ML11209B829
| ML11209B829 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 07/28/2011 |
| From: | Mark Haire Operations Branch IV |
| To: | Halpin E South Texas |
| References | |
| IR-11-005 | |
| Download: ML11209B829 (7) | |
See also: IR 05000498/2011005
Text
Mr. Halpin
UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGI ON I V
612 EAST LAMAR BLVD, SUITE 400
ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4125
July 28, 2011
Mr. Edward D. Halpin
President and
Chief Executive Officer
STP Nuclear Operating Company
P.O. Box 289
Wadsworth, TX 77483
SUBJECT: SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION (NRC
INSPECTION REPORT 050498;050499/2011005) AND REQUEST FOR
INFORMATION
Dear Mr.Halpin:
From September 12 through September 16, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory
Commissions (NRC) Region IV office will perform the baseline biennial requalification
inspection at South Texas Project Unit 1 and Unit 2 using NRC Inspection
Procedure 71111.11B, Licensed Operator Requalification Program. Experience has shown
that this inspection is a resource intensive inspection both for the NRC inspectors and your staff.
In order to minimize the impact to your onsite resources and to ensure a productive inspection,
we have enclosed a request for documents needed for this inspection. These documents have
been divided into two groups. The first group (Section A of the enclosure) identifies information
to be provided one week prior to the onsite inspection week to ensure that the inspectors are
adequately prepared. The second group (Section B of the enclosure) identifies the information
that the inspectors will need upon arrival at the site. It is important that all of these documents
are up to date and complete in order to minimize the number of additional documents requested
during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of the inspection.
We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff and understand
that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Mrs. Robyn Savage of your licensing
organization. Our inspection dates are subject to change based on your updated schedule of
examination activities. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material
requested, please contact the lead inspector Kelly Clayton at (817) 860-8216
(Kelly.clayton@nrc.gov) or Steve Garchow at (817) 276-4426 (Steve.garchow@nrc.gov ).
This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection
requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, control number 3150-
0018. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a
request for information or an information collection requirement unless the requesting document
displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.
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/
Mark S. Haire, Chief
Operations Branch
Division of Reactor Safety
Dockets: 50-498 and 50-499
Enclosure:
Inservice Inspection Document Request
Distribution via ListServ for South Texas Project
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Electronic distribution by RIV:
Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov)
Deputy Regional Administrator (Art.Howell@nrc.gov)
DRP Director (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)
Acting DRP Deputy Director (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)
DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)
DRS Deputy Director (Tom.Blount@nrc.gov)
Acting DRS Deputy Director (Robert.Caldwell@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (John.Dixon@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Binesh.Tharakan@nrc.gov)
Branch Chief, DRP/A (Wayne.Walker@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer, DRP/A (David.Proulx@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer, DRP/A (Christopher.Henderson@nrc.gov)
STP Administrative Assistant (Lynn.Wright@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)
Project Manager (Balwant.Singal@nrc.gov)
Acting Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Dale.Powers@nrc.gov)
RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)
Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)
Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)
OEMail Resource
Inspection Reports/MidCycle and EOC Letters to the following:
ROPreports
Only inspection reports to the following:
RIV/ETA: OEDO (John.McHale@nrc.gov)
DRS/TSB STA (Dale.Powers@nrc.gov)
S:\DRS\REPORTS\Reports Draft\ST 2011005 RFI LTR MLXXXXXXXXXX
ADAMS No Yes SUNSI Review Complete Reviewer Initials: KDC
Category B.1 Publicly Available Non-sensitive
Category A Non-publicly Available Sensitive
SOE: OB C: OB
KClayton SGarchow for
MHaire
7/25/2011 7/28/2011
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BIENNIAL REQUALIFICATION INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST
From: Kelly Clayton
Senior Operations Engineer, NRC RIV
817-860-8216
To: Tim Hurley
Requal Supervisor, STP
361-972-8568
Subj: Information Request to Support September 12-16, Licensed Operator Requalification
Program Inspection (IP 71111.11B)
A. The following information is requested in order to support inspection preparation
activities. These items are listed by section as they appear in the inspection module
(ie 2.02, 2.04, etc). Requested materials should be sent either electronically or
hardcopy in order to arrive at the Region IV office no later than September 6, 2011.
- Electronically: To: Kelly.Clayton@nrc.gov (lead inspector)
Cc: Steve.Garchow@nrc.gov (inspector)
- Hardcopy to: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV
612 E. Lamar Blvd, Suite 400
Arlington, TX 76011
ATTN: Kelly Clayton
02.03: Facility Operating History
- List of LERs since last biennial requal inspection (BRQ)
- List of CRs since last biennial requal inspection
02.04: Licensee Requal Exams / 02.09: Written Exam and Op Test Results
26, 2011.
- Current requalification cycle examination methodology (sample plan)
- All portions of the UFSAR that identify operator response times
02.05: Licensee Admin of Requal Exams
- Schedule of operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) for week of September 12.
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- Operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) (password protected and provide separately via
telephone at later date) to be given week of September 12.
- Training and Operations Department organization charts (with qualified LOR
evaluators identified)
- All procedures that describe conduct of simulator training
- All Procedures used to test, operate, and maintain the simulator
- All Procedures that describe examination security, including guidelines on overlap
between examinations in current exam cycle tests and prior year examinations
- List of all examination security problems since last BRQ inspection
02.06: Licensee Feedback System
- Procedures that identify process for revising and maintaining LO continuing training
program up to date
- List of outstanding LOR program changes
- List of plant events and industry operating experience incorporated into LOR
program since last BRQ
- Audits and/or self-assessment reports addressing the licensed operator
requalification training program
02.07: Licensee Remedial Training Program
- List of remedial training conducted or planned since last requal exams (includes
training provided to operators to enable passing requal exams and training provided
to correct generic or individual weaknesses observed during previous requal exam
cycle)
- Remediation plans (lesson plans, reference materials, and attendance
documentation)
02.08: Conformance with Operator License Conditions
- All Procedures and Program documentation for maintaining active operator licenses
and ensuring medical fitness of licensed operators
- All Procedures and associated documentation that supports reactivation of any
SRO/RO license (operating or staff crew) since last BRQ
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02.11: Conformance with Simulator Requirements
- For the following cases, send the most recent transient test packages, which may be
electronic or in paper single test packages and shall be complete with test
procedures for each test, the acceptance criteria, and results. For each transient test,
the reference chart should be included or an equivalent subject matter expert review
versus the simulator results with a write-up for any differences beyond the ANSI 3.5
standard requirements. The team lead should pick samples from the list in the ANSI
3.5 standard as deemed appropriate for the inspection. A few examples are listed
below:
o Transient test 1, Manual Rx trip
o Transient test 6, Main turbine trip (max power level with no immediate reactor
trip).
o Steady State tests for 50 percent power and 100 percent power
- All Simulator Management and Configuration Procedures.
- Simulator Discrepancy Report summary list for all open DRs. For closed DRs,
summary list for those items closed between August 2009 and August 2011.
- Malfunction Tests for Stuck open PORV and Main Feed Line Break. If these are
included in an SBT package then the review of that package would be acceptable.
- MTC and IRW tests as part of primary parameters tested in order to verify core
physics parameters. The applicable reference graphs from the Plant physics data
book (electronic or other means as available) should also be included as well as the
test procedures used and the acceptance criteria with results for these two samples.
B. The following information is requested in order to support the onsite inspection
activities. Requested materials should be available to the inspection team, either
electronically or hardcopy, upon site arrival on September 12, 2011.
02.04: Licensee Requal Exams / 02.09: Written Exam and Op Test Results
- All Operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) to be given in all subsequent weeks after
onsite week
02.08: Conformance with Operator License Conditions
- Access to licensed operators records (operating and staff crews)
- Access to licensed operators training attendance records
- Access to licensed operators medical records
02.11: Conformance with Simulator Requirements
- Simulator discrepancies (DRs) from August 2009 and August 2011. This should
include all open DRs and DRs that have been closed, including the
documentation/justification for closure.
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- Acceptance test documentation, including hardware and software model revisions at
the time of acceptance (as available).
- Documentation that validates current models, including the thermal-hydraulics and
neutronics models, to the actual plant.
- All current model deficiencies, including FSAR vs Design differences in the simulator
(any documentation on this)
- Summary list of modifications from August 2009 and August 2011.
- Plant Modifications (both hardware and software) completed on the Simulator by due
date from August 2009 and August 2011.
- Simulator Differences Lesson plan used in training (current to August 30, 2011).
- The complete book of all Simulator annual performance test packages (usually in a
single book, but may be electronic or in single test packages), complete with all
transient tests, steady state tests, and malfunction tests. This should also include the
test procedures for each test, the acceptance criteria, and results. For each transient
test, the reference chart should be included or an equivalent subject matter expert
review versus the simulator results with a write-up for any differences beyond the
ANSI standard requirements.
- All test packages used to verify core physics parameters (such as MTC, IRW). The
applicable reference graphs from the Plant physics data book (electronic or other
means as available) should also be included as well as the test procedures used and
the acceptance criteria with results.
- All Simulator test, configuration management, and related documents available in the
room for inspectors to review. This includes training needs analysis packages,
simulator review committee meeting minutes, etc.
- Current copy of ANSI 3.5 standard you are committed to for Simulator testing.
02.1X: Corrective Actions related to Operator errors
All condition reports related to operator actions/errors in control room
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