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NRC CAL – NOVCP (SL III)

EA-16-191 · CAL · Severity SLIII · Issued 2017-03-31 · Materials Licensees

Action

EA Number
EA-16-191
Licensee
NOVCP (SL III)
Category
Materials Licensees
Action type
CAL
Severity level
SLIII
Date issued
2017-03-31

Description

On March 31, 2017, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation to Premier Technology, Inc. for a Severity Level III violation for failure to implement 10 CFR 34.47(a) and 34.47(g)(2). Specifically, 10 CFR 34.47(a) requires, in part, that a licensee may not permit any individual to act as a radiographer or radiographer's assistant, unless at all times during the radiographic operations, each individual wears, on the trunk of his body, a direct reading dosimeter, an operating alarm ratemeter, and a personnel dosimeter. On May 18, 2015, licensee personnel performing radiographic operations removed the alarm ratemeter from the trunk of their body because they assumed they could use the ratemeter to fulfil the radiation survey requirements of 10 CFR 34.49. The licensee also failed to implement the requirements of 10 CFR 34.47(g)(2) in part, when one of the same alarm ratemeters was set to give an alarm at a present dose rate of 100 millisieverts/hour instead of the required setting at 5 millisieverts/hour.

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