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PN-75-018:on 750507,Naval Reactors Representative Informed of Receipt of Inquiries from Staff of Congressman Dodd Re Gaseous Releases from Millstone 1 Site That Caused Radiation Alarms at Electric Boat Co
ML20236U009
Person / Time
Site: Millstone Dominion icon.png
Issue date: 05/08/1975
From: Jennifer Davis, Dreher F, Thornburg H
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To:
References
PN-75-018, PN-75-18, NUDOCS 9807290251
Download: ML20236U009 (1)


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YD C %l %u C 3 f ;/ U3 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION - WOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE May 8, 1975 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE -- PN-75-18

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This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation

> and is basically all that is known by OIE staff as of 10:00 a.m. on date of this notification. IT SHOULD BE SPECIFICALLY NOTED THAT THIS NOTIFICATION MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT LATER MAY BE DETERMINED TO BE INACCURATE OR INCONSISTENT. AN OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT NOTIFICATION OF AN INCIDENT OR OCCURRENCE (BLUE SHEET) SUBSEQUENTLY WILL BE ISSUED IF WARRANTED.

. Jacility: Millstone Unit 1 l Northeast Nuclear Energy Company

Subject:

AIR PARTICULATE ALARMS - ELECTRIC BOAT CO., GROTON, CONNECTICUT l

IE was informed by a Naval Reactors representative on May 7 that they had j received inquiries from the staff of Congressman Dodd, Connecticut, concerning I gaseous releases from the Millstone I site that had caused readiation alarms l

at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut. The Naval Reactors j representative indicated that alarms were received on several dates during April and 1ky. It is believed that the issue could be presented to the media shortly.

_ This problem is not a new one. It has been the subject of periodic inquiry E and correspondence since 1971 within the AEC and between the AEC and Naval Reactors. The history of these occ'urrences is, that on occasion work is

( stopped and sometimes people are evacuated from certain specific radiation work areas at Naval Reactors Electric Boat Company in Groton due to the j detection of short-lived airborne particulate radioactivity emitted from i the Millstone plant. l The concentrations of airborne radioactivity detected at Electric Boat are usually'in the range of 1 x 10-9 microcuries per cubic centimeter and have not exceeded the NRC limits. The concentrations, I exceed the setpoints for the radiation monitor alarms in some of the work j areas at Electric Boat, causing the air particulate monitors to indicate j several times the normal concentrations of natural background radioactivity.

The occurrences are usually of short duration (an hour or less) and j the radiation exposure rated during this time are probably several times i normal background radiation levels, which is usually about 0.02 mr/hr.

, . The release rate of airborne radioactivity from the Millstone stack in h' # this curren't event was about 186,000 microcuries per second, which is about 23% of their license limit. Some-~of the events have occurred when l

, the stask-release from Millstone was at about 50,000 microcuries per ,

m $ second, or about 6% of their limit.

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Contact:

FADreher, IE x7261, HDThornburg, IE x7353, JGDavis, IE x7541 A

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, b Chairman Anders Commissioner Mason S. J. Chilk, SECY

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ogI L. V. Gossick, EDO B. C. Rusche, NRR D. F. Knuth, IE H. H. Brown. ISP J. A. Harris, PA '

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