ML090930025

Notification of Inspection and Request for Information for NRC Problem Identification and Resolution Inspection

ML090930025
Person / Time
Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	04/02/2009
From:	Vias S Reactor Projects Branch 7
To:	Swafford P Tennessee Valley Authority
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II SAM NUNN ATLANTA FEDERAL CENTER 61 FORSYTH STREET, SW, SUITE 23T85 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-8931 April 2, 2009 Mr. Preston D. Swafford Chief Nuclear Officer and Executive Vice President Tennessee Valley Authority 3R Lookout Place 1101 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR NRC PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION

Dear Mr. Swafford:

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Region II staff will conduct a problem identification and resolution (PI&R) inspection at your Watts Bar Nuclear Plant during the weeks of June 8 - 12 and June 22 - 26, 2009. The inspection team will be led by Daniel Merzke, a Senior Reactor Engineering Inspector from the NRCs Region II office. This inspection will be conducted in accordance with the baseline inspection procedure, Procedure 71152, Identification and Resolution of Problems Inspection, issued January 10, 2008.

The biennial PI&R inspection and assessment of the licensees Corrective Action Program (CAP) complements and expands upon the resident baseline inspections of routine daily screening of all corrective action program issues, quarterly focused issue reviews, and semiannual trend PI&R reviews.

During a telephone conversation on March 31, 2009, Mr. Merzke confirmed with Ms. Michelle Pope of your staff, arrangements for an information gathering site visit and the two-week onsite inspection. The schedule is as follows:

• Information gathering visit: May 4 - 5, 2009

• Onsite weeks: June 8 - 12 and June 22 - 26, 2009 The purpose of the information gathering visit is to meet with members of your staff to define the scope of the inspection. Information and documentation needed to support the inspection will also be identified and reviewed.

The enclosure lists documents that will be needed prior to the information gathering visit.

Please have the referenced information available prior to May 4, 2009. Contact Mr. Merzke with any questions concerning the requested information. The inspectors will try to minimize your administrative burden by specifically identifying only those documents required for inspection preparation.

TVA 2 Additional documents will be requested during the information gathering visit. The additional information will need to be made available to the team in the Region II office prior to the inspection teams preparation week of June 1, 2009. Mr. Merzke will also discuss the following inspection support administrative details: availability of knowledgeable plant engineering and licensing personnel to serve as points of contact during the inspection; method of tracking inspector requests during the inspection; access to licensee computers; working space; arrangements for site access; and other applicable information.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (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).

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions regarding the information requested or the inspection, please contact Mr. Daniel Merzke at (404) 562-4421 or me at (404) 562-4560.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Steven J. Vias, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 7 Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos.: 50-390 License Nos.: NPF-90

Enclosure:

INFORMATION REQUEST FOR WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION cc w/encl: (See page 3)

_________________________ X SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE (D. Merzke)

OFFICE RII:DRP RII:DRP SIGNATURE DXM2 SJV NAME DMerzke SVias DATE 04/01/2009 04/02/2009 4/ /2009 E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO TVA 3 cc w/encl: Ludwig E. Thibault Gordon P. Arent General Manager New Generation Licensing Manager Nuclear Oversight & Assistance Tennessee Valley Authority Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution 3R Lookout Place 1101 Market Steet Masoud Bajestani Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 Vice President Watts Bar Unit 2 Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Gregory A. Boerschig Tennessee Valley Authority Plant Manager Electronic Mail Distribution Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority Ashok S. Bhatnagar Electronic Mail Distribution Senior Vice President Nuclear Generation Development and Larry E. Nicholson Construction General Manager Tennessee Valley Authority Performance Improvement Electronic Mail Distribution Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution Michael K. Brandon Manager Michael A. Purcell Licensing and Industry Affairs Senior Licensing Manager Tennessee Valley Authority Nuclear Power Group Electronic Mail Distribution Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution Preston D. Swafford Chief Nuclear Officer and Executive Vice Michael J. Lorek President Vice President Tennessee Valley Authority Nuclear Engineering & Projects Electronic Mail Distribution Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution William R. Campbell Senior Vice President Michael D. Skaggs Fleet Engineering Site Vice President Tennessee Valley Authority Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Electronic Mail Distribution Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution Thomas Coutu Vice President Fredrick C. Mashburn Nuclear Support Acting Manager Tennessee Valley Authority Corporate Nuclear Licensing and Industry Electronic Mail Distribution Affairs Tennessee Valley Authority General Counsel Electronic Mail Distribution Tennessee Valley Authority Electronic Mail Distribution cc w/encl (continued page 4)

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Senior Resident Inspector Watts Bar Nuclear Plant U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1260 Nuclear Plant Road Spring City, TN 37381-2000 County Executive 375 Church Street Suite 215 Dayton, TN 37321 County Mayor P.O. Box 156 Decatur, TN 37322 Lawrence Edward Nanney Director Division of Radiological Health TN Dept. of Environment & Conservation Electronic Mail Distribution James H. Bassham Director Tennessee Emergency Management Agency Electronic Mail Distribution Ann Harris 341 Swing Loop Rockwood, TN 37854

TVA 5 Letter to Preston D. Swafford from Steven J. Vias dated April 2, 2009

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR NRC PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION Distribution w/encl:

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INFORMATION REQUEST FOR WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION (JUNE 8-12 AND JUNE 22-26, 2009)

A. Documents Needed Prior to the Information Gathering Visit Note: Unless otherwise noted, the information requested below corresponds to documents generated since September 15, 2007. Please provide the requested documents in electronic format. If the information is not available in electronic format, please contact the inspection team leader to coordinate how the information will be provided.

1. Copies of the corporate and site level procedures and sub-tier procedures associated with the corrective action program. This should include procedures related to: a) corrective action process, b) cause evaluation, c) operating experience program, d) employee concerns program, e) self-assessment program, f) maintenance rule program and implementing procedures, g) operability determination process, h) degraded/non-conforming condition process (e.g., RIS 2005-20), i) system health process, or equivalent equipment reliability improvement programs, and j) preventive maintenance deferral and problem evaluation report (PER) extension process. If any of the procedures requested above were revised after September 15, 2007, please provide copies of all revisions.

2. List of top ten risk significant systems, components, and operator manual actions.

3. List of all PERs initiated, sorted by priority and system, with the following information: a)

PER #, b) system, c) priority, and d) PER title and short description.

4. List of all PERs initiated, sorted by the following responsible plant departments. In each department grouping, please provide the PERs sorted by priority, with the following information: a) PER #, b) priority, and c) PER title and short description.

a) Emergency Preparedness; b) Health Physics; c) Chemistry; and, d) Security.

5. List of outstanding corrective actions with a brief description, priority level, initiation date, and due date.

6. List of control room deficiencies with a brief description and corresponding PER and/or work order (WO) number.

7. List of all currently extended PERs or overdue, sorted by initiation date, with the following information: a) PER #, b) priority, and c) PER title and short description.

8. List of all PERs that have been voided or cancelled. Please sort by PER #, with title or description of problem, and reason voided or cancelled.

9. List of all structures, systems, and components (SSC) which were classified as (a)(1) in accordance with the Maintenance Rule since September 15, 2007. Please include Enclosure

2 applicable procedures for classifying systems or components as (a)(1), date and reason for being placed in (a)(1), and actions completed and current status. Also, provide copy of any self-assessment of the Maintenance Rule program conducted.

10. List of Maintenance Preventable Functional Failures (MPFF) of risk significant systems.

Please include actions completed and current status.

11. List of corrective maintenance work orders, sorted by system and component, to include:

WO number, title or description, date of initiation, and date of completion (if completed).

12. Corrective action closeout packages, including PERs with description of corrective actions, for all NRC findings and Licensee identified violations.

13. Corrective action closeout packages, including PERs with description of corrective actions, for all licensee event report (LERs) issued.

14. List of all NRC generic communications (e.g., Information Notices, Generic Letters, etc.)

and industry operating experience (OE) documents (e.g., Part 21 reports, vendor information letters, information from other sites, etc.,) evaluated by the site for applicability to the station, regardless of the determination of applicability. Please include the reference number (e.g. PER #) for the documents that evaluated the aforementioned OE information.

15. Copies of all quality assurance audits and/or assessments issued, including the last two audits/assessments of the corrective action program. Also, any self-assessment of the site safety culture conducted should be provided.

16. Copies of all department self-assessments.

17. Copy of the most recent integrated plant trend report, departmental trend report(s), and corrective action trend report, including any human performance and equipment reliability trends.

18. Copy of the latest Corrective Action Program statistics (if exists) such as the number of PERs initiated by department, human performance errors by department, and others as may be available.

19. Copies of any minutes of meetings by the offsite safety review boards/groups. In addition, please provide a list of routine meetings involving the CAP to be held while team is onsite.

20. List of PERs related to equipment aging issues in the top ten risk significant systems since May 1, 2004 (e.g., system erosion and/or corrosion problems; electronic component aging or obsolescence of circuit boards, power supplies, relays, etc.;

environmental qualification). Please sort by PER # with the following information: a)

PER #, b) priority, and c) PER title and short description.

21. If performed, provide the results from the latest safety culture survey.

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22. Copies of corrective action program documents related to cross-cutting issues (human performance, problem identification and resolution, and safety conscious work environment) identified via trending, self-assessments, safety review committee or other oversight methods.

23. List of all root cause evaluations with a brief description.

24. Copy of Probabilistic Risk Assessment importance measures report.

B. Documents Needed during or after the Information Gathering Visit, but prior to the Inspection Preparation Week (June 1-5, 2009)

1. For the risk significant systems selected by the team leader during the information gathering visit, please provide copies of the latest System Health Reports, system design basis documents, system description information, and P&IDs.

C. Documents Needed During the Inspection

1. List of corrective action documents that have resulted from the Employee Concerns Program (ECP). (Note: This should be provided by the ECP Coordinator)

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