IR 05000312/1989007

Insp Rept 50-312/89-07 on 890417-21.No Violations Noted. Major Areas Inspected:Previously Identified Items & Status of Emergency Preparedness Program

ML20246H924
Person / Time
Site:	Rancho Seco
Issue date:	04/28/1989
From:	Brown G, Fish R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V)
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ML20246H919	List: IR 05000312/1989007 ML20246H915
References
50-312-89-07, 50-312-89-7, NUDOCS 8905160233
Download: ML20246H924 (4)

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U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION t-

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Licensee: , . Sacramento Municipal Utility District . .

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~. Herald, California 95638-9799 Facility Name: Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station Inspection at:'. Clay Station, California-Inspection conducted: April-17.-21, 1989 Inspector: d ~

4)rv 7 8f 6. #.~ Brown Date Signed Emergency Preparedness Analyst O

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R. F. Fish, Chief 05te Signed

' Emergency Preparedness Section Summary:

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Areas ~ Inspected': Routine unannounced inspection,of the licensee's emergency preparedness program. The inspection included followup on previously-identified' items, and operational status of the emergency preparedness progra Inspection modules 92701 and 82701 were covere Results: No violations of NRC requirements were identified. In general, the inspector found strength in the emergency preparedness program as a result of the licensee's success in filling positions in'the emergency preparedness

. department with permanent SMUD employees. A possible weakness was noted in the unknown factors concerning the. licensee's ability to activate its emergency organization in a timely manner using the present call-in metho +

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' Persons Contacted

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• D.'Keuter, Asst.- General Manager, Nuclear Plant Manager

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• R. Croley, Asst. General Manager, Technical Service D. Comstock, Shift Supervisor

.D. Feighert, Emergency Preparedness Planner A. Fraser, Shift Supervisor B. Heffner, Manager, Public Affairs Department J. Huse, Control Room Operator

'J. Kearns, Supervisor, Nuclear Documents

'P. Lavely,-Licensing

• J. Reese, Radiation-Protection G. Simmons, Control Room Operator

• J. Toresdahl, Supervisor, Emergency Preparedness

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-R. Wiecjorek, Surveillance Technician

• D. Yows, Manager, Environmental Monitoring and Emergency"

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'*P. Qualls, Resident Inspector, NRC'

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i' R. Powers, California Office of Emergency l Services

.B. Tong, California Office of Emergency Services

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J. Anderson, California Office of Emergency Services

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• Denotes attendees at the April 21,.1989 exit interview

, Followup on Previously Identified Items (Module 92701)

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(Closed) Open Item 88-25-0 Notice of violation. ' Failure to recalibrates emergency instruments in a timely manner.' The licensee revised Procedure EPIP 5660 to assign definite responsibilities for maintaining emergency preparedness inventories and equipment in supply lockers. .After about six months, the effectiveness,0f the procedure modification was reviewed and adjustments were made as 1 necessar Results of an examination of several emergency preparedness lockers confirmed that the inventories all were as

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stated in the procedure and all equipment was within current calibration dates. . This item is close (Closed) Open It'm e 88-25-0 Two letters of agreement with offsite agencies were not current. The licensee has revised Section 5. of EPIP-5660 to make Emergency Preparedness supervision responsible

. for maintaining current letters of agreement with offsite agencie In addition, for easier maintenance, expiration dates for the letters have all been changed to expire during the same quarte j The two letters that were out of date were individually updated ;

directly with the cognizant partie This item is close ,

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'(Closed) Open Item 88-11-02. f!aed to identify and repair cause of L_ '

. IDADs problems experienced during. Unusual Event of 3/15/88. .The'

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clicensee analyzed the~ root'cause as~being due to a software defect.

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" called f' resource lock", " Resource locks" are used by IDADs-

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applications to guarantee that vital system elements are not

. inadvertently modified during the use of IDADs. The errors in the resource lock / unlock logic has been modified and tested

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. satisfactor The inspector verified that IDADs was operable during l: this; inspection. This item is close '

(Closed) Open Item 87-27-02. Need to make policy uniform for use of' portable radio transmissions during a possible bomb threat. .The licensee revised Procedute SPIP-12 to establish a consistent _ policy for use of mobile radio transmitters during a bomb threat emergenc In general,.use of radios may be curtaDed at the discretion of th "

'on-scene commander. This item is close (Clored) Followup Item 04-88-R Review the resolution of the .,

problem involving performance requirements for SMUD monitoring i equipment located in the California OES Warning System. In response to concerns expressed by State employees who worked with the-equipment',' SMUD evaluated the system and determined that it did not respond in the same manner as the systems provided by other nuclear plants'in the state. The licensee modified their equipment-so that it would respond similar to other equipment in the syste The:

inspector _ consulted with California Office of Emergency Services personnel and was assured that the equipment is operating satisfactorily.~ This item is close "

3. Operational Status of the Emergency Preparedness Program J (Module 82701J This program area was examined to determine whether Sacramento Municipal Utility District's (SMUD) emergency preparedness program has'been maintained in a state of operational readines Walkthroughs, using hypothetical-emergency plant conditions, were conducted with two Rancho Seco onshift Control Room crews. Each crew was given a scenario which required that they demonstrate the ability to correctly clsssify an emergency event and make proper >

corrective action recommendations for protection of the employees and general public. During the walkthrough the inspector also noted 1

.the licensee's capability of making timely and accurate notifications to offsite authoritie Both crews demonstrated a thorough knowledge of their emergency response duties and performed them satisfactoril i SMUD's capability to augment the staff of its emergency response organization"is centered'around a system of manual telephone calls performed by the systeen dispatcher and members of the Security Department. Some portions of the augmentation require using a call-tree method to contact emergency response personnel. The inspector noted that the licensee had not tested the call-in system to evaluate its capability of reaching the response goals of l t . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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'NUREG-0654 since its implementatio The lack of evaluation of the augmentation capabilities is a concern and will be tracked as Open Item 89-07-0 SMUD's program for diss .aating emergency preparedness information was reviewed to verify that basic emergency planning information has been disseminated annually to the public in the plume exposure pathway emergency planning zone. The inspector concluded that the p licensee was satisfying its responsibility to disseminate this p= information to the appropriate members of the publi (

The licensee's emergency preparedness organizational staffing was changed in the weeks just prior to this inspectio The Emergency Preparedness Department is headed by a supervisor who is responsible a I to the Environrnntal Monitoring and Emergency Preparedness Manage The supervisor directs a staff of seven permanent SMUD employees and two contractor In general, the organization was consolidated 'so that nearly all positions are now staffed by permanent SMUD ,

employees. The responsibilities assigned to the Emergency Preparedness Department t' ave not been modifie . Exit Interview i The scope and findings of the inspection were discussed with I licensee representatives at an exit interview conducted on April 21,.

198 Licensee personnel present at this meeting are denoted in Section 1 of this repor During this meeting the licensee was informed that no violations or deviations were identifie Other items specifically discussed during this meeting are contained in Sections 2 and 3 of this report.

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