ML17325B425

Forwards Enforcement Conference Repts 50-315/90-08 & 50-316/90-08 on 900227 & Notice of Violation

ML17325B425
Person / Time
Site:	Cook
Issue date:	03/09/1990
From:	Greenman E NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
To:	Alexich M AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER SERVICE CORP., INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER CO. (FORMERLY INDIANA & MICHIG
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ML17325B426	List: IR 05000315/1990008 ML17325B425 ML17325B427
References
EA-90-037, EA-90-37, NUDOCS 9003210197
Download: ML17325B425 (4)

See also: IR 05000315/1990008

Text

Docket No. 50-315

Docket No. 50-316

EA 90-037

American Electric Power Service

Corporation

Indiana Michigan Power

Company

ATTN: Mr. M.P. Alexich

Vice President

- Nuclear

Operations Division

.

1 Riverside Plaza

Columbus,

OH

43216

Gentlemen:

This refers to the Enforcement

Conference

conducted

by Dr. C. J. Paperiello

and other

members of the

NRC staff on February

27, 1990, at the Region III

Office in Glen Ellyn, Illinois of activities at the Donald

C.

Cook Nuclear

Plant, Units I and

2 authorized

by

NRC Operating

Licenses

No.

DPR-58

and

No. DPR-74.

The enclosed

copy of our report identifies those matters

discussed

during

the conference.

The issues

involved in the conference

were the maintenance,

testing, .root cause

assessment,

and corrective actions associated

with the

Main Steam Stop Valves

and respective

dump valves test failures.-

Inspection

findings regarding

these

concerns

were identified in Inspection

Reports

50-315/90005(DRP);

50-316/90005(DRP)

and sent to you on February 21,

1990.

We have concluded

from the aforementioned

inspection

and Enforcement

Conference that certain of your activities appeared

to be in violation of

NRC requirements,

as specified in the enclosed

Notice.

A written response

is required.

In your response

to the enclosed

Notice of Violation, please

address

two concerns specifically.

First, test practices for Main Steam

Stop Valves

(MSSVs) appeared

to involve inappropriate

use of retest provisions

of the

ASME Code,Section XI.

Second, your investigation of the root cause

of MSSV performance

problems, particularly the performance of two of four

MSSVs during- testing in June,

1989, was'neffective.

In accordance

with 10 CFR 2.790 of the Commission's

regulations,

a copy of

this letter,

and the enclosed

inspection report will be placed in the

NRC

Public Document

Room.

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The responses

directed

by this letter and the accompanying

Notice are not

subject to the clearance

procedures

of the Office of Management

and Budget as

required

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980,

PL 96-511.

We will gladly discuss

any questions

you have concerning this inspection.

Sincerely,

Enclosures:

I. Notice of Violation

2. Inspection

Reports

No: 50-315/90008

DRP);

No. 50-316/90008

DRP)

cc w/enclosures:

A. A. Blind, Plant Manager

DCD/DCB (RIDS)

Licensing

Fee Management

Branch

Resident Inspector, RIII

Ronald Callen, Michigan

Public Service

Commission

EIS Coordinator,

USEPA

Region

5 Office

Michigan Department of

Public Health

J. Giitter, LPM,

NRR

J. Lieberman,

OE

J. Goldberg,

OGC

J. Partlow,

NRR

Edward

G. Greenman,

Director

Division,of Reactor Projects

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