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August 17, 1984 MEMORANDUM FOR:
RIII Files C. J. Paperiello, Chief FROM:
Emergency Preparedness and Radiological Protection Branch TRIP REPORT - ILLIN0IS DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR SAFETY
SUBJECT:
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.
Q IDNS made several presentations on various aspects of thei gency Assessment Center operations.
On August 10, we toured the IDNS RAGEMS I
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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. RIII Files O i believe the NRC needs to look at the IDNS system within the context l The state has an ambitious program centered IDNS is trying to accomplish.
Recent State legislation increases' fees on reactor,This m on radiation safety.
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 respo 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.
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Operations Center.
licensee's on-site meteorological tower.
to effluent monitors and meteorological towers automatically present dose projections, show site-area maps, licensee data, and plant P&lD's o Under legislation just passed which raises fees, the State will get a modified Nuclear Data link and the RAGEMS system, c Display Terminals.
installed at LaSalle, will be installed at all reactors in Illinois.
An IDHS representative stated that its tools, are currently more powerful
' O Although they may not completely recognize the limitations on their RAGEMS system, they do not recognize all its the staff they have to use them.
either such as the ability to verify licensee compli I
The 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 opportunity to work with state-of-the-art equipment.from abo They anti-fcipate reaching a staffing level of about 200 when th They plan to add two more mobile laboratories for state.
They have hired Ph.D radiochemist for their laboratory.
Center in the country.
emergency response.
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Au' gust 17, 1984-R111 Files Althcuch they currently f all short of the O The IDNS program is impressive.
NRC's technical expertise, they have committed as twen, if not more, resourc With their Nuclear Data Link, 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 has in the op I believe with the 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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