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Commission Meeting of November 10, 2016 Canadian Nuclear Commission canadienne de Safety Commission sûreté nucléaire Public meeting Réunion publique November 10th, 2016 Le 10 novembre 2016 Town Park Recreation Centre Town Park Recreation Centre Gymnasium Gymnase 62 McCaul Street 62, rue McCaul Port Hope, Ontario Port Hope (Ontario) Commission Members present Commissaires présents Dr. Michael Binder M. Michael Binder Dr. Sandy McEwan Dr Sandy McEwan Ms Rumina Velshi Mme Rumina Velshi Secretary: Secrétaire: Mr. Marc Leblanc M. Marc Leblanc General Counsel: Avocate générale : Ms Lisa Thiele Me Lisa Thiele 613-521-0703 StenoTran www.stenotran.com ii TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Opening Remarks 1 CMD 16-M53 CMD 16-M61.A 3 Approval of Agenda CMD 16-M62 4 Approval of Minutes of Commission Meeting held September 21 and 22, 2016 CMD 16-M63 4 Status Report on Power Reactors CMD 16-M60 9 Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Limited: Status Report on Fitness for Service for the Chalk River Laboratories CMD 16-M44.1 / 16M-44.1A 21 Canadian Nuclear Laboratories: Progress Update -- Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) CMD 16-M44.1 / 16-M44.1A 22 Oral presentation by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Limited CMD 16 M44 / 16 M44.A 47 Oral presentation by CNSC staff CMD 16-M44.8 71 Oral presentation by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper CMD 16-M44.2 122 Written submission from Port Hope & District Chamber of Commerce CMD 16-M44.3 124 Written submission from Cameco Corporation iii TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE CMD 16-M44.4 126 Written submission from Canadian Nuclear Association CMD 16-M44.5 126 Written submission from the Municipality of Port Hope CMD 16-M44.6 138 Written submission from the Northumberland County CMD 16-M44.7 139 Written submission by John Morand CMD 16-M43 / 16-M43.A 175 Oral presentation by CNSC staff CMD 16-M43.1 196 Oral presentation by Cameco Fuel Manufacturing Inc. CMD 16-M43.2 205 Oral presentation by Cameco Blind River Refinery CMD 16-M43.3 214 Oral presentation by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. CMD 16-M43.4 226 Written submission from Northwatch CMD 16-43 / 16-M43.A 314 Regulatory Oversight Report for Nuclear Processing, Small Research Reactors and Class IB Accelerator Facilities: 2015 1 Port Hope, Ontario / Port Hope (Ontario) --- Upon commencing on Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 8:32 a.m. / La réunion débute le jeudi 10 novembre 2016 à 8 h 32 Opening Remarks CMD 16-M53 MR. LEBLANC: Bonjour. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the public hearing of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. This morning we have simultaneous interpretation. Please keep the pace of speech relatively slow so that the interpreters have a chance to keep up. Des appareils pour l’interprétation sont disponibles à la réception. La version française est au poste 2 and the English version is on channel 1. Please identify yourself before speaking so that the transcripts are as complete and clear as possible. Please keep the pace of your speech, as I mentioned, a bit faster than mine, what I'm doing now, and that will be helpful because the transcripts will also reflect everything that has been said today. I would also like to note that the 2 proceeding is being video webcast live and that archives of these proceedings will be available on our website for a three-month period after the closure of the proceedings. As a courtesy to others in the room, please silence your cell phones and other electronic devices. Monsieur Binder, président et premier dirigeant de la CCSN, va présider la réunion publique d’aujourd'hui. President Binder...? LE PRÉSIDENT : Merci, Marc. Good morning and welcome to the meeting of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Welcome to all of you joining us via webcast or teleconference. My name is Michael Binder. I am the President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. I would like to introduce the Members of the Commission that are with us today. On my left are Dr. Sandy McEwan and Ms Rumina Velshi. We have heard from our Commission Secretary Marc Leblanc and we also have Ms Lisa Thiele, Senior General Counsel to the Commission, here with us today. 3 MR. LEBLANC: The Nuclear Safety and Control Act authorizes the Commission to hold meetings for the conduct of its business. Please refer to the agenda published on November 1, 2016, for the complete list of items to be presented today. Your key contact persons for the duration of this meeting are Line Quevillon and Johanne Villeneuve and they can be seen in the back. They have copies of all the documents that will be used throughout the day. Mr. President...? CMD 16-M61.A Approval of Agenda MR. PRESIDENT: So I would like to call now for the adoption of the agenda by the Commission Members, as outlined in CMD 16-M61.A. Do we have concurrence? Okay. So for the record, the agenda is adopted. 4 CMD 16-M62 Approval of Minutes of Commission Meeting held September 21 and 22, 2016 THE PRESIDENT: Next, I would like to call for the approval of the Minutes of the Commission Meeting held on September 21 and 22, 2016, as outlined in CMD 16-M62. Any comments, additions, observations? Okay. For the record, given there are no changes, I would like to -- do we agree to adopt these Minutes? Thank you. CMD 16-M63 Status Report on Power Reactors THE PRESIDENT: The first item on the agenda for today is the Status Report on Power Reactors, which is under CMD 16-M63. CNSC staff is available by teleconference, so let's test the system. I understand that Mr. Santini will be online. Can you hear us? MR. SANTINI: Yes, that's correct. Can you hear me? 5 THE PRESIDENT: Yes, we can. MR. SANTINI: Okay. THE PRESIDENT: So please proceed. MR. SANTINI: Thank you. Good morning, Mr. President and Members of the Commission. My name is Miguel Santini. I am the Regulatory Program Director of the Darlington Regulatory Program Division. Today I am acting for Mr. Gerry Frappier, Director General of the Directorate of Power Reactor Regulation. With me today are Power Reactor Program Division Directors plus technical support staff who are available to respond to questions on the Status Report on Power Reactors as presented in CMD 16-M63. This document was finalized on November 2nd, 2016. I note that all the reactors are operating as expected or in planned outages. There are no event notifications. However, there are three updates since the report was finalized. Pickering Unit 1 is at 91 percent of full power. Unit 1 was derated due to the lack of fuelling. There was an unplanned fuelling machine outage in order to complete the repair. Pickering Unit 5 is at 99 percent of full power. Unit 5 is derated due to high temperature on a heat 6 transport pump gland seal. No target date for return to full power. As stated in the CMD, Darlington Unit 2 continues with its reactor defuelling process. As of yesterday, November 9th, 31 percent of the core has been defuelled, that is, 148 out of 480 channels. This concludes the Status Report on Power Reactors. CNSC staff are now available to answer any questions the Commission Members may have. Thank you. THE PRESIDENT: Okay, thank you. Questions? Ms Velshi...? MEMBER VELSHI: So again, compliments to the licensees and CNSC staff for another pretty much perfect report. The update you gave on Unit 1 at fuel power, did you give an estimated date for 100 percent full power? THE PRESIDENT: I'm sorry to interrupt, but I was remiss to acknowledge it. I understand we have an OPG representative online. So I am informed that Mr. Vulanovic and Mr. Train are online. Can you hear us? MR. VULANOVIC: Yes, we can hear you. THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Ms Velshi...? 7 MEMBER VELSHI: I don't know whether this is a question for OPG or CNSC staff around Unit 1, an expected date for 100 percent full power? MR. SANTINI: This is Miguel Santini from CNSC staff. We don't have a date for return to power. OPG might be more prepared to answer the question. MR. VULANOVIC: For the record, this is Boris Vulanovic. I do not have the return to service date for Unit 1 at Pickering, but I will make contact with the Director of Operations and maintenance for the Pickering units and provide that answer back to Mr. Santini to provide to the Commission. MEMBER VELSHI: Thank you. THE PRESIDENT: For staff, the comment on Darlington, can you explain -- I didn't understand the comment that says "following completion of defuelling, the next phase will be..." What are you trying to tell us here? MR. SANTINI: Miguel Santini for the record. So what we are describing is the sequence of the following actions following defuelling. So when all of the reactor fuel has been removed from the reactor core, 8 the next step is the installation of the bulkhead features which basically isolate the Unit 2 from the rest of the units to make it a single containment and separate it from the rest of the containment of the Darlington operating units. And this installation will start after February. Once the installation of the bulkhead is complete, then they will proceed with the following step of the refurbishment, which is dewatering the reactor before starting any disassembling. We have some OPG staff that may be more informed. They will have more information about the different steps in between now and the installation of the bulkhead. MR. VULANOVIC: For the record, it's Boris Vulanovic.
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