ML20002B529

Responds to NRC 801014 Ltr Re Violations Noted in IE Insp Rept 50-150/80-03.Corrective Actions:Procedure Revised to Include Methods for Personnel Accountability During Emergency Evacuation

ML20002B529
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Site:	Ohio State University
Issue date:	11/17/1980
From:	Redmond R OHIO STATE UNIV., COLUMBUS, OH
To:	Davis A NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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The onto state University Engineering Emertment Stat 6on 142 Hitchcock Hall 2o7o Neil Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210 l Phone 614 4?.2-2411 l

November 17, 1980 l

l A. B. Davis, Chief Fuel Facility and Materials Safety Branch l U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission

! Region III i 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137

Dear Sir:

In repsonse to your Inspection Report (IE Inspection Report No.

50-150/80-03) requiring our addressing a method of personnel accountability during emergency evacuation, we have proposed two procedural changes.

i The emergency procedure as now written does n.st outline a method of personnel accountability although the senior staff member on duty is responsible for such action. (See enclosed Emergency Procedure).

Under item three we shall add a statement requiring the Reactor Operator to remove the Visitor's Logbook when evacuating the building.

This will provide better accountability of visitors that might have I

been in the building when an evacuation was initiated.

l Under item four we shall add a statement requiring the senior staff member present to physically examine every office and laboratory in the Reactor Building (8 rooms) to assure complete building evacuation.

Instituting these two changes will provide better personnel accountability during and after emergency evacuations. Tnese changes will be effective December 1,1980. If you have questions concerning this method please contact Mr. Richard Myser, Manager of "eactor Operations, at the Ohio State University huclear Reactor Laboratory

, (614-422-6755).

1 i Sincerely, t /

Robert F. Redmond Director

$N$0re NOV;g y conege of Engineering

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G-3/2 THE NUCLEAR REACTOR LABORATORY EMERCENCY PROCEDURES Type II - Nuclear Emergency In the event of a nuclear emergency, the building shall be evacuated at the sound of the horn located on the south wall of the Bulk Shielding Facility. Evacuated personnel shf11 assemble at the main (east) entrance of the Van de Graaff Laboratory.

The Reactor Operator is responsible for performing these procedures:

1. Depress the manual scram button on the Control Console, announce once over the intercom that the building is to be evacuated, and assure that the building evacuation horn is sounded.

2. Turn off the building fans as you leave the Control Room.

3. Pick up both a neutron sensitive and a gamma sensitive survey instrument and proceed to the Van de Graaff Laboratory.

The Senior NRL Staff member present is responsible for these steps:

4. Account for all NRL and experimental personnel. If a class was in session at the time of the evacuation, check with the g instructor in charge to insure all students are. accounted

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) for. It is the responsibility of the instructor to assure the safety of his students.

5. Inform these people of the occurrence of the emergency:

a) J. G. Dare, Di n. tor, Office of Radiological Health 6 Saf e ty , 7656 ; home: 457-3032 bl OSU Department of Public Safety, 2-2525 c, B. K. Hajek, Associate Director, NRL-home:876-6030 d) D. W. Miller, Director, NRL 7979 e) R. F. Redmond, Director, EES- 2-9538

6. Survey all personnel who have evacuated the NRL. Do not release them without clearance from one of the personnel listed in Step 5. (NOTE: Dependent on the type and severity of the incident, this might be the first step after assembly at the Van de Graaff.) . .

f 7. Proceed with discretion, and with a s'urvey instrument, towards the NRL, and if possible, check radiation levels around the building. Don't re-enter the building without respiratory equipment until the level of airborne activity in the building has been determined.

8. Take charge of establishment of exclusion areas, personnel recovery operations, etc., until arrival of personnel listed p in Step S.

O Seniority Order: Laboratory Director, Associate Director, Instruments.t Supervisor, Senior Operator on Duty, Senior Operator, ar.? Operator on Duty.

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