Venting krypton-85 from the Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor building

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:5236572

Burton, H. M.

To permit the less restricted access to the reactor building necessary to maintain instrumentation and equipment, and to proceed towad the total decontamination of the facility, General Public Utilities, operators of the facility referred to hereafter as GPU, asked the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC, for permission to remove the /sup 85/Kr from the reactor building by venting it to the environment. GPU supported their request with the Safety Analysis and Environmental Assessment Report on the proposed reactor building venting plan. On June 12, 1980, after seven months of licensing deliberations and numerous public hearings, the NRC granted GPU's request. The actual venting took place between June 28 and July 11, 1980. This report presents an overview of the detailed effort involved in the TMI-2 reactor building venting program. The findings reported here are condensed from a published report entitled TMI-2 Reactor Building Purge--Kr-85 Venting.

• Research Organization: EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 5236572
• Report Number(s): EGG-M-08281; CONF-811056-3; ON: DE82007348; TRN: 82-013354
• Resource Relation: Conference: Seminar on the management of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, Karlsruhe, F.R. Germany, 5-9 Oct 1981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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