ML20035E283
| ML20035E283 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 04/08/1993 |
| From: | Joyner J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Sylvia B NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20035E284 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 9304150130 | |
| Download: ML20035E283 (4) | |
See also: IR 05000220/1993004
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Docket Nos. 50-220
50-410
Mr. B. Ralph Sylvia
Executive Vice President - Nuclear
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
301 Plainfield Road
Syracuse, New York 13212
Dear Mr. Sylvia:
Subject:
(NRC Combined Inspection Nos. 50-220/93-04; 50-410/93-03)
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An announced safety inspection of the radiation protection program at your facility was
conducted by Messrs. J. Furia and L. Eckert of this office on March 22-26,1993. The
inspection findings were discussed with members of your staff at the conclusion of the
inspection on March 26, 1993.
Areas examined during this inspection are important to health and safety and included the
radiation protection program. Areas inspected included your programs for: radiation safety
during normal and outage operations, radiological work control and housekeeping,
maintaining radiation exposures as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA), and assurance of
quality. Within these areas, the inspection consisted of selective examinations of procedures
and representative records, interviews with personnel, and observations by the inspector.
Your radiation protection program for outage operations at Unit 1, and for normal operations
at Unit 2, continued to show improvements, especially in the areas of work control and
maintaining exposures as low as reasonably achievable. Continued strong performance in the
area of Quality Assurance / Quality Control was also noted. However, one violation of NRC
requirements was identified in the area of personnel monitoring and procedural compliance,
as documented in the enclosed Notice of Violation (Notice). The violation involved two
examples of workers entering a Radiation Controlled Area (RCA) without dosimetry.
You are required to respond to this letter and should follow the instructions specified in the
enclosed Notice when preparing your response. In your response, you should document the
specific actions taken and any additional actions you plan to prevent recurrence.
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Division of Radiation Safety
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As a result of errors identified in dosimetry records in early 1992 by your staff, you
committed, among other actions, to review all dosimetry records over a three-year period
and to provide a monthly report to the NRC Resident Inspector on the results of your
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ongoing review. In discussions with your staff held by telephone in late 1992, and
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confirmed during this inspection, we understand and accept that your commitment regarding
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records of active personnel and any records requested by other licensees. In addition, your
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C. Terry, Vice President - Nuclear Engineering
J. Perry, Vice President - Quality Assurance
Vice President - Nuclear Generation
K. Dahlberg, Unit 1 Plant Manager
M. McCormick, Unit 2 Plant Manager
D. Greene, Manager, Licensing
J. Warden, New York Consumer Protection Branch
G. Wilson, Senior Attomey
M. Wetterhahn, Winston and Strawn
Director, Energy & Water Division, Department of Public Service, State of New York
C. Donaldson, Esquire, Assistant Attorney General, New York Department of12w
K. Abraham, PAO (2)
Public Document Room (PDR)
Local Public Document Room (LPDR)
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