ML031320805
| ML031320805 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Callaway  |
| Issue date: | 03/04/2002 |
| From: | Merschoff E Division of Nuclear Materials Safety IV |
| To: | Randolph G Union Electric Co |
| References | |
| FOIA/PA-2003-0180 | |
| Download: ML031320805 (10) | |
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UNrrED TATED NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION IV 611 RYAN PLAZA DRIVE, SUITE 400 ARLINGTON, TEXAS T60 118064 March 4, 2002 Garry L. Randolph, Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Union Electric Company P.O. Box 620 Fulton, Missouri 65251
SUBJECT:
ANNUAL ASSESSMENT - CALLAWAY PLANT (REPORT 50-483/02-01)
Dear Mr. Randolph:
On February 13, 2002, the NRC staff completed its end-of-cycle plant performance assessment of Callaway Plant. The end-of-cycle review for Callaway Plant involved the participation of all technical divisions in evaluating performance indicators (Pls) for the most recent quarter and inspection results for the period from April 1 through December 31, 2001. 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. This will provide you an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections which may conflict with your plant activities.
As discussed in our previous annual assessment letter, dated May 29, 2001, this inspection and assessment cycle consisted of three quarters (i.e., the second, third, and fourth quarters of Calendar Year 2001) instead of the usual four quarters. This change was implemented in order to align the inspection and assessment cycle with the calender year beginning on January 1, 2002.
Overall, Callaway Plant operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety, and fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for the final quarter was within the Regulatory Response Column of the NRC's Action Matrix, based on a White finding in the Mitigating Systems Cornerstone. This finding involved an essential service water pump which was inoperable for approximately 132 hours0.00153 days <br />0.0367 hours <br />2.18254e-4 weeks <br />5.0226e-5 months <br />. However, the significance of an unresolved item in NRC Inspection Report 50-483/01-06 is still under review. This December 2001 issue involves an auxiliary feedwater pump failure and includes potential common cause implications.
A supplemental inspection was conducted by the NRC office during the week of February 25, 2002, to assess the adequacy of your evaluation of this risk significant performance issue. The results of this inspection will be documented in NRC Inspection Report 50-483/02-08.
While plant performance for the last two quarters was within the Regulatory Response Column of the Action Matrix, plant performance during the first quarter of the assessment cycle was in the Degraded Cornerstone Column of the Action matrix. This was based on three White findings, identified in the third quarter of 2000, that related to Callaway Plant's failure to maintain radiation doses as low as reasonably achievable. A supplemental nspection was
Union Electric Company performed during April and May 2001. The NRC concluded that your staff had performed a thorough evaluation of the causes that led to job doses that were not as low as reasonably achievable, and they correctly identified the extent of the condition. We also determined that appropriate corrective actions were identified and implemented by your staff to address the root causes.
Separately, on May 14, 2001, the staff issued a Severity Level IlIl Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of a $55,000 Civil Penalty in accordance with the enforcement policy.
Contrary to 10 CFR 50.7, Union Electric and one of its contract organizations discriminated against a security officer and a training instructor for having engaged in protected activity.
Currently, the staff is reviewing your denial of this violation.
Immediately following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the NRC issued safeguards advisories recommending that nuclear power plant licensees go to the highest level of security, and all promptly did so. With continued uncertainty about the possibility of additional terrorist activities, the Nation's nuclear power plants, including Callaway Plant, remain at a high level of security. On February 25, 2002, the NRC issued an Order to all nuclear power plant licensees, requiring them to take certain additional interim compensatory measures to address the generalized high-level threat environment. These additional compensatory requirements will provide the NRC with reasonable assurance that public health and safety and the common defense and security continue to be adequately protected in the current generalized high-level threat environment. These requirements will remain in effect pending notification from the Commission that a significant change in the threat environment occurs or until the Commission determines that other changes are needed following a more comprehensive re-evaluation of current safeguards and security programs. To date we have monitored Union Electric Company's actions in response to the terrorist attacks through a series of audits. With the issuance of the Order, we will evaluate Union Electric Company's compliance with these interim requirements.
The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections scheduled through March 31, 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 6 months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the Midcycle Review meeting. Also, your facility will be inspected in accordance with Temporary Instruction 2515/145, Circumferential Cracking of Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles (NRC Bulletin 2001-01)."
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's 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 htto://www.nrc.cov/readinp-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).
Union Electric Company 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 David Graves at (817) 860-8141 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.
Sincerely, IRAI Ellis W. Merschoff Regional Administrator Dockets: 50483 Licenses: NPF-30
Enclosure:
Callaway Plant Inspection/Activity Plan cc w/enclosure:
Professional Nuclear Consulting, Inc.
19041 Raines Drive Derwood, Maryland 20855 John O'Neill, Esq.
Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge 2300 N. Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037 Mark A. Reidmeyer, Regional Regulatory Affairs Supervisor Regulatory Affairs AmerenUE P.O. Box 620 Fulton, Missouri 65251 Manager - Electric Department Missouri Public Service Commission 301 W. High P.O. Box 360 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102 Ronald A. Kucera, Deputy Director for Public Policy Department of Natural Resources 205 Jefferson Street Jefferson City, Missouri 65101 Union Electric Company Otto L. Maynard, President and Chief Executive Officer Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation P.O. Box 411 Burlington, Kansas 66839 Dan I. Bolef, President Kay Drey, Representative Board of Directors Coalition for the Environment 6267 Delmar Boulevard University City, Missouri 63130 Lee Fritz, Presiding Commissioner Callaway County Courthouse 10 East Fifth Street Fulton, Missouri 65251 J. V. Laux, Manager Quality Assurance AmerenUE P.O. Box 620 Fulton, Missouri 65251 Jerry Uhlmann, Director State Emergency Management Agency P.O. Box 116 Jefferson City, Missouri 65101 Gary McNutt, Director Section for Environmental Public Health P.O. Box 570 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0570 John D. Blosser, Manager Regulatory Affairs AmerenUE P.O. Box 620 Fulton, Missouri 65251 The Honorable Vernon McKague Mayor of Chamois Star Route Chamois, Missouri 65024 Union Electric Company Elmer Senevey Presiding Commissioner Osage County Courthouse P.O. Box 826 Linn, Missouri 65051 Richard Zeilman Emergency Management Director Osage County Courthouse P.O. Box 826 Linn, Missouri 65051 Carl Fowler Sheriff, Osage County Osage County Courthouse P.O. Box 826 Linn, Missouri 65051 Tim Diemler Emergency Preparedness Director Callaway County/Fulton P.O. Box 817 Fulton, Missouri 65251 Dennis Crane Sheriff, Callaway County P.O. Box 817 Fulton, Missouri 65251 Charles Komnan Presiding Commissioner Montgomery County Courthouse 211 East Third Montgomery City, Missouri 63361 Bob Bishop Emergency Management Director Montgomery County Courthouse 211 East Third Montgomery City, Missouri 63361 Robert Davis Sheriff, Montgomery County Montgomery County Courthouse 211 East Third Montgomery City, Missouri 63361 Union Electric Company Charles Schlottach Presiding Commissioner Gasconade County Courthouse 119 East First Street Hermann, Missouri 65041 Richard Hudson Emergency Preparedness Director Gasconade County Courthouse P.O. Box 295 Hermann, Missouri 65041 Glenn Ebker Sheriff, Gasconade County Gasconade County Courthouse 119 East First Street Hermann, Missouri 65041 Fay Owsley Gasconade County Public Administrator Gasconade County Courthouse 119 East First Street Hermann, Missouri 65041 The Honorable Robert Craghead Mayor of Fulton Fulton City Hall P.O. Box 130 Fulton, Missouri 65251 Charles Latham Chief of Police Fulton City Hall P.O. Box 130 Fulton, Missouri 65251 William Johnson Fulton City Administrator Fulton City Hall P.O. Box 130 Fulton, Missouri 65251 The Honorable Samuel Birk Mayor of Morrison Route I Morrison, Missouri 65061 Union Electric Company The Honorable Tom Shackelford Mayor of Mokane P.O. Box 41 Mokane, Missouri 65059 The Honorable Steve Wehrle Mayor of Rhineland P.O. Box 384 Rhineland, Missouri 65069 Robert Rankin Eastem District Commissioner Callaway County Courthouse 10 East 5th Street Fulton, Missouri 65251 Rodney Gamett Westem District Commissioner Callaway County Courthouse 10 East 5th Street Fulton, Missouri 65251 Lee Fritz Presiding Commissioner Callaway County Courthouse 10 East 5th Street Fulton, Missouri 65251 Union Electric Company Electronic distribution from ADAMS by RIV:
Regional Administrator (EWM)
DRP Director (KEB)
DRS Director (ATH)
Senior Resident Inspector (VGG)
Branch Chief, DRP/B (WDJ)
Senior Project Engineer, DRP/B (RAK1)
Staff Chief, DRPITSS (PHH)
RITS Coordinator (NBH)
B. Henderson, PAO (BWH)
W. A. Maier, RSLO (WAM)
C. J. Gordon (CJG)
DRS Branch Chiefs (GMG, ATG, CSM)
W. D. Travers, EDO (WDT)
M. Johnson, Chief, NRR/DIPM/IIPB (MRJI)
R. K. Frahm, PPR Program Manager, NRR/DIPM/IIPB (RKF)
B. A. Boger, Associate Dir. for Inspection and Programs (BAB2)
B. W. Sheron, Associate Dir. for Project Licensing and Technical Analysis (BWS)
J. Shea, Chief, Regional Operations Staff, OEDO (JWS1)
S. Richards, NRR Project Director (SAR)
S. Dembek, Chief, Section 2, NRR/DLPM (SXD)
J. Donohew, Project Manager (JND)
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Callaway Inspection / Activity Plan 03/0112002 - 03/30/2003
~nspection Activity I Title PBB-SUPi
- SUPP INSPECTION 95002 IP 95002 Inspection For One Degraded Comerstone Or Any Three White Inputs In A Strategic Performar PSB-RP7
- ALARA PLANNING AND CONTROLS IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls EMB
- SSD&PC INSPECTION IP 7111121 Safety System Design and Performance Capabiity IP 7111121 Safety System Design and Performance Capability EMB
- 50.59 IP 7111102 Evaluation of Changes, Tests, or Experiments OB-IN
- INITIAL EXAM PREP WEEK X02225 CALLAWAY INMAL EXAM (08/02)
OB-IN
- INMAL EXAM X02225 CALLAWAY INITIAL EXAM (08102)
PSB.EPI
- EP PROGRAM BASELINE INSPECTION IP 7111402 Alert and Notification System Testing IP 7111403 Emergency Response Organization Augmentation Testing IP 7111404 Emergency Action Level and Emergency Plan Changes IP 7111405 Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weaknesses and Deficiencies IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification RP-3
- ALARA IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls RP.1
- ACRSA AND PIV IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification EMB
- ISI IP 7111108 Inservice Inspection Activities EMB
- ISIISG IP 7111108 Inservice lnspection Activities TI 145
- T 2515/145 IP 2515/145 Circumferential Cracking of Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles (NRC Bulletin PSB-S1
- ACCESS AUTH/CONTROL, SEC PLAN AND PIV IP 7113001 Access Authorizaton Program (Behavior Observation Only)
IP 7113002 Access Control (Search of Personnel, Packages, and Vehicles: Identification and Authorizatior IP 7113004 Security Plan Changes of Staff Planned Dates Inspection I
rNo. of Staff Il Plannried Dates lInspection on Site I
Start End l
Type 3
1 5
02/2512002 03101/2002 Supplemental Progran 0310412002 03108/2002 Baseline Inspections 05/0612002 05120/2002 05/1012002 Baseline Inspections 05124/2002 Baseline Inspections I
06/1012002 06/14/2002 Baseline Inspections 2
0710812002 07/1212002 Not Applicable 4
07/29/2002 08/0212002 Not Applicable I
08/05/2002 08/05/2002 08/0512002 08105/2002 08/0512002 0810912002 Baseline Inspections 08109/2002 Baseline Inspections 08109/2002 Baseline Inspectons 08109/2002 Baseline Inspections 08/0912002 Baseline Inspections I
08126/2002 08/3012002 Baseline Inspections 1
10/21/2002 10125/2002 Baseline Inspections 10/21/2002 10125/2002 Baseline Inspections I
1012812002 11/01/2002 Baseline Inspections I
11/18/2002 11/222002 Baseline Inspections 2
11/18/2002 11/2212002 Safety Issues I
12/022002 12102/2002 12102/2002 12106/2002 Baseline Inspections 1206/2002 Baseline Inspections 12/06/2002 Baseline Inspections This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.
I This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.
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Page 2 of 2 0310412002 13:13:12 Report 22 Callaway Inspection I Activity Plan 03101/2002 - 03/30/2003 hnspection Actvity II Title PSB-Si
- ACCESS AUTHICONTROL, SEC PLAN AND PIV IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification PBB-PIR
- CW PIR INSPECTION IP 71152B Identification and Resolution of Problems No. of Staff Planned Dates Inspection on Site Start End l
Type I
I 1202/2002 1206/2002 Baseline Inspections 4
12022002 12113/2002 Baseline Inspecions This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.
This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.
Unit INumberI I
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