ML20211E992

Informs of Plan to Augment Plant,Unit 3 Resident Staff & Provide around-the-clock Insp Coverage During Plant Restart from Current Unplanned Outage.Primary Objectives of Insp Listed

ML20211E992
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	11/08/1995
From:	Cowgill C NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Cooper R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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FOIA-97-252 NUDOCS 9709300326
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I KING OF PR SS A NNS LVAN A 194041415

• • • • • November 8, 1995 l -MEMORANDUM T0: Richard W. Cooper II, Director Division of Reactor Projects c

FROM: Curtis J. Cowgill, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 2

SUBJECT:

AUGMENTED INSPECTION COVERAGE D INDIAN POINT 3 RESTART I plan to augment the Indian Point 3 resident staff and provide around-the-clock inspection coverage during the Indian Point 3 restart from its current unplanned outage. The augmented inspection is necessary to reconfirm and reassess the licensee's ability to operate the plant safely in light of the recent poor operational performance. The primary objectives of the inspection are:

e to assess and validate that operators are adhering to procedures in accordance with recently conveyed management expectations and rules.

These new expectations and rules provide much stricter controls with regard to procedural adherence; e to determine whether the quality of procedures can support the new procedural adherence rules, or whether the licensee has adequate resources to address procedural problems. The operations shift must not be overly encumbered by the procedure and maintain a proper focus on the plant; e to observe the level of formality in the conduct operations. Areas of concern are shift turnovers and communications; and, e - to evaluate the effectiveness of the licensee's corrective actions and self assessments in the area of operations performance.

The coverage will be performed in two phases. The first phase will consist of conducting extended backshift. inspections to observe reactor coolant system filling and venting, drawing a pressurizer bubble, perfoming checkoff lists, the plant above cold shutdown. Also the NRC will confirm mode and heating'his changes. part of the inspection will provide timely feedback to management before the licensee takes the reactor critical. The second phase will consist of reactor.startup activities. During this time, there will be round-the-clock coverage for several days. The coverage will- begin about one shift before control rods are pulled until the main generator is synchronized to the grid. The total around-the-clock coverage will be about five days. A more detailed plan is enclosed.

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T. Martin, RA W. Kane, DRA J. Wiggins, DRS R. Blough, DRS R. Barkley, DRP B. Welling, DRP J. Zwolinski, NRR T. Marsh, NRR NAP Members

k i AUGMENTED INSPECTION COVERAGE FOR THE INDIAN POINT 3 STARTUP l

NRC INSPECTION COVERAGE The NRC will conduct expanded coverage of startup activities during the  !

forthcoming startup. This will cons'st of extended backshift coverage to i

observe activities associated with phnt heatup. Specifically the NRC will confirm each mode change. Twenty-four hour shift inspection coverage will be performed starting about one shift hours before control rods are pulled until

! the main generator is synchronized to the grid. The period of 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br />

- coverage will last about 5 days. The Branch Chief, after conference with Senior Resident Inspector, will allow relaxation of the 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> coverage to monitor other significant evolutions or in the event of plant equipment problems which put the startup on hold until repaired.

INSPECTION ACTIVITIES l The following key activities should be reviewed while on shift coverage, as a i minimum:

e Startup prerequisites (including some independent verification)

e Pre-startup shift crew turnovers and briefings e plant management meetings and discussions at various startup plateaus e Generator synchronization e Critical startup activities e Safety-related surveillance testing i e Safety-related maintenance e Operator Rounds (selected)

- LOGISTICS Each inspector providing shift coverage will be assigned to work a designated 8 hour9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> period, typically shadowing the licensee's shift schedule. The inspector should record routine observations (positive and negative) and all significant findings or potential safety concerns. A single shift inspector log book will be maintained so that all field notes and observations are located in one document. In addition to the above inspection activities, inspectors should observe the following:

e operator perforr nce, attentiveness, and formality, including attitude with respect to nuclear safety

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• Non-licensed operator performance o Procedure implementation / adherence

• TS compliance e Non-routine event response

e Upper management involvement

• Control room awareness of on-going plant activities Conduct of special testing i e l

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e Role of QA/QC during job performance e Problem solving DOCUMENTATION All inspectors will provide writeups to the resident staff for incorporation into the monthly resident report.

Inspection Effort Members DRS .(2) To be determined DRP Branch 2 Blake Welling Branch 6 1 Week of Norm Blumberg's time to be determined HRR (1) To be determined O

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