ML20203C924
| ML20203C924 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Dresden  |
| Issue date: | 12/04/1997 |
| From: | Grant G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | Jamila Perry COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20203C930 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-010-97-19, 50-10-97-19, 50-237-97-19, 50-249-97-19, NUDOCS 9712160047 | |
| Download: ML20203C924 (3) | |
See also: IR 05000010/1997019
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NRC INSPECTION REPORT NO. 50 010/97019(DRP); 50 237/P7019(DRP); -
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50 249/97019(DRP) AND NOTICE OF V!OLATION
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Dear Mr. Perry: .
l This refers to the inspection conducted on August 28 to October 16,1997, at the Dresden facility,
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The purpose of the inspection was to determine whether activities authorized by the license were
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conducted safely and in accordance with NRC requirements. During this period, routine resident
inspections we.e performed. The endosed report presents the results of these inspections,
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During the period covered by this inspection, your conduct of activities at the Dresden Station
was charactertzed by a safety-conscious approach to activities. However, we are concemed
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about two violations, with multiple examples, of NRC requirements.
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In the first violation, three procedures lacked sufficient detail to ensure that activities were
pr porty performed. As a result of the first inadequate procedure, safety-related equipment wau
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unnecessarily made unavailable. The second example of an inadequate procedure resulted in
an engineered safety feature aduation. The third example of an inadequate procedure resulted
in losing cooling to the spent futi pool with a subsequent small rise in pool temperature. The
NRC is issuing a violation for these self-revealing problems because of the impact the
inadequate procedures had on your operators' abilities to operate equipment important to safet'/.
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_ The second violation was issued for operations personnel falling to follow procedures for racking-
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out a safety-related breaker, for the out-of-service program, a'W for discrete component -
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operations. As a consequence, the operators did not maintain correct control of equipment and
temporarily made the emergency diesel generator inoperable. - The NRC is issuing a violation for
these because two of the examples were identified by the inspectors, and the third was similar to -
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one of the contributing factors of the July 1997 feedwater transient.
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The violations are cited in the enclosed Notice of Violation (Notice) and the circumstances
surrounding the violations are described in detail in the subject inspection report. You are
required to respond to this letter and should follow the instructions specified in the enclosed
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Notice when preparing your response. The NRC will use your response, in part, to determine
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whether further enforcemer;t action is necessasy to ensure compliance with regulatory
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' in accordance w;th 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter, its
. enclosures, and your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room.
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/s/ G. -E. Grant.
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Geoffrey E. Grant. Director
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Division of Reactor Projects
Docket Nos.50-010;50-237; 50 249
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Inspection Report
No. 50-010/97019(DRP);
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station has improved, the operations staff continues to be challenged by equipment deficiencies
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that frequently place them in a reactive mode,
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in accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter, its
enclosures, and your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room.
Sincerely,
/s/ G. E. Grant
Geoffrey E. Grant, Director
Division of Reactor Projects
Docket Nos.50-010; 50-237; 50-249
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License Nos. DPR-02; DPR 19; DPR-25
Enclosures:
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2.
Inspection Report
No. 50-010/97019(DRP);
50-237/97019(DRP);
50-249/97019(DRP)
cc w/ancis:
O. Kingsley, Nuclear Generation Group
Distribution:
President and Chief Nuclear Officer
Docket File w/enci
M. Wallace, Senior Vice
OC/LFDCB w/enci
President, Corporate Services
PUBLIC IE-01 w/enci
E. Kraft, Vice President
A. Beach w/ encl
BWR Operations
Deputy RA w/ encl
Liaison Officer, NOC-BOD
Rill Enf. Coord. w/enci
D. A. Sager, Vice President,
SRI Dresden w/enci
Generation Support
D. Farrar, Nuclear Regulatory
Services Manager
DRP w/ encl
1. Johnson, Licensing
TSS w/enci
Operations Manager
DRS (2) w/ encl
Document Control Desk Licensing
Rlli PRR w/ encl
T. Nauman, Station Manager Unit 1
RAC1 (E-Mail)
M. Heffley, Station Manager Units 2 and 3
CAA1 (E-Mai:)
F, Spangenberg, Regulatory Assurance
DOCDESK (E-Mail
Manager
Richard Hubbard
Nathan Schloss, Economist
Office of the Attomey General
State Liaison Officer
Chairman, Illinois Commerce
Commission
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