ML082340680

Vermont Yankee July 2008 Evidentiary Hearing - Intervenor Exhibit NEC-UW_02, Curriculum Vitae of Ulrich Witte

ML082340680
Person / Time
Site:	Vermont Yankee
Issue date:	08/12/2008
From:	Witte U Northern Lights Engineering
To:	NRC/SECY/RAS
SECY RAS
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06-849-03-LR, 50-271-LR, Entergy-Intervenor-NEC-UW_02, RAS M-240
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71 Edgewood Way, Westville, Connecticut, 06515 Ulrich K. Witte Ulrieh.K. Witte Summary:

Over twenty-six year's of professional. experience in engineering, configuration management, licensing, regulatory compliance of large scalecommercial nuclear facilities.

This includes management and implementation of design-change control programs, engineering standards programs, multi-department/multi-functional licensing initiatives, plant design basis and engineering process improvement programs for six energy companies operating seven nuclear power plants. Responsibilities include:

• Systems solutions-to plant operations, engineering modifications, safety analyses, design changes, installation and testing, software, drawing change programs, and training.

Optimized function interfaces to insure proper coordination and synchronization for cost effective and compliant operation of the facility.

• Technical support management, and issue resolution programs that identified potential hardware, operational or equipment function issues, as well as document problems, data management problems and organizational enhancements

• Engineering Change Processes from change inception to document close-out a Multi-department Configuration Management Program including technical approach, conse'nsus, approval, .and implementation. Managed a standing Configuration Management Programs Group whose goal was to integrate ten functional areas under a corporate strategic plan encompassing two nuclear facilities.

o Vertical slice system design/operation review,s, design bases / regulatory rule reconciliation, and licensing bases reconstitution and transitioning projects a Integration of plant equipment information systems with-business processes within

.engineering, materials management, maintenance, and plant operations.

• Structured business process modeling. Application of functional analysis purely from a data prospective-to enhance change management, efficiency.

• Chaired ANSI certified industry guidance on cost effective, compliant, and institutionalized programs for successful configuration management enhancement

• EPRI guidance on optimizing* the Engineering Change Process DOCKETED e Formal training to engineering department personal with.specific courses on the USNRC engineering change process, plant safety analysis, and modification testing. Trained August 12. 2008 (1l:ooam)engineering personal on the requirements of the plant wide Configuration OFFICE OF SECRETARY Management Program.

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71 Edgewood Way, Westville, Connecticut, 06515 Ulrich K. Witte Technical Consultant Northern Lights Engineering, L.L.C., 71 Edgewood Way, Westville, Connecticut 06515 (May 2002 -Today)

Established a consulting practice where I provided expertise in matters affecting the safe operation and regulatory compliance of commercial nuclear power facilities. This includes licensing and regulatory compliance issues, modification and implementation of industry standards, engineering design reviews, and configuration management analysis associated with.an unexpected event, a design failure, or an elevated risk condition, and includes review of proposed changes to the plant operating license in preserving design efficacy.

Technical Advisor and Expert Witness to IPSEC representing WestCAN, Clearwater, the Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and PHASE Providing technical advisory, expert witness work and legal assistance in preparing and submitting petition for leave to intervene and request for hearing with contentions regarding the license renewal application by Licensee for Indian Point Nuclear Units 2 and 3. This included preparing and filing an initial petition containing 51 contentions and several other petitions regarding fire Rrotection for Unit 3, in context with the recent EPA letter, as well as Mothers v. NRC filed in 9 circuit, and the October 31 DEC/AG letter. The work includes, separate allegations of regulatory procedural violations regarding the Thermal Shock Proposed Rule, and recent Fire Protection Exemptions that appear to clearly violate to CFR Part 2, and the Design' Basis Threat rule under 10CFR73. This effort includes expert review of the Aging Review Program, in particular flow-accelerated corrosion issues, and finite element fatigue analysis reviews of susceptible components and a number of other contentions related to the safe operation of each unit beyond its 40 year license.

Technical Advisor and Expert Witness to the law firm of Shems, Dunkiel, Kassel, & Saunders, PLLC Currently providing technical assistance in pre-filed testimony regarding Entergy Nuclear Operations application for renewing the operating license of Vermont Yankee. This includes Aging Review Program, in particular flow-accelerated corrosion issues, and finite element fatigue analysis reviews of susceptible components and a number of other contentions related to the safe operation of the plant beyond its 40 year license at 120% of originally design power Technical Advisor, to the law firm of Leroche, Meyers, and Conswel, LLP.

Provided licensing and regulatory compliance expertise in legal claim and derivative action by the board of directors of the First EnergyCorporation against its corporate officers in their role associated with the Northeast black out of August 2003, and the mismanagement of the Davis Besse Nuclear Power Plant.

Technical Advisor to the Union of Concerned Scientists Provided technical review of UCS analysis of the Davis Besse reactor head corrosion event. This included analysis of the loss of integrity of the reactor vessel, and the immediacy of the reactor head failure.

Senior Scientist, Dominion Resources Inc, Millstone Station:

P.O. Box 128, Waterford, Connecticut 06385-0128 (December 1996- 2002)

Project Manager, Licensing Commitments. Established the Regulatory Commitment Management Program. Developed a program that established senior management and department level control of more than 30,000 licensing commitment that was previously broken. The substantially enhanced Office 203 389 4564 Mobil: 860 391 1183 Fax: 203 389 6657 Email: ulrich@ulrichwitte.com Page 4'

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71 Edgewood Way, Westville, Connecticut, 06515 Ulrich K. Witte program captured, dispositioned, consolidated, and managed implementation of docketed commitments to the NRC. Status, responsibility and clear communication were successfully implemented to allow Millstone to successfully restart Units 2 and 3.

The effort required substantial procedure revisions, customer consensus building, and integration of separate free-standing department specific database applications, as well as the station wide action item tracking system. A near term deliverable necessary for the successful restart of Unit 3 was to provide a workable, compliant and functioning regulatory commitment management program.

Proiect Manager, 50.54(f) Licensing Bases Transition Proiect. I led a team of 14 individuals to disposition and validate approximately 5100 regulatory commitments necessary for restart of Unit 3.

The effort has led to a quality rate of more than 98 percent with production average of about four hours per commitment.

Manager, Configuration Management Program, New York Power Authority:

123 Main Street, White Plains New York 10621, Nuclear Generation Department, Engineering Division (November 1991 - November 1996)

Established the Configuration Management Program for the New York Power Authority's nuclear facilities. Included are 10 functional areas and integrated controls as authored in the corporate strategic plan. Management functions and technical skills include the following:

• Established Configuration Programs Group. This group and my position were established as a result of INPO Plant Evaluation calling for configuration management enhancement, and resolution of design control issues identified by the NRCin their DET Inspection of 1991 of the FitzPatrick Plant, as well as independent assessments. Recruited permanent staff, and supplemented the group with contracted staff on as needed basis to support both plants correcting significant technical and functional issues and being placed on the NRC's Watch List.

• Modified the engineering change process. Areas of immediate attention included the Design Control and Modification Programs, where a series of working groups were established to correct technical content and improve quality, ownership, and business efficiency of the design change process. This effort was achieved via: (1) a formal process to assess, model, and enhance the design change and modification process and interfaces to key functions; and (2) immediate changes to engineering procedures. /

• Assessed and enhanced the Plant Equipment Data Base and controls for each plant. Results of the assessment indicated that the IP3 Plant Equipment Database contained significant problems with component classification, equipment type and status, inaintenance history etc. Prepared and implemented a recovery plan and project team to reestablish the controls and content of database to be compliant with NRC Generic Letter 83-28 and to support the plant restart.

Streamlined and enhanced the component classification process for both plants. Established controlled and non-controlled segregation of plant equipment in accordance with recent EPRI guidance.

• Automated and validated existing fragmented and corrupt sources of engineering information.

These data sources were compiled, validated, and controlled and included multi-department areas such as set point controls, Electrical Cable and Raceway Information Systems for JAF and IP3, along with the fuse controls and data-management.

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" Developed design basis problem resolution process, "Design Document Open Item".

Established methods for prioritizing, tracking and closing out design document issues.

Established proper interface and control room notifications as per tech spec requirements.

Provided guidance on operability determinations and reportability. Provided oversight for classifying and tracking more than 1100 open design issues for IP3 and 300 for JAF. Defended program to the NRC.

" Established working groups between Nuclear Generation Department and the corporate wide Information Management Organization. Gained management endorsement for areas of data quality improvement and automation for the Nuclear Generation Department. This led to enhanced implementation of the equipment information systems for both sites.

Project Manager, Program to Assure Completion and Quality, Tennessee Valley Authority:

(December 1990 - March 1991) Under contract by CYGNA/Energy Services to the Vice-President, Engineering and Operations Department, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant.

• Developed a.comprehensive plan to measure progress and confirm quality of the in-progress design evolution of the plant. Developed a methodology for linking specific plant equipment to that equipment's respective design basis (and associated design attributes); license commitments; and numerous verification programs currently in place. The five phase program was presented to NRR in January and received approval as an activity to assist TVA in removing the stop work order on construction of the facility.

Technical Manager, Configuration Management Program, Southern Nuclear Operating Company:

(December 1988 - November' 1991). Under contract by ABB Impell and CYGNA Energy Services to Corporate Engineering Manager, Edwin 1.Hatch Nuclear Plant, Georgia Power Company.

" Established and implemented the Hatch Configuration Management Program. Phase one of the effort included definition, establishment of management objectives, specification of the configuration management program scope and development of a reference manual.

• Developed and executed formal rigorous horizontal evaluations (the second phase of the project) of each relevant functional area including engineering design, implementation, plant operations and maintenance, procurement, information systems, document control and others. The program integrates functional areas across the plant, each architect engineer, and corporate (SONOPCO and Southern Company Services) organizations.

• Implemented enhancements to the program. This phase includes upgrading the design change process to achieve successful integration across organizations; stricter adherence to closure activities; and formal design engineering involvement in such activities as procurement of replacement items (equivalency). Additiofial controls were established such that misapplication of information obtained through informal design change processes such as the "Request for Engineering Assistance".

Reconciling the plant's design basis. A second major activity of the program was to compile, consolidate, and ultimately, automate the plant's design basis. A major objective is to provide access and retrievability of current design basis to each of the key users of each participant organization.

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71 Edgewood Way, Westville, Connecticut, 06515 Ulrich K.Witte Applied Structured Business Analysis including CASE tools in the evaluation and enhancement phases. The as-found configuration management activities of all relevant processes were modeled and analyzed with this technique. Proposed enhancements are then tested on the model prior to actual implementation.

" Chaired the subcommittee for the Nuclear Information and Records Management Association which is developing a Technical Position Paper entitled, "Implementation of a Configuration Management Enhancement Program for a Nuclear Facility".

Team Leader, NRC Safety System Functional Inspection Response Organizations:

Led the NRC Safety System Functional Inspection Response Teams for Georgia Power Company (1989), and Sacramento Municipal Utility District (1987). Assisted as team coordinator in the GPC -

Plant Hatch Electrical Distribution System Functional Inspection Response Team (1991). Under contract by ABB Impell (December 1987 - November 1990) to the site Engineering Manager, Rancho Seco, SMUD. and CYGNA Energy Services (December 1990 - November 1991) to the Corporate Engineering Manager, Edwin 1. Hatch Nuclear Plant, Georgia Power Company.

" In the case of GPC, the NRC SSFI resulted in validation of the in progress implementation of the Hatch Configuration Management Program and only one violation to the licensee.

" The effort included an SSFI self-assessment as well as managing the utility through the NRC inspection.

• For SMUD, developed and executed a plan for closure of both immediate findings and long term corrective action required. Assisted in defending the plan to the NRC.

" For GPC.- Plant Hatch EDSFI in June 1991. Developed and implemented an EDSFI Preparation Plan for the Engineering (both A/Es) and site organizations. This effort included management of a 27 man team preparation and inspection response team for the Hatch EDSFI.

Deputy Mechanical Engineering Manager, Engineering Department Under Contract to the Site Engineering Manager, Rancho Seco, Sacramento Municipal Utilities District, Rancho Seco (April 1986 -

September 1987)

Managed the implementation and closure of over 400 modifications to the plant. Provided the NRC with a basis for allowing a successful restart of the facility. (January 1986 to Novemberl 986) Impell Lead Project Engineer, Class 1 Piping and Support Recertification Effort, SMUD.

• Developed an engineering department action plan to improve technical quality, reconstitute design basis for five systems, control costs of plant modifications, and improve adherence to schedule.

" Responsible for the complete recertification of the Pressurizer Relief Line, Decay Heat System, and others. Responsible for expediting and implementing design changes as necessary through to closure. Assisted in Utility responses to NUREG-0737, and I&E 79-14.

• Upgraded the Engineering Department procedures to gain credit for the relaxation of ASME code requirements in structural damping values. Initiated the FSAR changes as well.

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71 Edgewood Way, Westville, Connecticut, 06515 Ulrich K. Witte Project Engineer, Fire Protection:

Under Contract to Sacramento Municipal Utilities District, Rancho Seco ( November 1984 to April 1986), SMUD Fire Protection Coordinator, Fire Protection Program Developed the SMUD Appendix R Fire Protection Program. Established or substantially revised 110 plant and engineering procedures including shutdown procedures on total loss of the plant's control room, technical specification surveillance procedures, fire protection system maintenance procedures, and the development of a fire protection program manual.

Successfully defended the program to the NRC during the 1985 Appendix R Inspection, with no resulting findings or open items.

Additional Experience (6/78 through 8184):

Senior Engineer, performed original pipe stress analysis and suppoft placement for Duke Power's Catawba Plant. Qualified approximately 8 class one and two plant systems. (ABB Impel] 6/78 - 12/79).

Non-linear finite element analysis of large diameter piping for EPRI. Analysis ofproduction stress codes versus non-linear evaluation techniques, versus actual in situ testing of the system. Results were published in EPRI Report "Seismic Piping Test and Analysis. (ABB Impel], 1980 -1981)

As Project Engineer, directed the preparation of the annual Emergency Plan exercises for Kansas Gas andElectric Company, Union Electric Company, and Texas Utilities. In two plants, the exercise was installed on the plants simulator, and received recognition from the NRC for realism of the scenario. (ABB Impell 1982-1984).

EMPLOYER

SUMMARY

Northern Lights Engineering, L.L.C. 12/2002 - current 71 Edgewood Way Westville, CT 06515 Northeast Utilities /Dominion Resources Inc 12/19967- 12/2002 (Under Contract via Cataract Inc through 9/97.)

2500 McClellan Ave.

Pennsauken, NJ 08109 New York Power Authority 11/1992 -12/1996.

123 Main Street White Plains, New York 10671 Cygna Energy Services 11/1991 - 11/1992 5600 Glenridge Drive, Suite 380 Atlanta, Georgia 30075 ABB Impell Corporation 6/1978 - 11/1991 3.333 Research Court Technology Park-Atlanta Norcross, Georgia 30095 Office 203 389 4564 Mobil: 860 391 1183 Fax: 203 389 6657 Email: ulrich@ulrichwitte.com Page 8

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71 Edgewood Way, Westville, Connecticut, 06515 Ulrich K. Witte EDUCATION:

University of California, Berkeley B.A. Physics, 1983 Senior level and graduate course work in Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering Quinnipiac University School of Law J.D expected June, 2009 PUBLICATIONS:

• EPRI Report Number 108736, "Guidelines for the Optimization of the Engineering Change Process,"

March 1994.

" NIRMA PP-03, "Position Paper for a Configuration Management Enhancement Program for a Nuclear Facility," April, 1992. Subcommittee Chair.

• EPRI Report Number 8480," Seismic Piping Test and Analysis," 1980.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND AWARDS American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Nuclear Society, Nuclear Information and Records Management Association, Who's Who For Rising Young Americans.

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REFERENCES:

References available upon request.

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