ML20209F854
| ML20209F854 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Waterford  |
| Issue date: | 04/14/1987 |
| From: | Murray B, Nicholas J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20209F811 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-382-87-06, 50-382-87-6, NUDOCS 8704300406 | |
| Download: ML20209F854 (7) | |
See also: IR 05000382/1987006
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APPENDIX B
U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION IV
NRC Inspection Report:
50-382/87-06
License:
Docket:
50-382
Licensee:
Louisiana Power and Light Company (LP&L)
317 Baronne Street
P. O. Box 60340
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New Orleans, Louisiana
70160
Facility Name:
Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 (Wat-3)
Inspection At:
Taft, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana
Inspection Conducted:
March 23-27, 1987
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Inspector:
J. B. Nicholas ~, Senior fadiation Specialist
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Insp1ction Summary
Inspection Conducted March 23-27, 1987 (Report 50-382/87-06)
Areas Inspected:
Routine, unannounced inspection of the licensee's solid
radioactive waste and transportation programs including:
organization and
managnent controls, training and qualifications, solid radioactive waste
packaging, radioactive waste management, transportation activities, and
low-level radioactive waste storage facilities.
Results: Within the areas inspected, one violation was identified (failure to
properly control, store, and protect quality assurance records, paragraph 4).
One unresolved item was identified (certified packaging registration,
paragraph 5). .No deviations were identified.
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DETAILS
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Persons Contacted
LP&L
- R. P. Barkhurst, Vice President-Nuclear, Nuclear Operations
S. A. Alleman, Assistant Plant Manager, Technical Services
- J. R. McGaha, Acting Plant Manager
- P. N. Backes, Acting Nuclear Quality Assurance (QA) Manager
- K. L. Brewster, Operations Licensing Engineer
- J. L. Etheridge, Radwaste Engineer, Nuclear Special Projects
W. M. Finnerity, Operations Training Instructor
- C. R. Gaines, Staff Assistant
T. O. Gray, Supervisor, Operations QA
- W. T. LaBonte, Radiation Protection Superintendent
R. P. Lee, QA Auditor, Operations.
G. G. Miller, Health Physics Training Instructor
W. M. Morgan, Manager, Vendor QA
- J. M. O'Hern, Training Superintendent, Technical Support
- P. V. Prasankumar, Acting Assistant Plant Manager, Plant Services
- D. M. Rieder, Radwaste Associate Engineer
- L. R. Simons, Radwaste Engineer
- D. B. Stevens, Radwaste Supervisor
- G. E. Wuller, Operations Licensing Engineer
- J. J. Zabritski, Acting QA Manager, Operations
Others
J. G. Luehman, NRC Senior Resident Inspector
A. W. Grella, NRC Senior Health Physicist (Transportation)
- Denotes those present during the exit' briefing on March 27, 1987.
2.
Inspector-Observations
The following are observations the NRC inspector discussed with the
licer.see during the inspection and at the exit briefing on March 27, 1987.
These observations are neither violations nor unresolved items.
These
items were identified for licensee consideration for program improvement,
but they have no specific regulatory requirement.
a.
Radwaste Segregation Facility - The licensee had not established an
efficient, well maintained, and permanent area for the surveying and
segregating of contaminated materials for radwaste processing.
b.
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Storage Facility - The licensee does not
have inside weather-tight storage for the present quantity of
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low-level radioactive waste which is awaiting segregation,
processing, or shipment to a burial site.
The present facilities do
not provide handling, packaging, and transport loading areas.
c.
Tracking of Radioactive Waste Shipments - The licensee did not have
in a procedure detailed steps to track, investigate, and make
required notifications following incidents of overdue or not received
shipments of radioactive waste materials.
d.
Defective Type B Packages - The licensee did not have a procedure to
define and perform the required notifications regarding defects in
Type B packages.
e.
Hazardous Materials Incidents - The licensee did not have a procedure
to perform the required immediate notification following certain
hazardous materials transportation incidents,
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Record Requirements - The licensee had not provided sufficient detail
in the radwaste procedure RW-1-200, " Records Preparation, Filing, and
Storage," Revision 0, dated November 19, 1984, to incorporate the
requirements of Nuclear Operations Procedure (N0P)-003, " Records
Management System," Revision 2, dated February 19, 1987, which
directs Wat-3 procedures to contain as a minimum a list of records
generated as a result of performing the procedure, interim storage
requirements for the records, and the frequency of submittal of the
records to project files for final retention.
3.
Program Areas Inspected
The following program areas were inspected.
Unless otherwise noted, the
inspection was completed and revealed no violations, deviations,
unresolved items, or open items.
Notations after a specific inspection
item are used to identify the following:
I = item not inspected or only
partially inspected; V = violation; D = deviation; U = unresolved item;
and 0 = open item.
Inspection Procedure
Inspection Requirements
83722
Radiation Protection, Plant _Chamistry, and
Radwaste: Organization and hanagement Controls
(Minimum / Basic)
02.01 - Organization - I
02.02 - Staffing - I
02.03 - Radiation Protection Manager - I
02.04 - Identification and Correction of
Weaknesses - I
02.05 - Audits and Appraisals - I
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83522
Radiation Protection, Plant Chemistry, Radwaste,
and Environmental:
Organization and Management
Controls (Supplemental)
02.01 - Organization, Responsibilities, and
Authorities - I
02.02 - Staffing - I
02.03 - Identification and Correction of
Weaknesses - I
02.04 - Audits and Appraisals - I
02.05 - Communication to Employees - I
02.06 - Documentation and Implementation - I
83723
Training and Qualifications:
General Employee
Training, Radiation Safety, Plant Chemistry,
Radwaste, and Transportation (Minimum / Basic)
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02.01 - Training Adequacy - I
02.02 - Employee Knowledge Retention - I
02.03 - Transportation /Radwaste Training - I
02.04 - Staff Qualification Requirements - I
02.05 - Replacement Personnel - I
02.06 - Accreditation Status - I
02.07 - Audits and Appraisals - I
02.08 - Identify Training not Covered by
Accreditation - I
83523
Radiation Protection, Plant Chemistry, Radwaste,
Transportation, and Environmental:
Training and
Qualifications (Supplemental)
02.01 - Training and Qualifications Program - I
02.02 - Education and Experience - 1
02.03 - Adequacy - I
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Solid Wastes (Minimum / Basic)
02.01 - Audits and Appraisals
02.02 - Changes
02.03 - Processing and Storage
02.04 - Disposal of Low-Level Wastes
84522
Solid Wastes (Supplemental)
02.01 - Solid Waste System Construction and
Installation - I
02.02 - Liquid Leakage, Overflow, and Spillage
02.03 - Sampling
02.04 - Test Program for Solid Waste System
02.05 - Test Completion for Solid Waste System
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02.06 - Process Monitors - I
02.07 - Programs, Plans, and Procedures for
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Solid Waste System
02.08 - Disposal of Low-Level Wastes
84850
Radioactive Waste Management - Inspection of
Waste Generator Requirements of 10 CFR 20 and
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02.01 - Management Controls
02.02 - Quality Control (QC)
02.03 - Waste Manifests
02.04 - Waste Classification
02.05 - Waste Form and Characterization
02.06 - Waste Shipment Labeling
02.07 - Tracking of Waste Shipments
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02.08 - Disposal Site License Conditions
86721
Transportation (Basic)
02.01 - Audits and Appraisals
02.02 - Procedures
02.03 - Procurement and Reuse of Packagings
02.04 - Implementation
02.05 - Transportation Incidents
86740
Inspection of Transportation Activities
02.01 - Management Control
02.02 - Indoctrination and Training Programs
02.03 - Audit Program
02.04 - Quality Assurance Program
02.05 - Procurement and Selection of Packagings
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02.06 - Preparation of Packages for Shipment
02.07 - Delivery of Completed Packages to
Carriers
02.08 - Receipt of Packages
02.09 - Periodic Maintenance of Packagings
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02.10 - Records and Reports - V (see
paragraph 4)
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Low-Level Radioactive Waste Storage Facilities
02.01 - Basis for Construction
02.02 - Quality Assurance
02.03 - Procedures for Construction
02.04 - Review of Construction
02.05 - Organization and Staffing
02.06 - Training and Qualifications
02.07 - Startup and Operations Procedures
02.08 - Effluent Monitoring Changes
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Apparent Violation
'86740, Item 02.10 - Records and Reports
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On March 23, 1987, the NRC inspector noted that the completed original
. lifetime QA records' generated from radioactive waste shipments made.during
1986 and 1987 were: stored in an unlocked standard file cabinet in the
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Radwaste Supervisor's office in the reactor auxiliary building and had not
been transmitted to plant records management for final retention.
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licensee's Technical Specification 6.8.1 requires that written procedures
be established, implemented, and maintained covering.the activities
referenced in~ Appendix. A of Regulatory Guide 1.33, Revision 2, dated
February 1978. _ The licensee's Nuclear Operations Management
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Manual (NOPM),Section V, Appendix A, " Regulatory Guidance Documents,"
Revision 1,. dated August 12,.1985, contains a listing of ANSI standards
and Regulatory Guides which LP&L is committed to for operation of Wat-3.
Regulatory Guide 1.88, " Collection, Storage and Maintenance of Nuclear
Power Plant Quality Assurance Records for Nuclear Power Plants" and
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ANSI N45.2.9-1974, " Requirements for Collection, Storage, and Maintenance
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of Quality-Assurance Records for Nuclear Power Plants" are included in
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that list.
NOMM,Section VI, Chapter 5, " Radioactive Waste Management,"
Revision 2, dated February 14, 1986, states in paragraph 3.2.15(g) that
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the quality records program applies to records relating to packaging and
shipment of radioactive waste material.
N0P-003, " Records Management
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System," Revision 2, dated February 19, 1987, in paragraph 3.5 defines
records as being QA records when they are completed and all appropriate
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information and signatures have been entered and paragraph 3.6 defines
interim storage as.the storage or safekeeping of records from the time
they are completed until submitted to project files for final. retention.
N0P-003, paragraph 5.3.1,. states, " Interim storage of completed records
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shall be in lockable, 1-hour rated, fireproof. file cabinets or access
shall be controlled when the records are not in locked cabinets." The
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failure to properly store and protect lifetime QA records associated with
radioactive waste shipments made during 1986 to the present is an apparent
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violation of Technical Specification 6.8.1.
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Unresolved Item
86740, Item 02.05 - Procurement and Selection of Packaging
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An unresolved item is a matter about which additional information is
needed for determination whether the item is acceptable, a violation, or a
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deviation.
One unresolved item is discussed below.
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10 CFR Dart 71.12(c)(3) requires that a licensee " submit in writing to the
Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and-Safeguards, prior to the
licensee's first use of a certified package, the licensee's name and.
license number and the package identification number specified in the
package approval." The NRC inspector determined that the licensee had
used two' certified packages (NUS-14-1701, USA /9151/A, and CNS-14-170,
USA /9079/A) in performing radwaste material shipments during 1986.
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licensee was determined to be a licensed user of these packages according
to the user's lists for each of the above identified packages listed in
NUREG-0383, Volume 1, Revision 9, dated October 1986.
However, the
licensee was unable to locate copies of the. license application and the
NRC approval letter licensing LP&L as a licensed user of the above
identified packages.
This item will be considered unresolved pending
location of copies of the license application and the NRC license approval
to use the above identified packages.
(382/8706-02)
6.
Exit Briefing
The NRC inspector met with the licensee representatives denoted in
paragraph 1 at the conclusion of the inspection on March 27, 1987.
The
NRC inspector summarized the scope of the inspection'and discussed the
inspection findings.