ML13037A168

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant - Notification of Inspection and Request for Information

ML13037A168
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	02/01/2013
From:	Bonser B R NRC/RGN-II/DRS/PSB1
To:	Tynan T E Southern Nuclear Operating Co
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II 245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257 February 1, 2013

Mr. Tom E. Tynan Vice President

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant 7821 River Road Waynesboro, GA 30830

SUBJECT:

VOGTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Tynan:

On March 11-15, 2013, the NRC will perfo rm a baseline Occupational and Public Radiation Safety inspection at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, (NRC Inspection Procedure 71124.01, Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls, 71124.08, Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation and 71151 Performance Indicator Verification (Occupational and Public Radiation Safety Cornerstones). In order to minimize the impact to your on-site resources and to ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed a request for documents needed for this inspection. It is important that all of these documents are up-to-date and complete, in order to minimize the number of additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the on-site portions of the inspection.

We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff and understand that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be George Gunn at (706) 826-3596 of your organization that the material be available for review by March 1, 2013. Our inspection dates are subject to change based on your updated schedule of outage activities. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector Ruben Hamilton at (404) 997-4672 (ruben.hamilton@nrc.gov).

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, under control number 3150-0044, 3150-0014, 3150-0011, and 3150-0008. 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 display s a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be available electr onically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document T. Tynan 2 Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/ reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely, /RA/

Brian Bonser, Chief Plant Support Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety

Docket No. 50-424, 50-425 License No. NPF-68, NPF-81

Enclosure:

Pre-Inspection Document Request

cc: (See page 3)

ML13037A168 SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE FORM 665 ATTACHED OFFICE RII: DRS/PSB1 RII: DRS/PSB1 SIGNATURE /RA/ /RA/ NAME R. HAMILTON B. BONSER DATE 2/1/2013 2/1/2013 2/ /2013 2/ /2013 2/ /2013 2/ /2013 2/ /2013 E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO T. Tynan 3 cc: C. Russ Dedrickson Fleet Support Supervisor

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S. Kuczynski Chairman, President and CEO Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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Plant Manager Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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N. J. Stringfellow Licensing Manager

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T. A. Lynch Vice President Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant

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Dennis R. Madison Vice President Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant

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Leigh Perry SVP & General Counsel-Ops & SNC Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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T. E. Tynan Site Vice President Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

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B. D. McKinney, Jr. Regulatory Response Manager Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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Hickox, T. Mark Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Electronic Mail Distribution Mark Rauckhorst Site Vice President Vogtle Units 3 and 4 Southern Nuclear Operating Company Electronic Mail Distribution cc (continued): See page 4

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Senior Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Vogtle Electric Generating Plant U.S. NRC 7821 River Road Waynesboro, GA 30830

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Sandra Threatt, Manager Nuclear Response and Emergency Environmental Surveillance Bureau of Land and Waste Management Department of Health and Environmental

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Enclosure Pre-Inspection Document Request Licensee: Vogtle Electric Generating Plant

Inspection Dates: March 11-15, 2013

Documents Due to Region by: March 1, 2013 Inspection Procedures: 71124.01 Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls

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

Lead Inspector: Ruben Hamilton Senior Health Physicist US NRC Region II (404) 997-4672

ruben.hamilton@nrc.gov

Note: Unless specified otherwise, the current version of these documents is expected. Electronic media is preferred if readily available. (The preferred file format is MSWord, or searchable ".pdf" files on CDROM). Note that the inspectors cannot accept data provided on USB or "flash" drives due to NRC IT security policies. To the extent possible, please organize the information in the order shown below. Experience has shown that a poorly organized CD leads to a less efficient inspection and places additional burden on licensee staff. If there are questions regarding the documents requested, please do not hesitate to contact the lead inspector. During the inspection, the inspectors may request additional documents. If the licensee wishes to use an electronic document service such as CERTRAC or a SharePoint portal the inspectors will try to accommodate for the documentation requested on site. The initial documents should not require an internet connection to be reviewed.

We would prefer as much of the information as possible in electronic form. An index to the CD contents is also helpful. For those items requesting a list of documents/areas, the inspectors will select documents/areas from the list for on-site review. If any of the requested information is too burdensome to provide electronically or as hard copies, simply indicate that the requested material is available for onsite review by the inspectors.

If you have any questions, please call Ruben Ha milton at (404) 997-4672. Thank you in advance for your efforts in putting together this material.

Assistance Requested During On-Site Inspection

1. Identification of work activities during the inspection for inspector observations, including notification of pre-job briefings.

2 2. Health physics assistance in plant walk-downs assessing radiological hazards and exposure controls, e.g. verifying the posting and locking of entrances to locked-high radiation areas and very high radiation areas, spent fuel pool controls, and radioactive material storage areas. Health physics and system engineer assistance in plant walk-downs and discussion of large personnel monitoring and/or installed radiation monitors and systems.

General Information Needed

1. Plant Management, Radiation Protection, and Chemistry organizational charts with contact numbers. 2. Electronic copy of UFSAR chapters 11 and 12 (radwaste and radiation protection).

3. Corrective action program procedure.

4. Outage schedule of major activities (Gantt chart if available). 5. Audits and self-assessments performed since the last inspection that encompasses the areas of (1) radiation protection, (2) access controls, and (3) ISFSI. 6. List of radiation protection procedures, including title and number.

71124.01 - Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls

1. List of active radiation work permits, including those specific to outage activities, with their administrative limits, electronic dosimeter dose rate limit, and dose limit. 2. Procedures related to HP 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 Nationally Tracked Sources and any change-of-ownership transactions.

5. Inventory list of all sealed sources stored onsite.

6. List of all non-fuel items stored in spent fuel pool. 7. HP plan for monitoring and controlling hazards associated with potential fuel leakers during the upcoming outage. 8. Most recent self-assessment or audit covering hazard assessment and exposure controls. 9. List of NCRs related to HP controls (e.g., radworker error, HP technician error, posting issues, HRA/LHRA/VHRA issues, survey problems, etc.) issued since March 2012. This should be a list of corrective action documents containing an AR number and brief description, not full NCRs. 71124.08: Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation

1. Site and corporate procedures associated with radioactive waste processing and handling, storage, and transportation of radioactive material (RAM), including:

a. Storage and handling of RAM including non-RCA and satellite RCA locations.

b. Waste stream mixing, sampling, concentration averaging, and use of scaling factors. c. Monitoring impact of long-term storage (e.g. buildup of gases produced by waste decomposition, chemical reactions, container deformation, loss of container integrity, re-release of free-flowing water).

3 d. Transferring of resin and/or sludge into shipping/disposal containers; dewatering and waste stabilization. e. Preparing packages and documentation for shipping radioactive materials. 2. List of RAM storage areas, including satellite RCAs. 3. Process Control Program.

4. List of changes to the radioactive waste processing systems since January 2011, and copies of the associated 50.59 screening documentation.

5. Log of radioactive material shipments (LSA I, II, IIII; SCO I, II, Type A, or Type B) since March 2012, (The inspectors will select 3-5 packages to review in detail). 6. List of NCRs generated since March 2012, related to radioactive solid waste processing and packaging, handling, storage, and shipping of radioactive materials.

Inspector Contact Information Mr. Ruben Hamilton (404) 997-4672

ruben.hamilton@nrc.gov Mailing Address US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region II Attention: Mr. Ruben Hamilton

245 Peachtree Center Ave., N.E

Suite 1200

Atlanta, GA 30303