IR 05000333/1990004

Forwards Results of 900821 Enforcement Conference to Discuss Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-333/90-04

ML20062B833
Person / Time
Site:	FitzPatrick
Issue date:	10/09/1990
From:	Hehl C NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Fernandez W POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (NEW YORK
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EA-90-136, NUDOCS 9010260159
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OCT 0 91990, Docket N Lic. N DRP-59 EA N New York Power Authority James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant A1TN: Mr. William Fernandez  ;

Resident Manager i P.O. Box 41 Lycoming, New York 13093  ;

Gentlemen:

Subject: RESULTS OF THE AUGUST 21,1990 ENFORCEMENT CONFERENC (INSPECTION REPORT 50-333/90-04)

On August 21,1990, you and members of your staff attended an enforcement conference 3 at the Region I office to discuss the apparent violations identified in Inspection Report 50-333/90-04. Specifically, the apparent violations concerned the potential that the FitzPatrick ,

emergency service water (ESW) system would not have _ performed its. designed safety j function during the operating cycle prior to the 1990 refueling outage and the adequacy of- t your previous actions to identify and correct the deficiencies with the ESW syste At the enforcement conference you stated that your evaluations have _ determined that although the ESW system was in a degraded condition prior to the 1990 outage, the ESW {

system would have been able to perform its design function. Based on our review of your  !

evaluation, we agree with the overall conclusion. Accordingly, we are not issuing a notice of violation regarding the operability of the ESW system in Inspection Report 50-333/90-0 In addition, we reviewed the apparent violation regarding your corrective actions following the 1989 Severity Level III violation. Specifically, those corrective actions addressed the ~

clogging of safety-related unit coolers, but did not address the potential clogging of the ,

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piping and check valves within the ESW system. While a more vigorous approach could have addressed this potential problem such that the degraded conditions would have been detected and corrected earlier, we have concluded that your corrective actions were reasonable given the extent of the unit cooler problem. Further, after the degraded

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effective in evaluating the system's condition, repairing 'and replacing degraded components, and confirming the design of the system with analysis and. testing prior to ' returning the- i system to service. Accordingly, we are not issuing a notice of violation concerning corrective actions related to the 1989 unit cooler violatio '

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OCT 091990 New York Power Authority 2 It is important that you continue to review the testing being conducted on safety-related systems and components to ensure that design requirements are being met. In this regard -

we note that you are currently developing a new surveillance program, including guidelines to be used to determine the adequacy of testing. We encourage the development of such

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At the enforcement conference, it was apparent that there was a misunderstanding between us regarding your commitments following' the crescent area cooler violation. Specifically, despite the documentation of our understanding of a commitment on testing .to be conducted on other coolers in the ESW system in two inspection reports, you stated that you -

did not have such a commitment and did not recall the discussions documented within the i inspection reports. In the future we will reference such discussions in the forwarding letters for inspection reports and request that such commitments be formally acknowledged. We ask that you bring any such future misunderstanding regarding commitments to our attentio A list of enforcement conference attendees is included as Attachment 1 to this letter. Also attached are pertinent portions of the information package used to support your enforcement conference presentation (Attachment 2), including a section which denotes your ,

knowledge of the status of known commitments to NRC related to the ESW issue. Due to the previously noted conflicts with regard to the understanding of certain ESW commitments, we request that you respond to this letter and update the status of these known commitments with planned dates of completion for those actions indicated as on- !

going, pending, partially complete or continuing from the previous crescent area cooler issues. Also, please address the status of additionalissues discussed during the enforcement

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conference, namely, the ESW system testing program that is currently being implemented, the submittal of an ESW technical specification change, and the submittal of a revised L response to NRC Generic Letter 89-1 l

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REGION 1 NRC C. IIchl, Director, DRP C. Cowgill, Acting Chief, Projects Branch No.1, DRP G. Meyer, Chief, Reactor Projects Section 18, DRP W. Schmidt, Senior Resident inspector, FitzPatrick R. Plasse, Resident Inspector, FitzPatrick R. Capra, Director, Projects Directorate 1-1, NRR D. LaBarge, NRR Project Manager, FitzPatrick M. Case, Operations Engineer, NRR ,

R. Gallo, Chief, Operations Branch, DRS M. Chiramal, Acting Chief, Special Test Programs Section, DRS D. Florek, Senior Operations Engineer, DRS D.1-lolody, Enforcement Officer, Region I W. Troskoski, Office of Enforcement NYPA S. Zulla, Vice President - Nuclear Engineering R. Beedle, Vice President - Nuclear Support W. Fernandez, Resident Manager V. Walz, Technical Services Superintendent D. Wallace, Performance Engineering Supervisor D. Kerr, Performance Engineer C. Ponzi, System Engineer B. Young, Manager, Mechanical Engineering J. Elmers, Acting BWR Licensing Manager D. Wille, Manager, Nuclear Projects Manager (Stone & Webster)

H. Greenberg, Assistant Manager, Nuclear Projects Division (Stone & Webster)

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. . TABLE OF CONTENTS LO EaER.ENCv SERVICE WATEa Sv5 tea oESIGN OvERv1EW j l

I PRESENTATION SUMARY

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III. EVOLUTION OF ESW SYSTEM AW CHECK VALVE: l INSPECTION / TESTING' ISSUES H l '

L I SAFETY REVIEW 0F 1990 REFUELING OUTAGE FININGS l ELECTRIC' BAY-(EAST)'

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t- CAsLE' TUNNEL (WEST) CONTROL ROOM / RELAY ROOM VENTILATION , CRESCENT (ECCS EQUIPMENT) AREAS (EAST AND WEST)

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VII. APPENDICES . NRC INSPECTION-REPORT.50-333/90-04 CHRONOLOGY OF'ESW/SW SYSTEM AND CHECK VALVE ISSUES-. REFUELING OUTAGE ACTION CHRONOLOGY SHORT-TERM TASK-LISTING

. ESW/SW CHECK VALVE INSPECTION: RESuLTS (1987-1990)-

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LER-88-09- INOPERABLE ECCS ARsA COOLING DUE-T0. INADEQUATE 4 . -PROCEDURES

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The system consists of two independent supply loops, each supplied from one emergency service water-pump'which takes i

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suction from the Pumphouse forebay Each loop is designed t supply raw cooling water to one train of the following equipment:

- EDG Jacket Cooling Water Heat Exchangers (93WE-1A,B,C,D)

- Electric Bay Unit Coolers (67UC-16A,B) 1

- Cable Tunnel /Switchgear Room Coolers (67E-11, 14)'

- Control Room Chiller Condensers (70RWC-2A,B)

- Control Room Ventilation Chiller Condenser Room Air Handling Units (70AHU-19A,B)

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• Normally supplied cooling by Reactor Building Closed Loop Cooling Syste The ESW System operates automatically on a: loss of Reactor Building Closed Loop Cooling (RBCLC) by low'RBCLC: System pressure or upon start of the Emergency Diesel Generators. The ESW pumps-and associated injection valves can also be remotely operated '

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the Reactor Building ESWoloads. This option is only for flexibility and is not a design requirement. ALsummary of the r

Emergency Service Water System safety-related' heat loads and

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which: account for other heat sinks, but credit'the unit coolers for removing the above maximum heat loads. The actual heat loads 'are1784,000 and 875,000 BTU /Hr.,respectigy.

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commEurs sinius Modification to provide permanent instrumentation to monitor crescent cooler thermal COMPLETE performance.

' Biweekly crescent cooler testing until modifications are complete ON-GOING Modify unit cooler fan and water controls to allow full water flow and cycle fan PENDIE and additional thermal performance instrumentation. Modification prior to start-up from 1990 Refuel Outage. Completion date was delayed until September 30, 1990 (JPN-90-II). -

l Modification package is approved and issued for installatio Installation imminent.

. RESPONSE TO VIOLATION 88-17 - IMOPERABLE CRESCENT COOLERS (APPENDIX E.31

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l CtNnUTE NTs STATUS Revise ST-19A to better measure cooler performance bi-weekl COMPLETE Cooler cleaning and inspectio COMPLETE

Reanalyze crescent cooler heat loads allowing operation up to 82*F service water COMPLETE

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Larger mesh strainer COMPLETE Replace missing section of flanged pipe to UC-22 COMPLETE ' Revise piping arrangement to UC-22 COMPLETE l

' Initiate performance testing of other service water-cooled safety-related heat COMPLETE exchanger . Accelerated test frequency for crescent area unit coolers maintained until performance ON-GOING

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1 Reorganize WPO Staff to assign to Nuclear Generation (response to Flakt Report). COMPLETE i

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C09 FETE RTS STATUS Comunitments contained in violation response (B) above with the following additions: Trend test data to establish testing and maintenance fr%r.cy to prevent flow CONTINUING restriction . Feasibility and necessity of testing other safety-related cooler COMPLETE Administrative procedures describing the responsibilities and establishing the various COMPLETE channels to be utilized by the Systems Engineering Grou .

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