ML13154A433

RE-Notification of Inspection (NRC Inspection Report 05000483-13-004) and Request for Information

ML13154A433
Person / Time
Site:	Callaway
Issue date:	06/03/2013
From:	Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV
To:	Heflin A Union Electric Co
References
IR-13-004
Download: ML13154A433 (7)

See also: IR 05000483/2013004

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UNITE D S TATE S

NUC LEAR RE GULATOR Y C OMMI S SI ON

R E G IO N I V

1600 EAST LAMAR BLVD

AR L I NGTON , TEXAS 7 601 1- 4511

June 3, 2013

Mr. Adam C. Heflin, Senior Vice

President and Chief Nuclear Officer

Union Electric Company

P.O. Box 620

Fulton, MO 65251

SUBJECT: CALLAWAY PLANT - RE-NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION (NRC

INSPECTION REPORT 05000483/2013004) AND REQUEST FOR

INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Heflin:

In a letter, dated May 6, 2013, we informed you that inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory

Commissions (NRC) Region IV office would be onsite to perform the baseline biennial

requalification inspection from June 24 through 28, 2013. Callaway Plant has since informed

the NRC that their annual requalification operating test cycle will be delayed by approximately

seven weeks. This letter establishes new dates for the NRCs onsite inspection and supersedes

our letter of May 6, 2013.

From August 26 through 30, 2013, inspectors from the NRCs Region IV office will perform the

baseline biennial requalification inspection at Callaway Plant 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 onsite 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 the 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 onsite 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 Mr. Juan Cortez of your training

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 Thomas Farina, lead inspector, at 817-200-1117

(thomas.farina@nrc.gov) or Kelly Clayton at (817) 200-1216 (kelly.clayton@nrc.gov).

Mr. A. Heflin -2-

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: 50-483

License: NPF-30

Enclosure:

Biennial Requalification Inspection Document Request

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ADAMS No Yes SUNSI Review Complete Reviewer Initials: TJF

Publicly Available Non-publicly Available Sensitive Non-sensitive

OE:OB C:OB

TFarina VGaddy

/RA/ /RA/

5/29/2013 5/29/2013

BIENNIAL REQUALIFICATION INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST

TO: Juan Cortez

Operations Training Manager, Callaway Plant

314-225-4642

FROM: Thomas Farina

Operations Engineer, NRC RIV

817-200-1117

SUBJECT: INFORMATION REQUEST TO SUPPORT AUGUST 26-30, 2013, 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 August 16, 2013.

• Electronically: TO: Thomas.Farina@nrc.gov

cc: Kelly.Clayton@nrc.gov

Chris.Steely@nrc.gov

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

1600 E. Lamar Blvd

Arlington, TX 76011

ATTN: Thomas Farina

General Requests:

• Index of the materials provided in response to this request.

• List of licensed operators (SRO & RO) by crew (operating & staff)

• Training and Operations Department organization charts (with qualified LOR

evaluators identified)

• Procedures that identify process for revising and maintaining LO 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 BRQ

• 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 CRC (or equivalent) meeting minutes

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

onsite, if any.

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

including the week before the inspection team is onsite, if any. 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 (JPMs & scenarios) to be given the week of

August 26, 2013.

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

via telephone at later date) to be given the week of August 26, 2013.

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

prior to the inspection team arrival onsite.

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

• Current requalification cycle operating test methodology (sample plan)

• All portions of the UFSAR 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

• An index for referencing the above procedures.

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, TS 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

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)

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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

• All Simulator Management and Configuration Procedures if not already provided for

section 02.05 above.

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

summary list for those items closed between June 25, 2011, and August 25, 2013.

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

B. The following information is requested in order to support the onsite inspection

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

electronically or hardcopy, upon site arrival on August 26, 2013.

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

onsite 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 (DRs) from June 25, 2011, to August 25, 2013. 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 FSAR vs. Design differences in the simulator

(any documentation on this)

• Summary list of modifications from June 25, 2011, to August 25, 2013.

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

date from June 25, 2011, to August 25, 2013.

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• Simulator Differences lesson plan used in training (current to August 25, 2013).

• 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 3.5 standard requirements.

• 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. Callaway Plant 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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