ML20056F003

Requests Response to Encl Request for Addl Info Re Operator Requalification Program for Facility within 30 Days of Ltr Date

ML20056F003
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Site:	University of Virginia
Issue date:	08/05/1993
From:	Alexander Adams Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Mulder R VIRGINIA, UNIV. OF, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
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t August 5, 1993 Docket No. 50-62 Dr. Robert U. Mulder, Director University of Virginia Reactor Facility Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-2442

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION We are continuing our review of your Operator Requalification Program for the University of Virginia Reactor Facility which you submitted on June 4, 1992.

During our review of your program, questions have arisen for which we require additional information and clarification.

Please provide responses to the enclosed Request for Additional Information within 30 days of the date of this letter.

Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your program.

If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 504-1127.

In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation.

This requirement affects nine or fewer respondents and, therefore, is not subject to Office of Management and Budget review under P. L.96-511.

Sincerely, Original signed by:

Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate Division of Operating Reactor Support Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION We are continuing our review of your Operator Requalification Program for the University of Virginia Reactor Facility which you submitted on June 4, 1992.

During our review of your program, questions have arisen for which we require 1

additional information and clarification.

Please provide responses to the enclosed Request for Additional Information within 30 days of the date of this letter.

Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your program.

If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 504-1127.

1 In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation.

This requirement affects nine or fewer respondents and, therefore, is not subject to Office of Management and Budget review under P. L.95-511.

Sincerely, Alexander Adams, Jr., Se i Project Manager Non-Power Reactors and De ommissioning Project Directorate Division of Operating Reactor Support Office of Nuclear Reactor Rc ulation o

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/ enclosure:

See next page

University of Virginia Docket Nos. 50-62/396 l

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Commonwealth of Virginia Council on the Environment 903 Ninth Street Office Bldg.

Richmond, Virginia 23219 Mr. Preston Farrar Nuclear Reactor Facility University of Virninia School of Engineering and Applied Science Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Dr. Albert B. Reynolds, Chairman Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 i

Dr. William Vernetson Director of Nuclear Facilities Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences University of Florida 202 Nuclear Sciences Center Gainesville, Florida 32611 Dr. Ratib A. Karam, Director Neely Nuclear Research Center Georgia Institute of Technology 900 Atlantic Drive, N.W.

Atlanta, Georgia 30332 Mr. Pedro B. Perez, Associate Director Nuclear Reactor Program North Carolina State University P. O. Box 7909 Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7909 Office of the Attorney General 101 North 8th Street Richmond, Virginia 23219 Bureau of Radiological Health Division of Health Hazards Control 109 Governor Street, Room 916 Richmond, Virginia 23219

Enclosure REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA NUCLEAR REACTOR FACILITY DOCKET NO. 50-62 I. OPERATOR REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM AND IMPLEMENTING PROCEDURES I.

Section B.3, third paragraph:

a.

Is "bi-annual" intended to mean " biennial?"

b.

The Senior Reactor Operator who composes and administers a specific examination will be exempt from taking that examination. When will that individual next take the i

examination?

2.

Section B.4, first paragraph:

a.

What are the criteria for deficiencies? How are these deficiencies to be documented?

3.

Section C.I:

l a.

Is "bi-annual" intended to mean " biennial?"

i II.

PROCEDURES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM I.

Section A.:

a.

Is there any intent to evaluate the operator's comprehension of each of the lectures, (a) through (1), in an on-going manner, particularly if an operator misses a lecture and uses the self-study option?

2.

Section B.:

b.

If deficiencies are uncovered during the operating test, the operator will be retrained in the deficient area (s). The Annual Evaluation form provides for retraining and retesting. Which of these are correct?

b