ML20147H701

Documents Re Assessment by Office of Nuc Matl Safety & Safeguards of the Uses of WASH-1400 in the Licensing Process.Includes Memos,Repts,Transcripts,Etc,Noted by Staff as Pertinent

ML20147H701
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Issue date:	12/11/1978
From:	NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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RTR-WASH-1400 NUDOCS 7812270373
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation FROM: Clifford V. Smith, Jr. , Director Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

SUBJECT:

REVIEW 0F REGULATORY ACTIONS AND STAFF POSITIONS '

WHICH RELY ON ',! ASH-1400 In accordance with the ED0 request of October 27, the NMSS staff has reviewed its licensing and other regulatory actions that may have relied on the risk assessment results and models of WASR:1400.

The Safeguards staff does not perform any assessments relating to safety in the sense of the Reactor Safety Study, WASH-1400; accordingly, there O is no likelihood that they have relied on WASH-1400 material.

V The Divisions of Fuel Cycle & Mater'ial Safety and Waste Management have reviewed their licensing actions that might be related, even remotely, to the WASH-1400 document. In the area of Waste Management there have been no licensing decisions or other regulatory actions taken that were based upon WASH-1400, its results or models. With regard to Fuel Cycle and Material Safety, we are unable to identify any actions that fit the five categories listed in Attachment 1 to the October 27 memorandum.

However, two very remote references to WASH-1400 have been uncovered as follows:

1. Basic data referenced in the draft WASH-1400 concerning natural gas pipe line failure rates was used in the preparation of the environ- ,

mental statement on the Bear Creek Project of Rocky Mountain Energy Company, Docket No. 40-8452. However, such data would have been available and might have been used by the NMSS staff whether or not it had also been used in WASH-1400.

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2. While none of the results or models of WASH-1400 were used in licensing reviews, the consequence model computer code (CRAC) has been used in NUREG-0194, a special study of transportation sabotage, and some. data from WASH-1400 has been used in generic environmental statements on transportation of radioactive materials (NUREG-0170 and SAND 77-1927). However; no new regulatory actions or changes to rules have resulted from these efforts. Thus, no regulatory actions or staff positions have been effected by WASH-1400 material.

In summary, the NMSS staff believes that they have taken no licensing or #

regulatory actions which have relied on the risk assessment results and models of WASH-1400. I s! 6- --

Clifford V. Smith /dr. , Director )

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