Stevie, Basically, our methodology is the goal is set prior to the outage and that is the goal based on planned work. Out take is that the goal is the goal. We don't think it buys a lot to keep changing the goal (other than to confuse people), so we acknowledge it has to be changed and either set a new "target goal" if we will exceed the original goal or a "challenge goal" if we will be below the original goal (i.e., reduction of scope). If there is a situation that develops that would prevent realistic achievement of the goal (crud burst or added emergent work), we would set a new "target" goal based on analysis of how much additional dose it would add. We have chosen to do this through an ALARA Subcommittee when it has happened. We document this in a condition report. Our ALARA Committee does require an action plan prior to exceeding a station dose goal (again, this is typically done through an ALARA Subcommittee). If the station dose goal is/will be exceeded by >20%, we document in a condition report and perform a causal analysis to determine proper corrective actions. On the other hand, if it is recognized that the goal is too high at some point, we would set a "challenge goal" to challenge the organization to better performance, but not change the goal. In a nutshell, that is how we go about it.
Hope that helps! Thanks, Anne Lollis, Supervisor-ALARA, Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Powernet: Quick Question (Outage Dose Goal Revision?) At SONGS, the outage dose goal is set prior to the outage like all sites. At the onset of the outage, we had higher than expected dose rates (crud burst with new generators) and revised our outage dose goal accordingly. Would your site have revised the outage goal is similar event occurred? In addition, during the outage it has been determined that additional emergent work will be required to support increased inspections on our steam generators which is dose impacting. Would your site revise your outage dose goal a second time based upon the increased emergent work expected? Or would your site maintain your revised dose goal as is and track the emergent dose as separate goal? Thanks, "Stevie Ray" Vaughan [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ----------------------------------- Powernet - a service of the Health Physics Society Power Reactor Section Powernet archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Reply to: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> If Questions, contact Mike Russell, CHP at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail contains Omaha Public Power District's confidential and proprietary information and is for use only by the intended recipient. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, this e-mail is not a contract offer, amendment, or acceptance. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.
