ML040300958

Re Public Meeting to Discuss Prairie Island and Monticello 2003 NRC Initial Operator License Examination High Failure Rates and Training Program Concerns

ML040300958
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Site:	Prairie Island
Issue date:	01/30/2004
From:	Lanksbury R Division of Reactor Safety III
To:	Solymossy J Nuclear Management Co
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January 30, 2004 Mr. Joseph Solymossy Site Vice-President Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant Nuclear Management Company, LLC 1717 Wakonade Drive East Welch, MN 55089

SUBJECT:

PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS THE PRAIRIE ISLAND AND MONTICELLO 2003 NRC INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSE EXAMINATION HIGH FAILURE RATES AND TRAINING PROGRAM CONCERNS

Dear Mr. Solymossy:

This refers to the public meeting held on January 28, 2004, in Lisle, Illinois, to discuss the Nuclear Management Companys (NMC) operator license applicant high failure rate for the 2003 NRC Initial Operator Licensing examinations at the Prairie Island and Monticello Nuclear Power Plants. At this meeting, Mr. Joel Sorensen and other NMC managers presented root cause and corrective action information concerning the high failure rate as well as material weaknesses identified in the Initial Operator License Training program at both Prairie Island and Monticello Nuclear Plants. This meeting served to facilitate NRC understanding of the issues leading up to the operator license examinations and your planned corrective actions to preclude recurrence associated with poor applicant performances on the NRC operator license examinations.

The handouts provided at the meeting by the NMC staff and a listing of principal NRC and NMC attendees are enclosed as Enclosures 1 and 2 to this letter.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRCs Rule of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records System (PARS) component of NRCs 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).

J. Solymossy If you have any questions regarding this meeting, please contact me at (630) 829-9631.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Roger Lanksbury, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-282; 50-306 License Nos. DPR-42; DPR-60

Enclosures:

1. NMC Handout (ADAMS Accession # ML040290846)

2. List of Principal Attendees cc w/encls 1 & 2: Craig G. Anderson, Senior Vice President, Group Operations John Paul Cowan, Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Jonathan Rogoff, Esquire, Vice President, Counsel & Secretary Nuclear Asset Manager Tribal Council, Prairie Island Indian Community Administrator, Goodhue County Courthouse Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Commerce Manager, Environmental Protection Division Office of the Attorney General of Minnesota cc w/encl 2: Manager, Regulatory Affairs Jim Lash, Training Manager

J. Solymossy If you have any questions regarding this meeting, please contact me at (630) 829-9631.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Roger Lanksbury, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-282; 50-306 License Nos. DPR-42; DPR-60

Enclosures:

1. NMC Handout (ADAMS Accession # ML040290846)

2. List of Principal Attendees cc w/encls 1 & 2: Craig G. Anderson, Senior Vice President, Group Operations John Paul Cowan, Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Jonathan Rogoff, Esquire, Vice President, Counsel & Secretary Nuclear Asset Manager Tribal Council, Prairie Island Indian Community Administrator, Goodhue County Courthouse Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Commerce Manager, Environmental Protection Division Office of the Attorney General of Minnesota cc w/encl 2: Manager, Regulatory Affairs Jim Lash, Training Manager DOCUMENT NAME: G:ML040300958.wpd To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the box: "C" = Copy without attachment/enclosure "E" = Copy with attachment/enclosure "N" = No copy OFFICE RIII RIII RIII NAME HPeterson:sd PLouden RLanksbury DATE 01/29/04 01/30/04 01/30/04 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

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PUBLIC MEETING PRINCIPAL ATTENDEES January 28, 2004 Nuclear Management Company, LLC Joel Sorensen Vice-President Corporate Training, NMC Tom Palmisano Site Vice-President, Monticello Joseph Solymossy Site Vice-President, Prairie Island Ed Weinkam Director Regulatory Services, NMC Mike Werner Plant Manager, Prairie Island Jim Lash Training Manager, Prairie Island Gabe Salamon Regulatory Affairs Manager, Prairie Island Bruce MacKissock Operations Manager, Monticello John Grubb Business Manager, Monticello William Cheever Training Manager, Monticello Douglas Neve Regulatory Affairs Manager, Monticello NRC Cynthia Pederson Director, Division of Reactor Safety (DRS)

Roger Lanksbury Chief, Operations Branch, DRS Bruce Burgess Chief, Branch 2, Division of Reactor Projects (DRP)

Charles Phillips Senior Operations Engineer, Operations Branch, DRS Hironori Peterson Senior Operations Engineer, Operations Branch, DRS Enclosure 2