ML111730360
| ML111730360 | |
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| Site: | Beaver Valley, Davis Besse, Perry |
| Issue date: | 06/21/2011 |
| From: | FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co |
| To: | NRC/RGN-III |
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| Download: ML111730360 (35) | |
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FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company June 21, 2011 FENOC Fleet Overview NRC Senior Management Briefing
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 2
Agenda/Opening Remarks Jim Lash
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 3
Agenda
Opening Remarks Jim Lash - President FE Generation and Chief Nuclear Officer
FENOC Overview Pete Sena - President FENOC and Chief Operating Officer Eric Larson - Vice President, Nuclear Support
Fleet Strategic Initiatives Dan Pace - Senior Vice President, Fleet Engineering
Site Performance Review Beaver Valley: Paul Harden - Vice President Davis-Besse: Barry Allen - Vice President Perry: Mark Bezilla - Vice President
Fleet Oversight and Assessment Karen Fili - Vice President, Oversight
Closing Remarks Jim Lash
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 4
Desired Outcome Demonstrate that FENOC is:
Committed to the safety and protection of the public, employees, and the environment
Committed to safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective operations
Focused on fleet operations and is having positive effects on site performance
Addressing challenges and adjusting actions where needed
On track for top fleet industry operating performance
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 5
FirstEnergy Facts at a Glance
Headquartered in Akron, Ohio
Largest investor-owned electric system in the U.S. based on six million customers served
Approximately 24,000 megawatts of generating capacity
10 electric utility operating companies in seven states
Ranked 134 among Fortune 200 companies
More than 17,000 employees Ohio Ohio Edison The Illuminating Company Toledo Edison Pennsylvania Met-Ed Penelec Penn Power West Penn Power West Virginia/Maryland/Virginia Mon Power Potomac Edison New Jersey Jersey Central Power & Light
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 6
Post-Merger Insights An Integrated Fossil and Nuclear Generation Fleet
Create one common vision and approach to safety, human performance and business practices
Leverage operational and maintenance expertise
Implement best practices across the generation fleet
Apply nuclear approach to certain practices/events (e.g., outage management)
Share resources and knowledge across the generation fleet
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 7
About FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company
Formed to continue the safe and reliable operations of FirstEnergys (FE) nuclear plants
Improved operational performance and efficiency with standard organizational structure and process beginning in 2004
Four generating units produce about 4,000 megawatts of electricity or about 17 percent of FEs output Beaver Valley 1,815 MW Davis-Besse 908 MW Perry 1,268 MW Akron Cleveland June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 7
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 8
FENOC Overview Pete Sena Eric Larson
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 9
FENOC Organization Eric Larson Vice President Nuclear Support Paul Harden Vice President Beaver Valley Mark Bezilla Vice President Perry Barry Allen Vice President Davis-Besse Tony Alexander President and CEO FirstEnergy Corp.
Karen Fili Vice President Fleet Oversight Jim Lash FE Generation President and Chief Nuclear Officer Pete Sena FENOC President and Chief Operating Officer Board of Directors Nuclear Committee Dan Murray Director Perf Improvement Ray Lieb Director Site Operations Vito Kaminskas Director DB Site Engineering Mark Manoleras Director BV Site Engineering Rich Bologna Director Fleet Engineering Harlan Hanson Director Perf Improvement Ken Byrd Director Perf Improvement Brian Boles Director Site Operations Jim Thomas Director Nuclear Security John Grabnar Director PY Site Engineering Dave Huff Director Maintenance John Dominy Director Maintenance Greg Halnon Director Regulatory Affairs Dan Pace Senior Vice President Fleet Engineering Jim Veglia Director Fleet Project Management Fred Cayia Director Fleet Operations Support Kurt Krueger Director Site Operations Ralph Smith Director Nuclear Human Resources Mike Stevens Director Maintenance Dewey Evans Director Work Management
& Outages Clark Price Director DB Head Replacement Steve Braunfield Director BETA Lab Roy Brosi Director Strategic Industry Initiatives
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 10 FENOC Vision and Strategies
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 11 Gap Identification Gap Identification Benchmarking Realign for Improvement Business Plan Strategy Action to Close Gaps Excellence Plans Monitor Results Metrics Continuous Improvement Process
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 12 Fleet Results - 2011 progress
Personal safety
- Fleet OSHA Rate = 0.23
Maintaining focus on safe and reliable day-to-day operations
- 83.3% Fleet Capability Factor
- 0.01% Fleet Forced Loss Rate (rolling average)
Fleet benchmarks
- Strengths
- Fuel reliability
- Safety system availability
- Unplanned automatic scrams
- Chemistry performance
- Opportunities
- Outage duration
- Collective radiation exposure
Earned NEI Top Industry Practice award
- Fire-fighting simulation tool
Earned two EPRI Technology Transfer awards
- Optimized weld overlay for Alloy 600 mitigation (Davis-Besse)
- Mid-cycle detection and evaluation of dissimilar metal welds (Perry)
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 13 Fleet Progress NRC Reactor Oversight Program results
Action Matrix columns Quarter 1Q 04 2Q 04 3Q 04 4Q 04 1Q 05 2Q 05 3Q 05 4Q 05 1Q 06 2Q 06 3Q 06 4Q 06 1Q 07 2Q 07 3Q 07 4Q 07 1Q 08 2Q 08 3Q 08 4Q 08 1Q 09 2Q 09 3Q 09 4Q 09 1Q 10 2Q 10 3Q 10 4Q 10 1Q 11 BV1 2
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Industry assessment results
Two FENOC sites have achieved recognition of industry excellence
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 14 2011 Business Objectives Fleet Focus Areas Drive Improved Performance
Outage planning and execution
Radiological performance
Equipment reliability Improve:
Excellence Plans
Closing the gaps through FENOC Excellence Plans will continue safe and reliable operations and lead to top industry performance
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 15 Workforce Replenishment Initiatives
Utilization of succession plans
College Partnerships
- University of Pittsburgh
- Pennsylvania State University
- Ohio State University
Operations personnel pipeline
Targeted recruiting of experienced personnel
Nuclear Power Technology programs
- Lakeland Community College (Kirtland, OH)
- Nuclear Uniform Curriculum Program
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 16 Security Update
Fully implemented new physical security requirements
Invested $112 million on security upgrades since 2001
Security staffing at new, increased levels
Four successful NRC Force-on-Force (FOF) evaluations during the last 14 months at the three stations
Providing high confidence that public health and safety are protected
Continue to assess, evaluate, and make necessary improvements
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 17 Fleet Strategic Initiatives Dan Pace
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 18 Strategic Initiatives Fleet Approach
Davis-Besse reactor head and steam generator replacement
Beaver Valley Unit 2 reactor head and steam generator replacement
Beaver Valley and Perry low pressure turbine rotor replacements
Spent fuel dry storage implementation
Operating license renewals
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 19 Strategic Initiatives Fleet Approach
Probabilistic Risk Assessment upgrades
Plant equipment upgrades
Engineering programs
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 20 Strategic Initiatives Fukushima Response
FENOC in leadership role
Engineering representation for industry response
Loaned employees to INPO for initial event response
Proactive preparation
Dedicated FENOC Director for company coordination
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 21 Site Performance: Beaver Valley Paul Harden
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 22 Site Performance Review Beaver Valley
Plant Status
- Personal Safety: 4.0 million hours without lost time incident
- YTD capability factor: Unit 1 = 96.5%, Unit 2 = 75.7%
- YTD forced loss rate: Unit 1 = 0.01%, Unit 2 = 0.04%
- Defect-free fuel performance
- BV2 Cycle 15 Operating Performance Summary
- Availability Factor - tied record with Cycle 13
- Capacity Factor - new record
- Forced Loss Rate - new record
Regulatory Update
- Unit 2 Fuel Pool Rerack Amendment
- Component Design Bases Inspection
- NEI 99-01 Revision 5 Emergency Action Level upgrade
Refuel Outage Review
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 23 Site Performance Review Beaver Valley
2011 Objectives
- Safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective operations
- Refueling outage execution and preparation
- Implement plans to increase Unit 2 spent fuel storage capacity
- Emergency preparedness improvements
- Improve material condition/equipment reliability
- Program implementation
Operator Pipeline
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 24 Site Performance: Davis-Besse Barry Allen
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 25 Site Performance Review Davis-Besse
Plant Status
- Personal safety: 2.5 million hours without a lost time incident
- YTD capability factor = 95.4%, YTD forced loss rate = 0.00%
- Defect-free fuel performance
- Improved rod control system health
- January 2011 planned maintenance outage
Regulatory Update
- NRC License Renewal
- Application submitted and under review
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
- Successful Emergency Response Organization Evaluated Exercise
Reactor Vessel Head Replacement Outage
- Voluntary accelerated replacement
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 26 Site Performance Review Davis-Besse
2011 Objectives
- Safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective operations
- Excellent personal safety behaviors
- Mid-cycle outage preparation and execution
- Evaluated emergency response exercise
- Industry performance evaluation and assistance visit
- Plant life extension/license renewal
Operator pipeline
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 27 Site Performance: Perry Mark Bezilla
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 28 Site Performance Review Perry
Plant Status
- Personal Safety: 891,000 hours0 days <br />0 hours <br />0 weeks <br />0 months <br /> without a lost time incident
- YTD capability factor = 70.4%, YTD forced loss rate = 0.00%
- Defect-free fuel performance
Regulatory Update
- Human Performance Substantive Cross-Cutting Issue
- Special Inspection Team
- Successful Emergency Response Organization Evaluated Exercise
Refuel Outage Summary
- Opportunities
- Oversight of refuel vendor performance
- Crisp execution
- Improvements
- Safety performance
- Dose / Source term reduction
- Equipment reliability improvements
- FENOC craft performance
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 29 Site Performance Review Perry
Post Outage Lessons Learned
- Outage critique
- Common Cause Assessment
2011 Objectives
- Safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective operations
- Human Performance
- Radiological performance
- Equipment reliability (work management and equipment focus)
- Major Equipment Reliability Program (MERP) continues
Operator pipeline
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 30 Fleet Oversight Karen Fili
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 31 Fleet Oversight
Compliance auditing
Individual site performance assessment
- Beaver Valley
- Davis-Besse
- Perry
Corporate Assessments
- Safety Culture/NEI Safety Culture Assessment Process
Employee Concerns Program
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 32 Closing Remarks Jim Lash
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 33 Closing Remarks
Safe Plant Operations
Reliable Plant Operations
Cost-Effective Plant Operations
Effective use of People, Processes and Procedures Our vision:
People with a strong safety focus delivering top fleet operating performance.
June 21, 2011 NRC Senior Management Briefing 34 Closing Remarks FENOC is:
Committed to the safety and protection of the public, employees, and the environment
Committed to safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective operations
Focused on fleet operations and is having positive effects on site performance
Addressing challenges and adjusting actions where needed
On track for top fleet industry operating performance
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company June 21, 2011 FENOC Fleet Overview NRC Senior Management Briefing