ML14231A068

Notification of Inspection (NRC Inspection Report 05000482-14-005) and Request for Information

ML14231A068
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	08/19/2014
From:	Vincent Gaddy Division of Reactor Safety IV
To:	Heflin A Wolf Creek
References
IR-14-005
Download: ML14231A068 (9)

See also: IR 05000482/2014005

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION IV

1600 E. LAMAR BLVD.

ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511

August 19, 2014

Adam C. Heflin, President and

Chief Executive Officer

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

P.O. Box 411

Burlington, KS 66839

SUBJECT: WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION

(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000482/2014005) AND REQUEST FOR

INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Heflin:

From October 6 through October 10, 2014, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory

Commissions (NRC) Region IV office will perform the baseline biennial requalification program

inspection at Wolf Creek Generating Station, using NRC Inspection Procedure 71111.11B,

Licensed Operator Requalification Program. Experience has shown that this inspection is a

resource intensive inspection both for the NRC inspectors and your staff. In order to minimize

the impact to your on-site resources and to ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed a

request for documents needed for this inspection. These documents have been divided into

three groups. The first group (Section A of the enclosure) identifies information to be provided

prior to the inspection to ensure that the inspectors are adequately prepared. The second group

(Section B of the enclosure) identifies the information the inspectors will need upon arrival at the

site. The third group (Section C of this enclosure) identifies the items which are necessary to

close out the inspection and are usually sent a few weeks after the team has left the site. It is

important that all of these documents are up to date and complete in order to minimize the

number of additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the on-site portions of

the inspection.

We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff and understand

that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Ms. Lucille Rockers of your licensing

organization. Our inspection dates are subject to change based on your updated schedule of

examination activities. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material

requested, please contact the lead inspector Mr. Sean Hedger at (817) 200-1556

(Sean.Hedger@nrc.gov), Mr. Michael Kennard at (817) 200-1244 (Michael.Kennard@nrc.gov),

or Mr. Gabriel Apger (Gabriel.Apger@nrc.gov).

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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, control

number 3150-0018. 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 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).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket: 50-482

License: NPF-42

Enclosure:

Biennial Requalification Program Inspection Document Request

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DATE 8/15/2014 8/19/2014

Letter to Adam C. Heflin from Vincent G. Gaddy, dated August 19, 2014

SUBJECT: WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION

(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000482/2014005) AND REQUEST FOR

INFORMATION

Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Marc.Dapas@nrc.gov)

Deputy Regional Administrator (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)

Acting DRP Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)

Acting DRP Deputy Director (Michael.Hay@nrc.gov)

DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)

DRS Deputy Director (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (Charles.Peabody@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Raja.Stroble@nrc.gov)

WC Administrative Assistant (Carey.Spoon@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRP/B (Neil.OKeefe@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/B (David.Proulx@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer, DRP/B (Fabian.Thomas@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)

Project Manager (Fred.Lyon@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Geoffrey.Miller@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

ACES (R4Enforcement.Resource@nrc.gov)

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)

Technical Support Assistant (Loretta.Williams@nrc.gov)

Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)

RIV/ETA: OEDO (Anthony.Bowers@nrc.gov)

BIENNIAL REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST

FROM: Mr. Sean Hedger

Operations Engineer, NRC RIV

817-200-1556

TO: Mr. Brendan Ryan

Licensed Supervising Instructor, Operations Training -

Simulator and NRC Exams

Wolf Creek Generating Station

620-364-8831, ext. 5058

SUBJECT: INFORMATION REQUEST TO SUPPORT OCTOBER 6-10, 2014, LICENSED

OPERATOR REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM INSPECTION (IP 71111.11B)

A. The following information is requested in order to support inspection preparation

activities. These items are listed by section as they appear in the inspection module

(i.e., 2.02, 2.04, etc.). Requested materials should be sent either electronically or

hardcopy in order to arrive at the Region IV office no later than September 26, 2014.

• Electronically: via IMS Certrec or email (to Sean.Hedger@nrc.gov,

Gabriel.Apger@nrc.gov, and Michael.Kennard@nrc.gov)

• Hardcopy to: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV

1600 E. Lamar Blvd

Arlington, TX 76011

ATTN: Sean D. Hedger

General Requests:

• List of licensed operators, both senior reactor operator (SRO) and reactor

operator (RO), by crew (operating and staff).

• Training and Operations Department organization charts [with qualified licensed

operator requalification (LOR) evaluators identified].

• Procedures that identify process for revising and maintaining licensed operator

continuing training program up-to-date.

• List of outstanding LOR program changes.

• List of plant events and industry operating experience incorporated into LOR

program since last biennial requalification (BRQ) inspection.

• Audits and/or self-assessment reports addressing the licensed operator

requalification training program.

• Last two years of simulator review committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes.

• Last two years of curriculum review committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes.

Enclosure

02.03: Biennial Requalification Written Examination Quality

• The current and approved biennial written examination schedule.

• The current requalification cycle written examination results for both SRO & RO that

have already been administered up to the week prior to the inspection team arrival

on-site.

• All written examinations that have been approved for administration up to and

including the week before the inspection team is on-site. (This will need to have

adequate password protection if e-mailed or double envelope protection if mailed via

regular mail per NUREG-1021.)

• The current requalification cycle examination methodology (sample plan).

02.04: Annual Requalification Operating Test Quality

• The schedule for the operating tests [job performance measures (JPMs) & scenarios]

to be given the week of October 6, 2014 (week team is on-site).

• The operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) (password protected and provide separately

via telephone at later date) to be given the week of October 6, 2014 (week team is

on-site).

• Current requalification cycle operating tests (SRO & RO) and results up to the week

prior to the inspection team arrival on-site.

• All of the previous years NRC required annual operating tests.

• Current requalification cycle operating test methodology (sample plan).

• All portions of the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report that identify operator

response times for time critical operator actions.

02.05: Licensee Admin of Requalification Exams

• All procedures used to administer the annual operating test.

• All procedures used to assess operator performance.

• All procedures that describe conduct of simulator training.

• All procedures used to test, operate, and maintain the simulator.

02.06: Requalification Examination Security

• Submit any tracking tools that you use as a means to prevent excessive overlap on

the written examinations and also meet the intent of sampling all required topics on a

periodic basis.

• Submit any tracking tools that you use as a means to prevent excessive overlap on

the operating tests and also meet the intent of sampling all required malfunctions

(including major events, instrument/component malfunctions, technical specification

calls, etc.) on a periodic basis.

• All procedures that describe examination security, including procedures used to

develop the examinations that include guidelines on overlap between examinations

in current exam cycle tests and prior year examinations.

• List of all condition reports since the last biennial requalification inspection related to

examination security and overlap.

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02.07: Licensee Remedial Training Program

• List of remedial training conducted or planned since last requalification exams

(includes training provided to operators to enable passing requalification exams and

training provided to correct generic or individual weaknesses observed during

previous requalification exam cycle).

• Remediation plans (lesson plans, reference materials, and attendance

documentation).

02.08: Conformance with Operator License Conditions

• All procedures and program documentation for maintaining active operator licenses,

tracking training attendance, and ensuring medical fitness of licensed operators.

• All procedures and associated documentation that supports reactivation of any

SRO/RO license (operating or staff crew) since the last biennial inspection.

02.09: Simulator Performance

• For the following cases, send the most recent transient test packages, which may

be electronic or in paper single test packages and shall be complete with test

procedures for each test, the acceptance criteria, and results. For each transient

test, the reference chart should be included or an equivalent subject matter expert

review versus the simulator results with a write-up for any differences beyond the

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 3.5 standard requirements. Based

on the input that the licensee implements simulator testing standards per

ANSI 3.5-2009, provide this information for the following Transient and Steady

State tests:

o Transient test 2, Simultaneous trip of all feedwater pumps.

o Transient test 6, Main turbine trip from maximum power level which does not

result in immediate reactor trip.

o Transient test 10, Slow primary system depressurization to saturated condition

with pressurizer relief or safety valve stuck open (inhibit activation of high

pressure emergency core cooling system).

o Steady State tests for medium power test.

• All simulator management and configuration procedures if not already provided for

Section 02.05 above.

• Simulator Discrepancy Report (DR) summary list for all open DRs. For closed DRs,

summary list for those items closed between October 2012 and October 2014.

• Malfunction tests for loss of condenser vacuum and loss of normal feedwater normal

feedwater system failure. If these are in a scenario based training package then the

review of that package would be acceptable.

• Primary parameters tested in order to verify core physics parameters [such as

moderator temperature coefficient (MTC), integral rod worth (IRW)]. The applicable

reference graphs from the Plant physics data book (electronic or other means as

available) should also be included as well as the test procedures used and the

acceptance criteria with results.

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02.10: Problem Identification and Resolution

• A summary report of all condition reports related to operator actions/errors in the

control room.

• Any revised requalification training that was based on licensed operator performance

issues.

• Copies of Condition Reports 58233, 59491, 68711, 79701, 75336, 80353, and

82469.

• Copies of condition reports related to Licensee Event Reports (LERs) 2013-003-00,

2013-008-00, and 2014-001-00.

• Any causal analysis prepared to address the licensed operator performance issues

identified between 2012 and present, starting with the 2012 biennial requalification

exam failure rates Green finding.

B. The following information is requested in order to support the on-site inspection

activities. Requested materials should be available to the inspection team, either

electronically or hardcopy, upon site arrival on October 6, 2014.

02.02: Exam Results / 02.03 and 02.04: Written Exam and Op Test Quality

• All Operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) to be given in all subsequent weeks after

on-site week.

• All results up to the day the team leaves the site.

02.08: Conformance with Operator License Conditions

• Access to licensed operators records (operating and staff crews).

• Access to licensed operators training attendance records.

• Access to licensed operators medical records.

02.09: Simulator Performance

• Simulator discrepancies from October 2012 to October 2014. This should include all

open DRs and DRs that have been closed, including the documentation/justification

for closure.

• Acceptance test documentation, including hardware and software model revisions at

the time of acceptance (as available).

• Documentation that validates current models, including the thermal-hydraulics and

neutronics models, to the actual plant.

• All current model deficiencies, including Final Safety Analysis Report vs. Design

differences in the simulator (any documentation on this).

• Summary list of modifications from October 2012 to October 2014.

• Plant Modifications (both hardware and software) completed on the Simulator by due

date from October 2012 to October 2014.

• Simulator Differences Lesson plan used in training (current to October 6, 2014).

• The complete book of all Simulator annual performance test packages (usually in a

single book, but may be electronic or in single test packages), complete with all

transient tests, steady state tests, and malfunction tests. This should also include

the test procedures for each test, the acceptance criteria, and results. For each

transient test, the reference chart should be included or an equivalent subject matter

expert review versus the simulator results with a write-up for any differences beyond

the ANSI standard requirements.

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• All test packages used to verify core physics parameters (such as MTC, IRW). The

applicable reference graphs from the Plant physics data book (electronic or other

means as available) should also be included as well as the test procedures used and

the acceptance criteria with results.

• All simulator test, configuration management, and related documents available in the

room for inspectors to review. This includes training needs analysis packages,

simulator review committee meeting minutes, etc.

• Current copy of ANSI 3.5 standard you are committed to for simulator testing.

02.10: Problem Identification and Resolution

• All condition reports related to operator actions/errors in the control room.

C. Wolf Creek Generating Station is required to send the final results summary and any

remaining exams and operating tests that have not been reviewed to the regional

office lead inspector for this inspection for final review and comparison against the

Significance Determination Tools in order to communicate the exit results for the

inspection.

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