IR 05000255/1987023
| ML18052B358 | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 10/16/1987 |
| From: | Ted Carter, Jablonski F, Kazmar R, Walker H NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| 50-255-87-23, NUDOCS 8710260324 | |
| Download: ML18052B358 (6) | |
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U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I I I Report No. 50-255/87023(DRS)
Docket No. 50-255 Licensee:
Consumers Power 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, MI 49201 Facility Name:
Palisades Nuclear Generating Plant Inspection At:
Covert, Michigan Inspection Conducted:
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Inspection on September 21-25, 1987 (Report No. 50-255/87023(DRS))
Areas Inspected: Maintenance planning for the 1987 maintenance outage scheduled for October 2 through November 15, 198 The inspection was performed using selected portions of inspection procedures 30703, 62700, 62702, and 9270 Results:
No violations or deviations were disclosed during this inspection.
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DETAILS Persons Contacted Consumers Power Company (CPCo)
- J. Lewis, Plant Technical Director R. Fenech, Operations Superintendent
- G. Freeman, Planning and Scheduling Administrator
- D. Joos, Planning and Administrative Manager
- R. McCaleb, Quality Assurance Director
- R. Orosz, Engineering and Maintenance Manager K. Osborne, Projects Superintendent
- J. Ponaranski, Site Projects Manager
- Indicates those attending the exit meeting September 25, 198 Other licensee personnel were con~acted as a matter of routine during this inspectio Licensee Action on Previous Inspection Findings (Closed) Violation (255/85024-0lC(DRP)):
Failure to take prompt and effective corrective action. This item was about the lack of a maintenance trending progra During a previous inspection the applicable procedure and equipment history files were reviewed and determined to be
- acceptable; however, no trend reports had been issued as required by the procedur During this inspection the inspectors reviewed trend report OW 370 for the second quarter of 1987. Action taken on one recurring problem was also reviewed and determined to be acceptabl The inspectors determined that the corrective action described in the licensee 1s December 27, 1985, letter to the NRC had been taken to correct th~ problem and avoid further occurrenc This item is close.
Maintenance Outage Planning This inspection was conducted to verify that the licensee had adequately planned for the maintenance outage scheduled for October 2 through November 15, 198 *
The inspection included a review of management involvement and control in the planning and scheduling of both personnel and equipment for the outage and management involvement and control in assuring qualit The inspection was performed by reviewing applicable procedures and records, conducting personnel interviews and observing work activities. Results of the inspection are documented in the following section **
(a) Overall Planning During discussions with licensee personnel, the inspectors were informed that significant changes had been made to improve the outage planning process since the last outag Under the current system, planning for the outage began more than a year prior to the outage as work orders were designated and accumulate (1)
Normal Processing (2)
(3)
Work orders are routed to Plant Operations where decisions are made about priority of the work to be performed and whether a plant outage is required. A work order number is included on a list for a specific outage depending upon priority of the.work and availability of replacement parts. A list of higher priority work orders is maintained to be worked during forced outages as the outages occur. If a forced outage doesn 1 t occur those work orders are forwarded to the next.scheduled*
maintenance outag Outage Planning Approximately four months prior to a scheduled outage, accumulation of work orders for the outage is stopped except for higher priority emergent work order The planning and scheduling organization begins to plan for the outage based on the work assigned to the outage. Outage planning meetings are held every two weeks beginning four months prior to the outage and moving to every week two months prior to the outag Upcoming Outage The inspectors reviewed the listing of work orders for work planned for the upcoming maintenance outag There were 2004 open work orders; 835 of those were scheduled for the maintenance outag Those work orders included both corrective and preventive maintenance item Specific systems have been scheduled to be out of service for specified periods during the outage to allow required work to be performe Time requirements for the wo.rk, "windows, 11 have been determined by coordination with the maintenance organizations. Schedules of system repair windows have been provided to the maintenance organizations so that detailed work order and manpower scheduling could be performe Short maintenance windows have been provided on most systems to ensure that repaired systems will be returned to Plant Operations for early testing to allow time for repair of problems detected during testin As expected, a listing of the outage work appeared to be heavily loaded in the early
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portions of the outage with little work toward the end which allows time for emergent work with some schedule slippage if necessar A listing of all CPCo commitments to the NRC are maintained by the plant licensing organization. A listing of the commitments for the 1987 maintenance outage was provided to planning and scheduling who has the responsibility for including those commitments in the outage schedul The sample reviewed by the inspectors indicated this action was satisfactor (4)
Planning Documents The inspectors reviewed three documents prepared for the 1987 maintenance outage and discussed the documents, as well as the planning ~nd scheduling'activities, with licensee personne Those documents included:.
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User 1s Guide for Palisades Maintenance Outage 198 Palisades Plant 1987 Maintenance Outage Objective Work Order Condensed Listin Those documents provided the overall planning for the outage, a listing of work orders (not including emergent orders),
schedules for m~jor work, estimates of manpower requirements, and other supportive informatio Based on the inspector 1s review, maintenance planning and scheduling activities appeared to be properly implemente The activities described above were specifically developed for the. 1987 maintenance outage, but not covered by procedures.* The inspectors were told that a draft document had been prepared and would be revised based on experience obtained during the outage. That document would be issued as a guideline for future o.utage plannin (b)
Maintenance The inspectors verified that the mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation and control (I&C) maintenance organizations received overall planning information from planning and schedulin The information included a list of work orders to be completed during the outage, maintenance windows for each system and a list of work orders on hold for part Each discipline uses the information to provide schedules and personnel requirements for each day during the*
outag Tracking and parts status for outage work orders was being performed and recommendations or requests for schedule changes or adjustments will be made if necessar Needs for additional personnel have been determined and arrangements made for personnel from contractors or other areas within CPCo.. Training requirements have been established and training was in progress for many of the additional personne For six days of the outage I&C personnel had been significantly over schedule With only 23 I&C technicians avail~ble, the inspectors noted that for one day, staffing requirements were as high as 5 I&C planning personnel were aware of the man loading problem and in.the proce~s of reworking the I&C schedule to co~rect i,A list of work orders on hold for parts,was available to the maintenance organizations for planning and trackin The inspectors noted that there were 14 mechanical work orders scheduled for the outage that the current parts status was not know Mechanical maintenance could not assure that the work would be performed as scheduled and.there was no apparent way to adjust the schedule since the parts status was not know This matter was discussed with.
licensee personnel and will be carried as an open item for review during a subsequent inspection (255/87023-0l(DRS)).
(c)
Projects, Engineering and Construction The inspectors reviewed the "Projects, Engineering and Construction Outage Controls Report for the 1987 Maintenance Outage.
This document described the work to be performed under the control of the Projects, Engineering & Construction (PE&C) organization whi~h
. consists of most of the major maintenance and modification wor The PE&C organization will be responsible for approximately half the work performed during the outage. This work, not u~der the direct control of the plant, includes most of the contracted work and work performed by CPCo personnel not directly assigned to the plan Training requirements had been established and training was in progress for some PE&C personne In some cases contractors were selected because df specific expertise in a respective area. For one of the jobs, installing steam generator nozzle dams, a mock-up o the work area had been fabricated and personnel were being trained accordingly. This training should reduce radiation exposure during the job as well as improve the quality of wor The inspector did not review day-by-day man loading plans in this area s i nee much of the work wi 11 be performed by contractor Bas.ed on a cursory review by the inspector, it appeared that adequate staffing requirements had been determined by the l icens (d)
Inspection Inspection for all work performed during the outage will be provided by CPCo QC personne Eight additional inspectors will be required with seven furnished by a contractor and one by CPCo from the Big Rock Point plant. Training requirements were established and training was in proces '!*
(e)
Conclusions Planning and scheduling for the 1987 maintenance outage appeared to be adequat The inspectors concluded that management was involved in assuring quality in that there was evidence of prior planning and assignment of prioritie The limited window concept and front loading of work should result in fewer delays at the end of the outage due to schedule slippage or equipmeht failure Coordination and communication between the different organizations appeared to have resulted in a realistic maintenance outage pla The only factors that appeared to be possible problems were the over scheduling of personnel in some areas and failure to be knowledgeable of the status of replacement parts. Both areas were being reviewed by the licensee to eliminate the potential problem No violations were identifie.
Open I terns Open items are matters that have been discussed with the licensee, which will be reviewed further, and involve some action on the part of the NRC or licensee or bot An open item identified during the inspection is discussed in Section 3.(b). Exit Interview The inspectors met with licensee representatives (denoted in Paragraph 1)
on September 25, 1987, and summarized the purpose, scope and findings of the inspection. The inspectors discussed the likely informational content of the inspection report with regard to documents or processes reviewed by the inspectors during the inspectio The licensee did not identify any such documents or processes as proprietar