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September 3, 1986 For:
The Commissioners From:
T. A. Rehm, Assistant for Operations, Office of the E00
Subject:
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING AUGUST 29, 1986 A summary of key events is included as a convenience to those Commissioners who may prefer a condensed version of this report.
Enclosure Contents Administration A
Nuclear Reactor Regulation B
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards C
D Inspection and Enforcement Nuclear Regulatory Research E
General Counsel F*
International Programs G*
H State Programs I*
Resource Management Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data J*
Small & Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rights K*
Regional Offices L*
CRGR Monthly Reports M*
Executive Director for Operations N*
Items Addressed by the Commission 0
P Meeting Notices Proprietary or Other Sensitive Information (Not for 0
external distribution)
- No input this week.
T.A. Rum, ssistant for Operations Office of the Executive Director for Operations
Contact:
T. A. Rehm, EDO 492-7781 8609090563 e60903 PDR COMMS NRCC WEEKLYINFOREPT PDR
HIGHLIGHTS OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT WEEK ENDING AUGUST 29, 1986 North Anna. Units 1 and 2 - Core Power Update On August 25, 1986, the staff issued Amendment Nos. 84 and 71 for North Anna.
Units 1 and 2, which allows an increase of the rated core power level from 2775 MWt to 2893 MWt. The amendments will increase the electrical output for each unit by 32 MWe, approximately 4.5%.
Unusual Event At Salem 2 On August 26, 1986, with the unit at 100 percent power, Salem Unit 2 experienced a turbine trip / reactor trip and safety injection (SI) apparently resulting from troubleshooting steam generator level instrumentation. Approximately 30 seconds later, a false station blackout signal was received causing the vital buses to strip their loads. Com)onent Cooling Water Pumps were stripped; control room operators tien tripped all four reactor coolant pumps. Two out of three vital buses were picked up by the station emergency diesel generators (EDG). One EDG was out of service for preventive maintenance. The SI was terminated 5 minutes after trip. Natural circualtion was established following the loss of the reactor coolant pumps and subsequently the third vital bus and nonvital loads were reenergized from offsite power. Two reactor coolant pumps were returned to service. The unit is in cold shutdown. The resident inspector is on site and following licensee actions. Two additional inspectors and a manager have been dispatched from Region I to the site.
FBI Criminal History Rule On August 18th, Mr. William Mcdonald, Deputy EDO, (Information Resources Management), and representatives from NMSS, SEC, GC, and RM met with the FBI to discuss interface processing requirements, reimbursement procedures, and FBI comments on the draft NRC rule.
It was determined that electronic processing was impractical.
A subsequent meeting of NRC staff was held on August 19th to discuss draft procedures for handling and tracking the status of incoming fingerprint cards.
In a related matter, GC will pursue initiating an amendment to the FY87 Appropriations Act to enable NRC to receive fees from licensees, retain a portion of our costs and reimburse the FBI for theirs.
Sequoyah Fuels Corporation. Gore. Oklahoma On July 18, 1986, Sequoyah Fuels Corporation (SFC) requested approval to perform limited cleanup activities at the Sequoyah Fuel Facility near Gore, Oklahoma.
This request was based on the need to reduce liquid inventories to allow access to equipment for essential maintenance and repair.
Reducing these inventories would also allow SFC to resume decontamination activities which had been stopped because of lack of storage space for the liquid generated during cleanup.
After discussions with Region IV, EPA and the State of Oklahoma, the NHSS staff, agreed on August 22, 1986, to allow limited operation of the yellowcake digestion tanks, solvent extraction system, evaporators, and uranyl nitrate boildown tanks.
All of the activities allowed would have had to be performed irrespective of the Commission's decision on restart.
Region IV is monitoring these monitoring these operations which have been uneventful to date.
Prior to agreeing to these limited activities, Congressman Synar's office was notified of the action and a press release was issued.
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0FFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending August 29, 1986 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision Carryovers, 1985 181 15 Received, 1986 641 150 Grant.ad 458 54 DenieJ 124 30 Pending 240 81 ACTIONS THIS WEEK Received David R. Ennis, Requests a copy of the December 8, 1981 memo from NUS Corporation R. Minogue to H. Denton, "Research Information Letter (86-638)
No.126, PWR Lower Plenum Refill Research Results."
referenced in Reg. Guide RS 501-4.
Joseph Kriesberg, Requests eight categories of records regarding the Critical Mass Browns Ferry and Sequoyah nuclear power plants.
(86-639)
Kurt D. Torres, Requests four categories of information regarding Illinois Safe a series of blueprints, wiring diagrams, schematic Energy Alliance drawings, floor plans and property plans for the Zion, (86-640)
Dresden and Quad Cities nuclear power plants found in a garbage can.
Charlene Marant Requests a cosy of a letter dated March 3, 1975 from (86-641)
D. Harmet to ). O'Connor concerning a Dow solvent (Dow NS-1) to be used for chemical decontamination of the Dresden Unit I nuclear power plant.
Jennifer Puntenney, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for the release of denied records Safe Energy regarding a request for records concerning the Fermi 2 Coalition of nuclear power plant.
Michigan (86-A-143-86-245)
CONTACT:
Donnie H. Grimsley 492-7211 l
August 29, 1986 Enclosure A
2 Received, Cont'd Jennifer Puntenney, APPEAL TO THE EDO for the release of 21 denied records Safe Energy in NRC's July 16, 1986, response to a request for records Coalition of regarding the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant.
Michigan (86-A-144-86-244)
(86-A-145-86-245) 1 Jennifer Puntenney, APPEAL TO THE EDO for the release of nine denied records Safe Energy in NRC's July 16, 1986, response to a request for records Coalition of regarding the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant.
Michigan (86-A-146-86-362)
Jennifer Puntenney, APPEAL TO THE EDO for the release of 14 denied records Safe Energy in NRC's July 16, 1986, response to a request for records Coalition of regarding the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant.
Michigan (86-A-147-86-370)
Jennifer Puntenney, APPEAL TO THE ED0 for the release of the denied portions Safe Energy of five records in NRC's July 16, 1986, response to a request Coalition of for records regarding the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant.
Michigan (86-A-148-86-430)
Jennifer Puntenney, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for the release of the six denied Safe Energy records in NRC's July 16, 1986, response to a request for Coalition of records regarding the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant.
Michigan (86-A-149-86-244)
Jennifer Puntenney, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for the release of five denied Safe Energy records in NRC's July 21,1986, response to a request for Coalition of records regarding the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant.
Michigan (86-A-150-86-362)
Granted Melvin S. Day, in response to a request for a copy of the nonproprietary Herner & Company version of the technical proposal submitted by (86-198)
Technassociates, Inc., for NRC Contract No. NRC-10-84-211, entitled, " Operation and Maintenance of the NRC Document Control System (DCS)," made available a cupy of the requested record.
(NRCemployee)
In response to a request for records relating to his (86-325) security clearance, made available 26 records.
A.N. Tschaeche In response to a request for records that directly (86-443) pertain to Docket 20-16 or the Comission's decision to deny the petition for rulemaking, made available 15 records.
August 29, 1986 Enclosure A
3 Granted. Cont'd Steven C. Sholly, In response to a request for four categories of records MHB Technical regarding specified inspections at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant and inspection guidance, made available Associates (86-585) 33 records.
Chui Y. Yuen.
In response to a request for a list of vendors, material McGraw-Hill manufacturers and material suppliers who are inspected Publications by the Vendor Inspection Branch, made available one record.
Company (86-594)
Gregg T. Hyder.
In response to a request for records that identify the Attorney-At-Law contents of files maintained on U.S. Ecology or American (86-611)
Ecology, made available four records.
Daniel Burnstein, In response to a request for a copy of a study on low Williams, Jackson level radiation health effects for the Haddam Neck and
& Spero Millstone nuclear power plants, dated July 1981, (86-630) informed the requester that this record is already available at the PDR.
David R. Ennis, In response to a request for a copy of the December 8, NUS Corporation 1981 memo from R. Minogue to H. Denton, "Research (26-638)
Information Letter No. 128, PWR Lower Plenum Refill Research Results " referenced in Reg. Guide RS 501-4, informed the requester that this record is already available at the PDR.
_ Denied Billie P. Garde.
In response to a request for copies of all records related Government to inspection report 85-16/85-13 regarding the Comanche Accountability Peak nuclear power plant, made available 41 records.
Project Informed the requester that one record subject to this (86-380) request is already available at the PDR.
Denied 14 records in their entirety containing advice, opinions, and recomendations of the staff.
Lyle Graber, In response to a request for copies of SECY-86-il9 and NUS Corporation SECY-86-123, made available a copy of SECY-86-119.
(86-463)
Denied SECY-86-123 in its entirety, release of which would tend to inhibit the open and frank exchange of ideas essential to the deliberative process.
Theodore A. Adler, In response to a request for copies of all current Widoff Reager licenses and related records regarding LTV Steel Co.,
Selkowitz & Adler Inc., in Ohio and Pennsylvania and J8L Speciality (86-583)
Products Corp. in Pennsylvania, made available 18 records.
Denied portions of seven records, disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
August 29, 1986 Enclosure A
4 Denied, Cont'd Billie P. Garde.
In response to an APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION AND THE ED0 Government for the release of 15 denied records regarding a request Accountability for records concerning reports listed in Board Project Notification 84-149 dated August 23, 1984 and published (86-A-112-86-181) by 0! on the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant, continued to deny these records in their entirety in order to preserve the free and candid internal dialogue necessary for the careful formulation of agency decision.
August 29, 1986 Enclosure A
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT DIVISION OF CONTRACTS WEEK ENDING AUGUST 29, 1986 RFP ISSUED RFP No.: RS-ADM-86-372
Title:
" Selection of a Primary Interexchange Carrier"
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Description:==
Contractor shall provide Direct-Distance Dialed Inter-Lata and International Voice and Data Communications Services (Long Distance Service).
Period of Performance: Five years Sponsar: Office of Administration Status: RFP issued on August 22, 1986.
Proposals due on September 23, 1986.
RFP No.: RS-ADM-86-377
Title:
" Mandatory Supervisory Development Program Training"
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Description:==
Presentation of five courses entitled, " Pre-Supervisory Orientation Program-Part II", " Supervising Human Resources",
" Management Workshop", " Managing Employee Performance",
and " Managing Change" to NRC's management and supervisory employees.
Period of Performance:
Three years Sponsor: Office of Administration Status: RFP issued on August 25, 1986. Proposals due on September 25, 1986.
RFP No.: RS-SECY-86-203
Title:
"Public Document Room Branch Long Range Plan"
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Description:==
Develop a comprehensive five year working plan for the NRC's Public Document Room to insure that arocedures, systems and services are maintained at a hig1 level of efficiency.
Period of Performance: Four months Sponsor: Office of the Secretary Status: RFP issued on August 28, 1986. Proposals due on October 2, 1986.
PROPOSALS UNDER EVALUATION RFP No.: RS-0RM-86-281
Title:
" Comprehensive Current (Real-Time) Geophysical Data Storage and Retrieval System"
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Description:==
The system must be able to retrieve, display and summarize geophysical information for user specified areas located anywhere within the United States.
This information is needed in the form of a data base depicting the applicable reporting station, forecasted conditions for specified areas and severe advisories or reports.
Period of Performance: One year with two one-year options.
Sponsor: Office of Resource Management Status: The competitive range has been established and negotiations are scheduled for September 3-5, 1986.
August 29, 1986 Enclosure A
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Weekly Information Report Division of Contracts PROPCSALS UNDER EVALUATION (cont'd)
RFP No.: RS-RG4-86-329
Title:
" Region IV Data Entry Support Services"
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Description:==
Effort involves data entry, editing and reporting activities relating to various systems for which NRC's Region IV office is respon;ible.
Period of Performance:
24 months Sponsor: Region IV Status: Negotiations have been completed.
Best and Final offers are due on September 3, 1986.
RFP No.: RS-0RM-86-261
Title:
" Engineering Cost Analyses of Proposed Changes in NRC Requirements"
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Description:==
Services for engineering cost analyses to identify, derive and analyze the engineering costs of proposed changes in NRC regulatory requirements.
Period of Performance:
30 months Sponsor: Office of Resource Management Status: Best and Final offers received on August 22, 1986, and forwarded to Source Evaluation Panel for review on August 25, 1986.
August 29, 1986 Enclosure A
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION ITEMS OF INTEREST Week Ending August 29, 1986 Shoreham At 1:00 a.m. on August 26, 1986, the Shoreham turbine was synchronized with the Long Island Lighting Company Grid. The plant is currently operating within the 5% power limit, generating approximately 19 MWe. Plant hotel loads are approximately 14 MWe. The licensee intends to operate in this mode for a few days, and then complete the low power test program.
North Anna, Units 1 and 2 - Core Power Update On August 25, 1986, the staff issued Amendment Nos. 84 and 71 for North Anna, Units 1 and 2, which allows an increase of the rated core power level from 2775 MWt to 2893 MWt. The amendments will increase the electrical output for each unit by 32 MWe, approximately 4.5%.
Seabrook, Unit 1 On August 25, 1986, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.57(c), filed a motion for authorization of fuel loading and precritical testing of Seabrook, Unit 1.
The motion states that a boron concentration of 2000 ppm will be maintained in the reactor coolant system, and to preclude inadvertent boron dilution, nonborated water sources will be isolated by mechanically locking closed the appropriate valves.
The staff has 15 days to respond to the motion, unless either the intervenor or staff request a delay.
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j August 29, 1986 Enclosure B
NRC TMI-2 CLEANUP PROJECT DIRECTORATE WEEKLY STATUS REPORT FOR AUGUST 25 - 29, 1986 1.
DEFUELING Bulk defueling operation continues using heavy duty hydraulic chisel and small spade bucket tools.
Four fuel canisters have been filled to date since operations began August 12, 1986.
A 60,000 gallon feed and bleed was performed on the RCS to improve water clarity.
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PLANT STATUS The reactor remains in long term cold shutdown, vented to the atmosphere. Core cooling is by natural heat loss to cmbient building atmosphere. The average incore thermocouple reading is 80 F.
The airborne radioactivity on the defueling platform above the reactor vessel is about 4.5 E-7 uC1/cc Tritium and 5.6 E-12 uCi/cc particulates, predominately Cesium-137 and Strontium-90. About 15 feet of water over the core region and 6 feet over the carousel holding the defueling canisters provide shielding.
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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sample analysis results show that TMI site liquid effluents are in accordance with regulatory limits, NRC requirements, and The City of Lancaster Agreement.
The Lancaster water sample taken at the water works river intake and analyzed by EPA consisted of a seven day composite sample taken August 10 - 16, 1986. A gamma scan detected no reactor related activity.
TMI water samples taken by EPA at the plant discharge (includes Units 1 and 2) to the river consisted of seven daily composite samples taken from August 9 - 15, 1986. A gamma scan detected no reactor related activity.
The EPA analysis of the NRC outdoor air sample for the period August 21 - 29, 1986 will be reported in the next report.
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AUXILIARY AND FUEL HANDLING BUILDING ACTIVITIES Hands-on decontamination of Neutralizer Tank Pump room and Reactor Coolant Evaporator room continues.
Kelly vacuuming decontamination on "A" Bleed Tank room continues.
August 29, 1986
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NRC EVALUATIONS IN PROGRESS Technical Specification Change Request numbers 49, 51, 52, and 54.
Recovery Operations Plan Change numbers 31, 33, and 39.
Solid Waste Facility Technical Evaluation Report.
Reactor Building Sump Criticality Safety Evaluation Report.
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Heavy Load Safety Evaluation Report, Revision 3.
Disposal of Processed Water Report.
Sediment Transfer and Processing System SER End Fitting Storage SER SER for Use of Plasma Arc Cutting Torch 6.
PUBLIC MEETING The next meeting of the Advisory Panel is scheduled for October 8, 1986 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM at a location to be determined.
Persons desiring to speak before the Advisory Panel are requested to contact Mr. Thomas Smithgall at 717-291-1042, or write him at 2122 Marietta Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17603.
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August 29, 1986 Enclosure B
D OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending August 29, 1986 Policy Statement on Radioactive Waste Below Regulatory Concern The Commission policy statement concerning radioactive waste below regulatory concern should be published the week of September 1, 1986 in the Federal Register.
Waste Management attended an ad hoc industry meeting on August 21, 1986 in Columbia, Maryland.
Representatives of utilities and utility organizations (Electric Power Research Instituto Nuclear Utility Waste Management Group, Edison Electric Institute, and Atomic Industrial Forum) met to discuss the industry's interest in generic rulemakings to permit the disposal of particular very low-level waste streams from nuclear power plants (e.g.,
compacted trash, secondary resins or contaminated soils).
Waste Management briefed the attendees on the policy statement and staff implementation plan.
The attendees seemed to be very interested in both petitions for rulemaking and individual proposals for alternative disposal methods under 10 CFR 20.302.
They were also pleased about the Commission's decision to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on this topic.
FBI Criminal History Rule On August 18th, Mr. William Mcdonald, Deputy EDO, (Information Resources Management), and representatives from NMSS, SEC, GC, and RM met with the FBI to discuss interface processing requirements, reimbursement procedures, and FBI comments on the draft NRC rule.
It was determined that electronic processing was impractical.
A subsequent meeting of NRC staff was held on August 19th to discuss draft procedures for handling and tracking the status of incoming fingerprint cards.
In a related matter, GC will pursue initiating an amendment to the FY87 Appropriations Act to enable NRC to receive fees from licensees, retain a portion of our costs and reimburse the FBI for theirs.
Sequoyah Fuels Corporation, Gore, Oklahoma On July 18, 1986, Sequoyah Fuels Corporation (SFC) requested approval to perform limited cleanup activities at the Sequoyah Fuel Facility near Gore, 0klahoma.
This request was based on the need to reduce liquid inventories to allow access to equipment for essential maintenance and repair.
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these inventories would also allow SFC to resume decontamination activities which had been stopped because of lack of storage space for the liquid generated during cleanup.
After discussions with Region IV, EPA and the State of Oklahoma, the NMSS staff, agreed on August 22, 1986, to allow limited i
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2 Sequoyah Fuels Corporation, Gore, Oklahoma (cont.)
operation of the yellowcake digestion tanks, solvent extraction system, evaporators, and uranyl nitrate boildown tanks.
All of the activities allowed would have had to be performed irrespective of the Commission's decision on restart.
Region IV is monitoring these monitoring these operations which have been uneventful to date.
Prior to agreeing to these limited activities, Congressman Synar's office was notified of the action and a press release was issued.
Meeting on Advance Notification of Indian Tribes On August 8, 1986, representatives of the Office of State Programs and the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards met to discuss the possible development of an NRC Policy Statement to address advance notification of Indian tribes for waste and spent fuel shipments.
NMSS is incorporating a survey of the emergency response capability of selected Indian tribes in its proposed update of NUREG-1620, " Survey of Current State Radiological Emergency Response Capabilities for Transportation Related Incidents." Agreement was reached to hold development of the Policy Statement in abeyance until the update of NUREG-1620 is completed.
Georgia Power Company Materials License No. SNM-1967 was issued on August 21, 1986.
This license authorizes the receipt, inspection, and storage of low-enriched uranium fuel assemblies for eventual use in the Vogtle-Unit 1 electric generating plant.
The plant is located in Burke County, Georgia.
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August 29, 1986 Enclosure C l
Office of Inspection and Enforcement Items of Interest Week Ending August 29, 1986 1.
The following Significant Enforcement Actions were taken during the past week:
a.
A Rescission of Order Suspending Licenses was issued August 22, 1986 to Radiation Technology, Inc. (Rockaway, NJ). The licensee was issued an Order Suspending License (Effective Immediately) June 23, 1986. This action was based on numerous personnel violations, includ-ing violation of requirements regarding interlock systems; senior licensee managemaat knew or should have known of these violations; and providing false information to the NRC regarding the interlock system. The licensee responded to the Order in many submittals.
After careful consideration to the licensee's responses, several inspections, and the licensee's agreement to certain conditions previously discussed, it has been determined that there is reasonable assurance that operations can be conducted without undue risk to the health and safety of the public.
(EN 86-11C) b.
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty was issued August 27, 1986 to Louisiana Power and Light Company (Waterford 3) in the amount of $50,000. This action was based on the changing of operational modes on December 16, 1985 with an inoperable train of the containment spray system.
(EN 86-22A) 2.
The following IE Preliminary Notifications were issued during the past week:
a.
PNS-I-86-13, Public Service Service of New Hampshire (Seabrook 2),
and Boston Edison Company (Pilgrim), Bomb Threats.
b.
PNS-I-86-14, Boston Edison Company (Pilgrim), Bomb Threat.
PNO-I-86-65, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation (Nine Mile Point 1),
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Unusual Event Due to Shut Down Required by Technical Specification.
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PNO-I-86-66, Public Service Electric and Gas (Salem 2), Reactor Trip, Safety Injection.
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PN0-I-86-67, Long Island Lighting Company (Shoreham Nuclear Power Company), Initial Turbine Generator Grid Connection.
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PNO-II-86-59, Carolina Power and Light Company (Robinson I),
Unscheduled Shutdown Longer Than 48 Hours.
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PN0-III-86-83, Detroit Edison Company (Fermi 2), Five Senior Reactor Operators Apparently Fail Simulator Test.
h.
PNO-III-86-84, Toledo Edison Company (Davis-Besse), PCB Spill Inside Water Treatment Building.
August 29, 1986 Enclosure D 1
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PN0-III-86-85, University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI), Lost Iridium-192 Seeds.
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PNO-III-86-86, General Electric (Morris, IL), Contaminated Spent Fuel Cask.
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PNS-IV-86-02, Public Service of Colorado (Fort Saint Vrain),
Unauthorized Firearms Onsite.
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PN0-IV-86-27A, Barry L. Moore & Associates (Baton Rouge, LA), Found Moisture and Density Gauge.
PNO-V-86-54, Portland General Electric Company (Trojan), State of m.
Washington Suspension of Portland General Electric Company, Trojan Nuclear Power Plant's Permit For Radioactive Waste Burial.
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The following IE Information Notices and Bulletins were issued during the past week:
None.
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Other Items a.
Unusual Event At Salem 2 On August 26, 1986, with the unit at 100 percent power, Salem Unit 2 experienced a turbine trip / reactor trip and safety injection (SI) apparently resulting from troubleshooting steam generator level instrumentation. Approximately 30 seconds later, a false station blackout signal was received causing the vital buses to strip their loads. Component Cooling Water Pumps were stripped; control room operators then tripped all four reactor coolant pumps. Two out of three vital buses were picked up by the station emergency diesel generators (EDG). One EDG was out of service for preventive maintenance. The SI was terminated 5 minutes after trip. Natural circualtion was established following the loss of the reactor coolant pumps and subsequently the third vital bus and nonvital loads were reenergized from offsite power. Two reactor coolant pumps were returned to service. The unit is in cold shutdown. The resident inspector is on site and following licensee actions. Two additional inspectors and a manager have been dispatched from Region I to the site.
b.
Safety System Outage Modification Inspection Program The Director, Division of Inspection Prorams and his staff met with the Commissioners' Assistants on August 28, 1986 to discuss the trial program on Outage Modification Inspection, c.
International Activities Members of the Operations Center provided support for the NRC con-tingent at the Vienna IAEA meeting on the accident at Chernobyl.
August 29, 1986
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Vendor Program (1) Staff members of the Vendor Program Branch participated in a meeting at the Region IV offices with Arkansas Power and Light Company to discuss the results of the EQ inspection at ANO.
(2) A member of the Quality Assurance Branch staff is assisting NMSS by observing a DOE audit of FLUOR, Inc., Irvine, CA.
FLUOR performs engineering services in high level waste activities for D0E.
(3) An IE inspection team is performing a Design Review Inspection on the South Texas Engineering Assurance Program at the Bechtel offices in Houston, TX (4) The following Vendor Program Branch inspections were conducted this week:
Amerace, Union, NJ - followup of findings from an NRC outage modification inspection at the Dresden Nuclear Generating Station, and VPB inspection at an Amerace Corporation sub-supplier who manufactures Agastate relays for Amerace (Con-trol Products Corporation).
Stone & Webster, New York, NY - inspection will be conducted to review the implementation of the Stone & Webster QA program, specifically those activities relating to piping / pipe support evaluation as part of the Cemanche Peak response (CPRT) design adequacy program.
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Civil Penalties Paid (1) Allied Signal (Metropolis, IL) in the amount of $25,000 based cylinders.
(EA 86-67) on overfilling and pressurization of UF6 (2) Tennessee Valley Authority in the amount of $150,000 based on violations of 10 CFR 50.7 (discrimination) involving three TVA employees.
(EA 86-93)
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Ferris State College (Big Rapids, MI) in the amount of $10,500 based on violations involving radiation safety requirements and reporting.
(EA86-96)
(4) James River Corporation (Parchment, MN) in the amount of $500 based on security violations.
(EA 86-120) f.
Operations Center Staff members participated in an exercise with the Palisades facility, the State of Michigan, Region III, the FBI, as well as USDA and HHS.
August 29, 1986 Enclosure D
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Quality Assurance The Steering Committee from the Edison Electric Institute's Nuclear Supplier Quality Assurance Committee met with members of the Division of Quality Assurance, Vendor, and Technical Training Center Programs to discuss their program for cooperative audits of nuclear vendors. At present, 25 utilities are inco1ved in developing the program which includes developing standardized quality specifications as well as performing cooperative audits.
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Performance Indicator Program The interoffice group on Performance Indicators met August 26, 27, 1986. Based on the completed trial program, the group selected the indicators to be recommended for NRC use. Definitions were aligned with INP0 definitions where overlap occurred.
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Generic Issues Members of the Engineering and Generic Communications Branch parti-cipated in a meeting with the State of Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety that was held in Bethesda on August 28, 1986. The subject of the meeting was the potential state involvement in the review of components at nuclear power plants that are subject to the provisions of the ASME Code.
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Emergency Preparedness FEMA draft Guidance Memorandum EX-3, Emergency Exercises, was for-warded to the regions for review and comment. The GM provides provides guidance for FEMA staff in conducting pre-exercise activities and post-exercise meetings.
i August 29, 1986 Enclosure D
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH Items of Interest Week Ending August 29, 1986 Wide-Plate Test of Charpy Low-Upper Shelf Energy Steel On Friday, August 22, 1986, the seventh in a series of 18 planned wide-plate crack arrest experiments was carried out at NBS Gaithersburg. This program, part of the HSST program, is intended to develop fracture and arrest data in situations applicable to reactor vessel overcooling accident conditions and, in particular, pressurized thermal shock. The first six tests in the series used present-practice A533-B plate which has a Charpy upper shelf energy of approximately 120-130 ft-lbs. The present experiment, as well as the five other tests to follow in the second series, used a special chromium-molybdebum plate with a Charpy upper shelf energy of approximately 60 ft-lbs, simulating low upper shelf energy welds and plates found in some of our older reactor vessels.
The primary observation from this test, based on immediate post-test observa-tion of the fracture surface, was that a dynamic crack arrest occurred rather than a stable arrest, and the plate reinitiated immediately and did tear almost completely in half. This tearing behavior in the low energy upper shelf plate is quite different from the behavior in previous tests on present practice material having a high energy upper shelf; in former tests, stable arrest did occur after the run-arrest event and the plate did not tear in a ductile manner. Considering the relatively low net stress in the test plate of the low energy upper shelf material, following the dynamic run-arrest event, the final tearing of the plate could only be due to its low Charpy energy and hence its low resistance to ductile tearing.
A more positive observation was that the low energy upper shelf material initiated the original crack-run once the material was stressed above its Kic (level of fracture toughness for crack initiation). This observation means that even for such low energy upper shelf materials, the presently used PTS methodology is accurate for use of Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics for crack initiation and up to the point of arrest, followed by quasi-static elastic-plastic fracture mechanics to judge the remaining adequacy of the vessel following dynamic arrest. However, this experiment does raise a concern about the ability of low-upper shelf material vessels to sustain their structural integrity during a PTS event under conditions where a present practice material vessel might crack but not fail.
It must be cautioned that this is very preliminary data and is only a small part of an integrated program addressing the entire issue of Charpy low-upper shelf energy material vessels.
In three weeks the eighth wide-plate test using this same material will have been conaucted.
In October, PTSE-2, the second pressurized thermal shock experiment, will also have been conducted, using the same material.
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2 NRC Test FLHT-4 R. Van Houten notified us today by phone that this severe fuel damage test in the Canadian NRC test reactor was run successfully this morning at about 1:00 a.m.
The main purpose of the test was to measure hydrogen production at high temperatures during fuel degradation (liquefication and slumping). High temperatures were achieved and maintained for about 30 minutes and several hydrogen detection instruments measured the release of hydrogen throughout this period. PNL and AECL staff who 4
performed the test are reported to be very happy with the extremely smooth performance of the test. A more complete weekly report discussing this test will be prepared when Van Houten returns to the office next week.
Publication to be Issued in the Near Future
Title:
Bioassay at Uranium Mills (Draft Regulatory Guide)
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This guide proposes criteria for establishing bioassay programs at uranium mills, and incorporates NMSS's and Regional IV's most recent licenisng practice.
Contact:
S. Yaniv 443-7655 Recently Issued Publication ERRATA for Regulatory Guide 4.16, Rev. 1, Dec. 1985, Monitoring and Reporting Radioactivity in Releases of Radioactive Materials in Liquid and Gaseous Effluents from Nuclear Fuel Processing and Fabrication Plants and i
Uranium Hexafluoride Production Plants. As a result of public comment and additional staff review, the quantity 2.71 in the numerator of the expression for LLD on page 4.16-7 is being removed, and a reference to a report that explains the conditions under which the use of this quantity is appropriate is being added.
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OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS ITEMS OF INTEREST WEEK ENDING AUGUST 29, 1986 Follow-up Review of Alabama A follow-up review of the Alabama radiation control program will be conducted September 4-5, 1986.
New York City Radiation Control Program Review The New York City Radiation Control Program will be reviewed the week of September 8, 1986.
Medical Uses of Radionuclides On September 8-12, 1986, 20 Agreement State regulatory personnel will attend the Medical Uses of Radionuclides course at the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Professional Training Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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1 ITEMS ADDRESSED BY THE COPHISSION - WEEK ENDING AUGUST 29, 1986 A.
STAFF REQUIREMENTS - QUARTERLY SOURCE TERM BRIEFING AND PROGRAMS INITIATED BY OTHER COUNTRIES RELATED TO MELTDOWN AND RADIOLOGICAL RELEASES, 10:00 A.M.,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1986, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C. OFFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE - Memo SECY for Stello dated 8/25/86 l
1 The Commission was briefed by Mr. Harry Teague on the extensive studies of theoretical severe accidents at commercial nuclear power plants conducted by the " Senior Group of Experts on Severe Accidents."
These studies were sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The Commission decided to reschedule the staff's briefing on the status of the source term efforts at a later date.
Prior to adjournment, the EDO informed the Commission that publication of NUREG-ll50 will be delayed; and that the staff was considering publication of a partial draft in September, 1986, and the remainder of the document in January, 1987.
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DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE ATTENDEES NRR CONTACT 1
l 9/2/86 50-280 Room P-118 Discuss the Security Planning NRC/VEPC0 C. P. Patel 10:30 a.m.
281,338 Phillips Building at Surry and North Anna sites 1
9/3/86 50-498 Room P-118 Conduct discussions regarding NRC/HL&P N. P. Kadambi j
8:00 a.m.
50-499 Phillips Building the draft Emergency Plan for South Texas
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9/4/86 Ramada Inn Discuss low temperature over-NRC/CE P. N. Randall 9:00 a.m.
Bethesda, MD protection systems for PWR l
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1 9/4/86 50-259 Room P-822 Discuss pending and projected NRC/TVA R. J. Clark 12:30 p.m.
260/296 Phillips Building licensing actions involving NRR i
9/5/86 50-327 Silver Spring 829 Discuss the conceptual design NRC/0THER T. J. Kenyon 9:30 a.m.
328/390 Willste Building and schedule for installation 50-391 of the intrusion detection system at the Sequoyah and Watts Bar Nuclear Plants i
9/8/86 50-272 Room 528 Discuss PSE&G initiatives NRC/PSE8G D. C. Fischer 1:30 p.m.
50-311 Phillips Building regarding licensing 9/9/86 50-373/
Room P-118 Discuss those items listed on NRC/ Utility Repres.
M. Campagnone 8:00 a.m.
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~g DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE ATTENDEES NRR CONTACT cn 9/9-11/86 50-424 Georgia Power Co. Ofc. Review the proposed organiza-NRC/ Georgia Power M. A. Miller 8:30 a.m.
50-425 Atlanta, GA and tion for operation of Vogtle Company Vogtle Site 9/9-11/86 50-424 Vogtle Site Audit the documentation ard NRC/EG&G Idaho /
M. A. Miller 8:00 a.m.
50-425 Waynesboro, GA installation for environmental Westinghouse /Bechtel qualification of selected Georgia Power Co./
pieces of equipment Southern Co.
Services 9/9/86 50-321 Room P-422 Meeting with Georgia Power Co.
NRC/GPC G. Rivenbark 9:00 a.m.
50-336 Phillips Building (GPC) representatives to discuss details of GPC's seismic re-evaluation of Hatch Units 1 & 2 9/10/86 50-390 Room P-118 Discussions regarding NRC NRC/TVA W. Long 50-391 request for additional informa-tion dated July 24, 1986 4
9/11/86 Room P-110 Discuss the B&W Owners Group NRC/B&W Owners Group W. A. Paulson 2:00 p.m.
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. 8/28/86 5th Floor Discuss review of Model C. E. MacDonald, FC MacDonald l
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W111ste Bldg.
No. 125-13 Cask W.' McDowell, GA0 W. Toney, GA0 D. White, GA0 Division of Waste 11anageraent i
9/7-12 Anaheim, CA To attend symposium on "Geocheilical Aspects DBrooks, WMGT DBrooks of Radioactive Waste Disposal" 9/12-14 Winnipeg, Canada Attend Int'l Conference on " Challenges to RMacDougall, WMPC RMacDougell Nuclear Waste Management" 9/14-18 Niagara Falls, NY To attend ANS. Int'l Meeting on WM DGalson, WMRP DGalson REBrowning, WM E'
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9/2/86 50-280/
W111ste Discuss VEPC0 Man 111 81 RER findings Manili.SG 50-338/
Patel NRP 339 Engle NRR RegionII-Atianta Coordinate security W. Brown Smith' 9/10-12 programs for NFS
- 0. Smith D.McGuire P. Stohr K.Barr 9/22/86
. ASIS Conference Discuss Access G. McCorkle G. McCorkle New Orleans, LA Authorization l
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E DATE/ TIME NUMBER LOCATION PURPOSE APPLICANT NRC CONTACT 09/03/86 RII Office Meeting with representatives L. Scott and Grace tg 10:30am of Florida Power Corporation W. Wilgus, FPC,and to discuss matters of mutual Regional Administrator os interest 09/08/86 Erwin, TN A familiarization tour of Chairman Zech and NFS Regional Administrator 09/09/86 Raleigh, NC Operational Readiness Visit Regional Administrator Grace to Shearon Harris and Division Directors 09/10/86 Richmond, VA Presentation at the VEPC0 Regional Administrator Grace 9:30am Vendor Awareness Day Program 09/11/86 Miami, FL Turkey Point Performance Selected RII Staff Members Walker 10:00am Enhancement Program and SALP Meeting 09/23/86 RII Office APC SALP Board Meeting Selected RII and HQs Walker Staff Members 9:30 am T
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