ML15027A299

Summary of Meeting with Tennessee Valley Authority Regarding Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2

ML15027A299
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Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	02/11/2015
From:	Justin Poole Watts Bar Special Projects Branch
To:	Tennessee Valley Authority
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SUMMARY

OF JANUARY 14,2015, MEETING WITH TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY REGARDING WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2 On January 14, 2015, a Category 1 public meeting was held between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and representatives of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) at NRC Headquarters, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The purpose of this meeting was for TVA to present the status of construction and licensing efforts for the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2 project. A list of attendees is enclosed.

TVA made a presentation to the NRC staff (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System Accession No. ML15016A042), which covered the following topics: construction completion status; projects risks; licensing topics; and special topics, including fire protection, cyber security, degraded voltage, and buried piping integrity programs. TVA stated that the estimated date to load fuel is June 17, 2015, and that completion of hot functional testing poses the most significant risk to the schedule. TVA discussed the proposed content of construction completion status letters, which would support licensing activities. Throughout the presentation, the NRC staff asked clarifying questions, with a focus on understanding TVA's schedule and those activities that could impact the schedule or pose a safety concern. The NRC staff also commented that an important factor in the staff being able to support TVA's estimated fuel load date, is for TVA to focus on providing high quality submittals and meeting the proposed schedule for those submittals in order to reach timely resolution of the remaining issues.

No regulatory decisions were made at the meeting. Several members of the public, including the press, were in attendance via teleconference and webinar. No Public Meeting Feedback forms were received.

Justin C. Poole, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 11-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-391

Enclosure:

List of Attendees cc w/enclosure: Distribution via Listserv

LIST OF ATTENDEES JANUARY 14.2015. MEETING WITH TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY REGARDING WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT. UNIT 2 Licensee: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Plant: Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. Unit 2

Subject:

Construction Status Date: January 14. 2015 Location: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Time: 2:00p.m.- 4:00p.m.

Headquarters. Room 0-16B4 NAME TITLE ORGANIZATION Deputy Regional Frederick Brown NRC/RII Administrator, Region II (RII)

Director, Office of Nuclear William Dean NRC/NRR Reactor Regulation (NRR)

Reactor Advisor to Patrick Castleman NRC/Office of the Commission Commissioner Svinicki Director, Division of Operating Michele Evans NRC/NRR/DORL Reactor Licensing (DORL)

Director, Division of William Jones NRC/RII/DCP Construction Projects (DCP)

Director, Division of John Lubinski NRC/NRR/DE Engineering (DE)

Deputy Director, Division of Jane Marshall NRC/NRR/DLR License Renewal (DLR)

Enclosure

NAME TITLE ORGANIZATION Senior Resident Inspector, Tomy Nazario NRC/RII Watts Bar, Unit 2 Chief, Watts Bar Special Jessie Quichocho NRC/NRR/DORL/LPWB Projects Branch (LPWB)

Senior Project Manager, Justin Poole NRC/NRR/DORL/LPWB Watts Bar, Unit 2 Project Manager, Watts Bar, Jeanne Dion NRC/NRR/DORLILPWB Unit 1 Chief, Construction Projects Robert Haag NRC/RII/DCP/CPB3 Branch 3 Senior Construction Project Christopher Even NRC/RII/DCP Inspector NRC/Office of New Reactors/Division Senior Reactor Operations Daniel Pasquale of Construction Inspection and Engineer Operational Programs Office of Nuclear Security and John Rycyna Cyber Security Specialist Incident Response/Cyber Security Directorate Senior Fire Protection Daniel Frumkin Engineer, Division of Risk NRC/NRR/DRA Assessment (ORA)

Charles Moulton Fire Protection Engineer NRC/NRR/DRA Senior Level Advisor for Allen Hiser License Renewal Aging NRC/NRR/DLR Management

NAME TITLE ORGANIZATION Christopher Hovanec Materials Engineer NRC/NRR/DLR Vice President Nuclear Joe Shea TVA Licensing TVA Director, Watts Bar Gordon Arent TVA Licensing Watts Bar Vice President, Paul Simmons TVA Unit 2 Start Up Watts Bar, Unit 2 Electrical Steven A. Hilmes and Instrumentation and TVA Control Design Engineering Specialist, Watts Frank Koontz TVA Bar, Unit 2 Bob Williams Fukushima Program Manager TVA Watts Bar, Unit 2 Bill Crouch Mechanical/Nuclear TVA Engineering Manager Scott Brooks Communications Specialists TVA Watts Bar Dual Unit Joe Calle TVA Transition Manager Mark Anderson Principal Conger-Eisea

NAME TITLE ORGANIZATION Chris Chandler

• General Council TVA Chief, Aging Management of Dennis Morey

• Reactor and Mechanical NRC/NRR/DLR/RARB Systems Branch (RARB)

Matthew Bandyk

• Reporter SNL Financial Chris Charles

• Editor, Writer Nuclear Energy Institute Michael Blake

• Reporter Nuclear News Brittany Theis

• Member of Public High Risk Energy Choices Sara Barczak

• Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Program Director Daniel Chalk

• Light Water Reactor Scientist Department of Energy Construction Project Adam Wilson

• Rll Inspector Chief, Engineering Branch 1 NRC/RII/Division of Reactor Michael King *

(EB1) Safety/EB1

• By telephone

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