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- c DISCLAIMER This is an unofficial transcript of_a meeting'of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission held on Aueust 11, 1989, in the Commission's office at One White Flint North, Rockville, Maryland.
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. ikf The' Commission met in'open session, pursuant to notice, at.10:00 a.m.,
Kenneth M.
Carr, Chairman, presiding.
COMMISSIONERS PRESENT:
KENNETH M.
CARR, Chairman of the Commission THOMAS M-. ROBERTS, Commissioner KENNETH C.
ROGERS, Commissioner JAMES R.
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PARLER,-General Counsel-'
HUGH. THOMPSON, EDO, DEDS ROBERT BERNERO, Director of Operationsi NMSS-ROBERT BURNETT,. Director of Saf eguards and Transportation, NMSS EARL EASTON, NMSS l
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.5 The purpose of-today's meeting is to brief I'i 6
'the Commission on the staff's effort to certify the I
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waste from defense facilities, TRUPACT II plays an
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approve TRUPACT II~1ater this month if the review c;
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15 Copies of the presentation slides should be.
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17 Do my fellow Commissioners have any opening l
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j 19 (No response) j 20 CHAIRMAN CARR:
If not, Mr. Thompson, you i
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Thank you, Mr.
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I 24 As we indicated, we do anticipate completing C&
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We've been working very closely and very-
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Much of 3-that' time. was in.a kind of a - preapplication mode,
~4-making sure.that DOE. understood the criteria, the 5
-requirements.that we were going to be reviewing, and 6
so' that we have been able to f airly promptly 7
' accomplish the review once the application ~ was 8-actually submitted.
9 We have today in the audience two members of
.10 theLDepattwent of Energy, Mr. Frank Falci, who is the 11 Manager of Nuclear Materials Transportation Research
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.and Development, who is from the DOE Headquarters; and 13 Mr. James To11ison, who is the TRUPACT Project Manager p(9 i:
14 from the Department of Energy in. Albuquerque, New 15 Mexico.
16 CHAIRMAN CARR:
Welcome,-gentlemen.
17 MR. THOMPSON:
I'm sure they'll be able to 18 answer any specific questions of where they are in the 19 process.
Today's briefing ' will be done by Mr. Earl 20 Easton, who is the NRC Project Manager.
21 Earl, it's all yours.
22 MR. EASTON:
Thank you.
23 You touched upon the importance of the 24 TRUPACT package in DOE's effort to transport
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.of the TRUPACT ~ package, what waste it's designed.to l
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transport, and go over some of the aspects of~the NRC.
4 review of thet package.
5 (Slide)
Can I have the -- slide 3, please?
6 This is' an outline, basically, of what we 7
hope to cover today.
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Next slide.
9 MR. THOMPSON:
I might s'ay that this is a 10 m ul t inuedi a event.
We have models, video cameras, 11 video tape.
So hopefully it will all work very 12 smoothly today -- here we go -- except the viewgraphs.
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The TRUPACT II shipping package 15 is designed to ship plutonium contaminated waste 16 gener ated at DOE defense-related facilities to the 17 waste isolation pilot plant, or WIPP.
The TRUPACT 18 package may also be used to transport waste between 19 the various DOE facilities.
20 These wastes consist prinarily of the 21 byploducts from plutonium production, plutonium 22 reclamation processes, and laboratory operations.
The 23 waste that would be shipped in a TRUPACT container are 24 low-level transuranic waste.
They are considered fc;.
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Laboratory, or INEL.
The-waste at IF"?. falls into'two 8
broad categories, the waste generated before 1970 and J
9 the waste generated after 1970.
10 The waste generated before 1970 are buried 11 and. DOE:has no plans to ship these wastes to WIPP.
12 The wastes which were generated after 1970.
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are stored.in 55 gallon drums or' steel boxes.
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There are approximately 114,000 17 druins and 6,000 of these boxes in stcre..e at the INEL 18 facility which DOE intends to ship to WIPP.
19 Apart from the waste stored at INEL, DOE 20 projects that approximately 8,000 drums and 5,000 i
21 smaller boxes of waste will be generated each yecr.
22 MR. THOMPSON:
Is that 5,000 or 500?
23 MR. EASTON:
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200 processes at ten different DOE facilities.
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wastes range from glassware,
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byproducts from plutonium processing and many cemented 10 sludges.
These are from-the waste streams, that are 11 solidified and made into cemented sludges.
The result 12 is o genuine mixed waste which must be considered as a 13 chemical. waste as well as a radioactive waste.
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14 A major consideration in the shipment' of 15 this waste is the possibility of hydrogen generation 16
~from the reaction of organic material with radiation.
17 I will talk about this in more depth later in my 18 presentation.
19 It's important to note that the initial 20 TRUPACT application does not address all of DOE's low-21 level transuranic waste.
You can see from the last 22 bulletin on the -- from the monitor that none of the 23 pre-1970 waste (se is addressed.
That's the buried 24 waste that's not going to WIPP.
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7 The current ~ application does cover most ~ of B
the waste that would be generated in the future.- This 9-
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- Again, the boxes. ref er to those boxes 11 specifically ' designed to be transported in TRUPACT.
12 Most of this waste would be generated in the Rocky k,N.-
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~ CHAIRMAN CARR:
So, they're designing new 15 boxes to store things in now that will fit this 16 container?
17 MR. EASTON:
Yes, sir.
18 CHAIRMAN CARR:
Okay.
19 MR. EASTON:
The current TRUPACT application 20 should be viewed as a first stage.
We anticipate that.
21 DOE will address additional waste in future requests.
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24 NRC is conducting a review of the TRUPACT 2
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review' - cover s- ~ all-the areas' listed i n.. t h e.
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focus on the first three areas:
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tintegrity'and containment.
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Next. slide, please.
7 The contents shipped in the TRUPACT will 8
have limits on the - physical and chemical form.
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Some are-
'11 necessary for the safe transportation of these wastes.
12 I'd like.to focus on the limits we think necessary for 13 the' transportation.
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-14 The contents must be in solid or solidified 15 form.
All free liquid must be removed with the 16 exception it's limited to one percent.
No corrosives 17 or explos "es will be permitted in the waste, and d
18 pyrophorics are limited to less than one percent.
The 19 contents must be chemically compatible so that there 20 are no interactions between different waste forms 21 during transit and so that there is no interaction 22 between the waste and package components such as the O 23 ring s e ci l s, which are made from butyl rubber and 24
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control the possible generation of hydrogen.
I'll 5
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At this point, I would'like to note that DOE 7
has a prograin in place at-each of.its facilities for.
8-verifying the characteristics of its waste.
These 9
programs are set up to assure that the waste sent.to l'O WIPP ' meet the WIPP acceptance - criteria.
.The DOE
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WIPP will be expanded to. include transportation.
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' inclu' des the auditing and inspection by DOE to-. make 16 sure these procedures are adequate.
The NRC will 17 require that the characteristics of all waste shipped 18 in a TRUPACT container be verified using.these 19-procedures, that is, the procedures that were 20 developed for certifying waste for the WIPP facility.
21 CHAIRMAN CARR:
Let me make sure I 22 understand what you're telling me here.
Nothing will 23 be shipped in these containers that can't be stored at 24
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What goes in the container.
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important' because the - TRUPACT package is a closed, 2
' leak tight ' container during. transit.
Any generation 3
of hydr ogen during transit could cause the hydrogen 4
concentration within the container to increase.
The.
.5 generation of hydrogen in these wastes is based on the 6
decay heat which is a measure of the fissile content 7
or activity within the waste and the materials'present
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9 The-waste has a wide range of organic 10 '-
materials.
And importantly, the waste is packaged in 11 Drganic materials, that is plastic bags, many times 12 three or four layers of bags surrounding the waste.
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13 Each 55 gallon drum has a rigid plastic liner in it.
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-With this in mind, the contents of the 15 TRUPACT package have heen limited so that the hydrogen-16' concentration and any void volume within the package 17 would not exceed five percent in a 60 day period.
The 18 60 day period is reasonable in light of the fact that 19 the normal shipping time is approximately three to 20 five days for these shipments.
21 CHAIRMAN CARR:
So these are only certified 22 for truck shipment then?
23 MR. EASTON:
Yes.
i 24 CHAIRMAN CARR:
And not rail or ship?
3 25 MR. EASTON:
No.
At the present time, the a
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It. may' be 21 possible that DOE would want shipment by rail in - the 3
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Excuse me.
When he gets, 5
later on,.into the traffic envisioned, I think that 6
may well'be a consideration.
7 14R. EASTON:
So. the hydrogen generation - is 8
based on a 60 day period.
That's reasonable because 9
shipping time is three to five days, the normal-10 shipping time.
11 As an aside, I'd like to point out that DOE 12 piens to track the TRUPACT '. containers by satellite CW:l l
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We feel this will allow DOE ~to be aware 15 of the progress of these shipments at all times.
16 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
Could you elaborate 17 on the-phrase, " tracked by satellite during transit *'?
the satellite 1B MR. EASTON:
They have to 19 wil]
Iocate or follow the progress of the shipment 20 from the beginning to the end.
It's part of the 21 Transcom System.
22 MR. BERNERO:
Yes.
Our understanding is DOE a satellite tracking 23 is implementing a track 24 system for Category I shipments and that they would 25 use that same system for these waste shipments.
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Yes, wherever.
Wherever 7
you're doing it.
8 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
And -- and with all 9
that, you're going to base this on a 60 day shipment 10 period?
11 MR. BERNERO:
Yes.
Well, we're not --
12 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
Isn't that overkill?
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- Well, if you read the
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We've actually cut down to 60 days as a 16-licensing basis.
17 The tracking is not a requirement.
It's an 18 understanding.
But you look at the hydrogenous 19 content and the possibility of breakdown and so forth.
20 Sixty days is pretty conservative for that.
I'll 21 agree with you on that.
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These go through the western part of 24 the United States.
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On the monitor is a picture of L6 an actual TRUPACT/ container.
The outer lid has been 7
removed so that you can see both.the outer vessel and.
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(Gay, the next viewgraph, please.
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.The TRUPACT is designed to provide ' double 11-containment.
There is an inner containment vessel,'an 12 --
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Leak tightness is verified before'each
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15 The outer vessel is approximately ten feet 16' high and eight feet wi'de.
This is a one-eighth scale 17 model.
The inner containment vessel, the one that 18 octually holds the payload, is about eight and a half 19 feet high and six and a half feet in diameter.
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Next slide, please.
21 The package itself weighs about six tons.
22 The contents weigh just over three and a half tons, so 23 that the total weight for the package is almost ten 24 tons.
Three of these packages go on a truck, so you s
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The inner vessel 'is one-quarter ' inch 5
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The cavity. of the inner containment' vessel
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purpose of this is to per--is 6.s a spacer, but this 10
.could also provide some energy absorbing capability in 11-case of an impact.
12 The outer containment vessel has a ten inch
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Here you see the foam.
It's not exposed in the actual 15 packages, but for this model you can see the foam.
16 The foam provides insulation if the package is exposed 17 to fire and also acts as an energy absorber for 18 impacts.
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May I have the next slide, please?
20 I'd just like % point out two or three 21 features on this schematic of the TRUPACT.
It is 22 designed for a 14 drum payload.
The 14 drum payload 23 is on - the schematic between the shaded areas.
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- Okay, can we have the second 4
picture, please?
5 On the monitor is a picture of a prototype 6
'TRUPACT package being. loaded.
You can see that the 7
package is about
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that the method of loading is by lifting the drums as 9
a pallet 'into the container.
This makes the package 10 relatively easy to load and unload.
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13 I'd like to discuss briefly the testing that 14 was conducted on the TRUPACT container.
Part 71 15-allows - that the certification of a transport package 16 be based either on analysis or testing.
The package 17 must be tested or analyzed for a particular sequence 18 of events.
This includes a 30 foot drop onto an 19 unyielding surface, which is the impact test, followed 20 by a 40 inch drop onto a six inch pin.
This is a 21 puncture test, followed by a fire test.
22 DOE conducted a series of full-scale tests 23 using four TRUPACT packages.
The testing for the 24 packages
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-unit ^ nuiuber 1 under impact means that three 30 foot 11 drops were performed on the package at differenc 12 orientations.
Similarly, the seven means that seven
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15 The packages were tested over a wide range 16 of temperattros, both pressurized and unpressurized.
17 The payload was simulated during the test by 14' drums 18 filled with cement at the actual weight that the
'19 contents would have.
'20 At the conclusion of the test, the packages wer e tested to verify leak tightness.
I would like to 21 I
22 show a short video of some of the tests done on 23 certification unit number 1 at this time.
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These were tests'done on 5.
certification unit 1.
You will'see a series of three 6
drop tests followed by several puncture tests.
Then 7-you'll see the package in a fire and at the end you'll 8
see them opening the package.
9 MR.
THOMPSON:
- Now, we did have some 10 individuals out there monitoring a number of these 11 tests.
I don't know whether these were specifically 12 oned that we.mondtored, --
13 MR. BERNERO:
Yes.
9 14 MR. THOMPSON:
-- but we did have our own on 15 the platform.
16 MR.
BERNERO:
Yes.
These are at Sandia 17 National Lab.
18 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
Just while we're 19 vaiting here, was the loading the same for all of 20 these tests or were extreme differences in possible 21 distributions of loads within the TRUPACT--
22 MR. EASTON:
The loading --
23 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
tests.
24 MR. EASTON:
The loading was the same.
It
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2 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
Let'me raise 'e 3
question about that.
If you loaded all of the 4
concrete uniformly, that might be quite different:from 5
loading some parts of it with concrete and some 6
with'--
7 MR. BERNERO:
Asymmetry?
8 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
Yes, to provide. sheer 9
.for ces that you would get if they were uniform.
10 CHAIRMAN CARR:
Did you see any damage.to 11 the drums?
12 MR.
EASTON:
Yes, you'll -- I believe in 13 this vide > you'll see k,+b 14 CHAIRMAN CARR:
We're testing the container, 15 not the drume., right?
16 MR.
EASTON:
The drums were damaged.
17 However, we 'r e giving no credit for containment to the 18 drums.
19 CHAIRMAN CARR:
Yes, okay.
20 MR. EASTON:
The drums are not really part 21 of the package itself.
22 CHAIRMAN CARR:
The interest is in keeping 23 whatever is in there contained rather than --
24 MR. BERNERO:
Yes.
We have essentially the
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(Video)
This is a side drop, 3
30 foot side drop.
That's the side drop again. 'This 4
is being dropped onto an unyieldirig. surf ace, eight 5-
. inches of armor plate over reinforced concrete.
The 6
concrete goes down to the bedrock.
This was --
7 MR. BERNERO:
Sorry.
Notice this.was just B
last December.
9 MR. EASTON:
This is a corner drop.
This is 30 on the same' package.
This is a repeat of that from a 11 different. angle.
This is the top end drop.
12 The'next --
13 MR. THOMPSON:
This is all the same packages
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15 MR. EASTON:
This is all the same package.
16 This is a puncture test dropped onto a six 17 inch diameter pin.
The idea is they aim the pin at a 18 vulnerable area on the package.
19 CHAIRMAN CARR:
Like a joint?
20 MR.
EASTON:
A joint or a vent port or 21 something like that 22 CHAIRMAN CARR:
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24 MR. EASTON:
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5 Ihis.is a.30 minute duration fire.
6-CHAIRMAN CARR:
See any more of that?
7 MR. EASTON:
Those. white poles are -- are the -- the ones on the right, and left are 8
the 9
. wooden two by fours that actually got charred'during 10-the f i r e..
They were about, what, 15 feet away or so.
Il This is after the fire test.
You have to 12 let it cool off for a certain period till it gets back
>gy 13 tu equilibrium.
U 14 Now they'le taking off the outer lid.
The 15 shiny container is the inner vessel.
16 There you see the drums.
You can see that 17 some of the lids of the drums.are a little cceked and 18 dented.
19 Tests were condorted on three certification 20 units similar to the one you saw for certification of 21 unit 1.
It's important to be noted that, for all of.
22 the certification test units, there was no release 23 from the package, either from the inner containment 24 vessel or the outer containment vessel.
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How is the head of the vessel
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.3 MR. EASTON:
Okay.
The top Lis it' is 4
placed over the cask body and rotated.
It engages 5-locking tabs.
And then there is'a locking --
6 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
For the inner and,the 7
outer?
8 MR.
EASTON:
-For both the inner and the 9
outer.
And.tl an there is a locking ring that goes 10 ovez where the vessels are joined and the'. locking' ring, 11 is pinned in place.
12 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
Are these reuseable?
' ep 13 MR.
EASTON:
- Yes, and they're f..
v 24 interchangeable, the 15 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
How many 16 manufacturers are there?
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MR.
EASTON:
At the current time, one, I 18 believe.
19 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
What does one of 20 these things cost?
21 MR. EASTON:
About a half a million dollars, 22 is for the first units.
23 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
And how many are 24 there going to be?
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,2 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
What?
3 MR. BERNERO:
You'll see that in a moment.
4 MR.
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We're coming to that at.the -
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6 MR. BERNERO:
Yes, a lot of them.
~7 MR. EASTON:
But we have concluded from the 8
t e n,t program that the TRUPkCT container provides 9
double containment under the conditions specified in 10 Part 71.
11 (Slide)
If I can have the next slide.
12 MR. BERNERO:
There, you got it.
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Okay, thenks.
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.The one 16 thing I might bring out is that we are in the final 17 st ges of our review and we anticipate that the 18 TRUPACT package could receive NRC certification by the 19 end of ALjust.
20 (Slide)
Next slide.
21 The next is a
picture of the DOE 22 demonstration unit, what a shipment might actually 23 look like.
There'll be three containers on a 24 specially designed trailer.
Each one of these weighs
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. DOE considers ;its vampaign to ship 3
transuranic waste a long-term effort.
It.will involve 4'
a 25.- year campaign with approximate 3y 600. shipments 5
per year.
DOE plans to' fabricate 50 to:90'oC these-
'6-packages. to handle these shipments.
Currently ~ they 7
- have e contract for 51.
8 COMMISS~7NER ROBERTS:
With who?
9 MR. EAST' N :
With Nuclear Packaging.
30 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
That 's.
the name of 11 the entity?
12 MR. EASTON:
Yes.
And there is an option to w
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. produce enother 40.
h1 34 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
Tell me again, what 15 do these jewels cost?
16 MR. EASTON:
Half a million dollars a --
17.
MR. TOLLISON:
$600,000 for a trailer load, 18 which is about $200,000 each.
19 MR. EASTON:
Oh, $200,000 each, six.
20 CHAIRMAN CARR:
Is the trailer part of the 21 contract?
Do you buy the trailer and the packages as 22 a package?
23 MR.
TOhLISON:
The contract included the 24 trailer but the design tradeoff we gave to the Nuclear 25 Packaging.
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COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
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The you're 3
planning to ship. five and a half per day on the 4
average, 1800 packages a year and if you've got 90 of 5
- t. hem --
6 MR. BURNETT:
Six hundred truckloads a year 8
CHAIRMAN CARR:
Yes, that's only two per 9
day.
10 MR. BURNETT:
It comes out about closer to a 11 couple a day.
12 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
I'm talking about p,- :.
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13 those packages.
I'm talking about the number of-14 packages that you re shipping per day.
15 MR. BERNERO:
All right.
16 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
So, you're shipping 11'7 five and a half per day on the average.
I don't care 18 how many trucks that go out.
And you're going to have 19 90 of them and that means on the average you'll have 20 about a 16 day turnaround that's required.
And that,.
21 with your five day travel time -- is that one way 22 transit time or two ways?
23 MR. EASTON; Probably s.ne way, I think.
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to do under the best of circumstances without anything
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- Well, you know, it's not 3
isopos sibl e, but it doesn't look to me like it's got a 4
lot of slop in it.
5 CHAIRMAN CARR:
That's only four and a half' 6
per day, right?
7 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
Five and a half per 8
day.
Divide 1800 by 365.
9 MR. BERNERO:
But the point is well taken.
10 CHAIRMAN CARR:
You're not shipping on 11 S a t ur d a y::, and Sundays?
The truck really drives every 12 day.
13 MR.
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This is a major shipping
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There's a lot of 15
' waste involved and this is by truck and it might end 16 up being advantageous in the future for DOE to be j
17 looking at further considerations and rnaybe going by 1
18 rail.
That's --
19 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
I was just saying, you l
20 know, it looks -- it looks pretty it looks fairly 21 tight.
1 22 MR. BERNERO:
Oh, yes.
Yes.
It's costly.
1 23 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
It's not a generous--
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And that's a big cruck.
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Yes.
Well, I*m : just 4'
looking.at'your flow.
I don't care how~you send'it 5
- out, on truck or whatever.
You're going to be 6
shipping on the average of 1800.a year,,it's going to
'7 be~five and a half per' day, on the average.
8 MR. BERNERO:
Yes.
9 COMMISSIONER-ROGERS:
.I don't know how you 10' schedule' it,.but that means. on the average you're 11 going to have'to'have about a 16 day turnaround and 12 that -- with 90 of these things.
And if you have 50,
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That's pretty tight.
(O 14 So, you know, I'm just saying that it 15 doesn't look to me like you've got a lot of over 16 design in the numbers of these, for the packages 17 themselves.
That's another matter.
I mean, if you 18 stop to think, you're shipping something you could 19 handle with gloves.
But just in terms of numbers of 20 packages that are planned, it looks a little to 21 meet that schedule, it looks to me a little bit, a F
22 little bit tight.
It doesn't allow.for any 23 maintenance or cleaning or anything else to any great 24 degree, I would think.
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4 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
How do -,how long do 5..
you think --
.6-MR. BERNERO:
And then this is --
7 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
-- it will, take to 8
load one of these things,. on the. average?
9 MR. BURNETT:
How about DOE?
- 10 MR. TOLLISON:
It's just a matter of hours.
11, The psckage is specifically designed:so that you can-12 quickly load and unload it.
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-COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
Yes,.but you know
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It's coming in.
It 15 comes into the site.
You've got to get things to--
16 got to get the right place.
Then-you put it in and 17 then it's ready to go on transit, you know.
18 MR. BERNERO:
Yes.
19 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
We have to put all 20 these together.
21 ME. BERNERO:
This is the DOE program plan 22 as it stands today and it's subject to variation as 23
- events unfold.
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Well, I'm just saying
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3 MR. THOMPSON:
Bob, I think you were-going 4
to close up?
5.
MR. BERNERO:
Yes, let me wrap it up.
6 (Slide)
If you go to slide 16'.
7 Babically, as Earl has said, we just got the 8
. response to the second round of questions.
We're in 9'
the final throes of the review.
We don't see any 10-significant obstacle to certification by the end of 11 this month.
Right now that's the way it looks.
The 12 work is'still going on.
13 We've done a thorough review of this thing, p
14 witness tests, everything, you know.
There have been 15
.no compromises in the. review.
We're going to issue 16
-that certification when we're finished and--
17 presuming that we haven't found any obstacle.
And 18 it's going to be limited to the kinds of wastes that 19 are in that certification, you know, this five 20 percent, 60 days.
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It 23 requires further work on characterization and the 24 projection is that there will be further application C.,
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And so there will be further work on this 5
and we'll keep the Commission informed as we go along.
6 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
How much of the waste 7
of this kind du these requirements exclude?
8 MR.
BERNERO:
- Well, right now, of the 9
existing waste, as that earlier slide showed, it's 10 slide n umber 11 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
Five.
12 MR.
BERNERO:
-- five.
Thirty percent of 13 the curiently stored drums will fit this 14 certification.
But with further work, they may be 15 able to -- you know, perhaps processing or whatever--
16 they may be able to get more of that waste to go into 17 it.
That's an uncertainty.
But the, you know, 18 package spec is there and maybe an alteration of the 19 design or a further alteration of waste form or 20 processing will be the answer.
But there will be 21 further work on it.
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-If there's'a waste--
2 i f - the character of the waste is a problem that.
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makes it shippable in these?
7 MR.
EASTON:
It could be several 8
possibilities.
The drums in storage could have been 9
generating hydrogen while they were in storage and --
10 CHAIRMAN CARR:
The answer is they'll know 11 what's in them better for the future --
12 MR. EASTON:
-- the see --
and now they don't know y.,
13 CHAIRMAN CARR:
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l 15 MR. EASTON:
Right.
The second answer is 16 that the data on the drums is a lot better.
You can-17 actually track what you put in the drums.
You have to 18 go back and find out what you put in the drums.
19 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
So, it's you just 20 don't know the reason for this.
21 MR.
BERNERO:
Yes, it's the institution of 22 controls is the key.
23 COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
Yes.
Yes.
24 MR. BERNERO:
So that the results are usable
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THOMPSON:
'I think that completes the
- gr 3-staff's briefing, Mr. Chairman.
We'1'l be delighted to 4
respond to any. questions that you or the.other 5
Cononissioners have.
6 CHAIRMAN CARR:. Commissioner Roberts?
7 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:
No.
8.
CHAIRMAN CARR:
Commissioner Curtiss?
9 COMMISSIONER CURTISS:
A quick question.
We
-10 just got this letter that the Southwest Research 11 Information Center and EDF have'sent to the Secretary 12-of Energy, cc to the Commission.
I gather you've seen "r:
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"We were surprised and dismayed to 16 learn that the NRC has no intention of reviewing DOE-17 transportation-related QA programs, the container-18 manufacturer, maintenance or operational handling."
19 Two questions.
One, what are we doing about 20 QA in this context; and two, does it comport with what 21 Part 71 would require?
22 MR.
THOMPSON:
Let me let Mr.
Burnett 23 respond to that question.
24 MR. BURNETT:
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The first thing, 3
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that' first question you have.
.7 COMMISSIONER CURTISS:
Okay.
8 MR.'BURNETT:
Later in the letter they talk 9
about QA and QC, particularly as it's addressing the 10 characterization of the waste.
11 A13 right.
As was said in the briefing, the 12 process -- the certification process - 'does reference T;
13 their pr ogram to identify those wastes.
However, at s
-b 14 this' time there is no procedures in-the NRC to inspect 15 that arm of DOE.
So, it is assumed that DOE can 16 adequately control their characterization process.
17 CHAIRMAN CARR:
There's no authority either.
18 MR. BURNETT:
Yes, sir.
19 MR.
THOMPSON:
This is all a voluntary 20 aspect.
21 CHAIRMAN CARR:
Yes, I understand that.
22 MR.
THOMPSON:
And we're doing. this to 23 assist DOE's assurance --
24 CHAIRMA11 CARR:
They thought they would get 25 our certification and so that's what we're doing.
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That's right.
That*slright.
2 But we don *t' intend to inspect the facilities to make 3-
- sure' people are'-- that DOE is actually-complying with i
4 their own procedures in that respect.
5 But just to clarify the point, I.'think the-6 quality assurance programs-are. going to meet our 7
. regulations and our requirements as the initial part' 8
of the certification ind we'll audit to'see that those 9
things are being properly implemented at the 10 manufacturer.
11-COMMISSIONER CURTISS:
A more general ~
12 question.
Would it be f air.to say that when we
. y 13 certify the waste and with the exception of the
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certify the cask, and.-
14 characterization-question 15 with the exception of the certification of the waste, 16 that this cask would meet all the Part 71-requirements 17 if it were submitted by a private entity?
18 MR. THOMPSON:
Yes, sir.
19 COMMISSIONER CURTISS:
All right.
20 MR. BERNERO:
You know, this is -- the only 21 deal -- this is not a licensee using it.
22 COMMISSIONER CURTISS:
I understand that.
23 It's kind of a curious relationship because it's a l
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Is that 2
right?
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I mean, if someone else i-5 wants to use it for some other shipment, they could'.
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7 CHAIRMAN.CARR:
The certificate is going to j
8 DOE.
9 MR. THOMPSON:
That's right.
If DOE wanted 10 to let someone else --
11 MR. BERNERO:
It's DOE's package, but --
12.
CHAIRMAN CARR:
And as they say, it's a fee 7
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How about the next problem that-Q\\:
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the boxes or the modifications?
Are we 15 doing those on a fee exempt basis too?
16 MR. BERNERO:
Yes.
.17 MR. THOMPSON-:
Most likely.
18 CHAIRMAN CARR:
Does the High-Level Waste 19 Act not permit us to recoup some of this from that 20 fund?
.21 MR. THOMPSON:
No.
The High-Level Waste Act 22 does not cover these wastes.
The high-level waste 23 fund covers just the commercial spent fuel activities.
24 MR. PARLER:
However, Mr. Chairman, there is
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Well, that's a - good point.
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Just out of
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20 MR. BURNETT:
We have approximately two man 21 years in this effort up to this point.
22 COMMISSIONER CURTISS:
Okay.
Contract 23 dollars or --
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No contract dollars.
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Any other questions?
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