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Insp Rept 50-219/74-15 on 740926-27.Violations Noted.Major Areas Inspected:Physical Inventories,Written SNM Control Procedures,Records & Repts
ML20107C792
Person / Time
Site: Oyster Creek
Issue date: 10/15/1974
From: Partlow J
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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References
FOIA-95-258 50-219-74-15, NUDOCS 9604180012
Download: ML20107C792 (8)


See also: IR 05000219/1974015

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Oyster Creek Nucledr' Gen'erating

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Power Reactor

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SNM Control

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September 26-27, 1974

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Dates of Previous Inspection:

November 29, 1973

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Enforcement Action

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Violation

Failure to conduct a physical inventory of all SNM at least' once

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Previous violations concerning the documentation of physicE5"in-

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Management Interview

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D. A. Ross, Manager of Nuclear Generating Stations

J. T. Carroll, Station Superintendent

D. L. Reeves, Chief Engineer

' C. Fickeissen, Technical Supervisor

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Mr. Ross and Mr. Carroll were located at Jersey Central Headquarters

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in Morristown and participated in the meeting via amplified telephone.

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(The inspection = s unannounced; the licensee has an internal require-

ment that Mr. Ross attend all exit interviews).

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C. Fickeissen, Technical Supervisor

E. J. Growney, Technical Engineer

D. L. Reeves, Chief Engineer

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Scope

The inspection was conducted in accordance with PI-9100. . The

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last full SNM control inspection was conducted in March, 1972.

This inspection covered the period from January 1, 1972 thru

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June 30, 1974.

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A special inspection was conducted on November 29, 1973, to

gather burnup/ production data for use in a proposed BNWL pro-

cedure. Since the burnup/ production data for Oyster Creek was

examined at that time (See Report 73-20), this area was not

included in the current inspection scope.

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Discussion of Findings

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Physical Inventories.

The licensee has conducted the following

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recent physical inventories:

(1) Reactor Core. Inventoried on May 16, 1972, May 16, 1973,

and May 21, 1974, incident to refueling outages.

(2) Spent Fuel Pool.

Inventoried on January 28, 1974 and

August 1, 1974.

(3) New Fuel Vault. Not recently inventoried. New fuel was

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initially placed in the vault in March,1974.

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inventory is required prior to April, 1975.

(4) Miscellaneous _ Fuel Pins.

The licensee holds about twelve

fuel pins resulting f rom on-sito reconstitution in 1972.

They have been inventoried on July 10, 1972 and January 15,

1973, but were omitted from the inventory of the MBA on

January 28, 1974.

The licensee was, therefoto, found to

be in violation of 10 CFR 70.51(d).

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Written SNM Control Procedures:

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Site Operating Procedure 1002 covers procedures for the

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control of SNM. These procedures were revised and

reissued in April, 1973. The written procedures appear

to satisfy the broad requirement of 10 CFR 70.51 and

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the procedures are being carried out as written.

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(2) As of the inspection date, the Technical Supervisor (who

is responsible for SNM control) had not yet seen a copy

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of ANSI Standard N15.8 and Regulatory Guide 5.29 on NMC

Systems for Nuclear Power Plants. The licensee was

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advised to obtain copies of these documents and it'Was

recommended that their written procedures be reviewed

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Records and Reports

(1) All SNM control records for the period of inspection were

reviewed and found to be acceptable.

Forms AEC-741,

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(2) One possible discrepancy was noted in the licensee's

Material Status Reports for the period.

In August, 1972,

General Electric (the fuel supplier) issued transaction

documents YLJ-YHA-7 and 8 which cancelled the SNM values

previously gifen in transaction 1-6 and substituted new

values to be used.

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as a correction to receipts on his Material Status Report

for the second half of 1972.

The audit of these trans-

actions by the AEC inspector indicates that the correction

values for U-235 were in error. The licensee agreed to

our request that he review the transactions involved and,

if found necessary, revise their next MSR to make it

match the results of the AEC audit.

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SNM Activity

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(1) A material balance summary for the period January 1,

1972 thru June 30, 1974 is presented in Exhibits I and

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(2) The next refueling outage is scheduled for March, 1975.

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It will consist of replacing 112 fuel elements. At

June 30, the inventory consisted of:

560 elements in the core

380 elements and 11 pins in the SFP

11 elements in the New Fuel Vault

Twenty-nine elements are to be received in the fall of

1974, and seventy-two elements in early 1975.

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Material Balance Summary

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Beginning Inventcry 1/1/72

112,463,824

1,551,601

Receipts

68,627,650

1,807,132(1)

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1,589,529

806,913

Ending Inventory 6/30/74

179,318,748

2,546,974

Note 1: AEC audit of transaction documents indicates that receipts

are overstated by 334 grams U-235.

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