IR 05000277/1990005
| ML20006C347 | |
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| Site: | Peach Bottom  |
| Issue date: | 01/30/1990 |
| From: | Bores R, Joseph Furia NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| ML20006C341 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-277-90-05, 50-277-90-5, 50-278-90-05, 50-278-90-5, NUDOCS 9002070369 | |
| Download: ML20006C347 (6) | |
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Licensee:- Philadelphia Electric Company
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Facility Name: Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station Units 2 & 3 Inspection At:
Delta, Pennsylv'ania Inspection Conducted:. January 22-26, 1990 a
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a Safeguards Branc Inspection Summary:- Inspection on January 22-26, 1990 (Combin'd-Inspection e
Report Nos-50-277/90-05; 50-278/90-05)-
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Areas Inspected: ' Routine. unannounced inspection of the transportation ~and-solid radwaste programs including: Management controls, audits, quality assurance, pn
.and implementation of the above programs.
Results: Within the areas inspected, no violations or deviations were noted.
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DETAILS i
1.0 Personnel Contacted 1.1-Licensee Personnel
- W. Birely, Director, Waste Management, Philadelphia Electric -
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- D. Cribbe, Regulatory En ineer
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G.Dworsak,RadwasteShipingSupervisoraterial Shipping Coordinator
- F. Crosse Radioactive
- D. Foss, Licensing Engineer
- J. Hesler, Radwaste Engineering Supervisor
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- M. Moore,. Nuclear Quality. Assurance Engineer
- M. Ryan, Senior Engineer, Radwaste
D. Smith, Vice President -. Peach Bottom
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R. Sware, Coordinator, Plant Housekeeping 1.2 NRC Personnel
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J. Lyash, Senior Resident Inspector
- L. Myers, Resident Inspector R. Urban, Resident Inspector
- Denotes those present at the exit meeting on January 26, 1990.
2.0 Purpose The purpose of. this routine inspection was to review the licensee's-
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program to properly prepare, package and ship licensed radioactive materials for transport and disposal.
3.0 Transportation and Solid Radwaste In accordance-with plant procedures, the radwaste program was under the direction of the Senior Engineer - Radwaste, who reported to the Superintendent of Services. ~ Within the scope of the Senior Engineer -
Radwaste's management area was inplant radwaste processing,d stationpackaging of radioactive materials, shipment of radioactive materials an decontamination.
The incumbent Senior Engineer - Radwaste was appointed to the position in December, 1989. Within the radwaste pro appeared to be adequate staff to perform appointed duties. gram, there 3.1 Quality Assurance / Quality Control The Quality Assurance (QA) program developed by the licensee involved L
four groups performing specific tasks within the QA Plan. The l
Corporate Vendor Audit Group parformed audits of vendors who provided materials and/or services to the licensee. Audit D-158, dated November 18, 1987, was conducted at Westinghouse-Hittman (now l
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Westinghouse RS), which provided NRC-approved shipping casks to the licensee. This audit.had several findings, none involving significant safety issues, which were resolved in a timely manner.
.The Quality Assurance Audit Group conducted audits of the radwaste
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program on a biennial basis. An audit was scheduled to be conducted i
this year, although at the time of this inspection, Monitoring Group,an audit plan ha not yet been developed. A newly created Technical
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conducted random surveillance type inspections of various plant activities, including radwaste. The results of these inspections were provided to the appropriate plant mana ement.on a monthly basis.
The Radwaste Group )erformed its own Qualit Control-inspections at f
various stages of tie processing program, his utilization of
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radwaste personnel was new to the site, and was the subject of several surveillances by the Technical Monitoring Group.
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L noted regarding thIs program.gs of any safety significance had been-of this inspection no findin l
3.2 Transportation p
Preparation of documentation in support of radioactive materials-
L shipments was the responsibility of the Radwaste Shipping Supervisor
and his staff, who report to the Senior Engineer - Radwaste. As part-of this inspection, direct observation was made of two radwaste
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shipments, numbers 08-90 and 09-90. These shipments were of spent'
L resins contained in a polyethylene High Integrity Container l
(poly-HIC),;and transported in Westinghouse RS HN-215H shipping
L casks. The inspector observed the receipt of the transport vehicles I
and shipping casks on site; transfer of the poly-HICs to their
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l res ective shippinc casks; post-loading inspection and surveys of the shi ping casks; anc final documentation of the shipments. All
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act vities were accomplished in a highly professional manner by plant staff, especially the. Radioactive Material Shipping Supervisor.
L As part of this inspection, the inspector reviewed the records of the l
14 radioactive material shipments listed below.
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Shipment #
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Activity (C1)
Type 82-89 57.70 8.44E+02 Core Components l
83-89 202.10 1.86E+00 Resin
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84-89 202.10 5.93E+00 Resin 85-89 202.10 5.09E+00 Resin-86-89 202.10 1.16E+00 Resin 01-90 202.10 6.76E-01 Resin e
L 02-90 202.10 1.66E+00 Resin
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03-90 202.10 1.97E+00 Resin 04-90 202.10 8.87E-01 Resin
05-90 202.10 9.44E-01 Resin 06-90 202.10 1.22E+00 Resin
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i 07-90 202.10 1.22E+00 Resin RMS-ll5-89 1280.00 7.97E-01 DAW
RMS-003-90 2560.00 1.84E-01 DAW
All records were found to be com>1ete, and to accurately classify the material in accordance with 10 C R 71 and 49 CFR Parts 100-179.
The licensee utilized three computer codes or programs for the
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calculation of transport classification, waste classification and
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preparation of documentation. A Lotus Development Corporation LOTUS 1-2-3 program was used to perform classification calculations; a Bechtel PACKRAD code was used to prepare documentation based upon the
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results of the LOTUS 1-2-3 calculations; and a MICROSHIELD program
was used for dose-to-curie calculations for Dry Active Waste (DAW)
shipments.
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3.3 Radwaste The licensee processed primary $ resin waste stream; chem lant water through demineralizers generating a primary plant spen high and low conductivity waste water through the radwaste deminera zers, generating a radwaste spent resin waste stream; mop water through an
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Epicor system, generating small volumes of spent resins; and collected DAW for bulk loading in SeaVans for shipment to the Quadrex-Recycling Center for sorting, decontamination, and where necessary, disposal.
As part of the inspection the following procedures related to the radwasteprogramwererevIewed.
RW-110, Rev 1, "10 CFR 61 Compliance Program" RW-120, Rev 0, " Solid Radwaste System Process Control Program"-
RW-140, Rev 1, " Security Requirements for low Level Waste Storage Facility (LLWSF) and U/1 Fuel Vault" l
RW-210, Rev 2, " Collection / Sorting / Segregation of Trash" RW-260, Rev 1, " Operation of Resin Drying (Dewatering) System" L
RW-520, Rev 4, "10 CFR 61 Sampling" h
RW-541, Rev 2, " Packaging Radioactive and Non-Radioactive Material J
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RW-570, Rev 2, "Storag/1 New Fuel Vault and Low Level Waste Storage e of Radioactive and Non-Radioactive Material L
L and Radwaste at U Facility (LLWSF)"
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These procedures were determined to be comprehensive'in scope and to adequately reflect current plant operations.
Scaling factors were determined annually for the DAW, primary spent resin, and radwaste spent resin waste streams through the submission of composited plant samples to Scientific Application International
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In addition, results of plant
. chemistry analyses were provided to the Senior Engineer - Radwaste, to ensure that any changes'in plant chemistry which could effect the scaling factors used would be noted and corrected for.
As part of this inspection, the inspector conducted direct observation of the transfer of spent vacuum filter cartridges stored 8-120B shipping cask. pent fuel pools to a Chem Nuclear SystemsThis activity was accom in the Units 2 and 3 s Inc.
professional manner utilizing contractor, maintenance and healt physics personnel. Also observed was the acceptance inspection of this shipping cask upon arrival at the plant site.
3.4 Training The training program for station personnel involved in the radwaste, program was contained in Procedure TP-371 Rev 0, "Radwaste Shipping, Handling -and Minimization Course Plan",
theprogramprovidedfor separate training and retraining courses for three groups of station personnel. The first group included radwaste supervisory personnel and members of the QA organization. The second group included plant radwastettechnicians and health physics personnel assigned to support the radwaste program. The third group included plant auxiliary operators.
Each group had both -initial and retraining course programs.
Retraining was conducted on an annual basis. The scope and technical depth of these training programs was determined to be excellent.
3.5 Interim Radwaste Storage-The licensee had constructed and-was partially utilizing the-Low Level Waste Storage Facility (LLWSF), which was designed to provide onsite interim radwaste storage capability. This. building contained facilities for the storage of DAW, s)ent resins and other types of plant waste, and could accommodate t1e use-of mobile radwaste processing systems.
Storage capacity.of the facility appeared-adequate for interim storage of two and one-half to five years of plant wastes with the exception of DAW which was dependent upon the continued access to the Quadrex facility for segregation and supercompaction of this material. The licensee had plans to install segregation and compaction facilities within the plant site as part of a new radwaste precessing facilit. _.
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4.0 ' Exit Interview i
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The inspector met the licensee representatives (denoted in Section 1) at the conclusion of the inspection on Januarysummarized the purpose, scope, and findin 26,.1990. The ins y
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