IR 05000482/1987008

Insp Rept 50-482/87-08 on 870302-06.Violations Noted:Failure to Properly Control,Store & Protect Lifetime QA Records

ML20206J055
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	03/24/1987
From:	Murray B, Nicholas J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
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U.S. - NUCLEAR REGULATORY .COMISSION

REGION IV

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NRC Inspection Report: 50-482/87-08- Licens'e: NPF-42

' Docket: 50-482

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Licensee: Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating. Corporation (WCNOC)

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Burlington, Kansas' . 66839 -

~l Facility Name: Wo1f Creek Generat'ing Sthtion (WCGS)

Inspection At: Wolf Creek Site, Coffey County,- Burlington, Kansas Inspection Conducted: March 2-6, 1987

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Inspector: h)it?/ I]Tl)/h1/W J."B. Ni'c holas,' Radial.io a Specialist Date Wh?

Facilities Radiological 'rotection Section Approved: ($ /)h///fl/W4 E;. Murray, Chief, Facili 'ies-Radiologica Date '- Protection Section

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Inspection Summary i

Inspection Conducted March 2-6, 1987 (Report 50-482/87-08):

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i Areas < Inspected: . Routine, unanno'unced inspe'ction of:theelice'nsee's solid '

radioactive waste and transportation programs, including: radwaste-organization and management controls, radwaste training and qualifications,.

s olid radioactive waste packaging,' radioactive waste-management, transportation activities,'and low-level ~ radioactive wasteistorage ' facilitie ~

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!' Results:. Within the areas i'nspected,-one violation was identified:(failure to properly control,:sto're, and protect quality assurance records,- paragraph 3). ,

-One unresolved item'was: identified:(quality assurance records; paragraph 4).

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DETAILS 1 Persons Contacted WCNOC

• B. D. Withers, President, WCNOC

• R. M. Grant, Vice President, Quality, WCNOC

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G. D. Boyer, Plant Manager

• S. G. Fellers,-Safety Engineer . .

• R.-L. Hoyt, Senior Engineering Specialist, Operations C. J. Hoch, Quality Assurance (QA) Technician i

• J. M. Isom, Health Physics (HP) Supervisor, Radwaste

• J. A. Ives, Site Health Physicist

• C. Kesing, Training Program Coordinator, HP

• W.~M. Lindsay, Supervisor, Quality Systems

~ *G. A.' McClelland,- QA Lead Auditor, Quality Evalu~ations

'*B. McKinney, Superintendent, Technical Support

• J. McMahon, Supervisor, Technical Training

• M. M. Nichols, Superintendent, Plant Support C. G. Patrick, Superintendent, Quality Evaluations

• G. J. Pendergrass, Licensing Engineer

• K. R.-Peterson, Supervisor, Licensing

• W. J. Rudelph II, Manager, QA R. M. Stambaugh,' QA Supervisor, Audits . .

• M. G. Williams, Superintendent, Regulatory,' Quality, and Administration Others

• J. E. Cummins, NRC Senior Resident Inspector

• B. L. Bartlett, NRC Resident Inspector

• Denotes those individuals present during the_ exit briefing on March 6, 198 . Program' Areas Inspected The following program areas were inspected. Unless otherwise noted, the inspection was completed and revealed'no violations, deviations',

unresolved items, or~open items. Notations after a specific inspection item are used to identifyLthe'following: I = item not inspected or only partially inspected; V'= violation; D = deviation; O = unresolved item; and 0 = open ite .

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, Inspection Procedure Inspection Requirements 1 ,

Radiation Protection, Plant Chemistry ~,?and Radwaste: Organization and Management Controls ~

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'83722-(Minimum / Basic) ,

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02.03 ' Radiation Protection Manager ' -IL 1- 02.04 < Identification and Correction of-Weaknesses .I.

! 02.05_- Audits.and Appraisals'- .

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~83522' Radiation' Protection, Plant" Chemistry Radwaste, and Environmental: - Organization and Management =

- ' Controls (Supplemental)

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02.01 -10rganization,-Responsibilities, and-

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02.02 -Staffing ..I 02.03 - Identification and Correction o *

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02.05 - Communication,to Employees,- I 02.06 - Documentation and Implementation 'I  ;

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83723 Training and Qualifications: General Employee ,

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Training, Radiation Safety, Plant Chemistry,

. Radwaste, and Transportation (Minimum / Basic)

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02.01 - Training Adequacy > ~I 02.02 Employee Knowledge Retention - I ,

02.03-- Transportation /Radwaste. Training - I 02.04 - Staff Qualification ~ Requirements - .05 - Replacement Personnel - I

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102.06 - Accreditation Status.- I 02.07 - Audits and Appraisals - I 02.08 - Identify Training Not Covered by

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Accreditation -LI , .

Radiation Protection, Plant' Chemistry,~ Radwaste,

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83523 Transportation, and Environmental: Training and Qualifications-(Supplemental)

02.01 ~Trainingf and Qualifications Program - I .

02.02 -; Education and Experience - I-L 102.03 - Adequacy - .;

p 84722 Solid Wastes (Minimum / Basic) ,

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02.01 - Audits and Appraisals- .

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} 02.02 - Changes-

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02.03 - Processing and Storage - U (see paragraph 4)

02.04 - Disposal of Low-Level Wastes 84522 Solid Wastes (Supplemental)

02.01 - Solid Waste System Construction and Installation - I 02.02 - Liquid Leakage, Overflow, and Spillage 02.03 - Samplin .04 - Test Program for folid Waste System 02.05 - Test Completion for Solid Waste System 02.06 Process MonitorsE--I 02.07 - Programs, Plans, and Procedures for Solid Waste System 02.08 - Disposal of Low-Level. Wastes'

84850 Radioactive Waste Management - Inspection of Waste Generator Requirements of 10 CFR 20 and 10 CFR 61 02.01 - Management Controls 02.02 - Quality. Control (QC)

02.03 - Waste Manifests 02.04 - Waste Classification 02.05 - Waste Form and Characterizatio .06 - Waste Shipment' Labeling-02.07 - Tracking of Waste Shipments 02.08 - Disposal Site License Conditions 86721 Transportation (Basic)

02.01 - Audits and Appraisals 02.02 - Procedures.-

02.03 - Procuremer', and Reuse of Packagings 02.04 - Implementation 02.05 - Transportation Incidents 86740 Inspection of Transportation Activities 02.01 - Management Controls 02.02 - Indoctrination and Training Programs 02.03 - Audit Program 02.04 - Quality Assurance Program 02.05 . Procurement and Selection of Packagings 02.06 - Preparation of Packages for Shipment 02.07 - Delivery of Completed Packages to Carrier .08 - Receipt of Packages 02.09. Periodic Maintenance of Packagings

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02.10 - Records and Reports - V (see paragraph 3)

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65051 . Low-Level Radioactive Waste Storage Facilities

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02.01 - Basis for Construction 02.02~ ' Quality Assurance 02.03 - Procedures for Construction 02.04 - Review of Construction-02.05 - Organization and Staffing 02.06 Training and Qualifications-02.07 - Startup and Operations Procedures 02.08 - Effluent Monitoring Changes 3 .- Violation-86740, Item 02.10 - Records and Reports Technical Specification 6.8.1 states, " Written procedures shall be established, implemented, and maintained covering the activities referenced below:

a. The applicable procedures recommended in Appendix A of Regulatory Guide 1.33, Revision 2, February 1978."

The licensee's Nuclear Department Directive III.10, " Identification and Correction of Quality Assurance Records," Revision 15, dated April 4, 1986, states in paragraph 10.6.2, "QA Records shall be transmitted, processed . . .', indexed, filed, protected, and retrieved under the rules and procedures of the Records Management System which is intended to implement our commitment to ANSI N45.2.9 and Regulatory Guide 1.88."-

Nuclear Department Directive III.19, " Records: Management Program,"

Revision 4, dated November 3, 1986, states in paragraph 19.6.1.1, "A records capture statement shall be incorporated in each Nuclear Department procedure that describes an activity resulting in the generation of a record. As a minimum, these statements shall identify.which records are to be transmitted to Records Management and whether_they'are QA or non-QA

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records. These statements should also identify when the' records should be transmitted, who shall transmit them and how they will be packaged or grouped." The NRC inspector noted that the licensee's station procedures HPH 09-514, HPH 09-520, and HPH 09-530' generate lifetime QA records associated with shipments of radioactive ~ waste materials which are to be transmitted to Records Managemen , .

Contrary to the above, the NRC inspector determined on March 3,1987, that-the lifetime QA records generated by the-above listed procedures from radioactive waste shipments made during 1986 were stored in the Health Physics Supervisor - Radwaste's office in the' control building and had not-been transmitted to the~QA records vault as required. It was also noted that the above listed HPH 09 series procedures' record capture statements-did not ~ identify the person responsible for transmitting the ' records or -

describe how the records will be packaged for transmittal to'the QA records vault. The failure to properly control," store,'and protect *

lifetime QA records associated with radioactive waste' shipments made during 1986 is an apparent violation of Technical Specification'6.8.1 and licensee's implementing procedures. (482/8708-01)

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An unresolved item is a matter about which additional-information is needed.

L ifor-determination whether it is acceptable,.a' violation, or a1de'viatio .

p One -unresolved : item is discussed below. t The licensee's administrative procedure" ADM 02-021',f"Use of Procedures in

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. Operations," Revision 9, dated September 9, 1986,. requires in-e paragraph 5.1 that nonpermanent'QA. records which are generated as a result'

of this procedure be retained for 5; years.s -The procedure furthercdefines

[. these QA: records as all completed procedures!that1contain sign-offs or .

i: other written-data. .The NRC inspector, determined that. plant operations

.use. station procedure SYS HC-227, "Ven' dor Processing of Primary Resins and'

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Concentrates," Revision l', dated December!9,L1986,' to control vendor

. processing of primary resinsJand concentrates. It was determined that 2

nonpermanent QA records as'sociated with~ the performance' of this. procedure

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twice'in January 1987 could not= be: located at the' time of. the inspection.

i -The= licensee initiated a search for.these records. 'This. item will be~

. considered. unresolved pending;1ocation~of,the records. :(482/8708-02)-

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The NRC inspector met with th'e-WCGS NRC~ resident inspectors andithe-

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licensee representatives denoted in paragraph'1 attthe conclusion-of the

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inspection on March 6, 198 The NRC.' inspector summarized the scope of the inspection and discussed the inspection finding ,

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