ML20207E770

Responds to 990414 Notes Forwarding Ltrs from Five Constituents.Nrc Concluded on 990428 That Licensee Has Taken Appropriate Corrective Actions to Support Restart of Plant Unit 2

ML20207E770
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Site:	Millstone
Issue date:	05/24/1999
From:	Travers W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
To:	King P HOUSE OF REP.
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Dear Congressman King:

I am responding to your notes of April 14,1999, in which you forwarded letters from five of your constituents: Paulette Orlando, Kathy and Theo Demetriades, Kimberly Granelle, and Lena Marra. In your notes, you requested that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) investigate the statements contained in your constituents' letters and forward the necessary information to you so that you could respond..

In the past several months, the NRC has received numerous letters from elected officials and other citizens from New York State about the Millstone facility. These letters, as well as the letters from your constituents, primarily address three specific issues related to the Millstone nuclear power plants: (1) the lack of an emergency plan for Long Island, New York; (2) a i

request to disapprove the restart of Millstone Unit 2; and (3) a request to shut down Millstone -

Unit 3 because of its poor operating history. The NRC staff addressed these issues in previous correspondence with Congressman Michael P. Forbes, which is enclosed for your information.

A number of events have taken place since that letter was sont to Congressman Forbes.

On March 11,1999, the NRC lifted an order requiring independent, third-party oversight of the employee concems and safety-conscious work environment programs at the Millstone plants.

. On the basis of NRC staff's oversight and monitoring of these programs, as well as the oversight i

and monitoring by an independent consultant, Little Hart >or Consultants, the NRC staff determined that the conditions that led to NRC's issuing the order have been corrected and the employee concems program'of the Northeast Nuclear Energy Company (the licensee for Millstone) was acceptable in creating a safety-conscious work environment.

4 On April 14,1999, the Commission held a meeting to discuss the licensee's readiness to restart Millstone Unit 2. During the Commission meeting, the licensee submitted information supporting its conclusion thatit was ready to restart Millstone Unit 2. The NRC staff stated that it was satisfied that Millstone Unit 2 conforms to its licensing bases, that an adequate corrective action l) program has been established, and that the licensee has demonstrated its ability to begin power operation. ~ The NRC staff reached this determination through extensive inspections spanning more than 2 years.

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Dear Congressman Forbes:

1 am responding to your letter of January 6,1999, in which you raised concems about the operating history of Millstone Unit 3 since it restarted in July 1998 and the continued lack of an emergency management plan for Eastern Long Island. You requested that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ensure that Mi!! stone Unit 2 remains closed, convene a public meeting on Long Island to discuss Northeast Utilities' plan to restart Millstone Unit 2, and permanently shut down Mi!! stone Unit 3.

The overall plant performance at Millstone Unit 3 since its restart in July 1998 has been generally typical of a plant returning to service after a lengthy shutdown. The five events noted in your letter (one shutdown, three manual trips, and one automatic trip) resulted in expected plant transients, and no abnormalities were observed either during the transients or during plant recovery. The overall risk significance of these plant shutdowns was low and plant operators responded well to the challenges, exhibiting conservative decisionmaking and deliberate efforts to ensure safety and compliance with procedural requirements. Licensee management has initiated an assessment of the number and severity of challenges facing the plant operations staff since the return to power operations. Recognition on the part of senior licenses management of the need for increased attention to this area, as well as to the reduction of existing operator burdens,is reflected in its recent initiative to provide a renewed " operational focus" to all activities and decisions affecting the unit.

In NRC Inspection Report 50-423/98 05, dated January 7,1999, the NRC staff addressed the multiple plant trips and stated that the licensee's response to these trips confirmed proper operator response to the plant and equipment challenges. The NRC staff further stated that continued licensee management attention must be directed toward reducing th.e backlog of equipment problems and other issues that have the potential to create future operational j

challenges to the Mi!! stone Unit 3 operations staff. The NRC staff believes that the operational history at Millstone since July 1998 does not warrant plant shutdown; however, we plan to continue increased regulatory oversight at Millstone Unit 3 until the plant establishes and maintains the appropriate level of safety performance.

t As discussed in your letter, on January 4,1999, water containing low levels of tritium and trace amounts of other radionuclides (a total of approximately 0.0217 curies) leaked out of the Millstone Unit 3 waste test tank before the licensee could isolate the leak. Heavy rain at that time carried the slightly contaminated water to Niantic Bay. A berm, which was designed to retain any water leaking from the tank, failed to contain the leak. The tritium release was diluted in Niantic Bay and doses were evaluated based on fish and seafood consumption, as l

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, this radioactivity would be 2.2 x 10* rem, as compared to the public~ dose limit from licensed activities,0.1 rom, found in 10 CFR 20.1301.) As is the situation with marine sites, we did not include the drinking water pathway in this estimate. The licensee has investigated why the berm did not contain the leak and has lined the berm with an impermeable membrane. After the appropriate analysis was performed on the remaining water in the waste test tank, the contents (more than 15,000 gallons) were released to Niantic Bay through the normal release path, which is a normal evolution at the plant and allowed under NRC regulations.

As discussed in my letter to you dated June 8,1998, proposals have been made to both increase and decrease the 10-mile emergency planni.:g zone (EPZ) distance since this policy was established following the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979. After consideration of these proposals and their supporting documentation and rationale, the Commission has consistently concluded that an EPZ of about 10 miles in radius provides an acceptable planning basis for emergency response, in your January 6 letter, you indicated that Northeast Utilities is assisting each of the five east end towns of Long Island and Suffolk County with creating a coordinated emergency plan and establishing an open line of communication to ensure that Eastem Long Island is considered when decisions are made regarding the Millstone plants.

I encourage the communities involved to continue the ongoing dialogue with Northeast Utilities, as well as appropriate state and county officials, to develop the plans they believe are needed.

With regard to Millstone Unit 2, the staff is utilizing NRC Inspection Manual Chapter (IMC) 0350,

" Staff Guidelines for Restart Authorization," as a guide for plant restart. As part of its execution of IMC 0350, the staff developed a Restart Assessment Plan to capture the NRC actions required before the NRC approves plant restart. Th' results of the NRC inspections and the s

status of Millstone Unit 2 plant readiness are discussed at periodic public meetings in the vicinity'of the Millstone site. The last such meeting was held on January 11,1999, rad was attended by s'everal members of citizens groups from Long Island. During the meetmg, the NRC staff answered questions from members of the public regarding many aspects of NRC

' regulatory oversight. As you are aware, the NRC staff also held a pubile meeting on Long Island on May 26,1998, to discuss emergency planning, and will continue to conduct periodic public meetings in the vicinity of Millstone to discuss activities at Millstone Station. The staff will conduct a similar meeting on Long Island prior to a Unit 2 restart decision.

. I assure you that a Commission decision authorizing the restart of Millstone Unit 2 will be made only when the Commission is satisfied that the conditions that led to the extended shutdown have been corrected to our satisfaction, regardless of the length of time that process may take.

The NRC staff is available to brief you or your staff on pertinent Millstone Station issues at your convenience.

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Your Long Island constituents are left unarmed to protect themselves in the event of a core accident at the Muistone plant, which is only 11 miles from Long Island shores. Being a Long Island resident, I am deeply concemed about the fad that I would be unable to evacuate in the event of an acddent. this reador should nor be alkmed to operate without adequate emergency planning in place for Lon0 Islanders I would also like to know how you can justify spendmg 8 50 mHhon dollars of New York State taxpayers

. money on deaning up Long Island when Millstone readors are allowed to radiate one mNiion geNons of Long Island Sound water per trunute to keep the readors cooled This radiation, a known carcinogen, concentrates in shellRah and other marine Ufe as it works its way up the food chain; as you know, your conalltuents on Lan0 island are very concemed about elevated rates of Enees, indudin0 chudhood cancerand breast cancer I am confident that you wul do all in you power to address this urimmardaNa 3ltugtkd Sincerely, N

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