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FOIA Request for Info Pertaining to Recent NRC Security Osre Evaluation of NPPs Operated by Pse&G in Hancock Bridge,Nj
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Issue date: 08/17/1998
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l I am requesting the release of the following information pertianing to the rescent NRC Security OSRE Evaluation . The Nuclear Plants i am interested in are i

operated By Public Service Electric & Gas in Hanscock Bridge , New Jersey . I am willing l

l to assume the cost up to 26.00 ( twenty five dollars), in accordance to the freedom of l information request.

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s" j NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 30065-4001 i

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Public Service Electric and Gas Company P.O. Box 236 1 l Hancocks Bridge, New Jerssy 08038 l

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NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-272/98202: 50-311/98202: AND 50-354/98202 (OPERATIONAL SAFEGUARDS RESPONSE EVALUATION)

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' Dear Mr. Keiser* I During ~ April 20 through 23,1998, NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation performed an Operational Safeguards Response Evaluation (OSRE) at the Salem Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, and the Hope Creek Generating Station, Unit 1. The enclosed report presents the  ;

. scope and results of that inspection.

_q The primary purpose of the OSRE team inspection was to evaluate your ability to respond to - l an external threat. The team focused on the interactions between operations and security in establishing priorities for protection of equipment, on the protective strategy used, and on the ability of the security force to effectively execute the strategy. The inspection included i

a safety / safeguards interface review to er.sure that safeguards measures did not adversely impact safe operation of the facilities.

l Based on the results of the inspection, the OSRE team concluded that: the interaction between operations and security in the planning and exercising of the contingency response I capability was significant and beneficial, the protective strategy for Salem and Hope Creek was effective, and the participating security officers were able to effectively execute the I strategy. Overall, the Salem / Hope Creek team demonstrated an excellent capability of protecting public health and safety against the NRC design basis threat. The OSRE team also concluded that effective provisions were in place to ensure that safeguards measures  !

did not adversely impact safe operation of the facilities.

The enclosed report does not convey any new regulatory requirement, its findings have been considered with respect to your ability to meet the general performance objective and

  • requirements of 10 CFR 73.55(a), and requirements of your physical security plan. The enclosure, which contains safeguards information of a type specified in 10 CFR 73.21, will

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. .Public Service Electric & G s' Sil:m Nucl2cr Gan:rcting Station, Company Units 1 atnd 2, end Hope Creek Generating Station Je#rie J. Keenan, Esquire Nuclear Business Unit- N21 P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038.

General Manager- Salem Operations

. Salem Nuclear Generating Station F.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Louis Storz Sr. Vice President - Nuclear Operations Nuclear Department '

P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 l

Senior Resident inspector

' Salem Nuclear Generating Station U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Drawer 050g Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 1

i Dr. Jill Lipoti, Asst. Director Radiation Protection Programs NJ Department of Environmental Protection and Energy  ;

CN 415 Trenton, NJ 08625-0415 l Maryland Office of People's Counsel 6 St. Prul Street,21st Floor

' Suite 2102 Baltimore, MD 21202 Ms. R. A. Kankus i Joint Owner A# airs PECO Energy Company 965 Chesterbrook Blvd.,63C-5 l L _ .- .*Wayne, PA 19087

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. P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Hope Creek Resident inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Drawer 050g Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 l

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Electric Service Evaluiti:n Board of Regulatory Commissioners 2 Gateway Center, Tenth Floor .

Newark, NJ 07102 Regional Administrator, Region i U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 19406 l

Lower Alloways Creek Township clo Mary O. Henderson, Clerk Municipal Building, P.O. Box 157 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038

Manager-Ownsing and Regu!ation l Nuclear Busiones Unit - N21

. P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. David Warsan 1 Assistant Consumer Advocate Office of Consumer Advocate 1425 Strawberry Square Harrisburg, PA 17120 Manager _ Joint Generation Atlantic Energy 6801 E!ack Horse Pike -

Egg Harbor Twp.', NJ 08234-4130 Carl D. Schaefer Extemal Operations'- Nuclear Delmarva Power & Light Company P.O. Box 231

.Wilmington, DE ig899 Public Service Commission of Maryland Engineering Division Chief Engineer 6 St. Paul Centre -

Baltimore, MD 21202-6806 i General Manager - Hope Creek Operations t Hope Creek Generating Station P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Harold W. Keiser Chief Nuclear Officer & President  !

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l Salem and Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Stations l Operational Safeguards Response Evaluation

! Inspection Report Nos. 50-272/98202; 50-311/98202 and 50-354/98202 l

The Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) conducted an Operational Safeguards Response Evaluation (OSRE) from April 20 through April 23,1998. The results were:

The weapons mix and quantity of ammunition were appropriate for protecting the :M facilities (Section S2.1).

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S1 Conduct of Security and Safeguards Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 l 51.1 Operational Safeguards Response Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1  !

S1.2 Pu rp o se s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 S1.3 Scope ........................................... 1 S1.4 Evaluation Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 S2 Status of Security Facilities and Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 S2.1 We a pon s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 l S2.2 Barriers and Protection Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 i S4 Security and Safeguards Staff Knowledge and Performance .......... 5 S4.1 Table-Top / Time-Line Drills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 S4.2 Contingency Response Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 S4.3 De a dly For ce . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1 S5 Security and Safeguards Staff Training and Qualification . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 S5.1 Weapons Training .................................10 i S5.2 Contingency Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 S6 Security Organization and Administration ......................12 ,

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S 1.1 Doerational Safeouards Resoonse Evaluation

! The NRC conducted an Operational Safeguards Response Evaluation (OSRE) of the Salem

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I The primary purpose of the OSRE was to evaluate the licensee's ability to respond to an

external threat. The second purpose of the OSRE'was to ensure that safeguards measures j did not adversely impact the safe operation of the facility.

l S1.3 Scope

! In conducting its evaluation, the OSRE team focused on the interactions between the j operations and security organizations in establishing priorities for protection of equipment j and on the protective strategies used. Additionally, the OSRE team considered a spectrum j of external adversaries with varying characteristics. The lower range consisted of one l dedicated individual with no special training, armed with a shotgun, a prybar to force j doors open, and explosives to damage safety equipment. The spectrum was bounded by l the characteristics of the design-basis threat for radiolog' cal sabotage specified in 10 CFR

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{ The external design-basis threat is defined as "A determined violent external assault, I

attack by stealth, or deceptive actions, of several persons with the following attributes, assistance and equipment: (a) well-trained (including military training and skills) and

dedicated individuals, (b) inside assistance which may include a knowledgeable individual i who attempts to participate in a passive role (e.g., provide information), an active role l (e.g., facilitate entrance and exit, disable alarrns and communications, participate in violent j attack), or both, suitable weapons, up to and including hand held automatic weapons, equipped with silencers and having effective long range accuracy, (d) hand carried equipment, including incapacitating agents and explosives for use as tools of entry or for otherwise destroying reactor, facility, transporter, or container integrity or features of the safeguards system . . ."

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  • i consideration of deceptive acts to those performed after overt penetration into the protected area (PA). l fb-S 1.4 Evaluation Methodoloov The evaluation team consisted of two safeguards' specialists and a reactor engineer from the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), one safeguards inspector from the regional office, and NRC contractors.

The team assumed that significant radiological release would be the objective of radiological sabotage at a power reactor and used prevention of significant core oamage as an evaluation criterion. This assumed adversary objective of significant core damage is more difficult to achieve than damage to any piece of vital equipme'it and more accurately reflects concerns relative to public health and safety.

The evaluation began with a preliminary target analysis performed before the team arrived on site. This analysis made use of information from earlier reports and communications with the Salem and Hope Creek stations, including the updated Final Safety Analysis Reports and the Regulatory Effectiveness Review Reports, which were issued on February 24,1983, and April 26,1989, respectively. The results were further analyzed by an NRR team member who identified several potential target sets that, if disabled, would likely lead to significant core damage.

After the team arrived on site, it reviewed the target sets with the licensee's operations staff to confirm the team's analysis and to determine whether additional targets should be added to any of the sets. Available equipment that could he!p to achieve and maintain hot shutdown was added to target sets regardless of whether the equipment had been designated as vital or safety grade', further complicating the task for an adversary, in most cases, damage control features that could prevent radiological release were also considered. These target sets were used by the team in conducting table-top drills and in i selecting exercises to be observed. l The team's initial effort on site was to walk around the facility observing potential PA entry points, routes, barriers, and distances either to equipment or to doors providing access to equipment included in the target sets. The team also noted the normal duty stations of personnel who might participate in a contingency response, the locations where

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special contingency response equipment was stored, and the design and location of fixed and/or movable defensive positions.

The team then conducted foiar table-top drills. These drills simulated overt external l

, assaults. For each drill, team members interviewed a licensee contingency response team '

leader. An OSRE team member. identified adversary characteristics, entry points into the l j PA, and movement toward critical equipment. The response team leader indicated how i

the responding security officers would be deployed and then estimated the time required j for response officers to each interdicting positions, based on the actuallocations of the l

responding officers at the time of the exercise. Both the response team leader and an OSRE team member estimated the time required for adversaries to proceed along the route and judged the outcome of engagements between adversaries and responders. The scenarios for later, actual on-site exercises. were based on an analysis of the simulated  !

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licensee's efforts at establishing priorities for protection of equipment; the ability of responding officers to arrive at suitable interdicting positioris in a timely fashion, in

sufficient numbers, and appropriately armed and equipped; and the licensee's protective i strategies for deployment of response officers and equipment. The team evaluated how l exercises were being used both as a training tool and as a means of self-audit of the l protective strategy. The exercises were also used to evaluate individual and team tactical movement, command, control, and communications.

Team members also interviewed several security officers regarding use of deadly force at the site. A broad spectrum of possible contingencies was used to assure that officers clearly understood that force should not be used unnecessarily in situations that did not threaten the health and safety of individuals or the general public and that appropriate i force should be used if necessary, in situations such as those discussed in NRC Information Notice No. 89-05, "Use of Deadly Force by Guards Protecting Nuclear Power I

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l Reactors Against Radiological Sabotage." The team also observed the application of (simulated) deadly force in the on site exercises.

The team interviewed members of the training staff and observed weapons training ,

techniques. The purpose was to evaluate the appropriateness of the training and I experience of the training staff, the facilities available, and the techniques and frequency of training employed to assure tiiat contingency response personnel were qualified to execute the responsibilities assigned to them, as required by 10 CFR Part 73, Appendix B.

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l The team evaluated the licensee's response weapons to determine if the weapons werr.

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Of special note was the excellent scale model of the Hope Creek / Salem plant. It was extremely useful to: (1) familiarize the OSRE team with the plant and, in particular, with g the protection and delay modifications to the plant, and (2) conduct the table-top drills and understand the plant protection strategy.

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c. Conclusions The protective strategy was effective and prevented the intruder from reaching either the intended target or any other critical equipment. The use of force was appropriately applied.
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R-5). While the adverstries were able to simulate explosively sabotaging vital buses, they were unable to sabotage all of the equipment in the target set.

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. The protective strategy was effective and prevented the adversaries from reaching either the intended target set or any other critical equipment.

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The team selected and interviewed five SFMs concerning the use of deadly force on site and evaluated their responses. Each sece,ity force member (SFM), who could engage an j intruder as a member of the response force or as a patrol officer, displayed an excellent understanding of the use of force, including deadly force, to protect the facilities,

c. Conclusions Based on the interviews, the team determined that the appropriate amount of force would be utilized during a contingency to prevent radiological sabotage and that deadly force i

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S5 Security and Safeguards Staff Training and Qualification S5.1 Weaoons Trainino j

a. Evaluation Senne I The team observed a weapons firing demonstration by several SFMs at the licensee's live-fire weapons range.

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i elements. Overall, the course of fire demonstated to the team was excellent in providing challenge, stress, and a variety of likely shooting conditions.

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The team observed the performance of the response officers, both individually and as a team, during the on-site exercises.

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j The four on-site exercises during April 21 and 22,'1998, were realistic. The planning and control of the exercises were well thought out. All of the exercise participants conducted themselves in a professional manner, appeared thoroughly involved, and proficiently executed the protective strategy.

The critiques were organized and thorough. Further, the participation by operations in j the critique and debriefing of the exercises highlighted the importance of a cohesive and j effective plant protection effort in a security contingency.

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appropriate and effective. The response force convincingly executed and met the four j OSRE sub-criteria against the adversary team.

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a. Evaluation Scone The staffing of the security response force was evaluated to determine if adequate numbers of armed responders were-available on each shift.
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The licensee had adequate armed responder staffing assigned to each shift.

'S7 Quality Assurance in Security and Safeguards Activities S7.1 Tarnet Analvain

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j. During the OSRE, an OSRE team member and the licensee's operations staff reviewed

! target sets to confirm the sets and to consider the licensee's damage control measures to

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b. Observations and Findinan Control room operators were trained to deal with normal, routine balance-of-plant i

operations and emergency operations procedures (EOP). The licensee's operators understood the importance of the relationship between critical target sets and a security contingency involving radiological sabotage. Operations provided a solid basis for security to develop its protective strategy.

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l ' a. Evaluation Scope The second purpose of the OSRE was to assure that safeguards measures did not adversely affect the safe operation of the facility. Part 73.55(d)(7)(ii) of Title 10 of the l- Code of Federal Regulations requires a licensee to design the access control system to l accommodate the potential need for rapid ingress or egress of individuals during I emergency conditions, or during situations that could lead to emergency conditions.

.To evaluate the licensee's implementation of this requirement, the team interviewed operations personnel, including a shift supervisor (SS), equipment operator, and security supervisor, and conducted a walking tour of safety-related equipment and evacuation routes within the facility. The walking tour and discussions were to assure that both access to and egress from the PA and vital areas (VAs) would not hinder proper plant

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operations and personnel safety in an emergency situation and that security radio transmissions would not interfere with facility operations,

b. Observations and Findings PA Emergenev Accenne During unusual plant conditions requiring emergency access to the PA, the operations SS would advise security personnel of the emergency and the expected i

arrival of off-site personnel and/or equipmenteUpon the arr{ival of non emergency personnel. No significant time delayWFBeTxpected to enter the PA because of security access controls at the entry facility.

VA Accean and Forment Entry to VAs is needed bnder some Emergency Operations Procedures. The access control system did not use an anti-passback feature for controlling access to VAs; individuals who are authorized to enter VAs would not be delayed. A l

personal identification number is not required at Salem and Hope Creek to enter the PA or VA.

l All VA controlled access doors fail in the close position due to a loss of power to a key-card reader or the security computer. Operations and security personnel carry hard keys to facilitate unimpeded access to VAs following a card-reader or computer failure. .

During a security contingency, VA card readers would not be disabled, and all key cards would continue to function whether the access control system was on normal or I emergency power. For personnel safety, VA doors have either thumb latches, door knobs or crash bars to provide emergency egress irrespective of the status of the access control system.

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ATTACHMENT SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION PARTIAL LIST OF PERSONS CONTACTED Licennae L Storz, Senior Vice President - Nuclear Operations l B. Simpson, Senior Vice President - Nuclear Engineering l E. Salowitz, Director - Nuclear Business Support J. McMahon, Director - QA/ Nuclear Training / Emergency Preparation A. Bakken, lit, General Manager - Salem Operations M. Berilla, General Manager - Hope Creek Operations M. Trum, General Manager - Maintenance l G. Gibson, Manager - Nuclear Security i

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