ML20042B694
| ML20042B694 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Wood River Junction |
| Issue date: | 03/08/1982 |
| From: | Gody A, Kushner W, Zibulsky H NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20042B690 | List: |
| References | |
| 70-0820-82-02, 70-820-82-2, NUDOCS 8203250541 | |
| Download: ML20042B694 (3) | |
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1 U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I Report No.
70-820/82-02 Docket No.70-820 License No.
SNM-777 Safeguards Group 1
Licensee:
United Nuclear Corporation Wood River Junction Rhode Island 02894 Facility Name:
United Nuclear Corp., Recovery Systems Inspection At:
Wood River Junction, Rhode Island Inspection Conducted:
January 28, 1982 Date of Last Material Control & Accounting Inspection: July 14-16, 1981 Inspectors:
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3088 Approved by: r T. T. Gody, Chief eguards Section, date
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Technical Inspe t n Branch Inspection Summary:
Unannounced Inspection on January'28, 1982 (Inspection Report No. 70-820/82-02)
Areas Inspected: Status of Decommissioning Activities and Review of Previous Inspection Findings.
The inspection involved 15 inspector-hours onsite by two NRC inspectors and began during the regular hours.
Results: The licensee was found to be in compliance with NRC requirements in the areas inspected.
Region I Form 12 (Rev. April 1977) 8203250541 820310 PDR ADOCK 07000820 C
'e DETAILS 1.
Persons Contacted
- R. Gregg, Plant Manager
- K. Helgeson, Manager,-Nuclear and Industrial Safety The inspectors also interviewed other licensee personnel involved in nuclear material control and accounting.
- denotes those present at exit interview.
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Licensee Action on Previous Inspection Findings (Closed) Noncompliance (78-23-02 and 78-23-03): The licensee had failed to:
(a) record the disposal and transfer of special nuclear material (SNM) in scrap and (b) dispatch Form NRC 741 on the same day material was shipped. The licensee is now operating under a Decommissioning Fundamental Nuclear Material Control Plan (DFNMCP) and bad less than one effective kilogram of SNM on inventory as waste materials and standards. Based on a tour of the facility, discussions with licensee personnel, and a review of records and documents, the inspectors determined that the licensee was complying with the DFNMCP and SNM was being recorded and documented as required.
(Closed) Noncompliance _(79-08-01, 79-08-02, 79-10-01, and 80-20-01);
Unresolved (79-08-03); and Information Item (79-19-01 and 80-20-02):
The noncompliance items were that the licensee had failed to: (a) adjust records to the results of two physical inventories within 30 days after start of the physical inventory, (b) include effects of systematic error variance in limit of error calculation, (c) report inventory difference (ID) and measured discard (MD) data within 15 days of the end of a month when ID occurred or MD made, and (d) submit a revision to the decommissioning plan to describe the method of determining uranium content from nondestruc-tive analysis.
The unresolved item was a referral to NRC Licensing with regard to the adequacy of procedures for scrap control, shipper - receiver evaluation, and reconciliation of accounts.
The information items were to:
(a) assure submittal of revisions to the FNMCP and (b) assure submittal of action levels in terms of counting rate for discarding contaminated items.
By letter dated October 5, 1981, NRC licensing approved the licensee's Decommissioning Plan and issued new license conditions which were incor-porated into Amendement MPP-2 to SNM license 777.
The licensee is complying with the Decommissioning Plan and Amendment MPP-2, effective September 30, 1981.
The above closed items no longer are applicable or have been updated and incorporated accordingly.
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'(Closed) Noncompliance (78-24-02 and 79-17-02): The licensee had failed i
to:
(a) document disposition of tamper safing devices and (b) record removal of tamper safing devices.
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-The inspectors reviewed tamper safing logs and current practices and established that the-licensee was adhering to tamper safing requirements.
(0 pen) Unresolved (78-17-02): Completion of review of significant shipper-receiver differences between UNC Navy and UNC Wood River Junction.
A-more detailed review of records will be performed during a subsequent inspection to assure effective resolution.
3.
30703 - Exit Interview The inspectors met with the licensee representatives-(denoted in Paragraph
- 1) on January 28, 1982. -The inspectors summarized the scope and findings of the inspec' tion.
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92713 - Status of Decommissioning Activities No violations were identified. The inspectors toured the facility, had-discussions with licensee personnel, reviewed the DFNMCP, Amendment MPP-2 1
to SNM-777, effective September'30, 1981, and facility procedures and-records to determine. compliance with current requirements.
Personnel were decontaminating the interior of the building. Approximately 0.3 Kgs. of U-235 was on inventory as waste materials and standards. The licensee employed a stabilized assay meter (SAM II) for the quantitative measurements of U-235 surface contamination on scrap' metal that was generated in the process area.
Fluorometric' analysis was utilized by the licensee for the low level measurement of uranium in discard solutions.
1 The discard solution concentrations were generally within the range of 0 to 25 mg. uranimum per liter.
Approximately 27.5 Kgs. of U-235 in dewatered material from the lagoons were shipped for burial to Barnwell, South Carolina, and Beatty, Nevada, for burial.. Approximately 11.0 Kgs. of U-235 in an estimated 14,000 drums remain to be shipped to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for burial. The i
shipments are scheduled to start in June, 1982.
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