ML20212N046
| ML20212N046 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/19/1986 |
| From: | Rowsome F Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8608280062 | |
| Download: ML20212N046 (3) | |
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Frank H. Rowsome, Acting Deputy Director Division of Human Factors Technology
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OF INP0/DHFT COORDINATION MEETING 0F JUNE 24,1986
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The Quarterly Coordination Meeting between the Division of Human Factors Technology, NRR, NRC and INP0 took place at INP0 headquarters in Atlanta on June 24, 1986.
INP0 was represented by Ken Strahm, Walt Coakley, Kent i
Hamlin, Joe Flynn, Ron Ceravolo, Walt Guinn, and Phil McCullough. The NRC attendees included W. T. Russell, Frank R w some, John Hannon, Jerry Wachtel, and Ann Ramey-Smith.
Following the introductions and agenda discussion, the NRC attendees briefed the INP0 attendees on the status of the amendment to 10 CFR 55, the rulemaking on operator licensing. The amendment is before the Comission for their action. As it is predecisional, we did not distribute copies.
INP0 brought in Joe Bishop and Rick La Rhette for the discussion of the next agenda item: the NRC's interest in the Human Performance Evaluation System, HPES. Bill hussell and I described our interest in learning more about the HPES progrom. Joe Bishop sketched the history and status of the HPES. The program started two years ago as a pilot project with two participating utilities.
It grew to six domestic plus three foreign participants in the next year. As of last December, two more participants joined. They are budgeted to add two to three additional participants this, year, to cover 18 domestic sites, EDF, and Ontario Hydro. There were 28 people in their last training course. Zach Pate hopes to open the program to all domestic plants in 1987.
In their experience, all the utilities welcome the training, but are less enthusiastic about full participation in the program.
INP0 requires a letter of comitment from the utility that the program will be implemented before they accept trainees.
We asked how INP0 followed up on the current participants. Bishop responded that they encourage utilities to do whatever works for them; the original INP0 form proved to be too complicated. Pat Patterson is making the program function very well at Surry.
In 1985, INP0 organized quarterly feedback sessions in which the HPES participants shared experiences and perspectives.
They found the cross-fertilization to be useful. Now, they are doing it at six month intervals. As the size of the group grows, they rray have to replace the informal approach with a more structured workshop.
INP0 personnel made site visits to those participants who were having difficulty with the program. They conducted an in-depth review of the program with human factors experts in April of this year. The experts' recomendation was to train the workers and the management in the mental processes in performing the tasks, and sensitize them to the particularly error-prone aspects.
Bishop indicated that they are working on a Good Practice Guide on HPES.
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Bill Russell asked whether an NRC observer might attend the training ccurse, one of the coordination meetings or a plant assistance visit. Bishop anticipated no problem, but indicated that a formal request and concurrence process would be necessary.
Bill Russell indicated that we think it desirable to develop something analogous to the training accreditation program to verify that nuclear plant owner-operators are making adequate use of the SEE-IN Program, or otherwise learning the lessons of experience at other. plants.
Next we discussed updating the INP0 job task analyses.
INP0 indicated that they regard them as living documents to be updated continuously. They have just added the symptom-based procedures in the JTA.
However, they.do not feel it to be practical to incorporate higher-level cognitive skills in the JTA. Ron Ceravolo feels that is a responsibility for training instructors, not an appropriate subject for the JTAs.
We asked if INP0 has considered the implications of the work by IDCOR for the training and accreditation program, JTAs, etc. They indicated that they have not yet done so, and will consider our recommendation that they do.
John Hannon and Jerry Wachtel briefed the INP0 attendees on developments in operator licensing and the examination improvement efforts.
INP0 suggested that information on the Exam Question Bank would be useful to the industry, and that they would be interested in working with the NRC to establish milestones to accomplish this. We agreed that follow-up discussions would take place on this issue.
We discussed the problems we had observed with emergency operating procedures (E0P), and indicated an IE Information Notice would be issued.
INP0 reported that based upon their plant evaluation experience, they had similar concern with E0Ps.
INP0 is working on a Good Practice on the development of examination questions. Two of their staff are planning to attend the next examiner course given at the NRC, scheduled for June 30.
We briefly discussed INP0's evaluation of tr'aining simulators.
INP0 is considering developing guidance to help owners develop training simulator scenarios from operating events.
In their evaluations, they look at configuration control, the simulator's ability to model the plant, and for negative training associated with differences between the simulator and the plant. They do not perform anything close to an ANS 3.5 review. We agreed that it would be useful for Jerry Wachtel to observe an INPO simulator evaluation, and that this request would be formalized with a letter through Jim Partlow.
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