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ORIGIs y fCWffg57a o                              UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF:                                DOCKET NO:
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS SUBCOMMITTEE ON GENERIC ITEMS
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PUBLIC NOTICE BY THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIONERS' ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1987 The contents of this stenographic transcript of the proceedings of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), as reported herein, is an uncorrected record of the discussions recorded at the meeting held on the above date.
No member of-the ACRS Staff and no participant at this meeting accepts any responsibility for errors or inaccuracies of statement or data contained in'this transcript.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission 6                                                          . Room 1046' 1717 H Street, N.W.
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The subcommittee meeting convened at 8:30 a.m..
10 g          ACRS MEMBERS PRESENT:
12                            -DRA CHESTER P. SIESS, Presiding 13                              DR. DADE W. MOELLER 14                              DR. FORREST J. REMICK MR. J        C. EBERSOLE 15 MR. CARLYLE MICHELSON 16 DR. CHARLES J. WYLIE 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
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(/                                                                                l 2              DR. SIESS:      The meeting will come to order.
3              This is a meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on 4 Generic Items.
5              I am Chet Siess, Subcommittee Chairman.            The 6 other members in attendance today, reading from left to 7 right:  Ebersole, Moeller, Remick, Wylie.        And Michelson is 8 in the building, and I'm sure will be in eventually.
9              The purpose of the meeting'is to discuss the 10 Staff's process involved in identifying, prioritizing, 11 resolving and implementing generic issues and unresolved 12 safety issues to determine the effectiveness of this
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14              We will also devote some time to the SIMS, the 15 Safety Issues Management System.
16              Sam Duraiswamy is the cognizant Staff engineer 17 for the meeting.        He is seated on my right. The rules for 18 participation in the meeting were announced as part of the 19 Federal Register Notice.        A transcript is being kept and 20 will be made available, as stated in the Federal Register 21 Notice.
22              I don't need to remind you that each speaker 23 should first identify himself or herself and use the 24 microphone, so that they can be readily heard and so that 25 the transcript will show who was speaking.
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3            Gentlemen, the issue we are addressing originated 4 in a letter from the Chairman of the Commission.
5            First, let me say that you have all gotten a 6 package of stuff from Sam.          You've got a status report on 7 the top of it, and as usual, it is an excelle'nt status 8 report. It tells you exactly what we're trying to do and 9 how we got there.
10            You will recall in the letter from Chairman Zech 11 to Chairman Ward last September listing areas of which the 12 Commission asked us to concentrate during the next year, one
(~          13 of those was to advise the Commission in the effectiveness V) 14 and correctness of direction.
15            I'm sorry.      I'm reading the wrong one.
16            Advise the Commission on the effectiveness of 17 programs which address generic and unresolved safety issues.
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18            I wasn't quite sure what he meant.          So at a 19 meeting we had with the Commissioners in December, this was 20 on the agenda, and I summarized briefly that we have been 21 looking at USIs and some of the generic issue 22 prioritization, and in effect, asking what the Commissioners 23 wanted from us, what they meant by effectiveness.            I said if 24 effectiveness means how efficiently the Staff has been 25 working on this or how effectively they've been working on
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2            Another measure of effectiveness would be the 3 extent to which the resolution of generic issues has 4 increased safety.
5            And I was sort of hoping they would pick one or 6 the other and tell us that's what they meant.                Instead, 7 after a fair amount of discussion, which digressed from that 8 issue, Zech came back and said, what I said in mind on 9 effectiveness is both subjects that you bring up.                I am 10 asking the ACRS to see whether you felt that the generic and 11 unresolved safety issues were making progress.                And I had 12 given them some statistics on that earlier in the meeting.                l
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14            The second part, though, I think, also I had in 15 mind was, are they increasing safety?            Are we making a 16 contribution to increased safety?
17              So essentially, he left it both.            He also 18 mentioned or asked whether we had a briefing on the Safety 19 Issues Management System, the SIMS program.
20              Pollowing that meeting, we got some information 21 on SIMS, and I think it was sent out to everybody and all 22 the ACRS, wasn't it?
23              Now, as a first stop in this thing, we had an 24 informal meeting, not a subcommittee mooting.                I and Sam met 25 with four people from the Staff, most of whom are here, I
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3            I asked about the process.            Sam has just 4 distributed some minutes from that meeting, and I'm not 5 going to repeat, but some of the questions we asked were, 6 how do we decide which issues need to be prioritized, how 7 long does it take to resolve a generic issue.                And they said 8 they don't keep track of that.
9            I had a few questions about how they implemented 10 generic issue resolutions, plant by plant.              That is pretty 11 much up to the project manager to negotiate with the 12 utility.
13            Then I raised three questions that we tried to
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14 answer in susequent meeting.          One is, are all the important 15 generic issues prioritized fast enough?            This was a point 16 Carl Michelson had raised about issues that were not yet 17 prioritized, but there are some in there that were really 18 important, and how do you set priorities before you set                    i 19 priorities?    In a formal system, that might be difficult, 20 but common sense ought to tell you that some things are more 21 important than others.
22            Are all the high priority issues resolved fast 23 enough, and how long does it take to implement the resolved 24 issues?
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r 0960 01 01                                                                      6 AVbw    1  within a two-meeting framework.              First, to look at the 2  process. That is what this meeting is intended to do.
3                As is obvious, I think, the process involves four 4  steps. Generating generic issues or identifying generic 5  issues, assigning priorities tc them, developing a 6  resolution and then implementing them as required on 7  operating plants or plants under construction or what have 8  you.
9                The first three steps -- the first step, the 10  identification.        Everybody is involved -- NRR, ACRS, 11  Research, presumably.
  ,_s        12                The second two steps, priorities and resolutions,
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13  are now a function of one or more branches of Research and 14  implementation is a function of NRR.              So we have a process 15  that is fragmented, probably by necessity.              But in order to 16  look at it, we are going to have to talk to quite a few 17  people. We made an attempt to find one person on the Staff 18  to tell us everything we wanted to know about generic 19  issues. And that person doesn't exist.
20                So what we've proposed then is that this meeting 21  review essentially an overview of the whole pictures as best 22  we can get it from one person.              Look at the prioritization, 23  resolution and implementation and then look at the safety 24  issue management system, which the Commission asked us to
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4              I thought the next step might be looking at 5  particular issues and following it through the process that 6  would look at the efficiency of the process, how fast they
,            7- get through.
8              And of course, some of them take years, like 9  ATWS. Some may be a lot faster.
10              If there is anything that gets low, that's 11  prioritized, it's dispond of rather quickly.
12              The other thing we want to look at is the 13  implementation, because until they're implomonted, 14  obviously, there's no improvement in safety.        Implementation 15  is handled by NRR.      We've boon told by the project manager, 16  one thought I had was at that stage, we might want to get 17  some representative plants in -- we can't have too many, 18  because we haven't got the time -- and let them tell us how 19  they work implementation programs, not only involving 20  generic issues, but plant-specific issues and utility-21  originated issues.
22              That may sound like ISAP or whatever, but one 23  concern I think some of us have is that multiple generic 24  issues, handled one by one, may not be effectively handled,            )
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3            That's all of the implementation.          But that's the 4 important thing.
5            Now I have some concern, personally, about what 6 we're doing in looking at the process.
7            It seems to me that is something that might well 8 be done by the Internal Audit of the Commission.              I'm not 9 sure it's really our job to tell the Commission how 10 efficiently their people are working, although we may have 11 some opinions.
12            In fact, GAO did an audit in 1984 that I thought 13 was pretty good.        It says, you haven't got a tracking O            14 system. So immediately they put in SIMS, which I think is a 15 good system. Whether SIMS has made anything any different, 16 I don't know.      You can tell where things are.        I'm not sure 17 they're going any faster or any slower because of it.
,              18            Now Jesse has asked earlier about plant-specific 19 items. Now that is not part of our charge.          There are 20 thousands of plant-specific items out there.          But SIMS does 21 track plant-specific items as well as generic items.
22 Presumably, a project manager can follow all of the items 23 that are outstanding for a given plant, and how those are 24 integrated, I don't know.
25            Jesse?
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4              DR. SIESS:      That is exactly what I am 5 considering.      That is at the implementation end.                  A lot of 6 this meeting is going to be devoted to the process of 7 getting there.
8              I think if we find problems in the system, we 9 ought to know where they arise.                So we set this thing up~to 10 look at the pecess.        I am not too comfortable with that, 11 because I would rather see somebody else looking at'the 12 process. The auditor, for example.                But if we are going to    ,
13 go through to the next stop of implomontation, I don't think O          14 we can wait for somebody olso to look at the process.                      'I 15 don't think there's a whole lot wrong with the process up to 16 the point of implementation.- We have looked at it to some 17 extent. I don't know that there's anything wrong with the 18 implomontation.        No don't know.                                        i-19              MR. MICilELSON:          I have a comment on the process 20 before implomontation.          Over the last year or so, I
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j                  4      end in two piles.                  One you can solve and one it's going to i
1 5      take a while.
6                        And I really question that process, but I'see it                                        .
7      quit often in the last year and a half or so.
8                        DR. SIESS:            The argument for that is, you do what                            ,
9      you can.
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j                10                        MR. MICHELSON:                True.          But it begins to become 11      funny though when people say, oh, that issue has been j                12      resolved, but no, only a part of that issue was resolved.
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16                        DR. SIESS:            I think we have a problem in thinking                              '
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4 l                19                        Those things aren't making plants any safer.
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.                21      and procedures are something else.
i                22                        MR. MICHELSON:                I think what is happening, j                23      though, in the process of looking at these generic issues i
l                24      and discussing them, we're beginning to understand the 25        issue, perhaps, which wasn't the case at the time the issue t
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C'          2 realize that it is maybe a bigger issue, instead of trying 3 to divided it up, I guess, into manageable pieces.
4            DR. SIESS:      I think what you are talking about 5 has a number of problems attached to it.        One is that the 6 fractional implementation may not lead to the best solution.
7            MR. MICHELSON:        This is a difficulty, yes.
8            DR. SIESS:    And the whole tracking process, the 9 accountability process, in which somebody keeps saying, what 10 progress are you making on generic issues, sort of loads you 11 to divido up into little packages, so that you can say, yes, 12 this one is resolved.      Somebody is looking at numbers.
13            I'll admit, it is easier to look at numbers.
O          14 There are lots of pieces of paper out here with lists of how 15 many we did last year and how many now ones and all of that 16 stuff. Thoco lists aren't making anything any safer.
17            I really think it is more important for us to see 18 what's being dono in implementation, almost plant by plant, 19 a caso history type of thing and look at particular plants 20 and look at what the history was of implementation, how it 21 was integrated with other fixes, because those things are 22 separato. You are right, Carl, there is a tendoney to do 23 that, but tendoney for us to soo would be whether the system 24 pushes in that direction.
25            MR. MICHELSON:        I just laid it on the table to be 1
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2                          DR. SIESS:                    We used to.say, when we had our own 3    list of generic issues, make it a generi~c issue, and it will 4    .never get done.
l                              5                          There is a pressure to get.something done.
4 6    So.....
7                          MR. MICHELSON:.                                  I had two comments in the t
[                              8'    implementation area.                            One you already touched on.                                                              We are 9    beginning to see several issues being almost the same issue.
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1                          10        in a little different context and the integration of these                                                                                                                                '
}-                          11        resolutions are to be done more carefully perhaps.                                                                                          We are
{                          12        trying to get them one at a time, out of the way, when yet 13        they interplay with each other.                                                      System interactions.                                                                                '
(:)                14        interplay with control systems.                                                                                                                                                          :
15                            DR. SIESS:                    Decay heat removal and station i                                                                                                                                                                                                                              !
16        blackout.
17                            MR. MICHELSON:                                  There's quite,an interplay, 18        because we are narrowing down to a- set that is dif ficult to
)                          19        handle.          I just want to lay it on the table.                                                                                                                                    ;
20                              The other thing is, I am a little concerned about 1                          21        the fact that for new plants, we are using a cut-off time                                                                                                                                  ,
l 22        like July or June of last year.                                                      Issues after that point                                                                              l 23        don't count in thesame way that they have to address the
,l                          24        issues prior to last June.
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''            2  and designs are developed, that we have to continue t7 3  recognize the resolutions of new issues until such time as 4  there is a reasonable cut-off.              I think it is unreasonable E  to talk about last July for plants being really seriously 6  designed several years from now.                Yet that is what we are 7  doing on the EPRI work.        That is what we are proposing to do 8  on other advanced designs.
9                DR. SIESS:      I am sure that comes under resolution 10  and implementation, because I think resolution involves 11  setting the scope.
12                MR. MICHELSON:        Really, what my comment is 13  directed towards is this problem of partial implementation.
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\J            14  We had an issue prior to last July that is supposed to be 15  addressed for advanced plants.              Last July, perhaps wo 16  resolved part of the issue and called the issue resolved and 17  created a now issue with the residual that we didn't resolve 18  last year.
19                That residual isn't covered, and I think it ought 20  to be, just like the original issue.
21                MR. MINNERS:      Are you saying partially resolved 22  or partially implemented?
23                DR. SIESS:      Partially implemented.            I think the 24  best way to look at that would be by taking a particular 25  issue, looking at it.        We've got tentative lists of issues (n_)
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3            MR. MICHELSON:        This is an example for advanced 4 reactors. There are these considerations as opposed to 5 present reactors.
6            I just want to lay it on the table.
7            DR. SIESS:      That is something we will hear about 8 during this meeting too, but again, it seems to me that 9 somewhere we've got to look at selected issues.                We 10 obviously can't look at all of them.              Let's face it, USI's.
11 We've looked at every USI.          This committee-has been 12 reviewing overy USI and following every USI and has approved 13 the resolution of every USI except one, I believe, Sam O'          14 picked out. And that was spent fuel pools, for some reason.
15            We haven't been doing that for generic issues.
16 All we've been doing on generic issues is looking at the 17 priorities, which is important, because if it ends up lower, 18 it probably doesn't get done.            But after that, we haven't 19 looked at them.        Many of them don't come back to us to look 20 at, and I'm not sure we're over going to have time to look 21 at all the generic issues, but I think we're going to have 22 to look at particular issues to get the specifics of what 23 you're bringing up now, both in terms of a resolution which 24 would indicate the schedule and what it is applicable to and 25 the implementation when that issue gets dumped out there on
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2            MR. MICHELSON:      Systems interaction is a good one 3 to look at as an example, where they are breaking it into 4 pieces, some of.which are manageable and are, therefore, 5 called the resolution and some which are recognized as being 6 more than they can handle today.            So they say, well, let's 7 create a new issue out of it.
l 8            As a result, system interaction for new plants 9 doesn' t get handled properly, because they are using the l
10 resolution of the part that they know about now and not the 11 rest of it.
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l              12            DR. SIESS:    I am not quite sure what the problem 13 is there. Would you prefer that they don't consider it l              14 resolved until the whole thing is resolved?
15            MR. MICHELSON:      In that particular case, yes.
(              16            MR. WYLIE:    I think the reason to do that is the i
17 criticism they get on audits, that you are not making any                  l l              18 progress until you resolve them.            So there's a pressure to 19 resolve them.
l              20            MR. MICHELSON:      Sure.
21            MR. WYLIE:    So they get out what they can.
l 22            DR. SIESS:    From a technical point of view, an 23 engineering point of view, we would be better off. defining 24 an issue broad enough at the beginning, so that its 25 resolution will do some good and sticking with it until it's l
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3            MR. MICHELSON:        That is'the part I think we want 4 to talk about.
5            MR. WYLIE:      This point Carl brought up about 6 integrating a number of issues takes time.              If you take the 7 time to do that, then you don't show progress or you are 8 going to be criticized by the audit people.
9            DR. SIESS:      That is why I think our emphasis
,            10 should be on what's being done in the plants to improve 11 safety, and then through this other part to see -- you know, 12 I think we can't ignore the process.              I don't see any way we 13 can start in on this problem without looking at the process O          14 of who is doing what.
15            I think the result is influenced by the process, 16 but I would hope that our only criticisms of the process 17 relate to how it affects the results and not how it affects 18 congressional oversight.
19            MR. MICHELSON:        That is the very point we need to 20 get into. If there some mechanism of implementing a partial 21 resolution without saying the issue is resolved.                    Right now f
22 they say the issue is resolved, even though it is only 23 partially resolved and the rest of it is spun off as a new 24 issue.
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    'DAVbw                                I    where they are using last year's data as the cut-off point 2    for resolution of issues.                      It makes a bit difference.
f 3                      HD)R. SIESS:          You are saying the difference is that i
4    some future reactor may or may not be subject to that 5    resolution.
6                        MR. MICHELSON:              For instance.
                                          .7                        DR. SIESS:          Let's see.                      Staff might be thinking i-8    of some examples on that with you.
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9                        MR. MICHELSON:              Systems interaction is a prime i
2 10    example.
f                                          11                        DR. SIESS:          And we can take it up.                                                  That is a i
12    good point.
i                                          13                        Other comments?              Dade?
(                                      14                        DR. MOELLER:          I had one or two and, of course, 15    many during the discussion, but the GAO report says "Only                                                                        '
16    the Commission can designate USI."
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18    the Commissioners --
19                        MR. MINNERS:          They mean the Commissioners.
20                        DR. MOELLER:          If they meant the Commissioners, 21    which is true, why didn't the list of people who can j                                          22    identify USIs include the Commissioners.                                                            It doesn't.
j                                          23                        DR. SIESS:          Where was the list?
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2              DR. SIESS:      I think we were concentrating on 3 generic issues there, not USIs.
4 4              DR. MOELLER:      Okay.      Maybe that was it.
5              DR. SIESS:      I don't intend to spend much time on 6 USI's. We've reviewed every USI from one end to-the other.
7              DR. MOELLER:      Can the commissioners identify 8 generic issuos?
9              DR. SIESS:      I am sure they can.          I doubt if they 10 over have.      Anybody can identify them.
11              DR. MOELLER:      Let me give an example.
12 Earthquakes and emergency planning.                I don't know who it 13 was, but I recall reading the Commissioner's statement, O                                                                        14 where they said that for Diablo Canyon, carthquakes --
15              DR. SIESS:      Well, that was a policy statomont.
!                                                                                                16              DR. MOELLER:      It was a policy statement.              They 17 said it will be treated generically.                We will not treat 18 carthquakes and emergency planning on a plant-by-plant 19 basis. Okay.        So that is one "for instance."
20              The other thing, in terms of identification, and 21 we're talking today about the process, they, of course, have 22 identified control room habitability.                But I wonder thoro, 23 we have the AEOD report on the tromondous impact of high 24 temperatures on circuit boards.              Woll, is that a subpart of 25 control room habitability, or is it not a genoric issue yet?
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4  curious as to how long it takes for it to~make it.
5                  DR. SIESS:      I think the question there is, does 6  AEOD have to say we want this to be a generic issue, or does 7  somebody pick up on that report?                                                              '
1 8                  DR. MOELLER:          Right.
                -9                  MR. MICHELSON:            -Is there an actual process in l              10  which almost any individual can go through a declaration of 1
i              11  a potential generic issue?
j              12                  DR. SIESS:      Let's see.            Was that office letter j
13  just on the USIs?          The offico letter is on generic issues.
14  Well, we will cover that when the timo comes.
15                  DR. MOELLER:          One last,.just general item.                      The l
16  GAO report, of course, recommended that Congress modify the 17  Energy Reorganization Act of '74.                    I wonder. Did Congress
,              18  change it at all?
19                  DR. SIESS:      No.
1 20                  VOICE:      It was modified in 1977.            Paragraph
;              21  210(c) defines unrosolved safety issues.
22                  DR. MOELLER:          So they did.        Thank you.
23                  DR. SIESS:      Thoro is an annual report to Congress 24  on USIs.
,              25                  VOICE:      That was required by the Division.
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,                            DAVbw                          1                          DR. MOELLER:                    Then that was a responso.                                                                                Thank i; [U                          l      ,
2      you.
2 3                          DR. SIESS:                  I assume that Zech meant USI's, as t'
4      well as generic issues, but I thought, you know, we've never l                                                              5      had any problems with USI identification, and we certainly                                                                                                                          .
6        followed those very closely.
7                          Now whether the lovel is adequate is something
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{                                                  10                                    DR. MOELLER:                    No.
11                                    As I say, I have a host                                                                                      .
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;                                                  12                20.          I would like to hear how that becomes an issue.
l                                                  13                                    DR. SIESS:                  Is it an issue?
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!.                                                14                                    DR. MOELLER:                    Yes.                                  Well, maybe it says "to be i
}                                                  15                datormined" or something.
t l                                                  16                                    DR. SIESS:                Forrest?
17                                    DR. REMICK:                  Chet, I agroo.                                                                        I don't think we i
4                                                  18                should delvo heavily into the process with a couple i
i                                                  19                oxceptions.            I think there is a question of how long does it
;                                                  20                take priorities to be set on generic issues.                                                                                                      That might be
;                                                  21                something that we should look at, and the question that Carl l
{                                                22                  raises about fragmenting, I'think, is one that perhaps wo J
l                                                23                should hear more about.                              I don't necessarily agree with                                                                                                  ,
,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        i 1                                                  24                Carl's concern, but-maybe if I saw a few specific casos, I                                                                                                                          ,
25                would be concerned about that.
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3                                                              DR. REMICK:                                                Right.      And then your statement that 4                    only what you do to the plant improves safety, I would just 5                      like to interject that sometimes what you don't do to the 6                    plant is important for safety too.
7                                                              DR. SIESS:                                            Charlio?
8                                                              MR. WYLIE:                                            No.
9                                                              MR. EBERSOLE :                                                Dade, I cortainly would think 10                    habitability would includo environmental adequacy of 11                      oquipment.                                I thought habitability was rostricted to just 12                    personnel.
13                                                              DR. SIESS:                                            That is a question of fact, Josso.
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14                    We can ask it.
15                                                              DR. MOELLER:                                                And it is liko'what Carl says:
16                      let's integrato it.
17                                                              DR. SIESS:                                            Well, do you want to integrato it and 18                    delay it, or do you want to do the one you know how to do?
19                                                              MR. MICHELSON:                                                    Let's at least understand what wo 20                      are dealing with, what the process is.
21                                                              DR. SIESS:                                                I think Carl's question has two 22                      points.                              I think the question of splitting an issuo and 23                    doing now what noods to bo dono now, can be dono now, thoro 24                      is nothing wrong with it.                                                                                But his concern is how it is a                            25                      applied to other designs.                                                                                Somotimos doing what is logical Acn FnDERA1. REPonTnas, INC.
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3            Okay, then.      I think wo will procood with the 1
l              4 agenda.
l l              5            Warren Minners has offered to provido an overview 6 of the process all the way through; right?
i 7            MR. MINNERS:      No.
8            (Laughter.)
9            DR. SIESS:      It says here "Implomontation.",
10            MR. MINNERS:      We still havo not found the ono l
11 person who can answer all your questions on generic issuos.
12 Wo are going to have three or four peoplo here to try to 13 answor all thoso questions.
O          14            (Slido.)
15            I am Warron Minnors, Deputy Director of Research.
16 Thomis Spois can't be here today.              I am taking over for him 17 to givo an overview on the generic issuo process.                Then wo 18 will go on to some of the people who will discuss differont l
l 19 parts as outlined in the agonda.
20            I do want to thank you for the attention that you 21 have paid to gonoric issuos.            I think gonoric issues woro l
l            22 noglected in the past and nobody asked any questions.
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24 ato wo working very hard on it?            I think that produced an 25 attitudo, and I think you should be asking questions.                      l O
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(/)        2 problem areas, hopefully, without too much ombarrassment, 3 but the purposo of this is to try to got a bottor program, 4 and you can't got a botter program unlosa you understand the 5 problems.
6              So we are going to try to identify the problems.
7 I don't want to point fingers at anybody, but wo do want to 8 try to soo if we can find solutions for the problems.
9              Dr. Sioss talked about the process and his little 10 bit of trepidation in going and looking at some of the 11 administrativo details.
12              If I may make a mild criticism of the ACRS, I 13 think probably because of your backgrounds, you tend to
(          14 focus on the technical issuos, but my experience of the ''~~
15 Commission has boon that the process is very important, and 16 if you don't follow the procons, you are not going to got 17 good technical resolutions.              That happoned with a lot of our 18 technical stuf f in the past.              Wo didn't have a good procoon, 19 and I think because of the bad processos, wo got bad 20 technical work dono.
21              Most of the attontion that this committoo and the 22 ACRS has given has boon to the resolution process.                  I would 23 urgo you also, and onco again, this is a recommendation or 24 suggestion you might want tu look more carefully at the 25 implomontation process.          If wo had problems in that aroa, Acii-Friniinni. Riipoitriins, INC.
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4                                                                                    (Slido.)
5                                                                                Now I just want to givo a quick overview horo, 6                        and this is a little rominder of the generic issues program.
7                          It is brokon down into functions.                                                                                      The functions are usually 8                        assigned dif foront organizations.                                                                                      The idontification 9                          function is primarily vosted in ABOD.                                                                                      They've got a wholo 10                            offico to identify issuos.
11                                                                                    Now if other people find issues, NRR may find an 12                            issuo during the review process or during tho inspection of 13                            reactors and review of oporating reactors.                                                                                      Research may O                                                          14                            find problems.                                                                    So overybody participatos in the 15                            identification process.
16                                                                                    Now the prioritization --
17                                                                                    DR. SIESS:                                    Warron, as I recall, somothing like 18                            the Davis-Dosso incident gonorated about 30 GIs.
19                                                                                    MR. MINNERS:                                    Correct.
20                                                                                      DR. SIESS:                                  Which one would you attributo that i
21                              to?                      NRR?                          AEOD7 22                                                                                      MR. MINNERS:                                    Woll, that was ABOD, because it was 23                            an inspection toam that wont down thoro under AE00's                                                                                                ,
24                            direction.                                                    Wo had support from tho other officos.                                                1 1
25                                                                                      DR. SIESS:                                  They came out with a roport.        Did    l Act:.FitniinAi. Riti>onTiins, INC.
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3                                          MR. MINNERS:    No.                    The report was limited to fact i                                            4                              finding. Jack lioltomos wont through that report, and fronm 5                              the findings identified a bunch of genoric issues, which 6                            woro then put into the prioritization process.
7                                          So I think that is an examplo of where AEOD --
8                            well, we are an intograted organization.                            We all work 9                              together, so you can't just identify ono person.
;                                          10                                            DR. REMICK:    You said that without a smilo.
i                                          11                                            (Laughtor.)
12                                            MR. MINNERS:    Prioritization was the DSRO, which 13                            was in NRR.      All of DSRO has boon transferrod up to Research CE)                    14                              now. Ron Emrit will talk lator about the prioritization
:                                            15                              process. The prioritization process for resolution of 16                              issuos. It has also boon transferrod totally to rosearch.
17                              Thore are two branchos, two different divisions of research, j                                            18                              sort of the same branch as before.                          Engincoring issues and
{                                          19                              systems issues.                                                                            ;
4                                          20                                            After resolution is dono, and wo docido to do 21                              somothing, it g000 back to NRR.                          This is really the samo 22                                thing as tho old organization.                        It wont from DSRO, a gonoric
!                                          23                                issuos function, to the NRR licensing function.                            Tho namo 24                                thing has happonod now, joining rosaarch to the NRR                                        l i
25                                Liconsing function by imposition.                          Wo want to got the terms
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3 guido or whatever, and got the licensoo to agroo to doing 4 something. And he sends back some picco of paper which says 5 what he is going to do and when he is going to do it.
6              When that is all approved, that is usually 7 considered to be the end of the imposition process.
8              Nothing has happened on the plant yet, usually.
l                9 Implomontation is the thing whero safety gets approved.
10 That is when the licensoo actually goes in, changes 11 equipment, changes procedures, hires people, trains peoplo 12 and does whatever the rsolution is.                  -
13              That is really the licensoo's function, and we O          14 may participato in that.
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5                                                                                          MR. MICHELSON:    Under the new organization, is 6                NRR still involved in the verification process?
7                                                                                          MR. MINNERS:  Yes.      NRR now has the IE function
,                                                8                as part of it, so, yes, it is a part of it.
9                                                                                          DR. SIESS:  That would have been I&E under the 10                old ono?
11                                                                                          MR. MINNERS:  Yes.      But the project managers also l                                              12                participato in verification, too.
13                                                                                          MR. EBERSOLE:  Warren, in this string of O                        14                participants, where is the act of doing the risk-cost-15                bonofit calculation, which usually is the death knoll of all 16                of them?
17                                                                                          MR. MINNEFS    In prioritization we do one to got 18                an allocation of resourcos, okay.                                                                        Then wo do it again at 19                the resolution process, okay.                                                                      Before wo got an approval wo 20                are required to produce a regulatory analysis which is 21                basically a risk-cost analysis, and also down at the 22                imposition thing wo also do another risk and cost analysis 23                to soo what order they are going to be imposed or 24                implomonted.
25                                                                                          MR. EBERSOLE:    This is the analysis which, if I ace FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC, 2024 47 3700          Nationwide CoseraFe      800-336 6646
 
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k/            2 reduce the ghost at one mile to thus and such.          You know, 3 these abstract conclusions.
4            MR. MINNERS:      You would like the Op Ed article in t
5 the Post yesterday or the day before from the Consumer 6 Protection process.
7            MR. EBERSOLE:        I cut it out.
8            MR. MINNERS:      I don't agree with you.      I think 9 you can misuso regulatory analysis, but I think you should 10 crank through the numbers and then take them with the 11 appropriate grain of salt, potassium, or whatever.
12            (Laughter.)
13            MR. EBERSOLE :      Where is the grain of salt, 14 however?  I can't find that.
15            DR. SIESS:      The word is " judgment," but that is a l
16 rare thing those days.
17            MR. EBERSOLE:      The judgment input is not 18 identified anywhere.
19            DR. SIESS:      Thoro is no place for it.
20            MR. MINNERS:      I don't think that is truo, Josso.
21 I think our analysos aro getting botter.          I think you will 22 find sections in the regulatory analysis now where 1
23 qualitativo factors are discussed.
24            DR. SIESS:      Warron, the decision as to which 25 plants do what is a part of the resolution, am I correct?
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2              DR. SIESS:      Then NRR picks it up from there with 3 the imposition?
4              MR. MINNERS:      Yes, sir.
S              The resolution, right, should say who should do 6 what, when.      That is part of the resolution process.
7              DR. REMICK:      Warren, the resolution is extremely 8 important.
9              Does NRR get any input when you are coming to 10 resolution, and how about licensees?
11              I am thinking sometimes there are several 12 alternatives and sometimes the people who are close to the 13 plants can suggest very practical solutions rather than wnat
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14 one might get from groups that aren't familiar on a day-to-15 day basis with the plants.
16              How do you ha.dle that?
17              MR. MINNERS:      I will give you a brief answer.      We 18 go out for public comment.          We talk with industry, and we 19 get a peer review by everybody and their uncle.
20              I have a talk next, after Ron, about the 21 resolution process, which I will show you where that comes 22 in.
23              (Slide.)
24              We spend a lot of time on that.        I will go 25 quickly down here without too much'more.
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      '          2 to do with identified issues, and we are going to rewrite 1 .
3 that in Research, and I think it is going to be more --
4 well, identification, everybody participatos in that.                    The 5 prioritization process is really a categorization process.
6              First of all, we get rid of the nonsafety issues, 7 environmental issues, take care of EPA, licensing issues, 8 and things which are programmatic.                Should we have one or 9 two inspectors or no inspectors at a plant?                  Should we do 10 WASH-1400 studies to assess the risk?                That kind of subject.
11              These things down here are high, medium.- This is 12 the purpose of the whole exercise, is to identify these 13 issues. These would become the active issues that we are 7_)s
(_          14 going to work on.
15              Nearly resolved.is a class of issues to 16 accommodate the fact that when an issue is identified, 17 sometimes people have already_ worked on it and it is almost 18 done. So rather than going through a prioritization step, 19 we just label it "nearly resolved" and let it finish up.
20              Then we come up with low, drop, which are 21 obvious. They are insignificant _ safety issues.
22              DR. SIESS:      Excuse me.        Do you still maintain the 23 low, drop?    Although you treat them the same, is there some 24 hope that you might someday have enough resources to simply 25 just do --
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3            Subsumed means that when somebody identifies an 4 issue we look at it and say, hey, that is the same thing as 5 is already being done.      It is identical to another issue or 6 it is part of another issue.
7            Some issues where people identify them, we say, 8 hey, that issue was already resolved back at some date.                                                      We 9 already did this issue.      This is what we did, and it is 10 exactly the same thing that you say we ought to do.                                                So that 11 issue is resolved.
12            So I point out to you that low, drop, subsumed,
                            ,_                                                                                                        13 and resolved is also another means of resolving issues.                                                      So V                                                                                                              14 the prioritization process resolves issues.                                      Because if I 15 come through and say it is a low or a drop, that is a 16 resolution.
17            MR. EBERSOLE:      Haven't I seen the term " resolved" 18 really mean it simply had been parked indefinitely?
19            MR. MINNERS:      Parked indefinitely?                                        No.
20            MR. EBERSOLE:      I think I have seen " resolved" in 21 the context of it is suspended somewhere.                        Certainly it 22 hasn't been implemented.
23            MR. MINNERS:      Okay, that is a problem.                                        We have a 24 lot of resolved issues that have not been implemented.
25            Yes.
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(J          2 that you did not think needed-to be implemented.                    You can 3 resolve an issue --
4            MR. EBERSOLE:      By not implementing it, of course.
5            MR. MINNERS:      We have come to the conclusion, 6 well, it is not worthwhile doing anything.                That is a 7 resolution, but I wouldn't call that parking it.                    That is 8 really saying it is a low or a drop safety significance or.
9 something like that.
10            DR. SIESS:    Now, Warren, what you are calling and 11 I would call prioritization really involves two steps or two 12 different things.      One is screening.          The other is 13 prioritizing what is left.
  '/        14            In effect, the ones you put down on the bottom, 15 that is zero priority.
16            MR. MINNERS:      Yes, it is.        Ron is going to talk
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17 about this more.
18            We look at issues as they come in and see if 19 there is any immediate action necessary or any intermediate 20 resolution that might be possible.
21            DR. SIESS:      It is not just how important.                The 22 first question is, is it important?              Is it an issue?
23            MR. MINNERS:      That is right.        We look at those, 24 and we have a backlog of prioritized issues, and I think you 25 will see most of the backlog consists of issues which are ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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()            2    them. I will do other things which I think are higher 4
3    priority issues first.
4                    So there is'some screening preprioritization.
5                    DR. SIESS:        Now,-you have got a list of 70. issues 6    and have 50 or 60 that haven't been prioritized yet.
7                    Is that list in any' order?
8                    MR. MINNERS:        Yes.      Ron'will show you that.
9                    DR. SIESS:        So if somebody takes a look.and says
.                10    push this at the top, this one doesn' t look important, 11    before you go through all of that PRA stuf f judgment is 12    applied?                                                                                e 13                    MR. MINNERS:        That is right.          We just don't-()
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14    blindly take them as they come in.                      After you get 15    prioritized, the issues that are resolved -- low, drop, 16    subsumed, resolved are documented in 0933, which is'an                                  i 17    important part of the process because that keeps track of 18    what you did so you don't have to do it again.                            I think 0933 J
19    is a very important document- that has to be kept up to date.
20    It is a living document.              It is a loose-leaf book.                It keeps 21    getting changed, and it ought to be.
22                    The other issues that have a high, medium 23    priority or near resolved, regulatory impact issues, they 24    are concerned with safety but they are-D-ratchets, okay, and 25    licensing issues.            These are the active issues that are 5
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'/          2              After they get resolved, okay, they will go back 3 in 0933 to document the fact that they were resolved.                So 4 when you pick up 0933 you will be able to figure out when an 5 issue is resolved.      Then you go on to the imposition steps.
6              (Slide.)
7              MR. MICHELSON:        Before you go to that, would this 8 be a good place to explain how you handle partial 9 resolutions?
10              MR. MINNERS:      Partial implementations or partial 11 resolutions?
12              MR. MICHELSON:        Even partial resolution -- you
    .        13 decide part of the issue can be resolved and the other part 14 can't. I think systems interactions ought to get to that 15 point.
16              DR. SIESS:    Carl, this is just the overview.
17              MR. MICHELSON:        It is an overview question.        If 18 you have a partially resolved issue, how do you handle it?
19              MR. MINNERS:      We do the best we can, Carl.
20              MR. MICHELSON:        You always do that, of course.
21              MR. MINNERS:      No, not always.
22              (Laughter.)
23              MR.~MICHELSON:        I will give you any benefit of 24 the doubt.
25              What is the process, though?
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(-)          2 in with an issue which we split up and say Part A is 3 resolved and Part B is Issue 1021, you can complain.
4            MR. MICHELSON:        At the time of resolution are you 5 required to identify a new generic issue to take care of the 6 part of the package that is no longer in it?                Is that part i
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7 of the process?
8            MR. MINNERS:      We try not to play a shell game.
9 We try to keep these issues identified so that we don't lose 10 them or any part of them.
11            Issue 101 was a case.            Two-thirds of it the 12 industry said, okay, we will go along with you, but we don' t 13 think we need the other third.            So we said fine.        We took 14 the other third, and we made a new issue out of it, 101.
15            DR. SIESS:      What was 10l?
16            MR. MINNERS:      BWR water level when the line 17 breaks and you get a single failure.              You can get a false 18 reading.
19            That was a pragmatic solution to the problem.                  I 20 think that is the correct way to go because we would have 21 gotten nothing.        We would have nothing in the plan..
22            So there is a case, Carl, in which I think you 23 have to be careful of differentiating between technical 24 perfection and the process.
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DAVbur            1    .the process, of course.-                                                                                                                        l l
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3                                              MR. MICHELSON:              Having' identified an issue alrea'dy and having gone th' rough this entire process and
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4 5    having arrived at a resolution for a portion of it, I 6      believe you are' obligated to identify the other portion 7-    immediately as a part of the resolution as being a new 8      issue, define it, give it a number, and so forth.
9                                              Is that what you intend to do?
i                            10                                                MR. MINNERS:          That is what we intend to do, and I 11        gave you one example in which we did that.
12                                                MR. MICHELSON:              At the time of the resolution I I
13        wouldn't expect people to say, well,fwe will consider:-that                                                                                    t O                  14        or something, but rather I would expect it to be already                                                                                    'l 15        assigned a number and whatever as part of the resolution.                                                                                      ,
16                                                MR. MINNERS:          One of the reasons for having this 4
17        prioritization group separate, they'also1 maintain the l                              18        tracking system, and that- is to keep ~ people honest. - They 19        look at it and say,-hey,. wait a minute, you didn't resolve I'                            20        the whole issue, and that.is okay.                                                But the part you didn't s
21        resolve, now you have got to: identify again as a_new issue.
,                            22                                                  MR. MICHELSON:              I would likeLto see-the                        -
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23 24        considered, and I don' t get that.                                              I see the resolution part 4                              25        that they know how'to handle and:then some nebulous cloud of O.
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  .O-          2. sometime as a new generic issue.
3                That just doesn't fly.
4                DR. SIESS:      Warren, does the residual go back to 5  the top of the list or is it immediately given a new number, 6  identified and prioritized?
7                I think that is what Carl is asking.
8                MR. MINNERS:      I._ guess in Issue 101 there was o
9  already a-regulatory-analysis done, okay. . So the one-third J
10  that wasn' t resolved and went back in this issue, it"was 11  reprioritized.        But since the regulatory analysis, the 12  numbers were all there and it .was just an administrative .
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;              14                But there was a little delay until it got 15  actually redesignated as a new issue.
16                DR. SIESS:      Okay.      Proceed.
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.;            17                MR. MINNERS:      Then the imposition which,.as I 18  say, is NRR, Walt'Schwink-is-going to talk about that.                              l 19                This only deals with the issues which are 20  resolved through some requirement -- and I put that in f              21  quotation marks -- put on licensing.                    The purpose of this-is 1
22  basically to establish what the licensee . is going - to do and                      l 23  when he is going to do.it.                                                          b q
;              24                The imposition process is another technical l              25  resolution.      Because every-plan'is different.and the generic                      j (S)                                                                                                  i ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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[] '              2    licensees and try to fit their generic issues on their plant i
3    sometimes because there are. design dif ferences that require.
4    that. In other cases the licensee comes b'ack and says,. hey, 5    why should I do that, I have got this or that, and we try.to
  ,                          6    accommodate that.
7                  The next step is implementation, which Walt will 8    also discuss.                  This is.the licensing actions, and we now i
l                            9    have a better system of tracking tha't with SIMS,' which is
.                          10    getting up to speed.                      It is far from perfecti~on, but.we are 11    putting resources into this.
12                  As I suggested, I think that the ACRS has 13    neglected this area and a lot of people have neglected this 1          O              14    area, and if people neglect it and don't ask questions.an'd 15    there isn't any interest in it, fine, I will.give it a lower 16    priority.
17                  MR. EBERSOLE:                      That was_the case.        As you were, 18    okay.
19                  DR. MOELLER:                    In terms of the imposition, they j                          20    are given deadlines?.
21                  MR. MINNERS:                    For implementation or imposition?
22-                DR. MOELLER:                    For implementation.                                                  ,
l 23                  MR. MINNERS:                    "Given" I think is.too strong.                      I 24    think it is a process in which'we try to accommodate 25    different things because we don't -- I mean in most cases if                                                        l P
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,DAVbur 1 you start shutting down plants to implement this stuff, it 2 ain' t worth it.        So you have to try to fit it into the 3 normal shutdown schedules.          They have things they want to 4 do, and there's only so many people you can cram on a site 5 and so much you can do.
6              DR. SIESS:      If they are operating under a living 7 schedule, I assume that is worked into it.
8              MR. MINNERS :      Some have living schedules, some 9 don't.
10              DR. SIESS:      Even if they don't have a living 11 schedule, it is then negotiated in some way?
12              MR. EBERSOLE:        In the Davis-Besse case and the
  -        13 aspect of implementation, I understand there were actions G          14 hanging over their head for a very long time indeed, but 15 they had to wait until something actually happened that 16 precipitated the implementation program.
17              MR. MINNERS:      Well, I discuss that.        Auxiliary 18 feedwater was an issue.        We were negotiating with the 19 licensee to do something about that issue.
20              I guess I would hate to admit it to you.              They 21 were giving us some PRA analyses which proposed slightly 22 different resolutions than we were proposing, and it just 23 didn' t go fast enough.                                                  ,
24              I don't think the process was wrong.              I think 25 there should have been negotiations.with the licensee.
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  \-)          2 a good generic issue.
3            MR. MINNERS:      That is right.
4            Verification, I guess that is a real question.
5 How much of this do you have to do?              Do we have to go out 6 and inspect everything that we imposed or not?
7            DR. SIESS:      It depends on whether you-have got 8 people who know what they are doing.
9            MR. MINNERS:      So that is an overview.            Ron Emrit 10 will now give you some details.
11            DR. SIESS:    Before you sit down, Warren, go back 12 to your slide that listed the. functions of responsibilities.
13 I want to just get a little clarification.              That was your O
kl          14 second slide, I guess.
15            Now, the.prioritization and resolution are both 16 in Research, which is where you are, right?
17            MR. MINNERS:      Yes, sir.
18            DR. SIESS:    Which branch and which division has 19 prioritization?
20            MR. MINNERS:      What is the name of your branch, 21 Ron?
22            MR. ROSZTOCZ Y:      Regulatory Applications Division.
23            DR. SIESS:    Start with the division, the Division 24 of Regulatory Applications.
25            MR. EMRIT:      In fact, we are in the Generic Issues O                                                                                          l ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.                            l 202-347-3700      Nationwide Coverage      800-334646
 
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''          2            DR. SIESS:    Then you have got a Generic Issues 3 Branch?
4            MR. MINNERS:      No.      That division does not have a 5 Generic Issues Branch.
6            DR. SIESS:    What is the name of the branch.that 7 does the --
8            MR. EMRIT:    The Advanced Reactors and Generic 9 Issues Branch.
10            DR. SIESS:    That is an interesting combination.
11            (Laughter.)
12            DR. SIESS:    Okay.      And all of the prioritization 13 is in there, right?
(O m)        14            MR. EMRIT:    That is correct.
15            DR. SIESS:      Does that branch also track the 16 resolution?
17            MR. EMRIT:    That is correct.
18            DR. SIESS:      Now, the resolution itself, according 19 to something I have got, is provided between the Engineering 20 Issues Branch in the Division of Engineering,.the Reactor 21 Safety Issues Branch in the Division of Reactor and Plant i
22 Systems.
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24            MR. MINNERS:      Right, and we have a Human Factors 25 Reliability Branch in that division, which has human factors k_)
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                            '2                        'DR.'SIESS:            And Engineering Issues Branch in the 3          Division of Engineering, right?
4                          MR. MINNERS:            Correct.                    .
                            'S                          DR. SIESS:          Then the Reactor Safety Issues Branch 6            in the other division?
f 7                          MR. MINNERS:            Which is Brian-Sheron'sLdivision.
8            The Branch Chief is Carl Neal.                    And in Brian Sheron's 9          division there is a Human Factors and Reliability Branch                                                ,
10            which has human factors generic issues.
11                          DR. SIESS:            Is there still a Division of Reactor 12            Accident Analysis?
13                          MR. MINNERS:            Yes, effectively.        That is either
    .O                    14            where Zoltan is, some of that.-
4 15                          DR. SIESS:            I~have got something that says there 16            is a Severe Accident Issues Branch.
17                          MR. MINNERS:            That is in two' places.          This Human 18            Factors and Reliability Branch-has the implementation of 19            severe accident policy, basically doing the individual plant 20            examinations.
21                          DR. SIESS:            I am still talking about resolution.
'l 22            I have got two places you do resolution.
,                        23                          Is there a third one?
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(')                                2    be some implementation, but we still have to decide what'to 3    do, and that is resolution.
4                  DR. SIESS:      I am interested in some names.                                                          I 5    have something that says that there is a Division of Reactor 6    Accident Analysis in the Office of Research and there is a 7    Severe Accident Issues Branch which is concerned with the 8    resolution of issues on severe accidents.
9                  Is that correct or not?
10                  MR. MINNERS:      Yes.      Denny Ross is the Acting 11    Division Director, and, yes, there is.
12                  DR. SIESS:    Okay.
13                  MR. MINNERS:      They do severe accident research.
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14                  DR. SIESS:    And resolution, okay.
15                  MR. ROSZTOCZY:        That branch is basically handling 16    the source term issues and all of the follow-up.
17                  DR. SIESS:      I am just trying to find out where 18    the resolution is being done.              It is being done in at least 19    three branches, maybe four.
20                  MR. MINNERS:      Of severe accidents?
21                  DR. SIESS:    No, generic issues.
22                  MR. MINNERS:      That is correct.
23                  DR. SIESS:    Resolution is all being done in 24    Research, but it is passed out to particular divisions 25    depending on the scope of that division, and some of those                                                                    l
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    \~/          2        resolution, some just factor it in to some other branch.-
3                    Am I right?
4                    MR. MINNERS:        Correct.
5                    MR. EMRIT:        I would just like to add one point 6        here.
7                    Of the remaining issues to be resolved, NRR has 8        retained-responsibility for resolution of 14 issues out of 9        69.
10                    DR. SIESS:        That is the human factors?
11                    MR. MINNERS:        -Yes.
l 12                    DR. SIESS:'      I don't have any problem with-13        fragmentation and the resolution.-- resolutions should go to O          14        the area where the expertise is, and it is. pretty well 15_ l    spread around.        Prioritization is concentrated.
16                    MR. MINNERS :        Prioritization and tracking are 17        concentrated.
18                    DR. SIESS:        Now, SIMS is not a Research. function?.
19        Is SIMS put out by Research?
20                    MR. MINNERS :        Everybody inputs to SIMS.
21                    DR. SIESS:' But that is over somewhere in the                              ;
t 22        administrative area?-                                                                  1 23                    MR. MINNERS: . All the computer people run it.
24                    DR. SIESS:        The computer bugs do it.          Okay, that            I 25        answers my question.                                                                    ;
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3              DR. SIESS:      Let's take about a 10-minute break, 4 gentleme'n, and we will go on with the agenda.
5              (Recess.)'
6              ( Slide .~ )
7              MR. EMRIT:      My name is Ron Emrit.            Ron Frahm was-8 supposed to be here this morning to give: the presentation.
9 He is the Section Leader in the Advanced Reactors and -
1 10 Generic Issues Branch'.. He is ill this morning, so' I will be -  -
11 giving the presentation in his' place.
12              This part of the presentation will concentrate on-13 the prioritization ' process.
O            14              (Slide.)
15              I know the ACRS asked specific questions relative 16 to how long it takes to do' things, but before I go into i                17 answering any specific questions, I-would.just like to walk i
18 you through the process-briefly.
i-                19              First, issues are identified and defined.                        Warren z                20 explained the various methods of identification.                      Everybody-21 is involved -- the ACRS, the Staff.                                                          '
22              Sometimes issues are improperly defined.                        Before 23 the prioritization process begins, we have to go back and                                      i 24 get a feel for exactly what the safety concern of the issue i
25 is, and I think you should understand that that really                                        I
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2                By that time we have already given the issue a 3  . number, the clock starts on the prioritization process.'                                                                                                                              It
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;                4-  probably takes two to four weeks to go back and get a feel 5  for exactly what we want to'be addressed in prioritization, 6  and I think you should understand that that is added~to'the 7  prioritization process.        Even though.we may not have started:
I 8  any actual calculations, it is added.
t 9                People.ask us how long do'you take to prioritize 10  an issue. It is added as part of.the process.                                                                                                                                          i 11                The methodology, some of the ACRS' members are 12  aware, was discussed in detail back in.1983.- I won't go i
13  into very much detail about the methodology because it has-O            14  been published since 1983 in the introduction of NUREG-0933.
a 15 But I will just go through the steps again for those who .are 16  not that familiar with it.
4                17                First,'we try to_get-frequency and consequence 18  estimates.      Frequency, particularly if it is an event that:
.                19  occurred and the issue was raised, weLtry to do some kind of 20  calculation to pick this up, what kind of frequency estimate 21  we come up with.                                                                                                                                                                          ,
22                The consequences, based on the accident, just 23  exactly what the risk associated with.that: event is. 'We try 24  to think of a possible solution. . Before.we proceed with the 25  calculations, we try to think of exactly how much risk ACE-FEDERAL REPORTERS,- INC.
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2  We take the difference, and we como up with some kind of 3- risk reduction estimate.
4              We go into cost estimates, which will basically 5  be industry costs, costs incurred by industry to.fix the 6  problem and the possible solution.
7              MR. EBERSOLE:      On that topic, do'you really think 8  that industry costs are unbiased?
9              MR. EMRIT:    That is~a very difficult question for 10  me to answer.      The costs are published-in the~ documents.        We 11  have a lot of guidance.
              -12              MR. EBERSOLE:      Are there.any back-checks on 13  estimates?
14              MR. MINNERS:      We do independent estimates.        .We 15  don't ask industry for the prioritization' process.
16              DR. SIESS:      Do you think they are unbiased?
17              MR. MINNERS:      They are correctly biased.-
18              (Laughter.)
19              MR. EMRIT:    The nice thing about our estimates is-20  that they all get documented and published for public 21  review. We have never gotten any comments'back on bad 22  estimates. They are published in 0933.
23              DR. SIESS:      I saw a document recently.        It was a 24  job that was done for NRC at DOE by United Engineers and 25  Constructors, where they sent out questionnaires to a number O
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        .DAVbur-      1    of. utilities and got the costs of various plant changes, and (L>            '2    they were breaking it down into engineering costs versus 3    construction costs.
4                        I think they were showing it to NRC in order to 4
5    get some figures on what percentage of the direct cost was 1                      6    engineering.                It seems to'me that would be a basis for 7  . telling you whether they were biased, Jesse, because ~ it 8    gives presumably the actual costs.
9                        There were about six pages of things that were i                    10    done,_and they varied quite a bit.
11                          Are you familiar with what I am talking about?
!                  12    It was a four-volume report, I believe.
13                          MR. MINNERS: Tha have contracted out -- Argonne 4
()            14    can give us a cost estimating method.
i                    15                          DR. SIESS:              This wasn't a cost estimating method.
16    This was a compilation of actual costs.
17                          MR. MINNERS:              It was the Cost Estimating Group, 18    and they have put out such a report.
19                          DR. SIESS:              This was then subcontracted from 20    Argonne-to UE&C?
21                          MR. MINNERS:              That is right.
22                          DR. SIESS:              Okay, and you use that kind of 23    informa tion?
24                          MR. MINNERS:              Yes. -But I also point out that.
25    costs are not a very important factor in prioritization.
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2              DR. SIESS:      Okay.
3              MR. EMRIT:      Carrying on here, once we get those 4 es tima tes --      I might remind you that 'another part of the 5 process here is if we feel that we cannot -- because of the 6 workload or something like that we feel we need technical 7 assistance, we use our contractor -- specifically, PNL -- to 8 try to get a feel for what the frequency and consequence 9 estimates are.        So usually that adds to the three months in 10 the process.      We have to send it out there to the West Coast 11 and wait for it to come back.              So that is added on to the 12 prioritization process.
13              Once we get that information back, assuming it is O          14 an issue that we sent out there for data, we then do our 15 calculations.        Like I said, the methodology is all found in 16 NUREG-0933, which is basically a value impact score, and 17 that determines -- like I said, the matrix is well-18 publicized in NUREG-0933.          When we get a score, we just-19 apply the matrix to find out exactly where that issue stands 20 relatively to its ranking, if it is high priority, medium.
21              Like I said, this has been reviewed by the ACRS 22 before, and that determines the priority of the issue.
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2  exposure and other estimates, implementation costs, 3  inspection costs, maintenance and inspection costs, averted 4  costs, and so forth, those other factors that-could affect 5  the final priority score before we go to the matrix and find 6  out whether it is a high, medium, low, or drop priority 7  ranking.
8                        MR. EBERSOLE:                    Explain why cost is not an
'-                    9  important factor early on.                                It seems to me. that would af fect i
10  prioritization early on.
11                        I think of two examples, both of them 12  Westinghouse -- the absence of their automatic system having 13  diversity -- on the one hand, cost estimates for providing i
14  diversity are very normal if it is done by a realist, and i
15  they are extraordinarily high if done by the. industry -- and 16  the design that they have for always requiring the response 17  of the aux feedwater system when they. trip.
18                        These are facets that make you either turn around 19  or turn around.
i                    20                        DR. SIESS:                  Right now what they are prioritizing 21  is the staff effort on this.                                  Whether the staff is going to 22  start work on it, that should be primarily a-function of
;                      23  whether it'affects safety or not, not what it is going to 4
:                      24  cost the applicant or the licensee.                                            That comes into the 25  resolution.
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    ''          2 though bring up what it is going to cost to fix it?
3              DR. SIESS:      I don't think what it is going to 4 cost to fix it should be any consideration until we get to 5 resolution.      I think at this stage the question is, is this 6 issue important to safety?
7              MR. EBERSOLE:      He mentioned cost.
8              MR. WYLIE:      How do you use the cost?
T 9              DR. SIESS:      I think they use it in che 10 resolution.
11              MR. WYLIE:      No. He said he uses it to set 12 priorities.
13              MR. EMRIT:      We strictly address it in the O            14 prioritization process.        This goes back again to the 15 methodology.      This has been published for years in NUREG-16 0933.
17              It is basically man / rem per million dollars.        It 18 is the value impact score we use for priority ranking, and 19 the cost is the denominator and the man / rem risk reduction 20 is the numerator.
21              DR. SIECS:      What you do then in deciding whether 22 it is important to safety is look at how many man / rem 23 reduction you are likely to get out of it and whether that 24 is significant in relation to cost?
25              MR. EBERSOLE:        But the man / rem number is such an O
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3              DR. SIESS:      The man / rem number may be abstract 4 and unreal, but it has been stated by the Commission as 5 their measure of significance.
6              MR. EBERSOLE:      I have some trouble, you know, 7 with this.
8              DR. SIESS:    And these guys work for the 9 Commission.
10              MR. MINNERS:      We also use core melt, Jesse.
11              MR. EBERSOLE:      I like that.
12              MR. MINNERS:      I think most of the issues are 13 prioritized based on core molt.
14              MR. EBERSOLE:      Do you really stick to that, 15 though?
16              MR. MINNERS:      We not only stick to it --
17              MR. EBERSOLE:      Well, if you stick to core melt, 18 you are far closer to hom.
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'      :                      2                  MR. EMRIT:                            Like I said, this goes back four 3      years.ago.      It's what we've been using.                                          What Warren was 4      talking about is the' core melt per reactor year.                                                      You not' ice
.                            5      as you get into-the 10 to the minus 6 or 7,                                                10 to the minus 6      5, that's the medium range.
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7                  If you have a medium range, value impact core,.
I 8      man / rem per million dollars comes into play.                                                Based on the 9      low cost, obviously, the low cost for the fix, which gives 10      you a high number, you' get into the higher range.
11                  I think that's what he's talking about, where we j                            12      use the core melt per reactor' year.
13                  MR. MINNERS:                              All cost does will shift you maybe i
'        (:)                14      from a medium to.a high in some cases.
i                            15                  MR. EBERSOLE: . But, right now,.a medium to high i                            16      means you don't do anything about the medium.
I' 17                    DR. SIESS:                          They don't get dropped anyway.
I 18                  MR. EMRIT:                            For medium priority issues, you may f                            19      be right. In the past, I think some of them, more medium
;                            20      priority issues are active today than maybe two years ago, l.
21      because more resources are available.
,                            22                  But that's a question.
23                  DR. MOELLER:                              On the lefthand ordinate, you                    .
24      express it in man / rems per million-dollars.
25                  MR. EMRIT:                            That's the value impact score we r
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            .3 dollars per man-rem.
4                MR. MINNERS:      A thousand is a thousand.                    A 5 thousand man / rem per million dollars, is that the same as a 6 thousand dollars per man / rem?
7                DR. MOELLER:      Okay, I_can understand that, but is 8 there something subtle that maybe I'm missing of why you.say 9 " man / rem"?
10                  DR. SIESS:      They want to.go'from lower left to 11  upper right.        Otherwise, it would be going in the other                              ;
12                                                                                              I direction.
13                  DR. MOELLER:      Does that allow them then to go_up O          14  rather than down on their chart?
15                  DR. SIESS:      I think so.
16                  DR. MOELLER:      .I was trying to picture, I guess,.
17  the smaller the man / rem per dollar.
          '18                  MR. MINNERS:      It was probably a mistake,.so all 19  we did was confuse people.
20                  DR. SIESS:      You could number from top to bottom 21  and get the same thing.-                                                                    ,
22                  MR. EMRIT:      But what's interesting, I think what 23  you ought to pay close attention to is really~the man / rem 24  total. All reactors, when we do our calculations, going 25  from 5,000 to 50,000, that's really where the issues become ace. FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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(_          2              DR. MOELLER:      All right. -That then'is the impact 3 if that event should happen.
4              MR. EMRIT:    That's the risk reduction associated 5 with the possible solution.          You know, we impose a solution 6 and we do calculations of what it's going to cost to impose 7 that solution, and also how much man-rem risk reduction is 8 going to come about.
9              That may not be the final solution.
10              DR. MOELLER:      The higher that number, the greater 11 the risk associated with that event.
12              MR. EMRIT:    That's correct.
13              MR. MICHELSON:        How do you know how          o do these
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  \-          14 calculations?      In certain cases, the generic issue is one 15 you don't really understand very well to begin with.                    So 16 it's pretty hard.
17              MR. EMRIT:    Well, that's where our job is so 18 difficult. We try to understand.            We have to understand the 19 issue more so that the guy who raised the issue --
20              MR. MICHELSON:        Is there a danger though of 21 dropping issues from lack of understanding.
22              DR. SIESS:    Not as long as the ACRS is reviewing s
23 them.
24              MR. EMkIT:      See, overything is published in 0933, 25              DR. SIESS:      Let's get something clear on this O
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4                And vnt look at it.          If they do it wrong, we.tell 5 them. If they don't understand the issue, we tell them 6 that. And we've got it.          We've approved priorities and said 7 this ought to be taken out of this or this generic issue.
8                So this is not supposed to be something new to
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10                MR. MICHELSON:        No, that's right, it's not.
11                DR. SIESS:      It's something we're reviewing
.. r                  i2 cons tantly'.
    ., -i 13                MR. MINNERS:      The danger is pretty small, Carl,
(,'O 14 because we tend to'be very liberal in prioritizing issues.
15 In fact, we've gotten criticized for that,.but I don't think                '
B 16 that's a fair criticism.
17                I think we ought to be liberal in bringing on 18 issues and then, when we come to the resolution process, we                ;
19 ought to be more accurate.
20                All we did was waste a little bit of NRC 21 resources.      But when you talk to an NRC manager, that's what 22 he gets upset about.
23                But, from a national point of view, it's a few                ;
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(_)          2  issue that fixing it is going to change the core melt 3  probability from 10 to the minus 7 to 10 to the minus 8.
4                It's sure not worth spending very much money on.
5  It may not be worth spending any money on from 10 to the 6  minus 7 to 10 to the minus 8.
7                MR. MICHELSON:        If your numbers are right to 8  begin with.
9                DR. SIESS:    So that's one reason for having it 10  costed. But, you're right.          The horizontal scale dominates 11  this thing.
12                MR. EMRIT:    That's correct.
13                MR. EBERSOLE:      One thing that seems to be missing O
  \2          14  from all this I guess is sort of the threshold cost which 15  says:  My God, this makes sense here to put in this larger
              '16  bolt than this smaller bolt.            You know, the incremental cost 17  is zilch.
18                DR. SIESS:    Nothing's incremental cost 's zilch 19  by the time the engineering is done.
20-              MR. EBERSOLE:      There ought tb be a dead band some 21    place where you don't_go through t'ts            .) nizing proving 22  process.
23                DR. SIESS:    You know if putting in the larger 24  bolts is going to take you from 10 to the minus 7 to 10 to 25  the minus 8 on core melt, why would you do it?                What's wrong 4
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3              Why do you change ~it to go to 10 to the minus 87 4              In that case, you could find everything in the 5  plant I-can' find that I could raise the factor of safety on i
6  somewhere.
: 7.              MR. MINNERS:        Jesse would fix the l'ounger chairs.
8              MR. EBERSOLE:        I would make the bookcases stand              ,
9- up at Diablo Canyon. .
10              DR. SIESS:      I would, too.            But that's not my job.
11              MR.-MICHELSON:          It depends entirely on~how
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12  confident you are of your numbers.                  If you really believe 13  it's 10 to the minus 7.
O            14              MR. MINNERS:        That's right.                                    *
            .15              MR. MICHELSON:          If you clearly believe that there 16  are uncertainties, there are limited scopes in the analyses, 17  there are'a' number of factors.
18              MR. EBERSOLE:        There's Murphy's Law.
19              DR. SIESS:      There are also conservatisms built 20  into the process at every step to take care of some of those 21  uncertainties.
22              MR. MICHELSON:        -Also, there are uncertainties for 23  which there is no conservatism built in.
24              DR. SIESS:      If you know that much, it isn't                    .)
25  uncertain.                                                                        1
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2 numbers'because you don't know how to put itLin your bottom 3' line; you just know it.-
4              .If you haven't considered external events in'a 5  PRA, for instance, you know that, but-you' don't know what 6  effect it's going to have on that finalinumberfuntil'you do 7  the analysis.
8                MR. MINNERS:        But you can make estimates.of that..
                                                                            ~
9                MR. MICHELSON:          No, you can't make estimates of 10  things'that you haven't thought through.yet.
              -11~              MR. EBERSOLE:        ILbetLyou could go to Diablo' 12  Canyon today and find the Emergency, Procedures-Manuals, 13  bookcases that are loosely arrayed'in the control. room, O            14  during an earthquake, they'd be scattered all over;the 15  place, and you could never find the first'page'of.the 16  manual.
17                DR. SIESS:      In the first place,.they'll be metal 18  bookcases..
19                MR. EBERSOLE:        Hopefully.
20                MR. WYLIE:      Did we get a copy of that chart?
21                DR.-SIESS:      We'll get a copy of it; it's not a 22  new one.
23                MR. EMRIT:      Oka y .'    'I just want to tell you it 24  hasn't changed in four years.                It's been documented :in NUREG 25  0933.
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4                MR. MINNERS:      Yes, you could, that's right.
5                DR. SIESS:      I don't think cost does come in very 6    strongly.
7                MR. EMRIT:      Just to give you a feel again for the 8    time it takes to do all our calculations, once we get a 9    feedback from the contractor and we factor that-in and we 10    spend some staff time, that whole process probably takes 11    about six staff weeks of time.
12                Staff time, however, is spread out.maybe over a 13    six-month period, we feel, because of-the time it takes to        :
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14    get the feedback from the contractor so we can factor it in.      1 15                DR. SIESS:      Is all this donc under contract?
16                MR. EMRIT:      No.
17                DR. SIESS:      How many people have you got working 18    on this?
19                MR. EMRIT:      In the branch?
20                DR. SIESS:      In the branch.
21                MR. EMRIT:      We have currently four people in our 22    branch.
23                DR. SIESS:      Four people, and some of this they do 24    themselves, and some they simply manage contracts with 25    Franklyn Research?
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'DAV/bc~      l                  MR. EMRIT: -We do it all ourselves,.all the
,r3 2    . write-ups are'done in-house.                                          ;
              .3                  DR. SIESS:- Whattare you talking about 4      contractors?
5                  MR. EMRIT - For frequency estintiates, consequence 6      estimates and maybe some cost estimates.
7-                . DR . SIESS:    Oh,'only for cost' estimates.
Risk reduction estimates. 'Sometimes,    '
8                  MR. EMRIT:
9      we use them; sometimes, we don't-if we feel we have better.
10      numbers. So that's something we have to play with_once we 11    'get it back and see if_we accept'or: reject the numbers 12      before we move on to a final prioritization and go into peer-        l 13    ~ review.
O            14                  So, once-we draw our conclusi'ons and we' do a 15      write-up, we put it in the peer. review.            And we have a 16      standard process which we're changing right now because. we 17      tried-to get NRR prior to the reorganization,! strictly NRR 18 ~    in terms of the peer review process.
19                  Now,-it's Research and NRR,-using~the expertise 20      in Research that's coming back to NRR and by the peer review
              '21      process to get some of that expertise involved in the 22      prioritization phase.
23                  DR. SIESS:      When you say four peopl?, do you mean      '
24      four engineers?-
25                  MR. EMRIT:      That's correct.      Once prioritization-ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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t' 2  days for, but.I have never seen any come back-in 10 days, 3  they usually come back anywhere from four to six weeks.
4-              Here, again, you're talking about impacts on 5  other people's workload because of the matrix-organization.
6  We're asking, they have other more important' things to do 7  before.they get around to reviewing our prioritization.                                              So 8  you ought-to be aware of that, that that adds time to the
.                    9  process.
10                Once the peer review comes back and there are-11  comments at the peer review stage, we have to address, that 12  may take some'more time.            There may be some' arguments                                          f 13  . relative to the comments and some points that.need to be 14  resolved.
15                Once it's finalized and we get agreement, we move 16  on and get it into the PDR.              The way we do that --.I'm 17  sorry. The ACRS gets it.            The vehicle we use to accomplish 18  that is a cover letter with prioritization as an attachment.
19                We put in the priority of that issue.                                  It's i
20  signed of f by the office director and signed out' by the -NRR 21  director. Like I said, now it's-going to be the Research 22  Director approving the prioritizations.
23                Then they go out to the regions, to the ACRS.
24  It's put in the PDR.          And, eventually, when the cycle'comes 25  around, it gets published 11n the NUREG 1133.
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3              MR. EMRIT:      That's correct.
              -4              DR. SIESS:      And you don't wait for the ACRS, to 5 hear from ACRS before you do something about it?
6              MR. EMRIT:      That's correct.      We go ahead and 7 publish it so it's available to the public, to the industry.
8 It's put in the PDR and sent out to the regions at the same 9 time it comes to you.
10              Then you have your cycle, too, which is six to 11 nine months.      So we can't possibly wait for you.
12              DR. SIESS:      I'm glad you don' t wait for us.
13              MR. EMRIT:      But we do recognize your comments and 14 do have to address them, and have addressed them over the 15 years.
16              Warren?                                                  -
17              MR. MICHELSON:        Before he speeds you up, let me 18 slow you down a moment.
19              (Laughter.)
20              MR. MICHELSON:        You're trying, I guess, when you 21 identify an issue at the very beginning, you're trying to 22 narrow it down to something that you can sit down and 23 clearly define in limited scope, and so forth, in order to 24 handle it.
25              Yet, the issue could be a broad one.                Let me give s
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(''1          2 containment might be the loss of a pressure boundary, 3 particularly a high energy pressure boundary.
4            But we didn't attack the question outside of 5 containment as a pressure boundary failure.              Rather, we 6 attacked it as a pipe failure.            Then we proceed to focus on
                -7 pipes and cracks, and so on.
8            We've ignored completely the fact that there are 9 bellows out there, there are manways on tanks, there are 10  flanges, there are seals, all these things, which are also 11  pressure boundary failures if they occur; also lead to the 12  same kind of flooding, and so forth.
13              So what's the approach in identifying a generic O          14  issue?  Can we identify a broad scope issue and attack it as 15  a broad scope issue?        Or do we have to always say " pipe 16  failure" as opposed to pressure boundary failure, and 17  thereby leave out a big set of potential troubles?
18              MR. MINNERS:      Issue identifiers have a 19  responsibility in there to see that it's done correctly.
20  I've gotten issues which people have done in which they said 21  "It's pipe failure." I don't know why they don't say i
22  " pressure boundary failure".
23              MR. EBERSOLE:        Let me give you a great example of 24  that. The dump volume for the boilers.            Everybody had a 25  fantastic amount of potential dump volume, spilling the ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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3              of course, it wasn' t the dump volume integrity of 4  the pipe, it's the damned single valves that admit air or 5' . drain the lines, that stick.          It was hatch, and they stuck 6  and created an1 enormously important effect.
7              That's just what you're talking about.
8              DR.-SIESS:      Whose responsibility is it?
9              MR. EMRIT:      I was-just going to address that.
10  It's up to the originator.          We do not raise issues.~ I'll 11  tell you that right now as I stand here.            We have never, wo 12  .probably take the initiative to put issues that we felt L
13-  needed to be backfit into the process, like Warren alluded O          14  to earlier, issues that were in the resolution stage.
15              And by the time we got it, we had declared-them 16  nearly resolved, but at least we put them out so that the 17  ACRS and the public knows that these issues'were raised at 18  some time, they're documented and, hopefully, they won't be 19  raised again in the future.
20              But it's not our responsibility to raise issues.
21              DR. SIESS:      And if we don't like it, it's our-22  responsibility to bring it up.-
23              MR. EBERSOLE:      Who does raise the issues?
24              DR. SIESS:      We can if we want.
25              MR. EBERSOLE:        But I don't like to be the sole O
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    .f 2    have them look at it.
T 3                  DR. SIESS:- There were 50 of them'that cam'_out                            e 4    of Davis-Besse.          If you want to-know who raises issues, 50                                              ,
5    of them came out of Davis-Besse.
6-                MR. EBERSOLE:              After they were triggered by
.                                        7    something.
8-                DR. SIESS:            We started this thing 15 years ago.
9    The staff had a list of generic issues.                            The ACRS had a list 10      of generic issues. -We gave them all of ours.
;                                    11                    We've been adding to it occasionally from time to 12      time, but we're looking at every generic issue that comes
!                                    13      into them, whether it's drop, medium, licensing issue, O                                14      regulatory improvement.                We see everyone.                We see the value 15      impact statement, we see the basis for it..                              And ifLwe don't 16      like it, we can tell them so.                      We have done it.
17                    And we're in the process, we can be in the-18      process up at the top.                We don't see.it again until it gets 19      to the bottom, this stage of the' process.                              But we can put 20-    them in at the top and modify them at the bottom, or feed 21      them back into the top.
22                    MR. EBE RSOLE:              Some of these things are 20 years j-                                    23      old.
24                    DR. SIESS:          Maybe.
25                    MR. MICHELSON:                The question of pressure a
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4                      So I suppose, if we wish to impose that as ~a 5_        generic issue, you can come back and say:
6                      Well, I've handled this under piping.
7                      MR. MINNERS:            Are-you talking-about the Event B 8          issue?
9                      MR. MICHELSON:                  That's one of them.              That's one 10          of the possibilities.          But, don't forget.                    We're talking 11          about the understanding of the mechanisms of failure, and'so 12          forth, which were only dealt with for pipes, not other 13          devices that can also catastrophically fail and release l                  14          large amounts of fluid.
15                      MR. MINNERS:            As Ron said, we spent a lot of time
;                  16          on peer review for the purpose of trying to get'that kind of 17          feedback, because prioritizers are relatively ignorant.
I 18          They're not specialists.
19                      They don't-know much about it.                            They depend on 20          people to feed that back to them and say:                            .You didn't do 21          them right.
22                      DR. SIESS:          One problem is defining an issue in 23          terms of what happens, and the other is the consequence.
24          What Carl is talking about is related partly to flooding, 25          partly to environmental qualification.
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~O'          2 ' compartments also.
            -3              DR. SIESS:      Although I could never figure out 4  what that does'to concrete walls cracking.
5              MR. MICHELSON:        Concrete walls blow out if you' 6  put 20 pounds pressure'inside the room.
7              DR. SIESS:      Not many of them are going to take 20 8  pounds without getting a ' lot of cracks in them. - But, the 9  thing is,-if the pipe breaks outside of containment, you may 10  use it for a pipe break, a LOCA type thing.              It's 11  environmental.      The flooding.
12              But you can get the same consequences from other 13  things in pipes.      But part of that now is how issues are O          14  defined. Of course, if we talked about pipe break outside 15  of containment and we were thinking I think about some of 16  these aspects, about extending it to other things than 17  pipes.
                                                                                                  /
18              MR. MICHELSON:        The critical issue comes when we 19  finally start narrowing down pipe breaks to smaller and 20  smaller cracks without remembering that we really have a 21  bigger obligation than the design of the structure.                      And now 22  the controlling design may come from a belt monitor instead 23  of a pipe cracking, for which we' don't have such nico 24  theories about how things happen; because we run into 25  questions of corrosion and other things.
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3    were good enough.        They were the biggest leak-that.you 4    needed for the design purpose.
5                DR. SIESS: -What we're going to end up with is a l              6    "one-hoss shay".        Everything's just as strong as.the other.
j-l              7    When it goes, the whole damned thing goes.
i 8                MR. MICHELSON:        That's right.
I                                                                                              .
l              9                MR. EBERSOLE:      And that's the wrong way to design l-10    it.
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!              11                MR. MINNERS:      Moving right along...
i 12                (Laughter.)
!              13                MR. EMRIT:      Yes.
'O            14                (Slide.)
15                I'd just like to go into answering the. questions 16    raised by the ACRS that are on the agenda.                  The first one 17    was:
18                How fast are generic issues being processed?
19                The answer ist        Past experience shows that 20    approximately 30 generic issues are prioritized per year and 21    the average time to complete prioritization, which is what I 22    went through, when we receive it, we give it _ a number, is t
23    approximately six months.
24                DR. SIESS:      What's the range?          I've been 25    listening to so many PRAs and I hate to deal in averages, so ace FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC, i
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2                                (Laughter.)'
3                                MR. EMRIT:                Yes, please don't.                      I'm just trying to give you a feel.- I'm not'saying that everything follows 4                                                                                                                                                ,
5        the norm. ~Some~have taken a lot longer because o'f problems
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6        with. peer review.
1 7                                DR. SIESS:                How much longer?                    Six. years versus I                                        8        six months?
j                                        9                                MR. EMRIT:                No, I wouldn' t go that f ar.                                  Maybe we.
10        have some that have been bogged'down for-18 months.
l                                      11        Certainly.                But there is a reason why they're bogged down.
d 12        Because maybe we have problems getting concurrence ~in a peer 3
.                                      13        review process.
(                                14                                But we have made an evaluation with nothing ' new
!                                        15          in terms lof information that is going to change the 16        priority.              And if it's low or drop', we move on:to other i
17          issues that'we have not addressed in detail.
4                                        18                                That's how we sort of prioritize our                                                                            l t
19        prioritization process, becauso we've got such a tremendous
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20        backlog.            We will get to that later, by the way.
j                                        21                                MR. MINNERS:                My experience is that, well, low i
22'        and dropped things tend to hang on because people don't want l
i l'                                      23        to let go.                So I think the high priority things tend to go l'                                                                                                                                                                                        '
j                                        24        through very_quickly,                                                                                                                  i i(
4 25                              ' MR. EMRIT:                That's very'true.
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    ,_D;AV/bc  1                MR. MINNERS:      So, just looking at the numbers I'' ')      2    doesn't really give you an idea.
3                DR. SIESS:      You're absolutely right, Warren, 4    because if we see one that's marked high, very seldom do we 5    have any comment on it.      Somebody may say that's ridiculous, 6-    there's no way it can be high.
7                MR. MINNERS:      The comment usually is:
8                You did it wrong, but you got the right answer.
9                DR. SIESS:      But, if we see a low or a drop, 10    people look at them.      They want to be sure we're concurring 11    with dropping something because it isn't important.          It's 12    usually more difficult not to decide to do something than it 13    is to do it.
O          14                MR. MICHELSON:        In terms of the process, is there 15    any effort made to go back as you acquire,more and more 16    experience and see if perhaps we shouldn't have dropped?
17                MR. MINNERS:      We have several issues which we 18    have called reprioritized.
19                MR. MICHELSON:        Is that an orderly process, or is 20    it just happenstance in which you go back?
21                MR. MINNERS:      I guess it's happenstance. We 22    don't have any systematic way of going back over every 23    issue.
24                MR. MICHELSON:        I wouldn't think of redoing them
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2            MR. MINNERS:      I don't think that's necessary.            We 3 get enough feedback from AEOD and everybody else.                There's 4 no need to question it again.
5            DR. SIESS:      But I think the question was raised:
6            If we went to a new reactor type, do you go back 7 and look at all the lows and drops to see how they might
,              8 apply to that new type?      Or, for that matter, to the highs?
9            MR. MINNERS:      We haven't boon presented with the 10 new reactor type, so I presume we haven't done it.
11            DR. SIESS:      If somebody came in with a massive 12 safety system on a reactor.
13            MR. MICHELSON:        Maybe a drop will come back into O          14 play, depending on what's being proposed.            But there's 15 nothing in the process as I see it with new reactor designs 16 to require it coming back and reviewing issues that are in 17 the low or dropped category.
18            MR. HERNAN:      I'd like to remind you, Carl, that 19 the EPRI program has done this.            They've gone through about 20 700. Those are all the items that have ever been 21 prioritized. They're trying to make a judgment on the 22 applicability to the new design, whether it's a PWR or a 23 BWR.                                                                        ;
I 24            So that's been done on a one-time basis.
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                        \>                                                        2 than that, that's a good idea.                I think, from time to time 3 we should reexamine our decisions.
4              MR. MINNERS:        We also do that with operating 5 reactors. We send prioritized issues out to each of the 6 licensees and suggest they review those to see if maybe some 7 particular work might make a low priority issue a high 8 priority issue.
9              MR. MICHELSON:          I gather from reading the AEOD 10 report on feedback of information that was issued about a 11 year ago that they're doing that.                  But, they aren't doing 12 things that are perhaps much more important than that.
13              DR. SIESS:        Most of the plants only have 700-800 O                                                          14 people there.
15              MR. MICHELSON:          And how many of them are looking 16 at this pile of paper coming from NRC?
17              DR. SIESS:        They're too busy making fixes from 18 the last phase.
19              (Slide.)
20              MR. EMRIT:        Just to tie in with your question, 21 the answer to your question ist                On partially-answered 22 issues. There you see the box, going to the next slide.
23              (Slide.)
24              This is based on the average flow of issues which 25 included all the backlogs we had back in 1982, where we sort O
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'w/          2 There is your question.      Does that answer your question?
3            We'll factor it into it.
4            MR. MICHELSON:        Yes, except that apparently it's 5 not systematic, but rather random.
6            MR. EMRIT:      Those four initially, after draft 7 prioritization report went out in '82 and '83, the feedback 8 we got was that people did not agree with some of our 9 reprioritizations.      They got thrown back into the hopper.
10 Some of them are still there because, obviously, we don' t 11 think any new information is going to change the priority.
12            DR. SIESS:      Excuse me.        New issues, 36 per year.
13 I've got a table that came from Speis that doesn't list 14 anywhere near 150 issues over the '83 '87 timespan.                    That 15 includes 53 new ones that came in in '85, which I suspect 16 were Davis-Besso.                                                              ,
17            So how do you get 36 per year?
18            MR. EMRIT:      Again, that includes the backlog that 19 existed prior to 1983.
20            DR. SIESS:      It says "New Issues".
21            MR. EMRIT:      We average it out because don't 22 forget we had a problem explaining this yesterday, too.
23            DR. SIESS:      If it's new issues for '83 to '87 and 24 the GIMCS table says 7 for '83,          10 for '84, 53 for '85,            12 25 for '86, two so far in '87, there's no way that comes out to O
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.A                                        2                                            MR. EMRIT:                                        You're looking at Resolved.                          You see,              I
,                                        3    you're --
4                                            DR. SIESS:                                        New Issues.
i 5                                            MR. EMRIT:                                          That's. coming out of the process,
;                                        6    high and medium to be resolved.
7                                            DR. SIESS:                                        Okay.
i f                                        8                                            MR. EMRIT:                                          You're not'looking at the whole pile.
l                                        9                                            DR. SIESS:                                        This is new issues, just total.
j                                        10                                            MR. EMRIT:                                          Coming in for prioritizations, you've 11    got to be very careful. . I'm talking prioritization.                                                                                                The j                                        12    other one's talking about resolution, f-l                                      13                                            See, you're looking at the products, the
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l                                        15                                            DR. SIESS:                                        These are new.for you.                  The next-
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16    batci is new for somebody else.                                                                            Okay.
i 17                                            MR. EMRIT:                                          That's correct. .You're looking at
;i 18    what comes out of the bottom of this process.
I                                        19                                            DR. SIESS:                                        Is there a table somewhere?
i 20                                            MR. MINNERS:                                          Table 5.
21                                            DR. SIESS:                                        Tablef5.
!                                        22                                            MR. EMRIT:                                          I think what you're looking at is 1
4 23    this number down here.
24                                            DR. SIESS:                                        Let me look at the right table..                                            !
25    Somebody said table five.                                                                          What page does it start on?
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4 Right?
5              MR. MINNERS:      Correct.
6              DR. SIESS:      Fine.      Thank you very much.
7              MR. EMRIT:      We took the average and it's kind of 8 biased because of Davis-Besse.
9              DR. SIESS:      There might be another Davls-Besse 10 next year.
11              MR. EMRIT:      So you get 34 issues in one fold 12 swoop. So we kind of average it out to give you a picture 13 rather than give you year by year summary.
O                                14              MR. MICHELSON:        Another question on your process.
15 If you have a USI that's resolved except in the resolution, 16 there's a number of residuals that weren't resolved and they 17 said we'll create a new issue, and that always comes back as 18 a generic issue first and might even work its way back up to 19 a USI.
20              But, even though it's a residual USI, it always 21 comes back at the generic level.
22              MR. MINNERS:      We count that as a new issue.
23              MR. MICHELSON:        So that's a generic issue.
24 Not a new USI.                                                        ,
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,DAV/bc                          1            up, we put in a resolution page of two pages in NUREG 0933.
\-                              2              It's in the conclusion.                                                Hey, this issue was resolved, a reg 3            guide change, SRP change, new rule policy, whatever the 4            products were.
5                                          We identified what portion is going to be 6              addressed in issue 142, if that's the next issue number.                                                                                                    So 7            it's there.                          It's not hidden.                                  The reader can always go back 8              and read the conclusion and find out what the products were 9            and find out where the remaining portions are going to be 10              addressed.
11                                              MR. MICHELSON:                                Can you tell us later how a 12              generic issue becomes a USI?
13                                              DR. SIESL,                        I didn' t intend to because that's O                              14              been covered 10 years ago.
15                                              MR. MICHELSON:                                Yes.            But things change from time 16              to time.
17                                              MR. EMRIT:                        Nothing has changed as far as I know.
18              There are 10 criteria.
19                                              MR. MICHELSON:                                Refresh my memory.                                      Road quickly.
20              Can you go through the criteria?
21                                              DR. SIESS:                        Don't do it now.                                  In the meantime, 22              look at the status rept                                              t.        It's all covered in Sam's status                                                        i 1
23              report.
24                                              DR. MOELLER:                            On this, are we to understand then l
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;                2    think you would find about 61 issues.                That pretty.much i                                                                                                      L 3    explains over the years why we have not been able to do the i
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                ~6    I' don't understand.        If 13 are resolved, but 17:are                        !
7    resoluted.
8                MR. EMRIT:        Let me ' explain.      Going back to 9    Warren's presentation, when you como into the prioritization 10    process, assuming you accept these numbers, four per year I              11    for being reprioritized and 36 new issues.                The average.
12    works out to six high, six medium, three NR, two regulatory 13    impact on licensing issues.
O          14                These are tracked in GIMCS, so you can read the 15    status of all these issues.              Now, under the 30, you've got          ;
16    17. Right?      Thirteen drop out.            Essentially, they resolve 17    becauso we found out that their low drop or subsumed, in 18    that senso, they're ossentially. resolved; for all-intents                        1 19    and purposes, they're not going anywhere.                                        !
20                No staff resources, you know.              The writeups get i
21    published. Low safety significance.              Whatever.                    ;
1 22                DR. SIESS:        So out of that 30, 12 are in the top 23    box and 13 are in the bottom box -- 17 and 13.                  Right?
24                MR. EMRIT:        It's very important to understand 25    what the prioritization process does for you.                  It eliminates-O ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC,                                l 202 347 3700          Nationwide Coverage      800-33MM6
 
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3              DR. SIESS:      And the backlog is 10.              Now, you're 4 doing 30 a year and you'ro. falling behind 10 a year.                    What 5 would it take to got you up-to-dato, at least making 6 backlogs even?        More peoplo?      Moro resources?
7              You've got four peoplo now.                It would take five 8 and a third peoplo?
9              MR. EMRIT:      I should explain to you that some of 10 thoso issues in the backlog have actually gono to poor 11 review.
12              DR. SIESS:      You' re talking about an average now,
,            13 five years.
O          14              MR. EMRIT:      We figuro it can be dono in loss than 15 that.
16              DR. SIESS:      If I road that correctly, it says 17 you're totaling up a backlog of about 10 a year.
18              MR. MINNERS:      Thoro's 61 issuos.            Whoro's your 19 Issues, 61, slido?
20              MR. EMRIT:      I'll got to that.
21              DR. SIESS:      Thoro may bo 71 next year and 81 the 22 next year.
23              MR. MINNERS:      What would it take to got rid of 24 thoso?  Another couplo of peoplo, I guosa.
25              DR. SIESS:      The first question would bo what Ace Fnonnan RnvonTuns, INC.
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2 And than what would it take to get it down to zero backlog 3 and then stay constant?
4            MR. MINNE RS :    If you do 30 a year with four 5 people, I guess it's going to take you another person to do 6 the extra 10.
7            DR. SIESS:      The 10 won't reduco your backlog, it 8 will just koop it from increasing.
9            MR. MINNERS:      So you've got 60 issues for a 10 backlog, so that's two years work for four people.
11            DR. SIESS:      lias anybody complained about that i
12 backlog increasing?
13            MR. MINNERS:      Yes.
14            DR. SIESS:      Who?      The ED0?    The Commission?
15            MR. MINNERS:      Yes.        Everybody.
4 16            DR. SIESS:      llave you told them what resourcos it 17 will take to romody the situation?
18            MR. MINNERS:      We are in now a process of making 19 some recommondations to the EDO on how to improvo the wholo r
20 process. That could probably bo implomontod.
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!            3              MR. MINNERS:        Well, Vic just told us to be loan l
l            4 and mean, so I guess that is what it is.
5              DR. SIESS:        Right now you are dumping about 13 a l
6 year -- that is an averago, lot's say -- on the peoplo that l
7 have to resolvo it, and somowhoro we are going to hear how 1
(            8 fast they aro resolving it.              If you can dump 20 a year on 9 them, will they nood more resources to koop up?                          Ilow is the l 10 flow through the pipolino, in other words?
11              MR. MINNERS:        I don't think you are going to got 12 more. When you resolvo that backlog, you are still going to                        >
13 be about 17 issues por year rosolution.
14              MR. EMRIT:        I think onco wo got a couple of 15 slidos down wo might answer your question.
16              DR. SIESS:        Well, why wouldn't it chango?
17              MR. EMRIT:        It is biased by the backlog because 18 tho backlog has already boon looked at.                      It is still in the 19 hoppor. A lot of them aro lows and drops.                    You 800 ovory 20 bias.
21              DR. SIESS:        But if you aro just not building up 22 your backlog, you will bo prioritizing 40 a year instead of i
23 30, and I expect the samo proportion of them will bo 24 requiring resolution?
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2 don' t have the same proportion of high and medium issues as 3 the 17 per year.
!                4            DR. SIESS:          I have got you.                                      [
5            MR. MINNERS:          They have a much lower _ proportion.
6            DR. SIESS:          So if you were doing 40 a year or 7 trying to reduce the backlog, you would do 45 a year, that 8 17 wouldn' t go up proportionally?                                                    '
9            MR. MINNERS:          No.
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10            DR. SIESS:          So you wouldn' t be dumping more on                  !
11 the resolution people.          Well, wo will hear lator about what 12 their backlog is.
13            MR. EMRIT:          As a matter of fact, we are finding 14 fewor and fewer high priority issues.                      The number of high 15 priority issuen being identified is probably going down in 16 proportion to the total number of issues identified, 17 percentages of high priority issues.                    Once'you had the 18 tremendous backlog to work off back in 1982, the TMI issues,.-
19 the old A, B, C, and D task actions, the NUREG-0371, -0471, 20 the ACRS-0572, all those issues.                Initially,-wo found a lot            i 21 of high priority issues in that backlog, which was in excess l;
22 of 400 issues, but since than you know the average has                                ;
23 droppod in terms of now issues identifiod.
24            (Slido.)
25            MR. MINNERS:          That is also in Tablo 5 if you want O
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2              MR. EMRIT:    The next question is:      are thoro any 3 issues that were identified years ago but not yet 4 prioritized?
o 5              The answer is, yes, we have a backlog of older' 6 issues that have not yet boon formally prioritized.
7 However, the backlog genoric issues have boon screened and.
i 8 many have preliminary draft assessments.                                            ?
9              Liko we said beforo, the workload has proventd5 10 the staf f from formally documenting the prioritization 11 results.                                                                        ';
12              (Slide . )
13              I will give you a fool for what those 61 issues 14 are going to look like.
15              By the way, for-thoso people who are looking at 16 GIMCS, you aro looking at the and of the first quarter 17 report. Thoro are reasons why thoro was no second quartor I
18 report to bring you up to date.
19              We are phasing over to the SIMS data base, and 20 that is taking timo in the quality assuranco phaso.              Thoro 21 are a lot of proofroading errors to be assigned.              The old 22 task managers may or may not be kooping their previous 23 assignments.
24              Down to 61.      I think the first quarter report 25 shows 65. We are down to 61 as of May 1987.        Wo made the C)              .
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3  Those three are presently in peer review.          The ACRS will be i
4  seeing them within another month or so once we get the 5  office director approval and the issue --
6              MR. EBERSOLE:      Since there are only three, could j                7  you mention what they are?
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8              MR. EMRIT:      Yes. There are two Davis-Besse 9  issues. Issue 113, dynamic qualification testing of large
:              10  bore hydraulics numbers.        Issue 125.1.5, safety systems 11  testod in all conditions required by DBA, and Issue 12  125.2.11, recovery of main foodwater as an alternative to
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13  auxiliary foedwater.
l l  (\-        14              These issues -- the titles are listed in GIMCS in 15  NUREG-0933.
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l              17  important to Westinghouse plants, which always trip the main 18  foodwater when they have scram.
19              MR. EMRIT:      Liko I say, you will bo seeing those.
l              20              Wo havo 11 medium priority issues, and I don' t l
l              21  have those listed here with me.
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;              23  Bosso, but it is applicable to all?
l 24              MR. EMRIT:      That is correct. These are generic 25  applications.
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7  I am not f amiliar with. that evaluation, but you will be 8  seeing that.            That is'a promise.
9                      11 medium priority issues, aboutLthree nearly 10  resolved.          Four we feel are resolved ~and are old issues 11  revisted.          14 lows, 10 drops, six subsumed issues, seven                    :
12  licensing issues and three regulatory. impact.
13                      That is the results of our preliminary screening 14  of the remaining backlog.                So to answer the earlier 15  question, you know, has.anybody taken a look at the backlog, 16  sure we have.            We' feel we have'three high priority.          We have
!                17  jumped on those and gotten the evaluations and the peer I
18  review, and we are working on the others.                About 40 percent 19  of these 61 issues.
20                      By the way, they include issues that have already; 21  been prioritized.              14 issues --'and'that is GIMCS --'that 22  have.been'through the mill and have been_prioritized once 23  before.
24                      That is how th'ey fall.
25                      Any questions?
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3            Question number three, what criteria are used to 4 decide which GIs should be prioritized first?
.                5            The preliminary assessments of the older issues 6 indicated they are of low safety significance 1and generally 7 remain as backlog issues.                That I tried to explain to you 8 before.
9            New issues are also given a pre'liminary i              10 assessment of their safety significance, and you have seen 11 evidence of- that. f act en the previous slide I'showed -you 12 earlier, three high priority issues coming to you.
13            MR. EBERSOLE : .          I wonder why the older issues --
14 you say they-are of low safety significance.' I'will~ pick a 15 case in point.
16            The high pressure lines that feed the RCIC .and 17 HPSI systems on the boilers are interposed.- They are T
18 provided with full pressure steam linesLthat_ permeate the 19 machinery rooms, and a longstanding issue going back 20                                      !
20 years is will those valves really close if you b' reach the 21 pressure boundary.
22            MR. EMRIT:          Are you talking about a specific 23 issue number?
24            MR. EBERSOLE:              Yes.      I don't know-which issue 25 number it is.                                                                                ,
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2            MR. EMRIT:      93. If you are talking about Issue 3 93 -- I think that is what he is talking about, Warren --
4 that has already been prioritized. ~ That is not part of the 5 61 scheduled to be reprioritized.
6            MR. EBERSOLE:        I am just-using it as an example.
7 That is an issue 20 years old.
8            MR. EMRIT:      Unless somebody comes back to us and 9 says we have new information, we don't -look at it.
10            DR. SIESS:      You have had that for 20 years?
4 11            MR. EMRIT:      I am not sure of that.
12            MR. EBERSOLE:        Come on, that-came up-in 1968.
13            DR. SIESS:      Jesse, an issue and.a generic issue 14 with a number on it is not the same. thing.
15            MR. EBERSOLE:        Okay, it is a physical problem.
16            DR. SIESS:      All these guys deal with are. things 17 that get declared generic issues with capital letters.
18            MR. MINNERS:      That is where the process becomes 19 important, Jesse.      That is why I want to emphasize process.
20            DR. SIESS:      They have to get.them into the 21 system.
22            MR. MICHELSON:        As long as we are emphasizing the 23 process, I would like to ask the questioncI was about to ask.
24 a'little while ago on USIs.          You have a' set of criteria by 25 which you judge whether something might be ,a potential USI.
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4            MR. MINNERS:      We prioritize high and start 5 working on it.      Then we go through and see if it ought to be 6 a USI. So we don't wait to see if it is a USI to start 7 work.
8            MR. MICHELSON:        You don't wait until it is all 9 done before you make that decision necessarily, either?          In 10 other words, if you wait for the generic issue to be 11 resolved before you move on, you might just decide to drop 12 the generic issue and decide that that is a USI?
13            MR. MINNERS:      We are supposed to look at all the 14 high priority issues periodically and see if they are USIs.
15 We have not been very good at that process.
16            MR. MICHELSON:        But that is the process, though.
17 Any time during the work on a high priority issue you might 18 decide to change it?
19            MR. MINNERS:      Yes.
20            MR. MICHELSON:        Then there is a process for 21 presenting that formally to the Commission?
22            MR. MINNERS:      Yes.
23            VOICE:      The last one we proposed as a USI was GI-24  23, reactor coolant pump seals.
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3              MR. MINNERS:              Reporting frequency.
                      ~4              DR. SIESS: . Reporting to whom?- Congress?                          The
                      -5  Commisslon?
6              MR. MINNERS:              'No,.to the office director..
7              DR.'SIESS:      Do-you get' more resources with USIs 8 than you do for high priority generic? issues?
9              MR. MINNERS:              No,.I-don't think so.            I haven't 10  seen any case where a high~ priority' issue --        _
11              DR. SIESS:      'I was going to say if we took the
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12  last 20 high priority issues and made 'USIs out -of them, do
:                    13  you give them the four or five extra people?
:  O                14              So you don't make a distinction :between them 15  except for reporting?
16              MR. MINNERS:              Right. USIs'have-a higher 17  visibility.
2                    18              DR. SIESS:      I think.one. reason-is'that the 19  Congress asked for that high visibility,~didn't they?                              I 20  think the reason they asked for it is that you have 'put-more
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21  resources on it if you would get on with it.
22              Have they succeeded?
23              MR. MINNERS:              Oh, yes, because at the time when 24  they instituted that program, yes, generic issues generally 25  were assigned to reviewers in technical branches who did it
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3              But what happened was in '83, after the first 4 reorganization, we had designated task managers for all high 5 priority issues as well as USIs.              So that was the big 6 difference.
7              DR. SIESS:      You simply declared all the high 8 issues USIs.      The only dif ference would be in the length of 9 that report to the Congress?
10              MR. MINNERS:      That is right.
11              DR. SIESS:    Thank you.
12              MR. MINNERS:      I have been trying to work to 13 integrate the USIs and the other generic issues.                    There is 14 still a tendency to keep that separate.              I am trying to get 15 people to say, hey, there isn' t any dif ference between these 16 issues. We shouldn't be looking at them any differently.
17              DR. SIESS:    Okay.
18              MR. EMRIT:      I would just add relative to Question 19 3, EDO, the Commission, or ACRS interests may cause a highly 20 visible issue to be prioritized first.              We have a few issues 21 that have gone that route -- control room habitability, for 22 instance, human factors issues, a program plan which were 23 made into separate issues as documented in Section 4 of 24 NUREG-0933.
25              So we have specific examples of that.
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AJ          2                Okay.      I guess the final question is do we 3  . consider the process to be effective?
4                Sure, we do.
5                DR. SIESS:      You are talking about prioritization 6  of the whole thing?
7                MR. EMRIT:      Strictly, my presentation is 8  prioritization.        I am sorry.      If I could make the~ correction 9  now, I would.      That is the prioritization process.
10                DR. SIESS:      What is your measure of 11  effectiveness?
12                MR. EMRIT:      The staff benefits, the-industry 13  benefits, and the public benefits, okay.
O          14                Just to run down some of the staff benefits that 15  we believe, it allows the staff to focus on the most 16  important issues, obviously high, medium, the relative 17  ranking. It provides proper. identification and 18  documentation of issues to prevent the same issues being 19  raised again in the future.
20                  It gives you 0933.        People'should use it more and 21  more -- and I useEit more and more -- when they want to 22  raise the next issue.        You know, we try to prevent' people 23  from raising the same issue 10 times.              It is now documented.
24  We have never had that before. . That'is a product out of 25  this process, to put some order in the way we do things --
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-'/          2            It eliminates and reduces staff efforts on 3 related issues, as I just said.            The other side of that is 4 integration of generic issues.            Now, today we are 5 integrating.      I think a lot of people are interested in the 6 way we are resolving issues it has allowed us, because we 7 know what the descriptions are.
8            GIMCS tracks the resolutions, we get to the point-9 where we see three issues going in the same direction, we 10 integrate them and have a consolidated resolution.                I think 11 that was a point of concern earlier.
12            It increases staff awareness and understanding of
_        13 issues and safety concerns.          We feel it is cost effective by
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14 resolving issues, like I said before, putting them in the 15 low and drop category.      We think we can_ prevent people -- or 16 the staff from spending resources on those issues to get 17 nowhere essentially.
18            What this does, also, it reduces the number of 19 issues going into the resolution process.
20            And then the bottom line, going back to 0933, the 21 program provides the staff with current information that is 22 updated every six months.        That has been one of the products 23 of the process.
24            We have a set frequency for publication of NUREG-25 0933 every June and every December, when they cut of f these k_)
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\>            2              Everything that.has been accomplished, 3  prioritized, or resolved gets in NUREG-0933, -0935.                We have 4  gotten up to Supplement 6.        This coming June we will be 5  publishing Supplement 7.      All the new issues that get 6  identified get put in Table 2.            The results of the process, 7  whether it is resolved with requirements, without 8' requirements, all those conclusions are accurately reflected 9  in Tables 2 and 3, which is the comprehensive listing of 10  every issue.
11              We have about 720 issues right now, in case you 12  want to know.
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\2-          2              MR. EMRIT:      I said we're up to 720 issues.          The 3  industry benefits, we feel, again, because NUREG 0933 and 4  GIMCS, which is a recorder, gives you the status of the 5  resolution of each other -- the high and mediums and the 6  nearly resolved and the regulatory impact issues.                All the 7  issues highlighted for staff action are published in GIMCS 8  every quarter.
9              That's available to the public and the industry 10  via the PDR. We feel it allows the public and the industry 11  to understand what we are working on and what we consider 12  important from a safety standpoint, and that's a big benefit 13  to know where we're going.
14              It allows the industry to better focus on the 15  more important safety issues.            Also, at the same time, 16  coupled with that is the elimination.            We feel a benefit 17  here is the industry does not have to pursue less 18  significant safety concerns that have been eliminated by us, 19  the lows and drops.
20              Here again let me just point out it was mentioned 21  earlier by the EPRI.      NUREG 0933 was used extensively; going        j 22  back in 1982 and 1983, we had our own list and we were 23  developing it.      When we were studying our-prioritization            ;
l 24  process back in '81 and '82, they basically followed'our                ;
i 25  list and are still following our list with the ALWR program.
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  ' t ,)                .2                    The public. benefits.            It provides the public with 3      documented regulatory efforts-related to the identification 4      and resolution of generic issues, and their importance. .                It-
                        -5        provides better utilization.of regulatory'and' industry 6'      efforts on the most significant safety issues.
7                    The improved efficiency of:the NRC and the 8      industry should result in increased safety at lower cost, we 9      feel.
10                    (Slide.)
11                    Before I leave the podium,'let me'just rehash the 12        fact that this process, the prioritization process again, i                      13        has been understood and has been accepted by the GAO report O                  14      .that you alluded to earlier.
15                    I forget the number, but that was published back 16        in 1984. We got a letter from the ACRS after several-trips 17        down here on the methodology accepting the methodology'back 18        in 1983.
!                      19                    Like'I said, the; industry, the advanced light 20        water EPRI program.
21                    DR.'MOELLER:        What is the date of the industry's 22        response?    You.know, you gave dates for the other three.                I 23        just wondered if there was a date.
24                    MR. EMRIT : - It's an ongoing.
..                      25                    DR. SIESS:      This is the EPRI program.- This is O
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3            DR. MOELLER:      I just wonder if you could assign a 4 date to it.
5            MR. EMRIT:      It's ongoing.
6            DR. SIESS:      It's current.
7            DR. MOELLER:      When did it begin?
8            MR. EMRIT:      I would go back to 1983 when we were 9 prioritizing trying to get NUREG 0933 in publication.                    They 10 came in just about the same time.              They had their own list, 11 and the government had their list.              And they sort of decided 12 to walk in step with our list because it was more 13 formalized.
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\~#        14            Then, of course, we got a Commission letter of 15 approval of the process back in December 1983.                  And that 16 allowed us to move on and publish NUREG 0933.                  We've been 17 doing that consistently ever since.
18            Thank you.
19            MR. HERNAN:      There is a three-ring binder that's 20 about that thick, published by EPRI.
21            DR. SIESS:    Any other questions for Ron?
22            (No response.)
23            DR. SIESS:    Thank you very much for your 24 presentation.      We'll now take about a 10-minute break.
25            (Recess.)
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2                -(Slide.)
3                  MR. MINNERS:. Once again, my name is Warren
                  -4      Minners. I'm going to now discuss the resolution process, 5      which is the third step in the process after identification 6      and prioritization.
                  ;7                  (Slide.').
8                  Once again, I want to review the proces's because 9      that's really.what we're talking about here.                      And the 10      questions that were asked on the agenda went to how long 11      does it take to do it.        And the reason it takes so_long_is 12      because.we go through all these steps.
13                    The first step in the process,'after it's gone O              14      through prioritization and gets approved and gets assigned
:                15      to somebody, previously we were'only assigning resources to 16      high priority issues and deferring medium-priority 3 issues.
* 17                    Now that we're in Research,-we'll probably be 18      funding medium-priority-issues also.- After anLissue is 19      assigned, we write up a. task action' plan to define _what the 20      scope of the issue is going-to be, what tasks are going to 21      be done to accomplish the objectives, whose. going to do 22      those tasks, when they're going to be done, those kind of 23      things.
24                    Sometimes, a contractor is involved in that and 25      we'll hire a contractor to do some or all the tasks.
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3            So you've got your task action plan.                You go 4 through it. And, at the end, you spit out a resolution.
5            Now let me backtrack a little bit.              In some 6 cases, there is intermediate resolution.              In fact, when the 7 issue was first identified, there has always been and there 8 still is a function in NRR to see if any immediate action is 9 necessary on this issue.
10            Later on, when it gets assigned, or when it gets 11 partially resolved, we may want to do something.                  When the 12 steam-binding and auxilliary feedwater pumps first came up, 13 for example, a bulletin was put out telling licensees to O          14 basically increase their surveillance.
15            That was done before the issue was resolved.                The 16 resolution then went on after that.              Issue 99 is -- I don't 17 know -- part-way through its resolution.              And we had an 18 incident at Diablo Canyon.        People think that we need 19 something inbetween.
20            So we're probably going to send out a generic 21 letter to the licensees, even though the issue is not 22 resolved yet.
23            So there are intermediate resolutions which we do 24 on an ad hoc basis as we see necessary.
25            Now, the resolution will really be done in two O
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3              The technical resolution is how do you      ,
4  technically _ execute it?
5              What are you going to do about it?
6              The regulatory analysis'is the justification for
                  -7  that fix. We now have a safety goal which gives us some 8  guidance and is basically.a cost. benefit analysis.
9              What I try to preach is that there ought to be an 10  interaction, an-interation between technical resolution and 11  regulatory analysis-and not just have the regulatory 12  analysis just for rationalization of what you did.                But-it l                  13  should point you in'the right' direction when you do.the 14  regulatory a'nalysis.-                                                        ;
15              You should say:        Hey, these are.the high. risk-16  things and these.are how you fix the high risk. things.
.                  17  That's_how you're sup'osed p        to be using the regulatory 18  analysis. It_shouldn't be some rote thing that you' produce 19  at the end and staple as an. appendix-to satisfy the i                20  requirements.      It ought to be a useful'- tool to show you that 21- you've got the best solution.
22              That's what it should be used-for.            Maybe, at l
23  this point, a little talk about costs.: I guess we have'a                    l 24  reputation for not being very good cost estimators. .And I But that doesn't' necess'arily mean 1
,                  25  would agree with that.                                                        '
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3              I think. costs are notoriously, badly estimated.
4 And I-don't think you can damn any one group of persons for 5 being bad or indifferent cost estimators.                -It's a hard thing-6 to do.
7              We have a tougher time because at the resolution 8 stage, the fix has not been completely defined, especially 9 if we've gone along with the general policy to have 10 performance-based requirements.              Okay.
11              Then we don't really know what the fixes are.                    We 12 just say we've reduced the frequency by 10 percent, or 13 whatever it is.        Who knows what the fix is?
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14              As we get more proscriptive in the resolutions, 15 we can make better cost estimates.                When you get down in the 16 imposition and implementation stage and then the guy starts 17 to put it on his plant, then you have more specific and you 18 get better cost estimates.
19              So, cost estimating is basically having the 20 specifics. If you've got the specifics and want to spend 21 the time, you can go out and get good costs.                    After it goes 22 through the resolution process, it now goes out for a public 23 comment period.                                                                  ,
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3                              And after it gets all through that process and we 4      agonize over it, we. publish-it in the Federal Register S'    notice.            And that'will have some kind of a comment period 6    out on it -- 60, 90, 120 days.
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8                              After the comment-period is over, we get the
;                  9    comments back in and it goes through what I would call an 10        approval process.
j                11                                The first step is we try to' resolve the public
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14        the resolution, or we may modify some of the comments.                                        All    ,
15        kinds of different things.
16                                After that, it goes through the.same process as 17      before.            We get the staff review, the-other divisions, the 18      other offices.                      We go through CRGR, through ACRS, through'-
19      the Commission sometimes --~not always.
20                                And after we've gone through that process, we                      .
21      have - to. get somebody to formally ' approve it and say:- Yes, 22        this is what we're going to do.
23                                In that case, it would be formally-sent from the 24        resolvers, which now would be us and Research, to'NRR.                                        And) 25        that's the imposition phase.'                            And, usually, it's announced O
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3            So you can see we have a long series of actions 4 here. That's one of the contributors to long resoluion 5 times.
6            DR. REMICK:      Warren, going back to my earlier 7 question now that we're on the resolution, as part of this 8 public ccmment process, do you ever hold a meeting with 9 vendors or operators or licensees that sit down and talk 10 about some of these with knowledgeable people?
11            It's very difficult sometimes to put your 12 thoughts in written comments.            Sometimes, you can do it 13 better verbally if you get the proper people there.
14            Is that ever done?
15            MR. MINNERS:      Yes, we do that quite frequently.
16 I'll give you an example.        A-44, we have had many meetings 17 with NUMARC on their initiatives in resolving A-44.                We've 18 talked to them.
19            A-16 I think had a very close cooperation with 20 industry. That worked out very well.          That's also a problem 21 fcr us because that gives the appearance that we're in bed 22 with industry.      But what we're talking about is going to the  _
23 people who know their plants better than we do.                And we're 24 trying to find out from them what's going on.
25            They have a conflict of interest.            We recognize C
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                                                                                                        ]l 2-      for it.
1 3                      So we try to talk to industry.            Some times , -- I 4      think we feel that industry may-use that as a delaying-5      tactic. They'll come up with an initiative and do the 6      initiative after we've proposed our resolution and then we 7      just have to go talk to them a while.
8                      But the proper way to do it is to get learly on 9      industry in the process, and I think we're doing.that more 10      and more.
11                      A-45 -- in fact, A-45, we provided some funds to-12      pay travel expenses for industry-review groups.                    And we-may 1
13      get criticized for that, but I don't think we ought to
(:)        14      because I think that's working withLindustry to get their 15      input early on in the process to see.what the problems are.
16                      That should speed'up the process because industry 17      should not have much to complain of at the end of the, 18      process that they didn't have a chance to'have an input.
19                      DR. REMICK:    How about at the end where, let's 20      say, you resolved something and you find that it's something
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21      that you feel ~should not be imposed?;
22                      Because if you look at the whole set of plants,                .)
23      maybe the risk isn't great.            Yet, within the whole set of-24      plants, .there are a couple of plants that are particularly 25      bad.
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  !x ']        2 those plant owners to make them understand that, although 3 you don' t feel that generically you can impose something, 4 that the situation at their plant is such that they really 5 ought to pay-special attention to it?
6            Is that ever done to try to convince them that 7 maybe they should consider doing it on their own?
8            MR. MINNERS:      I can't think of an example of 9 where we've done that.      Maybe somebody else can.
10            Bob...
11            VOICE:      Our proposed resolution on control system 12 interaction really comes down to steam generator reactor 13 vessel overfill.      And a lot of the plants already have 14 protection systems for that.          And the proposed resolution, 15 which is in concurrence now points out -- has pretty limited 16 requirements.      Not entirely, but it's mostly aimed at those 17 plants that don't have protection systems.
18            MR. MICHELSON:        Of course,.you've cited the very 19 example I've been talking about all morning.              And that is 20 that's a very limited resolution system interaction.
21            VOICE:      He's talking about safety implementations 22 and control systems.
4 23            MR. MICHELSON:        Okay.      So that one is much 24 closer.
25            VOICE:      As it turns out,'in each class of plants, b,,
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3                    DR. REMICK:      In the case-that you're talking 4
4      about, is it a case of that being a report from somebody out 5      'there in the plant that there is greater risk and that they 6      might understand and might be stimulated?-
7                    Or does the staff do.anything to actually make 8      those people fully aware of the implications for their plant 9      with the' implication that they should look at it more 10        closely?
11                      VOICE:    As the solution is currently drafted, the 12        generic letter would go out'to those specific plants.                          Well,-
    '( )          13        it would go out to 'everyone.            But those specific plants 14        would have detailed requirements.
15                      VOICE:    And it hasn't gone out for'public. comment 16        yet either.      These people'aro1 identified.
17                      VOICE:    It's in the current process right now.
18                      MR. MINNERS:      And we did'that on generic. issue 19        124. We gave a generic resolution and we' identified seven 20        plants that we saw were bad' actors, and we're focusing our 21        results on that.
22                      But my observation of that process is that it's 23        hard to identify who-the bad actors are.            So what you have
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25        .you can find out who the bad actors are.
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2            One question on the agenda is, are all generic 3 issues resolved fast enough? .I think the answer to that 4 question is, I guess nobody is satisfied with how fast 5 generic issues are resolved.          We all want to do bettr.
6            I don't know how you judge fast enough.              In some 7 cases, as we will show later on, if we had done it faster, 8 we might have prevented some incidents.          Everybody would 9 like to go faster.
10            MR. EBERSOLE:
Warren, may I ask a question?            If 11 we take the issue of fire protection and interface it with
_s        12 TAP 45 and look at the presence in all the designs of these
\.J        13 ancient inadequate old circuit extensions from the control 14 room out to various places that are still vulnerable to fire 15 and imposing new risks on the control room functions, how do 16 you interface and come to grips with and integrate these 17 three aspects of safety problems?
18            MR. MINNERS:      I think A-45 did that.          A-45 did 19 look at what are called special emergencies.              It was a large 20 contribution to some plants from fire.          Taht could be 21 partial justification for putting on maybe a dedicated 22 system. The cases that I saw was the cable spreading room, 23 which had relays in it, so you couldn't use the water spray, 24 you had to use Halon or CO2.
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4            MR. MINNERS:        A-45 looks at that.      It tried to 5 look at it. It is a hard thing to look at, but we tried to 6 look at it and say how much of a contribution is there.
7            MR. EBERSOLE:        They could be snipped off, if they 8 fulfilled the requirements of fire protection.
9            MR. MINNERS:        I think there is a case where 10 quantitative analysis probably breaks down and you can't do 11 it.
12            MR. MICHELSON:          There's a very good example, of
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13 course, of where again our process is breaking down.              That 14 is that the analyses that were done concerning fire did not 15 account for system interaction effects from such sources as 16 inadvertent actuation, because the smoke got away from the 17 fire area and set off a deluge in another part of the 18 building, and so forth.
19            There things just aren't chased.          So we are led 20 to a falso sense of security fronm the bottom line up, 21 simply because we haven't included all the phenomenon yet.
22            I don't know what generic issue starts pulling 23 these things back together again, recognizing that fire is a 24 global phenomenon.      It is not limited to the room in which 5
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9              MR. MINNERS:    If we'd done a good regulatory 10 analysis, in addition to a bottom line value impact number, 11 it ought to have a good discussion of those kinds of things.
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13 treated in the announcement.          That is not easy to do.          Burt 14 we should try to do it.
15              So I agree. You can't bottom line it.            That 16 doesn't mean that value impact analysis is bad.
17              MR. MICHELSON:      I guess we don't write too many 18 good regulatory analyses, because you will rarely find those 19 caveats in the answer, you know, in the regulation.
20              MR. MINNERS:    I agree.        It takes a lot of time to 21 write a rgulatory analysis, and I am not sure we always do 22 it well.
23              We tried to answer the question he 24 asked.
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3            MR. MINNERS:    That is right.          I mean, I can point 4 you to where the process is fine, because the old NRR Office 5 Letter 16 had many places in it, where it told you yes, you 6 are supposed to go and discuss these other qualitative 7 factors that can't be treated quantitatively, and it tells 8 you to do that.
9            Hcar many people follow that?            I don't'know, but 10 it's a matter of getting people trained to write regulatory 11 analysis and think in those terms.              I just don't take an 12 engineer off the street and suddenly he becomes a regulatory O,          13 analyst. It takes some training and some experience.
14            MR. MICHELSON:      We had a very recent experience 15 with this, when we tried to get the resolution of seismic 16 effect, when I asked if a tank of water falls over it, we 17 ought to chase the consequences of the water on the floor 18 not just physically, not just what physically the tank did, 19 but the analysis ended at the point of physical impact.                  You 20 don't chase the water across the floor.
21            So there's really many examples of where we have 22 narrowed our thinking, and I think are being led into some 23 unjustifiable comfort.
24            MR. MINNERS:    When people review these regulatory              1 25 analyses, they ought to make comments on it and discuss                        l ACE-FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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2              MR. MICHELSON:          They did. It was discussed at 3 length. Even the ACRS kind of knuckled under a little on 4 it.
5              VOICE:      Mr. Micholson, I would like to corrrect 6 that. It wasn't that we didn't consider it, that we weren't 7 considering that issue, but we have taken advice of the ACRS 8 and right now the plans are to include that explicitly, as 9 well as several of the other peripheral issues.
10              MR. MICHELSON:          It is an example of where you 11 broke it off, because you didn't quite know how to handle
    ,s        12 it, so you put it into a new issue.              It is not like it's k#        13 dead. It won't die that easily.
14              VOICE:      It was always in a different issue, but 15 that interface was kind of fuzzy.              We have straightened that 16 out.
17              MR. MICHELSON:          I am just pointing out the 18 weaknesses of using bottom line numbers too religiously.
19              MR. MINNERS:          Well, here are some statistics we 20 have. Once again,.I wouldn't bottom line these either.              'In 21 the period '83 through '87 -- that's issues that were 22 resolved during that period.            Obviously, some issues started 23 before that -- we've done as well as 45, as poorly as 83.
24 The average is 54 months.
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2            MR. MINNERS:      Some plants you could build in 83 3 months. I would point out some of the things here.                  These 4 always had dedicated task masters and these only recently 5 had dedicated task masters, and they seemed to be going 6 faster than those.
7            MR. MICHELSON:        Isn't the level of difficulty 8 kind of increasing the page?
9            MR. MINNERS:      I hope that is the case.
10            MR. MICHELSON:        USIs, clearly, are presumably 11 more difficult issues to cope with.
,-          12            DR. SIESS:      I thought USIs would be a irore
(~)        13 important issue.        That doesn't make it more difficult.
14            MR. MICHELSON.        It makes it tougher to decide, 15 maybe.
16            DR. SIESS:      If it is really important, it ought 17 to be easier to decide.
18            MR. MINNERS:      Now the resources that we were 19 putting on this before were two branches which had about 24 20 people in them.        We had another, I forget, maybe 2 million 21 or 3 million dollars of technical assistance that was being 22 devoted toward all of these things.              That was our resource 23 level that was being applied to these issues.
24            DR. SIESS:      Does that show as a line item in your
'"          25 budget?
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j                                                    2                        .DR. SIESS - Resolution of generic issues?
3                        101. MINNERS:          Yes.
;-                                                    4                        The next question'was, what are the factors in
"                                                          ' deciding which generic issues to resolve first.
                                                    'S 6                          (Slide.)
7                          I guess I thought about that question quite a lot 8      because it seemed like maybe there is more to it'-than I
.                                                    9      thought, and I think the answer is, it is'prioritization.
10      Whatever the prioritization number is, that was the_ purpose                                                                              .
11      of prioritization.                That is what-we used, and IEdon't think
                                                  - 12      much else goes into it.                    I mean, I guess -- the' Chairman-13-      commented on one issue once, I don't know, maybe that has                                                                                '
;                                                  14      speeded it up a little bit more, and perhaps some ACRS 15      comments, but I think it is basically,the prioritization l
16      priority which determines which issues get done.                                                              And~I j                                                  17      think that's proper.
  -4;                                              18                          DR. SIESS:          You got away from a' slide where you 19      had the process and ACRS was listed in it.-                                                      I think now we 20      are getting copies of the resolution of all generic issues.
I 21                          Has that always been the case?
22~                        MR. MINNERS:- I would think that you would have 23      gotten' copies, yes.
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24                          DR. SIESS:          We can't find any record of_having
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l 0960 09 09                                                                                113 Vbw      1 five generic issue resolutions.
                  .2              MR. MINNERS: -That is a different question.
3 Whether you got to review all the' resolutions before they 4 were issued is something else, but certainly after theyfwere 5 resolved, I think you got copies.
6              DR. SIESS:      What would we get?          A copy of.a 7 letter that goes to the office directors?
8              MR. MINNERS:        Whatever it_was; yes.
9              DR. SIESS:      Transmitting the' resolution.
10                MR. MINNERS:        Your problem.would be talking about 11  issues which would be resolved with.no requirement,.which 12  don' t- go through the same review process.
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13                DR. SIESS:= We - should - be getting _ those - too. -
14                MR. MINNERS:        I think you' spoke to us once about:
15  it, and I hope now you're getting them, and I-thought you                                      +
16  got them before.          Somehow,. distribution lists get neglected.-
17                VOICE:      They are addressed to Mr. Fraley.                  We 18  routinely send them.to him.              We are required.to,'on USIs.
19                MR. MINNERS:        You also'have a check on'this, 20  because 0933 and GIMCS were1 updated all the . time. - So you 21  can see which issues are being resolved.                  If one of your.
22- f avorites is resolved and you haven' t seen it, I guess you 23  can ask some questions.
24                MR. EBERSOLE:        Warren, a trigger event happened O            25  at Diablo Canyon recently.            You know,.they boiled the-ACE-FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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5    . What this has uncovered, I believe, is-the. realization that-6    the potential for core melt is perhaps as high in most modes 7    as it is in the running mode, and the variety of ways-in 8    which the operators informally handle their problems af ter 9    they do this leads to all sorts of plant-specific approaches 10      to cope with the cooling problem.
11                    What would be your forecast as to how-long it is 12      going to take to pick up and.run that'to earth?'
O            13                    DR. SIESS:      It is on your next slide.
14                    MR. EBER00LE:        Is it?
15                    MR. MINNERS:        I don't think so.
16                    DR. SIESS:. On my copy, it is.
17                    MR. MINNERS:      .Ron, could you look up the GIMCS 18      sheet on 99?        I will try.to get you the answer to that.                            .I 19      . forget the number.
20                    (Slide.)
21                    I think the last question that was aske'd is, are                      .
22      there any GIs not resolved?                                    7 23                    The answer is, obviously,-yes.                      But I think the 24      question was, are there some real oldies?
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0960 09 09                                                                        115 AVbw    1 think the TMI Action Plan, which was published in 1980, 18 2 of those issues are still unresolved.            The Task Action Plan, 3 which was the earlier thing which came out, where the USIs 4 were first identified in that, that was done back in 1979, 5 four of the USIs identified in '79 are still unresolved.
6 There are more unresolved USIs, but they were identified 7 later. There are ten generic issues that were identified 8 back then. You can identify those in GIMCS, because these 9 are the ones where the number is pr,eceded by an A or B or C.
10              There's been some issues that have been laying 11 around for quite a while.
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12              (Slide.)                                                        .
s I      i 13              ATWS isn't even on that list.
14              (Laughter.)
15              Here is the rest of the answer to that question.
16 Here are the active issues which are unresolved.                  This is 17 the current status of the resolution.
18              We have 69 issues going through the mill.                  9 of 19 them are USIs, 32 high, 16 mediums and 12 NRs.
20              So that is the completion of the answer to the 21 question of some other issues which are not here.                              -
22              DR. SIESS:      Which table shows the throughput on 23 that?  Is that Table 17 24              MR. MINNERS:      The throughput?      The throughput, I 8        ,
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2              DR. SIESS:    As we were looking as an increasing 3 backlog on the prioritization, most of the stuff ending up 4 in the backlog, not being too important.              In terms of the 5 resolution, Table 1 doesn't look like you are doing too 6 badly.
7              (Slide.)
8              MR. MINNERS:      I think Table 1 says to me --
9              DR. SIESS:    Without Davis-Besse, you would have 10 done pretty well.
11              MR. MINNERS:      Well, we've got some anomalies
,,        12 here. You see these asterisks.            This is where we were 13 fooling around with the human factors.              We identified a 14 whole bunch of issues in the human factors program.                  Then 15 later on, we decided that, no, we didn't really have those 16 issues. So that has added some perturbations in there, but 17 I think we started out with 91 back in '83, and at the start 18 of this year, this is the real number, 86.              And we project 19 that we are going to be down to 77 by the end of the year.
20              DR. SIESS:    That is projecting only two new 21 issues.
22              MR. MINNERS:      Yes.
23              DR. SIESS:    What does GIs integrated mean?              That 24 is the next to the last column?
25              MR. MINNERS:      That is where we take these human ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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  \'*AVbw      _1  factors issues and put-them back into'the old issues.                  We 2  have been playing games with those issues.          I' don't know 3    exactly why, but that is all that means.          We just had some 4  issues ~ that were identified as separate _ issues, and in S  decided they really weren't, they were really part of other.
6  issues.
7                DR. SIESS:      If you had'ru) new issues coming in at 8  the front ~end, not at the resolution end, but the very front 9  end of the process, how long would it take you to work off 10    this 69?
11                MR. MINNERS:      I wish-I'had that slide.          I th' ink 12    we're out -- I'm forgotten -- out to-89, I guess.                I think O          13    we're out there.        We are supposed to have the lastcissue now-14    currently on the books resolved.
15                Do you have thatfbar chart anywhere, Ron?-
16                MR. EMRIT:      No, I don't.
17                DR. SIESS: 'Everything has been prioritized?
18                MR. MINNERS:      Everything has been prioritized.
19    All these 86 issues.
20                DR. SIESS:      You figure the ones haven't been 21    prioritized are in the backlog?                                            '
22                MR. MINNERSt- There's only three high priorities 23    on that list.
24                DR. SIESS:      How do you know they are high O          25    priorities, if they. haven't been prioritized?
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                    '2                    'MR. MINNERS:- The staff has done its work.                                                It is 3        just going through the' peer review process.                                            So we have 4        prioritized.it infthat sense.
5                    DR. SIESS:      Okay.            I have got the thing we were 6        looking for.
7                    MR. MINNERS:          Okay.: ~Now, I want to skip:down=
8        .into what was on the agenda under Section~4.1,-which was-the 4
                    ,9        imposition and implementation section.
10                      (Slide.)
11                      You asked the question which I am going to- take 12        on answering.      The question was, are there any recent O'
13        incidents that could have been prevented if.we had resolved 14        some of the outstanding . generic issues?
15                      I didn' t do- an exhaustive study of this.
16-                    .DR. SIESS:    That question said " resolved and 17        implemented."
18                      Are you going to talk about both parts of the 19        question or just the resolved part?
s 20                      MR. MINNERS:          You wouldn't prevent the incident 21        unless it was implemented.              I don't think resolution has
.                  22        prevented anything.
23                      DR. SIESS:
That is a very important statement to 24 /      make.
l 21                      MR. EBERSOLE:          You say these are incidents which
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2            MR. MINNERS:      You_are asking me to speculate?
3            MR. EBERSOLE:      Yes, I am.
4            MR. MINNERS:      I don't mind speculating.            I don' t 5 know what you mean by "recent" either.            The biggio is Davis-6 Besse, loss of auxiliary feedwater.
7            If we had implemented Generic Issue 124, I don't 8 think Davis-Besse would have happened.            They would have lost 9 their turbines maybe, but they would have had a third pump 10 to take care of them.
11            MR. MICHELSON:        Did that include valve 12 reliability as part of that resolution?
O          13            DR. SIESS:    No. They would have gotten into the 14 same trouble, but they would have gotten out of it.
15            MR. MINNERS:      No, 124 is basically should you add 16 a third train.
17            MR. MICHELSON:        If you look at it that way, 18 basically that is true, yes.
19            MR. MINNERS:      As I say, I think you would have 20 still lost the two turbine trains, but you would have had a 21 third train.
22            DR. SIESS:    This bothers me because now I don' t 23 know what we are trying to prevent at Davis-Besse.                Davis-24 Besse didn't have a core molt.            They didn't do any damage to          )
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0960 10 10                                                    .            121 AVbur    1 they had some valve problems, and they had some auxiliary 2 feedwater reliability problems.
3            So you said if 124 had been implemented, it would 4 have prevented what?
5            MR. EBERSOLE:      Getting so close to the edge.
6            MR. MINNERS:      Right, getting so close to the 7 edge.
8            DR. SIESS:    How much farther from the edge do you 9 want?
10            MR. MICHELSON:        Down to one system. They lost 11 two systems, at any rate.
    ,,        12            MR. EBERSOLE:      I was going to ask you something.
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13 I know these are controversial opinions.          We have some 14 members that I don' t agree with at all who said if we just 15 had a hotsy-totsy maintenance system that this wouldn't have 16 happened. I don' t agree with that at all.
17            MR. MINNERS:      That is probably a true statement 18 if they had done proper maintenance.
19            MR. EBERSOLE:      But that is a weaker course to 20 take.
21            MR. MINNERS:      I am not sure it was maintenance.
22 I think the basic problem was the guy went in and when he 23 hit the buttons and isolated the system, that is what 24 screwed it up, because it wasn't designed to operate in that i
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3              MR. EBERSOLE:      The system was designed for those 4 valves to open anyway, but it turned out they were not quite 5 good enough any more to do it.              They hadn't been maintained 6 to do it and adjusted.
7              DR. SIESS:      Warren, you are saying Davis-Besse 8 would have been safer if that had happened?
9              MR. MINNERS:      That is all we are talking-about in 10 any of these incidents.        Always safer.        There are no 11 absolutes.
12              DR. SIESS:      Would a PRA have shown it to be O''        13 safer?
14              MR. MINNERS:      Yes.
15              DR. SIESS:      It would have?
16              MR. MINNERS:      Yes.      The only question was the 17 regulatory analysis showed it was very expensive, and when 18 you did the value impact, people said, whoops, maybe that 19 much safety ain't worth that much money.
20              DR. SIESS:      It only cost a year's operation.
21 That is pretty expensive.
22              MR. EBERSOLE:        Incidentally, that factor it not 23 put in the cost analysis yet.
24              MR. MINNERS:      Yes, it is.
25              MR. EBERSOLE:        Is it now?      I didn't know that.
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2            MR. MINNERS:      That is correct.
3            DR. SIESS:    They were put in the outage for 4 making the fix.
5            MR. MINNERS:      At least the ones I do or review, I 6 have something to say about.          We do one with just offsite 7 costs, okay, j ust of fsite -- what do I want to say              -
8 man / rem, then just costs to implement the fix, okay?
9            But we also do a case in which we look at onsite 10 costs, which includes such things as not only the shutdown 11 time to a core melt but a shutdown time which might result 12 from precursors to core melts.
13            DR. SIESS:    You mean you factor in the fact that 14 NRC might shut them down for six months for getting too 15 close to the edge; that is factored in?
16            MR. MINNERS:      Yes.      If they had used their feed 17 and bleed and how to clean up the feed and bleed, the cost 18 of that shutdown time is presented.
19            DR. SIESS:    By not having the auxiliary 20 feodwater, they ended up being shut down for six months by 21 NRC?
22            MR. MINNERS:      That is right.      In fact, we have 23 done this on A-45 and have gotten severely criticized that 24 this is not a proper thing to do in regulatory analysis.
25            DR. SIESS:      You have control of it.          I don't know ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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i              2                MR. MINNERS:        I am going to put it in.
              -3                DR. SIESS:      You can tell a utility that partTof 4 the cost of not making this fix is being shut down for six
;              5 months.
6                MR. MINNERS:        If people don't want to include i
7 that in their decisionmaking, I _annot affect that.                        But I' 8 think any information that you can provide is useful, and 4
9 people can weight it as they wish.
10                MR. EBERSOLE :        Wo uld-you agree with me when I say 11 I think that was a classic case of the value of having 12 diversity?
13                MR. MINNERS:        Yes.      In fact, I have a large              ,
14 problem now with 124 as we are going through, and we have 15 looked at these two-train systems, but they all have 16 d ive rsity . I keep coming back that this problem was not a 17 three-train problem.          It was a lack of' diversity that got l              18 Davis-Bense in trouble.
19                So that is one of the considerations.                  Can I 20 really make this guy do something to put in a third train 1                                                                                                    J 21 when I am not changing the diversity?
4 22                MR. EBERSOLE:        The competing school of thought 23 which I don't agree with was if they had real good                                  ;
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2            MR. MINNERS:      Then we discussed the Diablo Canyon 3 event. We had a generic issue done on that.                The object of 4 this would be to fix this kind of stuff.
5            Brunswick and Hatch have recently had trouble 6 with their safety valves.        B-55 has been around a long time.
7            DR. SIESS:      B-55 has been around longer than I 8 have.
9            MR. EBERSOLE:      May I comment on Diablo Canyon?
10 It is not really suction valve interlocks.
11            MR. MINNERS:      This title is wrong.            This issue p_
12 has been extended to include all losses of RRR during the 13 shutdown.
14            DR. SIESS:      Good.
15            MR. MINNERS:      As Dr. Siess has pointed out, the 16 names mean nothing, right?
17            Oconee and North Anna have recently had service 18 water fouling.      They took out 26 tons of garbage from 19 Oconce.
20            MR. EBERSOLE:      May I comment on that because we 21 had a meeting about it Tuesday.
22            DR. SIESS:      Let's don' t hit the details of these.
23 The question is, would the fix have prevented it?
24            MR. EBERSOLE:      The fix up to now is merely to go r>
25 scavenge and clean up the heat exchangers.                The real fix is ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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            -3 flooding or high rains' they can literally ~ plug up these 4 systems in a matter of a few minutes to hours.
5            MR. MINNERS:      You know more about it than I have.
6 I haven' t looked at- this issue in a long time.
7            MR. HERNAN:      That is.what Generic Issue 51 is 8 intended to do, Jesse.      It has been expanded.
9            MR. MICHELSON:        Line fouling isn't solved by the 10  uptake.
11              VOICE:    Silting, too.        We are looking at it in 12  the context of coupling it with seismic events.
O          13              MR. EBERSOLE:      When you look at the muddy bottom 14  on some of those lakes and the closeness of the uptakes to 15  that, you can see the problem.
16              VOICE:    There are various alternatives-to 17  resolving that now.      Cleaning up that intake area and 18  preventing the siltation is one of-the alternatives.                  It may 19  turn out to be too expensive.
20              MR. MINNERS:      This is Dr. Moeller's issue.              We 21  are working on the issue, Dr. Moeller, but what has happened 22  with this issue, people have been so busy looking at 23  specific plants like Trojan that they haven't had any kind 24  of work on the generic problem.
O          25              Your question about the air system, okay, that is                  R ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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6            DR. MOELLER:      Thank you.
7            MR. MINNERS:      This isn't quite the same.          Turkey 8 Point had a leak in the head and got a lot of boric acid 9 crystals on the head, which is similar to Issue 29, in which 10 leaks are degrading bolts.        It is similar.
11            We don't know this value.            When I put down 12 12 plants por year may have diesel generator reliability of 13 less than 95 percent, we don't know this number because we 14 haven't gone out and done the survey, 15            But this is pretty much of a guess.
16            DR. SIESS:      That is listed as B-56.
17            MR. MINNERS:      This Issue B-56 is being done in 18 conjunction with A-44 to resolve this problem.              A-44 says --
19 in the rules says you are supposed to have good diesel 20 generator reliability.      B-56 will expand upon that and give 21 an outline of what good diesel generator reliability is.
22            DR. SIESS:      Is that good diesel generator 23 reliability in terms of starting in a certain number of 24 seconds, or does it define generator reliability in terms of 25 station blackout at least an hour and maybe two, four, six, ACE FEDERAL REvonTEas, INC.
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2            MR. MINNERS:      It is directed toward station 3 blackout, not load.                                                I 4            DR. SIESS:      You have 12 plants that couldn't get 5 one diesel online in two hours?
6            MR. MINNERS:      Yes, and this changes from year to 7 year. This may not be the same plants every year.
8            As I say, I don't know this number very well.
9            DR. SIESS:    That means that less than 95 percent 10 availability within two hours?
11            MR. MINNERS:      Yes.
12            DR. SIESS:    For both diesels?
I 13            MR. MINNERS:      This is per diesel.
14            DR. SIESS:    So that is 99.75.
15            MR. MINNERS:      And that depends on your diesel 16 configuration, too.                              i 17            MR. MICHELSON:        Does that generic issue encompass 18 the question of the common fuel supplies and their purity, 19 and so forth?
20            We have had a couple of interesting events lately 21 involving somewhat less than desirable fuel oil conditions 22 leading to a loss of all diesels.
23            MR. MINNERS:      We are supposed to have the diesels 24 and their support system, yes.
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2              MR. EBERSOLE:      Does the particular case up there 3  encompass all the boric acid problems you have seen 4  recently?
5              MR. MINNERS:    29 was supposed to be.      This was 6  the bolting. Maybe I shouldn't have put this up.
7              DR. SIESS:    That is not a very good example.
8              MR. EBERSOLE:      It is lots more than bolting.
9              DR. SIESS:    There are more ways for bolts to fail 10  than boric acid, too.
11              MR. MINNERS:    This is not an exhaustive list.
rs        12              DR. SIESS:    Warren, why does B-56 even exist k'-
13  separate from A-44?
14              MR. MINNERS:    Because I haven't been able to find 15  anybody who can sit down and write down what a good diesel 16  reliability program was, okay.          So we said there is no sense 17  holding up.
18              DR. SIESS:    It is not a question of diesel 19  reliability.      It is a question of alternating curve
        -  20  taliability.
21              MR. MINNERS:    I can find people who can tell you 22  how to make the offsite power and the switchyard reliable.
23              DR. SIESS:    Station blackout is the issue.      You 24  know it is a major contributor to core molt.            But why isn't I    I 25 diesel generator reliability part of the overall basic issue ACE-FEDERAL REponTEns, INC.
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2            MR. MINNERS:    It is part of it.
3            MR. EBERSOLE:      This is a case of the                      ,
4 compartmentalization problem.
5            MR..MINNERS:    First of all, we are going to go 6 out with A-44, which has a rule which says --- part of the 7 rules say you have to have good diesel generator 8 reliability. That is all it is going to say.            It is just' 9 this general criterion, and this is going to expand it and 10 say, hey, here are the elements of a good diesel generator 11 reliability program.
12            Now, maybe we can't produce that, okay.                There 7,
U                                                            13 are some plants that have good diesel generator reliability, 14 and there are other plants that are bad.
15            Now, why is that?        Is that because the diesels 16 are lousy, the people are lousy?            I don't know, the phases 17 of the moon?
18            DR. SIESS:    We are going to be smart enough to 19 figure out which is which.
20            MR. MINNERS:    We are going to try.
21            MR. EBERSOLE:      That is the process of bringing
,                                                                      22 them up to some sort of common standard of excellence or 23 acceptability.
24            MR. MINNERS:    Yes, because we think there are 25 plants out there that have lower than desirable, maybe even ACE FEDERAL REPonTERs, INC, 202 347 3700      Nationwide Coverage      800-336-6616
 
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2              DR. SIESS:      Reliability used to be defined in 3 terms of the quick start, and they had to go through 199 of 4 them without a failure to demonstrate that they could do it.
5 In that time they probably couldn't do one.
6              MR. MINNERS:      This is 95 percent to start and 7 run.
8              DR. SIESS:      To start and run in how long?
9              They originally qualified diesels by doing quick 10 starts.
11              MR. MINNERS:      That usually isn't the problem.            I 7,
12 don't think diesols running is the problem, you see.                  That 13 is not the reliability problem.
14              DR. SIESS:      You had a whole reg guide built 15 around diesels starting and running without paying any 16 attention to whether the sequences worked, the switches 17 worked, or anything else.          It was done right in the 18 factories.
19              That is what the reg guide was written on.                I 20 never did think it was any good.
21              MR. MINNERS:      That is why we changed it.
22              DR. SIESS:      It isn't diesel generator reliability 23 that you are concerned with.            At the minimum, it is offsite 24 alternating current reliability.              That has got to get it to 25 the buses, and it takes more than the diesel starting, and ace-FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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2              MR. MINNERS:                          Now, I would like to answer a 3 question that wasn't specifically asked, but I think is 4 implied. In fact, it was an explicit question the 5 Commission asked you.
6              Ron answered it on prioritization.                                                I would like 7 to answer it on resolution.
8              Is the resolution process effective?
9              (Slide.)
10              I think I could probably break that into two 11 parts. Effectiveness should be measured by the safety being 12 improved.
O                                                                                        13              I don't really have an answer to that part of the 14 question. I guess we haven't gone through and actually made 15 an assessment of the generic issues and what effect they had 16 on safety. Maybe we ought to do that someday.
17              I do have some answer to the question, 18 administratively, is it effective?                                    Are we identifying 19 issues and resolving issues effectively?
20              The bottom line is that of the issues that we 21 have looked at that come in, we have resolved 77 percent of 22 them, okay, and you have to look at resolved in front of the 23 big picture.      37 percent were resolved.                                In other words, 4
24 somebody looked at the issue and said something should be
(                                                                                        25 done or something should not be done.
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5                16 percent of these we resolved by showing that 6    the issue was really subsumed in another issue.                  12 percent 4
7    implemented here means_that these are the 0737 items in'the 1
8    TMI, okay. .We identified the issues.            We approved l                9    resolution of them and imposed'them on plants.                  Then we have 10    drops and lows.
11                So that is the 77 percent.
12                So what.is.left are we are still working on
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:                15                1 percent of the issues are USIs.
16                4 percent are high issues that-are still being 17    worked on, and 2 percent are medium, and we still have 8 18    percent of the issues that Ron's group has backlogged and j              19    have not been prioritized.
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21    issues aren't important.        They are probably lows or drops or
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3            So I think the answer is, yes.      I think 77 4 percent is pretty good.
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4    resolving these issues that somebody'else has defined and 5    that you're not the bottleneck.
6                MR. MINNERS:              We're not-the bottleneck.-
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l                      15                MR. MINNERS:              That's hard. People.said why don't i                                                                                                                ,
:                      16    you include earthquakes.
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19                MR. MINNERS:                Both. Technically, it's hard to'do.        ,
i 20    because you've got to think of what the issue should be.
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22'    You're not that smart, which is why I urge people to do l                      23    regulatory analysis, which is what helps you to do the l                      24    technical thinking until it's complete.
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5            That's my opinion.          It's a balance of having the 6 issue small enough so you can do it and big enough that it 7 has some meaning.
8            We're continually making that balance.                  And I'm 9 not sure we always make it right.            We welcome anybody else's 10 input on what the scope of the issue should be.
11            DR. SIESS:      I think that's very well put.                    And I 12 think it's important.      And I think it's something we need to 13 think about, is how you divide up issues to resolve them and 14 still keep them broad enough to be meaningful.
15            MR. MICHELSON:        I think one way you might 16 entertain doing that is there are certain fundamental issues 17 that we define.      And I gave you an example earlier of 18 pressure boundary rupture versus pipe break.
19            We should keep in mind, the bigger, shall we say, 20 more global issues, and they should be in a little 21 description somewhere within your staff, or wherever, and 22 each piece of it should be fitted into that.
23            Admittedly, you'll still see the gaps.                  But, 24 hopefully, you're hitting the worst, most serious aspects
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i                                5                        So somebody has to mastermind how these. things i
j                                6 are fitting together.                                                                                                                                                    ;
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8 important.                0933 defines what the documentation is supposed 9 to be.
4 10                        MR. MICHELSON:                              This global scope isn't in there.
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15 publish, because you don't always like to talk about all 16 your problems.                    But, somebody, hopefully, has got in front 1
:                                17 of them the global problem to see how the pieces are fitting 18 into it.
i'                                                                                                                                                                                                            I i                                19                          VOICE:            On the global issues we have, we really i                                                                                                                                                                                    .
j                                20 try to do that.                      And that's just right on.                                                  We're totally l                                21 with Warren, and you're right on about the global aspect.
l                                22 But you can't work the global issues.                                                                    You can only put them
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j                                24                        MR. MICHELSON:                              The system interactions are a i
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;    0960 11 11                                                                                                                                      138 V/bc              1                                VOICE:        We have a lot of experience with trying i                                  2                    to work with global issues, and we've been trying to work 3                  the same issues for 10 years.
4                                MR. MICHELSON:                    And it may take 20.
5                                DR. SIESS:          Who do you think~looks at.0933?
6                                MR. MINNERS:                Me.      You know, I get calls from 7                  people and I say, "Go read 0933."                        The budgeters use 0933.
8                    and GIMCS all the time.
9                                MR. MICHELSON:                    But 933 doesn' t discuss the 10                    global' issues that the generic issue is fitting into.
11                                MR. MINNERS:                Yes, it does.            It's supposed to j                                12                    have a section that shows how the , issue connects to all the
()                          13                    other issues.
14                                DR. SIESS:            That's not the same thing.
15                                MR. MICHELSON:                    That's right, it's not the same j                                16                    thing.
17                                MR. EMRIT:            You also look at GIMCS, too.
18                                MR. MICHELSON:                    It's part of the global issue.
19                                DR. SIESS:            You' re not concerned because the pipe 20                    broke, you're concerned about it for other reasons.
21                                MR. WYLIE:            Let me ask in that regard do you                                    !
22                    consider A-45 a global issue?
23                                MR. MINNERS:                It's more global than most, yes.
!                                24                                MR. WYLIE:            Has there been an analysis to see how 25                    many of the other issues could be resolved if you resolved 1
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2              MR. MINNERS:      Yes.
3              MR. WYLIE:      Could A-45 --
4              MR. MINNERS:      You should have been to the A-45 5 subcommittee.
6              M9. WYLIE:      I've been there a couple of times.
7 Now I will admit that A-45 does that better than the average 8 issue has done that.
9              MR. WYLIE:      A-45 is still scheduled now for 6/89 10 resolution.
11              MR. MINNERS:      That's the review and approval 12 process, t              )
13              MR. WYLIE:      Yet, we've got A-44 and a whole bunch 14 of related issues coming earlier.
15              MR. MINNERS:      You have to handle that problem.
16              DR. SIESS:      Why couldn't you just have one 17 generic issue?        That would subsume all of them.
18              MR. MINNERS:      That's right and you would never 19 get it done because the last item would control, and you 20 would never get it done.
21              DR. SIESS:      Okay.      Now, is A-45 that much 22 different?
23              MR. MINNERS:      We almost didn' t get it done.
24              MR. MICIIELSON:      What I'd like to see though,
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      '2AV/bc-    1    top and working on down to the various generic issues. .Then 2    I can see where the blanks are.
3                  DR. SIESS:    It's called an. event tree, Carl.
4                  MR. MICHELSON:      It isn't quite.the same thing.
5    Event. trees won't do this.        This is a different situation.
t          6'  This is_the generic issue.
7                  MR. MINNERS:    Yes, we have, Carl, because PRAs 8    are exactly what you're talking about.
9                .MR. MICHELSON:        I'm sorry, they're not.
10                  MR. MINNERS:    The question the PRA asks-is what's 11    the probability of core melt?            You go through that PRA and 12    you identify the dominant sequences.
O          13                  MR. MICHELSON:      PRAs don't show what they have 14    left out. They don't show what they've left out.              They 15    don't show system interactions.              They don't show external 16    events in a lot of cases.
17                  DR. SIESS:    I didn't say PRA, Carl.            I said event.
18    trees. You can take all the things you're thinking about 19    and put them in an event tree.            And you can decide at what 20    branching point you want to define it as a generic issue.
21    You can' t start up here at core melt, you can start back 22    here at DHR.      Have one for ATWS.          You can work your way on 23    down.
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2              MR. MICHELSON:          I have no doubt you can draw the 3 event tree.      I've never seen it yet, but it can be-done.
4              DR. SIESS:        It's a way of-thinking about it.
5 It's just a question of at which-branch point do you declare 6 everything below it to be an issue.
7              MR. EBERSOLE:        And DHR is a long trail.
8              DR. SIESS:        Of course it's a long trail.
;                9              MR. WYLIE:        If I could pursue this a little bit.
10              MR. MICHELSON:          Fire has got to fit into it 11 somewhere.
12              MR. WYLIE:        To pursue A-45 just a little bit 13 more, you say, yes, you've' looked at how many other issues 14 could be resolved by a proposed resolution of A-45.
15              Did you include in A-45 proposed resolution the 16 costs that would be saved if you resolved all these other 17 issues with A-45?
18              MR. MINNERS:        Yes.
19              MR. WYLIE:        It would seem like to me it would be 20 a substantial amount that would justify an A-45 resolution.
21 It seems to me that thc priority is wrong.                      We've got, say, 22 A-44 being resolved this year and A-45 not 'til '89.                                          i 23              MR. MINNERS:        Well,.that's-administrative.
1 24              MR. WYLIE:        I-know.      It's part of-the process.                        j
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4            MR. EBE RSOLE:      Let me ask you about that.
5            MR. WYLIE:      That's prej udging.
6            MR. EBE RSOLE:      I'm not so sure.
7            MR. MINNERS:      You have to do that.
8            MR. EBE RSOLE:      Haven't there been some actions 9 that almost make your conclusion come true, which have been 10 deliberate?    Isn't it true that A-45 has been snipped at on 11 the edges so that you have narrowed its scope and said, 7
12 Well, don't let this aspect of core melt be included in your
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14            You snip off the things that you have laboriously 15 over the years to do patchwork laid to rest with an enormous 16 incremental cost scattered all over the place.
17            Hasn't A-45, even in recent months, been snipped 18 away to leave only essential small core of issues that it 19 will solve, not the whole lot of them?
20            Hasn't it been a progressive degradation of A-45 21 in scope?
22            MR. MINNERS:      I think the scope has been defined 23 to be the correct scope of where you get the most.
24            MR. EBERSOLE:      You could say, you know, forget
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4                DR. SIESS: ' Excuse me, gentlemen.            The next 5    meeting, we intended to take up some case histories.                  I hope 6    you keep track of the ones you're thinking about here.
7                I'd suggest we get on with-the process and then 8    get oack to looking at some of these cases and see how they 9    got whittled away and how they went through the process.
10                (Slide.)
11                MR. MINNERS:        This is just a pie chart which 12    shows that we're computerized, which we've just discussed.
O          13                MR. WYLIE:      I think:I was just trying to 14    understand the process and asking about the regulatory 15    analysis.
16                MR. MICHELSON:        Before you get into details, let 17    me ask relative to .the previous slide and to some of the 18    others, in looking at the resolution of a generic issue, how 19    do you treat the l possibility that we might build plants in 20    the future, and so forth?
21                Do we ignore future plants under your 22    resolutions?    I find that they don't seem to be mentioned in.
23    most cases. Is that purposely done that way?
24                MR. MINNERL.        I think when we do both the cost 25    and risk analysis, the number we use is 120 or 125, whatever ACE-FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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2            MR. MINNERS:      You usually focus on what's out 3 there today. Yet, when we go to future plants, we start 4 talking about look at the resolution of the generic issues 5 and see how it applies.
6            Does that mean that we really should expect the 7 new analysis of a given generic issue to be done for a new 8 plant to decide how it should apply?
9            MR. MINNERS:      A-45 is an example.      Maybe this is 10 some of the snipping that Jesse is talking about.              Bu t A-4 5 11 is only for operating plants, it is not for new plants.
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13 justified on a new plant, but that isn't the scope.
14            MR. MICHELSON:        So I guess that's another whole-15 discussion and maybe we don't want to start it now.              But, 16 somehow, we should eventually have a discussion of the 17 applicability or the process as it applies to new plants.
18            I'm thinking now of the EPRI stuff coming through 19 and so forth.
20            DR. SIESS:      I think you've got a good point, 21 Carl, and maybe we should limit ourselves, since we only 22 have two meetings, to the effectiveness of the generic 23 issues program as it relates to operating existing plants.
24            MR. MICHELSON:        And not even discuss future.
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2              MR. MICHELSON:          But, sooner or later,.somewhere 3  in what Charlie is doing, we ought to have the discussion.of 4  how this equally works.
5              DR. SIESS:      I think if we put that limit, we 6  could get somewhere and then the next chairman can worry 7  about it.
8              MR. MINNERS:        Well, we discussed this slide.            I 9  don' t know- whether we're gaining or losing.                Somebody had a 10  question about issue 99.          We are scheduled to have a CRG 11  package in August '87 and finish it up 'in December ofL '87.
  .            12                MR. MICHELSON:          What'is 99?
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13                MR. MINNERS:
14                DR. SIESS:      Would-you go back to that pie chart a 15  minute?  I don't understand it.at all.
16                MR. MINNERS:        Maybe I don't either.- Uh-oh.            You 17  start off with all the generic issues you've got.
18                MR. MINNERS:        The 700 issues we've got.
19                DR. SIESS:      Is one slice there for resolved and 20  one for implemented?
21                MR. MINNERS :      This is 0737.        This is really part 22 ~ of this.
23                DR. SIESS:      Anything that's been implemented has 1
24  been resolved.        What about prioritization, 8.4 percent?-
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    \_AV/bc      1              MR. MINNERS:      That's your leftover.
2              MR. EMRIT:      That's the 61 that we talked about 3  previously.      That's the 61 issues.
4              MR. MINNERS:      That's right.      That mean 5  prioritization, this-is the backlog.
6              DR. SIESS:      Subsumed hasn't been implemented.
7              MR. MINNERS:      You can't tell.      Subsumed may be 8  subsumed to resolve issues, or it may be subsumed.
9              DR. SIESS:      Then you add up to more 100 percent.
10  I'm sorry. Implemented has to be implemented and resolved; 11  right?
12              MR. MINNERS:      Yes.
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('~#        13              DR. SIESS:      And " resolved" over there means 14  resolved, but not implemented; right?
15              MR. MINNERS:      Yes.      Well, no, some of these may 16  also be implemented.        I don't know how many of these are 17  implemented.
18              DR. SIESS:      They ought to be in the other slice 19  then.
20              MR. MINNERS:      You can put these two slices 21  together. Yes, they're the same thing.
22              DR. SIESS:      You've got three slices there that 23  are either exclusive or, well, make it --
24              MR. MINNERS:      Us guys that get involved in it, A
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3                      (Laughter.)
4                      MR. MINNERS:      But it's computerized, right?                                                        ,
5                      DR. SIESS:      Righ't.
6                      MR. MINNERS:      I' would like to put a personal note 7  in.        I would like to thank the subcommittee, and especially 8  Dr. Siess, because I think you've made a great contribution
't 9  to helping resolve generic issues. 'I.wish other people ~in the agency would pay as muchiattention to generic issues and
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13                      So I want to thank you very much for wh'at I think i                            14  is your help in this program.
15                      DR. SIESS:      If :you consider what we've been doing 16  ' help, we accept it.
17                      (Laughter. )
18-                    -MR. MINNERS:- You take what you :can get.
19                      DR. SIESS:      Sam, are we upnto; lunchtime on the
                            -20  agenda?
21                      MR. DURAISWAMY:        Close to it.
22                      DR.'SIESS: .We're close enoughLto.it'that we're 23-  not going .to start' the next issue unless somebody wants: to 24  spend an hour on something.                  We've got two hours on the next                                              ,
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3              DR. SIESS:      The subcommittee will reassemble.
4 We're now going.to talk about the implementation process.
5              Walter Schwink.
6              MR. SCHWINK:        First of all,,my name is Walt 7  Schwink. I'm in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
8  I'd like to acknowledge my branch chief, Fred Hebdon.                                We 9  collectively work --
10              DR. SIESS:      Would you identify completely the 11 organization?      This is NRR?
12              MR. SCHWINK:        This would be NRR.                It's the 'staf f 13  support office to the director, primarily.                      Specifically, 14  it's the branch responsible for integration.                        And its title 15  is Research, Licensing and Inspection Integration.                                Fred is 16  the chief of that branch.            I am chief of-the section called 17  Generic Activities Integration..
18              MR. EBERSOLE:        Research, Licensing and what?
19              MR. SCHWINK:        Research, Licending-and-Inspection-20  Integration. And that branch reports to-the director.
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2              MR. SCHWINK:      Generic Activities Integration                  i 3  Center.
              .4              DR. SIESS:      Thank you.          Go ahead.
              .5              MR. SCHWINK:        First of'all, I would like to thank 6  you for the opportunity to focus on generic issues.                      In a 7  previous life, when I was Secretary _of CRGR, I focused on 8  generic activities.      I was somewhat of the father of SIMS in 9  creating the data elements and what was to be collected in 10  it.
11              Now, in NRR I. guess I am responsible for the
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13              In both the past life and the present life ILhave 14  always thought generic activities, issues, and specifics are 15  very important to plant safety.              I have always felt we had 16  somewhat of a weakness in getting those changes ^into the 17  plants physically, be it plant equipment' changes, be Hit 18  procedural changes, or be it staff changes.
19              MR. EBERSOLE:        You don't.say'that in the context 20  that you don't think nongeneric issues are not important?
21              MR. . SCHWINK:    Not at all.          However, I think that 22  the generic issues are of-a higher priority level than most                    1 i
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3              My office director is particularly interested in 4 making sure that they get translated into physical changes 5  at the plant because that is where the plant safety comes 6  from. He is embarking on an effort by the creation of the 7 . Integration Branch to make sure that there is a translation 8  from the technical resolution 1to licensing to plant changes 9  and some form of either verification or a routine 10  inspection.
11              So it is really an appropriate time for the
(}        12  subcommittee to look into it.
13              I am optimistic about the new reorganization, 14  putting a lot of emphasis and particular emphasis on making 15  sure that there are physical plant changes.                      So it is very 16  timely, and it is working very much to my liking, I guess is 17  the bottom line.
18              I would like to acknowledge'two other people as 19  being here, since I am going to steal some of-their thunder 20  in my presentation.            That is: Chuck Fitzgerald, who works for 21  Bill Mcdonald in the new Office. of Automation and Resource i
22  Management.      Sitting alongside of him is Dick Hart' field.
23              DR. SIESS:              You mentioned something about
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e 3            MR. SCHWINK:      My judgment is that any hardware 4 change you make should result in procedural changes in some 5 form.
6            DR. SIESS:      How many don't' require any hardware 7 changes, just procedural changes?
8            MR. SCHWINK:      My past experience, I would judge 9 about maybe three-quarters requ' ire hardware changes.
10            The first thing I would like to do is try to be 11 the guy that we were trying to identify this morning --
I            12            (Slide.)
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13            -- in putting it all together.
14            There's a couple of key points I want to bring 15 out in this thing.      This should be_in your presentation 16 package that you have.
17            The key points being that essentially this 18 morning you heard a discussion of this area of identifying, 19 prioritizing, and developing some kind of technical 20 resolution of a generic issue.
21            The rest of this throughout the slide deals with 22 the implementation process, physically making sure something 23 gets changed in the plant, and by something it could be 24 hardware, it could be procedural, or it could be staffing.
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DAVbur    1 can branch into two parts.            One is a short-term action which 2 follows this line.          The other one is a longer term action 3 which follows the rulemaking or legislative type proposal.
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                'S determined that there is a significant safety risk there 6 would be short-term actions to address those problem plants.
7              This decision process through here of developing.
8 the resolution and deciding whether it is worthwhile-doing 9 and deciding whether to go_ forward with the short-term 10  actions or long-term actions focuses on that idea of should 11  we take some short-term fix.
()        12                MR. EBERSOLE:      Could you give'us a case'in point 13  .like, say, occurred at Diablo and all the'other. plants 14  similar to it?
15                DR. SIESS:      That is not a generic issue.
16                MR. SCHWINK:      -I could focus better on station 17  blackouts.
18                MR. EBERSOLE:      Well, I don't care.- That is all 19  right.
i 20                MR. SCHNINK:      Diesel generators, for example.
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DAVbur    1 whole station blackout USI is more the global fix.              But the 2 problem of recognizing the vulnerability of a plant, 3 principally due to the lack of diesel generator power, was 4 acknowledged in that generic letter.
5            So that is an example of the short-term reaction 6 to the problem, recognizing there is a longer term fix 7 coming.
8            Another key point in this process is that 9 whatever fix comes out of this, be it short term or long 10 term, there is a problem in translating generic fixes to 11 plant specific fixes, twofold, technically and trying'to
{}        12 make some judgments about what the priority is for that 13 specific plant.
14            So something that might be a high priority 15 generic issue at a specific pidnt could be a low priority 16 issue because that plant may not have a vulnerability to 17 station blackout, as best we can judge.
18            So the point I am trying to make with this is 19 that because there has been a lot of work.done in here, 20 there still is a lot of work, plant specific, in trying to 21 decide does this particular plant have the problem, and if 22 he does, how vulnerable is he with that problem and, in the 23 scheme of all the other things that he has to do, either t'~T      24 because of his regulatory backlog or items that he thinks Q
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2            MR. EBERSOLE:      Let me speak to a very difficult 3 problem. I have been working with a little bimonthly 4 operations report activity over in Bethesda, and there is'a 5 distinct coloration of the activity there.          It pervaded the 6 whole -- for instance, the Davis-Besse case.          It is that-7 there is nothing wrong with-the design of the plant; it has-8 just been mal-maintained or mal-operated.
9            I don't really need to sit back and say, no, it 10 was mal-designed, and I won't do it either because that 11 almost has legal implications.
()          12            So therefore I will strain everything I have got 13 to say that it is a procedural or administrative error of 14 some sort and push away the notion that there is a mal-15 design problem in place.
16            How are you coping with that?
17            DR. SIESS:      He says 75 percent of the resolutions 18 need hardware changes.
19            MR. EBERSOLE:      I heard him say that, but at the
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20 front-end of the line.      None of them want to acknowledge 21 there is a design error.
22            DR. SIESS:      But you are not talking to the same 23 people, are you?
!              24            MR. SCHWINK:      I think there's two issues.
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4            MR. EBERSOLE:      Then you can run into a booby 5 trap.
6            MR. SCHWINK:      Exactly.
,              7            So the question you are really asking is, should 8 there be a generic issue called human factors?
9            MR. EBERSOLE: -Versus mal-design.                Of course,.
10 human factors is embodied and mal-design comes outiof it.
11            MR. SCHWINK:_ But the bottom line is you should
(}          12 decide whether or-not to pursue both in the priority scheme.
13 The priority scheme is taking into account what makes the 14 most risk contribution to the plant.              Theoretically, that is 15 the prioritization we heard this morning.
16            I don't think that anyone is going to say that a 17 plant is unacceptable in its design.              It is not that the 18 plants are designed wrong.        It.just may.be a little weak'on 19 being right.
20            DR. SIESS:      I,think you are' wrong because 21 certainly the Commission said Davis-Besse was unacceptable 22 when they shut them down for six months.
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24            DR. SIESS:      Didn't.the Commission shut down 25 Rancho Seco?
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2              MR. HEBDON:      If I might, Rancho Seco was shut 3  down after the event in December of '85 and remained shut 4  down from that-by confirmatory action le'tter.                That did come 5  out.
6              DR. SIESS:      In effect, to me, that says to me 7  that that plant is unsafe and that is why it is not being 8  allowed to operate.      If it isn't true, I don't know on what 9  basis it is shut down.
10              MR. SCHWINK:      I think the point is that you have 11  a plant that had an acceptable design basis at some point.'
, ((}      12  As you get smarter --
13              DR. SIESS:      It is not a question of design basis.
14  It is a question that somebody decided it was not safe to 15  operate that plant and it was shut down.
16              MR. SCHWINK:      At this point in time?
17              MR. HEBDON:      That lack of safety could be a 18  combination of things.      It could be a weakness in design.
19  It could be a weakness in maintenance.              It could be a 20  weakness in the operating se'.ap.
21              DR. SIESS:      I' raise the issue because he.said he-22- didn't think anybody did that.            He didn't want to say a 23  plant was unsafe.
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4                      DR. SIESS:      That isn't the question at all.                              We 5      have got plants -- Big Rock Point couldn't meet a single                                                                ,
6    criterion after it was reviewed under the.SEP, but somebody                    -
7      decided it is safe.enough to operate. . Whenithe NRC shuts a j                  8-    plant down, the only legal justification they have for doing 9      it is that it is not safe to operate-that plant.
10                        MR. SCHWINK:        I understand that.              I am talking 11      about the ones that are operating right now.
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14                        MR. HERNAN:      Chet, can we make a distinction'here 15      between safe design and safe operation?
16                        DR. SIESS:      No.
17                        MR. HERNAN:      We have plants shut down-right now, 4
18      Peach Bottom for example.                    We have~no-problem with the 19      plant, bn' we have a problem with the way it is 1 operated.
20                        DR. SIESS:      I don't care why you shut it down.
21                        MR. HERNAN:      The fixes in the case of Peach 22      Bottom and'most of the fixes in the case of Davis-Besse.
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3                  MR. SCHWINK:        I think it is a matter of both, but.
4      I wasn't trying to say --
5                  DR. SIESS:      I mean, we.have got half a dozen
                                                                                                ~6        plants.that aren't operating because presumably we think 7      they are unsafe.
8                  MR. SCHWINK:        That is correct.              But the-ones that 9      are operating,'we have a view that they are safe enough, 10              even given that some of'the generic issues are not. resolved.
11                          DR. SIESS:      Let me back you up just a minute.
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16                          There's a hundred and some odd plants out there.
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20                          MR. SCHWINK:        No.
21                          DR. SIESS:      How many people do you have-working j                                                                                          22              with you?                                                                                        :
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2                    MR. SCHWINK:      In general.
3                    If there are particular ones that are vulnerable 4      that they found through their resolution process, they would 5-      identify those.
6                    Usually, what happens is a request is part of the 7      requirement that says please look at your plant considering 8      these factors, come back and tell us what you think your 1
9      plant status is relative to those factors.
10                    DR. SIESS:      That is like a generic letter-that 11        goes to everybody.
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13                    DR. SIESS:      For resolution of GI XX.                      Then when 14        they come back, who now looks at those~ responses?
15                    MR. SCHWINK:      Principally, it is-the Engineering j              16        Division's responsibility to look at it and evaluate it with 17        Research participation, Research being the people.who.
18        actually. dealt with the generic issue.
4 19                    DR. SIESS:      The Engineering ~ Division of what?-
20                    MR. SCHWINK:      NRR.
1 21                    MR. HEBDON:- Keep in mind that part of the 22        development of that resolution -- and I think this is 23        something that we are trying to do more with the new 24        organization -- would be a standard review plan that would l{}
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2                That is the type of thing that our branch would 3!  ibe involved with, is ensuring that that standard review plan 4    .is prepared as part of the-technical resolution.
5                DR. SIESS:          Your branch being?
6                MR. HEBDON:          The branch that Walt is-in, J
7    Inspection, Licensing and-Research.
8                DR. SIESS:          We have got nothing but NRR people in 9    there now?
10                  MR. SCHWINK:          No, we have research people.
1' 11                  DR. SIESS:          I just want to be sure who I am
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13                  MR. EBERSOLE:          Are you the people who have to 14      draw the line between whether -- a given function which-may 15      be very complex, whether it shall'be automated or manually 16      carried out?
i                17                  MR. SCHWINK:          In the resolution process as'far as I              -18      identifying what the-fix is for the plant, that'would be 19      dealt with in the actual resolution.
20                  If a specific plant came back with a proposal to 21      address that generic issue. resolution,'he could also.say in 22      that particular proposal that he thinks he could do it j                23      better through automation or he thinks he could do it better 24      by human interaction.
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2  decisions would be made.              The decisions would be made in the 3  Project Management and Technical Review Branches within NRR.
4              MR. EBERSOLE:              So the factors that would help you j                5  make thJs decision would be in the ' standard review plan?
i 6                MR. HEBDON:            Correct.
t 7                One of_the things that our' branch is tasked with i                8  is making sure that as these things go forward the standard 9  review plan sections are there.                      So we-are catching up a j              10  little bit for past ones, but the ones for the future, i              11  before a technical resolution goes forward it goes into the 12  implementation phase.              Then there should be the standard
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13  review plan already prepared and the inspection program for 14  it as well.
15                MR. EBERSOLE:            Fred, you are then going to solve J
16  part of this ancient problem of consideration of the 17  elements of whether you automate or not.                        For-instance, like 18  the ATWS case for boilers, you automate or don't automate 19  considering the difficulty to the operator and his ability 20  to carry out the function.
21                I take it you will produce some guidelines.
22 -              DR. SIESS:            That is part of the resolution 23  process.
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3            DR. SIESS:      By the time you see it there has been 4 a technical report and a change in the standard review plan, 5 if that is the applicable thing?
6            MR. SCHWINK:      By the time I have seen it, we will 7 already have been involved in the technical resolution and 8 the people working the technical resolution would be 9 developing some of the SRP guidance, which would be by NRR 10 and Research participating.
11            DR. SIESS:      By being involved, do you get
{}        12 involved in the actual resolution?                I didn't get that from 13 this morning's presentation.
14            MR. SCHWINK:      We participate in it.            We are not 15 the lead office for it.
16            DR. SIESS:      There is a lead on it, but you, 17 contractors, and Research all may bo involved?
18            MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
19            DR. SIESS:      You may have a representative on the 20 task force, but it is not necessarily out of your branch?
21            MR. SCHWINK:      It could have been a lead PM, who 22 is actually living with the resolution da, by day.
23            DR. SIESS:      You say you hand off now to the
{}        24 Division of Engineering.        That is the Division of 25 Engineering and System Technology.              That would go either to-
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2              MR. SCHWI6K:          That is correct, or to Human 3  Factors. Usually, it goes to all three because there.i.sa 4  human element.
5              DR. SIESS:          I haven't gotten Human Factors on 6  mine.
7              MR. SCHWINK:          If you look'at the Division of 8  Licensee Performance and Quality Evaluation.
i                  9              DR. SIESS:          Now, you are in another. division?
10              MR. SCHWINK:          That is correct.            There is a 11  Division of Engineering.
(}            12              DR. SIESS:          I just wanted to get it straight.                    I 13  asked where it went from you, and'you said the Division of 14  Engineering.
15              MR. SCHWINK:          That is correct.            That is the first 16  block under the Associate Director, which works for Rich 17  Starostecki.
4 18              DR. SIESS:          I look at this diagram.                  The Program 19 -Development / Policy Analysis Staff, that is you.                          Then I see 20  Associate Director for Projects, Associate Director for 21  Inspection and Technical Assessment.
22              MR. SCHWINK:          That is Rich Starostecki.                  There            -
23  are five divisions underneath him.-
{}            24              DR. SIESS:          Okay.      So it goes from the Director 25  down through the Associate Director for Inspection and                                          .,
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4            Okay.
5            MR. SCHWINK:      The key is it is not purely one 6 division. One division may have the lead, but he would look 7 for the human element in whatever modification was being 8 proposed. It is a lead kind of division.
9            DR. SIESS:      The first communication of the 10 resolution of a generic issue with the applicants or with 11 the licensees comes out of your office before it goes
(}          12 anywhere else.      It is a generic letter.
13            Who prepares the generic letter?
14            MR. SCHWINK:      There is a Generic Communications 15 Branch.
16            DR. SIESS:      Under who?
17            MR. SCHWINK:      That would be underneath of Rich 18 Starostecki. It is under the Division of Operational Events 19 Assessment.
20            DR. SIESS:      So your branch isn't'a line branch; 21 it is just a staff function?          You just oversee this whole 22 thing?
23            MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.      We make sure it
(}          24 gets passed from hand to hand, and we make sure the whole 25 thing gets done.-
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DAVbur    1            DR. SIESS:      So when Research gets through with 2 something and the task group gets through with a resolution, 3 that is sent over to NRR; it is turned over to your branch 4 to now carry it through the next steps?
5            MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
6            DR. SIESS:      You pass it on to the technical 7 branches; they will prepare a generic letter; they will get 8 the responses.
9            Is there a group set up for each generic issue to 10 do that?
11            MR. SCHWINK:      It depends on the size of the
'T        12                      Some of the things have been as simple as a (J            generic issue.
13 lead person, and other ones have been an assembly of five to 14 seven people.
15            DR. SIESS:      At what point does this multiple 16 approach come in on human factors that is improving the 17 implementation?
18            MR. SCHWINK:      It begins in the actual proposed 19 resolution where it is circulating for peer review.. It also 20 continues through writing the SRP guidance for licensing and 21 writing the inspection guidance.
22            The question is what attributes should we look 23 for in the proposals coming from a licensee and what should        I l
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25            DR. SIESS:      Where does the project manager come    j l
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2            MR. SCHWINK:      The project manager is 3 participating in the actual SRP guidance writing, and the 4 inspector is participating in the actual inspection guidance 5 writing.
6            DR. SIESS:      Now, ycu say there is a hundred and 7 some odd project managers.          They don't all participate in 8 that, do they?
9            MR. SCHWINK:      What we try to do is select a lead 10 PM to work with the technical resolution in its early stage, 11 and he kind of carries the ball.
(}        12            DR. SIESS:      He or she is supposed to represent 13 the PM's insights to the problem?
14            MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
15            DR. SIESS:      When it gets down to a specific 16 plant, one has no outstanding generic issues, another one is 17 looking at 30.
18            At what point does somebody look at that and              ,
19 decide?
20            You mentioned that earlier at about the upper 21 third of that.                                                            I 22            MR. SCHWINK:      There are three ways.        First, the 23 specific licensee for that plant is required to submit a                  I
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2            The PM has the lead responsibility for making 3 sure that there is a determination that that is acceptable.
4 He would work through the Engineering Division to see if
        '  5 that is acceptable in the context of the big generic issue 6 resolution.
7            DR. SIESS:      Does the PM have any authority to go 8 along with that, or is it just his job to pass it on to 9 someone else and say is this acceptable?
10            MR. SCHWINK:      He has the authority to identify 11 something he thinks is wrong for his specific plant, but he
(}        12 is one of the participants in the decisionmaking process.
13 Engineering would principally determine whether it is 14 acceptable or not.
15            MR. HEBDON:      But the approval of it would come 16 out of the project management organization, with the 17 technical work coming out of the technical review part of 18 the organization.
19            DR. SIESS:      Okay.      I don't want to get too far 20 ahead of you here, but who does the scheduling?
21            MR. SCHWINK:      Scheduling is principally the PM.
22 That is weighted by what he is told by the Engineering 1
23 Divisions.
24            DR. SIESS:      Are they on the diagram up there?
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2              MR. MICHELSON:        Before you go too far, I.have got 3  a problem on the first line of the flow sheet.
4              Apparently, when you reach'the' decision portion 5  to the right there,:you:have reached the decision.                    If the 6  decision is yes, you are going to proceed.                Then you can 7  continue. If the decision is no, everything seems to end.
8              I thought ACRS should review the "no" decision as 9  well as the "yes" decision, for instance.'
10              DR. SIESS:      I thought we were told the "yes" this 11  morning.
{}          12              MR..SCHWINK:      There's two things that happen.
13  First of all, ACRS gets copies of what goes on up there.
14              MR. MICHELSON:      That'is the prioritizing bit up 15  there, not the decision.
16              MR. SCHWINK:      The decision itself, the. decision 17  process is at-this point the EDO decision process.."No 18  further ation" really means in the context of that one 19  specific generic issue resolution.              It may mean that it 20  comes back'over here and they modify'it, they add it to 21  another generic issue, they drop it, whatever that decision 22  -means.
23              MR. MICHELSON:        It may mean-that they just plain
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5            MR. MICHELSON:        I would suggest the flow chart 6 directly reflect, though, the process.              If you decide no 7 further action, the ACRS doesn't want to look at it.
8            It is more like the next line down is shown 9 correctly. You show ACRS involved in the diamond -- no, the 10 next line down.      The next time you see ACRS again, right 11 there. That time ACRS is shown in the diamond.                  That is the 12 process that goes on.      In arriving at the "yes/no" decision,
()          13 somewhere along the way you ask ACRS to look at it, and not 14 only if it is a "yes."
15            So if you just modify the drawing that way, I 16 think it more correctly reflects it.
17            DR. SIESS:      That should happen before it gets to 18 him.
19            MR. MICHELSON:        Really.      But I think the next 20 line they showed it correctly, the way it works.
21            Now, the other question in my mind is if the                      !
22 agency decides to drop something, apparently we don't go                      i 23 through any kind of a Commission notification or anything                    l 1
24 like that.                                                                    )
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2              MR. MICHELSON:- Again, I am looking at your. flow.
3  ' diagram,-andmit seems.that if it is a "no"'you do.not inform 4  the Commission.      You don't_do anything.-        No public comment, l            -5  :no nothing.
6              MR. SCHWINK:      It is not quite that black and 7  white. Whatever is decided here would be put into 0933,as 8  to wnat happened to that particular generic issue.                    It would
,              9  -also if it is a rulemaking be put_into the regulatory agenda 10  to say the rule has been terminated or it has been combined 11  with another_rulemaking or some indication of what-happened 12  to that rulemaking because at the point of initiating a 13  rulemaking itialso gets identified in the regulatory agenda.
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I 14              MR. MICHELSON: -But you don't_really go to the 15  Commission to get their approval to drop something at that 16-  point-in time?
.            17              MR. SCHWINK:      It depends on the significance of 18  it.
19              MR. MICHELSON:        I was just trying-to be sticky, I 20  guess, and read the diagram. .-I hope you don't go by the.
21  diagram completely.
22              (Laughter.)
23              MR. HEBDON:      The diagram-is a somewhat simplified 24  representation of the process, and as you can see, it is
    /~S      25  already fairly complicted.          It certainly doesn't include all t
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2 that can occur in specific cases.              It is really intended 3 just to give a general idea of how the process works.
4              MR. MICHELSON:        I think if you just eliminated 5 that "no" branch altogether, you would be pretty close.                      You 6 always get a "yes," you always get a result out of that 7 diagram. The result then is fed back to ACRS to see if they 8 are happy. It is fed back to the Commission to see if they 9 are happy, to see if everybody is happy.              If they aren't 10  happy, then the feedback works through the diamond again.
11                DR. SIESS:      It never goes to the Commission 12  unless they originated the generic issue.
f)l 13                MR. HERNAN:      Carl, at the present time the "no" 14  decisions are not being reviewed by either the Commission or 15  ACRS.
16                MR. MICHELSON:      Apparently, that is the case.
17  But ACRS has asked to be included.
18                DR. SIESS:      Excuse me.        I thought a "no" decision 19  was a resolution and that was drawn up as a resolution and 20  sent to the office.
21                MR. HERNAN:      That is correct.
22                DR. SIESS:      Why is it that we got copies of that?
23                MR. HEBDON:      I guess it is not clear whether you 24  are getting copies.
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1  far down the line, what is happening to them I don't know.
2  But we have not seen all the resolutions that I know of.
3              MR. HERNAN:      What I.am trying to point out is in 4  terms of the memorandum of understanding between the EDO and~
5  the ACRS. Those are not required to be reviewed.
6              DR. SIESS:      I can't believe that, Ron.            We are 7  probably more interested in the things that the Commission 8  decides not to do something about than we are in the things 9  they do decide to do something about.
10              That has been the history of this committee.                  We 11  are always more concerned about omissions than commissions.
12 -We never disagree with a high priority, or hardly ever.                  We
()        13  frequently disagree with a medium, low, or dropped priority.
14  We are a check valve, and I can't believe that the 15  memorandum of understanding says that if they decide not to 16  do anything about a generic issue, even if we suggested it, 17  that they don't notify us.        It would be completely out of 18  order with what I thought.
19              MR. HERNAN:      The issues I was speaking of are not 20  Commission decisions, but issues which don't get to the 21  point of proposing a rulemaking.
22              DR. SIESS:      That is right.        We had a list of a 23  hundred general items.      We turned them over and combined 24  them with the staff's list.          At that time it was our 4
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4                MR. HERNAN:              I guess the formal manner in which                                                      ,
5  ACRS is kept informed is probably something that hasn't been 6  formally established other than by submitting the documents 7  to ACRS.
8                DR. SIESS:          That is fine.                          If the documents are 9  submitted to us, we are supposed to be able to pick it up 10  from there.
11                MR. HERNAN:            The memorandum of understanding 12  addresses things that are required to be brought 13  specifically to the attention of the ACRS or a request'for 14  review from the committee.
15                DR. SIESS:          Which one?                      This one on deve'lopment 16  of rules, poli'cy matters, and safety-related guidance?
17                MR. HERNAN:              I am talking about the MOU between                                                      -
18  EDO and ACRS.                                                                                                                    l 19                DR. SIESS:          This is an MOU'I am reading.                                        It is 20  the only one I have got.                  It says policy matters and safety-21  related guidance.
22                Does it say anything about generic issues?                                                                          j 23                MR. HERNAN:              Yes.        There's regulatory policies,                                              .
24- safety-related guidance.- There's two categories.                                                  There's 25  rules and there's guidance.
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{}Vbur 2        and we weren't even thinking about generic issues.                                If the 3        EDO is interpreting that to cover generic issues, we need.to 4        work out a new memorandum of understanding.                              I wouldn't l
5        . touch that one with a ten-foot pole again.- We will write a 6        new one.
7                            Warren said we were getting all the dispositions.
8        We should get them..
9                            MR. SCHWINK:        I th' ink you are getting them.
10                            MR..HERNAN:        The confusion may be the MOU covers 11        things that we are-specifically required to request ACRS=
12        review as opposed to keeping the ACRS informed by. sending
                    '13.        them copies.
14                            DR. SIESS:        Look, the memorandum of understanding 15        is a two-pronged thing.                  If the' Commission had told us they n
16        wanted us to review certain things, we went to the EDO and 17        said we are going to 60 these, you have got to get 18        information to us in a timely fashion.                            At the same time 19        they put an obligation on us that if we.were going to review 20        them we had to tell the EDO how long we were going to take
,                    21        so they could fit into the process.
22                            That was chiefly on things like rulemaking and-23        policy statements, but it was not intended to cover all the 24 interactions between the ACRS and the regulatory staf f.
25                            I don't know whether we wrote a letter at the
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;                    2        'could even find it.                          But if it is going to take.a memorandum
                    -3        of understanding to do it -- actually,1all we need to do is 4        to be kept informed.                          If we don't-like it, we will say.
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6                              I don't think we have been asking to review and 7        approve the resolution of every generic issue.                                                    I think we 8        have to do it on USIs.                              The Commission has asked us to.                                    But:
9        on generic issues I think the burden should be on us to pick 10-        out those we want to comment on and tell you if they are 11          likely going to come out next week.
l'                12                                So I think the MOU there really isn't' applicable 13          to this case.
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14                                So go ahead.
i-                15                              MR. SCHWINK:                      Let me make sure I understand.
16          Right now it is the view of ACRS that they are going to- pick 17          and choose which of the generic issues they want to look at, 18          not blanket all of them?
19                                DR. SIESS:                We just want to be informed of what 20          is going ora.                      Right now we review prioritization.on all of 21          them.          If we are informed of-the resolution, we pick up on-22          some but not on others.                                Some of them are hot enough that we 23          have had subcommittees reviewing them as they went along.
24                                I think we have got some generic issues.                                                      All the 25          **"t*  have done that, and I think some of the generic issues
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2                          MR. SCHWINK:                      And you are speaking of a-specific 3    notification, not just getting a copy of 0933?
4                            4                          MR. MICHELSON:                          That is right.
5                          DR. SIESS:                      0933 is a loose-leaf volume.                                  Nobody 6    gets it but me, and I don't read it.
i 7                          MR. EMRIT:                      Let me just add a little bit.
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j                            8                          I think if you look at GIMCS you will find that 9    in several instances the staff feels that the issue should 10      come to the ACRS if it is a particular milestone in the 11      resolution process on various issues.
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'm )                                                                                          l 2  ACRS should get a copy of every resolution and we decide 3  internally which ones of those we might want to review and l
4  comment on.
5              DR. SIESS:        I think we should do it the way we've 6  been operating in some other areas.                  Sam would get a copy,
: 7. would call it to my attention and the Staff engineer, if he 8  think he is interested, and we would pass it on.
9              MR. MICHELSON:          Do the same with prioritization?
10              DR. SIESS:        Pretty much the same way.              With 11  prioritization, we are sure that somebody acts on 12  everything.      This way we would merely find out if he was
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13  interested 14              MR. MICHELSON:          Because you can't always tell 15  from a little brief description somewhere ian the resolution 16  what really may be involved.              I think at least one member of 17  the committee might want to take a close look at it.
18              MR. EMRIT:        My suggestion is, your comments were 19  made in the context of GIMCS.              If you look at the milestones 20  in GIMCS, the 69 issues scheduled for resolution, and you 21  feel that a particular issue does not have a milestone for 22  that issue to come to the ACRS, I think your comments should 23  be fed back to us.      We will be glad to add a milestone for 24  that issue.      I know the USI's do have milestones to be sent
(~)      25  to the ACRS by '87.      I was just looking at some of the other w/
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(}Vbw-2  ACRS, and I am thinking we ought to make a point of the next 3  issue, GIMCS.
4              DR. SIESS:        That is early warning, and I think we 5  should do that.        We can tell'at that stage.        If you see-an 6  issue, if you see the resolution and-then somebody goes to 7 .it and says that really doesn't resolve that issue the way I j              8  understood it, then you may have already gone to the next 9  step, and if we brought your attention to it, we.may end up 10  with a new issue or a redefinition or something else-11              MR. MICHELSON:            Particula'rly if it comes out on i
12  this first line.
13              MR. EMRIT:        I think you are going to get that.
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14  opportunity by having us put in a milestone to come and see 15  you. That is your choice..
16              MR. MICHELSON:            But we can't make that choice 17  until we know that you have decided no on the issue.                    And I 18  don't know that until you get to that diamond.                                ,
19              MR. EMRIT:        Forget the diamond.      I am back to 20  GIMCS. GIMCS has a set of milestones here that says to the t
21  ACRS or not to the ACRS.
22              DR. SIESS:        I can clearly identify some issues.
l 23              VOICE:        They may want to critique that.
24              MR. EMRIT:        A lot of these 69 issues will result
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2 easy enough to tell you that we want to see it.            That is the 3 only chance we've got to see it, unless we want to see every 4 one, you see.      We are perfectly willing to look at something 5 and say, gee, there is a high level of interest here.              We'd 6 really like to see that before we get too far on it,_but 7 there might be something else that looked perfectly harmless 8 and say, well, they ought to be able to take care of that, 9 and it turns out somebody says, it is not worth it.              Forget 10 about it. And I disagree.
11              MR. HERNAN:      Isn't the question whether or not 12 ACRS gets a copy of every single resolution?
()        13              DR. SIESS:      I think that is the basic question.
14              MR. HERNAN:      I don't think we know the answer to 15 that specifically.
16              DR. SIESS:      If we watch GIMCS and spot something, 17 and we know we are interested, tell them.
18              MR. EMRIT:      That is in the resolution process.
19              DR. SIESS:      We know we are going to want'to look 20 at it.
21              MR. EMRIT:      That is the place you make your 22 contribution.
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24 result. We can manage that.
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2  by the Commission or plant specifically, it could be dropped 3  by the Commission.
4              MR. EBERSOLE:      By whom?          Plant specifically?
5              MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.      For example, with station 6  blackout, if a plant can demonstrate that it is not 7  vulnerable to station blackout, likely, he would not be 8  required to so anything.
9              DR. SIESS:      But that is just a standard way.
10              MR. EBERSOLE :      That is not dropping it.                That is 11  a solution.
12              DR. SIESS:      It is a solution.          If they don't need
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V 14              MR. SCHWINK:      But that could be the solution up 15  here also. The judgment is that they don't need it, and 16  then they don't do anything.
17              MR. EBERSOLE:      But that is not a drop.
18              MR. HEBDON:      It is the decision that no action is 19  required.
20              DR. SIESS:      That decision is generic; is that 21  correct?
22              MP. SCHWINK:      That is correct.          It is generic; 23  that is correct.        I am just pointing it out, because it 24  could be dropped.        Resolved, I should say, at this point.
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{}Vbw-2  without requiring action.                      Now'if it is not resolved and 13  there is some action required, then you-get into the                                                                  t 4  picture.
5                      MR. SCHWINK:            That is correct.
6                      DR. SIESS:          That is what we were talking about 7  with Research.
8                      MR. EBERSOLE:              There's whole tracks on that a                    9  little diagram, off to.nowhere, which say, drop it.                                                                      ,
10                        DR. SIESS:          Half of these, Jesse.              You have to 11    reach some point that says that these don't apply to you.
12                        MR. SCHWINK:- The key to this is, when we say no 13    further action that means that it doesn't apply.                                    That is
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14    why we use the word "no further action."
15                        DR. SIESS:          I think it would be easier if we 16    skipped that rulemaking block.                          If it is rulemaking, we 17    would get right into the middle of it.
18                        MR. SCHWINK:            I'm not sure that's true in all 19    cases.          There are some EDOs.
20                        DR. SIESS:          I remember having an agreement, EDO 21    can't make rules.
22                        MR. SCHWINK:            He has authority to sign out 23    certain rules, which means it would not go to the Commission 24    either.
i 25                        VOICE:          That doesn't happen too often.
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    ;      1                MR. SCHWINK:    Certain rules, but there are rules
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2 that are more of an administrative nature or characterized 3 as minor policy issues, all right.
4                Moving right along.          Another key point that I 5 want to make in this is, the issue of whether or not we 6 decide we need to look'at a licensee's proposal before he 7 makes the modification or not, the point being that we think 8 it is sophisticated enough and important enough that we want 9 to pre-review it before he actually physically makes the 10 modification.        That is decided with this process of what the 11 licensing guidance is and what the technical elements of the 12 resolution contribute.
13                MR. EBERSOLE:    That is the ancient old problem.
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14 Hadn't you rather look at rather than let him build it and 15 then look at it?
16                MR. SCHWINK:    You might want to do both.            You 17 might decide it is simple enough that you trust him to do it 18 and say that he's done it.            You might want him to come in 19 first and tell you how he is going to do it and improve 20 that. Then go out and check to see if he did it the way he 21 said he was going to do it.
22                DR. SIESS:    Yo say simple enough.        I would say            ;
23 that if you can state your requirement clearly enough, you                          l 24 shouldn't have to review what he wants to do.                                      ,
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  /~^#bw      1 in most cases,.but there are some things that are just (m) 2 sophisticated enough that you want to make sure that he's 3 balanced it. He's balanced his safety thoughts.          Hindsight 4 would be things'like fire protection versus security.
5              MR. EBERSOLE:      This is where the ancient battle 6 of being too proscriptive comes up.
7              DR. SIESS:      Do you expect-the licensee to settle 8 that?
9              MR. SCHWINK:      No, but I would like to hear how 10 he's thought about it in his specific plant.
11              DR. SIESS:      But if your solution is to put in a 12 separate valve from a separate power source, is that
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14 don't need to know how he is going to do it until after he 15 gets it done?
16              MR. SCHWINK:      On the surface, it sounds that way, 17 yes.
18              MR. HEB DON:    I think all we are saying in this 19 is, that there is a measure of response that we can have 20 anything from.      It is clear-cut and the criteria are well-21 defined and the requirements are well-defined, and 22 therefore, the licensee can do it and certify that it is 23 done to something that is very complicated, where it is 24 difficult to define the criteria with a great deal of
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  . (}Vbw 2 actually gets installed to track it all the.way through the 3 process.
4            DR. SIESS:          Let me paraphrase that.          If it is 5 clearly prescriptive requirement, you will probably trust 6 him. If it tends to be more perfor,-                  -oriented or goal-(
7 oriented, you would want to look at his response and see if 8 he and you understood the same goals.
9            MR. HEBDON:          Yes.      I believe that is correct.      It 10 is the degree to which you can clearly define the criteria, 11 with respect to exactly what you want.
12            MR. EBERSOLE:            You are a lot safer with the
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13 second method, because he can always say, after he built it, 14 that you didn't tell me how to do it.
15            VOICE:      There's a time element there too, Jesse.
16 One of the reasons this takes so long, licensee can 17 certainly delay the implementation process.                  They send in 18 something that they know is marginal, and it ta':es a while 19 to review and then negotiation.                  That is one of the problems 20 of this whole process is, there's lots of ways to slow down 21 the process and very few ways to accelerate it.
22            DR. SIESS:          Sometimes the Staff knows what they 23 want, but they put it in performance terms, and then when 24 the licensee doesn't agree with them, they go back and argue 2
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      }Vbw a                  2              MR. HEBDON:      Plus the variability from plant to 3  plant.
4              MR. SCHWINK:      The other point I. wanted to make
                  'S  is,-given that he installs this modification, whatever it E                  6  is, whether or not we decide that a specific verification 7  inspection is necessary, the' routine inspection program may 8- have to be modified, so that.it picks it up five years down                    j 9  the pike to make sure that it is maintained in the plant.
2 i                10                MR. MICHELSON:        If you have a case wherein you do          i 11    not require a submittal for approval on the solution of a                      -
t 12    generic issue, what does the regional inspector then inspect
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15                MR. HEBDON:      The.other half of preparing the SRP
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17    inspection procedures, whether it is a permanent- change to 18    the inspection manual or whether it is just a temporary 1
19    instruction.
g                20                MR. MICHELSON:        Do you prepare a module or a 21    temporary instruction telling the guy that after the utility 22    complies with this generic requirement in whatever manner 23    the utility decides.        Here are the things you have to check.
i                24                MR. HEBDON:      That is right.        That could be a
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j                                                4                                      MR. MICHELSON:        He is not a very good reviewer of l
5      the change.                        He is a good checker of the installation and.
6-    workmanship and things of that sort, but not necessarily a 7    Egood technical reviewer of a change.
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!                                                9      Inspection and Licensing Integration. . We are responsible 10      for both the SRP and the Inspection Manual and the idea is l
11      to try and make sure-that we balance what is done in the 12      licensing review with what is done in the inspection j (])                                          13      program, so that we don't do it in two disconnected pieces f                                              14                                      MR. MICHELSON:        You tried to write that into the 4
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:                                              15      solution of the generic issue then?                                                                                                          !
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i                                              16                        ,              MR. HEBDON:      And we want to back that up all the                                                          ;
j                                              17      way to the solution of the generic issue, yes.
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:                                                                                                                                                                                                  .t i                                              19      generic issues are already resolved that you now have to l
20      write just inspections for, are not going to be so easy. .
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{                                              22      time to phase this into the process, and there are some-i j                                              23      generic issues that are at various stages of working their 24      way through the system.                            We are trying to catch up to them,
()                                  25      to the extent we can, but it is going to be difficult for a
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2 future will have the SRP and the inspection program 3 modificazitons incorporated in the development of the 4 technical resolution.
5              MR. MICHELSON:      When might we start to expect to 6 see this.
7              MR. HEBDON:      I'm not sure which one is the next 8 one that will go forward, but it should be-the next package-9 that goes forward to CRGR, for example, and if we are trying 10 to catch up with some of them.
11              MR. MICHELSON:      Af ter April 12th, at least; is 12 that it?
13              MR. SCHWINK:      I would rather put it after the end
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14 of May.
15              MR. MICHELSON:      Thank you.
16              DR. SIESS:      I asked you earlier about the role of 17 the project manager in the plant-specific generic issue 18 implementation.        Does the resident inspector play any role?
-f 19              MR. SCHWINK      The PM works with the resident l
20 inspector to get what the current status of the plant is.
21 For example, there may be something that can be modified 22 with the plant in its current status.              The PM is literally 23 evaluating the plant status and the proposal that came in 24 from the licensee using the technical people in the 25 Engineering Division to say this looks reasonable and trying
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5              DR. SIESS:                                          You used the word " technical people."
6 . Isn't the project manager a technical person?
7              MR. SCHWINK:                                          Yes.
8              DR. SIESS:                                          When the technical reviewer types are 9  reviewing what the licensee proposes, where do they get the 10  information on the peculiarities of that plant?
11              MR. SCHWINK:                                          Two places.                            One, they've gotten it 12  from the history for that plant.                                                        That is a matter of f~')                                                                                    13  record.
v 14              DR. SIESS:                                          What does that mean?                              The FSAR?
15              MR. SCHWINK:                                          Yes.
16              DR. SIESS:                                          You've got a library out there 17  somewhere with all the FSARs in it?
18              MR. SCHWINK:                                          Yes.                And modifications that have 19  been made to the plant since then.
20              MR. HERNAN:                                          I don't know if we said it, but the 21  trigger point for the involvement of the specific PM for 22  this plant would be when the generic letter gets issued by 23  the generic communications branch.                                                        From that point on, each 24  project manager has to follow that issue for his plant,
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    /~'Vbw                      1    of the issue.
V 2                                              DR. SIESS:      Response comes back to the PM?
3                                              MR. HERNAN:        To the project managers; yes.                                      From 4    then on, he or she is responsible for the ultimate final.
.                              5    implementation of that issue.
1                                                                                                                                                                                      t 6                                              DR. SIESS:      They're not responsible?                                    They are 7    responsible, but they don't make the-decision.
8                                              MR. HERNAN:        They are responsible for makin.,
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10                                              DR. SIESS:      They have to go through the technical 11    review people, i
3 12                                              MR. HERNAN:        Yes, they do.                    But they have the
(])                        13    authority to reject the technical reviewer, either if the 14    technical reviewer thinks that the project manager has not 15    done a thorough enough job or made some wrong decisions, the 16    PM can challenge that.
                                                                                                                                                    ~
17                                              DR. SIESS:      Can challenge it, but not suggest.
i j                              18                                              MR. HERNAN:        Well, the process is there.                                                          t 4
19                                              DR. SIESS:      For example, in the SEP program, the i
4                              20    project manager has a lot of authority to overrule technical
;                              21    reviews.                            Otherwise all these old plants would be right up 22    where the new ones are.                                          Technical reviewers have no way of
;                              23    saying this is what the requirements are and this is what i                                                                                                                                                                        -
l                              24  .the plant is, and they don't agree.                                                    Somebody had to decide
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Vbw                                                                                1                            MR. HERNAN:      That would not be the project                                                                                ,
2,          manager at that level.
3                            DR. SIESS:- The SEC program was, though, at a 4                                                                                                                                                                                ,
4            relatively low level.          The project manager and immediately 3
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;                                                                                                                    6                            MR. HERNAN:      But there was a'special organization l                                                                                                                    7            set upLfor the SEP.
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'                                                                                                                                                                  A special authority, but this doesn't 8                            DR. SIESS:
l-9            work like that.          The project manager can question, can raise j                                                                                                            10                    issues, say, are you sure, you know, that it has to work up 11                    through his level to overrule a technical review.                                              MR.
i 12                    HERNAN:      Yes.
13                                    DR. SIESS:    The project manager and technical.
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14                    reviewer are in different divisions, aren't they?
I 15                                    MR. HERNAN:      Yes, they work for different i
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1 1                                                                                                            17                                    And this process is frequently exercised in 18                    licensing.      It may go up to the office director or the
,                                                                                                          19                    appeal level.
;                                                                                                            20                                    DR. SIESS:    Okay.
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(~)'N/bc 2 made. You said the EDO can sign off on certain rules.
3 Maybe it's just the difference of definition.              I thought the 4 rule was something that changed the Code of Federal 5 Regulations.
6            Could you give me an example of something EDO 7 signs off that changes the regulations themselves?
8            MR. SCHWINK:      There was a rule, the most recent 9 one, there was an omission out of the Safeguards rule for 10 how to protect power supplies for communications equipment.
11            The bottom litre we's'it was just simply an 12 omission when they were rewriting the rule.
13            That is being signed out by the EDO.
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14            DR. SIESS:      He notifies the Commission.
15            MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
t' 16            DR. SIESS:      I've seen them.
17            DR. REMICK:      I didn't realize he had the 18 authority to change something that would actually change the 19 regulation versus change the regulatory guide.
20            MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
21            DR. SIESS:      This has been delegated.
22            DR. REMICK:      I guess I can't help but wonder then 23 why the EDO was made aware of the fact that the regulations 24 don't require training programs.            If it's purely an
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;-                2                DR. SIESS:        He probably didn't want'to.
i                  3                DR. REMICK:        I'm getting smarter'every. day.
i 4              .(Slide.)
j                .5                MR. SCHWINK:- This next slide delineates NRR's i
6- participation..
j 7                DR. SIESS:        Woll, you know, you've got all these 8  things headed generic issue resolution.. Within our
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I 10                MR. SCHWINK:          That's correct.                                                .
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11                DR. SIESS:        Resolution we took care-of this i
12  morning.                                                                                            ;
j                13                MR. SCHWINK:        But I want to point out that NRR is j                14  a principal participant.
f              15                DR. SIESS:        But every one of your slides says i
l              16  generic issue resolution.
1 i                17                MR. SCHWINK:        I've titled all the slides that, by j                18  that name, simply because that's what we called the meeting i                19  itself, was Generic Resolution.
1 I                20                DR. SIESS:        That's your fault.              We didn't call it 21  that.
j                                                                                                                        l J                22                (Laughter.)
i j                23                DR. SIESS:        That's okay, but you know the l              24  difference.
25                MR. SCHWINK:        Yes.
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2              MR. SCHWINK:      What I want to make a point of is 3  that we participate and we're the principal participants in 4  the identification, the prioritization and the development 5  of the technical resolution.
6              We have the lead responsibility for the plant-7  specific imposition of the technical resolution.          In this 8  case, Research would participate with us in trying to 9  translate that generic resolution to something that's 10  licensoable for each plant.
11              Then of course verification of what was done by 12  the licensee in response to that plant-specific requirement.
13  Then, ultimately, the routine inspection to make sure that
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14  whatever he installed he continues to maintain the function.
15              DR. SIESS:      Walter, when you say we are involved, 16  now, clearly, the identification of an issue would be 17  strictly within NRR and just sent on over to Research.
18              MR. SCHWINK      Not strictly. _It could be AEOD.
19              DR. SIESS:      But you could do it all on your own 20  apart from anybody.
21-            MR. SCHWINK      Correct.
l 22              DR. SIESS:      Prioritization is a primary function        1 23  in Research. They can call on help from NRR.      Do you          !
l 24  approve the prioritization?                                            j i
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(}V/bc 2              DR. SIESS:      That's not a concurrence.
i 3              MR. SCHWINK:      No.
4              DR. SIESS:      The same level we do.
l              5              MR. SCHWINK:. That's correct.
6              DR. SIESS:      You can disagree with them just like                      ;.
7  we can. All right.- Now, in.the resolution, individuals                            ,
8  from.NRR will work on a task group.                But after they have 9  agreed themselves, then that goes for office concurrence?                            M 10              MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.
11              DR. SIESS:      There's a form of. concurrence on the 12  resolution?
i 13              MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
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;              14              DR. SIESS:      So nothing comes to NRR that they I            15  haven't been involved in.                                                            */ l 1
16              MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
4 17              DR. SIESS:      And when the concurrence is reached, 18  that comes down here at the next to the last bullet.
19              MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.                                                      ,,
i              20              DR. SIESS:      Is everything in NRC this a
21  complicated?
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]              22              MR. SCHWINK:      I tried to simplify these slides.
23                (Laughter.)
24              MR. EBERSOLE:      It's bureaucracy at work.
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3            That got into four'other government agencies and 4 50 States.
t 5            MR. EBERSOLE:              At least it's open-ended, Chet.
6            (Slide.)
7            MR. SCHWINK:              I wanted to give a sense of what 8 the full range of requirements would be involved in.these 9 technical resolutions.            It could be~ simple, as simple as an 10 information notice, to say, Hey, we look at this.                          If your 11 plant has anything like this, you ought to-be aware of it, 12 and so forth, to as sophisticated as a legislative proposal.                            [
()        13            For example, the criminal history checks with'the 14 FBI and I think some of the Emergency Preparedness wound up                            *
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15 in legislation.
16            So there's a wide spectrum of regulatory vehicles i
l''                17 to go to licensees with.              Some of these are short-term, some 18 are longer-term.
19            MR. MICHELSON:                Do they go out a generi'c l'tter,    e 20 or out as an information notice?
21            MR. SCHWINK:              It depends on the issue.            \
22            MR. MICHELSON:              The issue requiring no action i
23 which you just want to inform a utility, is that called a 24 generic letter then, or information notice?
25            MR. SCHWINK              Information notice.
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3                        VOICE:              Or at least you want a response.
4                        MR. HERNAN:              A generic letter can either require 5      or not require a response to enforce new requirements'or to 6    . pass along information.
7                        MR. MICHELSON:                So you have a choice if you don't-                f 8      want any response and you just want to inform them, you can 9      send out an information notice.
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111      that, in the past, theLinformation notices and bulletins 12      came out of I&D and the generic. letters came out of NRR.
13                        They come out of the same organization now, so I
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14        think it will take a little while to sort itself out on how 15        they're going to work.
16                        MR. MICHELSON:                -You'll start.. The lowestnlevel 17      will be an information notice then for these generic 18      businesses.
19                        MR. HEBDON:              That would be the lowest. level. -Of 20      course,.the information notice doesn't impose-the 21    . requirement, but it makes them aware of it.
22                        MR. MICHELSON:                I guess the bulletin is the
: 23.      highest level that a generic issue could generate.
24                        MR. HEBDON:              Legislative proposal.or a rulemaking
      /~T      25      would be the highest.
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1              DR. SIESS:      How about a shutdown order?
k.'// ;V/bc 2              MR. HEBDON:      That's third.
3              MR. MICHELSON:      A shutdown order could come 4 without legislation.
5              DR. SIESS:      I remember a list that came out the 6 time they were setting up CRGR.            By various means, the staff 7 used to put requirements on licensees.            I didn't remember it 8 being this large.
9              MR. SCHWINK:      In fact, it was larger.            I created 10 that list. It was six pages long, and it was all the 11 different ways, like informal meetings, for example.
12              DR. SIESS:      You're right.
13              DR. MOELLER:
-( )                                                    What is the difference in a 14 bulletin and an information notice?
15              MR. SCHWINK:      A bulletin usually requires som0 16 kind of response.        An information notice just simply says, 17 Hey, we found out there's this phenomenon.            Be aware of it.
18 If it applies to your plant, you know, look at it to see if 19 it does.
20              DR. SIESS:      On the Surry pipe, they put out an 21 information notice.        It's sort of "It could happen to you, 22 maybe."
23              DR. MOELLER:      Then I see you have regulatory 24 guidane, licensing guidance and inspection guidance.                    I
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(~~')V/bc  1            DR. SIESS:      That's a telephone call.
U 2            MR. SCHWINK:      This is licensee action.            This is 3 staff guidance.      And the information notice is kind of in 4 between.
5            DR. SIESS:      Licensing guidance would be what?
6            MR. SCHWINK:      SRP.
7            DR. SIESS:      I see what you mean.
8            MR. SCHWINK:      Inspection guidance would be the 9 inspection modules and procedures.
10            DR. MOELLER:      For the staff.
11            MR. MICHELSON:        Information notice is really in 12 the wrong place.        It belongs in the upper list.
()        13            MR. HEBDON:      The intent in putting the 14 information notice where it is is to make it clear that the 15 information notice does not impose the technial resolution.
16 The ones abovs it impose it.            Below the line, they do not.
17            They're still a bit of a mixed bag.              But the 18 distinction is that they do not impose the technical 19 resolution.
20            DR. SIESS:      Put it in between or put an asterisk.
21            MR. SCHWINK:      Put it at both.
22            DR. MOELLER:      What then is the difference in an          '
23 order and a bulletin?
24            MR. SCHWINK:      First of all, a bulletin by itself          l
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(~)V/bc 2    come is the direction either through-an order or an 3    immediate action letter to says              Do it.
4                  It doesn't have a legal basis in and of itself.
5                  VOICE:      It has a closing paragraph.
6                  (Laughter.)
7                  VOICE:      No, it requires a response.        And my 8    former boss, Ed Jordan, used to say, "One of the criteria.
9'    for a bulletin was that the licensee says, No, we're not 10    going to do it, we're willing to issue an-order."
11                  So, as Walt says, invariably,' licensees comply 12    with few exceptions.
()        13                  MR. SCHWINK:      I'd like to take this opportunity 14    'to work SIMS into this.
15                  (Slide.)
16                  I think you'll find SIMS is the only system --
17    and I guess I have a little bit of pride of creatorship --
18    that tells you from cradle what's go'ing on.
19                  It's not anything other than a management tool to 20    cause you to ask quertions, but there's nowhere in the 21    agency that you can look at that-in a single place and 22    decide that there's a question you want to ask because 23    things are done in such complexity and they're so piecemeal.
24                  So, SIMS, in my way of thinking, was the only way
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2 actions, rulemaking, reg guides, generic issues, USIs, TMI 3 action items, the whole list of things.
4            DR. SIESS:      Let's accept the fact that SIMS 5 exists and it's history.        I don't want to spend too much 6 time on it. I got the impression that it was pretty much 7 originatcJ after the GAO report.            Is that right?
8            MR. SCHWINK:      Well, it came into existence that 9 way. But I've been trying for this kind of system since I 10 wrote the original charter from the CRGR.
11            DR. SIESS:      Let's get something straight.                  We've 12 got a separate item on the agenda for SIMS.
13            MR. SCHWINK:      But that's more of the system
(~Jl 14 architecture.
15            DR. SIESS:      We're not interested in the system's 16 architecture or the computer experts.                The only thing we're 17 interested in in SIMS is what is in it and what kind of 18 reports are easily available from it.
19            MR. SCHWINK:      That's exactly what I'm going to 20 show you.
21            DR. SIESS:      Are you going to incorporate that 22 into this part of the presentation?                I'd suggest that you 23 hold it off for a little bit and let's decide are you 24 completely finished with how you implement, how we go about (3        25 implementing changes as a result of generic issues.
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3            MR. SCHWINK:      The important part of this though 4 is this directly shows exactly how we go about converting 5 from the generic to the plant-specific.            So I'm not getting 6 into the system architecture.            It's into the technical 7 substance of how we translate from a generic issue into a 8 plant-specific issue.
9            DR. SIESS:      And the involvement of the project 10 manager, and so forth?
11            MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
12            DR. SIESS:      The one. thing we're looking for is
()        13 who we want to talk to at our next meeting.              If we decide to 14 take some generic issue and follow it through, and if we 15 took one and went all the way through from the time it was 16 installed, who are the people that we would discuss this 17 with?
18            That's what I'm looking for.
19            (Slide.)
20            MR. SCHWINK:      I picked USIA-44 because you're 21 going to be getting that very soon.
22            DR. SIESS:      Except that's never been implemented 23 on anything. Why are you talking about it?
24            MR. SCHWINK:      Two reasons.        One, it's considered 25 to be the most important safety issue in the agency by most
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2              DR. SIESS:      This morning, we tried to cover a 3 process up through resolution.            This afternoon, we were to 4 talk about implementation.
5              Why then are you talking about one that hasn't 6 been implemented?        It hasn't even been resolved?
7              MR. SCHWINK:      Because, in the front part of this, 8 we've actually tried to articulate which specific plants are 9 affected by it and articulate how we're going to go about 10 translating this into plant-specific actions.
11              DR. SIESS:      This is a part of implementation.
12              MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
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U 13              DR. SIESS:      And you're sort of anticipating that 14 we'll have a sort of resolution.
15              MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
16              MR. EBERSOLE:      This was a topic of the 17 subcommittee, Charlie, and I think we gave it a resounding 18 vote that it was a very good job except for one thing.                                        It's 19 a subpart of TAP-45.
20              And we don't know where TAP-45 will come in to 21 catch it.
22              MR. SCHWINK:      You mean it's competing.                                  45 gets 23 done first, you automatically take care of it.
24              DR. SIESS:      I don't want this.      The question of
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4            Give us a simple example of something we want to 5 discuss.
6            MR. HEBDON:      I think that's exactly what we were 7 trying to do with this, is to use it as a way of 8 illustrating how the process works, not to try to get into 9 the details of that particular generic issue.
10            DR. SIESS:      This is the process now at the 11 implementation level where you already have a resolution of 12 A-44. You already have a resolution of A-45.                And how
  ~N      13 you're going to go about implementing it.
(V 14            MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.        And the elements 15 of information that are captured in this become the key 16 elements in translating it into plant-specific actions.
17            DR. SIESS:      This is then partly a hypothetical.
18 We don't have an official resolution of either.one, right?
19            MR. SCHWINK:      I can give you one of these for 20 every generic issue.      It stacks up to two foot of documents.
21            DR. SIESS:      Even whether they've been resolved or 22 not?
23            MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
24            MR. EBERSOLE:      Two feet?
/~'$      25            MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.
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2 tracking the issues-through-the entire process from the 3 initial prioritization to the final verification and 4 closecut. The data for any issue will be consistent with.
5 where it is in the process.
6              But SIMS is.just a tool.              I don't want to get 7 hung up on the system other than the fact that it 8 illustrates how the process works.
9              If you'd prefer to just go on through the slides 10 on.the process and then we can come back and show how SIMS 4
11 is a tool for implementing that process, that certainly 12 would be a way of doing it.
(}        13              DR. SIESS:      I guess I'm not sure what 'you're 14 trying to do.      If we want to talk about the processoat some 15 future meeting, we want to talk about specific issues and 16 how they go through the process to really understand it step 17 by step.
18              And I'm just getting confused by what level of 19 the process we're in right now.              You keep saying that A-44 20 has not been resolved as far as I know.
21              MR. SCHWINK:      It's not approved.
22              DR. SIESS:      But it's close to it.- But then you 23 say you have this for every generic issue.
24              MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
25              DR. SIESS:      'Whether it's resolved or not.
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,  V 2                    DR. SIESS:      He said every generic issue -- 101, 3  A-1, A-3, A-4.            Every generic issue.
4                    MR. HEBDON:      There's a SIMS printout for every              ;
5    issue.- But, the amount of information and the type of 6    information that's in the printout will be-dependent on 7  where it is in the process, and I think what Walter's trying l                8    to'do is to use SIMS as a mechanism for illustrating how the              .
9  ' process works, since the intent is'that SIMS will be.a very 10      central tool in making sure that the process-works.-
11                      MR. EBERSOLE:      Where is 45 now?-
12                      MR. SCHWINK:      Give me five minutes on this.          And.
13      if you don't think it's worthwhile, we'll just' skip it.
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3              MR. SCHWINK:      The nature of the generic issue in 4 terms of what plants it applies to, the. time frame that 5 you're willing to tolerate, the last plant making the 6 modification from a planting point of view on an issue 7 that's not resolved yet is important to make sure that the 8 issue has been thought out and will get done at the plant.
9            The biggest concern that I have from a personal 10 viewpoint is that these resolutions have had a lot of 11 attention to them, but the question of whether or not they 12 physically exist in the plant is up in the air.
/"s        13            DR. SIESS:      Let's go through A-44 then.        Assuming (J
14 that it's resolved, and this is what you would do and how 15 SIMS would help you do it.
16            MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
17            DR. SIESS:      We're into the second package of 18 paper; right?
19            MR. SCHWINK:      That's right.
20            DR. SIESS:      Has everybody got it?    You'll have 21 trouble reading it up there.
22            MR. SCHWINK:      The first page of the thing 23 identifies what it is and what they're proposing as a 24 resolution.
l 25            This is done early in the process for new items.
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3              DR. SIESS:      Whose words are these?              Approved 4  words?  Or paraphrased?
                                                                    ~
5              MR. SCHWINK:      They're paraphrased.
6              DR. SIESS:      If some of our people' wanted to 7  follow what you're doing, then we could get on SIMS,through 8  the computer.      What they'd get would still be somebody's 9  interpretation lof what somebody else ~ has said.
10              MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.        It's a 11  paraphrasing.
12              DR. MOELLER:      And when you say "this staff"11n
()        13  the righthand column, then you_mean the RES staff?
14              MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.        This is being 15  changed to reflect the reorganization.              But it would 16  identify what and it would identify who.
17-            DR. SIESS:      I hope you would avoid. pronouns like 18  this without an antecedent.          I don't know where-the 19  antecedent is.      Okay.
20              So the description has been around all along.
21  Right?-
22              MR.-SCHWINK:      Yes.
23              DR. SIESS:      This is a summary-of the solution 24  prepared by somebody in your office.                                                      ;
(}        25              MR. SCHWINK:      No.      Research..
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3                MR. SCHWINK:      That's right.
4                MR. EBERSOLE: ' On the solution side, don't you 5 need to qualify that that is a terminal solution that you're 6 done in contrast to TAP-45, which is still floating around 7 trying to get together?
8                MR. SCHWINK:      If you look in SIMS, you'll find a 9 synopsis.of what they think the solution is for A-45.
10                MR. EBERSOLE:. Does it-say but we're not doing 11 it? 'That I thought was pretty well closed off.
12                MR. SCHWINK:      This-is clearly more final than A-()          13 45. It's not yet this far.
14                MR. EBERSOLE: _ How do you distinguish where you 15 are when you're at that paragraph?
16                MR. SCHWINK:      But it's as of a particular'date in 17 time.
18                MR. EBERSOLE:          That doesn't mean~anything.-
19                MR. SCHWINK:      You're going-to-see on the next 20 sheet what the status is.                You see, this is a multi-page 21 report.
22                DR. SIESS:      If I had just this, would I have any l
23 way of knowing that there's a relationship between A-44 and-
,-                24 A-45?
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2                    DR. SIESS:    Where is that?
3                    MR. SCHWINK:      Up in the lefthand corner.
4                    DR. SIESS:    I see it.-        And where are those --
5      listed somewhere in SIMS?
6                    MR. SCHWINK:      Yes, there's a report that ties 7      those together.
i 8                    MR. EBERSOLE:      Is the term " dependent" correct?          ,
9                    MR. SCHWINK:      We're trying to come up with 10      whether it's independent or dependent.and theidependency, J
11      the next report, if you went to the~next level lower than 12      this, you'd try to identify what those other dependent
(}            13      issues are.
14                    MR. EBERSOLE:      It's really just related, isn't 15      it?
16                    MR. SCHWINK:      I think there's some dependence 17      associated with A-44, too.
18                    DR. SIESS:    There's three ways you can go. ~There 19      are issues above it in the event tree and there are issues 20      below it in the event tree.            And-it may be something over.
21      here that is related to it.
22                    Now, what significance do I attach to 23      " dependent"?
l 24                    MR. SCHWINK:      This is a key to tell you that you              l u
25      need to go look further because there-is a dependence here.
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b 2                MR. EBERSOLE:      But I don't know which 23 they are 3  fby reading that.
4                MR. SCHWINK:      There will be another report below 5    this. That would say all these other genericLissues are
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6    related to this and are tied in in some kind of dependency.
7l                MR. MICHELSON:.        Is that called up as a separate 8  page?
9                MR. SCHWINK:      A separate report.
10                DR. SIESS:      Is it in your thing?
11                MR. SCHWINK:      The SIMS reports, if you get all of 12    them, are about three feet right now. . Standard reports.
13  That'would b'e one of these things for every. generic issue.
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14                DR. SIESS:      But how do I find which 23?                      Is it 15    the 23 issues are dependent, or is there one issue named No.
16    23?
17                MR. SCHWINK:      They would listLthat there.are 18  dependent issues that you can actually see what they are 19  physically.        It's another report from this..
20                DR. SIESS:      That doesn't take 23. feet of paper.
: 21.                MR. SCHWINK:      No. .But youtwould ask for this-22  particular item, what's tied with this particular item.-
23                MR. MICHELSON:        That would give you a printout of 24    the 23 issues.
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2 listed.
3            DR. SIESS:      And you have to figure out how that 4 would relate.
5            MR. SCHWINK      It would give you some information 6 recognizing you're trying to keep this somewhat terse.            I 7 won' t say that it would tell you exactly how they're 8 related, but it would give you un indication on how they're 9 related.
10            MR. EBERSOLE:      Each one of those would in turn 11 refer to this.
12            MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct, it's a cross-tie.
13 We did that for somewhat of the reason that Carl mentioned.
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14 That is, when you break tnese things off and fragment them, 15 how do you keep track of them.
16            What we tried to do was, in some way, 17 systematically, to keep track of what all these pieces are 18 and how they go toge'ther.
19            MR. EBERSOLE:      TAP-45 must have virtually 90 20 percent of all the issues as dependent issues.
21            MR. SCHWINK:      I think you're right.
22            DR. SIESS:      We could just prioritize by counting 23 the number of dependent issues.
24            (Laughter.)
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' ( )V/bc 2              MR. SCHWINK:        I want to caution you that we've-3 got to keep the building.            What we've been trying to do is 4 load SIMS'as quickly as possible so that we get a handle on 5 what everything is to do it.
6              That's been a monumental task.
7            MR. MICHELSON:            So it's not all loaded up yet?
8              MR. SCHWINK:        Not yet.          There's still an issue-of                          ,
9 a quality check.
10              DR. MOELLER:        Well, in the description, you've 11 correctly referred-to a nuclear power plant up in the top.
12 You refer to the type of reactor.
(}-        13              MR. SCHWINK:        Let me get into the next sheets.
14              DR. MOELLER:        Does this mean that an HTGR has no 15 problem of station blackout?
16              MR. SCHWINK:        That's my understanding from the 17 station blackout point of view.
18              DR. SIESS:        Not if you give them eight hours.
19              DR. MOELLER:        Okay.
4 20              DR. SIESS:        Several hours.
21              MR. SCHWINK:        Let me move on to the next page.
22              (Slide.)
23              Another thing that is in that report, these are 24 the report numbers and they are standard reports.                                      It
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1  including' core melt frequency, occupational exposure and 2  public exposure.
3                    I don't like bottom line numbers.                            They're great-                        i 4  for insights, but'nothing beats human judgment in my                                                                +
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5  opinion.      It gives you a relative idea, and-that's all I 6  would treat them as.
7                    But it might be nice to have the machine go in i
i 8  and sort on some of these and see what the priority comes 1
9  out from the machine, how the priority comes out from the 1
l                  10    machines.
11                    DR. SIESS:        I hate to use the expression, but 12    take the bottom line.              I'll say the last line.- What'does.
13-  that mean for a generic issue?
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14                    MR. SCHNINK:        It means that if you resolved
                                                                                                    ~
15  station blackout fcr the typical plant --
16                    DR. SIESS:        Typical plant?
17                    MR.- SCHWINK:      Whatever that means.
18                    DR. SIESS:        You would get that much?
!                    19-                  MR. SCHWINK:        Improvement.
20                  -DR. SIESS:
That can't be an improvement.                                                  . ;.
21                    MR. SCHWINK:        This.is where you would take the 22    core melt frequency.
23                    DR. SIESS:        It would reduce it by a factor of 3.
;                    24    I guess not.          I still don't understand.                        If I'd reduced the 25  : existing one by a factor of three times 10 to the minus 5,
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(^'/)V/bc (s                                                                                                      I 2                    Right now, even if it was one, that would give 3      you an acceptable core melt.            I don't think that's what it 4      means.
5                    MR. SCHWINK:      I don't want to focus on the 6      numbers.
7                    DR. SIESS:      I know.        I'm just trying to 8      understand what the number means.
9                    MR. SCHWINK:      The number is supposed to mean 10      where you think the core melt' frequency will be moved to.
11      And what the range would bo.
12                    DR. SIESS:      Without knowing where it was before.
(}        13                  MR. SCHWINK:        Right.
14                  MR. MICHELSON:        The title says changes.-
15                    DR. SIESS:      The thing is suppose.it was 3 times 16      10 to the minus 6th before, and it is going to move to 3 17      times 10 to the minus-5.        That's hardly an improvement.
18                    If it was 1 before and it went to 3 times 10 to 19      the minus 5.      But if'it was 3.1 times 10 to the minus 5
: 20.      going to 3, you see, that number is meaningless.
21'                  MR. SCHWINK:      .It's meaningless from two points of 22      view.
23                    DR..SIESS:      Useless    e  I should say.      It means 24      something, but it's useless.                                                        !
25                    MR. SCHWINK:      One is for a plant-specific
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  - ()V/bc 2-  that you began with.          From the. standpoint of generically 3  speaking, they tried to typify'what a plant is by these six 4  studies,'the six plants-that.they're.' studying.
5                  There's a problem in trying to' articulate it in a 6  simple number form.
7                  DR. SIESS:' It's not a change'.
8                MR. SCHWINK:        I understand what you're saying..
9                  DR. SIESS:      It says " changes".- There's not a 10    change.
11                  MR. SCHWINK:        The problem with trying to come up.
12    with this number is that right now' people have tried to load 13    the data in as quickly as possible, when they reached for-(])
14    some.
-              15                  DR. SIESS:      It means you put the wrong thing in 1
16    there. But that's why I'm --
17                  MR. SCHWINK:        I understand that,-but I don't want 18    to focus on the specific data as much as I want to focus on 4
19    this is what we're trying to collect.
4              20-                  DR. MOELLER:        Could you explain the public.and 4              21    occupational exposure?          Does it mean that much would be 22    saved?
23                  MR. SCHWINK:        Averted.
24'                  DR. SIESS:      That's what I understood it as,
(}        25    averted. And the other one is averted, but this one: can't 4
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V 2              MR. SCHWINK:        That's right.
3              MR. HEBDON:        There's an error of interpretation 4 or of putting the number in.              We'll have to stra'ighten it-5 out.
6              DR. SIESS:      It seemed like a good idea to say
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7 something about core melt, you'know.                  But I don't know what I              8 you-can say.
9              MR. SCHWINK:        The point we're trying to make is 10 that once we get quality data and we were sure of what-we've l-            11 got in here qualitywise, these are the kind of things that 12 are available for the generic issue.
(}        13              DR. SIESS:      When you go into here and you ' tart 14 to put the costs in, it seems possible that solving.the 15 station blackout problent would solve several other problems 16 and avert all the costs of making those changes.
17              Is that included anywhere?
18              MR. SCHWINE:        To the extent.they're included in-19 the Research package on tha valus impact analysis, yes.
20              DR. SIESS: 'For ex.imple,-if we went to the A-45 21 dedicated decay heat removal system, that might take care of 22 everything for USIn and 30'GIs would disappear if somebody 23 lookt at that.
24              MR. SCHWINK:        As part of both the prioritization 25 process and the actual resolution, yes.
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2 that's just guessing.
3              MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.      And that's my whole point.
4 Even if we had what we think are our best numbers, plant-5 specifically we've got a different story.
6              DR. SIESS:      You're still guessing.
7              MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
8              DR. MOELLER:      In the final printout, are these 9 numbers per reactor year, or what?
10              MR. SCHWINK':    Right now, I think there's a 11 mixture. We would like to have it in per reactor year or 12 some common denominator.        Right now, I've seen so many 13 variances. The same kind of problem as this number.
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14              I'm not willing to say what exactly is in there 15 now, but we're moving toward getting a standard way of 16 thinking of things.        So we have a reference point.
17              Again, I don't like bottom line numbers because 18 in the real'world for specific plants, they don't mean 19 anything.
20              DR. MOELLER:      But, if you had the best values in 21 here, then supposedly you could look at this chart and                i 22 pretty much assign a priority to it.
23              MR. SCHWINK:      A generic priority to it, that's      l 24 correct.
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    &_./L 2  Again, we're still in that same report and we're on page 3 3  of it.
,                    4                      DR. SIESS:        You're still generic?
5                      MR. SCHWINK:        Still generic.
6                      DR. SIESS:        It's just how you go about 7  promulgating it?
8                      MR. SCHWINK:        Right.      There's some questions 9  about whose going to be involved and in what.                                For example, i
10  there's an ACRS review date in there and it indicates 11  whether there will be a rulemaking or some other vehicle,
;                  12  other vehicle being a reg guide and a generic letter, if 13  there is one, and so forth.
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14                      DR. SIESS:        Charlie, did you make that May '87 4
15  date?        Did we write a letter on it?
16                      MR. WYLIE:        No.
I                    17                      (Slide.)
18                      MR. SCHWINK:        We're getting some information 19  .about plants and whether or not it applies to them, and so 20  forth.          This hasn' t been filled on yet in some of the areas, 21  like would it apply to plants that are in the OL cycle, but 22  yet do not have an OL?                                                                                          ,
23                      And does it apply to all plants in the whole 24  process, be they in the OL process or whether or not --
25                      DR. SIESS:        That's essentially the backfit.
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  '% J 2            MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.      And again these are dynamic.
3 In other words, as it moves through the decision process, 4 and as it moves through the implementation, these things are 5 being filled in.        It gives a summary status for this issue.
6            In this case, they're saying it applies to 130 7 plants and the last plant will have it physically done in 8 '92. That's the current planning, I think.
9            DR. SIESS:      You hope.        You haven't had
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10  commitments or anything back.            That's a target.
11            'MR. SCHWINK:      From the goal point of view, that's 12  when we think the last plant should have it in place.
13              DR. SIESS:      How many USIs and generic issues are
(')T 14  out there now in the process?
15              MR. SCHWINK:      I've got a summary slide on that.
16              DR. SIESS:      I just wondered how many we were 17  talking about.      Are there a hundred of them?          I mean, 18  there's been 700 altogether.            I'm not sure most of the are 19  still around.
20              Is that your last slide?
21              MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.
22              On page 7, the thin handout, there is a summary -
23          ,
DR. SIESS:      285 have been imposed, 198 have been 24  implemented?
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3                DR. SIESS:      If we assumed a unit called generic 4    issue plan, how many of those would there be out there?
5                Okay, we're getting ahead of ourselves.
6                MR. SCHWINK:      There is a report out of SIMS that 7    answers that question.
8                DR. SIESS:      Let's go ahead.
9                MR. SCHWINK:      So you could take this report and 10  get a general sense of what plants are being affected and 11  what the current status is if it's in-the implementation 12  phase. Which plants have actually completed the 13  modification.
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14                It gives a relative percentage.        And when we 15  expect the last plant to have it physically implemented.
16                We also talk about imposition meaning that the 17  negotiation between the licensee and NRC, specifically, the 18  PM, for what he's going to put in his plant, that all those 19  negotiations would be completed by 1990.
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2            The next thing is -- in that same report is a 3 list by plant of what this generic issue applies to.                  This 4 is kind of a double-check.
5            DR. SIESS:      This is all 130 plants?
6            MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.      This goes on for 7 four pages.
8            DR. SIESS:      And since this issue is applicable to 9 all plants --
10            MR. SCHWINK:      Except for HTGR, I believe.
11            DR. SIESS:      About three years from now somebody 12 will figure out it belongs to that, too.
  ^')      13            VOICE:      Of course, we don't have 130 any more.
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15            DR. SIESS:      Lacrosse was only about that much, 16 anyway.
17            MR. SCHWINK:      And there is a key point.            We don't 18 want to leave out a plant that is halfway constructed and 19 they have deferred construction and they are going to come 20 back and ask us to continue with the licensing process.
21            So this way you pick it up, and it is a constant 22 reminder that it is not something you walk away from for 23 that particular plant.
24            And the rest of the pages of that report contain
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2            (Slide.)                                                      '
3            Now, you asked -- this one gets a little more 4 oriented toward the summary of all the generic issues, and              ,
5 what it allows you to do is, based on the input of that last 6 report, it looks at.every generic issue and talks about the 7 approval cycle, the technical resolution, the requirements 8 review, and the requirement imposition and the licensee 9 implementation and the verification.
10            DR. SIESS:      But that doesn't tell me what plants.
11            MR. SCHWINK:      Correct.        What I am trying to say 12 is that for that past report, this summary draws on that 13 previous report I just put out, and you can go through and
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14 look at each generic issue and say, for example, this was 15 reviewed and approved on 2/86.            There is a "C" next to it.
16 That says that was completed.
17            DR. SIESS:      That doesn't have much to do with the 18 previous one, does it?
19            MR. SCHWINK:      Except that this is the summary of            l 20 all those generic issue reports.
21            DR. SIESS:      But not the plant reports?
22            MR. SCHWINK:      No.
I 23            DR. SIESS:      This doesn't have anything to say                1 24 about the plants.
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            .j '      2                  DR. SIE'SS:          It just strikes the issues.
3                MR.'SCHWINK:            That isscorrect.
4      I          DR. REMICK:            Ilook-atthadlist,andwheredo.I~
n' 5    find A-45?                                                                ,
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MR. SCHWINK:            Keep going down the list.                        It goes 7; I on  for about, Ijthink, eight pages or nine pages.                                    It has 8    all the TMI' action' items.                  ,
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                      '9                  DR. REMICK:            What is MPA, by the way?
10                  MR. SCHWINK:            Multi-plant action.
                  .11'                  DR. SIESS:          Are you-sure A-45 is in here?
12                  MR. SCHWINK:            Yes.
13                  DR. REMICK:            Has anybody found it?
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14                  DR. SIESS:          No.
15                  MR. HEBDON:            It'is about.six pages down.
                    -16                  MR. SCHWINK:            Is it at page 6?
17                  MR. HEBDON:            It is on page 2 of the next report.
18                  DR. REMICK:            That.is for Crystal River?
19                  MR. HEBDON:            I am sorry, that'is Crystal River.
20                  DR. SIESS:            It is just 45.-
l 21-                We have got a great system,. haven't we, of.                                        _
l 22    numbers.                                                                                          l 23                  VOICE:      I think the report you are reviewing is-24    -just those issues that have been resolved.                                A-45 has not 25    been resolved.
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V 2                                                                                                MR. SCHWINK:      There is a total report, which I 3                                didn't' make in your package which I have up here, that lists 4                              all generic issues whether they have been resolved or not 5                                resolved.
6                                                                                                DR. SIESS:      That is a nice thing about computers, 7                                you know.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ~
8                                                                                                MR. SCHWINK:      I was focusing the comments of_this 1-9 L; on the ones that have been resolved and the ones that NRR 10 g 63s'to deal with and is dealing with.
11 3                                                                                                    DR. SIESS:      You can get more information out of l
12                    ,5                that. computer than you know what to-deal with, literally.
13                                                                                                      (Slide.)
l 'd                                                                                                    MR. SCHWINK:      I would like to talk a little bit                                        ,
15                                    about --
16                                                                                                      DR. SIESS:      Are you going to come'back to finish 17                                    up this SIMS stuff?
18                                                                                                      Right now I am looking for a break spot, and'I-19                                      think this is it.
20                                                                                                      So if we can just switch from the SIMS back to 1
21                                      this, we will take 10 minutes or so.
22                                                                                                      (Recess.)
23                                                                                                      DR. SIESS:      Okay, if you remember where you were.
24                                                                                                      (Slide.)                                                                                    ]
25-                                                                                                    'MR. SCHWINK:      I will talk a little bit about the-ace FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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;              2  identified what plants would be affected and identified 3  whether we expect to have licensing guidance, if it is' 4  necessary, and have decided whether or not there is
              ~5  inspection guidance separate.from the routine inspection 6  programs necessary.
4 7-                At this point each. plant can be viewed in terms 8  of what generic actions are required to be addressed at that 9  plant along with the backlog.of~other things that are at 10  'that plant,~ including those that are NRC's requirements and 11  those of the licensees.
12                There are three processes that exist.to decide
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13  plant specifically-how all of these requirements for
* 4 14  modifications are going to be prioritized and to some extent I
15  consolidated and, within the consolidation,-integrated to 16  get the most safety with the least amount of burden.
17                Because of the collection in SIMS of all of the 18  backlog it is easy to quickly identify what that particular 19  plant has for backlog.        So you have both the generic 20  backlog, and you have the plant specific backlog.
21                The importance is at this point to really have a 22  collection and understa'nding of what that plant has to do.
23  We also have a sense of when we would like to do it by from 24  the generic background.        So-there'is a window to. accomplish
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2                    I mentioned three processes.              One is -- the one
  .                                          -3        that is most used is come in and negotiate with_the PM for 4        that plant _when-these things will be addressed at the-plant.
5        That is the predominant way of doing business.
6                    The licensee comes in with a proposal.                      That 7        assumes that he understands what all the backlog is for his 8        plant because the PM will have the backlog as identified by 9        SIMS,-and the licensee will have his own agenda for what he 10        would like'to do to his plant, and he would propose how l                                            11        these two backlogs can be worked off, both in' terms of what 12        can be done-at the same time or consolidated with one-~fix
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14                    That is the predominant way that the backlog for 15        plant is worked off.
16                    He also has an option to use the living schedule
                                    ,        17        concept, the integrated living schedule.              My understanding 18        is that only three plants have taken advantage of the-19        integrated living schedules.
20                    There is a policy statement being developed to 21        encourage, endorse, push -- whatever you want to call it'--
22        licensees into using the living schedule concept.                        But.to.
l 23        date there are only three plants that have used it.
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l 25        and that is the ISAP process.          My-understanding _is.that only
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3f                ;The bottom line is most plants are being 14      addressed'in terms'of working off their' backlog, using a 5    process of proposing to the PM how he will work'off the 6    backlog of NRC requirements and~his own agenda, and.the PM, 7      with reviewer support, technical reviewer support,.is 8    deciding what parts of that proposal are acceptable and what 9    scheduling and' specific is acceptable.
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.                10                    A problem in the past -- and I will give you some 11      example of that -- is that we reallyfdidn't have a handle on
                -12      the backlog for the plant.. We_ focused on the resolution of 4
(}        13      something, but somehow it just didn't get handed off either 14      to the licensee-in the form of an imposed requirement for 15      that particular plant or for whatever reason'the licensee 16      just didn't do anything.
17                    The SIMS benefit is it articulates whatever the 18      total backlog is for the plant.                It does it plant 19      specifically and does-it generically.
;                20                    The key to the process is making sure that you do                                    -
21      not address generic-issue resolution-piecemeal.                      You address 22      it as a cradle to grave entity.                Plants don't get safer off 23      of-a piece of paper.
24                    We'are finding -- and I will throw up a summary 25      sheet -- that TMI action items in some cases haven't been
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2  done. We are finding that high priority issues haven't been 3  done. We are finding that medium priority issues haven't 4  been done.
            '5              The reason for that problem existing is there was 6  not a cradle to grave process for anyone to be able to look 7  and with a single handful of reports be able to tell that 8  everything has been done for every affected plant.            E I'iS
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9  does that.
10                I don' t know where the weaknesses were 11  particularly, and I don't want to dwell on the weaknesses 12  because I think the new organization and the new SIMS will
()        13  fix it, but the key point is that what SIMS allows you to do 14  is see this whole backlog and a plant can address the whole 15  backlog. That gives the PM a significant advantage over 16  what he has ever had.
17                The kinds of things that the PM uses in deciding 18-  what comes first, what comes second are articulated in some 19  general categories.        It is predominantly a deterministic 20  decisionmaking process.
21              Where there are PRAs, they are-useful in sites, 22  but it is usually up to the licensee to come in and make the 23  case why it is okay from a safety point of view for a 24  particular item not to be addressed at his plant until the 25  second and third outage.                                                    i
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2        everything is all messed up.          The problem is that we can't 3        with high confidence say that everything has been done, and 4        we have spent two years collecting this data to try to have 5        an articulate trail to be able to say we know for a fact 6        that this physical thing was put in that plant and it is 7        okay.
8                    I think most of the high priority stuff has been 9        done at the troubled plants that have it as a high 10        vulnerability.      You will see from the summary slide that 11        there is still a way to go before we can say that all the 12        TMI action items are done for every plant.
13                    DR. SIESS:      Is there'anything in SIMS that
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14        aasigns your priorities to these things?
15                  MR. SCHWINK:      Plant specifically, yes.            Plant 16        specifically, you will see dates put in that reflect what 17        the PM has negotiated for his specific plant, articulating 18        that that item for his plant, even though it may generically 19        be a high priority item, is a low priority item, or vice 20        versa.
21                    DR. SIESS:      Could I tell by looking at a SIMS 22        report that this was a high priority or a low priority item?
23                    MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.
24                    DR. SIESS:      How could I tell?
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2            DR. SIESS:      What field?        The priority?
3            MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.
4            DR. SIESS:      Your priority or the licensee's 5 priority?
6            MR. SCHWINK:      The negotiated priority.
7            DR. SIESS:      That is timing you are talking about?
8            MR. SCHWINK:      It is more than that.              It means 9 that for that particular plant we thought it was a high 10 priority item and we weren't willing to wait for three 11 outages to have it physically installed in that plant.
12            DR. SIESS:      It is actually an item that comes out 13 on priority.      In other words, an.A, B, C or 1, 2, 37
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14            MR. SCHWINK:      High, medium and low.
15            DR. SIESS:      So if I look at SIMS and see if 16 something that is three. months behind schedule for 17 completion, I can also ask whether it is a high priority or 18 not?
19            MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
20            DR. SIESS:      High priority, I can beat on them, 21 and if it is low, I can say --
22            MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.        That is the 23 benefit to the PM.      But understand that that priority, plant 24 specific, may not be the same priority as the generic
(}        25 priority, and that is the key.
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V 2            MR. MICHELSON:        But it was an agreed to priority?
3            MR. SCHWINK:      It is an NRC-agreed to priority, 4 that is correct.
5            DR. SIESS:      NRC agreed and the licensee agreed to 6 the extent of a date?
7            MR. SCHWINK:      That is right, and the priority is 8 driving the dates to some extent.
9            DR. SIESS:      The licensee might not have agreed 10 with your priority?
11            MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
12            DR. SIESS:      But you negotiated him down?
13            MR. SCHWINK:      That is right.
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18            DR. SIESS:      Now, when I look at a plant, I have 19 got Crintal River here, these are in chronological order of 20 compl *fon date?
21            No, they are not.        They are in numerical order of 22 generic issue.
23            (Slide.)
24            MR. SCHWINK:      I could have written those out and
(}        25 sorted them by any means.        I could have sorted them by
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3              The key is that the PM for Crystal River 3 has in 4 these pages all of the backlog for his plant, plus I can get 5 the plant specific things that are not generic issues in 6 addition to this.
7              So he has the total backlog for his plant 8 generically and plant specifically.
9              DR. SIESS:      Crystal River.has got a few items on 10 here. Could I get the ones -- can I get only the ones that 11 are still outstanding and get rid of all that junk on what 12 is completed?
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/~          13              MR. SCHWINK:      What I tried to do was give you all 14 the stuff, but you could ask for it to have every generic 15 issue, both approved and coming, plus all the plant specific 16 issues.
17              DR. SIESS:      I don't want the generic issues if 18 they are completed.        They are all finished up and everything 19 is gone.
20              MR. SCHWINK:      Not really.
21              DR. SIESS:      On that plant I want to know how many 22 generic issues they are working on r ight now.
23              MR. SCHWINK:      And you can get that.
24              DR. SIESS:      I can get the ones that have the
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3              DR. SIESS:      That is right.        That is what I am 4  looking at.
5              MR. SCHWINK:      Where you don't see a C there, that 6  means that is the planned date that has been agreed to.
7              DR. SIESS:      I have got maybe 50 of those items.
8  I couldn't count them, but there is a lot on each page.
9              MR. SCHWINK:      There is a bunch.
10              DR. SIESS:      Plus plant specific items, and now 11  obviously all of those can't get done at once.
12              Are there some priorities assigned there of what 13' order you expect to have them done in?
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14              MR. SCHWINK:      The priorities would be negotiated 15  with the licensee plant specifically.              The PM has this 16  shopping list of the generic identification of what the 17  priorities are for these things.            He tells the licensee, 18  here's the things that NRC expects you to do.                You come back 19  and tell me when you think you can do them by.
20              He comes back, and he may say two outages, three 21  outages, or one outage, right now.              He has to have a basis 22  for why from the safety point of view he thinks it is okay 23  to allow two outages, say, before he has decided, before he 24  actually physically puts that thing in his plant.
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3              MR. SCHWINK:          Yes.- The key is, the licensee does 4  it versus NRC being the' lead to help him do that.                        ISAP, the
!                  5  NRC takes the lead.and says, here's what we think the 6  integration'ought to be.            In the other case, which is the 7  predominant case, the licensee had to take the initiative to 8  come in and say w'          think if we did this one big fix, we'd l                    9  take care of four of these backlogged items.
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12                MR. SCHWINK:          That's correct.        Plus they are
(}        13    walking away.from something.                NRC is dropping some 14    altogether and saying, you don't have to do anything.
15                DR. SIESS:          Because there is something else i                16    that's done?
17                MR. SCHWINK:          No, because they are not worth i                18    doing. But there is an ISAP-specific briefing coming for
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19  'ACRS next month, so I don't want to get into the details of 20    that.
i                21                DR. SIESS:          I am responsible, I-think I am.
22                MR. EBERSOLE:          This page here is on Crystal 23'  River. Would you pick up page 1 of the Status Selected 24    Issues Resolved.        There is something.on it I'juct wanted to
(}        25    ask you.about.      This is not a plant document.
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2              MR. SCHWINK:      ThiE is a generic document.
3              MR. EBERSOLE: 'I want you to look down there 4  where it says below " water hammer."              It says " asymmetric 5  blow down modes on reactor primary."              I thought that thing 6  had long.since been laid to rest, and here I somehow see the 7  date 7/87.
8              MR._ SCHWINK:    You''ve got it.        You're right.
9  Everybody thought it was resolved.              You're absolutely right.
10              MR. EBERSOLE:      Is it?
11              MR. SCHWINK:      No.
12              MR. EBERSOLE:      Come on.        That is so improbable,
(}        13  it is like the sun falling.
14              MR. SCHWINK:      Yep.
15              MR. EBERSOLE:      Now it is compounded by the fact 16  that we are going to get leak before break, or rather it is 17  relieved by that.      So this merely confirms that that is 18  still floating around.
19              MR. SCHWINK:      Correct.
20              MR. EBERSOLE:      No wonder we needed this thing.
21              MR. SCHWINK:      But understand, two years ago, you 22  would have never been able to do this and know what 23  happened, implementationwise.          That is why I am so hung-up 24  on the SIMS as part of this process.
25              MR. EBERSOLE:      Why is something labeled 7/877 f)
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2                                          MR. SCHWINK:      Because it is actually a 3                          requirenant.            There are actual facilities that haven't done 4                          it yet, and they are on the hook to do it.
5                                          MR. EBERSOLE:      Wasn't it universally declared to 6                          be ridiculous?
;                                    7                                          MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.      Aren't some of the TMI action 8                          items the same way?
9                                          MR. EBERSOLE:        Why does each customer have to do l                                  10                          this?
11                                          MR. SCHWINK:        Number one, there hasn't been a 12                          systematic way to be able to find out what this backlog is
()                            13                          standing out here like this and ask, gee, you know, time's 14                          gone by.      These things are 10 or 12 years old.                    Do we still 15                          care about them?
16                                          MR. HEBDON:        That's a difficult philosophic issuo 17                          of this question of do we still care?                  If we get one of 18                          these, how about all the people who went ahead and did it?
19                          Is it fair now to take the two or three that straggled, and 20                          these dates have dragged it on for eight years, and say, 21                          okay, since you have stalled long enough, we will let you 22                          cff the hook.            So there is a real philosophical question 23                          there, and it is a very difficult one to deal with.
24                                          We are still having a very hard time deciding how 25                          to deal with it.
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2    that is to maintain the continuity of the record.                          I had 3-  once considered that, and it was so often laid to rest, and 4    if.you'd just. obliterate it, it may come up again sometime.
5                    MR. SCHWINK:        The problem you've got is, that you 6    are on record that it is a regulatory requirement that 7    applies to a certain number of plants.                    If it applies to a 8    certain number of plants, and let's say, out of 100 plants, i                9    90 of-them have done, it, there are ten plants that haven't l              10    done it, the only process that exists right now is to say 11    this is foolish.            It isn't worth it for the other ten plants 12    to do it.      That is ISAP.
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15                  MR. EBERSOLE:          I thought ISAP, it was always in 16    my view the real way to do things.
17                    MR. SCHWINK:        That is correct, but understand 18    that only two plants availed themselves of it.
19                    MR. HEBDON:        I think it mi.ht be best just-to-20    leave that for the ISAP briefing.
,              21                    MR. SCHWINK:        I thihk Haddam Neck was one, and I T
22    forget who the other one was.                  But anyway, the point I 23    wanted to make is, there are a whole backlog of things that 24    we thought were done at all affected plants that we have not
(}          25    been able to find out that they have-been done.
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2              MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.          And by the way,
            '3  some of these are TMI action items.
4              DR. SIESS:      You don't know that they haven't been 5  done.
6              MR. SCHWINK:      Yes, we do, in some cases, because 7  the licensee came back and said we never heard of this 8- thing.
9              DR. SIESS:      You've got the record of him telling 10  you?
11              MR. SCHWINK:      We went out and said, here is a 12  list of things we think that you were supposed to do.                      How 13 f])            does it compare with what you think you were supposed to do?
14  And some of the comments back were, gee, we haven't thought 15  about that. We haven't heard of.it.
16              DR. SIESS:      They say, we weren't the only one who 17  didn't get the letter.
18              MR. SCHWINK:      The other part of the problem is, 19  with the current backfit rule, if all of a sudden you say, 20  now you've got to do it, and they haven't done it before, is 21  that a backfit?      If it is, do you have to put it"through the 22  backfit process?
23              DR. SIESS:      That is a generic issue.
24              MR. EBERSOLE:      I should feel comfortable about
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.{}}Vbw 2            MR. SCHWINK:        Are you still on this.one?-                                        l 3            MR. EBERSOLE:        Right.        Bottom line.      That is 4 something coming up in '89.                                                                        -
5            DR. SIESS:      That's only been going about 15 6 years.
7            MR. SCHWINK:        But understand, the point I am 8 trying to make is an important point.                We've never.been able 9 before to look down a column like this for all the generic 10 issues and say what's done.
11            DR. SIESS:      That is the generic list.              So you 12 don't know what- that means on control over heavyJ1oads.                      It 13 may be 120 plants.
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14            MR. SCHWINK:      -I've got-that.for every plant too.
15 So the PM has got this backlog-list for that plant.
16            DR. SIESS:' How about a list that says how many 17 plants have implemented control over heavy loads?
18            MR. SCHWINK:        There is a standard report ~out of 19 SiMS that says that.        I've got the report.          I didn't make a 20 slide of it, but there is a report out of CIMS that says how 21 many plants were affected by it and how many. plants have                                            ,
22 physically implemented it.                                                                          i 23            MR. EBERSOLE:        The blanks on the last three                                      :
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2                MR. EBERSOLE:                                                  The blank' spaces on the right 3    three columns mean you haven't figured out yet.
4 4                MR. SCHWINK:                                                It means we don't know.      The 5    licensee says, I never heard of it before.                                                    The PM, whoever 6    was responsible for it, retired, and there is nothing in the l
7    docket file, there is nothing on the record anywhere.- We 8    don't know.
9                  DR. SIESS:                                        Are some of those important?
10                MR. SCHWINK:                                              We don't know.      I am sorry to say
;              11    that, but we don' t know.                                                  This has been-the first time that              ,
12    we've ever been.able to look either plantwise or generic-13    leve1 wise at what physically has been put in the plant.
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:              15    another issue altogether.
-              16                  DR. SIESS:                                        If it is implemented, and you.do not 17    verify it, and you go out and verify it and it is not there, 18    then you've got a criminal case, haven't you?
19                MR. SCHWINK:                                                You've got an enforcement issue, if 20    that is what you mean.                                              But what I'm suggesting is that I i              21    don't know if it has ever been verified, and if you.look at 22    some of the guidance, it said something like "do good,"
23    whatever "do good" means.
24                  DR. SIESS:                                        How much.of a job would it be, if
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                -1  the resident inspector and say, now, how many of these p (V~7Nbw 2  things do you know they did't
                .3                MR. SCHWINK:        That has been done.          You are seeing i
4  the reflection of that.
5              DR. SIESS:        Some, you'can just go look, can't              j 6  you?
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<                7              MR. SCHWINK:          Some you can, but some you;can't.
8              MR. EBERSOLE: .Some of those titles are j                9  ambiguous. Is 674.1 RCP trip pertinent to the small break i
10    problem or the ATWS problem?
i 11'              MR. SCHWINK:          I'd have to look at the description 12    of the generic issue, and I could tell you that.                      That is
(}        13    why it is important to understand that you can also get a 14    terse description of the generic issue out of SIMS also.                      ;
15    But you see, that is the key.              It should trigger you to ask        >
16    the questioin, has this thing been addressed?
17                DR. SIESS:. How much can you.do on line with 18    SIMS?
19                MR. SCHWINK          You can get standrd reports like 20    this simply by calling the number.                You can do it fram your 21    home, if you've got a computer with a modem in it.
4 22                DR.        'SS:    On the screen or printed?
23                MR. SCHWINK          Either one.        Take your pick.
24                DR. SIESS:        You got yours hooked up, Jesse.
25                MR. EBERSOLE:        Yes, sir.
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2      is the extension number.
3                  MR. SCHWINK:          But understand, the important point 4      of this is, all this is nice to know,.but that is the
{,            5      important part.      If the plant didn't change, it didn't make 6      a difference.
7                  DR. SIESS:          We could put this on our bulletin 8      board, if we had another couple of banks of memory.
9                  MR. SCHWINK:          What is different today is, number                                            _
10      one, that we are getting this data' base built.                                                              We-do have 11      this report, the PM and the resident, who has a PC on site, 12      can look at his PC screen and see what is there for his
()      13      plant.
14                  DR. SIESS:          A lot of the licensees must have the
;            15      same stuff computerized.
16                  MR. SCHWINK:          The problem is that they don't have 17      our list, and we have not yet:made the SIMS public, because i            18      we are still trying to get --
19                  DR. SIESS:          They must have some system of keeping ~
!            20      track of their commitments when they are completed.
21                  MR. SCHWINK:          That is correct.
22 DR. SIESS: .Some of these, apparently they don't 23      think there was ever a commitment, so it is not even in 24      their system.
25                  MR. SCHWINK:          That is' correct.
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2 won't have the same identification.
3            MR. SCHWINK:      We found when we went out and asked 4 that they and asked, that they roughly were identified the 5 same way. But the point I want to make is, there is a bunch 6 of stuff that they didn't know what it was and never heard 7 of it before.      And there is a bunch of stuff that the PM and 8 the resident for the plant didn't know what it was.
9            DR. SIESS:      Have you figured out why?
10            MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.
11            DR. SIESS:      Lack of a OA program in NRC?                I mean, 12 that is what owuld be the cause that would hapen to a
{}        13 licensee, if they didn't have an adequate OA program.
14            MR. SCHWINK:      Sure, but if you want to know the 15 personal opinion, my personal opinion is, we put a lot of 16 emphasis on the resolution and not much on making sure it 17 gets in the plant.      For example, the stuff that came up for 18 nay kind of Commission review or ACRS review, I would bet 19 that there is very little exchange in any of the 20 conversations about licensing or inspection.
21            DR. SIESS:      I think you missed my point.                The 22 licensee says, I never heard of it.              There's two 23 possibilities.      He is lying or he is telling the truth.
24            Are you assuming he is lying?
{}        25            MR. SCHWINK:      No.
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2 the truth. How come you never heard of itr?              You see, if 3 you put the emphasis on requiring it, he will have heard of 4 it.
5              MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
6              DR. SIESS:      So why didn't he know about it?
7              MR. SCHWINK:      Because it was looked at 8 generically and the specific plants that were affected 9 weren't identified as they are now in SINS.              And the PH had 10 to have enough initiative to go say, I heard you resolved 11 station blackout.        Does it apply to my plant?
12              DR. SIESS:      So the TMI issues were out as a 13 NUREG?
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14              MR. SCHWINK:      It wont out as four or five NUREGS.
15              DR. SIESS:      Was it a generic lever that 16 referenced the NUREGS?        It didn't tell the plants which ones 17 were applicable to you, and so forth.
18              MR. SCHWINK:      That is right.
19              MR. HERNAN:      There was a computerized system that 20 the project managers used prior to SIMS to track these items 21 with. It just wasn't integrated outside the Division of 22 Licensing was the problem.
23              MR. SCHWINK:      As I said, SIMS is the only one 24 that will track cradle to grave.              We had piecemeal stuff.
25              DR. SIESS:      I don't like that expression.
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('}Vbw                                                                1            MR. SCHWINK:                          I don't know how else to coin it.
            %d 2 And it really never becomes an end, because you are going to 3 have continuing inspections on some things to make sure that 4 particular thing in the plant is number one, told to the 5 operator that it exists, two, that it is put into 6 maintenance and surveillance.                                      Three, that it is pedigreed, 7 that' parts replacement is what it should be and four, that 8 you have some sense that it is going to be integrated into 9 his whole plant.
10            DR. SIESS:                          That is no different than any other 11 changes made to a plant.                          The licensee initiates or you 12 initiate and require it.
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v 13            MR. SCHWINK:                          But I am suggesting that a lot of 14 these things, for example, I have heard stories,.it wasn't 15 in my tech specs, so I don't maintain it.                                                                              It is physically 16 in my plant. It doesn't work any more, but it is there.                                                                                                            It 17 wasn't in my tech spec.
18            DR. SIESS:                          That is the way we operate.
19            MR. EBERSOLE:                          If I just take a case like the BWR 20 ATWS modification, would I find that in here?
21            MR. SCHWINK:                          Yes, you would.
22            MR. EBERSOLE:                          Where would you find it?
23            DR. SIESS:                          Not under Crystal River.
24            MR. SCHWINK:                          It is in a couple places.                                                                                      First,
(}                                                            25 you will see a whole series of Salem ATWS.
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('')Vbw      1                MR. EBERSOLE:      That's Salem ATWS.
v 2                MR. SCHWINK:      That is right.          The Salem ATWS was 3    the generic letter that went out.
4                MR. EBERSOLE:      Salem is a PWR.          I am talking 5    about the boilers.
6              MR. HERNAN:      It is called Salem ATWS.              That is 7    the name of the generic issue.
8                DR. SIESS:      That is not what Jesse is asking 9    about. He is asking about ATWS, period, not Salem ATWS.
10              MR. SCHWINK:      It is a trail.          What you would do 11    --
12                DR. SIESS:      What issue is ATWS?
()          13              MR. EBERSOLE:      Which is it?
14                DR. SIESS:      Sam says A-9.        75?  That's Salem.
15              MR. EBERSOLE:      I can't find it.
16                DR. SIESS:      Maybe it has been resolved.
17                MR. HERNAN:      It would be 93, page 1.
18                DR. SIESS:      Those aren't the ATWS items.              That is 19    the Salem issue.
: 20.              MR. HERNAN:      It is the generic letter which 21    applied to the ATWS issue.
22                DR. SIESS:      I don't understand.
23                MR. EBERSOLE:      What is the page number and where 24    do we find it?
25                DR. SIESS:      He is telling us that B-76 is ATWS.
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]    *Nbw    1 We had ATWS long before Salem happened.
2            MR. HERNAN:      This is a generic letter that went 3 out after the Salem event for all licensees.
              '4            DR. SIESS:      But we are talking ~about the ATWS USI 5 recalled for additional injection capacity, hump tricks and 6 all of that stuff.
7            MR. SCHWINK:      What you would have to do is go to 8 the generic issues.      For that.particular generic issue, you 9 would see that there is a bunch of related generic issues 10  tied to it.
11              DR. SIESS:      We can't even find that one here..
12              MR. EBERSOLE:      Have I just got a piece of the
(}        13  whole thing here?
14              MR. SCHWINK:      Yes, you do.        You just have a 15  piece.
16              DR. SIESS:      You don't have A-9.
17              MR. SCHWINK:      -I just brought a 44.
18              DR. SIESS:- Status of selected issues.                  Safety 19  issue management system, the whole list.              That list right 20  there. Why isn't A-9 in it?
21              MR. SCHWINK:      This is Crystal River.            If A-9 is 22  not in here, the one I am looking at is not.                I am looking 23  at the first slide.
24              DR. REMICK:      This is completed or resolved.
(}        25              DR. SIESS:      That is just resolved.
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i 250 l 0960 18 18 TVbw          1                                      MR. SCHWINK:                That is.right.
2                                        DR. REMICK:                A-44 and 45 are not an issue.
4 3                                        MR. SCHWINK:                That is right.                      Now you can get a 4              whole list of all the ones that are not resolved, as well as 5              the ones that are resolved.
6                                        DR. SIESS:                So A-9 is not in here, because it is 7              not resolved.
8                                      MR. SCHWINK:                That is correct.
j                          9                                        DR. SIESS:                I thought ATWS was resolved..
.!                        10                                        MR. EBERSOLE:                That contradicts other story.                                Oh, I'
11              yeah, we've already put in the pump trips, and we've got the i                        12              automatic injection.
(}                13                                        MR. SCHWINK:                I think you might have some of the 14              responses to some of these generic letters that have gone 15              out that dealt with ATWS.
l 16                                        MR. EBERSOLE:                The PWR ATWS problem was a totally 17              different matter.
18                                        MR. HERNAN:                The generic letter dealt with both 19              PWRs and BWRs.
20                                        DR. SIESS:                Wait a minute.                What they are telling 21              is, A-9, somebody tells me, is ATWS, is not resolved.
!                        22                                        MR. HEB DON:              I think what we need to do is to get
;                        23              the printout for A-9 and find out exactly what the situation 24              is. You know, we really haven't had a chance to go through j                        25              the whole data base and verify and double check all the
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V 2            MR. EBERSOLE:      Why don't I have A-9 here?
3            MR. HEBDON:      We don't know.      You've got to look 4 at USIs for which technical resolution is complete, A-9 and 5 why it is not there.      Published Rule, final Rule.          Completed 6 September 1980.      How much more complete can you get from a 7 final rule?                        -
8            MR. SCHWINK:      In the plants.
9            MR. EBERSOLE:      It's got to be there.          That 10 doesn't say it's in the plant.
11            MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
12            DR. SIESS:      It says selected issues resolved.
()        13            MR. SCHWINK:      That doesn't mean in the plants.
14            DR. SIESS:      What I am finding here is that you 15 fellows are using words in a vey interesting way.
16            MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.
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I 0960 19 19                                                                      252 1                DR. SIESS:      I think one thing that would be very (G'}N/bc 2  helpful to you, to us and perhaps to the industry would be 3  to arrive at a system of words that mean the same thing to 4  everybody. And resolution in this compartment and 5  resolution in this compartment and resolution in this 6  compartment all mean different things to you.
7                MR. HEBDON:      That's a correct criticism.
8                DR. SIESS:      And if it's confusing to me, I can 9  understand why some licensees may have been confused.
4 10                MR. EBERSOLE:      What I think somebody heard is 11  that somebody made a paper rule but nothing followed.
12                DR. SIESS:      What does this book mean when it says
(}          13  " resolution"?
14                MR. SCHWINK:      It means that a technical 15  resolution was approved.
16                DR. SIESS:      All right.
17              MR. HERNAN:      Are you looking for something in 18  SIMS that will indicato compliance with'the ATWS rule?
19                DR. SIESS:      I just want,you to define some terms 20  and not having it dependent on which man I'm talking to.
21                This morning, when somebody said something was 22  resolved, they meant the technical resolution had been 23  issued. This afternoon resolves means that it's been put in 24  the plant.                                        .
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3            It does not mean that it's been physically 4 installed in the plant.
5            DR. SIESS:      You said that A-9 is not in this list 6 because it's not resolved.
7            MR. SCHWINK:      No. I said that A-9 may not be in 1
8 thic list because, number one, it could be a mistake, it 9 hasn't been added in yet.        Or, number two, that it's been 10 resolved through a series of these generic letters.
11            There were no further actions.                            ;
12            DR. SIESS:      That last doesn't make any sense
()        13 because the Salem ATWS did not address the BWR.            And this 14 said it was resolved by rulemaking, which I think is the
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15 case.
i 16            MR. IIERNAN:    There was a rule passed that plants 17 would have a certain amount of time to comply with the 18 rules. Are you looking for documentation?
19            DR. SIESS:      I'm just trying to understand what 20 these lists mean.      If I go into SIMS and look for an issue 21 and don't find it, that's what we did.          Jesso said:
22            "What happens to the BWR ATWS?"
23            We looked at the list here.          It's not here. So, 24 somebody said it's not here because this is only a list of
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3            DR. SIESS:      That seems a little strange.        Do you 4 mean this list is still in the process?
5            MR. HEBDON:        The whole data system is still being 6 developed, and it's possible that that one either has an 7 incorrect data field, so it didn't come up where it should 8 have --
9            DR. SIESS:      I'll buy that.
d 10            MR. SCHWINK:        But I want to answer a specific
,            11 question. This ATWS thing, if you look across here, you 12 will see some ATWS actions that don't have completion next 1
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14            So my answer is no, it has not been completed at i
15 all the plants.
16            DR. SIESS:      I wouldn't expect it to.
17            MR. EBERSOLE:        That's the PWR problem.
18            MR. SCHWINK:        I understand, but I can give this 19 to you for every plant.
20            MR. EBERSOLE:        The old original ATWS issue was in 21 the early seventies.
22            MR. SCHWINK:      That's correct.
23            DR. SIESS:      That's when the issue came up.
4 24 Nobody's going to do anything.
{}        25            DR. REMICK:      Chot, it's obvious that the staff l
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3              So I suggest we move on.
4              DR. SIESS:        Let's be careful about what they can 5 get because they've just told us the data base isn't filled 6 out yet.
7              DR. REMICK:        Maybe that's the answer.
8              MR. IIEBDON:      We can pull the full printout for A-i 9 9 and explain why it isn't there.                It may be because of an 10 error in the data entry and the system isn't completely 11 developed.
12              DR. SIESS:      But, on this printout -- not the one
()          13 there, but the one I'm looking at -- status selected issues 14 resolved.
15              Now, resolved there is the same as this morning's 16 resolve.
17              MR. SCilWINK:      That's correct.
18              DR. SIESS:      Okay.
19              MR. EBERSOLE:        Technically resolved.
J 20              DR. SIESS:        It means the staff knows what they 21 want to do to fix it.        They haven't decided on whose got to 22 do it. And it hasn't been done yet necessarily.
23              But the ATWS rule came out in '80.                Is that 24 right?  Is it that far back?
(}        25              MR. SCilWINK:      I think it came out in '82.
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2 item, you have control room habitability and it says:
I 3            The method is the TMI action plan.          Well, what 4 does that mean?
5            MR. SCilWINK        There's a TMI action plan item that 6 deals with that specifically, or a group of items and you 7 have to go to that specific issue and identify them.
8            You can look through that item and see what the 9 status is of that item for overy plant, because there were 10 TMI action items that came out of both the task plan and 11 then the clarification ultimately that came out of that.
12            And if something is a generic issue, identified
()        13 as a genoric issue, and it was resolved by, let's say, three 14 of the TMI items, there's a tie to that to say here's how it t
15 was resolved.      And you can go and soo what the status of i
i              16 those throo items are for those plants.
17            DR. MOELLER:      I guess I was asking becauso it 18 seems to me control room habitability was raised as an issue 19 quite sometimo after TMI.
20            MR. SCilWINK:      Dut there woro some TMI items also.
21 The question you might have is did those throo items say, if 22 there were throo, that wo supposedly resolved it, did that i
23 totally resolvo it or not?
24            That's the quality of the resolution.
25            DR. MOELLER:      Then there is a IIID-2.33, again,
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2            DR. SIESS:        You've got to specify which of those 3 are Roman and which are Arabic or we'll never find it.
4            DR. MOELLER:        It's Roman III, D as in David, 5 Arabic 2.33.
6            "What is that?          Establish feasible method of 7 pathway?"
8            Is it interdiction or something?
9            MR. SCHWINKt        I'd have to look up what that 10 specific issue is.      Then you'd have that printout like I 11 showed you for A-44.
12            MR. EBERSOLE:        Why do I have on the first two
()        13 lines up there BWR pump integrity and PWR pipe cracks?
14            MR. SCilWINK:      Two reasons.        Ono, we were so 15 uncertain of what issues applied and didn't apply to a plant j            16 that wo listed them all.          And we asked the PMs and the 17 residents to clearly articulate that it doesn't apply to 18 that plant. That's what NA means.
19            That was our way to double-check, to make sure 20 that we didn't loso something in the crack.                Once wo got the 21 data baso loaded and we think that it's accurato, wo won't 22 continue to carry the items for a PWR plant or items that 23 don't apply to that partict;1ar plant.
l 24            DR. SIESS:        I got the pretty clear picture that
(}        25 thoro's no question we can ask about the generic items that i
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!                2                MR. SCHWINK:        You're right to a certain extent.
3    Please understand that SIMS is a tool.              It's not smart 4    onough to make decisions.            It's not going to tell you about 5    the quality of what that data means.
t                6                DR. SIESS:        Oh, no.
7                MR. SCIIWINK        The key is we will be able to track
)                8    a generic issue and be able to tell you that that plant 9    physically did something about it.              Then it will refer you l                10    to the inspection report to say it was dono; it will refer 11    you to the SER report that says hero's the analysis to say l                12    it was acceptable.
13                DR. SIESS:        If I wanted to know what the issuo
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14    was in the first place, I'd go to 933?
15                MR. SCllWINK        933 will give you a little more 16    articulation on what you saw on the station blackout.                But 17    you would be able to have a trail that would point you to l
t 18    specific documentation.        And it would say exactly what that 19    document is.
20                For examplo, the SER that said this is 21    acceptable.
22                DR. SIESS:        Going back to the original definition l
)              23    of tho issue, where would I got that?                                      !
MR. SCllWINK:
24                                    You'd got it from 933.        If you 25    wanted a dotalled articulation, you would got it from SIMS.
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  ,                    2                DR. SIESS:                            We always want detail.
3                MR. SCHWINK:                              But, understand that, in a very
:                      4  brief time, you can look through overy generic issue using 5  SIMS.
6                DR. SIESS:                            Well, we've got three lovels.            We've 7  got a list of them where they como out on one line.                                        SIMS 8  gives you 10 or 15 linos.
9                MR. SCHWINK:                              That's because of the problem Carl 10  raised this morning.                              How do I know what happens to it when 11  it gets fragmented.
12                DR. SIESS:                            And 0933 gives you several pages and 13  none of them do much more.                                SIMS will tie it to other
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14  issues, but it really won't tell you too much about how it's                                        ,
15  tied to the other issues.
16                MR. SCilWINK:                            It will tell you in somo very 17  gonoral terms, that's correct.                                                                      l 18                DR. SIESS:                            Well, I don't soo anything on the A-19  44.
20                MR. SCllWINK                              That's another report that comes 21  out.
l 22                DR. SIESS:                            Okay. Playbo we'll try to collect up 23  the sots of those for some people, sit them down at the 24  computer and lot them learn how to do it.                                                            !
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{;N/bc      1 2            DR. SIESS:          That tells you how to query it?                  .
3            MR. MICHELSON:            Sam's going to learn how to do 4 it.
5            MR. SCHWINK:          Let me give you a couple of 6 summarios that you specifically asked questions on in the 7 agenda.
8            DR. SIESS:          Are wo back in the first handout now?
9            MR. SCHWINK:          Yes.
10            (Slido.)                                                            ,
11            You asked for mins and maxos and I gave you an 12 averago, and I tried to give you a fool for where those
()        13 typically fall.        There's not much I can say about that 14 except it's experience.          Please understand that's in 15 addition to the technical resolution.
16            DR. SIESS:          I think the minimums are very 17 impressivo. It doesn' t scom to make a heck of a lot of 18 difference on the priorities.                      In fact, whether they're 19 high, medium or low priority doesn't scom to make much 20 difference anywhere.        And the maximums don't surpriso me a 21 bit, having lived through a couple of them.                        That's 22 interesting though.
23            HR. SCHWINK          Recognize this is in addition to e4 the technical resolution.
(}        25            DR. SIESS:          Oh, yes.              This is to got somothing Acn FEDERAL RnvonTens, INC, 1
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U )V/bc 2            MR. SCHWINK:      So what I'm saying is on high 3 priority items you should not be surprised to see before it 4 physically winds up in the plant nine to 10 years.
5            DR. SIESS:      There couldn't have been an awful lot 6 of those nine to 10 years if you average out at 3.5.                                      We 7 might want to look.
8            MR. SCHWINK:      I understand that this is one 9 that's imposed on it.      This is one they physically 10 implemented. So it's a summation of those two.
11            DR. SIESS:    What's that mean again?
12            MR. SCHWINK:      It means there was an approved
(}        13 technical resolution of the generic issue.
14            DR. SIESS:    Just take the average.              It took three 15 and a half years before you told them whct to do.
16            MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.
17            DR. SIESS:      And then another two years for them 18 to do it?
19            MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.
20            DR. SIESS:      They're doing a lot better.than you 21 are.
22            (Laughter.)
23            MR. SCHWINK:      That's experience.      Understand 24 that's part of this negotiating process.
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2 imposition licensing with priority lovels.                            It seems to me 3 if it was a high priority item, you'd really bang it to 4 them.        If it's a low priority item, you might push it to one i
L              5 side and negotiate over a period of time to 800 how it fit 6 in for a high priority item to take three and a half years 7 to agroo with the licensoo on when he was going to start                                            i 8 one.
9                  MR. IIEBDON:          We were thinking about that as well.
10 One of the things to koop in mind is a lot of times, the' 11 high priority item is more complicated, so the complexity 12 tends to offset the priority.                        And that's why you find f(])
1 13 sometimes that the lower priority things got dono more 14 quickly, just because they tend to be simpler.
15                    They're more straightforward, which is part ot l
l              16 the reason they have a low priority.                            It's not a very big 17 deal.
18                    DR. SIESS:          Doponding upon what this committoo 19 decidos when they got through this stuff, one possibility in 20 to try to take a few casos and follow them through the 21 process.        I'm beginning to got the fooling that following 22 them through the identification, prioritization and 23 resolution process is not going to be nearly as intoresting, 24 or maybe as important as following them through this                                                i
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!            2 simply. This one's going to be more difficult.                                    So if we're 3 thinking about going that way, you might want to look at 4 some of those long ones, short ones, and that's what I think 5 we've asked the staff for.
6            Sam's got somothing to give you when we caucus, 7 or whatover we want to call it, lator on.
8            MR. SCIIWINK:      I might point out wo wanted to do 9 this on ovary one of thoso gonoric issues to como up with 10 those datos, to say that it was physically dono at the i
11 plant. It's taken two years.            You're scoing the product of 12 it.
l 13            DR. SIESS:      Doing what?
14            MR. SCllWINK      Trying to do oxactly what you woro 15 talking about doing.
16            DR. SIESS:      Wo wanted to just walk through two or l
l            17 three of them trying to soo what the long ones take.                                              That's 18 a suggestion.      Wo haven't agrood to do anything yet.
19            MR. IIEDDON:      What you might want to do is use 20 SIMS to pick one that's boon around that has a fair history, 21 particularly one that sooms to have a fair spread as to one i            22 that was implomonted at the plant.
23            DR. SIESS:      I hopo you guys will stick around 24 after this prosentation is over while wo go through this 25 discussion and soo what we're going to como up with.
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)              2  Roscarch gavo us a list of some possible ones.                              But now that 3  we've soo some of those figures, wo might want to have                                      ,
.              4  different critoria.
.              5                    What's your next slido?
;              6                      (S l ido . )
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)              7                    MR. SCilWINK:          The last one I wanted to show you i
i              8  is a breakout by item.                  I tried to categorize those as best 9  I could.      They wind up into TMI categorios, USIs, high,                                !
f 10  medium, low; and others.
l              11                    The others, I have no idea what the priority is.                          r 12                      DR. SIESS:          What's the priority on the others?
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]              13  Is TMI 0660 higher than USI?
14                    MR. Sci! WINK:        Ono would think so.
;              15                      DR. SIESS:          Do you moan there woro 202 high, high i
j              16  priority items that came out of TMI?                                                        -
J 17                      MR. SCllWINK:        Yes.
10                      DR. SIESS:          Unbollavable.            Absoluto1y 19  unbolievablo.
20                      MR. ScilWINK:        What's more important is looking i
21  within the plants.                                                                          >
22                      DR. SIESS:          What doos approvod moan?
l              23                    MR. SCllWINK          Approved means there's a generie                  l l
t              24  resolution issuo approved.                                                                    ,
i                                                                                                                l 25                      DR. SICSS:          And that's a technical resolution i
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!                                                                                                                                                                                              i W/bc            1 that's boon approved.                                                                                                                                    l 2                            MR. SCilWINK:                                                                            Correct.
3                              DR. SIESS:                                                                            This is how many have boon imposed on 4 all the affected plants.
5                            MR. SCl! WINK:                                                                            That's correct.
6                            DR. SIESS:                                                                            They haven't boon imposed on all the  i 7 plants. That's not in thero.
8                            MR. SCilWINK:                                                                            That's correct.
9                            DR. SIESS:                                                                            That's when the ponition was l                                  10 complotod.
l 11                            MR. SCllWINK:                                                                            That's correct.
l l                                  12                            DR. SIESS:                                                                            That's not a real good monouro of the Q                                13 levol of imposition.
14                            MR. SCilWINK:                                                                            No, but thoro's a cubroport you can ,
15 got out of SIMS and toll you what ,porcontago.                                                                                                          l t
16                            DR. SIESS:                                                                            And how many have boon implomonted    i 17 on?  Thoro'n 11 boon dono.                                                                                                What happened to the other 18 novon?  Aro those t.ho onen they never hoard of?
19                            MR. SCilWINK:                                                                            They just, for whatover reason, 20 didn't got imponod.
21                              DR. SIESS:                                                                            And that's a biggor priority?
22                            MR. SCilWINK                                                                              Yon.
23                              DR. SIESS:                                                                            On tho 0737, how can wo havo moro 24 vorifiod than implomontod?
25                            MR. SCllWINK:                                                                            llocauno we took the position on Acit Flit)liRAI, Ritronriins, INC.
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0960 19 19                                                                      266 W/bc    1 some of them that wo would not necessarily have to do a 2 special verification.      They would be picked up in the 3 routino inspection programs.          We walked away from those.
4            DR. SIESS:      They must havo boon implomonted.
5            MR. SCHWINK      No, that's when they are 6 implomonted, they wil] be picked up.            Thoro's no special 7 requirement.                            ,
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0960 20 20                                                                            267 AVbw    1                  DR. SIESS:      Okay.
2                  ftR. SCllWINK:      I want to emphanizo, thin in the 3      past. The reorganization focunod on thin.              SIMS in 4      specifically dealing with thin.              My offico director in 5      notting up goals for whon ho thinka thingn ought to bo dono.
6      11 0 in bringing in each Ptt in the project. roviow and in going 7      through all the outntanding itorra for each plant.                  I guona 0      the point I am trying to mako in, I am very optimintic that 9      the problom in boing addronned, and it in being addronnod in 10      a way that it han never boon addronnod boforo.
11                  DR. SIUSS:      What in the low priority thoro, tho 12      onon that aron't being workod on at all?              Thono munt bo low (3                l C'!        13      lown?
14 l                MR. SCIIWINK        Thono aro lown that wont through i
15 !    the approval cyclo and are approved.              Thono lown aro in horo 16 !    that wo aro talking about.          Thoy'vo actually boon approved.
17      Thono rrunt bo from way back, ninco nobody'n ovon boon 18      working on thone.
19                  MR. SCliWINK        That in truo.      Gomo of thono aro an 20      old an 1970,  '79.
21                  DR. HIM90:      llo f o ro tho priority nyntom got 22      ntartod.
l 23                  MR. UCllWINK:      That in corroct.      And I think you 24      will find a lot of thono that way too.
p V          25                  DR. HIMOS:        It in intoronting that tho lown aro Acisli iii
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. JAVbw      1                                          doing about as well as tho. highs.                                        That probably means they 2                                            are oastor.
3                                                            fi R . II E n D O N :      It again gota back to tho fact that 4                                            a lot of the lows are fairly simplo atenightforward things.
!                5                                          They acom to do bottor than their priority would indicato.
6                                                            MR. SCllWINK:                Tho other I might want to point out l                7                                              to you --
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!                O                                                            DR. SIESS:              You know what I would liko to know?
9                                              I am almont afraid to ask the question, though.                                                  Ilow much wo
!                10                                            havo improvod safoty by all thoso.
!                11                                                            HR. SCllWINK                Wo have ankod Ronoarch in tho I                                                                                                                                                                                                      i j                12                                            backlog of things that havo not boon implomonted on tho                                                                                '
lO 13                                            planto yot, if they would go through for tho troubled plants
)                14                                            and givo un nomo idon of the rink reduction.                                                  The problom l                15                                            you got into in wo don't have plant npocific PRAn, so they 16                                            are making alwont gonoric judgmonta about the safety honofit 17                                            of nomo of thono things that woro novor 1cokod at from tho i                la                                            nafoty bonotit point of view.                                Dotorminintically, it was a 19                                            good thing to do.                All THI actionn novor really got 20                                            chailongod in a nafoty concorn, but dolorminintically, it                                                                              j 21                                            was all the right thing to do.
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t l                23                                            right now, and throo of thom, and I don't romorbor which                                                                                !
L 24                                            npocific onon thoy chono, showod that the coro molt Q-        25                                              froquoney wont form 1.05 10 to tho minun 5 to riomothing liko i
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      )AVbw    1    1.5 10 to the minun 5.                      That is, if you did throo of them.
2                          DR. SICSS:          That wouldn't moot the throo critoria 3    for irrprovemt, would it?
4                          f1R . SCilWINK:          That in correct.
l 5                          MR. MICllELS0ti            But thono might havo boon very 6    timitod PRAn to, you know.                          You havo to look at the quality 7    of tho PRA to noo.
8                          DR. SICSS:          It in not tjoing to mako that 9    difforonco.
10                          t1R . SCllWIt1K          Part of the problom wan, they 11    woron't. articulated vory wall whon they woro put in.
l 12                          OR. SICSS:          The rotativo valuon of part.icular
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    -'        13    thingn.          PHA ought to bo protty good.
14                          f1H . ti1Cill:!, SOS:      PHAn comparod with each other aro h
J 15 l  ntill tronningtonn.                    If tho firnt ono wari garbatjo, tho nocond 16    ono wan moro qarbaqo.
I 17 l                        DR. S I MS!!:        Thon you don't bollovo any l'RA in 10    troaningful.
19                          tin. titCllMI,00?le        Uniono it in a good ono, it inn't 20    tr o a n i n'; f u l .
21                          OR. 311:33:          What in a good ono?
22                          tt R . ti t CllMLGON :      A good ono in of nufficiontly 23    broad neopo and nutticiently good data no tho uncortainty in 24    at a minitrum and ono that han no ominnionn of nuch t.hin<;n an p'
C          25    ottornal ovontn, firon and rio forth.                              Thon you ntart to A< :.1'i i)i: ital, Ili.i'oR 11-i<s, IN(;
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0960 20 20                                                                                  270 JAVbw    I      approach a good PRA.                Wo don't do thono kind, but that in 2      what you nood if you want to believo the bottom lino.
3                          D!t . SIESS:      Nobody nhould boliovo the bottom lino 4      then.
5                          MR. IIICllMLSON:        Then wo abouldn't bo doing thin 6      oxorcino.          Why cortparo garbago with garbago, if you don't 7      boliovo it?            If w9 don't baliovo our numbor to bogin with, 0      what in tho problem of a cortain magnitudo rroan?
9                          DR. SIESS:        I a good PRA in a comploto PRA, you 10      could novor trako a good PRA.
11                          MR. MIClll:!. SON:      They could cortainly try bottor
  ,            12      thoy havo.
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: 1) l                        MR. SCllWINK        What wo aro anarching for in, now 14      that wo aro idontifying thin backlog, how do you dual with i
15      it?      I'o r o x arr p l o , if you try and innpoet all thono thingn, U
16 j    you would nhut down tho innpoetion progra.t, junt to innpoct 1
17      thono thin 1n.            If you wont to tho liconnoo and nald, do thom 18      all in ono outago, you'd koop thom nhut dowq for tho bottor i
19      part of tho yoar.
l 20                          DR. S II:SS :    Tho thinq in, ye.u don't know what in i
21 l t rr po r ta n t . Still you nay you'd nhut down tho innpoetion 22      prog r.im .        Woll, you roally look at thono thin;n.                Thono aro 23      boekfitn.          Thoy'vo boon yono through and gono L5 rough.              Thoy 24      woro rainod an qonorio nafoty innuon.                      I:vorybod) lookod at f'8 25 i    them.        Thoy prioritit.od thum, got thom out an high.
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0960 20 20                                                                                    271 WVbw      1                  MR. SCllWINK:            And the onen that are markod hight 2      that is correct.
3                  DR. SIESS:            And maybe tho ontiro innpoction 4      program nhould be devoted to thono thingn.                        Maybo thone are 5      moro important than the routino innpoetions they are making.
6      Up to the point when you nay that they look important.
7                  MR. SCilWINK:            At thin point, wo aro just gotting 8      to the placo in the progrunn of thin of identifying what tho 9      backlog in, than what wo aro nooing in tho backlog in 10      gotting no big, wo'vo got to have a way to decido thono 11      oxact thingn that you'vo nald, and wo aro noarching for 12      thcno wayn.
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V]          13                  DR. 311:33:          You aro alwayn going to havo a 14      backlog. Thoro will novar bo a day whon they implomont it 15 l    tho day thoy runolvo it.              You aro alwayn going to havo a backlog. Thin ono doonn't look tromondoun.                        I can't toll 16 l 17      from thin how many plant (tomn thoro are and how many of 10 ,    thom havo boon complotod.              That in tho only kind of numbor i
19      that in moaningful.
20 l                (311do.)
l 21    !            Thoro wo aro.            I havo noon that nomowhoro boforo.
22                  HR. SCllWINK            Of 49$ gonorla innuon, thoy ronult 23      in 9000 plant-npoelfie itomn.
24    i DR. !ill:!!:l        Now thono numborn --
24                  VOICI: s    They ronultod in 21,000.                  Tho othor ntno t
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0960 20 20                                                                                    272 AVbw  I      aro specific plant actions.
2                    DR. SIESS:        21,000 plant actions that wo have 3      identifiod at various lovoin of importance.                      Let's faco it.
4      They can't all bo equally important.
5                    MR. "CilWINK:        And nomo wo don't know.
6                    DR. SIESS:        4000 of thono, wo haven't ronolved.
7      "Wo" being the Staff.          Okay.
O                    So thoro aro 17,000 plant items that somebody han l              9      idontifiod out thoro.
10                    llow many of them havo boon complotod?                      I am 11      talking about now tho 4000 in the Staff backlog.                          That in 12      gotting into tho point whoro you can talk to tho utilition.
13                    (Slido.)
14                    Ilow many now?        Lot'n noo.        Licensoo'n boon 15 ,    notiflod on 17,000.        Ilow do wo got tho 17,0007 16                    MR. SCllWINK        Wo had 21,000 that wro thoro for 17      plant. action.
10 l                  DR. H II:SS :    I am having troublo kooping track of l
19      all the nurfborn.      I got tho tint I brought with tro.                    Which 20      ono did you havo up thoro f t e n t.?              It como to 22 0307 I
21                    ftR. SCllWINKI      That. ono.
I 22                    DR. 311:33:      llo'n got May.          I'rr doalin'; with li 23      l'obruary. Okay. 21,000 in tho total, but 17,000 you aro 24      roady to talk to norrobody about, okay?                  Now lot'n nuo tho
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0960 20 20                                                                                                                                  273 AVbw    1                  (Slido.)
2                  Thoro is the 17,000.              What is the rato of 3      introducing plant items a year?
4                  MR. SCilWINK:        You troan imposing thom on the 5      licencoo?
6                  DR. SIESS:      Thinking thom up.
7                  MR. IIEllDON:      30 a year was the nurrbor they quoted 8      thin morning.
9                  DR. SIESS:      That in a littio over 3000 plant 10      itoma. They won't all apply in all the planta.                                                                      Ilut maybo 11      1500 or 2000 now onen.        Tha t dooun' t look too bad.                                                              You'vo 12      got SER innued on 15,000.          That moann they'ro dono; right?
ps, 8    i x'          13      Safoty ovaluation report.
14                  FIR . SCllWINK      It doonn't moan it's physically 15 !    trtplorrented in the plant, though.
16 l                DR. SICSS:      Did you writo an SER on tho donign?
i 17 j                MR. SCllWINK        You.
18                  DR. SIUSti      Whoro in tho lint that nayn 19      phynically implorronted in tho plant?
I 20                  MR. SCllWINK:        Right horo.
l 21                  DR. !!!ES!):    That in nt.ill not had.
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;              22                  f1R. WYI,t E s  That in protty good.
23                  DR. !!!!:S:18    I would nay tho induntry in doing 24      about an good an tho NRC in.
    ,7 C'#        2 'i                M it . !iCllWINK    I agroo.        You havo to undorntand At IJ1:1)liRAI. Ill.I'OR ll RS, INC.
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0960 20 20                                                                            274 AVbw    1  that the key point that I am trying to mako with the SIMS is 2  that what isn't dono, and that we have not imposed on them 3  and that we don't know about and it has not boon 4  implomonted, I would like to be able to answer to you, thoro 5  are no never minds, don't worry about them, but I can't do 6  that.
7                DR. SIESS:        You know, this is a pretty good 8  porcentage dono even without SIMS to toll you what hadn't 9  boon dono.
10                MR. SCilWIN K        Except you wouldn't have known it, 11  if you didn't have SItts.
12                MR. SCilWINK:        It got along pretty well, I think.
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''            13  I am not at all discouraged by tho backlog.
14                MR. SCIIWINK:        I am not discouraged.            In fact, I 15  mado the point, but I am optimistic and encouraged by the 16  reorganization that, in part, focused on making sure that wo 17  do havo this way to clono them out, and number two, that wo 18 l
                  , have a way of monitoring thono all through the procons and 19  through parts of the proconn to mako nuro they do got 20  trannlatod.
21                Now I have not naid anything about the quality of 22  thin implomontation or thin vorification.
23                DR. SIESS:        Yon. I would liko to put somo trust
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0960 20 20                                                                    275 bAVbw      1  one a lot of money.      I think they would be willing to spend 2  it. The thing is, the ones that aren't up there, let's say, 3  the backlog, some of them may be in the pipeline, just not 4  completed. That would be the difference between SER and 5  verified.
6              MR. SCHWINK:      And SIMS will tell you that.
7              DR. SIESS:      Some may not even be in the pipeline.
8  And you don't realy know until you start looking, whether 9  some that aren't in the pipeline are really important.
10              MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
11              DR. SIESS:      So you are entering into sort of a 12  new stage of understanding the situation.
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13              MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
14              DR. SIESS:      As of about now, I guess.
15              MR. SCHWINK        Starting with 1984 and evolving to 16  the point that now you see the SIMS reports I gave you, that 17  is how much we know about those issues.
18              DR. SIESS:      llave there been any changes in how 19  NRC goes about this, as a result of this?
20              MR. SCHWINK:      Yes.      Number one, there was a 21  reorganization.      They created a branch that reported right 22  to the Director's Office that specifically saw to it that a 23  generic issue regulation got transferred into licensing 24  guidance and inspection guidance, and that it actually got
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0960 20 20                                                                276 DAVbw      1 specific plant, and he knew what he had to do in terms of 2 licensing and the inspector knew what he had to do in terms 3 of verification.      The reorganization fixed that.      The tool 4 to make sure that that gets done and focus management 5 attention on what's not getting done is SIMS.
6            DR. SIESS:        Is there any intention that you 7 shouldb e implementing these at a more rapid rate, or are 8 you reasonably satisfied with the rate and would just like 9 to know where you are?
10            MR. SCilWINK:      There's two problems. The first 11 question is, what is the backlog and how safety significant 12 is it?  Then from that question, how much resource does it I'' )
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13 take to work it off, if you think that it is supersafety 14 significant, and you should work it off very quickly?            If 15 you answer those questions, you have a sense of resources.
16 Myself, as director, and the management in NRR is of the 17 view that we should be working these things off faster, and 18 here is an emphasis being put on the PM to work them off 19 faster.
20            DR. SIESS:        Are they satisfied that that is 21 important to safety?                                                l 22            MR. SCilWINK:      I don't want to say that. It is 23 that they have not boon able to convince themselves that the 24 backlog that is remaining is not important to saf ety.          And l
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0960 20 20                                                                      277 bAVbw    1 to address them as quickly as you can.                We have asked 2 Research to come up with some way, if they can, of how to 3 prioritize this backlog.        Part of the problem is that some 4 of these issues never had a value impact analysis.                  The 5 requirerent and guidance itself does little more than do 6 good, and it is very difficult to understand what the issue 7 was. It is very difficult to understand what you expected 8 to be done.
9              DR. SIESS:      What happens when you get 200 out of 10 one incident?      I have gotten the impression that if a fix 11 was as simple as, say, installing a couple of valves, that 12 the time involved for the utility to do the engineering, the 13 safety analysis, the checks, get the valves ordered and then 14 find time to do it, can run easily a year or a couple of 15 years.
16              MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct, at least in 17 outage.
18              DR. SIESS:      It depends.          If they just had an 19 outage.
20              MR. SCHWINK:      18 months.
21              DR. SIESS:      Now some things can run for two to 22 three outages.        Why?  The engineering shouldn't take that 23 long. The acquisition shouldn't take long.                But there could 24 be other things ahead of it.
  '-        25              MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
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. -0960 20 20 AVbw        l'                    DR. SIESS:        'If they are running 60-day outages, 2  there are only so many things they can do.
,                -3                    MR. SCHWINK:              If you are asking for the kinds of 4  things the licensee thinks about, he thinks of public i                  5  safety, in terms of what's the radiological release,'what's 6    the-hazardous-material release, what is the personnel 7  safety, what is the occupational exposure, what is the 8    industrial safety, economic performance?. What is'the effect 9  on plant availability, plant efficiency, electrical output ~
10    for power rating?                From the personnel productivity point,:
11    what is the effects on the people, on-the equipment and en 1
12    the work environment?                And for external impact, what's NRC's LO              13    actions?      What are other federal agency _ actions, state and 14  11ocal government actions and what are the' industry 15    organizations actions?
16                      That's the kinds of things weLsee coming in the 17    licensee's proposal.
I 18                      MR. EBERSOLE:              What are my friends going to think I
>              19    who are in the business with me?                        What if they-do something 20    I am not doing?
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a 21                      MR. WYLIE:        There's no consideration of:the 22    sequencing of putting in all these different modifications.
23                      MR. SCHWINK:              You've got to' understand what it is 24-  the issue resolution was trying to get at.                                    You have got to 25    decide whether to consolidate them or integrate them,                                            '
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3            Some of these generic issue resolutions were done 4 in a process where it was very quickly done under the guise 5 of a TMI action item or another thing, and it just clearly 6 wasn't articulated what was expected.            Do good means a lot 7 of different things to different people.
8            MR. WYLIE:      But it was Dr. Siess' question about 9 why it took so long.
10            DR. SIESS:      I have a question.
11            MR. WYLIE:      They've got so many modifications 12 being done. They have to do them in the right sequences, O              13 because it takes so many outages.
14            MR. SCHWINK:      That is correct.
15            DR. SIESS:      Gentlemen, three of the members have 16 to leave, I guess no later than 5:00 o' clock.
17            Am I right?
18            I think you are about through, aren't you?
19            MR. SCHWINK:      I'm done.
20            DR. SIESS:      We've completed SIMS, and you went 21 through the other stuff.
22            MR. SCHWINK:      I went through the resolution 23 process.
24            DR. SIESS:      It's been very helpful.
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3            heard enough to tell Mr. Zech what we think about the 4            effectiveness of Staff's handling of generic issues.                                    .Tha t .
5            is one possibility.
2 6                          I am not exactly sure.                I am not trying to put 7            words in your mouth, but that is a possibility.                          It is 8            possible that we have heard enough, tnat we have some ideas 9            on that, that the Staff might like to express some_ things 10              further.
11                            I had suggested earlier that-it might be useful, 12              if you will look at the last page of the agenda, it's where-()                13              Sam had actually summarized what we could talk about here.
14              It might be useful to have another meeting to follow some-i                    15              generic issues through the whole. process.
16                            I would ammond that now to say-that we could 17              follow them through the whole process, an'd we could simply
}                    18              try to follow them through the implementation process.
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0960 21 21                                                                    281 AVbur    1              MR. EBERSOLE:      Let me just ask a question.        I 2 understand this SIMS was a management generic issue, but I 3 understood it was also specific issues.          We ought to say 4 down here.
5              DR. SIESS:      We won't worry about that,. Jesse.        I 6 want to decide what the subcommittee is going to do at the 7 next meeting.      If we could follow selected issues through 8 the whole process or we could maybe follow them through the 9 implementation process.        I have got a feeling that to trace 10 it through the whole process doesn't add much.              Maybe there 11 are some milestones.
12              DR. REMICK:      We have an involvement with the
(#l 13 prioritization process.
14              DR. SIESS:    And we could look at milestones and 15 see where we came into it and where we delayed it, and so 16 forth.
17              The implementation would be more interesting, and 18 we could look at various stages, including the negotiation.
19 These are case histories -- I will use that as a shorthand.
20 The question would be how many can we handle in a meeting 21 and then on what basis can we choose them.
22              Sam has prepared a list of issues that Research 23 suggested.
24              MR. DURAISWAMY:        The Research people prepared q
K/          25 these questions.
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0960 21 21                                                                      282 DAVbur    1              DR. SIESS:    This is from Research, as they went 2 through the process on the basis of maximum time, minimum 3 time, priority, and so forth.            We might use these criteria 4 to select.
5              Of course, we are not going to meet again next 6 week. So if you could provide us some criteria, we could 7 develop a somewhat shorter list.
8              MR. MICHELSON:        Is this both USI and generic?
9              DR. SIESS:      I don't think it makes much 10 difference. The staf f says that USIs and highs don't seem 11 to be that much different.          They give them about the same 12 resources in Research in their resolution, and I don't think 13 it makes any difference in the implementation whether it is 14 USI or high.
15              Do you make any distinction between USIs and 16 generic issues?
17              MR. SCHWINK:      We treat USIs and highs, as far as 18 implementation and implementation, pretty much the same.
19              DR. SIESS:      So USIs and highs are the same 20 categories.      Medium would be another category, and I would 21 avoid the TMI items unless somebody knows a particular one 22 or two that they are interested in.
23              Would the committee be interested in doing this 24 and involving a utility?
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0960 21 21                                                                  283 bAVbur    1 utility representative at the implementation stage, the 2 negotiation stage, where we tried to do three or four of 3 those in the meeting and we had no idea how many we can do 4 in a meeting.
5              That would involve lots of different utilities 6 coming in probably.        I think we might get a biased view if 7 we stuck with the same utility all the time.            But another 8 cross-cut on this thing would be to get one utility to come 9 in and talk about their integration.
10              There is various generic issues at various 11 levels, plus their own plant specific issues, plus their own 12 plant improvement issues, which presumably aren't safety
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13 issues.
14              Now, that is getting us into the engineering 15 process, but I think we all have some feel for that whole 16 laundry list of things that Ron mentioned as being what the 17 utility had to consider.
18          k  MR. MICHELSON:        If we select, say, three items of 19 differen  things, it would be nice that there be a 20 distribu$1on of type, one structural maybe and one 21 electrical.
22              DR. SIESS:      One that ended in a technical change 23 and one that ended in a procedural change.
24              MR. MICHELSON:        One thing that struck me in
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0960 21 21                                                                    284 AVbur  1 of view because it is going to como up again, and that is 2 the very first issue, A-1, water hammer, which went all the 3 way through resolution.        It took 60 full months to resolve.
4 It was resolved in '84.
5            So there is enough history now to see how it is 6 being implemented.
7            DR. SIESS:    What do you do to implement water 8 hammer?
9            MR. MICHELSON:          I would like to go back and look 10 at the whole history.
11            MR. SCHNINK:        They were supposed to change some 12 operating procedures.
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13            MR. MICHELSON:        Whatever has been done, we can 14 now look to see what was done, what was recommended, and 15 then look at a few events after to see did that become 16 before or after implementation.
17            DR. SIESS:      I have always looked at that 18 particular one as a nonproblem, but if somebody wants to 19 hear about it --
20            MR. EBERSOLE:        They are still pulling hangers 21 out.
22            DR. SIESS:      Fine.      They are pulling hangers out, 23 but they are not breaking pipes.
24            MR. MICHELSON:        Just wait a while.
  ''          25            MR. EBERSOLE:        Anyway, it doesn't matter, Chet.
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2 have resolved, for instance, on A-1.
3                DR. MOELLER:              Chet, there.is a call for comment.
{                          4                DR. SIESS:            Just a minute.                This sheet of paper 5 that you have.was prepared by Research.                                    Resolved means that                                    ;
1 6 a technical resolution has been obtained.
7                This is what we were talking about this morning.
8                MR. EBERSOLE:                But we want.to go further than i                        9 that.
10                DR. SIESS:            This sheet of paper was prepared by i                        11 Research at Sam's request to give us a list of 12 representative generic. issues, their priority, how they were I-()
:                        13 resolved, and the dates.                    This was to help us in picking.
14 This has nothing to do with how far we go.
;                        15                They only do resolutions.                      So this is as far as                                              ,
I                        16 they went.
{                        17                MR. EBERSOLE :              That.is a paper structure?
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18                DR. SIESS:            This is facts, Jesse.
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19                MR. EBERSOLE:                Let's.take A-1.                        It says resolved 20 in '84. Okay, there was a resolution.                                Now, that doesn't 21 say --
22                DR. SIESS:            A-11, are you looking at?
;                        23                MR. EBERSOLE:              .A-1.
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2              DR. SIESS:      It does not.
3              MR. EBERSOLE:      So it doesn't close.
4              DR. SIESS:      It is using resolution, technical 5 resolution.
6              MR. EBERSOLE:      What I am after is closure.
7              MR. MICHELSON:        I think we have got a comment 8 back here.
9              DR. SIESS:      We are all after the same thing, and 10 I am trying to get the conmittee to decide what we want to 11 do.
12              Yes, Ron.
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  '-'          13              MR. EMRIT:      I don't want to interrupt you, except 14 that I think it would be of great guidance to you if you 15 used NUREG-0933 because if you look at the favored issue, A-16 11 -- sorry -- A-1, you will find it showed it was resolved 17 in 1984, but it only af fected future plants.
18              So you have got to look at the products.            If you 19 are looking for a projection, it did not affect operating 20 plants.
21              MR. MICHELSON:        No action on present plants at 22 all?
23              MR. EMRIT:      At that time six months after the 24 Federal Register notice, at that time.            The history is in
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2              MR. MICHELSON:        So you don't think that is a good 3 one to select?
4              MR. EMRIT:      It only affects future plants.
5              MR. MICHELSON:        I guess I have been misled by the 6 staff on. occasion.        They keep talking about it has been 7 resolved. Indeed, it had been, of course, with no action 8 required.
9              DR. SIESS:      It was an SRP change.
10              The problem we have, gentlemen, is a very 11 difficult one.        Stated simply, it is that we are having 12 trouble as a subcommittee dealing with the generic issues on
''Y          13 a generic basis.        There are about 700 of them out there, and 14 if we are going to try to look at each one of them and 15 understand what happened, it would be fun, I don't know how 16 we are going to do it.
17              Now, what we were asked to do was to comment or 18 determine the effectiveness of the staff on dealing with 19 generic issues.        I am sure there are going to be a lot of 20 generic issues that were " resolved" in a fashion that we 21 didn' t know about or didn' t understand and that we disagree 22 with.
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0960 21 21                                                                  288 bAVbur    1 that the two questions that we spent a lot of time today 2 talking about -- how efficient they are in terms of the time 3 required, how effective they are in terms of how good their 4 resciution was, did they really resolve it, or if it wasn't 5 backfit was that good or was that bad?
6            We haven' t spent much time talking about it, but 7 those are really technical rather than procedural questions.
8 We haven't decided what we mean by effective, the question 9 of whether they have actually improved safety -- what was 10 it?  21,000 plant items.
11            You know they have cost a lot.          Whether they have 12 actually improved safety I don't know.            Is that a measurable
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14            I don't think we will ever know whether they have 15 improved safety.      I think I could have fixed the TMI problem 16 with just better operator training and procedures.              Instead, 17 they found 202 fixes.
18            MR. EBERSOLE:      That is right.
19            DR. SIESS:      Higher than USI priority.        That 20 doesn't make sense to me.
21            But what do we want to do?          Do we want to see 22 whether we agree with what the staff did on specific items?
23 It is really hard to do, to look backwards.            In the future 24 somebody is going to review every resolution.
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0960 21-21                                                                      289 g  AVbur    1 to'me that we haven't looked at in depth.            It would be 2 interesting to have a couple of case studies.              I won't 3 propose my favorite.
4              I think you, the subcommittee chairman --
5              DR. SIESS:      I don't have any preferences.
6              DR. REMICK:      -- should pick a couple.
7              DR. SIESS:      Carl -- for example, Carl thought i              8 that water hammer would be interesting, but if water hammer 9 turned out to be a nonbackfit issue, then the implementation f
10 was very simple.          There wasn't any except a standard review
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12              Now, we are back into the normal process.                Some 1
(}          13 plants may have to change their design if they went into 14 operation, but it doesn't become a very good example of a d
15 process.
,              16              MR. MICHELSON:        I fully agree that there isn't 17 any process involved in implementation and that we don't 1              18 want to pick that up.
19              DR. SIESS:      We might want to argue with whether 20 it should have been implemented differently or resolved 21 differently.
22              MR. MICHELSON:        That is a different issue.
23              DR. SIESS:      I think maybe we have to put that 24 behind us now.
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0960 21 21                                                                    290 gggAVbur    1 resolution of generic issues, that is something we can start 2 assigning out to subcommittees more than we are doing now.
3 As future ones come through, they are going to be reviewed 4 by staff and some members.
5            So I guess we need to look at whether the time 6 and the results that have been obtained, you know, are what 7 could reasonably have been expected under the system and if 8 the priorities they assign to other resources are going to 9 be helpful.
10            I am still interested in what have we done for 11 safety, I guess the kind of question Carl raised earlier.
12            I had a note.      I started thinking about this
(}          13 several months ago, and I am not sure I understand it at 14 all.
15            What is A-17?
16            VOICES:      Systems interaction.
17            DR. SIESS:      And A-46?
18            I had a note, does compartmentalization 19 facilitate resolution but adversely affect implementation --
20 you know, break them down into manageable size.              But now, 21 when implementation time comes, if we are going to do that 22 sequentially, the same question Charlie was raising about A-23 44 and A-45, you know.
24            MR. MICIIELSON :      Unfortunately, those interesting
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0960 21 21                                                                                                      291 AVbur          1                DR. SIESS:        We are following those anyway.                                            But 2    again maybe the subcommittees that are looking at A-44 and-3    A-45 are already looking somewhat at the process.                                        I admit 4    those didn't get compartmentalized too much.
5-                MR. WYLIE:        One question --
6                DR. SIESS:        A-45 is pretty big.
7                MR. WYLIE:        -- as far as effectiveness goes is 8    these that have been out eight, nine, and ten years in 9    resolution, the question is why?                          Isn't that the real 10      question?
11                  Maybe we ought to look at those.
12                    DR. SIESS:        So let's look at something that has
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;                  15      years but that there's 30 or 40 applicable plants that don't 16      have it.
17                  DR. REMICK:          But Charlie.said resolved.                                He was 18      looking at the ones that take a long time to resolve.
19                  DR. SIESS:        You think a long time to resolve?
20        Take ATWS. That is a great example.                          You don' t need to pick 21        that one out, do you?
22                    MR. WYLIE:        I am just saying that if we want to 23        study something as to the effectiveness, look at some of 24        them that have been out there so long.
{}            25                    DR. SIESS:        There is a long time to resolve and a ACE FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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  .gggAVbur          1 long time to implement.
2                      MR. MICHELSON:                A-39 might be a good example.
3 That is the BWR containment instability problem, and so 4 forth.            It took 45 months to resolve, and it was resolved in 5  '82, and they spent hundreds of millions of dollars J
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j                      7                      MR. EBERSOLE:              By the way, the implementation of
,                    8 that is a curious thing, too, because they have never 9 confirmed the suppression pool dynamics with these big 10    downcomers, the T quenchers, the big one.
11                          DR. SIESS:              Do you think that would be 12    interesting?
()          13                          MR. MICHELSON:                I don't know.                                You say you would
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14    want something that took a long time to resolve and a-long 15    time to implement.
16                          DR. SIESS:              That only took three years to 17    resolve.
18                          MR. WYLIE:              We have got a hand up back here, 19    Chet.
!                  20                          MR. EMRIT:              I think I cc, help you with that.                                              A-21    43, containment sump pump, took the longest time.
!                  22                          MR. MICHELSON:                That is another good one.
23                          MR. EMRIT:              That is the longest time from 24    identification through resolution.                                                      That was resolved.
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2            MR. EMRIT:      No. That is a worst case.
3            DR. SIESS:      I don't want the worst because if the 4 whole system is operating differently now, that only tells 5 us, you know, that maybe you weren't very effective eight 6 years ago.
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0960 22 22                                                                              294 1              MR. EMRIT:      I'm just trying to address that.
(O~"TV/bc 2              DR. SIESS:      If we are all looking at something 3 that got started eight years ago and only now that got                                  -
4 finished, we may see how it held up and what improvements 5 have been made in the process.
6              MR. MICHELSON:        That's what we have some problems 7 with, too. The Fibrous insulation, and so forth.                      I suspect 8 anything ACRS got involved in took a long time to resolve.
9              DR. REMICK:      When you say " finished", are you 10 talking resolved or implemented?
11              DR. SIESS:      We're talking resolved.
12              DR. REMICK:      A-44 and A-45 are probably good ones
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14 Right?  And that's current.
15              DR. SIESS:      What does that tell us about the 16 process?
17              DR. REMICK:      I was asking, if you're talking 18 about resolved, those are some that have taken some that are 19 current. They're not eight years ago.                They're now.
20              So those are possibilities if you're looking at 21 why something takes longer to resolve.
22              DR. SIESS:      You see, this is why I started off by 23 saying I didn't think we were going to learn that much 4
24 looking at case studies at the resolution stage because I
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gggAV/bc 2                MR. WYLIE:      That may be par the process.
3                DR. SIESS:      My feeling is I feel reasonably 4  comfortable about the rate at which they're running things 5  for resolution.        I know there are things that people think 6  are dragging, but some of the dragging is going on around 7  this table. It's all internal.
8                Now, if we can...can you think of any cases?
9              MR. EMRIT:      I was just going to tell you, you 10  know, my two cents worth.
11                DR. SIESS:      And inherent in the current system.
12              MR. EMRIT:      I don't envy you.      I've studied this
(~;        13  when Sam raised the question.            And I said, " Sam, you know, L_/
14  it's going to be up to the staff, or to the subcommittee, to 15  decide on what's easy and what's difficult.              You know, I 16  cannot answer that question."
17                You're going to have to answer that question.
18  But what we did was when we started this process back in 19  '82, we started keeping records from FY-83 through '87.
20  These are the results documented in GIMCS.            We find that a 21  lot of them have been resolved.
22                If they did result in requirements, they're 23  requied for future plants, I think you have a difficult job.
24                DR. SIESS:      What's NR?
  '^        25                MR. DURAISWAMY:        Nearly Resolved.
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0960 22 22                                                                296 1                  MR. EMRIT:    That's the box we put it in when it ggAV/bc 2      got to us for resolution.
3                  DR. SIESS:    Oh, when it got to you, it was near 4      resolution.
5                  MR. WYLIF    You know, I've been really impressed 6      today by what the staff is doing in handling the situation 7      and resolving them and the tracking system.      I personally 8      think they've done an excellent job.
9                  The thing that bothers me a little bit is what we 10      were talking about before, the global look at a number of 11      issues that are related and as to why we've taken and 12      compartmentalized these things and just looked at these.
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J 13                  It's sort of like looking at the trees and then 14      the forest. A-45 is a good example of it, where there are 15      so many issues that could be resolved. Even those like fire I
16 l    protection, as to why those aren't pulled together as one I
17 L    issue. One major global issue. That's my concern if you i
18      talk about effectiveness and safety implications.
19                  I think that's the one that bothers me more than 20      the rest of it. Now, here, we're talking about A-44. And 21    l we're pushing to get A-44 out. Yet, we haven't resolved A-l 22      45.
23                  MR. EDERSOLE:    That's been going on for at least 1
24      15 odd years.
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0960 22 22                                                                            297 1              MR. EBERSOLE:        I think it's the nature of the way gggAV/bc 2  we do business.
3              DR. SIESS:      Let me take something Charlie said in 4  two parts. He started off saying he was fairly well happy 5  with what they're doing in the resolution and implementation 6  and the tracking, and so forth, the way in which they're 7  doing it.
8              But let's take that first part.              How many agree 9  with that?  Do you agree?
10              DR. REMICK:      In general, I do, yes.            I think 11  they've mado dramatic changes and it's beginning to show.
12              DR. SIESS:      Do you agree, Carl?
  ^3        13              MR. MICHELSON:          Yes, I don't have any problem (G
14  with what they're doing in an item by item sense.
15              DR. SIESS:      I do, too.        I have the same feeling.
16  I don't have any problem with what they're doing.                    But I do i
17 l have a question about what they're doing it to.                    That's what 18  I think, putting it crudely, I think that's what Charlie's 19  saying and that's what you said.
20              I was trying to express it in terms of the event 21  tree. In which branch of the event tree do you define an 22  issue?  If you take it down far enough, you've got all these 23  little ones that may be implemented one at a time and one up 24  here. One fix up here might have taken care of all of them.
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2                Do you see it in the system?
3                MR. EMRIT:      Do you want me to address that?
4                DR. SIESS:      Yes.
5                MR. EMRIT:      I think there's been an attempt to do 6    that. If you go back to NUREG 0933, Table 5, you see that 7    it's a list of issues that we brought in and integrated into 8    the existing issues.      I'm not saying that's the end.
9                We've got to continue down that road.                But if wo 10    kept track of all the issues that we've brought into A-44 11    and A-45 that we've accomplished for them, we've already 12    brought a whole lot of issues, you know, on the tree.
(;          13                Maybe we need to do more of that.            And then life 14    gets a little complicated, if that's what you're driving at.
15                MR. WYLIE        I think you're right.        You've 16    identified those things.          I think what bothers me, I'll use 17    liarold Lewis' term:
I 18                If I were Emperor and I was running this show, 19    I'd put my effort where it was most needed.            And I would 20    resolve number one, top priority comes first, A-45.                    I'd put 21    all my resources on that one and gotten that kind of thing 22    done.
23                MR. EBERSOLE:        Yes.
24 l              MR. IIERNAN:      I thine. we have.                              )
T~N        25                MR. WYLIE:      I'm not sure you have.        My God, we're N/
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3                DR. SIESS:        You're talking implomontation.
4                MR. WYLIE:        Implementation.
5                MR. IIERNAN:      We're coming to the ACRS in about 6  two months to talk about A-45.
7                ftR. WYLIE:      Well, maybe.
l 8                MR. MICl!ELSON:          If you really talk about A-45, wo 9  have to understand our position on systems interaction so wo 10  know when we finally propose a solution to A-45, that it's l            11  free of the system interaction problem.              We don't yet fully 12  understand system interaction.
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14                DR. SIESS:        We're going to make it dedicated.
15                MR. WYLIE:        What I'm hearing is they don't expect 16  they're going to do anything.
17                MR. EBERSOLE:        Woll...
l            18                MR. WYLIE:        If that's the caso, we should havo 19  known that a long timo ago.
l 20                DR. SIESS:        The solutfon to A-45 and its l                l l                1 21  implementation at 130 plants might oliminato 10,000 plant 22  items. I don't know.        But, if it would, that's cortainly l
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4                  DR. REMICK:                I can understand how you might split 5 off a fragment and you work on it.                              But I don't know if 6 those fragments are over brought back in an integrated form 3
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10                MR. iiERNAN:                A-44 does integrato.          Thoro's two 11 parts to it.          There's the off-sito power and the on-site j                  12 diosols.
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J 15                  MR. IlERNAN:                Thoro's an auxilliary issue on
,                  16 diosol generators, but the main resolution of the diosol 17 generator problem, I'm saying, is A-44.
18                  DR. SIESS:                There's still a separato issue on 19 diosol generators that is not subsumed under A-44.                                  It's not 20 taken out of the list.                      It's a state of mind, Ron.
21                  You can't give up on them.                        Not 'til they're 22 formally integrated.                      They're going to sit there adding to 23 your statistics.
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2                      DR. SIESS:        Let's get back to what we do next.
3                      If it's our concensus that we think they're doing l                4    a good job, but they're doing it on some of the wrong
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7    The process is working, but they're not being logically                                        i 8    related either in the resolution or in the implementation.
9                      Am I right?        This would carry over to the 10    implementation.                                                                              ;
11                      MR. MICHELSON:            We don't know that yet without                    f 12    looking at an example or two of implementation.                                              -
13                      DR. SIESS:      That's what I was thinking.                    We 14    probably will'have to do it.                        But I'd be very much surprised 15    if they are because there's some resolved ones out there                                      -
16    being implemented, and some others that haven't gotten that 17    far.                                                                                          ,
18                      MR. EBERSOLE:        One thing that bothers me is that 19    we will have a legacy now that will allow us interminably to 20    carry the OA high and the detailed surveillance high.
21                      DR. SIESS:        I think...
22                      DR. REMICK:        Case studies of implementation.                          '
23                      MR. MICHELSON:          When's the next one scheduled?
24                      DR. SIESS:      Whenever we can get it set up and 25-  line some people up for it.                        It's not scheduled until we I
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.                              3                  it -- but I would be inclined to look for a couple of plants                                                            ,
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i 5                can't pick bad ones.              Or, at least I can't say I'm picking 6                  bad ones, although the guys upstairs' don't mind.
7                                    But-we might pick a third one, or something.                                                  And' 8                  then look at how they are handling.the integration of the 9                  implementation to see if we're getting any more integration'                                                            ;
;                            10                    at that end than we're getting at the resolution end.
11                                      MR. EBERSOLE:            Pick a TVA plant.
:                                                                                                                                                                        i I                            12                                      MR. MICHELSON:            Not.right now.
,                          13                                      DR. SIESS:      To me, what they're doing in the 14                    resolution doesn't help anybody.                              They still haven't made l                            15                    any plants any safer.              And it's conceivable that the process                                                t J
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21                    their PRA that the other things weren't necessary, 22                                      So I think you've got to look at what goes into 23                    the plant.
!                          24                                      MR. MICHELSON:              Are you suggesting that we want i
25                    to narrow our view to say three utilities?                                                I think aren't 1
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I 3                      We'll have to pick a few issues for those three 4    plants.
5                        DR. SIESS:      I would be wiling -- if we could get 6    three meetings or something, I'd be willing to just have a l'
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j                16                      MR. MICHELSON:          We could ask them also to talk
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0960 22 22                                                                          304 1 couple of our own to have them talk about also, not just ggAV/bc 2 ones of their choosing.
3            DR. SIESS:      No. I'm saying maybe they could 4 suggest some sense where they worked out them on an 5 integrated basis.        Northeast Nuclear is ISAP.          So, there, 6 you've got a real possibility for seeing complete c  7 integration. That's probably one extreme.
8            Duke's not ISAP, but I suspect they're doing it.
9            MR. MICHELSON:        I think that would be a good 10 idea.
11            DR. SIESS:-      I'd appreciate some suggestions for 12 plants, for people, next week, when you're in for the
()          13 meeting. Or utilities.
14            MR. MICHELSON:        How old a plant?      For instance, 15 Zion, would that be a good case?              The reason I suggest Zion 1
16 is because they've also done the A-46 stuff.
17            DR. SIESS:      Commonwealth has got a lot of people.
18 They can afford to send somebody out.                                      .
19            MR. MICHELSON:        We're not trying to pry into 20 problems, Jesse.        We're trying to see how the whole plant 21 maybe handles things.
22            DR. SIESS:      Look, next week, come in with some 23 suggestions of either utilities or plants; whether we see 24 any difference between a P and.a B, I don't know.
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0960 22 22                                                                              305 1    particularly for the integration.              Now, in some of these gggAV/bc 2    utilities, they won't hesitate to talk to us about things 3    that haven't been resolved yet.
4                A-44, I'm sure they'll be willing to talk about.
5    And let's look at that end of it.              What we're trying to do 6    is get some picture of how these things come back together 7    in terms of safety.
8                I bet you somebody like Northeast Nuclear, with 9    intensive PRAs, might be willing to venture.                  They must put 10    this stuff into their PRAs.
11                They are keeping a PRA.
12                DR. REMICK:      Susquehanna is keeping one, too, or
  ~')      13    Pennsylvania Power and Light.
14                MR. EMRIT:      I think we made the point to you back 15    in November when you asked the same question, in terms of 16    the evaluating process, back to 0933, a lot of issues have 17    been resolved with the staff.
18                They're not requirements.              There was a 19    recognition of these efforts.            So I think we might have been 20    remiss in pointing that out this morning about the necessity 21    for requirements.
22                They follow the program.              There's no generic 23    letter issued.      But they did everything we had wanted them 24    to do had we gone out.
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ggAV/bc 2                        MR. EMRIT:            Yes, it is.                        So there is no 3      implementation for those items.                                A-16 is a good example; for 4      all the different testing and for all the different things
;                  5      we had, we came back and gave them an SER'and said 6      everything is okay.
7                        But I think you have to read some of these 8      issucs.
9                        DR. SIESS:          You'said 933 and Carl said resolution 10      documents.        Those are not the same.
11                        MR. EMRIT:            It's summarized in NUREG 0933.
!                  12                        DR. SIESS:            If anybody wants 0933, we'll get it 13      for them.
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14                        MR. EMRIT: ewe'll come back and revise. 'If the 15      conclusion is the issue may be high or medium or what, if 16      it's resolved, we can come back two years later and revise 17      NUREG 0933.          Whatever the resolution part of it.is.
18                        DR. SIESS:          Are you talking about the original?
19                        MR. EMRIT:            We've referenced that.
20                      -MR. MICHELSON:'                I know there are references in
,                  21      there.      I didn't read those.
1 22                        DR. SIESS:          If you say 0933, what do you mean?'
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23                        MR. EMRIT:            NUREG.
24                        DR. SIESS:          The looseleaf?. How many people are
      /~          25      getting 0933 in six supplements?
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2-                        DR. SIESS:                  Sam gets it.
3                          MR. DURAISWAMY:                        Not all'of_them.
4                          DR. SIESS:                  Anybody that wants 0933,.it.comes out 5      annually; semi-annually, supplements, updates.                                                              By next-6      week, Sam will try to find' resolution reports that you are 7      supposed to have gotten.                          And if he can't find them in this                                                                -
8      office, he will get them from Research, the last 10 or 12 9      resolutions.                  And we'll file a Freedom of Information Act                                                                          ,
i 10          request for it.
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l t              12                              DR. SIESS:                  And we'll have those for the
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15                            MR. MICHELSON:                      I've seen in the past on occasion 4
16          resolution documents, but I think it's only because we came j              17          up with a particular issue.
18                              DR. SIESS:                  I'm trying to remember when I've seen                                                              '
19          them.
20                            MR. MICHELSON:                      They're pretty infrequent.
}              21                              DR. SIESS:                  They're not doing that many a year.
22          Let's face it, there's only 10 or 12 being resolved.
23-                            MR. EMRIT:                    Whatever the number is, periodically.                                                              ,
24          If it happens in November, we'll try to get it in, into the 25          December supplement so people know it's resolved.                                                                        It's no
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gggAV/bc 2            DR. SIESS:      Is that the only place they come out 3 is in the supplement?
4            MR. EMRIT:      We have a responsibility.        I can only 5 speak for that.
6            DR. SIESS:      Would you send something out to the 7 other offices?      Is that what goes in 0933?        If we get them 8 addressed to Fraley, what are we getting?
9            MR. EMRIT:      You get the supplement which comes 10 out looseleaf.
11            DR. SIESS:      Is that what you call the resolution 12 document?
()          13            MR. EMRIT:      No. The resolution document is 14 referenced within the package.            It's a memorandum written by 15 somebody, sure.      If it's a memorandum to the EEOC.
16            DR. SIESS:      That's what I want.
17            MR. EMRIT:      There's a thousand references in 18 NUREG 0933. NUREG to memoranda.
19            DR. SIESS:      I want the resolution document, 20 memoranda, whatever you call it, for the last 10 ro 15 21 issues.
22            MR. EMRIT:      If they were published.
23            DR. SIESS:      I want the memo stapled in one copy 24 and not stapled.
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gggAV/bc 2                MR. SCHWINK:      Specifically, there's a licensing 3    action for each utility.
4                MR. MICHELSON:        What do you send to the utility 5    in terms of background material?
6                MR. HERNAN:      It varies.
7                MR. SCHWINK:      It varies.
8                It could be a reg guide, a policy statement.
9                MR. MICHELSON:        But it won't be a resolution 10    document.
11                MR. HERNAN:      That's our tool.
12                DR. SICSS:      Is that considered a tool for (T          13    regulatory analysis?
14                MR. HERNAN:      They're often published in the 15    Federal Register.
16                MR. SCHWINK:      CRGR meeting minutes.
17                MR. MICHELSON:      Maybe we ought to just look in 18    the Federal Register.
19                MR. EMRIT:      It was put in the Federal Register 20    and related to the resolution.            We have cited it here. I 21    just want to show you a sample.            Since we came back, this is 22    obviously one that has escaped the process of 23    prioritization.      It was identified back in '79.
24                The issue was resolved and here are the
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4              DR. SIESS:      Do you get the same thing out of 5  SIMS?
6              MR. MICHELSON:        It would be better to flip these 7  pages.
8              DR. SIESS:      What's the order?
9              There's no way you can pass that junk up.
10              (Whereupon, at 5:05 p.m., the meeting adjourned.)
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CERTIFICATE OF OFFICIAL REPORTER O
This  is  to certify that the attached proceedings before the  UNITED  STATES  NUCLEAR    REGULATORY  COMMISSION    in the matter of:
NAME OF PROCEEDING:    ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS SUBCOMMITTEE ON GENERIC ITEMS DOCKET NO.:
PLACE:                  WASilINGTON, D. C.
DATE:                  WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1987 were held as herein appears, and that this is the original transcript thereof for the file of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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(TYPEDh            f)h DAVID L.  !!OFFMAN Official Reporter ACE-FEDERAL REPORTERS, INC.
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O RES STAFF PRESENTATION TO THE ACRS
 
==SUBJECT:==
OVERVIEW 0F GENERIC ISSUE PROCESS DATE:                                            MAY 27,1987 O
PRESENTERS:                                      THEMIS SPEIS DEPUTY DIRECTOR /RES WARREN MINNERS DEPUTY DIRECTOR /DRPS/RES SUBCOMMITTEE:          ACRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON GENERIC ISSUES O
 
O GEXERIC ISSEES PROGRAM FOCTIOX                                                            RESPONSIBILITY i                                    IDEXTIF:: CATI 0X                                                                          ALL
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I                                  PRIORITIZATION                                                                    RES                                I-
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TO THE ACRS                                                                              :
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!                  SUBCOMMIT"EE:                            ACRS S BCOMM" TEE i
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O                                                                        PRIORITIZATION PROCESS
* IDENTIFY & DEFINE
* ESTIMATES
* PRIORITY RANK I                                                                                                                                                              i
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* CONCLUSIONS i                                                                                                                                                              i
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: 1. HOW FAST ARE GENERIC ISSUES BEING PROCESSED ?
ANSWER:
Past experience shows 30 GIs are prioritized per year.
The average time to complete prioritization (receipt O                                                                        of issue through Office Director approval) is                          (o l                                                                            months.
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i GENERIC                          ISSUE AVERAGE                            FLOW              FOR          FY    S3-S7 l                NEW                      I                    I        REPRIORITIZATIONI I      ISSUES                            I                    I                    ISSUES                I I        36/YR                                                i                      4/YR                l I.                  .
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IPRIORITIZATION                                                      I                  .                  .
:                  I  SAOKLOG        1 1                      30/YR
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IRESOLVED                                        I                                l  RESOLUTION          I 1        13/YR                                  I                                i        17/YR            I I2 LOW                                            I 85 DROP                                            1 16 SUBSUM ED I
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O                                                                                                                                                                                ,
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: 2. ARE TIIERE ANY ISSUES THAT YERE IDENTmED                                                                              l YEARS AG0, BUT NOT YET PRIORITIZED ?                                                                    .
ANSWER:
YES; we have a backlog of older issues that have not been formally prioritized. However; the backlog GIs i                                                                                  have been screened and many have preliminary draft l                                                                                  assessments. The work load has prevented the staff                                              1 from formally documenting the prioritization results.
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O REMSING ISSEES TO BE PRIORITIZED AS OF (5/87)
SCREENED RANK                                                            NO. OF ISSUES HIGH                                                                              3 MEDIUM                                                                    11
.O                                              NEARLY RESOLVED                                                                  3 i
RESOLVED                                                                          4 LOW                                                                        14 DROP.                                                                      10 SUBSUMED                                                                        6 H                                                                                7 RI                                                                                3_
TOTAL                                                  61 O
 
  ..                      _  _                - =            .            .                                  _            _            ..  - - . .__
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: 3. YHAT CRITERIA ARE USED TO DECIDE YHICH GIs
!                                        SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED FIRST ?
ANSWER:
Preliminary assessments of the older issues indicated they are of low safety significance, and therefore generally remain as backlog issues. Newer issues are also given a preliminary assessment of their safety significance.
:    O l                                        However, the EDO, Commission, or ACRS interests may cause a highly visible issue to be prioritized first.
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O                                                  4.              DOES THE STAFF CONSIDER THE PROCESS TO BE EFFECTIVE ?
ANSTER Yes; the staff considers the Generic Issue Process to be effective.
* STAFF BENEFITS
* INDUSTRY BENEFITS
* PUBilC BENEFITS O
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  ;                                                                                                                  1 THE PRIORITIZATIOX PROCESS IS i
ENDERSTOOD AND ACCEPTED BY:                                                                      l 1                                                                                                                  :
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ACRS                    '1/11/83; IXDEST3Y                          '''ALVR PROGRAF' l
C0YMISSION                            {12/9/83) 1                                                                                                                  l l
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                                  %g; ,;,j gjfh' Prioritization 8.4%
L                              Drop 8.1%
Nearly Resolved 1.9%                              Low 3.3%
USI 1.2%
High 4.1%
Medium 2.2%
 
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'o RESOLETIOT OF GSIs
:                                                            STATES AS OF                                              {5/87) i TYP3 ISSUE                                NO. TO BE :ESO:LVED i
O ggi                                                                                                                                                            g, GSI
;                                                          3IGH                                                                                                          32
,                                                          MEDIM                                                                                                        16  l
;                                                                                                                                                                            1 XR                                                                                                            12
                                                                        ''OTAL                                                                                          SS 4
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RES STAFF PRESEfHATION 10 THE ACRS
 
==SUBJECT:==
RESOLUTION PROCESS DATE:                                  MAY 27, 1987 PRESENTER:                              WARREN MINNERS n
  'v' IITLE:                                  DEPUTY DIRECTOR /DRPS PHESENTER'S Nkt TEL, N0,                492-7827 SUBCOMt11TTEE: ACRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON GENERIC ISSUES O
 
    <3                GENERIC SAFELY ISSUES b                  RESOLUTION PROCESS ASSIGN NEW ISSUE OflLY ll!GH PRIORITY
:            DEFER MEDIUM PRIORITY 1
i      TASK ACTION PLAN LONTRACT THACK IN GIMCS/SIMS RESULUTION INTERMEDIATE RESOLUTION TECHNICAL REGULATORY ANALYSIS PUBLIC COMMENT STAFF REVIEW l            LRGR ACRS COMMISSION FRN l
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j.s.                                                                                                                                                    ;
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l                          RESOLUTION PRIORITY                                                                                                          .
PRIURIZAIION
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f UNRESOLVED                                                                                                                  !
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TMI ACIION PLAN (1980) i 18 GSI 4
i j                                      TASK ACTION PLAN (1979)
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[a v GENERIC SAFELY ISSUES RECENT INCIDENTS DAVIS-BESSE LOSS OF AFW 124 AFW RELIABILIlY DIABLO CANYON LOSS OF RHR 99 RCS/RHR SUCTION VALVE INTERLOCKS ON PWRS BRUNSWICK / HATCH SRV STICKING / LEAKING B-55 IMPROVED RELIABILITY OF TARGEl-RODE SRV O''    OCONEE/ NORTH ANNA SERVICE WATER FOULING 51 - PROPOSED REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPROVING THE OPEN CYCLE SERVICE WATER SYSTEMS TROJAN CONTROL ROOM HABITABILITY 83 CONTROL ROOM HABITABILITY TURKEY POINT CONTROL ROD DRIVE HOUSING LEAK 29 BOLTING DEGRADATION OR FAILURE IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS 12 PLANTS YEAR < 95% AVAILABILITY B56 - DIESEL GENERATOR RELIABILITY
 
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ACRS SUBCOMITTEE PRESENTATION ON 5-27-87                                                      i 2+                                                                                  -i I                                                                                                            3 FREDERICK J. HEBDON k                                                      !
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c.,,,,,,
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b                                                                          U                                                                            V R-1216310-001                                                                                                                                                    RUN DATE: 05/21/87 SAFETY        ISSUES        MANAGEMENT                      SYSTEM                                  PAGE    1 SAFETY ISSUE LEVEL INFORMATION ISSUE NUMBER: A-44                                            TITLE: STATION BLACKOUT CONTACT: A. RUBIN                          TYPE: USI                      IDENTIFYING ORGANIZATION: NRR                STATUS:                      SPONSORING OFFICE: RES PRIORITY: U                TYPE OF REACTORS AFFECTED: LWR                OTHER:
DEPENDENT ISSUES: 23 DESCRIPTION                                                              SOLUTION (NEAR AND LONG TERM)
ELECTRIC POWER FOR SAFETY SYSTEMS AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IS                                THIS STAFF IS PROPOSING THAT THE COMMISSION AMEND ITS REG-SUPPLIED BY AT LEAST TWO REDUNDANT AND INDEPENDENT DIVISIONS                                ULATIONS TO REQUIRE THAT PLANTS BE CAPABLE OF WITHSTANDING EACH OF THESE ELECTRICAL DIVISIONS INCLUDES AN OFFSITE AL-                                  A TOTAL LOSS OF AC POWER FOR A SPECIFIED DURATION AND TO TERNATING CURRENT (AC) SOURCE, AN ONSITE AC SOURCE (USUALLY                                MAINTAIN REACTOR CORE COOLING DURING THAT PERIOD, DIESEL GENERATORS). AND A DIRECT CURRENT (DC) SOURCE.                                      THE STAFF IS PROPOSING TO ADD A NEW 50.63 AND TO AMEND GEN-APPENDIX A TO 10 CFR 50 DEFINES A TOTAL LOSS OF OFFSITE                                    ERAL DESIGN CRITERION 17 0F 10 CFR 50, APPENDIX A TO REQUIRE POWER AS AN ANTICIPATED OCCURENCE, AND AS SUCH, IT IS RE.                                  THAT ALL LIGHT-WATER-COOLED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS BE CAPABLE QUIRED THAT AN INDEPENDENT EMERGENCY ONSITE POWER SUPPLY BE                                OF COPING WITH A TOTAL LOSS OF AC POWER FOR A SPECIFIED PROVIDED.                                                                                  PERIOD OF TIME. THIS TIME WOULD BE DETERMINED FOR EACH THE UNLIKELY, BUT POSSIBLE LOSS OF AC POWER (THAT IS. THE                                  PLANT BASED ON A COMPARISON OF THE INDIVIDUAL PLANT CHARAC-LOSS OF AC POWER FROM BOTH THE OFFSITE SOURCE AND THE ON-                                  DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS WITH FACTORS THAT HAVE BEEN IDEN-SITE SOURCE) IS REFERRED TO AS A STATION BLACKOUT.                          IN THE        TIFIED AS THE MAIN CONTRIBUTORS TO RISK OF CORE MELT RESULT-EVENT OF A STATION BLACKOUT, THE CAPABILITY TO COOL THE                                    ING FROM STATION BLACKOUT. THESE FACTORS ARE: (1) THE RE-REACTOR CORE WOULD BE DEPENDENT ON THE AVAILABILITY OF                                    DUNDANCY THE ONSITE EMERGENCY AC POWER SOURCES, (2) THE RE-SYSTEMS WHICH DO NOT REQUIRE AC POWER SUPPLIES, AND ON THE                                  LIABILITY OF THE ONSITE EMERGENCY AC POWER SOURCES, (3) THE ABILITY TO RESTORE AC POWER SUPPLIES IN A TIMELY MANNER.                                    FREQUENCY OF LOSS OF OFFSITE POWER, AND (4) THE PROBABLE AS OPERATING EXPERIENCE HAS ACCUMULATED. THE CONCERN HAS                                    TIME NEEDED TO RESTORE OFFSITE POWER.
ARISEN THAT THE OCCURRENCE OF A STATION BLACKOUT MAY BE A                                  IF THE PROPOSED RULE IS ADOPTED, ALL LICENSEE AND APPLICANTS RELATIVELY HIGH PROBABILITY EVENT, AND THAT THE CONSEQUENCES                              WOULD BE REQUIRED: (1) TO ASSESS THE CAPABILITY OF THEIR OF THIS EVENT MAY BE UNACCEPTABLE, FOR EXAMPLE, SEVERE CORE                                PLANTS TO COPE WITH A STATION BLACKOUT (I.E., DETERMINE THE DAMAGE MAY RESULT.                                                                        AMOUNT OF TIME THE PLANT CAN MAINTAIN CORE COOLING WITH AC POWER UNAVAILABLE): (2) TO HAVE PROCEDURES AND TRAINING TO COPE WITH SUCH AN EVENT; AND (3) TO MAKE MODIFICATION, IF NECESSARY, TO COPE WITH A SPECIFIED MINIMUM DURATION STATION BLACKOUT SELECTED ON A PLANT-SPECIFIC. A METHOD TO DETER-MINE AN ACCEPTABLE STATION BLACKOUT DURATION CAPABILITY IS PRESENTED IN A DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE. APPLICATIONS OF THIS GUIDE WOULD RESULT IN DETERMINATIONS THAT PLANTS BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND STATION BLACKOUTS OF 4 OR 8 HOURS DEPENDING ON THE PLANT *S SPECIFIC DESIGN AND SITE-RELATED CHARACTEAISTICS
 
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O                                                                                    O                                                                  O~
R-1216310-001                                                                                                                                              RUN DATE: 05/21/87 SAFETY        ISSUES                    MANAGEMENT        SYSTEM                                      PAGE  2 SAFETY ISSUE LEVEL INFORMATION ISSUE NUMBER: A-44                                      TITLE: STATION BLACKOUT POINT                      RANGE                                            l NET CHANGE IN DOLLAR COST                                          ESTIMATE        LOW                    HIGH
;                                            NRC DEVELOPMENT.                  .                                NOT AVAL          --                  --
i                                            NRC (IMPLEMENTATION / IMPOSITION).                          ...            SE5        --                  --
NRC (ASSURE CONTINUED COMPLIANCE).                                  NOT AVAL          --                  --
,                                            PUBLIC/ INDUSTRY /0THER ( IMPLEME NTATION ) .                          3.6E4          2.1E4                5.9E4 i
PUBLIC/ INDUSTRY /0THER (CONTINUED COMPLIANCE)                            2E3                IE3              3E3 NET CHANGES IN BENEFITS PUBLIC EXPOSURE.                  ,      .                .              8E4        --                  --
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!                                            OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE .                        .                          2E3        --                  --
CORE MELT FREQUENCY.              .                                      3E-5            1E-6            1.4E-4 1,
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o                                                                .            O                                                          Of R-1216310-001                                                                                                                                                          RUN DATE: 05/21/87 SAFETY          ISSUES              MANAGEMENT                  SYSTEM                      PAGE  3 SAFETY ISSUE LEVEL INFORMATION ISSUE NUMBER: A-44                                                            TITLE: STATION BLACKOUT
: 1. ISSUE APPROVAL AND PLANNING:                                                    ISSUE APPROVAL DATE: 01/79C
: 2. TE.CHNICAL RESOLUTION:                                                  LEAD OFFICE: NRR              SUPPORTING OFFICE (S): RES INITIATION DATE: 07/80                                    INTER OFFICE REVIEW / COORDINATION COMPLETION DATE: 12/83C PROPOSED SOLUTIONS / REQUIREMENTS APPROVAL BY OFFICE DIRECTOR DATE: 03/84C
: 3. REQUIREMENTS REVIEW AND APPROVAL:                                                    INITIAL CRGR REVIEW DATE: 03/84C                RESOLVED WITH REQUIREMENTS:
RULEMAKING                          OTHER (SPECIFY1 FORM.                                  .  .    .              .      ANPR        PROPOSED          FINAL          REG GUIDE OFFICE RESPONSIBLE.                                        . .
* NRR              NRR              NRR EDC APPROVAL TO PROCEED (YES/NO)
* YES              YES              YES CRGR REVIEW DATE.                          .        . . .
* 05/84C            05/87          05/87 ACRS REVIEW DATE.                                                        N            03/85C            05/87          05/87 EDO REVIEW DATE                                            .            0            05/85C            07/87          07/87 i                                  APPROVAL (YES/NO),                  .            N            YES              YES              YES COMMISSION REVIEW DATE.                                        .        E          03/86C            06/88            N/A APPROVAL (YES/NO). .                .
* YES              YES              ***
-          PUBLIC COMMENT DATE                                            .
* 06/86              N/A            06/86 FINAL APPROVAL AND ISSUANCE DATE                                        *            ******            08/87          08/87
: 4.      R_E_QUIREMENTS IMPOSITION NEEDED FOR VERIFICATION:
A. IMPOSITION - LICENSED PLANTS:
MULTIPLANT ACTIGN CODE:
OTHER:                                    APPROVAL OF LICENSEE PROPOSAL NEEDED (YES/NO):
 
                                                                                                                                                                                      ~
O                                                                        .          O                                                                  O' R-1216310-001                                                                                                                                                  RUN DATE: 05/21/87 SAFETY                    ISSUES                  MANAGEMENT                            SYSTEM                    PAGE  4 SAFETY ISSUE LEVEL INFORMATION ISSUE NUMBER: A-44                                      TITLE: STATION BLACKOUT B. IMPOSITION - PLANTS NOT LICENSED:                                    SRP REVIEW PROCESS:                    OTHER (SPECIFY):
C. IMPOSITION - ALL PLANTS:                                OFFICE RESPONSIBLE:
,        D. NEE _D FOR VERIFICATION / POST IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW:
NEEDED                    OFFICE fYES/NO_1 .
RESPONSIBLE VERIFICATION.                      -                          --                          MPA VERIFICATION PRIORITY:
POST IMPLEMENTATION      .
: 5. R_E_QUIREMENTS IMPLEMENTATION BY LICENSEE AND VERIFICATION BY NRC:
COMPLETION                            DATE OF STATUS (PLANTS]                          LAST PLANT IMPOSITION.                      .        0 0F '130                              90 IMPLEMENTATION.                    .      0 0F 130                              92
;        VERIFICATION.    .        .        .      0 0F 130 l          POST IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW.                0 0F 130
: 6. RE_QUIREMENTS IMPLEMENTATION BY STAFF:
A. STAFF REQUIREMENTS -- SRP REVISION COMPLETION DATE: 08/89                          0FFICE(S) RESPONSIBLE: NRR B. ROUTINE INSPECTION PROGRAM MODIFICATIONS:                                    MODIFICATIONS NEEDED (YES/NO):                        MODIFICATION COMPLETION DATE: ******-
M0DIFICATION                      TEXT
                                                                                  *** NO MODIFICATION TEXT FOR ISSUE ***'
 
R-1216310-001                                                                                              RUN DATE: 05/21/87 SAFETY        ISSUES        MANAGEMENT          SYSTEM                    PAGE  5
                                                'LANT LEVEL INFORMATION ISSUE NUMBER: A-44                TITLE: STATION BLACKOUT                                                      -
IMPOS DOCKET    REACTOR    OL      OL    MANAGE IMPOS    IMPOS  IMPLEM  VERIFY PLANT    DOCKET # PRIORITY      TYPE    ISSUE  EXPIR METHOD  INIT    COMPLET COMPLET COMPLET ARKANSAS 2          05000368              PWR      12/78C 12/12            90        90      92  ******
BEAVER VALLEY 1    05000334              PWR      07/76C 06/10            90        90      92  ******
BEAVER VALLEY 2    05000412              PWR      ****** ******            90        90      92  ******
BELLEFONTE 1        05000438              PWR      ****** ******            90        90      92  ******
BELLEFONTE 2        05000439              PWR      ****** ******            90        90      92  ******
BIG ROCK POINT 1    05000155              BWR      08/62C 05/20            90        90      92  ******
BRAIDWOOD 1        05000456              PWR      ****** ******            90        90      92  ******
BRAIDWOOD 2        05000457              PWR      ****** ******            90        90      92  ******
BROWNS FERRY 1      05000259              BWR      12/73C 05/07            90        90      92  ******
BROWNS FERRY 2      05000260              BWR      03/I4C 05/07            90        90      92 92 BROWNS FERRY 3      05000296              BWR      08/76C 07/08            90        90            ******
BRUNSWICK 1        05000325              BWR      11/76C 02/10            90        90      92  ******
BRUNSWICK 2        05000324              BWR      12/74C 02/10            90        90      92  ******
BYRON 1            05000454              PWR      02/85C ******            90        90      92  ******
BYRON 2            05000455              PWR      ****** ******            90        90      92  ******
CALLAWAY 1          05000483              PWR      06/84C ******            90        90      92  ******
CALVERT CLIFFS 1    05000317              PWR      07/74C 07/09            90        90      92  ******
CALVERT CLIFFS 2    05000318              PWR      11/76C 07/09            90        90      92  ******
CATAWBA 1          05000413              PWR      01/85C 12/24            90        90        92  ******
CATAWBA 2          05000414              PWR      S /N/  ******          90        90      92  ******
CLINTON 1          05000461              BWR      ****** ******            90        90      92  ******
COMANCHE PEAK 1    05000445              PWR      ****** ******            90        90      92  ******
COMANCHE PEAK 2    05000446              PWR      ****** ******            90        90      92  ******
COOK 1              05000315              PWR      10/74C 03/09            90        90        92  ******
COOK 2              05000316              PWR      12/77C 03/09            90        90        92  ******
COOPER STATION      05000298              BWR      01/74C 06/08            90        90        92  ******
CRYSTAL RIVER 3    05000302              FWR      01/77C 09/08            90        90        92  ******
DAVIS-BESSE 1      05000346              PWR      04/77C 03/11            90        90        92  ******
DIABLO CANYON 1    05000275              PWR      11/84C 04/08            90        90        92  ******
DIABLO CANYON 2    05000323              PWR      ****** 12/10            90        90        92  ******
DRESDEN 1          05000010              BWR      06/60C 05/96              90      90        92  ******
DRESDEN 2          05000237              BWR      12/69C ******            90        90        92  ******
DRESDEN 3          05000249              BWR      03/71C 10/06            90        90        92  ******
DUANE ARNOLD        05000331              BWR      02/74C 06/10              90      90        92  ******
FARLEY 1            05000348              PWR      06/77C 08/12              90      90        92  ******
FARLEY 2            05000364              PWR      03/81C 08/12              90        90      92  ******
FERMI 2            05000341              BWR      ****** 03/25              90        90      92  ******
FITZPATRICK        05000333              BWR      10/74C 05/10              90        90      92  ******
FORT CALHOUN 1      05000285              PWR      08/73C 06/08              90      90        92  ******
GINNA              05000244              PWR      09/69C 04/06              90        90      92  ******
GRAND GULF 1        05000416              BWR      08/84C 06/22              90        90      92  ******
GRAND GULF 2        05000417              BWR      ****** ******            90        90      92  ******
 
                                                                                                                          ~
p                                                    j U                                                    V U                                          -
R-1216310-001                                                                                                  RUN DATE: 05/21/87 SAFETY        ISSUES          MANAGEMENT              SYSTEM                    PAGE  6 PLANT LEVEL INFORMATION ISSUE NUMBER: A-44                TITLE: STATION BLACKOUT IMPOS DOCKET    REACTOR      OL      OL    MANAGE  IMPOS    IMPOS  IMPLEM  VERIFY PLANT    DOCKET # PRIORITY      TYPE _    ISSUE  EXPIR METHOD    INIT    COMPLET COMPLET COMPLET RADDAWNECK-          050002T3              PWR      56767C 0570C -        ^ ~ 90-        90-      92-  tititt HARRIS 1            05000400              PWR      ******  ******              90        90      92  ******
HATCH 1              05000321              BWR      10/74C  09/09              90        90      92  ******
HATCH 2              05000366              BWR      06/78C  12/12              90        90      92  ******
HOPE CREEK 1        05000354              BWR      ******  ******              90        90      92  ******
HUMBOLDT BAY 3      05000133              BWR      08/62C  ******              90        90      92  ******
INDIAN POINT 1      05000003              PWR      03/62C  ******              90        90      92  ******
INDIAN POINT 2      05000247              PWR      09/73C 10/06                90        90      92  ******
INDIAN POINT 3      05000286              PWR      04/76C 08/09                90        90      92  ******
KEWAUNEE            05000305              PWR      12/73C 08/08                90        90      92  ******
LA CROSSE          05000409              BWR      07/67C ******                90        90      92  ******
LASALLE 1            05000373              BWR      04/82C 04/22                90        90      92  ******
LASALLE 2          05000374              BWR      12/83C 12/23                90        90      92  ******
LIMERICK 1          05000352              BWR      10/84C 10/24                90        90      92  ******
LIMERICK 2          05000353              BWR      S /N/    ******              90        90      92  ******
MAINE YANKEE        05000309              PWR      06/73C 10/08                90        90      92  ******
MCGUIRE 1            05000369              PWR      07/81C 02/13                90        90      92  ******
MCGUIRE 2            05000370              PWR      03/83C  02/13              90        90      92  ******
MIDLAND 1            05000329              PWR      ******  ******              90        90      92  ******
* MIDLAND 2            05000330              PWR      ******  ******              90        90      92  ******
MILLSTONE 1          05000245              BWR      10/70C  ******              90        90      92  ******
MILLSTONE 2          05000336              PWR      09/75C 12/10                90        90      92  ******
MILLSTONE 3          05000423              PWR      11/85    ******            90        90        92  ******
MONTICELLO          05000263              BWR      01/71C 06/07                90        90      92  ******
NINE MILE POINT 1  05000220              BWR      08/69C 04/05                90        90      92  ******
NINE MILE POINT 2  05000410              BWR      ****** ******                90        90        92  ******
NORTH ANNA 1        05000338              PWR      04/78C 02/11                90        90        92  ******
NORTH ANNA 2        05000339              PWR      08/80C 02/11                90        90        92  ******
OCONEF 1            05000269              PWR      02/73C 11/07                90        90        92  ******
OCONEE ?            05000270              PWR      10/73C 11/07                90        90        92  ******
OCONEE 3            05000287              PWR      07/74C 11/07                90        90        92  ******
OYSTER CREEK 1      05000219              BWR      08/69C  ******              90        90        92  ******
PALISADES          05000255              PWR      10/72C  ******              90        90        92  ******
PALO VERDE 1        05000528              PWR      12/84C  ******              90        90        92  ******
, PALO VERDE 2        05000529              PWR      ******  ******              90        90        92  ******
PALO VERDE 3        050005J0              PWR      ******  ******              90        90        92  ******
PEACH BOTTOM 2      05000277              BWR        12/73C 01/08                90      90        92  ******
PEACH BOTTOM 3      05000278              BWR      07/74C 01/08                90        90      92  ******
PERRY 1            05000440              BWR      ****** ******                90        90      92  ******
PERRY 2            05000441              BWR      ****** ******                90        90      92  ******
PILGRIM 1          05000293              BWR      09/72C 08/08                  90        90      92  ******
POINT BEACH 1      05000266              PWR        10/70C 07/07                90        90      92  ******
POINT BEACH 2      05000301              PWR      03/73C 07/08                90        90      92  ******
 
O                                                    O          .
O
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R-1216310-001                                                                                                RUN DATE: 05/21/87 SAFETY        ISSUES        MANAGEMENT            SYSTEM                      PAGE  7 PLANT LEVEL INFORMATION ISSUE NUMBER: A-44                TITLE: STATION BLACKOUT IMPOS DOCKET    REACTOR    OL      OL    MANAGE  IMPOS    IMPOS  IMPLEM  VERIFY PLANT      DOCKET # PRIORITY      TYPE    ISSUE  EXPIR METHOD  INIT    COMPLET COMPLET COMPLET PNATRTETSLAND 1      05000212            ~%R      64/74C D6708~ ~        ~ ~9C        90~      92~ ~******
PRAIRIE ISLAND 2    05000306              PWR    10/74C 06/08              90        90      92    ******
QUAD CITIES 1        05000254              BWR    12/72C 02/07              90        90      92    ******
QUAD CITIES 2        05000265              BWR      12/72C 02/07              90        90      92    ******
RANCHO SECO 1        05000312              PWR    08/74C 10/08              90        90      92    ******
RIVER BEND 1        05000458              BWR    07/85    ******            90        90      92    ******
ROBINSON 2          05000261              PWR    09/70C 04/07              90        90      92    ******
SALEM 1              05000272              PWR      12/76C 09/08              90        90 90 92    ******
SALEM 2              05000311              PWR    05/81C 09/08              90                92    ******
SAN ONOFRE 1        05000206              PWR    03/67C ******              90        90      92    ******
SAN ONOFRE 2        05000361              PWR    02/82C 10/13              90        90      92    ******
SAN ONOFRE 3        05000362              PWR      11/82C 10/13              90        90      92    ******
SEABROOK 1          05000443              PWR    ****** ******              90        90      92    ******
SEABROOK 2          05000444              PWR    ****** ******              90        90      92    ******
SEQUOYAH 1          05000327              PWR    09/80C 05/10              90        90      92    ******
SEQUOYAH 2          05000328              PWR    09/81C  05/10              90        90      92    ******
SHOREHAM            05000322              BWR    ******  04/13              90        90      92    ******
SOUTH TEXAS 1        05000498              PWR    ******  ******            90        90      92    ******
SOUTH TEXAS 2        05000499              PWR    ******  ******            90        90      92    ******
ST LUCIE 1          05000335              PWR    03/76C 07/10              90        90      92    ******
ST LUCIE 2          05000389              PWR    03/83C 04/23              90        90        92  ******
SUMMER 1            05000395              PWR    08/82C 03/13              90        90        92  ******
SURRY 1              05000280              PWR    05/72C 06/08              90        90        92  ******
SURRY 2              05000281              PWR    01/73C 06/08              90        90      92    ******
SUSQUEHANNA 1        05000387              BWR    07/82C 07/22              90        90      92    ******
SUSQUEHANNA 2        05000388              BWR    06/84C 03/24              90        90        92  ******
THREE MILE ISLAND 1  05000289              PWR    04/74C 05/08              90        90        92  ******
THREE MILE ISLAND 2  05000320              PWR    02/78C 11/09              90        90        92  ******
TROJAN              05000344              PWR      11/75C 02/11              90        90        92  ******
TURKEY POINT 3      05000250              PWR    07/72C  04/07              90        90        92  ******
TURKEY POINT 4      05000251              PWR    04/73C  04/07              90        90        92  ******
VERMONT YANKEE 1    05000271              BWR    02/73C  12/07              90        90        92  ******
V0GTLE 1            05000424              PWR    ******  ******            90        90        92  ******
V0GTLE 2            05000425              PWR    ******  ******            90        90        92  ******
WASHINGTON NUCLEAR 1 05000460              PWR    ******  ******            90        90        92  ******
WASHINGTON NUCLEAR 2 05000397              BWR    ******  12/23              90        90        92  ******
WASHINGTON NUCLEAR 3 05000508              PWR    ******  ******            90        90        92  ******
WATERFORD 3          05000382              PWR    03/85C  12/24              90        90        92  ******
WATTS BAR 1          05000390              PWR    ******  ******            90        90        92  ******
WATTS BAR 2          05000391              PWR    ******  ******            90        90        92  ******
WOLF CREEK 1        05000482              PWR    06/85C  ******            90        90        92  ******
VANKEE-ROWE 1        05000029              PWR    07/60C  11/97              90        90        92  ******
ZION 1              05000295              PWR      10/73C 12/08              90      90        92  ******
 
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        .3                  SETPOINT DRIFT IN INSTRUMENTATION                NRR            11/83C              05/86        02/86C i          12-              BWR JET PUMP INTEGRITY                            NRR            11/83C                            09/84C              N/A                N/A.        N/A
:        - 14                PWR PIPE CRACKS                                  NRR            02/81C                            10/85C              N/A                N/A.        N/A.            1 3          20-              EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE ON NUCL NRR                      11/83C                            11/83C-              N/A                N/A        N/A J          22                INADVERTENT BORON DILUTION EVENTS                NRR            10/82C                          <10/84C              N/A-              N/A'        N/A p          36                LOSS OF SERVICE WATER (CALVERT CLIFFS UN NRR                      11/83C. . 05/86C                  06/86C                                                              l
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40                SAFETY CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH PIPE BRE NRR                      11/83C                            12/83C                                12/86.      ~N /A            t 41                BWR SCRAM DISCHARGE VOLUME SYSTEMS                NRR                                              04/81C            01/84C                                          ?
t 45-              INOPERABILITY OF INSTRUMENTATION DUE TO NRR                      11/83C                            03/84C-                                                      *      '
50                REACTOR VESSEL LEVEL INSTRUMENTATION IN NRR                      11/83C                            09/84C              N/A                N/A      ~ N/AI 61      .
SRV LINE BREAK INSIDE THE BWR WET WELL A NRR                      11/84C              07/86        08/86C'
!        67.3.3            IMPROVED ACCIDENT MONITORING                      NRR                      -
04/83C            '02/88              00/94 1          67.4.1            RCP TRIP                                          NRR                                              02/83C            01/88              11/92
!          69                MAKE-UP N0ZZLE CRACKING IN B&W PLANTS            NRR            11/82C                            09/84C i
75 (B-76)        ITEM 1.1 - POST TRIP REVIEW- PROGRAM DES NRR                                                        00/00C            02/87.              12/88        N/A-75 (B-77)        ITEM 2.1 - EQUIPMENT CLASSIFICATION & VE NRR                                                        07/83C            12/87              07/90:
s          75 (B-78)        ITEMS 3.1.1 & 3.1.2 -POST MAINTENANCE TE NRR                                                        12/84C            09/87              01/90
        ' 75 (B-79)        ITEM 3.1.3 - POST MAINTENANCE TESTING - NRR                                                        03/84C            09/87              02/90.      N/A j          75 (B-80    l    ITEM 4.1 - REACTOR TRIP SYSTEM RELIABILI NRR                                                        11/83C            08/87              00/89                        '
          - 75 (B-81    i    ITEMS 4.2.1 & 4.2.2 -PREVENTATIVE MAINT NRR                                                        11/85C            08/87              -00/89        N/A 75 (B-82i        ITEM 4.3 - AUTOMATIC ACTUATION OF SHUNT NRR                                                        11/83C            07/87              12/89 75 18-85)        SALEM ATWS 1.2 DATA CAPABILITY                    NRR                                              06/84C            12/87'              00/90        N/A 75 lB-86          SALEM ATWS 2.2 S-R COMPONENTS                    NRR                                              02/84C            12/87              07/90 75 (B-87))        SALEM ATWS 3,2.1 & 3.2.2 S-R COMPONENTS NRR                                                        11/84C            12/87              12/89 1          75 (B-88)        SALEM ATWS 3.2.3 T.S. S-R COMPONENTS              NRR                                              06/84C            08/87              12/89' 75 (B-89    i    SALEM ATWS 4.2.3 & 4.2.4 LIFE COMPONENTS NRR                                                        11/83C            12/99              01/91 07/84C            09/87              00/90        N/A j          75 (B-90    i. SALEM ATWS 4.3 W AND B&W T.S.                    NRR 4
75 18-911-        SALEM ATWS 4.4 B&W TEST PROCEDURES                NRR                                              11/84C            06/87              00/87        N/A i          75 -(B-92)        SALEM ATWS 4.5.1 DIVERSE TRIP FEATURES            NRR                                              10/84C            08/87              00/90                        s t          75-(B-93)        SALEM ATWS 4.5.2 & 4.5.3 TEST ALTERNATIV NRR                                                        12/85C            05/88              -05/91                        +
79                UNANALYZED REACTOR VESSEL THERMAL STRESS NRR                      07/83C              10/86        N/A-86                LONG RANGE PLAN DEALING WITH STRESS CORR NRR                                                        06/84C            09/86C              12/90 134              RULE ON DEGREE AND EXPERIENCE REQ. FOR S NRR                      02/86C              N/A-          09/88              09/88              09/88' A-1.              WATER HADMER                                      NRR              /79C                            03/84C                N/A              N/A        N/A 1
A-2              A5YpmETRIC BLOWDOWN LDADS ON REACTOR PRI NRR                                                        03/79C            07/87              12/89        N/A A-7              M%RK I LONG-TERM PROGRAM                          hAR                                              10/79C            07/86C              12/88
,          A-10              BWR FEEDWATER N0ZZLE CRACKING                    NRR                                              08/78C            07/86C              12/90 j          A-11              REACTOR VESSEL MATERIALS TOUGHNESS              . NRR            11/78C                            10/82C            ' N/A-              N/A        N/A.
A-12              FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF STEAM GENERATOR & NRR'                      06/78C                            10/83C A-16              STEAM EFFECTS ON BWR CORE SPRAf DISTRIBU NRR                      11/78C                            03/83C                                              N/A 4        A-24              QUALIFICATION OF CLASS IE SAFETY-RELATED NRR                                                        08/80C            05/87              09/89 j          A-26              REACTOR VESSEL PRESSURE TRANSIENT PROTEC NRR                                                        08/76C            06/84C              00/89 A-36 (C-10)    . CONTROL OF HEAVY LOADS OVER SPENT FUEL P NRR                                                        02/80C                                03/89 A-36 (C-15)      CONTROL OF HEAVY LOADS -PHASE II.(FOLLO NRR                                                        05/83C            01/86C              12/86 1
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O                                                            O                                                                                C' PAGE      2 R-1216530A-001 SAFETY        ISSUE            MANAGEMENT                                      SYSTEM STATUS SELECTED ISSUES RESOLVED ACTUAL /PR0JECTED                                                C0MPLETION            DATES SPON APPROVAL /                        TECH              REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENT LICENSEE ISSUE NUMBER                      TITLE                OFF PLANNING RESOLUTION                                          REVIEW  IMPOSITION IMPLEMENT VERIFICAT
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5 39          bETkRMkkkTkbhbFbkVPbbLbYhkMkb"Lbkbb~EkR                ~kkh78b                                            kb/kkb A-41          LONG-TERM SEISMIC PROGRAM                NRR            11/78C                                          10/84C      N/A        N/A        N/A A-42          PIPE CRACKS IN BOILING WATER REACTORS    NRR                                                              07/81C                06/86        N/A A-43          CONTAINMENT EMERGENCY SUMP PREFORMANCE    NRR            01/81C                10/85C                    10/85C    10/85        N/A        N/A B-10          BEHAVIOR OF BWR MARK III CONTAINMENTS    NRR            06/78C                                            09/84C B-19          THERMAL HYDRAULIC STABILITY              NRR            06/78                                            05/85C B-26          STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF CONTAINMENT PENE NRR            06/78C                                            09/84C      N/A        N/A        N/A B-53          LOAD BREAK SWITCH                        NRR            06/78C                                            07/83C B-54          ICE CONDENSER CONTAINMENTS                NRR            06/78C                                            10/84C B-55          IMPROVE RELIABILITY OF TARGET ROCK SAFET RES              11/83C                    /86                    N/A        N/A        N/A B-56          DIESEL GENERATOR RELIABILITY              NRR                /83C              07/83C                    11/87C    11/88      11/89        N/A B-58          PASSIVE MECHANICAL FAILURES              NRR            06/78C                                            07/85C      N/A        N/A        N/A B-59 (E-04)    BWR SINGLE LOOP OPERATION                NRR                                                              03/82C    06/87      00/87        N/A B-59 (E-05)    W N-1 LOOP OPERATION                      NRR                                                              12/76C    11/84C      12/89        N/A B-60          LOOSE PARTS MONITORING SYSTEMS            NRR            06/78C                                            09/84C      N/A        N/A        N/A C-11          ASSESSMENT OF FAILURE AND RELIABILITY OF NRR            06/78C                                            07/85C      N/A        N/A        N/A GI-IE-85-005  RESOLUTION OF IMPORTANT-TO-SAFETY ISSUES RES            06/84C                05/86C GI-IE-85-010  "UNDERVULTAGE TRIP ATTACH. OF WESTINGHOU DIE              11/85C                11/85C                    11/85C GI-IE-85-011  MOTOR-OPER. VALVE COMMON MODE FAIL. DURI OIE            07/85C                10/85C                    11/85C HF 1.2        ENGINEERING EXPERTISE ON SHIFT            NRR            N/A                    N/A                        10/85C      N/A        10/85N HF 1.3        GUIDANCE ON LIMITS AND CONDITIONS OF SHI NRR            N/A                    N/A                        06/86C I.A.1.1.1      SHIFT TECHNICAL ADVISOR - ON DUTY        NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.1.1.2      SHIFT TECHNICAL ADVISOR - TECH SPECS      NRR                                                              00/00C      N/A        N/A I.A.1.1.3      SHIFT TECHNICAL ADVISOR - TRAINED PER LL NRR                                                              11/80C                09/86 I.A.1.1.4      SHIFT TECHNICAL ADVISOR - DESCRIBE LONG NRR                                                                00/00C I.A.I.2        SHIFT SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES        NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.I.3.1      SHIFT MANNING - LIMIT OVERTIME            NRR                                                              10/80C I.A.1.3.2      SHIFT MANNING - MIN SHIFT CREW            NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.1.4        LONG-TERM UPGRADE OF OPERATIONS PERSONNE NRR            05/80C                    /82C                  01/84C    04/83      04/83 1.A.2.1.1      IMMEDIATE UPGRADING OF RO & SRO TRAINING NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.2.1.2      IMMEDIATE UPGRADING OF RO & SRO TRAINING NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.2.1.3      IMMEDIATE UPGRADING OF RO & SRO TRAINING NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.2.1.4      IMMEDIATE UPGRADING OF RO & SRO TRAINING NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.2.1.5      IMMEDIATE UPGRADING OF RO & SRO TRAINING NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.2.2        TRAINING AND OUALIFICATIONS OF OPERATING NRR            05/80C                                            06/85C    12/86      03/85      03/87 I.A.2.3        ADMINISTRATION OF TRAINING PROGRAMS      NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.2.6(4)    OPERATOR WORKSHOPS                        NRR                                                              09/85C I.A.2.7        ACCREDITATION OF TRAINING INSTITUTIONS    NRR            05/80C                                            06/85C    12/86      03/85      03/87 I.A.3.1.1      REVISE SCOPE & CRITERIA FOR LICENSING EX NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.3.1.2      REVISE SCOPE & CRITERIA FOR LICENSING EX NRR                                                              00/00C I.A.3.1.3.A    REVISE SCOPE & CRIT. FOR LIC. EXAMS - SI NRR                                                              00/00C                            10/85C I.A.3.1.3.B    REVISE SCOPE & CRIT. FOR LIC. EXAMS - SI NRR                                                              00/00C                            12/83C I.A.3.4        LICENSING OF ADDITIONAL OPERATIONS PERSO NRR            05/80C                N/A                        02/85C I.A.4.2        LONG TERM TRAINING SIMULATOR UPGRADE      NRR            05/80C                04/86C                    03/87        /90        /90
 
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ACTUAL /PR0JECTED                          C0MPLETION                  DATES SPON APPROVAL /        TECH        REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENT LICENSEE ISSUE NUMBER                        TITLE                    OFF PLANNING RESOLUTION                REVIEW      IMPOSITION IMPLEMENT VERIFICAT I.B.1.2        EVALUATION OF ORGANIZATION & MANAGEMENT NRR                                          00/00C I.C.1.1        SHORT-TERM ACCIDENT & PROCEDURES REVIEW NRR                                          00/00C I.C.1.2.A      SHORT-TERM ACCID. & PROCEDURES REV. - IN NRR                                          10/80C                        12/90      N/A I.C.1.2.B      SHORT-TERM ACCID. & PROCEDURES REV. - IN NRR                                          04/83C          12/99        03/91 I.C.1.3.A      SHORT-TERM ACCID. & PROCEDURES REV - TRA NRR                                          00/00C                        12/90      N/A I.C.1.3.B      SHORT. TERM ACCID. & PROCEDURES REV. - TR NRR                                        04/83C          12/99        03/91 I.C.2          SHIFT & RELIEF TURNOVER PROCEDURES            NRR                                    00/00C I.C.3          SHIFT. SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITY              NRR                                    00/00C I.C.4          CONTROL-ROOM ACCESS                            NRR                                  00/00C I.C.5          FEEDBACK OF OPERATING EXPERIENCE              NRR                                    10/80C I.C.6          VERIFY CORRECT PERFORMANCE OF OPERATING NRR                                          00/00C          06/87        00/87 I.C.7.1        NSSS VENDOR REV. OF PROC - LOW POWER TES NRR                                          00/00C I.C.7.2        NSSS VENDOR REV. OF PROC - POWER ASCENSI NRR                                          00/00C I.C.8          PILOT MON OF SELECTED EMERGENCY PROC FOR NRR                                          00/00C I.C.9          LONG TERM PROGRAM PLAN FOR UPGRADING PRO NRR              05/80C    07/85C          07/85C I.D.1          CONTROL-ROOM DESIGN REVIEWS                    NRR                                    00/00C I.D.2.1        PLANT-SAFETY PARAMETER DISPLAY CONSOLE - NRR                                          10/86C          01/89          12/90 I.D.2.2        PLANT-SAFETY PARAMETER DISPLAY CONSOLE - NRR                                          04/83C          01/89          12/90 I.D.2.3        PLANT-SAFETY PARAMETER DISPLAY CONSOLE - NRR                                          10/86C          01/89          12/90 I.G.I.1        TRAINING DURING LOW-POWER TESTING - PROP NRR                                          00/00C                                    06/84C I.G.I.2        TRAINING DURING LOW-POWER TESTING - SUBM NRR                                          00/00C                                    06/84C I.G.1.3        TRAINING DURING LOW-POWER TESTING - TRAI NRR                                          00/00C I.G.2          SCOPE OF PREOPERATIONAL AND LOW POWER TE NRR              05/80C        /81C          07/81C II.A.1          SITING POLICY REFORMULATION                    NRR      05/80C                      09/84C II.B.I.1        REACTOR-COOLANT SYSTEM VENTS - DESIGN VE NRR                                          04/83C                                    04/86C II.B.I.2        REACTOR-COOLANT SYSTEM VENTS - INSTALL V NRR                                          04/83C                        06/86                ;
11.B.1.3        REACTOR-COOLANT SYSTEM VENTS - PROCEDURE NRR                                          00/00C                        06/86 II.B.2.1        PLANT SHIELDING - REVIEW DESIGNS                NRR                                  10/80C                                    10/85C II.B.2.2        PLANT SHIELDING - CORRECTIVE ACTIONS TO NRR                                          10/80C                                    12/84C II.B.2.3                                                    L NRR                                    00/00C          07/87          12/87                1 II.B.2.4        PLANT  SHIELDING- EQUIPMENT PLANT SHIELDING    - PLANT MODIFICATIONS QUALIFICATI (0 NRR                                      00/00C II.B.3.1        POSTACCIDENT SAMPLING - INTERIM SYSTEM          NRR                                  00/00C II.B.3.2        POSTACCIDENT SAMPLING - CORRECTIVE ACTIO NRR                                          12/85C                                    N/A II.B,3.3        POSTACCIDENT SAMPLING - PROCEDURES              NRR                                  00/00C II.B.3.4        POSTACCIDENT SAMPLING - PLANT MODIFICATI NRR                                          12/85C        08/87          08/90 II.B.4.1        TRAINING FOR MITIGATING CORE DAMAGE - DE NRR                                          00/00C i II.B.4.2.A      TRAINING FOR MITIGATING CORE DAMAGE - IN NRR                                          00/00C          04/85C        10/85C II.B.4.2.B      TRAINING FOR MITIGATING CORE DAMAGE - CO NRR                                          00/00C II.B.6          RISK RED. FOR OPER. REACTORS AT SITES WI NRR              05/80C                      09/85C II.B.8          RULEMAKING PROCEEDING ON DEGRADED CORE A NRR              05/80C                      08/85C          N/A            N/A        N/A II.C.1          INTERIM RELIABILITY EVALUATION PROGRAM          NRR      05/80C                      07/85C II.C.2          CONTINUATION OF INTERIM RELIABILITY EVAL NRR              05/80C                      09/85C II.D.I.1        RELIEF & SAFETY VALVE TEST REQUIREMENTS NRR                                          07/79C          07/87          00/90      05/84C II.D.1.2.A      RELIEF & SAFETY VALVE TEST REQUIREMENTS NRR                                          06/86C          07/87          00/90
 
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SPON APPROVAL /      TECH        REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENT LICENSEE ISSUE NUMBER                      TITLE                    OFF PLANNING RESOLUTION                REVIEW          IMPOSITION IMPLEMENT VERIFICAT II.D.1.2.8      RELIEF & SAFETY VALVE TEST REQUIREMENTS NRR                                        00/00C              12/99        09/90    09/85C II.D.1.3        RELIEF & SAFETY VALVE TEST REQUIREMENTS NRR                                        12/84C              07/87        00/90    05/84C II.D.3.1        VALVE POSITION INDICATION - INSTALL DIRE NRR                                      00/00C II.D.3.2        VALVE POSITION INDICATION - TECH SPECS      NRR                                    00/00C II.E.1.1.1      AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM EVALUATION - NRR                                        00/00C                            00/87 II.E.1.1.2      AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM EVALUATION - NRR                                        10/80C                            00/87 II.E.1.1.3      AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM EVALUATIONS - NRR                                      00/00C                            00/87 II.E.1.2.1.A    AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM INITIATION & NRR                                        00/00C                            04/87 II.E.1.2.1.B    AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM INITIATION & NRR                                        00/00C                            04/87 II.E.1.2,2.A    AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM INITIATION & NRR                                        00/00C II.E.1.2.2.8    AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM INITIATION & NRR                                        00/00C              06/84N        06/86N II.E.1.2.2.C    AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM INITIATION & NRR                                        00/00C                            06/86 II.E.2.2        RESEARCH ON SMALL BREAK LOCAS AND ANOMAL RES        05/80C                        07/85C              N/A          N/A        N/A II.E.3.1.1      EMERGENCY POWER FOR PRESSURIZER HEATERS NRR                                        00/00C II.E.3.1.2      EMERGENCY POWER FOR PRESSURIZER HEATERS NRR                                        00/00C II.E.4.1.1      DEDICATED HYDROGEN PENETRATIONS - DESIGN NRR                                      10/80C II.E.4.1.2      DEDICATED HYDROGEN PENETRATIONS - REVIEW NRR                                      00/00C II.E.4.1.3      DEDICATED HYDROGEN PENETRATION - INSTALL NRR                                      00/00C                            00/89                -
II.E.4.2.1-4    CONTAIMENT ISOLATION DEPENDABILITY - IMP NRR                                      10/80C II.E.4.2.5.A    CONTAINMENT ISOLAT. DEPENDABILITY - CNTM NRR                                      10/80C              12/86                  06/82C II.E.4.2.5.B    CONTAINMENT ISOLATION DEPENDABILITY - CN NRR                                      00/00C              12/86        04/88 II.E.4.2.6      CONTAINMENT ISOLATION DEPENDABILITY - CN NRR                                      00/00C              09/87        04/88 II.E.4.2.7      CONTAINMENT ISOLATION DEPENDABILITY - RA NRR                                      00/00C              09/87        04/88 II.E.4.2.8      CONTAINMENT ISOLATION DEPENDABILITY - TE NRR                                      00/00C II.E.5.1        B&W DESIGN EVALUATION                      NRR      05/80C                        03/83C II.E.5.2        B & W REACTOR TRANSIENT RESPONSE TASK F0 NRR        05/80C                        09/84C II.F.1.1        ACCIDENT-MONITORING - PROCEDURES            NRR II.F.1.2.A      ACCIDENT-MONITORING - NOBLE GAS MONITOR NRR                                        00/00C                            03/89 II.F.1.2.B      ACCIDENT-MONITORING - IODINE / PARTICULATE NRR                                    04/83C                            03/89 II.F.1.2.C      ACCIDENT-MONITORING - CONTAINMENT HIGH-R NRR                                      00/00C                            03/89 II.F.1.2.D      ACCIDENT-MONITORING - CONTAINMENT PRESSU NRR                                      06/81C                            09/88 II.F.1.2.E      ACCIDENT-MONITORING - CONTAINMENT WATER NRR                                        10/80C                            09/88 II.F.1.2.F      ACCIDENT-MONITORING - CONTAINMENT HYDROG NRR                                      06/81C                            07/90 II.F.2.1        INSTRUMENTATION FOR DETECT. OF INADEQUAT NRR                                      00/00C II.F.2.2        INSTRUMENTATION FOR DE1ECT. OF INADEQUAT NRR                                      00/00C II.F.2.3        INSTRUMENTATION FOR DETECT. OF INADEQUAT NRR                                      12/83C                                        N/A II.F.2.4        INSTRUMENTATION FOR DETECT. OF INADEQUAT NRR                                      12/83C              12/88        01/91 II.F.2,5        INSTRUMENTATION FOR DETECT. OF INADEQUAT NRR                                      00/00C                                        N/A II.G.1.1        POWER SUPP. FOR PRESSURIZER RELIEF, BLOCK NRR                                      00/00C II.G.1.2        POWER SUPP. FOR PRESSURIZER RELIEF. BLOCK NRR                                      00/00C III.A.1.1      EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, SHORT TERM          NRR                                    00/00C III.A.1.2.1    UPGRADE EMERGENCY SUPPORT FACILITIES - I NRR                                      00/00C III.A.1.2.2    UPGRADE EMERGENCY SUPPORT FACILITIES - D NRR                                      00/00C III.A.I.2.3    UPGRADE EMER SUPPORT FACILITIES-MODS INC NRR                                      00/00C
 
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STATUS SELECTED ISSUES RESOLVED ACTUAL / PROJECTED                                          C0MPLETION              DATES SPON APPROVAL /                            TECH  REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENT LICENSEE ISEUE NUMBER                                    TITLE                                  OFF PLANNING RESOLUTION                              REVIEW        IMPOSITION IMPLEMENT VERIFICAT III.A.1.3[2]        MAINTAIN SUPPLIES OF THYROID BLOCKING AG OIE                                  05/80C                                    08/85C                N/A    N/A        N/A III.A.2.1            UPGRADE PREPAREDNESS - UPGRADE EMERGENCY NRR                                                                              00/00C III.A.2.2            UPGRADE PREPAREDNESS - METEROR0 LOGICAL D NRR                                                                            04/82C              12/87    06/90 III.A.3.4            NUCLEAR DATA LINK                                                  OIE        05/80C                                    06/85C                N/A    N/A        N/A III.D.1.1.1          PRIMARY COOLANT OUTSIDE CONTAIMENT - LEA NRR                                                                              00/00C III.D.1.1.2          PRIMARY COOLANT DUTSIDE CONTAIMENT - TEC NRR                                                                              00/00C                N/A    N/A III.D.2.3(1)        DEVELOP PROCEDURES TO DISCRIMINATE BETWE NRR                                  05/80C                                    08/85C                N/A. N/A        N/A III.D.2.382)        DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN SITES AND PLANTS TH NRR                                  05/80C                                    08/85C                N/A    N/A        N/A III.D.2.3(3)        ESTABLISH FEASIBLE METHOD OF PATHWAY INT NRR                                  05/80C                                    08/85C                N/A    N/A        N/A III.D.2.3(4)        LIQUID PATHWAY RADIOLOGICAL CONTROL                                NRR        05/80C                                    08/85C                N/A    N/A        N/A III.D.2.5            0FFSITE DOSE CALCULATION MANUAL                                    NRR        05/80C                                    01/84C                N/A    N/A        N/A III.D.3.1            RADIATION PROTECTION PLANS                                          NRR        01/83C                          05/86C    05/86C l      III.D.3.3.1          INPLANT RAD. MONIT. - PROVIDE MEANS TO D NRR                                                                              00/00C j      III.D.3.3.2          INPLANT RADIATION MONIT. - MODIFICATIONS NRR                                                                                10/80C III.D.3.4.1          CONTROL ROOM HABITABTLTTY - REVTEW                                  NRR                                                  00/00C                      12/89    11/84C i
l      III.D.3.4.2          CONTROL ROOM HABITABILITY - SCHEDULE MOD NRR                                                                              09/86C                      12/89 l      III.D.3.4.3          CONTROL ROOM HABIT /BILITY - IMPLEMENT MO NRR                                                                            00/00C                                08/85C l      II.K.1.1            IE BULLETINS 05, 79-05A 79-05B                                NRR                                                  00/00C                                11/86C II.K,1.10            IE BULLETINS - OPERABILITY STATUS                                  NRR                                                    00/00C l      II.K.1.19            IE BULLETINS - TRIP PER LOW LEVEL B/S                              NRR                                                  00/00C
!      II.K.1.2            IE BULLETINS 06, 79-068                                        NRR                                                    00/00C            09/85C  09/85C    09/85C l      II.K.1.20            IE BULLETINS - PROMPT MANUAL REACTOR TRI NRR                                                                              00/00C l
II.K.1.21            IE BULLETINS - AUTO SG ANTICIPATORY REAC NRR                                                                              00/00C i      II.K.I.22            IE BULLETINS - AUX. HEAT REM SYSTM, PROC NRR                                                                              00/00C                                07/86C t      II.K.1.23            IE BULLETINS - RV LEVEL, PROCEDURES                                NRR                                                  00/00C l      II.K.I.3            IE BULLETINS 06, 79-06A. 79-06A REV NRR                                                                              00/00C              09/85C  09/85C    09/85C l      II.K.1.4            IE BULLETINS 03                                                NRR                                                    00/00C II.M.1.5            IE BULLETINS - REVIEW ESF VALVES                                    NRR                                                    00/00C II.K.2.10            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - SAFETY-GRADE TRIP NRR                                                                              00/00C                      00/87 l      II.K.2.11            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - OPERATOR TRAINING NRR                                                                                00/00C            02/82C  04/86C    06/86C l      II.K.2.13            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - THERMAL E CHANICA NRR                                                                                00/00C II.K.2.14            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - LIFT FREQUENCY OF NRR                                                                                00/00C                                N/A II.K.2.15            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - EFFECTS OF SLUG F NRR                                                                              00/00C II.K.2.16            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - RCP SEAL DAMAGE                              NRR                                                    00/00C                    00/87      N/A II.K.2.17            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - VOIDING IN RCS (C NRR                                                                                08/80C                    01/84    06/85C II.K.2.19            BENCHMARK ANALYSIS OF SEQUENTIAL AFW FLO NRR                                                                                00/00C II.K.2.2            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - PROCEDURES TO CON NRR                                                                                00/00C II.K.2.20            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - SYSTEM RESPONSE T NRR                                                                                00/00C            08/81C  08/81C      N/A II.K.2.8            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - UPGRADE AFW SYSTE NRR                                                                                00/00C            11/80C  11/80C                  .
II.K.2.9            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - FEMA ON ICS                                  NRR                                                    OS/80C II.K.3.1.A          FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS B&O TASK FORCE - A NRR                                                                                10/86C                              03/84C II.K.3.1.B          FINAL        RECDP99ENDATIONS,8&O                TASK FORCE  - A NRR                                                      00/00C II.K.3.10            FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - P NRR                                                                                00/00C                    00/87 II.K.3.11            FINAL REC 0999ENDATIONS B&O TASK FORCE - J NRR                                                                              00/00C
 
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                                                                                        ......  ......../ P R 0 J E C T E D SPON APPROVAL /                  TECH          REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENT LICENSEE ISSUE NUMBER                            TITLE                            OFF PLANNING RESOLUTION                                        REVIEW            IMPOSITION IMPLEMENT VERIFICAT II.K.3.12.A          FINAL RECOM..B&O TASK FORCE - ANTICIP. T NRR                                                                            00/00C II.K.3.12.B          FINAL RECOM..B&O TASK FORCE - ANTICIPATO NRR                                                                            00/00C II.K.3.13.A          FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - H NRR                                                                            10/80C                          03/89        02/86C II.K.3.13.8          FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS B&O TASK FORCE - H NRR                                                                            00/00C                          03/89 II.K.3.14            FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - I NRR                                                                            00/00C              06/82C      12/81C II.K.3.15            FINAL RECOPe4ENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - I NRR                                                                          00/00C
!          II.K,3.16.A          FINAL RECOM..B&O TASK FORCE - CHALLENGE NRR                                                                            00/00C                                        05/86C l          II.H.3.16.B          FINAL RECOM. .B&O TASK FORCE - CHALLENGE NRR                                                                            00/00C II.K.3.17            FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - E NRR                                                                          00/00C II.K.3.18.A          FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - A NRR                                                                          00/00C              05/87      11/89        06/83C II.K.3.18.B          FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE . A NRR                                                                          04/83C              05/87      11/89        06/83C  .
II.K.3,18.C          FINAL RECOP94ENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - A NRR                                                                          00/00C              05/87      11/89 II.K.3.19            FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - I NRR                                                                          00/00C              05/85C II.K.3.2            FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - R NRR                                                                            00/00C                                        03/85C II.K.3.20            FINAL RECOP94ENDATIONS B&O TASK FORCE - L NRR                                                                          00/00C                / C        / C II.K.3.21.A          FINAL RECope9ENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - R NRR                                                                          10/80C                                        10/83C II.K.3.21.8          FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - R NRR                                                                          00/00C II.K.3.22.A          FINAL RECOPO4ENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - R NRR                                                                          01/82C II.K.3.22.8          FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - R NRR                                                                          01/82C II.K.3.24            FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - S NRR                                                                            00/00C II.K.3.25.A          FINAL REC 0pe4ENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE . P NRR                                                                        00/00C II.K.3.25.8          FINAL REC 0pe4ENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - P NRR                                                                          10/80C                          01/90 II.K.3.27            FINAL REC 0pe4ENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - C NRR                                                                          10/80C                          03/89 II.K.3.28            FINAL REC 0pe4ENDATIONS B&O TASK FORCE - Q NRR                                                                        03/83C                          03/89 II.K.3.29            FINAL REC 0094ENDATIONS B&O TASK FORCE - P NRR                                                                        00/00C              02/84C      02/86C        N/A II.K.3.3              FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - R NRR                                                                          00/00C II.K.3.30.A          FINAL REC 0t#4ENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - S NRR                                                                        03/83C              01/88      01/87        02/85C II.K.3.30.8          FINAL RECOP99ENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - S NRR                                                                          03/83C              01/88      03/88        02/85C II.K.3.30.C          FINAL REcopetENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - S NRR                                                                          00/00C II.K 3.31            FINAL RECOpe4ENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - C NRR                                                                          03/85C              06/88      03/89        02/87C II.K.3.40            FINAL REC 0pe4ENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE . R NRR                                                                          00/00C                N/A        N/A
,          II.K.3.43            FINAL REC 09#4ENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - E NRR                                                                          00/00C                N/A        N/A I          II.K.3.44            FINAL RECOM. .B&O TASK FORCE - EVAL. TRAN NRR                                                                          10/80C                                        03/83C II.K.3.45            FINAL RECOM..B&O TASK FORCE - MANUAL DEP NRR                                                                            00/00C                                        03/83C II.K.3.46            RESPONSE TO LIST OF CONCERNS FROM ACRS C NRR                                                                            00/00C II.K.3.5.A          FINAL RECO$e4ENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - A NRR                                                                          00/00C                          11/90        09/85C II.K.3.5.8          FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - A NRR                                                                            11/82C                          11/90 II.K.3.57            IDENTIFY WATER SOURCES PRIOR TO MANUAL A NRR                                                                          00/00C II.K.3.7            FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - E NRR                                                                            00/00C                                          N/A II.K.3.9            FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS.B&O TASK FORCE - P NRR                                                                            00/00C
!          IV.C.1              EXTEND LESSONS LEARNED FROM TMI TO OTHER NMSS                    05/B0C                                                04/83C                N/A        N/A          N/A-1 IV.E.5              ASSESS CURRENTLY OPERATING REACTORS                      NRR      05/80C                                                09/85C                N/A        N/A          N/A MPA-A-01              10 CFR 50.55 AlG) - ISI                                NRR                                                            00/00C                          00/87 MPA-A-02            APPENDIX I - ALARA                                      NRR                                                            09/86C                          11/87          N/A
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SPON APPROVAL /            TECH        REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENT LICENSEE ISSUE NUMBER                          TITLE                    OFF PLANNING RESOLUTION                    REVIEW          IMPOSITION IMPLEMENT VERIFICAT MPS-A-03          SECURITY REVIEWS-MODIFIED AMENDMENT PLAN NRR                                            08/77C            02/81C          05/86      N/A MPA-A-04          APPENDIX J - CONTAINMENT LEAK TESTING        NRR                                        08/75C            04/87            03/89      N/A MPA-A-05          GE MARK I CONTAINMENT TECH SPECS-SHORT T NRR                                              10/76C            01/79C          11/79C      N/A MPA-A-06          RESPIRATORY PROTECTION SYSTEM                NRR                                        08/77C            12/81C          03/85C      N/A MPA-A-07          APPENDIX G - FRACTURE TOUGHNESS              NRR                                        05/76C            04/84C                      N/A MPA-A-08          ECCS EVALUATION-GENERIC PER 50.46 COMPLI NRR                                            00/00C            12/81C          12/81C      N/A MPA-A-09          PRESSURE VESSEL BELTLINE MATERIAL SURVEI NRR                                              11/78C                            05/80      N/A MPA-A-10          CONTINGENCY PLANNING                          NRR                                        03/79C            04/83C                      N/A MPA-A-11          GUARD TRAINING PLANS                          NRR                                        08/79C                                          N/A MPA-A-12          VITAL AREA ANALYSIS                          NRR                                        08/79C                              04/82      N/A MPA-A-13          NON POWER REACTOR SAFEGUARDS PLANS            NRR                                        01/79C
! MPA-A-14          10CFR 50.55 A(G) - INSERVICE TESTING          NRR                                        04/76C            05/87            05/90      N/A MPA-A-15          QUALITY ASSURANCE REQUEST REGARDING DIES NRR                                              10/81C                            00/87 MPA-A-16          QUALIFICATIONS OF EXAMINATION, INSPECTIO NRR                                              08/81C            09/82C MPA-A-18          TECH SPECS AFFECTED BY 50.72 AND 50.73 ( NRR                                              11/84C            08/87            12/87      N/A MPA-A-19          RECOMBINER CAPABILITY BWR MARK I              NRR                                        07/84C            09/87            01/90 MPA-A-20          10 CFR 50.62 OPERATING REACTOR REVIEWS        NRR                                        06/84C            12/88            02/91 MPA-A-21          10 CFR 50.61, PRESSURIZED THERMAL SHOCK NRR                                              01/86C            12/87            00/90 MPA-B-01          DIESEL GENERATOR LOCKOUT                      NRR                                        11/77C            10/82C MPA-B-02          FIRE PROTECTION                              NRR                                        05/76C            11/80C          12/88      N/A MPA-B-03          PWR MODERATOR DILUTION                        NRR                                        09/77C            04/82C          12/87 MPA-B-06          BWR RELIEF VALVE                              NRR                                        08/77C            10/80C          05/79      N/A MPA-B-07          STEAM GENERATOR FEEDWATER FLOW INSTABILI NRR                                              09/77C            11/81C          06/86C 04/81C 1 MPA-B-08          PWR HPSI-LPSI FLOW RESISTANCE                NRR                                        05/78C            10/84C                      N/A I MPA-B-09          CHARGING SYSTEMS PIPE VIBRATIONS              NRR                                        05/78C l
MPA-B-10          BURNABLE POISON ROD FAILURE - B&W            NRR                                        05/78C            03/80C          01/79C MPA-B-11          FLOOD OF EQUIPMENT IMPORTANT TO SAFETY        NRR                                        09/72C            10/81C          05/86C MPA-B-12          STEAM GENERATOR TUBE INSPECTION              NRR                                        08/74C            05/81C          08/84C      N/A MPA-B-13          FUEL ROD BOW                                  NRR                                        08/76C            01/82C                      N/A MPA-B-14          CEA GUIDE TUBE WEAR                          NRR                                        07/78C            09/81C          11/86      N/A MPA-B-15          C-E POISON ROD GROWTH                        NRR                                        02/76C            09/80C          00/00C      N/A MPA-B-16          EMERGENCY PLANNING AND REVISIONS              NRR                                        11/80C                            00/83      N/A MPA-B-17          TECH SPEC SURVEILLANCE FOR HYDRAULIC SNU NRR                                              04/80C            08/87            08/90      N/A MPA-B-18          WORTHINGTON RHR PUMP SHAFT INTEGRITY          NRR                                        09/77C            03/79C          12/78C      N/A MPA-B-19          NEUTRON SHIELDING - CE REACTORS              NRR                                        01/77C            05/80C          05/79C MPA-B-20          CONTAINMENT LEAKAGE DUE TO SEAL DETERIOR NRR                                              12/78C            09/81C          04/87      N/A MPA-B-21          LOSS OF 125-V DC BUS VOLTAGE WITH LOSS O NRR                                              12/78C            05/82C          02/82      N/A MPA-B-22          TECH SPEC SURVEILLANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR NRR                                              08/78C            08/87            08/90      N/A MPA-B-23          DEGRADED GRID VOLTAGE                        NRR                                        05/82C            04/85C          01/90 MPA-B-24          VENTING AND PURGING CONTAINMENTS WHILE A NRR                                              04/79C            02/86C          09/89 MPA-B-26          INADVERTANT SAFETY INJECTION DURING COOL NRR                                              09/79C            03/31C                      N/A MPA-B-27          REVIEW RESPONSES TO IE BULLETIN 78-03 (0 NRR                                              00/00C            02/81C MPA-B-28          BWR JLT PUMP FLOW INDICATION ELIMINATION NRR                                              03/76C            02/81C MPA-B-29          BWR FEEDWATER PUMP TRIP                      NRR                                        11/78C                            04/87 l
 
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PAGE    8 R-1216530A-001 SAFETY                          ISSUE                                                              MANAGEMENT                          SYSTEM STATUS SELECTED ISSUES RESOLVED ACTUAL                                                      C0MPLETION                DATES
                                                                                                                                                                        --.....-......./..P                        R 0 J E C T E D SPON APPROVAL /                            TECH          REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENT LICENSEE ISSUE NUMBER                    TITLE                                                                        OFF PLANNING RESOLUTION                                      REVIEW            IMPOSITION IMPLEMENT VERIFICAT MPA-B-30                STEAM GENERATOR REPLACEMENT PROGRAM                                                              NRR                                                          08/77C              07/81C      00/83C      N/A    I MPA-B-31                LONG SHAFT LHSI & OUTSIDE RECIRC. PUMP D NRR                                                                                                                    05/78C              03/82C      00/79C MPA-B-32                BLOCKED SI SIGNAL DURING COOLDOWN                                                                NRR                                                          04/78C                11/84C    02/86        N/A MPA-B-35                ORIFICE ROD ASSEMBLY INTEGRITY - B&W                                                              NRR                                                          05/78C              02/80C      05/79C MPA-B-36                RESISTANCE TEMPERATURE DETECTOR (RTD) RE NRR                                                                                                                    05/78C              08/81C      03/82C      N/A MPA-B-37                STEAM GENERATOR TUBE DENTING AND SUPPORT NRR                                                                                                                    01/78C              02/81C      00/82C      N/A MPA-B-38                TENDON SURVEILLANCE - BECHTEL CONTAINMEN NRR                                                                                                                    10/77C                08/83C    03/85C      N/A t                                            MPA-B-39                PWR PRESSURE - TEMPERATURE LIMIT TECH SP NRR                                                                                                                    08/78C                03/81C    00/88        N/A
!                                            MPA-B-40                PIPE SUPPORT BASE PLATES                                                                          NRR                                                          04/79C                01/81C-    03/85 MPA-B-41                FIRE PROTECTION - FINAL TECH SPECS (INCL NRR                                                                                                                    08/79C                12/86C    12/87 MPA-B-42                TMI FOLLOW UP - ALL PLANTS                                                                        NRR                                                          00/00C                11/81C    09/87        N/A MPA-B-43                PWR FEEDWATER LINE CRACKS                                                                        NRR                                                          10/80C                05/82C    05/82        N/A MPA-B-44                LESSONS LEARNED IMPLEMENTATION                                                                    NRR                                                          09/79C                11/81C    09/87        N/A MPA-B-45                WASH 1400 EVENT V. " PRIMARY COOLANT SYST NRR                                                                                                                  02/80C                04/81C    01/88 MPA-B-46                ANALYSIS OF TURBINE DISC CRACKS                                                                  NRR                                                          12/79C                05/85C    00/87        N/A MPA-B-47                ECCS: CLAD SWELLING AND RUPTURE                                                                  NRR                                                          11/79C                04/81C    07/80        N/A    ,
MPA-B-48                ADEQUACY OF STATION ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTIO NRR                                                                                                                    01/80C                05/85C    09/89 MPA-B-49                PWR CONTROL ROD MISALIGNMENT                                                                      NRR                                                            10/79C              06/32C    06/82C      N/A MPA-B-51                EVALUATION OF BULLETIN 79-06 AND 79-08                                                            NRR                                                          04/79C                07/81C                  N/A MPA-B-52                REVIEW OF SAFETY ASPECT OF INADVERTENT S NRR                                                                                                                    06/79C                06/81C    10/80        N/A MPA-B-53                LESSONS LEARNED CATEGORY B (ITEMS)                                                                NRR                                                          10/80C                06/81C    10/84C      N/A MPA-B-54                LESSONS CATEGORY A TECH SPEC                                                                      NRR                                                          00/00C                10/81C    09/86        N/A MPA-B-55                B&O REPORT ON BWRS                                                                                NRR                                                          07/79C                09/80C-                N/A MPA-B-56                CONTROL RODS FAILURE TO INSERT. BWR                                                              NRR                                                          09/78C                06/81C                  N/A MPA-B-57                DHR CAPABILITY                                                                                    NRR                                                          06/80C                06/87      02/88        N/A MPA-B-59                MASONRY WALL DESIGN                                                                              NRR                                                          05/80C                12/87      00/90 MPA-B-61                LOSS OF NON CLASS IE ISC POWER                                                                    NRR                                                            11/79C              08/82C    07/89 M?A-B-62                ESF RESET CONTROL DESIGN DEFICIENCY                                                              NRR                                                          03/80C                03/84C    08/89 MPA-B-63                INTERIM PROCEDURES FOR SHORT TERM BLACK 0 NRR                                                                                                                  03/81C                10/82C                          l MPA-B-64                B&C INDUCED FLUX ERRORS                                                                          NRR                                                            11/80C              05/82C    04/82C      N/A MPA-B-66                NATURAL CIRCULATION COOLDOWN                                                                      NRR                                                            12/85C              12/87      00/90-MPA-B-67                THERMAL SHOCK                                                                                    NRR                                                          08/81C                02/83C    01/86C      N/A MPA-B-69                IEB 80-4 MAINSTEAM LINE BREAK WITH CONTI NRR                                                                                                                    00/00C                02/85C MPA-B-70                FATIGUE TRANSIENT LIMIT TS                                                                        NRR                                                          07/81C                05/82C                  N/A MPA-B-72                NUREG 0737 TECH SPECS (GENERIC LETTER 82 NRR                                                                                                                    03/83C                07/87      00/90        N/A MPA-B-73                PLANS FOR PREVENTING EXCEEDING PTS SCREE NRR                                                                                                                    02/83C-              12/83C    02/85C      N/A MPA-B.74                THERMAL SHIELD FOLLOW UP ANALYSIS                                                                NRR                                                          06/83C.              05/84C    09/84C      N/A MPA-B-83                TECH SPECIFICATIONS COVERED BY GENERIC L NRR                                                                                                                    11/86C              12/87      11/90        N/A MPA-C-01                PWR SECONDARY WATER CHEMISTRY MONITORING NRR                                                                                                                    08/76C-              06/87C    01/87        N/A MPA-C-02                BWR-RECIRC. PUMP TRIP (ATWS)                                                                      NRR                                                          08/76C                08/79C    00/88 MPA-C-03                QUALIFICATIONS OF RADIATION PROTECTION M NRR                                                                                                                    03/77C                07/82C    07/82C.      N/A MPA-C-04                FILTER TECH SPECS                                                                                NRR                                                            11/74C              05/84C    08/82        N/A MPA-C-05                CONVERSION TO STANDARD TECH SPECS                                                                NRR                                                          08/76C-              01/82C                  N/A MPA-C-06                PUMP SUPPORT-LAMELLAR TEARING                                                                    NRR                                                          09/77C                12/82C                  N/A
 
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ACTUAL /PR0JECTED                                          C0MPLETION              DATES SPON APPROVAL /                TECH          REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENT LICENSEE ISSUE NUMBER                                          TITLE                  OFF PLANNING RESOLUTION                            REVIEW            IMPOSITION IMPLEMENT VERIFICAT MPA-C-07                                    FUEL HANDLING ACCIDENT INSIDE CONTAINMEN NRR                                                    01/77C              01/85C                  N/A MPA-C-08                                    BWR POST LOCA H2 CONTROL                    NRR                                                09/75C              05/81C      00/89        N/A MPA-C-09                                    PWR AUX FW PUMPS                            NRR                                                02/78C              03/81C                    N/A MPA-C-11                                    RPS POWER SUPPLY                            NRR                                                06/78C              06/85C      06/87 MPA-C-12                                    BORON SOLUBILITY DURING LONG TERM C00LIN NRR                                                    01/77C              07/82C      09/82C        N/A MPA-C-13                                    LOSS OF OFFSITE POWER                        NRR                                                02/80C              05/80C      00/80C        N/A MPA-C-14                                    AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SEISMIC QUALIFICATIO NRR                                                    02/81C              01/87C      12/90 MPA-C-16                                    UTILITY RESPONSES TO STAFF RECOMMENDATIO NRR                                                    06/85C              08/87      00/89        N/A MPA-D-02                                    ECCS ZIRC CLAD MODEL ERROR-COMPLIANCE WI NRR                                                    05/78C              09/80C      04/79        N/A MPA-D-03                                    PRESSURIZER HEATUP RATE ERROR                NRR                                                10/77C            07/79C                  N/A MPA-D-04                                    PWR REACTOR VESSEL CAVITY SEAL RING MISS NRR                                                    02/78C              02/84C      12/87 MPA-D-05                                    PLANT UPI MODEL PROBLEM                      NRR                                                01/79C              12/86C      12/88        N/A MPA-D-06                                    PEAKING MODEL CHANGE FOR CE REACTOR CORE NRR                                                    01/78C              12/78C      03/79C        N/A MPA-D-07                                    BWR POWER LEVEL FOR RWM                      NRR                                                01/77C              01/80C                    N/A MPA-D-08                                    DEFICIENCY IN CHEM ADDITION TO CONTAINME NRR                                                    09/75C              04/80C      01/83C MPA-D-09                                    GE ECCS INPUT ERRORS                        NRR                                                12/78C            04/79C      04/79C        N/A MPA-D-11                                    FISSION GAS RELEASE                          NRR                                                11/76C            09/81C      02/80        N/A MPA-D-13                                    B&W SMALL BREAK ERROR                        NRR                                                04/78C              06/80C      00/81C        N/A MPA-D-14                                    REACTOR VESSEL WELD - WIRE DEFICIENCY        NRR                                                08/78C              10/80C                    N/A MPA-D-15                                    HIGH ENERGY LINE BREAK & CONSEQUENTIAL S NRR                                                    09/79C              02/84C      00/87        N/A MPA-D-16                                    REVIEW OF CORPORATE MANAGEMENT CAPABILIT NRR                                                    06/79C              02/82C                    N/A MPA-D-17                                    DEFINITION OF OPERABLE                      NRR                                                04/80C              08/87      06/87        N/A MPA-D-18                                    NUREG 0630 CLADDING MODELS (B&W PLANTS) NRR                                                    06/83C              10/83C      05/86C        N/A MPA-D-20                                    MARK I DRYWELL VACUUM BREAKERS - LICENSE NRR                                                    06/85C            02/87      12/89 MPA-E-01                                    SPENT FUEL POOL EXPANSIONS                  NRR                                                07/79C            01/82C      07/85C MPA-E-02                                    FUEL CASK DROP                              NRR                                                09/75C            09/81C      07/85C        N/A MPA-E-03                                    CORE RELOADS REQUIRING PRIOR NRC APPROVA NRR                                                    00/00C            11/81C      04/79 MPA-E-06                                    CEA POSITION INDICATION FAILURES - CE        NRR                                                07/78C            04/82C      04/82C        N/A MPA-E-07                                    REACTOR PROTECTION SYSTEM LOGIC - CE        NRR                                                12/77C            03/82C      04/85C        N/A MPA-F-08                                    I.D.1.1 DETAILED CONTROL ROOM DESIGN REV NRR                                                    09/86C            12/87      00/90 MPA-F-63                                    III.A.1.2    TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTER      NRR                                                04/83C            01/88      06/90 MPA-F-64                                    III.A.1.2    OPERATIONAL SUPPORT CENTER    NRR                                                00/00C            01/88      06/89 MPA-F-65                                    III.A.1.2    EMERGENCY OPERATIONS FACILITY NRR                                                  03/84C            01/88      05/89 MPA-F-66                                    III.A.I.2    NUCLEAR DATA LINK              NRR                                                00/00C                        12/87 MPA-F-71                                    I.D.I.2 DETAILED CONTROL ROOM REVIEW (FO NRR                                                    02/87C            01/89      12/90 NMSS-2                                      ACCESS AUTHORIZATION                        NMSS        06/80C            10/85C                04/87              12/87      04/88          /89 NMSS-3                                      MISC AMEND CONCERN PHYSICAL PROTECTION O NMSS            06/80C            10/85C                08/86              10/86        /87          /87 NMSS-4                                      SEARCHES OF INDIVIDUALS AT POWER REACTOR NMSS            06/80C            10/85C                08/86              10/86        /87          /87 NMSS-5                                      REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR SAFEGUARDS EV NMSS            11/84C          07/86                04/87                /86        /87          /87 NMSS-7                                      REQUIREMENTS FOR CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS NMSS            07/86C            08/86                03/87                /87        /88          /88
 
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12                      BWR JET PUMP INTEGRITY                        TECH RES    N/A        N/A                        N/A    N/A 14                      PWR PIPE CRACKS                                TECH RES    N/A        N/A                        N/A    N/A 20                      EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE ON NUCL TECH RES          N/A        N/A                        N/A    N/A 22                        INADVERTENT BORON DILUTION EVENTS            TECH RES    N/A        N/A                        N/A    N/A 23                      REACTOR COOLANT PUMP SEAL FAILURES            TECH RES 08/87        02/88                      02/90 40                B-65 SAFETY CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH PIPE BRE REQ IMPO                            MULTIPLANT ACTIO            N/A 48                      LCO FOR CLASS 1E VITAL INSTRUMENT BUSES TECH RES 50                      REACTOR VESSEL LEVEL INSTRUMENTATION IN TECH RES            N/A        N/A                        N/A    N/A 65                      COMPONENT COOLING WATER SYSTEM FAILURES TECH RES                      N/A                        N/A 67.3.3            A-17 IMPROVED ACCIDENT MONITORING                    STAFF REV 04/83C 06/87        MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/89 67.4 1            G-01 RCP TRIP                                        STAFF REV 02/83C 09/87        MULTIPLANT ACTIO 02/85C
* 68                      LOSS OF AFWS DUE TO AFW STEAM HELB            TECH RES              04/91                      04/94 75 !B-76)          B-76 ITEM 1.1 - POST TRIP REVIEW: PROGRAM DES IMP STAFF 11/83C 06/86C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 05/86C                  N/A 75 'B-77)          B-77 ITEM 2.1 - EQUIPMENT CLASSIFICATION & VE STAFF REV 11/83C 04/87                MULTIPLANT ACTIO 12/86      N/A 75 (B 78)          B-78 ITEMS 3.1.1 & 3.1.2 -POST MAINTENANCE TE IMPL LIC 11/83C 09/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 12/86                    N/A 75 (B-79)          B-73 ITEM 3.1.3 - POST MAINTENANCE TESTING - IMP STAFF 11/83C 09/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/84C                    N/A 75 (B-80)          B-80 ITEM 4.1 - REACTOR TRIP SYSTEM RELIABILI VER STAFF 11/83C 09/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 09/85C 75 (B-81)          B-81 ITEMS 4.2.1 & 4.2.2 -PREVENTATIVE MAINT IMP STAFF 11/83C 06/86C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 10/85C                    N/A 75 (B-82)          B-82 ITEM 4.3 - AUTOMATIC ACTUATION OF SHUNT VER STAFF 11/83C 03/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 03/85C 75 (B-85)          B-85 SALEM ATWS 1.2 DATA CAPABILITY                  IMP STAFF 11/84C 09/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 09/85C            N/A 75 (B-86)          B-86 SALEM ATWS 2.2 S-R COMPONENTS                  STAFF REV 11/84C 04/87        MULTIPLANT ACTIO 12/86      N/A 75 (B-87)          B-87 SALEM ATWS 3.2.1 & 3.2.2 S-R COMPONENTS IMPL LIC 11/84C 09/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 12/86                      N/A 75 (B-88)          B-88 SALEM ATWS 3.2.3 T.S. S-R COMPONENTS            IMP STAFF 11/84C 09/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/84C            N/A 75 (B-89)          B-89 SALEM ATWS 4.2.3 & 4.2.4 LIFE COMPONENTS STAFF REV 11/84C 01/87                MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/88      N/A 75 (B-90)          B-90 SALEM ATWS 4.3 W AND B&W T.S.                  STAFF REV 07/84C 04/87        MULTIPLANT ACTIO 08/85C    N/A 75 (B-91)          B-91 SALEM ATWS 4.4 B&W TEST PROCEDURES              IMP STAFF 11/84C 01/87C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/84C            N/A
  . 75 (B-92)          B-92 SALEM ATWS 4.5.1 DIVERSE TRIP FEATURES          IMP STAFF 11/84C 09/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/84C            N/A 75 (B-93)          B-93 SALEM ATWS 4.5.2 & 4.5.3 TEST ALTERNATIV STAFF REV 11/84C 07/87                MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/84C    N/A 77                      FLOODING OF SAFETY EQUIP. COMPARTMENTS B TECH RES                    06/88                      06/91 82                      BEYOND DESIGN BASES ACCIDENTS IN SPENT F TECH RES                    11/90                      11/93 83                      CONTOL ROOM HABITABILITY                      TECH RES      /87      /92                        /92 93                      STEAM BINDING OF AFW PUMPS                    TECH RES              08/91                      08/93 94                      ADDITIONAL LOW-TEMPREATURE OVERPRESSURE TECH RES                    06/91                      06/94 99                      RCS/RHR SUCTION LINE INTERLOCKS ON PWRS TECH RES                    01/91                      01/93 105                      INTERFACING SYSTEMS LOCA AT LWRS              TECH RES              04/91                      04/94          -
04/94              T 122.1B                  RECOVERY OF AUXILIARY FEEDWATER                TECH RES              04/91 122.1C                    INTERRUPTION OF AUXILIARY FEEDWATER FLOW TECH RES                  04/91                      04/94 124                      AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM RELIABILITY _ TECH RES                    04/91                      04/94 s
 
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i I              R-1216320-001 05/21/87 SAFETY                    I S.S U E          MANAGEMENT                                  SYSTEM PLANT DATA.
BY GENERIC ISSUES                                                                                                                  s 1
NSSS          THERMAL                                                                                                  OL            OL PLANT                                                DOCKET    TYPE            SUPPLIER      CAPACITY                                LICENSEE
  <            ___ ....___.........._. ..___...                                                    .... ........ -                ........          .. ._ ..................... .......' STATE REGION _ ISSUE EXPIRATION
,              CRYSTAL RIVER 3                                                          05000302    PWR          B&W              2544 MWT FLORIDA POWER CORPORATION                                              FL          2          01/77C      09/08-        -
STAGE OF IMPO.                    I'MPO .'                              IMPL,          VERIFY                        l APPLICABLE ISSUES                                                                        .
RESOLUT            INIT.          COMP.              METHOD-            COMP. COMPLET 133                                        UPDATE POLICY STATEMENT ON NUCLEAR POWER TECH RES                                                                      12/87                                12/87
              -134                                        RULE ON DEGREE AND EXPERIENCE REQ. FOR S REQ IMPO                                                                      09/88                                09/88 IMP STAFF N/A                        N/A
            . A- 1                                      WATER HAMMER                                                                                                                                                      N/A              N/A A-2                            D-10 ASYPO4ETRIC BLOWDOWN' LOADS ON REACTOR PRI IMP STAFF 03/79C 01/84C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 01/84I-                                                                                                N/A A-11                                        REACTOR VESSEL MATERIALS TOUGHNESS                                                  IMP STAFF N/A                        N/A                                    N/A              N/A
            .A-16                            D-12 STEAM EFFECTS ON BWR CORE SPRAY-DISTRIBU REQ'IMPO                                                                                            MULTIPLANT ACTIO                              N/A A-17                                        SYSTEM INTERACTIONS IN NUCLEAR POWER PLA REQ IMPO                                                                      06/88                                06/91
:              A-24                            B-60 QUALIFICATION OF CLASS IE SAFETY-RELATED VER STAFF 08/80C 02/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 08/85C 0              A-26                            B-04 REACTOR VESSEL PRESSURE TRANSIENT PROTEC VER STAFF'08/76C 07/79C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/00C l            A-29                                        NUCLEAR POWER PLANT VULNERABILITY TO SAB TECH RES 07/87                                                                02/93                                02/96
            -A-30                                        ADEQUACY OF SAFETY-RELATED DC POWER SUPP TECH RES A-36 (C-10)                    C-10 CONTROL OF HEAVY LOADS OVER SPENT FUEL P VER STAFF 08/77C 07/84C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/841                                                                                                                          ~t l            A-36 (C-15)                    C-15 CONTROL OF HEAVY LOADS - PHASE II-(FOLLO VER STAFF 05/83C 06/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 06/85C-
            'A-40                                        SEISMIC DESIGN CRITERIA'                                                            TECH RES A-41                                        LONG-TERM SEISMIC PROGRAM                                                            IMP STAFF N/A                        N/A                                    N/A-              N/A A-43                                      CONTAIleMENT EMERGENCY SUMP PREFORMANCE                                              REO IMP 0                /82      10/85                                    N/A-          'N/A.
            - A-44 '                                      STATION BLACKOUT                                                                    REQ-IMPO                              /90                                    /92 A-45                                        SHUTDOWN DECAY HEAT REMOVAL REQUIREMENTS TECH RES-A                                      PRESSURIZED THERMAL SHOCK                                                            REQ IMPO          01/86          12/86                                12/86 8-26                                      STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF CONTAINMENT PENE IMP STAFF N/A                                                                      N/A                                    N/A              N/A
        ,' B-53                                          LOAD BREAK SWITCH                                                                    TECH RES B-56                            D-19 DIESEL GENERATOR RELIABILITY                                                                                  09/84C 09/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 09/85I                                      N/A
-              8-58                                        PASSIVE MECHANICAL-FAILURES                                                          IMP STAFF N/A                        N/A                                    N/A              N/A
!              B.60                                        LOOSE PARTS MONITORING SYSTEMS                                                      IMP STAFF N/A.                        N/A.                                  N/A              N/A' 1              8-61                                      ALLOWABLE ECCS EQUIPMENT OUTAGE PERIODS TECH RES                                                                        10/91                                10/94 l              C-11                                      ASSESSMENT OF FAILURE AND RELIABILITY OF IMP STAFF N/A                                                                      N/A                                    N/A              N/A                      '
j              HF 1.1                                    SHIFT STAFFING                                                                        REQ IMPO 10/83-
                                                                                                                                                      .                            01/84C.                              10/85C HF 1 2                                    ENGINEERING EXPERTISE ON SHIFT                                                        REQ IMPO 10/85                        N/A                                    N/A~
i              HF 8                                      MAINTENANCE AND SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM                                                  TECH RES
!              HF-02                                    MAINTENANCE AND SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM                                                  TECH RES I.A.1.1.1-                                SHIFT TECHNICAL ADVISOR .ON DUTY                                                      IMP STAFF                    C 11/80C                                    11/80C 07/80C 1
I.A.1.1.2                                  SHIFT TECHNICAL ADVISOR - TECH SPECS                                                  VER STAFF N/A                        N/A                                    N/A 1
I.A.1.1.3                      F-01 SHIFT TECHNICAL ADVISOR - TRAINED PER LL IMP STAFF 10/80C 02/82C TMI ACTION-PLAN 02/82C 05/81C.
d I.A.1.1.4                                . SHIFT TECHNICAL ADVISOR - DESCRIBE LONG VER STAFF                                                                  C        /81C                                  /81C                                        +
j              I.A.1.2                                    SHIFT SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES                                                    IMP STAFF                    C 11/80C                                  '11/80C 07/80C
,              I.A.1.3.1                      F-02 SHIFT MANNING - LIMIT OVERTIME                                                              IMP STAFF 04/81C 06/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 12/81C 05/81C I.A.1.3.2                      F-02 SHIFT MANNING - MIN SHIFT CREW                                                              IMP STAFF.04/81C 06/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 12/81C 05/81C I.A.1.4                                    LONG-TERM UPGRADE OF OPERATIONS PERSONNE REQ IMPO                                                                      04/83                                04/83                                          ,
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PLANT DATA BY GENERIC ISSUES NSSS        THERMAL                                                            -
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          .I.A.2.1.2 khMkbkkkkbPbkkhkkhbFkbkhkbTRkkhkhGTkbHkkh IMMEDIATE' UPGRADING OF PO & SRO TRAINING TECH RES b kkhkhb 11/80C
                                                                                                                                                                      ~          [khkhb-11/8GC I.A.2.1.3                          IMMEDIATE UPGRADING OF RU & SRO TRAINING TECH RES                                            11/80C                    .        11/80C I.A.2.1.4              F-03 IMMEDIATE UPGRADING OF RO & SRO TRAINING IMP STAFF 04/81C 04/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 04/83C 08/81C.
* I.A.2.1.5-                          IMMEDIATE UPGRADING OF RO & SRO TRAINING TECH RES                                            11/80C                              11/80C-              , -
I.A.2'.2                            TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS OF OPERATING REQ IMPO 03/85                                      12/86                              03/85          03/37 I.A.2.3                            ADMINISTRATION OF TRAINING PROGRAMS                                TECH RES                  11/80C                              11/80C I.A.2.6                          -LONG TERM UPGRADE OF TRAINING AND QUALIF REQ IMPO                                                /90                                  /90 I.A;2.7                            ACCREDITATION OF TRAINING INSTITUTIONS                              REQ IMPO 03/85            12/86      4 03/85          03/87. ~~                                    !
I.A.3.1.1                          REVISE SCOPE & CRITERIA FOR LICENSING EX TECH RES                                            11/80C                              11/80C 1
I.A.3.1.2                        sREVISE SCOPE & CRITERIA FOR LICENSING EX TECH RES                                              11/80C                              11/80C I.A.4-2                            LONG TERM TRAINING SIMULATOR UPGRADE                                REQ IMPO          186      /90                                  /90 C 11/80C                                11/80C 06/81C I.C 1.1                            .SHORT-TERM ~ ACCIDENT.& PROCEDURES REVIEW IMP STAFF
,          I .C. I . 2. A -        F-04 SHORT-TERM ACCID. & PROCEDURES REV. - IN IMP STAFF.04/81C 06/84C TMI ACTION PLAN 07/85C                                                                    - N/A I.C.1.2.B              F                                                                        - IN STAFF REV 04/81C 05/87 'TMI ACTION PLAN 07 85C E08/83C I.C.1.3.A              F_-05 SHORT-TERM ACCID. & PROCEDURES REV.04 SHORT-TERM. ACCID.:&                                                    TMI' ACTION      PLAN 07 85C- REV PROCEDURES                    N/A.TRA IMP STAFF I.C.I.3'B              F-05.SHORT-TERM ACCID. & PROCEDURES REV. - TR STAFF.REV 04/81C .05/87                                              TMI ACTION PLAN 07/85C 08/83C C 11/80C I.C.2                              SHIFT & RELIEF TURNOVER PROCEDURES                                  IMP STAFF                                                    11/80CL 07/80C I.C.3                              SHIFT-SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITY                                    IMP. STAFF-          C' 11/80C.                              11/80C. 07/80C IMP STAFF            C 11/80C                              '11/80C 07/80C I.C.4                              CONTROL-ROOM ACCESS                                                                                                                                                -                          6 I.C.5                  F-06 FEEDBACK OF OPERATING EXPERIENCE                                          IMP STAFF 11/81C 12/81C TMI ACTION PLAN 03/82C 05/81C                                                ,
I.C.6-                  F-07 VERIFY CORRECT PERFORMANCE OF OPERATING IMP STAFF 11/81C 12/81C TMI ACTION PLAN 12/81C ,05/ SIC I.D.2.1                F-09 PLANT-SAFETY PARAMETER DISPLAY CONSOLE - STAFF REV 04/83C 05/87                                                TMI ACTION PLAN- 06/86                                                              -i' j          I.D.2.2                F-09 PLANT-SAFETY _ PARAMETER DISPLAY CONSOLE ' STAFF REV 04/83C 05/87- TMI ACTION PLAN 06/86- 10/85C I.D.2.3                  F-09 PLANT-SAFETY PARAMETER DISPLAY CONSOLE --STAFF REV 04/83C 05/87                                                TMI ACTION PLAN 06/86                    10/85C-I.D.3 .
SAFETY SYSTEM STATUS MONITORING                                    TECH RES 06/89              /92                                  /95'            /96 II.B.1.1                            REACTOR-COOLANT SYSTEM VENTS - DESIGN VE IMP STAFF'10/80C 11/80C .TMI ACTION PLAN 11/80C -                                                            N/A-II.B.1.2                F-10 REACTOR-COOLANT SYSTEM VENTS -1 INSTALL V IMP-STAFF 10/80C 09/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 07/85C 10/85C l          :II,B.1 3-  .            F-10 REACTOR-COOLANT SYSTEM VENTS - PROCEDURE IMP STAFF 10/80C 09/83C TMI ACTION. PLAN 07/85C 10/85C II.B.2.1                    ' . PLANT SHIELDING.- REVIEW DESIGNS                                        IMP STAFF            C 11/80C TMI ACTION PLAN 11/80C                            N/A II.B.2.3                F-11 PLANT SHIELDING - PLANT- MODIFICATIONS L. IMP STAFF 02/82C 11/83C .TMI ACTION-PLAN 07/83C 09/83C
          .II.B.2.4-                          PLANT SHIELDING J EQUIPMENT QUALIFICAT 0 IMP STAFF                                        C    N/A                                  N/A - 10/85C                                            !
4          II.B.3.1                      .  .POSTACCIDENT SAMPLING - INTERIM SYSTEM                              IMP STAFF            C 11/80C                                11/80C 05/81C                                              -
II.B.3.4                F-12 POSTACCIDENT SAMPLING - PLANT MODIFICATI IMP STAFF.10/80C 11/85C TMI ACTION PLAN 07/83C 03/84C II.B.4.1                F-13 TRAINING FOR MITIGATING CORE DAMAGE - DE.VER STAFF 10/80C 04/83C 1TMI ACTION PLAN 04/83C                                                                                                          -!
II.B.4.2.A              F-13 TRAINING FOR MITIGATING CORE: DAMAGE - IN IMP STAFF'10/80C- 04/83C TMI ACTION PLAN. 04/83C -08/81C II.B.4.2.B              F-13 TRAINING FOR MITIGATING CORE DAMAGE - CO IMP STAFF 10/80C 04/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 04/83C--08/81C                                                                                                      ,
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PAGE      4 R-1216320-001 05/21/87 SAFETY                    ISSUE                MANAGEMENT                                        SYSTEM PLANT DATA BY GENERIC ISSUES NSSS        THERMAL                                                                                              OL            OL PLANT                  DOCKET      TYPE            SUPPLIER    CAPACITY                                        LICENSEE                              STATE REGION ISSUE EXPIRATION CRYSTAL RIVER 3                          05000302    PWR          B&W            2544 MWT FLORIDA POWER CORPORATION                                                        FL    2    01/77C        09/08 STAGE OF              IMPO.            IMPO.                                IMPL. VERIFY APPLICABLE ISSUES                                                RESOLUT                INIT.            COMP.                  METHOD        COMP. COMPLET II.D.1.1                            RELIEF & SAFETY VALVE TEST REQUIREMENTS IMP STAFF 10/80C 11/80C TMI ACTION PLAN 11/80C                                                                N/A II.D.1.2.A                          RELIEF & SAFETY VALVE TEST REQUIREMENTS If1P STAFF 10/80C 12/83C THI ACTION PLAN 12/83C                                                              N/A II.D.1.2.8                    F-14 RELIEF & SAFETY VALVE TEST REQUIREMENTS STAFF REV 10/80C 05/87                                                            TMI ACTION PLAN 12/85C      N/A II.D.1.3                            RELIEF & SAFETY VALVE TEST REQUIREMENTS IMP STAFF 10/80C 12/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 12/83C                                                                N/A II.D.3.1                            VALVE POSITION INDICATION - INSTALL DIRE IMP STAFF                                              C 11/80C                                    11/80C 07/80C II.D.3.2                            VALVE POSITION INDICATION - TECH SPECS                        REQ IMPO                                    N/A                                N/A II.E.1.1.1                    F-15 AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM EVALUATION - VER STAFF 04/81C 04/84C TMI ACTION PLAN 08/85C II.E.1.1.2                    F-15 AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM EVALUATION - IMP STAFF 04/81C 04/84C TMI ACTION PLAN 08/85C 10/85C II.E.1.1.3                    F-15 AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM EVALUATIONS - VER STAFF 04/81C 04/84C TMI ACTION PLAN 08/85C II.E.1.2.1.A                        AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM INITIATION & IMP STAFF                                              C 11/80C TMI ACTION PLAN 11/80C 06/79C II.E.1.2.1.8                  F-16 AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM INITIATION & IMP STAFF 04/81C 03/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 08/85C 10/85C II.E.1.2.2.A                        AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM INITIATION & IMP STAFF                                              C 11/80C TMI ACTION PLAN 11/80C 07/80C II.E.1.2.2.8                        AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM INITIATION & IMP STAFF                                              C          N/A          TMI ACTION PLAN      N/A    N/A II.E.1.2.2.C                  F-17 AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SYSTEM INITIATION & IMP STAFF 04/81C 03/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 08/85C 10/85C II.E.2.2                            RESEARCH ON SMALL BREAK LOCAS AND ANOMAL TECH RES                                      N/A                N/A                                N/A    N/A II.E.3.1.1                          EMERGENCY POWER FOR PRESSURIZER HEATERS IMP STAFF                                              C 11/80C                                    11/80C 07/80C II.E.3.1.2                          EMERGENCY POWER FOR PRESSURIZER HEATERS REQ IMPO                                                          N/A                                N/A II.E.4.1.1                          DEDICATED HYDROGEN PENETRATIONS - DESIGN IMP STAFF                                              C 11/80C TMI ACTION PLAN 11/80C                      N/A II.E.4.1.3                    F-18 DEDICATED HYDROGEN PENETRATION - INSTALL IMP STAFF 04/81C 08/81C TMI ACTION PLAN 12/80C 05/80C II.E.4.2.1-4                        CONTAIMENT ISOLATION DEPENDABILITY - IMP IMP STAFF                                              C 11/80C TMI ACTION PLAN 11/80C 07/80C II.E.4.2.5,A                        CONTAINMENT ISOLAT. DEPENDABILITY - CNTH IMP STAFF                                              C 04/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 04/83C                      N/A II.E.4.2.5.8                        CONTAINMENT ISOLATION DEPENDABILITY - CN IMP STAFF                                              C 04/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 04/83C                      N/A II.E.4.2.6                    F-19 CONTAINMENT ISOLATION DEPENDABILITY - CN IMP STAFF 04/81C 04/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 04/83C 07/80C II.E.4.2.7                    F-19 CONTAINMENT ISOLATION DEPENDABILITY - RA IMP STAFF 04/81C 04/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 04/83C                                                                N/A II.E.4.2.8                          CONTAINMENT ISOLATION DEPENDABILITY - TE REQ IMPO                                                          N/A                                N/A II.E.4.3                            CONTAINMENT DESIGN INTEGRITY CHECK                            TECH RES                                05/92                                05/95 II.E.6.1                            IN SITU TESTING OF VALVES                                    TECH RES                                05/91                                05/94 II.F.1.2.A                    F-20 ACCIDENT-MONITORING - NOBLE GAS MONITOR IMP STAFF 04/81C 12/81C TMI ACTION PLAN 05/86C 10/85C II.F.1.2.B                    F-21 ACCIDENT-MONITORING - IODINE / PARTICULATE IMP STAFF 04/81C 12/81C TMI ACTION PLAN 07/83C 10/85C II.F.1.2.C                    F-22 ACCIDENT-MONITORING - CONTAINMENT HIGH-R IMP STAFF 04/81C 01/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 07/83C 10/85C II.F.1.2.D                    F-23 ACCIDENT-MONITORING - CONTAINMENT PRESSU IMP STAFF 01/82C 07/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 07/83C 04/84C II F.1.2.E                    F-24 ACCIDENT-MONITORING - CONTAINMENT WATER IMP STAFF 01/82C 07/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 07/83C 07/83C II.F.1.2.F                    F-25 ACCIDENT-MONITORING - CONTAINMENT HYDROG IMP STAFF 01/82C 07/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 07/83C 10/85C II.F.2.1                            INSTRUMENTATION FOR DETECT. OF INADEQUAT REQ IMPO                                                      11/80C                              11/80C II.F.2.2                            INSTRUMENTATION FOR DETECT. OF INADEQUAT IMP STAFF                                              C          N/A                                N/A  07/80C II.F.2.4                      F-26 INSTRUMENTATION FOR DETECT. OF INADEQUAT STAFF REV 04/81C 09/87                                                            TMI ACTION PLAN 08/85C 10/85C II.G.1.1                            POWER SUPP. FOR PRESSURIZER RELIEF. BLOCK IMP STAFF                                            C 11/80C                                    11/80C 07/80C II.G.I.2                            POWER SUPP. FOR PRESSURIZER RELIEF. BLOCK REQ IMPO                                                        N/A                                N/A
 
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SAFETY                  ISSUE              MANAGEMENT                        SYSTEM PLANT DATA BY GENERIC ISSUES NSSS          THERMAL                                                                                  OL        OL PLANT                  DOCKET    TYPE            SUPPLIER        CAPACITY                        -LICENSEE                            STATE REGION ISSUE EXPIRATION CRYSTAL RIVER 3                          05000302    PWR          B&W                2544 MWT FLORIDA POWER CORPORATION                                      FL      2    01/77C    09/08 STAGE OF      IMPO.      IMPO.                                  IMPL. VERIFY APPLICABLE ISSUES                                              RESOLUT        INIT.      COMP.            METHOD              COMP. COMPLET III.A.1.1                            EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, SHORT TERM                          REQ IMPO                  11/80C                                11/80C III.A.1.2.1                          UPGRADE EMERGENCY SUPPORT FACILITIES - I IMP STAFF                                C 11/80C                                    11/80C 07/80C III.A.1.2.2                          UPGRADE EMERGENCY SUPPORT FACILITIES - D REQ IMPO                                        N/A                                  N/A III.A.1.2.3                          UPGRADE EMER SUPPORT FACILITIES-MODS INC VER STAFF                                C      N/A                                  N/A III.A.I.3(2)                          MAINTAIN SUPPLIES OF THYROID BLOCKING AG TECH RES                          N/A          N/A                                  N/A      N/A III.A.2.1                      F-67 UPGRADE PREPAREDNESS - UPGRADE EMERGENCY IMP STAFF 07/81C 05/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 05/83C                                                    N/A III.A.2.2                      F-68 UPGRADE PREPAREDNESS - METER 0ROLOGICAL D IMP STAFF 04/81C 03/87C TMI ACTION PLAN 12/84C                                                  N/A III A.3.4                            NUCLEAR DATA LINK                                          TECH      RES  N/A          N/A                                  N/A      N/A III D.1.1.1                          PRIMARY COOLANT OUTSIDE CONTAIMENT - LEA IMP STAFF                                C 11/80C                                    11/80C 06/80C III.D.1.1.2                          PRIMARY COOLANT OUTSIDE CONTAIMENT - TEC REQ IMPO                                        N/A                                  N/A III.D.2.3(1)                          DEVELOP PROCEDURES TO DISCRIMINATE BETWE TECH RES                          N/A          N/A                                  N/A      N/A III.D 2.3(2)                          DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN SITES AND PLANTS TH TECH RES                          N/A          N/A                                  N/A      N/A III D.2.313)                          ESTABLISH FEASIBLE METHOD OF PATHWAY INT TECH RES                          N/A          N/A                                  N/A      N/A III D 2.3(4)                          LIQUID PATHWAY RADIOLOGICAL CONTROL                        TECH      RES  N/A          N/A                                  N/A      N/A III.D.2.5                            0FFSITE DOSE CALCULATION MANUAL                            TECH      RES  N/A          N/A                                  N/A      N/A III.D.3.3.1                          INPLANT RAD. MONIT. - PROVIDE MEANS TO D IMP STAFF                                C 11/80C                                    11/80C 06/80C III.D.3.3.2                    F-69 INPLANT RADIATION MONIT. - MODIFICATIONS IMP STAFF 04/81C 02/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 04/81C 06/80C III.D.3.4.1                    F-70 CONTROL ROOM HABITABILITY - REVIEW                            IMPL LIC 04/81C 02/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 00/87                                N/A III.D.3,4.2                    F-70 CONTROL ROOM HABITABILITY - SCHEDULE MOD IMPL LIC 04/81C 02/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 00/87 II.K.1.1                              IE BULLETINS 05, 79-05A, 79-05B                        IMP STAFF            C          C                                    C_ 06/81C II.K.2.10                      F-28 ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - SAFETY-GRADE TRIP IMP STAFF 04/81C 11/81C TMI ACTION PLAN 04/82C 12/81C II.K.2.11                      F-29 ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - OPERATOR TRAINING IMP STAFF 04/81C 02/82C TMI. ACTION PLAN 02/82C 06/81C II.K.2.13                      F-30 ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - THERMAL MECHANICA IMP STAFF 12/80C 04/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 01/81C                                                    N/A II.K.2.14                      F-31 ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - LIFT FREQUENCY OF IMP STAFF 04/81C 05/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 01/81C                                                    N/A
. II.K.2.15                            ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - EFFECTS OF SLUG F REQ IMPO                                      11/80C                                11/80C II.K.2.16                      F-32 ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - RCP SEAL DAMAGE                        IMP STAFF 04/81C 01/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 10/84C                              N/A II.K.2.17                      F-33 ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - VOIDING IN RCS (C IMP STAFF 04/81C 12/81C TMI ACTION PLAN 12/80C                                                    N/A II.K.2.19                            BENCHMARK ANALYSIS OF SEQUENTIAL AFW FLO REQ IMPO                                        /81C                                  /81C II.K.2.20                      F-35 ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - SYSTEM RESPONSE T IMP STAFF 04/81C 08/81C TMI ACTION PLAN 12/80C                                                    N/A II.K.2.8                              ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - UPGRADE AFW SYSTE IMP STAFF                                C 11/80C                                    11/80C    N/A II.K.2.9                      F-27 ORDERS ON B&W PLANTS - FEMA ON ICS                            IMP STAFF 08/80C 04/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 08/79C                              N/A II.K.3.1.A                    F-36 FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - A IMP STAFF 04/81C 06/84C TMI ACTION PLAN 12/80C                                                    N/A II.K.3.11                            FINAL RECOMMENDATICNS,B&O TASK FORCE - J REQ IMPO                                        N/A                                  N/A II.K.3.17                      F-47 FINAL RECOP94ENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - E IMP STAFF 04/81C 10/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 01/84C                                                  N/A II.K.3.2                      F-37 FINAL    RECopetENDATIONS,B&O          TASK FORCE        R IMP STAFF 04/81C 09/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 01/81C                                N/A II.K 3.25.A                          FINAL  RECOMMENDATIONS,B&O          TASK FORCE - P REQ IMPO                                  C                                    C II.K.3.3                      F-38 FINAL    RECOMMENDATIONS,B&O          TASK  FORCE - R IMP STAFF 04/81C 08/85C TMI ACTION PLAN' 02/83C                                    N/A II.K.3.30.A                          FINAL  RECOP99ENDATIONS,B&O          TASK  FORCE - S IMP STAFF                    C 08/85C TMI ACTION PLAN 10/85C                        N/A
 
b PAGE        6 R-1216320-001 SAFETY              ISSUE            MANAGEMENT                    SYSTEM PLANT DATA BY GENERIC ISSUES NSSS            THERMAL                                                              OL          OL PLANT                DOCKET        TYPE      SUPPLIER        CAPACITY                      LICENSEE                STATE REGION ISSUE EXPIRATION bRYShkbRkVkR3                      b5bhb3hh        Pbk    Bkh              hhk4 5 h k bRkbk PbbkR bbRPbkETkbN                        b    2  bl/hhC      h9/h8 STAGE OF      IMPO.      IMPO.                  IMPL. VERIFY APPLICABLE ISSUES                                            RESOLUT        INIT.      COMP.      METHOD      COMP. COMPLET II.K.3.30.B          F-57 FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - S IMP STAFF 04/81C 08/85C TMI ACTION PLAN 10/85C                                N/A II.K.3.30.C                  FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,B&O TASK FORCE - S REO IMPO                                      N/A                    N/A II.K.3.31            F-58 FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - C STAFF REV 04/82C 01/87                              TMI ACTION PLAN 10/85C    N/A II.K.3.40                    FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - R REQ IMPO                                      N/A                    N/A II.K.3.43                    FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - E REO IMPO                                      N/A                    N/A II.K.3.5.A            F-39 FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - A IMP STAFF 04/81C 02/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 02/85C                                N/A II.K.3.5.8            F-39 FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS,8&O TASK FORCE - A IMP STAFF 04/81C 02/83C TMI ACTION PLAN 02/85C 10/85C IV.C.I                      EXTEND LESSONS LEARNED FROM TMI TO OTHER TECH RES                        N/A          N/A                    N/A    N/A IV.E.5                      ASSESS CURRENTLY OPERATING REACTORS                      TECH RES        N/A          N/A                    N/A    N/A MPA-A-01              A-01 10 CFR 50.55 A(G) - ISI                                      IMP STAFF 12/76C 07/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/80I            N/A MPA-A-02              A-02 APPENDIX I - ALARA                                          IMP STAFF 07/78C 06/84C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 06/84I            N/A MPA-A-03              A-03 SECURITY REVIEWS-MODIFIED AMENDMENT PLAN IMP STAFF 08/77C 01/79C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/00C                                N/A MPA-A-09              A-G3 FRESOURE VESSEL BELTLINE F.ATERIAL SURVEI IMP STAFF 01/79C 05/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO                              N/A    N/A MPA-A-10              A-10 CONTINGENCY PLANNING                                        IMP STAFF 03/79C 04/82C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 04/82I            N/A MPA-A.11              A-11 GUARD TRAINING PLANS                                        IMP STAFF 08/79C 03/83C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/00C            N/A MPA-A-12              A-12 VITAL AREA ANALYSIS                                        IMP STAFF 02/78C 04/82C MULTIPLANT ACTIO            N/A    N/A MPA-A-14              A-14 10CFR 50.55 A(G) - INSERVICE TESTING                        STAFF REV 12/76C 05/87            MULTIPLANT ACTIO 12/86    N/A MPA-A-15              A-15 QUALITY ASSURANCE REQUEST REGARDING DIES VER STAFF 12/79C 04/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/81C MPA-A-16              A-16 QUALIFICATIONS OF EXAMINATION, INSPECTIO VER STAFF 01/82C 04/82C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 08/81I MPA-A-18              A-18 TECH SPECS AFFECTED BY 50.72 AND 50.73 ( IMP STAFF 09/84C 07/86C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/86I                                N/A MPA-A-20              A-20 10 CFR 50.62 OPERATING REACTOR REVIEWS                      STAFF REV 06/84C 05/87            MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/87 MPA-A-21              A-21 10 CFR 50.61, PRESSURIZED THERMAL SHOCK IMP STAFF 10/85C 09/86C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 09/86I                                N/A MPA-B-02              B-02 FIRE PROTECTION                                              IMPL LIC 05/76C 07/79C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/87              N/A MPA-B-03              8-03 PWR MODERATOR DILUTION                                      VER STAFF 09/77C 08/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/80C MPA-B-10              B-10 BURNABLE POISON ROD FAILURE                  B&W            VER STAFF 05/78C 09/78C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/78C MPA-B-14              B-14 CEA GUIDE TUBE WEAR                  .
IMP STAFF 12/77C 07/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/81C            N/A MPA-B-17              B-17 TECH SPEC SURVEILLANCE FOR HYDRAULIC SNU IMP STAFF 08/78C 02/82C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 02/82I                                N/A MPA-B-18              B-18 WORTHINGTON RHR PUMP SHAFT INTEGRITY                        IMP STAFF 06/78C 09/78C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/00C            N/A MPA-B-20              B-20 CONTAINMENT LEAKAGE DUE TO SEAL DETERIOR IMP STAFF 09/78C 08/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO                              N/A    N/A MPA-B-21              B-21 LOSS OF 125-V DC BUS VOLTAGE WITH LOSS 0 IMP STAFF 09/78C 11/79C MULTIPLANT ACTIO                                N/A    N/A MPA-B-22              B-22 TECH SPEC SURVEILLANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR IMP STAFF 08/78C 02/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO                                N/A    N/A MPA-B-23              B-23 DEGRADED GRID VOLTAGE                                      VER STAFF 10/76C 08/83C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 08/85C MPA-B-24              B-24 VENTING AND PURGING CONTAINMENTS WHILE A VER STAFF 11/80C 03/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/00C MPA-B-26              B-26 INADVERTANT SAFETY INJECTION DURING COOL IMP STAFF 09/78C 09/79C MULTIPLANT ACTIO                                N/A    N/A MPA-B-39              B-30 PWR PRESSURE - TEMPERATURE LIMIT TECH SP IMP STAFF 08/78C 03/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 03/81I                                N/A MPA-B-41              B-41 FIRE PROTECTION - FINAL TECH SPECS (INCL IMPL LIC 01/79C 10/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/87 MPA-B-42              B-42 TMI FOLLOW UP - ALL PLANTS                                  IMP STAFF 05/79C 03/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/81C            N/A MPA-B-43              B-43 PWR FEEDWATER LINE CRACKS                                    IMP STAFF 05/79C 12/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 12/80I            N/A
 
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PAGE        7 R-1216320-001 05/21/87-SAFETY                  ISSUE            MANAGEMENT                          SYSTEM PLANT DATA BY GENERIC ISSUES NSSS        THERMAL                                                                                OL          OL PLANT                DOCKET    TYPE            SUPPLIER    CAPACITY                            LICENSEE                              STATE REGION ISSUE EXPIRATION CRYSTAL RIVER 3                        05000302    PWR          B&W            2544 MWT FLORIDA POWER CORPORATION                                          FL    2  01/77C    09/08 STAGE OF        IMPO.        IMPO.                                  IMPL. VERIFY APPLICABLE ISSUES                                          RESOLUT          INIT.        COMP.              METHOD            COMP. COMPLET        .
MPA-B-44                    B-44 LESSONS LEARNED IMPLEMENTATION                            IMP STAFF 09/79C 05/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/83C                              N/A MPA-B-45                    B-45 WASH 1400 EVENT V. " PRIMARY COOLANT SYST VER STAFF 02/80C 04/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 04/81C MPA-B-46                    8-46 ANALYSIS OF TURBINE DISC CRACKS                            IMP STAFF 12/79C 08/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/81C                              N/A MPA-B-47                    B-47 ECCS: CLAD SWELLING AND RUPTURE                            IMP STAFF 11/79C 09/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/82C                              N/A
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MPA-B-48                    B-48 ADEQUACY OF STATION ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTIO VER STAFF 01/80C 04/84C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 08/85C MPA-B-52                    B-52 REVIEW OF SAFETY ASPECT OF INADVERTENT S IMP STAFF 06/79C 06/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 06/81I                                                N/A MPA-B-57                    B-57 DHR CAPABILITY                                            IMPL LIC 06/80C 10/83C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/87                                N/A MPA-B-59                    B-59 MASONRY WALL DESIGN                                      VER STAFF 05/80C 05/86C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 05/86C MPA-B-61                    B-61 LOSS OF NON CLASS IE I&C POWER                            VER STAFF 11/79C 07/82C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/82C MPA-B-62                    B-62 ESF RESET CONTROL DESIGN DEFICIENCY                      VER STAFF 03/80C 07/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/81C MPA-B-63                    B-63 INTERIM PROCEDURES FOR SHORT TERM BLACK 0 VER STAFF 05/81C 12/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/81C
* MPA-B-64                    B-64 B&C INDUCED FLUX ERRORS                                  IMP STAFF 11/80C 04/82C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/82C                              N/A MPA-B-66                    B-66 NATURAL CIRCULATION C00LDOWN                              VER STAFF 05/81C 06/86C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 12/85C MPA-B-69                    B-69 IEB 80-4 MAINSTEAM LINE BREAK WITH CONTI VER STAFF 10/81C 10/82C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 06/82C MPA-B-72                    B-72 NUREG 0737 TECH SPECS (GENERIC LETTER 82 IMPL LIC 03/83C 09/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 12/86                                                  N/A MPA-B-83                    B-83 TECH SPECIFICATIONS COVERED BY GENERIC L STAFF REV 03/84C 04/87                                      MULTIPLANT ACTIO 11/86            N/A MPA-C-01                    C-01 PWR SECONDARY WATER CHEMISTRY MONITORING IMP STAFF 03/78C 08/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 04/84C                                                N/A MPA-C-06                    C-06 PUMP SUPPORT-LAMELLAR TEARING                              IMP STAFF 08/78C 04/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO                              N/A    N/A MPA-C-07                    C-07 FUEL HANDLING ACCIDENT INSIDE CONTAINMEN IMP STAFF 01/77C 05/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/82C                                                N/A MPA-C-14                    C-14 AUXILIARY FEEDWATER SEISMIC QUALIFICATI0 VER STAFF 02/81C 08/83C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/85C MPA-C-16                    C-16 UTILITY RESPONSES TO STAFF REC 0994ENDATIO IMP STAFF 06/85C 12/85C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 04/85C                                              N/A MPA-D-08                    D-08 DEFICIENCY IN CHEM ADDITION TO CONTAINME VER STAFF 12/76C 07/79C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/79C MPA-D-11                    D-11 FISSION GAS RELEASE                                        IMP STAFF 11/76C 02/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/81C                              N/A MPA-D-13                    D-13 B&W SMALL BREAK ERROR                                      IMP STAFF 04/78C 07/79C MULTIPLANT ACTIO                              N/A    N/A MPA-D-14                    D-14 REACTOR VESSEL WELD - WIRE DEFICIENCY                      IMP STAFF 08/78C 01/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 10/79I                              N/A MPA-D-15                    D-15 HIGH ENERGY LINE BREAK & CONSEQUENTIAL S IMP STAFF 09/79C 01/84C MULTIPLANT ACTIO N/A                                                  N/A
  .MPA-D-17                    D-17 DEFINITION OF OPERABLE                                    IMP STAFF 04/80C 07/81C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 07/81C                              N/A MPA-D-18                    D-18 NUREG 0630 CLADDING MODELS (B&W PLANTS) IMP STAFF 06/83C 07/83C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/83C                                                N/A MPA-E-01                    E-01 SPENT FUEL POOL EXPANSIONS                                VER STAFF 01/78C 11/80C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/80C
;  MPA-E-03                    E-03 CORE RELOADS REQUIRING PRIOR NRC APPROVA IMP STAFF 01/79C 07/79C MULTIPLANT ACTIO 00/80C                                                N/A MPA-F-08                    F-08 I.D.1.1 DETAILED CONTROL ROOM DESIGN REV VER STAFF 04/83C 02/84C TMI ACTION PLAN 09/86C MPA-F-63                    F-63  III.A.I.2  TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTER                    VER STAFF 04/81C 09/86C TMI ACTION PLAN 05/83C MPA-F-64                    F-64  III.A.I.2  OPERATIONAL SUPPORT CENTER                  VER STAFF 04/81C 09/86C TMI ACTION PLAN 05/83C MPA-F-65                    F-65  III.A.1.2  EMERGENCY OPERATIONS FACILITY VER STAFF 04/81C 09/86C TMI ACTION PLAN 05/83C MPA-F-66                    F-66  III.A.I.2  NUCLEAR DATA LINK                            IMPL LIC 04/81C 07/82C TMI ACTION PLAN 06/86 i  MPA-F-71                    F-71 I.D.1.2 DETAILED CONTROL ROOM REVIEW (F0 STAFF REV 10/84C 04/87                                      TMI ACTION PLAN 12/90 NMSS-2                            ACCESS AUTHORIZATION                                    REQ IMPO 02/87                12/87                                04/88    /89 NMSS-3                            MISC AMEND CONCERN PHYSICAL PROTECTION O REQ IMPO 07/86                                10/86                                  /87    /87
 
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PLANT DATA BY GENERIC ISSUES NSSS                THERMAL                                                                                OL                                OL PLANT                DOCKET      TYPE --SUPPLIER                    CAPACITY                              LICENSEE                  STATE REGION ISSUE EXPIRATION
    ............ ....... ._ ........                  __.. . ........                    ..... .. _..........._____.... ............. ..... ...... ..... ..........                                                        6 CRYSTAL RIVER 3                      05000302    PWR        B&W                    2544 MWT FLORIDA POWER CORPORATION'                                FL          2        01/77C                            09/08 STAGE OF          IMPO.        IMPO.                      IMPL.            VERIFY APPLICABLE ISSUES                                                RESOLUT            INIT.        COMP.        METHOD        COMP.          COMPLET NMSS-4                          SEARCHES OF INDIVIDUALS AT POWER REACTOR REO IMPO 07/86                                        10/86                            /87        /87 NMSS-5                          REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR SAFEGUARDS EV TECH RES                                      /86      /86                            /87        /87 NMSS-7                          REQUIREMENTS FOR CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS TECH RES                                      /87      /87                            /88        ./88 NR2-3                            SEVERE ACCIDENT POLICY IMPLEMENTATION ON TECH RES 09/87                                          /89 SEVERE ACCIDENT P                      /89                                      i S
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* COMPUTER              ENVIRONMENT                SPECIFICS
* LOCATED AT NIH COMPUTER CENTER
* WRITTEN IN RAMIS II DBMS (REPORTER & ENGLISH QUERY)
* FULL SCREEN PROCESSING AND MENU DRIVEN
* TRAINING THROUGH ITS LAB
* ACCESS THRU PC WITH CROSSTALK OR TERMINAL THRU RENEX PROTOCOL CONVERTER
                      -+ QUERY RESPONSES ON-LINE TO SCREEN
* REPORTS BATCH TO NIH PRINTERS, LOCAL PRINTERS OR TO PC PRINTER (IF FEW PAGES)
 
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: 1) ISSUE LEVEL - ISSUE LEVEL DATA AND PROCESSES DESCRIBE THE ISSUE, THE RESOLUTION, THE l                            REQUIREMENTS AND THE TRACKING OF MILESTONES AND STATUS AS THE ISSUE PROGRESSES THROUGH THESE PHASES.
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                          ... ALL SAFETY RELATED GENERIC ISSUES AFFECTING POWER
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                          ... TMI ACTION PLAN ISSUES PER NUREG-0737
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ALL OTHER GENRIC REGULATORY ACTIONS ORIGINATING OR MODIFYING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING; REGULATIONS                        ORDERS l                          REGULATORY GUIDES                    BULLETINS l                        STANDARD REVIEW PLAN                GENERIC LETTERS
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0 3.3. Functions There      are      five major functions which may                  be        performed          using SIMS.      These            functions are      ONLINE RAMIS II REPORTER,                      RAMIS  II ENGLISH,      STANDARD            QUERIES,    SUBMIT BATCH REPORTS,                        and UPDATE DATABASE.                  These functions can be              invoked by selecting                  the appropriate                option from the screen belour I                                                                                                I I                                                                                                i l            SAFETY ISSUES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MAIN MENU                                          l i                                                                                                I l          ?      INVOKE ONLINE RAMIS II REPORTER                                              I I                                                                                                I l          ?      INVOKE ONLINE RAMIS II ENGLISH                                                I I                                                                                                  I I          ?      SUBMIT STANDARD QUERIES                                                        l 1                                                                                                1 I          !      SUBMIT BATCH REPORTS                                                          l 1      .                                                                                          I I          ?    UPDATE DATABASE                                                                  I I                                                                                                1 l                                PF9 = EXIT SIMS                                                  I ICMD:                                                                                            I l                1                                                                                                i An X or any other character can be entered where the question mark
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reports desired. Three types of reports are available* SIMS Standard Batch Reports,                                  NRR Reports,      and NMSS Tasks Reports.                            Jobs are submitted for execution                                    when  logging        off      from      SIMS.          All      batch reports            will                  print    at the  remote    printer      selected          when      the      report l
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Dutput                  selections                      are    preset for              batch              reports              job.
Selections                        are begun under Processing Options.                                  To change              job information                          selections,            either back tab to                          the appropriate
!                                        entry        or forward tab past the last a'vailable entry.                                                  To change job information                        selections,            enter  a (?)        on the      old          selection,            and                      '
enter          X          or            any      character    other        than  a    (?)          at    the        desired selection.                        When          all  of the appropriate                  information has been
]                                                                                                                              The job number will be 1
selected,                  press the enter / return key.
displayed after exiting SIMS.
4 a
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.                                          I                                            SIMS REPORTS MENU                                            i l                                                                                                        I j
:                                          I    -?          SIMS STANDARD BATCH REPORTS                                                            l I                                                                                                        1 l
j                                          l      ?          MRR REPORTS                                                                            l I                                                                                                        I 2
l                                        l      ?        NMSS TASKS REPORTS                                                                      I I                                                                                                          i
'                                                                                                                                                      I                                          i I
,                                          l                PF9= RETURN TO MAIN MENU                                                                i                                          <
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4.2. SIMS Batch Reports There are    10 reports avaIIable using the SIMS Batch Report  Menu.
The report    processing parameter screen is invoked as soon    as a report is selected from the following screen 1                                                                    I l                                                                    l l                        SIMS BATCH REPORTS MENU                    l i                                                                    I I  ISSUES LEVEL                                                      I l    ! STATUS OF SELECTED ISSUES NOT YET RESOLVED                  l l    ? STATUS OF REQUIREMENT REVIEW FOR SELECTED ISSUES            I l    ? REQUIREMENTS IMPOSITION STATUS OF SELECTED ISSUES            l l    ? IMPLEMENTATION / VERIFICATION STATUS OF SELECTED ISSUES      l l    ? STATUS OF REQUIREMENTS IMPLEMENTATION BY STAFF              i 1                                                                    1 I  PLANT LEVEL                                                        l l    ? ISSUES APPLICABLE TO OPERATING PLANTS                        I l    ? REQUIREMENTS IMPOSITION STATUS                                l l    ! LICENSEE IMPLEMENTATION & NRC VERIFICATION STATUS            l l    ? ALL PLANT DATA FOR SELECTED PLANTS                            l I                                                                    i l    ? SIMS-INFORMATION REPORT                                      l l                                                                    l l        PF9= RETURN TO MAIN MENU                                    l 1                                                                    l lCMD:                                                                l I                                                                    I
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4 4.3. NRR Reports are eight reports available using the NRR Reports Menu.              The There report processing parameter screen is invoked as soon as a report is selected from the following screent I
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I l              t  ISSUES SCHEDULED FOR RESOLUTION I
I              ?  TASK SHEETS                                                                              ;
I l              ?  GENERIC ISSUES TO BE PRIORITIZED                                                        '
l I              ?  GENERIC ISSUES TO BE REPRIORITIZED l
I              !  GENERIC ISSUES PRIORITIZED I
l              ?  GENERIC ISSUES RESOLVED BY FY l
l              ?  GENERIC ISSUES SCHEDULED FOR RESOLUTION (SUMM)
ISSUES SCHEDULED FOR RESOLUTION BY FY                    l                            t I              ?
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i                                                                                                                                                                                                      ,
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j                                                                                      There    is  one report available using the NMSS Tasks Reports Menu.
  ,                                                                                    The  report    processing parameter screen is invoked as soon as the report is selected from the following screens b
]                                                                                        I                                                                    I I                NMSS TASKS REPORTS                                  I i
I I                                                                    l l    ? MILESTONE INFORMATION FOR NMSS TASKS                          l x
I                                                                    I j                                                                                        l                                                                    i j                                                                                      l        PF9= RETURN TO PREVIOUS REPORT MENU                          i I                                                                    l
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: 5. STANDARD QUERIES The Standard Query Function aIIous the user to        submit any of    the queries displayed on the SIMS STANDARD QUERIES MENU.
I I
I I
SAFETY ISSUES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MAIN MENU            l l
I 1
INVOKE ONLINE RAMIS II REPORTER                    I l          ?
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INVOKE ONLINE RAMIS II ENGLISH                      l l          !
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SUBMIT STANDARD QUERIES                            l l          ?
I 1
                      ?  SUBMIT BATCH REPORTS                                I l
1 l
UPDATE DATABASE                                      I l          ?
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1 LIST IMPOSITION MULTIPLANT ACTION ISSUES                  I l      !
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                    ?  LIST IMPLEMENTATION COMPLETION STATUS FOR ISSUES          I I
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l l    ?  LIST POST IMPLEMENTATION COMPLETION STATUS FOR ISSUES 1
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_                              -    --. - . - _ - ._ - ~ - . - -                                                        - ~__ - - -                  . ..- - -    .
              ~o                                                                                              O                                                                                    O
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ?
R-12163I0-001                                                                                                                                                                          RUN DATE: 05/26/87 SAFETY        ISSUES                          MANAGEMENT                          SYSTEM                                      PAGE        I SAFETY ISSUE LEVEL INFORMATION ISSUE NUMBER; A-10                                          TITLE: BWR FEEDWATER N0ZZLE CRACKING CONTACT: R. GILBERT                          TYPE: MPA                      IDENTIFYING ORGANIZATION: NRR                                    STATUS:                          SPONSORING OFFICE. NRR P2IORITY:              TYPE OF REACTORS AFFECTED:                          OTHER:
DEPENDENT ISSUES:
DESCRIPTION                                                                              SOLUTION (NEAR AND LONG TERM) j        MPA PROBLEM BACKGROUND                                                                                    ESSENTIAL SAFETY MODIFICATION                                                                    l
;        INSPECTIONS OF OPERATING 8WRS CONDUCTED UP TO APRIL                                                        THE USI WAS RESOLVED IN NOVEMBER 1980. WITH THE
!        1978 REVEALED CRACKS IN THE FEEDWATER N0ZZLES OF 20                                                        ISSUANCE OF NUREG-0619.                          THIS NUREG ALSO INCLUDED                        i
!        EEACTOR VESSELS.              IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE                                                  REcope1ENDATIONS TO CORRECT CRD N0ZZLE CRACKING                                                  "
CRACKING WAS DUE TO HIGH-CYCLE FATIGUE CAUSED BY                                                          PROBLEMS. PLANT SPECIFIC FIXES TO MEET NUREG-0619                                              s INCLUDED SUCH THINGS AS ADOING TRIPLE SLEEVE FLUCTUATIONS IN WATER TEMPERATURE WITHIN THE VESSEL IN THE N0ZZLE REGION. THESE FLUCTUATIONS OCCURRED                                                          SPARGERS CONDUCTING PERIODIC INSPECTIONS. AND DURING PERIODS OF LOW FEEDWATER TEMPERATURE WHEN                                                          ADDING DIFFERENTIAL THERMO-COUPLES ON THE N0ZZLES WHEN FLOW IS UNSTEADY AND INTERMITTENT. ONCE                                                              PLANT SPECIFIC SAFETY EVALUATIONS WERE WRITTEN.
INITIATED. THE CRACKS ENLARGED FROM HIGH PRESSURE                                                          THE RESIDENTS MAY HAVE ALREADY INSPECTED THIS.
l        AND THERMAL CYCLING ASSOCIATED WITH STARTUPS AND SHUTDOWNS        THIS ITEM WAS ORIGINALLY IDENTIFIED IN NUREG-0371 AND WAS LATER DETERMINED TO BE AN UNRESOLVED SAFETY ISSUE tuSI).
POINT                                RANGE l                                                  NET CHANGE IN DOLLAR COST                                                ESTIMATE                    LOW                  HIGH NRC DEVELOPMENT. . . . . . . . .                            ...                    *** NOME AVAILABLE ***
NRC (IMPLEMENTATION / IMPOSITION).                  . . .                        *** NONE AVAILA8LE ***
NRC (ASSURE CONTINUED COMPLIANCE). .                        ..                    *** NONE AVAILA8LE ***
PUBLIC/ INDUSTRY /0THER IIMPLEMENTATION) .                                          *** NONE AVAILABLE ***
PUBLIC/ INDUSTRY /0THER (CONTINUED COMPLIANCE)                                    *** NONE AVAILABLE ***
NET CHANGES _IN_BE_NEFITS PUBLIC EXPOSURE. . .              .        . . .                .                  *** h0NE AVAILABLE ***
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE.            .                  - .                            *** NONE AVAILABLE ***                                                      ,
CORE MELT FREQUENCY.      .                .        . .                            *** NONE AVAILA8LE ***
M
 
R-1216310-001                                                                                                                                              RUN DATE: 05/26/87 SAFETY                ISSUES          MANAGEMENT                        SYSTEM                        PAGE  2 SAFETY ISSUE LEVEL INFORMATION ISSUE NUMBER: A-10                                        TITLE: BWR FEEDWATER N0ZZLE CRACKING I. ISSUE APPROVAL AND PLANN.ING:                                ISSUE APPROVAL DATE:
: 2. TE_CHNI_ CAL RESOLUTION:                        LEAD OFFICE:                    SUPPORTING OFFICE (S):                                                                  ,
INITIATION DATE: ,******                  INTER OFFICE REVIEW / COORDINATION COMPLETION DATE: ******
PROPOSED SOLUTIONS /REQUIREP8ENTS APPROVAL BY OFFICE DIRECTOR DATE: ******
: 3. RIQUIREMENTS REVIEW AND APPROVAL:                                    INITIAL CRGR REVIEW DATE: ******                      RESOLVED WITH REQUIREMENTS: Y R_U L E M A K I N G                        OTHER LSPECIFE FORM.          . . .            .      . .        ANPR            PROPOSED      FINAL OFFICE RESPONSIBLE. . . . .                  .        *                *
* NRR EDO APPROVAL TO PROCEED (YES/MO)                        *                *              *                  ***
CRGR REVIEW DATE. . . . . . . .                        *                *              *                ******
ACRS REVIEW DATE.      . . . . . .                    N                N              N                ******
EDO REVIEW DATE . . , . . . . .                        0                0              0                ******
APPROVAL iYES/MO). .          . . .              N                N              N                  ***
COPMISSION REVIEW DATE. . . . .                        E                E              E                ******                                                      ,
i l
APPROVAL (YES/MO). . . . . .                      *                *              *                  ***
l                      PUBLIC COPMENT DATE - . . .                  .        *                *              *                ******
l                      FINAL APPROVAL AIO ISSUANCE DATE                        *                *
* 08/78C I
: 4. REQUIREMENTS IMPOSITION NEEDED FOR VERIFICATION:
A .. IMPOSITION - LICENSED PLANTS:
MULTIPLANT ACTION CODE: B-25 -- SWR FEEDWATER N0ZZLE CRACMING OINER:                                    APPROVAL OF LICENSEE PROPOSAL NEEDED (YES/NOI:
t
                                                                                                                                                                                      /
 
                .g                                                                                        g                                                                                                  o D-1216310-001                                                                                                                                                                                    RUN DATE: 05/26/8T SAFETY                    ISSUE 5                  MANAGEMENT                              SYSTEM                                                PAGE  3 SAFETY ISSUE LEVEL INFORMATION                                                                                              1 ISSUE NUMBER: A-10                                  TITLEi BWR FEEDWATER'N0ZZLE CRACKING B. IMPOSITION - PLANTS NOT LICE _NSED:                                    SRP REVIEW PROCESS:                    OTHER (SPECIFYl: MULTIPLANT ACTION C. IMPOSITI_0_m - ALL 7LANTS:                              OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: NRR D NEED FOR VERIFICATION / POST IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW:
NEEDED                    OFFICE LYE _SLNOJ                RESP _0_NSIBLE VERIFICATION. . . .            . YES                        --
MPA VERIFICATION PRIORITY:
POST IMPLEMENTATION                  -                        --
: 5. REQUIREMENT _S IMPLEMENTATION BY LICENSEE _AND_VERIF_ICATION_BY_NRC:
COMPLETION                        DATE OF STATUS (PLANTS)                    LAST PLANT _
IMPOSITION.        .    . . . .      .      24 OF            24              860TC IMPLEMENTATION. . .            .    .      16 CF            24              9012 VERIFICATION. . . . . . . .                  0 0F            24 POST IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW. .                0 0F            24
: 6. REQUIREMENT _S. IMPLEMENTATION BY STAFF:
A. STAFF REQUIREPENTS -- N O N E COMPLETION DATE: ******                      OFFICE (S) RESPONSIBLE:
B ROUTIMEjNSPECTION PROGRAM MODIFICATIONS:                                    MODIFICATIONS NEEDED (YES/N01:                                                              MODIFICATION COMPLETION DATE: ******
M0DIFICATION                      TEXT
                                                                                  *** NO MODIFICATION TEXT FOR ISSUE ***
_. _. _    . . . _ _ _  ._          _    _        . _ _ _ _ ._          ..      _ , _ _ _ _ _    . _      _ _ _ . _ . . _ . . _ _ . . _ . . _ , , ~ . . . . - - , _ , _ . . _ - . -..              . . , .. . .. .
 
  '                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A
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BRCW%S FERRY 3                                                                                          05000296              BWR                              08/76C  07/08                                                            M    06/84C  06/84C  11/84C  N/A    ******
BRUESWICK 1                                                                                              05000325              BWR                              11/76C  02/10                                                            M    11/81C  11/81C  11/31C  N/A    ******
BEUkSWICK 2                                                                                              05000324              BWR                              12/74C  02/10                                                            M    11/81C  11/81C  07/86C  N/A    ******
COOPER STATICM                                                                                          05000298              BWR                              01/74C 06/08                                                            M    10/81C  10/81C  10/81C  N/A    ******
DRESDEN 2                                                                                                05000237              BWR                              12/69C  ******                                                          M    11/83C  11/83C  11/83C  ****** ******
DRESDEN 3                                                                                                05000249              BWR                              03/71C  10/06                                                          M    11/83C  11/83C  11/83C  N/A    ******
DUAAE ARNGLD                                                                                            05000331              BWK                              02/74C 06/10                                                            M    12/81C  12/31C  00/81C  N/A    ******
FITZPATRICK                                                                                              05000333              BWR                              10/74C  05/10                                                          M    09/81C  09/81C  01/86C  N/A    ******
HATCH I                                                                                                  05000321              BWR                              10/74C  09/09                                                          M    10/81C  10/81C  01/86C  N/A    ******
HATCH 2                                                                                                  05000366              BWR                              06/78C I2/12                                                          M      10/81C  10/81C  01/86C  N/A    ******
HOPE CREEK 1                                                                                            05000354              BWR                              ****** ******                                                          M      07/86C  07/86C  ******  N/A    ******
HUMBOLDT BAY 3                                                                                          05000133              BWR                              08/62C ******                                                          M    06/81C  06/81C  N/A    N/A    ******
MILLSTONE 1                                                                                              05000245              BWR                              10/70C ******                                                          M    06/83C  06/83C  06/83C  N/A    ******
MONTICELLO                                                                                              05000263              BWR                              01/71C 06/07                                                            M    01/82C  01/82C  05/83C  N/A    ******
CINE MILE POINT 1                                                                                        05000220              BWR                              08/69C 04/05                                                          M      01/70C  01/70C  12/81C  ****** ******
CVSTER CREEK 1                                                                                          05000219              BWR                              08/69C ******                                                          M    03/82C  03/82C  12/90    N/A    ******
PEACH BOTTCM 2                                                                                          05000277              BWR                              12/73C 01/08                                                          M      09/80C  09/80C  09/80C  N/A    ******
PEACH BOTTCM 3                                                                                          05000278              BWR                              07/74C 01/08                                                            M    09/79C  09/79C  09/80C  N/A    ******
PILGRIM 1                                                                                                05000293              BVR                              09/72C 08/08                                                          M      05/84C  05/84C  00/00    N/A    ******
CUAD CITIES 1                                                                                            05000254              BWR                              12/72C 02/07                                                          M      11/80C  11/80C  00/80!  N/A    ******
CUAC CITIES 2                                                                                            05000265              BWR                              12/72C 02/07                                                          M      11/80C  11/80C  00/80I  ****** ******
VERMGMT YANKEE 1                                                                                        05000271              BWR                              02/73C 12/07                                                          M      06/84C  06/84C  06/84C  N/A    ******
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TOTAL NUMBER OF GENERIC ISSUES ISSUE TYPE                UNRESOLVED                  RESOLVED      TOTAL TMI-0737                        O                      178          178 USI                            14                        5            19 OTHER                          94                      204          298 TOTAL                          108                      387          495
. 387 ISSUES HAVE BEEN TECHNICALLY RESOLVED AND ARE IN VARIOUS STACES OF IMPOSITION. IMPLEMENTATION AND VERIFICATION.
. 106 ISSUES ARE IN THE RESOLUTION PROCESS.
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TOTAL NUMBER OF PLANT LEVEL ITEMS ISSUE TYPE                UNRESOLVED                        RESOLVED          TOTAL TMI-0737                                    0                  9,068          9,068 USI                                    561                      199              760 OTHER                                3,5 G 1                    7,800          11,361 TOTALS                              4.122                    17,067          21,189
  ...THE 495 ISSUES CAUSE 21.189 PLANT LEVEL ITEMS.
  . SIMS ALSO CONTAINS 9,158 PIANT SPECIFIC ITEMS WHICH ARE NOT ROOTED IN A GENERIC ISSUE.
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  . FOR ALL ISSUES-~            88.9% HATE SER'S ISSUED 94.0% WITE SER'S HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED OR N/A 83.8% OF THOSE IMPLEMENTED HAVE BEEN VERIFIED OR N/A x
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Transcript of ACRS Subcommittee on Generic Items 870527 Meeting in Washington,Dc.Pp 1-310.Supporting Documentation Encl
ML20214P167
Person / Time
Issue date: 05/27/1987
From:
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
To:
References
ACRS-T-1589, NUDOCS 8706030237
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