ML23354A203

Document Request for Hatch Nuclear Plant - Radiation Protection Inspection - Inspection Report 2024-01

ML23354A203
Person / Time
Site:	Hatch
Issue date:	12/18/2023
From:	Bell J Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	Collins C, Hunt J, Walter J Southern Nuclear Operating Co
References
IR 2024001
Download: ML23354A203 (1)

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From: Jack Bell To: jlwalter@southernco.com; Hunt, Jason Mark; Collins, Carl James Cc: Bob Kellner

Subject:

Information request for Hatch RP inspection, report # 2024001 Date: Monday, December 18, 2023 3:37:00 PM Attachments: Hatch_DRL.pdf

All,

Please see the attached document request for our upcoming baseline RP inspection scheduled for February 5-9, 2024.

We would like to have the documents available by January 26, 2024. However, if you run into difficulty and need more time for certain items, just let us know and we can work with you.

The inspectors will be myself and Bob Kellner. Bob and I were both at Hatch this past February so hopefully our site access is still good.

Please call or email me if you have any questions.

Thanks, Jack Bell Hatch Nuclear Plant Radiation Safety Baseline Inspection Initial Information Request Inspection Report: 2024001

During the week of February 5-9, 2024, the NRC will perform a baseline Radiation Safety Inspection at Hatch Nuclear Plant (NRC Inspection Procedures 71124.01, 71124.08, and 71151).

Experience has shown that this inspection is resource-intensive for both the NRC inspectors and your staff. In order to minimize the impact to your onsite resources and to ensure a productive inspection, we are requesting in advance documents needed for this activity. It is important that all of these documents are up-to-date, and complete, thereby minimizing the number of additional documents requested during the preparation, and/or the onsite portions of the inspection. The NRC requests that these documents be provided to the inspectors no later than January 26, 2024.

If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector, Jack Bell at 404-997-4638, or the Engineering Branch 3 Chief, Binoy Desai at 404-997-4519.

In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding, a copy of this document will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room, or from the Publicly Available Records component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS); accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT STATEMENT

This letter contains voluntary information collections that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501et seq.). The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved theseinformation collections (approval number 3150- 0011). The burden to the public for these information collections is estimated to average 15 hours1.736111e-4 days <br />0.00417 hours <br />2.480159e-5 weeks <br />5.7075e-6 months <br /> per response. Send comments regarding this information collection to the FOIA, Library and Information Collection Branch, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Mail Stop: T6-A10M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555- 0001, or by email to Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov, and to the Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, (3150- 0011) OMB, Washington, DC 20503.

PUBLIC PROTECTION NOTIFICATION

The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a request for informationor aninformation collection requirement, unless the requesting document displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.

Document Request List

Inspection Dates: February 5-9, 2024

Documents Due to Region II: January 26, 2024

Inspection Procedures: IP 71124.01 Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls IP 71124.08 Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification (Occupational and Public Cornerstones)

Lead Inspector: Jack Bell Sr. Health Physicist US NRC Region II (404) 997-4638 jack.bell@nrc.gov (Mailing address available upon request)

Note: The current version of these documents is expected unless specified otherwise.

Secure file server access (Certrec, SharePoint, etc.), or electronic media (CD/DVD), is preferred. Please organize the information as it is arranged below to the extent possible.

Pay particular attention to the date ranges for the items requested as they may change from item to item. If there are questions regarding the documents requested, or if the documents cannot be provided by the due date, please do not hesitate to contact the lead inspector.

Miscellaneous

1. List of primary contacts for each inspection area w/phone numbers

2. Corrective action program procedure(s)

71124.01 - Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls

1. Timeline of major outage activities for 1R31 (e.g. Gantt chart or similar list)

2. Procedures related to RP controls (e.g. Posting, labeling, surveys, RWPs, contamination control, HRA/LHRA/VHRA control, key control, control of divers, special controls during fuel offload, hot spots, etc.)

3. Procedures related to release of personnel and materials (e.g. release surveys, decontamination, guidance for alarm follow-up, etc.)

4. List of locations, or plant maps indicating the location, of LHRAs and VHRAs. Include areas with the potential to become a LHRA during routine operations or outages.

5. List of outage RWPs

6. List of all non-fuel items stored in spent fuel pool(s)

7. Technical basis documents (white paper, engineering calculation, etc.) related to the facility beta-gamma and alpha radiation characterization.

8. Most recent self-assessment or audit covering RP controls

9. Outage ALARA report from the previous (most recent) refueling outage

10. ALARA planning packages for top 3 highest dose jobs for the 1R31 refueling outage

11. List of CRs related to RP controls/ALARA (e.g. radworker error, RP technician error, ALARA issues, posting issues, HRA/LHRA/VHRA issues, survey problems, etc.) created since February 1, 2023. This should be a list of corrective action documents containing a CAP document number and a brief description, not complete documents.

71124.08 - Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation

1. All procedures related to transportation of radioactive material/waste, radwaste characterization, solid radwaste processing, and storage of RAM and radwaste

2. Process Control Program

3. Site procedures related to 10 CFR 37 controls

4. List and locations of all Category 1 and Category 2 sources, including aggregated materials stored outside the protected area (as applicable)

5. List of Nationally Tracked Sources, and copies of any National Source Tracking System (NSTS) transaction documentation (e.g., annual reconciliation) for CY 20 23.

6. Last two leak testing records for all Category 1 and Category 2 sealed sources

7. Liquid and solid radwaste system diagrams showing major components

8. List of all RAM/Radwaste shipments made since February 1, 2022 (shipping logs)

9. List of all changes made to solid and liquid radwaste processing systems since February 1, 2022

10. List of all abandoned solid and liquid radwaste processing equipment

11. Last two 10 CFR Part 61 analyses for each waste stream, including QA data (e.g. in-house vs. vendor lab comparisons, current results vs. database, etc.)

12. Most recent self-assessment or audit of Shipping/radwaste processing and RAM storage programs

13. Available for onsite review during the inspection

• Site drawing(s) showing the location of stored RAM and stored radwaste

• Training and qualification records for personnel responsible for radwaste processing, packaging, and making shipments of radioactive material (RAM) and radwaste.

• Training and qualification records for personnel responsible for implementation of the 10 CFR Part 37 security plan (e.g., security staff and health physics staff)

• Documentation describing the status of any radwaste process equipment that is not operational and/or is abandoned in place.

• Discussion of the sites waste disposal volume and waste reduction program.

14. List of condition reports related to shipping, radwaste processing, RAM storage, or Part 37 controls since February 1, 2022. This should be a list of corrective action documents containing a CAP document number and a brief description, not complete documents.

71151 - Performance Indicator (PI) Verification (Occupational and Public Cornerstones)

1. Procedures for gathering and reporting NRC PI data

2. List of electronic dosimeter alarms since February 1, 2023 (dose and dose rate)

3. List of CRs related to ODCM/effluent monitoring issues since July 1, 2023. This should be a list of corrective action documents containing a CAP document number and a brief description, not complete documents.

4. Most recent liquid release permit and most recent gaseous release permit