ML20151X674
| ML20151X674 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 09/16/1998 |
| From: | Bill Dean NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Mckeown R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 9809170209 | |
| Download: ML20151X674 (4) | |
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%,.....,o Septenber 16, 1998 Mr. Ron McKeown Friends of a Safe Millstone 5 North Edgewood Road Niantic, Connecticut 06357
Dear Mr. McKeown:
I am responding to your letter of August 11,1998, to Dr. William Travers of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in which you discussed an initiative that Friends of a Safe Millstone (FOSM) will be undertaking. You state that the intent of the initiative is to bring truth i
and appropriateness to the public discussions related to the Millstone station and health and safety issues involving radiation and nuclear energy. In an effort to obtain existing data on the concems identified in the FOSM press release, you requested that an NRC radiation expert be made available to FOSM to discuss /make available data /a 1swers towards the end of answering the listed concems. While the NRC cannot provide a radiation expert to assist you in any substantial manner in carrying out the FOSM initiative, we may be able to provide you some limited assistance as described below.
The mission of the NRC is to regulate the nation's civilian use of byproduct, source, and special nuclear materials to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security, and to protect the environment. The NRC staff requires commercial nuclear power plant licensees to monitor radioactive effluents and to conduct an environmental monitoring program. The release of radioactive material to the environment is govemed by the requirements of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Reaulations Parts 20 and 50, and by limits established in the licenses of facilities, in addition to the NRC requirements, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has also imposed dose limits for reactor facilities. In total, these requirements are structured to maintain the dose to members of the public from radioactive effluent releases to levels that are as low as reasonably achievable.
The following information may be helpfulin your undertaking. In accordance with NRC requirements, licensees must report plant discharges and results of environmental monitoring around the plant. Licensees are required to maintain records on the type and quantity of radioactive effluents discharged into the environment and to calculate the estimated dose that an individual could receive from the material released. Radioactive effluent releases and their associated doses are reported by licensees in the Annual Radioactive Effluent Reports, and radioactivity levels in various environmental media are reported in the Annual Radiological Environmental Operating Reports. The Annual Radioactive Effluent Report includes the amount of liquid and airbome radioactivity effluents discharged and the calculated doses for the period of release. The Annual Radiological Environmental Operating Report gives the results of an t
I environmental sampling and analysis program that is focused on the radiation exposure l
pathways specific to the given plant. The requirements for the Annual Radioactive Effluent Report and the Annual Radiological Environmental Operating Report are detailed in the Millstone Technical Specifications. These two documents (Accession Number 9805040441 for the Annual l
Radicactive Effluent Report and 9805040389 for the Annual Radiological Environmental 3 n ni 4so 9 i
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R.McKeown September 16, 1998 Operating Report) are available at the local public document rooms located at the Leaming Resources Center, Three Rivers Community-Technical College,574 New London Turnpike,
,Nonvich, Connecticut, and the Waterford Library, ATTN: Vince Juliano,49 Rope Ferry Road, Waterford, Connecticut.
In addition, as required by Section 5.4.1 of the Environmental Protection Plan, Northeast Nuclear Energy Company submitted its Annual Environmental Protection Plan Operating Report to the NRC on April 30,1998. The report summarizes the results of ongoing environmental monitoring i
programs conducted by Northeast Utilities Service Company in relation to the operation of the i
three-unit Millstone Nuclear Power Station. This document (Accession Number 9805080123) is also available in the local public document rooms.
I trust that you will find this information helpful in addressing some of the listed concems. As I stated earlier, the NRC is unable to provide a radiation expert to assist you. However, we may be able to provide you further assistance in identifying documents or reports that may help you in your efforts. Please contact the Millstone Unit 3 Project Manager, James Andersen, at (301) 415-1437 if there are any questions you may have about existing information that may serve to support your efforts.
Sincerely, Original signed by:
William M. Dean, Director Millstone Project Directorate Division of Reactor Projects - 1/11 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-245,50-336, and 50-423 Distribution:
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R. McKeown Operating Report) are available at the local public document rooms located at the Leaming Resources Center, Three Rivers Community-Technical College,574 New London Tumpike, Norwich, Connecticut, and the Waterford Library, ATTN: Vince Juliano,49 Rope Ferry Road, Waterford, Connecticut.
In addition, as required by Section 5.4.1 of the nvirontnental Protection Plan, Northeast Nuclear Energy Company submitted its Annual Environmental Protection Plan Operating Report to the NRC on April 30,1998. The report summarizes the results of ongoing environmental monitoring programs conducted by Northeast Utilities Service Company in relation to the operation of the three-unit Millstone Nuclear Power Station. This document (Accessica Number 9805080123) is also available in the local public document rooms.
I trust that you will find this information helpful in addressing some of the listed concerns. As I stated earlier, the NRC is unable to provide a radiation expert to ass!st you. However, we may be able to provide you further assistance in identifying documents or reports that may help you in your efforts. Please contact the Millstone Unit 3 Project Manager, James Andersen, at (301) 415-1437 if there are any questions you may have about existing information that may serve to support your efforts.
Sincerely, William M. Dea,..irecho.
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