ML25265A256
| ML25265A256 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Fort Calhoun  |
| Issue date: | 09/24/2025 |
| From: | Jeffrey Josey NRC Region 4 |
| To: | Via T Omaha Public Power District |
| References | |
| IR 2025001 | |
| Download: ML25265A256 (1) | |
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September 24, 2025 Troy Via, Chief Operations Officer and Vice President Utility Operations Omaha Public Power District Fort Calhoun Station Mail Stop FC-2-4 9610 Power Lane Blair, NE 68008
SUBJECT:
FORT CALHOUN STATION - NRC INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION INSPECTION REPORT 05000285/2025005 AND 07200054/2025001
Dear Troy Via:
On August 19-20, 2025, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed an inspection at your independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) at the Fort Calhoun Station. On September 3, 2025, the NRC inspectors discussed the results of this inspection with Tim Uehling, Senior Director of Decommissioning, and other members of your staff. The inspection results are documented in the enclosure report.
No findings or violations of more than minor significance were identified during this inspection, and no response to this letter is required.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Agency Rules of Practice and Procedures, a copy of this letter, its enclosure, and your response if you choose to provide one will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room and from the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
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To the extent possible, your response should not include any personal privacy or proprietary information so that it can be made available to the public without redaction.
Sincerely, Jeffrey E. Josey, Chief Decomm., ISFSI, and Operating Reactor Branch Division of Radiological Safety and Security Docket Nos. 050-00285 and 072-00054 License No. DPR-40
Enclosure:
Inspection Report 050-00285/2025-005 and 072-00054/2025-001 w/ Attachment Fort Calhoun Station Request for Information Distribution via LISTSERV Signed by Josey, Jeffrey on 09/24/25
SUNSI Review By: LEB
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Non-Publicly Available OFFICE SSFSI:DRSS/DIOR SFSI:DRSS/DIOR C:DRSS/DIOR NAME LBrookhart JFreeman JJosey SIGNATURE
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DATE 09/22/25 09/23/25 09/24/25
Enclosure U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Inspection Report Docket Nos.
050-00285 and 072-00054 License No.
DPR-40 Report Nos.
05000285/2025005 and 07200054/2025001 Enterprise Identifiers: I-2025-005-0061 - FCS IR 2025-005 I-2025-001-0124 - FCS ISFSI IR 2025-001 Licensee:
Omaha Public Power District Facility:
Fort Calhoun Station Location:
Blair, Nebraska Inspection Dates:
August 19-20, 2025 Inspectors:
L. Brookhart, Senior Spent Fuel Storage Inspector J. Freeman, ISFSI and Reactor Inspector Approved By:
J. Josey, Chief Decommissioning, ISFSI, Operating Reactor Branch Division of Radiological Safety and Security
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SUMMARY
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) conducted an announced, routine inspection of the independent spent fuel storage (ISFSI) operations and activities at the Fort Calhoun Station in Blair, Nebraska.
List of Findings and Violations No findings or violations of more than minor significance were identified.
Additional Tracking Items None.
E-3 SITE STATUS Fort Calhoun Station permanently ceased power operations in 2016. The licensees ISFSI contained all the spent fuel used at the site in 40 loaded Horizontal Storage Modules (HSMs) with an additional two HSMs that contained greater-than-class-c (GTCC) waste from the dismantled reactor. The last ISFSI inspection was conducted on February 10-13, 2020, during the licensees last fuel loading campaign. The licensee had been conducting ISFSI operations in accordance with the Transnuclear (TN) Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 1004, Amendment 15, and TN Standardized Nuclear Horizontal Modular Storage (NUHOMS) Final Safety Analysis Report Revision (FSAR) 18.
INSPECTION SCOPES The inspection was conducted using the appropriate portions of the inspection procedures (IPs).
Currently approved IPs are located on the public website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/insp-manual/inspection-procedure/index.html. The inspectors reviewed selected procedures and records, observed activities, and interviewed personnel to assess licensee performance and compliance with Commission rules and regulations, ISFSI certificate of compliance, license conditions, site procedures, and standards. The inspection was declared complete when the objectives of the IP were met, consistent with Inspection Manual Chapter (IMC) 2690, Inspection Program for Storage of Spent Reactor Fuel and Reactor-Related Greater-Than-Class C Waste at Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations and for 10 CFR Part 71 Transportation Packaging dated October 16, 2024.
IP 60855 - Operation of an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation Changes, Tests, and Experiments and 72.212 Evaluations (IP Section 02.01)
The inspectors conducted site tours, interviewed site staff, and reviewed selected records to observe the status of the ISFSI and ISFSI operations. The inspectors:
(1)
Reviewed the licensees and adopted vendor changes, tests, or experiments that were performed by the licensee under the sites 10 CFR 72.48 program since the last NRC inspection (2)
Reviewed the licensees changes to the sites 10 CFR 72.212 Evaluation, which included the changes from revision 7 and revision 8.
Loading and Unloading Activities (IP Section 02.02)
The inspectors:
(1)
Reviewed work packages, calculations, and evaluations associated with the fuel loading operations for canisters 28 - 40 and the GTCC waste canisters.
Dry Storage System Fuel Selection (IP Section 02.03)
The inspectors:
(1)
Reviewed licensee records and evaluations related to the spent fuel content loaded into canisters 28 - 40 and the GTCC waste canister contents
E-4 ISFSI Storage Monitoring and Surveillance (IP Section 02.04)
The inspectors:
(1)
Reviewed records of radiological surveys and environmental operating reports for radiological dose at the owner-controlled boundary to verify compliance with the requirements of 10 CFR 72.104 for years 2021 - 2024 (2)
Reviewed records for compliance with technical specifications for operational surveillance activities and FSAR required annual maintenance activities (3)
Reviewed site evaluations for licensee changes made to the Emergency Plan (EP) since the last NRC inspection (4)
Reviewed records of EP biennial exercises and EP drills Quality Assurance Program (IP Section 02.05)
The inspectors:
(1)
Reviewed selected ISFSI-related condition reports issued since the last NRC ISFSI inspection (2)
Reviewed quality assurance program implementation, including recent audits, surveillances, receipt inspection, and quality control activities related to ISFSI operations Aging Management Activities (IP Section 02.06)
This was not applicable since license had not entered the period of extended operations for the ISFSI.
INSPECTION RESULTS No findings or violations of more than minor significance were identified.
EXIT MEETING/DEBRIEFS The inspectors verified that no proprietary information was retained or documented in this report.
On September 3, 2025, the inspectors presented the final exit meeting to Tim Uehling, Senior Director of Decommissioning, and other members of the licensees staff.
ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS REVIEWED None.
ATTACHMENT Fort Calhoun Station Request for Information
Attachment Request for Information Inspection of ISFSI Operations Inspection Report:
ISFSI Inspection Report 72-54/25-01 Inspection Dates:
Tentatively August 18th week Inspection Procedure:
IP 60855, Operations of an ISFSI Inspector(s):
Lee Brookhart, Senior ISFSI Inspector, Lead Jack Freeman, ISFSI/Reactor Inspector The following is an initial list of information and documents needed for the August 2025 ISFSI inspection. Please provide the requested information to the NRC using IMS Certrec or other electronic means available. If possible, please provide the requested documents 1-2 weeks prior to the on-site inspection to allow inspectors the time to review the information. All documents that are provided will be shredded after the inspection report has been issued or you can delete from Certrec after the report has been issued. The last ISFSI inspection was in February 2020 (Inspection Report 72-54/2020-01; dated April 14, 2020).
PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT STATEMENT This letter contains voluntary information collections that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved these information collections (approval number 3150-0011). The burden to the public for these information collections is estimated to average 90 hours0.00104 days <br />0.025 hours <br />1.488095e-4 weeks <br />3.4245e-5 months <br /> per response. Send comments regarding this information collection to the FOIA, Library and Information Collection Branch, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Mail Stop: t6-A10M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by email to Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov, and to the Desk Officer, Officer of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, (3150-0011) OMB, Washington, DC 20503.
A-2 DOCUMENT REQUEST FOR AUGUST 2025 ISFSI INSPECTION 72-54/25-01 1.
Confirm current CoC Amendment and FSAR revision number. Last inspection FCS was using Amendment 15 and FSAR Revision 18. (I have both those documents) However, if the site is using different versions of either document please let us know and we can attempt to locate those.
2.
Copies of ISFSI QA related audits since February 2020.
3.
Copies of ISFSI QA surveillances conducted since February 2020.
4.
List of ISFSI related condition reports since February 2020. We will review the list and request selected CRs for further review.
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Provide a copy of your corrective action program procedure, also the procedure that discusses the different significance levels of the CRs placed into the CAP program at FCS.
6.
List of ISFSI related modifications/72.48 screenings since February 2020. We will review the list and request selected 72.48 screenings for review. We are interested in equipment changes, engineering changes, new procedures (administrative actions for hazardous weather), vendor adopted 72.48s, etc. Since other sites have had problems providing us with a list of screenings, we can talk about the kind of list we are looking for to minimize your effort to generate the list.
- 7. Provide a copy of your 72.48 screening/evaluation procedure.
8.
Copies of 72.48 full evaluations performed since February 2020.
- 9.
Current 72.212 report and copies of 72.48 screens for any 72.212 revision changes since February 2020. The last inspection FCS was utilizing 72.212 Revision 6 was what was reviewed last inspection.
10.
Copy of the latest radiological survey of the ISFSI pad/fence area.
11.
TLD Data. Provide environmental reports for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 that reflects the dose coming from the ISFSI. We are also interested in any additional data that reflect the ISFSI dose such as TLDs that may be posted on the ISFSI fence or around the ISFSI that are not listed in the environmental report.
12.
Provide a copy of your current Emergency Plan. Please provide any changes and the effectiveness review of any changes that have been performed for revisions since February 2020.
- 13. Provide a list of Emergency Plan Drills that have been performed since February 2020.
We will select a few from this list for additional review.
- 14. Provide the last 2 EP Exercises that have been performed since February 2022.
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Provide training records that demonstrate that all assigned emergency response personnel are current with training.
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For compliance with TS vent/temperature monitoring surveillances, provide a copy of the current surveillance procedure and documentation for the surveillances for the weeks (7 days) of February 4, 2021; August 12, 2022; and January 6, 20024 (For further explanation on this, if needed, call us).
If the information requested above will not be available please contact the Lead Inspector, listed below, as soon as possible.
Inspector Contact Information:
Lee Brookhart, Lead Jack Freeman Senior ISFSI Inspector Reactor and ISFSI Inspector lee.brookhart@nrc.gov jack.freeman@nrc.gov Mailing Address:
U.S. NRC, Region IV Attn: Lee Brookhart 1600 East Lamar Blvd.
Arlington, TX 76011-4511