ML20211G201
| ML20211G201 | |
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| Site: | 05000124 |
| Issue date: | 10/29/1986 |
| From: | NRC |
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| Download: ML20211G201 (2) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION q
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,,4 Environmental Assessment For Dismantling of Facility and Disposition of Component Parts for the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI)
Facility Operating License R-62 Docket No. 50-124 I.
Description of Proposed Action By application dated July 17, 1986, as supplemented, VPI requested authorization to decontaminate and dismantle the Argonaut reactor, to dispose of its component parts in accordance with the proposed dismantling plan, and to terminate Facility Operating License R-62.
The reactor has been shut down since 1983 and the fuel was shipped to DOE in 1985 and 1986.
II. Need for Proposed Action In order to prepare the facility for unrestricted access and use, the dismantling and decontamination activities proposed by VPI must be accomplished.
III. Alternatives to the Proposed Action The only alternative to the proposed dismantling and decontamination.
1 activities is to maintain the facility as a restricted area and permit the radioactive contamination to decay to acceptable levels.
Immediate plans are for VPI to construct another building adjacent to and attached to the building containing the reactor. When that construction is initiated, access to the reactor facility will be blocked, making removal of components extraordinarily expensive and disruptive. Therefore no other alternative was considered.
IV. Environmental Impact of Dismantling and Decontamination All decontamination will be conducted by trained personnel according to previously reviewed procedures and i.ill be overseen by experienced health physics staff. Solid and liquid wastes will be removed from the facility and managed in accordance with NRC requirements.
Personnel, waste, and emissions will be monitored during the operations and will continue to be "as low as is reasonably gg2onau MTg*
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achievabl.e"(ALARA); VPI has calculated that the collective dose equivalent for. workers.will be less than 1.7 person-rem and that total exposure for,the workers'and the general public will be less than 2.0
- peison-rem.
In' addition, VPI will decontaminate the facility in accordance with the requirements of Reg Guide 1.86 Table I and to a level of SpR/hr measured at one meter from the surface.
Based on the review'of the specific propo' sed activities associated with the dismantling and decontamination of the facility, the staff has determined that there will be no significant increase in the amounts of any effluents that may be released off site, and no significant increase sny individual or cumulative occupational or population radiation exposure.
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Agencies and Persons Consulted The staff has not consulted with other agencies.
VI. Conclusion Based on the foregoing considerations, he staff has concluced that there will be no significant environmental impact attributable to this proposed activity. Having reached this conclusion, the staff has further concluded that no Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed action need be prepared and that a No Significant. Environmental Impact Finding is appropriate.'
Principal Contributor: H.[ Bernard' Dated: October 29, 1986 l
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