ML18153B985
| ML18153B985 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Surry  |
| Issue date: | 11/13/1989 |
| From: | Ebneter S NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Stewart W VIRGINIA POWER (VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO.) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8911220339 | |
| Download: ML18153B985 (24) | |
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OFFICIAL NOV 1 3 1989 Docket Nos. 50-280, 50-281 License Nos. DPR-32, DPR-37 Virginia Electric and Power Company ATTN:
Mr. W. L. Stewart Senior Vice President - Power 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060 Gentlemen:
SUBJECT:
ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE
SUMMARY
This letter refers to the Enforcement Conference held on October 17, 1989, at the Region II Office.
The meeting concerned activities authorized for your Surry facility and involved several maintenance/corrective action issues and also radiation area access control problems.
A list of attendees, a meeting summary, and a copy of your handout are enclosed.
In accordance with Section 2.790 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice, 11 Part 2, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter and its enclosures will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room.
Should you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact us.
Enclosures:
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Li st of Attendees
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Meeting Summary
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Handout cc w/encls:
W. R. Cartwright Vice President - Nuclear Operations Virginia Electric & Power Company 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060 cc w/encls:
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Sincerely, Original signed by James L. Milhoan (for)
Stewart D. Ebneter Regional Administrator
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J. P. 0 1Hanlon Vice President - Nuclear Services Virginia Electric & Power Company 5000 Dominion Boulevard
- Glen Allen, VA 23060 M. R. Kansler Station Manager Surry Power Station P. 0. Box 315 Surry, VA 23883 R. F. Saunders, Manager Nuclear Licensing Virginia Electric & Power Co.
5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060 Sherlock Holmes, Chairman Board of Supervisors of Surry County Surry County Courthouse Surry, VA 23683 W. T. Lough Virginia Corporation Commission Division of Energy Regulation P. 0. Box 1197 Richmond, VA 23209 Michael W. Maupin Hunton and Williams P. 0. Box 1535 Richmond, VA 23212 C. M. G. Buttery, M.D., M.P.H.
Department of Health 109 Governor Street Richmond, VA 23219 Attorney General Supreme Court Building 101 North 8th Street Richmond, VA 23219 Commonwealth of Virginia bee w/encls:
Document Control Desk bee w/encls:
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ENCLOSURE 1 ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE LIST OF ATTENDEES Virginia Electric and Power Company W. Cartwright, Vice President, Nuclear Operations M. Kansler, Station Manager, Surry E. Grecheck, Assistant Station Manager, Surry R. Saunders, Manager, Licensing D. Erickson, Superintendent Health Physics, Surry J. LaPlante, Nuclear Licensing Staff Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region II S. Ebneter, Regional Administrator, Region II (RII)
A. Gibson, Acting Deputy Regional Administrator, RII L. Reyes, Director, Division of Reactor Projects (DRP), RII K. Perkins, Acting Director, Division of Reactor Safety (DRS), RII J. Stohr, Director, Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards (DRSS), RII R. Goddard, Regional Counsel, RII B. Uryc, Senior Enforcement Coordinator, RII T. Decker, Acting Chief, Emergency Preparedness and Radiological Protection Branch, DRSS, RII J. Potter, Chief, Facilities Radiation Protection Section, DRSS, RII P. Fredrickson, Section Chief, DRP, RII W. Holland, Senior Resident Inspector, Surry L. Nicholson, Resident Inspector, Surry S. Shaeffer, Project Engineer, DRP, RII R. Shortridge, Radiation Specialist, DRSS, RII Nuclear Regualatory Commission, Headquarters B. Buckley, Senior Project Manager, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
- J. Delmedico, Enforcement Coordinator, Office of Enforcement
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ENCLOSURE 2 ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE
SUMMARY
An NRC and Virginia Electric and Power Company (Virginia Power) Enforcement Conference was held at the Region II office on October 17, 1989.
The subjects discussed involved various maintenance issues which exhibited a failure to preclude repetition of conditions adverse to quality and also examples of failure to comply with radiation protection access control requirements.
The Regional Administrator began the Enforcement Conference by expressing concerns with the licensee's ability to assure that first-line supervisors are actively pursuing and promoting maintenance quality assurance and radiation access control practices to plant personnel.
He further stated that it was a positive indication that the licensee's Quality Control Department found the majority of the maintenance problems and that Health Physics (HP) personnel were performing at a high level. The Vice President -
Nuclear Operations for Virginia Power agreed with the remarks and stated their commitment to correct the corrective action implementation problems for these issues.
The Surry Station Manager continued the meeting by discussing the three maintenance/corrective action
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flow orifice installation, foreign material exclusion, and torquing control, using the enclosed handout (Enclosure 3).
These issues were previously discussed in detail at a Manage-ment Meeting held at the Region II office on September 1, 1989, and sum~arized in a Meeting Summary to Virginia Power dated October 2, 1989.
The causes of the maintenance problems were inconsistent implementation of administrative requirements, personnel error, ineffective maintenance standing orders, and weaknesses in line management reviews.
The Station Manager agreed that Virginia Power has not fully implemented their commitment to complete thorough corrective action related to the maintenance problems and expressed his intentions of making all levels of plant personnel aware of corrective action
'implementation.
The HP concerns, which involved various failures to comply with Virginia Power radiation protection rules and NRC regulatory requirements, were then discusssed by Virginia Power and NRC Management.
The discussion focused on two of the.more recent occurrences; the first involving a contractor who willfully circumvented a locked high radiation barrier (locked plate on ladder) to gain entry to the excess letdown flats on the 13-foot elevation of the Unit 2 containment, and the second involving two contractors who entered a high radiation area without a dose rate meter or HP coverage as required.
The individual doses were determined to be 3 mrem for the first event, and for the second event, 3 mrem and 5 mrem.
In both occurrences, HP personnel discovered the problem and took immediate corrective actions.
Upon review of these events, Virginia Power management concluded that although high radiation areas are posted properly, access control procedures are clear, and appropriate worker training is accomplished concerning access requirements, certain individuals are not concerned with paying attention to detail.
The Surry Station Manager further stated that when workers are found to have violated radiation access control, they are dealt with severely.
In addition to improved
2 General Employee Training (GET), workshops are being_ held for first-line supervisors on stressing appropriate access control superv1s1on.
Some long-term corrective actions mentioned included the incorporation of audio radiation area protection signs and a possibility of acquiring alarming dosimeters for the site.
Virginia Power management concluded by saying that effectiveness of program management will be placed on line managers and performance-based reviews will be conducted to ensure that proper knowledge of controls and practices are provided to the plant staff.
In addition, INPO based self-assessment criteria will be developed in order to give good feedback to management.
A long-term goal is to develop a trending program for various programs to improve review effectiveness.
The Regional Administrator closed the meeting by thanking Virginia Power for attending and reiterated the positive aspect of licensee 1 s identification of most of the problems and encouraged specific attention to the performance of first-line management supervision.
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VIRGINIA POWER OPENING REMARKS W. R. CARTWRIGHT VICE PRESIDENT - NUCLEAR OPERATIONS e
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1988 REVIEW OF FLOW ORIFICE INSTALLATION REVERSAL EXTENSIVE WALKDOWNS IDENTIFIED SIX MORE NO OPERATIONAL CONCERNS MAINTENANCE PROCEDURE ISSUED TO PREVENT RECURRENCE REVIEW OF RECENT EVENTS LHSI FLOW MEASURING ORIFICE NRC IDENTIFIED INSTALLED JUNE 1989 CONDITION CORRECTED SYSTEM ENGINEER WALKDOWNS TWO ADDITIONAL ORIFICES FOUND e
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FLOW ORIFICE INSTALLATION EVENT EVALUATION PERSONNEL ERROR CORRECTIVE ACTIONS INSPECTION PROGRAM FOR ORIFICES QC VERIFICATION OF ORIFICE INSTALLATION BY PROCEDURE CONCLUSION NO SIGNIFICANT SAFETY CONSEQUENCES ADDITIONAL ATTENTION TO DETAIL REQUIRED e
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FOREIGN MATERIAL EXCLUSION CONTROL 1988 REVIEW OF FOREIGN MATERIAL EXCLUSION (FME) PROGRAM FAILURE TO FOLLOW PROCEDURE/INADEQUATE PROCEDURES REVISED CONSTRUCTION WORK PROCEDURE STANDING ORDER TO MAINTENANCE TEMPORARY COVERS POSTING OF PERSONNEL VISUAL INSPECTIONS ADDITIONAL COMPENSATORY MEASURES DOCUMENTATION OF METHODS AND CLOSEOUT INCORPORATE STANDING ORDER INTO ADMIN PROCEDURE AFTER OUTAGES TRAINING SESSIONS ON CLEANLINESS REVISION OF APPLICABLE MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES AS PART OF PROCEDURE UPGRADE PROGRAM e
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FOREIGN MATERIAL EXCLUSION CONTROL REVIEW.OF RECENT EVENT SI CHECK VAL VE MAINTENANCE EVALUATION OF FME PROGRAM ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS OF STANDING ORDER NOT BEING CONSISTENTLY IMPLEMENTED PROVISIONS OF FME PROGRAM BEING IMPLEMENTED HIGH LEVEL OF AWARENESS OF FME ISSUES AMONG PERSONNEL STANDING ORDER NOT INCORPORATED INTO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE IN TIMELY MANNER e
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FOREIGN MATERIAL EXCLUSION CONTROL CORRECTIVE ACTIONS MEETING WITH MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL FME REMINDER SHEETS ON MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE REVISION COMPLETED PATTERNED AFTER INPO GOOD PRACTICE FME CHECKLIST IN PLACE MAINTENANCE ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR LONG TERM PROCEDURE UPGRADE CONCLUSION FME PROGRAM ADEQUATE FME AWARENESS IDENTIFIED PROBLEM IMPLEMENTATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS
~NCONSISTENT NO SAFETY CONSEQUENCES EXTENSIVE CORRECTIVE ACTION e
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TORQUING CONTROL REVIEW OF 1988 SSFI FINDING INADEQUATE PROCEDURAL CONTROL e
DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN TORQUE VALUES SPECIFIED IN WORK ORDERS AND VENDOR MANUALS TORQUE MANUAL DEVELOPED SUBSEQUENT TO EXAMPLES CORRECTIVE ACTIONS STAINDING ORDER FOR MAINTENANCE VERIFY TORQUE VALUES IN PROCEDURES PRIOR TO TORQUING VERIFY TORQUE MANUAL VALUES PRIOR TO TORQUING DOCUMENT TORQUE VALUE SOURCE DISCREPANT TORQUE VALUES RESOLVED BY PERMANENT PROCEDURE REVISION FULL COMPLIANCE EXPECTED BY OCTOBER 31, 1989 e
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- TORQUING CONTROL REVIEW OF RECENT EVENT SI CHECK VALVES UNUSUAL SITUATION WITH RESPECT TO BOLT MATERIALS IDENTIFIED DURING WORK PACKAGE REVIEW ENGINEERING EVALUATION PROGRAM ASSESSMENT ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS OF STANDING ORDER NOT BEING CONSISTENTL V IMPLEMENTED PROVISIONS OF PROGRAM BEING IMPLEMENTED HIGH LEVEL OF AWARENESS OF TORQUING CONTROL ISSUES AMONG PERSONNEL e
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TORQUING CONTROL CORRECTIVE ACTIONS D~SCUSSED WITH MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL REMINDER SHEETS ON MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES STRENGTHEN IN-HOUSE REVIEW PROCESS MAINTENANCE ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR CONCLUSIONS TORQUING CONTROL*PROGRAM ADEQUATE IMPLEMENTATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS INCONSISTENT NO SAFETY CONSEQUENCES e.I e
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OVERALL MAINTENANCE ISSUE
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INCONSISTENT IMPLEMENTATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS MAINTENANCE STANDING ORDERS INEFFECTIVE PROGRAM CONTENT ADEQUATE EXTENSIVE CORRECTIVE ACTIONS EFFECTIVENESS REVIEWS PROGRAMS OTHER CORRECTIVE ACTIONS*
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VIRGINIA POWER OVERVIEW OF HEAL TH PHYSICS ISSUES M.R.KANSLER STATION MANAGER e *
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- HEAL TH PHYSICS ISSUES REVIEW OF RECENT EVENTS TWO INDIVIDUALS ENTERED A HIGH RADIATION AREA WITHOUT A DOSE RATE METER OR HP COVERAGE AN INDIVIDUAL CIRCUMVENTED A LOCKED GATE LEADING. TO A HIGH RADIATION AREA EVALUATION OF HEALTH PHYSICS PROGRAM HIGH RADIATION AREAS ARE PROPERLY POSTED PROCEDURES CONTROLLING ACCESS TO HIGH RADIATION AREAS ARE CLEAR ACCESS REQUIREMENTS ARE ADEQUATEL V COVERED IN RADIATION WORKER TRAINING SOME INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT PAVING ATTENTION TO DETAIL e
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HEAL TH PHYSICS ISSUES CORRECTIVE ACTIONS ALL RCA WORK STOPPED PLANT MEETING TO EMPHASIZE IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOWING PROCEDURES, POSTINGS, AND RADIOLOGICAL CONTROLS WHEN WORKING IN RADIOLOGICAL AREAS INCREASED EMPHASIS ON HEAL TH PHYSICS ISSUES IN GENERAL EMPLOYEE TRAINING IMPLEMENTED ADDITIONAL HIGH RADIATION AREA CONTROLS INDIVIDUALS DISCIPLINED AS APPROPRIATE e
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HEAL TH PHYSICS ISSUES CONCLUSION LICENSEE IDENTIFIED EVENTS CONTINUED EMPHASIS ON RADIATION WORKER
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- VIRGINIA POWER CONCLUDING REMARKS W. R. CARTWRIGHT VICE PRESIDENT-NUCLEAR OPERATIONS 11P"'
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