ML26023A053

001 Radiation Safety Baseline Inspection Information Request

ML26023A053
Person / Time
Site:	Summer
Issue date:	01/23/2026
From:	Jonathan Rivera NRC/RGN-II/DFRSS
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IR 2026001
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V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant Radiation Safety Baseline Inspection Initial Information Request Inspection Report: 2026-001 During the weeks of February 23 - 27, 2026 and March 9 - 13, 2026 the NRC will perform a baseline Radiation Safety Inspection at V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant (NRC Inspection Procedures 71124.01, 71124.03, 71124.04, 71124.05, 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 February 16, 2026.

If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector, Jonathan Rivera at 404-997-4646; Jonathan.Rivera@nrc.gov, or the Acting Branch Chief, Radiological Safety Branch, Adam Nielsen at 404-997-4660; Adam.Nielsen@nrc.gov.

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. 3501 et seq.). The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved these information collections (approval number 3150-0011). The burden to the public for these information collections is estimated to average 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-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 information or an information collection requirement, unless the requesting document displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.

Document Request List Inspection Dates:

February 23 - 27, 2026 and March 9 - 13, 2026 Documents Due to Region II by:

February 16, 2026 Inspection Procedures:

IP 71124.01 - Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls IP 71124.03 - In-plant Airborne Radioactivity Control and Mitigation IP 71124.04 - Occupational Dose Assessment IP 71124.05 - Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation IP 71124.06 - Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment IP 71124.07 - Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program (REMP)

IP 71151 - Performance Indicator Verification (Occupational Cornerstone)

Lead Inspector:

Jonathan Rivera Health Physicist US NRC Region II (404) 997-4646 Jonathan.Rivera@nrc.gov Note: The current version of these documents is expected unless specified otherwise.

Electronic media is preferred if readily available. 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 with phone numbers and email addresses

2.

Corrective action program procedure(s)

3.

Latest copy of the Offsite Dose Calculation Manual (ODCM) 71124.01 - Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls (Last inspected October 2025)

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Schedule of radiologically significant work activities for outage U1R29

4.

List of all non-fuel items stored in the spent fuel pool

5.

Most recent self-assessment or audit covering RP controls

6.

Outage ALARA report from the previous refueling outage

7.

List of condition reports (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 October 1, 2025 71124.03 - In-Plant Airborne Radioactivity Control and Mitigation (Last inspected October 2024)

1.

Procedures related to airborne monitoring and control (e.g. use of purge systems, use of portable HEPA/charcoal units, temporary ventilation enclosures, use of CAMs, air sampling guidance, Alpha air sampling, etc.), as applicable

2.

Procedures related to the use of respiratory protection devices, (e.g. SCBA, TEDE-ALARA guidance, PAPRs, storage, maintenance, training, QA, fit-testing, etc.)

3.

The last 2 grade D air testing certificates for each supplied air system and SCBA filling station

4.

SCBA qualification records:

a)

List of all licensed operators qualified to use SCBAs b)

List of all RP personnel qualified to use SCBAs

5.

The last 2 surveillances performed on SCBAs stored for emergency use

6.

The last 2 in-place filter testing surveillances of the HEPA/charcoal banks for the Main Control Room emergency air filtration system

7.

Most recent audit or self-assessment covering airborne controls and respiratory protection

8.

List of CRs related to airborne monitoring and respiratory protection since October 1, 2024 71124.04 - Occupational Dose Assessment (Last inspected October 2024)

1.

Procedures related to occupational dose assessment (e.g. dosimetry issuance and use, unusual dosimetry occurrences, multi-badging/extremity dosimetry/badge relocation, Effective Dose Equivalent, personnel contamination events, storage/care of personal dosimeters, in-vivo and in-vitro internal dose assessment, skin dose assessment, QC for whole body counter, use of passive monitoring if applicable, declared pregnant workers)

2.

Current NVLAP accreditation certificate for lab used to process dosimetry

3.

List of all dosimetry events that met the following criteria since October 1, 2024:

CEDE > 10 mrem TEDE > 1 rem SDE> 500 mrem Neutron dose > 100 mrem Level 3 PCEs

4.

List of all personnel contamination events identified since June 1, 2022

5.

Most recent alpha source term plant characterization

6.

Area TLD results for general plant areas (not REMP TLDs), going back two years

7.

Copies of current WBC libraries (e.g. routine, medical, investigative, etc.)

8.

Most recent audit or self-assessment of the dosimetry program

9.

List of CRs generated since October 1, 2024 for internal and external dosimetry issues/events

71124.05 - Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation (Last inspected October 2024)

1.

Procedures/Guidance Documents for:

a) calibration and source checks of portable radiation detection instruments b) calibration and source checks of small article monitor, personnel contamination monitor, portal monitor, whole body counting equipment, and continuous air monitors c) QA program for count room instruments

2.

The last 2 calibration records for each of the following in-plant instruments:

a) Liquid Radwaste Effluent Monitor b) Reactor Building High Range Area Monitor c) Main Plant Vent Effluent Monitor

3.

Radioactive source paperwork for the sources used to calibrate the instruments in item 2 above. This paperwork should include NIST/NBS certificates, as applicable, and traceability to the primary (factory) calibration

4.

The last two in-place filter testing surveillances for the HEPA/charcoal banks of the main control room ventilation filtration system

5.

The last 2 calibration records for each of the following RCA exit point instruments:

a) All Portal Monitors located at the RCA exit b) All Small Article Monitors located at the RCA exit c) All whole body contamination monitors (ARGOS or equivalent) at the RCA exit

6.

Most recent calibration record of the Whole Body Counter used by Dosimetry

7.

Most recent calibration record for all gamma spectroscopy detectors in the count room

8.

Most recent calibration record for all liquid scintillation detectors in the count room

9.

Most recent test record of the instrument calibrator (e.g. Shepherd validation testing/dose rate curves)

10.

Interlaboratory comparison results for the onsite count room, going back two years

11.

Most recent audit or self-assessment covering RP and count room instrumentation (portables, RCA exit point, WBC, count room, etc.)

12.

List of CRs generated since October 1, 2024 related to portable instruments, area monitors, effluent monitors, CAMs, RCA release point monitors, WBCs, count room instrumentation, etc.

71151 - Performance Indicator Verification (Occupational and Public Radiation Safety Cornerstones) (Last inspected October 2025)

1.

Site, Corporate, and radiation protection specific procedure(s) for identifying, reporting, tracking, and correcting PI occurrences

2.

Monthly PI reports since October 1, 2025 in the Occupational and Public Radiation Safety Cornerstones

3.

List of CRs related to effluent dose/ODCM issues using search keywords such as RETS/ODCM, abnormal or unmonitored release, offsite dose, effluent release, etc. since October 1, 2025

4.

Most recent gaseous and liquid effluent evaluation of dose to the public (year-to-date doses).

5.

List of electronic dosimeter dose and dose rate alarms since October 1, 2025