ML17059A931
| ML17059A931 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 09/01/1995 |
| From: | Cooper R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Sylvia B NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9509110265 | |
| Download: ML17059A931 (8) | |
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September 1,
1995 Mr. B. Ralph Sylvia Executive Vice President Nuclear Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation (NHPC)
Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station P. 0.
Box 63
- Lycoming, NY 13093
SUBJECT:
NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION EXECUTIVE PLANT PERFORMANCE REVIEW RESULTS
Dear Hr. Sylvia:
On August 1,
- 1995, Region I performed an Executive Plant Performance Review (EPPR) for the Nine Hile Point Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2.
The EPPR consists of a review of inspection findings, significant events, and other information that relates to licensee performance for the purpose of assessing tr ends and planning future inspection activities.
This review will be performed for each plant approximately every six months during the Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance (SALP) cycle.
This initial r'eview covered the period from January 29, 1995 to July 22, 1995.
- Overall, we concluded that your performance during this period was good and remained generally consistent with the previous SALP.
We noted that you completed a refueling outage on each unit with excellent results.
Hanagement involvement was evident in the outage strategy and planning meetings, and in monitoring work activities.
Several engineering programmatic weaknesses were identified which indicate that engineering management, and the department in general, are not proactive to plant issues but reactive to plant events.
Examples include the issues identified during the motor operated valve (HOV) inspection and the Unit 2 Appendix J program weaknesses.
In addition, we noted these appeared to be a
lack of ownership in the engineering department for plant issues.
For
- example, a recent modification on Unit 2 could not be installed because the new flow sensing switch did not fit. It turned out that the responsible engineer had not verified the modification feasibility by performing a system walkdown.
Also, the EPPR noted some personnel errors continue to occur.
The effectiveness of management initiatives to address personnel performance issues in operations, maintenance, radiological controls, and engineering remains to be demonstrated.
Based on the above observations we have modified our inspection schedule for the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Power Station.
The enclosure to this letter provides the schedule and basis for NRC inspections of your facility planned for the next 12 months.
We will inform you of any required changes to this inspection schedule.
The routine resident inspection effort is not included in this schedule.
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B. Ralph Sylvia If you have any questions concerning this letter, please contact Mr. Lawrence Doerflein, Chief, Reactor Projects Section lA, at 610-337-5378.
No specific reply to this letter is requested.
Sincerely, ORIGINAL SIGNED BY:
Docket Nos. 50-220, 50-410
Enclosure:
As stated Richard W. Cooper II, Director Division of Reactor Projects cc w/encl:
R. Abbott, Vice President-Nuclear Generation C. Terry, Vice President-Nuclear Engineering M. HcCormick, Vice President-Safety Assessment and Support N. Rademacher, Unit 1 Plant Manager J.
Conway, Unit 2 Plant Manager (acting)
D. Wolniak, Manager, Licensing J.
- Warden, New York Consumer Protection Branch G. Wilson, Senior Attorney M. Wetterhahn, Winston and Strawn
- Director, Energy 5 Water Division, Department of Public Service, State of New York C. Donaldson, Esquire, Assistant Attorney General, New York Department of Law J. Vinquist, HATS, Inc.
F. William Valentino, President, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
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B. Ralph Sylvia Distribution w/encl:
V. Dricks, PAO (2)
Region I Docket Room (with concurrences)
Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC)
NRC Resident Inspector Distribution w/encl:
(VIA E-NAIL)
W.
Dean OEDO (WHD)
B. Norris Nine Nile Point T. Marsh, NRR G. Edison, NRR H. Campion, RI R. Fuhrmeister, DRP W. Schmidt - Peach Bottom W. Olsen Maine Yankee Inspection Program
- Branch, NRR
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PLANNED NRC INSPECTIONS AUGUST 14, 1995 AUGUST 13, 1996 NINE NILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION UNITS 1 AND 2 RI Regional Initiative Inspection TI Temporary Instruction CO - Core Procedure NRC Inspection Program Handatory Inspection Procedure Number Title Date CO 84750 Radioactive Waste Treatment, and Effluents and and Environmental Honitoring (Confirmatory Heasurements) 8/21/95 CO 84750 CO 37550 Engineering (Visit 1)
RI 37550 Engineering (assess engineering support to operations)
Radioactive Waste Treatment, and Effluents and and Environmental Honitoring (Effluents)
Operational Safeguards
Response
Evaluation 8/28/95 10/23/95 10/30/95 ll/13/95 12/11/95 CO 86750 93808 Solid Radioactive Waste Hanagement 5 Transportation 1/29/96 of Radioactive Haterials Integrated Performance Assessment Process (IPAP) 2/96 (continuing personnel performance issues in several functional areas; determine if root cause evaluations and corrective actions are adequate)
CO 37550 Engineering (Visit 2)
CO 81700 Physical Security Program 2/20/96 4/22/96 5/6/96
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