ML19331E429
| ML19331E429 | |
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| Issue date: | 07/11/1980 |
| From: | Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
| To: | Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
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| ACRS-1735, NUDOCS 8009100157 | |
| Download: ML19331E429 (11) | |
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LICENSEE EVENT REPORT SUBCOMMITTEE July 11, 1980 WASHINGTON, DC APRIL 22, 1980 The ACRS LER Subcommittee held a meeting on April 22, 1980 in Room 1046, 1717
.H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss
, the status of the new NRC Office for the Analysis and Evaluations of Operational Data with its director, C. Michelson. Also discussed was the NRC use of opera-tional data and the Staff use of the ACRS LER. The notice of the meeting appeared in the Federal Register on April 7, 1980.
Copies of the notice, a list of meeting attendees, schedule, and slides are attached to the Record Copy of the minutes. No written statements or requests for time to give oral statements were received from members of the public. The meeting began at 8:30 a.m. and was adjourned a't 12:00 noon. Dr. A. Bates was the Designated Federal Employee for the neeting.
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April 22,1980 i f summary of the Subcommittee's Dr. Moeller opened the meeting with a br ef 1979 and the issuance of NU efforts in reviewing LERs in the Spring oSubsequent to th i ted at 0572 in September 1979.
for the Analysis and Evaluation of Mr. C. Michelson to head a new officeThe intent of the day's ide an Operational Data (AEOD).
ctions taking place in the NRC update for the Committee on the various aIn addition, a represen with regard to operational data.
operational data analysis.
provided a summary of their activities on of the AEOD y of the forniation Mr. J. Heltemes reviewed the initial histor ppointment as Interim Direc i
Office by the Commission in July,1979, h s aple and the final appoi in October with a staff of six to eight peo The Office is set up to C. Michelson as Director in January 1980.from NRC licensed facili The independently evaluate operational data directly to the EDO.
Office is independent in that it reports t blished, the Commission At the same time that the AEOD Office was es aNRR, Standards decided that each office of NRC (ISE, RES, operational data, p l
have the capability to review and ana yze of office responsibility.
- Thus, for those items which fall into their areasi h the o the AE00 office will be working w t AE00 will be information.
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this is probably unavoidable due to the differing responsibilities of the offices involved.
The coordination effort is intended to address a number of problems identified by previous groups (GAO, CRS) that indicated a lack of systematic review and responsibility for operational data. An NRC manual chapter to be issued in May or June will address the organizational responsibilities.
Mr. C. Michelson indicated that the new office organization was authorized to have 22 people. The intention is to provide eight lead engineers for various areas of responsibility; i.e., electrical systems, mec.hanical components, reactor systems, data management, and nuclear fuels end radioactive materials.
Additional engineers and a clerical staff will make up the rest of the office.
Mr. Michelson noted that he has responsi-bility to look at operational data from all NRC licensed activities including fuel cycle facili" tes, transportation, an'd medical users of isotopes.
This broad responsibility includes thousands of licenses and it will require careful use of resources to avoid being overwhelmed with data.
The basic approach of the AEOD office to the review of LERs will be the establishment of a " watch list" of items that are of potential interest.
Each " watch list" will address a specific reactor system and LERs would be examined to see if they fit into categories called out on the watch list.
This list would be updated periodically to remove items where problems have not materialized as well as to add items which are newly identified.
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One difficulty may be in the lack of required reporting of information of potential value.
When problems are identified, a report will be written and it will then be the responsibility of various other NRC offices (I&E, NRR) to see that the needed solutions are developed and implemented. The AE0D office will only be identifying problems and making recommendations; they cannot require changes.
Official contacts with the utilities will be through other NRC offices.
Mr. Michelson, indicated that his office would be reviewing the various reporting requirements with the intent of making appropriate recommenda-tions as to additions or deletions of reported data. The AEOD office will also be interacting with various' industry groups in an attempt to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort.
Mr. E. Jordan, I&E, briefly reviewed their responsibilities for receiving reports from licensees on events and the actions they take when necessary to correct specific problems.
Follow-up inspections cre conducted and if it is deemed necessary, I&E Bulletins, circulars and information notices are sent to other operating facilities.
I&E will also be providing data collection support to the other NRC offices.
He indicated that I&E sees their role as one of involvement in immediate corrective action and then later in looking at generic actions that may be necessary.
I&E also cooperates with the other NRC offices in providing necessary information from the operating plants and in implementing the changes that NRR has required of plants.
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there are now a number of events which must be reported immediately to I&E.
About 5 calls are received in a 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> period as a result of the new requi rements.
Also receiving increased attention are those areas of Part 21 relative to reporting requirements from NSSS vendors and other organi-zations.
I&E believes that additional Part 21 reports are probably warranted.
Mr. C. Berlinger, NRR, stated that a new branch for Operating Experience and Evaluation had been formed to direct and coordinate the use of operating data within NRR.
NRR has responsibilities to provide prompt review and technical support in response to events of immediate significance as well as to perform' continuous systematic assessments of operating data.
NRR will be feeding information back to the operating plants as a result of their evaluations and those of the AE00 office.
In response to questions concerning the ability of the AE0D office to have its recommendations followed and implemented by other NRC offices, C. Michelson indicated that, if necessary, disagreements would be decided at the Commission level.
He indicated that he felt that he had adequate appeal procedures.
Mr. R. Bernero, RES, reviewed the work of the Probabilistic Analysis Staff in using operational data and experience to identify accident sequences.
PAS has a number of contracts to evaluate and collect data to be used in the analysis studies.
LE',and NpRDS data are used as well as information being collected by an IEEE study group.
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is the identification of the number of components in a plant and their test or usage rate so that failure rates can be identified.
Mr. F. Hebdon briefly reviewed the NRC staff actions in response to the ACRS LER report, NUREG-0572.
He indicated that the report has been used by the staff in formulating the action plan, by the AE0D Office in their planning and is being reviewed for potential new, unresolved safety issues.
t The Subcommittee and its consultants briefly discussed a number of comments the NRC made on the LER report appendix dealing with a statist'ical review of LERs. A number of disagreements as to the proper means of treating the data were explored.
Dr. Moeller pointed out that the study was done as a trial attempt to see if statistical methods could be used to learn anything from LERs and that one certainly had to go. beyond the statistics to look at the caus,es of the LERs.
Mr. W. Lava 11ee and Mr. R. Breen explained to the Subcommittee the organization and functions' of the Nuclear Safety Analysis Center at EPRI, and some of their activities in conjunction with INPO. These groups are pursuing safety issues of generic interest to the utility industry.
In connection with this, they are reviewing significant events resulting from utility operation. As one of their efforts, they have started an interactive computer communication system between the utilities and NSAC where operational information can be distributed to other utilities on a day to day basis with questions logged in and responded'to in a fairly simple and easy manner.
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They believe they need to be AEOD office will interface with NSAC and INPO.
hile free to investigate events thoroughly and be independent from the NRC h the NRC.
at the same time they recognize some advantages in cooperation wit They are using the LER data base as well as NPRCS as a sour as NSAC and INPO will have some overlap, although most of the operatiilg 1
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The meeting was adjourned at 12:04 p.m.
Additional de' tail is available in the meeting transcript on file in the A
NRC Public Document Room at 1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C d
complete set of studies shown at the meeting is on file with the recor copy of the minutes.
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C. J. Heltemes NRC-AE00 7,
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