IR 05000443/1985028
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 11/05/1985 |
| From: | Mcfadden J, Shanbaky M NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION I
Report No.
50-443/85-28 Docket No.
50-443 License No. CPPR-135 Priority
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Licensee:
Public Service of New Hampshire P. O. Box 700 Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874 Facility Name:
Seabrook Power Station, Unit 1 Inspection At:
Seabrook, New Hampshire Inspection Conducted: October 15-17, 1985 Inspector: O,fr?c I n A p-c.r-Ef
[/J. McFadden, Radiation Specialist date Approvedby5
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M. Shanbaty, Chief, PWR (d(te Radiological P"otection Section
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Inspection Summary:
15-17},1985 (Report No.
Inspection on October 50-443/85-28)
Areas Inspected: Announced preoperational inspection of the radiation safety program including: organization and status of the health physics, radioactive I
waste, chemistry, and instrumentation and control departments with regards to operational readiness. The inspection involved 16 inspector-hours onsite by one regionally-based inspector.
Results:
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DETAILS 1.0 Persons Contacted During the course of this preoperational inspection, the following personnel were contacted or interviewed.
1.1 Licensee Personnel
- H. Anderson Radioactive Waste Department Supervisor
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Casn H. P. Supervisor-0perations R. Cyr Maintenance Manger
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Dodge H. P. Supervisor-Support
- G. Kingston Compliance Manager
- W. Leland Chemistry Department Supervisor J. Linville Operations Chemistry Supervisor J. Martin Technical Services Manager T. Murphy I&C Department Supervisor
- P. Neault H.P. Supervisor-Dosimetry
- J. Rafalowski H.P. Department Supervisor
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Sanchez Licensing Engineer-NHY
- R. Thurlow Health Physicist-Dosimetry
- L. Walsh Operation Manager M. Yergeau Engineer-Radioactive Waste
- P. Ziminsky Licensing Engineer-NHY
Attended the exit interview on October 17, 1985.
Additional licensee employees were contacted or interviewed during this inspection.
1.2 NRC Personnel Attending the Exit Interview A. Cerne Senior Resident Inspector
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M. Shanbaky Chief, PWR Radiation Safety Section f
2.0 Purpose The purpose of this preoperational inspectior. was three-fold.
Firstly, a
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review of the degree of operational readiness of the health physics, radio-
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active waste, chemistry, and instrumentation and control departments was necessary in order to schedule future detailed preoperational and start-up inspections between the time of this inspection and late October, 1986.
Late October,1986, is the licensee's target date for commercial operation.
Secondly, a review of the status of operational readiness for fuel receipt was required.
Late January, 1986, and late June, 1986, are the licensee's target dates for fuel receipt and core load, respectively. Thirdly, another purpose of this inspection was to acquaint the licensee with the NRC's radiation protection inspection program, enforcement policy, and SALP process.
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The licensee's degree of operational readiness was preliminarily reviewed against criteria contained in their final safety analysis report and their special nuclear material license application. Additional review is
required by the performance of inspections covering the specific preopera-tional inspection program ereas.
3.0 Health Physics Program
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The health physics department supervisor reports to the technical services manager who reports to the station manager. The health physics department consists of three sections. The operations section is responsible for radiation and access control, routine surveillance, and ALARA. The dosi-metry section is' responsible for external and internal dosimetry. The support section's areas of responsibility include the respiratory protec-tion program, environmental surveillance, operation of the calibration and counting facilities, and exposure records management. The collection of
environmental samples is a responsibility shared between the licensee's i
health physics support section and an outside contractor. Environmental j
TLDs are processed by the health physics dosimetry section while the ana-lysis of other environmental samples is performed by an offsite support group.
The licensee has assembled a group of health physics professionals /
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supervisors who possess sound academic credentials and extensive exper-ience in the field of commercial nuclear power. The supervisory positions are fully staffed. Technician level personnel staffing is presently fifty percent complete.
The health physics administrative procedures and operational procedures are one hundred percent and eighty-five percent complete, respectively.
Tours of the following facilities indicated near-term completion: RWP control point, respirator testing and cleaning area, counting room, dosi-
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metry lab, and calibration facility.
Equipment for a radiation data l
monitoring system was present at the RWP control point. This system is
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intended to provide real-time indication of the status of plant radiation monitors and the capabilicy for computer-assisted trend analysis. The licensee is also working on a key card control system for high radiation areas.
l The licensee indicated that the dosimetry lab could be fully operational in the near future. One of the two TLD processing systems still requires
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work on its algorithm software. NAVLAP certification is in progress. A whole body counting technique using high resolution gamma spectrometry and an unshielded chair is under development.
The licensee's calibration facility is in a separate dedicated building.
There are two irradiators in this facility. One will be used to calibrate TLDs, and radiation detection instrumentation will be calibrated with the
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other. A calibration / source check device to check radiation survey instru-ments on each range as described in an INP0 good practice guideline is under consideration for use. Use of a CCTV for observation of tne meter face during calibration is also being considered. The majority of portable survey meters, respirators and portal monitors which will be required for commercial operation are not yet on hand.
Readiness for fuel receipt, as evidenced by the technical quality of personnel in place, the description of the site-specific training program and its implementation, the completion of required procedures, the status of the health physics counting room and calibration facility, and the status of the fuel building appeared to be advanced sufficiently so that a radiation protection inspection of this activity could take place
during, rather than prior to, the actual fuel receipt.
Within the scope of this review, no violations were identified.
4.0 Radioactive Waste Program The radioactive waste department supervisor reports to the maintenance manager who reports to the station manager.
The radioactive waste department is responsible for the radwaste solidification system, the dry waste packaging system, radwaste handling, packaging, loading and
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transportation. Support for routine surveillance and shipping surveys is to be provided by the health physics department. The chemistry department is responsible for providing support for waste characterization.
The supervisory positions are fully staffed and the technician level positions are nearly full. Only a few of the forty procedures which are to be developed are near final form.
A tour of the facility and discussions with the licensee indicated that
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the following equipment was either installed or in the final stages of installation:
interim holding tanks, transfer systems, evaporators, asphalt solidification systems, and dry solid waste compacting system.
Several of the waste treatment / handling systems are being supplied and installed by vendors. The licensee indicated that scheduled commitments
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could be met if anticipated support from the off-site utility assistance group materializes as requested. Contract services could be used to ful-fill FSAR commitments if too much slippage in the schedule occurs.
Within the scope of this review, no violations were identified.
5.0 Chemistry Program The chemistry department supervisor reports to the technical services manager who reports to the station manager. The chemistry department contains two sections. The operations section is responsible for primary and secondary chemistry and for radioactive effluents. The other section
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provides support functions in the radwaste, decontamination and environmental areas. This department will also be responsible for oversight of contracted services on the gaseous waste systems.
The supervisory / technical personnel in place include several professionals with advanced academic degrees in radiochemistry, and discussions with the supervisors indicated that they possessed many years of experience in nuclear power operation. The supervisory / technical positions are fully staffed, and the technician positions are almost completely filled. The licensee stated that a three part site-specific training program was in place and in progress.
Licensee chemistry supervision reported that the one hundred-sixty planned administrative and operating procedures were ninety-six percent completed.
The licensee reported that the facilities and installation of equipment was one hundred percent complete except for the PASS system which will not be completely installed until April, 1986. A tour of the chemistry work areas indicated a high degree of operational readiness as evidenced by the amount of instrumentation already in use. Two atomic absorption units have two disk memory drives and a CRT each for display of the manufacturer's operating nanual or the in-house operational procedures. A data base management system to allow trend analysis is under development by the chemistry staff. Computer capability is also to be used to run a QC check on each analysis in addition to monthly QC checks usirig blind samples and the exchange of samples every few months with other utilities.
The licensee stated that this program has been nearly operationally ready since 1982 except for external influences. The receipt of the Offsite Dose Calculation Manual (ODCM) from the off-site utility support group was cited as an external influence.
Receipt of this document is antici-pated to occur in late December, 1985.
Within the scope of this review, no violations were identified.
6.0 I&C program The I&C department supervisor reports to the maintenance manager who reports to the station manager. The I&C department has overall responsi-bility for the surveillance program for radiation monitors.
The licensee stated that this department was presently staffed at the ninety percent level and that several technicians had completed the training program given by the vendor of'the radiation monitoring system.
Procedure development is shown as currently in progress on the project planning flowcharts, and I&C supervision reported that all procedures are to be completed by January, 198 *
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Process systems are projected to be turned over one-by-one from the startup group to the operating group beginning in the near future.
This process starts with a preliminary notification of turnover followed by fifteen days during which the I&C group completes an acceptance check list. A conditional turnover then takes place followed by sixty days during which I&C completes testing of their surveillance procedures.
This is followed by the final turnover.
Within the scope of this review, no violations were identified.
7.0 Exit Interview The inspector met with the personnel denoted in Section 1.1 at the con-clusion of the inspection on October 17, 1985. The scope and findings of the inspection were discussed at that time. The licensee explained that at present most of the facilities and equipment were under the responsi-bility and authority of the startup group and would not be turned over to the operating group 'mtil completion of construction / functional testing.
During this exit interview, the licensee representatives provided the following operational readiness dates based on the current projected milestones from the startup and operating groups:
l Preoperational Operational Readiness Inspection Area Date Environmental 10/17/85 Health Physics (HP)
Organization & Controls 11/08/85 HP 10/17/85 Chemistry i
03/01/86 Rad Waste Training & Qualification 12/01/85 HP 10/17/85 Chemistry 04/01/86 Rad Waste External Exposure Controls / Dosimetry 11/08/85 HP Internal Exposure Control 03/01/86 HP RM Controls 11/08/85 HP Facilities & Equipment 03/01/86 HP ALARA 01/01/86 HP Solid Rad Waste /
Startup 03/01/86 Rad haste
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Preoperational Operational Readiness Inspection Area Date Liquid Waste & Liquid Waste Systems 04/01/86 I&C, Rad Waste, Chemistry and HP Gaseous Waste Systems 04/01/86 I&C and Chemistry Confirmatory Measurements I&C, Chemistry
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At no time during this inspection was written material provided to the licensee by the NRC inspectors.
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NOTE T0:
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FROM:
Document Control Desk, 016 Phillips X28989
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(See below for specific area of non-compliance.)
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