ML20215L853

Summary of 870617 Meeting W/Util Re Fire Protection Issues. Significant Matters Discussed & List of Attendees Encl.W/O Encls

ML20215L853
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Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	06/24/1987
From:	Wessman R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8706260193
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jgN 2 4 M87 Docket No. 50-293 LICENSEE: Boston Edison Company FACILITY: Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station

SUBJECT:

MEETING BETWEEN BOSTON EDISON COMPANY l AND NRC ON JUNE 17, 1987 On June 17, 1987, representatives of Boston Edison Cnmpany (BECo) met with members of NRR to discuss fire protection issues regarding the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. Significant matters discussed are summarized on Enclosure 1 to i this memorandum. Attendees are listed on Enclosure 2 to this memorandum. 1 R. H. Wessman, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate I-3 l Division of Reactor Projects I/II, NRP, .

Enclosures:

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.,- A GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT l 15 SS Connecticut Avenue, NW.. Suite 202 Wcy,hington. D.C. 20036 (202)202-6550 MIDWEST OFFICE 104 E. WISCONSIN AVENUE APPLETON, WISCONSIN 54911-4897 May 18, 1987 FREEDOM 0F INFORMATION ACT REQUEST FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST fcT4 47~*Mr Director GEC 'hh*0 ~ )

Office of Administration U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20210 l

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ,

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552,) the Government Accountability Project (GAP) requests copies of any and all agency records and information, including but not limited to notes, -j letters, memoranda, drafts, minutes, diaries, logs, calenders, tapes, transcripts, summaries interview reports, procedures, instructions, engineering analyses, drawings, files, graphs, charts, maps, photographs, agreements, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets,' notebooks, books,  ;

telephone messages, computations, voice recordings, computer' runoffs, and any other data compilations, interim and/or final reports, status reports, and any and all other records relevant to and/or generated in connection with: any and all information the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) knows and/or has on The Nuclear Employee Data System (NEDS) which became fully operational on April 20th, refer to.page 11 of Inside NRC, April 27, 1987, (attached).

l This request includes all agency records as defined in.10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b) and the 10RC Manual, Appendix 0211, Parts 1.A.2 and A.3 (approved October  ;

8, 1980) whether they currently exist in the NRC offical, " working" investigative or other files, or at any other location, including private residences.

If any records as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b)'and the NRC Manual, supra, i and covered by this request have been destroyed and/or removed after  !

this request, please provide all surrounding records, including but not limited to a list of all records which have been or are destroyed and/or removed, a description of the action (s) taken relevant to, generated to >

ection with and/or issued in order to implement the action (s).

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GAP requests that fees be waived, because " finding the information can  !

be considered as primarily benefitting the general public, "5 U.S.C.

352 (a) (4) (a). GAP is a non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization concerned with honest and open government. Through public outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as agents of government accountability. Through it Enviromental Whistleblower Clinic, GAP offers assistance to local public interest.and citizens groups and intervenors in the concern for safety at nuclear power plants. ,

We are requesting this information as part of an ongoing monitoring project of the NRC's efforts to protect public health and' safety at and near  :

nuclear processing plants and radioactive waste facilities. /"

• l, For any' documents or portions that you deny due to a specific FOIA exemption, please provide an index itemizing and describing the documents or portions of documents withheld. The index should provide a detailed justification of your grounds for claiming.each exemption, explaining why each exemption is relevant to the document or portion of the document withheld.. This index is required under Vaughn v. Rosen (I), 484 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 (1974).

t We look forward to your response to this request within ten (10) working days.

Sincerely, 177 ?'y Linda Bauman FOIA Coordinator Midwest,0ffice Response to this request should be mailed to the Midwest Office: l 104 E. Wisconsin Avenue -B Appleotn, Wisconsin 54911-4897 i 6  ;

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wi!! help keep control. room' staff informed of what other employees are doing and where they arc, he said.

In the chain of esents that followed, the reduced reactor coolant level caused the residual heat removal pumps to take in air (cavitate) and that prompted operators to shut down the pumps. Durinit the estimated 80 minutes it took to correct the situation, the reactor cooling system's temperature eventually l hit 220 degrees-far above its usual 90 to 100-degree reading. Five minutes after the pump restart the temperature dropped to less than 200 degrees, according to the NRC event description.

The PG&E spokesman said that operators didn't immediately refill the cooling system because the dams were not in place and they wanted to avoid a spill of refucling water into one of the generator manways.That, according to the NRC staffer,could have put contaminated water under the floor of the containment building.

According to the NRC staffer, NRC has two levels of concerns about what transpired at Diablo Canyon-2. The first surrounds the event itself and the issue of operator performance, and communication between the engineer doing the test and the control room staff, he said. The second is a broader concern that involves the general question of whether it is appropriate to reduce the volume of the reactor ccol-ing system and risk losing decay heat removal. Although that is now permitted under technical specifi- l cations, the staffer said, additional data will be gathered on the issue. l The PG&E spokesman said that the incident isn't likely to have a substantial impact on plans to have j the unit back on line by mid.Juner--Elaine Hiruo, Washington i TWENTY ONE WORKERS AT TROJAN RECEIVED RADIATION EXPOSURES from a crushed, de-graded fuel pellet that had been lodged between the reactor vessel and head flange inside the contain- ,

ment building. According to a Portland General Electric Co. spokesman, pellets were released into l Trojan's reactor cooling system in 1982 when the plant experienced significant fuel pin failures. He said that the plant had tried to retrieve as many pellets as it could following the pin failures and that this was the first contamination incident.

The workers experienced contamination April 9 while installing reactor head stud plugs during a refueling outage. Seven of them had contamination levels of up to I rad / hour on the outer layer of their protective clothing, an NRC staffer said. There was no evidence of uptake among the workers becaun w they were wearing respirators. In a related incident, another worker was exposed to radiation April 17 while working in the refueling cavity.

According to an NRC notification, all work in the reactor containment building has been halted and the utility is " initiating an investigation and radiological review to establish the actual exposure and -

measures necessary to permit resumption of work." An NRC update added that there is no indication that off-site releases occurred. The' utility spokesman said that by the latest estimate, the incident might a k plans in mnma nnmtions in early June by three or four days. _

E NUCLEAR EMPLOYEE DATA SYSTEM (NEDS) BECAME FULLY OPERATIONAL April 20, according to Peter Moeller, site protection manager for Public Service Electric & Gas Co. (PSE&G) and chairman of the NEDS project. NEDS, a centralized, on line information management system that l enables utility participants to quickly exchange transient worker in-processing data, is owned by PSE&G, Baltimore Gas & Eletric Co., GPU Nuclear Corp., Philadelphia Electric Co., and Virginia Power. Those utilities have been testing the system by passing " dummy"information through it to make f sure they understood operational procedures clearly (INRC,16 March,4). "We're now actively process-ing real data for 15 operating nuclear units located on eight sites," Moeller said.

ERC International manages and operates NEDS under the direction of the NEDS Owners Commit- l tee, which developed the system at a cost of $2.5-million.Through the system, participating utilities can j exchange transient worker data such as identification, security, health physics, medical training, ,

respiratory protection, and work history records. "Out objective now," Moeller said, "is to imme<liately /j start expanding NEDS to a national system."

t U.S., JAPANESE RESEARCHERS PLAN COOPERATIVE SEISMIC TESTS Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Japan's Nuclear Power Engineering Test Center plan early next year to test the ability of a PWR recirculation loop to withstand larger than design-basis seismic vibrations and pressures. The pact, the first cooperative seismic agreement between

• NRC and Japan's Ministry for International Trade & Industry, is expected to provide a mechanism for ,

sharing information and data associated with structural and mechanical engineering issues. NRC and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) jointly contributed $700,000 to the Japanese, and NRC sup-plied them with nine computer codes to be used hi other research & development, according to Dr. Wal-INSIDE N.AI.- Apra 27,1987 11