Event Notification Report for March 19, 2008

FITNESS FOR DUTY - NON-LICENSED SUPERVISOR

A non licensed supervisor had a confirmed positive for illegal drugs during a pre-access fitness-for-duty test. The employee's access to the plant has been terminated. Contact the Headquarters Operations Officer for additional details.

The licensee notified the NRC Resident Inspector.

AGREEMENT STATE - FLORIDA - MISSING DOSE OF TC-99M

The State provided the following information via facsimile:

"Cardinal Health reported that they are missing a single dose of Tech-99m (25 mCi) since 19 March 2008. Customer reported item was not in ammo box upon receipt. Cardinal Health has searched premises with no indication. Procedures were reviewed and found to be correct. Corrective action consisted of a staff meeting to reiterate the requirement to follow proper procedure when packaging and shipping radioactive material. Incident referred to materials office for further investigation. This office will take no further action."

FL Rpt No: FL08-056

THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

Sources that are "Less than IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury. Some of these sources, such as moisture density gauges or thickness gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected, could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close to it for a period of many weeks.

This source is not amongst those sources or devices identified by the IAEA Code of Conduct for the Safety & Security of Radioactive Sources to be of concern from a radiological standpoint. Therefore is it being categorized as a less than Category 3 source

GENERAL ELECTRIC HITACHI CR120A RELAY/RELAY COIL WIRE CLAMP CRACKING

Southern Nuclear Company made this notification of a potential defect in components received by its Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant. The potential defect may exist in ninety-six (96) subject components: ninety-four (94) General Electric Hitachi (GEH) CR120A relays and two (2) GEH CR120A relay coils.

The wire clamps supplied with these relays and relay coils may be susceptible to cracking. The wire clamps serve to secure the wire connections to the relays and relay coils. Currently there are thirty-seven (37) CR120A relays and one (1) CR120A relay coil installed. The components not currently installed have been placed on hold.

The licensee has followed the recommendations of GEH by visually inspecting all installed components for cracks. No cracks were found.

The licensee will replace the clamps on one subject relay installed in the Main Control Room Environmental Control System. The clamps on the components installed in the Source Range Monitoring and Intermediate Range Monitoring instruments show no signs of cracking will be left installed as is. Replacement wire clamps will be ordered from GEH. The licensee plans to replace the clamps on the other stock components.

AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - RADIOGRAPHY CAMERA MALFUNCTION

The following information was received from the State of Texas via Email:

"On February 19, 2008, an industrial radiography trainee working with two trainers at a chemical plant in La Porte, TX observed that his survey meter remained off-scale despite his attempt to crank the source into the shielded position. The device was a QSA Model 880, serial number D3759 containing a 76.7 curie Ir-192 sealed source QSA model A424-9. At that time the radiographers established a 360 degree barricade at the 2mR/hr level and notified the Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) who was out of town. The RSO called a specific licensee authorized by the State of Texas to perform source retrievals. Visual watch over the area was maintained by four employees as some radiation fields extended outside a fenced area. The retrieval was performed in an uneventful manner and although the camera was returned to a fully operational state, the company decided to take the camera out of service and have it fully inspected by the manufacturer. This event is closed.

"This event was reported within 24 hours of the event using the NMED reporting system and not to the HOO [NRC Headquarters Operations Officer]. Failure to properly report this event was determined after a review was conducted of all radiography related events reported in the State of Texas from September 1, 2006 to March 31, 2009. This review was initiated in response to the State of Texas Incident Investigation Program (IIP) determining that they had failed to correctly interpret the requirements for reporting this type of event. The state used 10 CFR 34.101 to report these events, and not 10 CFR 30.50(b)(2), due to conflicting interpretations of NRC rules requiring reporting. In an effort to prevent a reoccurrence of this, each member of IIP was required to read Information Notice 2001-03, Incident Reporting Requirements for Radiography Licenses, dated April 6, 2001. In addition, the IIP database has been changed to clarify the reporting requirement and bring it in line with the NRC requirements."

Texas Incident Number: I - 8495

* * * UPDATE PROVIDED TO KOZAL FROM TUCKER AT 1735 ON 04/08/09 * * *

Upon request of the State the reference to 10 CFR 30.50(b)(a) was changed to 10 CFR 30.50(b)(2).