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s November 5, 1986 For:
The Commissioners From:
T. A. Rehm, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO
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WEEKLY INF0FMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1986 A sumary of key events is included as a convenience to those Commissioners who may prefer a condensed version of this report.
Contents Enclosure Administration A
Nuclear Reactor Regulation B
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards C
Inspection and Enforcement D*
Nuclear Regulatory Research E
General Counsel F*
International Programs G
State Programs H*
Resource Management Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data J*
Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rights K*
Regional Offices L*
CRGR Monthly Reports M*
Executive Director for Oper.' ions h*
Items Addressed by the Cemission 0
Meeting Notices P
Proprietary or Other Sensitive Infnrmation (Not for Q
externaldistribution)
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T. A. Rehn, nse;sTTrit for Oper'ations Office of the Executive Director for Operations
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HIGHLIGHTS OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1986 Radioactive Biohazardous Weste
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Division of Waste Management staff met on October 23, 1986 with representatives from the Environmental frotection Agency (EPA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Health Care i"
Financing Administration (HCFA), Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH), and the State of Maryland to discuss the current status of the regula-tion of Radioactive 81ohazardous Waste (R8W).
Based on these discussions, the staff understands that there are no federal regulations governing R8W, and that these wastes are being regulated either by respective states or through guidance developed by HHS. This guidance is mostly general, rather than specific.
EPA does not have specific regulations on R8W, although the agency has the authority j
to regulate such wastes under the Resources Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA).
The staff continues to gather more information and plans-to develop a regulatory position for NRC on this issue.
Beatty License Renewal l
On September 25, 1986, the Director of the Nevada Department of Human Resources i
informed U.S. Ecology Inc. that the company could continue to operate the Beatty LLWDF during the formal license renewal process.
Nevada is an Agreement State and has established its own administrative procedures for ifcensing. Ac-1 cording to NRC procedures, the license would have been in timely renewal since 1980. Much of the information contained in the licensee's 1980 renewal applica-j tion is, by now, out of date.
The Itcensee was instructed in a July 1986 i
meettag, and follow-up letter from the supervisor of the Nevada Radiological l
Health section, of the minimum technical content of the amended license appli-l cation.
Since the license renewal process is likely to take a year or more, i
some interim licensing action may be warranted.
NRC staff is scheduled to meet with Nevada officials on November 20, 1986 to discuss the situation.
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Alleged Falsification Concerning Quality Assurance Program i
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There has been considerable publicity concerning a wanted felon (Gary McChain) l who has alleged that he has worked at five nuclear facilities under an alias.
In addition to reportedly being offered bribes to falsify welds, he reportedly
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was aware of other incidents similar in nature.
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he has worked at fise facilities; four under construction and one operating reactor.
It has also been determined that he had quality assurance responsi-bilities and had unescorted access to vital areas.
The FBI has assumed investigative jurisdiction and 0I is also investigating.
NMS$ and IE are l
l actively assisting in this investigation.
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OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending October 31, 1986 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision Carryovers,1985 181 15 Received, 1986 776 211 Granted 581 85 Denied 182 67 Pending 194 80 ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received Kath Buffington, Requests all records pertaining to the licensing, The Bradford operations, inspections, accidents, incidents or other Era activity at the former Curtiss-Wright reactor in (86-764)
Quehanna, Pennsylvania.
Barry Lee Myers, Requests a list of contracts with vendors of weather Accu-Weather services and a list of contracts with three specified Inc.
firms.
(86-765)
Andrew Bedo, Requests copies of NRC license 37-20826-01 and its Nuclear Sources conditions.
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& Services, Inc.
(86-766)
Daniel Rexford, Requests a copy of Contract No. NRC-10-85-212.
Carltech Associates, Inc.
(86-767)
(NRCemployee)
Requests a copy of a specified OIA report.
(86-768)
Donald Jacobs, Requests a copy of Contract No. NRC-33-86-282.
Pualu Electrorics Corporation (86-769)
CONTACT:
Donnie H. Grimsley 492-7211 OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE A m-m..
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2 Received, Cont'd James Wallace, Requests all records dated in 1986 to and from Seattle Post-reporters or editors for the Seattle Times newspaper.
Intelligencer (86-770)
William Hamel, Requests copies of public comments and AEC/NRC records Hamel & Park regarding specified definitions and other matters (86-771) related to 10 CFR 40.4 (NRCemployee)
Requests two categories of records regarding Vacancy (86-772)
Announcement No. 86-2827-3.
Nicholas Fioravante, Requests records related to the Unresolved Safety Issue, TERA Corporation Decay Heat Removal.
(86-773)
Steven Aftergood, Requests two categories of records related to a suspected Committee to sabotage incident on May 14, 1986, at the Palo Verde Bridge the Gap nuclear power plant.
(86-774)
Steven Aftergood, Requests records created since January 1, 1985, which Committee to consider the design basis threat and discuss proposed Bridge the Gap changes to it.
(86-775)
Steven Sholly, Requests five categories of records related to a MHB Technical September 9-12, 1986 symposium, " Chemical Phenomena Associates Associated with Radioactivity Releases During Severe (86-776)
Nuclear Plant Accidents," at the American Chemical Society meeting.
Billie P. Garde, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for the release of the denied Government portions of two records regarding a request for Accountability records regarding drug abuse at the Comanche Peak nuclear Project power plant.
(86-A-206-86-217)
Billie P. Garde, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for the release of the denied Government portions of two records in NRC's October 1,1986 Acccountability response to a request for records generated or Project prepared by Victor Stello since his appointment as (86-A-207-86-53, Acting Executive Director for Operations.
86-54,and86-55)
OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE A
3 Received, Cont'd Billie P. Garde, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for the release of 19 records Government denied in their entirety and the denied portions of Accountability 11 records in NRC's October 1,1986 response regarding Project requests for records generated or prepared by Victor Stello 86-A-208-86-80) since his appointment as Acting Executive Director 86-A-209-86-82) for Operations.
86-A-210-86-126 86-A-211-86-127 86-A-212-86-131 86-A-213-86-166 86-A-214-86-201 86-A-215-86-209 86-A-216-86-263 Billie P. Garde, APPEAL TO THE ED0 for the lack of response to a request Government for records regarding the non-compliance of an NRC Accountability fire protection rule issued in November 1980 at the D.C.
Project Cook nuclear power plant.
(86-A-217-86-718)
Granted Kathleen Maloney, In response to a request for a copy of SECY-84-124A and a Public Utilities December 12, 1985 letter to Congress from Chairman Commission, State Palladino regarding NUREG-1055, informed the requester of California that the two records subject to this request are already (86-713) available at the POR.
Linda Bauman, In response to a request for records related to the Government June 7-17, 1986 inspection of TERA's QA Program for the Accountability Comanche Peak Program, 50-445/86-17,50-446/86-14 Project informed the requester that one record subject to this (86-725) request is already available at the PDR.
Walter Meixner In response to a request for a list of the names and (86-731) addresses of all certified users of radioactive materials in the State of Michigan, made available the requested list.
Gladys Stein In response to a request for current licenses for l
(86-739) radioactive materials for Rockwell, Litton, Lockheed, and Ocean Technology, made available 12 records.
Informed the requester that the NRC has no licenses for Litten and Ocean Technology.
Gregory Holmes, In response to a request for all NRC " Daily Highlight" MHB Technical memoranda for NRC Docket Nos. 50-275 and 50-323 (Diablo Associates Canyon Units I and 2) from June 1, 1981, through (86-744)
October 1, 1986, made available 33 records.
OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLO5VRE A
4 Granted, Cont'd Stephen Letourneau.
In response to a request for a copy of EPRI-NP-2611, Service for Volume 2 entitled, " Main Coolant Pump Shaft Seal Evaluating Reliability Investigation," informed the requester Regulatory Changes that he may obtain a copy by contacting the Research (86-753)
Reports Center in California.
Cindee Virostek, In response to a request for completed NRC Forms 173 Kiski Valley that pertain to B&W facilities in Apollo and Parks Coalition Township, Pennsylvania, made available one record.
(86-755)
Donald Jacobs, In response to a request for a copy of Contract No.
Pualu Electronics NRC-33-86-282, informed the requester that this record Corporation is already available at the PDR.
(86-769)
Denied Frederick Smith, In response to a request for specified records concerning Vorys, Sater, the breaching of the encapsulation of sealed well logging Seymour and sources, made available 231 records.
Informed the Pease requester that additional records subject to this request (86-501) are already available at the PDR.
Denied one record in its entirety containing predecisional advice, opinions, and recommendations of the staff.
Denied portions of 38 records, disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion.of personal privacy.
Denied one record in its entirety and portions of one record containing confidential business (proprietary) information.
Joseph Kriesberg, In response to a request for eight categories of records Critical Mass regarding the Browns Ferry and Sequoyah nuclear power Energy Project plants, made available five records.
Informed the (86-639) requester that additional records subject to this request are already available at the PDR.
Denied portions of one record, disclosure of which would tend to inhibit the open and franic exchange of ideas essential to the deliberative process.
Stephanie Murphy, in response to a request for two categories of records Nuclear regarding a loss of coolant accident at a foreign Information and reactor, which was discussed at a July 28, 1986 meeting Resource Service with the Operating Reactors Assessment Staff, made (86-696) available one record.
Denied six records in their entirety because the information was submitted and received in confidence from a foreign source.
OCT0 DER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE A
5 Denied, Cont'd Laurie Fowler, In response to an APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for the-Law Offices of release of 11 denied records regarding a request for Brian Spears records related to the NRC investigation into the (86-A-140-86 43) complaints of three named individuals regarding alleged illegal and improper procedures and practices at the Vogtle nuclear power plant, made available seven records.
Denied portions of two records, disclosure of which would interfere with an enforcement proceeding and would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
Denied portions of two records, disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT DIVISION OF CONTRACTS WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1986 PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION RFP No.: RS-NRR-86-051
Title:
" Technical Assistance in Support of NRC Reactor Licensing Activities"
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Description:==
Performance of technical evaluations in support of licensing actions and other support work on licensing activities including:
generic and plant-specific safety assessments, Near Term Operating Licenses (NTOLs), generic issue resolution, risk assessments, and analyses of operating reactor experience.
Period of Performance: Three years plus option for two years Sponsor: Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Status: RFP closed on October 30, 1986. Proposals forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on October 31, 1986.
RFP No.: RS-ADM-87-173
Title:
" Career Counseling"
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Description:==
Provide career counseling services to the NRC Headquarters and related support for the NRC Regional Offices.
Period of Performance: Two years Sponsor: Office of Administration Status: RFP closed and proposals forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on October 30, 1986.
RFP No.: RS-0GC-87-316
Title:
"NRC Practice and Procedure Digest"
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Review NRC, ASLAB and ASLB decision to identify rulings affecting NRC practice and procedure.
Also, prepare abstracts of rulings for purposes of updating the NRC Digest.
Period of Performance: 24 months Sponsor: Office of the General Counsel Status: RFP closed and proposals forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on October 30, 1986.
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OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE A
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION ITEMS OF INTEREST Week Ending October 31, 1986 Seabrook, Unit 1 On October 22, 1986, at about 6 p.m. Public Service of New Hampshire began loading fuel into the Seabrook. Unit I reactor vessel. A license authorizing fuel load and precritical testing was issued on October 17, 1986.
Perry Unit No. 1 Low power testing of Perry Unit No. I was completed on October 22, 1986 and a controlled shutdown ~ commenced at 2:40 p.m. on-that date. A 2E-day maintenance outage has commenced. The licensee currently expects the unit to be ready for operation above 5 percent power by November 15, 1986.
Shearon Harris On October 24, 1986, Facility Operating (License No. NPF-53 was issued authoriz-CP&L) to conduct low power testing ing the Carolina Power & Light Company and operation of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1, at up to but not to exceed 5 percent of rated core power. CP&L expects to complete low power testing and be ready for full power operation in January 1987.
Braidwood Station, Unit 1 On October 17, 1986, the NRC issued a license for Braidwood Station, Unit 1 authorizing fuel loading and precritical testing. The first fuel assembly was loaded at 2022 on October 25, 1986. As of 0930 on October 27, 1986, 36 of the 193 total assemblies were loaded.
Fuel loading activities are proceeding in an orderly manner; the Resident Inspectors are witnessing the activities.
OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE B
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. During the current refueling outage for ANO-1. Arkansas Power and Light Company performed the 10-year inservice inspection of the "A" Reactor Coolant Pump casing. Radiography of one vertical weld in the pump casing showed a weld defect about.six inches long. On comparing the radiograph with a computer enhancement of the original radiograph of this weld, the licensee detemined that the weld defect has been in the pr.ap casing since the initial operation and has not changed since that time. The licensee has also reviewed a computer.
enhancement of the original radiograph of the welds of RCP "B" and discovered a defect. These same defects in RCPs "A" and "B" were subsequently identified by an enhancement UT technique and were confimed by this technique. The licensee concludes that the weld defect in RCP "B" casing has not grown or changed since the inservice date. The licensee has performed analyses on the 3
l pump casings which they maintain support the structural integrity of the pump casing. The licensee is planning on requesting relief from the ASME Code requirements to perform inspections on more pump casings.
Additionally, during an inspection of the High Pressure Injection nozzles of ANO-1, severe corrosion or wastage on the external surface of the "A" HPI nozzle due to boric acid was discovered. The inspection of the HPI nozzles was being performed in response to a comitment to perfom ISI of those nozzles which had loose or damaged sleeves in 1982. The area of nozzle where the corrosion was found is in the lower quadrant of the nozzle exterior. The inside diameter of the nozzle at the corrosion is.2".
The corrosion is as much as one-inch deep and is the result of borated water which leaked from
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the bonnet of a valve in the HPI line into the insulation and collected at the lower quadrant of the HPI nozzle area.
It has been' postulated that when i
the borated water came in contact with the nozzle, it evaporated, leaving boron crystals which melted from the heat of the pipe and attacked the carbon
- steel. No other nozzles were affected. Present plans are to bring out the affected area and fill it up with weld material.
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NRC TMI-2 CLEANUP PROJECT DIRECTORATE WEEKLY STATUS REPORT FOR OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 2, 1986 1.
DEFUELING The core drilling rig has drilled 101 holes through the hard crust at the top of the remaining core material. The test pattern area (19 holes) has been drilled down through_part of the region containing fuel pins. These-holes'end approximately 2 inches above the bottom spacer grid on the fuel assembly. Removal of the drilled fuel pin material from the test pattern area is scheduled for Monday, November 3,1986. This will check the effectiveness of drilling fuel pins as a defueling technique.
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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sample analysis results show that TMI site liquid effluents are in accordance with regulatory limits, NRC requirements, and The City of Lancaster Agreement.
The Lancaster water sample taken at the water works river intake and analyzed by EPA consisted of a seven day composite sample taken October 12 - 18, 1986. A gamma scan detected no reactor related activity.
TMI water samples taken by EPA at the plant discharge (includes Units 1 and 2) to the river consisted of seven daily composite samples taken from October 11_- 18, 1986.
A~ gamma scan detected no reactor related activity.
The EPA analyses of the NRC outdoor air sample for the period October 23 -'31, 1986 showed that concentrations of Cs-137 and I-131 were below the lower limit of quantitative detection (LLD) for the system. The LLD varies around a value of IE-13 uCi/cc.
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AUXILIARY AND FUEL HANDLING BUILDING ACTIVITIES Decontamination of the seal injection cubicles continues.
Reclamation of clogged Defueling Water Cleanup System-(DWCS) filter canisters by flushing with hot boric acid is in progress.
Modifications are in progress to the fuel handling building (FHB) ventilation system. These modifications are in support of the installation of an engineered safety feature grade FHB ventilation system for TMI-1 as mandated by the TMI-1 restart license conditions.
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NRC EVALUATIONS IN PROGRESS Technical Specification Change Request numbers 49, 51, 52, and 54.
Recovery Operations Plan Change numbers 31 and 33.
OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE B
Solid Waste Facility Technical Evaluation Report.
Heavy Load Safety Evaluation Report, Revision 3.
Disposal of Processed Water Report..
Safety Evaluation Report for Use of Plasma Arc Cutting Torch.
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MEETING The next meeting of the Advisory Panel is tentatively scheduled for December 10, 1986.
Exact time and location of the meeting will be announced in the future.
Persons desiring to speak before the Advisory Panel are requested to contact Mr. Thomas Smithgall at 717-291-1042, or write him at 2122 Marietta Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17603.
OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE B
j OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending October 31, 1986 Alleged Falsification Concerning Quality Assurance Program There has been considerable publicity concerning a wanted felon (Gary McChain) who has alleged that he has worked at five nuclear facilities under an alias.
In addition to reportedly being offered bribes to falsify welds, he reportedly was aware of other incidents similar in nature.
It has been established that he has worked at five facilities; four under construction and one operating reactor.
It has also been determined that he had quality assurance responsi-bilities and had unescorted access to vital areas.
The FBI has assumed investigative jurisdiction and OI is also investigating.
NMSS and IE are actively assisting in this investigation.
Spent Fuel Shipment Delay A spent fuel shipment from Monticello, Minnesota to Morris, Illinois was de-layed approximately two days as a result of tampering with the railway track between Monticello and St. Paul, Minnesota. The incident began on October 27, 1986, with an early morning call to a local television station, alleging that a portion of track on a 50 mile spur connecting Monticello and St. Paul had been tampered with.
A similar call was made to the local police at approxi-mately the same time. At 9:15 am, the crew of a train observed and removed from the track a barricade described as a "saw-horse" covered with a piece of cloth containing the words "no more rad waste." The train proceeded slowly.
A short time later, the engine was derailed as a result of a section g
of the track having been removed.
The scheduled shipment was-put on hold until assurances were received that it was safe to proceed. ~Burlington Northern provided a lead engine to precede the spent fuel shipment train to f
assure all was in order. The shipment was further delayed due to the Governor of Minnesota requesting more information on the incident.
The matter was resolved between Northern State Power and the railroad authority. The ship-ment began at 8:40 am CST on October 29th and arrived at approximately 3:00 am, October 30th.
The FBI is investigating this incident.
NRC Region I Physical Protection Seminar Members of the Division of Safeguards participcted on October 29, 1986 in Region I's licensee seminar on physical protection.
Mr. Robert Burnett presented an overview talk on NRC's physical protection program for reactors.
Other subjects covered by Division personnel were RER program; NRC/ FBI / DOE I
support for contingency threats, safety / safeguards interface and backfit program, and power reactor regulatory initiatives.
Attendees (approximately 130) at the meeting included representatives from NRC Headquarters, Region I, Region I licensees, and licensee contractors.
OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE C
2 Babcock & Wilcox, Commercial Nuclear Fuel Plant (CNFP)
On October 23, 1986, the CNFP Plant Manager, and members of his staff, met with members of the NMSS staff to discuss their new organization and the mini-mum qualifications of key safety-related personnel.
The CNFP will prepare an amendment application incorporating the new organization and the qualifications of its personnel.
EXXON Nuclear Company, Inc.
On October 28, 1986, the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards gave consent to the pending transfer of controlling interest in Exxon Nuclear, a Delaware Corporation, to Kraftwerk Union AG (KWU).
KWU is incorporated in the Federal Republic of Germany and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemans AG.
MOLYCORP On October 23, 1986, members of the Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety (FC) staff met with Molycorp' representatives to discuss the possible reworking of residues generated at the York, Pennsylvania site.
These residues were generated processing licensable ores to recover rare earths and other non-radioactive metallic compounds.
The processing will recover usable rare earth products to be shipped to a Molycorp mill in California for further processing.
The processing will concentrate the thorium and uranium thereby reducing the volume of low level waste for burial.
GA Technologies, Inc.
A letter dated October 2, 1986, informed th'e NRC that on September 30, 1986, all the issued and outstanding shares of GA Technologies, Inc., (GA) were sold by Chevron U.S.A., Inc., and transferred to a new holding company, General Atomic Technologies Corporation.
Since the name of the licensee remains GA Technologies,-Inc., all NRC licenses currently held or applied for by GA (reactors, special nuclear materials, byproduct devices, certiti-cates of compliance, export and import), remain unchanged.
Dry Spent Fuel Storage Staff members from NMSS and personnel from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), which is providing technical assistance on safety reviews of dry spent fuel storage cask designs, met with representatives of Combustion Engineering and Westinghouse on October 23 and 24, respectively, to discuss the firms' responses to staff comments and questions on topical reports sub-mitted for review.
Both topical reports are for cask designs using thick-walled ferritic steel with external solid resin neutron shields.
Both casks are designed to store 24 PWR assemblies, and the Combustion Engineering design includes a proposed fuel basket design that would provide for storage of 60 BWR assemblies.
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3 Reviews of the topical reports are at the same stage. The applicants have pro-posed responses to the staff's questions and comments following initial review of the topical reports.
These proposed responses were discussed in detail at the meetings and, following resolution of all issues, the topical reports will be revised accordingly.
In particular, issues related to fuel basket designs require further consideration by the firms for further staff review.
Radioactive Biohazardous Waste Division of Waste Management staff met on October 23, 1986 with representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH), and the State of Maryland to discuss the current status of the regula-tion of Radioactive Biohazardous Waste (RBW).
Based on these discussions, the staff understands that there are no federal regulations governing R8W, and that these wastes are being regulated either by respective states or through guidance developed by HHS.
This guidance is mostly general, rather than specific.
EPA does r.ot have specific regulations on RBW, although the agency has the authority to regulate such wastes under the Resources Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA).
The staff continues to gather more information and plans to develop a regulatory position for NRC on this issue.
Proposed Meeting with State of Washington NRC and EPA representatives will meet with Washington State representatives on the application of the Resource Conservation Recovery Act standards and how to develop procedures that will best apply these standards to low-level radio-active waste disposal facilities.
Beatty License Renewal O
On September 25, 1986, the Director of the Nevada Department of Human Resources informed U.S. Ecology, Inc. that the company could continue to operate the Beatty LLWDF during the. formal license renewal process.
Nevada is an Agreement State and has established its own administrative procedures for licensing.
Ac-cording to NRC procedures, the license would have been in timely renewal since 1980. Much of the information contained in the licensee's 1980 renewal applica-tion is, by now, out of date.
The licensee was instructed in a July 1986 meeting, and follow-up letter from the supervisor of the Nevada Radiological Health section, of the minimum technical content of the amended license appli-cation.
Since the license renewal process is likely to take a year or more, some interim licensing action may be warranted.
NRC staff is scheduled to meet with Nevada officials on November 20, 1986 to discuss the situation.
Coordination with State of South Carolina On October 24, 1986, Waste Management personnel met with a representative of South Carolina's Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) in Columbia, SC.
The primary purpose of the meeting was to coordinate with the State on renewal of NRC's Special Nuclear Material license for the Barnwell OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE C
4 Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility. Also discussed.were the objectives of the renewal process, environmental monitoring and the need for additional NRC-DEHC coordination on LLW matters. Although the State had no immediate need for technical assistance from NRC, the attendees agreed to meet again after the first of the year to discuss in more detail activities of the two agencies.
EPA Location Standards On October 24,1986,'the WM staff participated in the first meeting of EPA's RCRA Location Standards Work Group.
EPA convened this group of EPA, States, NRC and USGS representatives to identify and recommend policy options for the development of " acceptable location standards" under the Resource Conser-vation and Recovery Act, as amended.
NRC's interest in the development of these standards resulted from interactions with EPA about location standards for the disposal of Mixed LLW.
The WM staff recognizes that EPA's development of the location standards may have programmatic implications beyond Mixed LLW disposal, including waste treatment, management, storage, and disposal at fuel cycle facilities and nuclear power reactors. WM plans to coordinate agency, comments by using the " Groundwater Protection Working Group."
OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE C
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Items of Interest 4
Week Ending October 31, 1986 Direct Containment Heating (DCH)
The DCH program at Sandia National Laboratory includes a series of tests in a large steel vessel named SURTSEY. This vessel simulates a reactor containment volume and is used to investigate containment heating and pressurization that would result from the high pressure ejection of core melt from the reactor pressure vessel in a severe accident. The second test in the series, DCH-2, was conducted on October 22, 1986. The test involved 77 kg of a thermitically prepared iron and alumina melt plus 3 kg of fission product simulants. The melt generator was charged with nitrogen at an initial pressure of 500 psig (3.4MPa). The concrete test cavity was a 1:10 scale model of a portion of the Zion plant.
-Initial indications are that substantisi direct heating of the chamber I
atmosphere occurred and that' aerosols were generated.
Inspection of the chamber interior showed aerosol covering virtually all exposed surfaces.
Solidified melt'in the form of a thin crust (less than-one cm) was detected on several areas of the chamber wall. Following retrieval of the in-chamber instrumentation devices, the debris will be removed and weighed. Processing of the test data is in progress. Preliminary results should be available in November 1986.
Hydrogeologic Performance Program for Reactor Siting On October 28, 1986, Tom Nicholson, WMB, DES, RES, met with Antonio Vela, Spanish Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Madrid, to discuss setting up a hydroceologic performance program for reactor siting as part of the USNRC/Spanish Governments' cooperative agreement. The discussions included
'both licensing guidance and accomplished research studies (PNL's study on ground-water interdictive strategy) as the technical basis for the discussion.
Mr. Vela requested a list of NUREG reports and technical references used in the discussion which was provided. He also expressed an interest in continuing the l
cooperative exchange which may involve sending NRC staff or other Federal agencies' experts to Spain 'to aid Mr. Vela in establishing the hydrogeologic siting review program.
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2 Fourteenth Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting The Fourteenth Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting was held October 27-31, 1986 at the National Bureau of Standards. This ye'ar's meeting was kicked off by speeches by NRC's Chairman Zech, EDO Victor Stello, Research Director Eric Beckjord and the Research Director of France's CEA, Jean Bussac.
Over 500 persons attended the meeting. Attendees were from NRC, the DOE Labs, contractors, utilities, industry groups and 19 foreign countries. Over 150 papers were presented at 27 distinct sessions covering various reactor safety issues. A poster session was also presented by the Office of Inspection and Enforcenent.
The meeting is held annually to exchange reactor safety information and research and was broadened ins cope this year to embrace other than research issues. The meeting was culminated by a panel discussion on regulatory issues by the Deputy Directors of NRR, NMSS and IE, Richard Vollmer, Don Mausshardt, and Richard Starostecki.
Proceedings will be published by January 1987.
OCTOBER 31, 1986 ENCLOSURE C
ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1986 Meeting of Interagency Task Force for Nuclear Exports The Interagency Task Force for Nuclear Exports met on Tuesday to discuss the nuclear industry post-Chernobyl and to receive an update on a proposed nuclear technical sales seminar to be held in the USSR and Eastern Europe sometime in 1987. The post-Chernobyl briefing was given by Arrbassador Richard T. Kennedy.
Foreign Visitors On Wednesday representatives of three Dutch nuclear organizations visited NRC. George Vayssier of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (the Dutch nuclear licensing authority), Jan Speelman of the research establishment ECN-Petten, and Paul Kloeg of KEMA (a utility organization equivalent to EPRI) met with NRR personnel to discuss safety related evaluations and possible plant modifications which the Dutch have decided to undertake in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident. The areas under investigation include:
- 1) reactivity induced accidents, 2) fire protection issues, 3) human factors aspects, and
- 4) containment performance and possible modifications. The discussions with NRR focused on the last topic. The visitors noted that an earlier decision by the Dutch government to expand nuclear capacity by at least two, and possibly as many as four, nuclear plants has been put on indefinite hold as a result of the Chernobyl accident.
This week Mr. Luis Echavarri, Technical Director of the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (CSN), and Mr. Jose Villadoniga, Director of the CSN's Division of Operating PWRs, met with the EDO and staff representatives of NRR, IE, RES, and IP to discuss a variety of regulatory / safety issues and the status of NRC/CSN bilateral activities. Prior to these discussions Srs.- Echavarri and Villadoniga met with senior staff representatives of NRC's Region II office in Atlanta and toured the Technical Training Center in Chattanooga.
On Friday Mr. K. N. Tusch, President of Colebrand, Ltd., a British firm which has developed a microprocessor-based inspection system for examining the degree of corrosion in steel reinforcing bars embedded in concrete, outlined the functienal capabilities of his company's system
-to representatives of IE who a.re involved in inspection and quality assurance programs.
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ITEMS ADDRESSED BY THE COMMISSION - WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1986 A.
STAFF REQUIREMENTS - DISCUSSION /POSSIBLE VOTE ON KERR-MCGEE SEQUOYAH FACILITY, 1:00 P.M., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1986, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C.-0FFICE-(OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE) - Memo Chairman Zech to V. Stello dated 10/30/86 The Commission held discussions with the licensee, public interest groups, and the staff on the readiness for restarting Kerr-McGee's Sequoyah Fuel Corporation's Sequoyah facility near Gore, Oklahoma.
Presentations were made by the following:
Licensee
- James G. Randolph, President Sequoyah Fuels Corporation Public Interest Groups
- Brian Hunt, Environmental Action
- Joanne Doroshow,_Public Citizens representing Survival of th'e Sea Society / Arkansas Peace Center
- Ann Hunter, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice representing Native Americans for a Clean Environment
- Pat Costner, National Water Center NFC
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- R. Cunningham
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- R. Martin
- J. Taylor
- D. Cool
- E. Shum The Commission, by a vote of 5-0, approved restart of the Sequoyah Fuel facility subject to the restrictions set forth in the October 2, 1986, order and acceptable resolution to staff's outstanding issues.
The staff was requested to provide the following information:
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The Commission requested the staff to implement, as quickly as possible, appropriate lessons learned from the cylinder Inc.
rupture ~ accident to Allied Chemical Nuclear Products, Provide the implementation schedule for Commission approval.
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_2 of the third party organization Upon completion of review overseeing SFC,' submit the report outlining the findings to the Commission.
Provide the Commission with a response to Ms. Pat Costner's concerns.
Provide the Commission with SFC's letter (dated May 12, 1986, from J.C. Stauter to W.T. Crow) which documents the estimated amount of material released during the cylinder rupture accident.
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NMSS MEETING NOTICES Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety o
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.11/3/86 Germantown, Meeting with DOE to discuss the W. Kerr (SP)
Cunningham 2:00 pm M0 strategic importance of Allied D. Nussbaumer (SP) i is Chemical.
B. Olmstead (0GC) l R. E. Cunningham (FC) 11/3-7/86 40-3392 Metropolis, To participate in team inspection Reps of NMSS and Long
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Region III 11/3-17/86 40-8027 Gore, OK To participate in oversight of Reps of NMSS and
'Lauer restart for Sequoyah Fuels. Corp.
Region IV 11/20/86 Willste To discuss submittal of dry spent Reps of FWEA, GE Roberts 10:00 am Building fuel storage vault topical report and NMSS with Foster Wheeler Energy Applications (FWEA) and General Electric Company of the United Kingdom.
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Robinson,NRC Robinson US/IAEA Working Group Kessler, DOE-on Accounting and Cronquist, DOE Reporting Baird, MM m
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Nf1SS - pane 2 of 2 For Heek Ending: October 31, 1986 Ej Division of Haste flananement DATE LOCATION PURPOSE ATTENDEES CONTACT t
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Conference of State Legislators 11/13/86 Los Angeles, CA CAL-RAD Forum, panel on mixed wastes M Knapp M Knapp 11/14/86 Seattle WA Meeting with EPA and Washington State R Browning S Bahadur on mixed wastes M Knapp S Bahadur 11/20/86 Carson City, NV Meeting with Nevada on LLW operating M Knapp M Knapp site at Beatty State Programs 11/20/86 Columbus, Ohio Meeting on midwestern states, central J Starmer J Starmer i
midwest and applachian compact, John Starmer to speak 11/20/86 Augusta, Maine Meeting with State of Maine on develop-L Saraka L Saraka ment of siting requirements P Lohaus
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.NRR MEETING NOTICES
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$ DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE ATTENDEES NRR CONTACT 11/3/%
50-325 Room P-422 Discuss CP&L's proposal to use NRC/CP&L/
E. Sylvester 9:00 a.m.
50-324 Phillips Building pipe locks to mitigate the effects O'Donnel & Assoc.
1 of potential pipe breaks 11/3/86 50-322 Room 6507 Discuss Shoreham Emergency Res-NRC/LILC0 R. Lo 10:00 a.m.
MNBB ponse Capability l
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50-321 Room P-822A Discuss.GPC's plans related to NRC/ Licensee G. W. Rivenbark 9:00 a.m.
50-366 Phillips Building Hatch Unit 1 and 2 and the status of Hatch 1 and 2 licensing activi-ties - (GPC representatives) 11/5-6/86 50-395 Nuclear Training Audit the SPDS at'V. C. Summer NRC/SAIC/ South J. B. Hopkins 8:30 a.m.
Center & V.C. Sumer Carolina Electric Site Gas Company Jenkinsville, SC 11/6/86 50-327 Room P-422 Discuss &he schedule for TVA sub-NRC/TVA C. R. Stahle 8:30 a.m.
50-328 Phillips Building mittals and staff evaluation to support the Sequoyah restart and 1
update SECY 86-1 11/6/86 50-498 Room 6110 Conduct discussions regarding NRC/HL&P N. P. Kadambi 9:00 a.m.
50-499 MNBB consideration of live loads ~1n i
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11/6/86 Room P-110 Discuss issues raised by Westing-NRC/ Westinghouse W. L. Jensen j
1:00 p.m.
Phillips Building house generic letter dated Owners Group June 13, 1986 11/7/86 50-353 Room P-114 Continuation of. licensee discus-NRC/PECo R. E. Martin 9:00 a.m.
Phillips Building sion with the staff on the use of ASME Code Cases N-411 1
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11/7/86 Room 542 Discuss new products which may be NRC/W R. Lobel 9:00 a.m.
Phillips Building used at U. S. PWRs 11/6,12,19/86 50-443 Discuss technical issue involved NRC/PSNH E. L. Doolittle i
10:00 a.m.
in the staff's review of the Seabrook Risk Management and Emer-j gency Planning Study I
j 11/13/86 Room P-110 Discuss the human factors /
NRC/BWOG W. A. Paulson 8:30 a.m.
Phillips Building operator burden reviews being j
conducted by the B&W Owners Group i
as part of their Safety and Per-formance Improvement Program 11/13/86 50-029 Yankee Atomic Discuss resolution of detailed NRC/YAEC E. M. McKenna j
9:00 a.m.
Electric Company control room design review (DCRDR)
Framingham, Mass.
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$ DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE ATTENDEES NRR CONTACT 11/13/86 50-250 Room 6507 Discuss status and review sche-NRb/FPL D. G. Mcdonald 9:00 a.m.
50-251 MNBB dule for converting the Turkey Pt.
Technical Specifi! cations to the Westinghouse Standard T.S. format 11/13/86 50-267 Room P-422 Discuss reactor building confine-NRC/PSC/PNL K. L. Heitner 9:30 a.m.
Phillips Building ment temperature profiles result-ing from HELB LOCA
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