ML20248L892
| ML20248L892 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | River Bend  |
| Issue date: | 03/19/1998 |
| From: | Gwynn T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Mcgaha J ENTERGY OPERATIONS, INC. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20248L894 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-458-98-04, 50-458-98-4, NUDOCS 9803240335 | |
| Download: ML20248L892 (5) | |
See also: IR 05000458/1998004
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John R. McGaha, Vice President - Operations
River Bend Station
Entergy Operations, Inc.
P.O. Box 220
St. Francisville, Louisiana 70775
SUBJECT: NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-458/98-04 AND NOTICE OF VIOLATION
Dear Mr. McGaha:
From January 11 through February 21,1998, an inspection was conducted at your River Bend
Station reactor facility. The enclosed report presents the scope and results of that inspection.
During the 6-week period covered by this inspection, your conduct of activities at the River Bend
facility was generally characterized by safety-conscious operations, sound engineering and
maintenance practices, and good radiological controis. However, one violation was identified
during this inspection period for the failure to follow design drawings which specified that
petcock valves on containment isolation dampers were required to be at least one full turn open
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when the dampers were operated in the safety-related mode. As a result, Damper HER-AV-165
was found to be inoperable during surveillance testing. Although the violation appears to meet
our criteria for enforcement discretion, we have decided to cite the violation because of the self-
disclosing nature of the issue, the consequences associated with the inoperability of the
containment isolation damper, and the weaknesses in your controls that reduced the ability to
identify this problem before it resulted in rendering the damper inoperable.
The violation is cited in the enclosed Notice of Violation (Notice) and the circumstances
surrounding the violation are described in detailin the enclosed report. Please note that you are
required to respond to this letter and should follow the instructions specified in the enclosed
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Notice when preparing your response. The NRC will use your response, in part, to determine
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whether further enforcement action is necessary to ensure compliance with regulatory
requirements.
In addition, we would like to meet with you to discuss the accessibility of your auxiliary building
following a design basis event. We have dstermined that it is difficult to open the doors leading
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to the auxiliary building when even one train of the standby gas treatment system is running.
This poses a potentially significant challenge to operators while attempting to enter the building
to implement emergency operating procedures and abnormal operating procedures. While we
recognize that you have taken measures to ensure that operators can attain access through two
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pathways, we believe that these actions are only adequate for the short term. Based on
discussions between Mr. Elmo Collins of my staff and Mr. David Lorfing of your staff, the
meeting is scheduled in our regional office in Arlington, Texas, on March 24,1998. For this
meeting, please be prepared to discuss: (1) the configurations of the standby gas treatment
system that you believe could cause accessibility problems; (2) the emergency actions
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by accessibility challenges and those actions that are time sensitive; (3) whether the current
standby gas treatment system performance is consistent with the design bases; (4) what you
believe to be the cause of the accessibility problem; and (5) your planned actions to correct the
problem.
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In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter, its
enclosure (s), and yow response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR).
Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them
with you.
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Thomas P. Gwynn, D ector
Division of Reactor Pr
Docket No.: 50-458
License No.: NPF-47
Enclosures:
2. NRC Inspection Report
50-458/98-04
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Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer
Entergy Operations, Inc.
P.O. Box 31995
Jackson, Mississippi 39286-1995
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Vice President
Operations Support
Entergy Operations, Inc.
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Jackson, Mississippi 39286-1995
General Manager
Plant Operations
River Bend Station
Entergy Operations, Inc.
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Director - Nuclear Safety
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Jackson, Mississippi 39205
Mark J. Wetterhahn, Esq.
Winston & Strawn
1401 L Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005-3502
Manager- Licensing
River Bend Station
Entergy Operations, Inc.
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P.O. Box 220
St. Francisville, Louisiana 70775
The Honorable Richard P. leyoub
Attorney General
Department of Justice
State of Louisiana
P.O. Box 94005
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804-9005
H. Anne Plettinger
3456 Villa Rose Drive
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806
President of West Feliciana
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P.O. Box 1921
St. Francisville, Louisiana 70775
William H. Spell, Administrator
Louisiana Radiation Protection Division
P.O. Box 82135
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70884-2135
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