ML12040A078

1/11/2012 - Summary of Regulatory Conferences on the Palisades Nuclear Facility

ML12040A078
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	02/08/2012
From:	Jack Giessner Reactor Projects Region 3 Branch 4
To:	Entergy Nuclear Operations
References
EA-11-241, EA-11-243
Download: ML12040A078 (8)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE ROAD, SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 February 8, 2012 EA-11-241 EA-11-243 LICENSEE: Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

FACILITY: Palisades Nuclear Power Plant

SUMMARY

OF THE JANUARY 11, 2012, REGULATORY CONFERENCES At the request of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., two Regulatory Conferences were held on January 11, 2012, to discuss Entergys views regarding a Preliminary White and a Preliminary Yellow finding. The Preliminary White finding was related to the August 9, 2011, failure of coupling #6 in Service Water pump P-7C due to intergranular stress corrosion cracking. The details regarding the issue are contained in Inspection Report 05000255/2011016 (ML113330819). The Preliminary Yellow finding was related to the loss of the left train of direct current power on September 25, 2011. The details regarding the issue are contained in Inspection Report 05000255/2011014 (ML113330802).

During each of the conferences, the licensees staff described Entergys assessment of the significance of the findings and the corrective actions taken to resolve them, including the root cause evaluation of the findings. Entergy attributed the root cause of the loss of the DC bus to an organizational issue where senior Entergy management had not established a sufficiently sensitive culture of risk recognition and management, which resulted in Palisades employees not recognizing the industrial safety and plant operational risks involved with the panel ED-11-2 breaker maintenance. In addition, Entergy attributed the root cause of the failure of the Service Water pump P-7C coupling to be a design failure, in that, Entergy failed to recognize that the pump coupling procurement specification did not ensure all critical material testing requirements for use in the service water operating environment. The NRC is currently evaluating the information that was provided during the Regulatory Conferences and the final determination will be issued in a separate correspondence.

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. A partial list of attendees at each of the conferences is included in the Enclosure. Copies of the Entergy slides viewed at the meetings can be found in the NRC Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The accession number for the slides presented during the regulatory conference for the loss of the left train of DC power is ML120100205 and the accession number for the slides presented for the failure of the Service Water pump is ML120100057.

/RA/

John B. Giessner, Chief Branch 4 Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos. 50-255;72-007 License Nos. DPR-20

Enclosure:

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REGULATORY CONFERENCE LOSS OF DIRECT CURRENT BUS (EA-11-243)

LIST OF ATTENDEES ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS Alan Blind, Engineering Director Brian Brogan, Senior Staff Engineer Darrell Corbin, Assistant Operations Manager Otto Gustafson, Licensing Manager Dave Hamilton, General Manager Plant Operations John McCann, Vice President, Nuclear Safety, EP and Licensing Steve Mongeau, Senior Engineer Tony Vitale, Site Vice President Jeff Voskuil, Senior Engineer Ed Weinkam, Senior Manager, Nuclear Safety and Licensing Frank Yanik, PRA Engineer Karl Fleming, Karl N. Fleming Consulting Services LLC Richard Massa, Applied Reliability Engineering, Inc.

Robert Vecchio, Ph.D., P.E., Principal, Lucius Pitken Sontra Yim, Senior Engineer, Lucius Pitkin NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Diana Betancourt, Reactor Engineer Mahesh Chawla, Project Manager, NRR (via teleconference)

Donald Chung, Risk Analyst, NRR (via teleconference)

Jeff Circle, Senior Risk Analyst, NRR (via teleconference)

John Ellegood, Palisades Senior Resident Inspector Ryan Eul, Enforcement Specialist, Office of Enforcement (via teleconference)

Fernando Ferrante, Ph.D., Risk Analyst, NRR Jack Giessner, Chief, Reactor Projects Branch 4 Joseph Giitter, Director, Division of Risk Analysis, NRR (via teleconference)

Christopher Hunter, Risk Analyst, RES (via teleconference)

John Jandovitz, Lead, Service Water Special Inspection Team Laura Kozak, Senior Reactor Analyst Robert Krsek, Lead, DC Bus Special Inspection Team Samson Lee, Deputy Director, Division of Risk Analysis, NRR (via teleconference)

Robert Lerch, Project Engineer Patricia Lougheed, Senior Enforcement Specialist Steven Orth, Enforcement Officer David Passehl, Senior Reactor Analyst Cynthia Pederson, Acting Regional Administrator April Scarbeary, Resident Inspector Swetha Shah, Reactor Engineer Tom Taylor, Resident Inspector (via phone)

Enclosure

Jennifer Uhle, Acting Deputy Regional Administrator Nicholas Valos, Senior Reactor Analyst Stephen Vaughn, Reactor Operations Engineer, NRR (via teleconference)

Sunil Weerakkody, Chief, PRA Operational Support Branch, NRR Steven West, Director, Division of Reactor Projects See-Meng Wong, Senior Risk Analyst, NRR (via teleconference)

PUBLIC Kathryn Barnes, Dont Waste Michigan (via phone)

Corinne Carey, Dont Waste Michigan (via phone)

Ronald Gaston, Exelon Licensing Manager Thomas Griffith, Exelon Licensing Engineer Allan Haeger, Manager OIC Services, Certrec Corporation Alice Hirt, Dont Waste Michigan (via phone)

Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear and Dont Waste Michigan (via phone)

Amber Laderira Dina Lamb (via phone)

Linda Lewison, Nuclear Energy Information Service Mitchel Mathews, Exelon Licensing Engineer Michael Mulligan (via phone)

Dillon Reed Lindsey Smith (via phone)

Enclosure

REGULATORY CONFERENCE FAILURE OF SERVICE WATER PUMP P-7C (EA-11-241)

LIST OF ATTENDEES ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS Alan Blind, Engineering Director Brian Brogan, Senior Staff Engineer Darrell Corbin, Assistant Operations Manager Otto Gustafson, Licensing Manager Dave Hamilton, General Manager Plant Operations John McCann, Vice President, Nuclear Safety, EP and Licensing Steve Mongeau, Senior Engineer Jeff Voskuil, Senior Engineer Tony Vitale, Site Vice President Ed Weinkam, Senior Manager, Nuclear Safety and Licensing Frank Yanik, PRA Engineer Karl Fleming, Karl N. Fleming Consulting Services LLC Richard Massa, Applied Reliability Engineering, Inc.

Robert Vecchio, Ph.D., P.E., Principal, Lucius Pitken Sontra Yim, Senior Engineer, Lucius Pitkin NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Diana Betancourt, Reactor Engineer Mahesh Chawla, Project Manager, NRR (via teleconference)

Donald Chung, Risk Analyst, NRR (via teleconference)

Jeff Circle, Senior Risk Analyst, NRR (via teleconference)

John Ellegood, Palisades Senior Resident Inspector Ryan Eul, Enforcement Specialist, Office of Enforcement (via teleconference)

Fernando Ferrante, Ph.D., Risk Analyst, NRR Jack Giessner, Chief, Reactor Projects Branch 4 Jared Heck, Regional Counsel Christopher Hunter, Risk Analyst, RES (via teleconference)

John Jandovitz, Lead, Service Water Special Inspection Team Laura Kozak, Senior Reactor Analyst Robert Krsek, Lead, DC Bus Special Inspection Team Samson Lee, Deputy Director, Division of Risk Analysis, NRR (via teleconference)

Robert Lerch, Project Engineer Weibo Lin, International Assignee, NRR (via teleconference)

Patricia Lougheed, Senior Enforcement Specialist Viktoria Mitlyng, Public Affairs Officer Steven Orth, Enforcement Officer David Passehl, Senior Reactor Analyst Cynthia Pederson, Acting Regional Administrator April Scarbeary, Resident Inspector Swetha Shah, Reactor Engineer Enclosure

Song-Hua Shen, Risk Analyst, RES (via teleconference)

Tom Taylor, Resident Inspector (via phone)

Jennifer Uhle, Acting Deputy Regional Administrator Nicholas Valos, Senior Reactor Analyst Stephen Vaughn, Reactor Operations Engineer, NRR (via teleconference)

Sunil Weerakkody, Chief, PRA Operational Support Branch, NRR Steven West, Director, Division of Reactor Projects See-Meng Wong, Senior Risk Analyst, NRR (via teleconference)

Antonios Zoulis Risk Analyst, NRR (via teleconference)

Robert Buell, Idaho National Laboratory (via phone)

John Schroeder, Idaho National Laboratory (via phone)

PUBLIC Kathryn Barnes, Dont Waste Michigan (via phone)

Corinne Carey, Dont Waste Michigan (via phone)

Kari Day, Michigan State Police (via phone)

Allan Haeger, Manager OIC Services, Certrec Corporation Alice Hirt, Dont Waste Michigan (via phone)

Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear and Dont Waste Michigan (via phone)

Dina Lamb (via phone)

Linda Lewison, Nuclear Energy Information Service Michael Mulligan (via phone)

Dillon Reed Lindsey Smith (via phone)

Audrey Walter, Michigan State Police (via phone Enclosure

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. A partial list of attendees at each of the conferences is included in the Enclosure. Copies of the Entergy slides viewed at the meetings can be found in the NRC Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The accession number for the slides presented during the regulatory conference for the loss of the left train of DC power is ML120100205 and the accession number for the slides presented for the failure of the Service Water pump is ML120100057.

/RA/

John B. Giessner, Chief Branch 4 Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos. 50-255;72-007 License Nos. DPR-20

Enclosure:

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Letter to Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., from J. Giessner dated February 8, 2012.

SUMMARY

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