ML20044G162
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| Site: | 05000128 |
| Issue date: | 05/24/1993 |
| From: | Callan L NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Hall K TEXAS A&M UNIV., COLLEGE STATION, TX |
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Texas A&M University System
ATTN:
Dr. Ken R. Hall
Deputy Director
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
301 WERC
College Station, Texas 77843
SUBJECT:
RESPONSE TO NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-128/93-01
Thank you for your letter dated May 7,1993, in response to the two emergency
preparedness weaknesses identified in NRC Inspection Report 50-128/93-01 dated
April 9, 1993. We have examined your reply and find it responsive to the
concerns raised in our inspection report.
As part of your response to Weakness 128/9301-01 concerning radiological
emergency classification action 1evels, you have submitted a revised emergency
classification guide (Table I) and committed to retrain your operators to
classify emergencies according to this guide. We understand that this revised
classification guide is part of a revision to your emergency plan and
implementing procedures that you are preparing for submittal to NRC by the end
of the summer 1993. NRC will perform a detailed review of your emergency plan
revision following its submittal, including the revised classification guide.
Therefore, please note that NRC acceptance of your corrective action for
Weakness 128/9301-01 does not constitute preapproval of your revised
classification guide.
Should you have any questions concerning this let+rr, please contact
Mr. L. T. Ricketson at (817) 860-8165.
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Docket No: 50-128 License R-83
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SUBJECT:
Licensee Reply to Program Weakness Identifications Dated
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The following response is submitted by the Texas A&M University.
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System / Texas Engineering Experiment Station (Licensee), in regards
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program weaknesses
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inspection report issued by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission-
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Region IV Office.
Stated Weakness
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NRC Regulatory Guide 2.6, " Emergency Planning for Research and
Test
Reactors"
specifies
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licensees
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develop
emergency action levels that relate directly to facility
parameters.
The licensee's failure to establish radiological
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emergency classification action levels related to facility
parameters which could be promptly assessed was identified as
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a plan weakness.
Contrary to the above, the inspectors determined that the
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monitors for stack particulate (Channel #1) and Stack gas
(Channel #3) were at least a magnitude less than the action
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levels for a NOUE and at least two orders of magnitude less
than the ection levels for an. Alert.
Licensee Response
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The program weakness discussed above was identified by' the
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licensee in discussions between Ms.
Martha Brown of ' the
Nuclear Science Center and Mr. Larry Rickertson and Dr. Blair
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Spitzberger of the Region IV Office.
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Brown used this weakness as an example of one of the major
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Emergency Plan and the Implementing Procedures they would have
been aware that corrective action regrading this' weakness had
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already been proposed in the revision.
The-revised Emergency
Plan and Implementing Procedures should be~ ready to submit to
the Region IV office by the end of the summer.
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implementing procedures can be made, the NSC plans to retrain
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all of its operational staff in the new classification table
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STATED WEAKNESS
Through
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notifications to the NRC except as required by 10CFR20 and the
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Technical Specifications. The licensee's failure to establish
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clear guidance in the emergency plan and.the implementing
procedures for emergency notifications to the NRC was
identified as a program weakness.
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The licensee admits to the program weakness.-
CORRECTIVE ACTION
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The Emergency Plan and Implementing- Procedures were under
revision at the time of the inspection and changes.have been
made to the revision to make - it clear to the Emergency
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Director when notifications are required and the time period
in which they need to be completed (See enclosed Table.I). In
order to
facilitate these notifications additional. changes
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notifications
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ensure
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of the emergency class (see enclosed NSC Form 854).
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Incident
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Fire
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material is used or stored.
Prolonged Fire
Notification of
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Tornado
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and adversly effect the
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Personnel
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Event
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Bomb Threat
Non-specific to the reactor
Operational
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With possible radiological
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release implications
Unusual Event *
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Explosion
Non-specific to the reactor
Operational
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which might adversly affect
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Experiment
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