ENS 49213
ENS Event | |
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17:45 Jul 23, 2013 | |
| Title | Programmatic Failure to Test Personnel Returning to the Site |
| Event Description | On July 23, 2013 at 1345 [EDT], the Fitness-for-Duty Snapshot Self-Assessment team identified an anomaly with the Employee Plant Access Control Tracking (EMPACT) program used to randomly select V.C. Summer employees for daily fitness for duty (FFD) screenings. More specifically, when an employee terminates employment at the station, Access Control personnel select 'Exclude from Random' feature in the EMPACT program to remove their name from the program code that randomly selects current employees for daily FFD screenings. When a former employee returns to the station for re-employment, Access Control personnel select 'New Request' within the EMPACT program. The 'New Request' feature is supposed to automatically deselect the 'Exclude from Random' feature, which adds the employee back to the randomly selected population. This feature of the EMPACT program was determined not to be functional.
In accordance with 10 CFR 26.719(b)(4), this program flaw constitutes: 'Any programmatic .... discovered vulnerability of the FFD program that may permit the undetected drug or alcohol use or abuse by individuals within a protected area, or by individuals who are assigned to perform duties that require them to be subject to the FFD program.' This event has been entered into the station's corrective action program under CR-13-03066. The issue is limited to 53 employees (2.9% of the randomly selected population) that have returned to V.C. Summer for employment in the previous six years. Immediate corrective actions consist of contacting the program vendor, conducting an Access Control Program standdown, and contacting the 53 employees to report for fitness-for-duty screening. The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified. Other utilities known to use the EMPACT software have been contacted. This issue does not affect units 2 or 3 since they use a different system. |
| Where | |
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Summer  South Carolina (NRC Region 2) | |
| Reporting | |
| 10 CFR 26.417(b)(1) | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+18.6 h0.775 days <br />0.111 weeks <br />0.0255 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Michael Moore 12:21 Jul 24, 2013 |
| NRC Officer: | Mark Abramovitz |
| Last Updated: | Jul 24, 2013 |
| 49213 - NRC Website
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Unit 1 | |
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| Reactor critical | Critical |
| Scram | No |
| Before | Power Operation (100 %) |
| After | Power Operation (100 %) |
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