IR 05000220/2005001

Annual Assessment Letter - Nine Mile Point (Report 05000220/2005001 and 05000410/2005001))

ML050610734
Person / Time
Site:	Nine Mile Point
Issue date:	03/02/2005
From:	James Trapp Reactor Projects Branch 1
To:	Spina J Nine Mile Point
Trapp J RGN-I/DRP/PB1/610-337-5186
References
IR-05-001
Download: ML050610734 (6)

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rch 2, 2005

SUBJECT:

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER - NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION (REPORT 05000220/2005001 AND 05000410/2005001)

Dear Mr. Spina:

On February 10, 2005, the NRC staff completed its end-of-cycle plant performance assessment of the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station. The end-of-cycle review for Nine Mile Point involved the participation of the reactor technical divisions in evaluating performance indicators (PIs) for the most recent quarter and inspection results for the period from January 1 through December 31, 2004. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period and our plans for future inspections at your facility so that you will have an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections that may conflict with your plant activities.

This performance review and enclosed inspection plan do not include physical protection information. A separate letter designated and marked as Exempt from Public Disclosure in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 will include the physical protection review and resultant inspection plan.

Overall, Nine Mile Point operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety, and fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for the most recent quarter, as well as for the first three quarters of the assessment cycle, was within the Licensee Response Column of the NRCs Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified as having very low safety significance (Green) and all PIs indicating performance at a level requiring no additional NRC oversight (Green). Therefore, we plan to conduct only reactor oversight process (ROP)

baseline inspections at your facility through September 30, 2006. We also plan on conducting several non-ROP inspections which include license renewal inspections. A Supplemental Inspection was completed in September 2004, for the Unplanned Scrams per 7000 Critical Hours at Unit 2, which was White during the third quarter of 2003. The Supplemental Inspection determined that your corrective actions were sufficient to address the causes and prevent recurrence.

The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections, less those related to physical protection, scheduled through September 30, 2006. The plan includes those inspections being conducted for license renewal. The inspection plan is provided to minimize the resource impact on your staff and to allow for scheduling conflicts and personnel availability to be resolved in advance of inspector arrival onsite.

Mr. James Routine resident inspections are not listed due to their ongoing and continuous nature. The inspections in the last nine months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the mid-cycle review meeting.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

If circumstances arise which cause us to change the inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact me at (610) 337-5186 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

Sincerely,

/RA/

James M. Trapp, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 1 Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos. 50-220, 50-410 License Nos. DPR-63, DPR-59 Enclosure: Nine Mile Point Inspection/Activity Plan

Mr. James