WELCOME to Decommissioning:

A County and State Perspective

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Decommissioning: A

County and State

Perspective Presented by:

Tracy Nollenberg: Kewaunee County Emergency Management

Robert (Bob) Busch: Department of Health Services- Radiation Protection Section

Ramona Baldoni – Lake: Department of Health Services - Radiation Protection Section

WELCOME • Highlights

• Brief History

• Reaction when closing was announced

• Administrative rule changes to state and county due to funding reduction

• Monitoring changes

• Incidents that have occurred during the decommissioning

• Impact on the township/county infrastructure

• Impact on county emergency response

Wisconsin

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Kewaunee Power Station

Kewaunee County Emergency

Management

• Exercise every year

• Staff was well trained

• It started with a phone call

• Kewaunee County remained a risk county

• For our department it was business as usual

Kewaunee County Emergency

Management – Current Day

• No exercises with Kewaunee Power Station

• No dedicated line (switch to 24/7 monitored landline)

• Even years – drills/workshops

• Odd years – drills/evaluated exercise with Point Beach

• Every Year – outreach, educate, train, calibrate

Emergency Response and Kewaunee

Power Station • Kewaunee Fire

• Original contract

• Aerial capability of a ladder truck

• Number of responses to plant

• Plant has always been good to the fire department

Town of Carlton and Kewaunee Power

Station

• Planned ahead and built a strong community

• Nuclear Waste Storage Fee

• kept informed and felt safe

• The safest plant with the least incidents.

Closing of the plant

• Lost that direct communication link

• Not a lot of businesses in township

• Hold on the property

Kewaunee Power Station owns around 900 acres in the

Town of Carlton

Kewaunee County

• Loss of annual State Utility Aid

• 5 Step Draw Down

• Receives yearly Nuclear Waste Storage Fee

• What was done to fill this gap

Kewaunee School District

• Loss of 15 students over span of 12 years adds up

• Losing Kewaunee Power Station did take away potential high paying jobs for graduating students

Environmental Monitoring From a

State Perspective

Purpose of the Environmental Monitoring

Program

• Establish long term Base-line isotopic back-ground

• Demonstrate Compliance

• Maintain public confidence

• Monitoring Started prior to electrical generation

• Monitoring area • Within 10 miles (16.1km) of a nuclear power plant

Decommissioning

Operation Decommissioning Land

Reuse

Shutdown

SAFSTOR Fuel Decontamination Dismantling

Transfer to

Dry Cask

Land

Reuse

NRC Decommissioning Timeline

Operation

Shutdown Fuel

Transfer to

Dry Cask

Decontamination

and/or Active

Dismantling - Demolition

SAFSTOR

No Active

Decommissioning

ISFSI

Land

Reuse

State Decommissioning Timeline

6o year to complete

State Perspective on Kewaunee Decommissioning Timeline

KPS

2013 2017

Operation

Shutdown Fuel

Transfer to

Dry Cask

Decommissioning

Decontamination

and/or Active

Dismantling - Demolition

SAFSTOR

No Active

Decommissioning

ISFSI

Land

Reuse

Operation Decommissioning Land

Reuse

Shutdown

SAFSTOR Fuel Decontamination Dismantling

Transfer to

Dry Cask

Land

Reuse

NRC Decommissioning Timeline

Type of Samples Collected at KPS

Kewaunee Power Station

Sample Type Number of Samples

Collected

air particulate 156 / 0

Iodine cartridge 78 / 0

Precipitation 24 / 0

TLD 64 / 32

surface water 20 / 2

shoreline sediment 3 / 3

vegetation 9 / 8

soil 9 / 8

well water 5 / 4

Total: 368 / 57

SAFSTOR (No Active Decommissioning)

Samples during power production / SAFSTOR

State Perspective on LaCrosse Decommissioning Timeline

1987 2012

2005 - 2007

1991 2016

LaCrosse Boiling Water Reactor (LACBWR)

2019

Operation

Shutdown Fuel

Transfer

Dry

Cask

Decommissioning

Decontamination

and/or Active

Dismantling -

Demolition

SAFSTOR

No Active

Decommissioning

ISFSI

Land

Reuse

Decommissioning (DECON)

Decontamination

and Active

Dismantling

2012 - 2014

Operation Decommissioning Land

Reuse

Shutdown

SAFSTOR Fuel Decontamination Dismantling

Transfer to

Dry Cask

Land

Reuse

NRC Decommissioning Timeline

Type of Samples Collected at LACBWR

LaCrosse Boiling Water Reactor

Sample Type Number of Samples

Collected

air particulate 0 / 52

Iodine cartridge 0 / 0

TLD 16 / 16

surface water 1 / 1

bottom sediment 3 / 3

vegetation 2 / 2

soil 2 / 2

well water 2 / 4

Extra Tritium (Bloom) 0 / 5

Total: 26 / 85

Active Decommissioning

SAFSTOR / Active Decommissioning

Lessons Learned

• Sample Collection Parallel Decommissioning Activity

• Find a way to preserve records (time capsule)

• Maintain contacts with appropriate state and federal agencies.

• Ensure that you’re on call list for prompt notification

• Know the waste route

• Document

Wisconsin Radiation Monitoring

Rulemaking

DHS

158

Wisconsin State Statute

Radiological Monitoring

Administrative Code

Define a Nuclear Power Plant

Proposed Definitions for a Nuclear Power

Plant • Nuclear power plant – a facility licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that utilizes or utilized a

nuclear power reactor to generate electricity, and includes an operating nuclear power plant and a

decommissioning nuclear power plant, but excludes a decommissioned facility.

• Operating nuclear power plant – a facility licensed by the NRC that utilizes a nuclear power reactor to make

electricity by the continuous splitting of atoms. An operating nuclear power plant may shut down

temporarily for refueling or maintenance.

• Decommissioning nuclear power plant – a facility licensed by the NRC that has ceased operation and is in

the process of safely closing to retire if from service. Decommissioning begins after the nuclear fuel, coolant

and radioactive waste are removed from the reactor.

• Decommissioned facility – a nuclear power plant which had been retired from service by following a Nuclear

Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved process to reduce residual radioactivity so that the site can be

safely released for other use other than the continuing use of an independent spent fuel storage installation

(ISFSI) at or near the facility.

Fee Structure

Proposed fee structure is

now two tiered to identify

plant status for both

Operating

&

Decommissioning

Current Status

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Tracy Nollenberg Kewaunee County Emergency Management Director

920-845-9701

Nollenberg.tracy@kewauneeco.org

Bob Busch

WI-DHS Environmental Monitoring Program Manager

608-267-7320

Robert.BuschJr@dhs.wisconsin.gov

Ramona Lake WI-DHS Radiation Emergency Unit Supervisor

608-266-7384

Ramona.lake@dhs.wisconsin.gov