IR 05000395/1987013

Insp Rept 50-395/87-13 on 870427-28.No Violations or Deviations Noted.Major Areas Inspected:Review of Procedures & Operations for Use,Control & Accountability of SNM

ML20214P373
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Site:	Summer
Issue date:	05/21/1987
From:	Mcalpine E, Todd G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
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..... MAY 2 g 1997 Report No.: 50-395/87-13 Licensee: South Carolina Electric and Gas Company Columbia, SC 29218 Docket No.: 50-395 License No.: NpF-12 Facility Name: . Summer Inspection Conduc e : April 27-28, 1987 Inspector: [/ ---- / - , Md S O fodd,(Safegar @ itor / Date Sigtfed~

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5/2.1/97 Date Signed Accountability Section, Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards Branch, Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards SUMMARY Scope: This routine, unannounced inspection entailed the review of procedures and operations for the use, control, and accountability of special nuclear materia Results: No violations or deviations were identifie .

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' Report No. 50-395/87-13 Persons Contacted Licensee Employees

• 0 S. Bradham, Director, Nuclear Plant Operations

• A. R. Koon, Jr. , Manager, Technical Support

• N. Brown, Group Manager, Technical and Support Services

• R. Higgins, Associate Manager, Regulatory Compliance

• G. A. Loignon, Jr., Associate Manager, Performance and Results

• A. M. Monroe, Regulatory Compliance Engineer NRC Resident Inspector

• P. C. Hopkins, NRC Resident Inspector The inspector also interviewed several other licensee employee * Denotes those present at the exit intervie . Exit Interview The inspection scope and findings were summarized on April 28, 1987, with those persons indicated in paragraph 1 above. The licensee acknowledged the inspection scope and findings and took no exception . Material Control and Accounting - Power Reactors (85102)

The inspection was conducted to determine the adequacy of South Carolina Electric and Gas Company's program to account for and control the special nuclear material (SNM) in it's possession and to limit the use of possessed SNM to the locations and purposes authorized by license at the V. C. Summer Power Statio ~The licensee's material controls were examined by review of procedures, audit of records, review of the conduct of physical inventory and interviews with appropriate licensee personne The licensee's procedures for nuclear material control and accountability are structured according to organizational responsibilities and authorities for the formulation, implementation, maintenance and periodic assessment, and evaluation of the accountability progra The inspector reviewed the procedures and documents listed below:

• Special Nuclear Material Inventory and Control, Revision 2, dated May 29, 198 I

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Core Shuffle Material Transfer Form N I' III - SNM Card File

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SNM Inventory Documentation Control Log VIII - Assembly Discharge Burnup, Mwd /kgU IX -

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Spent Fuel Pool Use Prerequisite Checklist The referenced procedures and documents delineated organizational assignments and specified sufficient separation of functions to provide the necessary checks and balances for the control of SNM. The procedures provide detailed reference material, definitions of terms and operational guidance sufficient to properly receive, handle, store, inventory, calculate burnup-related measurements and report an accurate material balance. These procedures were revised and approved by the Manager, Technical Support - Nuclear on August 4, 198 Through interviews with licensee personnel, it was determined that the licensee's accountability program had been properly implemented, was operationally functional, and personnel were well trained in assigned function Schematics of new fuel storage locations are maintained by the licensee and periodically verified by the licensee to fulfill the requirement for an annual physical inventory of SNM. The licensee presently conducts inventory verifications on a more frequent time interval than require This is accomplished by giving inventory teams quadrant location schematics which the teams fill out during inventories. These are then compared to the master location schematic for verification of fuel assembly identification and locatio The quadrant schematics are dated and signed by performing inventory team Incore Detectors are accounted for by New Fuel Receiving Reports which bacome the perpetual inventory record. In addition to detectors in the reactor core, the licensee has 10 visually inspectable unirradiated detectors in an enclosed repository and several older irradiated detectors stored within enclosed steel pipes embedded in a concrete rad waste repository. The detectors, also referred to as fission chambers, which contain milligrar quantities of SNM and are portable, are accounted for by warehouse storage records, vessel position records and by Maintenance Work Requests for disposed of detectors which are dispositioned in the Additionally, the licensee possesses three additional

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incore detectors that are fixed in position and contain gram quantities of SNM that are accounted for on SNM card files and reported on DOE /NRC Form 742C, Physical Inventory Listing in accordance with NUREG/BR-0007, Part 2.

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The inspector examined the licensee's inventory records for the past two

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frequency and the manner as described in his procedur :t' The licensee's Material Balance Report (Form DOE /NRC 742) was reviewed for the period ending October 30, 1986, to determine whether the report

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accurately reflected quantities of special nuclear material received. The report was completed ir accordance with NUREG/BR-0007 and recorded data-

, including nuclear material depletion and production were found to be in-agreement with associated accountability records for fuel assemblies on

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