05000266/FIN-2009008-01
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| Title | Failure to Notify the NRC of a Permanent Illness or Disability of a License Operator |
| Description | Prior to becoming a licensed reactor operator (RO) in 1999, a non-licensed operator notified the stations medical staff that he began taking a prescribed medication for a potentially disqualifying medical condition in 1993. The NRC was not notified of the SROs potentially disqualifying medical condition until October 20, 2008. Title 10 CFR 50.74(c), Notification of Change in Operator or Senior Operator Status, requires the licensee to notify the NRC within 30 days of the licensee being informed of a permanent change in a licensed operators medical condition. The licensee should have notified the NRC of the operators potentially disqualifying medical condition when the operator applied for an NRC operating license in 1999. The time period between May 1999 and November 2008 exceeded the 30-day notification requirement. The licensee conducted a review of all licensed operator medical records to determine the extent of condition and initiated other compensatory measures to prevent recurrence of this condition. Because the issue affected the NRCs ability to perform its regulatory function it was evaluated using the traditional enforcement process. The finding was determined to be of low safety significance because the SRO was taking the medications as prescribed and had not made any operational errors during any emergency condition. The regulatory significance was important because plant staff failed to notify the NRC of a permanent disability or illness of an SRO within 30 days. This was preliminarily determined to be an apparent violation of 10 CFR 50.74(c). The cause of the apparent violation is related to the cross-cutting element of problem identification and resolution in the area of operating experience. P.2(b)(Section 1R11) |
| Site: | Point Beach  |
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| Report | IR 05000266/2009008 Section 1R11 |
| Date counted | Mar 31, 2009 (2009Q1) |
| Type: | AV: |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.11 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | D Mcneil H Peterson |
| CCA | P.5, Operating Experience |
| INPO aspect | CL.1 |
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Finding - Point Beach - IR 05000266/2009008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Finding List (Point Beach) @ 2009Q1
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