ML110610597
| ML110610597 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Fort Calhoun  |
| Issue date: | 03/02/2011 |
| From: | Mark Haire Operations Branch IV |
| To: | Bannister D Omaha Public Power District |
| References | |
| 50-285/12-301 | |
| Download: ML110610597 (7) | |
See also: IR 05000285/2012301
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UNITED STATES
NUC LE AR RE G UL AT O RY C O M M I S S I O N
R E GI ON I V
612 EAST LAMAR BLVD , SU I TE 400
AR LI N GTON , TEXAS 76011-4125
March 2, 2011
David J. Bannister, Vice President
and Chief Nuclear Officer
Omaha Public Power District
Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4
P.O. Box 550
Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550
SUBJECT: FORT CALHOUN STATION - NOTIFICATION OF NRC INITIAL OPERATOR
LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000285/2012301
Dear Mr. Bannister:
In a telephone conversation on February 24, 2011, between Messrs. T. Gielbelhausen,
Operations Training Manager, and K. Clayton, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the
administration of licensing examinations at Fort Calhoun Station during the week of April 16,
2012.
As agreed during the telephone conversation, the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in NUREG-1021,
Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors, Revision 9, Supplement 1, and
NUREG-1122, Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators,
Revision 2, Supplement 1. Your staff will be given the opportunity to review the examinations
during the week of February 27, 2012.
To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the supporting
reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 and enclosed with this letter by April 11,
2011. We request that any personal, proprietary, sensitive unclassified, or safeguards
information in your response be contained in a separate enclosure and appropriately marked.
Any delay in receiving the required reference materials, or the submittal of inadequate or
incomplete materials, may cause the examinations to be rescheduled. In addition, your support
for on-site validation of the examinations is required during the week of March 12, 2012.
In order to conduct the requested written examinations and operating tests, it will be necessary
for your staff to provide adequate space and accommodations in accordance with ES-402 and to
make the simulation facility available on the dates noted above. In accordance with ES-302,
your staff should retain the original simulator performance data (e.g., system pressures,
temperatures, and levels) generated during the dynamic operating tests until the examination
results are final.
Appendix E to NUREG-1021 contains a number of NRC policies and guidelines that will be in
effect while the written examinations and operating tests are being administered.
Mr. D. Bannister -2-
To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff should submit preliminary operator and
senior operator license applications (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval
number 3150-0090), medical certifications (OMB approval number 3150-0024), and waiver
requests (if any) (OMB approval number 3150-0090) at least 30 days before the first
examination date. If the applications are not received at least 30 days before the examination
date, a postponement may be necessary. Signed applications certifying that all training has
been completed should be submitted at least 14 days before the first examination date.
This letter contains information collections that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). These information collections were approved by OMB, under
approval number 3150-0018, which expires on February 28, 2013. The public reporting burden
for this collection of information is estimated to average 500 hours0.00579 days <br />0.139 hours <br />8.267196e-4 weeks <br />1.9025e-4 months <br /> per response, including the
time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, writing the
examinations, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments
regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of these information collections, including
suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Records and FOIA/Privacy Services Branch
(T-5 F52), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by Internet
electronic mail to INFOCOLLECTS@NRC.GOV.
The NRC may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, an
information collection, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its
enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document
Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRCs Agencywide
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the
electronic Reading Room page of the NRCs public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-
rm/adams.html.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. T. Gielbelhausen has been advised of the
policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRCs
examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. K. Clayton, Chief Examiner, at
817-806-8216, or myself at 817-860-8159.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Mark S. Haire, Chief
Operations Branch
Division of Reactor Safety
Docket: 50-285
License: DPR-40
Mr. D. Bannister -3-
DISTRIBUTION:
Jeffrey A. Reinhart
Site Vice President
Omaha Public Power District
Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm
P.O. Box 550
Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550
Susan Baughn
Manager - Nuclear Licensing
Omaha Public Power District
Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.
P.O. Box 550
Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550
David A. Repka
Winston & Strawn
1700 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006-3817
Chairman
Washington County Board of Supervisors
P.O. Box 466
Blair, NE 68008
Ms. Julia Schmitt, Manager
Radiation Control Program
Nebraska Health & Human Services
Division of Public Health
P.O. Box 95026
Lincoln, NE 68509-5026
Ms. Melanie Rasmussen
Radiation Control Program Officer
Bureau of Radiological Health
Iowa Department of Public Health
Lucas State Office Building, 5th Floor
321 East 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319
Chief, Technological Hazards Branch
FEMA, Region VII
9221 Ward Parkway
Suite 300
Kansas City, MO 64114-3372
Mr. D. Bannister -4-
Electronic distribution by RIV:
Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov)
Deputy Regional Administrator (Art.Howell@nrc.gov)
DRP Director (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)
DRP Deputy Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)
DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)
DRS Deputy Director (Vacant)
Senior Resident Inspector (John.Kirkland@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Jacob.Wingebach@nrc.gov)
Branch Chief, DRP/E (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer, DRP/E (Ray.Azua@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer (Jim.Melfi@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer (Chris.Smith@nrc.gov)
FCS Administrative Assistant (Berni.Madison@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)
Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Michael.Hay@nrc.gov)
Project Manager (Lynnea.Wilkins@nrc.gov)
RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)
Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)
Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)
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DRS/TSB STA (Dale.Powers@nrc.gov)
ADAMS: No : Yes : SUNSI Review Complete Reviewer Initials: KDC
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/RA/ /RA/
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OFFICIAL RECORD COPY T=Telephone E=E-mail F=Fax
Required Materials for Initial Licensing Examination
This enclosure discusses the reference materials that Fort Calhoun Station is expected to
provide to the NRC in order to prepare its initial licensing examination. This list has been
customized by the Region IV office to support the NRC development of initial examinations
scheduled for the week of April 16, 2012. The regional office may request additional materials at
a later time, if necessary, to ensure the accuracy and validity of the examinations.
The regional office has duly considered the administrative burden it places on the facility
licensee and is requesting only those materials that are actually necessary for the NRC
examiners to prepare for the examinations.
All reference materials provided for the license examinations should be approved, final issues
and should be so marked; any personal, proprietary, sensitive, or safeguards information should
be marked and submitted in a separate enclosure. If any of the material is expected to change
before the scheduled examination date, the facility licensee should reach agreement with the
NRC chief examiner regarding changes before the examinations are administered.
Fort Calhoun Station staff have agreed to submit the reference materials on computer diskettes
(in a format that is compatible with the NRCs word processing software) that are properly
indexed. Failure to submit these resources in a timely fashion or incomplete submittals may
prompt the NRC to return the materials and possibly postpone the examinations.
Unless otherwise instructed by the NRCs regional office, the facility licensee is expected
to provide the following reference materials for each NRC initial licensing examination:
1. Materials used by the facility licensee to ensure operator competency
a. The following types of materials used to train applicants for initial RO and SRO
licensing, as necessary to support examination development:
- learning objectives, student handouts, and lesson plans
- system descriptions, drawings, and diagrams of all operationally relevant
flow paths, components, controls, and instrumentation
- material used to clarify and strengthen understanding of normal,
abnormal, and emergency operating procedures
- complete, operationally useful descriptions of all safety system
interactions and, where available, balance-of-plant system interactions
under emergency and abnormal conditions, including consequences of
anticipated operator errors, maintenance errors, and equipment failures,
as well as plant-specific risk insights based on a probabilistic risk analysis
(PRA) and individual plant examination (IPE)
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These materials should be complete, comprehensive, and of sufficient
detail to support the development of accurate and valid examinations
without being redundant.
b. Questions and answers specific to the facility training program that may be
used in the written examinations or operating tests
c. Copies of facility-generated simulator scenarios that expose the applicants
to abnormal and emergency conditions, including degraded pressure control,
degraded heat removal capability, and containment challenges, during all
modes of operation, including low-power conditions (A description of the
scenarios used for the training class may also be provided). This scenario bank
should include an index.
d. All JPMs used to ascertain the competence of the operators in performing
tasks within the control room complex and outside the control room (i.e., local
operations) as identified in the facilitys job task analysis (JTA) (JPMs should
evaluate operator responsibilities during normal, abnormal, and emergency
conditions and events, and during all modes of operation including cold
shutdown, low power, and full power). This JPM bank should include an index.
e. All Written examination questions maintained in a question bank or banks with
an included index.
2. Complete index of procedures (including all categories sent)
3. All administrative procedures applicable to reactor operation or safety
4. All integrated plant procedures (normal or general operating procedures)
5. All emergency procedures (emergency instructions, abnormal or special
procedures) including their bases documents.
6. Standing orders (important orders that are safety-related and may modify the
regular procedures)
7. Surveillance procedures that are run frequently (i.e., weekly) or that can be run
on the simulator
8. Fuel handling and core loading procedures
9. All annunciator and alarm procedures
10. Radiation protection manual (radiation control manual or procedures)
11. Emergency plan implementing procedures
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12. Technical Specifications or similar technical requirements documents
(and interpretations, if available) for all units for which licenses are sought
13. System operating procedures
14. Technical data book and plant curve information used by operators,
as well as the facility precautions, limitations, and set points document
15. The following information pertaining to the simulation facility:
a. list of all initial conditions
b. list of all malfunctions with identification numbers and cause-and-effect
information, including a concise description of the expected result or range of
results that will occur upon initiation and an indication of which annunciators
will be actuated as a result of the malfunction
c. a description of the simulators failure capabilities for valves, breakers,
indicators, and alarms
d. the range of severity of each variable malfunction (e.g., the size of a reactor
coolant or steam leak, or the rate of a component failure such as a feed pump,
turbine generator, or major valve)
e. a list of modeling conditions (e.g., simplifications, assumptions, and limits)
and problems that may affect the examination
f. a list of any known performance test discrepancies not yet corrected
g. a list of differences between the simulator and the reference plants control
room
h. simulator instructor's manual
16. Complete Simulator Malfunction index of all available items (component and
instrument malfunctions) that can and have been run on the simulator
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