ML20237J224
| ML20237J224 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 08/11/1987 |
| From: | Jonathan Montgomery NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| To: | Jim Hickey NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| IEIN-87-018, IEIN-87-18, NUDOCS 8708180032 | |
| Download: ML20237J224 (1) | |
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MEMORANDUM FOR: John W. N. Hickey, Chief Operations Branch Division of Fuel Cycle, Medical, Academic, and Commercial Use Safety, NMSS FROM:
James L. Montgomery, Chief Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards Branch
SUBJECT:
FOLLOW-UP TO INFORMATION NOTICE 87-18; SERVICE ON TELETHERAPY UNITS This tremorandum is in reply to your request for input regarding a proposed supplement to.Information Notice 87-18. Although our office has not received any inquiries.from licensees concerning this Notice, we understand how it would be possible for readers of the Notice to easily conclude that teletherapy licensees are not authorized to perform any type of repair and servicing of a teletherapy unit or accessory equipment.
We agree that teletherapy licensee personnel should not be permitted to perform repair of relays, valves, circuit boards or other items which are critical to safety and are sufficiently complex in nature as to require specialized training, without a review of the qualifications of in-house licensee personnel and specific license amendment approval. However, we believe that certain licensee personnel should be allowed to rep! ace simple items, such as light bulbs or defective interlocks (microswitches) on entrance doors to treatment rooms, which requires only limited technical knowledge to install.
Instructions on installation of these types of parts and checks of proper operation should be given to appropriate "ft house" personnel by qualified teletherapy unit service representative,.
The NRC should differentiate what items or types of equipment can or cannot be repaired or replaced by licensee personnel and provide examples of such items in the supplement te the information notice. The NRC should solicit help from the teletherapy manufacturers and teletherapy licensees to distinguish what equipment could be repaired or installed by licensee personnel without compromising the safe use of the teletherapy unit.
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