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Update of Progress Re Chairman Zech Nov 1986 Visit to Fort Calhoun Station
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{{#Wiki_filter:. 1 1 OMAHA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT UPDATE OF PROGRESS RELATED TO CHAIRMAN ZECH'S NOVEMBER 1986 VISIT TO FORT CALHOUN STATION l c - g. y. .w. W, $. 'v w- ~>ws. : ~ %? ..s . %gg. eg4 -.

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l l INTRODUCTION On November 5,1986, NRC Chairman The discussions describe several Lando Zech, Jr. visited Fort Calhoun Sta-programs that have been instituted to tion. During the ensuing plant tour and correct weaknesses which have been discussions with our staff, Mr. Zech ex-identified. Several of these programs pressed several concerns. The concerns were in effect at the time of the were categorized as follows: Chairman's visit; othe rs have been imple-mented subsequent to his departure. Housekeeping e The Company established Project 1991 e Labeling to address several of the concerns ex-pressed by the Chairman and other topics e General Plant Condition that have been identified as requiring long term management emphasis, Plant-Wide Paging System Project 1991 currently includes: o o Control Room Annunciators

  • Facility Appearance Upgrade Career Path for Operations
  • Preventive Maintenance e

Personnel Program Upgrade e Configuration Control

  • Procedures Upgrade o Plant-Referenced Simulator
  • Trending and Root Cause Procurement Schedule Analysis e Industrial Safety
  • Vendor Manuals Program Upgrade e Security e CQE Prccurement and e Training Storage Labeling Feedback From Operations e

o Personnel e Asbestos Abatement e Staffing Welding and Torquing e In a letter dated January 9,1987, the Omaha Public Power District committed

  • Instrumentation Accuracies to update the Chairman on progress that has been made in addressing his con.

A multi-discipline Project Team has been cerns. The following discussions are assigne-to Project 1991. Each team specific to each of the above categories. member was selected because of their ex-

0 s pertise and experience in their particular rective actions which have been imple-discipline. mented and/or are in progress. Accord-ingly, where appropriate, photographs Several of the topics of the Chairman's have been included to demonstrate the concerns can best be discussed by using approach that is being used to improve photcgraphs to show the results of cor-the Station.

HOUSEKEEPING the plant's maintenance department, al-CONCERN: though many other Station personnel are aware of their individual responsibilities A general concern was expressed regard-to ma, tain the appearance of the Sta-m ing the adequacy of housekeeping at the tion. The In-house Facility Maintenance Station

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pervisor. The company has made improvements in RESOURCES: Station housekeeping since your visit, but Additional resources have been com-more progress is needed and is m the m tted to accomplish the improvements process of being implemented. The in Station housekeeping. The In-house housekeeping issue has been made a Facility Maintenance Group consists of topic for systematic planning and im-ten M workers who are dedicated to plementation by Project 1991. housekeep,ng and decontamination ac-i tivities. In response to the Housekeeping and the General Plant Condition issues, the PROGRESS TO DATE: Company established a Steering Com-mittee to focus on improving the In addition to improving employee housekeeping activities and material awareness of the day-to-day respon-condition of the Station. This has been sibility of good housekeeping and the ap-accompanied by increased management pointment of a group dedicated to emphasis of the responsibility of each Station housekeeping, several other tasks person to maintain the appearance of the have been completed or are in progress Station. An In-house Facility Main-to improve the overall appearance of the tenance Group has been established to Station. perform daily housekeeping activities. The efforts of this group is augmented by While improvements in the housekeep-participation of each member of the Sta-ing at the Station have been made, the tion staff in housekeeping activities. Company recognizes that much work in this area still remains. Responsibility for the bulk of the housekeeping activities are assigned to l 1 l l l i l

LABELING Plant. I2beling of these areas will be CONCERN: used to validate the labeling program. Two distinct labeling concerns were iden-The demonstration project is anticipated tified. The first involved "poor labeling", to be complete in April 1988. The rem inder f the plant will be labeled i.e., writing on walls, on pipes, on floors, etc., which is uncontrolled and unprofes-fter the demonstration project has been C mP eted and evaluated. l sional in appearance. The second con. cern is areas where labeling /mimicing is ORGANIZATION: lackmg. A Project Manager has been assigned DISCUSSION: overall responsibility for the labeling The labeling issue has been made the Project to ensure effective integration of subject of Project 1991. As such,it is the Company resources. subject of frequent and intensive surveil-RESOURCES: lance by Company management. Resources needed to complete the label-Instead of trying to patch up the existing ing project will be from a combination of plant labeling, management has decided Company employees and vendors. on a programmatic course of action that will standardize labeling at Fort Calhoun PROGRESS TO DATE: Station and establish the plant's labeling Labeling procedures are being as one of the best in the mdustry. To this developed. The procedures are being end, a program has been developed for developed based on a review of available the replacement and/or improvement standards, good practices, NUREGS, and contmuing mamtenance of labels. and other documentation. Field trips to The program consists of the necessary plants with excellent labeling programs standards, guidelines, and procedures. have been completed. Resource and schedule requirements needed to meet Two areas have been assigned as the labeling project objectives have been demonstration areas for imtiating the finalized

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GENERAL PLANT CONDITION bishment of the Turbine Building roofin CONCERN: the spring of 1988. It was noted that evidence of leaks (stains) on walls tend to detract from the The Company has recognized that in-plant s appearance and raises quest,ons creased manning of the Station over the i concerning the material condition of th years has lead to congestion in the work

Station, areas that detracts from the general ap-pearance of the Station. Planning and DISCUSSION:

c nstruction of new facilities to accom-modate the increased manning were un-The General Plant Condition issue has derway at the time of your visit. A new also been made a topic of Project 1991. 40,000 square foot warehouse specifical-ly designed to meet the requirements for The Steering Committee discussed in the storage of safety-related material is Housekeeping section was also tasked to under construction (Figure 23). The focus on the issue of General Plant Con-main'tenance shop (Figure 24) is in the dition. The Committee noted many ex-process.of being expanded (16,000 amples where the improvement of the square foot addition). A new 67,000 material condition of areas in the Station square foot Training Center is being con-was the precursor to good housekeeping structed to house the new simulator and practices. Members of the Steering support all training activities at the Sta-Committee walked down the Station with tion. An artist's rendering of the Train-the objective of determining the actions ing Center is shown in Figure 25. Site required to return the Station to an "as work and foundations have been com-new" condition and set out a sequence of pleted and steel erection is presently in rooms to receive attention. Two areas, progress. A new 16,200 square foot the Intake Structure and. the Water Radioactive Waste Building with new Treatment Plant, were identified as waste handling equipment is being demonstration areas for the refurbish-designed with construction scheduled for ment effort. These areas are in the 1988. Also, a 19,000 square foot Chemi-process of being systematically cal and Radiological Protection area is renovated. Numerous other areas have scheduled for construction during the also received improved attention to same time period. material condition and appearance. ORGANIZATION Leaks (stains) on the Turbine Building Three groups have been established to walls were an example of the General e neentrate on the systematic refurbish-l Plant Condition issue. Extensive repair / replacement of the roof is now ment projects. Supervisors have been deemed necessary to permanently cor-designated to oversee the work. Craft rect this condition. The Company plans personnel are furnished from the plant to let a contract to perform major refur-maintenance staff and from the Company 1 l

RESOURCES: PROGRESS TO DATE: In addition to the Station and Central The progress that has been made so far is Maintenance personnel available for depicted by several "before" and "after" refurbishment work, the Company has photographs included in this section. A contracted for additional craft personnel brief explanction of the original condi-to augment the work force. Special tion and the improvements made is equipment, such as a floor resurfacer, has provided for each of the photographs. been purchased and will be provided as The photographs exemplify the approach necessary. The Company has also ob-being used to improve the general condi-tained the recommendations of a coat-tion of the plant. ings vendor to assist with identifying special coatings required. l

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~ l l l Figure 23: NEW WAREHOUSE l w.; m 7 wm - -m r i . av-m c w. 7, n. 1.~- - i - aQf.j -,..- t p . a.;&'~& ' n.e... ~ - ~ ~ ,~,_.n L .~c p:j".,~7 p r, W 4y i 1.- 3L L /.;j FD M s 7pl [ l k - -j LAt i hjfjh"q T"![~]Og g,. l[. j l g., ? ~._ -&r % ~;, ~. ' - ~I ~ l w-.,-:..- t S ~ ?W' .A i ~" c y - g 4"r ' -.,y^ 4 ~ p-t.-.. N s . g.,+- - v ) Above is an artist rendering of the new warehouse presently under construction at Fort Calhoun Station. The new 40,000 square foot facility is specifically designed to meet the requirements for storage of safety-related materials. i 1 i

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M4;;. WATER TREATMENT PLANT Figures 26 through 28 show the effect of refurbishment work that has been completed in the Water Treatment Plant demonstration project. The sys-tematic improvements in material condition of the area are continuing. 4

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PLANT-WIDE PAGING SYSTEM l briefed to limit use of the paging system l CONCERN: to only those calls necessary and to make all ann uncements in a clear and concise Several concerns involving the plant-wide paging system were identified. These included excessive use (especially PROGRESS TO DATE: during normal operation), undisciplined use, poor quality, and control room dis-There has been a noticeable improve-tractions. ment in the use of the plant-wide paging system at the station. Plant personnel DISCUSSION: have responded positively to manage-Plant management and supervisors have ments request to observe good paging emphasised the importance of using the Practices when using the system. Paging plant-wide pagmg system in a profes-system uq will be monitored closely to sional manner. Personnel have been enhance disciplined use of the system.

CONTROL ROOM ANNUNCIATORS detailed control room design review are CONCERN: underway. Because major modification eff rts in the control room are inap-It was noted that many annunciators in Pr Priate during plant operations, I the control room are continuously lit, m difications to the annunciators are i contrary to the "blackboard" concept, scheduled to coincide with scheduled DISCUSSION: plant outages. Over the past few years, several design PROGRESS TO DATE: changes have been undertaken to imple-hiodifications needed to meet the ment the "blackboaro" concept in the controt room. Some of these effortswere Company's commitment to resolve the e ntrol room design review and annun-put on hold when the detailed control ciator issues have been identified and room design review was initiated. The des,gn responsibility has been assigned. i detailed :.ontrol room design review Since several modifications are required, identified more in-depth improvements in control room annunciation, but also in-these must be spread over the next two scheduled outages (Fall 1988 and Spring cludes full implementation of the "black-1990). board" concept. Incorporation of improvements identified during the

CAREER PATH FOR OPERATIONS PERSONNEL i tends to accelerate programs to achieve CONCERN: more licensed personnel so that there is Many operations people have oeen on less concern when experienced operators shift a long time. They are talented are assigned other career opportunities t OPPD. ~ people and should be utilized to their full p tential. PROGRESS TO DATE: DISCUSSION: several positions in the training or-g niz tion have been identified and will Career path options for operations per-sonnel are important to management. be made available to operations person-nel. Opportunities for alternative career Two (2) operajors have recently paths are available as shown below. Ad-been assigned duties m Training includ-ditional career paths can be added if ng the simulator project. operations personnel obtain Bachelor Degrees. Management has not allowed Agreements have been reached with two some transfer requests in the past to en-Colleges to grant College credit I for opor mi% & sure full six-section shift manning (in-cluding a training shift) due to a shortage perience in pursuit of Bachelor Degrees, of licensed personnel. Management in-r OPERATORS' CAREER PATHS LICENSED OPERATOR SIMULATOR f SC U NG PROJECT ^ TRAINING OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION 3, MODIFICATION REVIEW L

A CONFIGURATION CONTROL Design Basis Documentation e CONCERN: Updated Safety Analysis e A concern with older operating umts Report regarding the adeouacy of configuration control was raised. e Documentation of Design As-DISCUSSION: sumptions, Design Input, and Engineering Judgements The Nuclear Regulatory Commission conducted a Safety Systems Outage o CommitmentTracking hiodifice tion Inspection (SSO hil) du ring the 1985 refueling outage at Fort Cal-Design Change Program e houn Station. As a result of the findings of that inspection, the Company estab-p e rocurement lished a Special Committee to review the Design Change /hiodification program Safety Evaluations o practiced at the Station. This review was conducted in a systematic way with the Reviews and Approvals e objective of addressing the root cause of programmatic weaknesses identified e Quality Assurance Program during the SSOhfl and to improve over-all configuration control. The multi-

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design engineering, quality assurance, and technical suppoit engineering per-e Installation Procedures and sonnel. Field Changes At the completion of the Committee's e System Acceptance review, recommendations for improve-ments in configuration control were Emergency hiodifications e presented to the Company s senior management. Implementation of the e hiinor hiodifications recommendations was approved and has been formalized into a corrective action Pre-Outage Planning (In-e In addit,on, the Company has plan. i tegrated Living Schedule) presented this corrective action plan to the NRC staff. The major areas reviewed e Training by the Committee are as follows: o Systems Engineers

l. Responsibility for implementing the cor-tion and in engineering, licensing, quality rective action items identified by the assurance, and technical support. The Committee has been assigned to ap-Design Change and hiodification Review propriate personnel and completion Committee is organized as shown in the dates have been established. The chart below. Design / Change and hiodification Review Committee has been tasked with PROGRESS TO DATE: the responsibility of following the ac-Implementation of the Design Change tivit,es and monitoring the progress of and hiodification Review Committee's i corrective actions until completion. The recommendations are well underway. schedule for implementation varies with hfore than 100 individual items have the sequencing and complexity of the been completed. hiany other items of tasks. hiany corrective actions have al-long term duration are in progress. For ready been completed; others will take example, the reconstitution of design until December 1989 to accomplish, bases for Fort Calhoun Station has been ORGANIZATION ctive for more than a year. In that time, the original design and construction The organization for implementing im-records that were provided during plant provements to the configuration control construction have been sorted, indexed, program at the Station includes many and coded into a computerized retrieval departments of the Company. Principle system. This has resulted in making among these are departments at the sta-available more than 30,000 original DESIGN CHANGE AND MODIFICATION REVIEW COMMITTEE CHA!RMAN l PLANT AND MEMBER CUALITY OPERATIONS / ASSURANCE MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR LICENSING MEMBER MEMBER SECTION MANAGER MEMBER MANAGER GENERATING SUPERVISOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT STATION PLANT TECHNICAL ENGINEERING ENGINEERING t

l. I design and construction records for in-Procedures have been developed to con-corporation into Design Bases Docu-trol preparation of Design Basis Docu-ments. The NSSS vendor is conducting a ments for selected plant systems. A pilot program to prepare a requirements demonstration document, Auxiliary section for the Safety Injection System to Feedwater System, has been completed be accompanied by supporting design and is undergoing final review, documentation. A Writer's Guide and

1 o PLANT-REFERENCED SIMULATOR Development of training materials to be CONCERN: used in the simulator is scheduled to begin in 1988. The train'ag materials will A concern was raised regarding the be developed in-house and is scheduled length of time associated with simulator for completion by 1990. procurement. It was noted that a typical schedule to construct a simulator is 32-36 Concurrent with the design and construc-months. tion of the simulator, a new Training DISCUSSION: Center is being constructed at Fort Cal-houn Station. A section of the Training The Company is committed to placing a Center has been dedicated to housing simulator that meets ANSI /ANS 3.51985 the simulator and associated main-requirements on site as soon as possible. tenance at;d training activities. The To this end, a contract has been awarded progress of the Training Center is dis-to Westinghouse for the design and con-cussed in the General Plant Condition struction of a plant-referenced simulator Section of this update. for Fort Calhoun Station. The simulator is scheduled for completion in 1990. This ORGANIZATION: represents a 28 month time line from the To assure timely and effective progress of contract award date. The contract als the plant-referenced simulator project, meludes an incentive clause for early the Company has dedicated a highly delivery keyed to a ready for training date qualified project team to work with the of February 1990, vendor / supplier. The Simulator Project Team organization is shown below. SIMULATOR MANAGER PROJECT ccNSULTANT RV)CES SUPERVISOR SIMULATOR SERVICES I I SOFTWARE SENIOR PROGRAMMER ENGINEER ENGINEER ANALYST l&C SEN)OR UCENSED COORDINATOR OPERATOR SIMULATOR PROJECT TEAM

1 simulator consultant to provide addition-RESOURCES: al expertise and guidance from specifica-tion development through factory and In addition to the personnel resources n-site testmg. shown in the Organization Chart, the simulator project is augmented by PROGRESS TO DATE: management team representatives from the various Company areas as needed in All items associated with the develop-the simulator procurement and develop-ment and delivery of the plant-ment process. The Company has also ac-referenced simulator are eithcr on quired the services of a qualified schedule or ahead of schedule. b h

INDUSTRIAL SAFETY c e Assuring the availability and CONCERN completeness of industrial safety equipment A concern was noted that the Station's at-tention to industrial safety was below ORGANIZATION: average. Overall responsibility for the review of DISCUSSION: the Company's Safe Work Practices The Company has incorporated In. Manual has been assigned. Managers, N dustrial Safety as a topic of OPPD's supervisors, foremen, and other s Maintenance Improvement Program, employees directly in charge of work con-The program's objective is to ensure that ducted at the station have been reminded all personnel conform to clearly specified of their responsibility for enforcing safety standards for personnel safety. Added standards, emphasis is being placed on require. PROGRESS TO DATE-mems for wearingindustrial safety equip-ment and the awareness of industrial Thr. use of hard hats and safety glasses is 4 I safety hazards prcsent on site. The being rigorously enforced in all areas of program has been made applicable to all the station which are not specifically station personnel, contractors, and designated as areas where hard hats and visitors working on site. Industrial safety safety glasses are not required. Storage problems which have been identified for racks have been located in the Security ~ ~ '- special emphasis are: Building and at other convenient loca-tions throughout the plant to facilitate

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e Wearing of safe and proper The review and upgrade of safety stand-foot protection, protective ards is in progress and scheduled to be equipment, and protective complete soon. The training program is clothing being reviewed to ensure adequate coverage of industrial safety practice Use of hearing protection standards per the OPPD safety manual. e when needed Asbestos hazards and piccoutions are now covered during General Employee e Identification and posting of Training to increase employee aware-asbestos contamination areas ness. Lesson Plans are being upgraded to train personnel on asbestos hazards, Proper storage of combustible precautions, and station specific controls o materials and procedures. kN ^

l SECURITY Replacement of the existing security CONCERN: computer system with the new system will increase the capacity and reliability of the The concern raised was OPPD's poor computer system and the functions that = security program performance. I the computer will be able to perform. DISCUSSION: Improvements in security camera coverage, perimeter intrusion detection, As you noted during your visit, a security and lighting are also planned. The building expansion was underway. This development of all improvements for project is now complete. The resulting Station security are on schedule. security building doubled the controlled ingress / egress portals at the Station. The RESOURCES: added floor space has enabled the Com-During 1987 the Company added ten (10) pany to consolidate the security ad-persons to the security force. Five(5) ministration functions at a single more will be added in 1988. location. PROGRESS TO DATE: Additional security force personnel have been added to the Station Staff. The in-The expansion of the security building is creased manning enhances the complete. The new site sec trity com-availability of security personnel needed puter is now undergoing development. to perform the security mission of the The computer will be operational in Station. 1988. A new site security computer system is The security organizatica has recently ~ presently being developed and is been modified to provide for increased scheduled to be complete in 1988. management attention. 1 h

4 TRAINING guidance for determining immediate and CONCERN: long-term training needs. A concern was expressed regarding the Fort Calhoun Station has been selected training programs at the Station. as the second plant to receive the new DISCUSSION: NRC Requalification Examinations. The Company is committed to providing PROGRESS TO DATE: high quality, performance based training The three (3) Operator Training for the functional groups at Fort Calhoun Programs were accredited by INPO in Station. Progress in this area is indicated February 1987. The INPO Accreditation by the fact that satisfactory self-evalua-Team visited the Station in June 1987 to tion reports have been submitted to review the remaining seven (7) ac-INPO in all ten (10) areas subject to ac-creditable training programs. The Com-creditation. Regular communication be-pany has submitted responses to the tween training and plant personnel is maintained to ensure that training is qccreditation Team's comments and an-tiniely, relevant,and effective. Addition-ticipate accreditation of the programs in the first quarter of 1988. al en.phasis is being placed upon the use of in-house and industry ever,ts cs

FEEDBACK FROM OPERATIONS 1 PERSONNEL munications. Efforts are made to act on CONCERN: operator suggestions in a timely manner. I It was noted that feedback from opera-PROGRESS TO DATE: tions personnel should be sought in the areas of plant improvements and com-As a result of feedback from employees, munications ofideas. actions have been initiated in areas such as compensation, quality of work life, DISCUSSION: training, and shift work life-style training. g Operator feedback is also being The Companyis committed to the impor-pr m ted by,ncluding their input into i tance of input from employees at all the Projeet 1991 labeling program, levels and in all departments. The oppor-An ther topic of Proj,ect 1991 is the tunity for feedback from operations per-upgr de of Station procedures. Feed-sonnel has been facilitated by weekly back from operations personnel will be ~ meetings between management and '"C urage byincluding operatorsin the operators. These meetings promote in-verification and validation process. formal discussions that improve com-g I

~m a STAFFING In addition to the stafflevels shown in the CONCERN: table, Fort Calhoun Station is supported by other Company organizations. En-A concern was noted regarding the size gineering responsibilities are performed of the Fort Calhoun Station Staff. by personnel from the Generating Sta-DISCUSSION: tion Engineering Section and main-tenance and modification support is Authorized staffing levels have been in-provided by the Central Maintenance. creased as indicated in Table 1. OPPD will continue to review the staff level in PROGRESS TO DATE: the various departments to ensure per-As of December 25,1987 actual staffing manent personnel staffing levels are suf-M N hiear Production Division was ficient.

333, TABLE 1 AUTHORIZED STAFF POSITIONS 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 Fort Calhoun Station 198 211 226 320 349 Nuclear Production Division 264 287 318 397 414 s}}
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