IR 05000482/1986030

Insp Rept 50-482/86-30 on 861117-20.No Violations or Deviations Noted.Major Areas Inspected:Radiation Protection Program for First Refueling Outage,Including Staffing,Alara, Training,External & Internal Exposure Control & Posting

ML20212R158
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Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	01/16/1987
From:	Baer R, Murray B NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
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ML20212R137	List: IR 05000482/1986030 ML20212R136
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APPENDIX U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION IV

NRC Inspection Report: 50-482/86-30 License: NPF-42 Docket: 50-482 Licensee: Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation P. O. Box 411 Burlington, Kansas 66839 Facility Name: Wolf Creek Generating Station (WCGS)

Inspection At: WCGS site, Burlington, Kansas Inspection Conducted: November 17-20, 1986 Inspector: hApf/)gd]ft'l-( V

. E. Baer, Radiatio (>/Spe'cialist, Facilities l/Ib/l Date Radiological Protection Section Approved: /) A J O k llA N fA 4

' Murray, Chief, Fgilities Radiological l/l IB7 D'a te Protection Section Inspection Summary Inspection Conducted November 17-20, 1986 (Report 50-482/86-30)

Areas Inspected: Routine, unannounced inspection of the licensee's radiation protection program for the first refueling outage including: staffing; training and qualifications; ALARA; external exposure control; internal exposure control; posting, labeling, and worker control; and radioactive and contamination material control and radiological survey Results: Within the areas inspected, no violations or deviations were identified.

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' Persons Contacted KG&E

R. H. Belote, Manager, Safety Engineering i G. D. Boyer, Deputy Plant Manager L. F. Breshears, Health Physics Supervisor

! H. M. Davis,-Health Physics Supervisor d

M. Estes, Superintendent of Operations

• C. J. Hoch, Quality Assurance (QA) Technologist i J. M. Isom, Health Physics Supervisor l *J. A. Ives, Site Health Physicist i

C. F. Kesinger. Program Coordinator

*W. M. Lindsay, Supervisor, Quality Systems

' B. McKinney, Superintendent of Technical Support T. S. Morrill, Health Physics Supervisor (Acting)

H. Nichols, Health Physics Supervisor l M. M. Nichols, Superintendent, Plant Support j *G. J. Pendergrass, Licensing Engineer

*K. R. Peterson, Licensing Lead Engineer j

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W. J. Rudolph II, Manager, QA j C. L. Taylor, Health Physics Supervisor

! *M. G. Williams, Superintendent, Regulatory, Quality and

Administration

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i Others W. D. Allen, Health Physics Consultant i B. L. Bartlett, NRC Resident Inspector i J. E. Cummins, NRC Senior Resident Inspector

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November 25, 1986. Due to an illness in his family, the NRC inspector left  !

site early and did not conduct an onsite exit interview.

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The NRC inspector also interviewed several other licensee employees and contractor, including administrative, health physics, and i maintenance personnel.

I j Licensee Action on Previously Identified Open Ite_ms _

i l (Closed) Deviation (482/8542-001): Continuous Airborne Monitoring Program

! - This item involved the lack of operational continuous airborne  :

! monitors (CAMS) in the auxiliary, radwaste, and fuel building The  ;

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licensee had corrected operating problems and an adequate number of CAMS were operationa Deviation (482/8542-001) is considered closed.

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-3- Staffing The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's staffing to determine compliance with Technical Specification (TS), Section 6.2 and for agreement with commitments in the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR), Sections 12 and 1 The licensee had supplemented the permanent health physics staff with 30 senior level technicians and 25 junior level contract radiation protection technicians. The licensee did not have sufficient additional staffing to allow permanent plant health physics (HP) supervisors and technicians to become involved with high radiation exposure jobr. such as steam generator eddy current wor Permanent plant health physics personnel were assigned to monitor other support ~ activities including radwaste and laundry monitorin .

The NRC inspector noted that the ALARA group did not have sufficient assigned personnel to perform all the special pre-ALARA review survey The HP group supplemented the ALARA group for these additional surveys, but this of ten resulted in a delay for completing the pre-ALARA revie No violations or deviations were identifie . Training and Qualifications The NRC inspector reviewed the training and qualifications of contractor senior level health physics technicians to determine agreement with FSAR, Section 13 commitments and the requirements of TS, Section 6.3 and 10 CFR Part 19.1 The NRC inspector reviewed resumes, entrance test for senior HP technicians, and site specific procedure training for all contractor HP personnel. The NRC inspector verified that contractor senior HP technicians involved with steam generator work had prior experience with eddy current testing and tube pluggin No violations or deviations were identifie . ALARA The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's ALARA program for agreement with the recommendations of Regulatory Guides (RG) 8.8 and 8.1 The licensee had established radiation exposure, personnel contamination incident, and radioactive waste goals for the outag The licensee's preplanning, use of shielding, and decontamination to reduce both external and internal exposures were reviewed. Preplanned decontamination of selected reactor containment areas and the use of engineered filtered ventilation systems was initiated early in the outage to reduce the need for respiratory protection equipment and additional protective clothin * *.

-4-The NRC inspector noted the licensee made frequent use of temporary shielding to reduce general radiation levels and had performed engineering analyses on piping system stresses due to the shielding loading. The licensee made use of low radiation area ALARA designations within the reactor containment building where personnel could assemble to discuss and plan work activities for high radiation area wor No violations or deviations were identifie . External Exposure Control The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's program for external exposure control for compliance with 10 CFR Parts, 20.101, 20,102, 20.104, 20.202, 20.403, 20.405, and 20.40 The NRC inspector reviewed personnel exposure records, authorizations to exceed WCGS administrative exposure limits, access co.1 trol over high radiation areas, records on the use and placement of multiple whole body and extremity dosimetry, lost dosimetry evaluations, and personnel exposure tracking. The licensee had current Form NRC 4 information or equivalent for all persons authorized to exceed 10 CFR 20.101(a) limit The NRC inspector discussed with licensee representatives the use of pocket dosimeters to track daily exposure historie The licensee had experienced as high as 60 percent overestimates for daily exposures when compared to the monthly thermoluminescent dosimetry (TLD) results. The overestimate was attributed to rounding-off to the next higher readable division of the pocket dosimeter. The licensee had performed an evaluation, TLD vs pocket dosimeter discrepancy evaluation, for all incidents where the limits specifed in Procedure HPH 01-006, "TLD Processing" had been exceede ,

No violations or deviations were identifie . Internal Exposure Control The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's internal exposure control program for compliance with 10 CFR Part 20.10 The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's continuous airborne monitoring program for gaseous, particulate, and iodine concentration The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's respiratory protection progra The NRC inspector also reviewed the maximum permissible concentration hour records for radiation worker No violations or deviations were identifie . Posting, Labeling, and Worker Control The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's program for control of workers, posting, and labeling of radioactive material and areas for compliance with l

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! the requirements of 10 CFR Parts 19.12, 20.203, 20.205, 20.207, and 20.30 The NRC inspector also reviewed the licensee's actions taken in regard to NRC Inspection and Enforcement (I&E) Bulletin 78-08, " Radiation Levels from j Fuel Element Transfer Tubes."

j The NRC inspector performed several inspections of the facility, including i the RCA, and observed the normal radiation controlled area (RCA) and

secondary containment access control, contamination control, and exit radiation monitoring controls.

) The NRC inspector also inspected the licensee's actions taken during fuel transfer activities to monitor the radiation levels from the fuel element i transfer tube. The licensee did not observe any high radiation areas that had not previously been identifie No violations or deviations were identifie . Radioactive and Contaminated Material Control and Radiological Surveys T

The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's program for control of

radioactive and contaminated material and radiological surveys against the

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requirements of 10 CFR Parts 19.12, 20.201, 20.203, 20.205, 20.207, 20.301, 2 and 20.401.

, The NRC inspector inspected the licensee's radiological survey program

{ involving work areas, storage areas, change rooms, and radiological control

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points for the surveying and release of material and personnel. The NRC inspector reviewed the current status of personnel contamination incidents which had occurred during the outage. The NRC inspector noted that the licensee had recorded 39 contamination incidents during the period of

January 28 through October 7, 1986, and 34 incidents from October 13

through November 16, 1986. The licensee recorded all contamination incidents when radioactivity was detected on modesty clothing or on the skin. The licensee had recorded 8 radiation work permit incidents during the outage.

! No violations or deviations were identified.

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1 Exit Interview l The NRC inspector discussed the scope and findings of the inspection with

licensee representatives and the NRC resident inspector identified in j paragraph I by telephone on November 25-26, 1986.

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