ML19162A062
| ML19162A062 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Grand Gulf  |
| Issue date: | 06/11/2019 |
| From: | Greg Werner Operations Branch IV |
| To: | Emily Larson Entergy Operations |
| Werner G | |
| References | |
| IR 2019003 | |
| Download: ML19162A062 (8) | |
See also: IR 05000416/2019003
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June 11, 2019
Mr. Eric Larson, Site Vice President
Entergy Operations, Inc.
Grand Gulf Nuclear Station
P.O. Box 756
Port Gibson, MS 39150
SUBJECT: GRAND GULF NUCLEAR STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION (NRC
INSPECTION REPORT 05000416/2019003) AND REQUEST FOR
INFORMATION
Dear Mr. Larson:
During the week of August 12, 2019, two inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory
Commissions (NRC) Region IV office will perform the baseline biennial requalification
inspection at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, using NRC Inspection Procedure 71111.11B,
Licensed Operator Requalification Program.
Experience has shown that this inspection is a resource intensive inspection both for the NRC
inspectors and your staff. In order to minimize the impact to your onsite resources and to
ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed a request for documents needed for this
inspection. These documents have been divided into three groups:
- The first group (Section A of the enclosure) identifies information to be provided prior to
the inspection to ensure that the inspectors are adequately prepared.
- The second group (Section B of the enclosure) identifies the information the inspectors
will need upon arrival at the site.
- The third group (Section C of this enclosure) identifies the items which are necessary to
close out the inspection and are usually sent a few weeks after the team has left the site.
It is important that all of these documents are up-to-date and complete in order to minimize the
number of additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of
the inspection.
We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff and understand
that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Mr. Mark Pait of your training organization.
Our inspection dates are subject to change based on your updated schedule of examination
activities. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please
contact the lead inspector Thomas J. Farina, at (817) 200-1117 (thomas.farina@nrc.gov).
E. Larson 2
This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information
collection requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, control
number 3150-0018. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a request for information or an information collection requirement unless the
requesting document displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control
number.
This letter, its enclosure, and your response (if any) will be made available for public inspection
and copying at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html and at the NRC Public Document
Room in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for
Withholding.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Gregory E. Werner, Chief
Operations Branch
Division of Reactor Safety
Docket No. 50-416
License No. NPF-29
Enclosure:
Biennial Requalification Inspection
Request for Information
Initial Request for Information
Biennial Requalification Inspection
Grand Gulf Nuclear Station
Inspection Report: 05000416/2019003
Inspection Dates: August 12 - 16, 2019
Inspection Procedure: IP 71111.11B, Licensed Operator Requalification
Program
Lead Inspector: Thomas J. Farina, Operations Engineer
A. The following information is requested in order to support inspection preparation
activities. These items are listed by section as they appear in the inspection module
(i.e. 03.04a, 03.04b, etc.). Requested materials should be sent in an electronic format
on CD/DVD in order to arrive at the Region IV office no later than August 1, 2019.
- CD/DVD to: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV
ATTN: Thomas Farina
1600 E. Lamar Blvd
Arlington, TX 76011
General Requests:
- Training and Operations Department organization charts (with qualified LOR
evaluators identified)
- Procedures that identify process for revising and maintaining LO continuing training
program up-to-date
- List of outstanding LOR program changes
- List of plant events and industry operating experience incorporated into LOR
program since last BRQ (August 4, 2017)
- Audits and/or self-assessment reports addressing the licensed operator
requalification training program
- Last two years of Simulator Review Committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes
- Last two years of Curriculum Review Committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes
- A summary report of all condition reports related to operator actions/errors in the
control room
Enclosure
- Any revised requalification training that was based on licensed operator performance
issues
03.04a: Biennial Requalification Written Examinations
- The current and approved biennial written examination schedule
have already been administered up to the week prior to the inspection team arrival
onsite
- All written examinations that have been approved for administration up to and
including the week before the inspection team is onsite. This will need to have
adequate password protection or double envelope protection if mailed via regular
mail per NUREG-1021
- The current requalification cycle examination methodology (sample plan)
03.04b: Annual Requalification Operating Tests
- The schedule for the operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) to be given the week of
August 12, 2019 (week team is onsite)
- The operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) (password protected and provide separately
via telephone at later date) to be given the week of August 12, 2019
prior to the inspection team arrival onsite
- All 2018 NRC required annual operating tests
- Current requalification cycle operating test methodology (sample plan)
03.04c: Administration of an Annual Requalification Operating Test
- All procedures used to administer the annual operating test
- All procedures used to assess operator performance
- All procedures that describe conduct of simulator training
- All procedures used to test, operate, and maintain the simulator
03.04d: Requalification Examination Security
- Submit any tracking tools that you use as a means to prevent excessive overlap on
the written examinations and also meet the intent of sampling all required topics on a
periodic basis.
- Submit any tracking tools that you use as a means to prevent excessive overlap on
the operating tests and also meet the intent of sampling all required malfunctions
(including major events, instrument/component malfunctions, TS calls, etc.) on a
periodic basis.
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- All procedures that describe examination security, including procedures used to
develop the examinations that include guidelines on overlap between examinations
in current exam cycle tests and prior year examinations
- List of all condition reports since the last biennial requalification inspection related to
examination security and overlap
03.04e: Remedial Training and Re-Examinations
- List of remedial training conducted or planned since last requalification exam
(includes training provided to operators to enable passing requalification exam and
training provided to correct generic or individual weaknesses observed during
previous requalification exam cycle)
- Remediation plans (lesson plans, reference materials, and attendance
documentation)
03.04f: Operator License Conditions
- All procedures and program documentation for maintaining active operator licenses,
tracking training attendance, and ensuring medical fitness of licensed operators
- All procedures and associated documentation that supports reactivation of any
SRO/RO license (operating or staff crew) since the last biennial inspection
03.04g: Control Room Simulator
- All simulator management and configuration procedures if not already provided
- Simulator discrepancy report summary list for all open discrepancy reports and
summary list for those items closed since August 4, 2017
- Primary parameters tested in order to verify core physics parameters (such as
moderator temperature coefficient, integral rod worth). The applicable reference
graphs from the plant physics data book (electronic or other means as available)
should also be included as well as the test procedures used and the acceptance
criteria with results.
- All simulator modification packages that are on hold, delayed, or not completed in the
last two years
- A list of simulator modification packages completed in the last two-year window
- An index of the most recent operability test packages required by ANSI 3.5 2009
Appendix B, including performance and approval dates, and results
- An index of simulator baseline data sources (ANSI 3.5 2009 5.1.1) for the transient
performance tests required by ANSI 3.5 2009 Appendix B.2.2.1
- An index of Post-Event Simulator Tests conducted since August 4, 2017
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B. The following information is requested in order to support the onsite inspection
activities. Requested materials should be available to the inspection team, either
electronically or hardcopy, upon site arrival on August 12, 2019.
03.03: Requalification Exam Results / 03.04a and 03.04b: Biennial Requalification Written
Exam and Annual Requalification Operating Tests Quality
- All operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) to be given in all subsequent weeks after
onsite week, if available
- All results up to the day the team leaves the site
03.04f: Conformance with Operator License Conditions
- Access to licensed operators records (operating and staff crews)
- Access to licensed operators training attendance records
- Access to licensed operators medical records
03.04g: Control Room Simulator Performance
- Simulator discrepancies since August 4, 2017. This should include all open and
closed simulator discrepancy reports, including the documentation/justification for
closure.
- Acceptance test documentation, including hardware and software model revisions at
the time of acceptance (as available)
- Documentation that validates current models, including the thermal-hydraulics and
neutronics models, to the actual plant
- All current model deficiencies, including final safety analysis report vs design
differences in the simulator (any documentation on this)
- Summary list of modifications since August 4, 2017
- Plant modifications (both hardware and software) completed on the simulator by due
date since August 4, 2017
- Simulator differences lesson plan used in training (current as of August 12, 2019)
- The complete book of all simulator annual performance test packages (usually in a
single book but may be electronic or in single test packages), complete with all
transient tests, steady state tests, and malfunction tests. This should also include
the test procedures for each test, the acceptance criteria, and results. For each
transient test, the reference chart should be included or an equivalent subject matter
expert review versus the simulator results with a write-up for any differences beyond
the ANSI standard requirements.
- All test packages used to verify core physics parameters (such as moderator
temperature coefficient and integral rod worth). The applicable reference graphs
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from the plant physics data book (electronic or other means as available) should also
be included as well as the test procedures used and the acceptance criteria with
results.
- All simulator tests, configuration management, and related documents available in
the room for inspectors to review. This includes training needs analysis packages,
Simulator Review Committee meeting minutes, etc.
- Current copy of ANSI 3.5 standard you are committed to for simulator testing
C. Grand Gulf Nuclear Station is required to send the final results summary (see Table 1
below) and any remaining exams and operating tests that have not been reviewed to
the regional office lead inspector for this inspection for final review and comparison
against the Significance Determination Tools in order to communicate the exit results
for the inspection.
TABLE 1: EXAMINATION RESULTS
1. Total number of licensed operators.
2. Number of licensed operators administered a requalification
examination required by 10 CFR 55.59(a).
3. Number of individual licensed operators who failed any portion of a
requalification examination (written, JPM, or individual simulator
scenario failures).
4. Divide line 3 by line 2 to obtain the individual requalification
examination failure rate. Line 3/Line 2. %
5. Number of crews administered simulator scenarios as part of a
requalification examination required by 10 CFR 55.59(a).
6. Number of crews who performed unsatisfactorily on the
simulator scenarios.
7. Divide line 6 by line 5 to obtain the crew simulator scenario
failure rate. Line 6/Line 5. %
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SUNSI Review ADAMS: Non-Publicly Available Non-Sensitive Keyword:
By: TJF Yes No Publicly Available Sensitive NRC-002
OFFICE OE:OB BC:OB
NAME TFarina GWerner
SIGNATURE /RA/ /RA/
DATE 06/04/2019 06/11/2019