ML102300612

Letter Response to River Bend Station Reply to Notice of Violation EA-10-095 in NRC Triennial Fire Protection Inspection Report 05000458-10-006

ML102300612
Person / Time
Site:	River Bend
Issue date:	08/18/2010
From:	O'Keefe N NRC/RGN-IV/DRS/EB-2
To:	Mike Perito Entergy Operations
References
EA-10-095 IR-10-006
Download: ML102300612 (5)

See also: IR 05000458/2010006

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMI SSI ON

R E G I ON I V

612 EAST LAMAR BLVD, SUITE 400

ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4125

August 18, 2010

Michael Perito

Vice President, Operations

Entergy Operations, Inc.

River Bend Station

5485 US Highway 61N

St. Francisville, LA 70775

SUBJECT: RESPONSE TO RIVER BEND STATION REPLY TO NOTICE OF VIOLATION

EA-10-095 IN NRC TRIENNIAL FIRE PROTECTION INSPECTION REPORT

05000458/2010006

Dear Mr. Perito:

This acknowledges receipt of your letter and attachments (RBG-47046) dated, July 19, 2010, in

which you responded to a notice of violation NOV 05000458/2010006-01, "Failure to Ensure at

Least One Train of Equipment Necessary to Achieve Hot Shutdown Conditions is Free of Fire

Damage."

The notice of violation requested that your response include information about decisions to

extend the completion of necessary plant modifications beyond the October 2009 refueling

outage. The decision-making process described in the letter was consistent with our

understanding from the inspection. However, your response did not specifically address your

assessment of the appropriateness of the decisions to extend the completion of necessary plant

modifications beyond the October 2009 refueling outage. This information is required to

determine whether the corrective actions for this violation were appropriate.

In a telephone conversation on August 13, 2010, with Roy Caniano, Director, Division of

Reactor Safety, you agreed to submit a supplemental response to the Notice of Violation to

address your assessment of the appropriateness of the decisions to extend the schedule for

completing the plant modification and to provide additional information concerning the

engineering quality problems and parts availability that caused the delays in completing timely

corrective actions.

The response letter stated that although you agreed with the finding related to the fire protection

requirements for a main control room fire, you requested that the NRC reconsider the issuance

of the notice of violation and that the portion of the notice of violation involving timeliness of

corrective actions be re-characterized. We have reviewed the information provided in your letter

and noted that no new information was provided beyond what was reviewed as part of the

inspection. After reviewing your letter and our finding, the NRC has concluded that the violation

was appropriate.

Entergy Operations, Inc. -2-

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 NRCs 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).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Neil OKeefe, Chief

Engineering Branch 2

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket No. 50-458

License No. NPF-47

Entergy Operations, Inc. -3-

cc w/Enclosure:

Senior Vice President and COO

Entergy Operations, Inc

P. O. Box 31995

Jackson, MS 39286-1995

Vice President, Oversight

Entergy Operations, Inc.

P. O. Box 31995

Jackson, MS 39286-1995

Senior Manager, Nuclear Safety & Licensing

Entergy Nuclear Operations

P. O. Box 31995

Jackson, MS 39286-1995

Manager, Licensing

Entergy Operations, Inc.

5485 US Highway 61N

St. Francisville, LA 70775

Attorney General

State of Louisiana

P. O. Box 94005

Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9005

Ms. H. Anne Plettinger

3456 Villa Rose Drive

Baton Rouge, LA 70806

President of West Feliciana

Police Jury

P. O. Box 1921

St. Francisville, LA 70775

Mr. Brian Almon

Public Utility Commission

William B. Travis Building

P. O. Box 13326

Austin, TX 78701-3326

Mr. Jim Calloway

Public Utility

Commission of Texas

1701 N. Congress Avenue

Austin, TX 78711-3326

Entergy Operations, Inc. -4-

Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality

Radiological Emergency Planning and

Response Division

P. O. Box 4312

Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4312

Joseph A. Aluise

Associate General Counsel - Nuclear

Entergy Services, Inc.

639 Loyola Avenue

New Orleans, LA 70113

Chief, Technological Hazards

Branch

FEMA Region VI

800 N. Loop 288

Denton, TX 76209-3606

Entergy Operations, Inc. -5-

Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov )

Deputy Regional Administrator (Chuck.Casto@nrc.gov )

DRP Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov )

DRP Deputy Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov )

DRS Director (Roy.Caniano@nrc.gov )

DRS Deputy Director (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov

Senior Resident Inspector (Grant.Larkin@nrc.gov )

Resident Inspector (Charles.Norton@nrc.gov )

Branch Chief, DRP/C (Vincent.Gaddy@nrc.gov )

RBS Administrative Assistant (Lisa.Day@nrc.gov )

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/C (Bob.Hagar@nrc.gov )

Project Engineer, DRP/C (Rayomand.Kumana@nrc.gov )

Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov )

Project Manager (Alan.Wang@nrc.gov )

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RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov )

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Senior Enforcement Specialist Ray.Kellar@nrc.gov

OEMail Resource

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R:REACTORS\RB NOV Response Acknowledgement 2010006-STG ADAMS:

ADAMS: No ;Yes  ; SUNSI Review Complete Reviewer Initials:

Publicly Available  ; Non-Sensitive

Non-publicly Available Sensitive

DRS:RI DRS:C:EB2

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