05000397/FIN-2017010-01
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| Title | Failure to Transfer Byproduct Material to a Disposal Facility in Accordance with the Terms of the Facilitys License |
| Description | The inspectors reviewed a self-revealed non-cited violation of 10 CFR 30.41(b)(5) for the failure to transfer byproduct material to an authorized waste disposal facility in accordance with the terms of the facilitys license. Specifically, License Condition No. 21.C of the US Ecology license requires that all radwaste shall be packaged in such a manner that waste containers received at the facility do not show an increase in the external radiation levels as recorded on the manifest, within instrument tolerances. On July 20, 2017, Columbia Generating Station personnel transferred byproduct material to US Ecology for disposal (Shipment 17-51). The disposal facilitys surveys identified that the dose rate on contact with the waste liner was 1100 millirem per hour, whereas the manifest for this shipment recorded a dose rate of 12 millirem per hour. The licensees corrective actions included providing a corrected shipment manifest to US Ecology and proposed enhancements to the Columbia Generating Station procedures for shipping. This issue was documented in the licensees corrective acti on program as Action Request AR 00369215. The failure to transfer byproduct material to a low-level radwaste disposal facility in accordance with the facilitys license was a performance deficiency. The performance deficiency was more than minor because it was associated with the program and process attribute of the Public Radiation Safety Cornerstone and adversely affected the associated cornerstone objective to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety from exposure to radioactive materials released into the public domain as a result of routine civilian nuclear reactor operation. Using NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix D, Public Radiation Safety Significance Determination Process, the inspectors determined that the finding had very low safety significance (Green) because it was a low-level burial ground nonconformance; however, it was not Class C waste or greater and the waste did conform to the waste characteristics of 10 CFR 61.56. The finding has a cross-cutting aspect in the area of Human Performance, Resources, because licensee leaders failed to ensure that personnel, equipment, procedures, and other resources were available and adequate to support nuclear safety (H.1). |
| Site: | Columbia  |
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| Report | IR 05000397/2017010 Section 2RS8 |
| Date counted | Sep 30, 2017 (2017Q3) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Pr Safety |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71124.08 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | N Greene J Furia J O'Donnell C Alldredge H Gepford |
| Violation of: | License Condition |
| CCA | H.1, Resources |
| INPO aspect | LA.1 |
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Finding List (Columbia) @ 2017Q3
Self-Identified List (Columbia)
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