05000528/FIN-2009005-03
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| Title | Failure to Comply with High Radiation Area Entry Requirements |
| Description | A self-revealing noncited violation of Technical Specification 5.7.1, High Radiation Areas, was identified for the failure of radiological protection personnel to perform a prejob briefing to ensure workers are aware of radiological conditions in a high radiation area as required by the radiation exposure permit. Specifically, on October 20, 2009, nine contract workers were preparing to install an anticontamination sock over the Unit 2 old reactor vessel head, signed onto a radiation exposure permit which allowed access to a high radiation area but failed to receive a brief on the local dose rates surrounding the reactor vessel head by the job coverage radiation protection technician. This issue was entered into the corrective action program as CRDR 3394172. The finding was more than minor because it was associated with the exposure control attribute of the Occupational Radiation Safety Cornerstone and affected the cornerstone objective to properly control access to a high radiation area and had the potential to increase personnel dose. Using Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix C, Occupational Radiation Safety Significance Determination Process, the finding was determined to have very low safety significance because it was not associated with as low as reasonably achievable, there was no overexposure, there was no substantial potential for an overexposure; and the ability to assess dose was not compromised. This finding has a crosscutting aspect in the area of human performance associated with work practices because the licensees radiation protection staff failed to communicate expectations to contract personnel H.4(b) (Section 2OS1) |
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
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| Report | IR 05000528/2009005 Section 2OS1 |
| Date counted | Dec 31, 2009 (2009Q4) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Or Safety |
| Identified by: | Self-revealing |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71121.01 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | R Lantz R Treadway B Henderson L Carson M Young B Larson J Bashore M Catts M Baquera T Farina |
| CCA | H.8, Procedure Adherence |
| INPO aspect | WP.4 |
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Finding List (Palo Verde) @ 2009Q4
Self-Identified List (Palo Verde)
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