ML17300B250
| ML17300B250 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
| Issue date: | 12/29/1989 |
| From: | Martin J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| To: | Conway W ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE CO. (FORMERLY ARIZONA NUCLEAR |
| Shared Package | |
| ML17300B251 | List: |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9001170358 | |
| Download: ML17300B250 (6) | |
See also: IR 05000528/1989055
Text
DEC 2
9 l989
Docket Nos. 50-528,
50-529
and 50-530
Arizona Nuclear
Power Project
P. 0.
Box 52034
Phoenix, Arizona
85072-2034
Attention:
Mr.
W.
F.
Conway
Executive Vice President,
Nuclear
Gentlemen:
SUBJECT:
REPORT
OF MEETING WITH ANPP MANAGEMENT
This refers to a meeting .held with you and members of your staff at the
Arizona Public Service
Company corporate offices in Phoenix, Arizona on
December
1, 1989.
The subjects
discussed
are
summarized
in Meeting Report
.Nos. 50-528/89-55,
50-529/89-55,
and 50-530/89-55,
enclosed
herewith.
A copy
of the slides
used during your presentations
is also enclosed.
During this meeting
we discussed
with you the Systematic
Assessment
of
Licensee
Performance
(SALP) results for Palo Verde which we had transmitted to
you in Report
Nos. 50-528/89-48,
50-529/89-48
and 50-530/89-48.
We reiterated
our assessment
of your performance for the
SALP period
as
one that appeared
to
decline during the first half of the period
and that appeared
to improve
during the
second half of the period.
Your efforts in strengthening
your
management
team
and in initiating your various
improvement
programs
appeared
to have started your recovery toward better performance.
However,
we also
were cautiously optimistic in that the results of your improvement
programs
are still forthcoming
and will require vigorous management
attention to
achieve
the desired
improvement.
You acknowledged
our
SALP report
and agreed
in general
with its content.
During this meeting,
we also took the opportunity to discuss with you the
status of your Unit 3 pre-restart
action items.
We were encouraged
to hear
the significant strides
you have
made in accomplishing
and verifying completion
of many of these
items.
However,
we also recognized that significant effort
is still needed
to complete this work.
We reiterated
our expectations
that
you provide the necessary
support to your operators
by correcting the problems
they identify, such
as discrepancies
with your control
room annunciators,
instrumentation
and other items that have
been
on your control
room discrepancy
logs for a long period of time.
During the meeting,
we also discussed
your
manageme'nt
review committee activities, the role of OA in your organization,
and your engineering
improvement initiatives.
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Finally, we reviewed with you recent events at Palo Verde such
as the Unit
1
stuck fuel assembly,
the Unit 2 reactor trip of October 31,
1989, the Unit 2
excessive
heat-up
on November 21,
1989 and the problems you have
had with your
motor operated
valves in Units
2 and 3.
We discussed
the
apparent
continuing problem you have
had with regard to the lack of management
involvement in important operational
decisions
and
an apparent
consequent
recurrence
of the practice of proceeding with an operation without full
knowledge of the available
information that would allow you to resolve
problems
encountered,
as
was
the case
during the Unit
1 stuck fuel assembly evolutions.
In accordance
with 10 CFR 2.790(a),
a copy of this letter and the enclosures
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be placed in the
NRC Public Document
Room.
Shoul'd you have
any questions
concerning
our minutes of the meeting,
documented
in the enclosed
meeting report,
we will be pleased
to discuss
them
with you.
Sincerely,
e
Enclosures:
J.
B. Martin
Regional Administrator
1.
Report
Nos. 50-528/89-55,
50-529/89-55,'0-530/89-55
2.
ANPP Presentation
Package
cc w/enclosures:
J. Levine,
W. F. Quinn,
B.
E. Ballard, Sr.,
T.
D,. Shriver,
C.
N. Russo,
D. Canady,
J.
N. Bailey,
A. C. Rogers,
L. Bernabei,
GAP
J.
R. Brown,
ACC
A. C. Gehr, Esq., Snell
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Project Inspector
Resident
Inspector
docket file
G.
Cook
B. Faulkenberry
J. Martin
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