ML13037A171

Notification of Inspection and Request for Information

ML13037A171
Person / Time
Site:	North Anna
Issue date:	02/01/2013
From:	Brian Bonser NRC/RGN-II/DRS/PSB1
To:	Heacock D Virginia Electric & Power Co (VEPCO)
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Download: ML13037A171 (8)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II 245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257 February 1, 2013 Mr. David A. Heacock President and Chief Nuclear Officer Virginia Electric and Power Company Dominion Nuclear Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060-6711

SUBJECT:

NORTH ANNA POWER STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Heacock:

On April 22-26, 2013, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will perform a baseline Occupational and Public Radiation Safety inspection at the North Anna Power Station, (NRC Inspection Procedure 71124.01, Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls, 71124.06, Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment , 71124.07, Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program and 71124.08, Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation and 71151 Performance Indicator Verification (Occupational and Public Radiation Safety Cornerstones).

Experience has shown that this inspection is resource-intensive 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. 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 Jay Lieberstein at (540) 894-2574 of your organization. Our inspection dates are subject to change based on your updated schedule of outage activities. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector Ruben Hamilton at (404) 997-4672 (ruben.hamilton@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, under control number 3150-0011. 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.

D. Heacock 2 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 NRC's 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/

Brian Bonser, Chief Plant Support Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-338, and 50-339 License No. NPF-4 and NPF-7

Enclosure:

Pre-Inspection Document Request cc: (See page 3)

ML13037A171 SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE FORM 665 ATTACHED OFFICE RII: DRS/PSB1 RII: DRS/PSB1 SIGNATURE /RA/ /RA/

NAME R. HAMILTON B. BONSER DATE 2/1/2013 2/1/2013 2/ /2013 2/ /2013 2/ /2013 2/ /2013 2/ /2013 E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO D. Heacock 3 cc:

Mr. Gerald T. Bischof Michael M. Cline Site Vice President Director North Anna Power Station Virginia Department of Emergency Services Virginia Electric & Power Company Management Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Fred Mladen Executive Vice President Director, Station Safety & Licensing Old Dominion Electric Cooperative Virginia Electric and Power Company Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution County Administrator Michael Crist Louisa County Plant Manager P.O. Box 160 North Anna Power Station Louisa, VA 23093 Virginia Electric & Power Company Electronic Mail Distribution Doug Smith President Lillian M. Cuoco, Esq. (Public Correspondence Only)

Senior Counsel Lake Anna Civil Association Dominion Resources Services, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Tom Huber Director, Nuclear Licensing & Operations Support Inssbrook Technical Center Electronic Mail Distribution Virginia State Corporation Commission Division of Energy Regulation P.O. Box 1197 Richmond, VA 23209 Attorney General Supreme Court Building 900 East Main Street Richmond, VA 23219 Senior Resident Inspector North Anna Power Station U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O. Box 490 Mineral, VA 23117 Donald R. Taylor Licensing Supervisor North Anna Power Station P. O. Box 402 Mineral, VA 23117-0402

Pre-Inspection Document Request Occupational and Public Radiation Safety Cornerstones Licensee: North Anna Power Station Docket Numbers: 50-338, and 50-339 Inspection Dates: April 22-26, 2013 Procedure: 71124.01 Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls 71124.06 Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment 71124.07 Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program 71124.08 Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation 71151 Performance Indicator Verification Note: The current version of these documents is expected unless specified otherwise.

Electronic media is preferred if readily available (The preferred file format is Word, WordPerfect, or searchable .pdf files on CDROM). Note that the inspectors cannot accept data provided on USB or flash drives due to NRC IT security policies. Please organize the information as it is arranged below to the extent possible. Experience has shown that a well organized CD leads to a more efficient inspection and lessens additional burden on licensee staff. During the inspection, the inspectors may request additional documents. If the licensee wishes to use an electronic document service such as CERTRAC or a Shareware portal the inspectors will try to accommodate for the documentation requested on-site. The initial documents should not require an internet connection to be reviewed.

Documents requested are referenced to last inspection date for that particular module.

If you have any questions, please call Ruben Hamilton at (404) 997-4672. Thank you in advance for your efforts in putting together this material.

General Information Needed

• Contact Phone Numbers for:

o Radiation Protection contacts o Chemistry contacts

• Procedure for issuing Nuclear Condition Reports (CR) and assessing issues for risk significance and follow-up actions.

• Updated Final Safety Analysis Report Chapters 11, Effluents/Radwaste; and Chapter 12 Radiation Protection.

• Current version/revision of the Offsite Dose Calculation Manual (ODCM).

• Annual Radiological Environmental Operating Report (AREOR) for Calendar Year (CY) 2011, and CY 2012.

• Annual Radiological Effluent Release Report (ARERR) documents for CY 2011, and CY 2012.

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• Current Part 61 Analysis Results for Dry Active Waste (DAW).

• Plant Management, Radiation Protection, and Chemistry organizational charts with contact numbers.

• Corrective action program procedure.

• Outage schedule of major activities (Gantt chart if available).

• Audits and self-assessments performed since the last inspection that encompasses the areas of (1) radiation protection, (2) access controls, (3) radiological effluents, (4) radiological environmental monitoring to include meteorological tower (5) solid radioactive waste processing and (6) shipping and transportation of radioactive material.

71124.01 - Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls (Last Inspected 3/30/12)

• List of outage RWPs.

• Plant maps of all Locked HRAs and VHRAs. Include areas with the potential to become a LHRA during routine operations or outages.

• Procedures related to HP controls (e.g. Posting, labeling, surveys, RWPs, contamination control, HRA/LHRA/VHRA control, key control, control of divers, special controls during fuel offload, hot spots, etc.).

• List of the 10 most exposure significant work areas within radiation areas, high radiation areas (<1R/hr), or airborne radioactivity areas in the plant. This may include areas with low dose rates but high collective dose. Identify any high radiation areas with significant dose gradients (factor of five or more), including underwater diving activities.

• Procedures related to release of personnel and materials (e.g. release surveys, decontamination, guidance for alarm follow up, etc.).

• List of Nationally Tracked Sources and any change-of-ownership transactions.

• List of all non-fuel items stored in spent fuel pool.

• All self-assessments or audits covering HP controls since March 30, 2012, (if none, then provide the most recent) LIST of CRs related to HP controls where the cause was listed as human performance (radworker error) or human performance (HP technician error) issued since March 30, 2012. This should be a list of corrective action documents containing a CR number and brief description, not full CRs.

• All CRs related to Nationally Tracked Sources since March 30, 2012.

71124.06 - Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment (Last Inspected 7/29/11)

• Provide Procedures/Guidance Documents for:

o collection, analysis, release and dose evaluations for gaseous and/or liquid effluents Include guidance for both batch and continuous modes o determination of set-points for main plant gaseous and liquid effluent discharge pathways

• Provide a list of any significant changes to the ODCM since July 29, 2011.

• Provide a list of significant changes to the radioactive effluent processing systems since July 29, 2011.

• Provide a list of any non-radioactive systems that have become contaminated since July 29, 2011.

• Provide a list of any abnormal gaseous or liquid releases identified since July 29, 2011.

• Provide last two gaseous effluent permits and last two liquid effluent permits.

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• Provide a list of 10 CFR 50.75(g) entries made since July 29, 2011.

• Provide system health reports for radiological effluent/process monitoring systems since July 29, 2011.

• Provide a list of the main liquid and gaseous effluent pathway process monitors listed as out-of-service (OOS) since July 29, 2011. [Note do not include monitors listed as OOS for less than 24 hour2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br />s]

• List of significant changes to the effluent monitoring program since July 29, 2011, as documented within the ODCM.

• Provide groundwater monitoring results since July 29, 2011.

• Inter-laboratory comparison program results (onsite count room) since July 29, 2011.

• Last 2 surveillance test results for Aux Building Ventilation and both upper and lower Containment Purge Ventilation systems on Unit 1. If advanced source term has not been adopted include last set of charcoal surveillances.

• Copies of all audits, self-assessments, and/or reviews of liquid and gaseous effluent monitoring program activities since July 29, 2011. The data should include any reviews conducted of vendor activities and their facilities.

• List of Nuclear Condition Report documents (SR and PER) generated since July 29, 2011, as a result of gaseous and liquid effluent processing and/or release activities including Engineered Safety Feature ventilation systems. [Note: only titles/summary statement should be provide for use by the inspectors to select a sample of issues for in-depth review]

71124.07 - Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program (REMP)

(Last Inspected 7/29/11)

Prior to the Onsite Inspection

• Provide Procedures/Guidance Documents for:

o collection and analysis of environmental samples o calibration and maintenance of REMP air and/or water samplers o calibration of meteorological monitoring instrument loop (wind speed & direction, air temperature sensors currently in use) o monthly/quarterly meteorological instrumentation surveillance requirements (control room and local tower activities)

• Records since July 29, 2011, for:

o calibrations of REMP air and water sampling equipment (as applicable) o meteorological monitoring instrument calibrations (wind speed & direction, air temperature) o detailed inter-laboratory comparison program results (environmental lab)

• Copies of all audits, self-assessments, and/or reviews of REMP activities. The data should include any reviews conducted of vendor activities and their facilities.

• List of systems, structures, or components (SSCs), identified as credible mechanism(s) having the potential for release of licensed material to the groundwater environs.

• List of significant REMP changes documented within the ODCM since July 29, 2011.

• List of Nuclear Condition Reports (SR and PER) generated as a result of REMP activities since July 29, 2011. [Note: only titles/summary statement should be provide for use by the inspectors to select a sample of issues for in-depth review]

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• Site and corporate procedures associated with radioactive waste processing and handling, storage, and transportation of radioactive material (RAM), including:

o Storage and handling of RAM including non-RCA and satellite RCA locations o Waste stream mixing, sampling, concentration averaging, and use of scaling factors o Monitoring impact of long-term storage (e.g. build up of gases produced by waste decomposition, chemical reactions, container deformation, loss of container integrity, re-release of free-flowing water) o Transferring of resin and/or sludge into shipping/disposal containers; dewatering and waste stabilization o Preparing packages and documentation for shipping radioactive materials o List of RAM storage areas, including satellite RCAs o Process Control Program

• List of changes to the radioactive waste processing systems since July 29, 2011, and copies of the associated 50.59 screening documentation.

• Log of radioactive material shipments (LSA I, II, IIII; SCO I, II, Type A, or Type B) since July 29, 2011. (The inspectors will select 3-5 packages to review in detail.)

• List of condition reports (SR and PER) generated since July 29, 2011, related to radioactive solid waste processing and packaging, handling, storage, and shipping of radioactive materials.

71151 - Performance Indicator (PI) Verification (Last Inspected 6/6/11)

• Monthly PI reports since March 30, 2012, and copies of associated condition reports for any RETS/ODCM Radiological Effluent occurrences.

• Liquid and gaseous effluent release permits, which specify the monthly, quarterly, and annual curies, released by isotope and associated public dose assessments since March 30, 2012.