ML18025B650
| ML18025B650 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Browns Ferry  |
| Issue date: | 08/07/1981 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML18025B646 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-259-81-17, 50-260-81-17, 50-296-81-17, NUDOCS 8109240560 | |
| Download: ML18025B650 (2) | |
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APPENDIX A NOTICE OF VIOLATION Tennessee Va1 1 ey Authority Browns Ferry 1, 2, and 3
Docket Nos. 50-259, 50-260 and 50-296 License Nos. DPR-33, DPR-52 and DPR-68 As a result of the inspection conducted on June 29 July 2, 1981, and in accord-ance with the Interim Enforcement
- Policy, 45 FR 66754 (October 7, 1980),
the following violations were identified.
A.
10 CFR 20. 104(a) states that no licensee shall
- possess, use or transfer licensed material in such a manner as to cause any individual w'ithin a
restricted area who is under 18 years of age to receive in any period of one calendar
- quarter, from radioactive material and other sources of radiation in the licensee's possession, a whole body dose in excess of 125 mi llirems.
Contrary to the above, an individual under 18 years of age received a whole body dose for the second calendar quarter in excess of 125 millirems in that on June 6
and 7,
- 1981, the individual received a whole body dose of 736 millirems while working in the Unit 1'reactor cavity.
This individual would not have been 18 years of age until June 23, 1981.
This is a Severity Level III Violation (Supplement IV).
B.
Technical Specification 6.3.A requires that detailed written 'radiation
. control procedures be prepared, approved and adhered to.
One such procedure is Radiation Control Instruction 2.
Section XI of this instruction states that no individual less than 19 years of age shall be authorized to receive a quarterly whole body dose of 3 rems.
Contrary to the above, a
17 year old worker, on June 8, 1981, was authorized to'receive a whole body dose of 3 rems.
This is a Severity Level V Violation (Supplement IV).
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, you are hereby required to submit to this office within thirty days of the date of this Notice, a written statement or explanation in reply, including:
(1) admission or denial of the alleged viola-tions; (2) the reasons for the violations if admitted; (3) the corrective steps which have been taken and the results achieved; (4) corrective steps which will be taken to avoid further violations; and (5) the date when full compliance will be achieved.
Consideration may be given to extending your response time for good cause shown.
Under the authority of Section 182 of the
$tomic Energy Act of
- 1954, as amended, this response shall be submitted under oath or affirmation.
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