ML17342B036
| ML17342B036 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Turkey Point  |
| Issue date: | 11/13/1987 |
| From: | Grace J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Woody C FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8711200337 | |
| Download: ML17342B036 (6) | |
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>s87 Docket Nos.
50-250, 50-251 License Nos.
DPR-31, DPR-41 Florida Power and Light Company ATTN:
Mr. C. 0.
Woody Group Vice President Nuclear Energy Department P. 0.
Box 14000 Juno Beach, FL 33408 Gentlemen:
SUBJECT:
BIWEEKLY STATUS REPORT ON TURKEY POINT The purpose of this letter is to forward the NRC's Biweekly Status Report on your Turkey Point facility.
The enclosure discusses recent operating events and performance trends.
Should you have any questions concerning this letter, please contact us.
Sincerely,
Enclosure:
Turkey Point Status Report cc w/encl:
J.
Odom, Vice President Turkey Point Nuclear Plant P.O.
Box 029100 Miami, Florida 33102 C. J. Baker, Plant Manager Turkey Point Nuclear Plant P. 0.
Box 029100 Miami, Florida 33102 (cc w/encl cont'd - See page 2)
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Florida Power and Light Company NOV 18 198'l (cc w/encl cont'd)
Harold F. Reis, Esq.
Newman and Holtzinger, P.C.
1615 L Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036 Norman A. Coll, Esq.
- Steel, Hector and Davis 4000 Southeast Financial Center Miami, Florida 33131-2398 U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency Region IV Regional Radiation Representative 345 Courtland Street, N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Attorney General Department of Legal Affairs The Capitol Building Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Allan Schubert, Public Health Physicist Manager Office of Radiation Control Radiological Health Services Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services 1317 Winewood Boulevard Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Administrator Department of Environmental Regulation Power Plant Siting Section State of Florida Twin Towers 2600 Blair Stone Road Tallahassee, Florida 32301 State Planning and Development Clearinghouse Office of Planning and Budgeting Executive Office of the Governor The Capitol Building Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Sergio Pereira County Manager of Metropolitan Dade County Miami, Florida 33130 (cc w/encl cont'd - See page 3)
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Intergovernmental Coordination and Review Office of Planning and Budgeting Executive Office of the Governor The Capitol Building Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Martin H. Hodder, Esq.
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ENCLOSURE TURKEY POINT STATUS REPORT (OCTOBER 8-30, 1987) 1.
Plant Status Units 3 and 4 are currently in Mode 5, conducting minor maintenance.
2.
Facilit 0 erations Summar Unit 3 remains down (from last report) due to replacement of electrical leads to an RHR pump and the replacement of a purge exhaust valve.
The Unit is presently scheduled for restart on November 11.
Unit 4 was shutdown on October.
12, 1987 due to Hurricane Floyd.
It has remained shutdown since then due to a Safety Injection pump that was out of service and repair of several minor leaking valves.
On October 21 and several times on October 25,
- 1987, a
leaking accumulator isolation valve resulted in a reactor vessel head void due to Nitrogen intrusion.
The accumulator, vessel and pressurizer were vented.
During venting of the accumulator, a
normally open valve for accumulator venting was found closed.
The plant is investigating the valve closure.
On October 28 another Nitrogen bubble was detected in the vessel
Restart is scheduled for November 10.
3.
Item(s) of S ecial Interest On October 19,
- 1987, FPL was issued a Civil Penalty in the amount of
$225,000 for failure to assure configuration control of emergency systems (emergency boration
Additionally, an order was issued confirming FPL s initiative to conduct an independent management review and to continue on-shift operations monitoring.
The concept of an independent management review of the Turkey Point facility and the FPL corporate organization was initiated by FPL several months ago.
Additional details of the review were discussed with the NRC in a
management meeting in Atlanta on September 25, 1987.
Due to the violations that led to the Civil Penalty and the manipulation of controls by an unlicensed
,individual, this third party management review was confirmed in an NRC Order.
In August 1987, FPL initiated a Management-on-shift program in an attempt to identify and correct operations problems that seemed to occur primarily on the back shift.
It was through this program that the unauthorized reactivity manipulation was identified.
FPL expanded this program to cover all shifts and to use non-Turkey Point employed operationally qualified evaluators.
This program was also confirmed in the NRC Order.
The Licensee's expanded on-shift program was implemented on October 23, 1987 with the issuance of Administrative Procedure O-ADM-019, Management-on-shift (MOS).
Currently, four FPL and two Westinghouse SRO-qualified individuals are providing round-the-clock, on shift coverage.
4.
NRC Staff Activities Durin the Period On October 26, the NRC terminated our augmented inspection coverage.
This involved continuous on-site coverage from September 25 to October 9 and a
reduced coverage (approximately 50 percent on backshifts and weekends) from October 9 to October 26.
Fourteen NRC personnel including the three Turkey Point Resident Inspectors, both St. Lucie Resident Inspectors, a
Resident Inspector from Surry, the NRR Senior Project
- Manager, four Operator License Examiners and three Regional-based inspectors partici-pated in the on-shift coverage program.
Details of their findings will be contained in Inspection Report 87-44.
On October 28, An Enforcement Conference was held in the Regional Office concerning previous violations in the area of Security.
The Resident Inspector staff and recent changes are the following:
Senior Resident Inspector:
Russ Brewer Resident Inspectors:
Tom McElhinney (reported for duty on September 25)
John Macdonald (departed Turkey Point on October 30 for RI position at Vermont Yankee George Schnebli (scheduled to report to Turkey Point on November 16)