ML20107B327
See also: IR 05000219/1972005
Text
. _
._
_ _ . .
_
e
-v
Utt!1 ED STATE 3
'
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
DIRECTOR ATE OF REGULATORY OPERATaONS
A
REGION 9
f
l *
l*
%
-
970 BRO AD STREET
,
I
NEWARK NEW JERSEY 07102
0
b4fil
9IM
,
D. L. Caphton, Senior Reactor Inspector, Facility Operations Branch
>
. Directorate of Regulatory Operations, Region I
RO INSPECTION REPORT No. 50-219/72-05
JERSEY CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY
OYSTER CREEK
At the time of the last inspection,.I was informed of Jersey Central's
intention to promote Don Ross to Assistant Superintendent at Oyster
Creek and was subsequently informed that the promotion had taken place.
When I arrived for this inspection, I was told that Ross had been promoted
to Manager, Nuclear Generation, McCluskey's boss.
I truly think Ross was
,
reluctant to accept this position, probably because he would have to move.
I mentioned my concern about the lack'of an Assistant Superintendent to
Charlie Amato during a phone conversation on January 31, 1973. He stated
that his office had the same concern and also was concered about the lack
.of a strong replacement for Ross at the site. He implied that Ross was
moved out of the position of Assistant Superintendent because he could
not qualify under State Law as an Assistant Superintendent or Superin-
tendent of a power plant because of the lack of experience in a fossil
fuel generation plant.
In addition, he did not know who in the company
could replace McCluskey or who would be the Superintendent of the Forked
n9E
River 1 Station. He is of the opinion that only someone from one of
Jersey Central's three fossil plants could qualify under State Law.
In light of the above question, I feel we should have an informal meeting
with the President or Vice President to discuss the immediate plans for
providing a back-up for the Plant Superintendent and the long range plans
to assure a replacement is available.
I feel that V. Burzi's inspection of electrical prcSlems will cause
Jersey. Central to make more thorough investigatic s of failures and be
able to submit a more meaningful report. He in effect, informed Jersey
Central that the reason given for the containment spray pipe failures,
in their report, dated August 11, 1972, was so much B. S.
No reason
was specifically determined for the failure; however, it appears that
the only possible cause could have been that fuses.were left out of
the "close" circuit.
i
.
.
9604160224 960213
DEKOK95-258
-
.
,
.
.
-2-
Specific information or action request for the following HQ memo was
obtainc..
)
4./
MRS 3/14/72 - Big Rock Point - Siphon Breaker - A PORC evaluation
indicated that this is not a problem at Oyster Creek, even though
the check valves in the fill line cannot be tested.
MRS 6/19/72 - Paddle Type Flow Switches - Oyster Creek plans to
inspect these switches during the spring 1973 refueling outage
and evaluate the results of this inspection.
MRS 9/21/72 - Technical Specification Surveillance Requirements -
Oyster Creek continues surveillance testing program during the
outage.
MRS 6/28/72 - Fuel Handling Activities - Oyster Creek uses own
people.
MRS 10/27/72 and MRS 11/8/72 - Delta P Cells - Oyster Creek does
not have Barton Model 368, 384 or 386 switches (hac 224, 295, 296
and 278).
MRS 8/9/72 - Safety Valve Actuation Occurence - DW inspected for
tape over pressure tape.
,
In reference to gagging S Valves during the hydro test, Jersey Central has
changed their procedure to require installing a relief valve (safety) on
the discharge of the Control Rod Drive Pump.
,/-:. .
/
, j-$ r'f > '
w ?[
'
,
F. S. Cantrell
'
Reactor Inspector
i
l
'
>
.
0
l
!