ML13113A279
| ML13113A279 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oconee  |
| Issue date: | 04/22/2013 |
| From: | Mark King NRC/RGN-II/DRS/EB2 |
| To: | Gillespie T Duke Energy Corp |
| References | |
| IR-13-007 | |
| Download: ML13113A279 (16) | |
See also: IR 05000269/2013007
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UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION II
245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257
April 22, 2013
Mr. T. Preston Gillespie, Jr.
Site Vice President
Duke Energy Corporation
Oconee Nuclear Station
7800 Rochester Highway
Seneca, SC 29672-0752
SUBJECT: OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 - NOTIFICATION OF
CONDUCT OF A TRIENNIAL FIRE PROTECTION BASELINE INSPECTION
(NRC INSPECTION REPORT NOS. 05000269/2013007, 05000270/2013007,
Dear Mr. Gillespie:
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
staff will conduct a triennial fire protection baseline inspection at the Oconee Nuclear Station,
Units 1, 2, and 3, in July and August 2013. The inspection team will be led by Mr. McKenzie
Thomas, a Senior Reactor Inspector from the NRC Region II Office. The team will be
composed of personnel from the Region II Office. The inspection will be conducted in
accordance with IP 71111.05XT, the NRC's baseline NFPA 805 fire protection inspection
procedure.
On April 17, 2013, during a telephone conversation between Ms. Judy Smith, Oconee Licensing
Engineer, and Mr. Thomas, our respective staffs confirmed arrangements for a three-day
information gathering onsite visit and a two-week onsite inspection. The schedule for the
inspection is as follows:
- Information gathering visit: June 25-27, 2013
- Week 1 of onsite inspection: July 22-26, 2013
- Week 2 of onsite inspection: August 5-9, 2013
The purposes of the information gathering visit are to obtain information and documentation
needed to support the inspection, to become familiar with the Oconee Nuclear Station fire
protection program, fire protection features, post-fire safe shutdown capabilities, plant layout,
and mitigating strategies to address Section B.5.b of NRC Order EA-02-026, Order for Interim
Safeguards and Security Compensatory Measures, dated February 25, 2002, and Title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.54(hh)(2). The types of documents the team will
be interested in reviewing, and possibly obtaining, are listed in Enclosures 1 and 2. Please
contact Mr. Thomas at (404) 997-4673 prior to preparing copies of the materials listed in the
Enclosures. The inspection team will try to minimize your administrative burden by specifically
identifying those documents required for inspection preparation.
T. P. Gillespie, Jr. 2
During the information gathering visit, the team will also discuss the following inspection support
administrative details: office space; specific documents to be made available to the team in their
office space; arrangements for unescorted site access (including, as necessary, radiation
protection training, security, safety and fitness for duty requirements); and the availability of
knowledgeable plant engineering and licensing organization personnel to serve as points of
contact during the inspection.
We request that during the inspection weeks you ensure that copies of analyses, evaluations or
documentation regarding the implementation and maintenance of the Oconee Nuclear Station
fire protection program, including post-fire safe shutdown capability, be readily accessible to the
team for their review. Of specific interest for the fire protection portion of the inspection are
those documents which establish that your fire protection program satisfies NRC regulatory
requirements and conforms to applicable NRC and industry fire protection guidance (i.e., fire
protection compliance assessment documents). For the B.5.b portion of the inspection, those
documents implementing your mitigating strategies and demonstrating the management of your
commitments for the strategies are of specific interest. Also, personnel should be available at
the site during the inspection who are knowledgeable regarding those plant systems required to
achieve and maintain safe shutdown conditions from inside and outside the control room
(including the electrical aspects of the relevant post-fire safe shutdown analyses), reactor plant
fire protection systems and features, and the Oconee Nuclear Station fire protection program
and its implementation.
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, under control number
3150-0011. 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 NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and its
enclosures 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).
T. P. Gillespie, Jr. 3
Your cooperation and support during this inspection will be appreciated. If you have questions
concerning this inspection, or the inspection team's information or logistical needs, please
contact Mr. Thomas, the team leader, in the Region II Office at (404) 997-4673, or me at (404)
997-4511.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Michael F. King, Chief
Engineering Branch 2
Division of Reactor Safety
Docket Nos.: 50-269, 50-270, 50-287
License Nos.: DPR-38, DPR-47, DPR-55
Enclosures:
1. Triennial Fire Protection Inspection Supporting Documentation
2. Mitigating Strategies Supporting Documentation
cc: (See page 4)
_________________________ xG SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE G FORM 665 ATTACHED
OFFICE RII:DRS RII:DRS
NAME MTHOMAS MKING
DATE 4/19/2013 4/22/2013 4/ /2013 4/ /2013 4/ /2013 4/ /2013 4/ /2013
E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO
T. P. Gillespie, Jr. 4
cc: General Office
Thomas D. Ray Duke Energy Corporation
Plant Manager Electronic Mail Distribution
Oconee Nuclear Station
Duke Energy Corporation Alicia Richardson
Electronic Mail Distribution Licensing Administrative Assistant
General Office
James A. Kammer Duke Energy Corporation
Design Engineering Manager Electronic Mail Distribution
Oconee Nuclear Station
Duke Energy Corporation Lara S. Nichols
Electronic Mail Distribution Deputy General Counsel
Duke Energy Corporation
Robert H. Guy Electronic Mail Distribution
Organizational Effectiveness Manager
Oconee Nuclear Station David A. Cummings
Duke Energy Corporation Associate General Counsel
Electronic Mail Distribution General Office
Duke Energy Corporation
Terry L. Patterson Electronic Mail Distribution
Safety Assurance Manager
Duke Energy Corporation Division of Radiological Health
Electronic Mail Distribution TN Dept. of Environment & Conservation
401 Church Street
Kent Alter Nashville, TN 37243-1532
Regulatory Compliance Manager
Oconee Nuclear Station Sandra Threatt, Manager
Duke Energy Corporation Nuclear Response and Emergency
Electronic Mail Distribution Environmental Surveillance
Bureau of Land and Waste Management
Judy E. Smith Department of Health and Environmental
Licensing Administrator Control
Oconee Nuclear Station Electronic Mail Distribution
Duke Energy Corporation
Electronic Mail Distribution Senior Resident Inspector
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Joseph Michael Frisco, Jr. Oconee Nuclear Station
Vice President, Nuclear Design Engineering U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
General Office 7812B Rochester Hwy
Duke Energy Corporation Seneca, SC 29672
Electronic Mail Distribution
Charles Brinkman
M. Christopher Nolan Director
Director - Regulatory Affairs Washington Operations
General Office Westinghouse Electric Company
Duke Energy Corporation Electronic Mail Distribution
Electronic Mail Distribution
David A. Cummings (acting)
Fleet Regulatory Compliance & Licensing
Manager (cc cont;d - See page 5)
T. P. Gillespie, Jr. 5
(cc contd)
County Supervisor of Oconee County
415 S. Pine Street
Walhalla, SC 29691-2145
W. Lee Cox, III
Section Chief
Radiation Protection Section
N.C. Department of Environmental
Commerce & Natural Resources
Electronic Mail Distribution
Letter to T. Preston Gillespie, Jr. from Michael F. King dated April 22, 2013
SUBJECT: OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 - NOTIFICATION OF
CONDUCT OF A TRIENNIAL FIRE PROTECTION BASELINE INSPECTION
(NRC INSPECTION REPORT NOS. 05000269/2013007, 05000270/2013007,
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Triennial Fire Protection Inspection Supporting Documentation
The documents and information requested below should generally be made available to the
inspection team during the on-site information gathering visit for the team's use both on-site and
off-site during the inspection. Electronic format is the preferred media, except where specifically
noted (The preferred file format is searchable .pdf files). If electronic media is made available
via an internet based remote document management system, then the remote document access
must allow inspectors to download, save, and print the documents in the NRC's regional office.
Electronic media on compact disc or paper records (hard copy) are acceptable. At the end of
the inspection, the documents in the team's possession will not be retained.
Approximately three weeks before the on-site information gathering visit, the following
documents should be made available to the team leader for review in the regional office:
- Post-fire Nuclear Safety Capability, Systems, and Separation Analysis (request A.1)
- Fire Hazards Analysis and/or NFPA 805 Design Basis Document (request A.2)
- Fire Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Summary Document or full PRA Document
(request A.3)
- Fire Risk Evaluations (i.e., NFPA 805 Section 2.4.3) (request A.5)
- Plant Change Evaluations (i.e., NFPA 805 Section 2.4.4) (request A.6)
- Analysis that demonstrates nuclear safety performance criteria can be achieved and
maintained for those areas that require recovery actions (request A.7)
Based on review of the above seven documents, the team leader will identify a preliminary list of
fire areas being considered for inspection prior to the on-site information gathering visit. During
the information gathering visit, or shortly thereafter, the fire areas selected for inspection will be
determined.
This document request is based on typical documents that a generic plant might have. As such,
this generic document request is not meant to imply that any specific plant is required to have all
of the listed documents. It is recognized that some documents listed below may not be
available for your plant. In addition, the document titles listed below are based on typical
industry document names; your plant specific document titles may vary.
Enclosure 1
A. DESIGN AND LICENSING BASIS DOCUMENTS
A.1 Post-fire Nuclear Safety Capability, Systems, and Separation Analysis.
A.2 Fire Hazards Analysis and/or NFPA 805 Design Basis Document.
A.3 Fire PRA Summary Document or full PRA Document (if summary document not
available).
A.4 NFPA 805 Transition Report, developed in accordance with NEI 04-02.
A.5 Fire Risk Evaluations (i.e., NFPA 805 Section 2.4.3).
A.6 Plant Change Evaluations (i.e., NFPA 805 Section 2.4.4).
A.7 Analysis that demonstrates nuclear safety performance criteria can be achieved and
maintained for those areas that require recovery actions.
A.8 Fire Protection Program and/or Fire Protection Plan.
A.9 LIST of post-fire safe shutdown components (i.e., safe shutdown equipment list).
A.10 Fire Protection System Design Basis Document.
A.11 LIST of applicable NFPA codes and standards and issuance dates (i.e., codes of
record).
A.12 LIST of deviations from (a) NFPA codes of record, or (b) NFPA 805 fundamental fire
protection program and design elements (i.e., NFPA 805, Chapter 3).
A.13 NFPA Compliance Review Report.
A.14 Report or evaluation that compares the fire protection program to the NRC Branch
Technical Position (BTP) 9.5-1 Appendix A.
A.15 COPY of licensee submittals and NRC safety evaluation reports that are specifically
listed in the facility operating license for the approved fire protection program.
A.16 COPY of NRC Safety Evaluation Reports that form the licensing basis for:
- Post-fire Nuclear Safety Capability.
A.17 COPY of NRC approved exemptions for plant fire protection and post-fire nuclear
safety capability features.
A.18 COPY of exemption requests submitted but not yet approved for plant fire protection
and post-fire nuclear safety capability features.
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A.19 LIST of nuclear safety capability design changes completed in the last three years
(including their associated 10 CFR 50.59 and NFPA 805 plant change evaluations).
A.20 Facility Operating License(s).
A.21 Technical Specifications (electronic format only).
A.22 Technical Requirements Manual (electronic format only).
A.23 Updated Final Safety Analysis Report (electronic format only).
B. GENERAL PLANT DESIGN DOCUMENTS
B.1 Piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) and legend list for components used to
achieve and maintain nuclear safety performance criteria for: (C-size paper
drawings)
- Fires outside the main control room; and
- Fires in areas requiring recovery actions at other than primary control stations.
B.2 P&IDs and legend list for fire protection systems, including fire water supply, water
suppression sprinklers & deluge, and CO2 and Halon systems (C-size paper
drawings).
B.3 AC and DC electrical system single line diagrams, from off-site power down to the
highest safety-related bus level (typically 4kV, EDG bus) (C-size paper drawings).
B.4 Single line diagrams for motor control centers (MCCs) that supply post-fire nuclear
safety component loads (only for selected fire areas) (C-size paper drawings).
B.5 Equipment location drawings which identify the physical plant locations of post-fire
nuclear safety capability equipment (C-size paper drawings).
B.6 Plant layout drawings which identify: (C-size paper drawings)
- Plant fire area boundaries;
- Combustible control zone drawings;
- Areas protected by automatic fire suppression and detection; and
- Locations of fire protection equipment.
C. CLASSIC FIRE PROTECTION
C.1 Fire protection program implementing procedures (e.g., administrative controls,
surveillance testing, fire brigade).
C.2 LIST of calculations and engineering analyses, studies, or evaluations for the fire
protection system, including the fire water system.
C.3 Hydraulic calculation or analysis for fire protection water system.
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C.4 Last two completed surveillance's of fire protection features in the selected fire areas
(detection, suppression, damper inspections, damper tests, penetration inspections,
barrier inspections, etc.).
C.5 LIST of routine tests, surveillances, and preventive maintenance on fire pumps,
including pump controllers and batteries.
C.6 Last two completed annual fire pump pressure and flow tests.
C.7 Last two completed monthly and/or quarterly fire pump tests.
C.8 Last two completed fire loop flow tests and loop flushes.
C.9 CO2 and Halon initial discharge testing or calculation that determined appropriate
concentrations and soak or hold times can be achieved (only for selected fire areas).
C.10 Last five hot work permits (at power).
C.11 Last five transient combustible permits (at power).
C.12 For Fire Brigade Drills, provide the following:
- Last drill critique for a drill with off-site fire department support;
- Summary of any unsatisfactory drill performance items for last three years; and
- Last unannounced drill critique by a qualified individual independent of the
licensee's staff.
C.13 For fire brigade equipment provide the following:
- Procedure for inventory and inspection; and
- Most recent inspection and inventory results.
C.14 Fire brigade medical evaluations and qualifications, including self-contained breathing
apparatus (SCBA) and training lesson plans.
C.15 Electronic copy of the mutual aid agreement for the first-due local fire department
that is currently in effect.
C.16 COPY of the evaluation or analysis of the effects of fire suppression activities on the
ability to achieve the nuclear safety performance criteria (only for selected fire areas),
including:
- An automatic or manually actuated suppression system, due to a fire in a single
location, will not indirectly cause damage to the success path; and
- inadvertent actuation or rupture of a suppression system will not indirectly cause
damage to the success path; and
- demonstration of adequate drainage for areas protected by water suppression
systems;
- hydrostatic rating of any floor penetration seals installed within the fire areas that
are credited with keeping water from leaking into fire areas below.
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C.17 Pre-fire plans for the selected fire areas and their adjacent fire areas.
C.18 For Emergency Lighting Units (ELU), provide the following:
- COPY of performance based emergency light assessments;
- LIST of Preventive Maintenance tasks, frequencies, and bases;
- Most recently performed monthly or quarterly functional test;
- Most recently performed battery discharge performance test, if applicable;
- ELU battery loading analysis;
- vendor manual(s) for on-site inspector use;
- results of black-out testing (if performed);
- Maintenance Rule program information related to the ELU; and
- Compensatory measures taken when ELUs are out of service
C.19 Impairment Log (for period of 3 months before the start of inspection), for fire
protection features that are out of service.
C.20 LIST of fire protection screening reviews since the last inspection for recent design
changes, modifications, or temporary modifications (i.e., an NFPA 805 plant change
evaluation that screened out).
C.21 LIST of penetration seal work, re-work, or installation activities, in the last three years.
C.22 LIST of fire wrap work, re-work, or installation activities, in the last three years.
C.23 Fire protection system health reports for the two most recent years.
C.24 Fire protection program health reports for the two most recent years.
C.25 Emergency lighting system health reports for the two most recent years.
C.26 LIST of fire protection system design changes completed in the last three years
(including their associated 10 CFR 50.59 and NFPA 805 plant change evaluations).
C.27 LIST of fire protection system NFPA 805 engineering equivalency evaluations
completed in the last three years.
C.28 Licensee evaluation of industry operating experience, related to the Fire Protection
Program for the three most recent years.
D. ELECTRICAL
D.1 Identify whether the cables in the selected fire areas are predominantly Thermoset or
Thermoplastic. Specifically identify any Thermoplastic cable in the selected fire
areas.
D.2 Nuclear safety circuit coordination analysis for fuse and breaker coordination of
nuclear safety capability components for selected fire areas.
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D.3 Administrative or configuration control procedures that govern fuse replacement (e.g.,
fuse control procedures).
D.4 Maintenance procedures that verify breaker over-current trip settings to ensure
coordination remains functional, for post-fire nuclear safety capability components.
D.5 Electrical system health reports for the two most recent years.
D.6 Last completed surveillance demonstrating operability of those components operated
from the primary control stations.
D.7 Schematic or elementary diagrams for inspector selected circuits to be reviewed (C-
size paper drawings).
D.8 Cable routing for components and equipment credited for post-fire nuclear safety
capability systems and components (only for selected fire areas).
D.9 LIST of post-fire nuclear safety capability system and component design changes
completed, in the last three years.
D.10 List of identified fire induced circuit failure configurations (only for selected fire areas).
E. OPERATIONS
E.1 LIST of calculations and engineering analyses, studies, or evaluations for the nuclear
safety capability methodology.
E.2 LIST of licensed operator Job Performance Measures (JPMs) for operator actions
required to achieve and maintain post-fire nuclear safety performance criteria.
E.3 LIST of non-licensed operator training associated with non-licensed operator actions
to achieve and maintain post-fire nuclear safety performance criteria (including JPMs,
in-field training walkdowns, simulations, or initial qualification).
E.4 Lesson plans for post-fire nuclear safety capability training for licensed and non-
licensed operators.
E.5 For recovery actions, provide the following:
- Manual Action Feasibility Study;
- Operator Time Critical Action Program;
- Time lines for time-critical recovery actions;
- Time line validations; and
- Environmental and habitability evaluations for post-fire operator actions
(temperature, smoke, humidity, SCBAs, etc.).
E.6 Thermal hydraulic calculation or analysis determines the time requirements for time-
critical operator manual actions.
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E.7 Operating procedures achieve and maintain nuclear safety performance criteria from
the control room, with a postulated fire in the selected fire areas.
E.8 Operating procedures to achieve and maintain nuclear safety performance criteria
from outside the control room, with a postulated fire in the control room, cable
spreading room, or any area requiring recovery actions (other than recovery actions
performed in the control room or primary control stations).
E.9 For safe shutdown equipment and tools, provide the following:
- Procedure for inventory and inspection; and
- Most recent inspection and inventory results.
E.10 LIST of procedures that implement Cold Shutdown Repairs, if applicable.
E.11 For Cold Shutdown Repairs, provide the following, if applicable:
- Procedure for inventory and inspection (i.e., needed tools, material, etc.); and
- Most recent inspection and inventory results.
E.12 For Radio communications, provide the following:
- Communications Plan for fire fighting and post-fire safe shutdown manual actions;
- Repeater locations;
- Cable routing for repeater power supply cables;
- Radio coverage test results; and
- Radio Dead Spot locations in the plant.
F. ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL, OVERSIGHT, AND CORRECTIVE ACTION PROGRAMS
F.1 Corrective actions for fire-induced circuit failures includes but not limited to NRC
IN 92-18, both single and multiple spurious actuations for selected fire areas.
F.2 Corrective actions associated with operator actions to achieve and maintain post-fire
nuclear safety performance criteria.
F.3 Self assessments, peer assessments, and audits of fire protection activities for the
last three years.
F.4 Self assessments, peer assessments, and audits of post-fire nuclear safety capability
methodology for the last three years.
F.5 LIST of open and closed condition reports for the fire protection system for the last
three years.
F.6 LIST of fire event analysis reports for the last three years.
F.7 LIST of open and closed condition reports for emergency lighting units for the last
three years.
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F.8 LIST of open and closed condition reports for post-fire nuclear safety capability issues
for the last three years. This includes issues affecting the nuclear safety capability
analysis, fire hazards analysis, NFPA 805 design basis, fire risk evaluations, plant
change evaluations, post-fire operating procedures and/or training, timeline
evaluations for operator actions, and supporting engineering evaluations, analysis, or
calculations.
F.9 LIST of procedures that control the configuration of the fire protection program,
features, and post-fire nuclear safety capability methodology and system design.
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Mitigating Strategies Supporting Documentation
G. 10 CFR 50.54(hh)(2) MITIGATING STRATEGIES DOCUMENTS
G.1 LIST of all changes to regulatory commitments made to meet the requirements of
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.54(hh)(2).
G.2 LIST of procedures and guidelines that were revised or generated to implement the
mitigating strategies. These could be extensive damage mitigation guidelines
(EDMGs), severe accident management guidelines (SAMGs), emergency operating
procedures (EOPs), abnormal operating procedures (AOPs), etc.
G.3 A matrix that shows the correlation between the mitigation strategies identified in
Nuclear Energy Institute 06-12, Revision 2, "B.5.b Phase 2 & 3 Submittal Guideline,"
issued December 2006, and the site-specific procedures or guidelines that are used
to implement each strategy.
G.4 LIST of engineering evaluations or calculations that were used to verify the
engineering bases for the mitigating strategies.
G.5 Piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID) and legend list or simplified flow
diagrams for systems relied upon in the mitigating strategies. These could be the
type used for training (C-size paper drawings and electronic copy).
G.6 LIST of modification packages or summary descriptions of modifications with
simplified drawings, for necessary facility changes to implement the mitigating
strategies.
G.7 LIST of routine tests, surveillances, and preventive maintenance for equipment and
tools needed to implement 10 CFR 50.54(hh)(2) strategies.
G.8 For equipment and tools needed to implement 10 CFR 50.54(hh)(2) strategies,
provide the following:
- Procedures for inspection, inventory, testing, and preventive maintenance; and
- Two most recently completed inspection, inventory, testing, and preventive
maintenance results.
G.9 LIST of 10 CFR 50.54(hh)(2) strategies, if any, which have implementing details that
differ from that documented in the submittals or the safety evaluation report.
G.10 Site general arrangement drawings that show the majority of buildings and areas
referenced in 10 CFR 50.54(hh)(2) documents (C-size paper drawings).
G.11 Training records, training matrix, and lesson plans related to 10 CFR 50.54(hh)(2).
G.12 Copies of memoranda of understanding (MOU) (e.g., with local fire departments)
required to implement any mitigating strategies.
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