ML110770481

Notification of Inspection and Request for Information

ML110770481
Person / Time
Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	03/15/2011
From:	Brian Bonser NRC/RGN-II/DRS/PSB1
To:	Krich R Tennessee Valley Authority
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II 245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257 March 15, 2011 Mr. R. M. Krich Vice President, Nuclear Licensing Tennessee Valley Authority 1101 Market Street, LP 3R-C Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Krich:

During the period of April 11-15, 2011, the NRC will conduct a baseline radiation safety inspection at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. The inspection will evaluate radiation protection activities in the Occupational Radiation Safety cornerstone using NRC Inspection Procedure (IP) 71124.01.

This inspection procedure was last performed on July 16, 2010, and is scheduled less than a year later to allow the inspection to occur during the plants scheduled refueling and maintenance outage.

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, thereby minimizing the number of additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of the inspection. The inspector has requested that the subject informational material be provided in compact disk (CD) format at the site on April 11, 2011. This will increase the time available to assemble the documents.

We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff and understand that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Mike Brandon of your organization. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the inspector, Ruben Hamilton at (404) 997-4672.

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In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC=s ARules 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.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Brian R. Bonser, Chief Plant Support Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety Docket No.: 50-390 License No.: NPF-90

Enclosure:

Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Notification of Inspection and Request for Information cc w/encl.: (See page 3)

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Michael D. Skaggs Site Vice President Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority P. O. Box 2000 Spring City, TN 37381 G. A. Boerschig Plant Manager Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, MOB 2R-WBN Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 Spring City, TN 37381 K. J. Polson Vice President Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 Decatur, AL 35609 Larry E. Nicholson General Manager Performance Improvement Tennessee Valley Authority 3R Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 Michael A. Purcell Senior Licensing Manager Nuclear Power Group Tennessee Valley Authority 4K Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 M. K. Brandon Manager Licensing and Industry Affairs Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 Spring City, TN 37381 Patrick J. Asendorf General Manager Nuclear Emergency Services Tennessee Valley Authority 6B Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 Christopher E. Glover Manager Nuclear Security Operations Tennessee Valley Authority 6B Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 Kimberley D. Bayles (Acting) Site Security Manager Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 Spring City, TN 37381-2000 A. S. Bhatnagar Senior Vice President Nuclear Generation Development and Construction Tennessee Valley Authority 6A Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 Masoud Bajestani Vice President Watts Bar Unit 2 Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 Spring City, TN 37381 Gordon P. Arent New Generation Licensing Manager Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority P.O. Box 2000 Spring City, TN 37381

Enclosure Pre-Inspection Document Request Occupational Radiation Safety Cornerstone Licensee:

Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Docket Number:

50-390 Inspection Dates:

April 11-15, 2011 Procedure: 71124.01 Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls Documentation is requested from July 16, 2010, to the present for the inspection procedures.

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 inspector will select documents/areas from the list for on-site review.

If you have any questions, please call Ruben Hamilton at (404) 997-4672. Thank you in advance for all your effort in putting together this material.

Assistance Requested During On-Site Inspection Identification of candidate work activities during the inspection for inspector observation, such as radiologically significant jobs.

General Information Request Telephone numbers of contacts Plant, Radiation Protection, and Chemistry organizational charts FSAR sections related to radiation protection program and activities.

Most recent DAW 10 CFR Part 61 analytical results.

Corrective Action Program procedures Audits and self-assessments performed since July 16, 2010, that address (1) radiation protection, (2) radiation monitoring program, including the onsite calibration facility, (3) radioactive material control, (4) external and internal dosimetry.

71124.01: Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls

1.

Site and corporate procedures associated with assessing and controlling radiological hazards. Procedures should include:

a. Radiological surveys, postings, and radiation control barricades

b. Security and control of high radiation sources/objects, including those stored in pools

c. Radiation Work Permits

d. Radiological Job-Coverage

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e. Controlling access to High Radiation Areas (HRAs), High Dose Rate High Radiation Areas (HDR-HRAs), and Very High Radiation Areas (VHRAs), including key controls

f. Radioactive material control, including contamination, hot particles, and survey/release of material for unrestricted use

g. Dosimetry monitoring (electronic dosimeters, multi-badging, whole body counting/internal dose assessment, etc.)

2.

Description of any changes to plant operations that could result in a new radiological hazard for workers or members of the public.

3.

List of the most exposure significant radiologically risk-significant work activities planned for the outage, including at least five activities scheduled during the week of the inspection.

4.

List or map of HRAs, LHRAs, and VHRAs. Include areas with the potential to become a HRA during routine operations and/or outages.

5.

RWPs for the 5 highest dose rate areas or outage tasks and RWPs for airborne areas.

6.

Inventory of nonexempt licensed materials, including storage location.

7.

List of unusual dosimetry occurrences, including electronic dosimeter malfunctions/alarms.

8.

List of corrective action program (CAP) condition reports generated since September 2009, related to radiological hazard assessment and control, including the following:

a. Exposure controls, including high radiation area radiological incidents

b. Radiation monitoring (e.g. surveys, contamination, airborne)

c. Radiological events caused by radiation worker errors

d. Radiological events caused by radiation protection technician errors Inspector Contact Information:

Ruben Hamilton (404) 997-4672 Ruben.Hamilton@nrc.gov Mailing Address US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region II ATTN: Ruben Hamilton 245 Peachtree Center Ave., NE Suite 1200 Atlanta, GA 30303