05000440/FIN-2013009-01
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| Title | Failure to Implement the Operational and Radiological Controls Necessary to Prevent Plant Manipulations from Adversely Impacting Dose Rates or Airborne Radioactivity Levels |
| Description | The inspectors identified a finding of very low safety significance and associated non-cited violation of Technical Specification (TS) 5.4, Procedures. Specifically, TS 5.4 Procedures , Step 5.4.1 states, in part, that the licensee shall establish, implement, and maintain applicable procedures recommended in Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.33, Revision 2, Appendix A. Section 7 of Appendix A of RG 1.33 specifies radiation protection procedures for control of radioactivity for limiting personnel exposures. Licensee procedure NOP-OP-4107, Radiation Work Permit, requires that radiological controls identify critical steps or critical instructions for positive radiological control of the work to ensure no change on unexpected change in radiological conditions, and prevent unplanned exposure. Contrary to this, on six occasions during the spring 2013 refueling outage, the licensee failed to implement operational and radiological controls necessary to prevent plant manipulations from adversely impacting ambient radiological dose rates or airborne radioactivity levels in the plant when workers were in the areas. The licensee documented this issue in its corrective action program as condition report 2013-09891. As an immediate corrective action, the licensee instituted the appropriate operational and radiological controls to ensure personnel safety. The inspectors reviewed Inspection Manual Chapter (IMC) 0612, Appendix B, Issue Screening and determined that the issue was more than minor because, if left uncorrected, the performance deficiency could have led to a more significant safety concern. Specifically, not implementing the operational and radiological controls necessary to prevent plant manipulations from adversely impacting ambient radiological conditions in the plant could result in unnecessary and unplanned radiation exposures. The inspectors determined that the finding was of very low safety significance (Green) in accordance with IMC 0609, Appendix C, Occupation Radiation Safety Significance Determination Process. This finding has a cross-cutting aspect in the area of human performance, work-control, because the licensee did not appropriately plan work activities when developing the work packages and authorizing the work. |
| Site: | Perry  |
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| Report | IR 05000440/2013009 Section 4OA4 |
| Date counted | Jun 30, 2013 (2013Q2) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Or Safety |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 95002 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | A Garmoe G Hansen J Furia J Jandovitz M Kunowski M Phalen P Cardona Morales R Lerch R Ruiz |
| Violation of: | Technical Specification |
| CCA | H.5, Work Management |
| INPO aspect | WP.1 |
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