ML20235L513

Forwards DW Moeller Re 890123 Presentation to Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste

ML20235L513
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Issue date:	02/17/1989
From:	Hurt R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Deboer T NEW YORK, STATE OF
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FEB 171989 Project M-32 Theodore K. Deboer, Director Radioactive Waste Management Programs New York State Energy Research and Development Authority 2 Rockefeller Plaza Albany, NY 12223

Dear Mr. Deboer:

I am enclosing for your information a letter report from the Chairman of the Advisory Conimittee on Nuclear Waste to the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission concerning your January 23, 1989 presentation to the former.

Sincerely, R. Davis Hurt West Valley Project Manager Advanced Fuel and Special Facilities Section Fuel Cycle Safety Branch

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Dear Dr. Bixby:

I am enclosing for your information a letter report from the Chairman of the Advisory Comittee on Nuclear Waste to the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Comission concerning your January 23, 1989 presentation to the former.

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, The Honorable Lando W. Zech, Jr.

Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington, D.C. 20555

SUBJECT:

WEST VALLEY DEMONSTRATION PROJECT

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During its sixth meeting, January 23-24,.1989, the Advisory Comittee on Nuclear Waste (ACNW) met with representatives of the U.S.

Department of Energy (DOE), its contractors and the New York -State Energy Research and Dr;velopment Authority. for a re, view of the West Valley Demonstration Project.

We discussed, among other concerns, the procedures that have been developed and are being applied in solidifying decontaminated supernatant low-level wastes and testing the melter for vitrification of the high-level wastes.

As a result of this review, the Comittee concludes that the program is appropriately focused and that the results are favorable.

Although there appears to be good communication between the DOE contractors and staff and the Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC) staff, there may be a need for additional input from the NRC staff in two areas:

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Acceptance criteria for the vitrified high-level waste, including the enumeration of testing procedures to indicate conformance with these criteria, need to be identified by DOE for the waste pro-ducers, and these criteria to detennine if they are ac,ceptable; andin turn, need to be reviewed by the 2.

Public health and safety criteria for the facilities and land areas being decontaminated and decommissioned as part of this project need to be established.

We plan to schedule a visit to the West Valley site within the next six months.

4 He trust these coments are responsive to your request.

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Letter dated August 3,1988 from R. D. Hurt, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, to W.

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