ML19263B447
| ML19263B447 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Brunswick  |
| Issue date: | 12/29/1978 |
| From: | Banks H CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| To: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19263B442 | List: |
| References | |
| GD-78-4379, NUDOCS 7901180261 | |
| Download: ML19263B447 (4) | |
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CDEL Carohna Power & Light Company December 29, 1978 3
1: I,a FILE: NG-3513 (B)
SERIAL: GD-78-4379 Mr. James P. O'Reilly, Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region 11 101 Marietta Street, Suite 3100 Atlanta, GA 30303 BRUNSWICK STEA'! ELECTRIC PLANT, UNIT NOS. 1&2 LICENSE NOS. DPR-62 Ah3 DPR-71 DOCKET NOS. 50-324 AhT 50-325 RESPONSE TO VIOLATION OF NRC REQUIREMENTS
Dear Mr. O'Reilly:
Brunswick Steam Electric Plant has reviewed IE Inspection Report 50-324/78-30 and 50-325/76-30 and find that it does not contain any information of a proprietary nature.
The report identified an item which appears to deviate from re-quirements of the NRC.
The inf raction and Carolina Power & Light Company's response to it are addressed in the following text:
Enforcement item Infraction 18 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVI, Corrective Action, requires in part that measures be established to assure that conditions adverse to quality are promptly identified and corrected.
Carolina Power & Light Company, Corporate Quality Assurance Program, Part 2, Section 11.2.11, requires in part that when corrective action is required, it shall be monitored to assure timely and effective results. The purchase specification 952-028-216-1 for stainless steel spent fuel baskets established a required level of protection f rom water vapor, salt air, dust,
dirt and other forms of contamination during shipment and storage t
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December 29, 1978 monitored to assure timely and effective results.
The circumstances involved adverse storage conditions of new stainless steel spent fuel baskets.
Baskets were wrapped in plastic and apparently adequately protected when received at plant and stored outside in yard area. General deterioration and damage of plastic wrapping followed, resulting finally in these racks being totally uncovered and unprotected from the weather and foreign materials. These adverse conditions were identified by three separate plant Quality Assurance surveillance reports dated January, May, and July, 1978. According to plant records, no response to these surveillance reports occurred until August 15, 1978. That plant response stated that the spent fuel baskets would be left in the same storage conditions until installed in the spent fuel pool and that prior to installation they would be cleaned.
On September 23, 1978, a Corporate Quality Assurance audit report expressed concern that this problem had been previously reported three times before a resolution was provided and that spent fuel baskets had not been protected.
The adverse storage conditions remained unchanged until the inspector stated his concern on November 16, 197b, to plant management.
On November 16-17, 1978, the licendre t,a corrective action to relocate the baskets f rom outdoor to in4 "r storage CP&L Response Three Qua1 ty Assurance documents were reierenced as statei! in the report and are summarized below:
1.
In January a memorandum was written from the QA Supervisor to the spent fuel pool modification Project Engineer. This letter addressed the storage of the spent fuel racks.
It Was felt that, although the baskets were presently stored outside, they would soon be placed in the spent fuel poel.
This memorandum was not written utilizing the normal surveillance report procedures, and as such, there was no requirement for a formal reply.
This matter should have been handled as a surveillance report.
2.
Surveillan( c Report No. 412, dated May 19, 197h, addresse.'
the con (crn that the spent f uel racks were not being store !
i n a t ( 4 trdaf H t' with L'khC instructions ior storage of lI.
was made to this surveillante
- material, ho re)ly memorandum.
Mr. James P. O'Reilly 3
December 29, 1978 3.
Surveillance Report 423, dated July 14, 1978, again stated that the spent fuel baskets did not comply with the storage requirements. A reply to this memoraream was written by the Administrative Supervisor August 15, 1978.
Throughout the period of time f rom January through November,
storage requirements for the spent fuel baskets were discussed several times. It was thought that it would be possible to place the spent fuel baskets in the appropriate spent fuel pools in a relatively short period of time. In addition, consideration was given to other locations to store the spent fuel baskets and it was determined that no adequate on-site warehousing existed and that it would be possible to place the baskets in the spent fuel pools more rapidly than it would be possible to obtain additional warehousing.
Installation of the spent f uel baskets was delayed by difficulties in completing the grid structure in the spent fuel pools and providing an engineering resolution to correct a
deficiency with the basket lif ting lugs.
The storage concern associated with the spent fuel baskets was resolved on November 17, 1978, by placing the baskets that were not being worked on in the turbine building. To assure that n.
defective spent fuel baskets are installed in the spent fuel pool, a cleaning and inspection procedure has been implemented as a pa rt of the plant modification procedure.
Before each basket is installed in the spent fuel pool, appropriate cleaning and inspection will be performed.
Several actions have been taken to prevent recurrences of this or similar difficulties in the future.
These include the following:
1.
QA surveillance reports will be routed in color coded flairs f or easy adant ai stat ion.
2.
A tickler system has been developed by the Plant Quality Assurance Group to provide follow-up on QA surveillanti-memorandums to assure t imely response W
Mr. James P. O'Reilly 4
December 29, 1978 3.
It has been emphasized both to QA personnel and to plant rnana gemen t that it is necessary to review responses to QA surveillance memorandums in a more timely and thorough manner to assure that these responses adequately address the problem and provide corrective action to assure that QA problems are resolved in a thorough and timely manner.
Yours very truly,
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