ML19256A317
| ML19256A317 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png |
| Issue date: | 11/07/1978 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| References | |
| 50-271-78-20, NUDOCS 7901050023 | |
| Download: ML19256A317 (1) | |
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APPENDIX A NOTICE OF VIOLATION Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation Docket No. 50-271 Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on September 18-22, 1978, it appears that one of your activities was not conducted in full compliance with the conditions of your license as indicated below.
This item is an infraction.
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Technical Specification 6.5.B.1 requires that in lieu of the " con-trol device" :r alarm signal required by paragraph 20.203(c)(2) of 10 CFR 20, each high radiation area in whic" the intensity of radiation is 1000 mrem /hr or less be barricaded and conspicuously posted as a high radiation area.
Contrary to the above requirement on September 20, 1978 an entrance providing access to a high radiation area was posted as a radiation area with no additional posting at the coundary of the high radiation area and the barricade was not distinguishable as a barricade to a high radiation area.
This area included the reactor water cleanup pump cubicles and adjacent areas with radiation levels as high as 900 mrem /hr.
l Contrary to the above requirement on September 20, 1978 an entrance on the 252 ft. elevation of the reactor building leading to a high radiation area on a catwalk on top of the torus was not barricaded.
Another entrance to the catwalk from the 213 ft. elevation of the reactor building was neither posted nor barricaded.
Radiation levels on parts of the catwalk were as high as 200 mrem /hr.
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