ML20207F917

Advises That Effluent Data for 1986 & Previous Yrs Reviewed & Listed Table Contains Cumulative Releases for 1986

ML20207F917
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Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	06/21/1988
From:	Sjoblom G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Kirby E MASSACHUSETTS, COMMONWEALTH OF
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NUDOCS 8808230286
Download: ML20207F917 (3)

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l The Honorable Edward P. Kirby Consnonwealth of Massachusetts 1 Massachusetts Senate State House, Room 413-H Boston, Massachusetts 02133

Dear Mr. Kirby:

During a telephone conversation with Marie Miller, Region I State Liaisen Officer, on May 24, 1988, you asked if there were any abnonnal releases from Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in April 1986. You said that a constituerit of your district mentioned there was a report by Mr. Ralph Nader 'which may indicate that unusual releases occurred during this time period.

We have reviewed the effluent data for 1986 and previous years. The following table contains the cumulative releases from Pilgrim for 1986 and for the seven years prior to 1986. As the table indicates, radioactive effluent releases for 1986 were not unusual in magnitude compared to previous years, and for the most part, were substantially lower than previous years. All of these releases were in conformance with federal rw.latory requirements and pose negligible radiation risk to people offsite.

PILGRIM STATION RADI0 ACTIVE EFFLUENT DATA 1979-1986 CAPACITY N0BLE AIRBORNE NON TRIATED LIQUID YEAR FACTOR GASES TRITIUM LIQUIDS TRITIUM 79 82.5 13,875Ci 156Ci 0.51Ci 13.4C1 80 51.7 26,062Ci 44Ci 2.74Ci 40.001 81 58.7 4,488Ci 77Ci 1.95Ci 34.001 82 56.0 19,413Ci 19Ci 0.78Ci 5.9Ci 83 80.3 19,991Ci 60Ci 0.94Ci 15.6Ci 84 0.1 18.4Ci 1.8Ci 4.75Ci 14.8Ci 85 84.4 3,259Ci 7.2Ci 1.13Ci 12.5Ci 86 17.5 126Ci 4.5Ci 0.13Ci 8.101 As we do not have copies of the Nader reports, we are not sure what your constituent is referring to. An event occurred on April 11-12, 1986, in which an unplanned shutdown occurred in the process of achieving a cold shutdown.

However, no unusual radioactive releases occurred as a result of the shutdown.

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