IR 05000344/1980002
| ML19309D373 | |
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| Site: | Trojan File:Portland General Electric icon.png |
| Issue date: | 02/07/1980 |
| From: | Carlson J, Johnson P, Sternberg D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
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| ML19309D334 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-344-80-02, 50-344-80-2, NUDOCS 8004100303 | |
| Download: ML19309D373 (5) | |
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U. S. NUCLEAR REGUIATORY ColeilSSION
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0FFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT
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REGION V
Report No.
50-344/80-02 Docket No.
50-344 License No.
NPF-1 Safeguards Group Licensee:
Portland General Electric Company
121 S. W. Salmon Street Portland, Oregon 97204 Factitty Name:
Trojan Inspection at:
Rainier, Oregon Inspection conducted:, January 21-23, 1980 M
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P. W/ Johnson, Reactor Inspector Date Signed Y7[d I
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'arlson, Reactor Inspector Date Signed Date Signed Approved By:
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D.M.Sternberg, Chief,ReaptorProjectSection1,
' Date Signed Reactor Operatiops and fluclear Support Brcnch
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Inspection on January 21-23, 1980 (Report No. 50-344/80-t 2_)_
Areas Inspected:
Routine, unannounced inpsection of qual ty assurance program, operator requalification program, response to IE Bulletins and
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Circulars, and followup on previous inspection items; also included independent inspection effort. The inspection involved 32 inspector hours onsite by two NRC inspectors.
Results:
Of the three areas inspected, one noncompliance item (deficiency --
records of reactivity control manipulations) and two deviations (related to review of operator requalification program) were identified in one area. No noncompliance items or deviations were identified in the other two areas inspected.
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f DETAILS 1.
Persons Contacted:
W. Orser, Manager, Operation and Maintenance
D. Kielblock, Manager, Plant Services
M. Bell, Chemistry Supervisor
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A. Cohlmeyer, Nuclear Plant Engineer
S. Nichols, Training Assistant
J. Pickett, Training Assistant J. Reid, QA Supervisor
The inspectors also interviewed other licensee employees during the course of the inspection. These included licensed operators, QA/QC pe'sonnel, and plant staff engineers.
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Licensee Action on Previous Inspection Findings:
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Deviation (50-344/75-07): The inspector reviewed the licensee's latest response dated December 10, 1979, and determined that the method described for storing permanent quality assurance records meets the requirements of ANSI N-45.2.9-1979.
(Closed)
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Quality Assurance Program - Annual Review.
The inspector examined chan6es to the quality assurance (QA) program j
and procedures initiated during the period September 1978 through December 1979 and disc 6ssed these changes with responsible onsite personnel.
In addition, the inspector partially reviewed the
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following records to ensure compliance with the approved QA program:
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QA Personnel Qualification Records.
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Nonconformance Reports and Trend Analysis, c.
Quality Notices and Trend Analysis.
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QA Surveillance Program, Reports, and Schedules.
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QA Audit Program, Reports, and Schedules.
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Annual Review of Onsite QA Program.
Vendor Services Reports.
No deviations or items of noncompliance were identified.
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Requalification Training
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The licensee's licensed operator requalification training program was inspected against the requirements of Training Procedure TP-2-2, which was approved by the flRP, Operator Licensing Branch on July 31, 1978. This inspection included examination of lecture schedules; selected individual training records; results of annual oral and written examinations; supervis.or evaluations; records of reactivity manipulations; records of operator review of significant design, procedure, and license changes; license renewal requests; and results of QA and fluclear Operations Board (fl0B) audits conducted in 1979. The inspector also discussed the scope of the requalification training program with selected licensed individuals.
The inspector's examination showed the licensee's requalification training program to be providing the required training to licensed operating personnel. With the exceptions noted below, training records maintained by the licensee documented the training provided and the tests and evaluations conducted by the licensee. The following specific comments were dicussed at the exit interview:
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Records of reactivity manipulations indicated that one senior licensed operator assigned to the plant management staff had apparently directed only one reactivity manipulation during the previous license interval, even though a letter dated October 16, 1979, from the General Manager to the flRR Operator Licensing Branch (requesting license renewal) stated that the individual had satisfactorily completed the retraining program.
Plant management and the individual stated that the required number of manipulations had in fact been directed (but not documented), and that a review of logs and other records would
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be conducted to complete the required record. The inspector noted that failure to maintain the record as required by the approved retraining program and 10 CFR 55, Appendix A, constituted an item of noncompliance.
(80-02-01)
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Trojan Training Procedure TP-2-2 was reviewed by the Operator Licensing Branch (Letter, Collins to Goodwin, dated July 31,1978)
and defines the licensee's requalification training program.
Paragraph 4.1.11 of this procedure states that the Operations Supervisor will review semi-annually the participation of licensed operators in reactivity manipulations "to ensure that reasonable effort is being made to provide a variety of reactivity changes for each operator." Review of records and discussion with the Operations Supervisor established that these reviews had not been conducted during the past year. The inspector stated that this represented a deviation from a comitment made to the.flRC.
(80-02-02)
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Paragraph 13.0 of TP-2-2 states that "The Training Supervisor prepares a brief summary of the Retraining Program each quarter,"
including a general progress report and listing existing or potential difficulties in meeting its requirements. These quarterly summaries were not documented, and a licensee
representative confirmed that they had not been prepared during the past year. The inspector noted that this also
represented a deviation from an NRC commitment.
(80-02-03)
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Training Information Bulletins (TIB's) are issued periodically to keep licersed operators apprised of significant design, procedure c.no license changes. A small percentage of the r
sign-off si.fets isr other than recent TIB's had not been returned.
The licei,see's training department had recently instituted new measures to ensure return of all sign-off sheets.
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The licensee's records of individual attendance at scheduled lectures in 1979 consisted of a copy of the lecture schedule annotated in some cases to show lectures from which the individual had been excused. Training department representatives stated that the annotated schedule represented a record of attendance if no absences were indicated. The inspector stated that a record of attendance at each lecture should also be maintained to support these individual records.
This finding was previously made during a N0B audit conducted in December 1979, and attendance records were being maintained for the 1980 lecture series currently in progress.,
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IE Bulletin / Circular Followup
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The inspector followed up on licensee actions related to recent IE Bulletins and Circulars.
The Bulletins and Circulars had been forwarded to and reviewed by cognizant members of the licensee's
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organization.
Inspection findings relating to the bulletins and
circulars reviewed during the inspection are as follows:
IE Bulletin 79-24, Frozen Lines (Closed): The inspector verified by discussion with a licensee representative and a tour of portions of the facade area of the plant that heat tracing and a temporary enclosure had been installed as described in the licensee's letter dated October 23, 1979.
IE Bulletin 79-25, Failures of Westinghouse BFD relays (closed):
The licensee's reply dated December 17, 1979, stated that no relays of _ this type are in use or planned for use at the Trojan Nuclear Plant.
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IE Bulletin 79-28, flAMC0 Model EA180 limit switches (closed):
The licensee's reply dated December 7, 1979, stated that none of the identified limit switches were in use or planned for use at the Trojan Nuclear Plant.
IE Circular 79-05, Moisture Leakage in Stranded Wire Conductors (0 pen): The licensee's investigation related to this circular is in progress.
IE Circular 79-20, Failure of GTE Sylvania Relays (Closed):
An internal memorandum to the General Manager dated January 10, 1980, reported the results of the licensee's investigation into this IE circular. The memo reported that no GTE Sylvania relays of the type listed are in use at Trojan, although ten similar relays made by Clark, a GTE subsidiary, are installed.
However, these are not of the same specific type as the ones discussed in the IE circular. The licensee had also inspected several of these relays, and no evidence of notching in the armature operating rod had been found as was the case with the GTE Sylvania relays.
IE Circular 79-23, Motor Starters and Contactors (Closed):
A memorandum to the General Manager dated December 6,1979, reported that no similar components from Gould, Inc., are in use at Trojan.
IE Circular 79-25, Shock Arrestor Strut Assemblies (Closed):
A memorandum to the General Manager dated January 15, 1980, reported the results of the licensee's review of this circular.
The review determined that some of the identified combinations of strut and arrestor are in use, but within the allowed range of off-axis anglef The inspector examined Special Plant Test No. 42, which verified proper operation of the new mechancial snubbers following their installation.
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Exit Interview The inspectors met with licensee representatives (denoted in Paragraph 1) at the conclusion of the inspection on January 23, 1980.
The scope and findings of the inspection were discussed. The following observations were made by the Inspectors:
The annual review of the licensee's quality assurance program showed it to be functioning effectively.
(Paragraph 3)
Examination of the licensed operator requalification program showed it to be providing the required training to licensed operators.
However, one noncompliance item related to training records (paragraph 4.a) and two deviations related to program review (paragraphs 4.b and 4.c) were identified. ~The licensee stated that these areas would be addressed.