IR 05000360/1980001
| ML19340D652 | |
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| Site: | 05000360 |
| Issue date: | 11/13/1980 |
| From: | Book H, Curtis J, Wenslawski F NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
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| 50-360-80-01, 50-360-80-1, NUDOCS 8012310546 | |
| Download: ML19340D652 (3) | |
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OFFICC 0F II;C:'ECTIO!; A!;D E : FORCE!!E!;T REGIO:t V i
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CX-26 safeguards croup Battelle flerthwest Laboratories I.ic e n s e e :
Richland, Washington 99352 Plutonium Recycle Critical Facility (PRCF)
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Richland. Washington Inspection a.
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Cctober 20-21, 1980
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Inspection.caducted:
Inspectors:
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Inscection on Cctober 20-21,1980 (Report tio. 50-360/80-01)
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Areas Insoected: An inspection of the Plutentum Recycle Critical Facility
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i (PRCF) was held to verify its status in Long Term Shutdown. Contact was made with cognizant personnel in the Battelle Morthwest Laboratories (Bi!L)
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organization who have or have had the responsibility for operation and managerial surveillance and control of the PRCF facility. Readily accessible portions of the facility were inspected and plans for its use in the next tuelve months
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were discussed with management personnel. The inspection involved five hours
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of inspection en site by one flRC inspector.
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Results: There were no items of non-compliance or deviations identified.
The ERDA/00E fuel had been removed from the facility in 1976 and the facility had been surveyed in 1977 prior to releasing the console / control room area for temporary office space use. The facility is presently unoccupied and the console / control room is being used for office furniture and equipment storage.
There are no plans to reactivate the facility. Licensee representatives
plan to contact local DOE contract liaison personnel to call their attention to its present status and propose a plan for dismantling and decommissioning the critical experiment facility, RV Form 219 (2)
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DETAILS
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Persons Contacted
- C. L. Brown, BNL Section Manacer
- R. I. Smith, Senior Research Engineer, PRCF Facility Manager
- G. Konzek, Specialist, PFCF Project Engineer
- C. R. Richey, Bf;L, Radiological Safety and Engineering Manager
- Indicates presence at the exit interview.
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Facility Status - Tour The insoector toured the PRCF Facility, located in a locked building within a guard controlled, secured area (the 300 area) on the Hanford Reservation. The facility has been in a Long Term Shutdown status since
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The console / control roca area asscciated with the PRCF facility was used for office soace by Hanford Engineering Development Laboratories (HEDL) personnel for a period of time in 1976 after the Battelle Northwest Laboratcries (BriL) radiation monitoring support group performed an extensive closecut survey of the area. The facility remains in Long Term Shutdown status.
The licensee has not taken any action to date to initiate plans or activity directed toward dismantling the facility. The rooms used to house the console and electronic equipment associated with the facility operations have been placed under the control of FEDL, the DOE space manager.ent contractor, and are being used for office furniture and other equipment storage. The space that housed the fueled critical experirent is a snielced cell 1ccated beneath the console roon.
It is controlled by the licensee, Battelle t!orthwest Laboratory (BliL). Control is effected by locking cut the centrol panel for a crane which is necessary to lift the 7500 pound shielded cell block out of the entry way in the console roon ficor.
Strict key control is maintained by the licensee representative.
The licensee has no active plan to change the status of the facility.
Licensee representatives indicated that they intend to contact the appropriate local DOE representatives to call their attention to the present status of the facility, and in this connection, will perhaps initiate a request to fund for generation of a dismantling plan and a possible decommissioning schedule for the facility.
There are not current plans to use the facility.
The last active operator license for the PRCF expired in April 1979.
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Radiolcaical Control - Surveillance The last significant -adiolegical control activity performed at the facility was cerforred in "ay 1976 when sera nicrocuria check sources were removed in connection with an extensive contaminatinn and radiation level survey of the console /centrol roce portion of the facility, performed to clear this area from radiological controls orior to temocrary occupancy for office use. The stack gas ronitor and area ronitoring instrumentation were deactivated in March 1976, after the fuel had been transferred out of the facility.
No routine radiological surveillance is being conducted at this time. A HEDL Health Physics Monitor was present during the inspection tour.
He made a radiation and contamination level survey of the facility and crovided instrumentation for hand and foot monitoring uoan exitina tne tac 111ty.
An indecencent measurements survey was performed by the inscector during the tour.
60 levels acove the norral oackaround level of 10 to 15 microroentaen per ".our were oetecteo. F.easurements were maae witn a Region V Eberline PMi 7 Micro
"P." Meter, NRC serial numoer 247, calibrated to a Cs-137 source en February 6,138C.
"o iters of noncompiiance were icentified.
Fxit Interview
~% scoce una r2suics ci cae inspection were aiscussed with memoers e iicensee staf f incicatea oy esterisk in paragraph 1.
The status M -ICL/lestingacuse os cuatract landlorc (space managers) and ENL as centract ics:ee (user) of the PRCF was described and the responsibilities asscciatad alth the PRCF facility in its present condition were discussed.
EECL uill consinua limited surveillance of the facility.
SNL will continue to be the ccsponsibic licensee of the facility in its long-term shutdown status and any plans to change the status or to reactivate the facility would ba cacrdinated with MRC-NRR. Requirenants for operator requalification and functicnal testing of facility equipment would be met before any operational phase was initiated. The licensee has no active plans to change tha status of the facility from its present Long Term Shutdown status.
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