ML051320242

Acknowledgment of Receipt of Letter and Summary of Public Meeting Conducted to Discuss Commitments for the Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant

ML051320242
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Site:	Kewaunee
Issue date:	05/12/2005
From:	Satorius M Division of Nuclear Materials Safety III
To:	Lambert C Nuclear Management Co
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May 12, 2005 Mr. Craig Lambert Site Vice President Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant Nuclear Management Company, LLC N490 State Highway 42 Kewaunee, WI 54216-9511

SUBJECT:

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF LETTER AND

SUMMARY

OF PUBLIC MEETING CONDUCTED TO DISCUSS COMMITMENTS FOR THE KEWAUNEE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Dear Mr. Lambert:

This letter acknowledges the receipt of a March 18, 2005, letter from you which included commitments to implement improvements at Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP). This letter also summarizes the public meeting conducted between the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Nuclear Management Company, LLC (NMC) on April 20, 2005, at the NRC Region III office in Lisle, Illinois, to discuss the Improvement Initiatives outlined in the March 18 letter.

On February 19, 2005, KNPP was shut down in accordance with Technical Specifications due to the identification of design issues which rendered the auxiliary feedwater system inoperable.

During the outage, additional issues have been identified which require resolution. These issues include internal flooding vulnerabilities and emergency diesel generator exhaust protection issues.

On March 18, 2005, NMC submitted a letter to the NRC (ADAMS Accession No. ML050820213) which contained commitments to implement improvements at KNPP. The improvement commitments were developed by NMC and will be completed to address specific performance issues in the following focus areas: Operations, Configuration Management, Engineering, Corrective Action, and Manager/Supervisor Effectiveness, and to improve all aspects of station performance. Your plan identified a number of improvements in the five focus areas that you have committed to complete prior to restarting from the current outage while the remaining initiatives are committed to be completed post unit restart. The NRC will monitor the completion of these improvements and review the effectiveness of their implementation in future inspections.

On April 20, a meeting was held between NMC and the NRC at the NRC Region III Office in Lisle, Illinois to discuss the commitments listed in the March 18 letter, with a focus on those actions you plan on completing prior to restarting KNPP. At the meeting, your staff presented an overview of the conditions that led to the recent unit shutdown and the extent of those conditions, and provided the details of the near term actions to be completed prior to restart.

C. Lambert These actions included modifications to various systems to resolves the design issues associated with auxiliary feedwater system, internal flooding vulnerabilities and diesel generator exhaust protection. These actions also included an extent of condition review to identify other existing issues associated with vulnerabilities to tornadoes, earthquakes, flooding and high energy line breaks.

You also provided an overview of the recent extensive organization changes and how these changes would improve plant operations and management effectiveness. Long term improvement actions in the areas of configuration management, engineering, and corrective action process were also presented. In addition, you stated that a restart readiness assessment would be performed prior to unit restart. The NRC plans to review the results of your readiness assessment.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 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 (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).

A listing of principal licensee and NRC attendees are attached as Enclosure 1. The handouts provided by you at the meeting are attached as Enclosure 2 to this letter.

Sincerely,

/RA by Steven A. Reynolds/

Mark A. Satorius, Director Division of Reactor Projects Docket No. 50-305 License No. DPR-43

Enclosures:

1) List of Principal Attendees

2) Licensee Handout cc w/encls:

J. Cowan, Executive Vice President, Chief Nuclear Officer Plant Manager Manager, Regulatory Affairs J. Rogoff, Vice President, Counsel & Secretary D. Molzahn, Nuclear Asset Manager, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation L. Weyers, Chairman, President and CEO, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation D. Zellner, Chairman, Town of Carlton J. Kitsembel, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin

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C. Lambert ADAMS Distribution:

WDR CFL RidsNrrDipmIipb GEG KGO SXB3 CAA1 C. Pederson, DRS (hard copy - IRs only)

DRPIII DRSIII PLB1 JRK1 ROPreports@nrc.gov (inspection reports, final SDP letters, any letter with an IR number)

PUBLIC MEETING PRINCIPAL ATTENDEES April 20, 2005 NMC John Paul Cowan Chief Nuclear Officer - Executive Vice President Craig Anderson Senior Vice President Leslie Hartz Vice President - Nuclear Engineering Craig Lambert Site Vice President Mike Gaffney Site Vice President Kevin Davison Plant Manager Lori Armstrong Engineering Director Dwight Mims Fleet Director Lenard Blocker Operations Manager Joe Ruttar Operations Manager NRC James Caldwell Regional Administrator Geoffrey Grant Deputy Regional Administrator Mark Satorius Director, Division of Reactor Projects Cynthia Pederson Director, Division of Reactor Safety Tom Kozak Team Leader, TSS, Division of Reactor Projects Patrick Louden Chief, Branch 5, Division of Reactor Projects James Lyons Deputy Director, DLPM, NRR Aby Mohseni Acting Project Director, LPD3, NRR Stuart Richards Chief, IIPB, NRR Fred Lyon Project Manager, Kewaunee, NRR