ML17179B136
| ML17179B136 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Dresden  |
| Issue date: | 10/07/1993 |
| From: | Snell W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | Delgeorge L COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO. |
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| ML17179B137 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 9310200058 | |
| Download: ML17179B136 (3) | |
See also: IR 05000237/1993023
Text
Docket No. 50-237
Docket No. 50-249
Commonwealth Edison Company
OCT
7 1993
ATTN:
Mr. L.O. DelGeorge, Vice President
Nuclear Oversight and
Regulatory Services
Executive Towers West III
1400 Opus Place, Suite 300
Downers Grove, IL
60515
Dear Mr. DelGeorge:
SUBJECT: EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE INSPECTION AT DRESDEN
This refers to the routine safety inspection conducted by Mr. R. Jickling
and others of this office on September 21-24, 1993.
The inspection included
a review of authorized activities at your Dresden facility.
At the conclusion
of the inspection, the findings were discussed with those members of your
staff identified in the enclosed report.
Areas examined during the inspection are identified in the report.
Within
these areas, the inspection consisted of a selective examination of procedures
and representative records, interviews with personnel, and observation of
activities in progress ..
No violations of NRC requirements were identified during the course of this
inspection.
However, two exercise weaknesses, regarding a failure to classify*
an Alert and a failure to issue an updated Nuclear Accident Reporting System
form within 15 minutes from the beginning of a radioactive release, were
identified during this inspection which will require corrective actions.
These weaknesses are summarized in the Appendix to this letter.
As required
by 10 CFR 50, Appendix E (IV.F), any weaknesses that are identified must be
corrected.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the Commission's regulations, a copy of
this letter and the encl6sed inspectio~ report will be placed in the NRC
Public Document Room.
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Commonwealth Edison Company
2 OCT
7 1993
We will gladly discuss any questions you have concerning this inspection.
Enclosures:
1.
Appendix - Exercise Weaknes~es
2.
Inspection Reports
No. 50-237/93023(DRSS)
No. 50-249/93023(DRSS)
cc w/enclosures:
M. D. Lyster, Site Vice President
Gary F. Spedl, Station Manager
J. Shields, Regulatory Assurance
Supervisor
D. Farrar, Nuclear Regulatory
Services Manager
OC/LFDCB
Resident Inspectors LaSalle,
Dresden, Quad Cities
Richard Hubbard
J. W. McCaffrey, Chief, Public
Utilities Division
Robert Newmann, Office of Public
Counsel
Licensing Project Manager, NRR
State Liaison Officer
Chairman, Illinois Commerce
Commission
H. J. Miller, RIII
T. 0. Martin, RIII
J. E. Dyer, NRR
M. L. Jordan, Riii
C. D. Pederson, RIII
S. Stasek, SRI, Davis-Besse
D. Bement, FEMA, Region V
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PUBLIC
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Sincerely,
Sneli
William G. Snell, Acting Chief
Reactor Support Programs Branch
RIII
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Snell
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1.
2.
APPENDIX
Exercise Weaknesses
10 CFR 50.54(q) requires that the licensee follow and maintain an
The licensee's emergency plan required that an Alert be
declared based on the result of natural or destructive phenomena such
that a safety system may not perform its required function.
However, during the 1993 exercise, the licensee failed to properly
classify an Alert based on the result of natural or destructive
phenomena which affected a safety system such that it did not.perform
its required function.
This concern will be tracked as.an Exercise
Weakness (No. 237/93023-01). (Section 5a)
10 CFR 50.54(q) requires that the licensee follow and matntain an
The licensee's emergency plan required that a Nuclear
Accident Reporting System (NARS) form be issued to document major
changes in the plant's emergency status, including changes in
radioactive releases.
The emergency plan requires that NARS forms be
issued within fifteen minutes of a major change in the plant's emergency
status.
However, the licensee failed to issue a NARS form within fifteen minutes
of the start of a radiological release. This concern will be tracked as
an Exercise Weakness (No. 50-237/93023-02). (Section. 5.d)