ML052490301
| ML052490301 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Point Beach  |
| Issue date: | 09/01/2005 |
| From: | Louden P NRC/RGN-III/DRP/RPB5 |
| To: | Koehl D Nuclear Management Co |
| References | |
| CAL 3-04-001 | |
| Download: ML052490301 (5) | |
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September 1, 2005 CAL 3-04-001 Mr. Dennis L. Koehl Site Vice President Point Beach Nuclear Plant Nuclear Management Company, LLC 6590 Nuclear Road Two Rivers, WI 54241-9516
SUBJECT:
PUBLIC MEETING ON AUGUST 25, 2005, TO DISCUSS LICENSEE PROGRESS IN ADDRESSING CONFIRMATORY ACTION LETTER COMMITMENTS AT THE POINT BEACH NUCLEAR PLANT
Dear Mr. Koehl:
This letter refers to the public meeting conducted on August 25, 2005, in Two Creeks, Wisconsin. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss, in detail, your progress in meeting the commitments made by the Nuclear Management Company (NMC), as documented in the Confirmatory Action Letter (CAL), dated April 21, 2004.
At the meeting, Mr. Mark Satorius, during his opening remarks, indicated to you that the NRC was satisfied with the progress that you had made in the Emergency Preparedness and Engineering/Operations Interface CAL areas of regulatory concern and that the NRC plans on conducting only baseline inspections in those areas going forward.
Several NMC representatives provided a detailed overview of results, progress, and challenges in the corrective action program and engineering areas of regulatory concern and with the human performance area of regulatory concern as it related to those two areas.
For the corrective action program (CAP), you and your staff described the effectiveness and challenges of the implementation over the past year of the CAP owner, CAP coach, and Department Roll Up Meeting processes. In the engineering area, you and your staff discussed the learning opportunities from the recent extended discussions with the NRC on the Unit 2 reactor vessel head drop licensing action and a question from a recent inspection regarding the susceptibility of a section of the common recirculation line for the auxiliary feedwater pumps to crimping or blockage during certain accident scenarios. Additional topics of discussions included a progress update on a longstanding issue to resolve bolted faults in the plants safety-related electrical distribution systems; efforts taken by engineering and operations to reduce operator burdens, the sites effective implementation of the Operational Decision Making Index Process, improved quality of pre-job briefs, prompt and final operability determinations, and calculations provided by vendors; and the improved reliability of station equipment.
D. Koehl Mr. Satorius of the NRC concluded the meeting with an acknowledgment of the information provided by you, Mr. Doug Cooper, and other NMC representatives. Mr. Satorius emphasized the importance of the upcoming expanded Problem Identification and Resolution team inspection and successful completion of the Unit 1 refueling outage and reactor vessel head replacement in providing evidence of the sustainability of the actions taken by Point Beach in the corrective action program and engineering areas.
A listing of principal NMC and NRC meeting attendees and a copy of the handout provided by NMC at the meeting are enclosed as Enclosures 1 and 2, respectively, to this letter.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules 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 System (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 you have any questions regarding this meeting, please contact me at (630) 829-9627.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Patrick L. Louden, Chief Branch 5 Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos. 50-266; 50-301 License Nos. DPR-24; DPR-27
Enclosures:
1.
List of Principal Attendees 2.
Licensee Presentation Slides DOCUMENT NAME: E:\\Filenet\\ML052490301.wpd o receive a copy of this document, indicate in the box: "C" = Copy without attachment/enclosure "E" = Copy with attachment/enclosure "N" = No copy OFFICE RIII RIII RIII NAME MKunowski:
PLouden MSatorius DATE 09/01/05 09/01/05 09/01/05 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY
D. Koehl cc w/encl:
F. Kuester, President and Chief Executive Officer, We Generation J. Cowan, Executive Vice President Chief Nuclear Officer D. Cooper, Senior Vice President, Group Operations J. McCarthy, Site Director of Operations D. Weaver, Nuclear Asset Manager Plant Manager Regulatory Affairs Manager Training Manager Site Assessment Manager Site Engineering Director Emergency Planning Manager J. Rogoff, Vice President, Counsel & Secretary K. Duveneck, Town Chairman Town of Two Creeks Chairperson Public Service Commission of Wisconsin J. Kitsembel, Electric Division Public Service Commission of Wisconsin State Liaison Officer
D. Koehl ADAMS Distribution:
WDR HKC RidsNrrDipmIipb GEG KGO CAA1 DRPIII DRSIII PLB1 JRK1 PUBLIC MEETING PRINCIPAL ATTENDEES August 25, 2005 NMC Douglas Cooper Senior Vice-President Dennis Koehl Site Vice-President Jim McCarthy Director Site Operations Mike Lorek Plant Manager Jim Schweitzer Site Engineering Director Guy Packard Operations Manager Al Capristo Regulatory Affairs Manager NRC Mark Satorius Director, Division of Reactor Projects Patrick Louden Chief, Branch 5, Division of Reactor Projects Lakshminaras Raghavan Section Chief - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Harold Chernoff Project Manager - Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (via telephone)
Rob Krsek Senior Resident Inspector - Point Beach Mike Kunowski Project Engineer, Division of Reactor Projects