ML20203F846
| ML20203F846 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Westinghouse |
| Issue date: | 02/20/1998 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20203F837 | List: |
| References | |
| 70-1151-98-02, 70-1151-98-2, NUDOCS 9803020065 | |
| Download: ML20203F846 (2) | |
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I NOTICE OF VIOLATION Westinghouse Electric Corporation Docket No. 70 1151 Commercial Nuclear Fuel Division License No. SNM 1107 i
4 During an NRC inspection conducted on January 26 30, 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:
i License Condition S-1 of License Number SNM 1107 requires that the-licensee shall use special nuclear material in accordance with-statements, representations, and conditions in the License Application dated April 30, 1995, and supplements dated May 11. and 18: August 4 r
and 25. September 25, 1995: July 14 and 25. August 11. November 17. and December 17, 1997, i
Subsection 3.2.1 of the License Application states, in part, that the Manufacturing Component will utilize a suite of maintenance planning and control computer programs to initiate work orders for programmed maintenance, and to record details of the execution of the work orders.
It further states that the computer programs will include procedures for programmed maintenance of safety related systems and components --
prepared, reviewed. and approved in accordance with Subsection 3.4.1 of the License Application.
operations to assure safe, compli! plication states. in part, thatnt activities in Subsection 3.4.1 of the License A material will be conducted in accordance with approved procedures.
Contrary to the above, the licensee failed to conduct activities in accordance with the requirements for utilizing computer programs and/or approved procedures as evidenced by the followirs a.
On January 29. 1998, programmed maintenance of pellet carts, a safety related component, as identified in Subsection 3.2.1 of the License Application, was not being controlled through the use of computer program that initiated work orders.
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Licensee Procedure C0P-825204
- Pellet Tray Carts." required that pellet carts exceeding the two-year limit for biennial programmed maintenance not be used to store pellets.
It specified that the two-year limit expired at the end of the calendar year following the year that programmed maintenance was performed.
On January 29. 1998, activities were not being conducted in accordance with Licensee Procedure C0P 825204 in that numerous
-pellet carts that had last received programmed maintenance in 1996 were being used to store pellets.
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Licensee Proceduro C0P 814321. " Inspection of Ventilation Ducts,"
1 required that specified ventilation ducts be inspected for accumulations of uranium bearing materials on a monthly basis.
4 During 1997, activities were not l,eing conducted in acccrdance with Licensee Procedure C0P.814321 in that the specifled ventilation duct inspections were not performed in seven of the twelve months during the year.
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Licensee Procedure TA 500, " Columbia Manufacturing Plant Configuration Control " defined the review and approval process necessary to assure that systems continued to meet their specification requirements in a manner that was safe and complied with all applicable regulations, in June 1997, during an approved configuration control change, activities were not conducted in accordance with Licensee Proceo.tre TA 500 when a safety significant alarm was inadvertently deleted from the process control software system.
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Licensee Procedure RA-108, " Safety Significant Interlocks and Passive Controls." requires that all safety significant interlocks be verified as functional on an annual basis, and that at no time shall the time span between operability testing of any interlock exceed 15 months (456 days), in January 1997, activities were not being conducted in accordance with Licensee Procedure RA 108 when i
safety significant interlocks for the Safe Geometry Dissolvers and Incinerator systems were discovered to have not been operationally tested within the specified time limit.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement VI).
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Westinghouse Electric Corporation is hereby required to submit a written statement or explanation to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN:
Document Control Desk, Washington, D.C. 20555 with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region 11, 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 com)11ance will be achieved, Your response may reference or include previous docteted 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 Demand for Information may be issued as to why the license should not be modified, sus) ended, or revoked, or why such other action as may be proper should not be taten. Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time.
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Because your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), to the extent pcssible, it should not include any personal privacy,tlout)roprietary.
or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the POR wi r)daction, i f 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 i
withholding of such material, you must s)ecifically identify the portions of i
i your response that you seek to have withield, and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (e.g., 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 financial information).
If safeguards information i
.is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of t
protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.
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Dated at Atlanta, Georgia This 20th day of February, 1998
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