ML20106J867

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Notice of Violation from Insp on 731023.Violation Noted: Licensee Failed to Conduct Adequate Evaluation of Concentrations of Airborne Radioactive Matl in Waste Barrel Storage Areas
ML20106J867
Person / Time
Site: Oyster Creek
Issue date: 11/16/1973
From:
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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References
FOIA-95-258 50-219-73-17, NUDOCS 9604120038
Download: ML20106J867 (2)


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ENCLOSURE Description of Violations and Safety Items Jersey. Central Power and Light Campany Madison Avenue at Funehbowl Road Morristown, New Jersey License No.~DFR-16 Certain activities under your license appear to be in violation of j

AEC requirements. These apparent violations are considered to be j

of Category II severity:

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10 CFR 20.201, " Surveys', requires that such surveys be l

conducted as are necessary to comply with 20.103, " Exposure of individuals to concentrations of radioactive material in restricted areas".

g Contrary to this requirement, you failed to conduct adequate I

evaluations of the concentrations of airborne radioactive materials in the waste barrel storage areas.

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You did make surveys that were intended to achieve this objective but these surveys were not performed under a

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sufficient variety of operational conditions to establish a valid measure of the exposure incurred by individuals working i

in this area.

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10 CFR 20,201(b) " Surveys", requires you to make such surveys j

as may be necessary to comply with the regulations in 10 CFR 20.

One of these regulations,10 CFR 20.101(2), " Exposure of individuals to radiation in restricted areas", establishes the 5

quarterly limit for dose to the hands.

l Contrary to this requirement, you failed to conduct adequate evaluations of the hand exposure incurred by a technician assigned to aske contamination surveys on waste barrels.

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.cerning the safety of operations as indicated below:

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The National Cassaittee on Radiation Protection, in its Report No. 30 (National Bureau of Standards, Handbook 92), ree w ds

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that "No edibles of any kind - food, gun, candy, beverages - shall I

be brought into contaminated areas or areas that may become con-taminated between radiation control surveys" (see section 3.4,

" Personal Cleanliness", page 18).

j Contrary to the above, our inspector found coffee and doughnuta in the trailer used as a change area for the re-moval of contaminated protective clothing.

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The National Committee on Radiation Protection in Section 3.4 of NCRP Report No. 30 (NBS Handbook 92), provides the following guidance for the safe handling of radioactive material:

"Per-sonnel should keep their work areas free from equipment and I

materials not needed for the insediate work. Orderliness is a I

prime requirement for eliminating the spread of contamination.

Af ter use, equipment should be decontaminated or stored in a controlled location".

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A Contrary to the above, accumulations of trash and piles of j

loose powdered chemicals from burst containers were present on the floor in.Le waste barrel storage area.

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The expenditure of every reasonable effort to maintain the lowest i

s practicable levels of exposure of individuals to radiation and l

to radioactive contamination is a precept of radiation safety 1

which is universally accepted and supported, in principle, in 10 CFR 20.1(c), "Furpose".

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j Contrary to the above, your management control over the waste 4

barrel removal operations was inadequate to assure the lowest practicable levels of exposure to individuals involved.

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