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Annual Assessment Meeting for Seabrook Station - NRC Presentation Slides
ML22130A128
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Issue date: 05/10/2022
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Seabrook Station Annual Assessment Meeting Welcome!

This meeting will start at 5:30pm.

Seabrook Station Annual Assessment Meeting Reactor Oversight Process - 2021 May 12, 2022 2

Seabrook Annual Assessment Meeting Meeting Facilitator Brett Klukan Regional Counsel, Region I 3

Meeting Conduct

  • Please respect other members of the public
  • Please be conscious of your speaking time
  • Questions will be addressed during the Question-and-Answer session following the presentation.

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Agenda - Seabrook Dan Collins Director, Region I Division of Operating Reactor Safety

  • 2021 ROP Plant Performance Assessment and Inspection Activities
  • NRC Inspection of Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR)
  • Public Question and Answer Session 5

NRC Panelists Chris Newport Travis Daun Nik Floyd Sr. Resident Inspector Resident Inspector Senior Inspector Mel Gray Matt Young Engineering Branch Chief Branch Chief 6

NRC Independent Safety Inspections Reactor Oversight Process

  • Full-time NRC resident inspectors
  • NRC specialists conduct additional inspections at each nuclear plant
  • NRC inspectors have unfettered access to all plant activities related to nuclear safety and security 7

NRC Independent Safety Inspections Action Matrix Concept 8

2021 ROP Plant Performance Assessment at Seabrook

  • Operated safely and in a manner that preserved the public health and safety and protected the environment
  • All Green Performance Indicators
  • All Very Low Safety Significance Findings
  • The plant will receive the baseline level of inspection in 2022 9

2021 NRC Inspection Activities at Seabrook

  • ~6000 hours of inspection and related activities

- Examples of Resident Inspections

  • maintenance activities
  • surveillance tests
  • operator performance in the simulator

- 2021 Team Inspections

  • Design Basis Assurance
  • Security
  • Radiation Protection
  • Evaluation of Modifications (50.59)
  • Refueling Outage Activities 10

NRC Actions in Response to COVID-19

  • Monitored plant activities through inspections and oversight
  • Maintained emergency response capabilities within Regional Incident Response Centers and NRC HQ
  • NRC resident inspectors currently full time on-site 11

NRC Inspection of ASR at Seabrook

  • In 2021, the NRC completed inspections to assess NextEras performance to manage the effects of ASR in Seabrook structures

- ASR inspections completed in each quarter

- Resident inspectors and specialists from Region I and NRC Headquarters involved

- Focused on compliance with NRC-approved methodology and license conditions

  • NRC inspections in 2021 determined Seabrook structures remain capable of performing their safety functions
  • NRC inspectors identified two findings of very low safety significance 12

NRC Inspection of ASR at Seabrook

  • 4Q2021 - Finding related to not properly evaluating ASR-related indications in the Containment Internal Structure per the Structures Monitoring Program 13

Seabrook Annual Assessment Meeting Closing Remarks 14

NRC Social Media Channels

  • Facebook: www.facebook.com/nrcgov
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  • Twitter: twitter.com/#!/nrcgov
  • YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/NRCgov
  • RSS: www.nrc.gov/publicinvolve/listserver.html#rss
  • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/u-s--nuclearregulatory-commission/

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Annual Assessment Meeting Feedback

1. Mail in NRC 2. Scan QR Code on feedback form that - OR - back of form with will be emailed to smart device all attendees

- OR -

3. At any computer, go to the Public Meeting Schedule and press the Meeting Feedback link for this meeting - or - press the

[more] link for this meeting and then press the Meeting Feedback link on the Meeting Details page.

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- OR -

4. Email Public Affairs - opa1.resource@nrc.gov 16

Question & Answer Session Question & Answer Session 17

Thank you for your participation

REFERENCE SLIDES NextEra Methodology for ASR Methodology Document Structural Analysis & Evaluation Monitoring Parameters and Limits Structures Monitoring Program Corrective Action 20

Reactor Cavity Diagram N West East Wall Wall Deck Keyway Grate /

Wall Floor Slab Opening Reactor Cavity Pit Overhead View Containment Side View 21

Structural Modification Examples Example 1 - Example 2 -

Strong backs Corner Braces 22