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August 17, 1984 O .
MEMORANDUM FOR: RIII Files FROM:
C. J. Paperiello, Chief Emergency Preparedness and Radiological Protection Branch
SUBJECT:
TRIP REPORT - ILLIN0IS DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR SAFETY On August 9 and 10, I participated in meetings with the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety (1D35) to discuss their Remote Radioactive GaseousT Effluent Monitoring System.
State Programs and attended by two technical representatives from NRR, Frank Young from the Office of State Programs and Roland Lickus, Regional The meeting resulted, in part, from the NRC's State Liaison Officer.
critical review of the State's Radioactive Gaseous Effluent Monitoring System (RAGEMS).
The meeting on August 9 was held in Springfield and lasted about 4-5 hours.
I Q IDNS made several presentations on various aspects of their On August 10, we toured the IDNS RAGEMS gency Assessment Center operations.
installation at the LaSalle County plant.
The RAGEMS system is different than the post-accident ' effluent monitoring systems the NRC has required licensees to install in that it measures the isotopic release rate for noble gases, iodine, and particulate whereasIsotopic compo NRC required systems measure only gross release rates.The State system is is either assumed or extrapolated from grab samples.
more costly and considering the large uncertainties in dose projection, even with a perfectly known source term, of limited value in improving the Furthermore, dose projection is only one of accuracy of dose assessment. This was the basis mel'y factors involved in protective action decision making.Another sign of the NRC criticism.
with the system has averaged 80% with RAGEMS and only 50% with the Remote However, data recovery have improved and Environmental Monitoring System.
have averaged well over 90% in 1984 for RAGEMS.
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August 17, 1984 RIII Files O i believe the NRC needs to Thelook state at hasthe IDNS system an ambitious within the contextl program centered IDNS is trying to accomplish.
on radiation safety. Recent State legislation increases' fees on reactor,This m fuel facility, and spent fuel cask licensees.
with increased general revenue funds to support emergency preparedness, inspection of spent fuel shipnents, training of state and local emergency response personnel and installation of' remote effluent monitoring system The States sees RAGEMS as just part of their emergency respon if it is the most expensive.
fit analysis, they noted that a large portion of the cost of a 4 billion dollar plant results from compliance with NRC regulations which l
undergone a cost benefit analysis.
cost to the overall cost of a plant. l The State's Radiological Emergency Assessment Center g Operations Center.
input from RAGEMS, the Remote Environmental Monitoring System y an licensee's on-site meteorological tower.
to effluent monitors and meteorological towers automatically present dose projections, show site-area Under maps, legislation licensee just passed whichdata, raises and plant P&lD's on fees, the Display Terminals.
State will get a modified Nuclear Data link and the RAGEMS system, c installed at LaSalle, will be installed at all reactors in Illinois.
'O An IDHS representative stated that its Although theytools, are may not currently completely more powerful recognize the staff they have to use them.
I the limitations on their RAGEMS system, they do not recognize all its either such as the ability to verify licensee The compli than the NRC and with a greater degree of accuracy than the licens IDNS is actively recruiting itaff.the cancellation of plants and their ab They anti-opportunity to work with state-of-the-art equipment.from abou fcipate state.
reaching aThey staffing level of about 200 when th plan to add two more mobile laboratories for Center in the country.They have hired Ph.D radiochemist for their laboratory.
emergency response.
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- R111 Files Althcuch they currently f all short of the O TheNRC's IDNS program is impressive.
technical expertise, theyWith have committed asLink,twen, if not more, resourc their Nuclear Data PAGEMS, to incident response than the NRC.
Remote Monitors and emergency center computers, they v:ill have more d their emergency center than the NRC I believe has with thein the op as they replace their contractors with their own staff.
proper direction the IDNS overall capabilities could exceed the NRC' areas of incident response, health physics, and environmental surveillance.
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C. . Pap iello, Chief Emergency Preparedness and-Radiological Protection Branch cc: J. G. Keppler A. B. Davis J. A. Hind R. M. Lickus s
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