ML19308C349
| ML19308C349 | |
| 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 R, Chipman G NRC - NRC THREE MILE ISLAND TASK FORCE |
| References | |
| TASK-TF, TASK-TMR NUDOCS 8001220802 | |
| Download: ML19308C349 (2) | |
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- WASHINGTON. D. C. 20555 MEMORANDUM FOR: Bob nitz Chipm5
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George Frampton, Deputy Director NRC/TMI-Special Inquiry Group
SUBJECT:
-OPERATOR ACTION /CR/ HUMAN FACTORS CROSS-CUT TASK FORCE I understand that.after you develop a wo~rk' 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/h'uman' factors work in the next month --
i will provide to youf(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 tiet following questions, typed double spaced:
-1. ? 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?
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A shift supervisor with even greater technical skills? Who gives license.exac.3? 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
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-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? It is mostly 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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- 2r-I'd like to know.. for. example, where the typical. operator comes.
from: ~ has he beenitraining before? How uniqu'e 'is -the. training.
- course to a particular. plant, or type of plant, or: manufacturer?
- Also,- what about " apprentice" training or on-the-job training?-
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In-service refresher training 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~
l vendor? Does -NRC monitor it:or review'it? How?- (This section could be 'from 5-10 pages, I would guess)
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Summarize ;the" requirements the NRC imposedt (through regulations, review, etc.)~on control room design'and data display equipment--
-at the time TMI-2's control room was designed? What about require-ments, if'any, on instrumentation? How does that differ from
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present requireiaents?. (If 1968 standards are hard to identify or haven't been identified, what'are the requirements that are imposed today, and how do you think they prubably 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
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- 5.. 'If we knowl(or,s 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?)
Who designed this control room, and when? How was its design re-viewed by the WRf (what process), when and by what branch or' office Within the NRC? (2-4 pages) 6.- What were and are NRC requirements ( or limitations on) ose of computers for alarms, display, etc. (About 1 page) 7.
Prepare lists of:
a) Times during first few days of accident when instruments-were disbelieved by the operators.
b) Times during first few days when instrumentation was in-adequate.-
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- 8.l- ; Describe LbsieflyL the types!offmanuals and procedures that operators
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.at-TMI;2 had available-to them.in the control room to which they Lare' supposed to turn or might have-turned or did turn to deal with
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- accidents. or transients or other unusual events.. Did they use any
'such procedures in.this casei according to their testimony? (1-4 pages)'
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As'.of..now, what do ws know ~about_ ways in.which the control. room
. design or layout itself may. have contributed to this accident?
List or describe, and discuss briefly,7each such way.
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R. Haynes-W. Johnston C. Miller.
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