ML20058K928
| ML20058K928 | |
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| Site: | Monticello  |
| Issue date: | 03/09/1972 |
| From: | Mayer L NORTHERN STATES POWER CO. |
| To: | Morris P US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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Organizational Changes This letter has been written to summarize and confirm various information which has been related to AEC Division of Beactor Licensing and Compliance personnel over the last two month period concerning organizational changes, personnel ad-ditions and reassignment of responsibilities in hrthern States Power Company as they relate to nuclear plant operations. The sections describing the changes in the &nticello Plant organizational structure are also directed toward the reporting requirement of Section 6.6.C.3 of Appendix A, Technical Specifications of Provisional Operating License IFR-22.
The corporate organizational mlation-ship of the various departments or groups discussed in this letter are shown in attached Figure 1.
helear Support Services Department This department was formed early in November 1971, with Mr. L 0 byer as Director l
of helear Support Services and as described in Mr. Larkin's letters to you dated 5
November 5,1971, and November 19, 1971.
On Iecember 1,1971, Mr. M H Voth was promoted from Engineer-helear at the Enticello Plant to Administrator-Nuclear Support Services in this General Office technical support group.
Mr. Voth (BSEE, M3RE) has 41/2 years' experience as a helcar Engineer, primarily at the Muti-cello Plant. On April 3,1972, an engineer (BChE, MSNE) with two years of nuclear i
engineering work with a major engineering consulting firm will join the Eclear Support Services Ibpartment. We are currently seeking two more individuals with nuclear experience in areas which will complement those already assigned to this group.
Experience rdsunds for the individuals currently assigned to the Nuclear Support Services D2partment are attached.
i In the four months since its formation, this g mup has provided the chairman for, l
I administration of, and full time attendance at meetings of the Safety Audit Com-l mittee.
The helear Support Services group has served as the major participant l
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't NORTHERN CDTATES POWER CL.APANY Dr P A E rris March 9, 1972 in communications with AEC-DRL on significant plant activities and licensing mat-ters. They have assisted the Power Production and Enticello Plant organizations on review and resolution of plant operating and technical situations and corree-tion of equipment deficiencies. This technical support function vill be broadened, and redimeted where necessary, as additional personnel are added and needs be-come apparent.
Power Production Department A reorganization of the General Office Power Production Ibpartment was implemented 7
in two steps on Ibee=ber 1,1971, and February 1,1972. Whereas previously the nuclear and fossil plant operational msponsibility was all contained in one Power Plant-Mechanical group with two Supervising Engineers handling operating and tech-nical matters for the mnticello and Prairie Island Plant, the operating and tech-nical responsibility for nuclear plants has been separated from fossil plant activ-ities with both grot:ps reporting directly to the knager of Power Production as shown in the attached Figure 2.
Effective December 1, 1971, Mr. G H Neils was designated General Superintendent of Nuclear Plant Operation heading this group.
Mr. Neils (BSEE) has 17 years' NSP experience,13 of which is nuclear plant operating and engineering experience accumulated throu6h his participation in Pathfinder, Enticello, and Prairie Is-land plant operation or project responsibilities.
On February 1,1972, Mr. R L Scheinost was appointed Superintendent-Operations in Mr. Neils' group.
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Scheinost (BSME) has almost 8 years' NSP experience, 6 of which is nuclear plant operating and engineering experience accumulated through his participation in Pathfinder and Monticello plant operation or project responsibilities.
On Feb-ruary 1,1972, Mr. J A Tacheny was appointed Superintendent-Projects and trans-ferred from the Power Production Electric Plant Section to Mr. Neils' group.
Mr. Tacheny (BS Natural Science, BSEE) has almost 14 years' NSP experience work-i ing with generating plant electrical equipment and e.Lectrical systems, with sev-eral years of design review in this field for NSP nuclear plant projects. Exper-1ence resumes for the individuals currently assigned to the Nuclear Power Plant Operation group in Power Pmduction are attached. Additional personnel vill be added to this group in 1972.
The Power Production Ibpartment reorganization has also broadened the function
- of the Power Plant Maintenance group which has historically served more of a staff or consulting ihnetion, than a line function, by pIuriding coordination and consultation for power plant maintenance activities. This group has now been assigned additional responsibility for tmining and quality assurance.
It vill eventun11y provide General Office quality assurance review and assistance for both nuclear and fossil generating plants with stress en metallurgical and welding capabilities. An indivirlual with broad experience in this field is ex-pected to be selected and assigned within the next several months.
Enticello Nuclear Plant A significant reorganization of the mnticello Plant operating organization took place effective Mrch 1,1972, as shown on attached Figure 3 Tbe changes were ll
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NORTHERN OTATES POWER Ct.v1PANY Dr P A Wrris k rch 9, 1972 directed toward relieving certain key supervisors of the number of functions they must direct, providing additional supervisors, splitting some portions of the organization into smaller functional groups, and assignment of additional technical personnel to the E nticello Plant staff.
Mr. C E Larson was appointed Plant Manager with two major groups reporting to him through their respective superintendents, the Operation & h intenance group and the Plant Engineering & Radiation Pmtection gmup.
Mr. W E Anderson, formerly Maintenance Supervisor, was designated Superintendent-Operation & Maintenance and in this position supervises the functions of the op-enting shift personnel gmups and the mechanical-electrical maintenance gmup.
Mr. Anderson has an extensive background in operations as well as maintenance, having functioned as both a Shift Supervisor and the Operations Supervisor during startup, testing and operation of the Pathfinder Nuclear Plant.
Mr. H E Nimo, fomerly Chief mectrician, has been appointed as hintenance Supervisor replacing Mr. Anderson.
Mr. Nire.no has 26 years' experience in plant operation and maintenance with NSP, previous experience as a Machinist, and played a responsible role in the E nticello pre-operational testing and startup program.
The initial complement of five Shift Supervisors is inemased to six vith the appointment of Mr. R A Kmitch, SRO 1493, formerly a Icai Plant Equipment and Reactor Operator.
The additional strength in this supervisor gmup will provide additional manpower availability for shift relief, review of operating activities, and supervision of operating matters that can be accomplished independent of the assigned shift duties during normal workday hours.
Mr. M H Clarity was named Superintendent-Plant Engineering & Radiation Protection.
He vill be responsible for the activities of the technical groups having responci-bility for Padiation Protection, Plant Engineering-Technical, Plant Engineering-Operations and operational Qaality Assurance.
Mr. L R H iacon vill continue to function as Padiation Protection Engineer but vill be given substantial assistance in this area of responsibility by the reassignment of Mr. F L Fey f rom Engineer to Assistant Padiation Protection Engineer.
Mr. Fey's background includes mas-ters degrees in both Public Health and Science (Health Physics); he has profes-sional experience in radiation safety and health physics and has been functioning in an engineering capacity in the technical gmups at both the Pathfinder and knticello Plants.
Mr. G H Jacobson was appointed Plant Engineer-Technical to supervise the activi-ties of the Engineer-Nuclear, Engineer-Computer, and Engineer-Instruments.
Mr.
D E Nevinski has been designated Engineer-Nuclear replacing Mr. M H Voth who transferred to the Naclear Support Services Departmnt.
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Mr. M F Dinville has been appointed Plant Engineer-Operations. This group will
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provide technical support for the other Monticello Plant groups and will have m-sponsibility for surveillance testing, meeting technM:.1 specification requirements, retraining, and other specific support assignments.
Mr. Dinville currently has five engineers in this support group.
NORTHERN OTATED POWER C u PANY Dr P A W rris Arch 9, 1972 An individual vill be assigned as Quality Engineer in the near future and will report to the Superintendent-Plant Engineering & Radiation Protection. The Quality Engineer vill function in accordance with the responsibilities as out-lined in the Operational Quality Assurance Manual for the Enticeno Plant, which is now being fomalized, and vill secum guidance and assistance from the quality assurance section of the General Office Power Plant Maintenance group.
P2cmotions and reassignments resulting fmm the reorganization have placed tech-nical manpower in other functions in a manner which reduces the number of exper-ienced personnel available for activities carried out under the responsibility function of the Plant Engineer-Operations. Measures are underway to recruit and hire several additional technical personnel with nuclear experience or spe-cific training to strengthen this group.
Two senior-experienced engineers have been obtained fmm a consulting firm to stmngthen this group, on a full-time resident basis, as a transitional measure.
Safety Audit Comittee Several changes in the functioning of the Manticello Safety Audit Comittee have taken place in recent months which vill further increase the independence and effectiveness of the nuclear plant safety review function.
On December 6, 1971, Mr. L 0 Mayer, Director-Nuclear Support Services, was named Chaiman of the Monticello Safety Audit Comittee replacing Mr. R 0 Duncanson, knager of Power Production. This removes the Safety Audit Committee Chaimanship from a department having day-to-day line responsibility for plant operation.
On Jan-uary 11, 1972, Dr. J A Thie, independent nuclear consultant, was appointed as a regular member of the Ibnticello Safety Audit Comittee instead of serving as a part-time consultant as he had up to that time.
Effective March 2, 1972, the i
Monticello Safety Audit Comittee was made advisory to the Group Vice President-Power Supply instead of the Vice President-Power Production & System Operation
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as in the past. The Safety Audit Committee membership and its Chairman and 1
Vice Chaiman under this new arrangemnt shall be appointed by the Gmup Vice President-Power Supply or such person as he shall designate.
It is our intent to submit additioral infomation to you at a later date summariz-ing the NSP General Office engineering and technical support personnel resources available for nuclear plant operations support in addition to those detailed herein fmm the Power Production and Nuclear Support Services Ibpartments. We vill also include a summary of outside consultant expertise currently retained by, or available to, NSP for nuclear plant operations support.
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WORKEXPERIENCERbSUN LEE O MAYER Director - Nuclear Support Services Nortbem States Power Compriny June 1947 Graduated from the University of Minnesota as a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with distinction.
July 1947 Employed by Northern States Power Company as an Engineer in the plant results group in a major electrical generating plant.
June 1948 Assigned additional mechanical engineering
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responsibilities in connection with the construction, startup and operation of new generating plant additions in the outlying j
divisions of NSP Co.
l January 1951 Recalled into the U S Mrine Corps for active i
duty as an artillery officer.
r my 1952 Resumed the duties of r plant results engineer in several divisional electric generating plants with the engineering responsibility for plant i
operating and maintenance activites.
December 1953 Transferred to the Power Production Department in the General Office of NSP Co. as a super-vising engineer. A supervising engineer has day to day engineering responsibilities for the technical activities of several specifi-j cally assigned electric generating plants.
Spring & Summer 1957 Advanced math and physics courses at the I
University of Minnesota in preparation for a nuclear training assignment.
September 1957 Entered the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Tech-nology program which consisted of six months of graduate level work at Northwestern Uni-versity, and six months of reactor technology training at Oak Ridge.
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September 1958 Returned to the NSP General Office, Power Produe-i tion Department as Supervisor of Pmduction with the prime responsibility of planning and develop-l ing the plant organization and training program for the Pathfinder Nuclear Generating Plant.
Ad-ditional duties were operating department reviev and comment on Pathfinder Plant design and related
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construction activities and certain other cost and statistical studies of fossil electric generating
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plant operations.
j June 1961 Appointed Superintendent of Steam Plant operation with responsibility for the mechanical operations of all NSP steam-electric generating plants and continuing direct supervisory responsibility for the Pathfinder Plant pmject.
I June 1962 Promoted to General Superintendent of Power Produe-tion Department which entails total responsibility for all electric genenting plant operation, main,
tenance, personnel, and related activities.
Con-tinued to be directly responsible for and active in the Pathfinder Plant pmject.
During the latter part of the 1960's assumed over-all direction of the manpower planning and training program for the Manticello and Prairie Island Nu-l clear Generating Phts with day to day assistance being provided by nuclear supervising engineers who were assigned to the Power Production Office.
Was appointed Chaiman of the Pathfinder Safety Committee in September,1%5 and continued as Chairman until the disso11ution of this Committee
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June 1970 Pmmoted to knager of Power Production with escen-tially the same overall responsibilities for all NSP electric generating plants.
November 1971 Pmmoted to Director of Nuclear Support Services with responsibility for outlining and staffing an organization to provide technical support ser-I vices for NSP nuclear plant activities.
Ibcember 1971 Appointed Chairman of the Monticello Safety Audit Committee.
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WORK EXPERIENCE REUME MARCUS H VOTH Administrator - Nuclear Support Services Northern States Power Company l
June 1965 Graduated from Valparaiso University with a B S Degree in Electrical Engineering. Had summer employment with the &mory Group of the Ihta Sys-tems Division of Collins Radio Company working mainly on circuit design.
June 1967 Graduated from Penn State University with a M S in Nuclear Engineering.
His curriculum centered around reactor instrumentation and control and his thesis was involved with in-core nuclear in-strumentation.
Summer 1%7 Employed by Milletron, Inc. as a Junior Nuclear Engineer and worked on several nuclear instrumen-tation systems.
September 1967 Employed by NSP and assigned to the Results crew at Pathfinder. Was active in the dismantling of the vessel internals following the shutdown of the Pathfinder reactor and was responsible for conducting several investigations on the core fuel.
April 1, 1968 Assigned to the Enticello organization as the Engineer-Nuclear and was responsible for teaching j
the reactor physics portion of the Basic Nuclear Course.
i July 1%8 Attended a twelve week course in Station Naclear Engineering conducted by G E personnel. Also attended the G E BVR Technology Course.
November 1968 Began a six month OJT course with the G E core analysis group and nuclear steam supply computer group. Work was primarily directed toward core performance calculations and computer applications.
My 1969 Returned to the Monticello site and participated in pre-operational testing, training of personnel, procedure preparation and review, etc. as Engineer-Nuclear.
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Summer 1970 Played a major role in the initial core loading and criticality, startup testing, and power op-eration as the Engineer-Nuclear.
December 1971 Transferred to the Nuclear Support Services De-partment in the NSP General Office as Administra-tor - Nuclear Support Services.
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June 1968 Graduated from the University of Minnesota as a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with i
supplementary mathematics courses and three
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i January 1970 Graduated from Purdue University with a degree of Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering.
May 1970 Employed by Bechtel Corp with initial re-l sponsibility as co-coordinator of the Peach l
Bottom FSAR.
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September 1970 Jained Containment Analysis Group at Bechtel.
Duties included determination of containment i
pressure responses during loss-of-coolant f
accidents for PWR's and BWR's.
I Also made contributions in the areas of reac-l tor building steam flooding and sacrificial l
shield analysis.
l June 1971 Assigned to the position of Licensing Engineer I
which involved coordination and handlirg of I
the production of final supplements to a re-actor project PSAR and compiled supporting j
information forthe project engineer for use l
in meetings with the AEC.
Also provided coordination and writing of cer-l tain sections of the Environmental Report Supplement for a nuclear plant project.
April 1972 Employed by Northern States Power Company in their General Office, Nuclear Support Services Department, j
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GERALD H NEIIS Gen Supt of Nuclear Power Plant Operation Northern States Power Company i
February 1955 Graduated from the University of North Dakota with a B S Degree in Electrical Engineering.
Hired by NSP and assigned to the Results Group in a large fossil-fuel plant.
During this assignment he participated responsibly in the checkout and initial startup of a i
large unit, detailed diagnostic testing to guide major redesign of another large boiler, l
an ASME Code turbine test, and several tur-I bine-generstor major-overhaul inspections.
April 1957 Reassigned as Results Engineer in another l
fossil plant, assisting the Superintendent in plant operations and maintenance super-vision as well as results engineering work.
February 1959 Attended the First Shipping port Nuclear Power Station Supervisor's Course.
Comple-i tion examination was the equivalent of a i
license qualification.
July 1959 Assigned to Allis-Chalmers Greendale Labora-tory for work-training in connection with Pathfinder instrument and control design and the startup, operation, and physics testing in the Critical Facility. He participated in the planning, conduct, and operation of l
critical experiments and qualified for Oper-ator License (OP-776) on M1rch 30,1960.
May 1960 Returred to the NSP Nuclear Power Department to review and comment on Pathfinder design documents and drawings, to act as an instruc-tor for training of other personnel, and to participate in other training experience.
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1 Work Experience Res E Gerald H Neils Page 2 August 1961 Transferred to Pathfinder Plant site to continue design review and training duties and assume the further responsibility as Plant Results Engineer in connection with plant construction and check-out.
In this capacity he was responsible for testing and preoperational checkout of all pro-cess and nuclear instrumentation. He participated in the design considerations and development of normal and special operating procedures, and re-ceived " cold" license (SOP-185) in October 1%3 He participated actively in all nuclear startup testing and was one of three persons initially qualified to serve as Operations Supervisor during this activity. He was a regular member of the plant Operations Committee.
September 1966 Transferred to Power Production Ibpartment as Supervising Engineer-Nuclear with responsibili-ties for Pathfinder Plant during the m aainder of its power excalation program.
Subsequently assigned responsibilities for Manticello and participated in initial technical review, key personnel selection, and preliminary mannirg and training programmir4 May 1968 Reassigned as Nuclear Plant Supervising Engineer-Nuclear with primary responsibilities for Prairie Island Plant.
In this capacity, reviewed for com-ment preliminary design drawings, specifications and pmposals for the Power Pr; hetion Department.
Participated in establishing the preliminary train-ing pmgram and selection of key personnel.
Pri-mary duties involved technical supervision of plant operating organization activities related to preparation for plant startup, and liaison with technical personnel in other project-responsible departments.
December 1, 1972 Reassigned as General Supt-Euclear Power Plant Operation, with responsibilities for all Power Production Department operating activities and personnel of both Manticello and Prairie Island.
1 Affiliations EEI Prime Mover Committee's Nuclear Plant Design and Operations 'lask Force Point Beach Nuclear Plant Offsite Review Committee i
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Superintendent - Operations Northern States Power Company June 1961 Graduated from the South Dakota School of l
Mines and Technology with a B S Degree in l
Itchanical Engineering.
l June 1961 Et:: ployed by lentana Ihkota Utilities in the natural gas Production and Transmis-sion Division.
i 1962 - 1964 Served with the U S Army as an officer in the Corps of Engineers.
June 1964 Hired by NSP and assigned to the Results f
Group in a large fossil fuel plant. Work assignments included equipment performance testing and process instrument and control vork.
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November 1965 Transferred to the Pathfinder Plant as a member of the Results crew.
Participated in many of the startup tests at Pathfinder.
ley 1%7 Successfully passed the AEC license examin-(
ation and received a Senior Operator's Li-cense (SOP-882).
Had continued responsibil-ities in the power testing program at Path-finder and completed investigation of core components following the shutdown of the re-actor plant.
January 1968 Appointed to the Pathfinder Operations Com-mittee. Directed activities for converting to fossil fuel generation and for operation under the 10 CFR 50 " Possession Only" license which included off-site shipment of the nuclear fuel.
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December 1970 Assigned Supervising Engineer-Nuclear re-sponsibilities for the hbnticello Nuclear Generating Plant. Also retained depart-mental responsibilities for dismantling activities for the Pathfinder reactor.
February 1972 Assigned responsibilities of newly created position of Superintendent-Operations in nuclear operations section of Power Pro-duction Department.
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WORK EXPERIENCE RESUME JAMES R TACHENY Superintendent - Projects Northern States Power Co=pany June 1956 Graduated from St Johns University, receiving a B S degree with a natural science major.
June 1958 Graduated from the University of Minnesota, re-ceiving a B S degree in Electrical Engineering.
July 1, 1958 Employed by Northern States Power Co as Jr En-gineer and later as Engineer in the Electric Plant Section of Power Production Department.
The dept is charged with responsibility for op-eration and maintenance of all generating sta-tions in the NSP system. Duties were to super-vise the operation and maintenance of electric ganerating equipment under the direction and guidance of a Supervising Engineer.
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Maintenance inspection of generators, exciters, and station auxiliary power plant electrical equipment.
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Supervision of testing and initial operation of new power plant equipment.
3 Determining and writing operating procedures for power plant equipment - conducting oper-ator training.
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Trouble shooting power plant systems to deter-mine causes of equipment failure and specify modifications to plant systems or equipment.
May 1, 1966 Pmmoted to position of Supervising Engineer in Power Production Ihpartment of Northern States i
Power Co.
The general scope of duties remained the same as above with increased responsibilities.
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Worked as the Electrical Engineer member of a committee which prepared the specifications for the power plant computer installed in our 600 MR AS King unit.
This was the first power plant computer used by NSP and this committee, there-fore, made a thorough analysis to determine correct electrical and mechanical operating procedures. Many of the electrical procedues are applicable to nuclear plants.
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Work Experience INse 5 James R Tacheny PaEe 2 2.
Supervised the checkout and startup of two l
diesel engine driven. peaking plants which con-3 tain units very similar to the ones installed in Monticello Nuclear Plant as emergency gen-erators.
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of this type unit.
(19o8-1 % 9) 3 Acted as back-up electrical respresentative from NSP Power Production Department during j
pre-operational checkout and startup of Monti-cello Nuclear Plant. Primary experience was in determining proper operating procedures and with writing, reviewing, and conducting pre-operational tests on various plant systems.
Where tests indicated that modifications were necessary to meet design specs or where design did not appear proper, presentations to the architect engineer for consideration and action were part of this responsibility.
l July 1, 1970 Assigned as Supervising Engineer, Hectrical from ESP Power Production Department for the installa-tion and startup of Prairie Island Nos 1 & 2 units.
February 1,1972 Promoted to position of Superintendent-Projects in Power Production Department, Nuclear Section.
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