ML23163A164

2022 Braidwood/Byron End-of-Cycle Meeting Presentation

ML23163A164
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Site:	Byron, Braidwood
Issue date:	06/12/2023
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III, Lisle, IL.

2022 End of Cycle Annual Assessment Webinar Braidwood and Byron

2022 Annual Assessment Webinar Braidwood and Byron For the Q&A Session:

Raise your hand under Reaction on the Teams app Email your questions after the Webinar to the PAOs During the presentation, microphones will be muted, and cameras turned off.

NRC DORS Branch 3 Staff Hironori Peterson Roy Elliott Branch Chief Senior Project Engineer Braidwood Resident Office Byron Resident Office Daniel Kimble Phillip Smagacz Cammie Hernandez John Robbins Ashley Demeter Senior Resident Resident Administrative Senior Resident Resident Inspector Inspector Assistant Both Sites Inspector Inspector 3

Agenda

• Presentation

- NRC Mission

- Reactor Oversight Process (ROP)

- 2022 Safety Performance Overview

• Braidwood

• Byron

• Question-and-Answer Session 4

OUR MISSION To license and regulate the nations civilian use of radioactive materials to provide reasonable assurance of adequate protection of public health and safety and to promote the common defense and Region III Office, Lisle, IL security and protect the environment.

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How do we meet our Mission?

Phil at Licensing Braidwood Oversight (Inspections)

Enforcement Incident Response Ashley NRC at Byron Emergency Operations Center 6

Reactor Oversight Process www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/oversight.html 7

Action Matrix Columns Multiple/Repetitive Licensee Regulatory Degraded Unacceptable Degraded Response Response Performance Performance Cornerstone Increasing:

• Safety Significance

• Inspection

• Management Involvement

• Regulatory Action 8 www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/oversight.html

So how did the sites do?

Braidwood Byron

Braidwood Resident Inspectors Daniel Kimble Phillip Smagacz Senior Resident Inspector Resident Inspector 10

Braidwood 2022 Assessment Summary

• Operated safely and in a manner that preserved the public health and safety and protected the environment

• Licensee Response Column

• Approximately 2300 hours0.0266 days <br />0.639 hours <br />0.0038 weeks <br />8.7515e-4 months <br /> of direct inspection

• All Green Performance Indicators

• One Green finding with an associated non-cited violation for the failure to ensure regulatory requirements and the design basis of the Emergency Diesel Generators were correctly translated into surveillance procedures.

• One Green finding with an associated non-cited violation for the failure to test manual valve closure function in accordance with American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code.

• One Green finding with an associated non-cited violation for inadequate work instructions for disassembly/reassembly of Safety Injection Cold Leg Throttle Valve.

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/oversight/listofasmrpt.html 11

Byron Resident Inspectors John Robbins Ashley Demeter Senior Resident Inspector Resident Inspector 12

Byron 2022 Assessment Summary

• Operated safely and in a manner that preserved the public health and safety and protected the environment

• Licensee Response Column

• Approximately 1824 hours0.0211 days <br />0.507 hours <br />0.00302 weeks <br />6.94032e-4 months <br /> of direct inspection

• All Green Performance Indicators

• One Green finding with an associated non-cited violation for failure to follow surveillance procedure leading to actuation of Carbon Dioxide Suppression System in opposite unit.

• One Green finding with an associated non-cited violation for Failure to conduct one-time qualified selective leaching examinations for license renewal.

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/oversight/listofasmrpt.html 13

Byron 2022 Assessment Summary Continued

• One Green finding with an associated non-cited violation for failure to establish a preventive maintenance schedule to replace a solenoid valve prior to the end of its specific lifetime.

• One Green finding with an associated non-cited violation for failure to have appropriate work instructions leading to inoperability of the Unit 1 Diesel Drive Auxiliary Feedwater Pump.

• One Green finding with an associated non-cited violation for failure to use correct valve factors to ensure motor operated valves continued to be capable of performing the design basis functions.

• One Green finding with an associated non-cited violation for failure to adhere to Plant Barrier Control Program leading to a failure to enter Technical Specification Limiting Condition of Operation for two diesel generators inoperable.

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/oversight/listofasmrpt.html 14

For more information

• Inspection Reports

- https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/oversight/listofrpts-body.html

• Reactor Oversight Process

- https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/oversight.html

• Fact Sheets and Brochures

- https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/

• NRC Information Digest

- https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1350/

• Regulations

- https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/

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Region III Public Affairs Officers Viktoria Mitlyng Prema Chandrathil Office: 630-829-9662 Office: 630-829-9663 Cell: 630-201-1345 Cell: 630-515-6145 Viktoria.mitlyng@nrc.gov Prema.chandrathil@nrc.gov 18

Questions

• If you have a question, please raise your hand. On Teams, use the raise hand button.

• Moderator will acknowledge your raised hand and allow you to unmute yourself.

Then on Teams, use the mic button.

• Unmute yourself and ask your question.

Please limit question to 1.

• Once your question is asked the moderator will mute your mic to allow us to answer your question.

• The moderator will unmute you again to see if you have a follow-up question During Question and Once you are acknowledged by Answering Raise your Hand the moderator, please unmute to ask a question yourself to ask your question.

This Concludes the 2022 End of Cycle Annual Assessment Webinar Presentation for Braidwood & Byron Thank You & Goodnight