IR 05000346/1979020
| ML19208C508 | |
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| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 08/02/1979 |
| From: | Reyes L, Warnick R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| 50-346-79-20, NUDOCS 7909260514 | |
| Download: ML19208C508 (5) | |
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT
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REGION III
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Report No.
50-346/79-20 Docket No.
50-346 License No.
NPF-3 Licensee:
Toledo Edison Company Edison Plaza, 300 Madison Avenue Toledo, Ohio 43652 Facility Name: Davis-Besse 1 Meeting At:
Region III Office, Glen Ellyn, Illinois Meeting Conducted-Jul 17 979 b
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j7 Inspectory L. A. Reyes (Date)
Approved By:
R. F. Warnick, Chief 8-2-79 Reactor Projects Section 2 (Date)
Meeting Sum ary Meeting on July 17, 1979 (Report No. 50-346/79-20)
Scope of Meeting: A special, announced m;eting was held with corporate and site management to discuss what actf c. had been or would be taken to address specific RIII concerns expressed in previous meetings on April 18, and May 31, 1979. The meeting lasted approximately two hours, and four RIII personnel attended.
Results The licensee outlined a program based upon their assessment of problem areas to improve the level of management control, staffing, training, the correction of equipment problems and general plant operations. The licensee elso reported the status of the implementation of the program. No items of noncompliance or deviations were identifit3 within the scope of this meeting.
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Attendees Toledo Edison Company
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W. A. Johnson, President and Chief Operating Officer L. E. Roe, Vice President, Facilities Development R. P. Crouse, Assistant Vice President, Energy Supply T. D. Murray, Statico Superintendent 2.
NRC J. G. Keppler, Director, Region III R. F. Heishman, Chief, Reactor Opera *'ons and Nuclear Support Branch R. F. Warnick, Chief, Reactor Projec Section 2 L. A. Reyes, Reactor Inspector 3.
Corporate Meeting This meeting was the third of a series of management meetings requested by Region III.
The purpose of this third meeting was to discuss what actions had been or would be taken by TECo to address specific RIII concerns ex-pressed in the two previous meetings held on April 18, and May 31, 1979, (Inspection Report Nos. 50-346/79-08, and 79-12) and to discuss the time-table to implement the various corrective actions, a.
Previous Meeting R cap The RIII Director summarized the purpose of the previous meetings and his impressions of the meeting held in Washington to address the Davis Besse shutdown order.
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Corrective Actions The licensee outlined a program, based upon their assessment of problem areas, to improve the level of management control, staffing, training, the correction of equipment problems, and plant operations.
(1) Staffing Of the 22 staff openings the licensee had filled 3 as of July 17, 1979, and expected to have all positions filled by July, 1980.
The following table summarizes the expected dates for progressively filling all positions:
Openings Classification Opening filled by
Bargaining Unit January, 1980
Professional January, 1980 4 filled July, 1980 5 filled-2-k0.-
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of the 9 openings in the professional staff the licensee expects to hire 5 with previous experience.
These 5 positions will be
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distributed among the different departments as follows:
1 - Operations 2 - Maintenance
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2 - Techr._ cal Staff The licensee is evaluating the hiring policies and practices of the company. A recommendation has been made to increase the starting salary for new engineers.
This measure will help to attract new engineers. The salary of the existing engineers will be adjusted appropriately to reflect the increase to new hires.
The overtime compensation policy will be revised to compensate all employees, but emphasis will be on lower pay employees.
A program for training interviewers is being implemented and is expected to be operational by February, 1980.
(2) Procedures At the plant, a group will be developed to centralize the pre-paration and maintenance of procedures. The personnel assign-ments for this group are expected to be completed by July, 1979.
Commencement of work is expected to start immediately af ter assignments of personnel have beer; completed.
An outside consultant will be utilized to review plant procedures.
The scope of this review will be designed to establish uniformity and general upgrading of procedures. Work is expected to commence on September, 1979.
(3) Management control Severa] areas have or will be addressed to improve or promote better management control. These include:
- Mr. Johnson has atarted and will continue direct meetings with all plant personne: to discuss current problem areas.
- Management has and will continue to visit other nuclear generating stations to review their organization and controls.
- There will be a reevaluation of their personnel policies, including screening and selection process for new employees, career path interviews every 3 years in addition to the yearly merit review, and the Station Promotional Policy.
The evaluation of the Station Promotional Policy procedure is expected to be finished by September, 1979 and appro-priate action taken immediately after.
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(4) Training A broad training program was recently implemented for all plant staff, directed primarily toward improving job-related skills.
The program includes:
- The addition of a licensed operator and an experiene,,ed Health physicist to the training personnel.
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- Addition of one weeks simulator training to the requali-fication program for licensed operators.
- Addition of a " Basic Nuclear Technology Course" to train plant personnel other than operators.
- Addition of a training program on Technical Specifications to be off t. ed to the Technical plant personnel. The pro-gram is expected to be completed by December, 1979.
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LER's A special investigation group will be setup to investigate and evaluate all LER's.
The group will include:
(a) Section Head (b) Performance Engineer (c) Designated individual knowledgeable in the subject area of the LER If the suspected cause of the LER is a personnel error the rasponsible individual, his supervisor and a representative from the training group will be included.
If the suspected cause of the LER is equipment failure, an engineer familiar with the equipment will be included.
(6) Maintenance Arrangements are being made with a mr:intenance contractor to help in the implementation of the Facility Change Requests.
Currently, there is a long range computer program under development to track maintenance an? to imporve the preven-tive maintenance program.
..The conputer program is expected to be operational by May, 1980.
(7) Surveillance Testing There are plans to implement, by April, 1980, a specialized computer program to assist the operators in identifying and tracking surveillance requirements imposed by action state-ments in the technical specifications.
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(8) Communication
A consultant has been retained to evaluate the lines of communication and methods of personnel motivations.
(9) Nuclear Services Group A nuclear services group will be established and will report to the Assistant Vice President, Energy Supply. This will be a separate group to handle support activities at the plant.
The activities will include IE Bulletins, audits, FCR's, outage planning, training, nuclear fuels, etc.
The activities of this group are designed to permit the station superintendent to concentrate on day-to-day activities of the plant.
The position of the Nuclear Services Cloup Director is expected to be filled by October, 1979.
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Summation At the conclusion of the licensee's presentation, RIII personnel discussed the following items:
- Questioned whether the Quality Aasurance Group was being appropriately consulted in the corrective actions.
The licensee stated that the QA Group will be an integral part of the corrective actions.
- Questioned whether the corrective action program would address the number of nuisance alarms in the control room. The licensee stated that their evaluation of nuisance alarms would continue.
- Asked the licensee to schadule the next meeting in approx-imately three-to-four weeks to discuss schedules, milestones, accomplishments, etc. The meeting will be held at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Plant.
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