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This task was developed to assure that the number and capabilities of the staff at nuclear power plants are adequate to provide safe operation. To meet this goal, consideration will be given to: (1) the numbers and functions of the staff needed to safely …
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In response to Section 306 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the Commission published a "Policy Statement [1] on Training and Qualification of Nuclear Power Plant Personnel, March 1985. This Policy Statement endorsed the INPO Accreditation Program …
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One purpose of this task is to ensure that the licensing examination for reactor operators and senior operators is a valid measure of the operator's knowledge and ability to perform the necessary tasks and functions required to safely operate and control …
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This task was developed to provide assurance that plant procedures were adequate and could be used effectively. The objective was to provide procedures that would guide operators in maintaining plants in a safe state under all operating conditions, …
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The objective of this task was to ensure that the man-machine interface (MMI) is adequate for the safe operation and maintenance of nuclear power plants. This objective was to be attained by developing: (1) human factors engineering guidelines for …
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The objective of this effort is to develop tested technology to assess the capability and adequacy of utility management and organization to provide for safe operation of their nuclear power plants. This objective will be accomplished by: (1) developing …
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The primary purposes of this task are to develop a technical support system for NRC reliability evaluations, especially the PRA programs, and to provide feedback links from operating experience to other elements of the human factors program. A secondary …
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Historical Background The purpose of the Maintenance and Surveillance Program (MSP) effort is to provide direction for the NRC's efforts to assure effective nuclear power plant maintenance. The program will be based on the current NRC regulatory approach …
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DESCRIPTION During the administration of the third of a three-fraction vaginal treatment of a patient on January 9, 1996, the treatment console of a Nucletron high-dose-rate (HDR) remote afterloader unit locked up, and the console alarm sounded when the …
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DESCRIPTION This issue was identified [1] by NMSS after several cases were reported where licensees found residual contamination remaining in some components of Krypton-85 handling systems after the standard decommissioning process. The staff's concern …
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DESCRIPTION This issue was identified [1] by NMSS with the discovery of intergranular corrosion in one manufacturer's 316L stainless steel source used in Category IV irradiator pools. Analysis of data and reports provided by the manufacturer revealed that …
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DESCRIPTION This issue was identified [1] by NMSS after Cobalt-60 radiography sources were stolen from a bankrupt licensee (Larpen of Texas) and sold to a scrap yard where one source fell out of its housing and exposed several individuals. The Bureau of …
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DESCRIPTION This issue was identified [1] by NMSS when Victoreen, Inc., notified the NRC that some of its Model 530 and 530SI Electrometer/Dosimeter instruments were susceptible to developing cracks in their internal resistor networks. These cracked …
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DESCRIPTION This issue was identified [1] by NMSS and addresses the potential for special nuclear material containing unusual moderators to re-concentrate and form a critical mass in low-level waste disposal systems. The results of studies of two …
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DESCRIPTION The importance of computer software (methods and data) in establishing the criticality safety of systems with fissile material is increasing as licensees work to optimize facilities and storage/transport packages at the same time that access …
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DESCRIPTION The Year 2000 computer problem had the potential to pose a threat to public health, site safety and safeguards, and worker safety. Many computer systems could have potentially failed to recognize the change to a new century. The staff believed …
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DESCRIPTION This issue was identified [1] by NMSS after three reports of radiography source disconnects involving drive cable breaks in Amersham equipment were reported. IN 97-91 [2] was issued to alert all industrial radiography licensees to potential …
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DESCRIPTION This issue was identified [1] by NMSS after it was reported in June 1997 that the source from a Troxler moisture density gauge broke off the source rod and was left at a temporary job site. Prior to this event, there had been 6 known …
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DESCRIPTION In early 1997, the NRC became aware that, on four separate occasions, utilities using the ventilated storage cask (VSC)-24 spent fuel dry cask storage system had experienced cracking while making the cask closure welds. In May 1997, the NRC …
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DESCRIPTION This issue was identified when two holders of Certificates of Compliance for shipping packages performed puncture tests using a bar that was not properly mounted, as specified in 10 CFR 71.73(c)(3). As a result, NRC Bulletin 97-02 [1] was …
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DESCRIPTION This issue was identified [1] by NMSS to allow licensees to establish ALIs and DACs for use at their facilities based on new models to show compliance. NMSS believed that 10 CFR 20 needed to be revised so that Appendix B and all references to …
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DESCRIPTION This issue was identified [1] by NMSS to pursue research to provide a methodology to calculate surety for groundwater restoration activities at in situ leach uranium extraction facilities and a post-restoration groundwater quality stability …
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DESCRIPTION As of July 1998, SNM-bearing low-level waste was being disposed of at the following three facilities: (1) Envirocare in Clive, Utah; (2) U.S. Ecology in Hanford, Washington; and (3) Chem-Nuclear in Barnwell, South Carolina. Until 1997, the …
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DESCRIPTION Exposure to the "unimportant quantities" of source material, defined in 10 CFR 40.13(a) as less than 0.05 wt% uranium or thorium, could result in annual doses to the public of hundreds of millirem exceeding NRC's public dose limit of 100 …
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DESCRIPTION Radioactive products to be distributed under a general license are required to be inherently safe so that they can be used by untrained people. However, licensed devices containing radioactive materials have not always been disposed of, nor …
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