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3/22/2017 - Summary of Annual Assessment Meeting for Millstone Power Station
ML17096A451
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Site: Millstone  Dominion icon.png
Issue date: 04/05/2017
From: Thomas Setzer
Reactor Projects Branch 2
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I 2100 RENAISSANCE BLVD., SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406-2713 April 5, 2017 MEETING

SUMMARY

LICENSEE: DOMINION NUCLEAR CONNECTICUT, INC.

FACILITY: MILLSTONE POWER STATION

SUBJECT:

SUMMARY

OF PUBLIC MEETING On March 22, 2017, at 6:00 p.m., the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) met with the Connecticut Nuclear Energy Advisory Council (NEAC) at the Waterford Public Library in Waterford, Connecticut. The NRC conducted the meeting to discuss its assessment of the safety performance at Millstone Power Station for 2016.

A notice of the NRC and NEAC meeting was issued on March 9, 2017, and was posted on the NRCs external (public) Web page. The meeting notice can be found in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) with Accession Number ML17068A058.

ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web page at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

The NRC discussed its assessment of the safety performance of Millstone Power Station for the period of January 1 through December 31, 2016, as documented in our letter dated March 1, 2017 (ADAMS Accession Number ML17059D364). Additional information relative to the NRC's Annual Assessment Process and the safety performance of Millstone Power Station can be found on the NRC's web site at: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/oversight.html.

Members of NEAC, the public, and members of the media attended the meeting and were offered the opportunity to question the NRC regarding Dominions performance and the role of the agency in ensuring safe plant operations. Some of the questions required additional research with technical experts within the NRC. The answers regarding these topics are included as an enclosure to this letter.

/RA/

Thomas C. Setzer, Acting Chief Projects Branch 2 Division of Reactor Projects

Enclosure:

Annual Assessment Meeting Public Topics of Interest

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SUMMARY

OF PUBLIC MEETING DATED APRIL 5, 2017 DISTRIBUTION: (via email)

TSetzer, DRP JPatel, DRP SElkhiamy, DRP JAmbrosini, DRP, SRI LMcKown, DRP, RI CHighley, DRP, RI RidsNrrPMMillstone Resource DOC NAME: G:\DRP\BRANCH2\Site Visits, Briefings, Meetings\2017 Annual Assessment Meetings\Millstone\Millstone 2017 AAM Meeting Summary.docx ADAMS Accession Number: ML17096A451 SUNSI Review Non-Sensitive Publicly Available Sensitive Non-Publicly Available OFFICE RI/DRP RI/DRP NAME JPatel TSetzer DATE 4/5/17 4/5/17 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

1 Annual Assessment Meeting Public Topics of Interest Quantified impact associated with the Fukushima event International Atomic Energy Agency report on radiation releases (Report by the Director General):

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1710-ReportByTheDG-Web.pdf NRC Near Term Task Force Review of Insights from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Accident:

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1118/ML111861807.pdf Quantified heat load of the Millstone Unit 1 spent fuel pool In 2010, the Unit 1 heat load was calculated to be 1.11MBTU/hr and was extrapolated to 2020 to be 0.932MBTU/hr. Interpolating the data from the calculated model, the present heat load is approximately 1.0MBTU/hr.

Licensee seismic analyses associated with the Japan Lessoned Learned review Seismic analyses and other pertinent information regarding the Japan Lessoned Learned review can be found at the following websites:

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/japan-dashboard/japan-plants.html https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/japan-dashboard/seismic-reevaluations.html Hydrogen release during the Millstone Unit 3 Unusual Event on May 15, 2016 The first reading taken was 34 percent of LEL (lower explosive level), while the second reading taken was 22 percent of LEL. LEL is defined as 4 percent of Hydrogen in the atmosphere.

Millstone allegations data and trends The 2016 Allegation Program Annual Trend Report is expected to be issued by the end of April 2017. The 2015 Allegation Program Annual Trend Report can be found at the following website:

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1611/ML16119A431.pdf Quantified reliability of the Unit 3 Turbine Driven Auxiliary Feedwater pump In addition to the baseline inspection program, the NRC utilizes voluntary performance indicators (PI) to quantitatively assess licensee performance. Within this framework lies the Mitigating Systems Performance Index (MSPI), which is a monitor of the readiness of important safety systems to accomplish their safety functions in response to analyzed events. It objectively establishes unavailability and unreliability indices, UAI and URI respectively, by evaluating actual availability and reliability data for each monitored system against industry standards and unit specific performance limits over the last three years. The UAI and URI values are summed to establish the MSPI for each monitored system as a simplified core damage frequency which can be compared on scale from Green (nominal) through Red (significant decline in performance).

NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 0608, Performance Indicator Program, and Inspection Procedure 71151, Performance Indicator Verification, provide additional details for determining UAI, URI, and MSPI for a specified system. These are located in the NRCs inspection manual and are available at the following website:

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/insp-manual/

Enclosure

2 The Millstone Unit 3 Turbine Driven Auxiliary Feedwater Pump is evaluated for MSPI against the Heat Removal system PI which based upon last reported data is Green. Recent MSPI data can be found on the Millstone Unit 3 performance summary page:

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/oversight/mill3/mill3-pi.html#MS08.

Unit 2 licensing exam failures, November 2016 The Millstone Unit 2 Operator Licensing Exam Report can be found at the following website:

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1633/ML16334A125.pdf Following NRCs feedback to Dominions training department, Dominion formally remediated the individuals with plans approved by Dominions training and operations departments. The individuals were assigned a mentor and instructor to work on Job Performance Measures (JPMs) that were missed during the examination and additional JPMs to improve any performance gaps. The individuals successfully passed the subsequent examinations following remediation.

Status of Dominions Decommissioning Trust Fund Decommissioning trust fund information, and NRC is available at the following locations:

Unit 1: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1608/ML16085A346.pdf Units 2 and 3: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1509/ML15093A103.pdf NRC Analysis of Licensees Decommissioning Funding Status Reports:

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1535/ML15357A397.pdf