ML15211A175

Notification of Inspection and Request for Information

ML15211A175
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	07/30/2015
From:	Brian Bonser NRC/RGN-II/DRS/PSB1
To:	Taber B Southern Nuclear Operating Co
Linda K. Gruhler 404-997-4633
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II 245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257 July 30, 2015 Mr. Brian K. Taber Vice President Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant 7821 River Road Waynesboro, GA 30830

SUBJECT:

VOGTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Taber:

During the week of September 21 - 25, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will perform a baseline Radiation Safety Inspection at your Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2 (NRC Inspection Procedures 71124.01 and 71124.08). In order to minimize the impact to your onsite 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. The NRC requests that the requested documents be provided to the inspectors, in CD format, on or before August 31, 2015.

We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff, and understand that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be George Gunn. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector, Jonathan Rivera at 404-997-4646, or the Plant Support Branch 1 Chief, Brian Bonser at 404-997-4653.

In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390 of the NRCs Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure, 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 Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS); accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control numbers 3150-0008, 3150-0011, 3150-0014, 3150-0044, and 3150-0135. The NRC may not conduct or

sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a request for information or an information collection requirement, unless the requesting document displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Brian Bonser, Chief Plant Support Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-424 and 50-425 License Nos. NPF-68 and NPF-81

Enclosure:

Pre-Inspection Document List cc: Distribution via Listserv

ML15211A175 SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE FORM 665 ATTACHED OFFICE RII:DRS/PSB1 RII:DRS/PSB1 SIGNATURE JXR1 via e-mail WTL for BRB1 NAME J. Rivera B. Bonser DATE 7/ 28 /2015 7/ 30 /2015 E-MAIL COPY YES NO YES NO

Enclosure PRE-INSPECTION DOCUMENT LIST PUBLIC RADIATION PROTECTION INSPECTION Public and Occupational Radiation Safety Cornerstones Licensee:

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Docket Numbers:

05000424 and 05000425 Inspection Dates:

September 21 - 25, 2015 Documents to Region II by: August 31, 2015 Inspection Procedures:

IP 71124.01 Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls IP 71124.08 Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation Lead Inspector:

Jonathan Rivera Health Physicist US NRC Region II 404-997-4646 Jonathan.Rivera@nrc.gov Note: The current version of these documents is expected unless specified otherwise.

Electronic media is preferred, if readily available. The preferred file format is Word, WordPerfect, or searchable.pdf files on CDROM. [Note that the inspectors cannot accept data provided on USB or flash drives due to NRC IT security policies.] Please organize the information as it is arranged below, to the extent possible. Experience has shown that a well-organized CD leads to a more efficient inspection, and lessens additional burden on licensee staff. During the inspection, the inspectors may request additional documents. If the licensee wishes to use an electronic document service such as CERTRAC, or a Shareware portal, the inspectors will try to accommodate for the documentation requested onsite. The initial documents should not require an internet connection to be reviewed.

If there are questions regarding the documents requested, or if the documents cannot be provided by the due date, please call Jonathan Rivera at 404-997-4646. Thank you in advance for all of your effort in putting together this material.

General Information Needed

1. List of primary contacts for each inspection area, with phone numbers.

2. Corrective action program procedure.

3. Outage schedule of major activities (Gantt chart if available).

71124.01 - Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls

1. List of outage radiation work permits (RWPs).

2. All procedures related to health physics (HP) controls (e.g., posting, labeling, surveys, RWPs, contamination control, High Radiation Area (HRA)/Locked High Radiation Area (LHRA)/Very High Radiation Area (VHRA) control, key control, control of divers, special controls during fuel offload, hot spots).

3. Procedures related to release of personnel and materials (e.g., release surveys, decontamination, guidance for alarm followup).

4. List of Nationally Tracked Sources and any change-of-ownership transactions.

5. List of all non-fuel items stored in spent fuel pool.

6. Most recent self-assessment or audit covering HP controls.

7. List of condition reports (CRs) related to HP controls (e.g., radworker error, HP technician error, posting issues, HRA/LHRA/VHRA issues, survey problems) since April 2014. [This should be a list of corrective action documents containing a CR number and brief description, not full CRs.]

71124.08 - Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation

1. Site and corporate procedures associated with radioactive waste processing and handling, storage, and transportation of radioactive material (RAM), including:

a.

Storage and handling of RAM, including non-Radiological Controlled Area (RCA) and satellite RCA locations.

b. Waste stream mixing, sampling, concentration averaging, and use of scaling factors.

c. Monitoring impact of long-term storage (e.g., buildup of gases produced by waste decomposition, chemical reactions, container deformation, loss of container integrity, re-release of free-flowing water).

d. Transferring of resin and/or sludge into shipping/disposal containers; dewatering and waste stabilization.

e. Preparing packages and documentation for shipping RAMs.

2. Process Control Program.

3. Liquid and solid radwaste system diagrams and detailed system descriptions (e.g.,

information that might be contained in curricula for training new system engineers).

4. List of RAM storage areas, including satellite RCAs.

5. List of all shipments made since March 2013 (shipping logs).

6. List of all changes made to solid and liquid radwaste processing systems since March 2013.

7. List of all abandoned solid and liquid radwaste processing equipment.

8. Last two 10 CFR Part 61 analyses for each waste stream; including QA data (e.g., in-house vs. vendor lab comparisons, current results vs. database).

9. Most recent self-assessment or audit covering shipping/radwaste processing and RAM storage programs.

10. List of CRs related to shipping, radwaste processing, or RAM storage since March 2013.

[This should be a list of corrective action documents containing a CR number and brief description, not full CRs.]

11. Training records for all individuals qualified to ship RAM/waste demonstrating the requirements of 49 CFR 172 Subpart H (HAZMAT training) have been met. [This information can be reviewed onsite rather than included with the submittal because it may contain Personally Identifiable Information.]

Inspector Contact Information Jonathan Rivera 404-997-4646 Jonathan.Rivera@nrc.gov Mailing Address US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region II ATTN: Jonathan Rivera 245 Peachtree Center Ave., NE Suite 1200 Atlanta, GA 30303

LIST OF ACRONYMS CRs Condition Reports HP Health Physics HRA High Radiation Area LHRA Locked High Radiation Area VHRA Very High Radiation Area RAM Radioactive Material RCA Radiological Controlled Area RWPs Radiation Work Permit