The inspectors identified a
Severity Level IV NCV of very low safety significance of
10 CFR Part 72.150, Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings, for the licensees failure to follow procedures important to safety during dry cask operations. The licensee entered each example identified into its corrective action program as Condition Reports 201411637 and 201414279. The violation was determined to be more than minor in that both examples identified deficiencies in the performance of dry cask operations important to safety. In this determination, the inspectors considered example 4.a in
IMC 0612, Appendix E, Examples of Minor Issues, dated August 11, 2009, and concluded that, while the errors did not result in any actual safety concern, there were multiple examples of procedural non-compliance. Additionally, if left uncorrected, a failed
weld could
lead to a release of radioactive materials to the environment and a malfunction of the Fuel Handling Building crane could
lead to a more significant safety concern such as a load drop. The significance of the violation was found to be similar to SLIV example 6.5.d.3, of the NRCs
Enforcement Policy, in that the licensee failed to adequately implement Quality Assurance processes or procedures. The issue was not found to be similar to any examples of higher significance; as such, the violation screened as a SLIV violation. Since traditional enforcement was used to disposition the violation, a cross-cutting aspect is not applicable.
