ML110601304
| ML110601304 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Catawba  |
| Issue date: | 02/28/2011 |
| From: | Brian Bonser NRC/RGN-II/DRS/PSB1 |
| To: | Morris J Duke Energy Carolinas |
| References | |
| Download: ML110601304 (7) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II 245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257 February 28, 2011 Mr. J. R. Morris Site Vice President Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Catawba Nuclear Station 4800 Concord Road York, SC 29745-9635
SUBJECT:
CATAWBA NUCLEAR POWER STATION, NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 05000413 AND 05000414
Dear Mr. Morris:
From May 9-13, 2011, the NRC will perform the baseline Occupational Radiation Safety Inspection at the Catawba Nuclear Power Station for NRC Inspection Procedure 71124.01.
Experience has shown that this inspection is resource intensive both for the NRC inspectors and your staff. In order to minimize the impact to your on-site resources and to ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed a request for documents needed for this inspection. It is important that all of these documents are up to date and complete, in order to minimize the number of additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of the inspection.
We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff and understand that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Marc Sawicki at (803) 701-5191 of your organization and that the material be available for review by April 25, 2011. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector, Wade Loo at (404) 997-4727.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's document system(ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/ reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).
Sincerely,
/RA/
Brian R. Bonser, Chief Plant Support Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos.: 50-413, 50-414 License Nos.: NPF-35, NPF-52
Enclosure:
Occupational Radiation Protection Inspection Document Request cc w/encl: (See page 2)
DPC 2 cc w/encl: David A. Repka Division of Radiological Health Winston Strawn LLP TN Dept. of Environment & Conservation Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution North Carolina MPA-1 Randy D. Hart Suite 600 Regulatory Compliance Manager P.O. Box 29513 Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Raleigh, NC 27525-0513 Electronic Mail Distribution Susan E. Jenkins Sandra Threatt, Manager Director, Division of Waste Management Nuclear Response and Emergency Bureau of Land and Waste Management Environmental Surveillance S.C. Department of Health and Bureau of Land and Waste Management Environmental Control Department of Health and Environmental Electronic Mail Distribution Control Electronic Mail Distribution Mark Yeager Division of Radioactive Waste Mgmt.
Dhiaa M. Jamil S.C. Department of Health and Group Executive and Chief Nuclear Officer Environmental Control Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution W. Lee Cox, III C. Jeff Thomas Section Chief Fleet Regulatory Compliance & Licensing Radiation Protection Section Manager N.C. Department of Environmental Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Commerce & Natural Resources Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Kathryn B. Nolan Vanessa Quinn Senior Counsel Federal Emergency Management Agency Duke Energy Corporation Radiological Emergency Preparedness 526 South Church Street-EC07H Program Charlotte, NC 28202 1800 S. Bell Street Arlington, VA 20598-3025 Lara Nichols Associate General Counsel Steve Weatherman, Operations Analyst Duke Energy Corporation North Carolina Electric Membership Electronic Mail Distribution Corporation Electronic Mail Distribution Senior Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission County Manager of York County Catawba Nuclear Station York County Courthouse U.S. NRC P. O. Box 66 4830 Concord Road York, SC 29745-0066 York, SC 29745 Piedmont Municipal Power Agency Electronic Mail Distribution (cc list continued on page 4)
DPC 3 cc w/encl (continued from page 3)
Peggy Force Assistant Attorney General State of North Carolina P.O. Box 629 Raleigh, NC 27602 David A. Baxter Vice President, Nuclear Engineering Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Electronic Mail Distribution
ML110601304 G SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE OFFICE RII:DRS RII:DRS SIGNATURE RA RA NAME WLoo BBonser DATE 02/28/2011 02/28/2011 E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO Pre-Inspection Document Request Occupational Radiation Safety Cornerstone Licensee: Catawba Nuclear Plant Docket Numbers: 05000413, 05000414 Inspection Dates: May 9-13, 2011 Inspection Procedures to be performed:
71124.01 Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls Documentation is requested from October 2010, to the present for all items.
We would prefer as much of the information as possible in electronic form. An index to the CD contents is also helpful. For those items requesting a list of documents/areas, the inspectors will select documents/areas from the list for on-site review. If any of the requested information is too burdensome to provide electronically or as hard copies, simply indicate that the requested material is available for onsite review by the inspectors.
If you have any questions, please call Wade Loo at 404-997-4727. Thank you in advance for all your effort in putting together this material.
Assistance Requested During On-Site Inspection
- Identification of work activities during the inspection for inspector observations, including notification of pre-job briefings, notification of diving activities, audio/visual surveillance for remote job coverage.
- Health physics assistance in plant walk-downs assessing access controls, e.g. verifying the posting and locking of entrances to HDR-HRA and VHRA, and spent fuel pool controls.
- Health physics assistance in plant walk-downs/job coverage of ongoing outage activities to assess access controls.
- Discussions with appropriate individuals regarding access controls.
General Information Request
- Telephone numbers of contacts.
- Radiation Protection organizational chart.
- Electronic copy of applicable chapters of UFSAR (e.g. radiation protection program, etc.).
- Outage schedule, including work activities to be conducted during the week of the inspection.
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- List of active radiation work permits, including those specific to outage activities, with their administrative limits, electronic dosimeter dose rate limit, and dose limit.
- Corrective Action Program procedures.
- Procedures associated with the ISFSI facility. Procedures should include:
o Radiological surveys, postings, and radiation control barricades.
o Environmental monitoring (including TLDs).
o Loading of casks.
o Routine activities.
- Radiation surveys of the ISFSI since the last inspection.
- Records of contamination incidents since the last inspection.
- List of corrective action reports related to the ISFSI with respect to radiation protection (i.e. access controls, ALARA, contamination, radiation levels, etc.) since the last inspection.
71124.01 Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls
- Site and corporate procedures associated with the access control program. Procedures should include:
o Radiological surveys, postings, and radiation control barricades.
o Security and control of high radiation sources/objects stored in pools.
o Posting of areas, labeling of containers, and inventories of non-SNM materials maintained within the spent fuel pools.
o Radiation Work Permits.
o Radiological Job-Coverage.
o Controlling access to High Radiation Areas (HRAs), High Dose Rate High Radiation Areas (HDR-HRAs), and Very High Radiation Areas (VHRAs).
o Key controls for all high radiation areas.
o Radioactive material control, including contamination and hot particles.
o External dose monitoring, i.e., dosimetry issuance and use. The documents should include: guidance for multi-badging; monitoring in steep/highly variable dose rate gradients; high radiation area (HRA), locked-HRA (LHRA) and very high radiation area (VHRA) controls for select operational/outage activities; personnel contamination events; storage/care of personal dosimeters; use of electronic dosimeters including evaluation of set-point determination; biases identified relative to TLD monitoring; remote monitoring procedures; post shutdown, fuel movement, and/or diving operations.
o Internal dose assessment, i.e., both in vivo and in vitro bioassay and air sampling capabilities. The documents should include guidance for calibration/QC and use of whole body counter (WBC); release of contaminated individuals, use of passive Enclosure
3 monitoring as screening method for evaluations, and special in vitro sample collection and analysis, and suspect alpha particle exposures.
o Contamination control, i.e., procedures for release of contaminated individuals or potentially contaminated materials from the radiologically controlled area (RCA).
- List five highest cumulative exposures or exposure rate tasks for current outage activities. Provide associated radiation work permit documents, if available.
- List of all positive whole body count (WBC), in vitro, or air sampling analyses since October 1, 2010, which resulted in an assigned CEDE equal to or exceeding 10 millirem
[Note, a listing should be provided for use by the inspectors to select a sample of issues for in-depth review during the on-site inspection].
- List of all personnel contamination events, dispersed contamination/discrete particles, identified since October 1, 2009. [Note: only a listing should be provided for use by the inspectors to select a sample of issues for in- depth review during the onsite inspection].
- List current outage tasks with significant potential for significant release of airborne radioactive particulates.
- List of LHRAs, HDR-HRAs (>25 rem in one hour @ 30 cm), and VHRAs. Include areas with the potential to become a LHRA during routine operations or outages.
- Copies of all audits, self-assessments, and/or reviews related to internal or external dosimetry issues, access controls and radiological hazards generated since October 1, 2010. The documents provided should to include any reviews/evaluations conducted of vendor facilities, e.g., corporate or outside vendor/ or corporate calibration facilities.
- List of corrective action reports generated since the last inspection related to access controls, including the following:
o Access controls, including high radiation area radiological incidents.
o Radiological events caused by radiation worker errors.
o Radiological events caused by radiation protection technician errors.
o Internal or external dosimetry issues/events.
- Available for onsite review during inspection:
o Elevation maps with most recent operating and outage radiation survey levels.
o National Source Tracking System documentation including source inventory and administrative data from National Source Tracking System.
o RWPs for the top five dose rate areas or tasks.
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