ML113060325
| ML113060325 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Waterford  |
| Issue date: | 11/02/2011 |
| From: | O'Keefe N NRC/RGN-IV/DRS/EB-2 |
| To: | Jacobs D Entergy Operations |
| References | |
| IR-12-007 | |
| Download: ML113060325 (8) | |
See also: IR 05000382/2012007
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UNITED STATES
NUC LE AR RE G ULATO 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
November 2, 2011
Donna Jacobs, Vice President, Operations
Entergy Operations, Inc.
Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3
17265 River Road
Killona, LA 70057-0751
SUBJECT: WATERFORD STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNIT 3 - NOTIFICATION OF NRC
TRIENNIAL FIRE PROTECTION BASELINE INSPECTION (05000382/2012007)
Dear Ms. Jacobs:
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC),
Region IV staff will conduct a triennial fire protection baseline inspection at your Waterford 3
facility in February 2012. The inspection team will be comprised of five reactor inspectors from
the NRC Region IV office. The inspection will be conducted in accordance with Inspection
Procedure 71111.05T, Fire Protection (Triennial), the NRC=s baseline fire protection inspection
procedure.
The schedule for the inspection is as follows:
$ Information gathering visit: January 10-12, 2012
$ Onsite inspection: January 30 to February 3, 2012
February 13 - 17, 2012
Members of the inspection team will visit your Waterford 3 facility on January 10-12, 2012, to
meet with selected members of your staff in order to gather information and documentation
needed to support the inspection, to obtain unescorted access to the facility, to discuss office
space assigned to the team, to become familiar with your fire protection program, and to select
the fire areas of interest for the inspection.
Experience has shown that this inspection is resource intensive 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.
Please note that some of the documents are requested to be provided prior to the information
gathering visit.
We request that during the onsite inspection weeks, you ensure that copies of analyses,
evaluations, or documentation regarding the implementation and maintenance of the fire
protection program, including post-fire safe shutdown capability, be readily accessible to the
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team for their review. Of specific interest are those documents that establish that your fire
protection program satisfies NRC regulatory requirements and conforms to applicable NRC
and industry fire protection guidance. Also, appropriate personnel knowledgeable of: (1) those
plant systems required to achieve and maintain safe shutdown conditions from inside and
outside the control room, (2) the electrical aspects of the post-fire safe shutdown analyses,
(3) reactor plant fire protection systems, (4) the fire protection program and its implementation
and (5) the operational implementation of fire response procedures should be available to
support the team at the site during 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 Jim Pollock of your licensing organization.
If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the
lead inspector, Greg Pick, at 817 860-8270 or by email at greg.pick@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 -0011.
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 NRC's 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: 50-382
License: NPF-38
Enclosure: Triennial Fire Protection
Inspection Documentation Request List
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Distribution via listserv for Waterford Steam Electric Station
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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)
DRP Deputy Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)
DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)
DRS Deputy Director (Tom.Blount@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Marlone.Davis@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Dean.Overland@nrc.gov)
Acting Branch Chief, DRP/E (James.Drake@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer, DRP/E (Ray.Azua@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer (Jim.Melfi@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer (Chris.Smith@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer (Daniel.Bradley@nrc.gov)
WAT Administrative Assistant (Linda.Dufrene@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)
Project Manager (Kaly.Kalyanam@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)
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ENCLOSURE
Triennial Fire Protection Inspection Documentation Request
Please provide the following documents (items 1-5) prior to the onsite information-gathering
visit, preferably no later than December 23, 2011. Where practical, please provide copies
electronically unless specified otherwise with folders indexed by request number. If documents
are provided as stored in your electronic records system without titles, please provide
titles/descriptions in the electronic file name or, as a minimum, an index by number with the
appropriate title/description.
1. The current version of your fire protection program and fire hazards analysis.
2. Post-fire safe shutdown analysis and the supporting calculations that demonstrate
acceptable plant response.
3. Copies of the licensing basis documents for fire protection (safety evaluation reports,
pertinent sections of the final safety analysis report, exemptions, deviations, letters
to/from the NRC regarding fire protection/fire safe shutdown, etc.).
4. The fire probabilistic risk assessment or portions of the plants individual plant
examination for external events report addressing fire events. Also, include the results
of any post-IPEEE reviews, and listings of actions taken/plant modifications conducted in
response to probabilistic risk assessment updates.
5. A copy of the documents that support your multiple spurious operation evaluations (i.e.,
expert panel reports, evaluation packages, et cetera).
Please provide the following documentation (items 6-48) during the information-gathering visit in
order to support inspection preparation. Whenever practical, please provide copies
electronically. Drawings should be provided as paper copies of sufficient size such that all
details are legible.
6. Plant layout and equipment drawings for fire areas that identify: (a) the physical plant
locations of major hot standby and cold shutdown equipment; (b) plant fire area and/or
fire zone delineation; and (c) the locations of fire protection equipment, such as
detection, suppression, and post-fire emergency lighting units; and (d) fire area
boundaries. The specific documents needed to support inspection preparation will be
discussed during the site visit.
7. Fire protection program implementing procedures (e.g., administrative controls, operator
response procedures for fires, fire fighting procedures, etc.).
8. Operating procedures used for achieving and maintaining hot and cold shutdown
conditions from the control room in the event of a fire outside the control room
(III.G.2 areas).
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9. Operating procedure(s) used to implement an alternative shutdown (III.G.3 areas)
capability with or without control room evacuation.
10. A list of equipment used to achieve and maintain hot standby and cold shutdown in the
event of a fire (safe shutdown equipment lists).
11. Piping and instrumentation (flow) diagrams showing the components used to achieve
and maintain hot standby and cold shutdown for normal and alternate shutdown. Please
provide one copy of the piping and instrumentation (flow) diagrams for these systems of
a size sufficient to read all details. These should include the systems used for reactor
coolant system makeup, reactor coolant system pressure control, decay heat removal,
and reactivity control, including the essential support systems.
12. A listing, with descriptions, of design change packages which were determined to impact
fire protection and post-fire safe shutdowns, performed since the last triennial fire
protection inspection (April 1, 2009).
13. Copies of fire protection program change evaluations (Generic Letter 86-10 evaluations)
performed since the last triennial fire protection inspection (April 1, 2009).
14. Procedures/instructions that control the configuration of the plant's fire protection
program, features, and post-fire safe shutdown methodology and system design. Also,
procedures/instructions that govern the implementation of plant modifications,
maintenance, and special operations, and their impact on fire protection.
15. A listing of open and closed corrective action documents initiated since the last triennial
fire protection inspection(April 1, 2009), which relate to the fire protection program or
equipment, including corrective actions for fire-induced circuit failures, both single and
multiple spurious actuations (for the selected fire areas), and including corrective actions
for operator manual actions. Include Corrective Action Process document number, date,
and subject
16. A listing of the applicable codes and standards (with the versions/dates) related to the
design of plant fire protection features and evaluations of any code deviations. Copies
of these codes should be available for review.
17. Drawings of the portions of the emergency lighting system that support fire response.
18. Procedures used to remove smoke from safety-related areas and the engineering
studies or calculations that support the design basis.
19. Drawings of communication systems credited in the license basis for firefighting and
plant operations during fires where control room is occupied and/or evacuated.
20. Piping and instrumentation (flow) diagrams for the fire water and sprinkler systems.
21. A listing of maintenance and surveillance testing procedures for alternative shutdown
capability and fire barriers, detectors, pumps and suppression systems. Also, include a
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list of maintenance and surveillance testing procedures that verify fuse and breaker
coordination in accordance with the post-fire safe shutdown coordination analysis.
22. Maintenance rule performance criterion and a summary of the performance history for
systems or functions monitored within the maintenance rule program that support the fire
protection program or involve safe shutdown equipment, over the period since the last
triennial fire protection inspection April 1, 2009.
23. A copy of fire protection program requirements (e.g., limiting conditions for operation,
surveillance test requirements) covered by technical specifications, technical
requirements manual, updated final safety analysis report, or similar documents.
24. Copies of internal and external self-assessments, audits, peer-assessments or similar
reviews related to post-fire safe shutdown capability or the fire protection program
completed since the last triennial fire protection inspection (April 1, 2009).
25. A list of manual actions taken outside the control room that are credited to mitigate the
consequences of fires in III.G.2 areas (non-alternative shutdown areas). The list should
group actions by the initiating fire area or zone and indicate where the action must take
place.
26. Electronic copies of operator study guides (i.e., lesson plan text and graphics) or design
basis documents that describe the purpose/function/operating characteristics of the safe
shutdown systems (RCS makeup, RCS pressure control, decay heat removal, and
reactivity control, including the essential support systems).
27. Two copies of one-line diagrams of the AC and vital DC electrical distribution systems.
These should depict how power gets from the switchyard to the engineered safety
feature loads (480V and 4160V).
28. A list of automatic and manually initiated gaseous fire suppression systems in the plant,
giving location and the key equipment being protected.
29. A list of repairs (and the procedure that controls the actions) needed to: a) reach and/or
maintain hot shutdown and b) reach and/or maintain cold shutdown.
30. A list of high to low pressure interface valves.
31. A copy of procedures governing the training and operation of the fire brigade.
32. Organization charts of site personnel down to the level of fire protection staff personnel.
33. A contact list of key site personnel who will be supporting this inspection, giving location
of their office and phone number onsite.
34. The team would like to observe an unannounced fire brigade drill in the plant, if possible,
during the week of February 13, 2011. Please put us in contact, during the onsite
information gathering trip, with the appropriate personnel for planning drills.
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35. The team would like to perform a walkthrough of the procedure for control room
evacuation due to fire with qualified operators in the plant during the week of
January 30, 2011. Please put us in contact, during the onsite information gathering trip,
with the appropriate personnel for planning the walkthrough.
The following documents (items 36-48) involve B.5.b mitigating strategies.
36. A copy of the license condition that incorporated the requirements issued to address the
requirements of Section B.5.b of the ICM Order, EA-02-026, dated February 25, 2002,
and 10 CFR 50.54(hh)(2).
37. A list of the original and any modifications to the regulatory commitments made to meet
the requirements of Section B.5.b of the ICM Order, EA-02-026, dated February 25,
2002, the subsequently imposed license conditions, and 10 CFR 50.54(hh)(2).
38. A list of procedures/guidelines that was revised or generated to implement the mitigation
strategies. These could be extensive damage mitigation guidelines (EDMGs), severe
accident management guidelines (SAMGs), emergency operating procedures (EOPs),
abnormal operating procedures (AOPs), etc.
39. A matrix that shows the correlation between the mitigation strategies identified in
Nuclear Energy Institute 06-12 and the site-specific procedures or guidelines that are
used to implement each strategy.
40. Engineering evaluations/calculations that were used to verify engineering bases for the
mitigation strategies.
41. Copies of piping and instrumentation diagrams or simplified flow diagrams for systems
relied upon in the mitigation strategies. These could be the type used for training.
42. A list of modification packages and simplified drawings/descriptions of modifications that
were made to plant systems to implement the mitigation strategies.
43. Copies of procedure(s) used to inventory equipment (hoses, fittings, pumps, etc.)
required to be used to implement the mitigation strategies.
44. A list of your B.5.b strategies documented in the submittals to the NRC and the safety
evaluation report. In addition, please list any strategies that have implementing details
that differ from that originally submitted
45. A copy of site general arrangement drawing(s) that show the majority of buildings/areas
referenced in B.5.b documents.
46. Training records/ training matrix/ lesson plans related to B.5.b.
47. Copies of Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) (e.g., with local fire departments)
required to implement any mitigating strategies.
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48. The team would like to perform a walkthrough of the procedure implementing a sample
mitigating strategy (to be selected by the inspector during the information gathering visit)
and the inventory equipment (hoses, fittings, pumps, etc.) required to be used to
implement the mitigation strategies during the week of January 30, 2011. Please put us
in contact with the appropriate personnel for planning the walkthrough during the onsite
information gathering trip.
The following documentation needs (items 49-51) will be dependent upon sample selections,
and will be finalized during discussions with your staff. Please provide the required documents
prior to the week of January 23, 2011. Whenever practical, please provide copies electronically.
Drawings should be provided as paper copies of sufficient size such that all details are legible.
49. Pre-fire plans for the selected fire areas (areas to be selected by the team during the
information-gathering trip).
50. List of identified fire induced circuit failure configurations (for the selected fire areas) that
could prevent operation or cause maloperation of equipment credited for safe shutdown
in the event of a fire. Include failure configurations associated with hot shorts, open
circuits, or shorts to ground identified as potentially causing spurious or multiple spurious
actuations or maloperations of this equipment.
51. Cable routing information for components and equipment, credited for safe shutdown in
the selected fire areas. This information request item will be discussed and finalized
with your staff during the information gathering visit.
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