ML20237D022
Text
- - _ _ - _ - _ _ _ _
[ fl /
p-.
% P/t Mit 311584 L
MEMORANDUM FOR: SLR Files Frank Young, Section Leader State Relations OSP FROM:
VISIT TO ILLINOIS DEPARTNENT OF NUCLEAR SAFETY AND THE
SUBJECT:
LA SALLE PLANT, AUGUST 9 AND 10, 1984 Earlier this year, the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety invited NRC's review of its report pmposing to extend its prototype effluent monitoring system installed at LaSalle to the other six nuclear stations in Illinois.
MRC's evaluation was somewhat critical, feeling that it is an overkill, that the use of the data for making protective actior, recommendations is questionable--i.e., that plant conditions are far more important for making protective action recommendations.
This memo documents In Illinois' response, they invited us to make a visit.
that visit.
In the meeting for NRC:
Dan Muller, A/D for Radiation Protection, NRR Charles Willis, MTEB/NRR - chief comenter on the Illinois report
--)Roland Lickus, RSLO, Region III Carl Paperiello, Chief, Emergency Preparedness and Radiological Protection Branch, RIII Frank Young Section Leader, State Relations, OSP For the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety:
Don Etchison, Director and SLO to NRC Terry Lash, Deputy Director
/ Gary Wright, Director, Nuclear Facility Safety Jim Blackbum Melante Hamel, Health Physicist Dick Eisenheimer The Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety was established by the Illinois Legislature based on a proposal of the Governor in the period imediately Illinois Governor Thompson continues to take a after the TMI accident.
strongly supportive position for the role of Nuclear Power in Illinois, but he is comitted to having the best nuclear safety. A key provision of the O
hh22 8 871210 SHOLLY87-73.7 PDR i
i l
' {
wmcs >
{
'T' g
susm us >;
j i
& vs
- ~ ~ - -
. AUG 311984 p>
act establishing the IDNS was an affluent monitoring system for all the State's nuclear power plants. The act levied a tax on utilities to pay for that system.
A recent amendment has increased the tax to pay for the increased cost of the system and cleared the way for extending the LaSalle prototype to all the other six plants.
The IDNS staff explained the affluent monitoring system in some detail and explained how they anticipate using it in emergencies. They acknowledge that it does not give better data: but that it_ dogs.. girt _iL A leu _ti it automatically. They appear to be keenly aware of the limited _me and gives use f6 %
made of the data-limited in tems of making protective measure reconnendations.
They_are aware that plant conditions _are more important in_ne,,k.ing t.ha,t k
t 2":"'""f itTICd by
.. L.J. J Frank Young, Section Leader State Relations Section Office of State Programs
Enclosure:
Memo, C. Paperiello to RIII Files, dtd Aug. 17, 1984 Distri:
Q
Subject:
Illinois OSP Dir r/f SLR r/f GWKerr JSaltzman RBernero, NRR SSchwartz, IE #
DMuller, NRR CWillis, NRR RLickuS, RIII CPaperiello, RIII FYoung O
V
,33p SR:0SP N
+
unf k ',, '
[
my 2.,g 8/31/84
.