ML20236M232

Notice of Violation from Insp on 980407-0521.Violation Noted:On 970320,licensee Identified That EOPs Directed Operators to Flood Containment to Top of Active Fuel

ML20236M232
Person / Time
Site:	Vermont Yankee
Issue date:	07/02/1998
From:	NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:
Shared Package
ML20236M212	List: IR 05000271/1998006 ML20236M209 ML20236M232
References
50-271-98-06, 50-271-98-6, NUDOCS 9807130357
Download: ML20236M232 (2)

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NOTICE OF VIOLATION Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation Docket No. 50-271

' Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station License No. DPR 28 During an NRC inspection conducted on April 7 through May 21,1997, 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:

10 CFR 50.73(a)(2) requires, in part, that licensees shall submit a Licensee Event Report (LER) within 30 days after the discovery of the event, for any event or condition that alone could have prevented the fulfillment of the safety function of structures or systems that are required to control the release of radioactive material i to the environment.

Contrary to the above, on March 20,1997, Vermont Yankee identified that the Emergency Operating Procedures (1) directed the operators to flood the containment to top of active fuel and (2) limited the torus air pressure to a value that would

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l result in the potential to burst the torus rupture disc. This could have resulted in a l condition such that the containment could not have controlled the release of radioactive material following a design basis accident. However, Vermont Yankee failed to recognize that this was a condition which required them to submit a Licensee Event Report in accordance with 10 CFR 50.73(a)(2) and failed to submit the required report within 30 days.

This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement 1).

Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power 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 I, and a copy to the NRC Resident Inspector at l

~t he facility that is the subject of this Notice, 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 l 'the violation, or, if contested, the basis for disputing the violation or severity level, (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 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 this Notice, an order or a Demand for Information may be issued as to why the license should not be modified, suspended, or revoked, or why such other action as may be proper should not be taken. Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time.

If you contest this enforcement action, you should also provide a copy of your response to the Director, Office of Enforcement, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washingtori, DC 20555-0001.

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Notice of Violation 2 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 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 withholding of 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 claim of withhold-ing (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 is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21. ,

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Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania this 2nd day of July,1998.

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