Severity Level IV Violation. On May 16, 2003, the NRC issued a
Notice of Violation to the licensee associated with an incident that occurred at the D. C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant on January 28, 2002. The incident involved an employee of the
Framatome Corporation, a contractor at the D. C. Cook plant, that failed to follow the instructions of a radiation protection technician and subsequently failed to immediately exit the work area in the Unit 2 Containment Building when the employee's electronic dosimetry alarmed. The NRC Office of Investigations investigated the matter and concluded that the individual deliberately failed to follow radiation protection requirements
Since the violation was determined to be deliberate, the NRC did not assign a significance to the violation using the
Significance Determination Process. In accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions,"
NUREG-1600, the violation was categorized at
Severity Level IV.
