ML17055D572
| ML17055D572 | |
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| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 02/04/1988 |
| From: | Jerrica Johnson NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| 50-220-87-21-EC, NUDOCS 8802170246 | |
| Download: ML17055D572 (22) | |
See also: IR 05000220/1987021
Text
U.S.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION I
Inspection
No. 87-21
Docket No.
License
No.
Licensee
Faci 1 ity:
Location:
Date:
50-220
DRP-63
Niagara
Mohawk Power Corporation
310 Plainfield Road
Syracuse,
NY 13212
Nine Mile Point
Unit
1
NRC Region I, King of Prussia,
January
7,
1988
Approved by:
J..
Johns
n, Chief,
Reactor Projects
Section
2C,
Date
Meetin
Summar
This Enforcement
Conference
was held to discuss
the findings
of Inspection
Report 50-220/87-21.
The topics discussed
at the meeting dealt
primarily with the Inservice Inspection
Program deficiencies
noted in the
inspection report
and the corrective actions
taken
by Niagara
Mohawk.
Additional topics were discussed,
including corrective actions
taken for
licensee identified violations (for details
see Attachment 1).
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Details
Nia ara
Mohawk Power
Cor oration
C. Mangan,
Senior Vice President
T.
Lempges,
Vice President,
Nuclear Generation
J. Perry, Vice'President,
Quality Assurance
T.
Roman,
Station Superintendent,
Unit
1
R. Abbott, Station Superintendent,
Unit 2
A. Zalnick, Manager,
Nuclear Licensing
F. Hawksley, Superintendent,
Inservice Inspection
C. Beckham,
Manager,
Operations Quality Assurance
K. Thomas,
Licensing Engineer
G. Wilson, Attorney
M. Wetterhahn,
Attorney (Conner
and Wetterhahn)
Nuclear
Re viator
Commission
W. Kane, Director, Division of Reactor Projects
J. Johnson,
Chief, Reactor Project Section
2C,
R. Capra, Director, Project Directorate I-l, NRR
R. Benedict,
Project Manager,
M. Haughey,
Project Manager,
W. Cook, Senior
Resident
Inspector,
Nine Mile Point
W. Schmidt,
Resident Inspector,
Nine Mile Point
C. Marschall, Senior Resident
Inspector,
Ginna Nuclear Station
J. Strosnider,
Chief, Engineering
Branch,
P.
Eapen,
Chief, Special
Test
Program Section,
EB,
D. Holody, Enforcement Officer
J. Gutierrez,
Regional
Counsel
2.
~Pur ose
The Enforcement
Conference
was held at the request of NRC Region I to
discuss
the details of the Inservice Inspection (ISI) Program
and the
violations identified during the period of October
5 through October 30,
1987.
,Ni'a'jara
Mohawk was requested
to discussed
the following: the
problems%1eading
to; the safety significance of; the root cause of; and
correcti'vegactions
taken to prevent further ISI program violations.
3. Discussions
NRC management
made
a few brief opening
remarks
and then turned the
meeting over to Niagara
Mohawk,
who made
a presentation
based
on the
outline in Attachment
1.
4. Conclusions
Niagara
Mohawk agreed that there were violations of the ISI program
as
documented
in Inspection
Report
No. 50-220/87-21
and that the events
and
technical
issues
described
in the report were accurate.
Niagara
Mohawk
provided one clarification with respect
to the
number of Oeficiency-
Corrective Action (OCA) Reports that required resolution following the
plant startup
from the June
1986 refueling outage.
NRC
ENFORCEMENT
CONFERENCE
OUTLINE
ATTACHMEl'lT 1
T.
LEMPGES
I .
INTRODUCTIONS
K.
THOMAS/
C.
BECKHAM
T.
ROMAN
II.
UNIT 1 ISI
PROBLEMS
'EQUENCE
OF
RELATED EVENTS
DESIRED
INSPECTION
PROCESS
DEVIATIONS FROM DESIGNED
PROCESS
SAFETY SIGNIFICANCE
CAUSES
CORRECTIVE ACTION
lI
I II.
UNIT 1 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION VIOLATIONS
FIRE
WATCH
RECIRCULATION LOOP
VIOLATION OF
TOTAL PEAKING FACTOR
R.
ABBOTT
IV.
UNIT 2 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION VIOLATIONS
MISSED SURVEILLANCE CHECKS-AREA TEMP.
LPCI,
MISSED SURVEILLANCE CHECKS-DRYWELL RAD
MONITORS
MISSED SURVEILLANCE CHECKS-FIVE RAD
MONITORS
LOSS
OF MAIN STEAM FLOW INSTRUMENT
T.
LEMPGES
V.
EFFECTIVENESS
OF
SORC
C.
MANGAN;"'>";~'.
VI.
Q1P
CONCERN
T.
LEMPGES
C.
MANGAN
VII,
MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS
VIII.
SUMMARY
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UNIT 1
IS I
PROBLEM
SPRING 86 REFUELING OUTAGE:
IS I EXAMINATIONS PERFORMED
DCA'S WRITTEN
SOME DCA'S
NOT DISPOSITIONED
SOME DISPOSITIONS
NOT
IMPLEMENTED
DCA STATUS
UNKNOWN
PLANT STARTUP WITH UNRESOLVED DCA'S
AUGUST 86:
IDENTIFIED IMPROPER DISPOSITION
OF
RBCLC LEAK
PART 21
EVALUATION
MAY 87'ERVICE
WATER LEAK
REVISED DCA PROCEDURE
AUGUST 87'A AUDIT OF IS I
3
ISSUED
SEPT 87'ART 21
EVALUATION
'OR'NITIATED
.'p,
NRC
INSPECTION
E+<:
OCT 87:
ENGINEERING CLOSED REMAINING DCA'
UNIT 1 ISI
PROBLEM
QA 8 ANII NOTIFIED OF EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
EXAMINATIONS PERFORMED
RESULTS
REVIEWED BY SENIOR
LEVEL II OR
LEVEL III
DCA'S WRITTEN
DCA'S
LOGGED AND TRACKED BY ISI
COPIES DISTRIBUTED TO QA 8 ANII FOR
INFORMATION
DCA SENT
TO ENGINEERING FOR ACTION
DCA DISPOSITIONED BY ENGINEERING
APPROVED DISPOSITIONS
IMPLEMENTED
DOCUMENTATION COMPLETED PRIOR
TO STARTUP
UNIT 1
PROBLEM
SCHEDULED EXAMINATIONS DEFERRED
INACCESSIBLE WELDS
MISSED WELDS
POST
STARTUP DISPOSITIONS
ENGINEERING WAS NOT SENT ALL DCA'S
SOME DCA'S DISPOSITIONED
BY ISI BASED ON GUIDANCE
FROM ENGINEERING
DCA'S
NOT DISPOSITIONED PRIOR
TO STARTUP
DUE DATE NOT ENTERED
ON DCA
NO FOLLOWUP BY ISI
ENGINEERING NOT DEDICATED TO
IS I
NO
INTERFACING ENGINEERING PROCEDURE
ENGINEERING DID NOT TRACK DCA'S RECEIVED
ENGINEERS
NOT TRAINED IN DCA PROCESS
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(CONTINUED)
APPROVED DISPOSITIONS
NOT
IMPLEMENTED
LACK OF
FOLLOWUP DCA STATUS
UNKNOWN
LACK OF
MANPOWER
PROCEDURE VIOLATION
DISPOSITIONED AFTER STARTUP,
INADEQUATE SUPERVISION
DCA RECORD
BOOK
NOT, MAINTAINED
PROCEDURE VIOLATION
LACK OF
MANPOWER
TRAINING
INADEQUATE SUPERVISION
COMPLETION REVIEW NOT PERFORMED
PROCEDURE
INADEQUATE
LACK OF
MANPOWER
INADEQUATE SUPERVISION
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DEFICIENCIES
AND ERRORS
REQUIRED EXAMINATIONS NOT PERFORMED.
DID NOT CLOSE
OUT DCA'S PRIOR
TO STARTUP (VIOLATION).
OPERATIONS
NOT NOTIFIED OF IS I
PROGRAM STATUS.
DCA'S
NOT DISPOSITIONED
INCORRECT
USE
OF GENERIC DISPOSITIONS
DISPOSITIONS
NOT
IMPLEMENTED
CORRECTIVE ACTION FOR
GO BEYOND HEAT
EXCHANGER PROBLEM.
DID NOT CHECK OPEN DCA'S AFTER REVISING PROCEDURE
IN JUNE 87.
QA DID NOT PROPERLY INITIATE 'OR'ER
PROCEDURE
(VIOLATION).
LIC. DID NOT PROPERLY INITIATE 'OR'ER
PROCEDURE
(VIOLATION).
ENGINEERING DID NOT INITIATE 'OR'OR
OPEN DCA'S.
DCA'S
NOT PROMPTLY EVALUATED AFTER
ISSUED.
SAFETY IMPLICATIONS
UNCERTAINTY3;OF
EQUIPMENT STATUS
OPERATION WITH INOPERABLE COMPONENTS
FAILURE TO TAKE CORRECTIVE
AQTION
HOWEVER NO SERVICE RELATED DEFECTS
(0132G)
WELD FINISH NOT DESIGNED
FOR
ASME XI
INADEQUATE PROCEDURES
FAILURE TO FOLLOW PROCEDURES
RESPONSIBILITIES
INADEQUATELY DEFINED
POOR
COMMUNICATION 8
RECORD
KEEPING
LACK OF ATTENTION TO DETAIL
MANPOWER LIMITATIONS
INADEQuATE SUPERVISION
(0132G)
CLOSED ALL OPEN DCA'S
REVISED QAP 10. 20
AND 15. 01
AUDITORS RETRAINED
REVISED DCA PROCEDURE
IMPROVE REPORTING
(REQUIRES 'OR'ND
NCR REJECTABLE
INDICATIONS)
REQUIRES
ENGINEERING CLOSE
OUT
ENGINEERING PERSONNEL DEDICATED TO SUPPORT
WILL REVISE AP-8. 3
IDENTIFY NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
AND DEFINE
INTERFACES
WILL REVISE DCA PROCEDURE
DEFINE APPROPRIATE
USE
FOR
DOCUMENTING
IS I
INDICATIONS 8
DEFECTS
VERIFY DCA'S CLOSED PRIOR
TO STARTUP
WILL DEVELOP ENGINEERING PROCEDURES
FOR DISPOSITIONING
INDICATIONS
WILL REVISE NEL-017
AND -029
TO SIMPLIFY REPORTING
OF OR'S
WILL PROVIDE ADDITION TRAINING ON IS I
PROCEDURES
8
REQUIREMENTS
WILL CONSIDER
SURFACE
PREPARATION PRIOR
TO EXAMINATION
" 4 II"
WILL REVISE
WILL'PROVIDE ADDITIONAL ISI
PERSONNEL
WILL RESTRUCTURE
IS I ORGANIZATION
WILL REASSIGN
SOME ISI
PERSONNEL
( cI132G)
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