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October 23, 2013 The Operating Power Reactors on Enclosed List
SUBJECT:
RESPONSE REGARDING LICENSEE PHASE 1 STAFFING SUBMITTALS ASSOCIATED WITH NEAR-TERM TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATION 9.3 RELATED TO THE FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT By letter dated March 12, 2012 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML12053A340), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a request for information (RFI) pursuant to Section 50.54, paragraph (f), of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), regarding Recommendations 2.1 (seismic and flooding evaluations), 2.3 (seismic and flooding walkdowns), and 9.3 (emergency preparedness communication and staffing) of the Near-Term Task Force (NTTF) review of insights from the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident. With respect to Recommendation 9.3, Enclosure 5 to the NRC's letter requested licensees to assess their means to power communications equipment onsite and offsite during a prolonged station blackout (SBO) event and to perform a staffing assessment to determine the staff required to fill all necessary positions in response to a multi-unit event.
The RFI, in part, requested responses pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 50.54(f) pertaining to onsite and augmented staff availability to implement the strategies discussed in the emergency plan and/or plant operating procedures including new staff or functions resulting from the assessment including any identified collateral duties, an implementation schedule to perform the assessments including any identified modifications, and any changes that have been made or will be made to the emergency plan regarding on-shift or augmented staffing. In addition, NTTF Recommendation 9.3 has a dependency on the implementation of NTTF Recommendation 4.2 (mitigation strategies). As a result of this dependency, licensees are responding to the RFI in phases. Licensees evaluated their ability to respond to a multi-unit SBO event utilizing existing processes and procedures in their Phase 1 staffing assessments.
All the licensee responses to the RFI for the Phase 1 staffing assessments were received by April 30, 2013.
In accordance with the NRC-endorsed guidance and assumptions of Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI 12-01) Guideline for Assessing Beyond Design Basis Accident Response Staffing and Communications Capabilities, Sections 2.2, 2.3, and 3, the NRC staff reviewed your Phase 1 staffing assessment. You assessed your current onsite staffing levels to respond to an event following a beyond design basis large-scale natural event to identify any needed enhancements to ensure that the strategies contained in the existing emergency plan and/or plant operating procedures, such as a SBO, can be performed by the site staff. Your assessments assumed that a large-scale natural event causes: (1) all units on the site to be affected, (2) there is an extended loss of all alternating current (ac) power, and (3) access to the site is impeded for a minimum of six hours.
You conducted independent reviews and concluded, based on your staffing assessment, that the existing on-shift staff is sufficient to implement the existing loss of all ac power, multi-unit event response strategies, while supporting performance of the required emergency planning duties without unacceptable collateral duties.
The NRC staff reviewed your Phase 1 submittal and confirmed that the onsite minimum staff, as described in your emergency plan, is sufficient to support required plant actions and emergency plan functions, without the assignment of collateral duties that would impact the performance of assigned emergency plan functions. As a result, the NRC staff concludes that your Phase 1 staffing submittal adequately addresses the response strategies needed to respond to an event that results in a SBO using your plants current procedures.
The NRC staff recognizes that licensees in coordination with the NTTF Recommendation 4.2 (mitigation strategies), will submit for NRC staff review a Phase 2 staffing assessment, which will provide an assessment of the staffing necessary to perform the functions related to the strategies developed in response to NTTF Recommendation 4.2.
Should you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact Brian K. Harris at (301) 415-2277.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Michele G. Evans, Director Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Letter from Michele G. Evans to Listed Operating Power Reactor Plants dated October 23, 2013
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RESPONSE REGARDING LICENSEE PHASE 1 STAFFING SUBMITTALS ASSOCIATED WITH NEAR-TERM TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATION 9.3 RELATED TO THE FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT DISTRIBUTION:
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