ML19242A240
| ML19242A240 | |
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| Site: | Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 06/12/1979 |
| From: | Essig T, Oestmann M NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| References | |
| 50-155-79-07, 50-155-79-7, NUDOCS 7908010074 | |
| Download: ML19242A240 (7) | |
See also: IR 05000155/1979007
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT
REGION III
Report No. 50-155/79-07
Docket No. 50-155
License No. DPR-6
Licensee:
Consumers Power Company
212 West Michigan Avenue
Jackson, MI 49201
Facility Name: Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant
Inspection At: Big Rock Point Site, Charlevoix, MI
Inspection Conducted: April 23-25, 1979
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Environmental and Special
Projects Section
Inspection Summary
Inspection on April 23-25, 1979 (Report No. 50-155/79-07)
Areas Inspected: Routine, unannounced inspection of environmental
protection and monitoring program results; and emergency planning
relating to coordination and agreement with offsite support
agencies; facilities, equipment, and procedures; review of records
of tests, drills, and training; and licensee internal audits. The
inspection involved 19 inspector-hours on site by one NRC inspector.
Results: Of the eight areas inspected, no apparent items of
noncompliance or deviations were identified.
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DETAILS
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Persons Contacted
Principal Licensee Employees
- J. Rang, Director, Operation.and Maintenance (BRP)
- T. Brun, Chemistry and Radiation Protection Supervisor (BRP)
- C.
Axtell, Plant Health Physicist (BRP)
- G. Gilbody, Quality Assurance Engineer (BRP)
R. Doan, Training Supervisor (BRP)
G. Fox, Health Physics Technician (BRP)
K. Brooks, Health Physics Technician (BRP)
M. Dickson, Senior Engineering Technician (CP)
The inspector also interviewed eight other licensee employees,
including health physics technicians, security guards, and
office personnel.
- Denotes those present at the exit interview.
Offsite Agencies
J. Curtis, Chief, Charlevoix Fire Department
G. Lasater, Sheriff, Charlevoix County Sheriff's Department
C. Thompson, Fireman, Charlevoix Fire Department
W. Miller, Lieutenant Commander, Coast Guard, Charlevoix
R. Rasmussen, Captain, Coast Guard, Charlevoix
I. Seidel, Inservice Director, Charlevoix Hospital
A. Tunison, Coordinator, Charlevoix County Emergency Services
Disaster Agency
J. Bennett, RN, Charlevoix Hospital
R. Kueger, RN, Charlevoix Hospital
C. Smith, RN, Emergency Room Supervisor, Northern Michigan
Hospital, Inc., Little Traverse Division, Petosky
J. Page, Ambulance Driver, Petosky Fire Department
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A. Bateman, Acting Chief, Petosky Fire Department
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General
The inspection included an examination of the licensee's environ-
mental monitoring and emergency planning programs.
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The environmental monit oring portion of the inspection involved
an examination of the radiological environmental activities,
monitoring results, management controls and quality control of
analytical measurements. The licensee conducts an additional
radiological environmental monitoring progrem beyond the film
monitoring program required by Secti>n 6.4.2.(c) of the Technical
Specifications.
The emergency planning portion involved examination of the
Big Rock Point Site Emergency Plan (Revision No. 48,
April 11, 1979) and available implementing cards.
The inspector
held discussions with licensee representatives, visited selec-
ted offsite support agencies, reviewed documentation pertaining
to logs and records of emargency supplies and inspected selected
emergency equipment and supplies for emergency preparedness.
3.
Environmental Monitoring
The inspector reviewed the licensee's environmental monitoring
program for CY 1978. jThe program has remained the same since
the last inspection.
a.
Film Monitoring
The inspector examined the licensee's film monitoring
program for CY 1978 in accordance with compliance to
Section 6.4.2.(c) of the Technical Specifications.
Five
film monitoring stations were visited during a tour of the
site.
The exposed films are sent to the licensee's contractor,
Radiation Detection Company in California, for measuring
the exposure dose.
The inspector reviewed the licensee's
procedure RP-32, Revision 0 " General Radiation Protection
Procedure Environmental Dosimetry" which describes placing,
collecting and shipping of the films to the contractor.
The inspector also examined the CY 1978 monitoring results
and observed no unusual results or trends,
b.
Voluntary Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program
A voluntary radiological environmental monitoring program
not required by the Technical Specifications, is conducted
by the licensee.
The inspector toured three randomly
selected air sampling stations and found them to be oper-
ational.
The inspector also observed TLD's at five stations.
The licensee has been conducting an evaluation of the use
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of TLD's.
T.he licensee also samples milk, lake and well
water, algae, fish and periphyton.
The inspector reviewed monthly reports of the results from
the licensee's contractor, Eberline Instrument Company,
and observed no unusual trends or anomolous results,
except for fallout effects from the atmospheric weapons
testing by the Republic of China in the spring of 1978.
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The licensee did report in Licensee Event Report LER-RO-
78-032 on September 15, 1978, that contaminated demineral-
ized water was used to rinse the sampling hardware and
thereby contaminated the lake water samples taken from
July 26 to August 22, 1978. The results therefore were
not valid.
The trend reports covering the periods from 1968 to date
were al o examined. The inspector also reviewed the
contractor's Laboratory Procedures Manual, dated June
1977, and the licensee's procedure for Radiological
Environmental Sample Collection, Revision 1.
No problems
were identified.
c.
Environmental Monitoring Audits
The licensee conducted a quality assurance audit of the
licensee's contractor performance for 1978 and observed no
significant problems. This contractor also participates
in the EPA interlaboratory cross check program and con-
ducts its own internal audits to ensure a high degree of
reliability in analytical measurements. The inspector
reviewed the contractor's Quality Assurance Manual, dated
September 15, 1978, and identified no significant problems.
The licensee also conducted an internal audit on October 23-25,
1978, and found no findings of safety significance pertaining
to the environmental monitoring program.
No apparent items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
4.
Emergency Planning
a.
Management Controls
The inspector examined the licensee's management controls,
delegation of responsibilities, authorities and admini-
stration of emergency planning and preparedness.
C. Axtell,
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the Plant Health Physicist, is responsible for the licen-
see's emerg<ncy planning activities and coordination.
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is responsible for updating the Site Emergency Plan and
implementing cards. The current revision is Revision 48
dated April 11, 1979.
b.
Coordination with Offsite Support Agencies
The inspector visited the Charlevoix Fire Department which
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also provides ambulance service; Charlevoix County Sheriff;
Charlevoix County Emergency Services Disaster Agency; the
US Coast Guard in Charlevoix; Cuarlevoix Hospital; Northern
Michigan Hospital, Inc., Little Traverse Division; and the
Petosky Fire Department to determine if coordination
between the licensee and the support agencies is being
maintained. The representatives stated that coordination
and training with the licensee have been adequate and the
agencies have been well informed as to their responsibil-
ities in the event of emergencies at the plant. The licensee
has provided emergency plarning and radiation protection
training sessions to the fire departments including ambu-
lance personnel in Charlevoix and Petosky, on October 3,
1978, the two hosp- sls on May 5, 23, and 30, '978, state
police, on August 14, 1978, and the Coast Guard personnel
on August 28, 19,8.
The retraining of the Petosky Fire
Department perronnel was provided on April
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item was discussed in a previous inspection
In the review of letters of agreement, the inspector noted
that the licensee obtained new letters from the Charlevoix
County Sheriff, dated March 29, 1978, and the Petosky Fire
Department, dated April 26, 1978, in
discussedinthepreviousinspection.psponsetoitems
The Michigan
Department of State Police contacted the licensee on
Septem er 6, 1978, clarifying and updating the State's
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of activatiot, of the Michigan Preparedness Plan.
This was further verified in a letter to the licensee from
the Charlevoix County Emergency Services Coordinator dated
September 11, 1978. The licensee had deleted the State's
Plan from the licensee's Plan in April 1978.
In addition,
the letter of agreement between the Charlevoix Township
Fire Chief and the licensee was updated November 11, 1978.
All letters of agreement have a clause extending the term
of the agreement from year-to-year from the date of issuance
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unless terminated as provided therein, thus eliminating
the need for annual updating of the letters.
No apparent items of noncompliance or deviations were
identified.
c.
Facilities, Equipment and Implementing Procedures
The inspector checked the emergency kits located in the
machine shop, the Service Building Annex, and the control
room, and found that the portable air sampler in the
Service Building Annex was missing. The April 1979 inventory
indicated it was present in the kit.
This is an open
item.
Emergency supplies at the hospitals were examined. An
inventory sheet was provided with the emergency kit lockers.
All items were present. Review of the emergency kit
inventory sheets for CY 19'/3 and first quarter of CY 1979
indicated that the contents were as required and the kits
inspected on the prescribed frequency.
The stack gas and off-gas monitor were examined in the
control room and found to be operational. They a re f unc-
tionally checked daily for operation.
In addition, the
stack gas montior response is checked using a source and
the off gas monitor using electronic means. The off-gas
monitors are alarmed, and the response versus activity
concentrations are posted near the monitor.
The inspector examined the licensee's implementing cards
and found them current. The Plant Health Physicist had
conducted his quarterly review of the cards which were
updated on April 11, 1979. The licensee was in the process
of distributing the updated changes to the Plan and the
cards at the time o# the inspection.
No apparent items of noncompliance were identified. One
apparent deviation was identified.
d.
Tests, Drills and Training
The inspector reviewed the licensee's records and internal
correspondence pertaining to tests and drills conducted
during CY 1978. The inspector noted that the semiannual
drill for the lat.ter half of 1978 was not conducted in
accurdance with Section 9.10.1 of the Site Emergency Plan
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until January 5, 1979.
The inspector discussed keeping on
schedule with the licensee representatives.
The licensee
stated he has the flexibility of not exceeding 25'4 of the
scheduled frequency in surveillance testing.
This is an
open item and will be examined during a subsequent inspection.
In addition, the inspector observed that documentation on
the critique of the medical drill held on May 24-25, 1978
was missing.
The licensee stated that, in the future,
documentation of critiques of each drill will be provided.
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Training records for site personnel and selected offsite
agencies were reviewed by the inspector and were found to
meet the requirements of Section 9.9 of the Site Emergency
Plan.
No apparent items of noncompliance or deviations were
identified. However, holding drills on a semiannual
frequency remains an open item.
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Audits
The inspector reviewed a licensee internal quality assur-
ance audit record of emergency planning dated September 11,
1978.
Seven findings and thirteen observations were
obtained.
One of the findings involved missing air sampler
in the emergency kit in the Service Building Annex. This
item was discussed in Paragraph 4.c above. The inspector
discussed these findings and determined at the time of the
inspectioa that corrective actions had been accomplished
on each item.
No apparent items of noncompliance or deviations were
identified.
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Exit Interview
The inspector met with licensee representatives (denoted in
Paragraph 1) at the conclusion of the inspection on April
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1979. The inspector summarized the purpose and scope of the
inspection and the findings. With regard to the open items
the licensee said they would look into the matter.
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