ML20138L013

Matl Control & Accounting Insp Rept 70-1100/85-06 on 850916- 19.No Noncompliance Noted.Major Areas Inspected:Physical Inventory

ML20138L013
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Site:	07001100
Issue date:	10/17/1985
From:	Della Ratta A, Keimig R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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70-1100-85-06, 70-1100-85-6, NUDOCS 8510310128
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I Report No. 70-1100/85-06 Docket No. 70-1100 License No. SNM-1067 ,

Safeguards Group: III Licensee: Combustion Engineering, Inc.

P. O. Box 500 Windsor, Connecticut 06095 Facility Name: Combustion Engineering - Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Inspection At: Windsor, Connecticut Inspection Conducted: September 16 - 19, 1985 Date of Last Material Control and Accounting Inspection: June 18 - 21, 1985 Type of Inspection: Announced Material Control and Accounting Inspector : 7 /,J //7/8[

'date' A.gla'Ratta,SafegujrdsAuditor Approved by: dw)guards Section /p./9-S#

date R.f.Keimig,/ Chief, Nuclear Mate /fals Saf y and Safeguards Branch Inspection Summary: R_outine Announced Inspection on September 16-19, 1985 (Inspection Report No. 70-1100/85-06)

Areas Inspected: Observation of Physical Inventory. The inspection involved 32 hours3.703704e-4 days <br />0.00889 hours <br />5.291005e-5 weeks <br />1.2176e-5 months <br /> by one NRC region-based inspector.

Results: The licensee was in compliance with NRC requirements in the area inspected.

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DETAILS

1. Key Persons Contacted International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Department of Safeguards J. Gough, Lead Inspector

.E. Zobor, Inspector I. Hiramatsu, Inspector D. Jones, Inspector G. Labellarte, Inspector.

Combustion Engineering, Inc.

• T. Bowie, Manager, Nuclear Materials and Security D. Parks, Manager, Nuclear Materials and Security (Replacement)

R. Sheeran, Manager, Nuclear Licensing, Safety, Security and Accountability G. Kersteen, Manager of Production G. BuddenHagen, Supervisor U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. Robinson, S" NMSS

• present at exit interview The inspector also interviewed other licensee employees involved with nuclear material control and production.

2. 30703 - Exit Interview The inspector met with the licensee representative noted in paragraph 1 at the conclusion of the inspection on September 19, 1985, and summarized the scope and findings of the inspection.

At no time during this inspection was written material provided to the licensee by the inspector.

3. 85211 - physical Inventory Beginning September 17, 1985, the licensee took a complete physical inventory of special nuclear material. The previous physical inventory '

j was taken beginning March 19, 1985.

The IAEA and NRC inspectors attended the preinventory meetings, which were conducted during the afternoon of September 16 for the Development Department personnel inventory teams, and on the morning of September 17 for the Manufacturing Department personnel inventory teams. At these meetings written inventory instructions were issued to all team' members 1

and oral instructions were given which emphasized the importance of certain written instructions.

-The majority of the physical' inventory items noted by the inspectors consisted of virgin UO2 powder, UO2 pellets, recycle powder, fuel rods, assembled rods, sludges, drummed waste and chemistry samples. The

!nspectors witnessed the implementation of the licensee's procedures for listing items on inventory by the inventory teams. The inspectors noted that items such as sludges and scrap were scheduled for-sampling and assay to determine the SNM content and that other items were being weighed for inventory purposes. The inspectors witnessed the weighings being performed on trays of pellets and verified that accurate weights were being recorded. The IAEA inspectors calculated the attribute and variables sampling plans for each stratum as physical inventory lists became available. The plans were to be used for inventory verification.

The IAEA and NRC inspectors performed a cross check of material located in material balance areas against the book records. This cross check included the reweighing of selected containers of UO 2powders that had been previously weighed by the licensee prior to the physical iriventory and placed in a enclosed tamper-sealed storage area. The inspectors witnessed the reweighing and observed no weight differences of significance.

Virgin U02 powders, grinder sludge, scrap pellets and production pellets were sampled for licensee analysis during the physical inventory.

Selection of the samples was done in accordance with the IAEA sampling plan. Duplicate samples for independent analyses were also taken for the IAEA (to be sent to its laboratory in Seibersdorf, Austria) and for the NRC (to be sent to the New Brunswick Laboratory). On completion of the Uranium and Uranium-235 analyses by the licensee's and NRC's laboratories, a statistical evaluation will be made by the NRC and will be documented in a subsequent inspection report (Inspector Follow-Up Item 85-06-01).

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