ML20234D585

Responds to Questions Raised in Re Proposed Const at Bodega Bay,Ca

ML20234D585
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Site:	05000000, Bodega Bay
Issue date:	10/04/1963
From:	Price E US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Pfaender G AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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. c, bN.)C,gl [.lln DIJt:CTE Decket No. 50-205 OCT4 19s3 Mrs cuy Pfaender 3236 South Court Palo Alto, California Dear Mrs. Pfsender This replies to your letter of July 30, 1963 addressed to Chairman Seaborg ta winich you asked several questions relative to the muelear power plant proposed for construction at Sedesa Bay, Califerais.

According to the application submitted by Pacific Gas & glectric Cougissy, which to surrently under study by the technical staff of the Atente Energy Comedesion, the answers, la brief, to the questions you raise are as folloess 1.

During morumi operstica of the reactor the primary constituent of the staok gas will be air. There any be trees !aamats of radiomative argen, menon, krypten, and tedine. These gaseems effluents would

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he esatianeusly maattered for redteestivity. shmaid a level of activity statek approaches the nazissa concentration permissible under the~ Commission's resu-Lation, 10 CFR Part to, " standards for Protestian Against Radiation", and the terms of the itsense be attained, the asses would be held up until such time as the activity decayed to the point where the release would be within ecoeptable limits. A copy of Part 20 is encioned. The values refloated ta Part 20 are based on tho'most recent th ations of the National Committee on Radiation Protection. Within these 11:mita, gaseous effluents la the vicinity of a resoter could be breathed for a lifetime and 11gald affluents at the point of discharge eeu1d be drunk for a lifetime without undue risk to the persea doing so.

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1 radioactive vaste materials could be discharged with the coolant water in concentrations which would be controlled and monitored. These concen-tretions would not be permitted to escoed the-limits permissible under Part 20 and the ceras of the license.

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(a) The only. highly radioactive westes which would-l be removed from the plant site would be those con.

tained within spent fuel elements and. spent resins.

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(b) The amount which would be removed periodiestly l

l would be dependent primer 11y on the power level of the reactor and the number of days of actual opera.

tion. It is ordinarily a very substantial quantity in terms of its radioactive content.

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specially designed casks by truck or rail to an AEC

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owned chessical processing pl. ant. A privately owned plant is presently being constructed under en AgC l

construction permit in New York-State. The resins would be removed and disposed of by an /EC licensed commercial' waste disposal facility.

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'e' (d) Any storage or removal costs secociated with this matorist would be borne by the licensee.

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(e) On recovery of the useful components of the spent fuel, i.e., uranium and plutonium, the remain.

ing radioactive fission products are generally stored indefinitely at the fuel processing facility at which the separation of fission products is made. Spent i

resins are ordinarily disposed 'of by land burial at AE.C approved locations and in AEC approved containers.

Please understand that the above answers to.your questions are in part based on the application as presently submitted by Pacific Gas &

Electric Company. That appilcation is.still under review.

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