ML14245A231

Mid-Cycle Assessment Letter for LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2

ML14245A231
Person / Time
Site:	LaSalle
Issue date:	09/02/2014
From:	Boland A Division Reactor Projects III
To:	Pacilio M Exelon Generation Co, Exelon Nuclear
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE RD. SUIT E 210 LISLE, IL 60532

-4352 S ep t e m b e r 2 , 201 4 Mr. Michael J. Pacilio Senior VP, Exelon Generation Co., LLC President and CNO, Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555 SUB J EC T: M I D-CYCL E ASSE SS M EN T L E T T E R F O R LASALLE COUNTY STATION UNITS 1 AND 2 D ear M r. Pacilio: O n A u g u s t 5 , 20 14 , t he U.S. Nu c lear R e g u la t o r y Co mm i ss io n (NRC) c o m p l e t ed i t s m i d-c y c l e pe r f o rmance r e v i ew of L a S a ll e C oun t y S t a t i o n. The NR C r e v i e w ed t he most recent q ua r t e r l y pe r f o rmance i nd i ca t o r s (P Is) i n add i t i on t o inspe c t i on resu l t s and e n f o r c e ment ac t ions from Ju l y 1, 20 13, t h r o u g h J u n e 30, 20 14. T h i s le tt e r i n f o r m s y ou o f t he NRC's asses s ment o f your f ac ili t y du r i ng t h i s p e r i od and i t s p l ans f o r f u t u r e i nspec t i ons a t y our f ac ili t y. T he NRC de t e rm i ned t he pe r f o r mance at La S a ll e C oun t y S t a t ion, U n i t 1 , d u r i ng t he m ost rece n t q u a rt er, and for the previous three quarters, w as w i t h i n t he L icensee R e sponse C o l u m n (C o l u m n 1) o f t he N R C's R eac tor O v e r s i ght P rocess (R O P) A c t i on M a tr i x , because a l l inspec ti on f i nd i n g s had v e r y low (i.e., G reen) s a f e t y s i g n i f icanc e , and a l l P I s i nd i ca t ed t h a t y our pe r f o r mance w as w i t h i n t he n o m i na l , e x pec t ed r a n g e (i.e., Gr e e n).

The NRC determined the performance at LaSalle County Station, Unit 2, for the most recent quarter, and for the three previous quarters was within the Regulatory Response Column (Column 2) of the NRC's ROP Action Matrix because of a White Inspection Finding in the Initiating Events Cornerstone. The Inspection Finding correlated to one of the scrams included in the White PI for Unplanned Scrams with Complications that crossed the green to white threshold in the second quarter of 2013. The White PI was not considered an Action Matrix input in this assessment period since one of the scrams was attributed to the event that resulted in the White Inspection Finding.

In our annual assessment letter, the NRC informed you that it would complete a supplemental inspection at your facility for both the White PI and White Inspection Finding. On March 21, 2014, the NRC completed a 95001 supplemental inspection at your facility to evaluate the corrective actions taken by members of your staff to prevent recurrence and address the white performance indicator and white inspection finding. The NRC determined you met the objectives of that inspection and documented the results in NRC Inspection Report and Assessment Follow

-up Letter 05000374/201 4009 (ADAMS Accession Number ML14122A124). In that letter, the NRC also updated its assessment of LaSalle County Station, Unit 2, and informed you that LaSalle Unit 2 would transition back to the Licensee Response Column (Column 1) of the ROP Action Matrix, beginning the third quarter of 2014.

As a result of the Safety Culture Common Language Initiative, the terminology and coding of cross-cutting aspects were revised. All cross

-cutting aspects identified during inspections conducted in calendar year 2014 reflect this revision to Inspection Manual Chapter (IMC) 0310. Cross-cutting aspects identified in 2013 using the 2013 terminology were converted to the latest revision in accordance with the cross

-reference in IMC 0310 during the mid

-cycle assessment review and evaluated for cross

-cutting themes and potential substantive cross

-cutting issues in accordance with IMC 0305

. T he enc losed inspe c t i on p l an li s t s t he inspec t i ons schedu l ed t h r o u g h D ec e m ber 31, 2 015. R ou t i ne inspec t i ons p e r f o rm ed by r es ident insp e c t o r s a r e not i nc l uded i n t he inspe c t i on p lan. T he inspec t i ons li s t ed d u r i ng t he last n i ne m o n t hs o f t he inspec t i on p l an a r e t e n t a t i v e and may be r e v ised at t he en d-o f-c y c l e pe r f o r mance r e v i e w. T he NR C p r o v i des t h e inspec t i on p l an t o a ll o w f o r t he reso l u t i on of any schedu li ng co n f li c t s and pe rsonnel a v a il ab ili t y issues. The NR C w i ll con tact y ou as soon a s po s s i b l e t o d iscuss cha n g e s t o the inspec t i on p l an shou l d c i r cu m s tances w a rrant a n y chan g e s. T h i s inspe c t i on p l an does not i nc lude secu r i t y-r e l a t ed inspec t ions, w h i ch will be sent v i a sepa r a t e , no n-p ub li c l y a v a i l able co rresponde nce. The NRC also plans on performing special and infrequently performed inspections including: Inspection Procedure (IP) 71111.05T, "Fire Protection (Triennial)," IP 71152B, "Problem Identification and Resolution (Biennial)," and IP 71111.17T, "Evaluations of Changes, Tests and Experiments and Permanent Plant Modifications (Triennial)," and IP 71002, "License Renewal Inspection."

In response to the accident at Fukushima, the Commission issued Order EA 049, "Order Modifying Licenses with Regard to Requirements for Mitigation Strategies for Beyond

-Design-Basis External Events," which requires licensees to develop, implement, and maintain guidance and strategies to maintain or restore core cooling, containment, and spent fuel pool cooling capabilities following a beyond

-design-basis external event.

Additionally, the Commission issued Order EA 051, "Order Modifying Licenses with Regard to Reliable Spent Fuel Pool Instrumentation," which requires licensees to have a reliable means of remotely monitoring wide-range Spent Fuel Pool levels to support effective prioritization of event mitigation and recovery actions in the event of a beyond

-design-basis external event.

The NRC is conducting audits of licensee efforts towards compliance with these Orders.

This audit includes an onsite component in order for the NRC to evaluate licensee plans for complying with the Orders, as described in site

-specific submittals, and to receive and review information relative to associated open items. This onsite activity will occur in the months prior to a declaration of compliance for the first unit at each site, and will aid staff in development of an ultimate Safety Evaluation for the site. The date for the onsite component at your site is being coordinated with your staff. A site

-specific audit plan for the visit will be provided in advance to allow sufficient time for preparations.

M. Pacilio In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 2.390, "Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding," of the NRC's "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 System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Please con t a c t M r. M ichael K uno w s k i , B ranch 5 C h i e f , Di v i s i on of Reac t o r P r o j e c ts, at 63 0-82 9-9618 w i t h any ques t i ons y ou may ha v e r e g a r d i ng t h i s l e tt e r. Since r e l y , /RA/ Anne T. Boland

, Di r ec t o r Di v i s io n of Re ac t o r P r o j e c t s D oc k e t N o s. 5 0-373; 5 0-374 L icense Nos. NP F-11; N P F-18 E nc losu r e: La S a ll e C ou n t y S t a t i on , U n i t s 1 and 2 Inspection/Activity Plan cc w/encl: Distribution via LISTSERV

M. Pacilio In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 2.390, "Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding," of the NRC's "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 System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading

-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Please con t a c t M r. M ichael K uno w s k i , B ranch 5 C h i e f , Di v i s i on of Reac t o r P r o j e c ts, at 63 0-82 9-9618 w i t h any ques t i ons y ou may ha v e r e g a r d i ng t h i s l e tt e r. Since r e l y , /RA/ Anne T. Boland

, Di r ec t o r Di v i s io n of Re ac t o r P r o j e c t s D oc k e t N o s. 5 0-373; 5 0-374 L icense Nos. NP F-11; N P F-18 E nc losu r e: La S a ll e C ou n t y S t a t i on , U n i t s 1 and 2 Inspection/Activity Plan cc w/encl: Distribution via LISTSERV DISTRIBUTION w/encl

Anthony Bowers RidsNrrDorlLpl3

-2 Resource RidsNrrPMLaSalle RidsNrrDirsIrib Resource Cynthia Pederson

Darrell Roberts Steven Orth Allan Barker Carole Ariano Linda Linn DRPIII DRSIII Patricia Buckley Carmen Olteanu ROPassessment.Resource@nrc.gov

DOCUMENT NAME: LaSalle MOC Lette r Publicly Available Non-Publicly Available Sensitive Non-Sensitive To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the concurrence box "C" = Copy without attach/encl "E" = Copy with attach/encl "N" = No copy OFFICE RIII RIII RIII RIII NAME MKunowski:rj ABoland DATE 08/26/14 09/02/14 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

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-12/31/2015 BI FIRE-FIRE PROTECTION INSPECTION AND BAG TRIP 3 1, 2 IP Fire Protection [Triennial]7111105T11/03/2014 12/05/2014 BI RP-RADIATION PROTECTION BASELINE INSPECTION 1 1 IP Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation71124.08 09/29/2014 10/03/2014OL PREP-INITIAL EXAM - 10/2014 3 1 OL - INITIAL EXAM - 2014 JULY-MAR - LASA W90306 09/29/2014 10/03/2014OL EXAM-INIT EXAM FOR 10/2014 3 1 OL - INITIAL EXAM - 2014 JULY-MAR - LASA W90306 10/20/2014 10/31/2014 BI EPR-EP ROUTINE INSPECTION / PI VERIFICATION 2 1 IP A lert and Notification System Testing7111402 03/23/2015 03/27/2015 1 IP Emergency Preparedness Organization Staffing and Augmentation System7111403 03/23/2015 03/27/2015 1 IP Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weaknesses and Deficiencies7111405 03/23/2015 03/27/2015 1 IP Performance Indicator Verification71151 03/23/2015 03/27/2015 BI ISI-ISI INSPECTION UNIT 2 1 2 IP Inservice Inspection Activities - BWR7111108G 02/02/2015 02/20/2015 BI RP-RADIATION PROTECTION BASELINE INSPECTION 1 1 IP Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation71124.05 03/16/2015 03/20/2015 1 IP71151-BI01 03/16/2015 03/20/2015 BI HS-TRIENNIAL HEAT SINK INSPECTION 2 1, 2 IP Heat Sink Performance7111107T 04/20/2015 04/24/2015 BI PIR-BIENNIAL PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RES 4 1, 2 IP Problem Identification and Resolution71152B 05/04/2015 05/22/2015 ISFSI-ISFSI OPERATION INSPECTION 2 1, 2 IP Operation of an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation at Operating Plants 60855.1 05/01/2015 05/31/2015 BI RP-RADIATION PROTECTION BASELINE INSPECTION 1 1 IP Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program71124.07 06/22/2015 06/26/2015 1 IP71151-PR01 06/22/2015 06/26/2015 BI MODS-MODIFICATIONS / 50.59 INSPECTION 3 1, 2 IP Evaluations of Changes, Tests, and Experiments and Permanent Plant Modifications7111117T 06/29/2015 07/17/2015 BI RP-RADIATION PROTECTION BASELINE INSPECTION 1 1 IP Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls71124.01 08/31/2015 09/04/2015 1 IP Occupational ALARA Planning and Controls71124.02 08/31/2015 09/04/2015 1 IP71151-OR01 08/31/2015 09/04/2015 This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities. This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.

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-12/31/2015RENEWAL-LICENSE RENEWAL INSPECTION 71002 7 1, 2 IP License Renewal Inspection 71002 09/21/2015 10/09/2015 BI RP-RADIATION PROTECTION BASELINE INSPECTION 1 1 IP Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls71124.01 09/28/2015 10/02/2015 1 IP Radiation Monitoring Instrumentation71124.05 09/28/2015 10/02/2015 BI OLRQ-BIENNIAL REQUAL PROGRAM INSPECTION 2 1, 2 IP Licensed Operator Requalification Program7111111B11/16/201511/20/2015 This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities. This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.