ML20150C540

States That Though Individual Plant Staff Members Meet ANSI 18.1 Minimum Qual,The Collective Experience of the Staff Is Less than Most New Plants.Asks That a Meeting Be Arranged to Discuss Training & Augmentation as Solutions

ML20150C540
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	11/15/1978
From:	Varga S Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Gary R TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC CO. (TU ELECTRIC)
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NUDOCS 7811240078
Download: ML20150C540 (3)

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PLANT STAFF QUALIFICATIONS: COMANCHE PEAK STEAM ELSCTRIC STATION UNITS 1 AND 2 CONDUCT OF OPERATIONS l

In your FSAR you have stated that the Comanche Peak plant staff's qualifications will meet those described in Regulatory Guide 1.8, " Personnel Selection and Training." Regulatory Guide 1.8 endorses ANSI 18.1-1971, which provide minimum qualifications for plant positions, as an acceptable basis for the selection and training of nuclear power plant personnel.

We have reviewed the qualifications of your plant staff described in Section 13.1 of your FSAR. As part of our review, we examined the resumes of persons filling key plant positions. We agree with you that the individual plant staff members meet the minimum qualifications described in ANSI 18.1. However, the collective nuclear power plant experience of the plant staff, as presented in the FSAR, is 1 3 than that normally found in new plant staffs. It appears that the key members of the plant staff have had no nuclear power plant experience other than that received during their training program for Comanche Peak. Additionally, the description of the augmentation of the plant staff during the startup test program does not appear to provide such experience.

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We suggest that a meeting be arranged at your earliest convenience to discuss our concerns and any plans you have for providing additional nuclear power plant experience, particularly in the areas of operations management, shift operations, and plant engineering supervision, either by means of additional training for the plant sta f f or by augmenting the plant staff for some period beginning with fuel loading. For your information, we have required additional technical support to the plant staff in the past for the start-up and initial operation of the D. C. Cook Unit 1 and Crystal River Unit 3.

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flicholas S. Reynolds, Esq.

Debevoise & Liberran 700 Shoreham Building 800 15th Street, N. W.

Washington, D.C. 20005 Spencer C. Relyea, Esq.

Worsham, Forsythe & Sampels 2001 Bryan Tower Dallas, Texas 75201 Mr. Homer C. Schmidt Project Manager - tioclear Plants Texas Utilities Generating Company 2001 3ryan Tower Dallas, Texas 75201 Mr. H. R. Rock Gibbs and Hil1, Inc. '

393 Seventh Avenue New York, New York 10001 Mr. G. L. Hohmann Westinghouse Electric Corporation P. O. Box 355 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 Richard Lawene, Esq.

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