The following violation of very low safety significance was identified by the licensee and meets the criteria of Section VI of the
NRC Enforcement Policy,
NUREG-1600, for being dispositioned as a Non-Cited Violation. Two examples were identified in which the licensee failed to report potentially disqualifying licensed operator medical conditions to the NRC as required by
10CFR55.25 and
10CFR50.74. Contrary to these requirements, in the first instance, notification of a potentially disqualifying condition related to prescription medication was delayed for 15 months. The notification of a second operators potentially disqualifying physical condition was delayed for six months. The issues have been entered in the licensees corrective action program as site condition reports CR-2008-02901 and CR-2008-3429. Corrective actions included obtaining a peer review of medical records from another site, and a corporate level condition report
CR-HQN-2008-00724 to review medical records at all Entergy sites for two years. The issues were of very low safety significance because the first individual did not stand watch since his diagnosis. The second individual made no operator errors to indicate potential impairment from failure to take prescribed medication, and the ultimate license restriction added was simply the requirement to take the medication as prescribed (EA- 2008-277)
