IR 05000354/2024010

Information Request for Quadrennial Baseline Comprehensive Engineering Team Inspection; Notification to Perform Inspection 05000354/2024010

ML24128A129
Person / Time
Site:	Hope Creek
Issue date:	05/07/2024
From:	Mel Gray NRC/RGN-I/DORS
To:	Mcfeaters C Public Service Enterprise Group
References
IR 2024010
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May 7, 2024

Charles McFeaters President and Chief Nuclear Officer PSEG Nuclear, LLC - N09 P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038

SUBJECT: HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION - INFORMATION REQUEST FOR QUADRENNIAL BASELINE COMPREHENSIVE ENGINEERING TEAM INSPECTION; NOTIFICATION TO PERFORM INSPECTION 05000354/ 2024 010

Dear Charles McFeaters:

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Region I staff will conduct a Comprehensive Engineering Team Inspection (CETI) at Hope Creek Generating Station. Joe Schoppy, a Senior Reactor Inspector from the NRCs Region I Office, will lead the inspection team. The inspection will be conducted in accordance with Inspection Procedure 71111.21M, Comprehensive Engineering Team Inspection (CETI), dated January 1, 2023 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19084A030). This inspection combines elements of the Design Basis Assurance Inspection (Teams), the Heat Exchanger/Sink Performance inspection (71111.07T), and the Evaluations of Changes, Tests and Experiments inspection (71111.17).

The inspection will evaluate the capability of risk-significant/low- margin components to function as designed to support proper system operation. The inspection will also include a review of selected modifications, operating experience, and as applicable, operator actions.

During a Teams meeting on November 28, 2023, with Harry Balian, PSEG Site Regulatory Compliance, we confirmed arrangements for an information- gathering site visit and the two-week onsite inspection. The schedule is as follows:

• Information-gathering visit: Week of August 5, 202 4

• Onsite weeks: Weeks of December 2, 2024 and December 9, 2024

The purpose of the information- gathering visit is to meet with members of your staff to identify risk-significant components, modifications, operator actions, and operating experience items.

Information and documentation needed to support the inspection will also be identified.

Frank Arner, a Region I Senior Risk Analyst, will support Joe Schoppy during the information-gathering visit to review probabilistic risk assessment data and identify components to be examined during the inspection. Experience with previous baseline design/modification inspections of similar depth and length has shown this type of inspection is resource intensive, both for the NRC inspectors and the licensee staff. To minimize the inspection impact on the site and to ensure a productive inspection for both parties, we have enclosed a request for information needed for the inspection.

It is important that all of these documents are up- to-date and complete in order to minimize the number of additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of the inspection. Insofar as possible, this information should be provided electronically to the lead inspector. The information request has been divided into two groups:

• The first group lists information necessary for our initial inspection scoping activities.

This information should be provided to the lead inspector by August 5, 202 4. By August 12, 2024, the lead inspector will communicate the initial selected set of components, modifications, 50.59 screenings, and operating experience samples.

• The second group of documents requested is those items needed to support our in-office preparation activities. This set of documents, specific to the selected components and modifications, should be provided to the lead inspector at the Regional Office no later than November 18, 2024. During the in-office preparation activities, the team may identify additional information needed to support the inspection, and those items will be communicated directly to Harry Balian.

If there are any questions about the inspection or the material requested in the enclosure, please contact the lead inspector at ( 610) 337- 5286 or via email at jgs@nrc.gov.

This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, Control Number 3150-0011. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a request for information or an information collection requirement unless the requesting document displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget Control Number. This letter and its enclosure 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 Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding.

Sincerely, Mel Gray, Chief Engineering Branch 1 Division of Operating Reactor Safety

Docket No. 05000354 License No. NPF -57

Enclosure:

Document Request for Comprehensive Engineering Team Inspection

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Onsite Inspection Dates: December 2, 2024 through December 6, 2024; and December 9, 2024 through December 13, 2024

Inspection Procedure: Inspection Procedure 71111.21M, Comprehensive Engineering Team Inspection (CETI)

Lead Inspector: Joe Schoppy, Senior Reactor Inspector (610) 337- 5286 jgs@nrc.gov

Inspection Report: 05000354/2024 010

I. Information Requested for Sample Selection Process

The following information is requested by August 5, 2024, to facilitate inspection preparation. Feel free to contact the lead inspector as soon as possible if you have any questions regarding this information request. Please provide the information electronically in PDF files, Word, Excel, or other searchable format. The files should contain descriptive names, and be indexed and hyperlinked to facilitate ease of use. Information in lists should contain enough information to be easily understood by someone who has knowledge of light water reactor technology.

1. The site probabilistic risk analysis (PRA) System Notebook and latest PRA Summary Document for Hope Creek.

2. Risk ranking of top 250 basic events sorted by Risk Achievement Worth (>/= 1.3). Include values for Risk Reduction Worth, Birnbaum Importance, and Fussell- Vesely (as applicable). Please provide in an Excel spreadsheet or other sortable format and include an understandable definition of the coded basic events.

3. Risk ranking of top 100 components from site specific PRA sorted by Large Early Release Frequency.

4. If you have an External Events PRA Model, provide the information requested in Item 2 for external events. Provide narrative description of each coded event, including flood zone description.

5. List of time- critical and/or risk-significant operator actions.

6. List of emergency and abnormal operating procedures.

7. If available, any pre-existing evaluation or list of components and associated calculations with low design margins (e.g., pumps closest to the design limit for flow or pressure, diesel generator close to design required output, heat exchangers close to rated design heat removal).

8. If applicable, copy of any self-assessments and/or Quality Assurance assessments of low- margin structures, systems, and components (SSCs), completed in the last 3 years.

Enclosure 9. List of available design margins in both the open and closed direction for valves in the motor-operated valve (MOV) and air-operated valve (AOV) programs (related to GL 96-05, looking for resultant output - matrix of risk vs margin for MOVs and AOVs, as applicable).

10. The age and capacity of the safety-related (SR) DC batteries.

11. The In-Service Testing Program (IST) Basis document identifying the in- scope valves and pumps, and the associated IST Program requirements for each component (e.g.,

IST valve table identifying category, active/passive function).

12. Listing of Maintenance Rule (a)(1) systems, date entered into (a)(1) status, and brief description of why (a)(1).

13. List of maintenance rule functional failure (MRFF) evaluations completed since September 1, 2021 (include those determined not to be a MRFF).

14. A copy of the most recent System Health and/or trending reports for the following systems (as applicable): SR 4KV, High-Pressure Coolant Injection, Residual Heat Removal, Standby Service Water, Safety Auxiliaries Cooling System, SR 125 Vdc, Standby Liquid Control, and Emergency Diesel Generators.

15. A copy of the most recent Program Health and/or trending reports for the following programs, as applicable: GL 89- 10 (MOVs), GL 89-13, IST, AOVs, breakers, relays.

16. List of open operability evaluations.

17. List of current operator work arounds and operator burdens.

18. List of Root Cause Evaluations associated with SSC failures or designissues initiated/completed in the last three years.

19. List of permanent plant modifications to SSCs that are field work complete since September 1, 2021. For the purpose of this inspection, permanent plant modifications include permanent: plant changes, design changes, set point changes, equivalency evaluations, suitability analyses, and commercial grade dedications. The list should contain the number of each document, title (sufficient to understand the purpose of the modification), revision/date, and the affected system.

20. List of calculation changes (including new calculations) that have been issued for use since September 1, 2021.

21. Copy of 50.59 program & corrective action program procedures.

22. Procedures addressing the following: modifications, design changes, set point changes, equivalency evaluations or suitability analyses, commercial grade dedications, and post-modification testing.

23. List of corrective action notifications initiated since September 1, 2021, that address permanent plant modifications and/or 50.59 issues, concerns, or processes.

24. A copy of any internal or external self-assessments performed in preparation for this inspection.

25. Updated Final Safety Analysis Report, Technical Specifications, Technical Specifications Bases, and Technical Requirements Manual, as applicable.

26. Electrical simple one-line drawings for 4KV, 480 V, 500KV, & 13.8KV (11 X 17 preferred).

27. Copy of PSEGs internal response to the following NRC Information Notices: 2019- 02, 2018- 07, and 2006-31.

28. A list of NRC Part 21 Reports, determined to be applicable to Hope Creek, since September 1, 2021.

29. An electronic copy of the following Design Basis Documents (if applicable & available):

SR 4KV, High -Pressure Coolant Injection, Residual Heat Removal, Service Water, Safety Auxiliaries Cooling System, SR 125 Vdc, and Emergency Diesel Generators.

30. List of all 50.59 applicability reviews, screenings, and evaluations completed since December 1, 2020. [Note: if six or less 50.59 safety evaluations, please include electronic copy of all evaluations.]

31. Copy of PSEGs most recent Changes, Test, and Experiments summary report

[50.59(d)(2)].

II. Information Requested to Be Available by November 18, 2024

This information should be separated for each selected component and modification, especially if provided electronically (e.g., a folder for each component and modification named after the component or modification that includes the information requested below).

Items 1 through 11 are associated with the selected components and Item 12 is for the selected modifications.

1. List of corrective action documents associated with each selected component for the last three years.

2. Maintenance history (e.g., corrective, preventive, and elective) associated with each selected component for the last five years. Identify frequency of preventive maintenance activities.

3. Aging Management Program documents applicable to each selected component.

4. List of calculations associated with each selected component, excluding data files. Pipe stress calculations are excluded from this request.

5. System Health Report (last completed) and Design Basis Documents associated with each selected component.

6. Access to or copy of vendor manual(s) for each selected component.

7. List of open temporary modifications associated with each selected component, if applicable.

8. Trend data/graphs on the selected components performance for the last three years (e.g., pump performance including IST, other vibration monitoring, oil sample results).

9. List of normal operating and alarm response procedures associated with each selected component.

10. Last completed tests and surveillances for each selected component performed during the last three years. For those tests and surveillances performed at a periodicity of greater than three years, provide the latest test performed.

11. Schedule of surveillance testing of selected components that occur during the onsite inspection weeks.

12. For each selected modification, copies of associated documents such as modification package, engineering changes, 50.59 screening or evaluation, relevant calculations, post-modification test packages, associated corrective action documents, design drawings, and new/revised preventive maintenance requirements.

13. A copy of the evaluation or screening document for each of the selected 50.59 evaluation/screens. A copy of the modification package if the evaluation/screen pertains to a modification.

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