ML20246L269
| ML20246L269 | |
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| Site: | Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png |
| Issue date: | 07/10/1989 |
| From: | Gallo R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Murphy W VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER CORP. |
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| NUDOCS 8907180384 | |
| Download: ML20246L269 (10) | |
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JUL 101989-
' Docket No. 50-271' Vermont Yan'kee. Nuclear Power Corporation-
> ATTN:-
-Mr. Warren-P. Murphy.
'Vice President and Manager
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Dear Sir:
Subject:
. Meeting on Varfous Operator. Licensing Topics - Meeting No.89-074
- This letter documents the results of a meeting held on May 10, 1989 between members ~ your staff with me and my staff.: at,the Region I Office 'in King.of -
Prussia, Pennsylvania. ~ A summary of the discussions is enclosed.
g The meeting was of: mutual benefit.
or Mr. :R. Conte of my staff at.215-337-5124.If you have -any question please contact me -
In accordance with Section 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," Part 2, Ti_tle 10,-Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of.this' letter will be placed in the Public Document Room.
. Sincerely, Original Sisced By:
Robert M. Gallo, Chief-Operations Branch' Division of Reactor Safety
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/ enc 1:
'J. Weigand, President and Chief Executive Officer
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J. DeVincentis, Vice President, Yankee Atomic Electric Company R..Capstick, Licensing Engineer, Yankee Atomic Electric Company J. Gilroy, Director, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, Inc.
G. Sterzinger, Commissioner,. Vermont Department of Public Service P. Agnes, Assistant Secretary of Public Safety, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Public Document Room (PDR)
Local Public Document Room (LPDR)
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Region I Docket Room (with concurrences)
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D. Haverkamp, DRP-L. Doerflein, DRP J. Wiggins, DRP G. Grant, SRI - Vermont Yankee:
J. Macdonald, SRI Yankee
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J. Weigand, President and Chief Executive Officer J. Pelletier, Plant Manager J. DeVincentis, Vice President, Yankee Atomic Electric Company R. Capstick, Licensing Engineer, Yankee Atomic Electric Company J. Gilroy, Director, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, Inc.
G. Sterzinger, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Public Service P. Agnes, Assistant Secretary of Public Safety, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Public Document Room (PDR)
Local Public Document Room (LPDR)
Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC)
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Region I Docket Room (with concurrences)
M. Perkins, DRMA (w/o encl)
D. Haverkamp, DRP L. Doerflein, DRP J. Wiggins, DRP G. Grant, SRI - Vermont Yankee J. Macdonald, SRI - Yankee M. Fairtile, NRR J. Dyer, EDO R. Conte, DRS A. Howe, DRS T. Fish, DRS DRS:RI.
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G. Sterzinger, Commissioner, Vermont Departinent of Public Service P. Agnes, Assistant Secretary of Public Safety, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Public Document Room (PDR) local Public Document Room (LPDR)
Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC)
NRC Resident Inspector State of New Hampshire State of Vermont Commonwealth of Massachusetts bec w/ enc 1:
Region I Docket Room (with concurrences)
M. Perkins, DRMA (w/o enc 1)
D. Haverkamp, DRP L. Doerflein, DRP J. Wiggins, DRP G. Grant, SRI - Vermont Yankee J. Macdonald, SRI - Yankee
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ENCLOSURE VERMONT YANKEE NRC REGION I MEETING MAY 10, 1989 1.
Introduction On May 10, 1989, at 10:00 a.m. representatives of NRC - Region I conducted a meeting with training and operations department personnel for the Vermont Yankee Facility. Attendees were as follows:
Licenses J. Herron, Operations Supervisor G. LeClair, Operations Training Superintendent R. Spinney, Training Manager R. Wanczyk, Operations Superintendent NRC R. Conte, Chief 951R Section, Region I R. Gallo, Chief, Operations Branch, Reoion I 9egion I held the meeting at the licensee's request. The purpose was threefold: (1) introductions with respect to new personnel (licensee /NRC) dealing with the operator licensing (0L) area and summary status of the training program; (2) ';pdate the status of related modifications to the facility and the replica simulator; and (3) discuss logistics and guidance for the OL requalification program, in part, the NRC's examination process as described in Examiner Standard (ES) 601.
Following the introductions, licensee representatives provided additional details as described below and as provided in the attached handout.
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Training Program Status Licensee representatives provided the status of their training program.
The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) accreditated all 10 areas as of 1988 (reaccreditation was scheduled for September 1989). A previous NRC inspection item identified in December 1988 was ready for closecut.
The item dealt with the basis for the auxiliary cperator training program.
They completed a survey of operators with respect to operator job task; support of their systematic approach to training (SAT) Program.
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Related Modifications l
The licensee representatives reported on the status of on several major modifications aimed at enhancing operator performance. The simulator i
configuration was about 1 year behind the as built control room configu-1
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Design changes'affecting the control' room configuration were.to remain open until theisimulator was updatcd. Simulator certification was te be completed by to end of 1990.
The regulatory required safety parameters display system was to be in-corporated into-the ERFIS (Emergency Facility. Information System) (See the i
attached for additional details). The-ERFIS was to eventually replace the existing plant process computer. The design input of ERFIS used operator feedback. About 83 percent'of ERFIS has been tested. Operator. training was'to start May 22, 1989.
As a result of various audits including one by NRC, the' license made-I changes to the Emergency Operating Procedures (EOP.'s) (Revision 3).
Verification and validation was in progress on these. changes. A draft of Revision 4 should be issued by September 1989. The'NRC staff informed the licensee representative that.the E0P lessons learned workshop was planned for late. June 1989 sponsored by "INP0/NUMARC."
During the last outage the licensee completed the first phase of-the 3
implementation of modifications as a result of the detailed control room i
design review.(DCRDR).
Significant improvements included component re-locations,-repainting, new labelling / color coding.
The second phase was to be completed next outage. These modifications included adding alarm panel windows and alarm panel relocations new ventilation / lighting, and more color coding. There was a-position response from the operators with respect to completed' enhancements.
l Overall, the licensee considered the last outage successful completing a l
59 day schedule in 56 days.
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Regualification Program / Examination Licensee representative concurred with the National Examination Schedule promulgated by Generic Letter No. 89-03,. dated March 24, 1989. Since Vermont Yankee's assigned examination months were February and August, licensee representatives indicated that they wanted to shift the end of their requalification cycle (every 2 years) from November to January. The NRC staff indicated that that shift would require an exemption to the rule since several months would be added to the end of the requalification period.
Licensee representatives expressed concern with respect to impact on the j
operations shift schedule if 24 candidates would have to be presented to NRC for the upcoming November requalification examination. The NRC staff noted that, although the examiner standard (ES-601) requires only 12 operators, additional operators enhance NRC efficiency.
Licensee repre-i sentatives pointed out that 24 candidates is over 50% of the total number of licensed operators and it would have an operational schedule impact.
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In this regard, the NRC staff acknowledged the licensee's concern.
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3 The licensee representatives obtained from NRC staff a number of other clarifications on the how the NRC staff implements the requalification examination as described in ES-601.
Attendees agraed that the meeting was of mutual benefit. The next meeting would probably be the entrance meeting for the November requalification examination about 60 days before the start of the examination.
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reattachment Meeting No. 89-074-U.S. INLCLEAR REGlLATORY COMISSION - REGION ^ I
.AND YEMONT YANKEE NLCLEAR POWER CORPORATION MEETING MAY 10,1989 (10:00 - 12:00)
Tentative Agenda-All I.
INTR 00lCTIONS II. ' STATUS ~
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Accreditation ~'
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E0Ps, Rev. 3'and Rev. 4 JTH E.
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. Refuel Outage-All III. LICENSE 0 OPERATOR REQUAL EXAMS A.
Logistics B.
Clarifi ation of ES-601 Guidance
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L' ERFIS EMERGENCY RESPONSE FACILITY INFORMATION SYSTEM Since startup in 1970, Vermont Yankee has used a Honeywell GEPAC plant com-puter to assist the plant operating staff.
The GEPAC has been carefully maintained and continues to perform well - but it lacks the capabilities com-monly available with State-of-the-Art computer systems.
For example, the GEPAC can serve only one user at a time, cannot trend or plot data, is rela-tively slow in that it can scan only 100 of its approximately 750 data points each second, has only 5 minute pre-event and 10 minute post-event data archivalandretrievalqphabilities,andhasverylimitedexpansioncapabi-lity with only 32 KBYTES of main memory.
Computer systems available today, including Vermont Yankee's new ERFIS system
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provide plant operating staffs with vastly improved monitoring and diagnostic capabilities including the following; simultaneous, user friendly access at multirse terminals, o
trend and plot capability for each of 1000 data points, o
scan rates of five times each second for all data points, o
archival capability for.2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> pre-event and 2 weeks post-event, 32,000 KBYTES of main memory 1,322 MBYTES of disk memory, and o
real time color graphic display capability which provides a window o
for each user to view a clear, easy to understand picture of plant conditions.
All nuclear power plants including Vermont Yankee, were required by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in December, 1982 to implement a Safety Parameter Display System (SPDS) in accordance with NUREG 0737, Supplement 1.
These same plants were also required to provide a eliable data collection and display system for their Emergency Operations Facilities (EOF).
Vermont Yankee concluded that the most technically acceptable and cost effec-tive way to meet the needs of our operating staff and the newer regulatory requirements was to replace the GEPAC with a new computer system, called ERFIS.
Following a comprehensive bid and evaluation process, EI International of Idaho Falls, Idaho was selected to provide the new Vermont Yankee ERFIS com-puter system.
EI was chosen based upon technical merit, favorable pricing and delivery schedule.
EI has provided similar State-of-the-Art computer systems to the New York Power Authority (Fitzpatrick), Northeast Utilities (Milestone Point 2), Omaha Public Power District (Fort Calhoun), Arizona Public Service (Palo Verde) and Houston Power and Light (South Texas).
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SPDS is an improvement to the Vermont Yankee control room that enhances o
the abilities of our operators to quickly diagnose complex plant con-ditions.
It assembles and displays vital plant performance information to aid operators in rapidly and reliably assessing the safety status of the Vermont Yankee Station.
SPDS displays at a single location, information which is gathered from o
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several hundred existing control room instruments.
It scans these instru-ments several times a second, checks them for accuracy, validity and nor-mal or abnormal values and displays a clear, easily understood picture of plant conditons.
SPDS does not add new instruments to the Vermont Yankee control room.
o Rather, it adds a new tool which allows the operators to more rapidly detect and comprehend changes in plant operating conditions.
SPDS displays information continuously during both normal and abnormal o
plant conditions on four intelligent graphic display terminals (IGDTs) strategically located throughout the control room. SPDS may also present information via six digital displays, four high speed printers or an IGDT screen color copier.
Each SPDS display has been designed to incorporate accepted human factors o
principles so that the.information can be easily p'erceived and compre-hended by our control room staff.
SPDS is one of several relatively new initatives which have been implemented o
at Vermont Yankee to enhance safety.
Others include Detailed Control Room Design Review (DCRDR), Emergency Operations Facility (EOF), and Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs). All have been integrated into our training simulator and our continuing operator training programs.
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