ML18065B123
| ML18065B123 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 12/13/1997 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| ML18065B122 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-255-97-15, NUDOCS 9712230377 | |
| Download: ML18065B123 (3) | |
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NOTICE OF VIOLATION Consumers Power Company.
Palisades Nuclear Generating Facility
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Docket No. 50-255 License No. DPR-20 During a11 NRC inspection conducted November 5-7, 1997, three violations of NRC requirements were identified. In accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," NUREG-1600, the violations are listed below:
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1 O CFR Part 20.1902(b) requires that the licensee post each high radiation area with a conspicuous sign or signs bearing the radiation symbol and the words "CAUTION, HIGH RADIATION AREA" or "DANGER, HIGH RADIATION AREA".
Pursuant to 10 CFR 20.1003 a high radiation area means an area, accessible to individuals, in which radiation levels could result in an individual receiving a dose equivalent in excess Of 100 millirem in 1 hour1.157407e-5 days <br />2.777778e-4 hours <br />1.653439e-6 weeks <br />3.805e-7 months <br /> at 30 centimeters from the radiation source or from any surface that the radiation penetrates.
Contrary to the above, from approximately 11 :30 a.m. on September 15, 1997, to 4:00 a.m. on September 16, 1997, the high radiation area int.he Clean Waste Filter Transfer Room, with a radiation dose rate of approximately 500 millirem in an hour at 30 centimeters from the filter storage box, was not conspicuously posted with a sign bearing the radiation symbol and the words "CAUTION, HIGH RADIATION AREA " or "DANGER, HIGH RADIATION AREA".
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement IV).
- 2.
Technical Specification 6.7.1 requires, in part, that any individual or group of individuals permitted to enter a high radiation area shall be provided with or accompanied by one or more of the following: a radiation monitoring device which continuously indicates the radiation dose rate; or a radiation monitoring device which continuously integrates the radiation dose rate and alarms when a preset dose is received and after the dose rate levels in the area have been established and personnel are aware of them; or a qualified individual with a radiation dose rate monitoring device who is responsible for positive control and performs periodic radiation surveillance.
Contrary to the above, on September 15, 1997, a health physics technician who had an alarming dosimeter entered a high radiation area in the Clean Waste Filter Transfer Room without being aware of the dose rate levels and without a radiation dose rate monitoring device.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement IV).
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Technical Specification 6.4.1 requires that written procedures shall be established, implemented, and maintained covering activities recommended in Regulatory Guide 1.33, Revision 2, Appendix A, February 1978.
Regulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix A, recommends that safety-related activities covered by written procedures include radiation protection procedures for radiation surveys.
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Health Physics Procedure HP 2.17, Revision 13, "Performance of Radiation and Contamination Surveys", requires that plant personnel forward completed radiological survey documentation to the cognizant duty health physics supervisor for review and signature.
- b.
Health Physics Procedure No. HP 2.14, "Radiological Survey Requirements",
Revision 17 requires that plant staff perform contamination surveys to locate and post and/or verify contamination area boundaries and to determine the extent and magnitude of contamination levels.
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Health Physics Procedure No. HP 2.14, "Radiological Survey Requirements",
Revision 17, requires that plant staff perform radiation surveys to locate and post and/or verify radiation area boundaries and to determine the extent and magnitude of radiation levels.
Contrary to the above;
- a.
On September 10 and 16, 1997, the health physics staff did not forward completed documentation for radiological surveys of the clean waste filter transfer room to the duty health physics supervisor for review and signature.
- b.
On September 8 and 10, 1997, the health physics staff did not perform contamination surveys in the Clean Waste Filter Transfer Room after the transfer of waste filters to the filter storage box.
- c.
On September 15 and 16, 1997, the health physics staff did not perform radiation surveys to verify the high radiation area boundary around the filter storage box in the Clean Waste Filter Transfer Room.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement IV).
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Consumers Power Company is hereby required to submit a written statement or explanation to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN:
Document Control Desk, Washington, D.C. 20555 With a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region Ill, and a copy to the NRC Resident Inspector at the facility that is the subject of this Notice, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice of Violation (Notice). This reply should be clearly marked as a "Reply to a Notice of Violation" and should include for each violation: (1) the reason for the violation, or, if contested, the basis for disputing the violation, (2) the corrective steps that have beem taken and the results achieved, (3) the corrective steps that will be taken to avoid further violations, and (4) the* date when full compliance will be achieved. Your response may reference or include previous docketed correspondence, if the correspondence adequately addresses the required response. If an adequate response is not received within the time specified in this Notice, an order or a demand for information may be
issued as to why the license should not be modified, suspended, or revoked, or why such other action as may be proper should not be taken. Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given ~o extending the response time.
Because your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), to the extent possible, it should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction. If personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information. If you request withholding of such material, you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information will create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information). If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.
Dated at Lisle, Illinois this 13th day of December 1997