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From: K. M. Jenison To : P. D. Swetland
Subject:
" Martin Report" I
- 1. You asked me to inspect the " Martin Report" in connection with the E diesel NPO I issues. The intent of the inspection was to determine if there were other issues which were related to the E diesel issue and to see if the comments from some of the NPOs concerning the corporate auditors were addressed. I requested to see the report and the licensee denied my request. The licensee did let me read a set of bullets prepared by Mr. Martin and presented at a licensee meeting. The licensee also let me view a corrective action matrix where a number of actions were tied to paragraph numbers from the Martin report. They informed me that each line item in the report was associated with a corrective action in the matrix. I verified that those items I could associate with safety related issues in the matrix were represented by a Condition i Report and were included in their corrective action process. l I
With respect to the activities of the corporate auditors, no specifics were given in the bullets, but there was a comment on the way corporate auditing performed the audits ;
(interacted with personel and the readiness of personnel to relay safety concerns). In j connection, with another allegation (HP harrassment) I spoke to Mr. Byrum about the '
auditors and he informed me that the two auditors that were assigned to the two issues would not be used in similar situations until they had been retrained or replaced. I identified no concerns about the PPL employee concerns programs in either allegation issue.
- 2. You asked me to took into a second issue related to the NPOs and a recently received allegation recorded by the NRC Region I counsel. The issue involved the testing of the main control room panels, a radiological waste local panel, and the ESS transformer panels.
The licensee currently has an employee concern that was received by them at the same time the regional counsel received the allegation, and I believe that they are the same technical issues. The licensee is investigating each issue using the corporate auditors (without the two individuals discussed above). I inspected one of the issues (ESS transformers) to support the closure of a previous allegation. One of the items that I looked at was an Operations internal report dated February 1997. The current report has been ammended three times, but the findings remained unchanged. The findings are that there is no evidence that operators did not perform the ESS transformer alarm tests properly. I reviewed the data and determined that there were several instances when the plant (Unit 1) computer did not indicate that the Unit 1 tests were performed. The licensee was able to supply supporting data in each case in the sample period that indicated why the test performance was not documented by the l
computer. The reasons ranged from maintenance outages to equipment failures. I identified no patterns of random or intermittent failurs. The data did indicate that in some instances for some tests that the operator may be able to " beat" the update rate
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of the unit I computer (2 seconds) if the test is performed quickly. However, there was no data that indicated that this was a problem or affected the findings of either the ESS or the E diesel review. I determined that the ESS transformer tests are l annunciated in the control room but that they are not required to be logged in the PCO logs.
The second issue also addressed two other pannels (control room manin panels, radwaste panel). The control room panels are alarmed during each PCO turnover, as part of the turnover. The licensee is conducting the computer search currently. The
- radwaste panel test is required by NPO rounds and is documented in a round sheet.
The radwaste panel alarm is annunciated in the control room but that it is not required to be logged in the PCO logs. The licensee is also currently conducting a computer search of this alarm.
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