ML15149A500
| ML15149A500 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Grand Gulf  |
| Issue date: | 05/28/2015 |
| From: | Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV |
| To: | Kevin Mulligan Entergy Operations |
| References | |
| IR 2015003 | |
| Download: ML15149A500 (9) | |
See also: IR 05000416/2015003
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UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION IV
1600 E. LAMAR BLVD
ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511
May 28, 2015
Mr. Kevin Mulligan
Site Vice President Operations
Entergy Operations, Inc.
Grand Gulf Nuclear Station
P.O. Box 756
Port Gibson, MS 39150
SUBJECT: GRAND GULF NUCLEAR STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION
(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000416/2015003) AND REQUEST FOR
INFORMATION
Dear Mr. Mulligan:
From August 10 through August 14, 2015, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory
Commissions (NRC) Region IV office will perform the baseline biennial requalification
inspection at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, using NRC Inspection Procedure 71111.11B,
Licensed Operator Requalification Program. Experience has shown that this inspection is a
resource intensive inspection both for the NRC 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. Gabe Kimich of your examination
development 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 Mahdi Hayes at (817) 200-1508
(Mahdi.Hayes@nrc.gov), Theresa Buchanan at (817) 200-1503 (Theresa.Buchanan@nrc.gov),
or Clyde Osterholtz at (817) 200-1269 (Clyde.Osterholtz@nrc.gov).
K. Mulligan -2-
This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to
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 NRCs "Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure,"
a copy of this letter and its enclosure 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).
Sincerely,
/RA/
Vince G. Gaddy, Chief
Operations Branch
Division of Reactor Safety
Docket No. 50-416
License No. NPF-29
Enclosure:
Biennial Requalification Inspection
Document Request
cc w/encl: Electronic Distribution for
Grand Gulf Nuclear Station
SUNSI Review ADAMS Publicly Available Non-Sensitive Keyword:
By: VGG Yes No Non-Publicly Available Sensitive RGN-002
OFFICE OE:OB C:OB
NAME MHayes VGaddy
SIGNATURE /RA/ /RA/
DATE 5/28/15 5/28/15
Letter to Kevin Mulligan from Vincent G. Gaddy, dated May 28, 2015
SUBJECT: GRAND GULF NUCLEAR STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION
(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000416/2015003) AND REQUEST FOR
INFORMATION
Electronic Distribution by RIV:
Regional Administrator (Marc.Dapas@nrc.gov)
Deputy Regional Administrator (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)
DRP Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)
DRP Deputy Director (Ryan.Lantz@nrc.gov)
DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)
DRS Deputy Director (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Mark.Schweig@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Neil.Day@nrc.gov)
Administrative Assistant (Alley.Farrell@nrc.gov)
Branch Chief, DRP/C (Greg.Warnick@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer, DRP/C (Ray.Azua@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer, DRP/C (Paul.Nizov@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer, DRP/C (Michael.Stafford@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)
Project Manager (Rebecca.Richardson@nrc.gov)
Team Leader, DRS/TSS (Don.Allen@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 Congressional Affairs Officer (Angel.Moreno@nrc.gov)
RIV/ETA: OEDO (Michael.Waters@nrc.gov)
BIENNIAL REQUALIFICATION INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST
TO: Gabe Kimich
Lead Examination Developer, Grand Gulf Nuclear Station
FROM: Mahdi Hayes
Operations Engineer, NRC RIV
817-200-1508
SUBJECT: INFORMATION REQUEST TO SUPPORT AUGUST 10-14, 2015, 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 July 20, 2015.
- Electronically: To: Mahdi.Hayes@nrc.gov
cc: Theresa.Buchanan@nrc.gov, Clyde.Osterholtz@nrc.gov
- Hardcopy to: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV
1600 E. Lamar Blvd
Arlington, TX 76011
ATTN: Mahdi Hayes
General Requests:
by crew (operating and staff)
- Training and operations department organization charts (with qualified licensed
operator requalification evaluators identified)
- Procedures that identify process for revising and maintaining licensed operator
continuing training program up to date
- List of outstanding licensed operator requalification program changes
- List of plant events and industry operating experience incorporated into the licensed
operator requalification program since last biennial requalification inspection
- Audits and/or self-assessment reports addressing the licensed operator
requalification training program
- Last two years of simulator review committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes
- Last two years of CRC (or equivalent) meeting minutes
02.03: Biennial Requalification Written Examination Quality
- The current and approved biennial written examination schedule
Enclosure
have already been administered up to the week prior to the inspection team arrival
onsite
- All written examinations that have been approved for administration up to and
including the week before the inspection team is onsite (This will need to have
adequate password protection if e-mailed or double envelope protection if mailed via
regular mail per NUREG-1021.)
- The current requalification cycle examination methodology (sample plan)
02.04: Annual Requalification Operating Test Quality
- The schedule for the operating tests (job performance measures (JPMs) and
scenarios) to be given the week of August 10, 2015
- The operating tests (JPMs and scenarios) (password protected and provide
separately via telephone at later date) to be given the week of August 10, 2015
week prior to the inspection team arrival onsite
- All of the previous years NRC required annual operating tests
- Current requalification cycle operating test methodology (sample plan)
- All portions of the UFSAR that identify operator response times for time critical
operator actions
02.05: Licensee Admin of Requalification 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
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, technical support
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 examination cycle tests and prior year examinations
- List of all condition reports since the last biennial requalification inspection related to
examination security and overlap
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02.07: Licensee Remedial Training Program
- List of remedial training conducted or planned since last requalification exams
(includes training provided to operators to enable passing requalification exams and
training provided to correct generic or individual weaknesses observed during
previous requalification examination cycle)
- Remediation plans (lesson plans, reference materials, and attendance
documentation)
02.08: Conformance with Operator License Conditions
- 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
- 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 2, Trip of all feedwater pumps
o Transient test 3, Closure of all main steam isolation valves
o Transient test 5, Single recirculation pump trip
o Steady State tests for medium power
- All simulator management and configuration procedures if not already provided for
Section 02.05 above
- Simulator Discrepancy Report summary list for all open DRs (for closed DRs,
summary list for those items closed between August 2013 to August 2015)
- Malfunction tests for loss of condenser vacuum (item 5), failure of reactor pressure
control (item 18), and nuclear instrumentation failures (item 21) (If these are included
in an SBT package, then the review of that package would be acceptable.)
- Two examples of primary parameters tested in order 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 for the
selected samples.)
- All simulator modification packages that are on hold, delayed, or not completed in the
last two years
- A list of simulator modification packages completed in the last two year window
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02.10: Problem Identification and Resolution
- A summary report of all condition reports related to operator actions/errors in the
control room
- Any revised requalification training that was based on licensed operator performance
issues
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 May 18, 2015.
02.02: Exam Results / 02.03 and 02.04: Written Exam and Op Test Quality
- All operating tests (JPMs and scenarios) to be given in all subsequent weeks after
onsite week
- All results up to the day the team leaves the site
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
02.09: Simulator Performance
- Simulator discrepancies (DRs) from August 2013 to August 2015 (This should
include all open DRs and DRs that have been closed, including the
documentation/justification for closure.)
- 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 August 2013 to August 2015
- Plant Modifications (both hardware and software) completed on the Simulator by due
date from August 2013 to August 2015
- Simulator Differences Lesson plan used in training (current to August 10, 2015)
- 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.)
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- 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
02.10: Problem Identification and Resolution
- All condition reports related to operator actions/errors in the control room
C. Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant 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 Tools in order to communicate the exit results for the
inspection.
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