IR 05000275/1987041
| ML16341E456 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 11/24/1987 |
| From: | Burdoin J, Mendonca M NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
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| ML16341E455 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-275-87-41-MM, 50-323-87-42, NUDOCS 8712100238 | |
| Download: ML16341E456 (10) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION V
Report Nos.
50-275/87-41 and 50-323/87-42 Docket Nos.
50-275 and 50-323 License Nos
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company 77 Beale Street Room 1451 San Francisco, California 94106 Facility Name:
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 and
Meeting Held at:
USNRC Region V Conference Room, Walnut Creek, California Meeting Conducted:
ober
1987 Inspector:
z/ zpg Approved by:
~Summar:
F.
B rd in, Project Inspector M.
M. Mendonca, Section Chief D te igned iil~vP~ /
Date Signed Mana ement Meetin on October
1987 Re ort Nos.
50-275/87-41 and 50-323/87-42 A management meeting was held on October 30, 1987 to discuss the recently issued Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance (SALP) Report for Diablo Canyon and recent plant events that have developed since the last management meeting held on August 17, 198 ~
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MANAGEMENT MEETING DETAILS Attendees Pacific Gas and Electric Com an PG&E G.
A. Maneatis, President J.
D. Shiffer, Vice President, Nuclear Power Generation W.
B. Kaefer, Assistant to Vice President, Nuclear Power Generation J.
D. Townsend, Acting Plant Manager G.
H. Moore, Manager, Nuclear Engineering and Construction Services J.
A. Sexton, Assistant Plant Manager, Plant Superintendent S.
M. Skidmore, Manager, guality Assurance J.
M. Gisclon, Assistant Plant Manager, Support Services W.
B. McLane, Acting Assistant Plant Manager, Technical Services
~ Giffin, Acting Manager, Nuclear Operation Support, Nuclear Regulatory Affairs C. 0. Coffer, Supervisory Engineering, Nuclear Regulatory Affairs T.
L. Grebel, Regulatory Compliance Supervisor R.
S. Weinberg, News Service Representative United States Nuclear Re ulator Commission NRC)
J.
B. Martin, Regional Administrator D.
F. Kirsch, Director, Division of Reactor Safety and Projects G.
W. Knighton, Director, Project Directorate No.
R. J.
Pate, Chief, Reactor Safety Branch R.
P.
Zimmerman, Chief, Reactor Projects Branch M.
M. Mendonca, Chief, Reactor ProjectsSection I P.
P. Narbut, Senior Resident Inspector, Diablo Canyon J.
F. Burdoin, Project Inspector J.
L. Crews, Senior Reactor Engineer A.
D. Johnson, Enforcement Coordinator M.
D. Schuster, Chief, Safeguards Section D.
W. Schaefer, Safeguards Inspector C.
B.
Ramsey, Reactor Inspector Meetin Summar The meeting convened at approximately 9:00 a.m.
on October 30, 1987 in the Region V Conference Room in Walnut Creek.
Mr. J.
B. Martin opened the meeting by remarking that meeting with the licensee once per quarter has proven useful to communicate with the licensee on regulatory issues.
He acknowledged that this SALP Management Meeting followed close on the heels of the last management meeting held with PG8E on August 17, 1987.
Mr. Martin mentioned again that the licensee's program to communicate management expectations to plant staff are important to assure safe operations, the note on which the August meeting was concluded.
This meeting was to review the SALP report findings and update the progress on the items of the licensee's June 15, 1987 letter that were reported on during the August 17, 1987 meetin ~'
Mr. Maneatis responded by stating that he considered the SALP an excellent vehicle to assess PG8E's performance, and that NRC's standards are as high or higher than INPO's standards.
Mr. Maneatis indicated the SALP report was a well written document which generally summarized PG8E performance, however, PG8E was just a little disappointed in several categories where considerable effort has been applied by PGRE.
Mr.
Maneatis indicated that PG8E welcomed the observations and will take them to heart and incorporate NRC recommendations.
Mr. Townsend then discussed plant status.
The meeting then turned to the discussion of the SALP report.
Three SALP areas were reviewed in detail with the licensee:
fire protection, security and safeguards, and licensing activities.
The licensee received a lower evaluation this SALP period compared to the last SALP report in these three functional areas.
In the area of licensing activities, it was agreed that the licensee and NRC must closely coordinate requests for emergency Technical Specification chang'es
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In the area of security and safeguards, the staff pointed out that the staff's judgement was subjective and considered the number of violations and events, difficulties in coordination with maintenance, and response to NRC's concerns.
The SALP Board subsequently reconvened to examine again the basis and logic involved in the original assessments of these areas to assure that all information was used in the assessment and to assure that the original assessment was not flawed.
The reconvened SALP Board concluded that any one of the considerations would not have resulted in a reduced category rating, but the SALP Board determined the rating was appropriate when the considerations were taken in combination.
In the Fire Protection functional area, it was recognized that the licensee had taken a great deal of initiative in improving the fire protection program.
Subsequent to this meeting, the reconvened SALP Board also reconsidered the fire protection area and concluded that the original category rating was appropriate based on evaluation of safety significance of the inspection findings and comparison to fire protection code requirements.
Mr. Martin asked how Unit 1's capacity factor (CF) of 74K to date compares with other plants.
This issue was reviewed in detail describing how length of fuel cycle and lengths of refueling outages impact the CF.
The licensee is striving to achieve a capacity factor of 80K and hopes to accomplish this by "Running Better" with eight week outages and 18-month fuel cycles.
The next issue presented was an update by Mr. Townsend as to progress achieved on the various items of the licensee's letter of June 15, 1987 (OCL-87-13) which was the central topic of the August 17, 1987 management meeting.
Enclosure 1 attached identifies the specific topics reviewed.
During review of quality organization support and performance, a
28-minute film recently completed by the licensee was discussed.
This film is to be included in new employees indoctrination training.
The subject of performance indicators was reviewed and discussed in detail.
Mr. Martin indicated that a great deal of licensee management effort is required to understand and use performance indicators.
The
licensee recognized this effort as required and concluded that further management evaluation of performance indicators is needed to fully evaluate the effectiveness of the improvement program outlined in their June 15, 1987 letter.
The issue of flame heating of a portion of the Unit 2 train A RHR piping (in May) without a procedure was discussed in detail and will be the subject of a separate inspection report.
The licensee identified a number of licensing actions that are pending with NRR or licensing request they expect to submit to NRR in the very near future which are scheduled for implementation during the next refueling outage for Unit 1 planned to commence in March 1988.
Mr. Martin concluded the meeting by pointing out that he believes the effort spent on the items of June 15, 1987 letter is well directed.
He stated further that during the next management meeting he would like to review:
(1) performance indicators in greater depth, (2)
new gA initiatives, and (3) engineering's involvement in Plant Operations.
The meeting concluded at approximately 1:25 Til si.(,'baL'.";0 I
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J PG&E Management Actions to Maintain the High Level of DCPP Performance Items Remaining to be Completed (Reference OCL-'87-136 dated 6/15/87)
Enclosure
Item IV.A 10/28/87'"'ema&
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General Management Issues Posit1ve Oisc1pline Program AR and N system improvements o
Comunications Procedure upgrade program In progress In progress In progress o
Procedural Compliance Management expectations and administrative 12/30/87 procedures tra1ning seminars o
Problem Root Cause Identif1cation 5 Resolut1on Strengthened TRG training program Rx tr1p and ESF reduct1on program o
Quality Organization Support and Performance QPR train1ng program Quality Team Effort Award Single database for NCRs, AFRs and QPRs 12/30/87 In progress Film and lesson plan complete.
Training
'o be completed by 12/30/88.
Program development in progress.,
Approach approved 9/10/87.
Pro5ect manager named.
Estimated completion is 12/31/87.
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Implementation and Effectiveness of Management Act1ons QA audit of management expectat1on Complete Scheduled for first quarter 198 ~
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