ML20150D894

Summarizes NRC 880628 & 29 Senior Managers Meetings Re Performance of Operating Nuclear Plants.Following Issuance of Integrated Assessment Team Insp Rept,Nrc Will Hold Public Meeting in Plymouth,Ma to Review Conclusions

ML20150D894
Person / Time
Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	07/08/1988
From:	Stello V NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
To:	Sweeney S BOSTON EDISON CO.
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NUDOCS 8807140221
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A JUL 8 1988 Mr. Stephen J. Sweeney President and Chief Executive Officer Boston Edison Company 800 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02199

Dear Mr. Sweeney:

On June 28 and 29, 1988, NRC senior managers met to review the perfomance of operating nuclear power plants licensed by the NRC. These meetings are conducted biannually to focus NRC resources on those plants and issues of greatest safety significance. At this meeting, the Pilgrim facility was categorized as requiring substantial improvement. Plants in this category have been identified as having significant weaknesses that warrant maintaining the plant in a shutdown condition until the licensee can demonstrate to the NRC that adequate programs have both been established and implemented to ensure substantial improvement.

A sumary of HRC discussions hel1 relating to Pilgrim is provided below:

A status report on Boston Edison Company's progress since the June 9,1988 Comission meeting on Pilgrim was reviewed includ-ing an overview of planned activities needed to make a staff restart recomendation. On June 25, 1988, the licensee completed and submitted its plan and schedule for actions in followup of its self-assessment of readiness for restart and its response to the May 1988 maintenance team inspection findings. These reports form the basis for the licensee's request that NRC start its Integrated Assessment Team Inspection (IATI) on July 11, 1988. The staff comitted to complete its review of these recent submittals by July 11, 1988, and subject to the results of its review, will conduct an IATI in late July or early August 1988. Following issuance of the IATI report, the staff will hold a public meeting in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to review its conclusions regarding plant and management readiness for restart. The Pilgrim restart review by the Advisory Comittee on Reactor Safeguards, including an on-site subcomittee meeting, was discussed. The staff will meet with ACRS to develop a schedule for ACRS review.

The earliest projected schedule fcr a Comission decision on restart was considered to be early September 1988.

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J Mr. Steven J. Sweeney JUL 8 1988 An NRC Comission meeting open to the public has been scheduled for July 13, 1988, to review the results of the latest meeting of NRC managers.

Mr. William T. Russell, the Region I Administrator, has discussed the basis for our conclusions with regard to the Pilgrim facility with members of your staff.

If you have any questions regarding this matter, do not hesitate to call me.

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Victor Stello, Jr.

Executive Director for Operations Distribution:

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