ML103070123

Univ of California, Irvine, Response to Request for Additional Information on Revised Operator Requalification Program

ML103070123
Person / Time
Site:	University of California - Irvine
Issue date:	10/29/2010
From:	Geoffrey Miller University of California - Irvine
To:	Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
TAC ME2431
Download: ML103070123 (3)

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE BERKELEY

• DAVIS

• IRVINE LOS ANGELES RIVERSIDE SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SANTABARBARA

• SANTACRUZ George E. Miller IRVINE, CA 92697-2025 Senior Lecturer Emeritus (949) 824-6649 Department of Chemistry and FAX: (949) 824-6082 or (949) 824-8571 Director,Nuclear Reactor Facility Email: gemilleracuci.edu Faculty Advisor for Science Website: http://chem.ps.uci.edu/-gemiller/

UCl Centerfor EducationalPartnerships US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Document Control desk 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 Attention: Ms Linh Tran, Project Manager Ref: Docket 50-326. Licence R-116 University of California. Irvine I am pleased to submit a revised Operator Requalification Program revised in response to the Request for Additional Information dated October 1st 2010 (TAC No. ME243 1) that I trust meets or exceeds NRC expectations.

Please contact me if there are further questions in this regard.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on October 29th 2010 Sincerely yours, George E. Miller Director Nuclear Reactor facility Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine.

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U. C. IRVINE NUCLEAR REACTOR FACILITY DOCKET 50-326 OPERATOR REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM Revised October 2010 This program is designed to meet the requirements of 10 CFR 55.59 of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and to assure the continued safe operation of the UCI reactor.

SCOPE UCI reactor has operated successfully as a small facility with limited licensed operator staff.

This plan assumes a low level of staffing consisting of only a single or few Senior Operators (SRO). However it also anticipates possible increased staffing levels, to include Operators (RO). The program is of 24 months duration, with automatic restart every cycle. One Senior Operator will be designated as the Training Coordinator for each cycle. The Training Coordinator prepares and scores all examination materials, schedules reviews and documents operator performance and will only be required to meet items (3), (4) and (5) below. The Training Coordinator shall rotate among the licensed SRO's for each subsequent cycle, except in the event there is only a single SRO licensed at the facility.

REQUIREMENTS All SRO's are expected to meet the following requirements:

1. Pass an annual (at intervals not to exceed 15 months) practical operating examination based on 10 CFR 55.45 (a), (1-12); this examination shall also include expected responses to emergency or abnormal conditions that could be observed at the reactor controls and a passing score shall be 70%.

2. Pass a biennual (once during each 24 month period) written examination based on 10 CFR 53.41 (b) (1-13) and 55.43 (b) (1-7) with a 70% passing score in any category.

3. Carry out reactor operations for a minimum of 4 hours4.62963e-5 days <br />0.00111 hours <br />6.613757e-6 weeks <br />1.522e-6 months <br /> in each calendar quarter. These operations may include facility maintenance activities when the reactor is shutdown, but should include at least one start-up, one operation above 1 kilowatt power, and one shutdown (except when the reactor is not operational for any continuous period exceeding three months).

4. Participate in ongoing discussions of reactor instrumentation operating characteristics based on checks, surveillance and calibration results.

5. Participate in regularly scheduled reviews of abnormal and emergency procedures relating to the reactor.

6. Participate in immediate discussions whenever mechanical or procedural changes are implemented at the facility, whether or not they directly affect reactor characteristics.

7. Participate in review regarding any test ((1) or (2) above) item that is unsatisfactory prior to resuming qy duties for which a valid license is required.

8. Participate in retraining and re-examination prior to resuming licensed duties in any area of the examinations delineated in bullets (1) and (2) declared not to be passing.

9. Maintain health sufficient such that full duties may be adequately performed, and pass a biennual medical certifying "fitness for duty." Operators shall not continue to perform licensed duties should any additional factors be known that would affect their ability to perform according to any provisions of their valid license.

UCI Reactor Operator Requalification Program, Rev 2.0 October 2010, page 1

All RO's are required to meet all the above except that examinations will be limited to those issues required of Operators by 10 CFR 55.41. Operators may not assume the role of Training Coordinator. In addition, operators may be expected to attend regularly scheduled seminars or tutorial sessions to review reactor theory, utilization, and practice relevant to both routine and emergency operations and administrative issues, designed to enable them to proceed to qualify for an SRO license.

DOCUMENTATION Documentation will be retained at the facility covering all items (1) through (9) above for the period of each Operator or Senior Operator License.

UCI Reactor Operator Requalification Program, Rev 2.0 October 2010, page 2