ML091350087

Commission Briefing Slides/Exhibits on Results of AARM

ML091350087
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Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	05/14/2009
From:	Borchardt W NRC/EDO
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COMMISSION BRIEFING SLIDES/EXHIBITS BRIEFING ON RESULTS OF AARM MAY 14, 2009 C 7-'7 U.S.NRC UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Protecting People and the Environment Briefing on the Results of the Agency Action Review Meeting May 14, 2009 Bill Borchardt, EDO Agenda* Plant Discussion-Palo Verde: Elmo Collins, RIV" Industry Trends Program -Frederick Brown, NRR" ROP Self-Assessment

-Frederick Brown, NRR 2 Agenda (cont.)* Materials and Waste Programs Performance:

Charles Miller, FSME* Facility Discussion-Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc..Luis Reyes, RII 3 Plant Discussion

-Palo Verde* NRC Activities to Confirm Safety and Assess Effectiveness of CAL-Inspections

-Public Meetings* Palo Verde Actions in 2008 4 Plant Discussion

-Palo Verde* Current Performance Assessment

-Overall Performance Improved-Closed CAL and Substantive Cross Cutting Issues* Actions Going Forward-Focused CAL Follow Up Inspections

-Periodic Public Meetings 5 Reactor Industry Trends Program" Identifies Trends in Safety Performance

• Communicates Performance To Stakeholders" Complements the ROP* Supports NRC Performance Goals 6 FY 2008 Reactor Trend Results* No Statistically Significant Adverse Trends in Safety Performance

• Short term performance was within expected ranges" No Significant Accident Sequence Precursors 7

ROP Self-Assessment

• Reviewed Against Program Goals" Met Performance Goals and Achieved Intended Outcomes* Safety Improved at Specific Plants as Result of ROP Implementation 8

2008 AARM Follow Up Actions" Clarify Meaning and Use of"Green" Pis* Evaluate Improvements to ROP Metrics for Pis and SDP* Evaluate Resident Inspector Attraction and Retention Issues 9 ROP Discussion Topics* Action Matrix Deviations

• Several ROP Enhancements

• Consistent ROP Resources 10 2009 ROP Focus Areas* Consistently Implement SCCI Guidance* Followed development in Safety Culture Initiative

• Ongoing Effort to Further Improve the PI Program 11 Materials and Waste Programs Perform ance Provide a summary of the materials and waste program's performance 12 Performance Evaluation Program* Systematic review to identify significant:

-Operational performance trends-Licensee performance issues-NRC program issues/gaps 13 Performance Criteria" Strategic Outcomes* Performance Measures* Abnormal Occurrences

• Significant Enforcement Actions* Trending review of Event Data* SECY-02-0216 and SECY-08-0135 14 Strategic Outcomes &Performance Measures* All Strategic Outcomes were realized* Performance Measures were all within the established goals 15 Abnormal Occurrences" Ten abnormal occurrences (AOs) in FY 2008" All AOs in FY 2008 were medical-related events* No discernable trends on total number of AOs 16 Escalated NRC Materials Enforcement Actions* 118 escalated enforcement actions in calendar year 2008* Two cases involved severity level II violations

• No significant performance trends identified 17 Licensee Performance/

NRC Program Gaps" Two nuclear materials licensees met the significant performance issues criteria for FY 2008* No significant trending issues identified

• No NRC program gaps or failures identified 18 Trending Review of Event Data* Reviewed 10 years -5,227 eve during this period* No significant performance tre identified

• No significant change from previous 10 year period (5,053 events)nts nds 19 Review of General Licensed Device Events* Data Reviewed to determine:-Type of general licensed device (GLD) events that have been reported-Any trends regarding GLDs 20 Review of General Licensed Device Events* General Findings:-546 events involved 7,776 GLDs for the time period 111/1998 to 12/31/2008-Tritium exit signs accounted for 93 percent of the GLDs for these events 21 Review of General Licensed Device Events*

Conclusions:

-The NRC is evaluating the cause for the large number of tritium exit sign related events-No other trends were found during this study 22 Materials Licensee Briefing on Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc." Reasons for Discussion" NRC Actions" Current Performance

• NFS' Compliance with Order" Next Steps 23 Conclusions" All strategic and performance goals were met in FY 2008" No adverse performance trends identified" Enhancements to the ROP 24 List of Acronyms" AARM -Agency Action Review Meeting* AO -Abnormal Occurrence" ASP -Accident Sequence Precursor* CAL -Confirmatory Action Letter* EDO -Executive Director of Operations 25 List of Acronyms (cont)" FMSE" FY* GLD* IMC S IP" ITP-Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs-Fiscal Year-General Licensed Device-Inspection Manual Chapter-Inspection Procedure-Industry Trends Program 26 List of Acronyms (cont)" MD -Management Directive" NRC -Nuclear Regulatory Commission" PI -Performance Indicator" PI&R -Problem Identification and Resolution

• PRA -Probabilistic Risk Assessment" RII -Region II 27 List of Acronyms (cont)* RIV -Region IV" ROP -Reactor Oversight Process" SCCI- Substantial Cross-Cutting Issue" SDP -Significance Determination Process" SRM -Staff Requirements Memorandum 28 Palo Verde. Nuclear Generating Station May 2009 Randy Edington Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Arizona Public Service I-PLANT EQUIPME14T PFOptF (ORRECTIVE ACTION PROGRAM SAFETY KNOWLEDGE TRAINING N q WHUMANPERF.,'CONT.

LEARNING I COMMUNICATIONS I OVERSIGHT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS I ~g PRCDUE -NIERN E PROCRAMS,'PRO(FSSES MFTRICS GES -1 (CISTEFFECTIVENESS F LONG RANGE PLAN DEPARTMENTPLANS 2

3 Sustaining.

Continuous Improvement Beyond and Broader than CAL" Safety Culture* Industry Engagement" Planning-3-5 Year Site Integrated Business Plan-Long-Range Planning / Strategic Planning" Alignment to Mission, Values and Behaviors" Equipment-Top 10 Technical Issues-Minor Modifications" People-Hiring and Development Model-Staffing and Recruiting Strategies

-Succession Planning" Corrective Action Program 4 Sustaining Continuous Improvement Beyond and Broader than CAL* Knowledge

/ Training-Four-week Power Plant Fundamentals Course-Orientation Program-Oral Boards* Measures-Performance Indicators with Industry Targets-Self-Assessments and Benchmarking

-Trending and Analysis* Oversight-Management Review Meetings-Nuclear Assurance, Off-Site Safety Review Committee,'

Nuclear Oversight Committee-Plant Health Committee-Executive Challenge Boards* Communication Strategy 5 Hiring & Development Model Hiring for our future 70% -90%Sr .ig, Leve 6 Palo Verde Leadership Model~17AImw, 7 NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Update to Commission on N.FS' Safety Culture Improvem ent Plan May 14, 2009 Dave Kudsin, President 1 NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company A new beginning...

oSuccessful Acquisition oSmooth Transition 0Commitment to Safety Improving accountability through:-Increased Corporate Oversight-New Ethics Program o Resources Accessibility 2

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES.

INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Bottom Line Up Front Plan on-track-Challenge:

management of plan-Action: senior project manager assigned~Performance Indicators positive oSlower progress than plan in some areas o2011 goal achievable 3

= =NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Safety Culture Strategic Plan o Long Range Vision-Industry "best in class" safety culture by 2011 o Integrates findings of self assessment and third party assessment oActions to address each finding assigned a date and responsible manager 4 NUCL EAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Safety Culture Strategic Plan~mid Term: One Page Plan System-objectives with metrics-Action Plans with milestones oAnnuaI plan development.-workshop to develop Strategic Plan-Flows down to management:

3 to 4 levels o Monthly execution meetings-Review objectives (metrics) and action plans (milestones) 5

-.1 NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Project Management SummaryPlan on-track=93 commitments completed (46%)->70% complete by December 31, 2009-No overdue actions oActions effective-Need to develop comprehensive cultural change set of metrics for use in change assessment 6

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Human Performance (HuP)oAveragjng 12 days between HuP site-wide event clock resets oAlI operations personnel using HuP tools by year-end; security forces 2010 o Making conservative decisions ()Security overtime reduced 25%;staffing all-time high 7

""=NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Maintenance Backlog 250 200 150 100 50 0 Jun-05 Dec-05 Jun-06 Dec-06 Jun-07 Dec-07 Jun-08 Dec-08'Improving Long-term Plant Safety 8 NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES.

INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Employee Safety Awareness 750 600 450 _o_300I__150 0 -2005 2006 2007 2008'Lowering the Reporting Threshold vIncreasing Ownership

& Participation 9

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Employee Reported Problems 2200--1900 _ 0 t3-1 1600 T 1300 ---- _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _1000____ _700 -_400 -__ -_2006 2007 2008 r- Low ] Moderate 0 High Severity'Better Risk Management 10 NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Corrective Action Program 5.0 4.0 How satisfied are you with the overall process from initial identification of the problem through problem closure?c li I iU-U U U ...... .... * ..mll 0111-M U I U 3.0 Dec-07 Mar-08 Jun-08 Sep-08 Dec-08 Mar-09 mproving Employee Satisfaction 11 NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Safety Conscious.Work Environment 0 Successfully launched Employee Concerns Program (April 2009)o Enabled anonymous Corrective Action Program problem reporting (Oct 2008)12