ML20054F601
| ML20054F601 | |
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| Site: | Clinton  |
| Issue date: | 06/11/1982 |
| From: | Rameysmith A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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h UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COPHISSION BEFORE'T ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of ILLIN0IS POWER COMPANY, et al.
Docket No. 50-461 OL (Clinton Power Station, Unit 1)
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TESTIMONY OF ANN RAMEY-SMITH RELATIVE TO PRAIRIE ALLIANCE CONTENTION 6(g) AND (i)
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Please state your name and your position with the NRC.
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My name is Ann Ramey-Smith.
I am an Engineering Psychologist with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Connission assigned to the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Division of Human Factors Safety, Human Factors Engineering Branch.
I was the leader of the review team responsible for reviewing the Clinton control room from a human factors standpoint.
Q.2.
Have you prepared a statement of professional qualifications?
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Yes. A copy of this statement is attached to this testimony.
Q.3.
Please state the purpose of this testimony.
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The purpose of this testimony is to respond to Prairie Alliance Contention 6(g) and 6(i), which read as follows:
The design and fabrication of the CPS control room layout and instrumentation have not been modified 8206170146 820611 PDR ADOCK 05000461 PDR
_2 to meet current regulatory requirements in NUREG-0660, -0694, and -0737. Specifically:
(g) The CP$ontrol room design and instrumen-t tation ave not been subjected to a com-
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parative evaluation of the interaction of human factors and efficiency of operation;
- and, (i) The FSAR contains no evaluatien of the CPS control room layout and instrumentation in terms of the new criteria resulting from the accident at TMI Unit 2.
Q.4.
Ccntrary to Contention 6(g), has the CPS control room design and instrumentation been subjected to a human factors evaluation?
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Yes.
Since this contention was introduced, Illinois Power Compar.y submitted a " Preliminary Human Factors Review of the Clinton Control Room" as an enclosure to a letter to the NRC dated October 5, 1981. This report was called for in NUREG-0737 TMI Task Action Item I.D.1 and presented a preliminary review of both well-engineered and less than optimal aspects of the Clinton Control Room from a human factors perspective.
Q.5.
Has the NRC reviewed the Illinois Power submittal and performed a control room design review at the Clinton Power Station?
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Yes. A Human Factors Engineering Branch (HFEB) team, assisted by consultants from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Biotechnology, Inc., conducted an on-site control room design and audit from November 3 through November 5,1981, at the control room. This review and audit results from the requirements of NUREG-0737 Task Action Item I.D.1.
Q.6.
What was the nature of the control room review conducted by HFEB staff?
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The control room design review and audit conducted by the HFEB included an evalugtion of the control room layout, the;.adecuacy of information presentation, the arrangement and identification'of important controls and displays, the usefulness of the audio and visual alarm systems, the information recording and recall capability, and other i
considerations of human factors that have an effect on operator performance.
Q.7.
Regardiig Prairie Alliance's concern that efficiency of operation has not been evaluated, in what sense does the NRC require efficiency of operation in the control room?
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The control room review conducted by HFEB addresses efficiency to the extent it is taken into account in human factors principles, against which the control room design is evaluated.
Q.8.
Were the results of the HFEB review reported in the Safety Evaluation Report (SER) for Clinton Power Station?
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Yes. HFEB provided technical input to Chapter 18 of the i
SER issued February 1982..HFEB has also provided input for the supplement to the SER to be issued in June 1982. As noted in the SER and its supplement, CPS is required to take a number of corrective actions and l
I submit to the NRC the results of several evaluations prior to licensing.
The NRC will audit the corrective actions. HFEB will review the results i
of the evaluation performed and provide input to a subsequent supplement i
to the SER.
The conclusion reached in the SER states that " based on the quality of those aspects of the control room reviewed, the corrections proposed by the applicant, and further improvements to be required by supplements
to this SER, we believe that suitable corrections of human engineering discrepancies can be i lemented so as to provide an accept ble control room design.
Q.9.
Contrary to what is stated in Contention 6(i), does the CPS FSAR contain a human factors evaluation in terms of the new criteria i
resulting from TMI relative to control room design and instrumentation?
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Yes.
In the CPS FSAR, Amendment 8, Appendix D, dated October 1981, CPS stated that it had submitted a Preliminary Control Room Design Review report in compliance with TMI Task Action Item I.D.1.
It also referred to the then upcoming NRC review and audit.
Q.10.
Was the Preliminary Control Room Design Review report submitted by CPS and reviewed by the NRC?
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Yes. The SER, dated February 1982, contains the HFEB evaluation of the findigns reported in the CPS submittal. As nc'ed in the SER, CPS is required to take a number of corrective actions and submit to the NRC the results of several evaluations prior to licensing.
The NRC will audit the corrective actions.
HFEB will review the results of the evaluation performed and provide input to a subsequent supplement l
to the SER.
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ATTACHMENT 3, ANN M. RAMEY-SMITH PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING BRANCH DIVISION OF HUMAN FACTORS SAFETY
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Since March 1981 when I was hired by the USNRC, I have been assigned to the Human Factors Engineering Branch, Division of Human Factors Safety, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
My initial responsibilities included:
(1) partici-pation in the development of NUREG-0700, " Guidelines for Control Room Design Reviews", and (2) participation in the onsite control room design reviews required for operating licenses. Subsequently, I have participated in four control room design reviews, three of which I directed.
.I have been active in the application of human factors psychology since 1974.
I hold a bachelor of science degree and a masters of arts degree in Psychology from Towson State University.
I have completed four NRC-sponsored courses entitled Nuclear Reactor Concepts, Radiation Safety Training Program, Pressurized ~ Water Reactohs Technology Course, and Boiling Water Reactors Technology Course.
I am a mer.. Der of the Human Factors Society.
j From 1974 until joining the USNRC in 1981, I was employed as a Research Psychologist' at the National Bureau of Standards. The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) is a Federal research and development agency and is part of the U. S. Department of Comerce. At NBS I worked in the Technical Analysis Division and then in the Center for Consumer Science Technology in planning, directing, and implementing research in the psychological and human factors aspects of man / machine interactions across a broad range of applications.
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Major projects included:
a study.of human Vigilance as related to physical secNkity systems o
sponsored by the U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency; developmen't of a survey instrument to determine the need for a standard o
ergonomics reference data system; o the design of product labels as part of the Department of Commerce Voluntary Consumer Product Information Labeling Program; o a study sponsored by the U. S. Departm,ent of Health Education and Welfare by which the capabilities of residents of group homes for the develcpmentally disabled were characterized and recommendations relevant to fire safety were drawn; and, o research performed for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for the
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' development of a lawn mower safety standard.
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