10 C.F.R. § 70 app A to Part 70
Licensees must comply with reporting requirements in this appendix. As required by 10 CFR 70.74 , licensees subject to the requirements in subpart H of part 70, shall report:
(a) One hour reports. Events to be reported to the NRC Operations Center within 1 hour of discovery, supplemented with the information in 10 CFR 70.50(c)(1) as it becomes available, followed by a written report within 60 days:
(1) An inadvertent nuclear criticality.
(2) An acute intake by an individual of 30 mg or greater of uranium in a soluble form.
(3) An acute chemical exposure to an individual from licensed material or hazardous chemicals produced from licensed material that exceeds the quantitative standards established to satisfy the requirements in § 70.61(b)(4) .
(4) An event or condition such that no items relied on for safety, as documented in the Integrated Safety Analysis summary, remain available and reliable, in an accident sequence evaluated in the Integrated Safety Analysis, to perform their function:
(i) In the context of the performance requirements in § 70.61(b) and § 70.61(c) , or
(ii) Prevent a nuclear criticality accident (i.e., loss of all controls in a particular sequence).
(b) Twenty-four hour reports. Events to be reported to the NRC Operations Center within 24 hours of discovery, supplemented with the information in 10 CFR 70.50(c)(1) as it becomes available, followed by a written report within 60 days:
(1) Any event or condition that results in the facility being in a state that was not analyzed, was improperly analyzed, or is different from that analyzed in the Integrated Safety Analysis, and which results in failure to meet the performance requirements of § 70.61 .
(2) Loss or degradation of items relied on for safety that results in failure to meet the performance requirement of § 70.61 .
(3) An acute chemical exposure to an individual from licensed material or hazardous chemicals produced from licensed materials that exceeds the quantitative standards that satisfy the requirements of § 70.61(c)(4) .
(4) Any natural phenomenon or other external event, including fires internal and external to the facility, that has affected or may have affected the intended safety function or availability or reliability of one or more items relied on for safety.
(c) Concurrent Reports. Any event or situation, related to the health and safety of the public or onsite personnel, or protection of the environment, for which a news release is planned or notification to other government agencies has been or will be made, shall be reported to the NRC Operations Center concurrent to the news release or other notification.
10 C.F.R. 70 app A to Part 70