ML20081L475

Forwards NRC Proposed Amend to Physical Security Requirements for Npps.Recommends That More Security Needed Around Univ Research Reactors & All Reactor Fuel Be Removed Immediately from Campus.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20081L475
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Site:	Neely Research Reactor
Issue date:	12/03/1993
From:	Boyd R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
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J December'3, 1993 ,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ,

Secretary Washington,.D.C. 20555 Attn: Docketing and Services Branch

Dear Sir:

The attached NRC proposed ' amendment ' to physical security requirements for' Nuclear Power Plants is proper in my view. Also, more security is needed- around university research reactors and high level facilities.

Specifically, I would strongly recommend that all reactor fuel,-heavy water and Kilo Curies of 60 Co and 137 Cs be. removed a immediately from the Georgia Tech campus in Downtown Atlanta, '

Georgia.. This would eliminate for the duration one of the many  !

security concerns during the 1996 USA Olympic Games, much of which  !

centers around the' Georgia Tech campus. Past experience in other countries has shown that the olympics is a highly vulnerable place >

for sabotage. As you know, the public is paranoid about

" Radiation". Terrorists could exploit this fear and embarrass the USA or seriously injure innocent people. Furthermore, I am pro- '

nuclear and I don't want the USA Olympic Games to be used as a tool ,

by anyone to hurt the vital nuclear industry.

P'. ease accept these personal comments in the spirit of free expression of opinion from a concerned citizen.

Sincerely,  !

Robert M. Boyd <

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J No.93-167 November 4, 1993 against--the use of a four-wheel-drive land vehicle for the transport {

of personnel, hand-carried equipment '

NRC PROPOSES AMENDHENTS TO PHYSICAL or explosives. The amendments would I SECURITY REQUIREHENTS provide a process to allow for. '

FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS alternative measures to protect against sabotage. ,

The Nuclear Regulatory Licensees would be required to commission is proposing to amend its establish vehicle control measures t physical protection regulations for to protect the facility from use cf operating nuclear power plants. The a land vehicle to gain unauthorized amendments would modify the design proximity to vital area barriers. i basis threat for radiological They would also be required to '

sabotage to include the use of land vehicles by adversaries for assess whether the measures taken to ,

protect against vehicle intrusion transporting personnel, hand-carried provide protection against a vehicle equipment and explosives., bomb consistent with design goals  ;

and criteria specified by the l Nuclear power plant licensees Commission. Licensees who could not  ;

are required to implement a system that protects against acts of demonstrate that they fully meet the '

Commission's design goal for radiological sabotage, and protection against a vehicle bomb specifically against the design would have the option of proposing basis threat for radiological alternative measures for protection '

sabotage as set out in the against this threat. t Commission's regulations. '

Programs of licensees who are Based on current information in the process of decommissioning or derived by continually monitoring are contemplating decommissioning in and evaluating the worldwide threat {

environment and briefings by various the near future would be evaluated '

government intelligence agencies, on a case-by-case basis by the NRC to determine if full or partial the NRC has concluded that there is exemption from the new rule is no indication of an actual vehicle appropriate.

threat against the domestic <

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commercial nuclear industry. The rule calls for licensees However, based on the recent bcmbing authorized to operate a nuclear of the World Trade Canter and the power plant (1) to submit'(within 90 unauthorized intrusion at the Three days of the effective date of the '

Mile Island nuclear power plant, the final rule) a summary description of NRC believes that a vehicle the proposed vehicle control intrusion or bomb threat to a measures and the results of their nuclear power plant could develop cost-benefit analysis and (2) to i

without warnino in the future. fully implement the required "ehicle control measures or the site-To maintain a prudent margin specific alternative measures as between the current threat estimate approved by the Commission within ,

(low) and the design basis threat 360 days of the effective date of (postulated as higher for the final rule.

conservatism), the NRC is proposing to amend its regulations to modify the design basis threat for radiological sabotage to include protection against malevolent use of vehicles at nuclear power plants. ,

4 The proposed amendments, which Interested persons are invited

• are to Part 73 of the Commission's to submit written comments on the regulations, would include--within proposal to the Secretary, U.S. .

the design basis threat that Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention:

licensees are required to protect Docketing and Services Branch. The ecmments should be submitted by <

2 January 3, 1994 (60 days following publication of a Federal Register notice).

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E Crry EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER TECH 1.1 million pCi/L in 1991.

REACTOR'S RADIOACTIVE WASTEWATER

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Commission (NRC) staffers, repnsenta- .Struntium-90,which has bwn within I tives of the state Department of Natural federal levels for over 10 years, peaked at 125 Resoums, and the adnunistrators of Georgia pCi/L in 1980 - 15 times EPA standanis.

Tech's Neely Nudar Research Rmctor, the Phil Nongter, acting deputy director of oty expressed surprise at the fact that radimc- the oty's Burrau of Ibilution Contml, tive waste had bmn routinely dischargal into expressed concern that the tanks contained the city's sewer system - and acknowledged wastewater fmm the fadlity as well as rainwa-it has no way to test for such wastes. ter, which is allowed to flow into the tanks.

In fact,as the mwting progressed,it When Karam notd that other facihties-becarne apparent that no place in the aty has hospitals and universitics, for instance -also such a pennit. produced radimetive waste, and might also Deissuearose when the city was be in violation of city onimances, the city offi-apprised that, sin its construction 30 years cials expnsrei surprise - and some conmm.

ago, the rmetor complex - which indudes a Hillick noted that there was no facdity for test-rmctor, an irradiation facility which houses a ing for radioactive isotopes in wastewater.

pool of Cobalt 40, and another containing "We never thought we neated one," he Cosium-137- has routinely discharged said. Cunently, sewage is testal for hmy radxuctive wastewater into the 100-year old metals and otherindustrial pollutants before sewers that run to the city's 1G1. Clayton being treated. Contanunants are filteral out sewage treatment plant [see "Ramblin' and tumed into sludge, which is bumed or Rmetor," CL, Dec.17, w j. De nuctor con fonned into bricks.

plex is currently applying for a reissuan of "Now we're hearing that there's more its NRC heense, which wouki allow it to oper- sources than (the Neely Rmctor]," addai dty ate foranother 20 years, inspector Tyler Richards. "Ihat woke us up "

"Any wastewater containing radimctivity Theprosgd that theaty hasroutinely in exmss of federal Environmental Protection allowed radioactive waste to return to the Agency standards for drinking water is not river, go up the stack at the incinerator, or be pennittal," said Hillock. mixed with other waste products was not a ne reactor's director, Dr. Ratib Karam, pleasant one for Nongaser. Even so, he disputed the charges, asserting that the 5,000 assured Karam that the facility would be gallon wastewater storage " farm" is only issued a temporary p smit pending a review emptied into the sewers after hing tested and of the reactor's discharge re;xwts, found to be within acceptable levels. But Karam, jnined by Tech legal counsel Karam said that any releas(s would have Kathy Maher, indicated that they were not hvn well below the federal Em ironmental conymad the city had any authority to con-Protation Agency standards for dnnking trol the dischargts.

water, which the city uses as its own stan- "rm not aware tlut theNRCdelegatal ,

danis fordischarge into the wwers. you any nsponsibility," said Karam.

'%Ve own the sewers," replia! Nongeeser. I However, an analysis of the nuctor com-plex's wastewater from 1978 through 19M, "We operate under federal guidelines, ard we ;

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00CHr : EU TCERTIFICATE OF SERVICE -- Docket No. (s) 50-160-REN Secretary gg pj7' gg gj, ) 4 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Docketing and Service Branch Washington, DC 20555 Offt 9Y DOCX: "3 Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Sherwin E. Turk, Esq.

Susan S. Chikadel, Esq.

Office of the General Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Administrative Judge Charles Bechhoefer, Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Administrative Judge Peter S. Lam Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Administrative Judge Jerry R. Kline Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Mr. Randy A. Nordin Manager - Legal Division Office of Contract Adminictration Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA 30332-0420 E. Gail Gunnells Deputy Chief Legal Advisor Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0495 Ms. Pamela Blockey O' Brien D23 Golden Valley Douglasville, GA 30134