ML041490076

0350 Panel Briefing Presentation 0350 Panel Briefing for James Caldwell, Davis-Besse Oversight Activities, Panel Restart Recommendations

ML041490076
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Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	02/23/2004
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0350 Panel Briefing for James Caldwell Davis-Besse Oversight Activities Panel Restart Recommendations February 23, 2004

Davis-Besse Oversight Activities Briefing Book Contents

• Confirmatory Action Letter

• 0350 Panel Charter

• Licensee Return to Service Plan

• NRC Restart Checklist

• 0350 Panel Process Plan

• Significant Inspection Findings / End of Cycle Summary Report

• Public Interactions

• Briefings for Public Officials February 23, 2004 2

Davis-Besse Oversight Activities J *,O ., -1 Background Information

• March 2002 Discovery of Degradation

• Augmented Inspection Team

• Confirmatory Action Letter

• 0350 Decision

• Restart Checklist February 23, 2004 3

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• Licensee Activities

- Root Cause Report - Employee Concerns Program

- Haber Report - Four C's

- SCWERT - Case Study

• NRC Activities

- Management & Human Performance Phases 1, 2 & 3 February 23, 2004 4

Davis-Besse Oversight Activities Operations Performance

• September 20, 2003 NOP Test Preparations

• December 2003 RRATI Results

• Late December Operational Errors

• January 2004 Corrective Actions I Management Changes

• February 2004 RRATI Follow-up February 23, 2004 5

Davis-Besse Oversight Activities Licensing Activities

• Vessel Head Replacement

• High Pressure Injection Pump Testing

• Steam Generators February 23,2004 6

Davis-Besse Oversight Activities Public Access and Stakeholder Involvement

• NRC has conducted more than 70 public meetings regarding Davis-Besse

• NRC is maintaining a specific web page focused on Davis-Besse

• NRC has conducted more than 50 briefings of federal, state and local officials

• NRC supports continuing Ohio staff involvement in NRC inspections February 23, 2004 7

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Davis-Besse Oversight Activities Public Access and Stakeholder Involvement

• Ottawa County significantly involved in restart oversight

• NRC has responded to several thousand letters and e-mails from concerned individuals

• Replied to three 2.206 Petitions February 23, 2004 8

AR In Davis-Besse Oversight Activities Outstanding Communication Activities

• Panel determined the remaining outstanding communications were post-restart

• Several letters from Ohio Citizens Action, Union of Concern Scientists, Others February 23, 2004 9

Davis-Besse Oversight Activities Panel Recommends Confirmatory Order at Restart

• Concerns with Self Assessment Capability

• Requires independent outside assessment

• Areas include safety culture, engineering, corrective actions, operations

• Mid-cycle Outage Related Activities February 23, 2004 11

j*xR W1O Davis-Besse Oversight Activties Oversight Should Restart be Authorized

• Provide around-the-clock inspection of start-up activities

• Davis-Besse Oversight Panel will continue to assess FirstEnergy performance and guide NRC actions

• Order-related Additional Inspection

• Additional inspection will be conducted as necessary to address areas where performance indicators are not informative and to ensure corrective actions remain effective

• Resident inspection staff has been augmented February 23, 2004 12

Davis-Besse Oversight Activities Conclusions

• NRC has taken significant action to ensure FirstEnergy addressed the causes of their poor performance

• NRC provided extensive opportunity for stakeholder and public involvement February 23, 2004 13