ML19247A647

Responds to 790703 Telcon Re Dec 1978 Hand Exposure Incident.Reactor Safety Committee Met on 790719 & Concluded Matter Was Properly Reported,As Violation Was Fault of One Individual

ML19247A647
Person / Time
Site:	University of Lowell
Issue date:	07/20/1979
From:	Chabot G MASSACHUSETTS, UNIV. OF, LOWELL, MA (FORMERLY LOWELL
To:	Stetka T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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NUDOCS 7908010533
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NUCLEAR CENTER (G17) 454 7811 July 20, 1979 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Inspection and Enforcement 631 Park Avenue King of Prussia, PA 19406 Attention: nomas Stetka Subj ect: Follow-up regarding hand expos a reported on 2/23/79 and discussed in phone conversation with T. Stetka of U.S.N.R.C. on 7/3/79.

Gentlemen: ,

This report is being submitted pursuant to our phone conversation -

noted above. As we discussed, the hand dose in question was received during the month of December, 1978. h' hen we received our body badge report for December en January 23, 1979 from Landauer, the ring badge report was not included. On January 24, 1979 we phoned Landauer to determine the status of the report and obtair.d verbal indication of the hand dose received by the operator in question. The written report was received more than one week later.

The Reacter Safety Subcommittee reviewed this hand exposure incident originally on February 22, 1979. H e committee recommended that the RSO sub-mit a report for informational purposes to the N.R.C. , and this was done in our Ictter of February 23, 1979 to you. S e committee did not find at that time that the incident resulted from inadequacies in the implementation of administrative or precedural controls (Technical Specification 6.6-3c) ' ,

adninistrative/ procedural cor,trols were in place, and the incident was deemed to occur because of failure o the part of one individual to abide by recca-ended controls. As a result 'f the incident, procedures have been reviewed and some changes made to provide as much assurance as possible that similar situation.3 will not occur in the future.

As a result of our telephone conversation of 7/3/79, the Reactor Safety Subcommittee convened on July 19, 1979 to recansider this incident and to discuss ,chether the report to the N.R.C should , ave been filed under t':e repcrting requircnent cited in Technical Specification 6.6-ac. ihe concensas of the comnittee Jas th 4t administrative and prac4 A ral controls

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had been adequately implemented, but that violation of these on the part of an individual had occurred. It was the committee's feeling that the report filed for informational purposes was appropriate although it recognizes that some differences in interpretation of Technical Specification 6.6-3c mar exist, and the committee remains open to further consideration of th' :ter if such is felt appropriate.

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George E. Chabot Radiation Safety Officer GEC/rb cc: Director of Inspection 6 Enforce;aent U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 100 ') 'c kUO caa