BWR Vacuum Relief Valves was issued March 11, 1986 to all nuclear power facilities holding an operating license or a construction permit.
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Other Items a.
Civil Penalties Paid (1) Sacramento Municipal Utility District (Rancho Seco) in the amount of $25,000 for security violations (EA 85-137).
(2) Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation (Vermont Yankee) in the amount of $50,000 for an unplanned occupational radiation exposure (EA 85-105).
b.
Operations Center The Incident Response Branch Chief, Division of Emergency Preparedness
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and Engineering Response, and staff briefed Mr. Pen, Yeon-chan of Tai Power on the NRC's incident response program and capability.
Mr. Peng also received a tour of the Operations Center.
c.
Incident Response The Incident Response Branch Chief, Division of Emergency Preparedness and Engineering Response, and staff participated at a counterpart meeting with the Emergency Response Coordinator to discuss lessons learned from the Sequoyah Fuels event, Shoreham exercise, plans for the 1987 Federal Field Exercise data system, the Rex-86 BRAVO exer-cise, and further development of regional response position guidance, d.
Vendor Program The Director, Division of Quality Assurance, Vendor, and Technical Training Center Programs and the Chief, Vendor Program Branch, met -
with the B&W owners group to discuss check valve concerns arising from the San Onofre Unit 1 event.
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Quality Assurance (1) The Director, Division of Quality Assurance, Vendor, and Techni-cal Training Center Programs, (QAVT), and other staff members participated in a Sequoyah design control inspection this week.
(2) The Director, QAVT, IE and the Director, Division of Waste Management, NMSS, briefed the Director, IE on the status.of NRC QA activities for the high level waste repository, f.
Emergency Preparedness (1) The FEMA exercise report for Pilgrim was forwarded to Region I for appropriate action; four deficiencies observed at the September 1985 exercise were corrected and successfully demon-strated at a remedial exercise in October.
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3 (2) ' The FEMA exercise report for Maine Yankee was forwarded to Region I for appropriate action; the deficiency related to the offsite route alerting component of the alert and notification system has been resolved.
(3) FEMA's review of the alert and notification system for the D.C. Cook facility has been completed; the system satisifies the requirement of FEMA and NRC evaluation criteria.
(4) A staff-member of the Emergency Preparedness Branch is partici-pating in the onsite appraisal of the emergency preparedness at Vogtle.
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Safety System Functional Inspection (SSFI)
A SSFI is being conducted at Three Mile Island Unit 2.
The inspec-tion is scheduled for this and future weeks. The exit meeting with the licensee is scheduled for March 27, 1986.
h.
Technical Training Center (TTC)
TTC managers conducted an assessment of Region II training implemen-tation for the inspection program this week.
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Meetings - Conferences of Note (1) The Director, Division of Emergency Preparedness and Engineering Response participated in the operating and maintenance meeting of ASME in LaJolla, CA this week.
(2) Meeting were held with NRR on the approach to the Important to Safety Rule.
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20/3D Full-scale testing of emergency core cooling system (ECC$) perfomance is conductdd in the German Upper Plenum Test Facility (UPTF) and Japanese Slab Core Test Facility (SCTF). Data.is provided on fluid-fluid mixing, ECC bypass, upper-plenum liquid deentrainment and fallback, and condensation effects. This data will help close the licensing issues related to pressurized themal shock (PTS), Appendix K revision, and the assessment of computer code TRAC. The PTS and Appendix K issues are currently being handled based on small scale test data, and thus there is uncertainty in extending small scale data base to a full scale reactor.
Data from the UPTF coupled with the SCTF will minimize this uncertainty.
Recently more and more utilities tend to use the best-estimate (BE) computer code TRAC in a licensing arena. Therefore, understanding the capabilities of TRAC would help NRC as well as licensees in interpreting TRAC results.
Representatives of U.S. and Japan met on February 26 through March 4, 1986 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to discuss coupling tests between the UPTF and the SCTF, and TRAC computer code improvements. The coupling tests are important because the heated core effect of the UPTF needs to be obtained from the results of the comparable SCTF tests. The highlights of the meeting are given below.
1.
There will be five coupling tests; three tests-with cold leg injection of ECC and the other two with combined injection. Some of the combined injectfron tests are being conducted now in SCTF while the cold leg injection tests will be started in June or July 1986.
2.
The application of TRAC to the 20/3D large scale tests showed that TRAC needs further improvements in order to obtain credible results.
Some of the important areas requiring improvements are liquid distribution in-the core, liquid penetration into the core from the upper plenum, and condensation of steam. Efforts have been initiated to make improvements in all of these areas. The results will be implemented in the officially released version of TRAC by June 1987.
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Personnel from the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI)
O indicated that they have studied TRAC seriously for the past two years and started implementing their own models for the LOCA reflood phase.
This effort will go on'another two years to produce "J-TRAC.".
The total effort amounts to be about 40 man years. RES indicated that it would welcome a bilateral agreement with JAERI on code improvement. The JAERI personnel stated that a complete exchange of code improvements would not be possible because of their need for the Japanese industry financial support. However, they would like to propose a small information exchange agreement.
Interaction with ASME Subcomittee On Valve Qualification The main objective of the equipment qualification research program is to provide the technical basis for resolving uncertainties in qualification standards. This objective is fulfilled when standards are changed to reflect the resolutions of the uncertainties based on the re-search results. To accomplish this, it is necessary to interact with ap-propriate standards comittees and/or writing groups.
j On February 25, 1986, a staff member of the Idaho National Engineer-ing Laboratory (INEL) made a presentation to the ASME Subcomittee on Qualification of Valve Assemblies. The presentation focused on the re-sults of containment purge and vent valve (CPVV) tests documented in NUREG/CR-4141, September 1985. One objective of the CPVV tests'was to determine the closing torque requirements for these kinds of valves against increasing containment pressures resulting from design basis accidents.
Duringthesetests,itwasdeterginedghatmaximumclosing torques are required at disc positions of 70 + 10 from full closure.
It should be noted that CPVVs are typically butterfly valves.
Annex G of the ASME standard " Functional Qualification Requirements for Power Operated Active Valve Assembl'es for Nuclear Power Plants" addresses the required flow interruption capability tests. One requirement in Annex G.is that the valve actuator capability is to be demonstrated over the final 10% of the valve flow area.
In light of the torque measurements for the butterfly valves, it is The apparent that the Annex G requirement does not apply for all valves.
subcommittee agreed with this conclusion and the chairman assigned one of the members to determine what would be required to change the standard to reflect the INEL findings.
The INEL staff member has been requested to become a member of the Subcomittee and to present results of other valve test programs being performed under the equipment qualification program.
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. EPA Activity to Develop Residual Radioactive Contamination Criteria O
On February 25 and March 7, 1986, the EPA Interagency Working Group for Residual Radioactivity Criteria met to discuss the development of such criteria and to plan fu'ture work. The working group was formed by EPA to develop guidance to Federal agencies (for the President's signature) on criteria for releasing (decommissioning) decontaminated lands, structures, equipment, and materials on an unrestricted basis. Criteria for lands and structures only can be developed much easier than criteria for the unrestricted release of materials and equipment; for this reason a sequential approach will be taken, with the lands and structures work performed first. This effort was recently requested by the NRC staff. EPA officials indicated that work on the criteria can now proceed, with future meetings of the working group held every 1 to 2 months. The EPA staff plans to publish an advance notice on this activity within the next 2 months. The notice will request information on such items as: (1) basis for proposed criteria;..(2) form of proposed criteria; (3) whether Federal guidance or standards should be developed; (4) costs and benefits; (5) possible institutional controls; and (6) information on materials which could be recycled or reused. During the meeting, a briefing was also presented on another, entirely separate effort of the EPA waste management group to develop "Below Regulatory Concern" limits for unrestricted disposal of radioactive wastes. EPA is hopeful that it can publish proposed regulations on this issue for public coments by late fall of this year.
10 CFR Part 72," Licensing Requirements for the Storage of Spent Fuel and High Level Waste" On Wednesday, March 12, 1986, RES and NMSS staff briefed the ACRS subcommittee on Spent Fuel Storage Facility Design on the content of 10 CFR Part 72,
" Licensing Requirements for the Storage of Spent Fuel and High Level Waste" and the proposed rule which adds considerations necessary for licensing storage of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) at a monitored retrievable storage facility (NRS). The proposed rule was sent to the Comission as SECY-85-374.
K. G. Steyer (RES) and Dr. A. T.. Clark (NMSS) presented explanations of the staff's reasons for using Part 72 as the basis for licensing the proposed MRS facility. The NRC staff members answered questions and discussed in detail-the technical and safety issues raised by the subcommittee members. The primary emphasis of the subcomittee questions was in the areas of general design criteria, probabilistic risk assessment, transuranic storage at MRS, sabotage, seismic criteria and external phenomena.
Dr. Siess made a status report to the full ACRS comnittee on Friday, March 14, 1986 at which time he said the staff had made a very good presentation and recommended that the full ACRS not coment on Part 72 until it has been published for public comment. Furthermore, at both meetings, Dr. Siess said that the subcomittee would probably ask the staff to return and discuss pragmatically the technical provisions of Part 72, item by item, and explain their bases.
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RES RULEMAKING ACTIVITIES Severe Accident Risk Assessment The RES staff and supporting contractors are currently engaged in the reevalua-tion of the risk of six reference LWRs. This reevaluation is currently being used to support NRR's review of IDCOR submittals.
In addition, it will support the staff report NUREG-1150, which is intended to provide guidance to decision-makers as to the appropriate role of information on core melt frequency, containment performance, source terms, and risk in making severe accident decisions.
A management meeting was held on March 6, 1986, with representatives from RES, NRR, SNL, BNL, INEL, BCL and ORNL. The status of NUREG-0956 and NUREG-1150 was reviewed, and each organization provided its views on the progress.
Regarding NUREG-1150, there was consensus that a quality product should be produced, and that the schedule slips to date were indicative of the complexity of the task and the need to provide high quality analyses. No major new problems were identified. The next management meeting was scheduled for two days in July.
This meeting will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Risk Assessment Applications to IE f
In 1983, RES staff initiated an effort to determine how PRA-based infonnation could be effectively used in the NRC's inspection program. Current research efforts are focused on developing a decision-oriented system, PRISIM (Plant Risk Status Infomation Management System), that could provide soundly based PRA information to inspectors to assist them in planning and prioritizing their activities. This system, PRISIM, is clearly an example of PRA-based information that can be easily used by the NRC to maintain plant safety.
It was planned to deliver an ANO-1 PRISIM system to Region IV staff and the ANO-1 Resident Inspector around April 15, 1986, for testing and evaluation.
The plan for this activity has been discussed with IE and Region IV.
It now looks like this date could slip by approximately 2 months based on some problems found in updating the existing ANO-1 PRA, which reflects the plant as of 1981.
No safety problem is involved and these problems do not change core melt frequency very much; however, the changes must be made to validate PRISIM prior to demonstration in the field.
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ITEPS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS WEEK ENDING MARCH 14, 1986 International Meeting Notices The following interna'tional meeting notices supplement those previously announced:
April 7-9, 1986, Viunna, Austria - Consultants' Meeting on Nuclear Data for Applied Nuclear Geophysics April 14-18, 1986, Vienna, Austria - Consultants' Meeting for the Preparation of Summary Report on Advanced Water Reactor Fuel April 14-18, 1986, Vienna, Austria - Advisory Group Meeting on the
" Treatment of Alpha-Bearing Radioactive Wastes" 4
April 16-18, 1986, GKSS, Geethacht, FRG - Consultants' Meeting on
" Standardization of Specifications and Inspection Procedures for LEU Plate Type Research Reactor Fuels" Foreign Visitors On Monday Mr. 'Peng, Yeong-chang of the Taiwan Power Company met representatives of the IE Division of Emergency Preparedness and Engineering Response to tour the NRC Operations Center.
On Tuesday a five-member Japanese team from the Science and Technology Agency (STA) and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) met representatives of the NMSS Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety and Division of Waste Management and the RES Radiation Risk Assessment and Management Branch to discuss exemption rules for disposal of small quantities of radioactive waste.
On Wednesday Mr. Z. Shayer of the Licensing Division of the Israeli Atomic Energy ' Commission met representatives of the NRR Reactor Systems Branch and the RES Reactor Systems Research Branch to discuss the benchmarking of core physics computer codes.
Also on Wednesday Mr. John France, Nuclear Energy Attache (UKAEA) of the British Embassy, visited NRC to sign with the EDO a one-year extension of the NRC-UKAEA agreement on the severe accident research program.
Representatives of the offices of RES and IP were also in attendance.
Mr. France then presented Mr. Stello with a check in the amount of
$325,000, the first of two equal cash payments to be made by the British to cover their participation in the program.
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OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING MARCH 14, 1986 Meeting with Indian Representatives NRC staff from the Offices of State Programs, the Executive Legal Director and Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards met with three representatives of the National _ Congress of American Indians (NCAI) on Wednesday afternoon, March 12.. Issues discussed included NRC's licensing process (with emphasis on HLW repository), the HLW information storage and retrieval system, and the capability of Indian Tribal governments to respond to transportation accidents. Because NRC's policy on response to accidents involving transportation of radioactive materials relies primarily on State and local responders, response to accidents on roads through Indian reservations represent an issue with some uncertainty. NCAI believes this is an area
'that needs to be reviewed as well as the Part 71/Part 73 notification system for shipments of' spent fuel and certain nuclear waste shipments.
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REGION III STATUS REPORT DAVIS-BESSE LOSS OF FEEDWATER EVENT March 14, 1986 Plant Status The plant remains in cold shutdown.
Restart Activities A NRR maintenance survey inspection team will be on site March 24-28 to follow up on previous findings and to evaluate the licensee's actions concerning management practices as they relatecto the maintenance area.
M0 VATS testing, environmental qualification work and other maintenance
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activities continue on the 167 safety-related motor-operated valves onsite.
The licensee has completed all planned work on eighty six valves and returned them to service. The licensee is repairing and testing valve motor operators continuously with three overlapping ten-hour shifts.
The NRC test review team continues to provide weekly coverage of licensee
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testing activities. The licensee has completed their review of the systems important to safe plant operations and the testing requirements associated with each. This review has identified a test program consisting of 278 tests of which 29 will be performed following criticality. This program consists of 176 existing or modified surveillance tests and 102 new test procedures. Five tests were performed last week and 57 tests have been performed to date.
Other Activities Inspections of safety system piping supports in the auxiliary building are
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continuing. Evaluation of the nonconformances (NCR) found on supports in containment is in progress. Of the support NCRs requiring disposition prior to restart, one remains to be dispositioned.
The licensee's repair, replacement and engineering review of items requiring ++
environmental qualification (EQ) is continuing. While no significant deficiencies were identified, a subsequent inspection is planned prior to restart.
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The licensee has written a work request to disassemble the No.1 Service
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Water Pump as 'part of their investigation into the cause of a suspected sheared pump shaft or dropped impeller. This event was mentioned in the Region III Daily Report dated March 11, 1986.
Ultrasonic Testing (UT) of the four Reactor Coolant Pumps (RCPs) is in
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progress. Review of the UT traces by a licensee contractor has revealed areas of concern on all four RCPs. The licensee is planning to partially drain the primary system and remove the shaft seals from a single RCP to facilitate an'gled UT for clarification of areas of concern.
Licensee Personnel Changes P. Hildebrant has been appointed Engineering Group Director, replacing S. Quennoz.
D. Amerine has been appointed Assistant Vice President-Nuclear, replacing T. Murray.
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ITEMS ADDRESSED BY THE COMMISSION - WEEK ENDING MARCH 14, 1986 A.
STAFF REQUIREMENTS - BRIEFING ON NUMARC INITIATIVES, 2:00 P.M.,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26,1986, COP 91ISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C.
-0FFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE) Memo SECY to RECORD dated 3/11/86 The Commission met with representatives of the Nuclear Utility i
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Management and Human Resources Committee (NUMARC) to be briefed on recent NUMARC' initiatives.
The following persons participated in this briefing:
J.H. Miller, Jr., President Georgia Power Company and i
Chairman, NUMARC Steering Committee Warren Owen, Executive Vice President Duke Power Company and Vice Chairman, NUMARC Steering Committee Jack Ferguson, President
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Virginia Power and Chairman, NUMARC Technical Subcommittee C.O. Woody, Vice President of Nuclear Operations Florida Power and Light and Chairman, NUMARC Working Group on Maintenance Bart Withers, Vice President Portland -General Electric John Opeka, Vice President Northeast Utilities and o
Chairman, NUMARC Working Group on Station Blackout The Commission requested that at the next meeting with the Commission NUMARC provide recommendations on changes to the operator requalification program.
Commissioner Zech asked NUMARC for any information NUMARC could provide on valve maintenance with particular emphasis on check valve maintenance.
NUMARC promised to provide a report to the NRC staff on the results of a nuclear industry survey conducted by NUMARC on the use of predictive maintenance techniques.
There were no requirements for the staff at this meeting.
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. PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT 03/18/86 50-395 Columbia, SC Summer. SALP Meeting Regional Administrator, Walker 10:30 am Deputy RA, Selected Regional and Resident Staff Members, and 4-Licensee Representatives l
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DATE/ TIME LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT gg 3/17/86 P-118 Meeting on TMLB' Studies.
NRR, RES, ACRS, Han SNL, ANL, LANL,-
INEL, BCL, and consul tants 3/18 & 19/86 Phoenix, Arizona IEEE/NPEC/SC-2 meeting (Equipment Industry experts Aggarwal Qualification) 4 3/24/86 Phillips Bldg.
To obtain staff connents on the proposed Representatives:
Aggarwal draft NUREG document, " Operating Experience BNL, RES, ACRS,
& Aging - Seismic Assessment of Battery NRR, I&E Chargers and Inverters" P
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