Under these conditions Palo Verde would convene an ALARA Committee meeting and revise the outage dose goal upward; conversely, if conditions were much lower than anticipated we would use the same process to lower the goal. Fortunately, we have done the latter numerous times. The upward revision based on emergent work / scope change is also approved by the ALARA Committee as a stretch goal (amount estimated above the original estimate). While the final reported RFO dose would include all work, the ALARA incentives offered to employees are based on the original dose estimation; thereby. not penalizing (and disincentivizing) them because of conditions beyond their control.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:05 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] ----------------------------------- 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] If Questions, contact Mike Russell, CHP at [email protected] --- NOTICE --- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain confidential, privileged or proprietary information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original and any copy or printout. Unintended recipients are prohibited from making any other use of this e-mail. Although we have taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this e-mail, we accept no liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of this e-mail or attachments, or for any delay or errors or omissions in the contents which result from e-mail transmission.
