ML20133J563

Summary of ACRS Subcommittee on Reactor Radiological Effects 850731 Meeting in Washington,Dc Re INPO Efforts to Assure Effective Application of ALARA Criterion in Radiation Protection Programs.Agenda & List of Attendees Encl

ML20133J563
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Issue date:	08/02/1985
From:	Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
To:	Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
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ACRS-2340, NUDOCS 8510180519
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AND MINUTES OF THE MEETING 0F THE ACRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON REACTOR RADIOLOGICAL EFFECTS JULY 31, 1985 WASHINGTON, D. C.

The ACRS Subcomittee on Reactor Radiological Effects met on July 31, 1985 in Poom 1167, 1717 H St. NW., Washington, D. C.

The purpose of the meeting was to review the efforts of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) in working with licensees to assure the effective application of the ALARA criterion in radiation protection programs at commercial nuclear power plants. Also included was a review of the preliminary work of the NRC Staff in their evaluation of the success of the INP0 efforts.

Notice of this meeting was published in the Federal Register on Monday, July 22, 1985 (Attachment 1). Members of and consultants to the Subcommittee heard presentations on and discussed' the above-named subject in accordance with the tentative agenda (Attachment 2).

Materials distributed during the meeting are listed in Attachment 3.

Copies of these documents are on file in the ACRS office.

The meeting was open to public attendance except for that portion dealing with Excessive Personnel Radiation Exposures, INP0 Document 50ER-85-3, because it contained INP0 Proprietary Information. No written statements were received from members of the public and no one requested an opportunity to make an oral statement. A list of persons attending the meeting is given in Attachment 4; they are also listed below grouped according to affiliation.

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July 31, 1985 Attendees ACRS Subcommittee Members INPO Staff D. Moeller, Chairman W. Kindley C. Mark R. Axtmann NRC Staff D. Muller R. Serbu ACRS Consultants

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R. Kathren J. Buchanan M. First L. Cunningham ACRS Staff Members of the Public D Merrill Four Persons ACRS Fellows J. Kotra Opening Statement Dr. D. W. Moeller, Chairman, opened the meeting at 8:30 a.m. with a statement regarding the conduct of the meeting. He introduced the members of the ACRS Subcommittee, consultants and staff and confirmed the tentative agenda as final and named the topics to be covered in the meeting. He stated that a transcription was being made of the open portions of the meeting.

INP0 Presentation - W. Kindley, Deputy Director, Radiological Protection and Emergency Preparedness Division, INP0 Mr. Kindley reviewed the activities of INP0 in working with commercial plant licensees to improve their radiation protection programs. This was an informal, question and answer type of presentation using the handout material (Item 1, Attachment 3), "1984 Industry Performance in Radiological Protection," as the basis for discussion.

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July 31, 1985 The sumary of Mr. Kindley's presentation was that radiation protection has improved over the past five years, showing a downward trend in collective exposure and in solid radioactive waste output for both PWR and BWR units. Also showing substantial decrease over the same period are the number of personnel exceeding 5 rem at any one facility, and the number of workers receiving exposures exceeding regulatory limits.

Their goal, encouraged by H. Denton of NRC, is an annual reduction of 10% in occupational collective dose and in waste volume over the next several years.

Following are some of the more pertinent points of his presentation.

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INP0 is pushing utilities to reduce the number of workers at nuclear power plants, to reduce the dose per worker, and thereby to lower the collective occupatioral dose.

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INP0's evaluation excluces plants alrea'dy shut down (e.g.

Humboldt Bay, Indian Point 1, TMI-2) and plants with less than one year operation.

Plants in these categories are not typical operating plants and could therefore bias the data base.

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Indicators used in INP0's evaluation include:

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Person-rem / year (i.e., collective occupational dose / year) i 2)

Average dose / person 3)

Number of square feet of contaminated areas within each plant 4)

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Indicators of management involvement in various aspects of radiation protection:

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Annual goals or job goals 2)

Tracking personnel contamination 3)

Tracking positive whole body count 4)

Per'orming independent assessments 5)

Making effective use of radiological engineers Further details on Mr. Kindley's presentation and the exchange of questions and answers among those present are available in the tran-j script made of this meeting.

Review of 50ER 85 W. Kindley In closed session, because of the proprietary nature of the material contained in the Significant Operating Experience Report (50ER) 85-3, t

Mr. Kindley emphasized the non-proprietary, gener'ic material contained in Item 2 of Attachment 3.

He stated that their studies have shown that the occurrence of accidents almost always involves most or all of the following six precursors to radiological incidents:

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Inaccurate or incomplete surveys 2.

Inadequate or.non-existent radiological work permits (RWP) 3.

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Workers not complying with rules 5s Supervisors not feeling accountable 6'.

Station managenent not involved in radiological protection Mr. Kindley stated that these factors were far more meaningful to discuss than specific events sirce, in an INP0 review of six events, all 6 of these factors were present in three of the six events, 5 factors were present in two events, and 4 factors were present in one event.

l INP0's emphasis is to work to correct these six errors, particularly the sixth one, which is principally one of attitude on the part of plant managerent. He concluded by saying that the probability of a major radiological accident wil1 be significantly reduced if these six errors are corrected.

NRC Staff Presentation - D. Muller, Assistant Director, Division of Radiation Protection, NRR, and R. Serbu, Task Manager i

Mr. Muller introduced the topic of the Staff's presentatiori, " Power Reactor Radiation Protection and ALARA Evaluation Program." He stressed the fact that the material to be presented was.of a preliminary nature since the 2-year task would not end until September, 1985.

Mr. Serbu indicated that the program is essentially an evaluation of the j

effectiveness of INP0's ALARA program, and that there is close coordina-tion and cooperation between them and INP0, except in the area of l

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July 31, 1985 independent validation of results rather than merely confirmation of same..He stated that NRC's data are not yet fully compiled and analyzed. Mr. Serbu identified the eleven criteria used in their evaluation:

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Dose goals, dose tracking in use 2.

Individual and collective doses 3.

Personnel exceeding dose limits 4.

Low-level radwaste volume 5.

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Radiological training 8.

Making effective use of radiological engineers 9.

Independent assessment of Health Physics program

10. Radiation Protection staff stability

11. SALP (Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance) trends in radiation protection Of these, he said that information is not directl'y available to NRC under criteria 1, 5, 7, 8 and 9, but it is to INP0.

i Mr. Serbu's presentation was quite exhaustive and can be reviewed in detail in Item 3 of Attachment 3.

The preliminary conclusions of the study are:

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Performance is probably at a satisfactory level; most trends indicate improvement 2.

.There are clearly poor performers that affect overall industry l

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The improvement cannot be specifically attributed to any one effort or group; contributors include:

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Regional inspection program in ALARA 2)

Health physics appraisal program and follow-up 3)

INP0 evaluations, assistance visits, good practices 4)

Utility independent efforts 5)

American Nuclear Insurers 6)

NRR licensing reviews incorporating ALARA 7)

Threat of NRC rulemaking in ALARA 8)

Increased NRC management att'ention to radiation pro-tection/ALARA i

Messrs. Muller and Sertu do not anticipate that the results of this evaluation will be published as a NUREG. Most probably, the results will be issued as a report to the Commissioners. Their milestones call for the following three items to be accomplished by September, 1985:

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Evaluation of INP0/ industry success completed 2)

Radiation Protection Plan Regulatory Guide either issued or withdrawn based upon determination of success or failure of INP0/ industry program 3)

Technical resolution complete (if program is acceptable, issue close-out document memo to EDO.

If program is unacceptable, develop milestones necessary for ap~ proval I

for a Radiation Protection Plan Regulatory Guide).

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July 31, 1985 Executive Session Following the preceding presentations and discussions, the Subcommittee i

members-and consultants discussed the INPO and NRC radiation protection programs.

Recommendations for comments to be made in a letter to the

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Conmissioners regarding the excellence of the INP0 program were made.

However, concern was expressed about the lack of an identifiable i

t organizational entity in the recent reorganiz~ation of NRR, the l

diminishing, or lack of, research in the radiatio ~n protection area and the apparent lack of middle and upper management interest and expertise l

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Immediately following the meeting, D. Moeller, Subcommittee Chairman, t

drafted two letters, one of which provides ACRS comments on the INP0 program on radiation protection.

The second letter addresses the subject " Apparent Effect of NRR Reorganization on NRC's Radiation f

Protection Program." Both of these letters will'be presented, along with a report of this meeting, to the full ACRS during their August 8-10, 1985 meeting.

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A complete transcript of the meeting is on file at the NRC Public Document Room at 1717 H Street, NW., Washington, D. C.

or can be obtained at cost from Ann Riley & Associates, Court Reporters, 1625 I St., NW., Suite 921, Washington, D. C. 20006 (202) 293-3950.

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ROOM 1167 Wednesday, July 31 8:30 AM Introductory Remarks and Objectives D. Moeller, Chairman 8:45 AM Industry Success in Achieving ALARA Bill Kindley, Deputy as a Result of INP0's Efforts Director of Radi-ological Protection and Environmental Pro-tection Division, INPO l

BREAK 10:15 Att 10:30 AM (CLOSED) Excessive Personnel Radiation Ex-Bill Kindley, INPO posures (50ER-85-3)

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12:00 1:00 PM Evaluation of Effectiveness of Dan Muller, Assistant INP0's Radiation Protection Program Director Division of Radiation Protection, NRR BREAK 3:00 PM 3:15 PM Executive Session 5:00 PM Adjourn

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JULY 31, 1985 1.

W. R. Kindley, INPO, Presentation Handout, "1984 Industry i

Performance in Radiological Protection " July 31, 1985 2.

W. P. Kindley, INPO, Presentation Handout, " Precursors to Radiological Incidents," Undated (circa May, 1985)

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Presentation Handout, " Power Reactor Radiation Protection and ALARA Evaluation Program -- A Preliminary Analysis," July 31, 1985 4

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Announcement No. 72,

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