ML18081A437
| ML18081A437 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Salem  |
| Issue date: | 07/17/1979 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| ML18081A434 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-272-79-17, NUDOCS 7910290370 | |
| Download: ML18081A437 (2) | |
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APPENDIX A NOTICE OF VIOLATION Public Service Electric and Gas Company Docket No. 50-272 Based on the results of.an NRC inspection conducted on May 22-25, 1979, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in full compliance with NRC regulations and the conditions of your license as indicated below.
Ite.ms A and B are infractions.
Item C is a deficiency.
A.
Technical Specification 6.11 states, 11 Procedures for personnel radiation protection shall be prepared consistent with the requirements of 10 CFR Part 20 and shall be approved, maintained and adhered to for all opera-tions involving personnel radiation exposure.
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Administration Procedure No 24 11Radiological Safety Program," developed pursuant to the above, requires retraining in Radiation Workers Training Course, RP-1, at a time interval of one year.
- 2.
Contrary to the above two individuals were not retrained in the Radiation Workers Course, RP-1, within the required time interval according to a licensee representative.
Procedure PD 15.1. 012 11 Post Operation Debriefing, 11 developed pursuant to the above states 11 **** to keep exposure to radiation as low as practical, it is necessary to learn from the experience of work performed.
To insure documentation of such experience whether good or bad a critique shall be held after the completion of those tasks deemed radiologically significant. The debriefing should be conducted immediately after the event and should be conducted by a Technical Foreman-Rad Protection.
11 Contrary to the above, the Steam Generator Eddy Current test, in which the dose rate was as high as 18 R/hr, was completed on/or about April 25, 1979, and a critique had not been conducted at the tJme of this inspection.
B.
10 CFR 20.203(f) 11Containers 11 states 11.... each container of licensed material shall bear a du~able, clearly visible label identifying the radioactive contents.
A label required pursuant to the above shall bear the radiation caution symbol and the words Caution, Radioactive Material
- or Danger, Radioactive Material. It shall also provide sufficient infor-mation to permit individuals handling or using the containers, or working in the vicinity thereof, to take precautions to avoid or minimize exposures."
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2 Contrary to the above, the Instrument Calibrator, located in the Instrument Repair and Calibration Room and containing eight Cesium-137 sources totaling approximately 170 Curies, did not bear a label identifying its radioactive contents on May 24, 1979 as observed by the inspector.
C.
10 CFR 19.11, 11Posting of Notices to Workers, 11 requires in paragraph (a) that current copies of regulations, licenses, license conditions, or documents incorporated into a license by reference, shall be posted by the licensee.
Paragraph (b) permits the licensee to post a notice which describes the document and state where it may be examined, if it is not practicable to post the document.
Paragraph (d) states, 11Documents...
shall appear in a sufficient number of places to permit individuals engaged in licensed activities to observe them on the way to or from any
_particular licensee activity location to which the document applies..*
11 Contrary to the above, the appropriate documents, or notices describing the documents stating where the documents may be examined, were not posted in the Control Access Area, an area through which licensee employees had to pass going to and from the licensee activities to which the documents applies.