ML11209B829

Notification of Inspection (NRC Inspection Report 05000499-11-005 & 05000498-11-005) and Request for Information

ML11209B829
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	07/28/2011
From:	Mark Haire Operations Branch IV
To:	Halpin E South Texas
References
IR-11-005
Download: ML11209B829 (7)

See also: IR 05000498/2011005

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Mr. Halpin

UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGI ON I V

612 EAST LAMAR BLVD, SUITE 400

ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4125

July 28, 2011

Mr. Edward D. Halpin

President and

Chief Executive Officer

STP Nuclear Operating Company

P.O. Box 289

Wadsworth, TX 77483

SUBJECT: SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION (NRC

INSPECTION REPORT 050498;050499/2011005) AND REQUEST FOR

INFORMATION

Dear Mr.Halpin:

From September 12 through September 16, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory

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

inspection at South Texas Project Unit 1 and Unit 2 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 two groups. The first group (Section A of the enclosure) identifies information

to be provided one week prior to the onsite inspection week to ensure that the inspectors are

adequately prepared. The second group (Section B of the enclosure) identifies the information

that the inspectors will need upon arrival at 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 Mrs. Robyn Savage 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 Kelly Clayton at (817) 860-8216

(Kelly.clayton@nrc.gov) or Steve Garchow at (817) 276-4426 (Steve.garchow@nrc.gov ).

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/

Mark S. Haire, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Dockets: 50-498 and 50-499

Licenses: NPF-76 and NPF-80

Enclosure:

Inservice Inspection Document Request

Distribution via ListServ for South Texas Project

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Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov)

Deputy Regional Administrator (Art.Howell@nrc.gov)

DRP Director (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)

Acting DRP Deputy Director (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)

DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)

DRS Deputy Director (Tom.Blount@nrc.gov)

Acting DRS Deputy Director (Robert.Caldwell@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (John.Dixon@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Binesh.Tharakan@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRP/A (Wayne.Walker@nrc.gov)

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

Project Engineer, DRP/A (Christopher.Henderson@nrc.gov)

STP Administrative Assistant (Lynn.Wright@nrc.gov)

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

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

Project Manager (Balwant.Singal@nrc.gov)

Acting Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Dale.Powers@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)

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

OEMail Resource

Inspection Reports/MidCycle and EOC Letters to the following:

ROPreports

Only inspection reports to the following:

RIV/ETA: OEDO (John.McHale@nrc.gov)

DRS/TSB STA (Dale.Powers@nrc.gov)

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ADAMS No Yes SUNSI Review Complete Reviewer Initials: KDC

Category B.1 Publicly Available Non-sensitive

Category A Non-publicly Available Sensitive

SOE: OB C: OB

KClayton SGarchow for

MHaire

7/25/2011 7/28/2011

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BIENNIAL REQUALIFICATION INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST

From: Kelly Clayton

Senior Operations Engineer, NRC RIV

817-860-8216

To: Tim Hurley

Requal Supervisor, STP

361-972-8568

Subj: Information Request to Support September 12-16, 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

(ie 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 6, 2011.

• Electronically: To: Kelly.Clayton@nrc.gov (lead inspector)

Cc: Steve.Garchow@nrc.gov (inspector)

• Hardcopy to: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV

612 E. Lamar Blvd, Suite 400

Arlington, TX 76011

ATTN: Kelly Clayton

02.03: Facility Operating History

• List of LERs since last biennial requal inspection (BRQ)

• List of CRs since last biennial requal inspection

02.04: Licensee Requal Exams / 02.09: Written Exam and Op Test Results

• Current requalification cycle written examinations (SRO & RO) and results

• Current requalification cycle operating tests (SRO & RO) and results through August

26, 2011.

• Current requalification cycle examination methodology (sample plan)

• All portions of the UFSAR that identify operator response times

02.05: Licensee Admin of Requal Exams

• Schedule of operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) for week of September 12.

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• Operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) (password protected and provide separately via

telephone at later date) to be given week of September 12.

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

• Training and Operations Department organization charts (with qualified LOR

evaluators identified)

• All procedures that describe conduct of simulator training

• All Procedures used to test, operate, and maintain the simulator

• All Procedures that describe examination security, including guidelines on overlap

between examinations in current exam cycle tests and prior year examinations

• List of all examination security problems since last BRQ inspection

02.06: Licensee Feedback System

• 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

02.07: Licensee Remedial Training Program

• List of remedial training conducted or planned since last requal exams (includes

training provided to operators to enable passing requal exams and training provided

to correct generic or individual weaknesses observed during previous requal 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

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 last BRQ

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02.11: Conformance with Simulator Requirements

• 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 ANSI 3.5

standard requirements. The team lead should pick samples from the list in the ANSI

3.5 standard as deemed appropriate for the inspection. A few examples are listed

below:

o Transient test 1, Manual Rx trip

o Transient test 6, Main turbine trip (max power level with no immediate reactor

trip).

o Steady State tests for 50 percent power and 100 percent power

• All Simulator Management and Configuration Procedures.

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

summary list for those items closed between August 2009 and August 2011.

• Malfunction Tests for Stuck open PORV and Main Feed Line Break. If these are

included in an SBT package then the review of that package would be acceptable.

• MTC and IRW tests as part of primary parameters tested in order to verify core

physics parameters. 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 for these two samples.

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 September 12, 2011.

02.04: Licensee Requal Exams / 02.09: Written Exam and Op Test Results

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

onsite week

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

02.11: Conformance with Simulator Requirements

• Simulator discrepancies (DRs) from August 2009 and August 2011. This should

include all open DRs and DRs that have been closed, including the

documentation/justification for closure.

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• 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 August 2009 and August 2011.

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

date from August 2009 and August 2011.

• Simulator Differences Lesson plan used in training (current to August 30, 2011).

• 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.

• 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.

02.1X: Corrective Actions related to Operator errors

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

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