ML042740063

Presentation from Firstenergy Nuclear Operating Company Meeting Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station

ML042740063
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Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	09/28/2004
From:	FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station People with a strong safety focus delivering top fleet operating performance IMC 0350 Meeting 1 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Desired Outcomes emonstrate Davis-Besses operations continue to be afe and conservative resent Davis-Besses new organization tatus the improvement initiatives and Confirmatory Order Mark Bezilla Vice President 2

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Meeting Agenda ant Performance.. Barry Allen vis-Besses New Organization ... Mark Bezilla llective Significance Review..Kevin Ostrowski dependent Assessments...Barry Allen cklog Reduction .Barry Allen fety Culture... Mark Bezilla her Site Assessments ... Mark Bezilla versight Perspective...Ray Hruby 3

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Plant Performance Barry Allen Director - Site Operations 4

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People with a strong safety focus delivering top fleet operating performance

• Plant Status

- ~100% power

- ~ 925 Mwe

-51 continuous days of service

-Capacity Factor - 96.2%

-86 Human Performance success days 5

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Plant Performance

• Noteworthy items

- July 16 - 2nd Quarter QA Exit

- July 19 - Visit by NRC Commissioner/ FirstEnergy President and CEO

- July 20 - Conducted monthly Safety Culture assessment

- July 20 - NRC Inspection Team SC/SCWE follow-up

- July 22 - Successfully completed Emergency Plan Drill

- July 26 - Training Technical NRC Commissioner Plant Tour Programs Accreditation Renewal Alignment Session

- July 27 - Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program (REMP) and (Radiological) Access Control NRC Inspection 6

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Plant Performance

• Noteworthy items (continued)

- July 27 - New FENOC Leadership Charge session

- July 28 - Teamwork Ownership and Pride (TOP) Team meeting

- July 29 - Quarterly FENOC performance review meeting (Akron)

- July 29 - Site Training Advisory Committee (STAC) meeting

- July 30 - Mid-cycle outage readiness Emergency Plan Drill review meeting 7

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Plant Performance

• Noteworthy items (continued)

- August 4 - Visit by U.S. Senator Staff Director

- August 4 - Reactor Trip (Latent Fuse Failure)

- August 5 - Visit by INPO Senior Representative

- August 6 - Conducted Restart Readiness Review meeting

- August 8 - Safe plant restart ff Director of the Senate Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate Change and - August 11 - Visit by INPO Vice Nuclear Safety President, Training and Accreditation 8

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Plant Performance

• Noteworthy items (continued)

- August 13 - Routine NRC Resident Exit and SCWE Exit

- Week of August 16 - Operations Performance Assessment

- August 16 & 17 - "Alliance" meeting in Atlanta between FENOC and GE

- August 18 - Performed a Safety Culture Assessment mplying with the NRC Security Orders - August 20 - Monthly Performance Review Meeting 9

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Plant Performance

• Noteworthy items (continued)

- August 23 - Implemented New FENOC Organization

- August 28 - Hosted Erie and Ottawa County State and Local Law Enforcement Training

- August 30 - NRC Triennial Fire Protection Inspection

- August 30 - Upgraded Radiological Access Control software NRC Regional Administrator Visit - August 30 - Implemented new standards in Turbine Building radiological controls 10 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Plant Performance

• Noteworthy items (continued)

- September 3 - Superintendents and managers attended Leadership in Action refresher training

- September 8 - NRC Regional Administrator and the NRC Director of Reactor Projects Division Plant Tour and 2004 RO/SRO Recognition Dinner

- September 9 - Independent External Assessment of Performance RO/SRO Recognition Dinner

- September 13 - Corrective Action Program Implementation Assessment Commenced

- September 16 - Successfully completed Emergency Plan Drill 11 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

• Davis-Besses operations continue to be safe and conservative 12 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Davis-Besses New Organization Mark Bezilla Vice President 13 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Vice President -

Oversight Davis-Besse Mark Bezilla BS - Nuclear Engineering Technology AS - Nuclear Engineering Technology SRO License - Three Mile Island Unit 1 ager - Nuclear SRO License - DB Oversight 28 years experience Ray Hruby clear Engineering O License - BV Director -

Director - Engineering Director - Manager - Site Protection ears experience Steve Loehlein Site Operations Performance Improvement Dave Kline BS - Mechanical Engineering Barry Allen Bob Schrauder AS - Criminal Justice Professional Engineer, Pennsylvania MS - Civil Engineering BS - Nuclear Engineering BS - Human Resource SRO Equivalency Certification - SNUPPS plant SRO Certification - ANO-2 SRO Certification - PNPP Management 21 years experience Professional Engineer, Arkansas 28 years experience 17 years experience 20 years experience Manager -

Design Engineering John J. Grabnar Manager - Chemistry Manager - Operations MBA Pat McCloskey Kevin Ostrowski Manager - Training BS - Civil Engineering MS - Environmental Management BS - Engineering Mark Trump SRO License - PNPP SRO Certification - DBNPS BS - Physics BS - Nuclear Engineering PE - State of Ohio Class III, State of Ohio, Operator SRO License - BV SRO License - TMI Unit 1 19 years experience 18 years experience 23 years experience 25 years experience Manager - Manager - Manager - Work Plant Engineering Radiation Protection Management Manager -

Brian Boles Lynn Harder William A. Mugge Regulatory Compliance BS - Mechanical Engineering AS - Nuclear Power Technology BS - Electrical Engineering Clark Price SRO License - PNPP BS - Management and SRO License - DBNPS BS - Business Administration 19 years experience Organizational Development 17 years experience 26 years experience 28 Years of Experience Manager - Technical Manager -

Services Engineering Manager - Maintenance Outage Management Manager -

Bob Hovland Mike Stevens William Bentley (A) Special Projects BS - Aerospace Engineering BS - Mechanical Engineering Technology BS - Chemistry Chuck Hawley 16 years experience SRO Certification MBA BS - Mechanical Engineering PE - State of Ohio 19 years experience SRO License - DBNPS SRO License - DBNPS 14 years experience 30 years experience g New in Position 14 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Collective Significance Review Operations Assessment Kevin Ostrowski Manager - Plant Operations 15 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Collective Significance Review Operations Assessment

• Purpose

-Performed a Collective Significance Review of five performance related issues 16 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Collective Significance Review Operations Assessment

• Team makeup:

-Davis-Besse Operations personnel

-Training and Performance Improvement personnel

-Perry Operations personnel

-Industry peers 17 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Collective Significance Review Operations Assessment

• Scope

-Conducted July 23 - July 29, 2004

-Assessed data associated with five Technical Specification related condition reports in terms of commonality with respect to:

-Situational and circumstantial event conditions

-Resultant problems/errors

-Identified causes and contributors

-Corrective action identification and implementation status

-Other miscellaneous factors 18 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Collective Significance Review Operations Assessment

• Conclusion

- Human Performance within Operations must continue to improve to prevent errors particularly during routine activities 19 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Independent Assessments Barry Allen Director - Site Operations 20 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Independent Assessments Confirmatory Order Action Plan 004 Schedule

-Operations Performance (August)

-Corrective Action Program Implementation (September)

-Engineering Program Effectiveness (October)

-Organizational Safety Culture, including SCWE (November) 21 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Independent Assessments Operations Performance urpose

-Conduct an annual comprehensive, independent outside assessment of Operations

-Assess the rigor, criticality, and overall quality of the Davis-Besse internal self-assessment activities in this performance area

-Identify areas for improvement, requiring corrective actions with action plans, and observations for other improvement opportunities 22 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Independent Assessments Operations Performance cope

-Evaluate

• Shift turnovers

• Control manipulations

• Communications

• Interdepartmental interfaces

• Procedural use

• Awareness of plant and equipment status and workarounds

• Pre-job/activity briefings

• Non-shift Operations management interface and oversight

• Shift management command and control

• Shift managements evaluation, prioritization, and disposition of maintenance activities and emergent issues

• Operations behaviors in the areas of questioning attitude and safety

• Shift handling of off-normal operations

• Observation of operator simulator training to compare crew performance, demeanor, and communication skills with actual control room operations 23 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Independent Assessments Operations Performance eview and Assess

- Selective Condition Reports related to Operations Department performance

- Selected procedures and documents

- Number of Self-Assessments associated with Operations

- Quarterly Quality Assessments that evaluated Operations performance

- Effectiveness of Self-Assessment capability

- Self-Assessment findings

- Aggressiveness of Operations in correcting Self-Assessment findings 24 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Independent Assessments Operations Performance eams observations

- Efforts to improve standards and behaviors are having a positive effect

- Understanding of standards, behaviors, and expectations are uniform

- Expectations for procedure usage and place keeping are well known

- Operators consistently performed in a professional manner

- Nuclear Review Board and Nuclear Quality Assurance assessments are factual, in-depth, and accurate and paralleled the independent assessment teams findings

- Training exhibited both strengths and areas for improvement 25 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Independent Assessments Operations Performance eams observations (continued)

- Face to face communication between Operations management and the staff needs to improve

- Some Operations personnel do not fully understand the work schedule process

- A plan to reduce the number of open operations procedure revision requests needs developed

- Some cause determinations do not go deep enough

- Two Operations internal assessments were not as thorough as they could have been 26 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Independent Assessments Operations Performance

• Summary

-Assessment confirmed our beliefs

-Improvements noted in Operations performance

-Action Plans are being developed 27 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Independent Assessments Corrective Action Program Implementation

• Corrective Action Program Implementation independent assessment started September 13

- Team comprised of independent contractors and peers

- Length: ~ 3 weeks

- Debrief scheduled for October 1 28 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Backlog Reduction Barry Allen Director - Site Operations 29 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Backlog Reduction Site Workload 20000 18000 ite Workload 16000 14000 all documents)

All Documents 12000

-Peak: April 2004 - 18,124 10000

-September 2004 - 14,398 8000 6000 4000 2000 0

January Restart - April September 30 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Backlog Reduction Preventive Maintenance (PMs)

(Deferrals beyond late date) 350 300 Preventive Maintenance 250 200

-Peak: May 2004 - 312 # of PMs 150

-September 2004 - 70 100 50 0

January Restart - April September 31 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Backlog Reduction Corrective Action Documents 7000 orrective Action Documents 6000

-Condition Reports 5000 Corrective Actions

-January 2004 - 3,921

1. of CRs and CAs

-September 2004 - 1,355 4000

-Corrective Actions 3000 Condition Reports

-January 2004 - 6,522 2000

-September 2004 - 3,974 1000 0

January September 32 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Actions for Continuous Improvement

• Integrated Restart Report dated November 23, 2003

& Supplement to report dated February 6, 2004

-Appendix A Commitments 38

-Closed to date 27

• Cycle 14 Operational Improvement Plan

-Appendix D Commitments 94

-Closed to date 54

• Confirmatory Order

-Commitments 6 33 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Safety Culture Mark Bezilla Vice President 34 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Independent Assessments Monthly Safety Culture Assessment Conducted monthly assessments in July, August, &

eptember Overall Commitment Areas rated as Maintained Conclusions (September Assessment)

-Improvements noted in Visible commitment to safety...

-Teamwork evident (e.g., Duty Team, Problem Solving, Response to Emergent Issues)

-Continue to communicate, communicate, communicate 35 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Safety Culture - FENOC Model Safety Culture Drive for Excellence Questioning Attitude Rigorous Work Control and Prudent Commitment to Approach Safety Open Individual Communications Goals, Roles and Commitment Area Teamwork Nuclear Professionalism Ownership and Accountability Plant Management Statement of Qualification and Commitment Area Safety Policies Training Management Value Commitment to Policy or Corporate Structure Continuous Improvement Level Commitment Resources Cross-Functional Area Work Management

& Communication Self Assessment Environment of Engagement and Commitment September 21, 2004 Independent Oversight 36 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Other Site Assessments Mark Bezilla Vice President 37 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Other Site Assessments Integrated Emergency Plan Drills Completed two Integrated Emergency Plan Drills

-July 22 and September 16

-Observed by NRC Residents and County Officials

-Successfully evacuated nonessential personnel from the protected area to perform accountability (July 22)

-Qualified new (6 in July and 5 in September) ERO members

-Successful drills 38 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Other Site Assessments Triennial NRC Fire Protection Audit

• Three week audit (August 30 - September 17)

• No significant technical issues found

• Observations

-Good working relations between Engineering and Operations

-Good support and response (to the teams questions)

-Follow-up required on two items 39 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Oversight Perspective Ray Hruby Manager - Nuclear Oversight - DB 40 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Oversight Perspective

• Positive Trends

- DB Organization Response to Emergent Issues

- Improvements in Management Focus on Health of Site Training Programs

- Overall Site Document Backlog Reduction

- Organization Responsiveness to Quality Assurance and Quality Control Concerns 41 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Oversight Perspective

• New Focus Area

-Implementation of New FENOC Organization

• Continued Focus Areas

-Procedure Use, Adherence, and Content

-Personnel Training and Qualifications

-Corrective Action Program implementation

-Vendor Control

-Preventive Maintenance Deferrals and Backlog 42 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Oversight Perspective

• Future Focus Areas

-Implementation of Training Improvements

-Mid-cycle Outage Preparation

-Emergency Plan Drills

-Safety Conscious Work Environment Survey and Safety Culture Assessment 43 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004

Closing Comments FENOC Vision:

People with a strong safety focus delivering top fleet operating performance Mark Bezilla Vice President 44 avis-Besse ar Power Station September 28, 2004