ML19329A433
| ML19329A433 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oconee  |
| Issue date: | 08/07/1975 |
| From: | Sutherland J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Thornburg H NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| NUDOCS 8001030999 | |
| Download: ML19329A433 (2) | |
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C, NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGloN 11
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,' ' August 7, 1975 H;rold Thornburg, Chief, Field Support and Enforcement Branch, Office of Inspection and Enforcement, Headquarters OCCURRENCE AT OCONEE NPCLEAR STATION (H00856F2)
R:garding the subject
.atter contained in a letter from CONMI to the State of Texas dated May 19, 1975, and a NRC memo dated July 11, 1975
,from G. W. Kerr to H. D. Thornburg, we have obtained clarifying information from the licensee.
C. L. Thames, Health Physics Supervisor, stated that CONMI personnel cnly from California were in the Oconee Nuclear Station.
These CONAM p rsonnel were under contract with B&W to make the first portion of inspections for B&W in the upper tube sheet area of steam generators This was eddy current type work and the CONAM personnel were not r:diographers.
Thames stated that the CONAM personnel entered the Oconee Nuclear Station through the Health Physics group where they received training offered cuch outside contract personnel.
He stated that the COUM personnel would not have entered the plant through some other point, such as a gurra post, where they would have been asked to relinquish their own personnel monitoring devices.
He said that in passing through the Unith Physic group it is definitely not policy to ask any outside how:ver, all such personnel are required to wear Oconce personnelco monitoring devices for work of this type.
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in;pector confirmed this policy with the licensee representative while cn cite.
Thames stated that perhaps the CONMi personnel nisunderstood come statement made regarding the ' requirement to wear Oconee personnel monitoring devices but there was certai'nly no intention to give the icpression that the CONAM personnel could not or should not wear their
. own personnel monitoring devices.
In fact, he stated that -it has been obrarved to be comon practice for outside contract personnel such as B&W to wear their own personnel monitoring equipment.
o Thares stated that all key health physics personnel have been questioned r;giding this matter with the resul.t that there is no indication that Cc nee personnel asked CONAM personnel to relinquish their own personnel
.r.onitoring devices.
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Thatnes stated that corrected notices of personnel exposures were sent to CONMI for the last quarter of 1974. The corrections were for erroneous values furnished to Oconee by the contractor that processed their personnel monitoring devices. The exposures for the two ' individuals referred to in the CONMI letter of May 19th, did not require correction, and therefore remained unchanged from the values quoted in the letter. The corrected exposures reported to CONMI by Oconce,
" involved five other CONM1 cmployees who worked at Oconee, none of whom had exposures in excess of NRC limits.
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