ML25036A091

Requalification Program Inspection - Oconee Nuclear Station

ML25036A091
Person / Time
Site:	Oconee
Issue date:	02/06/2025
From:	Matthew Endress NRC/RGN-II/DORS
To:	Snider S Duke Energy Carolinas
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Steve Snider, Site Vice President Oconee Nuclear Station 7800 Rochester Highway Seneca, South Carolina 29672

SUBJECT:

REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM INSPECTION - OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION

Dear Steve Snider:

During a telephone conversation on January 31, 2025, Andreas Goldau, Operations Engineer, and C. Smith, Licensed Operator Continuing Training (LOCT) Superintendent, planned for the NRC to inspect the licensed operator requalification program at the Oconee Nuclear Station.

The on-site portion of the inspection is planned for the week of March 17, 2025, which coincides with your regularly scheduled requalification examination cycle. The staff at your facility should prepare and conduct the requalification examinations in accordance with your NRC-approved requalification program. It is our understanding that you have committed to maintain your plant-referenced simulator in accordance with ANSI/ANS-3.5-2009, American National Standard for Nuclear Power Plant Simulators for Use in Operator Training and Examination.

In accordance with 10 CFR 55.59, the NRC has requested that you submit the material as specified in paragraph A of the Enclosure, to support the NRC's in-office inspection program needs. The NRC has further requested that you have all items as specified in paragraph B of the Enclosure available for review for the inspectors on the first day they arrive on site. C. Smith has been advised of this request and provided with the name of the NRC lead inspector assigned to this inspection and the methodology to electronically transfer materials has been coordinated.

This letter contains information collections that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). These information collections were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, approval number Part 55 (3150-0018).

The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 16 hours1.851852e-4 days <br />0.00444 hours <br />2.645503e-5 weeks <br />6.088e-6 months <br /> per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments on any aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Information and Records Management Branch (T-6 F33), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by Internet electronic mail at infocollectsresource@nrc.gov; and to the Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, (3150-0101), Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.

The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB approval number.

February 6, 2025

S. Snider 2

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure 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 Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. (The Public Electronic Reading Room).

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions regarding this inspection please contact Andreas. Goldau at (404) 997-4528, (Internet E-mail:

Andreas.Goldau@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4718, (Internet E-mail:

Matthew.Endress@nrc.gov).

Sincerely, Matthew Endress, Chief Operations Branch Division of Operating Reactor Safety Docket Nos.: 50-269, 50-270, 50-287 License Nos.: DRP-38, DRP-47, DRP-55

Enclosure:

Materials Request List cc: Distribution via Listserv Signed by Endress, Matthew on 02/06/25

S. Snider 3

SUBJECT:

REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM INSPECTION - OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION DATED FEBRUARY 6, 2025 DISTRIBUTION:

A. Goldau, RII M. Endress, RII ADAMS ACCESSION NO ML25036A091 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

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Non-Publicly Available OFFICE RII/DORS RII/DORS RII/DORS NAME K. Wallace A. Goldau M. Endress DATE 02/05/25 02/5/25 02/6/25

Enclosure Materials Request List The items listed below are necessary to support the Licensed Operator Requalification Program inspection (IP-71111.11) at Oconee. Items listed under In-office inspection material must be received in the NRC Region II office by the dates listed below. Items listed under On-site inspection material should be ready for review upon arrival of the inspectors on March 17, 2025.

A.

In office inspection material:

1. List of all licensed individuals (active and inactive; RO and SRO) including license restrictions. [Date Due: March 10, 2025]

2. Organizational Chart for the training department including simulator fidelity staff, with phone number/email contact information. [Date Due: March 10, 2025]

3. All JPMs and simulator scenarios that have been approved for administration for the 2025 exams, including spreadsheets or outlines that show the usage of the JPMs during the 2025 annual exam weeks. Examiners request that exam items not yet approved for use be sent later after they have been approved. [Date Due:

March 10, 2025, or following completion of the approval process] (exam security related item).

4. Weekly examination schedules for the weeks that the 2025 annual operating test, including the names/positions of the operating crew members, as well as any off-shift staff members, who will be examined. [Date Due: March 10, 2025]

5. Copies of all 2025 biennial written examinations that were administered, final answer keys, re-take examinations, and spreadsheets or outlines that show the usage of written examination questions on the different versions of these written examinations. [Date Due: March 10, 2025]

6. Site procedure(s) governing the conduct of license operator requalification training (classroom and simulator), examination development/administration, remedial training, and examination security. [Date Due: March 10, 2025]

7. Site procedure(s) governing the simulator configuration control, maintenance, and fidelity testing methods used to fulfill ANSI/ANS 3.5-2009 requirements.

[Date Due: March 10, 2025]

8. Corrective action reports and self-assessments written since last requalification inspection, which document operator errors or performance problems that occurred in the actual main control room, including the final corrective actions.

[Date Due: March 10, 2025]

2 B.

On site inspection material:

1. Requalification training attendance records for the current two-year biennial training cycle.

2. Examination results since last requalification inspection (weekly operating &

written examinations); copies of examinations with pass/failure rates outside the average.

3. Simulator scenarios and JPMs for the inspectors to observe the operating crew and evaluators during the week of March 17, 2025.

4. All remedial training documentation for any licensed operator (active or inactive) that failed an examination since last requalification inspection.

5. List of all individuals that reactivated their licenses since last requalification inspection.

6. Records that support verification of license reactivation, including:

a. Documentation of time on shift under instruction.

b. Security system and/or HP/dosimetry records for plant areas toured by reactivating individual and accompanying licensed operator.

7. Records providing documentation of maintenance of active license status (time on shift) for all licensed operators since last requalification inspection.

8. Medical records for all licensed (active and inactive) operators.

9. Simulator maintenance and testing records, including:

a. List of all open simulator discrepancies

b. List of all simulator discrepancies closed within the past 12 months

c. List of simulator performance tests

d. Simulator performance testing records and associated documentation (as requested by inspector)