ML20195B848
| ML20195B848 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 05/19/1986 |
| From: | Wallace W NEW HAMPSHIRE, STATE OF |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20195B803 | List: |
| References | |
| RTR-NUREG-0654, RTR-NUREG-654 OL, NUDOCS 8605290564 | |
| Download: ML20195B848 (5) | |
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May 19, 1986 (Seabrook Station, Units 1 and 2)
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AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM T.
WALLACE, JR.
(CONTENTION SAPL-5 AND NECNP CONTENTION RERP 10)
I, WILLIAM T. WALLACE, JR., being on oath, depose and say as follows:
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I am the Director of the New Hampshire Divison of Public Health Services.
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Monitoring team capabilities of the New Hampshire Divison
- of Public Health Services (DPHS) are described in Section 2.5.3 of the New Hampshire Radiological Emergency Response Plan and in Volume 4, Section 3, New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services Emergency Pesponse Procedures for Seabrook Station.
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Section 2.5.3 establishes that Division of Public Health Services will mobilize a minimum of three, two person field teams to monitor ground level radiation.
A total of thirteen monitors are 8605290564 860520 PDR ADOCK 05000443 g
identified in Volume 4, Section 3, Appendix A.
Two of three monitors have volunteered, and are designated, for aerial monitoring, if such monitoring is necessary.
Additional monitoring personnel as necessary can be provided under the New England Interstate Radiation Assistance Plan.
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Field monitoring teams are deployed at the Alert level to the Incident Field Office at Newington, New Hampshire for deployment to field monitoring locations.
Teams will be available to be deployed from the IFO to monitoring locations within one and one-half hours after declaration of Alert.
Prior to arrival of DPHS monitoring teams, the State of New Hampshire will base its assessment of accident conditions and protective response recommendations, if necessary, on results of monitoring and dose projections provided by the utility.
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A total of thirteen monitoring personnel is a sufficient number to conduct field monitoring for the purpose of confirming off-site dose projections and for tracking plume direction for an extended period.
Deployment of field monitoring teams of the State of New Hampshire and of the utility is coordinated within the EOF at Newington by Field monitoring supervisors of the State of New Hampshire and of the utility.
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State and utility monitoring teams are deployed according to grid map designations established for the entire EPZ.
The grid map for the Seabrook Station EPZ is shown at Figure 1.5-2 of the New Hampshire RERP.
By using the grid map, any location within the EPZ is potentially a designated monitoring point.
Field monitoring results are reported by the teams to the field monitoring supervisors at the EOF.
The rer ults are analyzed by DPHS and utility accident asessment personnel at the EOF and are used to confirm the results of the dose projection model utilized jointly by the State of New Hampshire and the utility.
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Appendix C of DPHS procedures contained in Volume 4, Section 3 of the New Hampshire RERP specifies operating procedures for field monitoring teams and instructions for conducting radiological monitoring which include obtaining environmental samples in the ingestion exposure pathway.
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Monitoring for the purpose of confirming dose projections and environmental sampling in the ingestion pathway need not be conducted simultaneously.
Plume exposure pathway monitoring will take precedence over ingestion pathway monitoring.
Environmental monitoring in the ingestion pathway is generally conducted during the recovery phase after protective response actions for the public are completed.
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The inventory of equipment used by New Hampshire field monitoring teams is contained in Appendix G of Volume 4, Section 3.
Laboratory analysis capabilities of the State of New Hampshire are described in Appendix M of Volume 4, Section 3, DPHS Procedures.
The staffing roster shows in Appendix A of the DPHS procedures primary and backup laboratory staffing for continuous operations.
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If, for any reason, the State of New Hampshire requires field monitoring assistance, DPHS procedures contained in Volume 4,
'Section 3 provide for obtaining assistance under the New England Interstate Radiation Assistance Plan.
This Plan establishes the mechanism for requesting field monitoring assistance and laboratory analysis assistance from the five other states which are parties to the New England Compact on Radiological Health Protection.
The provisions of the plan, including the laboratory analysis capabilities of the parties to the compact, are contained in Appendix M to Volume 4, Section 3.
The New Hampshire Radiological Emergency Plan, at Section 1.4, also provides for support to be provided for radiological monitoring by the U.S. Department of Energy at the request of DPHS.
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Based upon the foregoing, it is my opinion that there is reasonable assurance that there are adequate personnel available to undertake radiological monitoring in the Plume Exposure EPZ on a 24-hour basis.
Furthermore, it is my opinion that utilization of the grid map to select monitoring points is superior to
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62 of NUREG-0654.
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William T.
Wallace, Jr., M.D., M.P.H.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MERRIMACK, SS.
May 19, 1986 The above-subscribed William T. Wallace, Jr., appeared before me and made oath that he had read the foregoing affidavit and that the statements set forth therein are true to the best of his knowledge.
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