ML050610133

Annual Assessment Letter, Crystal River Nuclear Plant

ML050610133
Person / Time
Site:	Crystal River
Issue date:	03/02/2005
From:	Joel Munday NRC/RGN-II/DRP/RPB3
To:	Young D Florida Power Corp
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ML050610125	List: ML050610133 ML050610142
References
IR 05-001
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March 2, 2005 Mr. Dale E. Young, Vice President Crystal River Nuclear Plant (NA1B)

ATTN: Supervisor, Licensing &

Regulatory Programs 15760 West Power Line Street Crystal River, FL 34428-6708

SUBJECT:

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER - CRYSTAL RIVER NUCLEAR PLANT (NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000302/2005001)

Dear Mr. Young:

On February 9, 2005, the NRC staff completed its end-of-cycle plant performance assessment of Crystal River Nuclear Plant. The end-of-cycle review for Crystal River involved the participation of the reactor technical divisions in evaluating performance indicators (PIs) for the most recent quarter and inspection results for the period from January 1 through December 31, 2004. 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 allow you an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections that may conflict with your plant activities. This performance review and the enclosed inspection plan do not include physical protection information. A separate end-of-cycle performance review letter, designated and marked as Exempt for Public Disclosure in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, will include the physical protection review and a resultant inspection plan.

Overall, Crystal River operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for the most recent quarter, as well as for the first three quarters of the assessment cycle, was within the Licensee Response Column of the NRCs Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified as having very low safety significance (Green) and all PIs indicating performance at a level requiring no additional NRC oversight (Green). Therefore, we plan to conduct only reactor oversight process (ROP) baseline inspections at your facility through September 30, 2006. We also plan to conduct a non-ROP inspection which includes TI 2515/160, NRC Bulletin 2004-01: Inspection of Alloy 82/182/600 Materials Used in the Fabrication of Pressurizer Penetrations and Steam Space Piping Connections at Pressurized-Water Reactors.

The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections, less those related to physical protection, scheduled through September 30, 2006. 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 inspections in the last nine months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the mid-cycle review meeting.

FPC 2 In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs 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 http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

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 me at 404-562-4560 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Joel T. Munday, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 3 Division of Reactor Projects Docket No. 50-302 License No. DPR-72

Enclosure:

Crystal River Inspection/Activity Plan cc w/encl: (See page 3)

FPC 3 cc w/encl: Chairman Daniel L. Roderick Board of County Commissioners Director Site Operations Citrus County Crystal River Nuclear Plant (NA2C) 110 N. Apopka Avenue Electronic Mail Distribution Inverness, FL 36250 Jon A. Franke Jim Mallay Plant General Manager Framatome Technologies Crystal River Nuclear Plant (NA2C) Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Institute of Nuclear Power Operations Richard L. Warden 700 Galleria Parkway SE Manager Nuclear Assessment Atlanta, GA 30339-5943 Crystal River Nuclear Plant (NA2C)

Electronic Mail Distribution Distribution w/encl: (See page 4)

Michael J. Annacone Engineering Manager Crystal River Nuclear Plant (NA2C)

Electronic Mail Distribution R. Alexander Glenn Associate General Counsel (MAC - BT15A)

Florida Power Corporation Electronic Mail Distribution Steven R. Carr Associate General Counsel - Legal Dept.

Progress Energy Service Company, LLC Electronic Mail Distribution Attorney General Department of Legal Affairs The Capitol Tallahassee, FL 32304 William A. Passetti Bureau of Radiation Control Department of Health Electronic Mail Distribution Craig Fugate, Director Division of Emergency Preparedness Department of Community Affairs Electronic Mail Distribution

FPC 4 Distribution w/encl:

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