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| Issue date: | 08/16/1989 |
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DISCLAIMER This is an unofficial transcript of a meeting of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission held on Aneust 16. 1989. in the Commission's off, ice at One White Flint North, Rockville, Maryland. The meeting was open to public attendance and observation. This transcript has not been reviewed, corrected or edited, and it may contain inaccuracies.
g, The transcript is intended solely for general information21 purposes. As provided by 10 CFR 9.103, it is not part of the formal or informal record of decision of the -matters discussed. Expressions of opinion in this transcript do not necessarily reflect final determination or beliefs. No p'cading or other paper may be filed with the Commission in any proceeding as the result of, or i addressed to, any statement or argument contained herein, l -
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BRIEFING ON STATUS OF CALVERT CLIFFS PUBLIC MEETING Nuclear Regulatory Commission One White Flint North Rockville, Maryland Wednesday, August-16, 1989 The Commission met in open session, pursuant to notice, at 10:00 a.m., Kenneth M. Carr, Chairman, presiding.
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'STAFT AND PRESENTERS. SEATED'AT THE COMMISSION TABLE:.
SAMUEL J. CHILK, Secretary WILLIAM C. PARLER, General Counsel
" GEORGE McGOWAN,, Chairman of the Board, BG&E CHRISTIAN POINDF.XTER, Vice Chairman of the Board, BG&E GEORGE CREEL, Vice Preside /nt, Nuclear Energy, BG&E LEON RUSSELL,-Manager, Calvert Cliffs, Nuclear Power Department, BG&E ROBERT DENTON, Manager, Quality Assurat e and Staff-Services, BG&E CHARLES CRUSE, Manager, Nuclear Engineering Services, BG&E-JAMES LEMONS, Manager, Nuclear Outage Management, BG&E JAMES TAYLOR, Acting Executive Director of Operations M CLLIAM' RUSSELL, Administrator, Region I JAMES PARTLOW, Associate Director for Products, NRR BRUCE BOGER, Assistant Director for Region I Reactors, NRR SCOTT.McNEIL, Project Manager, NRR
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- 3. CHAIRMANm CARR:- Good morning,. ladies and
- 4- gentlemen'. The purpose of: this morning's meeting is
-5 for the Baltimore' Gas and Electric Companyj licensee 6 for the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear, Power Plant, and the 7 -
NRC staff to brief the Commission on, the status . of 8 Calvert Cliffs Units 1 and 2.
- 9. Both plants are currently shut down'and'will
- 10 start up'only after resolution of a number of issues
- 11 identified in a' confirmatory action letter dated:.May 12 '25th,;1989.
13 We note that the staff placed Calvert Cliffs' 14 on the Commission watch list in December of 1989.
15 This is of particular concern because the plant had 16- for a number of years been considered '.one of the
. 17 better performers.
' 18 Do any of my fellow Commissioners have any 19 opening remarks?
20 If not, Mr. McGowan, you may proceed.
21 MR. McGOWAN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
22 Good morning. I'm George McGowan. I'm 123 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for 24 Baltimore Gas and Electric Company. It is our 25 pleasure to be he e this morning to brief you c'n the a"
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- 2' ~ Cliffs Nuclear = Power Plant.
L 3 I . have with ' me today - six .other members of f-l'
'4 our senior nuclear management' 'staf f . Chris
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L 6 prime responsibility being ' Calvert Cliffs; George 7 Creel, Vice President of Nuclear Energy; Lee Russell,-
8- the . Plant Manager; Charlie Cruse, our Manager of
'9 Nuclear Engineering Services; Bob Denton, Manager of 10 Quality Assurance and Staff Services; and Jim Lemons, i
11 Manager of Nuclear Outage Management.
12 (Slide) Our briefing will cover the
'13 followings areas:
14 Familiarization with some.of us; our nuclear 15 management structure; where we' feel we have been as a 16 member of the commercial nuclear industry; where we 17 believe we are now; where we intend to be, and most 18 importantly how we intend to get there; and lastly, 19 brief discussions on a few items that you have 20 expressed interest in, incentive programs by various 21 state public service commissions, Baltimore Gas and 22 Electric diversification efforts, and our OSART visit 4
23 of 1987.
24 I started working for BG&E in 1951 and I was 25 the original project manager for the Calvert Cliffs NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHoDE ISLAND AVENUE, N.W.
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.6i ( Slide )~ Calvert Cliffs is - our. most 7' important - asset. . F i n'a n c i a l l y , . o f c o u r s e ,. bet more
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. importantly as_an. example of-our progressive attitude 1 9 and dedication to move ~our company. forward ~and remain'
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- 11~' We assured Marylanders in the early. days of 12 the. Calvert Clif f a ' project thatE nuclear ' generation
- 13 could be' safe, clean and economical. We ' have kept P
'14 ' ' that. promise f or more than 14' years.and we intend to 15' 'do whatever is necessary to continue to keep it.
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' 17 -- first1U.S. PWR.to go to a 24 month fuel cycle. We're-18 proud'to volunteer _ to be the first U.S. plant'to'be-19 . evaluated by the International Atomic En,ergy Agency's-2 0_' Operational Safety Review Team. And we were proud to 21 welcome the Russian delegation that toured ' Calvert 22 Cliffs-earlier this summer.
- 23 (Slide) But we recognize that we have 24 problems, major problems. The biggest problem is_that
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n2 1? tin:tha cron of otrict, cbaolute cdh:;rcnca to atandarda p ., 2 and . requirements. A change in ,our' attitude and - a l' 3 change' in our. culture.must occur to achieve ' ;the 4 desired level of excellence..
5 We did have many years of very successful 6 operationsi The plants were ranked among the top in 7 the country. We did not'have significant. 'saf ety 8 issues other than occasional violations of various 9 regulations along with several other . licensees. .I.
10 believe that at some point, going back several years, 11 the industry started to increase their margin of 12- safety and how they looked at their plants.
13 The NRC and the industry in general started m
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'15 acceptable and I don't think we kept pace with that 16 process, particularly with respect to operations. We
'17 were aware of what was going on. We had people 18' ' participating in various industry organizations, but I
19 we just did not keep up with the expectations.
20 I want to assure you that Baltimore Gas and 21 Electric Company will continue to support the i
22 restoration of Calvert Cliffs with the necessary !
23 personnel and financial resources.
24 (Slide) An example of that is a recent 25 change in our nuclear management line of f NEAL R. GROSS court REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS )
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U '1 roaponoibility. . On ' July 21, 1989, tho= Board of b, 2- - Directors created a' new position of Vice Chairman, 13 wh'ose primary' responsibility for the . foreseeable
'4 future . will be 'Calvert Cliffs. That new position
'5 became ef f active on August 1 of 1989. The ' Vice -
.6 President Nuclear Energy reports directly to the Vice
-7 Chairman who~ reports directly.to me. The creation of-8 the new Vice Chairman position and the decision as: to-9 who should fill it were directly related to the 10 problems;at Calvert Cliffs.
11 Nuclear Energy division managers ' and the 12 1Vice President Nuclear Energy are all located at the 13 plant site. We'were one of the earliest companies to n
.14. place all of our nuclear resources at the site- .
15' Incidentally, our ' philosophy is a bit 16 different.than many other utilities in that we find we 17 have far fewer elected officers compared -to other 18 companies-of a comparable size. This is a philosophy 19 that we've had for many years and therefore I'd 20 mention this because many of our managers would find-21 themselves as Vice Presidents in comparable positions 22 in other utilities.
23 I would now like to turn the briefing over j
- 24. to that new Vice Chairman, Chris Poindexter.
25 MR. POINDEXTER: Thank you, George.
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' MN ' 1' Good'm3rning. . I bsgen ' work 16 dtya . ago 29 pu the Vice Chairman of ~ Baltimore Gas ' and Electric.
3 Prior toithat I was.the. President and Chief' Executive' 4: Of ficer of Constellation Holdings , ..which is a 5: management company managing a group . of diversified 6- companies .- f or BG&E. I've held that position since 7 October of 1985.
8 I started - work for Baltimore Gas and 9- Electric-in 1967 and had significant responsibilities 10 on the Calvert Cliffs project from that time until 11 1976. That was through the design, construction and
' 12 ' licensing phases. In 1976, when I was reassigned from 13- 'that role, I was the Chief Nuclear Engineer. I came p
14' 'back to engineering in Calvert Cliffs in:1979. I was 15 -Treasurer of .the company at that time and I was 16 elected Vice President of Engineering and 17 Construction. For that period, I had responsibilities I- 18- for the construction and engineering of all the 19- company's electric facilities generating plants, bulk 20 transmission subs tations . All of the major 21 modification work as a result of the TMI accident that 22 we did was under the time that I headed up that 23 division.
24 In 1985, I left that position to become 25 President and CEO of Constellation Holdings.
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- 9-i 1' 'I know tha pitnt vsry wall. I hava a broad A
2 background in nuclear regulatory matters. 'Some of the
,3 things I've been doing n'ow for the last 16 days is to 4 participate in the' Augus t 4 meeting with the 5 assessment panel concerning our performance-6L improvement plan. I've established an office at ~ the 7' site where I spend the majority of my , time and I've.
8 been involved in a series of briefings by key-9 personnel to try to get up t'o speed, with a' lot of 10 midnight reading along the way. I'm in the process of 11- scheduling meetings with all of you commissioners and 12 with_some of the key managers in the NRC staff.
13 I think the creation of the . Vice Chairman M
..' 14 position does reflect BG&E's commitment of attention 15 and ' resources to our nuclear operations. My sole 16 ,
responsibility. is our nuclear program and my single 17 objective is~to achieve the excellence that we want
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l I'm on a fast track to try to familiarize i l 19 20 myself with the events of the last two years. George 21 Creel, sitting to my left, is ou? Vice ? resident of ,
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22 Nuclear Energy. He is the most experienced power l
23- plant executive in our company. I have the broadest 1 I
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4 . no other responsibilities allows us to move very 5' rapidly. An example of. that was last- week-we 6 announced. plans to strengthen our management team and-7 created a new Nuclear Outage-Management Department and 8 have named . Jim Lemons, to my far right,. as the J
'9 manager.
10 I'd lil.e now to turn things over the George 11 Creel, our Vice President of Nuclear Energy.
12 MR. CREEL: Good morning,-and thanks, Chris.
13 I've been managing the Nuclear Energy m.
14 Division since February 1st of this year. Before that I.was Vice President of the. Fossil Energy Division.
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15 16 Some background on myself. I started 17 working for BGEE in 1955 and was one of the four 18 members of the original design and evaluation team 19 that lead to the building of Calvert Cliffs. George 20 McGowan was one of those four members also. I was an
..21 early participant in writing the preliminary safety 22 analysis report, PSAR, and later became Chief 23 Mechanical Engineer with design responsibilities for 24 manv of the Calvert Cliffs systems. I used to manage L
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3' I' d .like to talk about where we've been, 4 H '
4 particularly over the past' year or so.
5 (Slide! In the past, Calvert Cliffs had a.
1 6 good operating and performance record and we were very 7 proud members of the commercial nuclear power 8 industry. But apparently over the years' a sense of-9 complacency set in. In retrospect, we see that our
- 10 . nuclear safety awareness was not keeping up with I
11 increasing expectations. Our successes in operation 12- with. high capacity factors appear to have. lulled.us 13 into accepting the status quo with good enough in i
m 14 nuclear safety. This complacent. attitude apparently
, 15 led to some of the events that we were aware of. Even 16 though' we took preventive measures following these 17 events, those measures were not effective.
18 (Slide) We saw indications of increased NRC 19 concern and we were very concerned ourselves last year 20 when some serious failures to comply with procedures 21 occurred. We reacted with mandatory training, heavily 22 emphasizing procedural compliance and this was 23 conducted. Management changes occurred. A new 24 Manager of Nuclear Engineering Services was named.
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'A l Accurenco end ' Stof f - Scrvicao was . ncmad. That ' o . Bob' 2 Denton. .The Maintenance and Operations Department 3 were combined into a single plant organization headed 4' by our Plant Manager, Lee Russell, on my left. A new
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7 (Slide) Nevertheless, in December ' 88 we 8 were put-on the NRC's list of plants requiring 9 increased monitoring. This was a tremendous blow to 10 this company.- We began immediately to reassess what 11 we were doing. More managenent and oversight changes 12 occurred.
13 As I said, I was given my present assignment 14 as Vice President of Nuclear Energy in February. The 15 previous manager of Quality Assurance agreed to put 16 off retirement and move.to a consulting role and to 17- assist in our independent assessments. A senior 18 individual elsewhere in our company was brought back 19 to Calvert Cliffs. He had considerable experience, to 20 evaluate and recomnend improvements for the plant 21 Operations and Safety Review Committee.
22 The'Offsite Safety Review Committee charter 23 was strengthened and revised to promote a stronger
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% 1. L including ' cddi'tionni' outoide' concultanto and wa gP ' 2. .recently: added a management representative- from
- 3 'another operating ? nuclear utility. It now has' a 4 majority of' members from offsite.
5 Recently, a new position of Maintenance 6: ' Superintendent was created and filled with a nuclear
- 7. experienced individual brought in from outside ' our 8 company. That man's name is Terry Camaleri.
9 Just last week, we announced that Jim Lemons 10 wil1 ~ be tlie Manager of Nuclear Outage Management. Jim 11 has recently ,been the Manager of Fossil Engineering 12 Services, but has extensive background, over 18 years 13 of experience at Calvert Cliffs, including Manager of 14 Nuclear Operations at one time.
-15 Additionally, we're moving a BG&E employee, 16 a man named Don Graff, to a new position as Project 17 Manager of our pressurizer restoration project. More 18 about that later. Don was with Combustion Engineering 1
19 for over 20 years and was the Project Manager for 20 Calvert Cliffs when both of the units initially went 21- into service in the mid-70s.
22 Both of these moves are intended to give our 23 existing line managers more time to concentrate on the 24 implementation of our performance improvement plan. !
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In addition to all these management changes, fE 2 3 .the work.has.been deliberately slowed down-to provide 4 better control of that work. Safety and quality have 5 been and will continue to be our top priority.
6 This detailed performance improvement plan 7 was put together-to determine the root causes of.our 8 problems and to come up with actions to prevent 9 recurrence. We replaced one of our senior unit heads 10 in Engineering and put him in charge of that plan's 11 implementation efforts.
12 (Slide) In March, an NRC special team 13 inspection took a good look at us. They identified 14 -several items that we think warrant our attention.
15 For example, we incorporated many of those special 16 team inspection concerns into our long-term 17 performance improvement plan. We put plans for 18 resolving our own concerns along with resolution of 19 our pressurizer problems and some of the short-term 20 special team inspection concerns into our agreement 21 with NRC Region I.
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hg 2- Now, I!just' referred to what I, called as our 3' nuclear program plan.: I think'.it's important that-I
-4 take a . noment to explain what that 'is and how the.
a 5' performance; improvement plan relates to it.
6: (Slide) The -performance . improvement plan, 7 in short, .is an aggregation of: actions that' we're :
8- taking to address .' problems , most of which are in the 9 a r e a s .. o f management expectations and communications.
10 It is a subset of what we call our nuclear ' problem 11 plan. The nuclear program plan is updated annually 12 and is the mechanism we use to provide nuclear program 13 input to our overall corporate business plan. In the o,
'14~ future, as - our performance improvement plan reaches 15- the end of the ver'ification process and phase and 16 : accomplishes its immediate purpose,.it will fade away ,
- 17. . because its actions are ' all part of the nuclear 18 . program plan for longstanding action.
19 Current status is as follows:
20 July 31st we submitted our implementation 21 plan details to the NRC.
22- August 4th, we met with NRC staff's Calvert 23 Cliffs assessment panel to discuss this background of 24 the root cause analysis process and our methodology 25 for developing the performance improvement plan.
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l /[ 11: Porfcrm nco improvem:nt plcn 'd valopm:nto cro part of Le '2 our: daily -plant report' and are discussed - at daily 3 plant status meetings held in the morning.
'4- ' Thursday afternoons are specifica11y'.
'5 reserved f or f ormal performance improvement plan 6 ' planning.and development meetings. The meetings have 7 been held and will continue to be held sp7cifically 8 for the purpose of insuring - that all levels of 9 employees at Calvert Cliffs understand the content of 10 the performance improvement plan and their role in it.
11 Now, I recognize that the key to success ~ of 12 this plant and to achieving and sustaining excellence
- 13. 'is effective. management. Effective management entails
[* 14 setting appropriate goals. Just as important if not 15 more - so is clearly communicating those goals to our 16 employees. My experience throughout our: company has
. 17- taught me that communications is always the most a 13 challenging element of any plan of this type.
19 I know,our senior management, our line 20 managers and supervisors know that this is not a one 21 time task. By definition, we all know the hard way.
22 We will always be working to improve communications.
23 We must continually reinforce our expectations.
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3; said before, Dob Denton, incidentally, will give-you 4- more details on this shortly.
i 5 (Slide) Now, let's talk about the' plant
~6 itself.- Both units are shut down at this time. Unit 7 number 2 is in an extended refueling outage while we l 8 determine the cause ' of the pressurizer heater leaks.
9 We i shut down Unit 1 on May 6th because of Lee 10 Russell's, our P 1 'a n t Manager's concern for the 11 possible generic implication of those leaks.
12- Specifically, during one of our regularly 13 scheduled in-service inspections, we identified 28-n..
.14 heater penetrations and one instrumentation 15 penetration that had a thin film of boric acid 16 .- crystals'on them. A project team was formed, pulled 17' together, and special emphasis was placed on not 18 destroying any of the useful evidence during the 19 course of this investigation. We chose to proceed 20 very deliberately and carefully so we wouldn't lose 21 anything. along the way. An extensive review of the 22 design fabrication and maintenance has been conducted.
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? . 6 On Unit number ' 2,. as I said,hexamined 28 7 sleeves' visually. Ten of these showed no crack 8 indications'by dye. penetrant or eddy current. Fifteen 9 of these showed sleeve -inside diameter crack
- '10 indications by. dye penetrant testing and one'showed a
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'.12 ' between . the sleeve and the interior cladding on the 13 pressurizer. One of those showed' dye penetrant crack-9 14 indications. 'Six showed sleeve indications using eddy
'15 current; testing, two of which had not been indicated 16- .on using dye penetrant testing.
- 17.- At this point, we are not prepared.to draw
-18 'any-conclusions from these results.
19 -To start getting a handle on the
-20 metalography involved, we have. performed'last week a 21' core bore of one of these penetrations and its weld.
22 That's already been completed and it's been shipped to 23 Combustion Engineering's hot lab in Windsor, 24 Connecticut, for lab analysis. Our metallurgists will 25 participate along with that, with Combustion
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c 2 In addition, two sleeves have been cut out 3 by machining below the weld area and above some 4 indications, and those have been sent out for 5- analysis. We believe that this destructive testing 6 should yield the cause, the root cause of the 7 degradation mechanism we have observed.
8 (Slide) Back to some of our other issues.
9 We requested a meeting with Bill Russell of Region I 10 on May 10th to discuss actions we were taking to 11 establish better control and firmer control of ou:e i
12 work activities. In a letter following up on that 13 meeting, we indicated we would complete these actions 14 prior to returning either of our units to service.
15 The NRC then issued a confirmatory action letter 16 confirming our commitments.
17 Some additional commitments have been made 18 during the course of this summer to close out the 19 concerns of the special team inspection report. These 20 issues are being tracked and discussed daily at plant 21 status meetings, and they are being closed out using 22 close-out packages to document how we are meeting our 23 commitments.
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l< 5 (Slide) Some of-the more significant items
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'7 penetrations, as we talked about;' control of systems 8 status; control of work activities; detailed level.of~
' maintenance procedures for crafts; control of. vendor 9
10 . tech manuals; quality control; calibration of' 11 temporary gauges; the control and use of procedures; 12 and our corrective action process.
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/ 14 on at this time are the following.
15 First of all, we have to continue evaluating 16 an implementation of our performance improvement plan, 17 g seeing that as each action is completed a process is 18 left in place to keep it successfully implemented.
19 We need to . completely and thoroughly 4
20 document the close-out of the various start-up issues.
21 And we must carefully expedite a controlled 22 evaluation of the pressurizer heater problem.
23 We have to make necessary repairs to Unit 2.
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' , 1 -(Slida) L;t'o talk cbout tha futura. My 2 vision of the future is:
3 First of all, we'll responsibly resolve the
~4 pressurizer heater issue and in the process have 5 learned something that we and perhaps the entire 6 industry can benefit from.
7 We will resolve in a quality manner our 8 confirmatory action letter and special team inspection 9 short-term issues.
10 Then we're going to start up Unit 1, then 11 Unit 2 after pressurizer repairs and the refueling are 12 completed. !
13 We will continue to detail the performance f 14 improvement plan and its actions, and continue 15 implementation on into permanent annual nuclear 16 program plan.
17 One of our keys, we think, will be ;
18 improvements in self-assessment areas. We feel we 1
19 intend to be more active in the industry and stay !
l 20 ahead of issues.
21 We intend to participate more in the 22 resolution of generic regulatory concerns. We 23 believe, and I think you all know, that in the past 24 years BG&E has had a strong reputation for this sort ,
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1 In chort , . our -intGnt in to ba batter-cnd 2 continuously ' improving. Our ' goal is to achieve and' l, 3 maintain event-free operation.
E l '4 Now having said that, I'm under no delusions 5 that we've gotten there and have already cured our L 6 problems. We feel it takes effort-and will continue 7 to take effort, and we.wi'11 continue to improve over 8 time. 'We think this process is dynamic and requires-9 effective feedback. We've got to monitor our 10 progress, and.we think we're setting in place.. systems
- 11. to allow that feedback to monitor our progress.
12' Next - step, we expect course- changes. We 13 fully expect and I expect that we may have to add new r%
.. 14 actions to the plan from time to time as need arises.
.\ 5 Likewise, I don't feel that we will have any i
16 hesitation to drop action plans that don't prove i
17 effective.
18 I'd now like to turn the briefing over to 19 Bob Denton, who's our Manager of Quality Assurance.
'i Bob ' will give you all more details regarding the 'l 20 21 performance improvement plan itself. ,
~22 MR. DENTON: Thank you, George.
23 (Slide) The objectives of our performance 24 improvement plan are to develop and implement actions i
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- 1 porformanco doclino, to oxpand on performance W 2 improvement actions that are already underway, to 3 improve our problem identification assessment and
~4 resolution processes ,- and to establish a process to 5 monitor progress and redirect efforts accordingly.
6 We intend to implement the programmatic and 7 managerial changes necessary to prevent recurrence of 8' problems. As George said, we are aiming for event-9 free operation.
10 (Slide) Performance improvement has had two 11 phases, the symptom assessment phase and the 12 implementation phase which we're in now. The symptom 13 assessment phase began' earlier this year, in early n; ..
,, 14 January, and this involved identifying root causes of 15 our performance decline and formulating corrective 16 actions.
17 To develop the root causes, we took an in-18 dspth look into past SALP reports, INPO reports, NRC 19 inspection reports, licensee event reports, QA audits 20 and an engineering assessment that was performed by a 21 consultant. .
22 An emphasis was placed on daily involvement I
23 of the department managers, general supervisors and 1
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~3 were determined. . Corresponding corrective 1 actions 4 were developed. An April 7th ' submittal . to the . NRC -
5 marked the end of that symptom assessment phase.
6 CHAIRMAN CARR: Could.you run.down those 11 7 root causes that.you've --
8 MR. DENTON: They are submitted in the 9 performance improvement plan and I don't have that 10 with me.
11 CHAIRMAN CARR: Okay.
- 12 , MR. DENTON: But we'll pull' it' out and go 13 down the list.
,js 14 Do you have a copy there, Charlie?
15 MR. CRUSE: Yes.
16 "MR. DENTON: Okay. Can we come back to 17 that?
18 CHAIRMAN CARR: Sure.
19 MR. DENTON: Okay.
20 (Slide) Since April 2nd, we made a 21 transition to the implementation phase. For each 22 action. plan we have developed schedules which include 23 weekly updates, resource loading requirements and 24 verification plans. To ensure clear responsibility 25 and accountability, each plan has a plan manager who l
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- , 3 ' plans are part of-each person's. performance objectives p
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, 5 ' documented quarterly and will be weighted heavily in 6' appraisals and pay raise decisions at the end of the 7 year.
8 MR. CREE;: Let me just make a comrent at 9 this point, if I may. I personally meet with the 10 managers, that is the people at this table, to go'over 11 their . review to me of the performance objectives by 12 their various general supervisors and supervisors.
13 Incidentally, in our company a general supervisor is s
/- 14 what you would probably refer to as a manager in most 15 nuclear utilities. My style of working is such that
- 16 those things weigh heavily in a manager's actual 17 performance through the year to determine their merit 18 pay system. It's that simple.
19 Bob?
20 MR. DENTON: (Slide) Significant progress 21 has been achieved to date on some of the short-term 22 actions that we've determined. As mentioned 23 previously, the combining of the operations and
. 24 maintenance departments into one department in 25 September of 1988 makes e more responsive and
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L 6- earlier, to f ocus .our resources on the performance i
,7 improvement plan, We recognize we can't do everything f 8 at once.
1 9 We've initiated a procedures upgrade -
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y 14 that are most 1:portant to safety have been addressed 15 first. As I mentiened, the procedures upgrade program 16 is a major program and we recognize that we still have 17 a long way to go with that.
18 We've moved the system engineer organization 19 inside the fence, inside the protected area, closer to
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- '4 ~ weighted to . ensure consistency with our division 5 goals.
6 The performance improvement plan' consists'of 7 ,about 30' action plans.and they range from very large-8 projects, such as the procedure - upgrade I.just 9 mentioned, and the nuclear inf ormation project, and- over 10 the life of'those two projects will represent about'a-11 $100'million investment. They range to much less 12: resource intensive action plans which will also have a-13 major effect on the way we do business.
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.14 (Slide) This slide lists seven of the 1.5 programs we ' re . putting in place or improving. Team 16 building workshops are being de' signed . to reduce 17 conflict between interdependent work groups. A 18 communications plan has been developed to make people 19 aware of nuclear program goals and to ensure that 20 expectations of work practices are understood.
21- Quality circles are being established to 22 enhance safety performance and teamwork and to build
- 23. morale.
24 Leadership conferences are underway to 25 improve basic leadership skills and improve leadership j
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5 ensure, that proper references are available- for 6 maintenance and operations to accurately perform their 7 work.
8 Additional root.cause analysis capabilities 9 are being developed and centralized for event analysis 'l 10 and failure analysis and an . INPO-bas ed human 11 performance evaluation system is being put in place to 12 assist us in identifying nuclear safety concerns and 13 to reduce the potential for human error.
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. 14 MR. CREEL: Just another brief comment for
- 15. myself at this point. My experience with these sort 16 of ~ things is that plans of this type are worthless 17 without active management participation, without 18 management reinforcement and continual training and 19 . communications of expectations to all levels. That 20 has been clearly transmitted and we are actively 21 working on that at this point. I want to make that p 22 point with you all at this time.
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W' 2 performance improvement plan .ef festiveness and - to b? 7 3. : confirm improved self-assessment actions.
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l-5: verification process. feeds into ' the nuclear program 6 plan ' a n d' can offer mid-course correction-7 recommendations to management, . confirmation of 8 satisfactory. performance and feedback to management'~onL 9- -the achievement'of the expectations set forth in the 10 action ' plan. The plan is flexible. If we- find 11' .certain action plans to be ineffective, they can'be 12: modified or deleted. If we need ' new initiatives ,- we
~ 13 L can'put them in place.
% Just before you go off J 14 ' COMMISSIONER ROGERS:
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16 MR. DENTON: Yes, sir.
17 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: The monitoring and-18 assessment functions of the verificatiori process, are 19 they centralized organizationally or. are they --
is 20 that function broken up and distributed among the 21- different plan components?
22 MR. DENTON: The bulk' of the verification
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8 Back to your question, . sir, on the ' listing 9_. of- the- 11 root causes is found.in the April: 7th 10' ' submittal and is reiterated ~ in the most-recent
.11 '. submittal. 1 12 -The first one ..is insuf ficient . expectations
'13 and performance' standards.
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16 The third is insufficient vertical and
'17 horizontal communications.
18 The fourth is insufficient communication of 19' vision, direction and performance expectations by i
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7 And the lith and last one is an insufficient 8 resource allocation.
9 That's the basic list of the underlying root 10 causes that we set forth.
11 I'd like to turn the presentation back over 12 to Mr. McGowan.
13 MR. McGOWAN: Thank you, Bob.
.s 14 I'd like to just briefly discuss three areas 15 in which you have recently expressed an interest and 16 some concern.
17 .(Slide) First the area of diversification 18 .and more specifically BG&E's diversification. A few 19 years ago, we looked at the future and decided that 20 the electric and gas utility industries in our 21 particular area could no longer expect the long-term
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4 Chris Poindexter was chosen to be the 5 President of Constellation Holdings based on his 6- excellent leadership and management skills. He 7 obviously also had a strong nuclear background that 8 you're quite aware of by now. I want to assure you {
9 that utility operations and particularly nuclear 10 utility operations have not and are not being 11 adversely affected by Constellation Holdings.
1 12 While Chris Poindexter did have a lot of 13 nuclear background and experience, he did not have any r 14 responsibility for the operation of Calvert Cliffs at 15 the time of his reassignment. Chris has been a member i
16 of the BG&E Board of Directors and a member of the 17 BG&E Board's Committee on Nuclear Power. By the way, 18 we have had a Board committee addressing the specific ;
. 19 issue of nuclear power since May of 1984. Chris is a )
20 regular participant in weekly management committee 21 meetings where nuclear issues are discussed and he has 22 been -- I said is, and has been in that role for some 23 time. In fact, throughout his entire career at 24 Constellation.
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'6- Utility operations -in general have ~ always 7' 'been.and will continue to be at the' core of our BGEE 8 activities. Our utility business is still our core 9 business.
10 (Slide) Now, shifting a bit to state 11 regulatory matters. The Maryland Public Service ,
12 Commission has implemented a generating unit 13 performance program which became effective on July 9th
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4 We have been denied the collection of 5 significant dollars in replacement energy costs from 6 our rate payers over the years. We do not expect that
'7 these performance programs will effect this situation 8 dramatically, except to give it a more . objective 9 framework.
10 I certainly want to assure you this morning 11 that as Chief Executive Officer of this company, we 12 will take whatever actions are necessary to keep 13 Calvert Cliffs safe regardless of the results of the
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14 Public Service Commission's program.
15 (Slide) We've also noted your concerns 16 regarding the perceived inconsistency between the 17 OSART evaluation of 1987 and the NRC's assessment of 18 our performance. W'e feel that both the NRC and OSART 19 were accurate for their purposes. Although the OSART 20 results were generally favorable, there were 36 21 recommendations and suggestions. OSART took a hard 22 look at general approaches to doing business in 23 several different areas, while I believe the NRC 24 concentrates more on actual compliance with -
25 regulations and commitments.
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1 1 (Slida) Now I'd lika to mako a fcw closing )
2 remarks. We are placing safety and quality ahead of j l
3 production. We.are doing a thorough job of closing l 2
. l 4 and verifying our commitments. Before we start up, we (
I 5 will be satisfied that we are ready to start up. We 6 are convinced that putting safety and quality first 7 will lead to more effective production for the long-
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9 We are willing to commit adequate resour :es 10 to Calvert Cliffs. We have significantly increased 11 our budget and authorized complement increases.
12 We have put three new department managers 13 into key positions at the plant. We put a very e-g '
14 capable Vice President in charge of our Nuclear Energy j 15 Division early this year, an individual with a very 16 successful record. We created a new management 17 position within the Nuclear Division, our Maintenance 18 Superintendent, and filled that position with a highly 19 qualified person from outside of BG&E. Just recently 20 we have created a new Nuclear Outage Management 21 Department headed by the former Manager of Nuclear 22 Operations', and we have created the Vice chairman 23 position, giving him Calvert Cliffs as his only 24 priority at this time.
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{ :* J I .1 'cro aflot 'of changas that' hava ~ takon picco, coms of-2~ them quite recently. That's not'by.. happenstance. We 3 have been going ~ 'through a . thorough process of self-di evaluation'and certainly of NRC evaluation of what our.
1 L 5 situation is. We think we'have digested that rather 6 wellLat the moment. We have a' plan.and now we want to 7 implement it. To do that we think we needed,to make 8 some of the' changes that we've just made. So, those 9 changers have been under consideration and have been 10 given a lot of thought for some time. We think the 11 time was ripe now to make some of those changes which 12 we've just announced.
13 In addition, I'd like to mention two major
) 14 capital improvements. We have recently committed $77 15' million for two full-sized additional diesel 16 generators and all the support structures and spare 17 parts to raise the diesel generator reliability at 18 Calvert Cliffs. This issue has been a source of 19 problems with station blackout concerns and Calvert 20 Cliffs has historically been on the borderline in this 21- area.
22 This fall we will submit an application to 23 build an independent spent fuel storage installation.
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~l' cnticipato bsginning-construction in the fall of 1990 j.u '2 with facility operations beginning:in 1992.
3 Our' number one goal for.Calvert. Cliffs is to
'4 . improve. - s af ety and quality. 'Our performance ;
i 5 . improvement plan is one of our vehicles for achieving 6 that. The plan is . very detailed, was well thought 7- out. It will.have a significant positive impact on 8- the way we do business. Implementation 'of the
-9 performance improvement plan has top priority in the ,
10 company and let me say that we recognize that plans 11 'are only as effective as they are implemented. We are 12 very serious about achieving a high level of 13 excellence at Calvert Cliffs. We will be satisfied m.
- 14. -with nothing less.
71 15 I want to thank you very much for your 16 attention and we will be happy to answer any questions 17 you may have.
18 CHAIRMAN CARR: Thank you, Mr. McGowan. i l
19 Commissioner Roberts?-
20 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS: Who fabricated the j 21 pressurizer?
22 MR. CREEL: Combustion Engineering.
23 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS: Where?
24 MR. CREEL: In Chattanooga.
25 Coi1MISSIONER ROBERTS: Chattanooga?
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2- COMMISSIONER ROBERTS: Aro'you buying power 1 3 'now?
4 'MR. McGOWAN: We have been" buying power.this
-.5 : summer, that's right.
6 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS: What is the makeup of.
7 the Maryland Public Service Commission? Is it elected 8 or appointed?
9 MR..McGOWAN: It's appointed with --
10 ' COMMISSIONER ROBERTS:' By the governor?
11 MR. McGOWAN: It's appointed by the governor 12 'with' confirmation by the state senate.
13 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS: What percentage of 14 the geographic percentage of the state of Maryland is !
15 .your service area, roughly?
16 MR. McGOWAN: About a third.
17 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS: Well, I think you've 18 been quite candid. I remember vividly _ visiting 19 Calvert Cliffs, good Lord, six or seven years ago, and J J
20 thinking what a terrific plant it was. An older
'21 plant, but it was clean and well maintained and I .
22 encourage you to accomplish your stated objectives. .
23 That's all I have. j 24 CHAIRMAN CARR: Commissioner Rogers? ,
25 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: Yes. I take it from -
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- EIN 1 . tha .date that you gavi'of fall 1990 construction on
- 2. ' the dry , vault spent fuel storage facility that you 3- have gotten the - that -the RRC review of the topical' 4 ' report has'been completed?'
5- MR. CRUSE: That's correct and we expect'to 6 subnit a. license application this f all.
7 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: When.was that 8- completed? I didn't know whether that had been 9 finished or'not. I was going to ask the wrong people.
10 MR. CRUSE: I can't give you a'date, but 11 basica11y'it's-alteady in operation at Carolina Power 12' and Light with the seven --
13' COMMISSIONER ROGERS: No, I know. Yes, I
,' :14 know they have, yes. Okay.
15- I was pleased to hear about your decision on 16 the diesel generators. When was that decision made to :
I 17 commit that $77 million?
18 MR. McGOWAN: Three or four months ago, 19 Obviously under a lot of study and consideration for 20 probably three or four months prior to that.
21 COMMISSIONER ROGEAS: Right.
22 MR. McGOWAN: But that has been approved by i
23 our Board and is -- j i
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[fi 1 MR. McGOWAN:. It's capitolizsd.
. 2 COMMISSIONER-ROBERTS: Sure.
3 MR. McGOWAN: We have three diesels, as you
-4 prob' ably are" aware --
5~ COMMISSIONER ROGERS: Yes.
6 MR. McGOWAN: -- with one serving.as a swing 7' ~ diesel.
8 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: Right. Well, I~think 9 that was a very important move.
10 The question of what additional hardware 11 that you are considering to take care of the decay 12 ' heat- removal problem with mid-loop operation, where 13 does that stand?
14 MR. McGOWAN: Charlie will discuss anything 15 we've got going on now.
~16 MR. CRUSE: Well, I'm really not prepared to !
17 give you details on that right now. Maybe -- I don't 18 know if Lee has any information.
19 MR. RUSSELL: The redundant remote level 1
20 indication, I believe, is scheduled to be completed by 21 the end of this year.
22' MR. CRUSE: Right. We're doing tests this 23 summer.to identify it. I 24 MR. RUSSELL: We've completed the test on 25 the vortexing level and --
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- l. 12 settled 'yet' on that, just how you're going to deal 3 with that issue. totally, is that it?
4- MR. RUSSELL: That's correct.
5 MP. CRUSE: Not totally, no. We need.to.get
- 6. the results of the tests that are being run.
7 MR. CREEL: I don't believe we've submitted 8 the results of those tests to the Commission yet. Am 9 I correct on that?
10- MR. RUSSELL: I believe so.
11 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: Do you have a 12 contemplated date on which you'd make that decision of 13 what additional hardware would be required and that
-f 14 you plan to put in place?
15 MR. RifSSELL: That would be done within--
16 'by September some time.
- 17. COMMISSIONER ROGERS: By September this 18 year?
19 MR. McGOWAN: The determination of what's 20 needed.
21 MR. RUSSELL: The determination of what's 22 needed, yes.
23 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: But then you may have 24 to make a corporate decision on that? But that would i i
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2 We've seen that coming down the track. That's not a 3 surprise item at all.
4 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: Well, I just want to
'S say that I was out to visit you folks recently, I 6 guess, just shortly before Poindexter's appointment 7 was made public. I found it a very interesting visit 8 and a very good looking plant. I met, as you know, 9 with a number of the folks that are at the table here 10 and I found that your attitudes and plans were very 11 impressive and that you are fully appreciative of what 12 you want to accomplish and how you intend to do it.
13 I utill had a little bit of a question about 14 how -- to what extent everybody in the organization 15 down to the lowest levels really believes it was a 16 serious problem.
17 MR. CREEL: I'd like to comment on that. I 18 think that's always a concern. As I told you at the 19 time, Commissioner Rogers, just about every 20 organization I've worked in, vertical as well as 21 horizontal communications is a difficult process. In 22 } order to address that, rather than just talk about it, 23 [ many of us spent a significant amount of our time, for 24 example myself personally spent a significant amount 25 of my time not only talking to people like the NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTER $ AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHoDE 15 LAND AVENUE. N.W.,
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5 Each of these managers have a series of f -6' program objectives involving what we call focus t'
7 meetings which are three tier communications process.
8 That is. work and my experience is it has to~be worked 9 at continuously.
10 To answer your question directly, I don't 11 think .we 've totally been successful in getting that 2 message to everywhere in the organization, nor will we 13 probably ever totally be there. The job is to work at V 14 .it and see that our expectations of it are transmitted 15 accordingly. I think we're getting there. I see a 16 lot of improvement. I see a lot of behavioral and 17 attitudinal things that I feel better about today than 18 I did three or four months ago, but it takes some work 19 and we're working at it.
20 MR. POINDEXTER: I would like to add that I 21 intend to make that a high priority of mine also.
22 George and I were talking driving over here how I can 23 best leverage my time in playing that role of 24 communications.
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$ '4 organization goes: through a period of time. called 5 denial. I think we've passed that early in the year 6 and I think we're at the. point now where' our
- 7l organization recognizes that the' problems.that we have 8 at Calvert Cliffs are problems that we have-to work'on
-9 and we cannot attribute those to others. I think 10: 'we're getting that message across.
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13 MR. CREEL: Thank you.
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14 CHAIRMAN CARR: Commissioner Curtiss?.
15- COMMISSIONER CURTISS: I have four areas 16 that I want to cover.
17 Back to the root cause question. You took 18' the 11 root causes that.you've identif.ed and looked 19 at those for any common trend. Beyond the general 20 observation that some complacency may have set in in 21 recent years,.is there something that jumps out at you 22 in more detail that suggests a common root cause?
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I 9 The third is an insufficient application of ;
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11 MR. POINDEXTER: I'd like to say, having 12 looked at this after it was all developed, that my 13 observation is that maybe you'd have to add attitude 14 as an overlying reason for some of these things too.
15 MR. CREEL: Well, clearly, our opinion, and 16 that's what it is because this a very subjective 17 process -- our opinion is that the first one that Bob 18 Denton listed, which is management expectations and 19 performance accountability and things of that sort not 20 being well transmittedj umbrella , the major thing, and 21 with that goes my personal assessment. With that goes 22 the communication of that well. Then how we account 23 for that at the end of the process. That's the way I 24 summarize them. -
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5 ~out personnel. Beyond that, are you seeing recently 6 any- attrition in your employee personnel in key 1'
7 positions that would be of concern?
8 MR. CREEL: I'll comment on that.
9 .MR. McGOWAN: I think George can comment on 10 that, i: 11- MR. CREEL: Well, my observation is that 12 Calvert Cliffs probably has had historically very low 13 turnover for a nuclear utility. 'I can't give you y 14 numbers, so if you ask me that I'd be kidding you. I 15 can't give you those. But our observation is the 16- turnover at all levels at Calvert Cliffs has been 17 relatively low. We do not see any great increase in 18 turnover of key individuals. ~We see occasional 19 sporadic people moving in, people moving out. We are 20 hiring a substantial number of people. We have 21 occasional resignations.
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7 MR. McGOWAN: Just to add a clarifying 8 point, we did experience during the early days of our 9 operation some of the heavy turnovers that everybody 10 was experiencing. A lot of plants were coming on line 11 and a lot --
12 COMMISSIONER ROBERTS: They were taking your 13 employees.
14 MR. McGOWAN: That's right. I don't want to
,i 15 mislead you, we had some problems back in those days.
16 But iS recent years, we've not seen that.
17 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: What I guess I'm 18 getting at is whether you see a morale problem 19 creeping in as you attempt to recover from the i l
20 situation that ' you're in, whether that's leading to 21 any employee attrition. I gather what you're saying 22 is that you don't see that problem, at least right 23 now.
24 MR. CREEL: We have a morale problem of 25 sorts that revolves around a bunch of good people that
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8 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: Okay. Third 9 question. On the Unit 2 pressurizer, I gather from
- 10. what you've said that you haven't seen any of the 11 problems in the Unit 1 pressurizer crop up from the
. 12 testing that you've done.
13 MR. CREEL: That's correct, m, .
,i 14- COMMISSIONER CURTISS: Is there anything 15 different about thosu pressurizer that would suggest 16 that the problems that yer see at the- Unit- 2 17 pressurizer shouldn't come up at Unit 1?
18 MR. CREEL: At this point we see no obvious 19 thing that just leaps out and strikes you between the 20 eyes and said, "This is an obvious difference between 21 these two pressurizer and their sleeves or their 22 method of operation or chemistry," and things of that 23 sort. We are looking for such a thing and nothing 24 obvious has leaned out at this point. ,
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~4 - MR. McGOWAN: They are' set by the 5 Commission. They vary and they're based upon other 6 similar sized units. They're based on data that's 7 collected by NARC, the North American Reliability 8 Council. Those vary from year to year, based upon 9 what the industry average might be.
10 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: Can you give us an 11 f. dea as to what the targets are this' year?
12 MR. McGOWAN: I don't know that there has 13 been an agreed'to target this year. I can give you
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16 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: That's for system?
17 MR. McGOWAN: System. System target. We do 18 not have an agreed upon target for 1989.
19 . COMMISSIONER CURTISS: What was the nuclear 20 plant target for '88?
21 MR. CREEL: ,
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22 MR. McGOWAN: I don't recall that number. I 23 can certainly get it for you.
24 MR.-CREEL: I think it was in the 60s.
25 MR. McGOWAN: I think it was in the high
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J4' MR.~McGOWAN: All right.
5 MR. CREEL: We can get that.
6 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: Final question. Do 7 you know off the top of your head how'much has been_
8' withheld under that arrangement over the years? !
9 MR. McGOWAN: Not off the top of my head 10 because it's come in a lot of bites. We've had a 11 multitude of brief mini-outages for various reasons.
12 We've been denied recoverability of those in some 13 cases, not in all. But I could get that number for v.
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15 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: I'd be curious to see I
16 the figures, if you could.
17 MR. McGOWAN: Okay. Sure.
18 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: Thank you.
i 19 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: I don't want to follow 20 this too deeply because of time, but that 59.8 percent 21 number looks to me like it must. come from a formula of 22 some sort. You don't set a policy of 59.8 percent.
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6 a plus and minus dead band about those targets.
7 So, individual targets are set based on the 8 characteristics of the units. For example, Calvert 9 Cliffs is such and such an age PWR, CE, built in such 10 and such a year, and that's how the ~ regression 11 -analysis works.
12 MR. McGOWAN: But they build it off of NERC 13 dsta, don't they?
14 MR. CREEL: They build it off of NERC data 15' and the analysis is done by regression analysis to 16 comparator units nationally.
17 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: That's all i have.
18 COMMISSIONER' ROGERS: Thank you.
19 CHAIRMAN CARR: On your combination of your 20 operations and maintenance, my understanding is you 21 combined those under a single manager?
22 MR. McGOWAN: Yes.
23 CHAIRMAN CARR: But 1 assume you've got a 24 superintendent for Ops and a superintendent for -- so, 25 did you just add a layer of management?
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3 MR.. CREEL: Yes.
'4 " MR. Mc00WAli; -- more recently.
' .5 - George, you may want to discuss that.
6 MR. CREEL: Yes. We added deliberately 7 another layer of management "in order to reduce the 8 number of direct reports to Lee Russell as Plant 9 Manager. The plant manager of an operating nuclear 10 plant, in - my opinion, has to spend an awful lot of 11 time in technical ~ issues, reviewing things and that 12 sort. So,. we wanted - a maintenance person, a single 13 one that reported to the plant manager, responsible 14 for all mechanical, INC electrical as well as certain 15 . modification work that we do with our own maintenance
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' 17 CHAIRMAN CARR: But he doesn't report to the
.18 plant manager, the maintenance sup. doesn't.
19 MR. CREEL: Yes, he does.
20 MR. RUSSELL: We did not add a layer in the 21 operations area.
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6 CHAIRMAN 'CARR: So now , you just call him-
.n 7 maintenance superintendent instead of a- maintenance 8 manager, but-.he's a different' guy.
9 MR. RUSSELL: He's a different guy and it 10 resulted in an additional layer.
11 MR. POINDEXTER: And he reports to Lee.
12 MR. RUSSELL: And he reports directly to me.
13- MR. McGOWAN: Previously, that nuclear l'4 ' manager reported to the Vice President. Now he 15- reports to --
~16 CHAIRMAN CARR: Well, when we're all 17 through, I'm not sure what I learned. How about going 18 over it again for me.
19 MR. CREEL: Let's start back.
20 CHAIRMAN CARR: Okay.
21 MR. CREEL: At one point in time, Calvert 22 Cliffs had an organization last summer, the summer of 23 '88 or prior to the summer of '88, that had a manager 24 of nuclegr operations and a manager of nuclear 25 maintenance, each of whom individually reported by ;
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5 MR. CREEL: The plant manager was the 6 equivalent of the manager of nuclear operations. In.
l; 7~ order to reduce that force of confusion 'that some 8 people had on the role of manager of . nuclear 9 operations, those two departments were eliminated and 10 amalgamated into one, called the Plant Department, 11 headed by the plant manager. That was done last 12 summer.
13 Now, the most recent thing we did in the 14 . spring of this year was to then under 'the plant 15 manager put back in place lower level a maintenance 16' superintendent reporting to the plant manager.
17 CHAIRMAN CARR: And so under the plant 18 manager we now have a maintenance superintendent and a 19 superintendent for operations. 1 20 MR. RUSSELL: That's correct.
21 CHAIRMAN CARR: I understand that then.
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I 3 JI meancifiyou go bn.ak;three, fourg five years, what
~ 4 w uld'you not do'that you did? It'looks:like you took' 5- a. successful management team' and brought it back in-
-6 ;your ' description today. In retrospect, did . you 7 dissolve a successful management team?:
8 MR. McGOWAN: Certainly not knowingly.
9 CHAIRMAN CARR: Well, but I mean we can look 10 backwards now.
11 MR. McGOWAN: Nor do I think we dissolved 1.a
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13 CHAIRMAN CARR: Maybe I should say scattered go
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15 MR. McGOWAN: Well, we way : have done a i 16 little bit of scattering, . but I don't think that 17 really is what lead to our problem. I think it goes.
18 back- to my' earlier comments that I believe the 19 expectations were rising, both your expectations as a 20 Commission and industry's expectations in ger;aral. I 21 don't think we were keeping pace with that riss.
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2 MR. McGOWAN: I ' ~ don ' t think the standards
.have changed, . but .I : do . think the expectations, the
'4 -margins I'think have increased. I-think we.all today
.5 'are looking to operate our plants with more - margin 6 above the-standards.
. ~7 CHAIRMAN CARR: Well, I'm uneasy with.that 8 and I was uneasy also with the kind.of -- when you got 9 to your complacency set in chart, there was another 10 word added in there. It said, "Apparently complacency 11 set in." It said, "Apparently we were lulled into and 12 'apparently we were led to,"
. which sounded to me like' 13 there's still some doubt in somebody's mind.
. 14 MR. McGOWAN: % 4re's no doubt'in my mind. .
-15 MR. CREEL: No, there's no doubt in our 16 minds on that at all. That-is a retrospective look, 17 by the use of the word "apparently."
18 CHAIRMAN CaRR: Well, what I'm trying to get 19 back to is let's go back to where you were and say, 20 "Okay, how did it happen, what did we do wrong, so 21 that now I know we can recognize it and not do it -
22 wrong again?"
23 MR. McGOWAN: Well, I believe that we 24 recognize, certainly I recognized twb to three years
'25 ago that we had a degree of complacency setting in.
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9 But I think I saw at that time that there 10 was a slippage setting in and obviously we didn't 11 attack it as effectively as we should have.
12 CHAIRMAN CARR: Well, for instance the SALP 13 and the OSART both agreed in one area, maintenance.
14 Both of them implied maintenance wasn't doing very 15 well. I visited in, I guess, December '87 and at that 16 visit I said maintenance doesn't look --
they both told you maintenance is not doing very well. Well, 17 18 two years later we say, " Maintenance isn't very well."
19 So, obviously, they're weren't listening or they 20 weren't taking action, one or the other.
21 MR. McGOWAN: Well, I think it was the 22 latter that was --
23 CHAIRMAN CARR: Well, I would suggest you have a lessons learned look at this thing. So, 24 j 25 whatever it is you learn, you don't have to do it all 1
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~3- MR. McGOWAN: We are constantly in that 4 process as we go from step to step of looking back 5 and --
6 CHAIRMAN CARR: But it's a shame to go l
i 7 through this kind of a wrenching experience if you l 8 could think, " Boy, if I'd just done it a little 9 different, we wouldn't be here." I'm trying to figure 10 out where that decision could have been made and what 11 maybe it would have been. Not just necessarily for 12 me, but that's an experience you can share with 13 somebody else.
14 MR. McGOWAN: Absolutely.
15 CHAIRMAN CARR: Because you're not the only 16 plant like this, you know. One of the first keys to 17 complacency is you have a record run. That's what I 18 told the last guy that was in here. That should have 19 been your first clue. When you step down from a 20 record run, you've set the stage for complacency to 21 set in.
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5 MR. McGOWAN: Oh, yes,-exactly.
6' CHAIRMAN CARR: I mean it's not going to go 7 without recognition.
8 MR. McGOWAN: Of course not.
9 CHAIRMAN : CARR: I don't think I have any 10 other questions.
11 You all? j 12 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: No.
13 CHAIRMAN CARR: Thank you very much. We 14 appreciate your being in.
15 MR. McGOWAN: Thank you very much.
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CHAIRMAN CARR: That pressurizer problem is 17 a tough problem. {
18 MR. McGOWAN: If it's a concern and of' 19 appropriate interest to you, we will --
20 CHAIRMAN CARR: And of course we'll be ;
I 21 interested in a possible generic problem 22 MR. McGOWAN: Exactly.
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9 Since the staf f 3 %ntified Calvert Clif f s as 10 .a . station requiring close Agency-wide monitoring, we 11 have indeed increased our attention to what has been 12 going on at Calvert Cliffs and we'll lay that out for 13 you today starting with Bill Russell to be followed by~
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16' MR. RUSSELL: Okay. I'd like to set the 17 stdge first with a little bit of background.
18 On December 16th, senior managers did 19 identify Calvert Cliffs as a station ' requiring close 20 Agency-wide monitoring. The reasons for that were, to 21 some extent, engineering issues that we have been 22 ~ discussing related to equipment qualification, 23 material' control accountability, volting issues, some 24 problems we had seen with evaluations of root causes 25 of, auxiliary feed water system reliability. )
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'4 activities on. emergency diesel generators that 4 m 5- resulted in one generator'being unavailable; a reactor-
"6 start-up with an improperly aligned temperature 7 instrumentation, which is used'for measuring ~what we 8 ' call delta-T power, with low nuclear instrumentation
.9 gains; and ' culminated in an event associated with 10 repair; to a condensate storage tank level indicator.
11 that resulted in a fatality of a diver.
( 'l We had had, prior to that time, two meetings 13 at the executive director level with the company. We.
14 met again on December 20th with the EDO, and at that 15 meeting Mr. Stello. requested Mr. McGowan to develop a
-16 comprehensive plan to turn around the declining 17 performance. Our' concern principally was one that we 18 had'seen a decline in performance. We had not gotten 19 to the point where we had concerns about continued ') f 20- operation of the facility, but the trends were not 21 being turned around.
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5 We have developed a panel, joint Region I
'6 and NRR panel, that is headed up by Bruce Boger, the 7 Assistant Director for Region I Projects, and Bruce 8 will be discussing that panel review process. As the 9 company has indicated, we've had one meeting with the 10 company on that.
11 The company has, at the end. of July, 12 submitted their detailed implementation plans for the 13 overall performance improvement program.
c, 14 However, in pare,1lel with these at:tivities 15 of developing the plan, we noted a continuing problem 16 with adherence to procedures. There were some 17 instances of operator error associated with valve 18 alignments and missteps in procedure that nearly lost 19 a condenser vacuum and could have caused a unit trip.
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6 Then in April, we identified concerns with 7 work control and tagging. problems. There were two i
- i. 8 cases where there were violations of containment 9 integrity during core alterations. They had another 1
10 instance with improper tagging with a diver in the 11 intake structure.
12 In ' addition, they had. discovered the 13' problems with the observations of the boric acid
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15 and the actions that were taken by the company to shut ] 1 Unit 1-down and do a visual inspection. j 16 l l
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19 the c,ompany proposed to the staff a number of very 20 specific actions to address the items. And that 21 resulted in our issuance of a confirmation of action 22 letter to the licensee, 89-08, principally td address 23 the pressurizer heater problems, the control of system 24 status issues, control of work activities and i 1
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J L 6 been defined quite well in their June 21st, 1989 7 submittal.
L 8- 'In addition, the staff has conducted an 9 emergency operating procedure inspection at the 10 facility, evaluating the ability of the operators to 11 use the EOPs. This was-done on the simulator and we 12 identified some issues associated with procedural 13 compliance and how the emergency procedures were to be.
14 used,.whether they were guidelines .or , in fact,
- 15 procedures to be followed. So, there are a few issues 16 in those areas to be addressed.
17' The reason that-I go over this background is I
18 to give the Commission an impression of the scope of l l
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20 under the confirmation of action letter. We believe 21 that they are well defined. The company is following 22 a process of developing corrective actions for each
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3 We haveSsgreed.to meet'atithe point:in time 4 ' when : .the , company. f eels' that; they have adequately 5 ' addressed- all ' the short-term ' actions related to 6 restart. And f ollowing' tha t meeting with an 7 understanding of the results of their own review, we 8 will conduct a team inspection t'o integrate' these
-9' individual activities and assure for ourself the 10 readiness for operation of the unit.
11 We do not have a schedule for completing 12 those activities as of this time. The company has not 13 _ identified'any of the individual items as being ready i
14 -for inspection. So, we are in a status review, but~I 15 wanted to give you an overview of what the process is ,
16' that-we'11'be following.
17 At this point I'd like to turn over to Bruce
-18 Boger to describe our review process for the 19 performance improvement plan.
20 MR. BOGER: As Bill indicated, there are 21- some well defined short-term corrective actions. The 22 purpose of the-panel was or is to determine what long-23 term corrective actions would be appropriate. We have l l
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3 The main objective of the panel is to assess 4 whether the BG&E corrective action plan and its 5 implementation programs constitute an adequate long-6 term plan to correct the deficiencies at Calvert 7 Cliffs.
8 The panel consists of several members of NRR 9 from different divisions and also several Region I 10 personnel with various backgrounds and past 11 association with the plant.
12 We have two basic phases to conduct our 13 review. First we will review the performance 14 improvement plan to evaluate the licensee's root cause 15 determinations and make sure that we feel comfortable 16 that they've come up with the correct causes. Then 17 we'll review the corrective action programs to 18 determine whether these programs, if implemented 19 properly, would resolve the root causes.
20 We plan to meet as a panel periodically and 21 consolidate our issues, discuss issues and also to 22 conduct some on-site reviews. We will also meet with 23 the licensee, as we did on August 4th, and have plans 24 in the next couple of weeks to better understand their 25 self-assessment process and also schedules for their l
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p 3 . management review, we will formally. respond 'to the 4- 11icensee' and conclude the panel activities at that 5 time. . Beyond - that tiirre', the determination - of the L 6 effectiveness of the implementation of the program "7 will be determined through the normal inspection 8 program.
W 9 MR. TAYLOR: That concludes the staff's 10 presentation, sir. We intend to very carefully, as 11 Bill has outlined, follow the work, the short-term 12 issues and through our inspection process.and through 13 the region and with NRR oversight, ensure that the y
14 correction of the issues has taken place. And of 15 course, the' pressurizer work will be a very dominant 16 feature and as the company has indicated. Before the 17 restart of the first unit, we will ensure that these 18 things are completed before we agree with the company-19 that the first unit should be restarted.
20 That concludes our portion of the 21 presentation. l 22 CHAIRMAN CARR: Questions, Commissioner 23 Rogers?
~ 24 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: What's on that list of 25 STI issues that have to be completed before restart? )
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7 approximately 15 specific actions that the company-has
- 8. taken. Within the'special team-inspection, we had a 9 number of unresolved issues, as well as issues of 10- additional concern that the company has reviewed.
.11 - Within that, the company has broken it out a little 12 bit differently and that's why I'm hesitating now.
13 They break it out by assigned responsibility, where we 14- break'it out by functional area.
15- We've identified approximately 16 items that 16 we're tracking. Some examples include control over-17 measuring and test equipment; changes in procedural 18 intent; long-time use of standing orders rather than 19 procedure revisions; temporary modifications; vague 3
20 work instructions in some of the work procedures; 21 incomplete maintenance documentation as to what was 22 actually done in the course of maintenance; control 23 over vendor technical manuals; issues associated with 24 welding process control; how weld rot is accounted 25 for; control of quality activities, QC activities in
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.19 We feel, in fact, that they are . procedures to be 20 followed and when it requires that you confirm certain 21 critical functions, that that be followed in a 22 verbatim manner to assess whether you have the 23 appropriate condition .
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5 -significantly strengthened their own ini?rnal QA 6 review and I believe that's the reason that we have p .
7 not yet had any individual areas presented to us yet 8 for inspection and closecut. They're going to develop i
9 a package and they want to be sure that when they say 10 they're ready, that they have high confidence .that 11 they indeed are.
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. 14 That list will change and that does not include items 15 which would relate to maintenance activities, the l
l 16 normal things which would have to be corrected for a 17 reactor mode change for startup. These are more 18 process control issues.
19 So that's a flavor for the kinds of things 20 that we're working on in the short-term related to 21 restart.
22 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: And the pressurizer is 23 the major hardware item?
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E 3 The second issue . which . I see is an issue 4 ^ that needs to be gotten control of is procedural 5 compliance and how the people are using the f* '6 procedures. Changing that attitude in the past
'7 allowed.a procedure to be considered a guideline need 8 not be followed. So, there are issues with procedure, 9 ' change _ control, procedure intent and 10 institutionalizing that and getting that to be well 11 accepted by the staff, I think, is one of the more 12 difficult tasks. So, I personally view the 13 pressurizer heater issue and the procedure issue as
. 14 the two tough issues that they need to get control of 15 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: On the assessment 16 psnel, how often do you contemplate meeting?
17 MR. BOGER: It will kind of depend on how 18 the review activities stack up. Probably on the 19 monthly type time frame.
20 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: Okay. Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN CARR: Commissioner Curtiss?
22 ,[ cunnISSIONER CURTISS: Just three or four 23 quick questions. By long tent poles, do you mean 24- those are the issues that are holding up the operation 25 and are the pacing items or --
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4' ~MR. TAYLOR: That's a colloquialian.
5 CHAIRMAN CARR: It's a camping term.
6 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: [ 7.ust have missed 7 that in cainp.
8 I guess sort of a general question I. have 9 following up on the Chairman's line of questioning to 110 the question. I guess Calvert's presence on the 11 problem plant list has been particularly troubling 12 because it came as such a surprise to, I think,- so 13 many ' of us.
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[ 14 came so quickly and they' f ell so far given the good
- .5 performance that they'd had over the years.
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~ 17 seen to date, are there early warning signals that you 18 have identified? You've talked about the things that 19 in retrospect you've identified, procedural adherence, 20 there have been a number of significant events at the
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1 MR. TAYLOR: 'Mayba I can otert and, Bill, 2' please add in.
3 .I ;think one of. the things that we are l
-4 . attempting to do,is try to - identify ' this declining 1 5 performance before a plant gets'into-an actual forced i 6 shutdown. .N o w , as it occurred, there are other L 7 reasons why these two plants are down.
8 We've been distressed too by. ~ Virginia 9 Power's situation at Surry where for quite a period of ;
- 1. 10 time the units , North Anna. and Surry units , were 11 operating quite well. But we began there to see the 12 symptoms of declining performance and that was the-13 basis of the decision that was made for Surry.
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15 .very, very significant event or other feature or our 16 own action causes a forced shutdown condition, we're 17 attempting to identify the declining performance and, i
18 of course, it's a difficult call to add all the 19 symptoms together. But that's where we are. I'd like l i.
20 not to have to see these extended shutdowns and other i 21 conditions.
22 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: Let me pick up on one l
23 of the points that Vic Stello raised at the problem r
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~4 . increasing pattern of financial diversification and 5 some ' indication that that may be distracting the l 16 attention of utilities. That's.an area that he wanted 7 to continue to look at.
8 You mentioned Surry, of course, which is 9 probably one that is noted for that. This company as 10 well has diversified with its constellation Resources 11 From what you see now in looking at that 12 operation, do you concur in the utility's assessment 13 that that diversification has not affected the ability 14 to operate the plant and the commitment of resources?
15 MR. TAYLOR: Bill?
16 MR. RUSSELL: Let me address it a little bit 17 differently. I'm not sure that we would be able to 18 attribute the declining performance to a cause. I 19 look back at the last two or three years and the issue 20 in my mind is whether we forcefully enough alerted the 21 company to our concerns as to what we saw by way of 22 declining performance and had we acted more forcefully 23 sooner, would we have a different situation at this 24 point in time?
25 I think we're able to observe the symptoms.
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'4. nthrough SALP: processes =and where that's not effective
'51' 1 through the senior management meeting process with
'6-- that assessment.
7 I think ' we ' re doing. a better job of that, 8 but there are clearly some lessons learned. We had 9 three meetings-at the EDO level with this company. We 10 had --
11 CHAIRMAN CARR: It takes a willing listener.
12 MR. TAYLOR: I agree with that and I even go l 13 back before Peach Bottom ultimately got into the
, 14 ordered shutdown where we had a very extensive meeting 15 with the senior management of that utility and it was 16 a very tough meeting concerning items that we saw in 17 the way of-performance that was indicative of some of 18 the things that ultimately came out in a shutdown.
19 COMMISSIONER ROGERS: I think there is a 20 little problem here though within our own system in 21 that I'm not sure how clearly at all levels within 22 this organization there was a perception that there 23 was a problem. I was concerned because of an apparent
. 24 discrepancy between our findings and actions and the 25 OSART review.
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6 identified and that we were not so -- you know, this 7 wasn'.t really such a big surprise but that^there were 8 a number of items that were giving the. staff pause _and 9 that, in fact, the OSART review itself said some of 10 these things. .They didn't say them quite as directly 11 as they might have and certainly the executive summary 12 of the OSART report beclouded those issues.. But if 13- you.look at-the report itself, there's more indication 14 in that of some of these things..
15 So, I think that the perception of us
~16 sitting here as Commissioners. is that this thing hit 17 all of a sudden like a tropical storm. But in fact 4
18 there were lots of indications some time ago that 19 things were not all so well and that somehow we 20 weren't really perhaps quite coming to grips with it 21 enough ourselves. We weren't communicating l 22 effectively to ourselver as well as to the licensee.
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.3 seeing them and' . we '.re mentioning them, - we're talking 4 about them and then as time goes on they become more 5 and more.of a serious concern but never enough to 6 really take the action and even the action that we
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10 So, it wasn't something that just ' really 11 popped out --
12 MR. TAYLOR: Well, I agree with you. There 13 was a history of civil penalty action and other issues 14' that were there. I think your point though is well 15 taken because if we can arrest declining performance 16 from any means, we will attempt to do that. And I 17 think your point is well taken. The earlier the 18 better is really your issue.
19' COMMISSIONER ROGERS: Well, I!m just saying 20 it may not be that we really need new tools, that 21 maybe had those and we weren't really quite using them ,
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-5 we can head that off and get the system turned around j 6 -before it.gets to a point that we really feel we have ,
-7 ' to do-that, then everybody comes out* ahead.
8 MR. TAYLOR: I agree with you completely.
9 We'll try to do that.
10 COMMISSIONER CURTISS: One other quick 11 question on the personnel turnover issue that I raised 12 with the utility. From what you'see at the plant and 13 from your perspective with the reshuffling that I
, 14 they've gone through, has the personnel situation 15 settled down there to the point where it's relatively 16 stable now and they've got the team in place ready to 17 carry out their program?
18 MR. RUSSELL: I see the issue that they have i
19 a quality staff that's looking for leadership. They 20 need to be told what direction to go and what needs to 21 be done. One of the major conclusions out of the NRR 22 team inspection related directly to the quality of the 23 workers and the fact that in many cases the ability of 24 the workers wer e r.5 king up for poor procedures, poor 25 institutional centrols.
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6 working. level.
~ 7 ' COMMISSIONER CURTISS: Okay. That's 'a11DI 8 have.
9 CHAIRMAN CARR: Well, I guess I'm a 10 little -- I'm somewhat in disagreement with people who 11 think that you can't read the OSARTs and the SALPs and 12 see what's going on . because both the SALP and' the 13 OSART that year were very pointed in pointing out what
~14 was wrong. Management, it seems to me, always tends 15 to read any report in the best light possible. So 16 once you start out in ' the OSART report that says the 17 overall impression was that the plant is above average 18 in the upper range of the nuclear power plant's visit 19 by the OSART missions, and you think, "Well, that 20 sounds all right." Then you realize that's the first 21 look at a U.S. plant. So that ought to be your first 22 clue.
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9 My problem with SALPs is they are so late.
10 They come out so long afterward, the guy can lull 11 himself into saying, "Well, we fixed all that. You 12 know, that was eight, ten months ago. We're in better 13 shape now."
14 Enough of that.
15 November 30, '88 was the last SALP period.
s 16 When's the next one ?
17 MR. LIMROTH: We decide December 31st of 18 this year.
19 CHAIRMAN CARR: This December? Okay.
20 Are we taking -- we're keeping 'up on the 21 pressurizer heater problem so if there's a generic 22 application we can jump on it?
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'7 -fo11owing it closely.- .j 8 CHAIRMAN CARR: It's interesting that there 9 wasn' t ' any. confirmation -- I.mean the dye check and I 10 the electric check had two non-confirms, which is 11 interesting to me. So, I don't know whether that 12 means we should go back and check.those other 12 tubes 13 with a different method or not in Unit 1. Those kinds
,f 14' of . questions , of course, are always going to - hang 15 there.
16 Well, I certainly want to thank the BG&E for 17 coming in and giving us their frank opinion on how 18 they saw things and what they're doing to fix them.
19 They seem to me making process in their recovery. As 20 they mentioned, implementation is the key. I'm sure 21 they recognize that. The plan is no better than how 22 well we carry it out. I want to be sure the staff 23 monitors that implementation closely.
. 24 I appreciate the insight with respect to the 25 OSART and NRC differences in approach. I think that i
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,4 I would encourage always' management'to-focus.
'5 not.on.the-grade, which'I notice.that much management.
6- do. .They say, "We're'a 1.3 in the'SALPs or we're a.
7 1.8," and they never. bother to look at.-tb2 8' discrepancies in the . report. I' mean once they get 9' those grades, that's passing or failing. If you read 10 through those' SALPs carefully, you'll find a' lot to 11 work on.
12 This situation, as has been mentioned, is a 13 demonstration that. complacency can easily occur. It's 7,
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-15 back up. My opinion, continual objective assessment 16 is difficult, but it's vital to safe operation.
17 Do any of'my fellow Commissioners have any 18 additional comments?
19 . We stand adjourned.
20 (Whereupon, at 11:46 a.m., the above-21 entitled matter was, adjourned.)
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CALVERT-CLIFFS ASSESSMENT PANEL OBJECTIVE: EVALUATE THE ADEQUACY OF THE BGaE LONG-TERM CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN FOR -
PLANT PERFORMANCE AND-PROCESS CONTROLS DEFICIENCIES
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CALVERT CLIFFS ASSESSMENT PANEL PROCESS: o JOINT NRR AND REGION I EFFORT-
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!! Attached are copies of a Commission meeting transcript and related meeting
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