ML20196E262

Summary of 881129 Meeting W/Util & Newman & Holtzinger Re Readiness for Low Power License.List of Attendees & Viewgraphs Encl

ML20196E262
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	12/02/1988
From:	Dick G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8812090305
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% . December 2,1988 Docket No. 50-499 LICENSEE: Houston Lighting & Power Company (HL&P) '

FACILITY: South Texas Project, Unit 2 (STP-2)

SUBJECT:

MEETING BETWEEN HL&P HANAGEMENT AND NRC PANAGENENT TO DISCUSS READINESS OF STP-2 FOR RECEIPT OF A LOW POWER LICENSE The subject meeting was held on November 29, 1988. A list of attendees is shown in Enclosure 1. Enclosure 2 is a copy of HL&P's presentation.

i HLAP presented a general overview of its performance to date and indicated that lessens learned on Unit I had been applied to Unit 2. Progress toward plant completion is slightly ahead of the previous schedulo. Unit 2 has fewer items left to do than Unit I had at the same period before licensing. The projected fuel load date has changed from the week of December 19 to December 16, 1988.

STP-2 will have a five shift rotation with $ licensed operators per shift (2 SR0's I and 3 RO's). The present start up schedule in:1udes initial criticality on February 2,1989 and a projecteo full power data as early as March 1,1989.

HL&P will conduct a 50% assessment on STP-2, as was done on STP-1.

STP-2 will incorporate changes in th BMI thimble guide tubes in an effort to reduce the wear seen during STP-1 operations. Stiffer tubes will be installed. No flow limiting devices will he used. Isolation valves and magiletic full check valves will also be installed.

In discussions regarding noncer.formino materials (NRC Bulletin 88-05), HL&P indictted that they had identified all suspect cerponents and had performed i

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2-both field and laboratory tests to prove serviceability. Those items not meeting the staff's criteria will be accepted by the staff as "alternate to code". The State of Texas will accept them as meeting code.

HL&P noted that a letter is in preparatier, which informs the staff of the new fuel load date and that STP-2 is ready for licensing.

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George F. Dick, Jr., Project Manager Project Directorate - !Y Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Huclear Reactor Regulation

Enclosures:

As stated cc w/ enclosures:

See next page DISTRIEUTION Ge~cket File '

NRC PDR Local PDR PD4 Reading J. Calvo G. Dick OGC-Rockville l E. Jordan B. Grimes.

C. Abbate E. Holler, RIV J. Sniezek O. Crutchfield G. Holahan L. Rubenstein ACRS (10)

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2 both field and laboratory tests to prove serviceability. Those items not meeting the staff's criteria will be accepted by the staff as "alternate to code". The State of Texas will accept them as meeting code.

4 HL&P noted that a letter is in preparation which informs the staff of the new fuel load date and that STP-2 is ready for licensing.

., Georg F. Dick, Jr.,[ Project Manager Project Directorate - !Y Division of Reactor Projects - III,

, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Enclosures:

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Mr. J. 'H. Goldberg South Texas Project Houston Lighting and Power Company cc:

Brian Berwick, Esq. Resident Inspector / South Texas Assistant Attorney General Project Environmental Protection Division c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission P. O. Box 12548 P. O. Box 910 Capitol Station Bay City, Texas 77414 Austin, Texas 78711 Mr. Jonathan Davis Mr. J. T. Westermeier Assistant City Attorney General Manager, South Texas Project City of Austin Houston Lighting and Power Company P. O. Box 1088 P. O. Box 289 Austin, Texas 78767 Houston, Texas 77483 Ms. Pat Coy Mr. R. J. Miner Citizens Concerned About Nuclear Chief Operating Officer Power City of Austin Electric Utility 10 Singleton 721 Barton Springs Road Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 Austin, Texas 78704 Mr. M. A. McBurnett Mr. R. J. Costello Manager, Operations Support Licensing Mr. M. T. Hardt Houston Lighting and Power Company City Public Service Board P. O. Box 289 P. O. Box 1771 Wadsworth, Texas 77483 San Antonio, Texas 78296 Mr. A. Zaccaria Jack R. Newman, Esq. Mr. X. G. Hess Newman & Holtzinger, P. C. Bechtel CorporJtion 1515 L Street, NW P. O. Box 2166 Washington, D.C. 20036 Houston, TeLas 77001 Melbert Schwartz, Jr., Esq. Mr. R. P. Verret Baker & Botts Mr. R. L. Range One Shell Plaza .

Central Power and Light Company Houston, Texas 77002 P. O. Box 2121 Corpus Christi, Texas 78403 Mrs. Peggy Buchorn Executive Director Doub, Muntzing and Glasgow Citizens for Equitable Utilities, Inc. Attorneys at Law Route 1, Box 1684 Suite 400 Brazoria, Texas 77422 808 Seventeenth Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20006 Mr. S. L. Rosen General Manager, Operations Support Houston Lighting and Power Company P. n. Box 289 Wadsworth, Texas 77483

Mr. J. 'H. Goldberg South Texas Project Houston Lighting & Power CC:

Regional Administrator, Region !Y U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Executive Director for Operations 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 1000 Arlington, Texas 76011 i Mr. Lanny Sf akin, Counsel for Intervenor Citizens Concerned about Nuclear Power, Inc. ,

Christic Institute

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' ashington, D.C. 20002 Licensing Representative Houston Lighting and Power Company Suite 610 Three Metro Center Bethesda, Maryland 20814

• Rufus S. Scott Associate General Counsel Houston Lighting & Power Company P. O. Box 1700 f Houston, Texas 77001 INPO . [

Records Center l 1100 Circle 75 Parkway l Atlanta, Georgia 30339-3064 Joseph M. Hendrie 50 Be11 port Lane Be11 port, New York 11713 i Gerald E. Vaughn, Vice President [

Nuclear Operations l Houston Lighting & Power Company i P. O. Box 289  ;

Wadsworth Texas 77483 R. W. Chewning, Chairman Nuclear Safety Review Board 1 Houston Lighting A Power Company i P. O. Box 289 i Wadsworth, Texas 77483 i

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Enclosure 1 Attendance HL&P/NRC Management Meeting November 29, 1988 Name Organization -

J. Calvo NRC G. Dick F.RC 3

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E. Holler NRC M. McBurnett HL&P L D. Crutchfield NRC L. Rubenstein NRC J. Sniezek NRC >

T. Murley NRC G. Holahan NRC A. Gutterman Newman & Holtzinger t J. Bailey HLAP l G. Parkey HL&P r

5. Rosen NL&P [

J. Westermeier HL&P f J. Geiger HL&P l G. Vaughn HL&P J. Goldberg HL&P r

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. HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY NOVEMBER 29,1988

) I. INTRODUCTION J.H. GOLDBERG 1

II. CONSTRUCTION COMPLETION STATUS J.T. WESTERMEIER III. OPERATIONS OVERVIEW G.E. VAUGHN j IV. UNIT 2 READINESS G.L. PARKEY i V. REMAINING IJCENSING ISSUES J.N. BAILEY .

VI. NUCLEAR ASSURANCE J.E. GEIGER i VII. CONCLUSION J.H. GOLDBERG

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UNIT 1 PERFORMANCE o PLANT PERFORMANCE o MILESTONES o RECEIVED LOW POWER OPERATING LICENSE - AUGUST 21,1987

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o INITAL CRITICALITY - MARCH 8,1988 o RECEIVED FULL POWER OPERATING LICENSE - MARCH 22, 1988 o DECLARED UNIT READY FOR COMMERCIAL SERVICE - AUGUST 25,1988 o PEOPLE PERFORMANCE 4WW9

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UNIT 2 MILESTONE

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PRIMARY HYDRO 2/88 2/15/88 TURBINE ON GEAR 5/88 5/13/88 START HFT 7/88 7/7/88 FUEL RECEIPT 9/88 9/1/88 ILRT/ SIT 9/88 9/23/88 START ESFAS TEST 10/88 10/3/88 UNIT LOCKDOWN 11/88 10/30/88 FUEL LOAD 12/88 12/16/88 FORECAST e

MASTER COMPLETION LIST ITEMS DATA DATE: 11/28/88 IIARDWARE FUEL LOAD IIARDWARE .

140 201 (507) 59 INITIAL CRITICALITY SOFTWARE 77 (254) SOFTWARE G1 18 POWER OP' 11 (149)

NON CRITICAL / LOW PRIORITY 335 (500)

, TOTAL ITEMS - 624 (1410)* *( ) itOCATES Uta! I tJUuBERS AT 3 WEEKS (6/10/87) BEFORE FORECAST FUEL LOAD (6/30/87)

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o INPO ACCREDITATION SCHEDULED FOR JULY 1989 SUBMITTAL OF ASER'S o COLLEGE DEGREE PROGRAM IMPLEMENTED SEPTEMBER 1,1988 o SPECIAL TRAINING CONDUCT OF OPERATIONS

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! o NRC OPERATIONAL READINESS REVIEW - SOME ITEMS TO l CORP.ECT PRIOR TO CRITICALITY o PLANT CONFIGURATION CONTROL - PROGRAM ESTABLISHED BASED ON UNIT 1 LESSONS LEARNED o SECURITY PROGRAM OPERATIONAL l

o SURVEILLANCE TESTING - UNIT 1 EXPERIENCE ADDRESSED IN UNIT 2 PROGRAM 1

UNIT 2 OPEN MAINTENANCE WORK ITEMS DATA DATE: 1I/26/88 POWER OPS CORRECTIVE j / 18 37 NON-CORRECTIVE INITIAL 22 CRITICALITY 59 L 4RECTIVE FUEL LOAD 18 69 NON-CORRECTIVE F NON PRIORITY 51 607 i

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o BULLETIN 88-05, FALSIFIED MATERIAL CERTIFICATIONS CONFIRMED ACCEPTABILITY OF STP MATERIAL

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, o FOUR VIOLATION RESPONSES AWAITING NRC CLOSURE o NINE'10CFR50.55(e) ITEMS AWAITING NRC CLOSURE l

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NUCLEAR ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT J. H. GOLDBERG GROUP VICE PRESIDENT .

J. E. GEIGER GEN MGR, NUCLEAR ASSURANCE PROJECT QA OPERATIONS SAFETEAM i QA i

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. 1 NUCLEAR ASSURANCE o PROJECT QA STAFF MONif0 RING CONSTRUCTION COMPLETION .

WORKING WITH CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING, ETC., TO ASSURE SMOOTH TRANSITION NROM PQAP TO OQAP PARTICIPATE IN PLANT COMPLETION VERIFICATION PROGRAM (PCVP) o OPERATIONS QA STAFF PREREQUISITE AND PREOPERATIONAL TESTING

- WORKING WITH OPERATIONS, ENGINEERING, ETC., TO ASSURE SMOOTH TRANSITION FROM PQAP TO OQAP PARTICIPATE IN PCVP

NUCLEAR ASSURANCE .

o SAFETEAM NOV.1988 MAY 1987 TOTAL CONTACTS 38,218 28,030 CLASS I CONCERNS RECEIVED 1,176 934 CLASS I CONCERNS CLOSED 1,168 876 CLASS I CONCERNS SUBSTANTIATED 215 195 PRELIMINARY CONCERN REVIEW PROGRAM 8 58 OM

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LITIGATION STATUS o CITIZENS CONCERNED ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER (CCANP) o GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT (GAP)

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