Systems Exam 1 - Non-Routine Reporting

Question 1

1-hour Reports

Answer 1

→any emergency classification

→invoking 50.54(x)
(-Security Reportable event)
(-Cyber attack)

Question 2

4-hour Reports

Answer 2

→valid ECCS actuation
→valid RPS actuation w/critical Rx
→any event requiring new release or notification to an offsite agency
→any shutdown driven by tech specs

Question 3

8-hour Reports

Answer 3

→loss of emergency assessment capability
→any event resulting in a degraded plant or unanalyzed condition
→valid ESF actuation signal:
RPS w/ Rx not critical
CNTMT isolation or MSIV isolation
AFW
CNTMT Spray
EDG auto start
ECCS
→any event or condition that could have prevented a safety function
→transport of a radioactively contaminated person offsite

Question 4

In the event of a death on site…

Answer 4

Notify OSHA in 4 hours.

Notify the NRC in 8 hours.

(per STA-501)

Question 5

Event Discovery Date

Answer 5

the date or time which starts the clock for reports due to regulatory agencies

(typically the date that a CPNPP worker identifies a problem or an issue)

(if the problem requires an engineering evaluation to determine operability or significance, the Event Discovery Date is the date the engineering evaluation is completed)

Question 6

Safeguards Event

Answer 6

any incident representing and attempted, threatened, or actual breach of the safeguards system or reduction of the operational effectiveness of that system

Question 7

Byproduct Material

Answer 7

any radioactive material (except special nuclear material) yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material.

Question 8

Special Nuclear Material

Answer 8

Plutonium, Uranium 233, Uranium enriched with the isotope 233 or isotope 235, and any other material (fuel).