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CEP Regular Meeting
“SONGS Decommissioning and Fuel Transfer Operations”
Thursday, March 26, 20205:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Virtual Meeting for Social Distancing
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Submit comments to: [email protected]
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Agenda Topic Presenter(s) Time
CEP and SCE welcome & opening comments• COVID-19 response
David Victor, Doug Bauder 5:30 - 5:40
CEP general community updates• Federal legislation and appropriations• CEP closed session report• Outlier events and response strategies
David Victor, Dan Stetson, Jerry Kern 5:40 – 6:00
SONGS decommissioning update• The big picture
Doug Bauder 6:00 – 6:20
Environmental stewardship• ISFSI radiation monitoring system • Liquid waste discharges
Ron Pontes6:20 – 6:40
Fuel transfer operations• Schedule• Project status and continued focus on safety• Continuous improvement and learning organization
Vince Bilovsky6:40 – 6:55
Break 6:55 – 7:05
General public comment period 7:05 – 8:05
Facilitated public dialogue Dan Stetson, Jerry Kern 8:05 – 8:25
SCE and CEP closing comments Doug Bauder, David Victor 8:25 – 8:30
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Welcome and Opening Comments
David Victor and Doug Bauder
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Opening Comments
• David Victor
– Virtual meeting format in the interest of public health
– Members of the CEP will be able to ask questions during first part of meeting
– Process for public comment
• During public comment, members of the public may use Skype conversation/instant
message feature to add their name and phone number to the queue
• I will call names for queue with three minutes provided per person
• Doug Bauder
– SONGS Pandemic Protocol in place to support safety and essential work
• Compliant with Governor Newsom’s “Safer at Home” Order
• Ensures worker safety, as well as regulatory compliance and continuity
• Includes strict travel restrictions
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Operations and COVID-19
• Contractors committed to compliance with Protocol
• Deconstruction curtailed with limited authorized work
– Gov. Newsom’s “Safer at Home” Order includes construction
– Location of activities and interaction with critical staff in review
– Placing work sites in a safe condition
• Essential fuel transfer operations continue
– Electric utilities defined essential by Department of Homeland
Security’s Critical Infrastructure Sectors
– Decommissioning nuclear plants included in list
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CEP General Community Updates• Federal Legislation and Appropriations• CEP Closed Session Report• CEP Outlier Events Topic
CEP UpdatesDavid Victor, Dan Stetson & Jerry Kern
• Federal legislation and appropriations• Yucca Mountain
• Rep. Levin Task Force report
• CEP closed session report• Member meeting Jan. 9, 2020
• Update on Outlier Events Workshop (now regular meeting)• Meeting date moved to May 28• Additional meetings or follow up, if necessary
• Other updates?
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Next CEP MeetingDavid Victor, Dan Stetson & Jerry Kern
• Title: “Outlier Events and Response Strategies”
• Timing and new meeting logistics• May 28 CEP Meeting (potential Skype)
• Additional planning sessions as needed
• Workshop preparations underway• Extensive planning process
• Agenda now taking shape
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Next CEP MeetingDavid Victor, Dan Stetson & Jerry Kern
• Multiple sources of community input for possible agenda items:• External stakeholders (petition, CEP comments, correspondence)
• Survey of local city managers and CEP members
• Experts
• Planning committee• Three in-person meetings; one meeting via Skype
• Members of the community; CEP members; First responder communities from OC and SD; SCE
• Review and discuss planning process; experts to engage; possible speakers; scenarios
• Expert review process to help identify scenarios with most important consequences• Experts identified with help of National Academy of Sciences
• Nine scenarios examined
• Distinguished between ”fast moving” and “slow moving” scenarios, with the former more consequential
• Most focus on terrorism
• Still to come• Chairman’s summary of process and documentation
• Evergreen library of resources so that every scenario examined has a response, even those that aren’t showcased at the May 28 meeting
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Next CEP MeetingDavid Victor, Dan Stetson & Jerry Kern
• Agenda formation• Expert driven: High consequence outlier events (terrorism) • Community driven: persistent concerns (e.g., sea level rise)• Other topics as this unfolds• All credible topics get addressed; meeting focuses on a few• Focus on both scenarios AND response strategies• Public questions in multiple layers; far in advance• Goal: useful fact-based information for the public, including elected officials
who are getting questions about what to expect with extended dry storage
• Agenda:• Initial comments• Basics of Radiation and Contamination - “Radiation 101”• Four experts speaking about plausible event scenarios• Three experts on Emergency response (offsite and onsite)• Public comment
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CEP Workshop Planning Committee• Thank you Workshop Planning Committee
• Doug Bauder - SCE VP and Chief Nuclear Officer, SONGS Decommissioning
• Donna Boston - County of Orange Emergency Management
• Manuel Camargo - SCE Strategic Planning & Stakeholder Engagement
• Katie Day - Surfrider Foundation
• John Dobken - SCE Public Information Officer
• Kelli Gallion-Sholler - SCE Emergency Planning
• Randall Granaas - SCE Fuels Engineering
• Gary Headrick - San Clemente Green
• Ace Hoffman - San Clemente Resident
• Tom Isaacs - SCE Experts Team & Independent Strategic Advisor for Nuclear Waste
• Roger Johnson - San Clemente Resident
• Torgen Johnson – Solana Beach Resident
• Jerry Kern - CEP Secretary
• Stephen Rea - County of San Diego Emergency Management
• Lorraine Sandstrom - SCE Community Affairs & Relations
• Dan Stetson - CEP Vice Chairman
• Jerry Stephenson - SCE Manager, ISFSI Engineering
• David Victor - CEP Chairman
• Thank you Experts• Michael Corradini - Professor for Dept. of Engineering Physics at the Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
• Kevin Crowley - Formerly with National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, director of a congressionally-mandated study on nuclear and radiological threats after the 9/11 attacks
• Tom Isaacs - SCE Experts Team & Independent Strategic Advisor for Nuclear Waste
• David Lochbaum - Former director, Nuclear Safety Project
• Ed Lyman - Director of Nuclear Power Safety Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC
• Arthur Motta - Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering, Penn State University
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SONGS
Decommissioning
Update
Doug BauderChief Nuclear Officer and
VP Decommissioning
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Safe and prompt deconstruction
Defense-in-depth for on-site storage of spent nuclear fuel
Take action in an effort to relocate spent fuel off site
The Big Picture
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Visit www.SONGScommunity.com
For Internal Use Only
Conduct Decommissioning
in a Principled Manner
Safety
Engagement
Stewardship
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Decommissioning Plan
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2020 … 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 … 2040 … 2045 2046 2047 2048 2049 2050 2051
All
Fuel
in
Future milestones are tentative
NEPA Review
Substructure Removal &
Site Restoration
ISFSI
Demo
Transfer Fuel Offsite (Actual Timing Pending Offsite Storage Facility)
SONGS Decommissioning Plan
2019
Pre-Decommissioning Work
CEQA Review
Complete Transfer of Fuel from Wet to Dry Storage
NRC Partial Site Release
Terminate NRC License
ISFSI-only NRC Requirements
Implemented
Fuel in Wet & Dry Storage
Major Decommissioning Work
All Fuel in Dry Storage
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Deconstruction Timeline
Activity Description 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027
Containment Preparation & Internal
Component Removal
Dismantlement of Plant Electrical
& Mechanical Systems
Building Demolition (after
decontamination)
Turbine Building Components
Structures and Gantry Demo
Containment Building (Domes)
Demo Unit 2 & Unit 3
Remove Underground Utility
Sumps & Drains
Final Status Survey/NRC approval
to support license termination
Environmental
Stewardship
Ron Pontes
Manager Environmental
Decommissioning
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For Internal Use Only
Radiation Monitoring
Monthly Reporting
• First report published March 10 by CA
Dept. of Public Health (CDPH)
• Provides high, low and average
radiation levels at each monitor
• SONGS website includes contextual
information including natural sources
• CDPH Radiologic Health Branch
– https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CEH/DR
SEM/Pages/RHB-Environment/SONGS-
ISFSI-reports.aspx
• SONGS
– https://www.songscommunity.com/stewardsh
ip/environmental-monitoring-around-san-
onofre/dry-fuel-storage-radiation-monitoring
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ISFSI Radiation Monitoring
System
Liquid Batch Release
Cleanup Process
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Discharge point starts
6,000 feet offshore
Ocean Environmental Monitoring
Interactive Map
• 19 indicator and 5
control locations
monitored– Monthly ocean water
– Simi-annual marine
animals, ocean bottom
sediment, shoreline
sediment, and kelp
• SONGS website
provides interactive
map for easy access to
monitoring locations
and recent results
Control Locations
Indicator Locations
Note: All indicator and control locations
are not visible on maps shown here. Go
to the SONGS website to find all
locations.
Ocean Environmental Monitoring
Data Reports
– Samples measured by an
independent laboratory with
sensitive instruments
– Laboratory data are recorded on
individual reports for each
parameter
– Reports posted on
songscomminity.com interactive
map website
• https://www.songscommunity.com/
stewardship/environmental-
monitoring-around-san-
onofre/interactive-map
Fuel Transfer
Operations
Vince BilovskySONGS Director Deputy
Decommissioning Officer
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Fuel Transfer Operations
• Continued focus on safety and worker feedback
– Learning organization principles
– Incorporation of positive operational improvements
– Healthy relationship between contractor and SONGS
• Pace of 1 per week
– Achieved reliable schedule with ample weekend rest
– Total of 55 of 73 canisters transferred into UMAX system
– Expected completion Summer 2020
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Independent Spent Fuel
Storage Installation
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Recent Operating
Experience• Leveling and alignment enhancements implemented to
reduce variables
• Cameras added for more visibility during download
• Views from camera equipment helped with the analysis of an underload detected in canister 49
• Canister was inches from bottom of download process when momentary underload occurred– Canister was redundantly supported at all times
– Condition was within design basis
– NRC inspector was on site and Region IV was given a courtesy notification
– Procedure was modified as an operational improvement
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Canister Drying System
• During canister drying process, a blower had to be
replaced (non-safety related component)
• Blower housing heated up causing a momentary
ignition of surface material
• Crew responded immediately and effectively
• Thorough review was conducted
• Procedure was modified to prevent reoccurrence
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Power Outage
• On Jan. 29, high winds caused a branch to contact a 12 KV power line resulting loss of power
• Site backup power systems worked as expected
• Offsite power was restored after 45 minutes
• Procedures were appropriately conducted
• Fuel canister was drying and operators properly maintained a safe condition
• Lessons learned and improvements regarding availability of lighting
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BREAKInformation Booths Available
For Internal Use Only
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CLOSING COMMENTSDAVID VICTOR AND DOUG BAUDER
For Internal Use Only
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For Internal Use Only
2020 CEP Meetings
Planned Focus Topics
1Q CEP Meeting – Decommissioning and fuel transfer operations
2Q CEP Meeting – Outlier events and response strategies
3Q CEP Meeting*
4Q CEP Meeting*
Subject to Change
* Topics to be determined
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Thank youStay safe and healthy
For Internal Use Only
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For Internal Use Only
Acronyms
For Internal Use Only
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APPENDIX
Used Fuel
Readiness for Transportation
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• Some fuel qualified for transport now
• Remaining fuel qualifies over time
NOW ‘21 ‘22 ‘23 ‘24 ‘25 ‘26 ‘27 ‘28 ‘29 ‘30 TOTAL
Units 2/3AREVA NUHOMS 24PT4
Unit 1AREVA NUHOMS 24PT1
Units 2/3HOLTEC MPC-37
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1 95
1167 2 2
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73
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Note: Spent nuclear fuel could be re-evaluated and the
qualification time for transportation would be accelerated