ML18064A876
| ML18064A876 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 08/28/1995 |
| From: | Haas K CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM) |
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| NUDOCS 9509050151 | |
| Download: ML18064A876 (3) | |
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consumers Power POWERING MICHIGAN-S PROGRESS Palisades Nuclear Plant: 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway, Covert, Ml 49043 August 28, 1995 U S Nuclear Regulatory Commission Do~ument Control Desk Washington, DC 20555 DOCKET 50-255 - LICENSE DPR PALISADES PLANT KurtM. Haas Plant Safety and Licensing Director LICENSEE EVENT REPORT 95-008 - BYPASSED CONTAINMENT HIGH PRESSURE TRIPS ON REACTOR PROTECTION SYSTEM.
Licensee Event Report (LER)95-008 is attached. This event is reportable to the NRC per 10CFR50.73(a)(2)(v)(A), as a condition that alone could have prevented the fulfillment of the safety function of a system that is needed to shutdown the reactor and maintain it in a safe shutdown condition.
SUMMARY
OF COMMITMENTS This LER contains twelve new commitments identified below.
No revisions to existing commitments are contained within this report.
- 1.
Provide enhancements to the Design Control Program by implementing the following changes:
- a.
Add a requirement to Administrative Procedure (AP) 10.44, "Engineering Records Center Distribution and Control of Design Documents," to attach a notice to any second generation print made to a vendor document, manual or drawing being issued by ERC to indicate that they have not been maintained as living documents.
- b.
Revise AP 9.44, "Design Document Control," to indicate vendor manuals and vendor drawings have not been maintained as living documents.
- c.
Revise AP 9.45, "Vendor Manual Control," to indicate vendor manuals and vendor drawings have not been maintained as living documents.
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- d.
Revise AP 9.03, "Facility Change," to add the requirement to initiate condition reports when potentially generic, or significant issues are discovered during Facility Change project work, and eliminate the option of using an inexperienced Prime Design Reviewer.
- e.
Revise AP 9.04, "Specification Changes," to add the requirement to initiate condition reports when potentially generic, or significant issues are discovered during Specification Change project work..
- f.
Provide continuing training to engineering support personnel using a case study methodology to include as a minimum: testing program improvements, management expectations for testing, and consultant/vendor scrutiny, and industry experience report evaluations.
- g.
Develop a guidance document on the formation of teams to perform modifications. The team should take the lead for the modification and have roles and responsibilities established.
- 2.
Provide enhancements to the Test Control Program by implementing the following changes:
- a.
Assign responsibility for all modification testing to Systems Engineering which will act as the testing authority. Surveillance tests within Systems Engineering shall meet the standards established by the testing author.i ty.
- b.
Revise applicable administrative procedures to emphasize functional testing requirements and accountability for test adequacy/completeness.
Ensure procedures include the expectation of 100% functional testing of anything changed or affected directly or indirectly by the work done for a project.
Include a description of overlapping when relying on multiple tests to meet
- requirements.
- 3.
Provide enhancements to the Industry Experience Program by implementing the following changes:
- a.
Re-evaluate the documented responses to similar Industry Experience Reports (IN) pertaining to inadequate circuit modifications and testing (IN-88-83, IN-92-65, and IN-93-38).
- b.
Develop a plan to implement reviews to comply with NRC intended actions for the new (currently in draft) Generic Letter No. 95-XX:
"Testing of Safety-Related Logic Circuits" (IN 95-15) published in the Federal Register May 22, 1995.
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- c.
Implement an independent technical review and approval of industry experience evaluations by a Safety and Design Reviewer.
Re-emphasize the importance of management expectations for industry experience reviews.
Kurt M. Haas Plant Safety and Licensing Director CC Administrator, Region III, USNRC Project Manager, NRR, USNRC NRC Resident Inspector - Palisades Attachment