ML14226A972
| ML14226A972 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Columbia  |
| Issue date: | 08/14/2014 |
| From: | Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV |
| To: | Reddemann M Energy Northwest |
| S. Garchow | |
| References | |
| IR-2015-001 | |
| Download: ML14226A972 (9) | |
See also: IR 05000397/2015001
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UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION IV
1600 E LAMAR BLVD
ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511
August 14, 2014
Mr. Mark E. Reddemann
Chief Executive Officer
Energy Northwest
P. O. Box 968 (Mail Drop 1023)
Richland, WA 99352-0968
SUBJECT: COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION (NRC
INSPECTION REPORT 05000397/2015001) AND REQUEST FOR
INFORMATION
Dear Mr. Reddemann:
From December 1-5, 2014, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions Region IV
office will perform the baseline biennial requalification inspection at Columbia Generating
Station, using Nuclear Regulatory Commission Inspection Procedure 71111.11B, Licensed
Operator Requalification Program. Experience has shown that this inspection is a resource
intensive inspection both for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 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. These documents have
been divided into three groups. The first group (Section A of the enclosure) identifies
information to be provided prior to the inspection to ensure that the inspectors are adequately
prepared. The second group (Section B of the enclosure) identifies the information the
inspectors will need upon arrival at the site. The third group (Section C of this enclosure)
identifies the items which are necessary to close out the inspection and are usually sent a few
weeks after the team has left the site. It is important that all of these documents are up to date
and complete in order to minimize the number of additional documents requested during the
preparation and/or the onsite portions of 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 Mr. Motley Hedges of your licensing
organization. Our inspection dates are subject to change based on your updated schedule of
examination activities. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material
requested, please contact the lead inspector Mr. Steve Garchow at (817) 200-1426
(Steve.Garchow@nrc.gov).
M. Reddemann -2-
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 3150-0018. 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 Nuclear Regulatory Commissions Rules of Practice,
a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be available electronically for public inspection in the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records
component of Nuclear Regulatory Commissions document system. The Agencywide
Documents Access and Management System is accessible from the Nuclear Regulatory
Commissions web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic
Reading Room).
Sincerely,
/RA/
Vincent Gaddy, Chief
Operations Branch
Division of Reactor Safety
Docket: 50-397
License: NPF-21
Enclosure:
Inservice Inspection Document Request
BIENNIAL REQUALIFICATION INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST
From: Steve Garchow
Senior Operations Engineer, NRC RIV
817-200-1426
To: Rich Meyers
Operator Training Manager, Columbia Generating Nuclear Station
Subject: Information Request to Support December 1-5, 2014, Biennial Licensed Operator
Requalification Program Inspection (IP 71111.11B)
A. The following information is requested in order to support inspection preparation
activities. These items are listed by section as they appear in the inspection module.
(i.e. 2.02, 2.04, etc.) Requested materials should be sent either electronically or
hardcopy in order to arrive at the Region IV office no later than November 17, 2014.
- Electronically: To: e-mail address Steve.Garchow@nrc.gov
- Hardcopy to: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV
1600 E. Lamar Blvd
Arlington, TX 76011-4511
ATTN: Steve Garchow
General Requests:
- Training and Operations Department organization charts (with qualified LOR
evaluators identified)
- Licensed operator training schedule for the week of December 1, 2014
- The operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) password protected (provide password
separately via telephone at later date) to be given the week of December 1, 2014,
(the week team is onsite)
B. The following information is requested in order to support the onsite inspection
activities. Requested materials should be available to the inspection team, either
electronically or hardcopy, upon site arrival on December 1, 2014. Note that it is not
required to make copies of all the materials, but to have them available.
General Requests:
- Procedures that identify process for revising and maintaining LO continuing training
program up to date
- List of outstanding LOR program changes
Enclosure
- List of plant events and industry operating experience incorporated into
LOR program since last BRQ
- Audits and/or self-assessment reports addressing the licensed operator
requalification training program since the last BRQ
- Last two years of simulator review committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes
- Last two years of CRC (or equivalent) meeting minutes
02.02: Biennial Exam Results
- All results up to the day the team leaves the site
02.03: Biennial Requalification Written Examination Quality
- The current and approved biennial written examination schedule
have already been administered up to the week prior to the inspection team arrival
onsite
- All written examinations that have been approved for administration
- The current requalification cycle examination methodology (sample plan)
02.04: Annual Requalification Operating Test Quality
- Any changes to the schedule for the operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) to be given
the week of December 1, 2014 (week team is onsite)
prior to the inspection team arrival onsite
- Current requalification cycle operating test methodology (sample plan)
- A listing of licensed operator response times for time critical operator actions
02.05: Licensee Admin of Requal Exams
- All procedures used to administer the annual operating test
- All procedures used to assess operator performance
- All procedures that describe conduct of simulator training
- All Procedures used to test, operate, and maintain the simulator
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02.06: Requalification Examination Security
- Any tracking tools that you use as a means to prevent excessive overlap on the
written examinations and also meet the intent of sampling all required topics on a
periodic basis
- Any tracking tools that you use as a means to prevent excessive overlap on the
operating tests and also meet the intent of sampling all required malfunctions
(including major events, instrument/component malfunctions, TS calls, etc.) on a
periodic basis
- All Procedures that describe examination security, including procedures used to
develop the examinations that include guidelines on overlap between examinations
in current exam cycle tests and prior year examinations
- List of all Condition Reports since the last biennial requal inspection related to
examination security and overlap
02.07: Licensee Remedial Training Program
- List of remedial training conducted or planned since last requal exams (includes
training provided to operators to enable passing requal exams and training provided
to correct generic or individual weaknesses observed during previous requal exam
cycle)
- Remediation plans (lesson plans, reference materials, and attendance
documentation)
02.08: Conformance with Operator License Conditions
- Access to licensed operators records (operating and staff crews)
- Access to licensed operators training attendance records
- Access to licensed operators medical records
- All Procedures and Program documentation for maintaining active operator licenses,
tracking training attendance, and ensuring medical fitness of licensed operators
- All Procedures and associated documentation that supports reactivation of any
SRO/RO license (operating or staff crew) since the last biennial inspection
02.09: Simulator Performance
- Simulator discrepancies (DRs) from October 1, 2012, through October 1, 2014. This
should include all open DRs and DRs that have been closed, including the
documentation/justification for closure
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- Acceptance test documentation, including hardware and software model revisions at
the time of acceptance (as available)
- Documentation that validates current models, including the thermal-hydraulics and
neutronics models, to the actual plant
- All current model deficiencies, including FSAR vs Design differences in the simulator
(any documentation on this)
- Summary list of modifications from October 1, 2012, through October 1, 2014
- Plant Modifications (both hardware and software) completed on the Simulator by due
date from October 1, 2012, through October 1, 2014
- Simulator Differences Lesson plan used in training (current to October 1, 2014)
- The complete book of all Simulator annual performance test packages (usually in a
single book, but may be electronic or in single test packages), complete with all
transient tests, steady state tests, and malfunction tests. This should also include
the test procedures for each test, the acceptance criteria, and results. For each
transient test, the reference chart should be included or an equivalent subject matter
expert review versus the simulator results with a write-up for any differences beyond
the ANSI standard requirements
- All test packages used to verify core physics parameters (such as MTC, IRW). The
applicable reference graphs from the Plant physics data book (electronic or other
means as available) should also be included as well as the test procedures used and
the acceptance criteria with results
- All Simulator test, configuration management, and related documents available in the
room for inspectors to review. This includes training needs analysis packages,
simulator review committee meeting minutes, etc.
- Current copy of ANSI 3.5 standard you are committed to for Simulator testing
- For the following cases, send the most recent transient test packages, which may be
electronic or in paper single test packages and shall be complete with test
procedures for each test, the acceptance criteria, and results. For each transient
test, the reference chart should be included or an equivalent subject matter expert
review versus the simulator results with a write-up for any differences beyond the
ANSI 3.5 standard requirements
o Transient test 1, Manual Rx trip
o Transient test 6, Main turbine trip (no reactor trip)
o Transient test 10, Stuck open PORV
o Steady State tests for low power
- All Simulator Management and Configuration Procedures if not already provided for
section 02.05 above
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- Simulator Discrepancy Report summary list for all open DRs. For closed DRs,
summary list for those items closed between October 1, 2012 and October 1, 2014
02.10: Problem Identification and Resolution
- A summary report of all condition reports related to operator
actions/errors/performance in the control room
- Any revised requalification training that was based on licensed operator performance
issues
C. Columbia Generating Station is required to send the final results summary and any
remaining exams and operating tests that have not been reviewed to the regional
office lead inspector for this inspection for final review and comparison against the
Significance Determination Process in order to communicate the exit results for the
inspection.
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SUNSI Review ADAMS: Sensitive Non-Publicly Available Keyword
By: KC Yes No Non-Sensitive Publicly Available NRC-002
OFFICE OB/SOE C:
NAME SGarchow/tk VGaddy
SIGNATURE /RA/ /RA/
DATE 8/14/14 8/14/14
Letter to Mark Reddmann from Vincent Gaddy, dated August 14, 2014
SUBJECT: COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION (NRC
INSPECTION REPORT 05000397/2015001) AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Distribution:
Regional Administrator (Marc.Dapas@nrc.gov)
Deputy Regional Administrator (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)
Acting DRP Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)
Acting DRP Deputy Director (Michael.Hay@nrc.gov)
DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)
DRS Deputy Director (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Jeremy.Groom@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Dan.Bradley@nrc.gov)
Administrative Assistant (Douglas.Bodine@nrc.gov)
Acting Branch Chief, DRP/D (James.Drake@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer, DRP/D (Bob.Hagar@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer, DRP/D (Brian.Parks@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)
Project Manager (Andrea.George@nrc.gov)
Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Geoffrey.Miller@nrc.gov)
RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)
ACES (R4Enforcement.Resource@nrc.gov)
Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)
Technical Support Assistant (Loretta.Williams@nrc.gov)
Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)
RIV/ETA: OEDO (Anthony.Bowers@nrc.gov)