ML19308C206
| ML19308C206 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 07/19/1979 |
| From: | Frampton G NRC - NRC THREE MILE ISLAND TASK FORCE |
| To: | Budnitz B, Chipman G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES) |
| References | |
| TASK-TF, TASK-TMR NUDOCS 8001210539 | |
| Download: ML19308C206 (3) | |
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July 19,1979 MEMORANDUM FOR:
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George Frampton, Deputy Direc' 3r NRC/TMI Special Inquiry Group
SUBJECT:
OPERATOR ACTION /CR/ HUMAN FACTORS CROSS-CUT TASK FORCE I understand that after you develop a work plan, each person who was at the meeting this morning -- regardless of whether he is going to be spending 10% or 100% of his time on operator /CR/ human factors work in the next month --
will prc, vide to you (and you will provide to me) a sheet of paper describing very briefly what he contemplates working on that relates to this subject for each of the next five weeks.
I would also like you to give me by the end of next week (July 28) answers to tie following questions, typed double spaced:
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Describe briefly what kinds of licenses NRC grants and NRC's requirements for shift manning. (About 2 pages, double-spaced)
I.e., does NRC require a Senior Reactor Operator on each shift?
A shift supervisor with even greater technical skills? Who gives license exams? When must the utility have licensed people on board?
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Describe NRC's educational and training requirements for operators, senior operators, engineers.
Describe the training requ'..ements in some detail if necessary.
On whom are the training requirements placed -- the utility? The individuals? (About 2-3 pages).
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What training did the operators on duty at TMI-2 get? How did it differ, if at all, from the usual training? (If this is diffi-cult to answer, what is typical training like.)
Include description of what it's like to go through a training course: is it a lot of classroom work? Does everybody get hands-on work? What kinds of scenarios are followed? How much is theoretical?
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following out canned procedures? What is simulator training like?
Do operators ever get multiple-failure practice? How much of the total training is devoted to correction of transients and mitigation of accidents or abnormal situations?
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has he been trainina before? How unique is the training course to a particular plant, or type of plant, or manuraccurer?
D Also, what about " apprentice" training or on-the-job training?
In-seFvice refresher trainino and simulator refresher courses?
Who usually does this training:
the utility? Do they contract
^ ' out to a training company? To the vendor or a subsidiary of the vendor? Does NRC monitor it or review it? How?
(This section could be from 5-10 pages, I would guess) 4.
Summarize the requirements the NRC imposed (through regulations, review, etc.) on control room design and data display equipment
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or haven't been identified, what are the requirements that are imposed today, and how do you think they probably differ from the standards the TMI-2 control room had to meet?) (About 4-7 pages).
Include, insofar as possible, what NRC's " philosophy" of CR design was and is.
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If we know (or, if not, what is the usual practice), how are the design criteria for control room designs developed, by whom, and how are they reviewed? (I.e., does the architect-engineer develop criteria and the utility then submit them to NRC review, or what?)
M Who designed this control room, and when? How was its design re-viewed by the NRC (what process), when and by what branch or office within the NRC? (2-4 pages) bg 6.
What were and are NRC requirements ( or limitations on) use of 0
(1 computers for alarms, display, etc. ( About 1 page) 7.
Prepare lists of:
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Times during first few days of accident when instruments were disbelieved by the operators.
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Times during first few days when instrumentation was in-adequate.
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Describe briefly the types of manuals and procedures that operators at TMI-2 had available to them in the control room to which they are supposed to turn or might have turned or did turn to deal with accidents or transients or other unusual events.
Did they use any such procedures in this case, according to their testimony? (1-4 pages) 9.
As of now, what do we know about ways in which the control room design or layout itself may have contributed to this accident?
List or describe, and discuss briefly, each such way.
George T. Frampton, Deputy Director NRC/TMI Special Inquiry Group cc:
R. Haynes W. Johnston C. Miller B. Doyle H. Ornstein D. Allison f
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