IR 05000255/1978020
| ML18043A253 | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 10/05/1978 |
| From: | Greer R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| 50-255-78-20, NUDOCS 7811090303 | |
| Download: ML18043A253 (8) | |
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT
REGION III
Report No. 50-255/78-20 Docket No. 50-255 Licensee:
Consumers Power Company 212 We~t Michigan Avenue Jackson, MI 45201 License No. DPR-20 Facility name:
Palisades Nuclear Generating Plant Inspection at:
Palisades site, Covert, MI Inspection conducted:
August 28-31 and September 7 and 8, 1978 tL*:.t-to. (\\. \\i!J.l.\\_
Inspector:
R. J. Gre; Approved by: T.~~ief Environmental and Special Projects Section Inspection Summary Inspection on August 28-31 and September 7 and 8, 1978 (Report No. 50-255/
78-20)
Areas Inspected:
Routine, emergency planning and special confirmatory measurements inspection, including requirements, documentation, and implementing procedures of the Emergency Plan; discussions with offsite support agency representatives; discussions concerning training of offsite agency and plant personnel; examination of facilities, emergency and first aid kits and supplies, and survey instruments; examination of emergency plan drills and critiques; and discussion of sample results from the previous sample analyses and special sample collection for the Confirmatory Measurements Progra The inspection involved 36 inspector-hours onsite by one NRG inspecto Results:
Of the six areas inspected, no items of noncompliance or devi-ations were identified.
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- DETAILS Persons Contacted Licensee Employees
- J. Lewis, Plant Superintendent
- V. Shockley, Health Physicist
- G. Petitjean, Technical Engineer T. Neal, Radiological Materials Control Officer L. Kenaga,.Environmental Technologist S. Sunday, Radiation Protection Technician M. Evans, Training Division M. Jury, Corporate Radiological Training Coordinator
- Denotes those present at the exit intervie Other Personnel T. Sarno, Chief, Covert Fire Department and Ambulance Service N. Bement, Lieutenant, Michigan State Police, South Haven Post J. Davis, Director of Nursing, South Haven Community Hospital H. Plezia, Director of Nursing, Mercy Hospital W. Johnson, Chief Boatswain Mate, U.S. Coast Guard, St. Joseph, Michigan J. Bailey, Manager, Medic I Ambulance Service R. Stump, Sheriff, Van Buren County J. Gettrust, Deputy Sheriff, Van Buren County Licensee Action on Previous Inspection Findings (Closed) Open Item (255/76-16):
Incomplete facility and inventory record The inspector verified that construction of the first aid room on the turbine floor has been complete Also, a supply inven-tory for the first aid facility has been incorporated into an existing procedure and inventoried as require (Closed) Noncompliance (255/77-05):
Documentation of first aid equipment inventor The inspector reviewed documentation of the required monthly inventory of first aid kits and determined that documentation has been completed as required in Procedure HP 2.2 (Closed) Noncompliance (255/77~05): Documentation of decontami-nation supplies inventorie The inspector reviewed selected decontamination supply inventory records and determined that inventories have been completed as required in Procedure HP 2.6.
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- Emergency Plan and Implementing Procedures The inspector reviewed the site emergency plan and implementing procedure The procedures are in the format, of individual cards and include a job title, principal position, alternate position, responsibilities and immediate action require The emergency procedure cards have all been updated either during 1977 or 197 The inspector determined that the emergency plan had been reviewed as require.
Offsite Support Agencies The inspector reviewed the letters of agreement between the Palisades plant and various offsite support agencie These letters were updated in 197 A licensee representative stated that the letters of agreement are updated once every two years unless required soone The inspector visited representatives of the offsite agencies listed in Paragraph 1 and discussed coordination between the agency and the Palisades Plan Representatives of all of the agencies stated that they considered the coordination between their agency and the Palisades plant to be adequat These agencies are trained by a representative of Consumers Power annuall The inspector reviewed training records and training content and determined that training has taken place as require The inspector identified no problems with the coordin-ation between the offsite agencies and the plan Training Personnel training in the Emergency Plan is done on a quarterly basi The inspector reviewed selected training records for plant personnel and exams administered to determine the adequacy of the trainin The records substantiated that the plant personnel had been trained in the Emergency Plan on the annual frequency required in the Emergency Pla As stated in the previous paragraph, representatives of the offsite agencies have also been trained as required in the Emergency Pla First aid training is available to appropriate personnel on a frequency to maintain current first aid card The inspector identified no problems with trainin.
Facilities and Equipment First Aid Facility As denoted in paragraph 2, the inspector examined the first aid facility on the turbine room floor and determined that all construction has been complete An inventory list has also been incorporated into existing procedure The inspec-tor has no more questions concerning this facility *
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- Emergency Kits The inspector reviewed records of the inventories of the emergency kits and additional equipment specified in the Emergency Pla The records indicated that an inventory of these kits had been conducted on the required frequenc Missing supplies were replaced on a timely basi The contents of various emergency kits were examined and found to be as specified on the enclosed inventory shee First Aid Equipment The inspector reviewed documentation of the monthly inventories of the first aid kits and determined that inventories had been conducted as required in the appropriate procedur Missing supplies have been replaced in a timely fashio The inspector also examined selected first aid kits and, in general, found the contents to be as specifie Decontamination Supplies A review of the decontamination supply inventory records revealed that inventories have been conducted as required in the appro-priate procedur Missing supplies have been replaced in a timely fashio The inspector examined the decontamination supplies and found them to be as specifie Monitoring Equipment and Survey Instruments The inspector examined calibrations and daily checks of the stack gas and liquid effluent monitor All checks were made in accordance with procedural requirement The inspector also examined portable survey instruments maintained in the emergency kits and found them to be operational and cali-brated as require The inspector identified no problems in these area.
Emergency Drills The inspector reviewed records of emergency drills conducted since the previous emergency planning inspectio These drills were conducted as required in the site Emergency Pla The drills have been properly reviewed and critiqued, and recommendations noted have been implemente One item identified in the December 1977 Emergency Plan drill concerned the marking of the emergency siren
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switch so that the proper alarm would be activate During the drill the fire alarm was initially activated rather than the emergency alar A recommendation was made that the switch be marked to indicate which position was the fire alarm and which position was the emergency alar These labels have since been made and no problem was identified during a drill conducted in June 197 One item also identified during a drill was the fact that the new office building has been built without emergency sirens having been installe The licensee stated that emergency alarms will be installed in the new building within two months from the date of this inspection, if there are no problems in obtaining the alarm This item is considered to be an open item and will be examined during a subsequent inspectio The inspector identified no other problems associated with the drills in the Emergency Pla.
Confirmatory Measurements The inspector collected a special liquid sample and particulate sampl The results of the comparative analyses performed on effluent samples split at the site during the second quarter of 1978 are shown in Table The criteria for comparing measurement results with the results from the NRC reference laboratory are given in Attachment For the ten sample comparisons, the licen-see's results yielded six agreements and four disagreement The results were discussed with the license The licensee failed to detect krypton-85 in a split sample of gaseous wast This was attributed to the fact that the licensee collects very small samples (0.5 cc) of gaseous wast Although the licensee failed to detect Kr-85, the sample activity was so low that the licensee did not exceed effluent release limit The licensee agreed to use a larger gas bomb in which to collect and count samples in the futur The licensee's results for cobalt-60 in the liquid waste and cobalt-58 and cobalt-60 on the particulate filter were in dis-agreement with the results from the NRC reference laborator The licensee's results were approximately a factor of 2 higher than the results from the NRC la The licensee checked his calculations and his efficiency determinations and stated that no explanation for the discrepancy was apparen If these dis-agreements are real and the licensee's results are representative, they may have overestimated releases of these nuclides near the time of the comparison and thus have been conservative in reporting the true activity.
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- Exit Interview The inspector met with licensee representatives (denoted in Paragraph 1) at the conclusion of the inspection on September 8, 197 The licensee agreed to: Install emergency alarms in the office building within two months of this inspection, pending availability of sirens; Obtain and use larger gas bombs for the collection and analysis of gas samples for the confirmatory m~asurements progra Attachments: Attachment 1, Criteria for Comparing Analytical Measurements Table 1, Confirmatory Measurements Program
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A'l"J'/\\l.ll>ll:lff 1
CRITERJ /\\ For:. co:*IP/\\J{Jt:r. /\\NALYTr'CJ\\L HEASllRD!EN'fS
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This attachment provides cr::f.terin for compnrl.nr, rcoults of capability tests nnd verificntion mcnsur.crncnt The criterin arc bai::ed on an *
empiric:nl rclnt::f.onship which combines prior experience and the accuracy needs of this progra In these criteria, the judgment limits are vnriable in relntion to the compari.son of the NRC Reference Laboratory's value to ito associated
~nc sigma uncertaint As that ratio, referred to in this program as
~"Resolution", increases, the accC'ptnbility of a liccnnee's measurement
- should be more selectiv Conversely, poorer agreement should he con-
'sidcrcd acceptable as the resolution decrease The values in the ratio criteria may be rounded to fewer significant figures to maintain statistical.consistency with the number. of significant fie11rcs reported by the"NRC Reference Laboratory, unless such rounding will resuJ.t in a narrowed category of acceptanc The acceptance category reported will be the narrowest into which the ratio fits for the resolution being use RESOLUTION RATIO :-: LICENSEE VM,UE/lmC REFEllENCE Vt.UTE Possible Possible
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- Jigrecmen t Agreement "A" Agreeable llp, II No.Compnrison No Comparison No Comp:-i.ri.son.5.0 No Comparison.0
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">16 and <51 0.75 1. 33. 67.0
>51 and <200 0.80 1.25 0.75 1. 33 I. 67
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1.18 0.80 1. 25 0.75 l. 33
A" criteria are applied to the fallowing analyses:
Gamma spectrometry, where principal gamma energy used for identifi-cation is ~reater than 250 ke Tritium analyses of liquid sample.li" criteria arc applied to the following analyses:
Camma spectrometry, where principal ganuna energy used for idcrtif i-cation is less than 250 ke Sr.-89 and Sr-90 determination *Cross beta, where samples are counted on the same.date using the
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TABLE I U S NUCLEAR ftEGULATl~Y COMMISSION IFFICE OF INSPECTIIN AND ENFll~CEHENT CONFIRHATuftY MEASU~EMENTS PROGftAH FACILITY: PALISADfS FD~ THE 2 OUARTER OF 1'78
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ftESULT fftROR f\\ESULT ERF:eR OFF GAS XE 133
'*1E-02 3* OE-03 7*kE-02 3eOE-Q3 XE 133M 3.0E-04 2 *OE-05 3*1E-04 6eOE-05 K f: 85 4eOE-03
'* OE-0 *£1 L WASTE cs 134 1*7E-O" 1 e2E-07 1 *7E-O*
2 * 2E-O 7 cs 137 7 * 3E-06 2 *'E-07 8 e3E-O*
4*1E-O7 Ct *o 3e 2E-O'
1.BE-07 8e1E-06 4.0E-07 I' FILTER co 58 5 * 6E-O 4 2*4E-05 1 e1 E -03 6.0E-05
HN 54 1*2 E-0 4 tt e3E-06 1 * 7E-O &
2 eOE-0 5 co 'O 2 * OE-0 4 1 * 4 E-0 5 5*3E-04 3e3E-05 c FILTER I 131 4e1E-03 1 e*F-04 s.oe-03 2 *DE-04 T TE ST l'.ESUL TS:
A.=AGP!FE'°'ENT 0 :::;DIS AG ftE EM E NT fl=!IOSSIBLE AG~EEMENT
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110E+OO 1 e4E +01 A
1 e1E+O0 2*5E+01 A
2e5E+OO 118E+01
2eOE+OO 2 I 3E +O 1 D
114E+OO 113E+01 A
2e6E+OO 1e4E+01 D
1*2 E +CO 2et.E+01 A