ML21061A338

Request for Information: Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Dated December 4, 2020, Inspection Report 05000528/529/5302021001 Public Radiation Safety Inspection-5.8

ML21061A338
Person / Time
Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	02/25/2021
From:	Division of Nuclear Materials Safety IV
To:	Arizona Public Service Co
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IR 2021001
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ML21061A338 The following items are requested for the Public Radiation Safety Inspection at Palo Verde Dates of Inspection: 01/11/2021 to 01/15/2021 Integrated Report 2021001 Inspection areas are listed in the attachments below.

Please provide the requested information on or before Monday, January 04, 2021 Please submit this information using the same lettering system as below. For example, all contacts and phone numbers for Inspection Procedure 71124.05 should be in a file/folder titled 5-A, applicable organization charts in file/folder 5-B, etc.

The information should be provided in electronic format or a secure document management service. If information is placed on a secured document management system, please ensure the inspection exit date entered is at least 30 days later than the onsite inspection dates, so the inspectors will have access to the information while writing the report.

In addition to the corrective action document lists provided for each inspection procedure listed below, please provide updated lists of corrective action documents at the entrance meeting.

The dates for these lists should range from the end dates of the original lists to the day of the entrance meeting.

If more than one inspection procedure is to be conducted and the information requests appear to be redundant, there is no need to provide duplicate copies. Enter a note explaining in which file the information can be found.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Natasha Greene at 817-200-1154 or via e-mail at Natasha.Greene@nrc.gov.

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT STATEMENT This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, control number 3150-0011.

5. Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation (71124.05)

Date of Last Inspection: January 23, 2017 A. List of contacts and telephone numbers for the following areas below. Please include area code and prefix. If work cell numbers are appropriate, then please include them as well.

1. Process monitor calibration (Include Chemistry, Systems Engineering and I&C, as applicable)

2. Effluent Monitor calibration (liquid and gaseous) and maintenance (RP, Chemistry, I&C, Maintenance, Systems Engineering, EP, etc.)

3. Radiation protection instrument calibration (Portable and Stationary)

4. Installed instrument calibrations (Include Systems Engineering and I&C)

5. Count room and Laboratory instrument calibrations (Include RP and Chemistry, as applicable)

6. EP contacts for Equipment Important to Emergency Response/Preparedness (EITER)

7. Licensing/Regulatory Affairs B. Applicable organization charts, including position or job titles. Please include as appropriate for your site, Site Management, RP, Chemistry, Maintenance (I&C),

Engineering, and Emergency Protection. (Recent pictures are appreciated.)

C. Copies of audits, self-assessments, vendor or NUPIC audits for contractor support, LARs, and LERs, performed since the date of the last inspection, related to:

1. Portable Radiation instruments: Area radiation monitors, portable continuous air monitors (AMS3/4), portable survey instruments (count rate, dose rate, occupational air sampling), electronic dosimeters, teledosimetry

2. Stationary Radiation Instruments: Portal monitors, small article monitors, personnel contamination monitors, or whole body counters

3. Installed Radiation Instruments: Area radiation monitors (RMS), process monitors (non-effluent), criticality monitors, accident monitors, and effluent radiation monitors

4. Count Room instrumentation (Chemistry and RP, if separate RP Ops and Effluents):

Gamma Spec, LSC, Gross Alpha, Gross Beta, including bench-top counters D. Procedure indexes for radiation protection procedures and other related disciplines.

1. Calibration, use, and operation of continuous air monitors, portable survey instruments, temporary area radiation monitors, electronic dosimeters, teledosimetry

2. Calibration use and operation of portal monitors, small article monitors, personnel contamination monitors, and whole body counters

3. Calibration of installed area radiation monitors, process monitors, criticality monitors, accident monitors, and effluent radiation monitors (to include the flow monitors)

4. Calibration use and operation of Count Room instrumentation (GS, LSC, GA, GB)

(include bench top counters here)

NOTE: Please ensure that RP, Chemistry, and I&C procedures are included, as appropriate.

E. Please provide specific procedures related to the following areas noted below.

1. Calibration of portable ion chambers

2. Calibration of Friskers

3. Calibration of telescoping high range instruments

4. Calibration of portable neutron instruments

5. Calibration of SAMs

6. Whole body counter calibration

7. Laboratory instrumentation quality control

8. Calibration of Containment/Drywell high range radiation monitor

9. Calibration of Effluent Monitors (Include associated flow monitors)

10. Current revision of the Offsite Dose Calculation Manual (or other name, but include all parts for effluent monitors) and any changes made since the last inspection.

Additional procedures may be requested by number after the inspector reviews the procedure index.

F. Please provide a list of NRC Regulatory Guides and NUREGs that you are currently committed to relative to this program. Please include the revision and/or date for the commitment and where this may be located in your current licensing basis documents.

G. Please provide a summary list of corrective action documents (including corporate and sub-tiered systems) written since the date of the last inspection, related to the following programs:

1. Area radiation monitors, continuous air monitors, portable survey instruments, electronic dosimeters, and teledosimetry

2. Portal monitors, small article monitors, personnel contamination monitors, and whole body counters

3. Installed radiation monitors, criticality monitors, accident range monitors

4. Effluent radiation monitors (include associated effluent flow monitors)

5. Count room radiation instruments NOTE: These lists should include a description of the condition that provides sufficient detail that the inspectors can ascertain the regulatory impact, the significance level assigned to the condition, the status of the action (e.g., open, working, closed, etc.) and the search criteria used. Please provide in document formats which are sortable and searchable so that inspectors can quickly and efficiently determine appropriate sampling and perform word searches, as needed. (Excel spreadsheets are the preferred format.) If codes are used, please provide a legend for each column where a code is used.

H. State the required calibration frequency and provide the most recent calibration data for the whole body counters, at least one portable survey instrument, one area radiation monitor, one air sampler, one continuous air monitor, and one drywell/containment high-range monitor.

I. Provide a list of any scheduled calibrations, while we are onsite, for the instrumentation noted in request above, in 5-I.

J. Provide the alarm set point values for the portal and personnel contamination monitors in operation.

K. Radiation Monitoring System health report for the previous 12 months. Also, please provide a specific list of all effluent radiation monitors that were considered inoperable for 7 days or more since the date of the last inspection. If applicable, please provide the relative Special Report and condition report(s). If not covered by maintenance rule, please provide rationale.

L. Provide the following lists of instruments to include make, model, identifier (S/N or plant ID), and location:

1. Portable radiation instruments currently in use (for EADs just make, model, and quantity).

2. Stationary radiation instruments currently in use.

3. Installed Radiation monitors

a. Area radiation monitors,

b. Process radiation monitors, and (Include their instrumentation designator, function and calibration procedure number and title.) Please indicate which, if any, detectors have been replaced within the past 2 years (since the last inspection).

c. Effluent radiation monitors.

d. Radiation instrumentation abandoned in place.

e. Radiation instrumentation covered by the maintenance rule.

M. Provide a list of sources used routinely for source check of portable, stationary, and installed radiation monitoring instruments.

N. Provide the NIST traceability and calibration or verification of the primary sources for instrument calibration and the procedures used to achieve this.

O. Provide the last three annual trends of vent/stack effluent flow rates, by chart or table.

P. Operations department (or other responsible dept.) log records for effluent monitors removed from service or out of service or a list of the same and compensatory actions taken during the out of service condition.

Q. A list of significant changes made to the gaseous and liquid effluent process monitoring system since the date of the last inspection. If applicable, please provide the corresponding UFSAR section in which this change was documented.

R. Effluent based procedures for EALs or EOPs.

8. Radioactive Solid Waste Processing, and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation (71124.08)

Date of Last Inspection: January 23, 2017 A. List of contacts and telephone numbers for the following areas. Please include area code and prefix. If work cell numbers are appropriate, then please include them as well.

1. Solid Radioactive waste processing (RP, Chemistry, Ops, Maintenance, I&C, Engineering, etc.)

2. Transportation of radioactive material/waste (RP, Maintenance, Ops, Security, Chemistry, etc.)

3. Personnel involved in solid radwaste processing, transferring, and transportation of radioactive waste/materials

4. Licensing/Regulatory Affairs B. Applicable organization charts including position or job titles. Please include as appropriate for your site, Site Management, RP, Chemistry, Maintenance (I&C),

Engineering, and Emergency Protection. (Recent pictures are appreciated.)

C. Copies of audits, department self-assessments, and LERs written since the date of the last inspection, related to:

1. Solid radioactive waste management

2. Radioactive material/waste transportation program

3. Part 37 program review

4. Independent audits D. Procedure index for the following areas and other related disciplines.

1. Solid radioactive waste management

2. Radioactive material/waste transportation

3. Safety and security of radioactive materials E. Please provide specific procedures related to the following areas noted below.

Additional procedures may be requested by number after the inspector reviews the procedure indexes.

1. Process control program and any changes made since the last inspection

2. Solid and liquid radioactive waste processing

3. Waste stream sampling and analysis

4. Waste characterization and classification

5. Determination of Part 37 applicability and implementation

6. Security of Category I and II Radioactive Material

7. Radioactive material/waste packaging & shipping F. Please provide a list of NRC Regulatory Guides and NUREGs that you are currently committed to relative to this program. Please include the revision and/or date for the commitment and where this may be located in your current licensing basis documents.

G. Please provide a summary list of corrective action documents (including corporate and sub-tiered systems) written since the date of the last inspection, related to:

1. Solid radioactive waste

2. Transportation of radioactive material/waste

3. Part 37 implementation NOTE: These lists should include a description of the condition that provides sufficient detail that the inspectors can ascertain the regulatory impact, the significance level assigned to the condition, the status of the action (e.g., open, working, closed, etc.) and the search criteria used. Please provide in document formats which are sortable and searchable so that inspectors can quickly and efficiently determine appropriate sampling and perform word searches, as needed. (Excel spreadsheets are the preferred format.) If codes are used, please provide a legend for each column where a code is used.

H. Copies of training lesson plans for 49 CFR 172, Subpart H, for radwaste processing, packaging, and shipping I. Provide a summary list or log of radioactive material and radioactive waste shipments for the two most recent calendar years, in addition to the current calendar year.

J. Please provide at least two different radioactive waste stream sample analysis results and resulting scaling factors for the latest two calendar years.

K. A listing of all onsite radwaste storage facilities. Please include a summary or list of the items stored in each facility with the most recent dose rates/surveys.

L. A list of any significant (e.g., DAW, resins, Type B or greater) radioactive shipments that will be completed during our onsite inspection period. If available, please provide the applicable shipping manifests/waste characterizations and most recent surveys for each shipment.

M. A list of significant changes made to the liquid or solid radwaste processing systems since the date of the last inspection. If applicable, please provide the corresponding UFSAR section in which this change was documented. Provide any supportive documentation for the changes made or have it readily available for review.

N. List of radioactive waste processing systems or equipment abandoned in place since the last inspection.

O. Please provide a schedule of radioactive material or waste processing or shipment activities during the inspection week. Please indicate the current storage location of the stored RAM or waste prepared for shipment, as well as any supportive surveys of its measured dose rates. If available, please indicate its current stated waste class.

P. Please provide the current radioactive source inventory, listing all radioactive sources that are required to be leak tested. Indicate which sources are deemed 10 CFR Part 20, Appendix E, Category 1 or Category 2. Please indicate the radioisotope, initial and current activity (w/assay date), and storage location for each applicable source.

Q. Please provide the last two leak test results for all required/applicable radioactive sources. Please specifically indicate the sources that have failed its leak test within the last two years. Provide any applicable condition reports.