ML20041B763
| ML20041B763 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Calvert Cliffs  |
| Issue date: | 02/12/1982 |
| From: | Lundvall A BALTIMORE GAS & ELECTRIC CO. |
| To: | Starostecki R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| NUDOCS 8202250176 | |
| Download: ML20041B763 (4) | |
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a BALTIMORE G AS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY P.O. B OX 147 5 B A LTIMO R E. M A R YL A N D 2120 3 ARTHUR C. LUNDVALL,JR.
Vect PatssOENT Sventy February 12, 1982 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Docket Nos. 50-317 Region I, 631 Park Avenue 50-318 King of Prussia, PA 19406 ATTENTION:
R. W. Starostecki, Director Division of Resident and Project a
Inspection 1
Gentlemen:
This refers to your Inspection Report 50-317/81-27; 50-318/81-25, which transmitted three items of apparent noncompliance with NRC requirements. Enclosure (1) to this letter is a written statement in reply to those items.
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R. W. Starostecki February 12, 1982 STATE OF MARYLAND:
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CITY OF BALTIMORE:
Arthur E. Lundvall, Jr., being duly sworn states that he is Vice President of che Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, a corporation of the State of Maryland; that he provides the foregoing response for the purposes therein set forth; that the statements made arc. true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information, end belief; and that he was authorized to provide the response on behalf of said Corporation.
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ENCLOSURE (1)
REPLY TO APPENDIX A 0F NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-317/81-27; 50-318/81-25 ITEM A.1 A recently hired technician trainee entered the Refueling Water Tank Room without observing access requirements. Ile was performing a routine sur-veillance test under the instruction of two qualified technicians. Approx-imately two months prior to tho date of this violation, the trainee had received training which included access requirements for entry into radio-logically controlled areas. The training specifically addresses access requirements for radiologically controlled areas and the means to identify these areas.
A review of this incident disclosed:
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This was the trainee's first entry into the area.
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The trainee understood general access requirements, but was following instructions to enter the room literally without thinking of the room as a controlled area.
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The technicians who were qualified to perform the test procedure directed the trainee to enter the room alone without checking the trainee's understanding of access requirements.
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No willful disregard of requirements took place.
The supervisor of the three individuals involved has discussed the incident with them to assure their understanding of its seriousness. The responsi-bility of each individual in preventing similar occurrences was made clear.
Additionally, the plant Training Unit has retrained these individuals regarding the access requirements for entering radiologically controlled areas.
ITEM A.2 Jalvert Clif fs Operating Instruction-15, " Service Water System," requires that certain valves be locked in appropriate positions. On December 21, 1981, three valves were found to be in the correct positions with locking devices attached, but not locked as required.
Red tags which serve to identify the valves as, " locked open valves," were found to be in place along with the locking hardware.
The cause uno apparently due to unlatching of the locking chains when the valve handwheels were painted during routine building maintenance. To prevent recurrence, the Plant Superintendent has issued a memorandum to all Calvert Cliffs personnel informing them of the event and its potential l
ENCLOSURE (1)
REPLY TO APPENDIX A 0F NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-317/81-27; 50-318/81-25 1 TEM A.2 (Continued) for jeopatdicing plant safety, as well as instructing plant personnel that only Operations personnel are authorized to remove such devices.
Additionally, all Operations personnel have been made aware of this violation with emphasis placed on their continual surveillance of locked valves to insure locking devices are intact.
ITEM A.3 Pipe sections identified in the inspection report have been inspected and will be insulated using insulating materials of the type removed and in use throughout the plant in similar applications. A review of procedures which are used to insure insulation replacement following maintenance has been conducted. As a result of this review, new instructions will be implemented to provide additional direction to Maintenance personnel.
Appropriate plant supervisors will be info rmed of the circumstances associated with this item of noncompliance and will be directed to control such maintenance activities in accordance with the new instructions. All of these actions will be completed by March 5, 1982. Finally, a review of design requirements specifying the type of insulation material for this application will be completed.
Appropriate actions will be taken to resolve any problems identified during this review.
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