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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: nuccomm@songs.sce.com

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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

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Public Comment

Submit written comments to: nuccomm@songs.sce.com

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