ML20132E559

Rept of Interview W/Region II Employee Re Discrepancies in Reactor Operator & Senior Reactor Operator Licensing Program at Facility.Portions Deleted

ML20132E559
Person / Time
Site:	Grand Gulf
Issue date:	09/19/1984
From:	Mark Resner NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTOR & AUDITOR (OIA)
To:
Shared Package
ML20132E314	List: AECM-83-0681, Provides Addl Info Re Discrepancies Discovered in Operator & Senior Operator License Applications & Corrective Actions, Per .Discrepancies Identified Between License Applications & Training Records Occurred Prior to 1982 ML20132E309 ML20132E376 ML20132E398 ML20132E429 ML20132E458 ML20132E480 ML20132E489 ML20132E522 ML20132E527 ML20132E559 ML20132E569 ML20132E586 ML20132E617 ML20132E643 ML20132E705 ML20132E711 ML20132E778 ML20132E812
References
FOIA-85-419 NUDOCS 8510010116
Download: ML20132E559 (1)

Text

U. .dUCLk A* F.ECUL AToRY CO WsslON

. Office of Inspector and Auditcr

,,, c....i........... Sectc".Mr 19, 19B4 1

Report of Inte'rview

..,.. . , , W . . . . ir'-^ ' Ope ra t or L i ce ns i n g S e c ti on (dLS ) ,

upera:.16ns branch tuo1, vivision of Reactor Safety (DRS), Region II, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC), was interviewed concerning his knowledge of the facts and circumstances related to discrepan'cies in the Reactor Operator (RO) and Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) licensing program at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (GGNS). He provided the following infon ation:

He was a member of the February 15-17, 1983, Region II Training Assessment Team at GGNS. At that point in time, the Assessment Team was unicue because it was only the second one ever conducted by NRC. His observations as a member of that team were that the problems identified with the qualification ca.rds for RUs and SR0s were not as significant as the fact that Mississippi .,

Power and Light (HP&L) was not effectively accomplishing a requalification program for licensed personnel at GGNS. In his opinion, this was serious because in some cases it had been a year since the operators had received their initial NRC license exam and, also because they had very limited experience at operating GGNS in other than a cold shutdown condition. -

However, the 10. CFR requirement allows one year to accomplish the requalificatien training and., at that point in time, the year had not yet expired since the issuance of the plant's operating license. He explained that the r'equirement stipulates that a requalification program be instituted within three months of the issuance of the plant operating license which in this instance had been issued in approximately June 1982. Therefore, the plant operating staff still had time to complete the requirements of 10 CFR 55A.

Sometime subsequent to the August 15-September 1,1983, n  % adiness

~+4n at GGNS, he participated in discussions wit Reactor Projects Branch 0B, and possibly Albert F. Gibson, Chief, OB, DRS, concerning the readiness of GGNS licensed personnel to perfom their duties in consideration of the anticipated startup of GGNS on September 25, 1983. During the discussion he had expressed concerns that perhaps the licensed operators at GGNS were not ready. However, he pointed out that at that time he "just did not know" and had speculated that more verification by Region !! of the requalification training should be conducted in accordance with ES-601 (Examiner's Standard) of NUREG 1021. He e,' noted in regard to his. comments,,that they were not intended to imply that the licensed operators were not ready to perform. He also noted that any further

. verification by Region II would have been in addition to the July through August 1983 NRC requalification exams administered at GGNS which exceeded the minimum requirement of ES-601, 8510010116 050923 PDR FOIA REBERB5-419 PDR Septc h 13, 1984 ,,

Atlanta, h@ ,,,,,

8635 .

e....,,...

Mark E. Resne vestigator, OIA ,,,, ,,,,,,,, Septmber 19, 1984 Tail COCUMENT is 'most eTv 08 NmC. es LoaNt D TO ANOTat a act NCv it AND iTS CONT ENTS A mt NOT 70 et OtST misuTE D outlict Twt atCEiveNG actNCY eviTwout Pt muiSSioN os Tat es s eCL 08 iNsetCTom AND Avoitom.