ML20247H511
| ML20247H511 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Point Beach  |
| Issue date: | 07/17/1989 |
| From: | Fay C WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER CO. |
| To: | Davis A NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20247H499 | List: |
| References | |
| CON-NRC-89-083, CON-NRC-89-83 VPNPD-89-388, NUDOCS 8907310046 | |
| Download: ML20247H511 (4) | |
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' POWER COMPANY 231 W MicNgon PO Box 2046.Mavo.Aee.W 53201 (414)221 2345 VPNPD 38 8 NRC 08 3 July 17, 1989
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Mr. A. Bert Davis, Regional Administrator U.S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 799 Roosevelt Road y
Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
Dear Mr. Davis:
DOCKET NOS. 50-266 AND 50-301 RESPONSE TO INSPECTION REPORT NOS. 50-266/89001 AND 50-301/89001 SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF LICENSEE PERFORMANCE POINT BEACH NUCLEAR PLANT The subject inspection report contained your Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance (SALP) for our Point Beach Nuclear Plant for.the period from October 1987 through March 1989.
We appre-ciate the positive comments in this report and agree with your assessment of our performance.
Your report acknowledged our strong, knowledgeable, and professional operations staff.
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professionalism of our operations staff is reflected in the j
atmosphere in the control room as well as in the maintenance of a 1
" black board."
The avoidance of miscellaneous or " nuisance" j
alarms enhances attention to the continued safe operation of the i
plant.
We are particularly pleased that you recognized the
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efforts we have made in the radiological controls area and the i
J positive results from thota efforts.
We are very proud of the good maintenance program which, as you identify, has resulted in very few violations and high capacity factors.
We do note that in the SALP evaluation process some situations tend to be repeated in the report.
This may result in a perception by a casual reader that there are more undesirable situations than actually do exist.
For example, the issues associated with the station battery replacement were mentioned in three separate places in the report as were the concerns with the containment door closure.
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Bert Davis July 17, 1989
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Page 2 We appreciated.the candid discussion at the public meeting conducted on June 27, 1989.
As discussed, we agree that there is' room for improvement in the way we address certain administra-tive items and in our communications with and responsiveness to the NRC.
As we noted in the meeting, we are committed to change these perceptions of the NRC staff.
We agree that more frequent meetings between our senior personnel and yours will enhance future communications.
As noted during the meeting, we identified several errors in the report.
Attachment I lists those items.
Very truly yours,
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e2y C. W. Fy Vice President Nuclear Power Attachment Copies to NRC Document Control Desk NRC Resident Inspector i
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We performed an evaluation of the occupation of Radiation Control Oper-ators.
We reviewed the job classification and pay rate for radiation control operators.
On January'31, 1988,-we changed the title from radiation control operator (RCO) to health physics technologist j
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21 IV.G.1 3
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24 V.A.l.b The Unit 1 outage was l
April 9 through May 20, 1988, not April 8 through May 8.
24 V.A.2 1
The refueling outage began f
. October 3, 1987 not October 13.
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resumed operations on' f
November 18 not November i
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-25 V.A.2.a The outage was through November 18-not November 19.
25 V.A.2.e.
The outage began October 8 l
l not October 7.
The Anti-cipated Transients Without Scram (ATWS) mitigating system was not installed during the Unit 2, 1988 fall outage.
ATWS was installed in Unit 1 during the spring 1989 outage and will be installed in Unit 2 this fall.
25 V.A.2.f Turbine overspeed took one day.
The line should read "on November 23, 1988."
29 V.F.,
Table 3 In column "SALP 6,"
the Design Problems entry should be 20%, not 2%.
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