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% f) b k October 13, 1988 For: The Comissioners From: John C. Hoyle. Assistant for Operations. Office of the EDO
Subject:
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 7,1988 A sumary of key events is included as a convenience to those Comissioners who may prefer a condensed version of this report.
Contents Encloture Administration and Resources Management A Nuclear Reactor Regulation B Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards C Nuclear Regulatory Research 0 Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data E Governmental & Public Affairs F General Counsel G*
Personnel H Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rights !*
Special Projects J*
Enforcement K Consolidation L*
Regional Offices M Executive Director for Operations N*
Items Addressed by the Comission 0 Meeting Notices P Proprietary or Other Sensitive Information (Not for Q external distribution)
- No input this week.
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John C. Hoyle, Assistant for Operations
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HJGHLIGHTS OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 7, 1988 Peach Bottom The staff met with the Philadelphia Electric Company on September 29, 1988 to discuss the results of PECo's self-as;assment of readiness for restart of the Peach Bottom units and other issues. PEco announced that their self-assessment report is now expected to be issued by October 7 which is a one week delay from the previously announced date. PECo also indicated that the operating shift crews would be given additional training on (Ge Peach Bottom simulator, in Columbia, Maryland. This training is in res;onse to observations of previous training activities on the PBAPS simulator by the licensee, the NRC staff and INPO. The additional training, and completion of other activities will extend the licensee's schedule for achieving readiness for restart.
The licensee's schedule now anticipates being ready for the staff's integrated assessment team inspectinn by November 14 and an NRC decision on restart by December 28, 1988.
Pilgrim Resta,rt Meetino Massachusetts State Liaison Officer Peter Agnes represented the Commonwealth at a meeting held by NRR and Region I on Pilgrim Restart at One White Flint North on October 5, 1988. Mr. Agnes expressed the Ccmonwealth's continued concerns with the adequacy of energency planning around Pilgrim.
Church Rock MOV Noticed in Federal Register The Memorandum Environmental of Understanding's(MOU)
Protection Agency between NRC's Region IV and the U.S.
(EPA's)RegionVIconcerningtheChurch Rock, New Mexico uranium mill site was published in the Federal Register on September 28, 1988 (53 FR 37887). The MOV was signed on August 29, 1988. The notice indicated that pubite coments could be submitted for consideration in any future amendments of the document and asked for coments by November 28, 1988.
4 0FFICE OF ADMINISTRATION AND RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS - 1988 For 4-Day Period of October 3,1988 - October 6,1988 Initial Appal of Request initial Decision Received This Week 1 0 Completed This Week 6 0 Carryovers From 1987 157 33 Received in 1988 504 44 Granted In 1988 394 21 Denied In 1988 172 43 Pending 95 13 ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received Richard Parrish Requests copies of NRC's internal policy or manual (88-504) provision authorizing NRC employees to submit differing professional opinions (DP0s), any DP0s submitted during calendar year 1988, and any reports or data indicating how employees filed such opinions in the past.
Granted Linds y Audin In response to a request for two categories of records (88-378) related to NUREG/CR-4828, made available 13 records.
Richard Waterman, In response to a request for the number of inspections West Virginia and violations for each month from January 1978, made University made available one record.
(88-426)
Linda Bauman. In response to a request for records related to the Government inspection by C. Hale and others for July 7,1988 Accountability through August 2, 1988, for the Comanche Peak nuclear power Project plant (Inspection Report Nos. 50-445/88-49and50-446/88-45),
(88-444) made available 13 records. Informed the requester that one additional record subject to this request is already available at the PDR.
OCTOBER 7, 1988 ENCLOSURE A
Denied Joseph Rhodes, in response to a request for eight categories of records Pennsylvania relating to the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant, made Public Utility available 41 records. Dcnied one record in its entirety Comission and portions of one record, disclosure of which would (88-478) tend to inhibit the open and frank exchange of ideas essential to the deliberative process, OCTOBER 7, 1988 ENCLOSURE A
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DIVISION OF CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 1
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT :
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CONTRACT AWARDED .
i RFP No.: RS-NMS-88-004 !
Title:
"Study Training and Experience Criteria for Personnel J Involved in the Medical Use of By product Material" l
Description:
The Contrar: tor shall conduct a study to assess '
training received by individuals, such as nuclear medicine j technologists, radiation technologists, and dosimetrists, ;
i which will be used in the development of training criteria ,
, for individuals involved in all uses of by-product '
- material.
Period of Performance: 13 months j Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Status: A cost-plus-fixed-fee type Contract No.
NRC-02-88-004 was awarded to SCM, Inc. in the amount of
- $141,748, effective September 30, 1988.
- RFP No.
- RS-ARM 88-210 '
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Title:
"Reference Facility Storage and Related Services"
Description:
The Contractor will operate NRC's Reference Facility for j storage of active reference inaterial. This will involve ,
- pick up and delivery services between the Reference i i Facility and all of NRC's Headquarters locations, i Period of Performance
- One year with a one-year option
- Sponsor: Office Administration and Resources Management
, Status: A fixed price requirements type Contract No. '
i NRC-39-88-210 was awarded to Alliance Moving & Storage in .
I the amount of $105,136 (Basic Year $52,568; Option Year l j $52,568),effectiveOctober3,1988 l
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Title:
"Performance Indicators at Nuclear Power Plants Vessel Steels"
Description:
Construct and test a model of the causal factors and indirect indicators that influence nuclear
! power plant safety to assist NRC in the early identification of potential safety problems.
Period of Performance: September 30, 1988 to July 31, 1989
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Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research 4 Status: A cost reimbursement type Contract No. NRC-04 88-093 j was awarded to University of Minnesota, Strategic Management Research Center,in the amount of $173.392.00, i effective September 30, 1988, i I I i
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Contracts Awarded under Phase I of The Small Business Innovation Research
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Title:
Development of a large Cross Sectional Area Self-Powered Detector"
Description:
Provide detailed analytical and experimental investigations of the use of various large surface area composite electrode structures in the development of a self-powered detector that can be used to monitor source position in radiographic equipment.
Period of Performance: September 30, 1988 through March 30, 1989 Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status: Fixed Price Contract No. NRC-04-88-101 was awarded to K.E.M.P.
Corporation in the amount of $48,117.00, effective September 30, 1988.
Title:
"Effect of Aging Response Time of Nuclear Plant Pressure Sensors"
Description:
Experimental research project to provide a means for effective testing of response time of pressure seasors typical of nuclear power plants.
Period of Perfomance: September 30, 1988 through March 30, 1989 Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status: Fixed Price Contract No. NRC-04-88-102 was awarded to Analysis &
Measurement Services Corporation in the amount of $49,775.00, effective September 30, 1988.
Title:
"Improved Model for Predicting J R Curves from Charpy Data"
Description:
Develop model for predicting J-R L;rves from Charpy Data.
This will provide greater confidence in the safety and life extension decisions that must be made in the future as U.S. nuclear power plants age.
Period of Perfonnance: September 30, 1988 through March 30, 1989 Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status: Fixed Price Contract No. NRC-04-88-103 was awarded to Modeling &
Computing Services in the amount of $49,974.53, effective September 30, 1988.
Title:
"Numerical Model Development for low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Sites"
Description:
Develop key model enhancements needed to enable modeling requirements at potential sites to be satisfied.
Period of Performance: September 30, 1988 through February 28, 1989 Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status: Fixed Price Contract No. NRC-04-88-104 was awarded to Hydrogeologic, Inc. in the amount of $49,522.00, effective September 30, 1988.
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I Contracts Awarded under Phase I of The Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)
Title:
"Evaluation of Reliability and Usefulness of External Initiator PRA Methodologies"
Description:
Evaluate the extent to which each category of external-initiator PRA methodologies, at its current state-of-the-art level, produces reliable and useful results and insights, in order to assist decision-makers in understanding both the benefits and the limitations of external-initiator PRA. '
Period of Performance: September 30, 1988 through March 30, 1989 Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status: Fixed Price Contract No. NRC-04-88-105 was awarded to Future Resources Associates, Inc. in the amount of $50,000.00, effective September 30, 1988.
Title:
"Microcomputer Based Parallel Processing System for Code Computations"
Description:
Develop a microcomputer-based system of hardware and software which will allow the user to execute mainframe based codes on the microcomputer. Parallel processing ability of the system will allow for "soft" coupling of codes and improving code running efficiency.
Period of Perfomance: September 30, 1988 through March 30, 1989 Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status: Fixed Price Contract No. NRC-04-88-106 was awarded to Risk Management Associates, Inc. in the amount of $50,000.00, effective September 30, 1988.
Q ntracts Awarded Unde Phase !! of The SBIR Program
Title:
"Time-Dependent Risk Evaluation for Aging and rechnical Specification Applications"
Description:
Extend FRANTIC ABC's capability to perform accurate time-dependent risk evaluations for aging and technical specification applications.
Period of Performance: September 30, 1988 through October 2, 1989 Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status' Fixed Price Contract No. NRC-04-88-107 was awarded to Applied Biomathematics, Inc. in the amount of $77,586.00, effective September 30, 1988.
Contracts Awarded Under Phase !! of The SBIR Program
Title:
"Analysis of State-of-the-Art Method for Containment Integrated Leak Rate Testing (ILRT)"
Description:
Investigate the effects of 8 ILRT analysis methods with respect to time of valid ILRT conclusions.
Period of Performance: September 30, 1988 through September 30, 1989 Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status: Fixed Price Contract No. NRC-04-88-108 was awarded to Sentry Equiprent Corporation in the amount of $75,000.00 with a fixed price $75,000.00 option, effective September 30, 1988.
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Title:
"Prediction of Check Valve Performance and Degradation in Nuclear
!- Power Plant Systems"
Description:
Research to develop a reliable quantitative wear and fatigue prediction model for swing check valves which can be used to <
3 improve safety and the reliability of their operation. l Period of Performance: September 30, 1988 through September 30, 1989 '
] Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research j Status: Fixed Price Contract No. NRC-04-88-109 was awarded to Kalsi i Engineering, Inc. in the amount of $50,000.00 with a fixed price ;
- $74,877.18 option, effective September 30, 1988 I l l
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ITEMS OF INTEREST !
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l On October 1,1988, Turkey Point Unit 3 ended a plant record run of 186 l
- consecutive days of on-line operation. The plant shut down because an RHR pump i l failed the seal leakage criteria during IST testing. During the shutdown, l
) there were 16 different equipment malfunctior'. Although the equipment t 1 malfunctions were mostly minor, the large num .r of them deserves to be i highlighted. The list of malfunctions follows: )
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! 1. N-31 source range detector spiked high. ;
4 2. N-32 source range detector spiked high. t 4
- 3. N-36 intermediate range detector stayed high. [
i 4 Auto level control did not work on "A" SG.
- 5. Indicating lights (open vs closed) were both on for "B" MSR steam stop i valve. .
i 6. Turbine auxiliary oil pump did not auto start.
i 7. Turbine bearing oil lift pump did not auto start.
- 9. "D" MSR timing valve did not reopen on demand, i
] 10. "B" containment hi range radiation monitor indicated outside acceptance 4
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- 11. SE bus lockout because breakers did not respond quickly enough after i tH pping turbine. Bus isolated itself.
- 12. "A" gland steam exhauster not functioning to remove steam energy.
j 13. Charging pump high speed annunciator failed to indicate when "A" charging (
- pump max flow demanded in auto, t
- 14. RCP #1 seal delta P indication for pump 3B was lower than for pumps 3A . (
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- 15. Charging pump control valve HCV-3-121 failed and went closed, j
- 16. Failure of HCV-3-121 caused charging pump "3a." to trip and resulted in
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weld fai?ure on charging pump discharge pressure relief line, j l i j The plant plans to take advantage of the shutdown to perform a number of 18 i
- month surveillances. Restart is not likely before about October 20. I Peach Bottom f l i The staff met with the Philadelphia Electric Company on September 29, 1988 to i discuss the results of PLCo's self-assessment of readiness for restart of the r Peach Bottom units and other issues. PECo announced that their self-assessment !
{ report is now expected to be issued by October 7 which is a one week delay from j the previously arnounced date. PEco also indicated that the operating shift j ciews would be given additional training on the Peach Bottom simulator, in ,
1 Columbia, Maryland. This training is in response to observations of previcus !
j training activities on the PBAPS simulator by the licensee, the NRC staff and t INPO. The additional training, and completion of other activities will extend i the licensee's schedule for achieving readiness for restart.
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The licensee's schedule now anticipates being ready for the staff's integrated assessment team inspection by Novembar 14 and an NRC decision on rostart by December 28, 1988.
Surry Units 1&2 Both of the Surry units are in cold shutdown c n cion. Unit I was shut down because of the design deficiency which may re>..i. in overloading of the diesels in certain circumstances. Unit 2 is in a refueling outage.
On September 30, 1988, the Safety System Functional Inspection (SSFI) team completed its second week of inspection on the service water system at Surry Units 1 and 2. On the last day, the SSFI team met with licensee's representatives and discussed its preliminary findings. At the conclusion of the meeting there was a common understanding that the following items should be resolved before resuming the operation of either unit.
- 1. Demonstration that the systems requi'ad to maintain service water canal inventory are capable of performing their function under a range of design conditions, including the most limiting design basis conditions, without taking credit for non-safety related systems.
- 2. Demenstration of the operability of the recirculation spray heat exchangers, control room chillers and charging pump cooling system to meet the design basis requircments.
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending October 7, 1988 LOW-LEVEL WASTE MANAGEMENT Church Rock MOU Noticed in Federal Register TheMemorandumofUnderstanding(MOU)betweenNRC'sRegionIVandtheU.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Region VI concerning the Church Rock, New Mexico uranium mill site was published in the Federal Register on September 28, 1988 (53 FR 37887). The MOV was signed on August 29, 1988. The notice indicated that public comments could be submitted for consideration in any future amendments of the document and asked for comments by November 28, 1988.
INDUSTRIAL AND MEDICAL NUCLEAR SAFETY Fuel Cycle Safety Babcock & Wilcox Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has seven facilities licensed by NMSS which are subject to the new regulations covering decomissioning. In order to gain a better understanding of the implications and implementation of these regulations, members of R&W management met with staff from INNS and LLWMD, as well as RES and 0GC, The discussions focused on e.lerification of issues related to means of providing financial assurance for decomissioning. Some of the questions raised by the B&W representatives are expected to be asked by other fuel cycle licensees as they assess the requirements. The decomissioning regulations are a logical topic for discussion at the next Fuel Cycle Workshop, tentatively planned for the spring of 1989.
Carolina Power and Light Company On October 4,1988, NRC staff met with Carolina Power and Light Company (CP&L) regarding CP&L's plans to submit a license application under 10 CFf Mart 72 for dry concrete module storage of spent fuel at CP&L's Brunswici im Electric Plant site. CP&L will submit in January 1989 an applica. ' *
- storage of 304 PWR spent fuel assemblies. These are to be stored modules of the NUTECH NUHOMS-7 type. This is the type previously u na..ucted for use at CP&L's H. B. Robinson 2 site (Dccket 72-3). An IF-300 shipping cask will be used to transfer spent fuel in a welded stainless steel canister from reactor to concrete module. ~
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2 Meeting with Ab8 Atom On October 4, 1988, NMSS staff met with representatives of ABB Atom to discuss arrangements made with Westinghouse Electric Corporation for manufacture and assembly of BWR fuel assemblies and burnable poison rods for use in the United States. The planned production activities will be conducted at the Westinghouse fuel fabrication facility in Columbia, South Carolina. ABB Atom, a subsidiary of Asea Brown-Boveri of Sweden, is a supplier of fuel, services, and maintenance to the nuclear industry.
SAFEGUARDS Domestic Headquarters Licensee Meeting On October 4-5, 1988 members of Safeguards Licensing Branch met with UNC Naval Product material control and accounting management personnel to discuss issues relating to their proposed Fundamental Nuclear Material (FNMC) Plan as required by the 10 CFR Part 74 HEU Reform Amendment. The issues were resolved and will be reflected in UNC's revised FNMC Plan submittal currently scheduled for January or February 1989. This plenned final submittal will be in response to our formalized second-round concents scheduled to be forwarded to UNC during November 1988.
TRANSPORTATION Transportation of Category I SNM In conjunction with ongoing NRC/ DOE review of transportation safeguards comparability, staff learned that DOE intends to continue transporting licensed Category I shipments from DOE facilities until a comercial carrier is available. Less that Category I shipments would continue to be made under NRC safeguards requirements.
HIGH LEVEL WASTE MANAGEMENT Implementation of MOU on Performance Assessment Capability Staff of NMSS and RES are developing detailed milestone schedules to carry out the objectives of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOV) between the Division of High-Level Waste Management, NMS$ and the Division of Engineering, RES that was signed September 1, 1988. The purpose of the MOU is to transfer the capability for perfomance assessment of high-level waste repositories that is being developed by Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) to a team of NRC staff from the two Divisions. Work under the MOU will consist of participation in an international effort to validate radionuclide transport models (INTRAVAL) and an effort to apply contractor developed models to Yucca Mountain data. The milestone schedules will be completed by the end of October and will ca'.1 for completion of a preliminary perfomance assessment by the end of FY89.
OCTOBER 7, 1988 ENCLOSURE C
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Items of Interest Week Ending October 7, 1988 l l
Risk Assessment Forum Colloquium l
On September 20, 1988, Thomas J. Nicholson and Timothy J. McCartin, Waste Management Branch, DE, RES and Richard Codell, Technical Branch, HLWM, NMSS attended EPA's Risk Assessment Forum Colloquium on "Aspects of Model Validation for Predictive Exposure Assessment" at EPA's Headquarters in Washington, D.C. ;
The NRC staff was invited to the colloquium to discuss their experiences in model validation studies particularly HYDROCOIN and INTRAVAL. Tom Nicholson, WMB, RES presented an invited paper entitled "Lessons Learned from HYDROCOIN and INTRAVAL". The attendees consisted of EPA staff and selected contractors.
The objective of the colloquium was to provide an open discussion among senior.
EPA staff from the various EPA regulatory offices, select contractors, and the NRC staff on experiences in model validation (i.e., air quality, environmental, water quality, and ground-water contamination). The fundamental questions that ,
the Forum wished to be addressed are related to the development of specific I
Agency-wide guidelines on model validation. The colloquium's discussions centered on definitions of the terms; calibration, verification, and validation.
Various speakers reviewed the need and relationship between model validation strategies and the use of uncertainty analysis, risk assessment models, sensitivity analysis, acceptance criteria, and performance measures of models.
The validation process for the various models seemed to be strongly linked to their specific applications (e.g., predictions for setting permitting conditions, and confirmations of regulatory standards development) and media (e.g., ground water, atmosphere, and surface water.) The NRC research program and experiences in model validation has many similarities to EPA's work. NRC-directed studies on ground-water model validation, however, are more narrowly focused on unsaturated flow and transport modeling due to NHSS's waste licensing needs.
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T.J. Nich9 son, 1 WMB, DE, RES EXT 2-3856 PREVENTING DAMAGE TO REACTOR CORES ECCS Research Compendium A staff report (NUREG-1230) supporting the recent ECCS rule has been completed. It is titled "Compendium of ECCS Research for Realistic LOCA Analysis" and is scheduled for publication in October 1988. The purpose of this report is to sumarize the LOCA and ECCS research and to serve as a bibliography for that extensive research effort. The report first sumarizes ENCLOSURE D OCTOBER 7, 1988
2 the understanding of LOCA phenomena in 1974. Next is a review of experimental and analytical programs performed since 1974 to address the phenomena. The results of that research provided a new understanding of the physical phenomena, which was then incorporated into NRC's best estimate computer codes. The report describes tecnnical aspects of those phenomena and then concludes with a discussion of probabilistic risk assessment results and the impact of research on the ECCS regulations.
Comments from KWU (Germany), JAERI (Japan), ACRS and LANL have been accommodated. The estimates of risk in Chapter 7 have been revised in accordance with the updated NUREG-1150 results. All changes have been sent to the contractor for incorporation into camera-ready pages.
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- Items of Interest Office for Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data Week Ending October 7, 1988 Diagnostic Evaluation and Incident Investication Branch (OEIIB)
On October 6, the 00A Division Director briefed Commissioner Carr on pre-liminary findings from the Fermi Diagnostic Evaluation in preparation for the Commissioner's visit to the Fermi site.
Incident Response Branch (IRB)
On October 5, IRB staff held a briefing for Commissioners' Assistants on NUREG-1210, concentrating on protective action decisionmaking philosophies.
On October 5, the AE00 Director, 00A Division Director, IRB Chief and staff held a meeting with NUMARC representatives to discuss industry actions regarding develop.nent of protective action level guidance.
On October 6, an IRB staff member attended a meeting of the Food and Health Effects Advisory Group which was formed to develop national guidt. ice to support the :tates if COSMOS 1900 was to impact the United States. Be'.ause of experience derived from planning for COSMOS 1900, it was deciJ ed that such a group will be included in the Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan (FRERP).
On October 6, the IRB chief and staff held a conference call with Regional Emergency Response Coordinators and their management to dis'uss items pertaining to the response program, particularly the applica3ility of the NRC drug testing program on NRC Incident Response team members.
Preliminary Notification The following Preliminary Notifications were issued during the past week,
- a. PNO-I-88-100, Syncor Corporation (License No. 29-19608-01 MO), Automobile Accident Involving Radiopharmaceutical Delivery Vehicle,
- b. PNO-I-88-101, Northeast Nuclear Energy Company (Millstone Nuclear Station Unit 3), Unplanned Shutdown in Excess of 48 Hours. /
- c. PNO-IV-88-81, Gulf States Utilities (River Bend Station), Outage Greater Than 72 Hours.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 7, 1988 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS:
Foreign Visitors On Thursday the Washington representative for the Tokyo Electric Power Company, Mr. Akira Omoto, mec with Howard Faulkner and Kevin Burke to discuss TEPCO's nuclear power program; upcoming visitors from Japan; the October 12 NRC technical tean visit to the Fukushima nuclear power station; and increasing anti-nuclear feelings in Japan.
On Friday an eight-member delegation from Japanese records management organizations met with the Division of Information Support Services to learn about NRC's record keeping system and use of automated systems.
Meetings with OECD/NEA and IAEA Michael Congdan, Assistant Director for International Coo 9eration, returned on October 7 from visits to Paris and Vienna. In Paris he attended first time.the In NIA Steering Vienna, Coninittee he and MarjorieasMahy Deputy (U.S. held GPA/IP) Representative for the consultations with IAEA staff on nuclear safety, radiation protection, and technical ;
cooperation issues. The Vienna meetings marked the second time this year l that GPA/IP has arranged discussions with IAEA staff members to obtain information and exchange views on Agency priorities; the first meeting was in February. GPA/IP hopes that through sut.h meetings NRC can generate greater visibility and awareness among Agency staff regarding NRC's programs and priorities and perhaps influence IAEA safety and radiation protection programs.
STATE, LOCAL AND INDIAN TRIBE PROGRAMS 1388 All Agreement State Meeting The All Agreement State Meeting was held on October 5-7, 1988 in Potomac, Maryland. Comissioner Carr gavt the keynote address to the representatives from the 29 Agree:ent States. The meeting included a panel on materials safety chaired by Robert Martin, Region IV Administrator. The panel included renresentatives from the NRC and the States. Harold Denton, Director of Governmental and Public Affairs, spoke on the national and international aspects of materials regulation.
Hugh Thompson, Director of Nuclear hterial Safety and Safeguards, discussed new initiativas in materf -s regulation. Other areas discussed were: NARM; low-level waste; and decomissioning. Another panel of State and NRC representatives discussed operating events focusing on the RSI incident, the SPEC 2T incident and the 3M Static Eliminators incident. A 1
workshop was held on the final day of the meeting on "effective presentation".
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CRCPD NARM Workshop The Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Inc. (CRCPD) conducted a NARM Wcrkshop on October 2-4, 1988 in Potomac, Maryland. The workshop included representatives from 1.he Federal government, State governments (both Agreement and non-Agreement States), industry and national organizations. A final report with recommendations is expected to result from this workshop.
Meeting with IDNS on Plant Observations Representatives from the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety (IDNS) met with Region III staff on October 7, 1988 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The purpose of the meeting was discuss IDNS's request for a State representative to accompany NRC Inspectors as an observer on a number of inspections at the Illinois nuclear power facilities. The IDNS request is considered part of this individual's training and qualification program prior to assuming his responsibilities us the Illinois Resident Engineer at the LaSalle County Nuclear Power Station.
Missouri Considering Plant Observation at Callaway The Missouri State Liaison Officer has indicated to Region III that the State may be interested in accompanying NRC inspectors as an observer at the Callaway nuclear power plant. The State is currently examining the scope of what would be required to perform such an observation role.
FEMA Radiological Emergency Planning Conference Robert Trojanon ski, Director of Region II State and Government Affairs Staff, attended the FEMA Region IV Radiological Emergency Planning Conference in Atlacta, Georgia on October 3-6, 1988. The Conference provided an opportunity for Statc, local, Federal and utility emergency
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planning officials to discuss programatic issues and concerns of mutual interest.
Pilgrim Restart Meeting l Massachusetts State Liaison Officer Peter Agnes represented the Comonwealth at a menting held by NRR and Region I on Pilgrim Restart at One White Flint North on October 5, 1988. Mr. Agnes expressed the Comonwealth's continued concerns with the adequacy of emergency planning around Pilgrim.
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL ITEMS OF INTEREST Week Ending October 7, 1988 Arrivals and Departures Eleven new employees reported for work in many offices and regions, and in a variety of occupations. NRR gained Maureen Hunemuller, Operations Engineer.
Neal Hunemuller, Reactor Engineer and David Solorio, General Engineer. HMSS gained Norman Eisenberg, Operations Analyst and AEOD gained Thaddeus Allen, Senior Health Physicist. Other Headquarters hires were Thomas Baldesi, Communications Specialist, ARM, and Patricia Jehle, Legal Intern / Attorney, OGC. Region Il gained Bonny Rosenbaum, Health Physicist while Region III gained Michael Bielby, Reacter Engineer, Samuel Mulay, Radiation Specialist and Cheryl Goines, Word Processing Operator.
Eleven departures in:luded three retirements from NRR: Samuel Bryan, Senior Operations Engineer; Joseph Buzy, Senior Reactor Engineer; and Bernard Mann, Reactor Engineer. Betty Wagman, Senior Management Analyst, also retired from CONS. Other departures were: Carol Eberhard, Senior Policy Analyst from GPA:
Diane Fioravante, Senior Resource Analyst and Irwin Spickler, Physical Scientist, both from NRR; Laura Toms, Coordinator, Word Processing Systems and Marcia Bell, Secretary, both from ARM; Lisa Williams, Secretary from NMSS; and Jewel Rodgers, Word Processing Operator from Region III.
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Office of Enforcement Items of Interest Week Ending October 7, 1988 The following Significant Enforcement Actions were taken the week of October 3, 1988.
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $1,250 was issued on September 30, 1988 to Wise Appalachian Regional Hospital Wise, Virginia. The action was based on a failure to: (1) label syringes or syringe shields containing radiopharmaceuticals; (2) label vial radiation shields that contain a vial of radiopharmaceuticals; (3) issue written permission to a visiting physician as an authorized user; (4) post a restricted area; (5) conduct a quarterly Radiation Safety Committee meeting; (6) perform a formal annual review of the radiation safety program; (7) provide in-service and initial training to ancillary personnel; and (8) perform quarterly dose calibrator linearity tests. The base civil penalty was decreased by 50%
based on the licensee's prompt and extensive corrective actions. (EN 88-80)
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $2,500 and an Order Modifying License, Effective imediately and Order to Show Cause was issued on October 6, 1988 to Penn Inspection Company, Chickasha, Oklahoma. The action was based on a source hang-up incident during radiography operations which included failure to utilize personnel monitoring devices, to have access to and follow emergency procedures, to straighte,. the source transfer tube prior to conducting radiography and to observe and record the performance of a radiographer who had not participated in radiographic operations in more than 3 months. The Order Modifying License prohibits the radiographer involved from acting as a radiographer for the licensee without specific NRC approval. The base civil penalty was mitigated by 50% due to good prior performance. (EN 88-81)
Civil Penalty Paid Virginia Electric and Power Company (Surry Power Station Units 1 and 2) paid the proposed civil penalty in the amount of $100,000. The action was based on violations which included the failure to: (1) control an individual's occupational radiation exposure to less than 3 rems per calendar quarter; (2)adequatelyevaluatetheradiationhazards reactor vessel flange in Unit I containment;3)(present during adequately work on the instruct individuals working in a restricted area; (4) have an adequate procedure for purposes of administering a Radiation Work Permit program; (5) provide radiation monitoring devices to personnel entering into high radiation areas; (6) post areas whore respirators were required by health physics; and (7) perform adequate surveys to evaluate the extent of airborne radioactive material present. The base civil penalty was increased by 100% based on the licensee's past poor performance. (EA 88-158) j i
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ITEMS OF INTEREST REGION II WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 7, 1988
- 1. On October 6. representatives of Duke Power Company met in the Regional Office to participate in an enforcement conference regarding the fouling of the reactor building cooling units at the Oconee Nuclear Power Station.
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- 1. Region IV met October 3, 1988, with Public Service Company of Colorado management personnel to discuss welding issues related to recent inspections at Fort St. Vrain.
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ITEMS ADDRESSED BY THE COMMISSION - Week Ending October 7, 1988 A. AFFIRMATION / DISCUSSION AND VOTE, 11:30 A.M., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1988, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, ONE WHITE FLINT NORTH, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, 30 PEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE) - SECY to Memorandum for the Record dated 10/6/88 I. Commission Order on Seabrook - Partial Decision on Financial Oualification Issues The Commission *, with all Commissioners agreeing, approved an order which requires the applicants for Seabrook Nuclear Station, Unit 1 to provide the Commission, within 30 days of the date of this Order, adequate documentation of their plan and appropriate commitments under that plan to provide reason-able assurance that adeguate funding for decosmissioning will be available in the event that low power operations have occurred and a full power license is not granted for Seabrook, Unit 1. The Order also sets the schedule and scope for parties wishing to challenge the applicant's filing.
In the matter of the certified petition for waiver of certain aspects of its financial qualification rules and other financial qualification issues addressed in ALAB-895, tre commission has not yet completed it deliberation.
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5841,.provides that action of the Commission shall be determined by a majority vote of the members present. Chairman Zech was not present when this item was affirmed. Accordingly, the formal vote of the Commission was 3-0 in favor of the decision. Chairman Zech, however, had previously indicated )
that be would approve this paper and had been present, he would l have affirstd his prior vote.
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ATTENDEES NRR CONTACf i m DATE/ TIME 1 10/11/88 50-317, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear BG8E shall give presen- NRC/BG8E S. McNeil
) 1:00-4:00 318 Power Plant tation on the status of Maryland Rts 2 & 4 impiementing corrective P.O. Bcx 1535 actions for previously Lusby, MD 20657 identified weakness in the Nuclear Engineering Services Department.
10/13/88 50-313, White Flint Bldg. To discuss a number of long- NRC/ Arkansas C. Harbuck 8:30 368 Rocc 10B-11 standing safety issues to Power & Light Co.
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i I 10/13/88 50-029 White Flint Bldg. Routine monthly scheduling NRC/ Yankee M. Fairtile j 8:30-10:00 Room 14D-10 and prioritization meeting. Nuclear Power St.
10/13/88 50-267 ft. St. Vrain Site To discuss potential NRC/Ft. St. Vrain K. Heitner 12:30-4:00 (Visitor's Center) deconmiissioning and State of Colorado Platteville, C0 conversten of
? Fort St. Vrain Station 10/14/88 50-267 Ft. St. Vrain Site To discuss potential NRC/Ft. St. Vrain K. Heitner 8:00-11:30 (Visitor's Center) deconunissioning and State of Colorado Platteville, C0 conversion of Fort St. Vrain Station 1
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$ To make maximum use of NRC L. Reiter 10/17/88 White Flint Bldg.
8:30-5:00 Room 148-11 of seismic margins methodologies in the imple-10/18/88 White Flint Bldg. mentation of the severe 8:30-5:00 Room 10B-11 accident policy statement, several issues have arisen which may require extensions to the original methodologies.
50-395 Y.C. Summer Nuclear Stn. To discuss the status of NRC/ Utility J. Hayes 10/18/88 1:30 Jenkinsville, S.C. licensing activities.
White Flint 81dg. To discuss state of the art MRC/ITI S. Newberry 10/25/88 9:00-12:00 Room 78-9 technology and the applica-tion of the Swedish ASEA Master System in the U.S.
50-269, White Flint Bldg. To discuss Duke's corporate NRC/Catawtu D. Hood 10/28/88 Nuclear Station 11:00-1:00 270, 287 Room 148-11 approach regarding QA 413, 414 surveillance and audit 369, 370 techniques.
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'M 03 10/12/88 WF 6B-11 Implementation of Clean JHickey JHickey Air Act NMSS staff 10/12/88 King of Prussia Attend FY89 program GSjoblom GSjoblom Region I direction and plans Region I staff 10/13/88 40-8820 WFN Rm 68-13 Meeting with Amax & DOE to GlaRoche GlaRoche discuss turning Anax's waste LRouse cell over to DOE under 151(c) JSwift RFonner, DGC SMiller, DOE Amax Reps.
10/18-20/88 DOE, Forrestal Explort .ory Shaft FacF > HLWM staff KStablein Washington, DC Meeting DOE staff States / tribes 10/27/88 11:00a.m. Commissioner's 2nd ACHW Mtg with Commissioners HLWM staff WWalker m
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