ML17278A979

Requests Meeting to Establish Priorities for Licensing Actions & Cycle 3 Reload Activities.Mgt Inattention to Licensing Activities Criticized

ML17278A979
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Site:	Columbia
Issue date:	08/20/1986
From:	Adensam E Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Sorensen G WASHINGTON PUBLIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM
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NUDOCS 8608260432
Download: ML17278A979 (6)

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August 20, 1986 Docket No. 50-397 Mr. G.

C. Sorensen, Manager Regulatory Programs Washington Public Supply System P.O.

Box 968 3000 George Washington Way Richland, Washington 99352 DISTRIBUTION:

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Subject:

Management Involvement with WNP-2 Outage Planning We have noted that your staff has completed, the recent refueling.and maintenance outage and that WNP-2 is now producing power.

We also understand, through con-'ersations with Region V personnel, that the refueling and maintenance outage was managed and accomplished expeditiously in spite of the. limited refueling experience and the significant maintenance tasks, for example, replacement and testing of the faulted recirculation pump.

This accomplishment demonstrates a'ignificant level of Supply System staff competence as well as management, attention and involvement.

We also note that the restart from the outage involved a large number of licensing actions, most of which were requeste'd in January 1986, or later.

The large number and the late date of these requests required processing by many, of the NRC staff on an extremely demanding and expedited schedule.

Whi.le consider-able assistance from the Supply System's licensing staff was offered and utilized - the licensing activity could not have supported your restart schedule without it - we suspect that increased management attention would have identified early this licensing bottleneck and thus averted it.

For the Cycle 3 reload activities, we would like to suggest that management attention equivalent to that which was obviously applied to the maintenance and refueling activities might be applied to the licensing activities as well.

In this connection, we would like to invite your participation in a discussion to identify and consider specific actions that both the Supply System and the NRC could employ to prevent a recurrence of the peak demand on our resources to support a single utility.

At this meeting we would like to discuss establishing

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We suggest this meeting should be held in Bethesda.

Please arrange an acceptable date, time,

place, and agenda with your Project Manager"; John'.

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Elinor G. Adensam, Director BWR Project Directorate No.

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Nicholas S. Reynolds, Fsq.

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Cook, Purcell 5 Reynolds 1200 Seventeenth

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Washington, D.C.

20036 Mr. G.

E. Doupe, Esquire Washinqton Public Power Supply System P. 0.

Box 968 3000 George Washington Way Richland, Washington 99532 Mr. Curtis Eschels, Chairman Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council Mail Stop PY-11 Olympia, Washington 98504 P. L. Powell, Licensing Manager Washington Public Power Supply System P. 0.

Box 968, MD 9568 Richland, Washington 99352 Mr. W.

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Conn Burns and Roe, Incorporated c/o Washington Public Power Supply System P. 0.

Box 968, MD 994E Richland, Washington 99352 R.

B. Glasscock, Director Licensing and Assurance Washington Public Power Supply System P. 0.

Box 968, MD 280 Richland, Washington 99352 Mr. C.

M. Powers WNP-2 Plant Manaqer Washinqton Public Power Supply System P. 0.

Box MD 927M Richland, Washington 99352 Regional Administrator, Region V

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1450 Maria Lane, Suite 2IO Walnut Creek, California 94596

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