IR 05000346/1980017
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| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 07/09/1980 |
| From: | Heishman R, Tambling T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT
REGION III
Report No.
50-346/80-17 Docket No.
50-346 License No. NPF-3 Licensee: Toledo Edison Company Edison Plaza 300 Madison Avenue Toledo, OH 43652 Facility Name: Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit I Management Meeting and Enforcement Conference At: Region III Office 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 T.O Ta-49 -
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Reactor Oper.,tions and Nuclear Support Branch Meeting and Conference Summary Meeting and Conference on June 4, 1980 (Report No. 50-346/80-17)
Scope of Meeting and Conference:
A special, announced meeting and enforce-ment conference was held with corporate and site management to discuss 1)
schedules and accomplishments on planned actions to address specific RIII concerns expressed in previous meetings on April 18, May 31, July 17, September 19, 1979 and February 29, 1980; 2) RIII assessments of security inspections findings, and 3) the enforcement actions being taken on the April 30, 1980 personnel overexposure. The meeting lasted approximately five hours and ten RIII personnel attended.
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Results: The licensee reported on the status of their program to improve management controls and the operations of Davis-Besse station. This report indicated that significant progress had been made in many areas with several areas still needing additional work, namely, the area of facility change requests. The licensee was informed that 1) unless significant improvement is made in the implementation of their security program, escalated enforcement actions would be taken and 2) the items of noncompliance associated with the April 30, 1980 exposure had been esca-lated to the Civil Penalty level. No items of noncompliance or devia-tions were identified within the scope of this meeting.
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DETAILS 1.
Attendees Toledo Edison Company W. A. Johnson, President and Chief Operating Officer R. P. Crouse, Vice President, Nuclear L. C. Philips, Vice President, Administrative Services T. D. Murray, Station Superintendent
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NRC J. G. Keppler, Director, RIII R. F. Heishman, Chief, RO&NS Branch A. B. Davis, Chief, FF&MS Branch J. A. Hind, Chief, Safeguards Branch T. N. Tambling, Acting Chief, Projects Section 2-2 L. A. Reyes, Senior Resident Inspector J. F. Donahue, Chief, Security Section T. J. Madeda, Security Inspector W. L. Fisher, Chief, FFP&RS Section L. J. Hueter, Radiation Protection Inspector 2.
Background This meeting was the sixth of a series of management meetings re-quested by Region III. This sixth meeting served two purposes:
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to discuss schedules and accomplishments on planned actions to improve management controls and operations of the Davis-Besse Sta-tion and 2) to discuss enforcement action associated with security inspection and the overexposure of a station employee that occurred April 30, 1980. The previous meetings were held April 18, May 31, July 17, September 19, 1979 and February 29, 1980 (Inspection Re-ports 50-346/79-08, 79-12, 79-20, 79-26 and 80-06)
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A Recapitulation of Past and Present Concerns The RIII Director reviewed and summarized pertinent areas related to previous meetings, events that occurred during the current plant outage, current history of noncompliance, licensee event reports, and that for some previously identified problem areas such as faci-lity changes, the improvement has not been as fast as desired.
It was noted that there has been apparent improvement in many areas,
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but that the current problems in the implementation of the security
plan and the April 30, 1980 overexposure have detracted from these improvements.
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Status and Changes to Program to Improve Management Controls and Operation of Davis-Besse The licensee detailed the progress and changes they have made to improve their level of management controls, staffing, training, plant operations and to reduce equipment problems.
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Staffing Original Goals:
Initial effort
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To fill 12 positions in Power c'gineering To fill 22 positions at the Plcut
. Future and continuing effort In house review on future manning requirements and organi zation structures.
Status:
There has been a net increase of 59 people in the nuclear
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program since last August.
Sixteen more people have accepted job offers.
The original 22 positions to be filled at the plant have
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been filled.
Of the original 12 positions in Power Engineering 4 are still
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open.
Salaries and benefits have been restructured.
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Recruiting methods and techniques have been upgraded with
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an emphasis placed on recruiting people with previous experience.
Experiened licensed operators have been transferred into
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the Training Department, Nuclear Service Group and Power Engineer.
The company has been working with Terra Technical College
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to promote programs to meet industrial needs.
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The Instrument and Control Group is being staffed with
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additional people.
A new I&C Engineer has been hired.
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Future goals include the formation of a sixth operating
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shift, establishment of a permanent shift technical advi-sor group, providing cdministrative assistants for each operating shif t, additions to Nuclear Services and addi-tions of maintenance personnel.
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Management Controls Original Goals:
Immediate: Promotion of Mr. Crouse to concentrate his efforts on the nuclear side of the house.
Mr. Johnson to hold meetings with all plant personnel to discuss current problem areas.
Current and Future Goals:
Continue to interface with other nuclear generating stations to
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review their organization and controls.
Reevaluation of personnel policies including selections and
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evaluation of new personnel, a development program for manager and promotion practices.
Status Company organization restructured December 1, 1979. All
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nuclear station activities placed under one vice presi-dent.
Interfacing with other nuclear stations has been a cor. tin-
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uing effort.
Promotion and job progressive policies have been changed.
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A computer program has been established to track and
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control commitments.
A consultant completed a comprehensive review of station
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management, operation and maintenance procedures, engin-eering support and training in May, 1980. Final report is due June, 1980.
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Another consultant conducted a review of possible methods
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to improve plant reliability. Phase I was completed March, 1980. Phase II will cover the causes.
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Procedures Original Goals:
At plant level establish a group to centralize prepara-
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tion and maintenance of procedures.
Engage a consultant to review plant procedures to estab-
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lish uniformity and general upgrading of procedures.
Status:
The original goals to establish a group to centralize pre-
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paration and maintenance of procedure has been dropped.
The administrative procedures for preparation and control
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of procedures has been revised and streamlined.
Coordina-tion of procedure review and revision has been assigned to the Technical Section. Also one man in each section has been assigned responsibility for coordinating procedure review and revision within the section.
The streamlining of the original method of procedure
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review has maintained the specialized expertise of each section and has resulted a factor of 4 to 5 increase in the number of procedures reviewed on tim 2.
The consultant's review of operating and maintenance pro-
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cedures was discussed under management controls. Final report is due June, 1980.
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Training Original Goals:
Implementation of a broad training program for all plant
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staff directed toward improving job related skills.
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Evaluate the need for a plant simulator for operator
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training.
Status:
Broad training program training being implemented. Further
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implementation is expected by end of 1980.
GOT I and II has been updated
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Size of Training Department has been increased.
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New facilities have been provided
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Simulator plans are on " hold" pending possible changes to
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reactor control room to improve human engineering.
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LER'S Original Goals:
Set up a special investigation group to review LER's
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with special emphasis on personnel errors and repetitive equipment problems.
Hold monthly meetings with plant staff to discuss signifi-
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cant LER's.
Status:
Special investigation groups established to review LER's
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and reviews being implemented.
Monthly reports are being issued.
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Station corrective action on all LER's being reviewed by a
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separate review group.
There has been a noted reduction in personnel errors and
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procedure error.
Repetitive equipment problems are still a major source of
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LER's.
Special efffort is being put in trying to reduce these.
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Maintenance Original Goals:
Develop a computer program to track maintenance and
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preventative maintenance.
Status:
A goal was to have the computer tracking program opera-
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tional by May, 1980. A contractor was hired to provide the program but he has not been able to deliver (see discuss-ion under Surveillance Testing).
A contract was let to an experienced outside contractor to
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provide onsite management and skilled crafts to supplement the maintneance and facility modification activities. The contractor moved onsite in December, 1979. For the current refueling outage the contractor has approximately 130 staff and 500 craft personnel onsite. They expect to complete approximately 80 FCR's plus other preventative maintenance activities.
Other contractors are also supplying personnel during the
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current outage to work with plant personnel.
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Surveillance Testing Original Goals:
Implement a specialized computer program to assist opera-
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tors in identifying and tracking Technical Specification surveillance requirements.
Target date: April, 1980.
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Status:
Contractor hired to develop and provide several programs;
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maintenance management, surveillance testing and technical specification tracking. The cont ractor scoped programs but has not provided the de;ign or functional programs.
In order to keep development of the programs going, TECo
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in January of 1980 got directly involved in the analysis review and documentation of the programs.
Final review of the development is expected June 9, 1980.
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Pending their review; TEco will be directly involved in making the programs functional.
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The new target dates are: maintenance management and sur-
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veillance testing, January 1981; Technical Specification track-ing July, 1980.
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FCR's Original Goals:
Initiate a review system to improve tracking, preplanning
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of procurement and scheduling of work.
Status:
Currently there are three tracking systems in use.
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Bechtel has one to track design work dalegated to them.
TECo has an outage FCR tracking system and system for all outrtanding work items including all FCR's, maintenance (WR's and MW0's) surviellance testing and nonconformances.
See Maintenance regarding use of an onsite contractor to
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implement FCR's.
Although Lessons Learned, Fire Protection, Bulletins, etc.
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have placed a heavy demand on the system, management goal is to continue working on improvement.
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Communications Original Goals Consultant to evaluate the lines of communications and
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methods of personnel motivations.
Status:
The consultant completed their survey and study. Approx-
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imately 33 findings and/or recommendations were made involving communications and human relationships at the site.
Several of the recommendations have been implemented.
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The station superintendent has held 16 session" with
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various sections of the plant staff to pass on the find-ings of the report.
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Nuclear Service Group Original Goals:
Establish a nuclear service group to report directly to
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the Vice President to handle support activities at the plant.
Status:
Position of Nuclear Service Group Director filled
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September 1,1979.
Training and reliability groups transferred from plant to
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Nuclear Service Group.
The group has a total of 22 people in it now.
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There are plans to increase the total staff to 32 by
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December 1980.
There are future plans to combine all sections of the
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group at the site.
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Conclusions The Region III staff concludes that the licensee has made significant progress in most of the designated areas to the point that their status need not be specifically addressed in future management meetings.
Region III, however, will continue to inspect in these areas to insure that there is continued progress and that any unusual developments or future problems will be appropriately addressed.
In *.he areas of Facility Changes and repetative equipment problems, the licensee corrective actions has not made a signi-ficant impact yet.
Progress reports in these two areas shall be subjects in future management meetings.
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Review and Assessment of Security Inspection Findings Because of an increased number of noncompliances discovered during two inspections in 1980 (Inspection Reports 50-346/80-02 and 80-13),
RIII expressed concerns that there appeared to be major break down in the management and implementation of the security plan. The licensee was notified that if appropriate corrective actions are not instituted in the licensee's security program to assure compliance, escalated enforcement action will be considered.
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The following specific areas were addressed by RIII as needing corrective attention by the licensee, The licensee must take positive action to prevent recurrence of a.
the excessive amount of noncompliance. Most items could nave been identified and corrected by the licensee if supervision'
was more effective.
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A definite effort must be undertaken to transform the super-visory force into a viable element of the security program.
(General / Security supervisory training).
Close and continuing cooperation between site and corporate c.
security management personnel must be maintained.
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Corporate management must be aware of and take decisive action concerning site security problems.
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Security equipment must be repaired properly and p romptly.
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An adequate number of knowledgeable personnel must be available to maintain security equipment.
Morale of the security organization appears to be deteriora-e.
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Extended work schedules.
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Inconsistent supervisory decisions.
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Security support personnel are not always available (watchmen).
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Corporate security representatives need to take a greater role in the secarity audit function.
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Site security management / supervision should be located within close proximity to the security organization.
The licensee representatives acknowledged RIII concerns and stated that they were taking additional steps to correct the prob-lems. Such corrective actions, as stated, included:
Increased site time of the Director, Industrial Security until
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the problems are resolved. (Up to 80 to 90% of his time, if required).
Their immediate effort would be directed towards equipment
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problems, morale, and training. This would include replacing some of the existing equipment, additional training of per-sonnel, and dedicating people to maintenance and testing of equipment.
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Enforcement Action on Overexposure The representatives of the licensee were informed that due to the seriousness of the radiation overexposure that occurred April 30, 1980 that escalated enforcement action was being taken by RIII.
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Summary
i The Director, RIII summarized the results of this meeting with the following points:
RIII acknowledged the significant progress made in the ten
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areas to improve the management controls and the operation of Davis-Besse. However, the region feels that additional pro-gress in the implementation of FCR's is still required.
The problems in the implementation of the security program and
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the overexposure has seriously detracted from apparent impro-vement in other areas. It was reemphasized that the licensee should be identifying and correcting the problems in security themselves and that appropriate corrective action must be taken to bring the program into compliance.
The Director also informed the licensee representatives that their letter of March 28, 1980 addressing their commitment to sections of draft ANS 3.1 for the training of licensed and nonlicensed operator was found to be satisfactory with one point of clarification. We plan to communicate this in a separate letter.
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