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May 8, 1981 f,;gy y y jggj, 9 For:
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T. A. Rehm, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO s
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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING MAY 1,1981 A sumary of key events is included as a convenience to those Comissioners who may prefer a condensed version of this report.
Contents Enclosure Administration A
Nuclear Reactor Regulation B
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards C
Inspection and Enforcement D
Nuclear Regulatory Research E
Executive Legal Director F
International Programs G
State Programs H
Management and Program Analysis I
Controller J*
Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data K
Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization L*
Items Approved by the Commission P
/T. A. Rehm, An for 0perations Office of the Executive Director for Operations
- No input this week.
Contact:
T. A. Rehm, EDO 49-27781 8105 I 20 tjqp,
SUMMARY
OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT Week Ending May 1, 1981
, Zion Station, Unit No. 1 On April 22, 1981, Zion Unit 1 commenced operation after a 98-day refueling outage. The next refueling for Unit 1 is scheduled for April 1982. The next refueling for Unit 2 is October 1981 during which time it is planned that the two remaining steam generators will be mcdified with J tubes.
McGuire Duke Power Co. notified the staff that Unit No. 1 initial criticality has been delayed approximately a month (from May 7 to early June) due to a leak in the reactor vessel head flange caused by failure of the RV head flange inner metallic 0-ring seal.
US/IAEA Safeguards Agreement The IAEA will complete th0ir initial inventory verification activities at the Exxon Nuclear Fuel Fabrication facility on May 18, 19, and 20. An initial IAEA inspection will be conducted at Trojan on May 21 and 22, and at Rancho Seco on May 26 and 27.
EPA /NRC/ OSHA Hearing The first joint hearing on occupational radiation protection was held in Washington, D.C. April 20-23. The material covered was devoted almost
- exclusively to EPA's proposed guidance on this subject. The testimony was generally negative, with several recommendations that the guidance should be withdrawn. The most common complaint was that too much detail is given, as opposed to broader policy considerations.
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l At a meeting on April 22, Sandia reviewed the status.of the hydrogen program, proposed activities for the balance of FY81, and provided a scope of work for FY 82. The major conclusion of the meeting is that presently budgeted FY82 l
funds for the program are significantly below Sandia recommendations of an ideal level of effort and a minimum level of effort.
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0FFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending May 1, 1981 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM 0F INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision Received 215 6
Granted 137 0
Denied 22 2
Pending 56 4
ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received Lindsay Audin Requests three categories of documents regarding (81-160) inspection and enforcement reports performed at facilities fabricating spent fuel casks.
Sanford L. Hartman, Requests a list and copies of all documents comprising Debevoise & Liberman the " record" identified in Memorandum and Order, CLI-80-21.
(81-161)
Philip G. Sunderland, Requests 11 categories of documents regarding the Terris & Sunderland Senior Executive Service.
(81-162)
Rob'ert Goldsmith, Requests three catt.gories of documents relating to an Citizens for a evaluation or estimate of the possibility that Better Environment decontamination of Dresden 1 'using NS-1 solvent will (81-163) accomplish its goals as specified in Section 2.4 of the Final EIS.
(NRC employee)
Requests the names of all secretaries, series GG-318, (81-164) who have been selected and enrolled in the non-Governmental facility PARA-LEGAL STUDIES program from 1967 to date and the names of all ASLBP panel members who have been selected and enrolled in the non-Governmental facility ADMINISTRATIVE LAW PROCEDURE SESSION from 1967 to date.
Rick Pitcher, Requests the names, salary, or GG level and locations Occidental Life of NRC employees in Region V.
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(81-165)
CONTACT:
J. M. Felton 492-7211 l
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2 Received, Cont'd James A. McLellan, Requests the names of all licensed Reactor Operators and Pro-Tech Senior Reactor Operators.
(81-166)
(NRCemployee)
Requests files on him in the Office of Inspector and (81-1 67)
Auditor, any charges made against him and his personnel file.
Gordon G. Hobson, Referral from the Department of Energy for information Attorney-At-Law relating to nuclear fallout and/or radioactivity in the (81-168)
Hanford, Washington area caused by the presence of nuclear weapons production or testing and records of all past claims made by employees of the Government or residents of Hanford, Washington concerning their exposure to radioactive materials.
Dennis E. Smith, Requests a copy of SECY-79-564, entitled " Domestic Desmatics, Inc.
Safeguards, Technical Assistance and Research and (81-169)
Contracted Projects."
Kenneth I. Condra Requests the job classification, job rating, salary and (81-170) period of employment with the NRC of a named individual.
L'endell R. Marschall, Requests the cost of a transcript of a meeting on April 27o Mapleton'Intervenors 1981 regarding Consumers Power Company.
(81-171)
Imin D. J. Bross, Requests specific information on Contract NRC-10-10 Roswell Park Memorial 06-3.
Institute (81-172)
Steven P. Hershey, Requests copies of all correspondence between the NRC Community Legal and Philadelphia Electric Company since November 1,1980.
Services (81-173)
Robert R. Belair, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for 17 documents pertaining to
~ Hill, Christopner and the Commission's February 20, 1981 Order in the Diablo Phillips. P.C.
Canyon physical security proceeding.
(81-A-6-81-84)
Granted Uilliam Reynolds, In response to a request for documents relating to the American Friends import of special nuclear material or spent fuel from Service Committee the Chalk River Reactor in Ontario, Canada, made available (81-125) eight documents.
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3 Granted, Cont'd Lynn Connor, In response to a request for four categories of' Doc-Search Associates infonnation relating to wire and cables manufactured to (81-143)
Continental Wire and Cable Company, Anaconda Company, Okonite Company and Collyer Wire and Cable Company, informed the requester these documents are already available at the PDR.
Steven C. Sholly, In response to a request for a copy of - draft report Union of Concerned prepared by the Instrumentation and Co..rols Division of Scientists Oak Ridge National Laboratory cancerning a review of (81-149)
BAW-1564, a Babcock & Wilcox Compny report entitled
" Reliability Analysis of the Integrated Control System", made available this document.
Carol Schapira, In response to a referral from the Department of Attorney-At-Law Energy for copies of licenses and/or applications and (81-152) renewals for Jersey Nuclear and related firms in connection with a fuel fabrication plant, handling of-fissionable materials and a uranium mill located at Cor. verse City, Wyoming, informed the requester these documents are already available at the PDR.
Denied Allan Mazur, In response to a request for copies of the enclosures to Syracuse University a letter dated December 1,1978 to Mr. Byron Lee i
(80-615)
(Commonwealth Edison Company) from J. G. Keppler (NRC) and Comonwealth Edison Company's response to NRC, denied portions of two documents containing unclassified l
safeguards information.
l St.ephen M. Rappoport, In response to a request for specified certified copies Slepkow, Slepkow &
of documents pertaining to the nuclear incident on Rappoport, Inc.
July 24,1964 at the United Nuclear Corpcration, made (81-133) available one document.
Denied portions of one document, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
I Datfid F. Power, In response to a request for specific communications Attorney-At-Law between the NRC and ttle Defense Intelligence Agency, t
(81-142) denied portions of one document containing classified information.
(NRC employee)
In response to a request for copies of appraisals and/or (81-144) evaluations of applicants in the selection of NRC Vacancy Announcement Numbers 81-0139 and 81-0140, made available 13 documents.
Denied eight documents in their entirety and portions of nine documents, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
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DIVISION OF CONTRACTS Week Ending May 2, 1981 RFP/IFB'S ISSUED 1.
IFB RS-01E-81-256 Title - Intrinsic Germanium Detector System Description - The procurement involves the acquisitien of a Princeton Gamma Tech Nuclear Power Reactor Cryostat Intrinsic Germanium Detector System or Equal.
Period of Performance - Within 90 days Sponsor - Office of Iaspection and Enforcement Status - IFB scheduled to be issued on May 1, 1981.
Bid opening is scheduled for June 1, 1981.
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RFP SR-RES-81-203 o
Title
" Definition of Bounding Physical Tests Representative of Transport Accidents - Air and Ship" Description - Define a set (s) of radioactive material shipping package performance tests which bound the environments experienced in such accidants, based on an investigation and assessment of extremely severe air and marine transport accident events.
Period of Performance - 18 months Level of Effort - 3 to 5 man years Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status - RFP issued on April 20, 1981.
Proposals due May 20, 1981.
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RFP RS-RES-81-168 (formerly RS-RES-81-235)
Title - Seismic History of the Eastern Seaboard from New York to Norfolk, i
Virginia Description - The work to be accomplished under this contract comprises a comprehensive search of all available records in major respositories throughout the northeastern United States for the perpose of discovering new information on earthquake occurrence and effects. The region to be surveyed extends from New York to Norfolk, Virginia and includes the Appalachian Mountains within its western boundary. The historical period to be covered extends from the earliest records available up to 1930. The results of this search is to be published in a catalogue, suitable for interfiling with existing catalogues.
Period of Performance - One Year l
Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research l
Status - Cost reimbursement contract awarded to the Pennsylvania State University in the amount of $17,102.00 effective April 23, 1981.
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CONTRACTS CLOSED OUT (All administrative action completed and final payment made)
Contract No.
Contractor Closecut Date NRC-03-77-059 Science Applications, Inc.
4/22/81 NRC-03-78-190 Dr. M. Grant Gross 4/24/81 NRC-17-79-453 Bernard C. Doyle 4/27/81 NRC-03-78-182 MacKay School of M,ines 4/24/81 NRC-03-79-136 Mark Messings 4/28/81 NRC-04-79-185 CGS, Inc.
4/23/81 NRC-04-78-256 EDITECH, Corp.
4/27/81 NRC-10-79-380 L. J. Hampton Associates 4/27/81 AT-(49-24)-0015 Nuclear Assurance Corp.
4/23/81 NRC-11-79-403 Dr. Theodore Wu 4/28/81 i
AT (49-24)-0278 Mr. E. E. Halmos 4/28/81 NRC-ll-78-429 Battelle Columbus Lab.
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NRC-04-81-Oll l
Title - Conference on Small Break Loss-of-Coolant-Accident Analysis j
in Light Water Reactors Description - To provide a forum for the exchange of information on Small Break LOCA's, an area of safety research which has been of increased interest to the NRC after the accident on TMI Period of Performance - 5 months Sponsor - Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Status - Grant awarded to the American Nuclear Society, Northern California Section in the amount of $3,000.00 affective i
April 7, 1981.
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. ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER Sole source letter contract (NRC-05-81-254) was issued to Southwestern Bell Telephone Company on March 12, 1981.
The contract provides for 'the installa-tion of a private branch exchange (PBX) in NRC's Region IV offices.
Rolm Corporation ((Rolm) and Fisk Telephone Systems Inc. (Fisk) have both issued written protests to the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) challenging the sole-source statvs of Southwestern Bell.
NRC issued a documented report responsive to tha protests to GA0 on March 19, 1981.
Fisk submitted comments on the NRC report Lc GA0 on April 10, 1981 with copies to the NRC. A GA0 conference was held on April 24, 1981, at which time both NRC and Fisk representatives were afforded the opportunity to discuss the subject matter.
'NRC and Fisk were given five (5) working days to submit any additional written comments on the subject matter prior to GA0 issuing a final decision.
NRC does plan to submit additional comments.
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DIVISION OF SECURITY Week Ending May 1, 1981 Security Surveys A representative of the Facilities and Systems Security Branch conducted surveys of tha following security interests: Region V, Scitran, Inc., and Dr. Harold Lewis, Consultant, who are approved to use, process and otherwise handle NRC classified matter.
Air Rights III Building Advised NRC employees of Air Rights III that the Rusco Card key system is operational and is being used to control access to NRC space.
Procedures for obtaining a card key were given to those individuals in need of acquiring one.
- Foreign Travel Defensive Security Briefing SEC has prepared a written defensive security briefing which can be given to NRC 4
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employees-traveling to Communist-controlled countries.
Copies of this unclassified briefing can be obtained from the Information Security Branch.
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS - MAY 01, 1981 Z_ ION STATION, UNIT NO. 1 On April 22, 1981 the Zion Unit No. "1 commenced operation after a 98 day refueling outage.
The next refueling for Unit 1 is scheduled for April 1982.
The next refueling for Unit 2 is October 1981 during which time it is planned that the two remaining steam generators will be modified with J tubes.
Actions taken during this refueling outage were:
(1) fuel loading for a 12 month power cycle, (2) turbine maintenance for a failed bearing, (3) replacement of a leaking SS clad BIT with an all SS BIT, (4) containment leak rate testing (Appendix J); (5) installation of J tubes in the two remaining steam generators in Unit 1, (6) reactor coolant pump seal maintenance, (7) scheduled ISI and suosequent steam generator tube plugging, (8) snubber inspection, and (9) check valve testing.
Other plant modification based on NRC requirements included:
(1) TMI modifi-cations, and (2) hanger modifications per IE Bulletin 79-14.
MC GUIRE The licensee (Duke Power Co.) notified the staff that Unit No.1 initial cr;uivality has been delayed approximately a month (from May 7,1981 to early June) due to a leak in the reactor-vessel head flange caused by-failure of the RV head flange inner metallic 0-ring seal.
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Cause of the failure has not been determined.
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.'A meeting will be held 10:00 AM, Wednesday, April 29, 1981 in Room P-118' ~-
- of the Phillips Building in Bethesda, Maryland to discuss with the PWR Owners" Groups. thermal shock to reactor pressure vessels by overcooling transients and~
the potential consequences of subsequent repressurization at'relativelylow
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The meeting is being held to provide an update of industry efforts committed to during the 31 March 1981 meeting as well as to discuss the t 7 safety significance related to continued operation of theseiplantsy
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SIGNIFICANT NBR MEETING On May 7,1981, to discuss ENC Analyses of LOFT L3-6.
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IIRC TH1 PROGRAM OFFICE WEEKLY STATUS REPORT Week of April 26.- May 2,1981 P_lant Status Core Doling Mode:
Heat transfer from the reactor coolant system (RCS) loops to reactor building ambient.
Available Core Co'oling Modes:
Long-tem cooling "B" (once through steam generator-B); decay heat removal systems.
RCS Pressure Control Mode:
Standby Pressure Control (SPC) System.
Backup Pressure Control Modes: Mini Decay Heat Removal (MDHR) System.
Decay Heat Removal (OHR) System.
Major Parameters (as of 0430. May 1,1981) (approximate values)
Average Incore Thermoccupies: 114*F Maximum Incore Thermocouple:
141*F RCS Loop Temperatures:
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Hot Leg 112 F 115*F Cold Leg (1) 66*F 65*F (2) 66*F 65*F RCS Pressure:
99 psig Reactor Building:
Temperature:
64*F Water level:
Elevation 290.7 ft. (8.2 f t. from floor) via penetration 401 manometer Pressure:
.6 psig Concentration: Less than LLD (4.3 x 10 6)
(sample taken 4/30/81)
Effluent and Environmental (Radiological) Infomation 1.
Liquid effluents from the TMI site released to the Susquehanna River after processing, were made within the regulatory limits and in accordance with i4RC requirements and City of Lancaster Agreement dated February 27, 1980.
During the period April 24, 1981, through April 30, 1981, the effluents contained no detectable radioactivity at the discharge point although individual effluent sources which originat_ed within Unit 2 contained minute amounts of radioactivity.
Calculations indicate that less than 2 millionths (0.000002) of a curie was i
discharged.
This represents less than 0.00002% of the pemissable l
total liquid activity as specified in Technical Specifications
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Environrental Protection Agency-(EPA) Environmental Data.
Results f rom LPA. onitoring of the enviror.me'nl~ around the TM1 site were as follows:
3 The EPA :neasured Kr-85 concentrations (pCi/m ) at several environmental monitoring stations and reported the following results:
Location Apri_1 17 - April 24,1981 (pCi/m3)
Goldsboro 22 Observation Center 25 Middletown 33 Yorkhaven 25 All of the above levels of Kr-85 are considered to be back-ground levels.
No radiation above normally occurring background levels was detected in any of the samples collected from the EPA's air and gamma rate networks during the period from April 24, 1981, through April 30, 1981.
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NRC Environmental Data.
Results from NRC monitoring of the environ-
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The following are the NRC air sample analytical results for the onsite continuous air sampler:
I-131 Cs-137 Samole Period (uCi/cc)
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HP-264 April 15,1981 - April 22,1981
< 8.5 E-14
<8.5 E-14 HP-265 April 22,1981 - April 29,1981
< 8.6 E-14
<8.6 E-14 Environmental TLD measurements for the period February 5 to March 12,1981 around TMI, and the Island stations for the period November 28, 1980 to March 13, 1981, indicated gamma radiation to be at the natural background levels.
Fifty-eight TLD's registered doses ranging from 0.17 mR/ day to 0.32 mR/ day.
Average dose was 0.24 mR/ day.
These dos rates are consistent with natural background radiation in the TMI area.
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Licensee Radioactive Material aod Radwaste Shipments 27,1981, a 40 ml Unit 2 reactor coolant On Monday, April sample was sent to Babcock and Wilcox (B&W), Lynchburg, Virginia.
On Monday, April 27,1981, one 4' x 4' EPICOR II dewatered resin liner (liner 07-13) from Unit 2 was shipped to U. S.
Ecology, Richland, Washington.
Cn Tuesday, April 28,1981, one 4' x 4' EPICOR II dewatered resin liner (liner DF-4) from Unit 2 was shipped to U. S.
Ecology Richland, Washington.
On Wednesday, April 29,1981, one 4' x 4' EPICOR II dewatered resin liner (liner DF-7) from Unit 2 was shipped to U. S.
Ecology, Richland, Washington.
Major Events 1.
Reactor Building Entry.
The ninth entry into the Unit II reactor
~ ilding (RB) was completed on Thursday, April 30, 1981.
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pump was placed in the R8 sump water.
This pump will be used to ptrap sump water to the submerged demineralizer system.
Eight persons entered the RB during the entry and based on preliminary tridicators The (dosimeters), the maximtsn individual exposure was 618 cillirem.
14, 1981.
The RS was next RB entry is tentatively scheduled for May purged prior to the entry to reduce airborne Krypton concentrations.
Air samples taken before and after the purge indicate that approximately three curies of Krypton-85 were released to the environment.
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sample analysis senedule when minute amounts of radioactive cesium were detected in the water samples taken during the months of December d to below the lower limit of detection (LLD)y subsequent j decreaseon the most through March.
Tne cesium activit available from test boring two from samples taken on April 22, 1981.
Tritium activity in the test borings has remained in the same range as previously reported.
An exception has been test boring nine.
Samples taken from test boring nine on February 25, 1981, indicated an increase in tritium activity to 6310 picoeuries per liter (pCi/L).
Samples taken on March 4,11, and 18,1931, indicated 3560, 2940 and 3310 pCi/L of tritium respectively.
Test boring nine is located adjacent to the During the time when tritium actively borated water storage tank (BWST).
increased in test boring nine, excavation work was in progress around The excavation may have altered the normal flow prths of the BWST.
the grotmd water.
Leaks from the BWST associated valves and fittings may have been the source of the ground water contamination.
The licensee has constructed a trough and a rain cover around the potentially leaky BWST components.
The weekly monitoring of the ground water activity will continue.
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Submerced Demineralizer System (SDS)_.
Preparation of the Safety 3.
Evaluation Riip^o'rt (SER) by the TMI Program Office is in progressOn although some necessary information has not yet been received.
April 30,1981, the licensee submitted a revised schedule for providing the needed infonnation.
ThL licensee is performing functional tests of the SDS components The testing to verify that the equipment will operate as designed.
The licensee has does not involve processing of contaminated water.
112,000 gallons of EPICOR II processed water into pumped approximately The fuel pool will be completely filled when the the fuel pool.
functional testing allows and concerns raised about airborne tritite concentrations are resolved (this item is discussed in the next paragraph).
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Elevated Tritium Levels in Fuel Handling Buildinq.
At approximately 29, 1981, licensee representatives obtaingd T0:00 p.m. on April uCi/cc analytical results for an airborne concentration of 3.1 x 10-3 (tritium, H-3) for a grab sample taken between 2:00 p.m. to The sampling process was perfonned 7:00 p.m. earlier in the day.
while EpICOR 11 processed water, which contained 0.22 uti/ml of H-3.
ns transferred to partially fill the "B" Spent Fuel Pool, which will be used to shield the Submerged Demineralizer System during The sample was taken inside the pool.
Subsequent its operation.
samples were immediately taken at the 347' elevation (working area)
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30, 1981, The second sample resgits became available at 4:45 a.m., AprilThe 347' ele and showed 2.2 x 10 " uCi/cc (H-3).
declared an airborne radioactivity area.
The transfer process was secured at 2:30 a.m., April 30, 1981.
At approximately 10:00 a.m., a sample analysis indicated 1.2 x 10-6 uCi/cc (H-3) and personnel entry into the area was resumed since the airborne (H-3) concentration was reduced to below 25 percent of MPC (occupational maximum permissible concentration per 10 CFR 20).
Licensee analytical results of a grab sample taken at 0553 to 0740 on April 30, 1931, from the FHB exhaust indicated an H-3 concentration of less than the Lower Limit for Detection (LLD < 4.5 x 10-9 uCi/cc).
The NRC resident staff have cc.mpared the monthly H-3 effluent and determined that the H-3 airborne releases during April (2.8 Ci) were essentially the same as March (2.7 Ci).
Based on the monthly effluent data it appears that the slightly elevated and localized H-3 concentrations in the FHB during April 29 and 30,1981, has not contributed to any significant increase in the plant monthly H-3 effluent.
Further, the licensee initiated a bioassay fur selected personnel present at the 347' elevation area of the FHB during the period of the
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apparent localized H-3 concentrations is still being examined by the onsite staff.
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Meeting Held On Thursday, April 30, 1981, Harold Denton and Lake Barrett attended the annual convention of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association at the Host Fann in Lancaster.
Mr. Denton addressed the convention at its opening session followed by an open question session.
The majority of the questions centered around general issues regarding the cleanup program of TMI Unit 2, and the recent Japanese. event at Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant.
Future Meetings _
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On Tuesday, May 5,1981, Lake Barrett will conduct a plant tour for area mothers.
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On Wednesday, May 13, 1981, Lake Barrett and Oliver Lynch will participate in a meeting with the Susquehanna Valley Alliance on the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement.
The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m., in the Friends Meeting House in Lancaster at 110 Tulane Terrace.
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DFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFFTY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending May 1,1981 US/IAEA Safeguards Agreement The Design Information Questionnaire (DIQ) for the Trojan Nuclear Plant was forwarded to the State Department for transmittal to the IAEA in Vienna on April 23, and the ona fcr the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station was forwarded on April 28, 1981.
The IAEA will complete their initial inventory verification activities at the Exxon Nuclear Fuel Fabrication on May 18,19 and 20. An initial IAEA inspection will be conducted at the Trojan Nuclear Plant on May 21 and 22, and at the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station on May 26 and 27.
Meeting with B&W-Naval Representatives from B&W-Naval met with members of the Material Control and Accountability Licensing Branch on April 27 to discuss modifications to their FNMC Plan to allow recovery of scrap generated by another licensee.
New License Conditions for Nuclear Fuel Services, Erwin, Tennessee On April 30, 1981, we issued Amendment No 9 to License SNM-124 held by Nuclear Fuel Services, Erwin, Tennessee to incorporate additional requirements to improve emission controls and environmental sampling. The new requirements were discussed in SECY-81-193 dated March 25, 1981.
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Speech Joseph DelMedico addressed the International Symposium Workshop on Quality Assurance in Nuclear Medicine, held April 27-29 at the Pan American Health Organization Building in Washington, D.C.
The title of his presentation was
" Objectives of the Regulatory Agencies"(Procedures of Monitoring Radiation Sa fety).
This symposium was sponsored by the Federated Council of Nuclear l
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Planned Meetings Division of Safeguards 1.
Subject:
Safeguards Agreement Working Group Date:
May 5,1981 Location: State Department, Washington, D. C.
Attendees: Paul Morrow, Eugene Sparks, SGMD Representatives of State, ACDA, DOE 2.
Subject:
Meeting with B&W-Naval and NUSAC to implement the Advanced Materials Accountability Simulation Study (AMASS)
Date:
May 11-15 Location: Lynchburg, VA Attendees:
H. McClanahan, B&W R. Hawkins, NUSAC G. Gundersen, SGML M. Messinger, SGMD 3.
Subject:
Discussion with IAEA on upcoming inspections at Exxon, Trojan and Rancho Seco Date:
May 12 and 14, 1981 Location: State Department, Washington, D. C.
Attendees:
Paul Morrow, Eugene Sparks, SGMD Representatives of State, ACDA, DOE and IAEA 4.
Subject:
Upcoming IAEA Reactor Inspections Date:
May 14,1981 Location: NRR Attendees:
Paul Morrow, SGMD Eisenhut and Tedesco,'NRR Representatives of IAEA Absences of Director and Deputy Director 5/8/81 D. R. Chapell Acting - D. R. Chapell 5/15/81 R. F. Burnett ENCLOSURE C
Planned Meetings - Division of Waste Management 1.
Subject:
13th Annual National Conference of Radiation Control Date:. Pby 4, 1981 Lccation: Little Rock, Arkansas
' Attendee:
R. Browning (speaker) 2.
Subject:
Search of U.S. Ecology Files for material determined to support NRC staff position in the pending Sheffield hearing Date: May 4-7, 1981 Location:
Louisville, Kentucky (U.S. Ecology)
Attendees:
J. Shaffner, WMLL, H. J. McGurren, ELD 3.
Subject:
Review of Brookhaven nuclear waste management activities Date:
May 12, 1981 Location: Upton,NY(BNL)
Attendees:
J. Martin, R. Browning, E. Cook Absences of Director and Deputy Director 5/4/81 - R. Browning 5/8/81 - R. Browning - Exec. Seminar, USDA Grad. School 5/12/81 - J. Martin & R. Browning - BNL ENCLOSURE C
Meetings - Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety 1.
Subject:
13th Annual National Conference on Radiation Control Date/ Time:
May 4-6 Location:
Little Rock, Arkansas Attendees:
F. D. Fisher will participate in an emergency preparedness task force meeting - May 2.
R. G. Page and Ray Johnson (EPA) will discuss Federal Roles in Remedial Action for Contaminated Sites - May 5.
R. G. Page will discuss Emergency Planning for Onsite Response at Fuel Cycle and Materials Facilities - May 6.
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Subject:
Public Meeting Sponsored by DOE to Discuss DOE Remedial Action Plan for Canonsburg Date/ Time:
April 29 Location:
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania Attendees:
W. A. Nixon (FC), DOE Representative, State and Local Officials Absences Richa' d E. Cunningham - May 8 - Scheduled to attend SES Executive Seminar r
Thomas F. Carter - May 11 - 1:00-5:00 - Leave'.l..._
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OFFICE OF INiPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT Items of Interest Week Ending May 1, 1981 1.
The following Notifications of Significant Enforcement Action were dispatched during the past week:
EN-80-57A Consolidated Edison Company of N.
Y., Inc. (Indian Point Unit 2) -
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An Order Imposing a Civil Penalty in the amount of $5,000 was issued to subject licensee on April 29, 1981. Previously, a Notice of Violation and a Notice of Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $5,000 was issued based on an item of noncompliance involving exceeding the Technical Specification Limitinc Conditions for Operation of the containment spray system. After consideration of the licensee's response, the IE staff concluded that the item of noncompliance did occur and that no adequate reasons were given by the licensee for mitigation or remission of the proposed penalty.
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EN-81-13 Mayo Clinic - A Notice of Violation and a Notice of Proposed Imposition of a Civil Penalty in the amount of $1,500 was issued to subject licensee on April 27, 1981, based on an alleged violation involving failure to assay a radiopharmaceutical resulting in a misadministration to a patient of a different isotope than what was intended. This violation was a Severity Level III event ordinarily resulting in a civil penalty of $4,000; however, the licensee imediately took steps to correct the problem and preclude similar events in the future, and immediately notified the NRC.
The licensee also sh' owed good faith by self-identification of the problem and by implementation of prompt and effective corrective actions.
Therefore, it was determined that a total of 75 percent reduction in the civil penalty was justified.
Preliminary Notifications relating to the following actions were dispatched 2.
during the past week:
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PN0-I-81-56 Faach Bottom Unit 3 - Possible Overexposure of One Individual b.
PNO-I-81-57 Peach Bottom Units 2 & 3 - Radioactive Waste Discharge Line Break c.
PNO-I-81-58 Peach Bottom Units 2 & 3 - Possible Strike by Contract Guard Force d.
PNO-II-81-32 Brunswick 1 - Loss of Normal Decay Heat Rercoval e.
PN0-III-81-40C Duane Arnold Energy Center - Possible Defects in Recirculation Piping and Themal Sleeve Welds Davis-Besse Site - Plant Startup After Steam Generator Repair f.
PN0-III-81-43 g.
PN0-III-81-44 Point Beach, Unit 2 - Steam Generator Tube Degradation h.
PNO-III-81-45 Monticello Site - Loss of Offsite Power During Refueling Outage i.
PNO-IV-81-11 Cooper Nuclear Station - Failed Turbine Blades ENCLOSURE D
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PNO-TMI-81-09 Three title Island, Unit 2 - Epicor-II Resin Liner Shipment 1.
PNO-TMI-81-10 Three Mile Island.- Elevated Tritium levels in the Fuel Handling Building i
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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH IMPORTANT EVENTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 1,1981 1.
EPA /NRC/0SHA Hearing The first EPA /NRC/0SHA hearing on occupational radiation protection was held in Washington, D.C., April 20 thru April 23, 1981. The sessions were attended at any one time by only 20 to 50 personnel, including participants, of which there were about 22 during the four full days and one evening session. The material covered was devoted almost exclusively to EPA's proposed guidance on this subject. The testimony was generally negative, with several recommendations that the guidance should be withdrawn. Although virtually every aspect of the guidance was criticized, the most common complaint was that too much detail is given, as opposed to broader r:olicy considerations.
The out-of-Washington hearings begin in Houston on Fay 1,1981, and end in San Francisco j
on May 9,1981.
Two reasons for postponing the guidance were discussed at considerable length by several participants.
First, a serious question recently has been raised about the neutron dose estimates for the Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors.
It now appears that the neutron doses may have been much smaller than previously assigned.
If this is shown to be the case, then virtually all of the radiation-induced cancers at Hiroshima were caused by gamma radiation, with the inference that gamma radiation may have a higher risk than previously thought. Some participants believe that this question should be resolved before the new occupational radiation protection guidance is established.
The second reason given for postponing the guidance involves waiting for the NCRP to publish its new recommendations on occupational health protection. The NCRP is working on a protective system based on risk rather than dose. Since the dose is just one component of a risk estimation, many participants are intensely interested in the NCRP work.
(NOTE: In risk calculations the risk is usually considered to be proportional to the product of the dose, the risk factor, and the number of subsequent years of life at risk.)
A great deal of valuable information was provided for the record. Among the testimony of particular interest was a presentation by representatives of Westinghouse in which previously undisclosed details were given concerning their crew of nuclear power reactor maintenance workers. This crew consists of over 100 highly skilled personnel who go from one plant to another to perform maintenance during outages.
It was stated that the average dose for these individuals is about 6 rems per year, that about 25% of them have been members of the crew for 20 years or more, that the employment turnover is very low, and that most of the crew is expected to remain on this job until retirement. The Westinghouse participants indicated that there are other companies performing similar services. Using 1980 BEIR ENCLOSURE E
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(NOTE: In accordance with NRC annual reporting requirements, worker receiving two rems at each of four different plants is reported aas four workers each receiving two rems, not as one worker receiving eight rems.)
The Commission recently established a regulation which requires licensees to tell terminating workers the dose they received, to request such 1.nformation from new workers and thereby to consider the total dose received by workers during any quarter at any facility. An ongoing NRC rulemaking action, which was published last year for public comment, would limit individual occupational doses to 3 rems per quarter and 5 rems per year.
These two regulations, working together, would effectively prohibit annual individual doses exceeding 5 rems, including transient workers, such as the maintenance work crews.
(NOTE:
More than 80 letters of comment were received on the 5 rems-per-year proposed rule; many of these letters complained that flexibility to exceed 5 rems /yr is sometimes needed. The Commission has not been requested to take final action on this rule pending completion of the joint hearings.)
Contact:
R. E. Alexander 443-5975 2.
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RES has invited HDR officials to Washington during the week of May 10, 1981, to plan FY 1982 seismic research at HOR.
NRC contractors will also attend.
HDR is a decommissioned West German reactor used for nuclear safety research.
Contact:
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- Severe Accident Assessment Branch 1.
TRANS-2 Experiment in ACRR TRANS-2 (Transition Phase-2), the second in a series of unique in-pile experiments on the streaming and freezing of molten reactor fuel through structure has been successfully performed in the ACRR test reactor at Sandia National Laboratory.
In these laboratory-type experiments, the test reactor is used to rapidly melt a pellet of fuel with a pulse of neutrons, and the molten fuel is then driven under constant pressure into a stainless-steel tube.
The depth of penetration and the final distribution of the fuel are measured by post-experiment x-radiography and in real time by wall ~ thermo-couples and by in-core fuel-position diagnostics.
Results from these experiments are being used to assess.the current conflicting models of molten fuel streaming and freezing developed for fast reactor safety analysis.
Fuel streaming and freezing is a key factor in determining whether or not the transition phase of a severe LMFBR accident can undergo an energetic recriticality. The results of these experiments and the models also have generic applicability to the problem of molten-fuel relocation in a severe LWR accident.
Similar experiments are currently being planned for LWR-specific fuel melts and conditions.
Very preliminary results indicate that TRANS-2, at 600 C steeltubetemperaturewassimilartoTRANS-1,witha400{nitialstainless-C initial temperature.
The penetration lengths to the. blockages were about 70 cm, and apparently in bothcasesapp'reciablefuelhadpenetratedbeyondtheblockageagdthebore was lined with a fuel crust.
In TRANS-3, to be performed at 800 C tube tempera-ture, the steel should melt on contact with molten fuel. The steel-ablation
' unstable-fuel-crust model predicts that, under these conditions, mixing of the fuel and steel will produce a blockage at a very short penetration length (about 20 cm). TRANS-3 is scheduled for July.
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NRC-EPRI Program Management Meeting An EPRI-NRC program management meeting was held in Chicago on April 24, 1981.
This one day management meeting provided a review of EPRI-NRC jointly sponsored research projects and a review of other research programs sponsored by the two t
organizations. This review included discussions on FLECHT-SEASET, REFILL /
REFLOOD programs and the TLTA program. These discussions were concerned with both the technical aspects of the program and potential budgetary problems associated with each. The meeting also covered research sponsored by each j
organization related to degraded core accidents, hydrogen control and mitigation, fission-product release and qualification testing. Additionally, RES reviewed work on SEMISCALE, 2D/3D and fuel behavior programs and EPRI reviewed the pro-grams on valve testing and passive restraints.
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Analytical Models Branch 1.
Fortran coding of TRAC-PF1, the fast-running small-break version of TRAC has been completed. Developmental assessment has started and the code is being compared with data from small-break tests in Semiscale, LOFT and PKL. An improved simulation of on/off trips and controls has also been coded and is being tested to prepare the code for use on those operational transients that do not require dynamic controls.
2.
A. TRAC-PD2 fine-node calculation of.a large-break LOCA in a USPWR has been completed.
It has been reviewed by RES and once additional coments on depressurization rate, downcomer. liquid level, noding and LPIS injection rate have been prepared it will be transmitted for review to NRR.
3.
In preparation for the June meeting on UPTF design and operation, to be held at Erlangen, a status report meeting is being held at NRC on April 29, 1981. The following organizations are reporting:
LASL.on their. loop calculations with (GPWR) and without (UPTF) active pumps and steam generators; MPR on potential loads in UPTF; CREARE on plugging experiments and hot-leg oscillation analysis; and f;RC on scaling of CREARE test results and data to support the TRAC calculations.
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Technical Bases Report on Fission Product Behavior (Draft NUREG 0772)
The format and approach to the documentation of peer reviewer comments y-f were resolved at a meeting with key authors on April 21 at Headquarters.
Final, revised camera-ready chapters are due at Headquarters on May 4.
Contractor inputs to Chapter 1 (Summary) revisions are due this week.
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Hydrogen Program At a meeting on April 22, in response to an RES request, Sandia reviewed the status of the hydrogen program, proposed activities for the balance of FY81, and provided a scope of work for FY82.
Sandia also provided a comprehensive work plan which includes all presently identifiable tasks which which should be persued.
The major conclusion of the meeting is that presently budgeted FY82 funds ($650K0 for the program are significantly below Sandia recommendations of an ideal level of effort (at $2900K) and a minimum level of effort (at $1900K).
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Experimental Programs. Branch 1.
Semiscale Test S-UT-7, 5 percent cold leg break with UHI, was conducted as planned on April 22, 1981. This completes the small-break test series. We have initiated facility modifications required for the natural convection series, which we plan to start in June.
These are principally instrumentation changes required to study low flow rates and two-phase behavior.
We have initiated planning for a Semiscale Review Group meeting.
This will be held in Idaho in conjunction with an ACRS meeting planned for July 1981.
We are also investigating conduct of an experimental program analysis workshop. The objective is twofold:
to assure that all interested analysts have the most recent information pertaining to the facilities and to provide a forum where analysts can share the knowledge.
2.
FLECHT SEASET The negotiations among NRC, EPRI and Westinghouse has begun for the program funding change. A final resolution is expected to be reached before the end of May 1981.
3.
BWR Full Integral Simu_lation Test (FIST)
NRC Commissioners have approved the research plan to upgrade the TLTA facility (renamed FIST) to investigate BWR small-break LOCA and operational transients. A contract modification prepared by NRC has been sent to the other two parties (GE and EPRI) for signature.
This contract. modification will allow GE to order hardware associated with the planned upgrade and execute Phase I testing. GE has been authorized to start design work for the first phase of the upgrade.
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OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING MAY 1,1981 Blue Hills Station, Units 1 and 2 On April 28, 1981, the ASLB issued a Partial Initial Decision (Early Site Review) in which it determined that the Blue Hills site is suitable with respect to the factors considered.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS WEEK ENDING MAY 1, 1981 Foreign Visits to NRC On Thursday Mr. Hans Haunschild, State Secretary of the FRG Ministry for Research and Technology (BMFT) and Messrs Loosch and Patermann, also of the BMFT, met with Chairman Hendrie, Commissioners Ahearne and Gilinsky, and J. Shea, IP, to discuss export licensing policies and the acceleration of the US reactor licensing process. A renewal of the NRC-BMFT Technical Exchange and Cooperation Arrangement in the field of reactor safety research and development was signed.
On Thursday Dr. H. L. Striem, Head of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission's Site Licensing Department, met with R. Jackson, L. Reiter and P. Justice of the Geosciences Branch to discuss seismo-geological considerations for site licensing.
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e OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING MAY 1, 1981 On April 29, 1981, Tom Elsasser, RSLO, Region I, attenced a public meeting in the evening in Salem, New Jersey, at which the off-site State and local radiological emergency response plans for the Salem Nuclear Generating Station were discussed.
OSP has been informed by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation that DEC's Commissioner has signed a consent c rder for self Powered Lighting, Inc., a New York State licenseg vhich contains provisions to phase down the emission for their op.1 ration in Elmsford, New York, from 100 Ci of tritium oxide to 25 ci of tritium oxide per year.
Self Powered Lighting, Inc. manufactures tritium exit signs and other light sources.
We were informed by a Colorado official on April 30, 1981, that the Home Stake Mining Company has decided not to continue with its Pitch Project uranium mill which was licensed by Colorado on March 24, 1981.
The reason given for putting the project on hold is reportedly due to the slump in the uranium market.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Rep. Ottinger) held hearings on May 1 regarding Rep. Ertel's bill to establish a national insurance program to cover on-site damage from a nuclear accident.
Met-Ed and the Pa. PUC testified.
The Energy and Environment Subcommittee (Rep. Udall) holds hearings on May 4 and 5 regarding the financial status of GPU.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS Items of Interest WEEK ENDING MAY 1,1981 Congressional Correspondence Delivered to EDO responses to Senator Simpson's questions on emergency preparedness.
4 publications Distributed March issue of Operating Unit Status Report, NUREG-0020, (Gray Book).
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OFFICE FOR ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF OPERATIONAL DATA ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING MAY 1, 1981 Engineering Evaluation on Millstone 2 Event An AE0D engineering evaluation on a January 2,1981 event at Millstone 2 has recently been completed. This event involved a reactor trip following de-energization of a 125 V de bus and had several associated failures.
The evaluation did not identify any new safety concerns other than those included in generic task A-30 and USI-A44.
As a result of the evaluation, the report identified a number of lessons which are now under review.
Presentation of a Paper Carl Michelson presented a paper on April 27, 1981 at the Fourth Symposium on the Training of Nuclear Facility Personnel held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
The paper summarized the organization and programs of AEOD and highlighted some of the AE00 observations after one year of analyzing operational experience.
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ITEMS APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION - WEEK ENDING MAY 1,1981 A.
STAFF REQUIREMENTS - DISCUSSION OF REVISED LICENSING PROCEDURES, 3:00 P.M.,
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1981, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C. OFFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE). MemoSECYtoBickwit,dtd4/27/8h I.
Sua Soonte Powers of the Boards The Comission, without reaching a decision, considered several proposals concerning the sua sconte powers of the boards. Chairman Hendrie noted that the Comission would discuss this matter further at a future meeting.
II.
SECY-81-illa - Intervention in NRC Adjudicatory Proceedines The Comission discussed the subject paper and several proposals concerning the raising of contentions in licensing proceedings.
The Comission requested that OGC prepare language for a proposed rule that would require prospective intervenors to include in their supplement to the petition to intervene a concise statement of facts supporting each contention together with references to the written documents and other information relied upon to show the existence of their facts.
The language should also specify that, if prospective intervenors failed to provide such a statement, that particular contention would not be admitted.
(OGC)
(SECY Suspense:
4/28/81)
B.
STAFF REQUIREMENTS - BRIEFING ON EFFECTIVE INTERIM AMENDMENTS TO 10 CFR 50 ON HYDROGEN CONTROL AND CERTAIN DEGRADED CORE CONSIDERATIONS (SECY-81-245),10:00 A.M., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1981, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C. OFFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE). Memo SECY to Dircks, dtd 4/27/81.
The Comission was briefed by staff on the proposed interim rule on hydrogen control and certain degraded core considerations.
Comissioner Gilinsky would like to have the staff explain to him why the evaluation of instability is not recuired for steel containments (reference pages 21-22 cf Enclosure C to SECY-81-245).
The Comission agreed to deletion of the last sentence of the paragraph ending on page 22 of Enclosure C to SECY-81-245 from the proposed rule.
(EDO)
The Comission reached no decision at the meeting. Yhe Chairman indicated that further consideration would be given to the proposal at a Comission meeting at a later date.
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STAFF REQUIREMENTS - AFFIRMATION SESSION 81-16, 4:35 P.M., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1981, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C. OFFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE?
Memo SECY to Dircks/Bickwit, dtd 4/27/81.
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SECY-81-191/191A - LEITHAUSER MOTION FOR OFFICIAL NOTICE OF INTERVEliOR STATUS The Commission, by a vote of 4-0, approved a proposed Order, as modified by Commissioner Gilinsky, which refers a motion of Mr. John Leithauser to the Licensing Board for appropriate action.
(Subsequently, the Order was signed by the Secretary.)
(OGC)
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SECY-80-546/SECY-81-ll4 - FIRE PROTECTION RULE FOR FUTURE PLANTS The Commission, by a vote of 4-0, has approved adoption of Alternative 3 of the subject paper to develop a proposed fire protection rule containing requirements in those areas which are generic.and applicable to most plants, while leaving plant-dependent features to staff evaluation under generic requirements.
(NRR)
(SECY Suspense:
5/1/82)
In connection with their votes, the Commissioners agreed with Commissioner Gilinsky that until a rule is in place, new licenses (those issued after January 1, 1979) should contain a condition requiring compliance with commitments made by an applicant and agreed to by the staff.
(NRR)
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SECY-81-140 - REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) NO. RS-RES-81-184, ENTITLED " BENCH-MARTING 0F COMPUTER CODES USED IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS".
Memo SECY to Dircks, dtd 4/28/81.
This is to advise you that the Commission (with all Commissioners agreeing) has disapproved the proposed contract.
In connection with their disapprovals the Commissioners had the following comments:
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Chairman Hendrie:
"The project is simply too ambitious and is, I thir,k more than the staff can digest - particularly Task I.
There is merit, however, in the underlying aim of developing reliable codes, or verifying them, in the structural area.
I would like to see a more modest proposition for this purpose, one where results would be more easily manageable by staff and with less ambitious results that the staff can more easily use.
The piping code efforts of a few years ago provide an example of this."
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Commissioner G111nsky:
"This paper indicates a need to develop better tools for checking structural analyses.
I support efforts in this area but I understand there are differences between NRR anu RES on how to approach this.
The two offices should get together and make another more moderate proposal."
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Commissioner Ahearne,:
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"This approach, based on the Statement of Work, looks for a ' guarantee' that analysis is cccurate, for a system that is ' foolproof'.
Unless we are going to design plants ourselves, I believe a.,
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"We are apparently searching for codes that may go well beyond what the data will support in calculational precision."
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" Approval of Senior Contract Review Board should be keyed to size of contract, not expense rate."
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Commissioner Bradford agreed with Commissioner Ahearne.
The Office of Research and the Division of Contracts was informed of this action by telephone on April 28, 1981.
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SECY-81-153 - NUCLEAR DATA LINK (NDL) MANAGEMENT PLAN. Memo SECY to Dircks, dtd 4/28/81.
This is to advise you that the Commission (with all Commissioners approving) has agreed to the implementation of a prototype NDL, subject to the comments.noted below:
The Commission believes that a better plant-data a.
transmission system to the Operations Center than the present people-on-telephones arrangemen, is needed if they are to carry out even the most moderate role in emergencies.
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As a first step the staff should install several
. prototype data links, one to a PWR, one to a BWR, and possibly one to a reactor simulator.
Installation of the prototype displays need not await the choice of an overall contracting scheme or contractor.
Consideration should be given to the use of a
" transmit" switch at the plant to transmit data only in the case of an accident so as to remove much of the complaint about potential intrusion into normal operation via the NDL.
c.
Following evaluation of the experience with the prototype displays the Commission will decide how far they wish to go in the development of the automated NDL concept.
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The Commission believes that a " Systems Integrator" approach as described in Enclosure 5 to SECY-81-153 should be used in the program development.
This would place on the system integrator the responsibility for handling program contracting,
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including preparation of RFO's, evaluation of proposals,~ negotiation and awarding of contracts, and the administration of the contracts.
This would result in the highly desirable feature of having one organization accountable for the successful cc...pletion of the NDL.
Option C, where the NRC would choose subcontractors, would leave the technical integrator with neither the sense of responsibility that the contractors were his choice, nor could he be held accountable if the subcontractors produce an inadequate product.
The systems integrator should also be explicitly precluded from developing the software or hardware so as to provide protection against charges of conflict of interest.
The solicitation of interest for the systems integrator position should go to organizations such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, among others.
In the final RFP the ny3Ys.m integrator would be asked to reexamine P4 9thnd-alone versus standard concept.
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The Commission Am_16.9 it would be helpful for a systems integratur to be brought on board in time to help evaluate the prototype phase, if it can be done without the commitment of a large contract.
The NRC should not select contractors for the full NDL system until the experience with the prototype has been evaluated.
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. STAFF REQUIREMENTS - DISCUSSION OF REVISED LICENSING PROCEDURES,10:05 A.M.,
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1981, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C. 0FFICE (OPEN.
TO PUBLIC ATTEMANCE). Memo for the Record fm SECY, dtd 4/30/81.
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SECY-81-202/A/B - Proposed Statement of Policy (See also SECY memo dtd 4/27 forwarding Comissioner Gilinsky's commtats.)
The Commission continued its discussion and reached agreement on all sections of the proposed Statement of Policy except:
Part III, Section A (Time), which will be discussed further in connection with a proposed hearing schedule; Part III, Section J (Sua Sponte),
which is to be discussed further after consideration of an ASLBP memorandum to Comissioner Ahearne, which is anticipated by 5/1; and Part IV (Conclusion), which is to be drafted for Commission consideration by Commissioner Bradford.
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SECY-81-252 - Proposed Changes to 10 CFR Part 2, Analysis of Public Comments and Recommendations of NRC's Legal Offices and Licensing Panels The Comission discussed the subject paper and tentatively agreed to approve the staff recommendations on four of the six proposed changes (proposed changes numbered 2, 3, 4 and 6 in SECY-81-252).
The Commission deferred a decision on the other two preposed changes (numbers 1 and 5 in SECY-81-252).
Chairman Hendrie noted that the-recommendations would be discussed at a future Commission meeting at which time Commissioner Gilinsky's proposed alternative to Item 1 will also be considered.
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Another neeting on Revised Licensing Procedures has been scheduled for May 7.
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2CY-81-22B - SIXTH DOE /NRC REPORT ON DOMESTIC SAFEGUARDS - 00E REWRITE.
MEM0 SECY to Dircks, dtd 4/30/81.
This is to advise you that the Commission (with all Commissioners approving) has approved the sixt.h DOE /NRC Report on Domestic Safeguards -- DOE Rewrite with the modifications noted on the attached pages 2 and 3.
The Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards was informcd of this action by telephone on April 29, 1981.
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SECY-81-260 - RENEWAL 0F NRC-BMFT TECHNICAL EXCHANGE ARRANGEMENT IN THE FIELD OF REACTOR SAFETY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. Memo SECY to Dircks, dtd 4/30/81.
This is to advise you that the Commission (with all Commissioners approving) has noted the status of the renewal of the NRC-B. VET safety research arrangement and has designated Chairman Hendrie to sign this arrangement with State Secretary Haunschild during his April 30 visit to NRC.
Commissioner Ahearne approved the paper with the understanding that the NRC explains (informally is acceptable) to BFET the points made by the Department of State in its letter of April 21, 1981.
The other Commissioners agree.
The Office of International Programs was informed of this action by telephone on April 29, 1981.
It is requested that you provide a copy of the research arrangement to the Office of the Secretary after signature by the Chairman and Mr. Haunschild.
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STAFF REQUIREMENTS - DISCUSSION OF FULL-POWER OPERATING LICENSE FOR SALEM-2, 1:30 P.M., TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1981, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C. OFFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE). Memo SECY to Dircks, dtd 4/30/81.
The Commission was briefed by staff and by Mr. John E. Dickey (FEMA) on the emergency planning exercise at the Salem site and on the review of fire protection aspects of tne plant.
The Comission deferred final action on the staff recommendation to authorize issuance of the license, pending a meeting to hear the results of a fire protection plant review to be conducted by R. Mattson.
(NRR)
(SECYSuspense: 5/12/81)
Cornissioner Bradford requested information on how the misstatement regarding completion of the alternate shutdown system was reported in the SER Supplement Number 5.
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(SECY Suspense:
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STAFF REQUIREMENTS - PROPOSED RULE ON OL APPLICATIONS (SECY-81-246) AND INTERIM AMENDMENTS ON HYDR 0 GEN CONTROL, (SECY-81-245),10:10 A.M., THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1981, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C. 0FFICE (OPEN TO PUBLI[ ATTENDANCE).
Memo SECY to Dircks, dtd 5/1/81.
The Commission, by a vote of 3-1 (Commissioner Bradford dissenting),
approved a Federal Register Notice as modified below seeking comment on a prc:
ed rule tha-t incorporates into 10 CFR Part 50 a set of TMI-2 requir nents for operating license applications.
The Commission requested that the Federal Register Notice be modified:
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to indicate in the Statement of Consideration that a similar rulemaking with respect tc operating reactors will be published for comment in the near future; 2.
to incorporate the items on the attached errata sheet that was distributed by staff at the meeting; and 3.
to solicit comment on the effective date and its application to pending proceedings.
The Commission requested that the Federal Register Notice be sent to all known interested persons.
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