The inspectors identified a Green
NCV of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 20.1406(c) due to Entergy not conducting operations to minimize the introduction of residual radioactivity into the site. For at least the past four years, Entergy allowed leakage of the solid radwaste processing system to occur, resulting in spilled radioactive waste that accumulated and remained on the floor of the filter sludge tank room in the radwaste building. The failure to control spilled radioactive wastes is a performance deficiency. Entergy entered this issue into their corrective action program (
CAP) as
CR-JAF-2016-01784 with actions to characterize the introduction of residual radioactivity and evaluate cleanup actions. This issue is more than minor because it is associated with the program and process attribute of the
Public Radiation Safety cornerstone and affected the cornerstone objective to ensure the licensees ability to prevent inadvertent release and/or loss of control of licensed material. The finding had a cross-cutting aspect in the area of Problem Identification and Resolution, Resolution, in that the condition was known to exist for over four years, impacted the radwaste system effectiveness to process solid radwaste, and had not been corrected. [P.3]
