ML20148H199

Forwards Insp Repts 50-259/87-36,50-260/87-36 & 50-296/87-36 on 871026-30.Util Design Baseline & Verification Program Contained Essential Elements to Achieve Goals.Several Weaknesses Should Be Addressed Before NRC Can Approve Dbvp

ML20148H199
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Site:	Browns Ferry
Issue date:	01/21/1988
From:	Richardson S NRC OFFICE OF SPECIAL PROJECTS
To:	White S TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
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ML20148H206	List: IR 05000259/1987036 ML20148H199
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NUDOCS 8801270161
Download: ML20148H199 (3)

See also: IR 05000259/1987036

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JAN 21 1988

Docket Nos. 50-259/260/296

Tennessee Valley Authority

ATTN: Mr. S. A. White

Manager of Nuclear Power

6N 38A Lookout Place

1101 Market Street

Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801

Dear Mr. White:

SUBJECT: REPORT NOS, 50-259/87-36, 50-260/87-36 AND 50-296/87-36

An NRC inspection was conducted October 26 through 30, 1987 at the Browns Ferry

huclear (BFN) facility. Members of the Office of Special Projects (OSP) staff

and ten consultants made up the NRC team. The NRC team reviewed the information

contained in the TVA's BFN Design Baseline and Verification Program (DBVP) and

the associate & documentation and interviewed a number of cognizant TVA personnel

to obtain pertinent information concerning the DBVP.

The NRC team generally found that TVA's DBVP contained the essential elenents

needed to achieve its intended goals and objectives. However, the NRC

inspectors identified several weaknesses which TVA needs to address before the

staff can approve the DBVP. The enclosed inspection report (Enclosure 1),

details the scope, objectives and findings of the NRC team and identifies the .

areas e.v.amined during the inspection.

The responses directed by this letter and its enclosure are not subject to the

clearance procedures of the Office of Managenent and Budget as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, PL 96-511.

In accordance with Section 2.790 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice", Part 2,

Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter and its enclosure

will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room. If there are any questio'ns ,

concerning this inspection, please contact this office.

Sincerely,

Steven D. Richardson, Acting Director  ;

TVA Projects Divisicn  !

Office of Special Projects

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Tennessee Valley Authority

ATTN: Mr. S. A. White

Manager of Nuclear Power

6N 38A Lookout Place

1101 Market Street

Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801

Dear Mr. White:

SUBJECT: REPORT NOS. 50-259/87 35, 50-260/87-36 AND 50-296/87-36

An NRC inspection was conducted October 26 through 30, 1987 at the Browns Ferry

huclear (BFN) facility. Members of the Office of Special Projects (0SP) staff

and ten consultants made up the NRC team. The NRC team reviewed the informatien

contained in the TVA's BFN Design Baseline and Verification Program (DBVP) and

the associateldocumentation and interviewed a number of cognizant TVA personnel

to obtain pertinent information concerning the DBVP.

The NRC team generally found that TVA's DBVP contained the essential elenents

needed to achieve its intended goals and objectives. However, the NRC

inspectors identified several weaknesses which TVA needs to address before the

staff can approve the DBVP. The enclosed inspection report (Enclosure 1),

details the scope, objectives and findings of the NRC team and identifies the

areas examined during the inspection.

The responses directed by this letter and its enclosure are not subject to the i

clearance procedures of the Office of Management and Budget as required by the

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Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, PL 96-511, i

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In accordance with Section 2.790 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice", Part 2,

Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter and its enclosure ,

will be placed in the NRC Public Document Rcom. If there are any questions  ;

concerning this inspection, please contact this office, i

Sincerely,

Steven D. Richardson, Acting Director

TVA Projects Division  :

Office of Special Projects l

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Tennessee Valley Authority Units 1, 2 and 3 l

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General Counsel Regional Administrator, Region II 1

Tennessee Valley Authority U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (

400 West Sumit Hill Drive 101 Marietta Street, N.W. I

E11 B33 Atlanta, Georgia 30323 -

Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 l

Resident inspector /8rowns Ferry NP

Mr. R. L. Gridley U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission

Tennessee Valley Authority Route 12, Box 637

5N 1578 Lookout Place Athens, Alabama 35611

Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801

Mr. Richard King

Mr. H. P. Pomrehn c/o U.S. GA0

Tennessee Valley Authority 1111 North Shore Drive

Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Suite 225, Box 194

P.O. Box 2000 Knoxville, Tennessee 37919

Decatur, Alabama 35602

Dr. Henry Myers, Science Advisor

Mr. M. J. Fay Comittee on Interior j

Tennessea Valley Authority and Insular Affairs j

Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant U.S. House of Representatives

P.O. Box 2000 Washington, D.C. 20515

Decatur, Alabama 35602

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lir. D. L. Williams

Tennessee Valley Authority

400 West Summit Hill Drive

W10 B85

Knoxville, Tennessee 37902

Chainnan, Limestone County Comission ,

P.O. Box 188 l

Athens, Alabama 35611  :

Claude Earl Fox, M.D.

State Health Officer

State Departrrent of Public Health

State Office Building 4

Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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