ML20235Z566

Forwards Addl Info Re Licensee Plan for Decommissioning,Per Request.Biographical Sketch of Author Included

ML20235Z566
Person / Time
Site:	05000112
Issue date:	03/09/1989
From:	Skierkowski P OKLAHOMA, UNIV. OF, NORMAN, OK
To:	Michaels P Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8903150586
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%5 Asp, Rwm 112 Norman, Oklahoma 73019 (405) 325 1015 March 9, 1989 Theodore S. Michaels, Project Manager Standardization and Non-Power Reactor Project Directorate Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20444 DOCKET No. 50-112

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING DECOMMISSIONING-UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Per your request for additional information on our decommissioning plan, I am submitting the attached Enclosure 1 which cross references the Item Numbers of your Request. If further information is deemed necessary, please advise and we will comply.

Sincerely, fa. cw be Paul Skierkowski, Ph.D.

Radiation Safety Officer PS/cs

Enclosure:

cc: Associate Dean of Engineering

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ENCLOSURE 1 REPLY TO REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION UORR DECOMMISSIONING PLAN 470.01 The individual directly responsible for the implementation and safety of the UORR Decommissioning Plan is Paul Skierkowski, the University of Oklahoma Radiation Safety Officer. His resume is attached as Attachment A to this Enclosure 470.02 Information requested in " RADIATION LEVELS FOR RELEASE OF UORR FACILITY TO UNRESTRICTED ACCESS" is provided as Attachment B to this Enclosure.

470.03 The UORR facility had only one. definable piping system which recycled the pool water through'a demineralized (ion exchange resin).

All this piping has been removed and surveyed. It shows no presence of residual contamination by both survey meter and swipe tests. The resin from the demineralized has been tested in sections by GeLi counting and any resin that showed traces of fission fragments or activation products will be disposed of with other low level waste through the University Radiation Safety Waste Disposal Program.

470.04 The decommissioning alternative requested is "DECON" but confusion may exist due to our intended future use of the facility. The reactor fuel has been shipped to DOE and the physical components themselves have been dismantled and surveyed as indicated. We wish to terminate the license. The future use of the facility will be as a laboratory under our University's Broad Scope Byproduct Material License. Thus it will become a

" restricted area" under the terms of that license. However, before it becomes such, it is our intent to assure decontamination which would meet the criteria (Reg Guide 1.86 C.4)

"For Release for Unrestricted Use."

470.05 Surveys already conducted over the entirety of the pool (made of cast aluminum) and adjacent pits indicate no " hot spots" which would require chipping of concrete for removal. No additional precautions are thus necessary.

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g ATTACHMENT A TO ENCLOSURE 1

- University ofOkfahoma RADIATION SAFETY OFFICE '

' 905 Asp, Room :112 Norman, Oklahoma 73019 (405) 325 1015 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF RADIATION SAFETY OFFICER

.NAME: Paul'Skierkowski EDUCATION: B.S. Pharmacy, 1963,' School of. Pharmacy, Purdue University

-M.S. Bionucleonics/ Radiological Health, 1969, Purdue University.

Ph.D. Bionucleonics/ Radiological Health, 1971, Purdue University CERTIFICATION: Certified Health Physicist, American Board of Health Physics, Sept. 1985 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1982-date: Radiation Safety Officer & Adjunct Professor, University of Oklahoma.

Responsible for administration of University Radiation Safety Program under NRC Broad License. Utilization includes research use of radioisotope's as well'as radiation producing devices (particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, x-ray devices). Responsible for training of laboratory personnel in safe use of above as well as teaching graduate level course in Radiotracer Methodol -

ogy._ Serve as advisory (and on graduate committees) for individuals using radioactive materials in design and use of such in experimental work.

1975-1982: Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics and University Radiation Safety Officer, University of Mississippi. Teaching responsibility included undergraduate in Nuclear Pharmacy and graduate instruction in Radioisotope Methodology and Ra-diation Biology. Responsible for administration of Radiation Safety program on University of Mississippi, Oxford campus.

1971-1975: Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, University of Mississippi.

1967-1971: Graduate Fellow, Dept. of Blonucleonics, Purdue University.

1963-1967: U.S. Army - armor unit officer. Secondary MOS - Chemical & Nuclear Weapons.

ADDITIONAL SPECIAL TRAINING:

- Summer Institute on Radiation Protection, Oak Ridge, 1975

- International AEC Summer Institute on Production and Quality Control of Radiopharma-ceuticals. Univ. of Southern California, 1977 i

- Kinetics Short Course, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1979

- Nuclear Reactor Theory, Univ. of Oklahoma, 1982

- Internal Dose Assessment, Technical Management Services, 1985

- Managing Safety, E.I. DuPont Co., 1987

- Environmental Monitoring for Radioactivity, Oak Ridge, 1987 ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

- Consultant work with hospitals, nuclear pharmacies and private companies to achieve NRC or Agreement State licensing or receive Nuclear Medicine Dept. accreditation by Joint Commission'on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH).

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s. 9 ATTACHMENT B TO ENCLOSURE 1 l Surface Contamination.  !

Thewallsandfloorofthereactortankwillbemarked-gff in one meter grids. A smear sample will be taken of a 100 cm_

area within each grid.and analyzed for alpha and for beta-gamma.

- Any area swipe which exceeds 200 dpm beta-gamma or 20 dpm alpha-will indicate that the area is to be further decontaminated and smear wipes again taken until measurements are within the stated limits.

Radioactive Material Other Than Surface Contamination i To assure that no Radioactive Material other than surface contamination exists a GM survey will be conducted of the entire l tank,:the pit' areas and all components removed from the reactor  !

assembly. All permanent fixtures (i.e. walls etc.) must'not have a radiation level measured at one meter from surface that is. ]

greater than 5 nR/hr above background. If such is measured, the. i material will be further decontaminated to that-level.or disposed j of as-radioactive waste via the University's Radiation Safety >

Waste Disposal program.

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