IR 05000312/1987033

Insp Rept 50-312/87-33 on 871019-23.No Deficiencies or Violations Noted.Major Areas Inspected:Emergency Preparedness Program Including Meteorology & Followup of Open Items

ML20238C821
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Site:	Rancho Seco
Issue date:	12/16/1987
From:	Fish R, Prendergast K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V)
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U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION V

Report No. 50-312/87-33 Docket No. 50-312 License No. DPR-54 Licensee: Sacramer.to Municipal Utility District 14440 Twin Cities Road Herald, California 95638-9799 Facility Name: Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station Inspection at: Clay Station, California Inspection Conducted: October 19-23, and discussions via telephone on November 9 and 10, 1987 Inspector:

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h /o1 Kent M. Prend#rgast

@ /6[f 7 Dat'e Signed Emergency Preparedness Analyst Approved By: l / [7 R. Fish, Chief ' Dat'e S'igned Emergency Preparedness Section Summary:

Inspection on October 19-23. 1987 and discussions yja , telephone _on_ November 9 gag 10..J987 (Report No. 50-312/87-33)

A_tggs Inspected: Routine unannounced inspection of the Emergency Preparedness Program, including meteorology and follow-up on open item Inspection procedures 82701 and 92701 were covere Result 1: No deficiencies or violations of NRC requirements were identifie {DR ADOCK 05000312 DCD

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DETAILS Persons Contacted SMUD Personnel

• B. Croley, Director, Technical Services

• D. Martin, Manager, Emergency Preparedness

• D. Finley, Emergency Preparedness Specialist J. Price, Emergency Preparedness Specialist M. Hammons, Emergency Preparedness Specialist

• Keuter, Director, Operations and Maintenance I

• J. Vinquist, Director, Nuclear Quality

• Hein, Safety Administrator H. Story, Supervisor, HP Services

• R. Baron, Supervisor, HP Support /ALARA R. Lee, HP Technician G. Blumberg, I&C Technical Supervisor R. Dobson, Lead I&C Maintenance Engineer E. Silva, System Design Engineer M. Harrell, Nuclear Training Superintendent, Operations Contractors C. Stevens, UES J. Gilfor, UES E. Carnes, Sierra Technology

• D. Nizolek, Impell Note: * indicates those attending the exit intervie . Action on Previous Inspection Findings (0 pen) Open Item 86-14-02, Failure to maintain Emergency Plan (EP) and i implementing procedures. The licensee has revised in total their EP and implementing procedures as of November 1, 1987. The EP is currently under review by the NRC at this tim This subject will be closed in separate correspondence regarding this document. Numerous implementing procedures were examined and the revised procedures were noted to be updated to reflect changes in the licensee's facilities and organizatio This item is still considered ope (Closed) Open Item 85-05-01, Evaluate changes in SMUD managemen Changes to the management of the emergency preparedness program are described in Section 6 of this repor This Item is considered close (Closed) Open Item 85-26-02, Include offsite (contract support)

improvement items in corrective action lis A review of the current open item list (EPIC II) used by the Emergency Preparedness Department determined that the licensee is actively tracking and resolving improvement items generated from contract support (e.g., hospitals, ambulances, and etc.). This item is considered close .- _ _ _ - _ _ - . . _ _

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i (0 pen) Open Item 86-02-kp, Provide EP first aid training. This item was examined, and the licensee is now staffing registered nurses 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> per i day to provide first aid coverage. However, this action is not reflected in the Emergency Pla In addition, the Emergency Plan has been changed with regards to first aid requirement Advanced first aid or its equivalent was previously required and now the plan appears to have conflicting first aid requirement This item will be addressed in a future inspectio (Closed) Open Item 86-06-02, Improve notification for plant staff to take safety precautions. A' review of EP implementing procedure 5002, Control Room Staff Emergency Actions, shows that the procedure now requires necessary safety precautions to be included in the public address announcement for any of the four emergency classifications. This item is close (Closed) Open Item 86-32-03, Using the Technical Support Center (TSC) to brief maintenance teams during the annual exercise. This area was examined and the licensee's procedures now specifically prohibit briefing maintenance teams in the TSC. In addition, there were no briefings of OSC maintenance teams conducted in the Technical Support Center during the 1987 exercise. This item is close (Closed) Open Item 87-02-02, Followup on response for failure to classify an unusual event. The violation resulted from poor communications between Security and Operations. The licensee has examined this area and revised their procedures to have security report security events directly to the Shift Supervisor (SS) and to keep the SS informed of actions taken by securit This should alleviate any further problems in this are This item is close (0 pen) 87-19-01, Determine the effectiveness of the program to address items identified in 50.54(t) audits. A examination of the most recent 50.54(t) audit and the licensee's quality tracking system was performe Discussions with Quality Assurance (QA) Department personnel were held and it was determined that the QA Department is actively followfng the resolution of 50.54(t) audit items. However, some items were noted to be overdue and QA had not yet contacted Emergency Preparedness regarding the delinquencies. According to QA, they are of aware of these problems and are taking steps to increase their effectiveness in this are This item will remain ope . Emergency Plan and Implementing Procedures The Emergency Plan was recently rewritten and is currently under NRC Regional reviey. As stated earlier, this area will be addressed in a separate document. The implementing procedures have been revised to accommodate the many changes in the Emergency Plan and changes in the emergency response organization. A review of selected implementing procedures was performed and the following summarizes the finding (1) The changes were submitted to the NRC in a timely manner.

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J (2) The signatures.on.the concurrence sheets were consistent with those required for concurrenc (3) Temporary changes were maae current or cancelled in accordance with the licensee's procedure (4) Current copies of the Emergency Plan and implementing procedures were available in the Emergency Response Facilitie (5) Procedures are cross referenced by Document Control to insure necessary changes are made as appropriate to other affected station procedure (6) Procedure review documentation included 10 CFR 50.59 and 10 CFR 50.54(q) review (7) The changing or issuing of new procedures was in accordance with implementing procedure 5620 (Procedure Preparation, Review, and Approval).

l No violations or deviations were observed in this are . Emergency Facilities l An examination of both Operational Support Centers and the Technical Support Center was performed. It was noted that air samplers and l radiological equipment in the facilities were operable and in calibration l and the contents of emergency lockers were as described in the implementing procedure No problems were identified in this are . Training An examination of the Emergency Preparedness Training Program was conducted to determine the licensee's progress related to the items identified in Paragraph 3 (0 pen Item 87-02-01) of NRC Inspection Report 50-312/87-02. The inspection included an examination of the revised EP and associated implementing procedures, training records, lesson plans l and tests and discussions with training personnel. The following represent the findings of this portion of the inspection: l The revised EP and implementing procedures, dated November 1, 1987 reflect the current emergency preparedness training program, Lesson plans have been rewritten to incorporate the findings of a j recent job task analysis to make them more specific to the f individual emergency response organization position Specific responsibilities within the emergency response program have been defined in the EP and implementing procedure Selected training records for the control room staff, radiological protection staff, individuals who would become the Emergency Coordinator and the Emergency Manager, and key OSC personnel were examine Appropriate training appeared to have been accomplished.

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. . INPO findings for the past year related to the controi room staff emergency preparedness capabilities were reviewe The INPO findings were the result of their observing classroom training and simulator activities at the licensee's contractor simulator facility during three separate periods (Fall '86, Spring '87 and Fall '87).

Each period of observation consisted of about 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> of requalification simulator training plus 6 hours6.944444e-5 days <br />0.00167 hours <br />9.920635e-6 weeks <br />2.283e-6 months <br /> of classroom trainin During the first two periods (Fall '86 and Spring '87)

problems concerning event classification and others related to the emergency plan and implementing procedures were note In each case the licensee formally identified corrective action, including additional training of the staf During the Fall '87 observation no speci#ic problems were identified; however, two recommendations -

complete changes to the event classification procedure and provide additional training on the final changes to the emergency plan -

were mad According to the licensee, the next requalification training cycle for the control room staff, to be completed prior to startup, will include an additional 4 hours4.62963e-5 days <br />0.00111 hours <br />6.613757e-6 weeks <br />1.522e-6 months <br /> of training on emergency preparednes Records of emergency preparedness drills showed, for the most part,-

that items identified as needing improvement were included in the emergency preparedness tracking system (EPIC) for resolutio However, improvement items for the May 1987 health physics and first aid drill were not observed in the EPIC system. According to the licensee, because of the closeness of the upcoming exercise, these items are to be included with the findings of the exercise that will be submitted for management review and resolutio This item will be tracked as Open Item 87-33-0 No violations or deviations were observed in this program are . Organization and Management Control The licensee has recently reorganized the emergency preparedness organization to improve the continuity and maintenance of the progra The emergency preparedness program is now a part of the Environmental Protection Department which includes; Chemistry and Radiation Protection (RP), Environmental Protection, and Emergency Preparedness. This reorganization should be7efit emergency preparedness by offering increased management support and resources along with increasing the interface between EP, RP, and Environmental Protection. In addition, management has recently filled permanent SMUD positions for the Supervisor of the Emergency Preparedness Department and two subordinate i supervisors, in the areas of procedures and training. Also, numerous I emergency preparedness specialist positions have been filled with permanent SMUD employee The changes described above should improve the emergency preparedness program and' help maintain its continuit No violations or deviations were identified in this are l

' Meteorology (0 pen Item 84-11-03)

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The inspection included an examination of the licensee's actions to improve the meteorology program that were to be completed prior to restart of the Rancho Seco facility. These actions had been identified in Attachment A to a February 26, 1987 letter from the licensee (John Ward) to the NRC (attention: Frank J. Miraglia, Jr. ).

The inspection showed that the hardware changes had been completed. The modification to place the 10 meter "A" and "B" channel sensors in the-same motor aspirated shield took place during the week of June 8, 198 During this modification one of the "B" channel sensors was found to be malfunctioning. .It was temporarily replaced by an older, unmatched sensor. The licensee then took action to purchase another set of matched sensor The four new, matched sensors were received and two were installed in the "B" channel on October 15, 1987 by Qualimetrics, the licensee's contractor. This installation included a calibration of the channe The remaining two new sensors were placed in storage for future us The licensee stated that the four new sensors met the performance requirements in ANSI 2.5-1984. The June modification to the meteorological instrumentation included removal of the dew point senso This removal was the subject of a March 23, 1987 NRC letter from John Stolz to the licensee's John E. Ward. The control room indication of failure of the motor aspirators for the sensor shields had been installed; however, the testing of this installation had not been fully complete In light of the June 1987 "B" channel sensor problem discussed in the previous paragraph, an inquiry was made about the reliability (data recovery) of the meteorology data since the June modificatio According to the licensee, there was a decrease in the reliability of the data following the modification in June. The preliminary data following the October 15 installation of the newly acquired matched sensors indicates a significantly improved reliabilit During a November 9, 1987 telephone conversation with Ray Fish (NRC Region V), Mr. Baron stated that the licensee's meteorological consultant had reexamined the data for the period the unmatched "B" sensors were used. This reexamination disclosed that with the use of all available information the data recovery was in the mid 90 percent, which exceeds the recommended 90 percent described in Regulatory Guide 1.2 The status of the various procedures related to the maintenance and calibration of the meteorological instrumentation was reviewe A revision (no. 1) to Procedure AP.67, " Accessing, Processing, Validating, Maintaining and Archiving Meteorological Data," was in the final stages of the review / approval process. This revision was also to incorporate the requirements of AP.66, Accessing Meteorological Data. The remaining action was to address a number of comments made by the computer group concerning the compatibility of the procedure requirements and the MIDAS program. The licensee's Stone and Webster Meteorological consultant was working on this matter and was expected to complete the task during the following week. The licensee stated that they expected the final approval of this revision during the first week in Novembe The surveillance procedures were also in the process of being revised in order to improve the During an October 12, 1987 telephone conversation with Ray Fish, the licensee informed the NRC Region V office that

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i Procedure SP 408 would replace SP.200.17 and be a stand alone surveillance procedure. Procedure I.016, Meteorological Station Calibration Check, was to be revised. These surveillance changes were expected to be completed prior to startu It should be noted that the licensee transmitted a copy of Procedures 67 (Revision 1), 408A, 408B and 1.016 (Revision 22) to NRC Region V as attachments to a November 30, 1987 lette The following activities were also accomplished during this inspection, Examined the calibration certificates for the four new sensor Confirmed that training on basic meteorological monitoring and assessment precepts had been provided to technicians who are expected to work on the meteorological instruments. A total of 34 ,

technicians had received training and two (2) more were-to receive f it during the week of October 26. The training lesson plan was also examine Examined the contract with Qualimetrics and confirmed that it had been amended to include the requirement that the wind speed sensors be calibrated semi-annually in a wind tunnel, Examined the July report of the Qualimetrics June calibration of the meteorological instrumentation. The licensee noted that the instruments had been calit, rated again during the October 15 work ,

(replace "B" channel sensors) and the report of the results would be '

received in about a mont No violations or deviations were identifie Open Item 84-11-03 is still considered to be ope . Exit Inierview An exit interview was held on October 23, 1987 for the purpose of discussing the preliminary findings of this inspection. Licensee and contractor representatives present at this meeting are identified in Paragraph 1 abov The licensee was informed that there were no violations identified within the. scope of this inspectio The findings described in Sections 2 through 7 above were summarized for the licensee during this exit interview. With respect to the meteorological prrcedures, Mr. Keuter said he thought that the two surveillance ptscedures (I.016 and SP 408) had been approved and were being merged into a single procedure. As noted in Section 7, these procedures were not merged into one. The licensee was informed that the Region needed to examine the procedures related to the meteorology program prior to startu It was noted that, if these procedures were received after December 1, 1987, the examination process, which includes documenting the examination, may not be completed by the projected startup date.