Browns Ferry surveys the whole bundle. After our surveys are completed the bundles are placed in the pool. The new fuel boxes are generally stacked away from where the survey and inspection take place on the new bundle.
Chuck Creamer Charles E. Creamer Health Physicist Tennessee Valley Authority Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant P.O. Box 2000 (Mail Stop NAB-1G-BFN) Decatur, Al. 35609-2000 Phone: 256-729-2983 Fax: 256-729-3101 Pager: 1-800-323-4853, pin 30-053 mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Powernet: New Fuel Surveys Quick question about survey requirements for new fuel. When you conduct radiation surveys of new fuel as it's unloaded and staged in the plant, how many locations do you survey each bundle? 1. 1 (center of bundle) 2. 3 (center and toward top and bottom) 3. 5 (~ every 2 feet or so) 4. Other As the fuel is loaded into new fuel racks, the general area dose rates do become measurable such that a reduction in survey locations should have a small but measurable personnel dose benefit. Thanks, Eric Eric M. Goldin, CHP Southern California Edison <[email protected]>
