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| Title | Failure to Properly Prepare a Radioactive Material Package for Shipment |
| Description | A self-revealing NCV of 10 CFR 71.5 was identified for failure to properly package radiological material such that, under conditions normally incident to transportation, the radiation levels at the external surface of the package would not exceed applicable Department of Transportation (DOT) limits. When the shipment of equipment arrived at a processing facility on March 3, 2008, the contact radiation dose rate measurement in a small area on the bottom of the external surface of one of the packages was 340 mrem/hr, which was in excess of the 200 mrem/hr limit. Subsequent measurements by the licensee determined the dose rate to be 400 mrem/hr. This finding was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Problem Evaluation Report (PER) 139447. This finding is more than minor because it is associated with the plant facilities/ equipment and instrument attribute of the Public Radiation Safety Cornerstone and adversely affected the cornerstone objective, in that the improper transportation packaging resulted in a shipping container with external dose rates exceeding regulatory requirements. Using the Public Radiation Significance Determination Process, the finding was determined to be of very low safety significance because the area on the package with the elevated radiation level was inaccessible to the public and the radiation level did not exceed two times the DOT limit. This finding was reviewed for cross-cutting aspects and none were identified. (Section 2PS2 |
| Site: | Watts Bar  |
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| Report | IR 05000390/2008002 Section 2PS2 |
| Date counted | Mar 31, 2008 (2008Q1) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Pr Safety |
| Identified by: | Self-revealing |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71122.02 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | R Monk J Rivera-Ortiz W Loo H Gepford R Chou M Pribish A Rogers M Coursey R Nease |
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