IR 05000331/2019006

Annual Assessment Letter Duane Arnold Energy Center (Report 05000331/2019006)

ML20062G267
Person / Time
Site:	Duane Arnold
Issue date:	03/03/2020
From:	Billy Dickson NRC/RGN-III/DRP/B2
To:	Dean Curtland NextEra Energy Duane Arnold
References
IR 2019006
Download: ML20062G267 (6)

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March 3, 2020

SUBJECT:

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER DUANE ARNOLD ENERGY CENTER (REPORT 05000331/2019006)

Dear Mr. Curtland:

The NRC has completed its end-of-cycle performance assessment of Duane Arnold Energy Center reviewing performance indicators (PIs), inspection results, and enforcement actions from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019. This letter informs you of the NRCs assessment of your facility during this period and its plans for future inspections at your facility. The NRC concluded that overall performance at your facility preserved public health and safety.

The NRC determined the performance at Duane Arnold Energy Center during the most recent quarter was within the Licensee Response Column, the highest performance category of the NRCs Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) Action Matrix, because all inspection findings had very low safety significance (i.e., Green), and all PIs were within the expected range (i.e., Green).

Therefore, the NRC plans to conduct ROP baseline inspections at your facility.

The enclosed inspection plan lists the inspections scheduled through December 31, 2021.

This updated inspection plan now includes planned security inspections which were formerly transmitted under separate correspondence. The NRC provides the inspection plan to allow for the resolution of any scheduling conflicts and personnel availability issues. Routine inspections performed by resident inspectors are not included in the inspection plan. You should be aware that the agency is pursuing potential changes to the ROP, including changes to engineering inspections (SECY-18-0113, Recommendations for Modifying the Reactor Oversight Process Engineering Inspections), and other changes to the baseline inspection program described in SECY-19-0067, Recommendations for Enhancing the Reactor Oversight Process. Should these changes to the ROP be implemented, the engineering and other region-based inspections are subject to change in scope, as well as schedule. The inspections listed during the last twelve months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised. The NRC will contact you as soon as possible to discuss changes to the inspection plan should circumstances warrant any changes.

Additionally, during this period the NRC will perform inspections per Temporary Instruction (TI) 2515/194, Inspection of the Licensees Implementation of Industry Initiative Associated with the Open Phase Condition Design Vulnerability in Electrical Power Systems (NRC Bulletin 2012-01). The attached schedule includes an Emergency Preparedness Exercise inspection that is presently scheduled to occur on April 15, 2020.

This letter, its enclosure, and your response (if any) will be made available for public inspection and copying at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html and at the NRC Public Document Room in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding.

Please contact me at 630-825-9827 with any questions you have regarding this letter.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Billy C. Dickson, Jr., Chief Branch 2 Division of Reactor Projects Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 Enclosure:

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