ML20196D726
| ML20196D726 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 12/07/1988 |
| From: | Plulyi J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM) |
| To: | Aftergood S COMMITTEE TO BRIDGE THE GAP |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20155G021 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-88-580 NUDOCS 8812090174 | |
| Download: ML20196D726 (2) | |
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No egency records subsect to the request have been located.
No addetsonal egency records subsect to the teovest have been located.
.eovested records are availab6e through another pubhc testributen program See Commerts Section.
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Enclosed is efonate on how you may obte.n access to and the cha<ges for ccpo gn reco<ds faced e the NRC Pwblic Document Room. 2021 L street NW Washngten. OC y Agency records subject to the reouest are enciesed.
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CCWENTS The records are identified on the enclosed Appendix A., This responds to your F0IA request dated October 4,1988, which was addressed to the Freedom of Information Act Officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). FEMA referred to NRC these relevant records for review and direct response to you.
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FOIA-88-580 Appendix A
- l. 9/1/88 NRC Information Notice No. 88-71 (4 pages). (Accession No. 8808260492)
?. . 9/20/88 Memo for William Russell, RI,et al., from Edward Jordan, AE00,
Subject:
4 Possible NRC Regional Involvement in the Reentry of Cosmos 1900 (4 pages)(8810140048)
- 3. Undated General Comments on Cosmos 1900 Supplement (2 pages).
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 September 1, 1988 NRC INFORMATION NOTICE NO. 88-71: POSSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT OF THE REENTRY OF COSMOS 1900 AND REQUEST FOR COLLECTION OF LICENSEE RADV ACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS ATTRIBUTED TO THAT EVENT Addressees:
All holders of operating licenses or construction pennits for nuclear power reactors, fuel cycle licensees, and Priority 1 material licensees. .
Purpose:
This information notice is being provided to: 1) alert licensees to the anti-cipated reentry of a U.S.S.R. satellite, COSMOS 1900, which is powered by a nuclear reactor; and 2) request voluntary reporting of any licensee environ-mental radioactivity measurement data probably caused by that event.
In order to enhance Federal and State monitoring programs, all facilities with ongoing environmental monitoring programs are requested to consider the NRC request to report confinned anomalous environmental radioactivity measurements likely to have been caused by radioactive material released during the reentry of COSMOS 1900. However, the request contained in this information notice does not constitute an NRC requirement.
Description of Circumstances:
On May 13, 1988, the Soviet News Agency Tass announced that the Soviets had lost radio contact with COSMOS 1900, a satellite launched on December 12, 1987. Tass noted that COSMOS 1900 carries a nuclear power plant which is believed to still be operating. The Soviets have indicated that the satellite is continuing to maintain its orientation. However, if nothing is done to maintain the orbit, the satellite will eventually decay and enter the earth's atmosphere. Latest predictions are that the satellite will reenter between mid-September and early October. This prediction is subject to uncertainties, however, and the reentry could occur sooner if the stability of the satellite changes.
The primary incans of preventing the reentry of a radioactive nuclear core is to boost the reactor into a higher orbit to allow for decay. By radio com-mar.d from earth, the nuclear reactor would be ejected and moved to an orbit
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' IN 88-71 September 1, 1988 Page 2 of 3 in excess of 800 kilometers. Since this method has apparently failed, there is a system designed to automatically separate the core from the satellite, if upon reentry, there has been a separation, it is expected that the reactor would burn up completely like COSMOS 1402 in 1983 and no debris would reach the earth's surface. There is, however, uncertainty about the condition of any of these systems.
If the satellite and nuclear power plant remain intact, it is believed that debris may reach the earth's surface like the 1978 reentry of COSMOS 954 which deposited a significant amount of radioactive debris on Canada.
Discussion:
This notice is primarily to alert licensees of the reentry of COSMOS 1900. It is highly unlikely that debris f rom the reentry will impact any part of the U.S.
However, tected. Inthere is some probability that increased radiation levels may be de-that case, in order to supplement and reinforce the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nationwide surveillance program NRC licensees, as part of their routine provide environmental the following monitoring program, are r,equested to voluntarily information:
Report to the NRC any anomalous environmental radiation or radioactivity measurement that can be reasonably assumad to have resulted from the reentry of COSMOS 1900. The NRC would like confirmed measurement results from the licensee's routine environmental monitoring program to be reported via facsimile to the NRC Operations Center (301/492-8187; verification 301/951-0550) within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> of determining that material from the re-entry has been measured.
The reporting format is requested to provide for:
Sample date(s) and approximate location (s)
- Medium or pathway Type of analysis .g.,(e(e.g., air particulate, gross beta, soil) gama spectrometry)
Statistical data (mean, range, number of samples)
Any data provided by NRC licensees will be transmitted to EPA. Because of the sensitivity and broad scope of existing licensee programs, augmentation of NRC licensee environmental monitoring programs is not being requested.
We appreciate your cooperation with us in this. matter. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact the technical contact listed below or the Regional Administrator of the appropriate NRC regional office.
This request is covered by Office of Management and Budget Clearance Number 3150-0011 which expires December 31, 1989. The estimated average burden hours is 4 man-hours per licensee response, including assessment of the request, searching reports.
data sources, gathering and analyzing the data, and preparing the Contents on the accuracy of this estimate and suggestions to reduce
IN 88-71 September 1, 1988 Page 3 of 3 the burden may be directed to the Office of Management and Budget, Room 3208, New Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20503, and to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Records and Reports Management Branch, Office of Ad-ministration and Resources Management, Washington, D.C. 20555.
4 h harles E. Rossi, Director Division of Operational Events Assessment Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Technical
Contact:
Bernard H. Weiss, AE00 (301) 492-7053 List of Recently Issued NRC Information Notices
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