IR 05000311/1980004
| ML18082A463 | |
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| Site: | Salem  |
| Issue date: | 03/28/1980 |
| From: | Brunner E, Keimig R, Norrholm L NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| ML18082A462 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-311-80-04, 50-311-80-4, NUDOCS 8005270328 | |
| Download: ML18082A463 (14) | |
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U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT Report N /80~04 Docket N ~....;......;.._ __ _
_REGION I License N CPPR-53 Priority -----
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Licensee:
Public Service Electric and Gas Company 80 Park Place Newark, New Jersey 07101 Facility Name:
Salem Nuclear Generating Station Unit No. 2 Inspection At:
Hancocks Bridge, New Jer.sey and PSE&G Co. Corporate Offfces in Newark, New Jersey Inspection Conducted:
Ma.re. 5-7 '* 1980 a
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Inspection Summary
- Inspection. Summary:
- Ins ection an*March*s~7~*19so (Ins ection Re art No. 50-311/80-04
- *Areas* Ins ected: Special,
- announced inspection 94 hours0.00109 days <br />0.0261 hours <br />1.554233e-4 weeks <br />3.5767e-5 months <br /> by an NRC: NRR/IE Team 6 persons) of utility*management and technical competence in the areas of:
shift technical advisors; augmentation of plant staff for startup test program; independent safety*review group; technical support center; onsite operational support center; onsite and offsite routine and emergency management and technical resources capability; dissemination of operating experiences; overtime use restrictions; and, plant NRC telephone lines. *
- Results:
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.
- DETAILS Persons Contacted R. Bast, General Manager - Engineering H. Heller, Manager - Nuclear Operation C. Johnson; Nuclear Plant Engineer
- F. Librizzi, General Manager - Electric Production J. Lloyd, Senior Nuclear Curriculum Coordinator
- T. Martin, Vice President, Engineering and Construction
- H. Midura, Manager, Salem Nuclear Generating Station H. Millis, Health Physicist
- R. Mittl, Manager - Licensing and Environmental P. Moeller, Staff Engineer*
- R. Salvesen, Manager - Hope Creek Station F. Schneider, Vice President, Production
- R. Silverio, Assistant to Manager - SNGS J. Skillman, Station Quality Assurance Engineer R. Swetnam, Senior Performance Supervisor, Radiation Protection
- J.. Zupko, Chief Engineer, SNGS
- Attended exit interview on March 7, 198 During the course of the inspection, other licensee staff and operating personnel were also interviewe *.
Purpose of Irispecti on The purpose of this inspection was to assess the plans for compliance by Public Service Electric and Gas Company (an applicant for a operating license for Salem Nuclear Generating*Station - Unit No. 2) with the NRC 1s 11Criteria for Utility Management and Technical Competence
Draft, dated February 25, 1980,. in the general areas of routine and emergency onsite and offsite staff organization and technical resource. * Licensee Action on Previous Inspection Findings Not inspecte.
Shift Technical Advisor The objective of this portion of the inspection was to determine whether the applicant was prepared to implement the.shift technical advisor (STA) staffing requirement/commitment by time of issuance of an operating license for Unit 2 *
4 Documents Reviewed The following reference and licensee documents were reviewed and discussed:
- (l)
NUREG-0578, "TMI Lessons Learned Task Force Status Report and Short Term Recommendations" dated July 197 ("2)
Clarifying documents for NUREG-0578 dated October 30 and November 9, 197 *.
(3)
American National Standard (ANS) 3. l draft.revi*$ion December 6, 1979, entitled "Standards for Qualification and Training of Personnel for Nuclear Power Plants."
(4)
Station Manager Memorandum to Shift Technical Advisors dated December 18, 1979, aild~ Revision 1, dated December 27, 197 (5)
Records of education, training and work experience for eight
- engineers designated as STA Findings (1)
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identifie (2)
A group of graduate engineers with at least one, and in some cases* over five ye,ars experience at Salem have been selected as the interim STAs for 1980 until the permanent group receives 32 to 36 weeks of trainin To comply with commit-ments made relative to the operating unit (Salem 1),. these STAs are in place and on shi.ft All currently assigned STAs meet or*exceed the experience and education requirements of ANS 3. l (December 1979 draft) *
. (3)
In certain cases, the STA may also be the test engineer for a startup test. All engineers assigned as STAs have plant experience and a number are qualified as test engineers with Salem 1 startup test experienc (4)
Discussions with STAs indicated that their functions and responsibilities had been defined for the Training and indoctrination has been conducted for the interim STAs.
. (5)
STAs have the review and dissemination of operating experience as an focluded assignmen Details of haw this is to be accomplished have not been develope The STAs are receiving operational event informatio *
5 Augmentation of Plant Staff' for Startup Test Program The purpose of this portion of the inspection was to determine the degree of augmentation and assistance to be given the plant staff for the startu~ test program, including special testin In addition to discussions with personnel, the following document was reviewed: Startup Procedure - SUP 80.l - NSSS Startup Sequence.
. *.Findings No items of noncompliance or deviations were identifie Qualified test engineers will be assigned to shift coverage during startup tests. Review of personnel data for the *test engineering staff revealed that the majority of the individuals have startup program experience at Salem Unit In addition to the test engineers in (2) above, shift coverage during testing will be provided by NSSS personnel for the special startup tests and through the low power physics test program. It was noted that all startup test procedures were reviewed by venqor (Westinghouse) staff, including changes to the procedure Test results *will be reviewed by both Westinghouse and PSE&G Engineering personnel. The test program sequence is structured to require nine specific hold points, beyond which testing may not continue unless approved by the Station Operating Review Committee (SORC) after a review of test results to dat The majority of operating staff.also possesses experience gained from the Salem Unit 1 startup test progra.
Independent* Safety* Review* Function
- The objective of this portion of the inspection was to determine whether the applicant has established or plans to establish an onsite safety engineering group to perform independent reviews of plant operational activities and engineering evaluation of the operating history of the plant and plants of similar desig The followfog are the inspector's findings in this area:.
- 6 No items of noncompliance or deviations were identifie.
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. The current Station Operations Review Committee (SORC) and Station Quality Assurance staff (Unit 1) provide onsite reviews of plant operations. The review responsibilities of SORC are contained in Salem Unit 1 Technical Specification The applicant takes the position that another independent group, which would duplicate the specific review functinns of SORC, would be an ineffective application of resources. The applicant proposes, as an alternative, to increase the effectiveness of the existing SORC, by providing supplemental full time engineers to augment the SORC and assigned onsite. Four engineers with this review responsibility will be assigned by core load, and will function within the framework of the existi.ng Committe Establishment of this independent review function within the SORC, as
. a fti.ll:i tiine-activity*, i.s an operidtem.:and.. will be reviewed for ac.cept-
. -- abi-ltty, b.{-NRR*;and di.Jr1_ng:._a subsequent-: inspectio ( 311/80-04-01)
7. * *onsite*Tethnical Supp6ttCenter (TSC)
The objective of this portion of the inspection was to determine whether the applicant has established an onsite technical support center that has the capability to display and transmit plant status to these* individuals who are knowledgeable of and responsible for engineer-ing and. management support of reactor operations in the event of an accident. *
a. * * Dotuments *Reviewed Response to letter from NRC, Division of Operating Reactors, dated September 13, 1-979. *
Response to letter from NRC, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, dated October 30, 1-97 Eme_rgency Plan, submittal #2, dated January 25, 198 Letter from F. _P. Librizzi to NRC:NRR, dated January 2, 198 Draft Acceptance Criteria - Utility Management and Technical Competence, dated February 25, 1980.
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7 Findings *
The following findings include the inspector's verification of actions taken by the applicant with regard to commitments made in the above document *
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(3)
(4)
(5)
As stated in the applicant's responses, a temporary TSC has been. established in the Clean Facilities Buildin Communication in the TSC include fifteen telephones for general communication and are a combination of outside lines
- and extensions on the Salem station telephone syste The Salem Station Emergency Plan establishes a primary and secondary Emergency Duty Officer (EDO).
The Emergency Duty Officers are "on call" for a two week period. The EDO is provided with a vehi.cle equipped with two-way communications equipmen The EDO is required to be at the TSC within two hours of notification by the Senior Shift Superviso Plant information display in the TSC consists of data links to each unit's plant compute In addition, a typewriter terminal is* available in the TSC with capability to access any of the plant data stored in the compute Emergency Plan Implementation procedures are being revised to provide specific staffing requirements an.d responsibili-ties of management and engineering support personne Procedure revisions will be availabla at the time of fuel load and will be integrated with the accident mitigation and recovery procedures by Augus.t 1980. These procedures wi 11 be reviewed during subsequent NRC inspections. This is an open ite (311/80-04-02)
(6) * Long terin modification requirements for the TSC have been identified by the applicant and will include:
installation of dedicated HVAC system;, radiation shielding; and, emergency power*.
(7)
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identifie. * *Olis i te *Opera ti ona 1 *Support* Center ( osc)
The objective of this portion of the inspection was to. determine whether the applicant has established a primary operational support
area, to. be des_ignated as the onsite operational support center, for
.shift personnel to be in direct communications with the control room and operations managers for assignment to duties in support of emergency operation *
- *Documents *Reviewed Response to letter from NRC, Division of Operating Reactors, dated September 13, 197 Response. to letter from NRC, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,. dated October 30, 197 Emergency Plan submittal #2, dated January 25, 198 Letter from F *. P. Librizzi to NRC:NRR, dated January 2, 198 Draft Acceptance Criteria - Utility Management and Technical Competence, dated February 25, 198 * *Findings The following findings include the inspector's verification of
- action taken by the applicant with regard to commitments made in the above documents*.
(1)
The OSC has been established in the area enclosed between the Unit l and Unit 2 Control Room (2) Communications from the OSC are available to the control rooms, other station extensions, and offsit (3)
Emergency Plan Implementation procedures are being reviewed and will address specific staffing requirements of the OS Procedure revisions will be available at the time of fuel
- load and will be integrated with the accident mitigation and recovery procedures by August 198 These procedures will be reviewed during subsequent NRC inspections. This is an open item (311/80-04-03).
(4)
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified *
- * * Qn.;.Site *Staff* Or9anizati0n *and: Techni ca 1 Competency The objective of this part of the;inspection was to review the management and technical capability of the Salem Unit 2 nuclear plant staf In performing this task,. the plant staff organizational arrangement, responsibility, authority, andcqualifications of plant staff principal personnel, shift crew composition and interfacing of principal personnel with offsite groups supporting the operation of *the Salem nuclear plant were reviewe ~. Documents Reviewed
(1)
Salem Nuclear Generating Station FSAR Section 12 (2) Regulatory Guide (3)
Draft ANS 3 *. 1 dated 12/6/79 (4)
Site Emergency Plan In" addition, the qualifications of principal plant personnel. were reviewed and the following personnel were interviewed:
Station Manager - H. Midura Chief Engineer - J. Zupko Assistant to Manager - R. Silverio Operating Engineer - F. Schnarr Reactor Engineer - J. Nicolls Maintenance Engineer - S. Labruna Performance Engineer - L. Miller Performance Supervisor - Instruments & Controls - J. Ronafalvy Training Supervisor - J.* Llt:Jyd (off~ite) Findings (1)
The licensee's emergency plans do not establish specific lines of authority and establish responsibility for those persons reporting to the site to provide techn*ical support to the plant staff in the event of an emergenc (See Paragraph 8.b.(3).)
l 0 (2)
The procedures for onsite operating experience evaluation capability and dissemination of operating experiences need to be improved and
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(3)
The procedures for assuring that operating experiences. are:included, as necessary, in the training program need to be formalize Relative to items (2) and (3) above, although operating experiences from the. Salem plant and some other facilities are routinely routed to operators and training. personnel, the practice is informal and there is little evalu-ation, followup. or discussion of the experience The applicant is in the process of determining how to accomplish this task in conjunction with the Safety Review Group and Shift Technical Advisors and'..'has committed to having formal procedures in place at the time of fuel loading. This is an open item and will be reviewed during a sub-sequent NRC~inspection (311/80-04-04).
(4)
The shift crew composition for the ope~ation of each unit at the Salem Nuclear Plant will. inclQde one senior licensed operator, two licensed operators, and two unlicensed operator In addition, J
one health physics technician will be assigned to the site at all time One senior licensed operator,. licensed on Unit 2 will be
- required to be stationed in the control room area at all times Unit 2 is operatin (5)
The Salem Nuclear Plant has an administrative memorandum limiting licensed personnel to no more. than 12 hours1.388889e-4 days <br />0.00333 hours <br />1.984127e-5 weeks <br />4.566e-6 months <br /> or work per da (6)
The Senior Training Supervisor and his staff have been transferred recently to a new offsite training cente He reports to Manager Methods, Department of El ectri cal P.roduct ion, in the applicant 1 s corporate office. Training coordination with the offsite training center has been assigned to the Assistant to the Manager~of the station who is a* member of the plant staf (1)
No items of noncompliance or deviations. were identified *
lL 10. Off Site Staff.Organization and Technical Competency The objective of this part of the inspection was to review the organiza-tion and the man_agement and techni ca 1 ca pa bi 1 iti es of the app 1icant 1 s offsite staff. In performing this task, the utility corporate organiza-tional structure :and* the responsibilities and qualifications of the principal corporate officers who deal with the utility's nuclear plants were reviewe The interface arrangements between the corporate officials and the Salem plant staff and the means by which the corporate management stays informed about the Salem plant status and invovled in matters pertaining to plant safety were examined als Documents Reviewed (1)
Draft Criteria for Utility Management and Technical Competence, dated February 25, 198 (2) Section 6.0, Administrative Controls to the draft Technical Specifications for Salem Unit In addition, the utility organizational structure was examined, the qualifications of the principal corporate officers who deal with the Salem Unit 2 facility were reviewed and the following corporate officials were interviewed:
Vice President - Engineering and Construction - T. J. Martin General Manager Production
-* F. P. Librizzi General Manager - Licensing and Environment
- R. L. Mittl Manager - Nuclear Operatiohs
- H. J. Heller Nuclear Licensing Engineer
- P. A. Moeller
. Findings (1)
The corporate management of Public Service Electric and Gas Company is suffiCiently involved in matters affecting Salem Unit 2 to assure a continual understanding of plant conditions and safety considerations. Corporate level meetings are held on a virtual daily basis to assure that corporate management is aware of the status of and any problems that have developed at the Salem Nuclear Station and other power plants. While there is not a documented procedure covering
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these meetings and formal meeting minutes are not maintained, these daily management meetings appear to accomplish the functions of senior management oversight desired by the staf * *
(2) Procedures covering accident mitigation and recovery for both the onsite a*nd offsite resources are not now in plac The utility has committed to having these procedures documented by August 1980. This is an open item and will be reviewed in a subsequent NRC inspectio (311/80-04-05)
(3)* The utility has committed to provide two months of specialized nuclear training to the individual designated to be the Public Information Manager during accident mitigation and recovery effort *
(4)
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identifie. Offsite Technical Staff Resources and Training The objective of this part of the inspection was to determine whether the applicant maintained a technically qualified staff offsite,in addition to the technical group on the plant staf~to provide support to the plant staff in performing the following furlctions:
review operating abnormalities; review plant system problems and performance; review *and propose corrective.act.ion..for 'e q..i ipment malfunction; JErform and/or oversee plant design changes and modifications; support major maintenance efforts~ evaluate and provide response to NRC bulletins
- and orders; establish and monitor contracted work; and~ establish tra i ni_ng, security, and emergency p 1 an The technical capabilities, qualific~tions and staffing levels of the offsite staff in the following areas were examined:
nuclear, mechanical, structural, e 1 ectri cal, thermal-hydraulic and fluid systems; meta 11 urgi cal,
materials,. instrumentation and controls engineering; plant chemistry; health physits; fueli_ng and refueling operations *support; maintenance support; technical and engineering management; and, operational manage-men *
In addition, the training provided to those personnel who provide technical.support to the plant staff was examined *
. a. **Documents Reviewed Draft Criteria for Utility Management and Technical Competence, dated.February 25, 198 *
- In addition, the organizational structure for the company's major
. divisions was reviewed and r:-esumes of key man.agers and staff and their technical experience were examine Findings (1) The applicant's current staff exceeds the minimum required
.staff qualifications and technical capabilitie (2) A majority of the individuals who specified, designed and maintain the design of the Units l and 2 plant systems are still employed by the applican (3)
No formalized training program has been implemented although no specific weaknesses with the current informal training-activities were identified. The applicant has committed to develop and implement formal training procedures by August 1980. This is an open i tern and will be reviewed in a subse-quent NRC inspection. (311/80-04-06)
(4)
No items of noncompliance or deviations were identifie. * * Communi cati ans The purpose of this portion of the inspection was to ensure that telephone communications between the plant and NRC are in-place and operabl The inspectors found that NRC OPX communications (direct 11 hot line 11 ) to NRC headquarters are installed in each control.room, the Shift Supervisor's office, the Technical Support Center and the NRC Resident Inspector's office. Also,: NRC SS-4 communications (health physics network) are installed in the health physics office, the
. Technical Support Center, the near-site Emergency Opera ti ans Center and the NRC Resident Inspector's office. These telephones are currently in use at.Salem Unit No. l and are periodically and. routinely checked
- for operabilit. *unresolved* Items Unresolved items are matters about which more information is required to determine whether they are acceptable items, items of noncompliance or deviation No unresolved items were identified during this inspec-tion. However, six items remained open at the conclusion of the inspection pending the applicant 1s actions with regard to these matters and the NRC's staff's findings relative to the adequacy of those actions. These i terns will *be reviewed in a subsequent NRC inspectio (See.paragraphs 6, 7.b.(5), 8~b.(3), 9~b.(2) and {3), 10.b.(2) and ll.b.(3)).
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.14 14 *. Exit Interview The inspectors met with the applicant's representatives (denoted in Paragraph 1) at the conclusion of the inspection on March 7, 198 The findings of the inspection were presented and the applicant's representatives acknowledged these findings *