ML20058E890

Insp Repts 50-424/90-27 & 50-425/90-27 on 901016-17. Violations Confirmed.Major Areas Inspected:Physical Protection of Safeguards Info in Response to licensee- Identified & Reported Safeguards Event

ML20058E890
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	10/25/1990
From:	Mcguire D, Tillman A NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
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ML20058E884	List: ML20058E881 ML20058E890
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50-424-90-27, 50-425-90-27, NUDOCS 9011080014
Download: ML20058E890 (7)

See also: IR 05000424/1990027

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• H.,Beacher, Senior Engineer,. Technical Support, Vogtle Electric and

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• C. L. Christiansen,. Safety. Audit and Engineering Department, VEGP

• E.: M. Dannamiller, Manager,- Nuclear Security, VEGP

• T. Greene, Assistant General Manager-Support, VEGP

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'*W. C. Guthie, NuclearLSecurity Specialist, VEGP.

~*K. Holmes. Manager, Training and' Emergency' Preparedness, VEGP'

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>*W..F. Mitchens, Assistant General Manager-0perations, VEGP

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At : a'pproximately :'10:40 a.m. ,; 0ctoberf11,11990, the licenseeJnotified the

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by the licensee at 3:13 p.m., October 11. 1990.

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During the period.of October 16-17,1990, an onsite review and enluation'

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^ Engineering Support- Office document file room, Birmingham, Alabama, for a

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container was located was reportedly secured for all but approximately 10

minutes of the time that the container was open and unattended.

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the remaining 10-minute period, the area was occupied by an employee who

was properly cleared, but had not been granted access authorization to

safeguards information. The unsecured safeguards container was discovered

at 12:50 CDT, August 29, 1990, and was telephor.ically reported to the NRC

Operations Center at 3:13 CDT that date.

The Security Incident Report of

the event prepared by the Vogtle security stsff, dated August 31, 1990,

and the subsequent Licensee Event Report, LER 90-075, dated September 25,

1990, did not include an inventory or identify specific safeguards

documents contained in the safeguards container. However, the reports did

reflect that an immediate audit of the container contents determined that

no safeguards documents were missing.

The LER did note that the Vogtle

Project Corporate Office Manager of Licensing reviewed the document

control logs and inspected the contents of the container and deemed the

contents of the unsecured and unattended safeguards information container

as significant relative to assisting a person in undetected or

unauthorized access to a vital or protected area.

The Security Incident

Report of the event, transmitted telephonically to the NRC Operations

Center, described the event as an unsecured safeguards container that had

significant design documents enclosed.

On October 17, 1990, the licensee notified Region 11 of the discovery at

5:30 p.m., October 16, 1990, of two outdated elemer.tary drawings of the

Vogtle Security Power Supply System and the Vogtle emergency diesel

generator that were determined to contain safe 9aards information and were

not appropriately marked or secured.

The drawings were discovered in a

stick file located in the Southern Company Services, Inc. Vogtle Project

Engineering Support Office, Birmingham, Alabama.

Review by the licensee

concluded that the safeguards material contained on the drawings was not

significant and the event was logged on the Vogtle Quarterly Safeguards

Event Log.

On October 22, 1990, the licensee telephonically reported to Region 11 the

discovery of four documents identified as safeguards information in a desk

in the Security Training Office.

The safeguards material was discovered

by corporate investigators engaged in an investigation of the Safeguards

Event of October 11, 1990.

The discovered material consisted of one

security job task analysis, similar to those previously discovered, and

three security drill scenarios, none of which had reportedly been used for

training purposes.

Review of the material by licensee security management

personnel concluded that the documents did not contain safeguards

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Subsecuent review, by Region 11 security management, of randomly selected

copies of the security job tasks analyses discoverad in the Security

Training Office by licensee personnel en October 11, 1990, resulted in

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10 CFR.' 73.21(a) requires, in part, that safeguards information be

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10 CFR 73,21(d)(2) requires, in part, that while unattended, safeguards

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The licensee's Administrative Procedure No. 00650-C,

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Failure to properly secure safeguards material is an apparent violation of

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This- violation is; repetitive and similar. in ' nature- to other violations

relating to the - protection and control of- safeguards information 'as-

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50-424/90-11 and 50-425/90-11, which resulted in the assessment oficivil

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those persons: indicated;in paragraph 1.: 1The inspector described the areas

. inspected 'and discussed lin detail. the -inspection lresults listed below.

Dissenting comments were not received from the licensee.

- The' licensee was informed ' that an ' apparent violation of ; regulatory

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