Review of this program is significant now because it effectively implements and exceeds the guidance provided by the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations in ACAD 91-017, Guidelines for Training and Qualification of Engineering Support Personnel for position-specific training of reactor engineers. « lessĬommonwealth Edison (CECo) has utilized a nuclear engineer training and certification program called the Qualified Nuclear Engineer (QNE) Program for many years to ensure that on-site nuclear engineers are ready to assume critical responsibilities in support of reactor operations and reactivity management. This was CECo's first experience with decontamination of a BWR recirculation system that did not have a cross-tie valve in the ring header.
A brief review of the recent LOMI decontamination at the LaSalle station is presented. Some of the specific items discussed include: bid specification and evaluation, critical path time, utility support personnel, recontamination, the effect of hydrogen water chemistry, the effectiveness of repetitive decontaminations, corrosion, equipment, drawings, procedures, operations and waste handling. Information on 23 more » separate topics is presented under the general headings of administrative, chemical, and engineering aspects of decontamination. This experience is presented in this report, mainly from the point of view of a recirculation system decontamination. As a result, CECo has gained a considerable amount of experience and insight as to how decontaminations are best performed, and the results that can be expected. Systems that have been decontaminated include the reactor recirculation system, the reactor water cleanup system, a fuel pool cleanup system, and two isolated fuel assemblies.
Country of Publication: United States Language: English Subject: 22 NUCLEAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGY 21 NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE REDUCTION NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ALARA ILLINOIS PWR TYPE REACTORS BWR TYPE = ,Ī total of 23 dilute chemical decontaminations and one full system decontamination using a concentrated solvent have been performed at Commonwealth Edison's BWR nuclear stations since 1983. international workshop on implementation of ALARA at nuclear power plants, Long Island, NY (United States), 8- Other Information: PBD: Mar 1995 Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the implementation of ALARA at nuclear power plants Khan, T.A. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States) OSTI Identifier: 54646 Report Number(s): NUREG/CP-0143 BNL-NUREG-52440 CONF-940505- ON: TI95008770 TRN: 95:012680 Resource Type: Conference Resource Relation: Conference: 3. of Regulatory Applications Brookhaven National Lab. Publication Date: Research Org.: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Washington, DC (United States).
The company operates 16 generating stations which have the capacity to produce 22,522 megawatts of electricity. Commonwealth Edison Company is an investor-owned utility company supplying electricity to over three million customers (eight million people) in Chicago and northern Illinois, USA.