ML12047A224

E-mail from S. Bahadur, NRR to A. Ulses, NRR Et Al. Re Proposed Approach to North Anna Restart Review

ML12047A224
Person / Time
Site:	North Anna
Issue date:	09/08/2011
From:	Bahadur S Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Casto G, Denning R, Anthony Mendiola, Ruland W, Ulses A, Sunil Weerakkody NRC/NRR/DSS, NRC/NRR/DSS/SRXB
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FOIA/PA-2011-0357
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Dennig, Robert From: Bahadur, Sher Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 7:34 PM To: Ulses, Anthony; Mendiola, Anthony; Dennig, Robert; Casto, Greg; Weerakkody, Sunil Cc: Ruland, William

Subject:

Fw: Proposed Approach to North Anna Restart Review Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Heads up.

Sher Bahadur Sent from a US NRC BlackBerry From: Martin, Robert To: Giitter, Joseph; Hilanrl, Patrick; Wilson, George; Bahadur, Sher; Evans, Michele; Lupold, Timothy; Cheok, Michael Cc: Kulesa, Gloria; Lund, Louise; Boyle, Patrick; Khanna, Meena; McCoy, Gerald Sent: Thu Sep 08 18:23:55 2011

Subject:

Proposed Approach to North Anna Restart Review Following today's meeting with Dominion Resources, I propose a process for the forthcoming review of the licensee's basis for restarting the two North Anna units. The discussions today indicate that many staff have given thought to the issue and currently have questions that will require an answer to support the restart review.

I propose that we ask every branch in DSS, DCI, DE, DRA and the appropriate branch in DLR to forward any questions they have that are related to restart to DORL by September 13, cob. Many of these questions appear to be already written up or could be shortly. We would issue them to the licensee and then conduct meetings with the licensee, resolve issues in the meetings, followed by licensee documentation of the resolution. We would meet with the licensee each Thursday for example, and resolve issues as rapidly as licensee resources would support.

We may need management support in getting a dedicated 33 person conference room each Thursday, for example. It can take hours and hours of effort to get a large conference room. The process used for today's meeting is too expensive for a series of multiple meetings. Just the administrative support costs about 3 PM days of time.

Holding meetings at the site may not be practical or productive unless there is a site-specific issue to be addressed. Its said that there a scaricity of motels near the site. Dominion's engineers are near Richmond. It may be useful to hold one meeting in the vicinity of the site at the conclusion of the series of meetings noted above.

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