ML20028G360
| ML20028G360 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Waterford  |
| Issue date: | 11/29/1982 |
| From: | Catton I Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
| To: | Bucci D Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
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| ACRS-CT-1534, NUDOCS 8302080479 | |
| Download: ML20028G360 (2) | |
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29 November 19R TO:
Don Bucci Staff Engineer ACRS - USNRC FROM: Ivan Catton SUBJ: Waterford Unit 3 Subcommittee Meeting - 9 Nov 1982 New Orleans Significant progress has been made by LP&L. Their training program and staffing inadequacies have been addressed in a meaningful way. Most of the reservations I may have had were addressed.
LP&L seems to have responded to criticism by the ACRS in a serious way. Specific connents on various aspects of the topics covered at the subcomittee meeting follow.
Training. At present the Waterford training department has 10+ people out of a desired 54 on their payroll. The difference is made up by using outside contractors. The NRC staff seems unsettled by this. I don't see any problem with this providing the LP&L management supplies sufficient money and good direction to assure that the contractors are well qualified. One of their consultants is Jerry Holman. He ',is an ex-NRC licensing examiner and very good. If all the other contractors are similarly qualified, then the LP&L training program is a good one. The director of training, Dr. Sabri, seems very well qualified and has certainly improved the training program. The lack of professional direction should no longer be a concern.
STA Program. LP&L will have 17 engineers on the Waterford Staff who' have STA responsibilities. Of the 17, 4 have had other plant experience. They all have other assignments and put in their time "in residence" like a fireman on duty. Even though most of them are young, they will soon gain the necessary experience. Of the many approaches to satisfying the STA ^
requirements, the LP&L approach seems to be one of the more sensible ones.
In particular, the involvement of their engineers in the pre-op and start-up activities should yield a number of well qualified STAS.
O_r,qaniza tion. Most plant organizations do not appear to close the loop between training, operations and engineering. LP&L, at least on paper, is doing a good job. Dr. Sabri, the Director of the Training Department, is a member of the corporate safety review committee and one of her managers is a member of the plant operations review committee. Further, there is a group within the training division that addresses human engineering in the plant. This should go a long way towards giving the human element of plant operations the emphasis it needs.
Procedures. Symptom oriented procedures are not in place nor are they shceduled to be. CE has not progressed as far as W in this regard leaving Waterford sort of high and dry. They, being somewEat disenchanted with CE, 1 of 2 l
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have contracted W to help them develop symptom oriented procedures that will meet the INF0 guidelines. They are almost completed and could be put in place. Waterford has a fear, however, of the moling target presented by NRC and does not want to impede their progress towards an OL by having a new set of procedures stuck in the licensing mill. They have privately indicated that they could put them in place very quickly.
Even though the Waterford control room has 16 CRTs, procedures are based on the usual control room process instrumentation. The CRTs and plant computer, which is also more capable than most, are used only as back-up. As back-up, their system has a great deal of depth. A RPC was being checked out during our control room tour. They had a schematic of the RPC displayed on one of the CRTs that seemed to include every conceivable pump parameter.
Integration of this kind of information into operations, although not publicly, is being considered. One wonders, however, what an operator who has been told never to deviate from the emergency procedures faces confronted with a conflict between the plant process instrumentation and the more detailed computer based CRT information.
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