ML17251A289
| ML17251A289 | |
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| Site: | Ginna  |
| Issue date: | 09/27/1988 |
| From: | Amato C, Lazarus W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| 50-244-88-14, NUDOCS 8810030121 | |
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See also: IR 05000244/1988014
Text
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission
Region I
Report No.
50-244/88-14
Docket No.
50-244
License
No.
Priority
Category
C
Licensee:
Rochester
Gas
and Electric Cor oration
89 East
Avenue
Rochester
14649-0001
Faci'lity Name:
Robert
E. Ginna Nuclear
Power Plant
Inspection At: Ontario Townshi
Rochester
and Mebster
Inspection
Conducted:
Jul
26-29
1988
Inspector:
C
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G.
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FRSSB,
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Approved By:
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Emergency
Preparedness
Program,
Emergency
Response
Facilities
and
Emergency
Preparedness
Training Program.
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Lazgru
, Chief,
EPS,
FRSSB,
DRSS
.
date
Inspection
Summary:
Ins ection
on Jul
26-29,
1988
Ins ection
No. 50-244/88-14
Results:
One violation was identified.
There were
no deviations
and there
were three unresolved
items.
DETAILS
1.0 Persons
Contacted
The following personnel
attended
the exit meeting.
C.
R.
D.
W.
D.
E.
D.
L.
R.
C.
B.
R.
B. A.
S.
M.
Anderson,
Manager, guality Assurance
Burke, Corporate
Emergency
Planner
Eilion, Radiochemist
Filhins, Manager,
Health Physics
and Chemistry
Mecredy, Director, Engineering
Services
guinn, Corporate
Health Physicist
Snow, Superintendent,
Nuclear Production
Spector,
Superintendent,
R.
E. Ginna Nuclear Station
The inspector also observed
the actions of, or interviewed other personnel.
2.0
Emer ency Pre aredness
Or anization
2. 1
Emergency
Preparedness
(EP) is an activity at Rochester
Gas
and
Electric for which one individual, the Corporate
Emergency
Planner
(CEP), is responsible.
The
CEP is not located at the. Ginna site but
rather at the executive office in Rochester
some distance
from the
site.
The
CEP is one of seven individuals reporting to the Director,
Engineering
Services.
The
CEP does
not have full or part time
dedicated clerical or administrative
support.
Currently, the
CEP is
supported
by a contractor
employee
on about
a half time basis.
Additional support is provided by headquarters
and site
organizational
units.
2.2
The inspector identified at least
45 recurring activities the
CEP
must undertake
on an annual
basis to maintain
EP at Ginna
and the
Corporate offices.
Some of these activities involve interfaces with
the State
and County governments
and these
in addition to others
are not easily
scheduled.
One recommendation
of an internal audit
commissioned by'he licensee is to expand the
EP function to four
individuals with clerical support
and assigning
at least
one of the
four individuals to the site.
2.3 'he
CEP has.announced
his retirement plans;
he will retire in about
20 months.
The licensee's
management
has stated
a successor will be
assigned
to this position
so there is at least
a year's
overlap
before the incumbent
CEP leaves.
Although there is
a concern
regarding
the level of staffing, performance
has
been acceptable.
This area will be carefully evaluated
as
changes
occur over this next two years.
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3.0
The
Emer enc
0 eration Facilit
Status
3.1
The Emergency Operations Facility (EOF) is located in the basement
of an Annex to the Corporate
Headquarters.
Two rooms
and
a
Communications
Bay extend
from the building line beneath
the sidewalk
to the curb line.
The Rochester
City Government,
in keeping with a
master plan, will rebuild streets
and side walks in center
Rochester
including the street
and side walk in front of the building housing
the
EOF.
This will result in the ceiling for the
rooms
and bay noted
above
being uncovered creating
a potential
safety hazard
and
rendering part of the
3.2
The affected
area contains
the
EOF Manager's
Conference
room and
FEMA/NYS room.
Phone lines in the bay do not include the
NRC
Emergency Notification System
(ENS).
The licensee will relocate
phones without interrupting service
and also relocate
the two rooms.
A temporary wall will then
be built to seal off the impacted
area,
These
steps
should insure
EOF availability and maintenance
of the
1988 exercise
schedule.
The licensee
agreed
to advise
the
NRC in
writing as to the progress
of these
changes.
These
changes will be
evaluated
in the upcoming exercise.
4.0 Inde endent/Reviews
Audits
4.1
10 CFR 50.54(t) requires
power reactor
licensees
in the area of
emergency
preparedness
to:
perform
a review/audit at least every
12
months, with a part of this audit including determination of the
adequacy of the State
and local government interface
and
make
available
the results of the interface determination
to the State
and
local governments.
Based
on
a review of audit records
the licensee
failed to evaluate
the interface
adequacy for four of the
seven years
these
reviews/audits
were conducted
and, further, did not make
results available to
New York State
and the Counties of Monroe and
Wayne except for one year of the
seven
reviewed.
The
1988
review/audit
had been
completed prior to this inspection
and did not
address
the adequacy
of the interface
between
the state
and local
government
and the Licensee.
When this omission
was called to the
atten'tion of licensee
management,
the review/audit
was reopened
and
completed prior to the conclusion of this inspection.
Results
were
made available to the State
and Counties.
In response
to
NRC
initiatives, the
scope
and quality of this review/audit was
expanded
and improved.
This is identified as
a violation.
(50-244/88-14-01)
5.0
Emer ency
Res
onse Facilities
5.1
Inspections
were performed of the
EOF, Technical
Support Center
(TSC), Operations
Support Center
(OSC)
Emergency
Survey Center
(ESC), Control
Room and the Media Center.
The inspector verified
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and procedures
were current,
equipment
and communi-
cations
systems
were checked for operability and equipment
was in
calibration.
No inadequacies
were identified.
5.2
Eighteen different sets of Plans
and Procedures
comprise the Nuclear
Emergency
Response
Plans
(NERP) for Ginna;
those relating to
EP are
designated
Station Contingency
(SC) procedures.
SC procedures
were
reviewed
and found to be current.
Monitoring equipment
was found to
be operable
and within the calibration window.
Field sampling
procedures
require collection of an air sample for ten minutes at
a
rate of 30 liters per minute.
The licensee
could not state
the basis
for this collection volume and rate
and agreed
to locate
and review
it to determine if volume and collection could be reduced for given
efficiencies
and statistical
performance
specifications.
This item
is unresolved.
(50-244/88-14-02)
5.3
The Media Center or Joint
News Center is
a dedicated facility located
in the basement
of Corporate
headquarters.
Five rooms are provided
for government
use including the
NRC.
The press briefing room will
seat
about
250;
12 press
phones
are provided.
Plant schematics,
maps
etc.
are wall mounted.
There is an Emergency
Broadcast
System
(EBS)
room and
an area dedicated
to rumor control which will accommodate
a
staff of seven.
Media procedurep
are reviewed annually,
a media
briefing packet is available
and the
1988 Media briefing meeting
has
been held.-
No inadequacies
were identified.
5.4
The
EOF is divided into seven
areas
and
rooms; there
are
68 phones
including NRC's
ENS and N.Y. State's
Radiological
Emergency
Communications
Systems
(REGS).
The dose
assessment
area is small
and
was crowded during the July drill.
Four dose projection
methodologies
are available:
hand calculations;
over-lays normalized
to unit release
for each stability category;
a
PC using software
called
Symphony;
and
a vendor
system
known as Meteorological Infor-
mation
Dose Assessment
System
(MIDAS).
The
PC software is based
on
a
straight line Gaussian
and is classified
as
an extended
Class
A
Model; the software is also capable of doing
a plume
segmented
calculation.
Midas is
a Class
B m'odel
a'nd
can
h'andle deposition
calculations.
Site data,
in this case,
may be imported at vendor's
remote terminal.
5.5
Severe Accident Analysis and Core
Damage
assessment
(CDA) will be
done at the
EOF.
Procedures
for CDA are available
and are
based
on
PASS data.-
A Protective Action Recommendation
Board
and
a
Classification
are wall mounted in the
EOF.
No inadequacies
were
identified.
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5.6
EOF Operating
Procedures
are not subject to review by the Plant
Operating
review Committee or (}uality Assurance.
Rather,
they are
reviewed
by
a Milestone
Committee.
The Inspector could not locate
a basis for this committee in the License or Technical Specifica-
tions.
This item is unresolved.
(50-244/88-14-03)
6.0 Off-Si'te Activities
6. 1
Approximately, 34,000
emergency
information brochures,
in the form of
calendars
have
been distributed.
A full page insert appears
in the
NYNEX yellow pages for Rochester
and
Wayne County.
briefing material
has
been
prepared.
6.2
Ninety six sirens
are located
in the
16 Emergency
Response
Planning
Areas.
In addition,
have
been distributed.
Verification systems
are being installed
on
23 of the sirens.
During
1987,
siren availability was
97%.
All eight of the
which malfunctioned
have
been replaced.
Results
have
been
sent to
the
NYS Radiological
Emergency
Preparedness
Group
(REPG) for
re-transmittal
to
US Federal
Emergency
Management
Agency,
Region II.
6.3
Surface
water clearance
procedures
have
been developed
which are
implemented
by the U.S.
Coast
Guard
and
The County Sheriff.
Per
Letter of Agreement,
NYS will advise
the Gntario Provincial
Government of an incident at Ginna.
6.4
Evacuation
Time Estimates
were last updated
in 1986.
Road
capacities,
ETEs for residents
and transients
were developed
using
seven
scenarios
including peak
season
and winter snow conditions.
Traffic Control Points were identified, evacuation
routes outlined
and consideration
was given to migrant workers, hospitals,
parks
and
special
care facilities.
6.5
Emergency Action Level Classification
and Protective Action
Recommendations
were discussed
with off-site authorities.
6.6
Off-s'ite training is the responsibility of a
number of different
organizations.
A contractor provides training for support hospitals
and ambulance
crews,
Plant Safety trains fire-fighters,
and
REPG
is responsible
for the Sheriff's Deputies.
1988 training is on-going.
6.7
Letters of Agreement with off-site entities
were reviewed
and appear
current.
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Based
on the above this portion of the licensee's
Emergency
Preparedness
Program is adequate.
7.0
Emer enc
0 eratin
Procedures
Emer enc
Action Levels
and Protective Action Recommendations
7.1
EOP E-0 contains
a referral to Classification
and Notification
procedures;
referrals
appear
in Administrative Procedures.
do not go to core melt conditions.
7.2
Classification is based
on events
and
symptoms;
EALs are placed in
one of 18 groups.
Guidance
in I&E Information Notice 83-28 is
followed.
7.3
may be based
on plant conditions
and comparison of projected
doses with EPA's Protective Action Guides.
Provision is made for a
PAR following discussion
between
the
EOF, site, off-site authorities,
NRC,
EOF, engineering
and dose projectionists.
PARs are
made
on
an
ERPA basis.
PARs are consistent with federal
guidance
and the
requirement of 10 CFR 50.47(b)(10) is met.
Based
on the above, this portion of the Licensee's
Emergency
Preparedness
Program is adequate.
8.0 ~inainin
8.1
8.2
Site Training encompasses ll programs at Ginna
and is divided into
three groups:
Ginna; Maintenance;
and Technical-Support-Management
(TSM).
EP training with the exception of EOF operations
is included
within this program.
Each
employee
each year
must develop
a Job
Plan,
one element of which requires
100% completion of all required
training.
Employees
are rated
by comparing
performance
against
the
Job Plan.
When
a training module is scheduled,
an alternate
date
is also selected.
Additional make-ups
were given to compensate
for
nonattendance
during scheduled
sessions.
Exams are given and records
are retained.
Last year,
the average
grade
was
97%.
There'are
38 Emergency
Response
Organization
(ERO) positions
and
19
associated
lesson
plans
and modules.
PAR training was given during
May 1988.
Maintenance
is
100% qualified and all but two TSMs are
qualified.
A lesson
plan exists for CDA; there is no lesson
plan for
severe
accident analysis.
Operators
receive
EP training including
classification
and notification.
Emergency
communication
equipment
is being installed
in the simulator for future training use.
There
are at least three qualified managers
for each
ERO key position.
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Based
on the above, this portion of the Licensee's
Emergency
Preparedness
Program is. adequate.
9.0
Unusual
Event Declaration
9. 1
On July 16, 1988, Substation
13A, the preferred
power source,
was
lost.
Procedures
were followed and
a
UE was correctly declared.
Timely notification was given to the State
and Counties plus the
NRC.
Security officers who heard
the noise of the substation
breaker
tripping, reported it to the Control
Room as
a possible
explosion
in
accordance
with Security procedures.
Response
to this event
was prompt and correct.
10. 1 The resident
inspector
and the
EP inspector
observed training drill
activities at the
TSC and
EOF.
The inspectors
concluded that the
drill was effective training and in identifying areas
for
improvement.
11.0 Meteorolo ical
MET
Tower Sensor
and Vent Monitor Calibration
11. 1 The primary and two back-up
MET towers were located
and sensor
calibration records
for wind velocity and temperature
sensors
were
reviewed
as were data for electronic calibration.
The most recent
calibration
was completed July,
1988.
Calibration for monitors which
may measure
accident
releases
were also checked.
The calibration for
1988
had
been
completed but the report
had not been
released.
Based
on the above, calibration procedures
are in place
and
a calibration
schedule
is being followed.
12.0 Default Values
12. 1 Under certain accident conditions,
data permitting determination
of an
I/NG ratio may not be 'immediately available.
A default value
of 0.0001 will be used for non-steam
releases
and 0.01 for steam
releases.
If release
duration cannot
be estimated,
a value of four
hours is to be used.
However,
some plant procedures
specify other
values.
The State
and Counties
have indicated they expect
co'nsi stency in these
areas
and will not accept
long time release
duration estimates.
This matter is unresolved
and will be subject to
a future inspection.
50-244/88-14-08
The inspectors
met with the licensee
personnel
listed in Section
1 of
this report at the conclusion of the inspection.
The license
was advised
one violation was identified, three unresolved
items were identified,
and
there were
no deviations.
The inspectors
also identified areas for
improvement.
The licensee
acknowledged
these findings and agreed to
evaluate
them, institute corrective actions
as necessary
and include
corrections
in the Plan
and Procedures.
At no time during the course of
the inspection did the inspectors
give the licensee written material.