ML20032A472
| ML20032A472 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/31/1981 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| References | |
| NUREG-0839, NUREG-0839-ERR, NUREG-839, NUREG-839-ERR, NUDOCS 8110300076 | |
| Download: ML20032A472 (4) | |
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NUREG-0839 A SURVEY BY SENIOR NRC MANAGEMENT TO OBTAIN VIEWP0INTS ON THE SAFELY IMPACT OF REGULATORY ACTIVITIES FROM REPRESENTATIVE UTILITIES OPERATING AND CONSTRUCTING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS l
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Page Correction Title The last word of the title should read " Plants."
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" staff, individual supervisors and managers. Additional coments that" 6
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"much stronger adversarial rela-tionship between the NRC and licensee" 19 Insert space to indicate new paragraph after line 8 of Section 3.
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"According to several licensee managers..."
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DIVISION C TECHNICAL INFORMATION AND DOCUMENT CONTE
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The NRC solution to any problem is to focus on upgrading educational requirements for operating personnel.
They should focus on themselves.
The training program for operators is drawn out too long.
It hurts an operator's performance.
.If NRC requires college degrees for SR0s, why does NRC not require degrees for everybody, such as department heads? College degrees for senior reactor operators is not the right answer.
The uncertainty of where NRC is going in regard to training require-ments creates a serious problem.
The problem is amplified in the
. field, even more than the actual facts justify.
There is a concern about the experience and competence of examiners.
The SRO Bachelor of Science degree issue is a major safety problem with regard to ability and practical experience of crews.
It will create major instability.
The attrition rate is very high.
Ninety-six hours of requalifications are required.
Operators are constantly studying for examinations at the expense of other on-crew activities.
Nonlicensed operators do not want a life like that.
No one wants shift work any longer.
Training is not a panacea for operating problems.
The thought of training solving all sorts of problems appears to be a " cop-out" by other groups and organizations--especially the vendors.
The utilities and NRC should place more emphasis on training of unli-censed operators.
Today's SRO is considerably more qualified than most college graduates.
The time required to accomplish the educational upgrading is totally unrealistic.
Unraalistic schedules contribute to our frustration.
We cannot get where we have to be from where we are.
The NRC Operator Licensing Branch is totally understaffed, overworked, and battered.
They are weak in BWR experience.
They should get away from using consultants because many consultants are only familiar with research reactors and theory.
i NRC should not treat all licensees the same.
Perhaps some licensees could conduct certain aspects of the operator licensing function.
The point was made that some training organizations are completely inde-pendent of operating organizations.
Medical doctors do not have retraining and requalification requirements anywhere near as drastic as do reactor operators and senior reactor operators.
More of NRC directed training should focus on the licensee's engi-neering organization.
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