ML20247E360
| ML20247E360 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 03/16/1981 |
| From: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Bradford, Gilinsky, Hendrie NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| ML20244A501 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-89-173 NUDOCS 8905260224 | |
| Download: ML20247E360 (2) | |
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..... March 16,1981
. MEMORANDUM FOR:. Chairman Hendrie Commissioner Gilinsky Commissioner Bradford Commissioner Ahearne FROM: William J. Dircks, Executive Director for Operations
SUBJECT:
DAILY STAFF NOTES, MARCH 13, 1981 IE.
- 1. Quad-Cities, Unit l'- Unplanned Airborne Release to the Reactor Building (Update), (PNO-III-81-31A).
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.2. Brunswick Nuclear Plant - Bomb Threat, (PNS-II-81-03).
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- 1. Texas informed SP on March 13, 1981, that Entronics Corporation, former manufacturer and distributor of fire detectors containing Am-241, has.
entered into bankruptcy proceedings. A Federal judge has taken posses-sion of the facility, including 16,000 assembled fire detectors and 200,000 Am-241 foils (about 0.8 microcuries each). Entronics had manu-factured the detectors under Texas license and distributed them to
, persons exempt from licensing under.NRC license. ELD has advised that, in view of the seizure by the Federal jtdge, the State no longer has authority to license and regulate the possession of the An-241. .IE has
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,_ , The Commissioners March 13,1981
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- L Misleading Newspaper Reports on Ordered Reactor Shutdowns in the FRG Recently, newspaper articles have been published wi.dely in Europe stating that the FRG Ministry of the Interior had ordered all BWRs shutdown because of cracking in primary system piping. These stories are misleading and incorrect.
The FRG government has not ordered the shutdown of any operating reactors in the recent past.
In 1980, the Federal government did order the replacement of primary system piping in all operating BWRs. This order followed the review and evaluation of cracking found in welds in a few BWRs during 1978 and 1979, and the subsequent recommendation of the Reactor Safety Comission (RSK) to replace primary system circuits of operating BWRs with a different material. The necessary shutdowns to accomplish the replacements were scheduled in an orderly fashion to occur over a period of years. The status of the replacements
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Philippsburg I - replacement started in 1980 and will be completed shortly Isar I - replacement scheduled to start in 1981, continuing into 1982 Brunsbuttel - replacement scheduled in 1982-1983 Wuergassen - replacement scheduled in 1982-1983.
In 1979, the FRG authorities reviewed the history of pipe cracking in operating BWRs with a study team from the NRC Pipe Crack Study Group. At that time, RSK olans to recommend replacement of all primary system piping were reported'to NRC. In 1980, during a visit by a delegation of the RSK to NRC, the German delegation confimed their plans to replace piping in this manner.
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