ML24283A075
| ML24283A075 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Wolf Creek  |
| Issue date: | 10/09/2024 |
| From: | Vincent Gaddy NRC/RGN-IV/DORS/EB1 |
| To: | Reasoner C Wolf Creek |
| References | |
| IR 2025012 | |
| Download: ML24283A075 (9) | |
See also: IR 05000482/2025012
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October 09, 2024
Cleve Reasoner, Chief Executive Officer
and Chief Nuclear Officer
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp
P.O. Box 411
Burlington, KS 66839
SUBJECT:
WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION OF COMMERCIAL
GRADE DEDICATION INSPECTION (05000482/2025012) AND REQUEST FOR
INFORMATION
Dear Cleve Reasoner:
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff
will conduct the commercial grade dedication baseline inspection at Wolf Creek Generating
Station, beginning on March 24, 2025. The inspection team will be composed of three personnel
from the NRC Region IV office. The inspection will be conducted in accordance with NRC
inspection procedure (IP) 71111.21N.03, Commercial Grade Dedication, dated February 16,
2023.
The inspection will evaluate the implementation of Wolf Creek Generating Stations process for
dedicating commercial grade items, as required in applicable portions of Appendix B to Title 10
of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 50, to ensure reasonable assurance is provided that
these items will perform their intended safety function. Additionally, this inspection will evaluate
implementation of Wolf Creek Generating Stations procurement process for safety-related
structures, systems, and components, as required in Appendix B.
The inspection will include an onsite information gathering visit by the team lead and two weeks
of onsite inspection by the team. The schedule for the inspection is as follows:
Onsite Information Gathering Visit: January 6 - 10, 2025
Offsite Preparation Week: March 17 - 21, 2025
Onsite Inspection Weeks: March 24 - 27, 2025 and April 7 - 10, 2025
The purpose of the information gathering visit is to meet with your staff to become familiar with
the process for dedicating commercial grade items and the process for procuring safety-related
structures, systems, and components at Wolf Creek Generating Station. A high-level
presentation of site-specific commercial grade dedication and safety-related procurement
activities would be beneficial. This visit may include a tour of onsite commercial grade item
dedication facilities, receipt inspection facilities, storage facilities, and installed plant
components associated with potential inspection samples. During the visit, the team lead will
also review the information provided in the initial information request to select a list of potential
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inspection samples. The team lead may also identify other information needed to support the
inspection during this visit.
To minimize the impact on your staff and to ensure an effective and efficient inspection, we
have enclosed two separate requests for information needed prior to the onsite information
gathering visit and offsite inspection preparation week. The first request (Enclosure 1) is
generally for information that will be used to choose the inspection samples or information that
will be applicable to all inspection samples throughout the inspection. This information should be
made available to the team lead prior to the information gathering visit. The second request
(Enclosure 2) is for information that is specific to an individual sample and should be made
available prior to the offsite preparation week.
Additional information requests, interviews with your staff, and/or walkdowns of facilities or
installed plant components will be made by the team throughout the inspection to complete their
review of the selected inspection samples. It is important that all documentation provided to the
team is complete and upto-date to minimize the number of additional documents requested
during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of the inspection. Additionally, to facilitate an
efficient inspection, we request that a contact individual be assigned to each inspector to ensure
information requests, questions, and concerns are addressed in a timely manner.
We understand that Mr. Joshua Turner from your Regulatory Affairs organization is our contact
for this inspection. If there are any questions about the inspection or the information requested,
please contact the team lead, Mr. Fabian Thomas, by telephone at 817-200-1126 or by email at
Fabian.Thomas@nrc.gov. Enclosure 3 contains additional contact information for the inspection
team.
This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection
requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, under Control Number
3150-0011. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a
request for information or an information collection requirement unless the requesting document
displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC rules and practices, a copy of this letter and its
enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC public document
room or from the publicly available records (PARS) component of NRCs document system
(ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC website.
Sincerely,
Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief
Engineering Branch 1
Division of Operating Reactor Safety
Signed by Gaddy, Vincent
on 10/09/24
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Docket No. 05000482
License No. NPF-42
Enclosures:
1.
Documents Requested Prior to
Information Gathering Visit
2.
Documents Requested Prior to
Inspection Preparation Week
3.
Inspection Team Contact Information
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Enclosure
Documents Requested Prior to Information Gathering Visit
The documents and information requested below should generally be made available to the
inspection team for the team's use both onsite and offsite during the information gathering visit.
Electronic format is the preferred media. If electronic media is made available via an internet
based remote document management system, then the remote document access must allow
inspectors to download, save, and print the documents in the NRC's regional office. Electronic
media on compact disc or paper records (hardcopy) are acceptable. At the end of the
inspection, the documents in the team's possession will not be retained.
This document request is based on typical documents that a generic plant might have. As such,
this document request is not meant to imply that any specific plant is required to have all the
listed documents. In addition, your plant-specific document titles may vary from the document
titles listed below. We also request that the information provided be sorted by the list below.
Documents requested by December 23, 2024:
1.
Copy of procedures for dedicating commercial grade items/services, procuring
safety-related structures, systems, and components (SSCs), performing receipt
inspections, controlling counterfeit, fraudulent, and suspect items, and 10 CFR Part
21 evaluations and reporting.
2.
Sortable list of commercial grade items/services that completed the dedication
process within the past six years. These items/services may have been dedicated by
Wolf Creek Generating Station or by a vendor (or other licensee) and procured by
Wolf Creek Generating Station. Include, as applicable, relevant information such as
the item/services material/catalog identification number and description, parent/host
equipment identification number and description, purchase order number, installation
work order/job number, and date of issue/installation.
3.
Sortable list of SSCs that were procured as safety-related within the past six years.
Include, as applicable, relevant information such as the SSCs material/catalog
identification number and description, parent/host equipment identification number
and description, purchase order number, installation work order/job number, date of
issue/installation, and end-use safety classification.
4.
Sortable list of dedicated commercial grade items/services or procured safety-related
SSCs that were placed on hold within the past six years because of concerns
identified during receipt, dedication, or from operating experience or the corrective
action program as applicable.
5.
Sortable list of dedicated commercial grade items/services or procured safety-related
SSCs, with a brief description, where dedication/procurement activities were
expedited within the past six years.
6.
Sortable list of dedicated commercial grade-items/services or procured safety-related
SSCs that failed after completing dedication/procurement activities or required
corrective maintenance within the past six years.
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7.
Sortable list of corrective action program documents, with a brief description, related
to commercial grade item/service dedication, safety-related SSC procurement,
receipt inspection, and storage activities within the past six years.
8.
Copy of any self-assessments or audits of commercial grade item/service dedication
and/or safety-related SSC procurement activities performed within the past six years.
9.
Copy of the updated final safety analysis report, operational quality assurance
program description, technical specifications, and technical requirements manual,
including applicable bases documents.
10.
Sortable list of systems, including identifying designators and corresponding names.
11.
List of individuals who will be supporting the inspection and their contact information.
Enclosure 2
Documents Requested Prior to Inspection Preparation Week
For the samples identified by the team lead, the documents and information requested below
should generally be made available to the inspection team for the team's use both onsite and
offsite during the inspection. Electronic format is the preferred media. If electronic media is
made available via an internet based remote document management system, then the remote
document access must allow inspectors to download, save, and print the documents in the
NRC's regional office. Electronic media on compact disc or paper records (hardcopy) are
acceptable. At the end of the inspection, the documents in the team's possession will not be
retained.
This document request is based on typical documents that a generic plant might have. As such,
this document request is not meant to imply that any specific plant is required to have all the
listed documents. In addition, your plant-specific document titles may vary from the document
titles listed below. We also request that the information provided be sorted by the list below for
each sample.
Documents requested by March 10, 2025:
1.
Complete commercial grade item dedication package including relevant
documentation such as the following, as applicable: description of item/service,
identification of safety functions and safety classifications of item/parent component,
like-for-like or equivalency evaluations, credible failure modes/failure modes and
effects analysis, critical characteristics and acceptance criteria, identification of the
suppliers commercial quality assurance program or other documented controls.
2.
Complete purchase order including relevant documentation such as the following, as
applicable: purchase requisition, catalog specifications, item product data
sheets/vendor manuals, shelf-life information, service/qualified life information,
certificates of conformance/compliance/quality, vendor test and inspection reports,
third-party or sub vendor test and inspection results, vendor dedication or partial
dedication information, material receiving reports, packing list/invoices or other
shipping documents, and other pertinent vendor/licensee correspondence.
3.
Receipt inspection reports and any related test reports, documents noting any
deviations from design, material, and performance characteristics relevant to the
safety function (nonconformance dispositions).
4.
Documents showing objective evidence of special test and inspection procedures
used to verify technical and quality requirements have been met, commercial grade
survey reports, or source verification reports; any other documents to trace the item
from the time it was dedicated to the time it was installed, tested, and accepted.
5.
Completed installation work orders and stock or material issue forms; completed
post-installation test procedures and results.
6.
Design basis information of the inspection sample or parent/host component such
as: normal/accident service environment, normal/accident performance
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requirements, design basis document/system description, relevant UFSAR/technical
specification sections, calculation/drawing/procedure updates, etc.
7.
10 CFR 50.59 documentation, if required.
8.
Sortable list of corrective action program documents, with a brief description,
associated with the inspection sample or parent/host equipment.
Enclosure 3
Inspection Team Contact Information
Reactor Inspector
817-200-1126
Fabian.Thomas@nrc.gov
Senior Reactor Inspector
817-200-11534
Dustin.Reinert@nrc.gov
Joshua Talavera
Reactor Inspector
817-200-1435
Joshua.Talavera@nrc.gov
Mailing Address:
U.S. NRC, Region IV
Attn: Fabian Thomas
1600 East Lamar Blvd.
Arlington, TX 76011-4511