IR 05000220/1989032
| ML17056A498 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 12/06/1989 |
| From: | Bores R, Joseph Furia NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML17056A497 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-220-89-32, 50-410-89-21, IEB-79-19, NUDOCS 8912190140 | |
| Download: ML17056A498 (12) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COHHISS ION
REGION I
50-220/89-32 2 9 9.2
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~99-429 99-22 50-220 Docket Nos.
50-410 C
Pri ority Category C
DPR-63 License Nos.
NPF-33 Licensee:
Nia ara Hohawk Power Cor oration ann se oa racuse ew or 13212 Facility Name:
Nine Hile Point Units
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- Inspection At:
Scriba New York Inspection Co>ducted:.
November 27 - December
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/4b 0'sa kg Maie Inspection Summary:
Ins ection on November 27 - December
1989 Combined Ins ection Re ort Nos.
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Areas Ins ected:
Routine unannounced inspection of the transportation and solid ra was e programs including:
Hanagement controls, audits, quality assurance, and implementation of the above programs.
Results:
Within the areas inspected, no violations or deviations were noted.
iin inspector followup item at'ach unit was identified relative to the evaluation of derived scaling factors used in the solid radwaste program (paragraphs 4.3. 1 and 4.3.2).
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1.0 Personnel Contacted 1.1 Licensee Personnel DETAILS
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Pahlberg, Station Superintendent, Unit
Abbott, Station Superintendent, Unit 2 Henderson, Supervisor, Radwaste, Unit 2 Gerber, Supervisor, Radwaste, Unit
Remus, Superintendent, Chemistry
& Radiological Management Scholtens, Supervisor, Site Radioactive Material Shipping Burton, Supervisor, Nuclear guality Assurance Operations-Surveillance Colomb, Director, Regulatory Compliance Brownell, Nuclear Regulatory Compliance Engineer Dillon, Supervisor, guality Assur ance Auditing Blasick, Supervisor, Chemistry, Unit
Ross, Supervisor, Chemistry, Unit 2 Winegard, Procurement guality Assurance Engineer Chambers, Nuclear guality Assurance Auditor 2.0 3.0 4.0 1.2 NRC Personnel W. Cook, Senior Resident Inspector
- R. Laura, Resident Inspector
- Denotes those present at the exit meeting on December 1,
1989.
~Pur use The purpose of this routine inspection wa's to review the l,icensee's program to properly prepare and package licensed radioactive materials for transport and disposal.
Previousl
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Unresolved Item (50-410/88-33-01)
Concerns Regarding Solid Waste isposal.
The licensee has revised procedures AP-3.7. 1 and N2-WHP-9 to clarify the level and frequency of guality Assurance verification of the Process Control Plan.
This item is closed.
Trans ortation and Solid Radwaste In accordance with plant procedures, oper ation of plant water treatment systems, processing of wastes, and packaging of waste materials were the responsibility of the Radwaste Operations Supervisor for each unit.
These supervisors report directly to their respective Unit Superintendents.
Preparation of laundry and other radioactive materials for shipment, and
the preparation of all transportation documents were the responsibility of the Site Radioactive Material Shipping Supervisor, who reports through the Superintendent of Chemistry and Radiological Management.
4.1
~ualit Assurance ualit Control The guality Assurance/guality Control program at Nine Mile Point involved guality Assurance audits of inplant activities, guality Control Inspection Reports on all radwaste shipments, Nuclear guality Assurance Operations (N(AO), Surveillance Reports on selected radwaste and transportation activities, and Procurement guality Assurance Audits of principle vendors supplying services to the radwaste programs.
Audit 89-148,. dated July 7, 1989, was conducted'y guality Assurance to evaluate the effectiveness of the Process Control Plans for both units.
This audit, which had very good technical depth and scope,.
identified ten areas which resulted in the issuance of Corrective Action Requests (CARs).
As of this inspection, most of the CARs had been resolved to the satisfaction of the guality Assurance Department.
None of the CARs involved any issues of safety significance.
guality Control performs inspections of all shipments of radioactive waste from each unit, and these are documented in guality Control, Inspection Reports.
All items of noncompliance documented in these Inspection Reports were resolved in a timely manner, and none of the identified items showed a pattern of noncompliance for either unit.
NgAO conducted periodic surveillances based upon critical items
.extracted from the Process Control Pro~ram and associated procedures..
The frequency and scope of these survesllances were determined to be excellent.
All items of noncompliance were promptly resolved, and none of these had safety significance.
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Procurement guality Assurance has contracted with two organizations to perform vendor audits of the principle radwaste vendor utilized at Nine Mile Point, Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc.(CNSI).
The first audit, TE56640-K001, dated August 1, 1989, was conducted by the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station on behalf of the Nuclear Procurement Issues Council (NUPIC), of which the licensee is a member.
As of October 30, 1989, two of the Areas of Concern (AOC) identified in this audit had not been resolved to the satisfaction of NUPIC.
Althouqh these open AOCs exist, they do not involve safety significant issues to the extent that the licensee has found it necessary to suspend CNSI from its list of approved vendors'.
The second audit, conducted by ERC Environmental and Energy Services Company on behalf of four utilities, includinq the licensee, was dated April 7, 1989.
Two findings were ident>fied in this audit,
with one finding still open as of this inspection.
This finding involved the continued utilization of polyethylene High Integrity Containers (Poly-HICs) for waste stabilization, and CNSI's internal requirements for periodic engineering review of waste stabilization containers.
This is a long term issue involving not only the
'licensee, but most utility licensees, the State of South Carolina, and the NRC.
Due to the complicated nature of this issue, resolution of the audit finding was not expected in the near future.
4.2 ~24 tt As 'part of this inspection, the inspector reviewed the records of the 14 radioactive material shipments listed below.
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0889-150 0889-193 0889-194 0889-267 0989-155 0989-186 0989-276 0889-188 0889-189 0889-251 0889-252 0989-124 0989-208 0989-255 180.1 180.1
, 180.1 180.1 205.8 205.8 205.8 363.4 181.7 363.4 181.7 363.4 363.4 207.4 2.608E+1 2.608Ei-l 2.608E+1 2. 608E+1 5.467E-1 2.877E-1 1.035E+0 3.540E-1 6.850E+0 2.310E-1
,'6.830E+0 4.290E-1 3.880E-1 4.920E+0 evap bottoms evap bottoms evap bottoms evap bottoms resins resins resins evap bottoms resins evap bottoms resins evap bottoms evap bottoms resins All records were found to be complete, and to accurately classify the material in accordance with 10 CFR 71 and
CFR Parts 100-179.
Preparation of radioactive materials for transportation was the responsibility of the site Radioactive Materials Shipping Supervisor.
During most of 1989, calculations of transportation and waste class>fication, and the preparation of shipping documents were performed by the Shipping Supervisor utilizing a licensee developed computer spreadsheet based upon the Lotus Development Corporation's Symphony program.
The use of this program was suspended after September, 1989, due to changes made in Procedure S-RP-6,
"Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Material".
These changes included revising the format of the shipping paperwork to be generated, and as of this inspection, these changes had not been incorporated into the'icensee's computer program.
Use of a computer program for the calculation of transport and waste classification can greatly reduce the chance of error P 4.3 Radwaste Unit
4.3.1 I
Unit 1 generated evapor'ator bottoms, spent.resins, filter sludge and miscellaneous Dry Active Waste (DAW).
Evaporator bottoms, resins and sludges were placed in waste liners and solidified utilizing a mobile cement system from
'NSI.
.The licensee's Stock cement drumming system appeared to be abandoned in place and was utilized for test runs only.
Licensee plans are for the continued use o'f the CNSI mobile cement system, with the Stock system storage area in the New Radwaste Building (NRB) to be utilized for interim radwaste storage.
,Scaling factors for the various waste streams were evaluated on a semi-annual basis, with samples taken by Chemistry for the evaporators, resins and sludge, and by the Radioactive Haterial Shipping Supervisor for DAW.. Samples were analyzed by Teledyne Isotopes, with the results analyzed and scalinq factors developed by the Chemistry and Shipping Supervisors respectively.
The licensee did not have a formalized program to evaluate the derived scaling factors, to compare them to revious data, or to examine them for outlying data points.
evelopment of procedures for this comparison will be examined during a future inspection.
(Inspector Follow-Up Item 50-220/89-32-01).
The licensee had available a large storage area,
~ originally designed for use with the Stock system.
The licensee plans to utilize.this area for the interim storage of radwaste if necessary.
This area has the capacity to hold more than five year's worth of plant generated radwaste.
The inspector had no further questions in this area.
4.3.2 Unit 2 I
Unit 2 generated evaporator bottoms, spent resins, filter sludge and DAW.
Evaporator bottoms, resin and sludges were typically solidified utilizing a LN Technology cementing system.
The licensee's asphalt system continued to be inoperable due to failures in the auxiliary equipment which supports the asphalt extruder.
The licensee has significantly reduced the volume of-radwaste generated, especially in the area of DAW.,
DAW monthly generation has averaged only 90 cubic feet per month, and this is attributable to the considerable efforts of the Unit 2 Radwaste Supervisor and staf Seal.ing factors for Unit 2 were determined utilizinq the services of Teledyne Isotopes on an annual basis, with the exception of DAW which was analyzed semi-annually.
As with Unit 1, the licensee had not developed a data comparison program to examine for outlying data.
Development of this program will be examined during a future inspection.
(Inspector Follow-Up Item 50-410/89-21-01).
Unit 2 had very limited interim radwaste storage capacity.
The primary area is that which was designed for storage of liners enerated by the asphalt system.
At current generation rates, his area has a capacity of less than one year.
The licensee had begun to examine the possibility, of onsite storage in shielded casks,'but this effort was still in a very preliminary stage of development.
4. 4
~Tnainin Training in the areas of transportation and radwaste was presented to the Radwaste Operations technicians on an annual basis.
The training roqram was outlined in Procedure S-NTP-13,
"Radwaste Operator raining",
and called for a progressive training program which allowed for the career advancement of radwaste personnel in both units.
Supervisory personnel were provided training both on site and through the use of vendor courses.
This program meets the requirements of NRC IE Bulletin 79-19.
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Exit Interview The inspector met the licensee representatives (denoted in Section 1) at the conclusion of the inspection on December 1,
1989.
The inspector summarized the purp'ose, scope, and findings of the inspection.