05000387/FIN-2013013-01
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| Title | Unauthorized Movement of a High Radiation Area Boundary |
| Description | The first OI investigation (1-2012-012), which was completed on August 23, 2012, examined whether a contract roofer at SSES deliberately failed to follow an SSES procedure pertaining to personnel contamination monitoring. Based on the evidence gathered during the OI investigation, the NRC concluded that on October 11, 2011, the contract roofer willfully, with careless disregard, failed to contact the SSES Health Physics (HP) department after receiving two radiation portal monitor (PM) alarms when exiting the SSES protected area (PA). Specifically, on the specified occasion, after the contract roofer received a second alarm on a PM at the SSES PA exit, one of the NRC resident inspector staff, while exiting the SSES PA, observed the contractor and reminded him of the requirement to contact HP. Because the contract roofer could not locate a telephone in the area, his coworker (who had successfully passed the PM and exited the PA) approached a SSES security officer stationed at the security control point, purportedly to request assistance with contacting the HP department. As a result of a likely miscommunication, the HP department was not contacted and the contract roofer used a different PM and exited the PA after not receiving an alarm, even though, in accordance with his testimony to OI, the contract roofer knew he was supposed to contact the HP department and wait for assistance. Although the contract roofers coworker testified to OI that a security officer at the security control point had told him to have the contract roofer try another PM, OI, through its investigation, was unable to corroborate that any security officer provided such direction. The contract roofers actions caused PPL to violate the SSES operating license. The violation is described in the enclosed Notice of Violation (Notice). |
| Site: | Susquehanna  |
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| Report | IR 05000387/2013013 Section 4OA5 |
| Date counted | Jun 30, 2013 (2013Q2) |
| Type: | TEV: Severity level IV |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
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| Inspectors (proximate) | R Lorson D Holody D Roberts J Noggle J Teator M Gray M Mclaughlin |
| Violation of: | License Condition Technical Specification - Procedures |
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Finding List (Susquehanna) @ 2013Q2
Self-Identified List (Susquehanna)
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