ML033650110
| ML033650110 | |
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| Issue date: | 12/23/2003 |
| From: | Tjader T NRC/NRR/DIPM/IROB |
| To: | Bradley B Nuclear Energy Institute |
| Tjader T., NRC/IROB, 415-1187 | |
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December 23, 2003 Mr. Biff Bradley Nuclear Energy Institute Suite 400 1776 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-3708
SUBJECT:
DECEMBER 16, 2003:
SUMMARY
OF MEETING WITH NEI, EPRI AND INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES ON RISK MANAGEMENT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS GUIDELINES FOR INITIATIVE 4b
Dear Mr. Bradley:
The purpose of this letter is to transmit the summary of a meeting with the Industry representatives on Risk Management Technical Specifications Guidelines. The meeting was held at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission offices in Rockville, Maryland, on December 16, 2003.
Sincerely,
/RA/
T. R. Tjader, Senior Reactor Engineer Technical Specifications Section Reactor Operations Branch Division of Inspection Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Enclosures:
- 1. Meeting Summary
- 2. Attendance List
- 3. Agenda
- 4. RMTS Guidelines Brief
- 5. RMTS RMG NRC Review Comment Resolution Responses Matrix
- 6. RMTS Guidelines cc w/encl: See attached page
Package ML033650093, Memo ML033650110, Enclosure 4 ML040020046, Enclosure 5 ML040020047, Enclosure 6 ML040050217 OFFICE TSS:IROB-A:DIPM SC:TSS:IROB-A:DIPM NAME TRTjader THBoyce DATE 12/23/2003 12/23/2003 Mr. Biff Bradley cc via e-mail:
Mr. Tony Pietrangelo Mr. Michael S. Kitlan, Jr.
Nuclear Energy Institute Duke Energy Corporation Mr. Biff Bradley Mr. Noel Clarkson Nuclear Energy Institute Duke Energy Corporation Mr. Mike Schoppman Mr. Donald Hoffman Nuclear Energy Institute EXCEL Services Corporation Mr. Alan Hackerott, Chairman Mr. Ted Book Omaha Public Power District Framatech-ANP Mr. Jim Kenny Mr. R. J. Schomaker Pennsylvania Power & Light Company Framatech-ANP Mr. James Andrachek Mr. J. E. Rhoads Westinghouse Electric Company Energy Northwest Mr. Jack Stringfellow Ms. Deann Raleigh Southern Nuclear Operating Company Scientech Mr. Donald McCamy Mr. Ken Canavan Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant DS&S Mr. Ray Schneider Mr. Sam Chien Westinghouse Electric Company SCE Mr. Frank Rahn Mr. Gary Chung EPRI SCE-SONGS Mr. Wayne Harrison Mr. Courtney Smyth STP PSEG Nuclear LLC Mr. Drew Richards Mr. Jerry Andre STP Westinghouse Electric Company Mr. Wei He Mr. David Helher PSEG Exelon Mr. Rick Grantom Mr. Eugene Kelly STP Exelon Mr. Glenn Stewart Mr. James Liming Exelon ABSG Mr. Phil Tarpinian Mr. Stanley Levinson Exelon Framatone ANP Mr. Lane Hay SERCH/Bechtel Mr. Rick Hill General Electric Nuclear Energy
SUMMARY
OF THE DECEMBER 16, 2003 MEETING WITH NEI, EPRI AND INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES ON RISK MANAGEMENT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS GUIDELINES FOR INITIATIVE 4b The NRC staff met with Indusrtry representatives on December 16, 2003, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The meeting attendees are listed in Enclosure 2.
The agenda (Enclosure 3) consisted of discussions of: the Industry presentation (Enclosure 4) on Risk Management Technical Specifications (RMTS) Guidelines for RMTS Initiative 4b, Risk-Informed Completion Times; and, the Industry response (Enclosure 5) to the NRC Staff review comments to the prior version of the RMTS Guidelines. The current version of the RMTS Guidelines are provided in Enclosure 6. Following is a brief description of the discussions.
The information and level of detail contained in the RMTS Guidelines will determine whether Initiative 4b will be a candidate for the Consolidated Line Item Improvement Process (CLIIP),
and to a greater degree, whether exportable guidance will be provided to the follow-on plants to the pilot plants. The RMTS Guidelines needs to provide exportable guidance that is applicable, reliable and repeatable in other follow-on plants. With this objective in mind, pilot plant acceptance criteria needs to be established for initiative 4b. The NRC staff will propose pilot plant and RMTS Guidance acceptance criteria for discussion at the next meeting on RMTS Initiative 4b. In addition, to ensure that the industry and NRC staff are proceeding in a legally acceptable manner with RMTS Initiative 4b, the NRC staff will discuss the possible processes to be utilized with the NRC Office of General Council. The RMTS Guidance document must contain discussions of the following:
- The RMTS Initiative 4b Configuration Risk Management (CRM) process must be an enhanced (a)(4) risk assessment and management process that is consistent with NUMARC 93-01, Revision 2 Section 11, which is endorsed by the NRC in RG 1.182.
Note: Section 11 is the same in Revisions 2 and 3 to NUMARC 93-01.
- Reactor Oversight Performance Indicators, PRA annual evaluations, risk assessment evaluations, and instantaneous and aggregate risk limits must together act as an incentive to limit the time in the extended Risk-Informed Completion Times (CT). The process should result in an ALARA like process to maintain risk as low as reasonably achievable. An LCO exit strategy must be addressed.
- The 30 day CT backstop needs to be explained and justified in the RMTS Guidance. It should be utilized with applicable systems when catastrophic type failures are experienced, and not for routine and expected maintenance.
- Risk assessments for preplanned entries into an extended Risk-Informed CT (RICT) must be conducted prior to entry. The 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> provided to complete risk assessments for emergent conditions needs to be explained and justified. For emergent conditions the on-line risk assessment must be performed within 1 hour1.157407e-5 days <br />2.777778e-4 hours <br />1.653439e-6 weeks <br />3.805e-7 months <br /> after entry into the RICT, or within the 1 hour1.157407e-5 days <br />2.777778e-4 hours <br />1.653439e-6 weeks <br />3.805e-7 months <br /> an initial assessment must be made that confirms that 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> to complete the full configuration risk assessment is acceptable.
Enclosure 1
- The RMTS Guidance must explain that a plants ability to apply RMTS Initiative 4b must be commensurate with its PRA Quality. The plants PRA Quality must be consistent with DG-1122 (trial Reg Guide 1.200) guidance.
- The level of documentation required for an RMTS Initiative 4b risk assessment must be described.
- The RMTS Guidance must be consistent with the processes described in the STP and CE pilot plant proposals. Terminology needs to be consistent between the RMTS Guidance, the pilot proposals, and the (a)(4) program.
- The RMTS Guidance should provide direction on whether the process should apply to all LCOs.
- The RMTS Guidance should discuss how the blending of a qualitative assessment with the quantitative assessment should occur.
The industry intends to apply RMTS Initiative 4b to emergent plants conditions that will include complete loss of system function; Initiative 4b will subsume Initiative 6 on LCO 3.0.3 entry. The industry needs to address the nexus between Initiative 4b and Initiative 6.
It is expected that SERs will be written for the STP and CE (Fort Calhoun) pilot plant proposals, and for the subsequent generic changes (i.e., Topicals and TSTFs). It is also expected that either an SER will be written on the RMTS Guidance document, or that it will become a Reg Guide.
The following meetings are planned:
January 21, 2004: STP DG-1122 Pilot meeting January 29, 2004: Initiative 4b meeting covering RMTS Guidance changes needed to proceed with the pilots, RMTS Guidance and Pilot Plant acceptance criteria, and the CE pilot proposal (TSTF-424)
January 30, 2004: Initiative 1, End States, CE TSTF-422 and BWR TSTF-423.
The week of January 12, 2004: CRM Forum at the FPL Juno Beach FL facility
NRC/INDUSTRY MEETING OF THE RISK-INFORMED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION TASK FORCE ATTENDANCE LIST NOVEMBER 13, 2003 NAME AFFILIATION BIFF BRADLEY NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE DON HOFFMAN TSTF/EXCEL SERVICES FRANK RAHN EPRI RICK GRANTOM STP NOC DREW RICHARDS STP NOC ALAN HACKEROTT OPPD JIM ANDRACHEK WESTINGHOUSE/WOG JACK STRINGFELLOW SOUTHERN NUCLEAR OPERATING COMPANY WEI HE PSEG RICK HILL GE RAY SCHNEIDER WESTINGHOUSE PSA JAMES LIMING ABSG DEANN RALEIGH SCIENTECH LANE HAY SERCH/BECHTEL TOM BOYCE NRC/NRR/DIPM/IROB/TSS BOB TJADER NRC/NRR/DIPM/IROB/TSS CARL SCHULTEN NRC/NRR/DIPM/IROB/TSS MARK REINHART NRC/NRR/DSSA/SPSB STU MAGRUDER NRC/NRR/DSSA/SPSB NICK SALTOS NRC/NRR/DSSA/SPSB MARK CARUSO NRC/NRR/DSSA/SPSB DONNIE HARRISON NRC/NRR/DSSA/SPSB STEPHEN DINSMORE NRC/NRR/DSSA/SPSB MILLARD WOHL NRC/NRR/DSSA/SPSB CLIFF DOUTT NRC/NRR/DSSA/SPSB SUMMER SUN NRC/NRR/DSSA/SRXB WAYNE SCOTT NRC/NRR/DIPM/IEPB GARETH PARRY NRC/NRR/DSSA Enclosure 2
AGENDA TSS/NEI-EPRI RMTS GUIDELINES MEETING DECEMBER 16, 2003 9:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
0-4 B6 N Industry presentation of Initiative 4b, Risk-Informed Completion Times, RMTS Risk Management Guidelines N Public Questions and Discussion N Industry Response to NRC Staff of Acceptance Review Comments Presentation and Discussion N Public Questions and Discussion N Meeting Results and Follow-up Actions N Closing Comments Enclosure 3