ML20202D435
| ML20202D435 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Waterford  |
| Issue date: | 12/03/1997 |
| From: | Pellet J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Dugger C ENTERGY OPERATIONS, INC. |
| References | |
| 50-382-97-17, NUDOCS 9712050023 | |
| Download: ML20202D435 (6) | |
See also: IR 05000382/1997017
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SUBJECT: NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-382/9717
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Thank you for your letter of November 24; 1997, in response to our letter and Notice of
Vi >Iation dated October 23,1997, We have reviewed your reply and find it responsive to our
concern about emergency operating procedures raised in our Notice of Violation. We wili review
the implementation of your ccrrective actions during a future inspection to determine that full
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John L. Pellet, Chief
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Waterford 3 SES
Docket No. 50-382
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License No. NPF-38
NRC Inspection Report 50-382/97-17
Reply to Notice of Violation
Gentlemen-
In accordance with 10CFR2.201, Entergy Operations, Inc. hereby submns in
Attachment 1 the response to the violatica identified in Enclosure 1 of the sut' ject
inspection Report.
if you have any questions concoming this response, please contact
me at (504) 739-8242 or T.J. Gaudet at (504) 739-6666.
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E.C. Ewing
Director,
Nuclear Safety & Regulatory Affairs
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ENTERGY OPERATIONS. INC. RESPONS'i TO THE VIOLATION IDENTIFIED IN
EMCLOSURE 1 OF INSPECTION REPORT 50-382/97-17
VIOt.ATION NO. 9717-01
Technical Specification 6.8.1.a states, in part that written procedures shall be
established, implemented, and maintained covering emergency operating
procedures.
Subprocedure V, " Containment Isolation,' of the licensee's Emergency Operating
Procedure OP 902-008, Revision 10, contair,ed instructions necessary to satisfy the
success path for the containment isolation safety function.
The licensee had completed recent moditications to the plant, which pxmitted
overriding a containment spray permissive signal to allow the operators to cicse
Containment Spray Valves CS-125A(B) in order to isolate the containment and
satisfy the safety function success path.
Contrary to the above, written procedures were not maintained for en)ergency
operating procedures in that the Itcenses failed to revise the Emergency Operating
Procedure OP-902-008 following valve modifications to provide the operators with
adequate instruction for closing Containment Spray Valves CS125A(B) to isolate the
Containment.
This is a Severity Level IV vielation (Supplement I) (50-382/9717-01).
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Reason for the Violation
Entergy attributes the violation to a combination of the inefficient location of
procedural guidance and to the lack of clearly defined management
expectations for Operations in this area. Entercy a0rees that appropriately
located procedural guidance is needed to ensure the proper and appropriate
operation of Containment Spray Valves (CS-125A(B)). The location of the
procedural guidanca in an Emergency Planning Procedure (EP-002-100,
Revision 25, Attachment 7.12) versus in an 5mergency Operating Procedure
(OP-902-008) was a conscious decision, which had been reached after much
deliberation. Waterford 3 is committed to meeting the strategies for
Emergency Operating Procedures outlined in CEN-162, CE Emergency
Operating Procedure Guidelines. The NRC approved the use of the
strategies in CEN-152 Revisions 03 and 04. The strategies that CE
recommends in the guidelines do not include specific steps to iriate
containment in the case of equipment failure (e.g. a Containe.< ' Jpray Pump
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valve is clossd for each containment penetration required to be closed. The
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least one containment isolation valve must be closed for sech containment
penetration not in usec The EOPs are written assuming that safety-equipreent
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operator complication ar'd response time. Based on the above
considerations, we have assessed that the procedural guidance would more
appropriately ba located in a standard appendices to the EOPs rather than in
the body of the EOPs.
It should be noted that the NRC is currently evakating Entergy's position on
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the Containment Spray Containment isolation Vatves presentad at the
Enforcement Conference held in Ariington, Texas on July 29,1997. Final
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accordingly.
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Corrective Stans That Have Baan Takan and the Resulta Achieved
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Operating crews have been briefed on the violation scenario in various
Operations Department meetings and are awere of the current location of the
subject procedural guidance and management's expectations in that regard.
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Waterford 3 has plans to develop a standard appendices to the EOPs
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wherein guidance will be included to provide dinction to the operators for
closing Containment Spray Valves CS 125A(B) with Containment Spray
Pumps not running. The Operator imining program will include training for
the Operators on the new standard appendices.
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Date When Full Compliance Will Be Achieved
The EOP standard appendices will be completed by June 30,1996.
Operations Training inclusion of the appendices in the treining program will
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