ML022400125
| ML022400125 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Brunswick  |
| Issue date: | 08/26/2002 |
| From: | Brian Bonser NRC/RGN-II/DRP/RPB4 |
| To: | Keenan J Carolina Power & Light Co |
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| Download: ML022400125 (5) | |
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August 26, 2002 Carolina Power and Light Company ATT.: Mr. J. S. Keenan Vice President Brunswick Steam Electric Plant P. O. Box 10429 Southport, NC 28461
SUBJECT:
MID-CYCLE PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND INSPECTION PLAN -
BRUNSWICK STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT
Dear Mr. Keenan:
On August 6, 2002, the NRC staff completed its mid-cycle plant performance assessment of Brunswick Steam Electric Plant. In accordance with NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 0305 Operating Reactor Assessment Program, the mid-cycle review involved the participation of all technical divisions in evaluating the performance of your Brunswick facility for the first half of the current assessment cycle, January 1 - December 31, 2002. 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 which may conflict with your plant activities.
Plant performance for the most recent quarter 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). Therefore, we plan to conduct only baseline inspections and a power uprate inspection at your facility through September 30, 2003.
The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections scheduled through September 30, 2003.
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 last six months of the inspection plan is tentative and may be revised at the end-of-cycle review.
In addition, the NRC is in the process of finalizing a Temporary Instruction that will be used to review implementation of the Interim Compensatory Measures required by the Agencys Security Order to all commercial nuclear power plants dated February 25, 2002. Schedules have not yet been finalized, but it is anticipated that these inspections will begin within the next calendar quarter. Once finalized, the details will be communicated by separate correspondence.
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In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 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 the inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact me at 404-562-4560 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Brian R. Bonser, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 4 Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos. 50-325, 50-324 Licensee Nos. DPR-71, DPR-62
Enclosure:
Brunswick Inspection/Activity Plan cc w/encl: (See page 3)
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cc w/encl:
C. J. Gannon, Director Site Operations Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Carolina Power & Light Electronic Mail Distribution W. C. Noll Plant Manager Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Carolina Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution Terry C. Morton, Manager Performance Evaluation and Regulatory Affairs CPB 7 Carolina Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution Edward T. ONeil, Manager Regulatory Affairs Carolina Power & Light Company Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Electronic Mail Distribution Licensing Supervisor Carolina Power and Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution William D. Johnson Vice President & Corporate Secretary Carolina Power and Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution John H. ONeill, Jr.
Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge 2300 N. Street, NW Washington, DC 20037-1128 Beverly Hall, Acting Director Division of Radiation Protection N. C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Electronic Mail Distribution Peggy Force Assistant Attorney General State of North Carolina Electronic Mail Distribution Robert P. Gruber Executive Director Public Staff NCUC 4326 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-4326 Public Service Commission State of South Carolina P. O. Box 11649 Columbia, SC 29211 Donald E. Warren Brunswick County Board of Commissioners P. O. Box 249 Bolivia, NC 28422 Dan E. Summers Emergency Management Coordinator New Hanover County Department of Emergency Management P. O. Box 1525 Wilmington, NC 28402 Distribution w/encl: (See page 4)
Distribution w/encl:
B. Mozafari, NRR
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