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Insp Rept 50-458/85-64 on 850916-20.No Violation or Deviation Noted.Major Areas Inspected:Radwaste Mgt Controls, Training & Qualifications,Radwaste Startup & Liquid & Gaseous Waste Sys
ML20133Q077
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Site: River Bend Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 10/16/1985
From: Baer R, Murray B
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
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U. S. NUCLr .i<r REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I s NRC Inspection Report: 50-458/85-64 License: NPF-40 Docket: 50-458-Licensee: Gulf States Utilities (GSU)

P. O. Box 2951 Beaumont, Texas 77704-Facility Name: River Bend Station (RBS)

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Inspection At: River Bend Station, St. Francisv111e, Louisiana Inspection Conducted: September 16-20, 1985 Inspector: #6C

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R/E. Baer, Radiation Specialist, Facilities Date Radiological Protection Section Approved: . El 4 T h llAtB 41 l0hb/66 B.Nurray, Chief,Faciliti/sRadiological Dat'e '

Protection Section

' Inspection Summary

' Inspection Conducted September 16-20, 1985 (Report 50-458/85-64)

Areas Inspected: Routine, unannounced inspection of the licensee's radioactive waste management controls, training and qualifications, radwaste startup,

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liquid, and gaseous waste systems. The inspection involved 30 inspector-hours onsite by one NRC= inspecto Results: Within the areas inspected, no violations or deviations were identifie PDR ADOCK 05000458 G PDR

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  • J. C. Deddens, Vice President',-~ River Bend Nuclear Group'

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  • T. F. Plunket,-P1 ant Manager

'*B.~ E._Boyer, Environmental Analyst L. N.= Campo, Radwaste-Specialist, s

,*E. M. .Cargill J . Supervisor Radiological Programs-

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  • J. V.' Conner, Supervisor Environmental Services-

"T. C. Crouse, Maager Quality- Assurance R. G. Easlick, Radwaste Supervisor

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W.-F. Eisele Jr., Health Physicis *P. E. Freehill,-Superintendent Start'up and Test (SU&T)

  • R. Gipson, Assistant Plants Manager N0 . T. Hale, Radiation Protection Specialist M.' A. .Harrington, Senior Environmental Specialist

~*B. E.' Hey, Licensing Engineer D. E. Jacobsen, System Engineer

. G..R._Kimmell, Supervisor Operations Quality Assurance (QA)

  • J..M. McGhee, Radwaste Foreman C.;L.-Nash,! Chemistry Supervisor
  • E. R. Oswood, .QA Engineer

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  • S. R. Radebaugh,: Assistant Superintendent SU&T ,
  • C. A. Rohrmann, Technical. Training Coordinator

'*J. E. Spivey'Jr, QA Engineer

  • L. R. Thompson, Instrumentation and Control Supervisor
  • R.~ G. West, SU&T-

'Other R.'T. Dunn, Lead Startup Engineer 80P Power Managements Consultants

~ G. Humphrey, Lead SU&T Engineer, General Electric Ji W. Morgan, Lead St.artup Eng'inee' HVAC, Sunbelt J. K. Newton, Startua Engineer, Sunbelt R. R. Williams, Sentir Training' Specialist, NUS Corporation

. The NRC inspector also interviewed several other licensee and contractor employee '

  • Denotes those' individuals present during the exit mr.eting on September 20, 198 .

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-3-t L- Radwaste-Organization and Management Control The NRC inspector examined the licensee's onsite organization regarding radioactive waste management to determine compliance with the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR), Chapters 13.1 and 13.4, commitments, Technical Specifications (TS), Sections 6.2.2 and 6.5 and recommendations

, of Regulatory Guide (RG) 4.1 This licensee had defined the responsibilities of various station departments and the radwaste section crganization and management control in administrative procedure ADM-0038, " Radioactive Waste Management Program," Revision 1, May 25, 1985, which also contains a Gulf States Utilities Radioactive Waste Management Policy Statemen The NRC inspector discussed the responsibilities and duties of the radwaste nuclear equipment operators (RNE0). The licensee has six RNE0's, one per shift, on a six shift rotatio The NRC inspector expressed concern that during off-normal work hours the RNE0 would not be able to verify valve line-ups, operate valves, and perform routine surveillance of equipment and at the same time remain in the auxiliary control room to acknowledge abnormal alarms, document radwaste system evolutions, and control system components. The licensee stated that nuclear equipment operators (NEO) from the operating shift would be available to man the auxiliary control room when the RNE0 performs duties outside the control room. The NRC inspector suggested that the NE0's should be knowledgeable in the radwaste system operation and capable of acknowledging alarm condition The NRC inspector reviewed selected administrative and operating proce-dures (See Attachment 1) which had been chang 3d since the last radioactive waste program inspection. The NRC inspector d*scussed with licensee representatives procedure ADM-0043, "Radwaste Management Plan,"

Section 6.2.2 that specified a limit below which the licensee proposed to release the material as non-contaminated waste and procedure RWS-0307,

" Radioactive Waste Segregation," Section 8.2.1.4 where the licensee had stated that a positive indication of contamination would be a twice back-ground reading on one of two models of low-level radiation detection equipmen The NRC inspector referred the licensae to 10 CFR Part 20.301, which states that no licensee shall dispose of licensed material except by transfer to an authorized recipient or as approved by the NR The licensee had not generated or released any material using the above stated release limits at the time of this inspection. The licensee stated they would review the above mentioned procedure No violations or deviations were identifie . Radwaste Training and Qualifications The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's ra'dwastc training' program and indivi. dual qualifications to determine compliance with FSAR committments and TS Section 6.4 and 10 CFR Part 19.12 requirement .

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-4-The NRC inspector verified that individuals occupying the positions of radwaste supervisor, radwaste foreman, and RNE0 had received the training and met the qualifications for their assigned positions consist-

-ent with Procedure RWS-0203, " Personnel Qualification for Radwaste Section." The NRC inspector noted that the radwaste supervisor was presently attending a general systems training course and the individual assigned as radwaste foreman held a senior reactor operator license. All five RNE0's had completed qualifications card requirements for radwaste systems operation The NRC inspector discussed with licensee representatives the qualifications, training, and preparation time available for personnel assigned to present training to radwaste personne The NRC inspector interviewed and reviewed the qualifications of the individual assigned to the position of supervisor radiological programs to determine compliance with TS Section 6.2 and 6.3, and FSAR Section 1 commitments. The NRC inspector determined that the assigned individual met the recommendations of industry standard ASNI/ANS 3.1-1978 and RG 1.8, September 197 No violations or deviations were identifie . Liquid Radioactive Waste System

.The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's liquid radioactive waste program to determine compliance with TS, Sections 3.3.7.10, 3.4.4, 3.4.5, 4.4.5, and 6.15.1, FSAR Chapters 11.2 and 11.5 commitments and Inspection and Enforcement (IE) Bulletin 80-1 The NRC inspector reviewed temporary alteration request number 85-LWS-14, dated August 22, 1985, which involved the running of a temporary line consisting of hard pipe and approximately 150 of fire hose from valve A0V115 (discharge.of the floor drain collector subsystem) to valve A0V257, liquid waste discharge valve, and to the circulating water blowdown discharge line far release to the environmen This alteration allows discharge from the floor drain tanks without processing through the strainers, filters, cation, anion, mixed bed demineralizers, and the liquid radwaste effluent monitor RMS-RE107. The NRC inspector noted the licensee had performed a safety analysis, 10 CFR Part 50.59, review for this temporary alteration to the liquid effluent lin The licensee does rot routinely utilize this bypass line for liquid discharge The NRC inspector discussed with licensee representatives those controls utilized

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to ensure that~ releases involving the above alternc'.e discharge route do not contain radioactive material and that the tank being discharged cannot accept additional liquids after sampling. The licensee stated v that the operation of the liquid waste system is covered in -

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procedures SOP-0101, " Liquid Radwaste Collection System" and SOP-0108,

" Liquid Radwaste Processing." Operating in the batch mode requires that the receiving tank be isolated, recirculated, sampled, and discharge l' Incoming liquids are routed to one of the other two tanks available in the system. -The licensee reaffirmed that the bypass line would only be used when no radioactivity is detectable in the effluent The licensee stated

'that use of the alternate discharge would be terminated on November 22, 11985; or when the radwaste filters and demineralizers are operating

' correctl The NRC inspector reviewed the preoperaticnal test 1-PT-603, " Liquid Radwaste System," Revision 0, November 8, 1984, the test exceptions (TE)

and major / minor change request (MCR) which had been generated during the

. performance of testing and 1-SST-044, " Filter /Demineralizer Train A Operation," Revision 0, July 6, 198 All deficiencies had been satisfactorily resolved or did not impact on the system operation and the test packages were approved by the Joint Test Group (JTG) on June 17, 1985, and September 3, 1985, respectivel The NRC inspector discussed with licensee representatives the status of the digital radiation monitoring system (DRMS) which includes the liquid and gaseous effluent monitoring systems. The licensee had completed calculations to determine correction factors for the iodine plateout

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. fraction and particulate deposition fraction on the main plant exhaust stack, fuel building ventilation. exhaust and radwaste building ventilation exhaust for both the gaseous and part alate and gaseous extended range monitors. 'The licensee stated that they were still evaluating the possi-bility of having a vendor perform actual plateout and deposition test The licensee had completed the preoperational test on the DRMS and was in the process of resolving the test exceptio The DRMS vendor was scheduled to start the field peformance test on the syste A The NRC inspector determined that the licensee had drafted an administrative procedure to ' control the discharge of liquid effluen Procedure CSP-110,

" Control of Plant Liquid Radioactive Discharges" which has been approved by the licensee will be used to implement the administrative procedur The licensee had not made any liquid releases which would have required the use of a liquid radioactite waste discharge permi >

-No violations or deviations ~were identifie . Gaseo'us Radioactive Waste System

, The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's gaseous waste management system to determine conpliance with TS Sections 3.3.7.11, 3.6.5.4, 3.6.5.6, 3/4.6.6, 3/4.7.'2 and 6.15.1 reysirements FSAR Sections 9.4.11.3, and 11.5 commitment t

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-6-The NRC inspector discussed with licensee representatives the status of the gaseous radioactive waste system. The licensee stated that preoperational tests were to be completed by September 25, 1985. The NRC inspector noted that optrating procedure, SOP-0092, "Offgas System" still contained several "LATERS" which needed 'co be resolved such as the recombined inlet temperatures, air purge supply air flow, and prefilter differential pressure. These values would be available after completion of the preoperational tes The licensee had completed the preoperational tests 1-SST-17, " Field Testing of Category I Charcoal Filter Units" for the safety-related systems and 1-SST-18, " Field Testing of Category II Charcoal Filter Units," for the non-safety system Thesa test results were in the review cycle prior to JTG approval. The licensee had to replace the charcoal in the standby gas treatment system to meet the TS Section 3.6.5.4. require-ments for methyl iodide penetration. A sample of the charcoal had been sent offsite for laboratory analysis and the results of this test were not

, available for review at the time of this inspectio No violations or deviations were identifie . Ragwaste Startup The NRC inspector reviewed the licensee's records and sampling schedule for monitoring the following water systems: nakeup water, feedwater, condensate demineralizer effluent, condensate pump discharge,-condensate storage tank, control rod drive, reactor water clean up "A" and "B" effluent, and reactor water for compliance with TS Sectior. 3/4.4.4. and 3/4. The NRC inspector reviewed the licensea's program for monitoring of nonradioactive process and effluent streams to preclude the potential for unmonitored, uncontrolled release or radioactivity to the environment to determine compliance with IE Bulletin 80-10. The licensee had incorporated specific sampling and analytis surveillances in various chemistry proce-dures for plant systems and the environmental services section had included the sewage and storm drainage system The licensee had not made any liquid radioactive releases at the time of this inspectio No violations or deviations were identifie . Exit Interview The NRC inspector met with licensee representatives identified in paragraph 1 and the NRC ser;ior resident inspector at the conclusion of the inspr tion on September 2'J,1985. The NRC inspector summarized the scope and findings of this inspection including:

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'ADM-0038,'" Radioactive Waste Management Program," Revision 1, May 25, 1985

.ADM-0043, "Radwaste Management' Plan,"~ Revision 0,' March 23, 1985

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-- RWS-0203, " Personnel Qualification for Radwaste Section," Revision 2,

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'RWS-0205, "Radwaste Task Scheduling," Revision'1, July 25, 1985

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RWS-0206, "Radwaste Scaling Factors Program," Revision 1, April 17, 1985

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._RWS-0207, "Radwaste Shipping Criteria," Revision 1, May 18, 1985 RWS-0208, " Waste. Water Management," Revision 1, July 26, 1985

'RWS E 0305,'"Use of the Ory Active Waste Storage FacilityL(DAWSF)" Revision 1,

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RWS-0307,." Radioactive Waste Segregation,". Revision 1, May 3, 1985

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SOP-0082, " Process Radiation Monitors," Revision 1, July 13fl985 .

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