ML19309G112
| ML19309G112 | |
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| Site: | 07001308 |
| Issue date: | 03/12/1980 |
| From: | Essig T, Grant W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| 70-1308-80-01, 70-1308-80-1, NUDOCS 8005020374 | |
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT REGION III Report No. 70-1308/80-01 Docket No. 70-1308 License No. SNM 1265 Licensee: General Electric Company 175 Curtner Avenue San Jose, CA 95125 Facility Name: Morris Operation Inspection At: Morris Site, Morris, IL Inspection Conducte : Februa ry27-28, 1980 Inspector:
W. B. Grant ll/ I l II}
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Approved By:
T. H. Essig, Chief
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12-80 Environmental and Special Projects Section Inspection Summary Inspection on February 27-28, 1980 (Report No. 70-1308/80-01)
Areas Inspected: Routine, unannoinced inspection of(1) Emergency Planning including:
examination of the licensee's Emergency Plan and Procedures; emergency equipment and supplies; training; tests and drills; (2) Fire Presention and Protection including:
the licensees audits and the licen-see's insurers audits of the program; (3) Environmental Protection in-cluding: program management; program implementation; quality control of analytical measurements and; (4) Confirmatory Measurements including:
discussion of the previous sample collection results and collection of samples for future comparative analyses. The inspection involved 15 inspector-hours on site by one NRC inspector.
Results: No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
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DETAILS 1.
Persons Contacted E. Voiland, Plant Manager
- K. Eger, PhD. Senior Engineer, Licensing and Radiological Health
- J. McGrath, Plant Safety Supervisor B. Morgan, Chemistry Technician
- Denotes those present at exit interview.
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Previous Inspection Findings (Closed) Significant Inspection Finding (70-1308/79-02): Agreement to fully implement Emergency Plan NEDE-21894 and its procedures by April 15, 1979. Discussions with the licensee representatives and a review of records, determined that the Emergency Plan and its proce-dures had been fully implemented by April 15, 1979. The inspector had no further questions regarding this matter.
(Closed) Significant Inspection Finding (70-1308/79-02): Resolution of inspector's concern regarding the storage of combustible low-level radioactive waste in Warehouse A which does not have an automatic fire suppression system.
Discussions with licensee personnel and the site inspection determined that all drums of the combustible radio-active waste were relocated to the cask receiving area by May 1, 1979.
This area will be used for all future storage of waste drums and radioactive material will not be stored in Warehouse A.
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Coordination with Offsite Support Agencies The inspector reviewed records, procedures, and aritten letters of agreement relating to the licensee coordination of emergency planning with offsite support agencies. During that review, the inspector determined that letters of agreement and procedures were current as required by the Emergency Plan.
1 No formal training has been offered to these offsite support agencies by Morris Operations. However, agencies requiring training are also listed in the Dresden Emergency Plan and are currently being trained by Radiation Management Corporation (RMC) pursuant to their agreement l
with the Dresden Nuclear Station.
No items of noncompliance or deviations were noted.
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Facilities, Equipment and Supplies The inspector toured the facility and examined the emergency equipment j
lockers located in the Administration and Process Buildings. All j
emergency supplies were present as required by the Emergency Plan.
i During this inspection, operational checks of this equipment were conducted and were found to be satisfactory.
a The inspector reviewed records of monthly inventories conducted during 1979 of these supplies. These records indicated that missing items were replaced in a timely manner. Completed check lists were reviewed by the plant's Safety Supervisor.
During this inspection, the inspector examined the first aid, facility located in the process building. The inspector determined that re-quired supplies were present and appeared adequate for the licensee's needs.
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
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Emergency Plan and Procedures The inspector discussed the licensee's requirement to conduct a review of the Emergency Plan and associated procedures, on an annual basis in order to maintain emergency procedures, which reflect current plant activitie;-
During this inspection, it was determined through discussions with the licensee representatives cnd a review of the emergency procedures that the current Emergency Plan (NEDE-21894) had been full implemented since April 15, 1979. This implementation satisfied the expressedbytheinspectorduringapreviousinspection.77oncern No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
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Emergency Plan Training The inspector reviewed records of training provided to licensee per-sonnel in first aid, emergency plan, and emergency procedures.
Various aspects of the Emergency Plan were discussed at monthly safety meetings which were attended by all technical personnel. The inspector examined the Emergency Brigade Training Manual and the minutes of monthly safety meetings conducted in 1979. At least two members of each shift are trained in multi-media Red Cross first aid.
In addition, multi-media Red Cross training is offered to all plant personnel and retraining is scheduled to maintain current first aid capability. The inspector determined that all required Emergency Plan training was conducted for CY 1979.
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
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Emergency Drills l
The inspector examined the licensee's records for CY 1979, covering conduct of Emergency Plan drills and exercises. Drills have been conducted on the required quarterly frequency and drill critiques i
have been held. Recommendations for improvement appear to have been implemented.
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IE Inspection Report No. 70-1308/79-02.
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1 No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
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Licensee Internal Audits The licensee's internal audits consist primarily of an examination of emergency equipment. Monthly inventories and functional phecks are conducted of emergency lighting, emergency equipment lockers, and fire protection equipment. The inspector reviewed records of these audits for CY 1979 and determined that all equipment and sup-plies were examined or tested as prescribed by audit procedures.
l During this inspection, the inspector examined fire inspection audits conducted by Factory Mutual Company (Arkwright-Boston Insurance Company). Currently, these audits are conducted semiannually. The most recent audit completed December 6, 1979, identified a deficiency relating to fire protection in Warehouse A.
Specifically, the audit recommended the need for providing automatic fire suppression pro-tection in Warehouse A.
Discussions with licensee personnel deter-mined that their insurance company still recommends the automatic fire suppression system for the warehouse, even though the radioactive material had been removed. Removal of the radioactive material from Warehouse A satisifies the yncernoftheinspectorexpressedina previous inspection report.
A Region III representative reviewed the Warehouse A matter with the licensee during the March 1979 inspection (footnote 1 of this report).
It was concluded that the lack of a fire suppression system in Ware-house A did not present a significant radiological safety problem in that:
(a) nearby buildings which contain radioactive materials have fire tuppression devices, and (b) a trained fire brigade is available 24 hote-per de'/.
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Fire Prevention and Protection a.
Firefighting Procedures Firefighting procedures were developed and included in the Emergency Brigade Training Manual.
Procedures indicate proper techniques for firefighting. No problems were identified while reviewing these procedures.
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Training The licensee has a well equipped and trained fire brigade to fight common fires at this facility. The brigade received classroom training in firefighting and conducted several field exercises. Field exercises involved extinguishing controlled
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fires by portable extinguishers.
Actual use of the equipment from both fire hose houses was also conducted as part of this training.
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3/ Ibid.
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Firefighting Equipment The inspector examined selected firefighting and detection equip-ment in areas where radioactive material was present. Fire extinguishers were located as stipulated in the Emergency Plan.
Firesuppressionanddetectj7nequipmentwereasdescribedina previous inspection report.-
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
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Environmental Program Management The Senior Engineer, Licensing and Radiological Health, is responsible for the administration of the environmental monitoring program. The licensee participates in the environmentel monitoring program of the Dresden Nuclear Generating Station. Eberline Corporation is rerpons-ible for conducting the sampling and analysis of the liquids in the lagoon and the evaporation pond. Murray and Trettel is the meteoro-logical contractor.
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Environmental Program Implementation The inspector selectively examined licensee's daily logbook of envi-ronmental activities, radioactive waste and environmental monitoring reports and radiological monitoring reports from January 1979 through December 1979. Samples appeared to have been taken been taken on scheduled frequencies and required analysis performed.
The licensee is also required to analyze water samples from the waste lagoon and evaporation pond, and analyze for gross alpha and gross beta on a monthly basis. Eberline Corporation is responsible for the sampling as well as the analysis.
The inspector selectively examinea the results of the analyses which are reported in the radio-active waste and environmental monitoring reports from January 1, 1979, through December 31, 1979.
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
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Quality Control of Analytical Measurements The Safety Department performs weekly compliance tests of the stack samplers. A Safety technician performs a test which is reviewed by the Safety Supervisor. Any problems identified are resolved by the Operation Supervisor and Senior Engineer, Licensing and Radiological Health.
l source and background checks of a proportional counter used for count-ing particulate filters are made once per shift. Daily checks were selectively examined from the date of the last inspection.
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The weekly particulate filters are composited on a semiannual basis and a gamma isotopic analysis performed. Quality control for the 1
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GeLi analyzer used for this is accomplished by the analysis of blind standards. The licensee is presently conducting a cobalt and cesium
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source check once per shift on this instrument.
Unusual results in the environmental monitoring program are resolved on a case by cas-basis by the Senior Engineer, Licensing an,d Radio-logical Health.
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No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
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Confirmatory Measurements Results of the comparative analysis performed on effluent samples taken in February 1979, were reviewed by the licensee. Results are shown in Table 1.
The criteria for comparing measurement results are given in Attachment 1.
Of seven sample comparisons, the licen-see's results yielded four agreements, one disagreement, and two noncomparisons. The results were discussed with the licensee, in particular, their failure to detect U-235 in a particulate composite, for the last part of 1978. Licensee representatives stated that the amount of U-235 was not enough to distinguish it easily from other normal activities seen at that part of the spectrum, and therefore, they missed detecting the activity.
Investigation by the licensee during the inspection, determined that during the period in question decontamination of the uranium contaminated blower fan probably re-sulted in the U-235 being detected on the stack particulate filter sample. The licensee's release, if it was real, would not have re-sulted in a release in excess of Technical Specifications.
During this inspection samples were collected for future comparative analysis. Samples were collected included a six month composite of air particulate and a liquid effluent from the waste lagoon.
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
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Exit Interview The inspector met with licensee representatives (denoted in Para-graph 1) at the conclusion of the inspection on February 28, 1980.
The inspector summarized the scope and findings of the inspection.
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