ML22046A220
| ML22046A220 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 99901300 |
| Issue date: | 02/16/2022 |
| From: | Kerri Kavanagh NRC/NRR/DRO/IQVB |
| To: | Montalbano V Framatome |
| Diaz-Castillo Y | |
| References | |
| IR 2021201 | |
| Download: ML22046A220 (3) | |
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February 16, 2022 Mr. Victor Montalbano Vice-President, Quality and Performance Framatome Inc.
3315 Old Forest Road Lynchburg, VA 24501
SUBJECT:
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION VENDOR INSPECTION REPORT OF FRAMATOME, INC. NO. 99901300/2021-201 AND NOTICE OF NONCONFORMANCE
Dear Mr. Montalbano:
Thank you for your January 12, 2022, letter in response to the Notice of Nonconformance (NON) that was discussed in the subject U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspection report (IR).
We have reviewed your letter and found that it is not fully responsive to NON 99901300/2021-201-01. Specifically:
1.
The corrective actions taken seem to be programmatic in nature and focus on steps taking to avoid further noncompliance. However, your response does not address any actions taken by Framatome to adequately determine other potential sources of the discrepancy associated with the Nodal Expansion Method Optimized (NEMO) code. For example, performing additional sensitivity studies or higher-order calculations to further investigate the sensitivity of the NEMO predictions to evolutionary design changes implemented at Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1, such as progressively higher loading of stainless steel rods (SSRs) and use of SSRs in fresh assemblies. Clarify what actions have been taken to ensure other potential sources of the discrepancy associated with the NEMO code are being considered and evaluated.
2.
Your response letter states, in part, that US Fuel Procedure 1703-88, Section 7.1 will be revised to clarify when receipt of a formal customer complaint with a Framatome product or service requires initiation of a condition report. Explain how this revision will address, as stated in your response letter, a wrong assumption not to initiate a condition report based on the subsequent customer recognition and confirmation that other significant causal factors were present. In addition, provide supporting details about the procedure revision.
In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding, the NRC will make available electronically for public inspection a copy of this letter, its enclosure, and your response through the NRCs Public Document Room or from the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System, which is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To the extent possible, your response (and if applicable), should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or Safeguards Information (SGI) so that it can be made available to the public without redaction.
V. Montalbano 2
If personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information. If you request that such material be withheld from public disclosure, you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information would create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.390(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information). If SGI is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21, Protection of Safeguards Information: Performance Requirements.
Please contact Mr. Yamir Diaz-Castillo at 301-415-2228, or via electronic mail at Yamir.Diaz-Castillo@nrc.gov, if you have any questions or need assistance regarding this matter.
Sincerely, Kerri A. Kavanagh, Chief Quality Assurance and Vendor Inspection Branch Division of Reactor Oversight Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No.: 99901300 Signed by Kavanagh, K on 02/16/22
ML22046A220 NRR-106 OFFICE NRR/DRO/IQVB NRR/DSS/SFNB NRR/DSS/SFNB NRR/DRO/IQVB NAME YDiaz-Castillo JDean BParks KKavanagh DATE 02/15/2022 02/15/2022 02/16/2022 02/16/2022