05000528/FIN-2010005-03
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| Title | Failure to Ensure All License Conditions Are Met for Licensed Operators |
| Description | The inspectors identified a Severity Level IV violation of 10 CFR 55.3, License Requirements, for the failure of the licensee to ensure that all individuals authorized by a license to operate the controls of the facility met all the conditions of their licenses as defined in 10 CFR 55.3. Specifically, the requirement to have a biennial physical completed and certified by the facilitys physician during the continuous two year period for all licensed operators was not met for three licensed operators. Two of these licensed operators performed licensed operator duties 42 times between February 8 and March 25, 2010, after the deadline for their biennial examinations had passed. Upon discovery, the licensee removed these individuals from watchstanding duties pending follow-up medical evaluations. This issue was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Condition Report Disposition Request 3526981. The failure of the licensee to ensure that all individuals authorized by a license to operate the controls of the facility met all the conditions of their licenses as defined in 10 CFR 55.3 is a performance deficiency. Specifically, the requirement to have a biennial physical completed and certified by the facilitys physician during the continuous two year period for all licensed operators (as required in 10 CFR 55.21) was not met for three licensed operators, two of which were standing watch with expired medical examinations. The finding was evaluated using the traditional enforcement process because the failure to determine an operators medical condition and general health has the potential to impact the NRCs ability to perform its regulatory function; the NRC was not notified nor allowed an opportunity to review the specific medical conditions of the two operators whose medical qualifications had expired while they were standing watch or eligible to stand watch. Using the NRCs Enforcement Policy, section 6.4.d, Severity Level IV violation examples, this finding is similar to example 1 which states, in part that an unqualified individual performing the functions of an operator or senior operator. Two licensed operators stood watch without a certified medical examination within the two year period that the medical examination is required to be completed and certified by the physician. Because: (1) the medical conditions of the two licensed operators did not change when they received their medical examinations in recent weeks; (2) the finding did not cause any plant events or transients while the individuals were on watch; (3) it was not repetitive or willful; and (4) it was entered into the corrective action program, the finding was determined to be of very low safety significance and is being treated as a Severity Level IV noncited violation consistent with the NRC Enforcement Policy. This finding has a crosscutting aspect in the area of human performance associated with the work practices component because medical staff supervisors did not oversee the biennial physical examination due dates such that nuclear safety was supported H.4(c)(Section 1R11.2). |
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
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| Report | IR 05000528/2010005 Section 1R11 |
| Date counted | Dec 31, 2010 (2010Q4) |
| Type: | TEV: Severity level IV |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.11 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | K Clayton R Lantz C Smith S Graves M Young J Mateychick B Larson J Bashore M Baquera B Rice T Buchanan D Reinert |
| CCA | H.2, Field Presence |
| INPO aspect | LA.2 |
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Finding List (Palo Verde) @ 2010Q4
Self-Identified List (Palo Verde)
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