ML20215J080

Responds to 860911 Request for Evaluation of Issues Raised in 860725 Petition,Filed Under 10CFR2.206 on Behalf of Village of Seneca,Il,Prohibiting Restart.Evaluation of Six Emergency Planning Issues Identified on 860806 Encl

ML20215J080
Person / Time
Site:	LaSalle
Issue date:	10/16/1986
From:	Krimm R Federal Emergency Management Agency
To:	Jordan E NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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I Washington, D.C. 20472 7Y OCT I 6 1986 MEMORANDJM EDR: Edward L. Jordan, Director Division of Emergency Preparedness and Engineering Response Office of Inspection and Enforcement U. S uclear ulatory Comtission x

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rumt Assistant Associate Director Office of Natural and Technological Hazards Program

SUBJECT:

IASALLE 10 CFR 2.206 PETITION This is in response to your metrorandum of September 11, 1986, in which~

you requested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) pro-vide the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comtission (NRC) with its evaluation of certain specified issues raised in the LaSalle Petition of July 25, 1986 filed on behalf of the Village of Seneca, Illinois. The petition was filed under 10 CFR 2.206 to prohibit the restart of the LaSalle Nuclear Station of the Comrronwealth Edison Conpany.

he NRC found that 4 issues warranted immediate consideration. Rese issues were concerned with: (1) the withdrawal of Seneca fran the LaSalle offsite plan and the State /LaSalle County compensating measures addressing this withdrawal action; (2) the adequacy of current notification pro-cedures; (3) the adequacy of the arterial network for the evacuation of Seneca; and (4) the officacy of using volunteers to carry out the plan.

l Based on the responses of the State of Illinois, LaSalle County, the Comonwealth Edison Conpany, and the FEMA evaluation. We NRC, in its August 6,1986 letter to the attorneys representing Seneca, did not l

believe that any immediate action was necessary to suspend or otherwise i

limit the operation of the LaSalle Station.

l On August 6,1986, the NRC also identified 6 issues on emergency planning that were deferred for consideration under 10 CFR 2.206. NRC requested l

l FEMA review and evaluation of these issues. Eat evaluation, prepared by FEMA Region V, is attached to this letter. In connection with training I

provided by the State of Illinois (Issue #3 in the attached evaluation),

FEMA Region V has also informed us that training given by the State covers such topics as operational aspects of the State plan, including the elements of initial notification, comand and coordination, protective actions, and inherent duties and responsibilities of organizations and individuals specified for particular tasks and missions.

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i Technical training, presented by the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety, addresses nuclear power plant operation, radiation, accident assessment, dosimetry and radiation exposure control, and administration of potassium iodide.

It includes a hands-on practical application phase covering maintenance and operation of dosimetry equipment.

I hope that this information is helpful. If you have any further questions, please contact Mr. Robert S. Wilkerson, Chief, Technological Hazards Division, at 646-2861.

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September 30, 1986 MEMORANDUM FOR:

Associate Director State and Local Programs and Support ATTENTION:

Richard W. Krimm Assistant Associate Director Off of Natura

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Offsite Emergency Preparedness for LaSalle NPS A Motion for Voluntary Dismir, sal has been filed in the case: Village of Seneca, Illinois and Mayor Wayne Anderson, Petitioners, 'vs. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commissicn. The action is still before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Therefore, the following information is being provided in response to issues raised by the Petitioners.

Issue 1) the placement of radiation monitors in communities within the Emergency Planning Zone The Illinois Department of Nuclear Saf ety (IDNS) has estab-

Response

'lished monitoring locations within the LaSalle Nuclear Power Station's 10-Mile Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ). Most of the locations are where field teams of the IDNS will take air, soil, water and vegetation samples dependent upon the affected area of the EPZ.

The " Pre-established Monitoring Locations Map" in the Illinois Plan for Radio-logical Accidents, Volume III LaSalle, identifies 15 Reuter Stokes monitoring locations where monitors are in place, and a potential 335 monitoring locations.

Nearly all of the Reuter Stokes monitors are within 3h miles of the Station.

The monitoring points are geographically located on a grid; a circle represent-ing the 10-Mile EPZ, having at the center, the power reactors of the LaSalle Nuclear Power Station. Each concentric circle marks one mile. The circle is-The scheme, in design divided further into 16 22

• wedge-shaped sectors.

conforms to NUREG 0654, Part I, Sections D and E and the planned 10-Mile EPZ which is mainly in LaSalle County.

However, a portion of the 10-Mile EPZ is Within each 22

• sector and sub-area is at least one monitor-in Grundy County.

ing point and as you move out from the center, the sub-area increases porpor-tionately and may contain as many as six monitoring points. The governmental units within the 10-Mile EPZ which have radiological monitoring points for collecting samples are:

Grand Ridge, Richards, Ransom, Kinsman, Verona, Langham, Seneca and Marseilles, i

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Issue 2) the use of additional systems to supplement one current use of sirens for public notification Response: The current Alert and Notification System used in the Emergency Planning Zone at the LaSalle Nuclear Power Station has been accepted as meeting the Federal design criteria. The system has been tested many times to insure its reliability. A formal certification test ol'the system was conducted on December 4, 1984. During that test the sirens were sounded, the mobile route alerting was initiated, and the Emergency Broadcast System was activiated. Following the test a research company under contract to the Federal government conducted a telephone survey to see if a sampling of the population in the Emergency Planning zone heard the alert and the notification. The system received formal approval from FEMA on July 1, 1985.

The public has been informed as to what to do in case of an emergency at the LaSalle Station. Everytime an exercise is conducted in the 10-Mile Emergency Planning Zone, prior to that exercise the news media is briefed by State and utility officials. The news media is invited to participate in the exercise by being present in the News Media Center.

That center is positioned near the power station and usually collocated with the utility's technical response center. As a result of the media's involvement, news stories appear in local news papers and on local television stations.

In addition the utility is required to publish and distribute annually, a brochure which explains what to do if you hear a siren, what to do if officials advise to take protective actions, where to go if ordered to do so, explains the emergency plan, how a nuclear power unit operates and directions for people with special needs.

Th'e brochurt is titled " Emergency Information".

It is most graphic in its presentation.

It is updated and sent to every electric power subscriber, every mail box holder, all notels and hotels, businesses, tourist and recreation attractions, public offices and buildings, every school, hospital and nursing home and other institution in the ten mile Emergency Planning Zone.

Issue 3) the adequacy of emergency planning education both for emergency personnel and the public at large.

Response: The Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency has made provision in the State General Plan (IPRA), Volume I and the LaSalle Plan (IPRA), Volume III for training and education both internal and external to the organization. With regard to the external training for the public, both the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency and the Illinois Department Of Nuclear Safety provide education /tr.aining which is adjusted to i

the audience requesting the service. Education / training is given by both agencies prior to an exercise. The sessions are broken into levels of sophistication dependent upon the audience. There are offerings for County and Village elected officials, first line responders (fire and law, emergency medical, streets and highways, etc.), radiological instrument handlers, care center and EOC managers and workers, and other organized groups of persons not covered above.

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u In addition, both agencies, upon request, will meet any civic, business or commercial organization or group to make a presentation of an informational / educational nature to inform the public. These training and educational programs have been attended by FEMA Region V staff and found to be well developed and presented.

In the training and educational programs, the rationale is discussed for setting the levels of the accident classification and the relationship to governmental actions. The options are discussed as to the protective acticas which are recommended and implemented. Many times, dependent upon the severity of the accident, evacuation is the least necessary recommendation to implement.

It may be well to shelter in place which could give the neceassary protection.

A pert of the education of the public at large is the public information brochure.

As previously commented upon, the brochure is updated and distributed annually by the utilty. The distribution is to every household in the ten mile Emergency Planning Zone. The brochure is graphically descriptive and calls attention to "What to do" when the sirens sound and an announcement is made over the and television stations.

Issue 4) the adequacy of funding for the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency.

Response

It is not appropriate for FEMA to comment on the State of Illinois system for funding radiological emergency response.

The Federal guergency Management Agency, through the program of Energency Management Assistance makes available to State and local governments Federal matching funds up to 50* for administrative costs for an all encompassing Energency Management Program.

There are no funds allocated specifically for radiological emergency planning. The State Emergency Services and Disaster i

Agency and many local E=crgency Services and Disaster Agency organizations i

subscribe to this Federal assistance program.

j Issue 5) the appropriateness of requiring manning of the E00 l

throughout the duration of the potential disaster.

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The Illinois Plan for Radiological Accidents Voluces I and III provide guidance to enose 6esignated with res for the implementation of the emergency response.ponsibility and authority Both documents provide guidance on the techanies for notifying emergency operations staff and their responsibilities in conducting the response from the emergency operations center (EOC).

The manning of the EOC is from the standpoint of providing protection of the health and safety of the populace and personnel and public property.

lu some instances it may be in the int.erest of the health and safety of the emergency response personnel to remain in place.

Better protection could be af forded rather than passing through the plume in an attempt to escape.

All factors must be evaluated at the time of the Planning in IPRA provides for the relocation of emergency emergency.

personnel.

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Provisions for the EOC for an extended stay by the E00 staff are not necessary for a radiological emergency resulting f rom an accident at the power station. Personnel in the EOC would be relocated and the E00 closed if the f acility was projected to be in the plu=e.

Issue 6) the potential conflict of the ESDA and the NRC with respect to the affected radiation contamination area.

Response: FEMA, NRC and ESDA recognize the 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone and the 50-cile Ingestion Planning Zone established in NUREG-0654/ FEMA RIP-1, Rev 1.

this time we are not in a position to address with any specificity At lessons learned from Chernobyl applicable to offsite planning and preparedness activities at U.S. nuclear power plants.

TEMA has joined NRC and the Department of Energy. EPA and the nuclear industry in the preparation of a report on the Chernobyl accident.

FEMA accepted the responsibility for the Chapter on Energency Response and Preparadness. The report should be finished by early December 1986. We view this report as a necessary prerequisite for review of the U.S.

Radiological Emergency Preparedness program, since it will be the most complete and accurate record that we can produce.

It should also clearly identify lessons from the Chernobyl experience that can be used in reviewing the U.S. program.

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We are providing this booklet to you, in cooperation with your state and local governments, because one of our nuclear generating facilities, LaSalle County Station, operates in the area where you live, work or are visiting. We want you to know about the plans that have been developed for your safety in the event of a serious accident at this facility.

We have never had a serious accident, and it is unlikely that we ever will.

But as with any potential emergency, your safety could depend on your preparedness.

Please - read this booklet carefully. Remember what you read. Although this information focuses on a potential nuclear facility emergency, much ofitis useful for any major emergency. So try to keep this booklet where you can later find it and refer to it. On the page at the right is a summary of what you will find inside.

If you would like additional information, please write to Public Affairs, Commonwealth Edison, P.O. Box 767, Chicago, Illinois 60690. Or you may write to one of the Emergency Services offices listed at the end of Section 6.

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4 TUNE TO ONE OF THESE RADIO STATIONS:

AM 1430 - WCMY FM 95.3 WRKX This is your best source of information and instructions.

e YOU WILL BE GIVEN INFORMATION AND INSTRUC-TIONS if there is a real call for concern. Respond promptly to all instructions. If officials say to take shelter indoors or evacuate, refer to the sections following and to the MAP in the middle of this booklet, e DO NOT USE THE PHONE unless you have a special emergency right where you are. Leave lines open for emergency workers, m

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4 DO NOT USE THE PHONE unless you have a special emergency right where you are. Leave lines open for emergency workers.

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have children or others at schools, hospitals or nursing homes, DO NOTtry to pick them up. These facilities will be following their own evacuation procedures, and you would probably miss connections. STAY TUNED to one of the radio stations listed earlier for information on where school children are being moved.

e if you are disabled and have previously notified officials, special services will be provided for you. If officials do not know you are disabled, notify them over the special emergency phone numbers that will be broadcast on the radio.

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W You never know when you might have to leave your home on short notice, for a variety ofreasons. A severe nuclear plant accident is only one remote possibility. Floods, fires, tornadoes, chemical spills, and family emergencies could also occur. That's why it pays to prepare now to make things easier later.

i Here are four sensible ways to prepare for any emergency.

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1. Keep emergency gear in a special drawer or other place that the whole family knows. A portable radio and flashlight with extra batteries, first aid supplies, extra sets of carkeys, and other items will then be handy if the need arises. Keep this booklet there, too. B-sure you have marked your location on the map on the previous page.

2. Keep your important papers together in a safe place. Then you can find them quickly in an emergency.

3. Have a list of things you want to take if you must leave home quickly.

Post the list by the back door or other convenient spot. Make sure you keep a supply of the items you listed.

4. Keep your car in good running order. Fill yourgas tank wheneverit gets down to half. If you don't have a car and require transportation, fill out and mail the card on the inside back cover of this booklet.

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YOUR AREA'S EMERGENCY PLAN B

i Emergency planning means being prepared.

from the plant. Then, they could stay with This applies to each of us personally and to all of friends or relatives, or at specified " relocation the organizations up the scale. It begins right at centers" until advised to retum. Special prce home or at work and extends upward to higher cedures have been developed for people in levels as needed. For example, if you cut your schools, hospitals, nursing homes and other finger, you can probably handle the situation by institutions.

yourself; for a serious injury you would call in cutside help, such as a doctor or paramedic A Public Notification System with outdoor

team, warning sirens has been installed within the Emergency Planning Zone. It was designed to The same idea applies to our governmental warn the public of a serious problem at LaSalle crganizations. Your city or village can usually County Station, but it may be activated for other handle mostlocal emergencies such as fires, but emergencies as well. The sirens are tested each if things get too severe or widespread they may month. In an emergency, the sirens signal the I

call on the county for assistance. Similarly, p'ablic to tune to a local radio station for counties may call on the State for bigger emer-information.

gencies such as tornadoes, and States may. call on the Federal government for a major disaster If a serious problem occurred at LaSalle such as widespread flooding.

County Station, government officials would be notifled immediately over" hot-line" telephones Your municipal, county, and state govern-right from the plant control room. This would ments have plans for responding t' all types of start the emergency plans rolling, with all emergencies. One set of plans applies to nuclear authorities being kept up to date on plant power plant accidents. In Illinois, this is the conditions. State and local officials would then Illinois Plan for Radiological Accidents (IPRA).

determine what, if anything, the public should do.

These plans devote specific attention to people within 10 miles of the nuclear power Their advice would be given to the news plant, in the Emergency Plcnning Zone, or media, along with continual repons on plant EPZ for short. For example, there are proce-conditions directly from Commonwealth dures for sheltering and for evacuating people in Edison. Local radio stations would transmit this this area. If evacuation should ever be needed, information to you on the Emergency Broadcast people would be asked to go to pre-designated System. This is your best source of up tcuthe registration centers in towns ! S to 20 miles away minute information (traffic reports, shelter loca-tions, evacuation directions, etc.).

'NT.ie'8620:43 FEMA REGICN V BATTLE CREEK 2 P.17 In most cases, these actions would begin well we pretend that a serious problem hr.s occurred before the problem actually affected the public.

and go through the emergency procedures. You Chances are that an emergency involving public can usually read about these exercises in the cetions 'would never develop, but specially-newspaper when they occur.

trained personnel are ready for actio'n --- just in case.

If you have questions regarding your area's emergency plan, call or write one of the offices To make sure that the emergency plans work, listed below. They can also help if you have they are tested periodically at each nuclear special needs that relate to emergencies.

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7 LaSalle County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency P.O. BOX 306, Mendota, IL 61342 (815) 433-5622 (815) 433-2161 Grundy County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency 1I1 East Washington Street, Morris, IL 60450 (815) 942-9024 Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency 110 East Adams Street, Springfield, IL 62706 L

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Commonwealth Edison generates elecuicity fuei rods that are arranged into fuel assemblies.

for people in northern Illinois using power plants These assemblies stand vertically in a round at thirteen locations. Four of these use uranium cluster called the core. The core is encased in a as fuel; they are nuclear power plants. These very thick steel capsule, or vessel. The whole four plants produce as much electricity as all of assembly is called a reactor. Since a very dilute Edison's coal power plants. or almost halfof all form of fuel is used, a reactor could never the electricity Edison generates. But for northern explode like an atomic bomb, no matter what Illinois to have a bright economic future, plans went wrong with it.

I must be made to assure that we continue to have 1!

adequate supplies of electricity. Edison's plans When any fuel is used to make energy, some i

include two new power plants, both nuclear, waste products result. Coal power plants have which will become operational over the next few smoke, slag and ashes as waste. Nuclear power years. These will help provide the generating plants collect wastes right in the fuel pellets, capacity to support economic growth for northern rather than releasing them to the environment.

Illinois through the rest of the century.

These waste products could be hazardous and 1

must be kept sealed away from our environment.

All large power plants work by boiling water to make high pressure steam, which spins tur-This is why the uranium fuel pellets are sealed bines connected to large electric generators. The inside the fuel rods and the fuel rods are sealed big difference between nuclear and coal power inside the reactor. Even the whole reactor, with plants is that a nuclear plant splits uranium all of its piping, pumps, and other systems, is st:ms, instead of burning coal, to make heat to sealed again inside an airtight steel and concrete boil the water, building called a containment.

Uranium is a very concentrated fuel. One It is not likely that this triple safety seal could uranium pellet (the size of a person's fingertip) be penetrated. But ifit were, some of the waste can release as much energy as half a ton ofcoal.

products could escape to the environment.

Uranium pellets are stacked inside long, thin These wastes are radioactive, which means that each waste particle emits radiation.

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1 RADIATION Radiation is energy that can travel through has been estimated to have roughly the same risk the air, such as li ht, heat, and radio waves. One to life as smoking two to six cigarettes.

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type, nuclear radiation, comes from radio.

active material, which is part of everything in us It takes radiation doses of over 20,000 milli-and around us. Nuclear radiation, like radio rem, received within a day, to produce identi-waves, is invisible, silent, tasteless, and odor-fiable effects in the body. Very large radiation Iess. Just as a photographer measures tight levels doses (over 100,000 millirem) may be directly

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1 with a light meter, radiation workers measure harmful or even deadly if received over a day's nuclear radiation with special instruments.

time, but the same doses stretched over many years may not. Federal regulations allow work-Like many things in our lives, radioactive ers at U.S. nuclear facilities to receive up to l

material has the potential to harm people if 5000 millirem of radiation in the course of a i

h ndled carelessly. But decades of experience year's work.

have shown that the safe application of radio-I active material, in medicine and industry as well as in electricity production, can benefit our Radiation levels are constr.ntly monitored 1

society, both inside and outside each nuclear facility.

These measurements show that a person living The amount of radiation dose a person ab.

for an entire year right at the fence of an average l

sorbs is measured in millirem. The average nuclear power plant would receive less than 1 Illinois citizen gets from 60 to 120 millirem of millirem of radiation, about the same as an radiation each year from the natural environ-airline passenger receives flying from Chicago ment. This is called natural background radia-to Los Angeles.

I tien. In addition, each year the average person receives about 70 millirem from medical and dental X-rays and other procedures, and about If a nuclear plant accident were ever to occur, 25 millirem from the naturally occurring teams of specially-trained personnel would be radioactive atoms in his or her own body.

sent to get even more detailed radiation readings l

1 all around the plant. In most cases, there would There are no identifiable heahh effects from be no excessive radiation. But if the accident these low levels of radiation, but scientists were serious, and could expose members of the l

believe that any amount of radiation, no matter how small, carries some risk. For example,200 public to 1000 millirem or more of radiation, state plans call for protection of the public by millirem of radiation, over the course of a year, taking shelter indoors or by evacuation.

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Your local authorities should know if you or someone in your household has special needs that may be important during an emergency. This information would be kept confidential.

Circle YES or NO for the questions on the back cover. If any answers are "YES", make sure to write in a phone number where you can be reached. Then, tear out and mall the card. An official emergency planning representative will then contact you to review your special needs.

If you wish, you may instead contact one of the offices listed at the end of section 6.

Pl. EASE ANSWER QUESTIONS ON BACK COVER.

NO POSTAGE IF MAI UNITED STATES IFANYANSWERS ARE "YES" TEAR OUT AND BUSINESS REPLY CARD MAILTHISCARD.

nRef etAss PERMIT NO.1440 SPRINCnELD, IL POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE Illinois Emergency Services & Disaster Agency 110 East Adams Street Springfield, IL 62706

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