ML16202A110
| ML16202A110 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | River Bend  |
| Issue date: | 07/19/2016 |
| From: | Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV |
| To: | Maguire W Entergy Operations |
| References | |
| IR 2016004 | |
| Download: ML16202A110 (8) | |
See also: IR 05000458/2016004
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UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION IV
1600 E. LAMAR BLVD.
ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511
July 19, 2016
Mr. William F. Maguire
Site Vice President
Entergy Operations, Inc.
River Bend Station
5485 US Highway 61N
St. Francisville, LA 70775
SUBJECT: RIVER BEND STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION
(NRC INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000458/2016004) AND
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Dear Mr. Maguire:
From August 29 through September 2, 2016, inspectors from the NRCs Region IV office will
perform the baseline biennial requalification inspection at River Bend Station using NRC
Inspection Procedure 71111.11B, Licensed Operator Requalification Program and Licensed
Operator Performance. 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
on-site 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 information the inspectors will need upon arrival at the site. The third
group (Section C of the enclosure) identifies the items which are necessary to close out the
inspection and are usually sent within 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 on-site 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. John Hedgepeth of your training
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 Brian Larson, lead inspector, at 817-200-1172
(brian.larson@nrc.gov).
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.
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In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs "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/
Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief
Operations Branch
Division of Reactor Safety
Docket No. 50-458
License No. NPF-47
Enclosure:
Biennial Requalification Inspection
Document Request
cc: Electronic Distribution
SUNSI Review ADAMS Publicly Available Non-Sensitive Keyword:
By: BLarson Yes No Non-Publicly Available Sensitive RGN-002
OFFICE SOE:OB C:OB
NAME BLarson VGaddy
SIGNATURE /RA/ JK for /RA/
DATE
Letter to William F. Maguire from Vincent G. Gaddy, dated July 19, 2016
SUBJECT: RIVER BEND STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION
(NRC INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000458/2016004) AND
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Electronic distribution by RIV:
Regional Administrator (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)
Deputy Regional Administrator (Scott.Morris@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 (Jeffrey.Sowa@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Brian.Parks@nrc.gov)
RBS Administrative Assistant (Lisa.Day@nrc.gov)
Branch Chief, DRP/C (Greg.Warnick@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer (Cale.Young@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer (Michael.Stafford@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer (Lindsay.Brandt@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)
Project Manager (Stephen.Koenick@nrc.gov)
Team Leader, DRS/IPAT (Thomas.Hipschman@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)
Senior Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)
RIV Congressional Affairs Officer (Angel.Moreno@nrc.gov)
RIV/ETA: OEDO (Jeremy.Bowen@nrc.gov)
BIENNIAL REQUALIFICATION INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST
FROM: Brian Larson
Senior Operations Engineer, NRC RIV
817-200-1172
To: John Hedgepeth
Senior Operations Instructor, River Bend Station
225-378-3523
Subject: Information Request to Support August 29 through September 2, 2016
Licensed Operator Requalification Program and Licensed Operator Performance
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 August 19, 2016.
- Electronically To: brian.larson@nrc.gov
cc: michael.bloodgood@nrc.gov
- Hardcopy to: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV
1600 E. Lamar Blvd
Arlington, TX 76011
ATTN: Brian Larson
General Requests:
- Index of the materials provided in response to this request
- Training and Operations Department organization charts (with qualified LOR
evaluators identified)
- Procedures that identify process for revising and maintaining LO continuing training
program up to date
- List of outstanding LOR program changes
- 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
- Last two years of Simulator Review Committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes
- Last two years of Curriculum Review Committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes
02.03: Biennial Requalification Written Examination Quality
- The current and approved biennial written examination schedule
that have already been administered up to the week prior to the inspection team
arrival on-site, if any
Enclosure
- All written examinations that have been approved for administration up to and
including the week before the inspection team is on-site, if any. 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 (JPMs & scenarios) to be given the week of
August 29, 2016
- The operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) (password protected and provide separately
via telephone at later date) to be given the week of August 29, 2016
prior to the inspection team arrival on-site
- 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
- A list of station-specific Critical Tasks used to develop dynamic scenarios, if
applicable
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
- An index for referencing the above procedures
02.06: Requalification Examination Security
- Submit 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
- Submit 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 requalification inspection related
to examination security and overlap
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 exam cycle)
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- 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
- List of licensed operators whose licenses were reactivated since the last BRQ
inspection
02.09: Simulator Performance
- 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 September 5, 2014, and August 18,
2016
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 on-site inspection
activities. Requested materials should be available to the inspection team, either
electronically or hardcopy, upon site arrival on August 29, 2016.
02.02: Exam Results / 02.03 and 02.04: Written Exam and Op Test Quality
- All approved Operating Tests (JPMs and scenarios) not previously submitted
- 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 September 5, 2014, and August 18, 2016. 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)
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- Summary list of modifications from September 5, 2014, and August 18, 2016.
- Plant Modifications (both hardware and software) completed on the Simulator by due
date from September 5, 2014, and August 18, 2016
- Simulator Differences lesson plan used in training (current to August 28, 2016)
- 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 3.5 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
02.10: Problem Identification and Resolution
- All condition reports related to operator actions/errors in the control room
C. River Bend 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
inspectors for final review and comparison against the Significance Determination
Tools in order to communicate the exit results for the inspection.
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