ML18044A276
| ML18044A276 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 11/09/1979 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| ML18044A275 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-255-79, 50-255-79-00, NUDOCS 7911230310 | |
| Download: ML18044A276 (2) | |
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Appendix A NOTICE OF VIOLATION Co~s~111ers Power Company Docket No. 50-255
~ased on the inspection conducted during September 1979, it appears that certain of your activities were in noncompliance with NRC requirements, as noted below. Items 1 and 2 involve violations, and Item 3 is an infraction.
7echnical Specification 3.6.la states that containment integrity shall not be violated unless the reactor is in the cold shutdown condition.
Contrary to the above, the licensee on 424 days (Appendix D) during the period from April 1978 to September 1979, operated the reactor in other than the cold shutdown condition with containment integrity violated.
Specifically, the series manu~l isolation valves in the -containment purge exhaust bypass line were locked in an open condition.
Each day that the facility was placed in other than the cold shutdown mode cf operation constituted a separate violation; a civil penalty of
$5,000 is imposed for each (cumulative civil penalty $2,120,000.00).
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Tec~nical Specification 3.6.3 requires that prior to going critical after a refueling outage, an administrative check will be made to confirm that all manual contain~ent isolation valves are closed and locked.
Contrary to the above, prior to going critical after the April 1978 refueling outage, an administrative check did not verify that two manual ccntain~ent isolation valves for the containment purge exhaust bypass were closed and locked as required.
~his is 2 Violation (Civi1 Penalty - $5,000.00).
Technical Specification 6.8.1.c requires implementation of procedures for surveillance and testing of safety-related equipment.
Health Physics
?roc2c~re H.P.6.27 governs testing of inplace HEPA and charcoal filters in safety-related systems pursuant to Technical Specification Table 4.2.2, and requires notification and sign off by the Shift Supervisor and the plant Health Physicist on completion of testing.
Contrary to the above, the required notification and signoffs were not cCillpleted after the licensee tested filters in the containment ventila-tion exhaust b~rpass line under H.P.6.27 on April 4 - 7, 1978.
"This is c:n infraction (Civil Penalty - S 4,000.00).
1n1s Nctice of Violation is sent to Consumers Power Company pursuant to the cf'ovisions of Section 2.201 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," Part 2, Title 10, C9ce of Federal Regulations.
Consumers Power Company is hereby required to 79112so 3 IO
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- submit to. this.office.within twenty days of the receipt of this Notice, a
- written statement.or explanation in reply, including for each item of non-compliance: (1) admission or denial of the alleged items of noncompliance; (2) the reasons for the items of noncompliance if admitted; (3) the corrective steps which have been taken and the results achieved; (4) corrective steps which wi1l be taken to avoid further items of noncompliance; and (5) the date*
when full compliance will be achieved.
The total civil penalties for all items cited is $2,129,000.00.
- However, pursuant to section 234 of *the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 USC 2282), the total of civil ~enalties for any thirty-day period cannot exceed
$25,000.00.
Consequently, a civil penalty of $450,000.00 is proposed.
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