ML20212C101

Notice of Violation from Insp on 861117-21

ML20212C101
Person / Time
Site:	North Anna
Issue date:	12/19/1986
From:	Brownlee V NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
To:
Shared Package
ML20212C084	List: IR 05000338/1986027 ML20212C081 ML20212C101
References
50-338-86-27, 50-339-86-27, NUDOCS 8612290389
Download: ML20212C101 (2)

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' ENCLOSURE 1 NOTICE OF' VIOLATION Virginia Electric and Power Company Docket Nos. 50-338 and 50-339 North Anna License Nos. NPF-4 and NPF-7 During the Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC) inspection conducted on November 17-21, 1986, a violation of NRC requirements was identified. The violation involved failure to establish, implement, and maintain procedures to ensure calibration of an alpha scintillation counting instrument.In accordance with the " General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions,"

10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C'(1986), the violation is listed below:

Technical Specification 6.8.1 states that written procedures shall be established, implemented, and maintained covering applicable procedures i e recommended in Appendix A of Regulatory Guide 1.33, Revision 2, February 1978.

Appendix A, Regulatory Guide 1.33, Paragraph 8.a recommends that the licensee maintain procedures to ensure that tools, gauges, instruments, controls and other measuring and testing devices are properly controlled, calibrated and adjusted at specific periods to maintain accuracy.

Contrary to the above, the licensee failed to ensure that tools, gauges, instruments, controls and other measuring and testing devices were properly controlled, calibrated and adjusted at specific periods to maintain accuracy in that on November 20, 1986, it was determined that a calibration procedure had not been established for alpha scintillation counter, Serial No. 737,

< with AC-3 probe, and that this instrument had been " sed to quantitate 4

removable alpha contamination from the 244 foot elevation of the Auxiliary Building on November 3, 1986.

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

Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Virginia Electric and Power Company is hereby required to submit to this Office within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice a written statement or explanation in reply including (1) admission or denial of the violation, (2) the reason for the B6122903e9 861219 I

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Virginia Electric and Power Company 2 Docket Nos. 50-338 and 50-339 North Anna License Nos. NPF-4 and NPF-7 violation if admitted, (3) the corrective steps which have been taken and the results achieved, (4) the corrective steps which will be taken to avoid further violations, and (5) the date when full compliance will be achieved. Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION I

sc avAuvL Virgil L. Brownlee, Chief l Reactor Projects Branch 3 Division of Reactor Projects Dated at Atlanta, Georgia this 19 day of December 1986 1

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