ML17083A837
| ML17083A837 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 04/01/1981 |
| From: | Sears J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| ISSUANCES-OL, NUDOCS 8104070463 | |
| Download: ML17083A837 (14) | |
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AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN R.
SEARS AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS
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UNITED STATES OF NERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COHtiISS ION BEFORE THE ATONIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the iNatter of PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC CO.
(Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos.
1 and 2)
Docket Nos.
50-275 - OL 50-323 - OL AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN R.
SEARS ON CONTENTIONS 4 AND 5 AND SUBJECT 3
I, John R. Sears, being duly sworn, state as follows:
1.
I am employed by the U.S. fluclear Regulatory Commission as a Senior Reactor Safety Engineer, Emergency Preparedness Licensing Branch, Division of Emergency Preparedness, Office.of Inspection and Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
2.
I am responsible for review and evaluation of the Emergency Plan for the Diablo Canyon reactors.
3.
Contentions 4 and 5 and Subject 3.
Contention 4.
Numerous studies arising out of the accident of THI recognized the necessity of upgrading emergency response planning.
Based upon these
- studies, the Commission has promulgated revised emergency planning regulations effective November 3, 1980.
The Applicant has failed to demonstrate that the combined Applicant, State and local emergency response plans for Diablo Canyon comply with those revised regulations
"Final Regulations on Emergency Planning,"
45 Fed.
~Re 55402 II
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Contention 5.
The Applicant has failed to demonstrate that the 1
1 for Diablo Canyon comply with the requirements of Sections III.A.1.1 and III.A.1.2 of NUREG-0694.
Sub'ect 3.
whether the emergency plans of PG&E, the State, and the ocal jurisdiction are satisfactory for issuance of the requested licenses.
A.
Whether further steps, including those set forth in the NRC's Final Rule on Emergency
- Planning, 45 Fed.
~Re 55402 (August 19, 1980), must be accomplished before the licenses riay be issued.
1.
The Pacific Gas and Electirc Company (PG&E) filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a revision to the Diablo Canyon Power Plant Units 1 and 2 Emergency Plan, dated February 1980.
2.
The Commission's Staff conducted a review of the Emergency Plan.
The Plan was reviewed against the specific criteria of the sixteen Planning Standards in Part II of the "Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency
Response
Plans and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants,"
NUREG-0654, Rev.
1, November 1980.
The same sixteen standards are listed as requirements of 10 C.F.R. 5 50.47, Final Regulations on Emergency Planning, August 18, 1980.
3.
In addition, the Staff has requested all California nuclear plant licensees and applicants to provide analyses on the effects of earthquake on their emergency plans, specifically in terms of the utilities'apabilities to insure availability of personnel and equipment to the sites.
(Letter, R. Tedesco to H. Furbush, dated December 16, 1980.)
4.
The NRC Staff has pr epared an Emergency Preparedness Evaluation Report which lists each of the sixteen standards listed in 10 C.F.R.
g 50.47 in order, followed by a summary of applicable portions of the Emergency Plan as they apply to the Standard.
The final section of the report provides the NRC Staff's results and conclusions.
5.
The report is scheduled for publication no later than April 15, 1981.
(Llhen a copy of the report is available, it will be sent to the Atomic Safety and Licensing 8oard.)
6.
I have reviewed the licensee's plan and the NRC Evaluation Report and I
concur in the report's conclusions.
7.
At a later date, a supplement will be issued setting forth the findings and determinations, of the Federal Emergency management
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Agency (FEMA) as to whether State and local emergency response plans are adequate and capable of being implemented for full power operation.
Based on my review of the Applicant's Emergency Plan against the criteria in NUREG-0654, Rev.
1, November 1980, I conclude that the Diablo Canyon emergency
- plan, when revised in accordance with the commitments
- made, provides an adequate planning basis for an acceptable state of emergency preparedness and will meet the requirements of 10 C.F.R. Part 50 and Appendix E thereto.
Commitments had been made in upgrading the meteorological
- program, in an alert and notification system and in a public information program.
PGSE submitted an upgraded meteorological program in documents submitted January 13,
- 1981, February 25, 1981 and March 20, 1981.
The methods, systems and equipment meet the milestones 1, 2, and 3
of NUREG-0737, III.A.2 and NUREG-0654, Appendix 2, Revision 1
criteria.
I have been informed by PGSE that installation of the alert and notification system of sirens is expected to commence in May 1981, following resolution of installation permits.
I have been informed by PG&E that a public information document is in final draft form.
It is planned to be hand-delivered to residences within 10 miles of the site by June
- 1981, and a condensed version will be inserted into the utility's mailing of bills.
Final arrangements for a page of emergency instructions in the local phone book are being made for a new edition of the phone book which will be distributed in October 1981.
I have been informed by PGSE that a contractor, Stone and llebster, has been employed to study the impact of earthquakes on the emergency plans of the utility and of offsite authorities, and that Stone and llebster's report is due mid-May 1981.
Emergency plans will be revised to include their recommendations.
PG8E's progress in upgrading emergency support facilities ( III.A.1.2) has been reported upon in Supplement 10, August 1980 and in Supplement 12, March 1981 to the Safety Evaluation Report.
I have been informed by PGSE that the permanent Technical Support Center is 99K complete, and that the temporary.
Emergency Operations Facility is operational.
I conclude that the applicant is satisfactorily responding to the criteria of NUREG-0737, III.A.1.2.
I have reviewed the San Luis Obispo County Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Evacuation
- Plan, approved by the County Board of Supervisors December 22, 1976.
The plan was written for a 6 mile radius around the plant and also covers the Los Osos-Baywood
- area,
approximately 7 miles north of the plant, the Avila Beach area approximately 7 miles east-southeast of the plant, and the Edna Valley area, approximately 13 miles east of the plant.
16.
Joint Intervenors and Governor Brown have admitted that any accident occurring during low power testing would release a fraction of the existing fission product inventory at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Facility (DCNF).
17.
Governor Brown has agreed that the licensee's present emergency plan requires prompt notification of the county governments surrounding the DCNF of any releases from that facility.
18.
In a March 12, 1981 letter to the
- NRC, PG8E has stated that the present state and local emergency plans for the Diablo Canyon plant
'are still'n full force and effect.
A copy of the letter is in.
19.
FEHA has made a finding that the present emergency plans at Diablo Canyon adequately protect the public health and safety for the purposes of low power testing.
(Memorandum for Harold R.
Oenton and John W. HcConnellfrom FEMA/NRC Steering Committee, see Attachment 3
and FEHA/NRC Interim Agreement on Criteria for Low Power Testing at New Commercial Nuclear Facilities--Supplement Nos.
10 and 12, see Attachments 4 and 5).
20.
Based upon the above factors, I conclude that, if, during low power operation, an accident were to occur, the combined applicant, State and local emergency response plans will insure that an adequate state of emergency preparedness is in place to minimize the risk of hazard to the health and safety of the public during fuel loading and low power testing.
J R. Sears Subscribed and sworrL to before me this / "-
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ATTACHMENT 1 JOHN R.
SEARS RESUME<
Prior to 1952, I was employed.in field jobs in various aspects of mechanical engine ring.
In 1952, I joined Brookhaven National Laboratory as a Reactor Shift Supervisor on the Brookhaven Graphite Reactor.
While at Brookhaven, I completed a series of courses given by the Nuclear Engineering Department in nuclear engineering.
These courses were patterned on the ORSORT programs.
In 1956, I was appointed Project Engineer on the Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor.
I was a member of the design group, participated in critical desiqn experiments, wrote specifications, coauthored the hazards
- report, was responsible for field inspection and contractor liaison, trained operators and loaded and started up the reac.or.
About three mon.hs after start-up, in '}959, <ollowing the successful completion of proof tesls and demonstration of the reactor in its design operating mode for boron capture therapy of brain cancer, I accepted a position as reactor inspector with the Division of inspection, U. S. Atomic Energy Cormission.
In 1960, I trans erred, as a reactor inpsector, to the newly-form<ed Division of Compliance.
I was responsible for the inspection, for safety and compliance with license requirements, of the licensed reactors and the fuel. fabrication and fuel processing plants.
which use m<ore than critical amounts of special nuclear material, in the Eastern United States.
In Sep ember
- 1968, I transferred to the Operational Safety Branch, Directorate of Licenstng.
My responsibility included development of appropriate guides for evaluation o< operational aspect of license applications and staff assis'.ance in review of poweJ reactor applicants submittals in the areas of Oroanization and Management.
Personnel gualifications, Training Programs, Procedures and Administrative Control, Rev 2w and Audit, Start-up Testing Programs industrial Security and Emergency Planninc.
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I The Branch was reorganized as the Industrial Security and Emergency Planning Branch in April 1974 to place increased emphasis and attention upon areas of physical-security and emergency planning.
In 1976 I trans'ferred to the Divison of Operating Reactors as the sole reviewer responsible for review of emergency planning for all the operating reactors in the United States.
New York City College, 1950 - Hechanical Engineering Argonne International School of Reactor Technology, 1961
- Reactor Control Course GE BUR System Design Course, 1972 Popo-U.S, Army, 1974 Course in 'ndustrial Defense and Disaster Planning Instructor at DCPA
, 1976, 1977 - Course in Emergency Planning Direc-.or, 1962 - Reactor
- Program, Atoms for Peace Exhibit, Bangkok, Thailand Direc'or, 1966 - Atoms for Peace Exhibit, Utrecht, Holland
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