ML20197A772
| ML20197A772 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant |
| Issue date: | 02/27/1998 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| ML20197A767 | List: |
| References | |
| 70-7001-98-201, NUDOCS 9803090380 | |
| Download: ML20197A772 (2) | |
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NOTICE OF VIOLATION United States Enrichment Corporation Docket No. 70-7001 Bethesda, Maryland Certificate No. GDP-1 During an NRC inspection conducted on February 9 - 13,1998, a violation of NRC requirements was identified. In accordance with the " General Statement of Policy and Procedures for NRC Enforcement Actions," NUREG-1600, the violation is listed below:
TSR Section 3.11.1 requires, in part, that "A Criticality Safety Program shall be established, implemented, and maintained as described in the Safety Analysis Report..."
SAR Section 5.2.2.6 requires, in part, thr.t " Operations to which NCS pertains shall be governed by written procedures. These procedures contain the appropriate NCS controls for processing, storing, and handling of fissile material. The NCSA requirements which require employee actions shall be incorporated into the operating procedures....
The NCSA requirements nre incorporated into the appropriate procedures as required by the NCS procedure."
Procedure CP2-EG NS1031," Nuclear Criticality Safety," Rev.1, Section 6.1.3, requires, in part, that " Functional Manager and Fissile Material Operations Management... Flows down NCS controls and limits into applicable operating procedures."
NCS A GEN-04, Request 1869 requires, in part, the use of physical restraints to enforce the two-foot spacing requirement during vacuum cleaner storage or the simultaneous transportation of more than one vacuum, on opening the vacuum cleaner in certain areas, and special requirements on storage of hoses. Also, clogged vacuum hoses must be stored in maximum 5.5 gallon waste drums, and hoses are not allowed to be wrapped around the vacuums.
Contrary to the above, as of February 13,1998, three operating procedures, CP4-CU-CH2103, Rev.1, CP4-CU-CH2105, Rev. O, and CP4-CU-CH2106, Rev. O, did not contain the nuclear criticality controls regarding vacuum cleaner spacing and vacuum hose storage.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement VI).
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 76.60, USEC is hereby required to submit a written statement or exphnation to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Document Control Desk, Washington, D.C. 20555, with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region Ill, 9003090300 900227 PDR ADOCK 07007001 C
2 and the Ilranch Chief, Fuel Cycle Operations Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS, 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, *he basis for disputing l
the violation,(2) the corrective steps that have been taken and the results achieved,(3) the corrective step hat will be taken to avoid further violations, and (4) the date when full compliance will be achieved. Your response may reference or include previous docketed correspondence, if the correspondence adequately addresses the required response if an adequate reply is not received within the time specified in the Notice, an order or Demand for Information may be issued as to why the certificate should not be modified, suspended, or revoked, or why such other action as may be proper should not be taken. "/here good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time.
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 bracueted copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such infonnation. If you request withholding such material, you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your ::laim of withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure ofinfomiation 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 financial infonnation). If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 27th day of February 1997