IR 05000387/1987001
| ML20211M184 | |
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| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 02/12/1987 |
| From: | Jang J, Pasciak W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20211M127 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-387-87-01, 50-387-87-1, 50-388-87-01, 50-388-87-1, NUDOCS 8702270228 | |
| Download: ML20211M184 (6) | |
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION I
Report Nos.
50-387/87-01and50-388/87-01 Docket Nos.
50-387 and 50-388 License Nos. CPPR-101 and CPPR-102 Category C and C Licensee:
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company (PP&L)
2 North Ninth Street (
Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101 Facility Name:
Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, (SSES) Units 1 and 2 Inspection At:
SSES, Berwick Pennsylvania and PP&L Corporate Offices, Allentown, Pennsylvania Inspection Conducted: Janaury 12-16, 1987 A#Y
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Inspectors:
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J C. Jang, Senior Radiation Specialist, date fl e s R diation Protection Section
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</h W. J. PasB ak, Chief, EffTuent Radiation
/ dat(e Protection Section Inspection Summary:
Inspection on January 12-16, 1987(Report Nos. 50-387/87-01 and 50-388/87-01)
Areas Inspected:
Routine, announced inspection of environmental monitoring programs for operations, including: management controls for these programs; the licensee's program for quality control of analytical measurements; and im-plementation af the radiological environmental monitoring program; and the mete-orological monitoring program.
Results: Within the areas inspected, no violations were found.
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DETAILS 1.
Individuals Contacted J. Blakeslee, Assistant Superintendent of Plant
+R. Byram, Superintendent of Plant
- B. Carson, Health Physics Specialist
+R. Doty, Health Physics / Chemistry Supervisor J. Fritzer, Radiological Operation Supervisor
- B. Graham, Senior Health Physicist
- C. Kalter, Radiological and Environmental Services Supervisor
- R. Kichline, Project Licensing Specialist
+D. McGoan, Compliance Engineer R. Prego, QA Supervisor - Operations
- K. Shank, Environmental and Chemistry Group Supervisor
+*T. Widner, Health Physicist - Nuclear Support
- Denotes those present at the exit interview on January 16, 1987 at PP&L Corporate Office.
+ Denotes those present at the exit interview on January 13, 1987 at Susquehanna Steam Electric Stations.
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Management Controls The inspector reviewed the licensee'.s management controls for the radio-
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logical environmental uonitoring ~ programs (REMP), including assignment of
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responsibility, program audits, and corrective actions for identified in-adequacies and problem areas in the program.
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Assignment of Responsibility The inspector reviewed the organization for administration of the radiological environmental monitoring programs and discussed with the licensee any changes made since the last inspection of this area.
The inspector determined that the REMP remains essentially the same l
as it was at the time of the last inspection in this area, except for the l
following changes.
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The licensee's, Environmental and Chemistry Group, has responsibility
to run the environmental TLD program.
The licensee stated that radio-logical analyses are contracted to Teledyne Isotopes.
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Audits
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The inspector reviewed audits of the REMP, including corporate activi-l ties and contractor activities. Audits of the corporate REMP over-
sight are performed by the Nuclear Quality Assurance Division. Au-
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dits of the contractor REMP are performed by the Environmental Plann-l ing/ Auditing Section, Environmental Management Division.
Each Divis-ion reports to a different Vice President.
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The inspector reviewed the following audit reports conducted by the Nuclear Quality Assurance Division and the Environmental Management Division:
PLI-40448 (Audit #85-39) "Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Nuclear Support - REMP Audit" May 22-23, 1985
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PLI-44501 (Audit #86-20) "Susquehanna Steam Electric Station,
Nuclear Support - REMP Audit " March 24-25, 1986 PLE-7420 (Audit #85-54) "Susquehanna Steam Electric Station,
REMP - Vendors Audit" June 24-25 and July 22-23, 1985 PLE-8545 (Audit #86-58) "Susquehanna Steam Electric Station,
REMP - Vendors Audit" June 30 - July 3 and July 9,1986 The inspector noted the above referenced audits to be very thorough, and audit-identified deficiency followups were excellent. The audit was performed by a qualified lead auditor, and appeared to be quite thorough and of sufficient technical depth to adequately assess the
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contractors' capabilities and performance.
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Licensee Program for Quality Control of Analytical Measurements The licensee described the QC programs conducted by its contractor, Tele-dyne Isotopes. Teledyne Isotopes participates.in the EPA QC crosscheck program.
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The inspector reviewed selected samples of quality control data submitted to the licensee by its contractor.
These data indicated, with few except-ions, agreement between EPA spike samples and the contractors' results.
Where discrepancies were found, reasons for the differences were investi-gated and satisfactorily resolved.
The inspector reviewed quality control data of source check and background for gamma spectrometry, liquid scintillation counter, and proportional counter including control charts submitted to the licensee by Teledyne Isotopes.
Teledyne Isotopes submits qwality control data to the licensee every two months.
The inspector also reviewed the REMP split sample program (PLI-43975) and REMP duplicate sampling schedule (PLI-44027) for 1986. The licensee stated that those schedules for 1987 will be issued in the near future.
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Implementation of the Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program The inspector examined selected envi.'onmental monitoring stations includ-ing air samplers for iodines and particulates, and TLDs for direct radia-
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tion measurement. All equipment at these stations was operational at the time of the inspection. The inspector reviewed calibration of the air sampler and vacuum gauges, and found that these calibrations were per-formed regularly and on schedule.
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The inspector reviewed the annual reports for 1983, 1984, and 1985, pre-pared by the contractors for the licensee. These annual reports provided thorough summaries of the environmental sampling and analyses. Also the inspector noted that these reports cover a greater number and variety of environmental samples than is required by the Technical Specification. No significant problems were identified.
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Environmental TLD Quality Assurance The inspector reviewed the licensee's environmental TLD program. The lic-ensee stated that the environmental TLD program was contracted to NUS until 1984.
The licensee assumed the responsibility in 1985. Prior to assuming the responsibility, the licensee performed a study to demonstrate compliance with Regulatory Guide 4.13 (Performance, Testing, and Proced-ural Specifications for Thermoluminescence Dosimetry:
Environmental Appli-cation).
The inspector reviewed the performance study and had no further questions in this area.
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Environmental Dosimetry The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Direct Radiation Monitoring Network is operated by the NRC (Region I) to provide continuous measure-ment of the ambient radiation levels around nuclear power plants, (71 sites) throughout the United States.
Each site is monitored by arranging approximately 30 to 50 thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) stations in two concentric rings extending to about five miles from the power plant. The monitoring results-are published in NUREG-0837 quarterly.
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One of the purposes of this program is to serve as a basis of comparison with similar programs conducted by individual utilities which operate nuclear power plants. Therefore, four NRC TLDs are collocated with each licensee's TLD stations.
During this inspection the monitoring results of collocated TLDs were compared and the results are listed in Table 1.
All NRC exposures are normalized to a 90-day quarter.
Although there are some differences between the NRC and the licensee's programs, results are generally in good agreement.
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Meteorological Monitoring l
The inspector examined the licensee's meteorological monitoring system, including the primary and backup meteorological towers' digital readouts, charts, and computerized printout for wind speed, wind direction and tem-perature in the control room.
The inspector also reviewed the Surveillance Test Procedures for calibra-tion of the wind speed, wind direction, and delta temperature Channel 2.
The inspector reviewed calibration records for 1986 and calibrations were performed as scheduled.
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The inspector noted that there was a deviation (See Notice of Deviation:
Inspection Reports 50-387/86-10 and 50-388/86-10) in this area. The.lic-ensee stated that the installation of new meteorological instrumentation and necessary modification would be done within the first quarter of 1987.
The inspector, therefore, had no further questions in this area.
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Exit Interview The inspector met with licensee representatives denoted in Detail 1 at the conclusion of the inspection at the SSES on January 13, 1987 and at the
. PP&L corporate office on January 16, 1987. The inspector summarized the purpose and scope of the inspection, and discussed the findings. At no i
. time during this inspection was written material provided to the licensee by the inspector.
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a Table 1 Environmental Monitorina Results for Collocated TLDs imR/90 days 1 I
NRC TLD(1)
NRC TLD PP&L TLD NRC TLD PP&L TLD NRC TLD PP&L TLD
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Year Qtr.
Station 10 Station 981 Station 11 Station 12F2 Station 12 Station 12E1 Station 15 Station 1D2
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1985
17.2 1 0.6 15.3 1 0.9 19.3 1 0.7 18.0 1 0.5 18.1 1 0.6 17.1 1 1.4 19.7 1 0.7 18.0 1 0.5
2 17.7 i O.6 18.0 1 2.3 19.4 1 0.7 18.9 i 0.9 17.9 1 0.6 17.1 1 0.5 20.5 1 0.7 18.9 i 0.9
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16.5 1 0.7 18.0 1 2.7 22.8 1 0.9 18.9 1 2.3 18.8 1 0.8 17.1 1 0.5 20.5 1 0.8 17.1 10.0-
17.9 1 0.6 18.0 1 0.0 19.6 i 0.7 18.0 1 0.5 18.4 t 0.6 17.1 1 0.5 20.4 i 0.7 18.0 1 1.8
1986
15.0 1 0.6 14.4 1 0.5 17.5 1 0.6 17.1 1 0.5 16.3 1 0.6 16.2 1 0.5 18.0 1 0.6 16.2 1 0.5
17.0 1 0.6 14.4 1 0.5 18.3 1 0.6-18.0 1 0.5 17.8 1 0.6 17.1 1 0.5 19.7 1.0.6 18.0 1 0.5-
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Mean i 1 S.D.
16.9 1 1.1 16.4 1 1.8 19.5 1 1.8 18.2 i O.7 17.9 1 0.9 17.0 1 0.4 19.8 1 1.0 17.7 1 0.9
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NRC : mR 1 S.D.
Panasonic TLD (CaSO4: Tm)
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PP&L : mR 1 S.D.
Panasonic TLD (CaSO4: Tm)
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