ML20153C229

Notice of Violation from Insp on 860106-10

ML20153C229
Person / Time
Site:	Hatch
Issue date:	02/12/1986
From:	NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
To:
Shared Package
ML20153C226	List: ML20153C222 ML20153C229 ML20153C233
References
50-321-86-01, 50-321-86-1, 50-366-86-01, 50-366-86-1, NUDOCS 8602190068
Download: ML20153C229 (2)

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ENCLOSURE 1 NOTICE OF VIOLATION Georgia Power Company Docket Nos. 50-321 and 50-366 Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant License Nos. DPR-57 and NPF-5 The following violations were identified during an inspection conducted .on January 6-10, 1986. The Severity Levels were assigned in accordance with the NRC Enforcement Policy (10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C).

1. 10 CFR 71.5(a) requires a licensee who transports licensed material outside the confines of his plant or other place of use or delivers any licensed materials for transport to comply with the applicable requirements of the Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations presented in 49 CFR Parts 170 through 189.

49 CFR 173.425 requires that Low Specific Activity (LSA) radioactive materials consigned for exclusive use be packaged in a DOT Specification 7A Type A package or in a strong, tight package so that there will be no leakage of radioactive material under. conditions normally incident to transportation.

Contrary to the above, the licensee failed to package a shipment of LSA radioac.tive material in a DOT Specification 7A Type A package or a strong, tight package in that on August 26, 1985, Shipment No.85-094 arrived at the State of Washington burial site and. had a hole in one drum.

This is a Sever.ity Level IV violation (Supplement V).

2. Technical Specification 6.8.1 requires that written procedures be estab-lished, implemented, and maintained covering the applicable procedures in Appendix A of Regulatory Guide 1.33, February 1978.

Regulatory Guide 1.33, February 1978, requires procedures for radiation surveys.

Plant procedure 62RP-RAD-008-05, Radiation and Contamination Surveys, requires instrument calibration to be current prior to the start of a survey. Plant procedure 62HI-0CB-005-0, Teletector Model 6112 B/D Operation and Calibration, requires the instrument to be calibrated and the calibration to be documented prior to use.

Contrary to the above:

a. Teletector Model 6112B, Serial Number 4491, did not have a high range '

calibration documented when the instrument was used to perform surveys during radiography operations conducted near the Unit 1 drywell access

- hatch on January 9, 1986.

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Georgia Power Company 2 Docket Nos. 50-321 and 50-366 Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear. Plant License Nos. DPR-57 and NPF-5

b. Telector Model 6112B, Serial Number 10398, was used to perform burial box . surveys at the Waste Sorting Temporary Storage Facility when it had been . tagged as out-of-service for repair on October 30, 1985, and had not been recalibrated prior to its use during the_ week of January 6, 1986.

This violation is similar to the Notice of Violation contained in Report Number 50-321/85-15 sent to you in our June 14, 1985, letter.

This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement IV).

Pursuant to 10 CFR 2.201, Georgia Power Company 'is required to submit to this office within 30 days of the date of this Notice a written statement or explana-tion _ in reply including: (1) admission or denial of the violations, (2) the reasons for the violations if admitted, (3) the corrective steps which have been taken and the results achieved, (4) corrective steps which will be taken to avoid further violations, and (5) the date when full compliance will be achieved.

Security or safeguards information should be submitted as an enclosure to facilitate withholding it from public -disclosure as required by 10 CFR 2.790(d) or 10 CFR 73.21.

FEB 121986 Dated at Atlanta, Georgia this 12 day of February 1986 i

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