ML18149A172
| ML18149A172 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Surry, North Anna, 05000000 |
| Issue date: | 05/30/1986 |
| From: | Stewart W VIRGINIA POWER (VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO.) |
| To: | Harold Denton, Rubenstein L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| 86-326, GL-85-12, NUDOCS 8606060028 | |
| Download: ML18149A172 (3) | |
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VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23261 W. L. STE WA.BT VICE PRESIDENT NUCLEAR OPERATIONS May 30, 1986 Mr. Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Attn:
Mr. Lester S. Rubenstein, Director PWR Project Directorate No. 2 Division of PWR Licensing-A U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Gentlemen:
VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY SURRY POWER STATION UNITS NO. 1 AND 2 NORTH ANNA POWER STATION UNITS NO. 1 AND 2 Serial No.
NO/TAH/acm Docket Nos.
License Nos.
IMPLEMENTATION OF IMPROVED EMERGENCY OPERATING PROCEDURES86-326 50-280 50-281 50-338 50-339 DPR-32 DPR-37 NPF-4 NPF-7 By letter dated November 5, 1985, the NRG provided its evaluation of Virginia Electric and Power Company's Procedure Generation Package (PGP) for Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs).
During the week of May 5, 1986, the NRG performed an audit of the North Anna Power Station EOPs that had been developed based on the approved PGP and revision 1 of the Westinghouse Owners Group Emergency Response Guidelines (WOG EfGs).
The purpose of this audit, as identified in NRG letter dated April 9, 1986, was to "determine how well the NRG' s process of reviewing PGPs is working as a method for assuring that acceptable EOPs are being developed and implemented by the licensees."
We encouraged the NRC's audit of our EOPs to identify problems prior to the implementation of the improved procedures.
The audit identified a number of deficiencies in the procedures as well as certain weaknesses in the manner in which the PGP was implemented.
This letter serves to document the actions we intend to take in order to resolve the concerns identified by the audit team and to.provide our schedule for completing these actions.
NORTH ANNA POWER STATION In order to resolve the identified concerns, we intend to program utilizing outside qualified Human Factors and consultants to assist in:
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VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY TO Mr. Harold R. Denton
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Review of the EOP Writers Guide to assure that proper human factors principles are being incorporated and make any appropriate changes.
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Performing the detailed human factors review of the procedures as they are being rewritten.
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Performing the review and verification to justify the use of the Westinghouse Owners Group Emergency Response Guidelines (WOG ERGs) and any step deviations from the WOG ERGs due to plant specific requirements.
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Performing the validation of the EOPs and correcting any problems that may be identified.
This will include reverification and revalidation for these changes.
These tasks will be performed with direct supervision from the plant personnel responsible for generating and maintaining the procedures.
The rewriting, verification and validation is expected to take four to six months.
Following this, the licensed operators must be trained. This training is expected to take about ten weeks (5 operating shifts at two.
4 day sessions each).
The current Licensed Operator Retraining Program (LORP) will allow this training to begin in February, 1987.
Based on the above schedule, we intend to implement the improved EOPs by April 30, 1987.
SURRY POWER STATION The results of the audit were also reviewed against the Surry EOPs.
Some concerns were identified.
A review, verification and validation of the Surry EOPs will be performed in accordance with the Procedures Generation Program.
This additional effort will include a Human Factors review of the procedure changes based on the training and engineering review.
We intend to implement the Surry procedures by September 30, 1986.
The foregoing schedules supercede our previous schedules for implementing the improved EOPs as identified in our responses to Generic Letter 85-12, dated February 14, 1986 for North Anna and December 12, 1985 for Surry.
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VIROINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY TO Mr. Harold R. Denton We appreciate the efforts of your staff and the valuable information gained as a result of the NRC audit of the North Anna EOPs.
If you have any further questions on this matter, please contact us.
- yours, cc:
Dr. J. Nelson Grace Regional Administrator NRC Region II NRC Senior Resident Inspector Surry Power Station NRC Senior Resident Inspector North Anna Power Station Mr. Chandu P. Patel NRC Surry Project Manager PWR Project Directorate No. 2 Division of PWR Licensing-A Mr. Leon B. Engle NRC North Anna Project Manager PWR Project Directorate No. 2 Division of PWR Licensing-A I