ML20127N962

Forwards SE by Division of Reactor Licensing in Matter of Cyap & SE by Division of Reactor Licensing in Matter of Nsp,Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant,Unit 1,dtd 670504.W/o Encls

ML20127N962
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Site:	Monticello, Haddam Neck  File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png
Issue date:	05/25/1967
From:	Boyd R US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Schroeder F PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO.
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Mr. Frank Sehroeder , .Ii' 8~-/ ' #*

Manager,-Water Itsester Safety J' .

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Phillipe Petroleum Ceepany tlt * #c P. O. Dez 2067 Idaho Falle, Idahe_ _ 83401 Dear Mr. Schroeder Copies of safety evoluations listed below are encioned for your informations i

1. Safety Svaluaties by the Division of Roaster 1 Licenstag in the matter of Canaseticut Yankee -

Atomie Power Company, dated May 11,1967

2. Safety Evaluaties by the Division of Remotor U - 4== in the matter of Northern States Power Campsey, Montieelle Nealear Generating Plant, Unit 1, dated May 4,-1967 ,

aineerely yours,

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12720 Twinbrook Parkway Rockville, Maryland 20852 April 2, 1968 Dr. Dean E. Abrahamson 1092 25 Ave., S. W.

Minneapolis, Minn. 55414

Dear Dr. Abrahamson:

This is in reply to your ictter of March 2, 1968, in which you raised various technical quest.ons concerning the Monticello reactor, our participation in its evaluation, and the release of tritium from it and reactors in general.

As stated in " Surveillance of Nuclear Power Reactors,"

Public Health Reports, Vol. 82, No. 10, pages 906, we recommended that states conduct pre-operational surveillance for a period of one year primarily to evaluate plant operations after startup. We feel that the Minnesota Health Department, by virtue of past experience, need not conduct a pre-operational program of this extent. The main objective of the pre-operational survey at Monticello is to establish the icvels of environmental radioactivity at the time of startup and any anomalies that exist; the period of time over which this is done is relatively unimportant. Therefore, the Minnesota Health Department's plan to establish these levels is, in our -

opinion, adequate primar!.ly because they presently possess sufficient experience to conduct the necessary operational surveillanc e .

To our knowledge, the State of Pennsylvania is the only state to impose stricter limits on reactor operators than the AEC.

This practice, however, has not been based on a concern that the levels generally released from a reactor are high or unsafe, but merely on the basis that such a facility does nec need a limit as high as an AEC discharge limit in order to operate. Pennsylvania limits the total annual tritium discharge from Shippingport to the amount it is calculated to produce. On this basis the average concentration in condenser V

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- 2-A cooling water is in order of magnitude below the discharge concentrations permitted by the AEC. The upper limit used by_all states thus far has been the 10 CFR 20' values or

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equivalent values as given by the ICRP. As a Federal agency we examine nuclear facilities to insure that discharge concentrations conform with the PHS Drinking Water Standards l and that guidelines of the FRC are met. Enclosud are copies '

of the Drinking Water Standards and FRC Reports 1 and 2. A reprint entitled, " Digest of Protection Standards and State ,

Regulations for Radioactivity in Water," is also enclosed. [ '

The Monticello reactor will use zirconium clad fuel elements.

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t The boron shim plates as far as we can tell will be clad with stainless steel though this may change in light of boron being a primary source of tritium. The R&D aimed at determining a tritium escape coefficient for Zr clad fuel is yet incomplete. Battelle Manorial Institute is doing; work ,

on this subj ect. Members of our staff have, through personal communication 'vith the people at Battelle, been informed that the tritium tends to react with the Zr and form a hydride '

resulting in a lower escape coefficient than is the case with stainless steel. This would tend to agree with the tritium concentration data printed by Smith in his paper. You apparently used the Yankee primary coolant concentration data in your calculations. Yankee uses stainless steel clad. fuel and is a PWR. A PWR uses a chemical shim (boric acid is added to the primary coolant) whereas a BWR uses cladded shim plates. Therefore, data from a BWR which uses Zr clad fuel could be used in calculating tritium discharges from Monticello '

but data from a reactor with a different configuration is not t

appropriate.

Attached is a calculation giving.the tritium unit conversion and a brief evaluation of the dose from tritium, which we -

-- hope answers some of your specific questions.

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3-l-- We appreciate your concern on this subject, and wish to reiterate that we will review the Monticello site in light of the discharge limits when they are submitted to assure l

that no public health problems exist relative to the reactor operation.

Sincerely yours, Ernest D.11arward, Chief Nuclear Facilities Section Enrironmental Surveillance _

and Control Program.

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