ML100541248
| ML100541248 | |
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| Site: | Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png |
| Issue date: | 02/17/2010 |
| From: | Deen D, Klein T, Lyons V State of VT |
| To: | Darrell Roberts Division of Reactor Safety I |
| Barkley R | |
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| Download: ML100541248 (2) | |
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115 STATE STREET PHONE: (802) 828-2228 MONTPEUER. vr 05833-5201 FAX: (802) 828-2424 STATE OF VERMONT GENERAL ASSEMBLY February 17, 2010 Darrell Roberts, Director Division ofReactor Safety U.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region I 475 Allendale Road King ofPrussia, PA 19406-1415 Re: Follow-up Questions on the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station
Dear Director Roberts:
Thank you and other staffofthe Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for participating in a telephone conversation with our legislative committees on February 12, 2010.
As we indicated during that discussion, our committees have several follow-up questions for the NRC regarding the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VYNPS) and the current releases oftritium and potentially other radionuclides.
Those questions are provided below.
- 1) John White ofthe NRC's Region I indicated that the testing results to date show tritium levels at below a three millirem (mrem) standard used by the NRC.
a). Could the NRC please translate the three mram standard into picocuries per liter (pCiIl) so that committee members can ob~ a sense ofbow the current readings in pCiIl relate to the three mram standard?
b) Using the bighest pCiIl readings oftritium to date found in monitoring wells s.t the VYNPS, how much water would one have to drink to reach the three mrem standard?
- 2) What options for action are available to the NRC ifthe three mram standard is exceeded? How would the NRC decide the option or options to pursue?
- 3) Does the NRC consider tritiated water to be low level radioactive material?
- 4) At what point in remediation would tritiated water become low level radioactive wa.ate?
- 15) Do the NRC standards for liquid eftluent apply only to planned releases of liquid eftluent containing radioactive material?
- 6) Does the NRC have authority to enforce criminally an unplanned release of liquid emuent containing radioactive material from a nuclear energy plant? If so. under what circumstances would that authority apply?
- 7) Does the NRC have standards concerning the managerial competence of a licensee for a nuclear plant?
a) Ifso, what requirements do those standards impose on a licensee with respect to knowledge and maintenance of underground pipes associated with the plant?
b) At what point would the NRC intervene to determine ifstandards for licensee managerial competence are being met?
S) Does the NRC require that licensees maintain drawings or other information showing or describing all above ground and underground structures and facilities at a nuclear plant?
- 9) Does the NRC require that licsnsees provide the NRC with information showing or describing aU above ground and underground structures and facilities at a nuclear plant?
We would appreciate the NRC's response to these questions at its earliest convenience. Please contact us ifyeu have any questions or concerns.
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David Deen, Chair House Co~eon Fish. Wildlife) and Water Resources
- d. _0 Vir~;~ DB, Chair Sena
'ttee on Natural Resources and Energy
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Ton Kle, Chair Hou mittee on Natural Resources and Energy