ML101440353

Summary of Telephone Conference Call Held on April 28, 2010, Between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy Operations, Inc. Regarding Progress on National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 805 Transition Activities

ML101440353
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	06/08/2010
From:	Mahesh Chawla Plant Licensing Branch III
To:
Chawla M, NRR/DORL, 415-8371
References
TAC ME0072
Download: ML101440353 (4)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555*0001 June 8, 2010 LICENSEE:

Entergy Operations, Inc.

FACILITIES:

Palisades Nuclear Plant

SUMMARY

OF TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CALL HELD ON APRIL 27,2010, BETWEEN THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AND ENTERGY OPERATIONS, INC. REGARDING PROGRESS ON NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION (NFPA) STANDARD 805 TRANSITION ACTIVITIES A teleconference was held between representatives of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (ENO) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff to discuss progress on the Palisades Nuclear Plant (PNP) National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 805 transition activities. ENO submitted "Palisades NFPA 805 Project Milestones" table (see Enclosure 1) which provides the list of NFPA 805 transition activities and their status. The enclosure provides the status of each task and shows several of the tasks as complete. The licensee reported that all the tasks were on track and there were no other concerns with respect to meeting the final LAR issuance date of December 31, 2010. Due to the acceptable level of progress shown for the transition in the last two months, the NRC staff informed the licensee to arrange these conferences calls every other month. However, if any concerns develop in the future, the licensee will engage the NRC staff to discuss these issues.

Background

On December 9, 2008 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS)

Accession No. ML083260577), NRC staff granted additional enforcement discretion to Palisades. ENO in its letter dated November 25,2008 (ADAMS Accession No. ML083370155) made a commitment to conduct a monthly teleconference with the NRC staff to discuss progress on the PNP NFPA 805 transition activities.

Mahesh Chawla, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 111-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-255

Enclosures:

1: Table - Palisades NFPA 805 Project Milestones 2: Table - List of Attendees cc w/encls: Distribution via ListServ

4/27/10 Palisades NFPA 805 Project Milestones NEI Task No.

Title Milestone Date' Status' Start Date' Task 1:

Transition of Nuclear Safety Performance Criteria (NEI 04-02 Table B-2) 09/24/10 On Track Task 2:

Fundamental Fire Protection Program & Design Elements (NEI 04-02 Table B-1) 09/23/10 On Track Task 3:

Radioactive Release Transition I(NEI 04-02 Table G-1) 09/23/10 On Track Task 4:

Nuclear Safety Analysis Transition I(NEI 04-02 Table B-3) 11/01/10 On Track ST 4.1.1 Off-Site Power Cable Selection and Analysis 11/01/10 On Track ST 4.1.2 Other Power Cable Selection and Analysis Complete ST 4.1.3 Subsequent Cable/Instrument Identification &

Analvsis 06/18/10 On Track Task 5:

Non-Power Operational Modes Transition IINEI 04-02 Table F-1) 09/23/10 On Track Task 6:

Internal Events PRA 11/12/10 On Track ST 6.2.1 Prepare LERF Model Complete ST 6.2.2 Update Flooding Analysis Complete ST6.3 Thermal Hydraulic Analysis for MSO/HRA Complete ST 6.4 Intemal Events PRA Peer Review Complete Task 7:

Fire PRA 10/12110 On Track ST 7.6.4 R3 Internal Events Model Complete ST 7.7 Quantification Risk Screening

. Complete ST7.8 Scoping for Fire Modeling Complete ST 7.9/10 Circuit Failure Mode Likelihood Analysis Complete ST 7.12 Post Fire HRA 08/27/10 On Track ST 7.13 Seismic Fire Interaction Assessment Complete ST 7.14 Fire Risk Quantification 08/06/10 On Track ST 7.15 Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis 08/06/10 On Track ST 7.17.4 In-Process Fire PRA Peer Review Complete ST 7.17.5 Final Fire PRA Peer Review 06/25/10 On Track Task 8:

NFPA 805 Fire Risk / Change Evaluations 09/23/10 On Track ST 8.1 Fire Risk / Change Evaluations 09/23/10 On Track ST8.2 Non-Compliance Risk Evaluations 09/23/10 On Track OS/24/10 Task 10:

Transition Report 11/15/10 On Track Task 11:

License Amendment Request (LAR) 12/31/10 On Track Notes:

1 The current schedule (805 T2-6R 19APR10) dates were validated to be on or before these dates unless otherMse noted.

2 "On Track" means that the task current percentage completed is z the expected completion percent and the expected cornpetlon date for the task is projected to be mel.

3 Start dates provided are estimates and may vary contingent upon predecessor completion and available resources at that time. Even if this start dale is adjusted, the completion date is stillexpected to be met unlessindicated otherwise.

Comments:

None.

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TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CALL ON NFPA 805 TRANSITION PROGRESS BETWEEN U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AND ENTERGY OPERATIONS, INC.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS APRIL 27,2010 PARTICIPANTS TITLE/POSITION AFFILIATIONS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)

Mahesh Chawla Proiect Manaaer HEADQUARTERS Alex Klein Branch Chief Harrv Barrett Senior Fire Protection Enaineer ENTERGY Jim Miksa Engineering Program Manager Jim Kuemin Licensing Engineer Tom Swiecicki Fire Protection Lead Chad Main Project Manager Brian Bogan PRA Lead Roger Stobert Contract Project Manager NFPA 805 Frank Yanik PRA Engineer

ML083370155) made a commitment to conduct a monthly teleconference with the NRC staff to discuss progress on the PNP NFPA 805 transition activities.

Mahesh Chawla, Project Manager IRAJ Plant Licensing Branch 111-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-255

Enclosures:

1: Table - Palisades NFPA 805 Project Milestones 2: Table - List of Attendees cc w/encls: Distribution via Listserv Distribution:

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