ML20210U851
| ML20210U851 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant |
| Issue date: | 07/30/1999 |
| From: | Jonathan Brown UNITED STATES ENRICHMENT CORP. (USEC) |
| To: | Paperiello C NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM), NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| GDP-99-2040, NUDOCS 9908230002 | |
| Download: ML20210U851 (6) | |
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. A Global Energy Company July 30,1999 GDP 99-2040 Dr. Carl J. Paperiello Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
' Attention: Document Control Desk U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS)
Docket No. 70-7002 Portsmouth Nuclear Criticality Safety Program - Quarterly Status Report
Dear Dr. Paperiello:
contains the quarterly. status report for the Portsmouth Nuclear Criticality Safety Program Corrective Action Plan for the period April 21,1999, through July 16,1999. There are no new commitments contained within this submittal.
If you have any questions conceming this submittal, please contact Peter J. Miner at (740) 897-2710.
Sincerely, M M/ M
. Morris Brown General Manager
- Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant 9908230002 990730 PDR ADOCif. 07007002 '
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United States Farichrnent G>rporation Portsmoudi Gaseous DifTusion Plant P.O. Box 628. Piketon, Of 145661
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Dr. Carl J. Paperiello
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Enclosures:
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NRC Resident Inspector-PGDP NRC Resident Inspector'- PORTS NRC Project Manager-PORTS -
l Chief, Special Projects Branch -- Robert C. Pierson l
Director, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety - Cynthia D. Pederson l
. Chief, Enrichment Section, Special Projects Branch - Melanie A. Galloway DOE Regulatory Oversight Manager - Randall M. DeVault l
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GDP 99-2040 Page 1 of 4 4
July 1999 Quarterly Status Report of the PORTS Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCS) Program Corrective Action Plan (CAP) i 1
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Purpose To convey the status of the tasks in the NCS CAP.
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Scope This report covers the four open tasks (numbered 3,5, 8, and 21) in Revision 5 of the NCS CAP. The report period is from April 21,1999, to July 16,1999. Target dates are shown l
on Attachment 1 of Revision 5 of the NCS CAP (reference USEC letter GDP 99-2020, dated April 30,1999). Additional information on the schedule for developing and implementing Nuclear Criticality Safety Approval / Evaluations (NCSA/Es) was provided in a July 23,1999 letter (reference USEC letter GDP 99-2038).
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Executive Summary Two milestones were met: The Plant Operations Review Committee (PORC) approved the remaining four Priority 1 NCSA/Es by May 21, 1999, and the associated AQ-NCS l
classification of structures, systems, and components (SSC) was completed for these four Priority 1 NCSA/Es by June 9,1999. The remaining milestone to complete procedures, training, and implementation of Priority 1 NCSA/Es is on schedule. Thirteen Priority 1 NCSA/Es have been implemented.
i The upgrade of Priority 2 NCSA/Es is on schedule; however, during this report period the schedule was rebaselined because at the time, only one of the scheduled three Priority 2 NCSA/Es was approved by PORC. The reason the schedule setback occurred is the NCS Engineers working on Priority 2 NCSA/Es were temporarily reassigned to revise Priority 1 NCSA/Es as emergent work in support of the imp'ementation of Priority 1 NCSA/Es. These
' temporary assignments are now complete and two additional NCS Engineers (previously assigned to support day-to-day operations) were assigned to assist with the Priority 2 NCSA/E Upgrade Project. Based on the action taken, the schedule setback will not affect the milestone dates for the Priority 2 NCSA/Es. Two Priority 2 NCSA/Es have been PORC approved.
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Details of Open Tasks.
Task 3
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Thirteen Priority.1 NCSA/Es are now implemented.
They are 0344A002.A03, 0705_009.A01, 0705_015.A09, 0705_.025.A01, 0705_041.A01, 0705_064.A01, 0710_009.A01, PLANT 004.A03, PLANT 018.A02, PLANT 055.A01, PLANT 076.A01,-
PLANT 082.A01, and PLANT 085.A01. However, the documentation package to complete Compliance Plan (CP) Issue 9 is still being finalized for eight of these NCSA/Es.
Because of concerns with the flowdown of AQ-NCS requirements and the need to develop proper documentation for CP Issue 8, NCSA Documents; Issue 9, NCSA Implementation; and Issue 23, Plant Changes and Configuration Management (reference USEC letter GDP 99-0039, dated May 14,1999), the NCSA Implementation Team is rechecking the adequacy of the flowdown of requirements for Priority 1 NCSA/Es previously implemented. This work is being performed as part of the implementation of the 39 Prio ity 1 NCSA/Es.
During this reporting period,12 of the previously PORC approved Priority 1 NCSA/Es were revised and reappmved by PORC. Most of these revisions were to accommodate feedback from the field and lessons learned from the AQ-NCS flowdown process.
The two Priority 2'.NCSA/Es that have been PORC approved and are awaiting implementation are 0326_022.A02 and PLANT 025.A05. The revision of the Priority 1 NCSA/Es had an impact on the schedule for upgrading Priority 2 NCSA/Es, because the NCS Engineers assigned to Priority 2 NCSA/E upgrades were temporarily reassigned to the Priority 1 NCSA/E revisions. These temporary assignments are now complete and the NCS Engineers have retumed to upgrading Priority 2 NCSA/Es. In addition, two NCS Engineers previously assigned to support day-to-day operations have been assigned to assist with the Priority 2 NCSA/E Uograde Project to help ensure the milestone date is met.
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GDP 99-2040 Page 3 of 4 The following chart illustrates the status of Priority 1 and Priority 2 NCSA/E development and implementation:
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Reviewed by NCS Subcommittee and Being Prepared for PORC Review Scheduled for NCS Subcommittee in Peer Review 4
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Started NCS Engineering Review 13 11 Not Staned 12' 10 Total 39 39 27 25**
This includes the five NCSA/Es that were reported in USEC letter GDP 99-2020 as being implemented with AQ-NCS flow-down in process and that it may be appropriate to rewrite certain portions of these five NCSA/Es. NCSA/Es 0326_013.A06,330_004.A03, and 333_015.A03 were subsequently revised and approved by PORC, and are now being implemented. NCSA/Es 0705_015 and PLANT 079 will be revised per i
USEC letter GDP 99-2033, dated June 21,1999, which responds to NRC violation 99004-01.
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" NCSA/Es 0326 028 and 0330 003 are being consolidated into NCSA/E j
PLANT 064.
. A procedure will be prepared to determine which NCSA/Es in the " Additional Review" category require revision and which NCSA/Es are acceptable as is. The additional reviews
- will be conducted after the procedure is prepared and approved, and training has been conducted. Concurrently, with thes: reviews, the AQ-NCS classification of SSCs and flowdown of AQ-NCS requirements will be performed for the NCSA/Es in the additional
< review category. The additional review portion of Task 3 is on schedule.
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- Task 5.
SS&Q Review ofImplementation Recently, CP Issues 8,9, and 23, were requested by USEC to be reopened (reference USEC letter GDP 99-0039, dated May 14,1999). ' To ensure the commitments in CP Issue 9 are
- ' met, SS&Q has revised their Task 5 assessment plan and checklist and they are repeating
- their assessment of the previously assessed Priority 1 NCSA/Es.
Four of the 13 implemented Priority 1 NCSA/Es have been assessed and determined to be j
satisfactorily implemented.- They are PLANT 004.A03,0344A002.A03, PLANT 055.A01, and 0710_009.A01. One assessment ofimplementation is in progress. The remaining eight implemented Priority 1 NCSA/Es will be assessed as soon as the documentation packages for CP Issue 9 are finalized.
Task 8 Vertical Slice Review When the first draft of the NCS Vertical Slice Report was issued on May 28,1998, the report was reviewed and problem reports were submitted where appropriate. The final signed version of the report was issued in January 1999. In addition to the 28 recommendations and observations in the body of the report, there were over 175 additional recommendations, l
observations, and concerns in the attachments to the report. Task 8 was reopened in Revision 5 of the NCS CAP to ensure these additional subjects were properly evaluated and
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The recommendations, observations, and concerns were subsequently cortsolidated into 134 subjects requiring evaluation and resolution. These subjects were assigned to cognizant
. mangers for resolution and tracking. Documentation is being compiled in accordance with an approved plan. Subtasks 8.1 and 8.2 have been completed.
Task 21 Fissile Material Operation (FMO) Identification A procedure, XP2-PO-PO1031, Site Walkdowns/ Verifications, has teen prepared and approved for conducting site walk-downs to identify FMOs. Walkdowns will start after training on the new procedure is completed. Subtask 21.1 has been completed.
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