ML051800251

IR 05000298-05-002 - Cooper Nuclear Station - Reply to Denial of Noncited Violation

ML051800251
Person / Time
Site:	Cooper
Issue date:	06/29/2005
From:	Kennedy K NRC/RGN-IV/DRP/RPB-C
To:	Edington R Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD)
References
EA-05-131, I R04-427 IR-05-002
Download: ML051800251 (4)

See also: IR 05000298/2005002

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June 29, 2005

EA-05-131

Randall K. Edington, Vice

President-Nuclear and CNO

Nebraska Public Power District

P.O. Box 98

Brownville, NE 68321

SUBJECT: COOPER NUCLEAR STATION - REPLY TO DENIAL OF NONCITED VIOLATION

(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000298/2005002)

Dear Mr. Edington:

Thank you for your letter of June 8, 2005, in response to NRC Integrated Inspection Report 05000298/2005002, dated April 29, 2005, which documented a noncited violation concerning

the failure of operators at Cooper Nuclear Station to implement the emergency plan during an

actual plant event. On March 14, 2005, a fire started in the multipurpose facility located inside

the protected area that took longer than 10 minutes to extinguish. Cooper Nuclear Station's

Emergency Plan Implementing Procedures state that a fire within the protected area which

takes longer than 10 minutes to extinguish meets the criteria for declaring a Notification of

Unusual Event. A Notification of Unusual Event was not declared by the control room operators

despite the fact that the fire lasted for approximately 24 minutes.

In your letter, you denied the noncited violation stating that there were actually two separate

fires on March 14, 2005, and that each of these fires was extinguished within 10 minutes. As a

result, the criteria for declaring a Notification of Unusual Event was not met. You also stated

that NPPD would like the opportunity to meet with the NRC to discuss the basis for the noncited

violation and understand the generic aspects and difference in positions.

In coordination with your staff, a public meeting to discuss this issue has been scheduled for

July 13, 2005, at 12 noon in the NRC's Region IV office in Arlington, Texas. The NRC will defer

a decision on this contested violation until after this meeting has been held.

Sincerely,

/RA/ by WCWalker for

Kriss M. Kennedy, Chief

Project Branch C

Division of Reactor Projects

Docket: 50-298

License: DPR-46

Nebraska Public Power District -2-

cc:

Michael T. Boyce, Nuclear Asset Manager

Nebraska Public Power District

1414 15th Street

Columbus, NE 68601

John C. McClure, Vice President

and General Counsel

Nebraska Public Power District

P.O. Box 499

Columbus, NE 68602-0499

P. V. Fleming, Licensing Manager

Nebraska Public Power District

P.O. Box 98

Brownville, NE 68321

Michael J. Linder, Director

Nebraska Department of

Environmental Quality

P.O. Box 98922

Lincoln, NE 68509-8922

Chairman

Nemaha County Board of Commissioners

Nemaha County Courthouse

1824 N Street

Auburn, NE 68305

Sue Semerena, Section Administrator

Nebraska Health & Human Services

Dept. of Regulation & Licensing

Division of Public Health Assurance

301 Centennial Mall, South

P.O. Box 95007

Lincoln, NE 68509-5007

Mike Wells, Deputy Director

for Public Policy

Department of Natural Resources

P.O. Box 176

Jefferson City, MO 65101

Director

State Emergency Management Agency

P.O. Box 116

Jefferson City, MO 65102-0116

Nebraska Public Power District -3-

Chief, Radiation and Asbestos

Control Section

Kansas Department of Health

and Environment

Bureau of Air and Radiation

1000 SW Jackson, Suite 310

Topeka, KS 66612-1366

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Bureau of Radiological Health

Iowa Department of Public Health

Lucas State Office Building, 5th Floor

321 East 12th Street

Des Moines, IA 50319

William J. Fehrman, President

and Chief Executive Officer

Nebraska Public Power District

1414 15th Street

Columbus, NE 68601

Jerry C. Roberts, Director of

Nuclear Safety Assurance

Nebraska Public Power District

P.O. Box 98

Brownville, NE 68321

Nebraska Public Power District -4-

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