IR 05000382/2004001

Annual Assessment Letter - Waterford 3 (IR 05000382-04-001)

ML040631103
Person / Time
Site:	Waterford
Issue date:	03/03/2004
From:	William Jones NRC/RGN-IV/DRP/RPB-E
To:	Venable J Entergy Operations
References
IR-04-001
Download: ML040631103 (7)

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rch 3, 2004

SUBJECT:

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER - WATERFORD 3 STEAM ELECTRIC STATION (NRC REPORT 05000382/2004001)

Dear Mr. Venable:

On February 3, 2004, the NRC staff competed its end-of-cycle plant performance assessment of Waterford 3. The end-of-cycle review for Waterford 3 involved the participation of all technical divisions in evaluating performance indicators (PIs) for the most recent quarter and inspection results for the period from January 1 through December 31, 2003. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period and our plans for future inspections at your facility so that you will have an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections that may conflict with your plant activities.

Overall, Waterford 3 operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for the most recent quarter, as well as for the first three quarters of the assessment cycle, was within the Licensee Response Column of the NRCs Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified as having very low safety significance (Green) and all PIs indicating performance at a level requiring no additional NRC oversight (Green). However, the significance of the failure to establish appropriate instructions and to accomplish those instructions for installation of a fuel line for a Train A emergency diesel generator that rendered the emergency diesel generator inoperable is still under review.

Therefore, we plan to conduct only baseline inspections at your facility through September 30, 2005.

In our end-of-cycle letter dated March 4, 2003, we advised you of a substantive crosscutting issue in the crosscutting area of problem identification and resolution. We noted that the substantive crosscutting issue resulted from long-standing degraded conditions that were identified by your staff, but the extent of conditions was not fully addressed. Also a number of problem symptoms were evident for extended periods of time without the causes being identified and corrected.

In our midcycle letter, dated August 27, 2003, we noted that you had made improvements in addressing this substantive crosscutting issue, but that we would continue to monitor your efforts by reviewing the effectiveness of the corrective action process as implemented during

Entergy Operations, Inc. -2-the fall 2003 refueling outage. We noted that during this assessment period your staff had aggressively taken action to identify long-standing conditions and performed extensive extent of condition reviews. We also noted that during the fall 2003 refueling outage, improvements were made in implementing the corrective action program. The actions you have taken have satisfactorily addressed the causal links that contributed to the substantive problem identification and resolution crosscutting issue. As a result, we plan no additional focused inspections to address this issue.

As you are aware, the NRC has issued several Orders and threat advisories to enhance security capabilities and improve guard force readiness since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. We have conducted inspections to review your implementation of these requirements and have monitored your actions in response to changing threat conditions. For calendar year 2004, we plan to continue inspections of Order implementation combined with newly developed portions of the security baseline inspection program. The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections scheduled through September 30, 2005. The inspection plan is provided to minimize the resource impact on your staff and to allow for scheduling conflicts and personnel availability to be resolved in advance of inspector arrival onsite. Routine resident inspections are not listed due to their ongoing and continuous nature. The inspections in the last 12 months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the midcycle review meeting.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

If circumstances arise which cause us to change this inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact me at 817/860-8147 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

Sincerely,

/RA/

William B. Jones, Chief Project Branch E Division of Reactor Projects Docket: 50-382 License: NPF-38 Enclosure:

Waterford 3 Inspection/Activity Plan

Entergy Operations, Inc. -3-cc w/enclosure:

Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Entergy Operations, Inc.

P.O. Box 31995 Jackson, MS 39286-1995 Vice President, Operations Support Entergy Operations, Inc.

P.O. Box 31995 Jackson, MS 39286-1995 Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway P.O. Box 651 Jackson, MS 39205 General Manager, Plant Operations Waterford 3 SES Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road Killona, LA 70066-0751 Manager - Licensing Manager Waterford 3 SES Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road Killona, LA 70066-0751 Chairman Louisiana Public Service Commission P.O. Box 91154 Baton Rouge, LA 70821-9154 Director, Nuclear Safety &

Regulatory Affairs Waterford 3 SES Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road Killona, LA 70066-0751 Michael E. Henry, State Liaison Officer Department of Environmental Quality Permits Division P.O. Box 4313 Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4313

Entergy Operations, Inc. -4-Parish President St. Charles Parish P.O. Box 302 Hahnville, LA 70057 Winston & Strawn 1400 L Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20005-3502 Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)

700 Galleria Parkway SE, Suite 100 Atlanta, GA 30339

Entergy Operations, Inc. -5-Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (BSM1)

DRP Director (ATH)

DRS Director (DDC)

Senior Resident Inspector (MCH)

Branch Chief, DRP/E (WBJ)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/E (VGG)

Staff Chief, DRP/TSS (PHH)

RITS Coordinator (NBH)

RidsNrrDipmLipb V. Dricks, PAO (VLD)

W. A. Maier, RSLO (WAM)

C. J. Gordon (CJG)

DRS Branch Chiefs (LJS, TWP, ATG, CSM)

W. D. Travers, EDO (WDT)

S. A. Richards, Chief, NRR/DIPM/IIPB (SAR)

R. K. Frahm, PPR Program Manager, NRR/DIPM/IIPB (RKF)

J. W. Craig, Associate Dir. for Inspection and Programs (JWC1)

B. W. Sheron, Associate Dir. for Project Licensing and Technical Analysis (BWS)

T. A. Bergman, Chief, Regional Operations Staff, OEDO (TAB)

H. N. Berkow, NRR Project Director (HNB)

R. A. Gramm, Chief, Section 1, NRR/DLPM (RAG)

N. Kalyanam, NRR Project Manager (NXK)

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Page 1 of 2 Waterford 03/01/2004 15:35:50 Inspection / Activity Plan Report 22 03/01/2004 - 10/01/2005 Unit No. of Staff Planned Dates Inspection Number Inspection Activity Title on Site Start End Type PEB-52 - BIENNIAL PIR 4 3 IP 71152B Identification and Resolution of Problems 05/03/2004 05/07/2004 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 71152B Identification and Resolution of Problems 05/17/2004 05/21/2004 Baseline Inspections PSB-S1 - AA-AC-FFD-PI 2 3 IP 7113001 Access Authorization 07/26/2004 07/30/2004 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7113002 Access Control 07/26/2004 07/30/2004 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7113008 Fitness For Duty Program 07/26/2004 07/30/2004 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 07/26/2004 07/30/2004 Baseline Inspections PEB-07B - HX & HEAT SINK PERFORMANCE TESTING 1 3 IP 7111107B Heat Sink Performance 08/30/2004 09/03/2004 Baseline Inspections OB-INIT - OB - INITIAL EXAMINATION 7 3 X02268 WATERFORD (11/04/) INITIAL EXAM 10/25/2004 10/29/2004 Not Applicable 3 X02268 WATERFORD (11/04/) INITIAL EXAM 11/15/2004 11/19/2004 Not Applicable EB-17B - PERMANENT PLANT MODIFICATIONS 2 3 IP 7111117B Permanent Plant Modifications 10/18/2004 10/22/2004 Baseline Inspections ACCESSPI - ACRSA/PIV 1 3 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 11/08/2004 11/12/2004 Baseline Inspections ALARA1 - ALARA PLANNING AND CONTROLS 1 3 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 11/15/2004 11/19/2004 Baseline Inspections OB-EP1 - EP PROGRAM INSPECTION 1 3 IP 7111402 Alert and Notification System Testing 11/15/2004 11/19/2004 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7111403 Emergency Response Organization Augmentation Testing 11/15/2004 11/19/2004 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7111404 Emergency Action Level and Emergency Plan Changes 11/15/2004 11/19/2004 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7111405 Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weaknesses and Deficiencies 11/15/2004 11/19/2004 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 11/15/2004 11/19/2004 Baseline Inspections EB 21/02 - SSD&PC 6 3 IP 7111102 Evaluation of Changes, Tests, or Experiments 01/24/2005 01/28/2005 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7111121 Safety System Design and Performance Capability 01/24/2005 01/28/2005 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7111121 Safety System Design and Performance Capability 01/31/2005 02/04/2005 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7111121 Safety System Design and Performance Capability 02/07/2005 02/11/2005 Baseline Inspections RP TEAM - RP TEAM INSPECTION 4 3 IP 7112103 Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation and Protective Equipment 02/21/2005 02/25/2005 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7112201 Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment and Monitoring Systems 02/21/2005 02/25/2005 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7112202 Radioactive Material Processing and Transportation 02/21/2005 02/25/2005 Baseline Inspections This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.

This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.

Page 2 of 2 Waterford 03/01/2004 15:35:50 Inspection / Activity Plan Report 22 03/01/2004 - 10/01/2005 Unit No. of Staff Planned Dates Inspection Number Inspection Activity Title on Site Start End Type RP TEAM - RP TEAM INSPECTION 4 3 IP 7112203 Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program 02/21/2005 02/25/2005 Baseline Inspections EB08P - ISI 1 3 IP 7111108P Inservice Inspection Activities - PWR 04/11/2005 04/15/2005 Baseline Inspections 3 IP 7111108P Inservice Inspection Activities - PWR 04/25/2005 04/29/2005 Baseline Inspections ACRSA - ACCESS CONTROL TO RAD SIGNIFICANT AREAS 1 3 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 04/18/2005 04/22/2005 Baseline Inspections ALARA2 - ALARA PLANNING AND CONTROLS 1 3 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 04/25/2005 04/29/2005 Baseline Inspections OB-RQ - REQUAL INSPECTION 1 3 IP 7111111B Licensed Operator Requalification Program 08/15/2005 08/19/2005 Baseline Inspections ALARA3 - ALARA PLANNING AND CONTROLS 1 3 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 09/26/2005 09/30/2005 Baseline Inspections This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.

This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.