Flashlights

[dpharrison@aep.com]

How is your facility handling flashlights going in and out of the
Restricted Area?

1.  For free release, do you frisk them using, say, an RM-14 with HP210
pancake probe?

2.  Do you place them in a tool contamination monitor, like a SAM-11?

3.  Do you allow them to be worn by the worker and let the personnel
contamination monitor be the exit survey?

4.  Do you challenge the worker who attempts to bring a flashlight into the
Restricted Area?

The batteries within the flashlight contain NORM and sometimes alarm the
SAM and sometimes not.  The issue is that the Operators must have a
flashlight on them to perform Appendix R functions.  We would like to stage
flashlights on racks at the Restricted Area boundary to preclude them
crossing the boundary.  But management wants some benchmarking before we do
this, so I'd appreciate your responses!

Thanks!

David Harrison, CHP
DC Cook Nuclear Plant
(616)465-5901, ext. 2545
dpharrison@aep.com

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