ML20195H290
| ML20195H290 | |
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| Site: | Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant |
| Issue date: | 11/12/1998 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| ML20195H275 | List: |
| References | |
| 70-7002-98-16, NUDOCS 9811230302 | |
| Download: ML20195H290 (2) | |
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NOTICE OF VIOLATION United States Enrichment Corporation Docket No. 70-7002 Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Certificate No. GDP-2 During an NRC inspection conducted from October 19 through 23,1998, a violation of NRC requirements was identified. In accordance with the " General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," NUREG-1600, the violation is listed below:
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 76.93, " Quality Assurance," requires, in part, that the Corporation shall establish, maintain, and execute a Quality Assurance Program.
Section 2.12 of the Quality Assurance Program, " Control of Measuring and Test Equipment,"
requires, in part, that a system !s established for the co~ntrol of measuring and test equipment for Q items as specified in Section 2.2 of the Quality Assurance Program. Section 2.12 further requires the system establish measures to ensure that instruments and other measuring and testing devices used in activities affecting quality are of the proper type, range, and accuracy.
Quality Assurance Program Section 2.2 and Safety Analysis Report Section 3.8, "Q, and AQ Structures, Systems and Components," establish withdrawal station pigtail isolation and autoclave containment isolation valves as Q items. Safety Analysis Report Sections 4.2.3.2,
" Pigtail Rupture Accident Analysis," and 4.2.3.4," Pigtail Gasket Failure Accident Analysis,"
require the withdrawal station pigtail isolation and autoclave containment isolation valves to close within 5 and 15 seconds, respectively, in order to ensure that accidental releases of uranium hexafluoride remain within the bounds of the accident analysis.
Contrary to the above, from March 3,1997 through October 21,1998, the Corporation did not establish measures to ensure that instruments and other measuring and testing devices used to measure some activities affecting quality were of the proper type, range, and accuracy.
Specifically, the Corporation failed to establish measures to ensure that instruments used to
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measure the closing time, an activity affecting quality, of the withdrawal station pigtail isolation and autoclave containment isolation valves (Q items) were of the proper type, range, and accuracy.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement VI). (VIO 70-7002/98016-01)
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 76.70, United States Enrichment Corporation is hereby required to submit a written statement or explanation for the violation to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Document Control Desk, Washington, D.C. 20555 with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region lil, and a copy to the NRC Resident inspector Office at Portsmouth, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice of Violation (Notice).
This reply should be clearly marked as a " Reply to a Notice of Violation" and should include for each violation: (1) the reason for the violation, or, if contested, the basis for disputing the violation, (2) the corrective steps that have been taken and the results achieved, (3) the corrective steps that will be taken to avoid further violations, and (4) the date when full compliance will be achieved. Your response may reference or include previously docketed correspondence,if the correspondence adequately addresses the required response. If an adequate reply is not received within the time specified in this Notice, an order or a Demand for Information may be issued as to why the Certificate should not be modified, suspended, or i
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Notice of Violation revoked, or why such other action as may be proper should not be taken. Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time.
If you contest this enforcement action, you should also provide a copy of your response to the Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
20555-0001.
Because your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), to the extent possible, it should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction. if personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information. If you request withholding of such material, you muit specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (for example, explain why the disclosure of information will create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financialinformation). If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.
In accordance with 10 CFR 19.11, you may be required to post this Notice within two working days.
Dated this 12th day of November 1998
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