Robinson uses same practice for characterizing filters.

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Cook Plant does a smear on the filter or filter housing or both. Then dose to 
curie calculations are done to determine amount. The practice has not been 
questioned by the regulator here.

Joe Beer,  CHP
Staff Health Physicist
Cook Nuclear Plant, Mail Zone 9
One Cook Place
Bridgman, MI 49106
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work: 269-465-5901 ext 2262
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Looking to benchmark best practices on characterization of filters used in 
liquid processing systems (e.g. Trinuc filters) for shipment/disposal. At 
Ginna, our practice is to take a core-bore type sample of each filter. The 
nuclide information obtained is then used to perform dose-to-curie evaluations. 
We have been challenged as to whether this practice is efficient and ALARA.

What is everybody else doing?
-          "Core-bore" sample of each filter?
-          "Core-bore" sample of a representative selection of filters?
o   How do you ensure your selection is representative?
-          Smears?
o   Where/how many?
-          Something else?
Have your chosen techniques been questioned/challenged by the regulators?

Thanks,
-Steve

Stephen J Holmes
Sr. Plant Health Physicist
RE Ginna NPP
Constellation Energy Nuclear Group
[email protected]
585-771-3577; 585-545-1661 (cell)


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