ML051810259
| ML051810259 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 06/29/2005 |
| From: | Reynolds S NRC/RGN-III |
| To: | NRC/RGN-III |
| References | |
| IMC 0350 | |
| Download: ML051810259 (8) | |
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June 29, 2005 MEMORANDUM TO:
Davis-Besse Oversight Panel FROM:
Steven A. Reynolds, Chairman, Davis-Besse Oversight Panel
/RA/
SUBJECT:
MINUTES OF INTERNAL MEETING OF THE DAVIS-BESSE OVERSIGHT PANEL The implementation of the IMC 0350 process for the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station was announced on April 29, 2002. An internal panel meeting was held on December 15, 2004. Attached for your information are the revised minutes from the internal meeting of the Davis-Besse Oversight Panel, a summary of the December 6 meeting with the Ottawa County Commissioners, and the Open Action Items List. The minutes were revised to modify Agenda Item 18.
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SReynolds DATE 06/28/05 06/28/05 06/29/05 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY MEETING MINUTES:
Internal IMC 0350 Oversight Panel Meeting
Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station DATE:
December 15, 2004 TIME:
9:00 a.m. CST ATTENDEES:
C. Thomas C. Lipa D. Passehl A. Garmoe A. Stone J. Hopkins G. Suh J. Grobe S. Reynolds G. Wright G. Roach W. Ruland M. Holmberg Agenda Items:
1.
Discuss/Approve Todays Agenda The Panel approved the agenda. THE APPROVED AGENDA REFLECTS THE ORDER LISTED IN THESE MINUTES.
2.
Discuss Mid-cycle Inspection Plan M. Holmberg discussed the Mid-cycle Inspection Plan. The inspection will cover, among other things, a pressurizer TI, Steam Generator tube inspection methods and procedures, and Confirmatory Order Commitments, including the upper and lower reactor vessel heads. M. Holmberg is the team lead for the inspection with the team comprised of Tom Bilik and John Jacobson.
An important note is that not every part of the TIs will be done, thus the TIs will not be fully credited. Additionally, NRR Programs Office has approved the decision not to perform the reactor vessel upper head TI.
The Panel approved the Inspection Plan subject to the comments provided in this meeting.
3.
Discuss Plant Status and Emergent Issues S. Thomas updated the Panel on plant issues.
He has been pursuing an issue with station battery corrosion. The licensee has cleaned station battery 2 and plans to replace it during the mid-cycle outage. The licensee checked station battery 1 and found no need to clean it. The licensee informed S. Thomas that they will modify their station battery maintenance procedures to allow more flexibility in addressing station battery corrosion issues. NRR has been looking into whether the licensee was out of their Tech Specs when they discovered the corrosion but there is no conclusion from NRR at this time.
S. Thomas also updated the Panel on Union issues at Davis-Besse. Reactor Operators
pointed out an attachment to the Union contract which appears to allow the Union to legally strike if no new agreement is reached by October 31, 2004. The Union plans a vote on Thursday, December 16 to authorize granting permission to Union leadership to strike if they choose to do so. Plant management continues to believe the Union cannot legally strike for nearly another year. A possible outside influence is that the New Jersey Union is currently on strike and the Union at Davis-Besse is aware of that.
4.
Discuss Status of PI & R Inspection D. Passehl discussed the ongoing PI & R inspection. The inspection is ending today with the exit at 9:15 a.m. EST tomorrow. The overall assessment is that the Corrective Actions program is sufficient to allow the plant to continue operation. There has been improvement since the Corrective Actions Team Inspection was on site; the PI & R team has identified substantially fewer findings.
The team identified two areas that need improvement: licensee follow-up to rejected cause evaluations and the timeliness of resolving Corrective Actions (some have been deferred as much as 7 times).
J. Grobe pointed out that if any media attention arises from tomorrows exit, the appropriate response is that the information is preliminary and final results will be released at a later date.
5.
Sirens Update There will be a SERP tomorrow morning discussing the ANS PI issue.
6.
Lessons Learned Document Update No new information was discussed.
7.
Discuss GL 95-07 Correction Submittal This letter should be addressed in an inspection report since it will become publicly available when ADAMS is fully restored.
ACTION ITEM #283: C. Lipa and D. Passehl will revisit this topic and have a plan for the next Panel meeting (Jan. 6, 2005) 8.
Discuss Status of Ops Assessment Letter Revision C. Lipa noted that verbal feedback, as opposed to a formal letter, was chosen as the method of communication to inform the licensee that the Operations Independent Assessment Report as submitted did not contain the required assessment.
9.
Discuss New Allegations There were no new allegations.
10.
Discuss New/Potential Licensing Issues
There are no new licensing issues.
FENOC had a drop-in visit with NRC Senior Management at headquarters yesterday.
EDO Luis Reyes commented that Davis-Besse needs to develop an exit strategy, specifically addressing their Safety Conscious Work Environment. Gary Leidich, FENOC CNO, believes safety culture is the biggest issue currently facing Davis-Besse.
11.
Discuss Communications Status The latest Communications Matrix was sent out. It should be noted that there are only 9 open letters.
12.
Discuss Action Items Action Item 265:
TBD Action Item 266:
W. Ruland provided comments Action Item 270:
Due Feb. 1, 2005 Action Item 271:
Closed. (Related document attached to minutes)
Action Item 278:
Closed Action Item 280:
Closed at previous Panel meeting Action Item 282:
Due Jan. 6, 2005 13.
Discuss Process Plan The Process Plan distributed to Panel members does not appear to be the most up-to-date version. Discussion will be held at the next Panel meeting.
14.
Discuss Next Panel Meeting The Panel agreed on Thursday, January 6, 2005 as the date for the next Panel meeting.
The agenda and phone bridge information will be sent out at a later date.
15.
Discuss POAM Team leads must update the POAM by January 3, 2005. This will be discussed at the next Panel meeting.
16.
Discuss Input for Weekly Branch Chief Calls with Licensee C. Lipa will meet with Mark Bezilla while at Davis-Besse this week. She plans to discuss the Union issues and the station battery corrosion issue.
17.
Discuss/Update Timeline and Milestones and Commitments 12/21:
Safety Culture exit (G. Wright) 1/17 - 2/5:
Mid-cycle Outage Feb. 2005:
Public Meeting (date, time, place TBD) 18.
Discuss CY2005 Inspection Strategy
G. Wright discussed the Inspection Strategy for CY2005. Based on information about the licensees Safety Culture surveys and information from Sonia Haber, G. Wright suggests the proposed inspection following review of Habers report should be shelved in favor of an in-house review and a small on-site inspection. G. Wright stated that it l
would not be wise to use a large inspection team to confirm an already-known steady or declining trend in safety culture.
The proposed course of action is to distribute the report to team members for review when it is submitted. This would be followed by an in-depth discussion amongst team members, including how and when to follow-up on-site. The results of the report should be compared with the 0350 exit criteria to determine whether the licensee is meeting the exit criteria.
11:00 a.m. CST: Meeting adjourned
Meeting with Ottawa County Commissioners (December 6, 2004)
On December 6, 2004, several Panel members met for approximately two hours with the Ottawa County Commissioners (Arndt, Koebel, Papcun) and the Ottawa County Administrator (Jere Witt) at the Ottawa County Courthouse. The Agency representatives included Steve Reynolds, Jack Grobe, Christine Lipa, Scott Thomas, Monica Salter-Williams, Gene Suh, and Roland Lickus.
Scott Thomas discussed a majority of the presentation topics, which included the following:
19.
Action Matrix Status of the Other Reactors in the United States This discussion included a basic review of Inspection Manual Chapter 0305, Operating Reactor Assessment Program. Specific topics covered included Strategic Areas, Cornerstones, the Action Matrix, and the five response columns which comprise the Action Matrix. As a followup from our July meeting, we reviewed the number of reactor plants in each of the response columns and provided the County Commissioners a copy of the 3Q/2004 ROP Action Matrix Summary.
2.
Davis-Besse Lessons Learned Task Force Update This was also a topic that the County Commissioners had requested additional information on when we met with them in July. Gene Suh discussed ongoing efforts in the implementation of the Agencys response to the findings of the Davis-Besse Lessons Learned Task Force.
3.
Status of the Confirmatory Order Required Independent Self-Assessments in the Areas of Operations, Corrective Actions, Engineering, and Safety Culture We discussed the status of each of the independent self-assessments in the areas of Operations, Engineering, Corrective Actions, and Safety Culture. For each assessment, specific topics covered were when the assessment was conducted, the composition of each team, an assessment of in-process observations, and an assessment of the submitted report (if completed).
4.
Other Inspection Activities and SRI Perspective on Overall Licensee Performance We stated that the overall performance of the licensee, since our last meeting, has been good. With the exception of reactor trip which occurred during reactor trip breaker testing, the unit has operated at or near full power.
We informed them that a significant amount of inspection activity continues at Davis-Besse and that NRC inspection teams have assessed the licensees performance in the areas of:
safety culture; radiation protection; fire protection; safety system performance (focused on the SW system);
operator requalification; and Problem Identification and Resolution (on-going)
In addition to the Team inspections, the resident staff has documented inspection activities in three inspection reports (2004-12, 2004-14, 2004-15). These reports cover 6-7 week periods of inspection and not only document baseline inspection activities, but also document the completion of effectiveness reviews of selected licensee restart commitment corrective action implementation in the areas of operations, corrective actions, engineering, and safety culture. Although several violations of very low safety significance have been documented in our reports, to date, only one potentially significant issue, associated with the Alert and Notification System performance indicator, has been documented.
Additionally, operator performance deficiencies continued to challenge the licensee.
During complex or infrequently performed evolutions where management oversight is high, the operators routinely perform well. The errors continue to occur during routine surveillance or maintenance activities. To date, the performance errors have not provided significant operational challenges or challenged the operability of an important piece of equipment, but the frequency of the errors and the lack of success the licensee has had preventing these performance deficiencies from occurring, remains a focal point for us.
We made a commitment to brief the Commissioners approximately once every calendar quarter, while the plant is still under 0350. For the next meeting, we did not have any specific followup items. Scott Thomas will be responsible for coordinating the date of the next meeting with Jere Witt and this will be coordinated with the timing of the next public 0350 meeting.
DAVIS-BESSE OVERSIGHT PANEL OPEN ACTION ITEM LIST Item No.
Action Item (Date generated)
Assigned to Comments Due Date 265 Brief the Panel on the status of developing a document which captures Lessons Learned to date from the Davis-Besse 0350 Oversight process.
(4/13)
Suh 4/13-Discussed, development of the drafts should include a brain-storming session which includes comments and feedback from external stakeholders. NRR suggested to dedicate a special Panel meeting to this focused topic and will take the lead for obtaining input from external stakeholders. J. Grobe mentioned that examples of processes that went well should also be addressed, such as the Panel's review of safety culture and the Panel's communication efforts with internal/external stakeholders; 4/27-Discussed, draft document emailed to the region. 9/2 - With Director of Communications. 11/10 - Still Working.
TBD 266 Brief the Panel on the status of drafting the memorandum from the Panel to NRR addressing the Lessons Learned to be considered for the next revision to IMC 0350.
(4/13)
Lipa/Suh 4/13-Discussed, comments should be forwarded to C. Lipa/
A. Mendiola; 4/27-Discussed, need to base draft on specific line items from the Process Plan.
10/14-Discussed, comments provided to D. Passehl for incorporation into memo. 11/10 -
discussed.
12/02/04 281 Inquire if county wants a briefing before the next public meeting.
(12/02/04)
Lickus 02/01/04 282 Develop detailed set of planning steps for Davis-Besse to exit the MC 0350 process. (12/02/04)
Lipa 01/5/05 283 Establish a plan (to discuss at Jan. 6 Panel) for addressing GL 95-07 since the document will go public in ADAMS.
Lipa/
Passehl 01/06/05