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James L. Blaha, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO j
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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING JANUARY 5 1990 A summary of key events is included as a convenience to those Commissioners who may prefer a condensed version of this report.
Contents Enclosure Nuclear Reactor Regulation A~
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards B
Nuclear Regulatory Research C-t Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data D
Governmental & Public Affairs E
General. Counsel F*
Administration G
j Information Resources Management H
Controller I*
Personnel-J
- Small-& Disadvantaged Business Utilization & Civil Rights K*
Enforcement L
Consolidation.
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Regianal Offices' N
Executive Director for Operations 0*
Items Addressed by_the Commission P
Meeting Notices Q
Proprietary or Other Sensitive Information (Not for R
externaldistribution)
- No input this week.
ames L. Blaha, Assistant for Operations Office of the Executive Director for Operations James L. Blaha, OED0
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- s HIGHLIGHTS OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT WEEK ENDING JANUARY 5, 1990
~ 1 steragency.Meetimo. on.Ni steore seated. Vendor. products NASA indicated to NRR staff it would arrange an On September 8, 1989,f DOT DOE D00. NASA, and NRC technical and investigative interagency sweting o
- staff to discuss vendor counterfeit and fraud issues and to discuss mechanisms for interagency exchange of such information. NASA has now scheduled the 1
meeting for January 19, 1990, in Washington, D.C.
Staff from NRR/VIB and O!
will attend.
FFD. Legal.Filtons' 10 CFR Part 26, Fitness-for-Duty programs, was required to be implemented on January 3,1990. The staff has been informed of three legal filings associated with licensees'-implementation of the rule. Suits (injunctions and temporary restraining orders) have been filed by unions representing the employees at Fitzpatrick, Diablo Canyon, and Turkey Point. The staff ~1s coordinating with 1
the NRC Solicitor regarding the nature and NRC action, if any, to these legal filings.
Seasoyah. Fuels. Corporation.Reorosoization On December 29. 1989, SequoyahFuelsCorporation(SFC)wasauthorizedto l'
reorganize and create _a,new corporate entity, New Sequoyah Fuels Corporation (NSFC), and to establish NSFC as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SFC. The
- t operating facility, the. decommissioning reserve account, and other assets, excluding the ranches and existing assignment contracts, have been transferred from SFC to NSFC.
Chio Governor. Approves Umbrella.MOU.with..NRC Region III has received word from the State Liaison Officer of the State of Ohio that Governor Richard Celeste wishes to proceed with signing an umbrella
- memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the NRC. This would be the first M0V to
' be agreso to with a State under the Comn.ission's policy on cooperation with
-States of February 22, 1989. We expect that the State will-wish to pursue detailed subagreements subsequent to the umbrella MOU. A Comission paper with a proposed MOU is being prepared for Comission approval.
US-USSR. COOPERATION o
Mr. -James Taylor EDO and U.S. Co-Chairman of the Joint Coordinating Comission on Civilian Nuclear Reactor Safety (JCCCNRS), had the opportunity on January 4, 1990 to_have a-morning meeting with Dr. Nikolai Ponomarev-Stepnoy, the Soviet Co-Chairman of the JCCCNRS. Also present it the meetings were other NRC members of the JCCCNRS, Mr. Denton, Mr. Shea, Mr. Shomaker, Dr. Speis, Dr.
l-p Ross, Mr. Jordan, and Mr. Reynolds from Department of Energy and Fr;nk Kinne11y
'from the Department of State. This was an opportunity for further coordination 7
on working groups and activities planned for 1990 and all parties expressed E
positive coments about our continued US/ USSR Cooperation.
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Week Ending January 5,1990 s
NINE MILE. POINT. UNITS.I.AND.2-plant. Status.as.cf 01/03/90 -
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ColdShutdown-ExtendedRefuelingOutage(coreoff-loaded). The licensee expects to load fuel. in January,1990 and to be ready for the STARTUP. mode f
of operation 54 days later, Niagara Mohawk has continued to postpone the planned reloading of the
-Unit 1 fuel. ' Maintenance activities, surveillance testing, and reviews of paperwork had to be completed, and day-to-day delays in the beginning of reloading have resulted. Niagara Mohawk's decision to not reload during the Christmas and New Year's weekends has also delayed progress. On 12/28/89, work was underway _ to replace a control rod drive mechanism which could not be coupled to the control rod. However, reloading of the fuel is imminent.
Unit;2:
On December 26, 1989, Unit 2 shutdown to hot standby to repair a cracked weld.on the "A" feedwater (FW) pump and a seal failure on the "C" FW pump.
Vibration problems have been experienced on the "B" FW pump. As of 01/03/90, the A pump is operable, the B and C pumps are disassembled for Linspection and repair, if necessary, of the impe11ers. Restart is targeted for 01/15/90.
Niagara Mohawk announced a management reorganization to provide a deputy station superintendent at Unit 2 and to fill this positior, with the previous Unit 2 operations superintendent. The previous manager of-regulatory compliance will become the Unit 2 operations superintendent.
Rick. Abbott will continue to be the Unit 2 station superintendent.
YANKEE R0WE' Yankee submitted their response to Generic Letter 88-20, " Severe Accident Closure Submittal for Yankee Nuclear Power Station." That submittal is the first of any licensee responses to Generic Letter 88-20 and is scheduled to be first reviewed. -That review is to be a joint Research, NRR and Contractor effort and its completion has been promised by mid-year.
Its completion bears on Yankee's' Plant Life Extension.
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Interanency Meetina.on Nisrepresented. Vendor. Products-
.0n' Septen6er 8,;1989, NASA indicated to NRR staff. it would arrange an interagency meeting of DOT, DOE, D0D,: NASA, and NRC technical and investigative
. staff to discuss vendor counterfeit and fraud issues and to discuss mechanisms for interagency exchange of such-information. NASA has now scheduled the meeting for January 19,1990, in Washington, D.C.. Staff from NRR/VIB and 01
-will attend.
FFD Legal Filings 10 CFR Part 26, Fitness-for-Duty Programs, was required to be implemented on January.3,1990. - The staff has been informed of three legal filings associated-with licensees' implementation of the rule. Suits-(injunctions.andtemporary z restraining orders) have been filed by unions representing the employees at Fitzpatrick, Diablo Canyon, and Turkey Point. The staff is coordinating with the NRC Solicitor regarding the nature and NRC action, if any, to these legal filings.
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.NUMARC.Neeting to resolve the A meeting was held with NUMARC and NRR/ DST on December 27,1989,(SBO) audits.
L remaining outstanding issues raised during our Station Blackout Final wording of'the augmented SB0 guidance that will be issued to the industry L
by NUMARC was agreed upon. Staff stressed the need for licensee confirmation L
of conformance to the established guidance and a commitment to an EDG reliabi-lity program. The augmented guidance is expected to be issued by NUMARC during the week of January 8,1990. Details of the NUMARC communication to the indus-try will be provided immediately thereafter, a
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Schedule for NTOL plants:
INITIAL FULL PLANT _
_ LOW POWER CRITI-COMMISSION POWER AUTHORZTN-CALITY.
BRIEFING.,
AUTHORITN COMANCHE PEAK 1 2/90E-2/90E 3/90E 4/90E SEABROOK 5/26/89C 6/13/89C 1/90E 1/90E II. Schedule for RESTART plants:
COMMISSION NRC STATUS RESTART PLANT SHUTDOWN BRIEEING...
DECISION PLANT. RESTART BROWNS FERRY 2 9/15/84C 4/90E 5/90E 5/90E NINE MILE POINT 1 12/19/870.
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LInternational Meeting with Department.of. State.on. International. Atomic Energy. Agency-(I AEA)
Inspections On-January 3,1990, a representative from the Office on Nuclear Technology and Safeguards of the Department of State met with staff members of the -
International Assistance Section, NMSS, to discuss practices of the IAEA during inspections at fuel facilities. Some technical' questions regarding IAEA sampling and measurement practices were answered by the NMSS staff.
INDUSTRIAL AND. MEDICAL NUCLEAR. SAFETY Euel. Cycle-Saf ety Sequoyah. Fuels. Corporation Reorganization On December 29, 1989, SequoyahFuelsCorporation(SFC)wasauthorized'to reorganize and create a new. corporate entity, New Sequoyan Fuels Corporation (NSFC), and.to ' establish NSFC as a wholly-owned-subsidiary of SFC. The operating facility, the decommissioning reserve account, and other assets,.
excluding the ranches and existing assignment contracts, have been transferred from SFC to NSFC.
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' Week Ending January 5,1990 Containment Performance.and Protection from. Radiation 1
NRC.DCW Program Workshop A workshop was held in Annapolis, Maryland, on December 18-19, 1989, to examine in detail the NRC Direct Containment Heating-(DCH) Program to determine whether experimental tasks as currently defined under existing NRC programs will provide the data base necessary to validate models in containment codes so that meaningful full-scale containment calculations can be performed. Participants included representatives from NRC, DOE, the UK, national laboratories, industry (EPRI, FAl, PLG and various utilities) and universities.
Formal presentations and discussions took place in the following topic areas:
- 1. The Current Perspectives of Risk from DCH; 2. The Experimental Program; 3. The Analytical Program. The list of specific technical questions was previously provided to the participants.
From the discussions and deliberations, a consensus was reached that DCH was not dominant for the three plants studied in NUREG-1150 (Surry, Zion and Sequoyah) largely due to plant specific attributes. However, High Pressure i
Melt Ejection (HPME) and DCH could be dominant contributors to risk for other plants, and therefore could not be generically dismissed solely from 1150 results.
The general conclusions from the workshop were that:
-(1) The scaling rationale of severe accident phenomena is a key factor in setting up experimental programs and should continue to be pursued, (2) cavity and lower compartment configuration play a key role in the l-
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dispersal characterization of the ejected melt, and need to be modeled in experimental test facilities, and (3) the key phenomenon that appears to be dominating the uncertainty associated with DCH loads is fragmentation and entrainment of the melt during the ejection process.
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,The new Local Area Network (LAN) for Headquarters Operations Officers, together with' associated modifications to SINET, will be operational on January 8.
Event Notifications (50.72s) will be available on both old and new systems through January 12.
The Palo. Verde Diagnostic Team held its final meeting to compile findings. The 1
report is scheduled to be completed the end of January.
- Division;of Safety. Programs.(DSP) t AE00/T921, " Inadequate Capacity of 4160V Switchgear at FitzPatrick," was issued
-during the week of December 27, 1989. This report documents a potential problem at the FitzPatrick plant and the corrective actions being taken following our.
review of the problem.
i In May 1989, an NRC inspection team questioned the adequacy of the 4160V switch-gear capacity at FitzPatrick.
In July 1989, a licensee-calculation established that during the periods'that the unit's emergency diesel generators (EDGs) are tested in parallel with the plant normal station service transformer (NSST), the maximum fault current may excead the momentary and interrupting short circuit
. ratings of the 4160V switchgear. The licensee issued a JC0 for continuing this mode of operation, based on the low probability cf a 3-phase or phase-to-phase
-. fault, occurring during the 1-hour EDG monthly test. The probability figure by the licensee was based on a review of LER data base. The AEOD review of available operational data bases indicates that not all electrical faults are covered by LERs, and that even in LERs, faults are not reported in sufficient detail to identify all 3-phase and phase-to-phase faults. Also, the number of electrical faults identified by our search was.substantially more than those of the licensee.
Thus,:the probability approach used in the JC0 was questionable. Based on these findings, the licensee has agreed not to test EDGs in parallel with the NSST and-ensure that the 4160V switch gear is not exposed to fault currents beyond its rating. -
An AEOD member attended a regular meeting of the Nuclear Industry Check Valve Group (NIC) held on December 6 and 7,1989. There are three active committees
.in NIC:
the Technical Information Comittee (TIC), the Non-Intrusive Examination Comittee (NEC), and the Check Valve Application and Maintenance
-Practices Committee (CAMP). A trip report dated December 27, 1989 details the l organizations and ongoing activities of NIC.
NIC's efforts are promising in providing practical information to utilities to implement actions to improve check valve performance.
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.land Development's Nuclear Energy Agency as part of U.S. participatien in the
' Incident Reporting System (IRS). The objective of this international cooperative
- effort is to share among the member countries.the:1essons learned from operating experience relevant to commercial nuclear. power plant safety. The U.S. IRS
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reports covered a variety of topics..These reports are available through the NRC library.
A court hearing 'is scheduled January 9 to hear oral arguments from the attorney's representing NRC, INPO and Critical Mass regarding Critical Mass lawsuit against the NRC.. The: lawsuit was initiated to obtain public access to INPO events reporting and feedback information contained in the INPO SEE-IN system.
- Preliminary. Notification The following Preliminary Notifications were issued during the wt week.
PNO-I-89-102,WestinghouseElectricCorporation(WaltzMillsSite), Fire a.
in Decontamination Facility, b.
Florida Hospital (Agreement State Licensee), Mission Cs-137 Source.
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PNO-III-89-90, American Radiolabeled Chemicals, St. Louis, MO, Suspension of NRC-Licensed Activities.
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PN0-III-90-01, St. John's Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis, MO,~ Lost Cesium-137 Brachytherapy Source, e.
PNO-IV-90-01, Arkansas Power & Light Company ( Arkansas Nuclear One, i
Unit'2), Reactor Trip / Shutdown Greater Than 48 Hours, f.
'PNO-V-90-01, Arizona Nuclear Power Project (Palo Verde Unit 3), Main Transformer Fault.
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' Office of Governmental and Public Affairs Items of Interest Week Ending January 5,1990 State r l oca l - a nd ; I nd i a n.Tri be. Prog rams Potential LLW. Disposal SiteiSalected.in. Nebraska ~
4 U.S. Ecology has selected a site near Butte, Nebraska in Boyd County as a potential site' for the Central Interstate 1.ow-Level Radioactive Waste Compact's
- LLW disposal facility. The Butte site was chosen from three~1ocations which were examined as potential sites. The site must be licensed by the State.
Meetings with.Rhode. Island and. Massachusetts. State. Liaison.0fficers Marie Miller, Region I State Liaison Officer, met with Charles Mansolillo, Director of the Governor's Office of Energy Assistance and Intergovernmental Relations-and Rhode Island State Liaison Officer, on January 3,1990 in Providence, Rhode Island. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss items of mutual interest, including the status of the Agreement State program, the LLW-disposal contract with the Rocky Mountain LLW Board and the status of NRC activities at Pilgrim and Seabrook.
In addition, Ms. Miller attended a hearing of the Connecticut Hazardous Waste Management Service Board to receive public L
comments on the 1989 update of the Connecticut LLRW Management Plan on the evening of January 3 in Danielson, Connecticut. -It was announced that the earliest a preferred site, a site designer and site technology could be selected would be June 1, 1991. On January 4,1990, Ms. Miller attended the NRC Pilgrim Restart Panel meeting with Boston Edison on the final assessment report for Pilgrim. Ms. Miller also met with' Buzz.Hausner, Massachusetts-State Liaison Officer designee, to discuts the status of the State inspection /
observation activities and to discuss the status of the Massachusetts LLW h
program.
Ohio. Governor. Approves Umbrella.MOU.with NRC Region III has received word from the State Liaison Officer of the State of
' Ohio that Governor Richard Celeste wishes to proceed with signing an umbrella memorandumcfunderstanding(MOU)withtheNRC. This would be the first MOU to be agreed to with a State under the Commission's policy on cooperation with L
States of February 22, 1989. We expect that-the. State will wish to pursue E
detailed subagreements subsequent to the umbrella MOU. A Commission paper with a proposed M0V is being prepared for Connission approval.
i Internationcl. Programs On Thursday, Dr. Lars Larsson, Vice-President, Office of Energy and Environ-mental Policy Federation of Swedish Industry met with representatives of NRR, RES and-GPA to discuss current nuclear energy issues.
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' US-USSR. COOPERATION Mr. James = Taylor, EDO and U.S. Co-Chairran of the Joint Coordinating Commission 1
on Civilian Nuclear Reactor Safety (JCCCNRS), had the opportunity _ on January 4, 1990 to have a morning meeting with Dr. Nikolai Ponomarev-Stepnoy, the Soviet Co-Chairman of-the JCCCNRS. Also present at the meetings were other NRC members of the JCCCNRS, Mr. Denton, Mr. Shea, Mr. Shomaker, Dr. Speis. Dr.
Ross, Mr.-Jordan, and Mr. Reynolds from Department of Energy and Frank Kinne11y from the Department of State. This was an opportunity for further coordination
- on working groups and act1vities planned for 1990 and all parties expressed positive comments about our continued US/ USSR Cooperation.
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Office of Administration Items of Interest Week Ending January 5,1990-New. Guard. Post in.0WFN. Parking. Garage A new guard post will soon be operational on the P-1 level of the parking garage at OWFN. The purpose of the new post-is to provide better security for the building through increased control of visitors and others who do not have NRC' badges or parking permits. A notice to all employees-detailing the-
- operation of.the new post will be distributed in advance of its activation'.-
The majority of employees'who are authorized to park in.the garage will be unaffected by the new procedures.
Significant FOIA. Requests.Rectived.by.the.NRC' For 3. day. Period.cf. January. 2. 1990... January.4...lg90 (1)NRC-33-87-216,and Req)uest for copies of RFPs for the following contracts:NRC-33-89-132. (Glen Wacke (2
Request for copies of-all records related to the most recent license amendment for Kerr-McGee's West Chicago facility. (Bruce Kelsey, FOIA-90-2)
Request for three categories of records related to contract NRC-34-89-347.-
(Dave Airozo, Inside NRC, F01A-90-3)
Request for records that provide six categories of information related to the Subgroup on-' Nuclear Export Coordination. (Jennifer Weeks, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, F0!A-90-4)
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Office of Information Resources Management Items of Interest Week Ending January 5,1990 t
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Implementation.of.NUDOCS/AD l
NUDOCS/AD was brought up on schedule on December 28 and is being used
.by the IRM staff as well as other NRC staff.
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Event. Notification. Search.and. Reporting System
-The new event notification system is up and running under SINET and is available for use. Training on the use of the system has been completed in each region.
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Emergency. Response Center. Contingency. plans The Information Technology Services Branch has been meeting with the Office for Analysis and Eva'luation of Operational Data on contingency plans-for the NRC's Emergency Response Center.
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Archived.E11es on Maonetic. Tape Approximately 1,000 NRC computer files which resided on the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) computer system in 1985 were transferred to magnetic tape when NRC closed the computer service contract with BNL in
.early 1986. Many tapes.have not been used since that time. The.ITS Codes'and Stardards Section has maintained documentation of this tape library, most of which are stored at NRC or the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) Archive Tape Library. A memorandum has been sent to each tape owner of record, asking that a tape control form be. filled out and returned to ITSB~to update our records.
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Access.to Training. Rooms.in.Woodmont Building-
.1 Student attending training courses in the Woodmont Building may now use their i
I White Flint key cards-to enter the training area. A key card access device
- has been installed to the right of the entry door.
Committee. Formed to Welp. Improve.Public. Service j
August Spector of the Training, Development and Employee Assistance staff has been selected to serve on an OPM' Ad Hoc Committee on " Front Line Service."
The purpose of this committee. is to provide advice and ideas to OPM on how OPM i
and Federal agencies can improve front line service to the public.
Arrivals
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.Significant. Enforcement. Action
' A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount i
of $7,500 was issued on December 29, 1989 to Tulsa Gamma Ray, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma. The action was based on 10 violations that, in the aggregate, were considered to. represent a_ braakdown in control of licensed activities.
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s Region I Items of Interest Week Ending January 5,1990 1
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On December 12,1989..Cintichem, Inc., reported the discovery, on November 28, 1989, of slightly contaminated water in an onsite storm drain. A Regional-Inspector was sent to the site on December 19, 1989, to review the licensee's actions and analytical results. On the basis of that review, other actions taken by the licensee, and discussions with Region.1 management, the licensee issued a letter dated December 28, 1989 which confirmed commitments made with respect to the continuation of investigative and corrective actions to correct the identified onsite storm drain water contamination problem.
In addition, an informational
- meeting was held at the Tuxedo, New York site on January 2,1990 to L
discuss potential sources of the contamination, actions taken to -verify -
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' measures, and identification of the skills and resources needed to accomplish the planned actions. This meeting was attended by licensee, NRC and New York State, Dept. of Labor and Dept.. of Environmental Conservation personnel. The licensee will continue to investigate the sources of the contamination. Review of recent analytical data indicated I
that there is still no evidence of offsite releases from the holding pond.
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Pilgrim
'The Regional Administrator and the Restart Panel met with representatives of.BECO on 1/4 at the Chiltonville Training Center to discuss the
' licensee's final assessment report.
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Nine.M11e. Point. Unit.1 Niagara Mohawk. commenced reloading of the.Nine Mile Point Unit 1 core at p
approximately 11:00 p.m. on 1/3. Reloading was authorized by the Unit 1 Station Superintendent following approval of the temporary reload procedures and confirmation of system operability by the Operations Department. Core reload is scheduled to be completed the week of 1/14, and unit restart is targeted for April 1990. As of 8:00 a.m. on 1/5, l
43 fuel bundles had been loaded, and the reloading was progressing at a measured pace.. The resident inspectors are providing augmented coverage of licensee reload activities.
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Region II Items of Interest Week Ending January 5,1990 1.
Carolina Power.8. Light Compan.y On January;4-5, the Deputy Regional Administrator toured the Brunswick site end met with the Resident Inspectors and plant management.
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En forcement Confere nce... F l ori da. Powe r. &.L i ght. Compa ny On January 4,-representatives of the Florida Power and Light Company were in the Region II Office to attend an Enforcement Conference regarding the recent loss of safeguards material at their Turkey Point Nuclear Power Station.
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Enforcement. Conference... Department.of. Navy On January-5, representatives of the Department of the Navy, Pensacola Naval Hospital, were in the Region II Office to attend an Enforcement Conference regarding an apparent willful failure to provide personnel dosimetry and falsification of dosimetry records by the Radiation Safety Officer.
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D. C.. Cook An enforcement conference was held in the Regional Office on January 4, 1990..with the American Electric Power Service Corporation to review the apparent violation resorted in NRC Inspection Report Nos. 50-315/89028(DRS);
50-316/89028(DRS). ' Tie apparent violation concerned anomalous readings 1
observed by the NRC inspectors associated with a flow switch for the Unit 2 turbine driven auxiliary feedwater pump (TDAFP) that affected the operability of the pump. The NRC staff outlined the circumstances of the NRC observation and the licensee provided additional information and the
- results of:further investigations into the safety significance of the problem and its corrective actions.
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On January 3,1990, a RCS leak of approximately 20 gpm developed while Unit I was being maintained in hot shutdown. The unit was starting up u
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appeared to be coming from one of the pressurizer spray valves, which
'has been subsequently isolated. Further investigations identified an additional source of leakage. The packing gland on the valve was tightened but this did not stop the leakage. Technical Specifications L
,(TS) require the unit to be in cold shutdown within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> if the
. leakage is not reduced to less than 10 gpm. The licensee proceeded to t
L cold shutdown. The licensee declared an Unusual Event because of the TS action statement mode change requirements.
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On December 14, 1989, an unanticipated turbine trip / reactor scram and subsequent reactor feedwater transient occurred on Unit I when the unit was at approximately 35% power. Region III-formed a special inspection team to investigate the event. The cause of the event was determined to be the installation of an incorrect turbine /feedwater pump trip switch during the refueling outage in November 1989.- The feedwater transient was an expected response for a turbine trip and it was bounded by the accident analysis. The licensee replaced the trip switch with the correct switch and commenced power escalation on December 15, 1989. 'A management meeting will be held with the licensee on January 11, 1990, in the Region III office to discuss the licensee's plans to improve the quality of work j
activities at Quad Cities Station.
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Perry. Nuclear 9ower. Station The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company's (CEI) Perry Nuclear Power Plant has experienced a series of offgas system loop seal failures resulting in minor noble gas releases. The history behind these loop seal failures extends back to 1988 with the most recent failures occurring on l
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December 28 and 29,1989, and January 1,1990. While the quantities of l-the radiological releases are low and not a safety concern, the Region has become concerned with the repetitive operational distractions which should be corrected and that past-licensee corrective actions have not
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. concern with this issue. This topic is expected to be a subject of the l-next periodic management meeting with CEI and a meeting with the State a
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Zion. Nuclear. Power. Station On ' January 5,1990, Messrs. A. Bert Davis, Regional Administrator, Edward G. Greenman, Director, DRP, Hubert J. Miller, Director, DRS, and i
John W. Craig, Project Directorate III, NRR and other staff members met with senior Commonwealth Edison Company management to discuss the Zion SALP-8 assessment. The licensee received six SALP-2 ratings and oneSALP-3 rating (EngineeringandTechnicalSupport)inthe seven functional areas evaluated.
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URF01.NNSS.end. Pathfinder Nines. Corporation Meeting On-January 3,1990, members of the URF0 and NMSS-LLOB met with Pathfinder Mines Corp, to discuss the staff's draft Technical Position on Erosion Protection as it applies to Pathfinder's Reclamation Plan for the Shirley Basin Mill in Wyoming. The meeting, which was-requested by Pathfinder a
after they reviewed and commented on the staff's Technical Position on Erosion Protection for Tailings Piles, was held in the URF0 office in Denver.-
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UR FO.. NNS S -a nd. Un i on. Pa ci f i c. Re sou r ce s. Meet i ng The Director of URF0 and select members of the URF0 staff, along with members of NMSS-LLOB, met with representatives of Union Pacific Resources (UPR) and their consultants on January 4,1990, to discuss the reclamation plan for Bear Creek Uranium's byproduct disposal area in Wyoming. The plan proposed by UPR will stabilize the material-inplace by covering the contaminated materials with native soil. The staff's technical position on cover design was also discussed.
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URFO.. NMSS. and. Home s ta ke.Mi ni ng. Compa ny. Meeting
-On January 4,1990, members of the URF0 and HMSS-LLOB staffs met with representatives of Homestake Mining Company in the URF0 office in Denver. 'The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the staff Technical Position on Erosion Protection of Taiiings Piles-as it relates to Homestake's proposed reclamation plan for the Grants Mill, Homestake's amendment request for constructing a new evaporation pond, and Homestake's preliminary design for a new tailings disposal pond.
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- At 10:00 a.m. (CST) on January 5,1990, representatives of the Omaha Public Power District will attend an enforcement conference in the Region IV office. The conference is to discuss concerns at the Fort Calhoun Station regarding the inoperability of two component cooling water heat exchangers and an inadequate 10 CFR Part 50.59 review affecting the emergency diesel generators.
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At 3:45 p.m.- (PST) on January (TS) 3.0.3 as a result of a failed 3,1990, the Sup
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generators (D/Gs)onsite. The-licensee believed that the problem was due to the method-of sampling (from the bottom of the fuel oil tanks) rather than bad fuel. Their belief that this was -the case was due to the fact that previous samples of the fuel tanks and fuel shipments ware tested satisfactorily.
In addition, testing using a newer method (sampling at theD/Gfilters)indicatedthatinsoluableswerewithinspecificationsand thir Supply System believed that the D/G's were operable. The licensee requested Technical Specification (TS) relief based on the above testing and the intention to revise the TS to delete the old testing method and replace it with the newer testing method.
l At 6:35 p.m. (PST) on January 3,1990, Region V granted enforcement l'
discretion until 12:00 p.m. January 4, 1990, (which was extended until L
6:00 p.m. (PST) January 5,1990) with a waiver of compliance to follow until an emergency TS change can be processed.
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On December 30, 1989, while starting up from an extended refueling outage, the Palo Verde Unit 3 phase "A" main transformer developed what appears to be an internal fault. The apparent fault caused excessive pressure within
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the transformer, the spraying and draining of the internal oil, and the splitting of several seams in the transformer housing. The transformer produced smoke and an occasional flame and the fire was declared out by site personnel within ten minutes. There was danage to the phase "A" transformer components and a surge capacitor bank inside the turbine building. The reactor was at 12% power at the time of the event and was stabilized at 10% power afterwards. Safety-related equipment was not adversely affected by the event. The licensee intends to replace the transformer with a spare located on-site and perform a root cause evaluation. The licensee expects the transformer replacement to take E
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STAFF REQUIREMENTS - BRIEFING ON STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SEVERE ACCIDENT MASTER INTEGRATION PLAN AND STATUS OF LICENSEE PROGRESS ON IPE, 10:00 A.M., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1989, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, ONE WHITE FLINT NORTH, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE) -
SECY to James M. Taylor. EDO dated 1/2/90 The Commission was briefed by the staff on the status of NRC's implementation of the severe accident waster integration plan and the status of licensees' progress on performing individual plant examinations (IPE).
The Commission requested the staff to:
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Provide the Commission a copy of NUMARC's draft guidance to utilities on accident management and staff's comments on the draft.
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Submit an information paper which identifies those licensees requesting delays in submitting their IPEs, their justification for these requests, and staff's evaluation of the justification.
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Submit an information paper describing the candidate accident management strategies, prior to issuing them to
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Provide a status report on the Accident Management Program and proposed guidance to be provided to the industry.
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Develop the guidance and criteria, for Commission review and approval, which would outline in detail the role that the IPE program will have in assessing industry's status with respect to the Commissicn's Safety Goal Policy Statement.
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Provide semiannual updates on the implementation of the severe accident-master integration plan including updates on the status of the IPE program.
Staff should update the j
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submittals by June 1995.
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Consider and carefully plan how, in the future, the NRC may want to use information from licensees' IPE submittals and evaluate the options for capture and retrieval of
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Advise the Commission if the containment Improvements Program, the External Events Assessment Program, and the l
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current schedules.
The Commission encouraged licensees to perform a Level-III PRA as part of their IPE programs.
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.ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE) - SECY to James M. Taylor, I
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SECY-89-277A - Denial of Petitions'for Rulemakina that
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Relate to Emeroency Precaredness at Nuclear Power Plants The Commission, by a 5-0 vote, approved.the publication of a l
Federal: Register Notice denying three petitions for rulemaking concerning emergency preparedness at nuclear power plants, concluding that the Commission's present regulation on emergency preparedness are adequate to protect public' health and safety.
The attached edits and corrections should be made and the Federal Register Notice should be reviewed by the Regulatory Publications Branch-for consistency with Federal Register requirements and returned for signature.
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- NRR CONTACT 1/11/90 50-259/
White Flint Bldg.
Harris Nuclear Power Plant.
MRC/TVA G. Gears 1:00-5:00 260/296 Room 6B-11 Discuss TVA's. status on the incorporation of the engineering assurance
. function into the QA organization.
1/12/90 50-443 Education Center Discuss applicant's readiness NRC/NHY V. Nerses 8:30 Seabrook Site to operate Seabrook Station Unit I at full power levels (up to 1001,of power).
1/16/90 50-269/
Oconee Nuclear Station Discuss the status of NRC/GPCo L. Wiens 8:30-4:00 270 various licensing activies Duke Power Co.
and safety initiatives at Duke Power Ceepany's and
.i Georgia Power Company's-nuclear stations included in PDII-3 area of responsibility.
1/16/90 50-5 White Flint Bldg.
Discuss installation of a NRC/Penn State A. Adams 9:00-11:45 Room 10B-13 computerized control system for the Penn State Triga Research Reactor.
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Discussion of Consumers NRC/ Consumers A. De Agazio 8
9:30-12:00 Room 128-11 Power Company program for Power Co.
55 steam generator replacement.
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Hatch Nuclear Plant Discuss the status of NRC/GPCo L. Wiens.
8:30-4:00 270 various licensing activies Duke Power Co.-
and safety initiatives at-Duke Power Company's and Georgia Power Company's nuclear stations included in PDII-3 area of responsibility.
2/14/89 White Flint Bldg.
- Discuss the following items (1)
NRC/GE G. Thomas-
. i 9:30-12:00 Room 8B-11 results of strategies with and without water level lowered to
-top.of active fuel; (2) effects of. power / flow / level oscillations on operator actions and. fuel integrity;-(3). pros and cons of.
revised heat capacity temperature limit (HCTL)'for ATWS mitigaticn;
'(4) analytical capability needed to accurately model ATWS;.(5) uncertainty in existing analyses.
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NRC Costect 1/11 Project OWFN
'To discuss Licensing letSS P. Loysen 10:00 a.m.-
M-45 10-B-11 issues with Louisiana P. LeRoy, LES 1:00 p.m.
Energy Services H. Arnold, LES Energy Services 1/16/90 OWFN To discuss a license NMSS/NRR J. Roberts 9:00 a.m.-
8-B-11 application under Part L. McCarten, NSP 4:00 p.m.
72 for dry spent fuel storage at Northern States Power's (NSP)
Prairie Island nuclear power plant site, and associated Part 50 reactor technical specification changes 1/23-25 M-32 West Valley, NY Review status of 1995 5 R. D. Hurt supernate treatment W. W. Bixby, DOE /WY and discuss vitrifi-Reps. of West Valley cation off-gas with DOE Nuc' ear Services Services (WVMS)rNuclear and West Valle l
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E 1/16-18 Albuquerque, NM Meet w/ DOE re: Comments NM55 P. Gillen on IMTRAP QA Program DOE t
1/18-19 Austin & El Paso, TX Selected Site Visit:
NMSS R. Bangart Ft Hancock, Hudspeth GPA i
Co., TX 1/24-26 San Francisco, CA Participate in LLW NRC P. Lohaus Forum Meeting i
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1/9/90 OWFN Discuss NRC access to IMSS K. Stablein 6-B-11 DOE Technical Data for D. Bechtel, Clark County, Yucca Mountain Nevada P
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1/18-19/90 Hyatt Regency Attend NUREG-1150 Peer J. Murphy &
M. Cunningham Bethesda,IO
. Review Committee Meeting M. Cunningham
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Refresher Training RII, RIII, RIV, RV 01/30-31 TTC Training Advisory Group (TAG)
Kenneth Raglia-Chattanooga, TN GPA, RI, RII, RIII, RIV, RV 1
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w 01/16/90 030-00116 RI Office Enforcement Conference Licensee and Selected Courtensache 10:30 am 030-01265 Stamford Hospital, CT
' RI Staff Mea 6ers 01/26/90 50-271 Vernon, VT SALP Management Meeting Licensee and Selected Blough -
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01/11/90 Surry, VA Management Meeting Licensee, RA and Ebneter 9:00 a.m.
.VEPC0 - Sorry Selected RII Staff Meders 01/17/90 Crystal River, FL Management Meeting Licensee, RA and Ebneter 8:00 a.m.
FPC - Crystal River Selected RII Staff Meders 01/18/90 RII Office Meeting to discuss Licensee, selected Crienjak 1:00 p.m.
Design Verification HQs and RII Staff Inspection issues regarding FPL plants 01/22/90 Miami, FL Commissioner Curtiss Commissioner, T. Asst.,
Milhoan will be visiting the Deputy RA, and resident Turkey Point facility inspectors for site familiarization 01/23/90 Jensen Beach, FL Commissioner Curtiss Commissioner, T. Asst.,
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will be visiting the Deputy RA, and resident St. Lucie facility inspectors for site familiarization 01/24/90 Crystal Riv.er, FL Commissioner Curtiss Commissioner, T. Asst.,
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McGuire facility RII and resident staff 01/31/90 York, SC SALP Presentation - DPC Licensee, RA, and selected Ebneter 9:00 a.m.
Catawba facility RII and resident staff
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i 01/11/90 50-254' Region III Consnonwealth Edison Licensee, Deputy Regional Paperielle 9:00 am 50-265 Company - Quad Cities Administrator and selected j
Management Meeting members of RIII Staff 01/12/90 50-295 Region III Comunonwealth Edison Licensee, Peputy Regional-Miller i
1:00 pm 50-304 Company - Zion Administrator and selected Enforcement Conference members of RIII Staff 01/16/90 50-266 Region III Wisconsin Electric Licensee, Regional Davis 1:00 pm 50-301 Power Company - Point Administrator and selected Beach Enforcement wembers of RIII Staff Conference 01/18/90 50-440 Region III Cleveland Electric Licensee. Deputy Regional Paperiello 1:00 pm 50-441 Illuminating Company -
Administrator and selected j
Perry Enforcement members of RIII Staff Conference 01/19/90 030-29789 Region III Testmaster Inspection Licensee. Deputy Regional More11us 10:00 am Co., Inc. - Enforcement Administrator and selected Conference members of RIII Staff 01/23-25/90 Lisle, IL Resident Inspector Deputy Regional Greenmen l
Seminar Administrator, Director, DRP and selected members i
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1/22-23/90 Region V Senior Management Meeting J. Martin, RV J. Martin in Region V.
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1/23/90 50-344 Trojan Chairman Carr will tour Chairman Carr M. Mendonca i
j Trojan Facilities.
R. Zinnerman, RV 1/24/90 Oakland, CA Chairman Carr will visit Chairman Carr R. Pate i
Dr. Hirsch Handmaker of the Margaret Federline Children's Hospital in Oakland State of CA i
on the morning of January 24 RV Staff 1990. He will be discussing Dr. Handmaker's perspectives on quality assurance for the medical applications of radioisotopes.
1/24/90 50-312 Rancho Seco Sacramento Municipal Utility R. Scarano, RV F. We..slawski District (SMUD) Management G. Yuhas, RV Meeting regarding control of.
F. Wenslawski, RV radioactive materials.
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E Palo Verde visit the San Onofre and P
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