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Insp Rept 50-134/87-03 on 870728-29.No Violations Noted. Major Areas Inspected:Emergency Organization & Operations & Emergency Planning
ML20238D079
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Site: 05000134
Issue date: 09/01/1987
From: Fox E, Lazarus W, Thomas W
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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50-134-87-03, 50-134-87-3, NUDOCS 8709100548
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U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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Report No. 50-134/87-03 Docket No. 50-134 License No, R-61

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Priority -- Category G Licensee: Worcestar Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 Facility Name: Nuclear Reactor Facility Inspection At: Worcester, Massachusetts Inspection Conducted: uly 28-29, 1987 Inspector: , fY V. V. Thoma's Emerg cy/Prepa'r dness O / 8"P

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Areas Inspected: Routine, announced inspection by two region-based inspectors of facility's emergency organization and operations, and emergency plannin Results: No unacceptable conditions were foun j I

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e DETAILS 1. Persons Contacted

  • T. Newton, Director, Nuclear Reactor Facility
  • E. Lefferts, Licensed Reactor Operator H. Ring, Sargeant Campus Police T. Whitney, Chief Campus Police
  • Denotes those present at the exit intervie . Licensee Action on Previous Inspection Findings There were no previous open items requiring action by the license . Facility Tour and Description of Operations The inspectors toured the facility upon arrival. The reactor was shutdown and not scheduled to operate during the summer. The next operation of the reactor will be during the fall semester in support of academic schedule The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has an Open Pool Reactor, located in Washburn Hall on the WPI campus, about 1 mile from the center of Worcester, Massachusetts. The reactor is licensed to operate at 10 kilowatts thermal power and consists of 93% enriched flat plate uranium-aluminum alloy fuel clad in aluminum. The core is located in the center of a pool of demineralized water 8 feet square by 15 feet dee The pool walls are 1 foot thick concrete lined with aluminum. There is 10 feet of water above the core. Experimental facilities converge toward the core and afford the opportunity for performing a number of different i experiments at the same time. The facility has a 6 inch diameter beam port and a thermal column 40 inches by 40 inches by 6 feet long filled with graphit The Reactor is use as an integral part of the WPI elective program in Nuclear Science and Nuclear Engineerin The Reactor provides undergraduate and graduate students, under close supervision of qualified personnel, with reactor operating experience and experimental experience in the fields of reactor engineering, metallurgy, chemistry and physic The Reactor is operated intermittently to accommodate academic schedule During a typical academic year, the Reactor is operated an average of about 3 hours3.472222e-5 days <br />8.333333e-4 hours <br />4.960317e-6 weeks <br />1.1415e-6 months <br /> per week. Thus the core fission product inventory is much less than the postulated values used in the Safety Analysis Report, Section 7, Safety Evaluation. No explosive or pressurized samples are irradiated at the Facility and the WP1 By Product Material License limits the amount of radioactive material that may be separated from the core to less than 100 millicuries for isotopes with half lives of less than 40 minutes and to less than 1 millicurie for isotopes with half lives greater than 20 hour2.314815e-4 days <br />0.00556 hours <br />3.306878e-5 weeks <br />7.61e-6 months <br /> i

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4 4. . Logs, Records, and Surveillance The inspectors reviewed licensee records- to verify- that:

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Emergency plan procedures, associated surveillance, and training meet license and technical specification *

The Emergency plans are consistent with the requirements of Item I.of Appendix E to 10 CFR 50 and the' Guidance of Regulatory Guide 2.6, NUREG 0849 and ANSI 15.1 Significant problems are highlighted.and adequately explaine The following. records were reviewed:

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Radiation Area Monitors and pool (water) level monitor; Radiological Survey Instrument Calibration data; Reactor facility inspections;

Campus wipe test results;.

Radiation activity and releases; Washburn Hall Evacuation drills, Finding The evacuation alarm outside of room 328 was not operational during the July 1,1987 Evacuation Drill. . A work order for repair of the alarm was issued by the Director, Nuclear Reactor facilit However, it could not be verified that repairs to the alarm had been completed. The licensee should verify that the alarm outside of room 328 has been repaired, and is operational. (50-134/87-03-01)

5.- Emergency Preparedness Organization and Responsibilities The Reactor Facility Director has the primary responsibility for l emergency preparedness and directs the necessary activities required to cope with any nuclear emergency that may arise. In the event of the Director's absence or incapacitation, the senior available member of the Facility staff holding a senior operator's license, takes charg In all emergencies, the WPI Campus Security Police and the Campus Radiological Safety Officer are notified at once and the Chairman of the Radiation, Health and Safeguards Committee (RHSC) is contacted. As warranted by the circumstances, the Massachusetts State Police, the NRC per 10 CFR 50.72, the WPI Director of Public Relations or his staff and American Nuclear Insurers are notifie _ _______________________u

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Se'curity Office contacts.the Worcester Police or Fire Department. The Worcester' Police, will in turn contact the Massachusetts Director of Radiation Control, the Director of Disaster Preparedness, the Massachusetts Civil Defense, and the Nuclear Incident Advisory Team

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an individual posted on an emergency call -list specified by the Facility Directo It is anticipated thatla prolonged emergency will primarily require exclusion of unauthorized personnel from the EPZ (Washburn Hall). The WPI Security. organization functions around the clock and their surveillance, combined with temporary barriers, should such prove necessary, provides the necessary protectio The authority to direct emergency and recovery operations has been delegated by the WPI Administration to the Reactor Facility Directo The Director may in turn issue emergency assignments to licensed senior operators, faculty members with appropriate expertise, or qualified campus personnel depending on the nature of the emergenc ' Notification of Unusual Events The relatively small fission product inventory in the WPI core, and the nature of the Reactor and its use preclude credible accidents in which-the safety of the general public is jeopardized. Therefore, the Emergency Plan concentrates on provisions for isolating the Facility and safeguarding the onsite personnel during an emergency. In all cases where a potentially hazardous' abnormal situation may exist, the reactor :

operation will be promptly terminated and the emergency organization activate Security threats such as bomb threats directed at any portion of the site boundary, or civil disturbances in the vicinity of the site is cause to t suspend operation of the Reactor until the situation has returned to normal and any threats have been dealt with by police official i Natural phenomena deemed severe enough to jeopardize the Washburn Laboratory is cause to suspend reactor operation. Disruption of all ,

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electric power to the' operations boundary automatically terminates-Reactor operation. 'It is the Facility policy that in case of an unusual )

situation, raising any safety issue, any senior operator or licensed j operator may order an immediate shutdown of critical operation.

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f Reactor. In the event of a major or prolonged fire, evacuation will take j place according to procedures.

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The'NRC team met with the licensee representatives listed in Section 1 o this report at the end of the inspection.- The' team leader summarized the-observations made during the inspectio .

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