ML18066A244

NRC Participation in the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant Emergency Preparedness Exercise (DRS-D.Smith)

ML18066A244
Person / Time
Site:	Prairie Island
Issue date:	03/06/2018
From:	Hironori Peterson Division of Reactor Safety III
To:	Sharp S Northern States Power Company, Minnesota
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE RD. SUITE 210 LISLE, ILLINOIS 60532-4352 March 6, 2018 Mr. Scott Sharp Site Vice President Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant Northern States Power Company, Minnesota 1717 Wakonade Drive East Welch, MN 55089-9642

SUBJECT:

NRC PARTICIPATION IN THE PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE

Dear Mr. Sharp:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) routinely participates in licensees Emergency Preparedness Exercises to ensure that the NRCs Incident Response capabilities are effectively maintained and to provide licensees an opportunity to exercise the interface with the NRC during response to an incident at their sites. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our intent to participate in the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant Emergency Preparedness Exercise, during both the plume and ingestion pathway phases, that is scheduled to occur on July 17 and 18, 2018. Currently, the extent of participation will involve both headquarters and regional response staff. Regional participation will occur on both days. However, NRC Headquarters staff will be participating only on July 17, 2018.

During the plume phase of the exercise, the NRCs response will involve activating our Region III Incident Response Center and dispatching an NRC Site Team, including our resident inspectors, to your emergency response facilities on July 17, 2018. A limited number of regional response staff will participate, in the ingestion pathway phase only, at the Minnesota Emergency Management Agency along with staff from the Department of Energy, Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center on July 18, 2018. If our scope of participation changes, we will contact your emergency preparedness staff to discuss the changes. We will also be coordinating with your staff to schedule pre-exercise outreach activities that we offer to our licensees. The emergency response coordinators will conduct a presentation and provide training materials to assist your staff in exercising with the NRC. The NRC outreach efforts, conducted by my staff, are tools to further reinforce concepts related to NRC incident response activities.

This letter will be made available for public inspection and copying at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html and at the NRC Public Document Room in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding.

S. Sharp If you have any questions concerning our participation, please contact Desiree Smith, Region III Emergency Response Coordinator at 630-829-9853, or myself at 630-829-9707.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Hironori Peterson, Chief Health Physics and Incident Response Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-282, 50-306 License Nos. DPR-42, DPR-60 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV

S. Sharp Letter to Scott Sharp from Hironori Peterson dated March 6, 2018

SUBJECT:

NRC PARTICIPATION IN THE PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE DISTRIBUTION:

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