ML18143B432
| ML18143B432 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Surry  |
| Issue date: | 08/14/1985 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
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| ML18143B431 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-280-85-21, 50-281-85-21, NUDOCS 8508280425 | |
| Download: ML18143B432 (1) | |
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ENCLOSURE 1 NOTICE OF VIOLATION Virginia Electric and Power Co.
Surry Docket Nos. 50-280 and 50-281 License Nos. DPR-32, DPR-37 The fo 11 owing violation was identified during an inspection conducted on June 17 - 21, 1985.
The Severity Level was assigned in accordance with the NRC Enforcement Policy (10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C).
10 CFR 20.31l(d)(l) requires that licensees who generate and transfer radioactive waste to a land disposal facility prepare a 11 wastes so that the waste is classified according to 10 CFR 61.55.
10 CFR 61.55(a)(8) states that the concentration of a radionuclide may be determined by indirect methods such as use of scaling factors which relate the inferred concentration of one radionuclide to another that is measured if there is reasonable assurance that the indirect methods can be correlated with actual measurements.
Contrary to the above, the licensee did not have reasonable assurance that the sealing factors used to determine radioactive waste cl ass ifi cat ion during the period June 17, 1985, to June 21, 1985, correlated with actual measurements in that:
- a.
Scaling factors used to determine transuranic nuclide concentra-tions were nonconservative for 65 per cent of nucl ides thus inferred, with 15 percent of those being nonconservative by greater than a factor of ten when compared to the actual waste stream sample measurement.
- b.
Only one set of scaling factors for transuranic radionuclides was used to determine the waste classification of all the facility waste streams, whereas actual sample analyses showed that at least two distinct waste streams existed at the facility.
This is a Severity Level IV Violation (Supplement IV).
Pursuant to 10 CFR 2.201, you are required to submit to this office within 30 days of the date of this Notice, a written statement or explanation in reply, including:
(1) admission or denial of the alleged violations; (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.
Security or safeguards information should be submitted as an enclosure to facilitate withholding it from public disclosure as required by 10 CFR 2. 790(d) or 10 CFR 73. 21.
Date:
AUG 14 1985 l
8508280425 850814 PDR. ADOCK 05000280 G-PDR