Washington (Platts)--4Jan2008
Some vendors who supply components to nuclear power plants are not
properly reporting defects, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a
notice released Friday.
In the notice, IN 2007-40, dated December 21, the staff described several
instances it had identified during inspections at vendor facilities "where
vendors failed to adequately implement the requirements" of the regulations.
The staff said that "several vendors' 10 CFR Part 21 programs did not
have adequate procedural guidance to identify and evaluate deviations
associated with a substantial safety hazard."
They said that the violations identified in the notice "are of particular
concern because they often involved implementing procedures that were
inadequate to reasonably assure the satisfaction" of the regulation's
requirements.
Information notices do not require a response, but licensees are expected
to review them for applicability to their facilities.
--Steven Dolley, steven_dolley@platts.com
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