ML20246Q071
| ML20246Q071 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 09/01/1989 |
| From: | Russell W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | George Thomas AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8909110327 | |
| Download: ML20246Q071 (6) | |
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. Docket No. 50-443 Mr. George S. Thomas 500 Market Street Portsmouth,-New Hampshire'.
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Dear Mr. Thomas:
Thank you for your ' August'.22,l1989. letter concerning the.Seabrook Augmented'
- Inspection Team'(AIT) report on the natural circulation test at Seabrook Sta-L-j.-
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.Your letter.is being given the same distribution as the Seabrook AIT report by-
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attachment to and distribution with this acknowledgement.
I trust that such dissemination of your letter is responsive to your concern. However, we do not plan to make.any changes' to the AIT report or to further interview you on this-matter.
. Sincerely.
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Thomas T. Mania William T. Russel'1 Regional Administrator
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LJohn' A. Ritscher, Esq.
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Ropes and Gray Office of ' Attorney General I
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' Boston, Massachusetts 02110 Concord, New Hampshire 03301 Mr. Bruce Beckley, Project Manager George D. Bisbee, Esquire
- New Hampshire Yanket Assistant Attorney General P.O. Box'330 Office of the Attorney General
-l Manchester, New Hampshire 03105-25 Capitol Street Concord, New Hampshire 03301 Dr. Murray Tye, President Diane Curran. Esquire l
Sun Valley Association Harmon and Weiss 209 Summer Street 2001 S Street, N.W.
Haverhill., Massachusetts 08139 Washington, D.C.
20009 Robert A. Backus, Esquire D. Pierre G. Cameron, Jr., Esquire
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9 116 Lowell Street Public Service Company of-P. O. Box 516 New Hampshire-Manchester, New Hampshire 03106 Manchester, New Hampshire 03105 _
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Mr. Alfred Sargent, Chairman
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20510 Ms. Diana P. Randall Mr. C11 vin A. Canney, City Manager 70 Collins Street City Hall
-Seabrook New Hampshire 03874 116 Daniel 5treet Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801 i
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13L Nobles Island 500 Market Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 August 22, 1989 Mr. William T. Russell Regional Administrator USNRC Region I 476 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 19408
Dear Mr. Russell:
This letter is written in reference to the USNRC Region I Augmented Inspection Team (AIT) Inspection Report of the Natural Circulation Test at Seabrook Station Unit I which was forwarded to Mr. Edw rd A.
Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer of the New Hampshire Yankee Division of Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH), by your letter dated August 17, 1989.
' During the conduct of the Natural Circulation Test at Seabrook Station, I was employed by the New Hampshire Yankee Division of PSNH as the Vice President-Nuclear Production.
However, I was not interviewed by the AIT Inspection Team. The Attachment to this letter provides statements of additional information regarding management actions taken subsequent to the Natural Circulation Test. These brief statements are provided to indicate that there is additional information which may not have been provided to the Team.
It is requested that the AIT Report be revised as appropriate to reflect the additional information provided herein.
If you wish to interview me or have further ques-tions regarding the above, please feel free to coatact me at (603) 436-4498.
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ATTACHMENT Statements of Additional Information Regarding Management Actions Taken Following the Natural Circulation Test
- 1. The Chronology of Communications provided in Appendix B to the Augmented Inspection Team (AIT) Report states that at 1:00 PM on June 22, 1989, licensee management set a tentative schedule for restart on the morning of June 23.
It is important that it oe recognized that the tenta-tive restart schedule which was established at that time was for the sole purpose of insuring that the numerous personnel which would be required to perform and observe the Natural Circulation Test would be available if the plant conditions were ready to conduct the test. In support of the above, it was emphasized during the 1:00 PM management meeting on June 22 that there was no intent to restart the reactor until a thorough dssessment of the event was complete and the NRC was in agreement with that assessment. It was also stated by myself at the same meeting that. restart of the reactor for performance of the test would be subject to the following conditions:
1). the post-trip assessment was complete, 2). any corrective actions identified in the post-trip assessment as " required for restart" were complete, and 3). a management decision was made to restart the reactor and repeat the test.
These conditions for restart were also stated during the 6:00 PM conferenco call with the NRC Region I Branch Chief on June 22.
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- 2. The Chronology of Communication provided in Appendix B to the AIT Report states that at 2:00 PM on June 22, 1989, the licensee's Incident Investigation Team, Post-Trip Review Team and Self-Assessment Team were established.
Although not mentioned in the Report, it should be noted'that, in addition to the above-mentioned activities, interviews were initiated with the operators who were on-shift during the test to determine why they did not trip the reactor in accordance with the 1-ST-22 test criteria. The results of these interviews were discussed in detail at the 4:30 PM management meeting. The preliminary conclusions'which were reached at that meeting with regard to operator actions were very similar to the conclusions reached by the AIT in Report Section 5.1.4 and the corresponding portions of Report Section 2.2.
These preliminary conclusions provided the basis for the discussion of operator response with the Region I Branch Chief during the 6:00 PM conference call on June 22.
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