ML19305E544
| ML19305E544 | |
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| Site: | 07000033 |
| Issue date: | 03/12/1980 |
| From: | Joyner J, Woltner E, Zibulsky H NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| 70-0033-80-02, 70-33-80-2, NUDOCS 8005200037 | |
| Download: ML19305E544 (4) | |
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U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMISSION 8006200037 0FFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT O
REGION I Report No. 70-33/80-02 Docket No. 70-33 License No.
SNM-23 I
Safeguards Group Licensee:
Texas Instruments, Inc.
34 Forest Street Attleboro, Massachusetts 02703 Facility Name:
Texas Instruments, Inc.
Inspection At:
Attleboro, Massachusetts Inspection Conducted:
February 25-29, 1980 Date of Last Material Control and Accounting Inspection Visit: gruary 19-22, 1980 Type of Inspection: Unannounced Material Control and Accounting Inspectors:
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H. ZibYlsky, ChemYst date
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E. Woltner, Auditor date date Approved by:
M 3- /2-Bo J.W 'Joyhr, Chief, Nuclear Materials Control date Inspection Summagport Section, Safeguards Branch S
Areas Inspected:
Facility organization, physical inventory, and nuclear material control management. The inspection involved 58 inspector-hours onsite by two regional based NRC inspectors and was begun during the regular hcurs.
Resul ts: The licensee was found to be in compliance with NRC requirements in the areas examined during the inspection.
Region I Form 166 (August 1979)
DETAILS 1.
Key Persons Contacted
- F. Sherman, Manage'r, HFIR Project
- B. Schwensfeir, Manager, Material Control and Accounting
- D. Talan, Health Physicist H. Ortelt, MBA Custodian W. Daft, ICA Custodian
- denotes those present at exit interview The inspectors interviewed other licensee personnel involved in the operation of the facility.
2.
Licensee Action on Previous Inspection Findings Not inspected 3.
Exit Interview The inspectors met with the licensee representatives (danoted in paragraph 1) at the conclusion of the inspection on February 29, 1980.
The inspectors summarized the scope and findings of the inspection.
4.
MC927138 - Independent Inspection Effort No items of noncompliance noted.
The inspectors performed a plant tour in order to verify the licensee's possession and use of special nuclear material and witness the preparation for the physical inventory.
MC852028 - Facility Organization No items of noncompliance noted.
A new organization chart describing plant management structure is to be forwarded to NMSS.
This chart identifies the positions having responsibility for the control over SNM and the nuclear material management structure describing the relationship of the nuclear materials control functions and responsibilities to other organizational units.
3 Some changes are:
a.
Gordon Woodbine will be Quality Assurance Manager of HFIR b.
Bob Schwensfier is Manager of Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Material c.
Mark Eltis is IIIR Security Administrator d.
Dan Conroy is Manager Quality Assurance Changes in the duties and responsibilities of the MBA and ICA custodians have been incorporated in the licensee's Fundamental Nuclear Material Control Plan, Section 1.2.3.1.
There were no inconsistencies identified.
MC85212B Physical Inventory No items of noncompliance were noted.
The inspection results were attained through:
(1) a tour of the facility to observe the type and location of SNM; (2) observation of physical inventory taking and listing by the inventory team; (3) review of physical inventory procedures; (4) insuring, in the areas inspected, that each item on the inventory was listed and identi-fied; (5) verification of cutoff procedures for transfers and processing so that all quantities were invento'ried and none were inventoried more than once; and (6) verification of cutoff procedures for records and reports so that all transfers for the inventory and material balance interval and no others were included.
The observation of the physical inventory covered ICA-2 (fuel plates and element production and storage area).
The licensee
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conducted the listing of their 60-day physical inventory on February 27, 1980.
Specific inventory procedures covering the MBA's and ICA's was issued to the licensee inventory team.
The inspector witnessed the inventory being listed and tagged and performed checks against the inventory listing.
The inventory team performed the physical inventory in accordance with the specific inventory procedure.
All items inventoried were found to be in agreement with the information on the inventory listing.
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4 MC852188 - Nuclear Material Control Management No items of noncompliance were noted.
Sections 1.2.5 and 8.2.1 of the licensee's Fundamental Nuclear Material Control Plan states that an audit of the SNM control program is to be done at least once a year by a review board of from one to three members appointed by the Project Manager.
An audit was made by Al Robl and Dan Collins, during November 27, 1979 - December 31, 1979.
Four comments and recommendations were noted by the review board.
On January 3,1980, the Project Manager issued a corrective action memo as a result of the recomendations in the audit.
The Fundamental Nuclear Material Control Plan, in section 4.1.5, requires that outside contractors providing measurement services for nuclear products are audited and the results and recommendations reported to the company to assure that the results of the contractor's work are as represented in his reports to the licensee.
The results of the review showed that Ledoux and Company, Teaneck, New Jersey fulfilled the capability to analyze enriched U 0 #U" 38 element and isotope content.