IR 05000445/2013405

Temporary Instruction 2515/186, Inspection of Procedures and Processes for Responding to Potential Aircraft Threats, Inspection Report No. 05000445/2013405 and 05000446/2013405

ML13276A789
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	09/30/2013
From:	Vincent Gaddy Division of Reactor Safety IV
To:	Flores R Luminant Generation Co
References
IR-13-405
Download: ML13276A789 (3)

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UNITE D S TATE S NUC LEAR RE GULATOR Y C OMMI S SI ON ber 30, 2013

SUBJECT:

COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 -

TEMPORARY INSTRUCTION 2515/186, "INSPECTION OF PROCEDURES AND PROCESSES FOR RESPONDING TO POTENTIAL AIRCRAFT THREATS," INSPECTION REPORT NO. 05000445/2013405 AND 05000446/2013405

Dear Mr. Flores:

On July 31, 2013, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed an inspection at your Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant using Temporary Instruction 2515/186, Inspection of Procedures and Processes for Responding to Potential Aircraft Threats. The enclosed inspection report documents the results of the inspection, which were preliminarily discussed on August 1, 2013, with Mr. K. Peters, Site Vice President, and other members of your staff. After discussing the results with the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response (NSIR) and the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), an exit meeting was conducted via telephone phone on September 11, 2013.

The objective of this inspection was to assess the implementation of procedures and processes of your Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant that are required by Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 50.54(hh)(1), which provides the requirements for responding to a potential aircraft threat. The results from this inspection, along with the results from this inspection performed at other operating commercial nuclear plants in the United States, will be used to evaluate the U.S. nuclear industrys readiness to safely respond to similar events.

These results will also help the NRC to determine if additional regulatory actions are warranted.

The inspection examined activities conducted under your license as they relate to the implementation of 10 CFR 50.54(hh)(1), your compliance with the Commissions rules and regulations, and with the conditions of your operating licenses. Within these areas, the inspection involved examination of selected procedures and representative records, observations of activities, and interviews with personnel. Based on results of this inspection, no NRC-identified or self-revealing findings were identified.

However, three observations were identified by the inspectors for your future consideration.

The observations were of very low safety significance and were determined not to be violations of regulatory requirements.

If you contest any finding or the subject in this report, you should provide a response within 30 days of the date of this inspection report, with the basis for your denial, to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Document Control Desk, Washington DC 20555-0001, with copies to the Regional Administrator, Region IV; the Director, Office of Enforcement, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; and the NRC Resident Inspector at Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room). However, the material enclosed herewith contains Security-Related Information in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390(d)(1) and its disclosure to unauthorized individuals could present a security vulnerability. Therefore, the material in the enclosure will not be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the PARS component of NRC's ADAMS. If you choose to provide a response and Security-Related Information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please mark your entire response Security-Related Information - Withhold from public disclosure under 10 CFR 2.390 in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390(d)(1) and follow the instructions for withholding in 10 CFR 2.390 (b)(1).

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390(b)(1)(ii), the NRC is waiving the affidavit requirements for your response.

Should you have any questions regarding this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss the issues with you.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket: 50-445, 50-446, License: NPF-87, NPF-89, Nonpublic Enclosure: Inspection Report 05000445/2013405; w/Attachment: Supplemental Information ML13276A789 Cover Letter Only Non Sensitive Publicly Available VGG SUNSI Review Complete Sensitive Non-Publicly Available Entire Report Non Sensitive Publicly Available Keyword: MD 3.4 Non-Public A.3 Sensitive Non-Publicly Available VGG SOE:OB SOE:OB C:OB SGarchow KClayton VGaddy

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