ML18095A848
| ML18095A848 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Salem  |
| Issue date: | 03/27/1991 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML18095A847 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-272-91-08, 50-272-91-8, 50-311-91-08, 50-311-91-8, NUDOCS 9104090079 | |
| Download: ML18095A848 (2) | |
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APPENDIX A NOTICE OF VIOLATION Public Service Electric and Gas Company Salem Nuclear Generating Station Docket Nos. 50-272 50-311 License Nos. DPR-70 DPR-75
- Units 1 and 2 As a result of the inspection conducted.on March 4 to 8, 1991, and in accordance with*
the NRC Enforcement Policy (10 CFR 2, Appendix C), the folloW:ing violation was identified:
- Technical Specification 6.11, Radiation Protection Program, states that "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 operations involving personnel.radiation exposure."
- 1.
-Station procedure NC.NA-AP.ZZ-0022, Revision 0, Radiation Pr'otection Program, states in part in section 3.9 that all personnel shall comply with the worker responsibilities listed in Attachment 1 to the procedure. Attachment 1, Responsibilities of Each Individual, states, in part in section 2, "Follow all approved procedures, postings and RWP instructions."
- a.
RWP Number 911S00237, Revision 0, required that the radiation protection technician relocate the worker's dosimetry to reflect the highest whole body exposure.
Contrary to the above, on March 6, 1991, the radiation protection technician, overseeing work on RWP Number 911S00237, Revision 0, did not relocate a worker's dosimetry to reflect the highest whole body exposure. The worker was observed during a prolonged work activity with the lower portion of the leg above the knee, a part of the whole body, in contact with a pipe reading 100 mr/hr while the worker's dosimetry was*
located on his chest in a 60 mr/hr radiation field.
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2 RWP Number 911S00121, Revision 1, required ensuring that all equipment/tools entering the steam generator handholes were smearably clean.
Contrary to the above, on March 6, 1991, foreign object_ search and retrieval equipment, inserted into the No. _14 steam generator, was not surveyed to ensure that it was smearably clean prior to its entry into the steam generator handhole.
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10 CFR 20.lOl(a.) provides quarterly external radiation dose limits for-individuals. -
10 CFR 20.202 requires that each licensee is to supply appropriate personnel moni_toring equipment to, and require use of such. equipment by, each individual who enters a restricted area under such circumstances that he receives or is likely to receive a dose in any calendar quarter in excess of 25% of the -applicable value -
specified in 10 CFR 20.lOl(a.).
-Contrary to the above, as of March 6, 1991, the licensee's radiation protection procedures were not prepared consistent with the requirements of 10 CFR 20.202 in that they would not ensure that the highest exposure to the whole body of personnel working in radiation *ctose rate gradients would be-monitored with appropriate personnel" monitoring equipment. In addition, personnel were likely_
to receive a dose in excess of 25% of the appiicable vafoe specified in 10 CFR 20.lOl(a).
The above examples constitute a Severity Level IV Violation (Supplement IV)
Pursuant_ to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Public Service Electric and Gas Company is -
- hereby required to submit to this office within thirty days of the date of the letter which transmitted this Notice, a Written statement or explanation in reply, including: (1) the corrective steps which have been taken and the results achieved; (2) corrective steps which will be taken to avoid further violations; and (3) the date when full compliance will be achieved. Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending this response time.
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