ML110200305

IR 05000323-11-003, Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Unit 2- Notification of Inspection (NRC Integrated Inspection and Request for Information

ML110200305
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	01/19/2011
From:	Greg Werner NRC/RGN-IV/DRS/PSB-2
To:	Conway J Pacific Gas & Electric Co
References
IR-11-003
Download: ML110200305 (10)

See also: IR 05000323/2011003

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January 19, 2011

John T. Conway

Senior Vice President and

Chief Nuclear Officer

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

77 Beale Street, B32

San Francisco, CA

SUBJECT:

DIABLO CANYON POWER PLANT, UNIT 2 - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION

(NRC INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000323/2011003) AND

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Conway:

From May 9 through 20, 2011, reactor inspectors from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commissions (NRC) Region IV office will perform the baseline inservice inspection (ISI) at the

Diablo Canyon Power Plant Unit 2, using NRC Inspection Procedure 71111.08, Inservice

Inspection Activities. Experience has shown that this inspection is a resource intensive

inspection both for the NRC inspectors and your staff. In order to minimize the impact to your

onsite resources and to ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed a request for

documents needed for this inspection. These documents have been divided into two groups.

The first group, due by April 25, 2011, (Section A of the enclosure) identifies information to be

provided prior to the inspection to ensure that the inspectors are adequately prepared. The

second group (Section B of the enclosure) identifies the information the inspectors will need

upon arrival at the site. It is important that all of these documents are up-to-date and complete

in order to minimize the number of additional documents requested during the preparation

and/or the onsite portions of the inspection.

We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff and understand

that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Mr. McCoy of your licensing organization.

Our inspection dates are subject to change based on your updated schedule of outage

activities. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please

contact Wayne Sifre, lead inspector, at (817) 860-8193 (wayne.sifre@nrc.gov) or Isaac

Anchondo at (817) 860-8152 (isaac.anchondo@nrc.gov).

This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information collection

requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, Control

UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

R E GI ON I V

612 EAST LAMAR BLVD, SUITE 400

ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4125

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

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Number 3150 0011. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to

respond to a request for information or an information collection requirement unless the

requesting document displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control

number.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its

enclosure will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document

Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs document

system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-

rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Gregory E. Werner, Chief

Plant Support Branch 2

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket: 50-323

License: DPR-82

Enclosure:

Inservice Inspection Document Request

cc:

Sierra Club Santa Lucia Chapter

ATTN: Andrew Christie

P.O. Box 15755

San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

Jane Swanson

San Luis Obispo

Mothers for Peace

P.O. Box 3608

San Luis Obispo, CA 93403

James Grant, County Administrative Officer

San Luis Obispo County Board of

Supervisors

1055 Monterey Street, Suite D430

San Luis Obispo, CA 93408

Truman Burns\\Robert Kinosian

California Public Utilities Commission

505 Van Ness Ave., Rm. 4102

San Francisco, CA 94102

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

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Jennifer Post, Esq.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

77 Beale Street, Room 2496

Mail Code B30A

San Francisco, CA 94120

Gary Butner

Chief, Radiologic Health Branch

California Department of Public Health 3

P.O. Box 997414 (MS 7610)

Sacramento, CA 95899-7414

The City Editor of

The Tribune

3825 South Higuera Street

P.O. Box 112

San Luis Obispo, CA 93406-0112

James D. Boyd, Commissioner

California Energy Commission

1516 Ninth Street (MS 31)

Sacramento, CA 95814

James R. Becker, Site Vice President

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

P.O. Box 56, Mail Station 104/6/601

Avila Beach, CA 93424

Jennifer Tang

Field Representative

United States Senator Barbara Boxer

1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240

San Francisco, CA 94111

Chief, Technological Hazards Branch

FEMA Region IX

1111 Broadway, Suite 1200

Oakland, CA 94607-4052

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

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Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov )

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

DRP Director (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov )

DRP Deputy Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov )

DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov )

DRS Deputy Director (Vacant)

Senior Resident Inspector (Michael.Peck@nrc.gov )

Resident Inspector (Laura.Micewski@nrc.gov )

Acting Branch Chief, DRP/B (Don.Allen@nrc.gov )

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/B (Rick.Deese@nrc.gov )

Project Engineer, DRP/B (Greg.Tutak@nrc.gov )

Project Engineer, DRP/B (Nestor.Makris@nrc.gov )

DC Administrative Assistant (Agnes.Chan@nrc.gov )

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

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

Project Manager (Alan.Wang@nrc.gov )

Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Michael.Hay@nrc.gov )

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov )

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov )

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

OEMail Resource

OEDO RIV Coordinator (James.Trapp@nrc.gov )

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

R:_\\REACTORS\\DC\\ 2011003 ISI RFI LTR-WS

ADAMS ML

ADAMS: No  ; Yes

SUNSI Review Complete

Reviewer Initials: WCS

Publicly Available

Non-Sensitive

Non-publicly Available

Sensitive

RI:EB1

C:PSB2

W. Sifre

G. Werner

1/18/11

1/19/11

/RA/

/RA/.

OFFICIAL RECORD COPY T=Telephone E=E-mail F=Fax

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Enclosure

INSERVICE INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST

Inspection Dates:

May 9 through 20, 2011

Inspection Procedures:

IP 71111.08, Inservice Inspection (ISI) Activities

Inspectors:

Wayne Sifre, Senior Reactor Inspector (Lead Inspector - ISI)

Isaac A. Anchondo, Reactor Inspector

A.

Information Requested for the In-Office Preparation Week

The following information should be sent to the Region IV office in hard copy or

electronic format (ims.certrec.com preferred), in care of Wayne Sifre by April 25, 2011,

to facilitate the selection of specific items that will be reviewed during the onsite

inspection weeks. The inspectors will select specific items from the information

requested below and then request from your staff additional documents needed during

the onsite inspection weeks (Section B of this enclosure). We ask that the specific items

selected from the lists be available and ready for review on the first day of inspection.

Please provide requested documentation electronically if possible. If requested

documents are large and only hard copy formats are available, please inform the

inspectors, and provide subject documentation during the first day of the onsite

inspection. If you have any questions regarding this information request, please call the

inspectors as soon as possible.

A.1

ISI / Welding Programs and Schedule Information

a)

A detailed schedule (including preliminary dates) of:

i)

Nondestructive examinations planned for Class 1 & 2 systems and

containment, performed as part of your ASME Section XI, risk informed (if

applicable), and augmented inservice inspection programs during the

upcoming outage

Provide a status summary of the nondestructive examination inspection

activities vs. the required inspection period percentages for this interval

by category per ASME,Section XI, IWX-2400. Do not provide separately

if other documentation requested contains this information

ii)

Reactor pressure vessel head examinations planned for the upcoming

outage

iii)

Examinations planned for Alloy 82/182/600 components that are not

included in the Section XI scope (If applicable)

iv)

Examinations planned as part of your boric acid corrosion control

program (Mode 3 walkdowns, bolted connection walkdowns, etc.)

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v)

Welding activities that are scheduled to be completed during the

upcoming outage (ASME Class 1, 2, or 3 structures, systems, or

components)

b)

A copy of ASME Section XI, code relief requests and associated NRC safety

evaluations applicable to the examinations identified above.

c)

A list of nondestructive examination reports (ultrasonic, radiography, magnetic

particle, dye penetrant, Visual VT-1, VT-2, and VT-3), which have identified

relevant conditions on Code Class 1 & 2 systems since the beginning of the last

refueling outage. This should include the previousSection XI pressure test(s)

conducted during start up and any evaluations associated with the results of the

pressure tests. Also, include in the list the nondestructive examination reports

with relevant conditions in the reactor pressure vessel head penetration nozzles

that have been accepted for continued service. The list of nondestructive

examination reports should include a brief description of the structures, systems,

or components where the relevant condition was identified.

d)

A list with a brief description (e.g., system, material, pipe size, weld number, and

nondestructive examinations performed) of the welds in Code Class 1 and 2

systems which have been fabricated due to component repair/replacement

activities since the beginning of the last refueling outage or are planned to be

fabricated this refueling outage.

e)

If reactor vessel weld examinations required by the ASME Code are scheduled to

occur during the upcoming outage, provide a detailed description of the welds to

be examined and the extent of the planned examination. Please also provide

reference numbers for applicable procedures that will be used to conduct these

examinations.

f)

Copy of any 10 CFR Part 21 reports applicable to your structures, systems, or

components within the scope of Section XI of the ASME Code that have been

identified since the beginning of the last refueling outage.

g)

A list of any temporary noncode repairs in service (e.g., pinhole leaks).

h)

Please provide copies of the most recent self-assessments for the inservice

inspection, welding, and Alloy 600 programs.

A.2

Boric Acid Corrosion Control Program

a)

Copy of the procedures that govern the scope, equipment, and implementation of

the inspections required to identify boric acid leakage and the procedures for

boric acid leakage/corrosion evaluation.

b)

Please provide a list of leaks (including Code class of the components) that have

been identified since the last refueling outage and associated corrective action

documentation. If during the last cycle, the unit was shut down, please provide

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documentation of containment walkdown inspections performed as part of the

boric acid corrosion control program.

c)

Please provide a copy of the most recent self-assessment performed for the

boric acid corrosion control program.

A.3

Steam Generator Tube Inspections

a)

A detailed schedule of:

i)

Steam generator secondary side inspection activities for the upcoming

outage.

b)

Please provide a copy of your steam generator inservice inspection program and

plan. Please include a copy of the operational assessment from the last outage

and a copy of the following documents as they become available:

i)

Degradation assessment

ii)

Condition monitoring assessment

c)

If you are planning on modifying your technical specifications such that they are

consistent with Technical Specification Task Force Traveler TSTF-449, Steam

Generator Tube Integrity, please provide copies of your correspondence with the

NRC regarding deviations from the standard technical specifications.

d)

Identify and quantify any steam generator tube leakage experienced during the

previous operating cycle. Also provide documentation identifying which steam

generator was leaking and corrective actions completed or planned for this

condition (If applicable).

e)

Provide past history of the condition and issues pertaining to the secondary side

of the steam generators (including items such as loose parts, fouling, top of tube

sheet condition, crud removal amounts, etc.).

f)

Please provide copies of your most recent self-assessments of the steam

generator monitoring, loose parts monitoring, and secondary side water

chemistry control programs.

A.4

Additional Information Related to All Inservice Inspection Activities

a)

A list with a brief description of inservice inspection, boric acid corrosion control

program, and steam generator tube inspection-related issues (e.g., condition

reports) entered into your corrective action program since the beginning of the

last refueling outage (for Unit 2). For example, a list based upon data base

searches using key words related to piping or steam generator tube degradation,

such as inservice inspection, ASME Code,Section XI, nondestructive

examination, cracks, wear, thinning, leakage, rust, corrosion, boric acid, or errors

in piping/steam generator tube examinations.

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b)

Please provide names and phone numbers for the following program leads:

Inservice inspection contacts (examination, planning)

Containment exams

Reactor pressure vessel head exams

Snubbers and supports

Repair and replacement program manager

Licensing contact

Site welding engineer

Boric acid corrosion control program

Steam generator inspection activities (site lead and vendor contact)

B.

Information to be provided onsite to the inspectors at the entrance meeting:

B.1

ISI/Welding Programs and Schedule Information

a)

Updated schedules for inservice inspection/nondestructive examination activities,

including steam generator tube inspections, planned welding activities, and

schedule showing contingency repair plans, if available.

b)

For ASME Code Class 1 and 2 welds selected by the inspectors from the lists

provided from section A of this enclosure, please provide copies of the following

documentation for each subject weld:

i)

Weld data sheet (traveler)

ii)

Weld configuration and system location

iii)

Applicable Code edition and addenda for weldment

iv)

Applicable Code edition and addenda for welding procedures

v)

Applicable weld procedures used to fabricate the welds

vi)

Copies of procedure qualification records supporting the weld procedures

from B.1.b.v

vii)

Copies of mechanical test reports identified in the procedure qualification

records above

viii)

Copies of the nonconformance reports for the selected welds

(If applicable)

ix)

Radiographs of the selected welds and access to equipment to allow

viewing radiographs (If radiographic testing was performed)

x)

Copies of the preservice examination records for the selected welds

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xi)

Copies of welder performance qualifications records applicable to the

selected welds, including documentation that welder maintained

proficiency in the applicable welding processes specified in the weld

procedures (at least 6 months prior to the date of subject work)

xii)

Copies of nondestructive examination personnel qualifications (Visual

inspection, penetrant testing, ultrasonic testing, radiographic testing), as

applicable

c)

For the inservice inspection-related corrective action issues selected by the

inspectors from Section A of this enclosure, provide a copy of the corrective

actions and supporting documentation.

d)

For the nondestructive examination reports with relevant conditions on Code

Class 1 and 2 systems selected by the inspectors from Section A above, provide

a copy of the examination records, examiner qualification records, and

associated corrective action documents.

e)

A copy of (or ready access to) the most current revision of the inservice

inspection program manual and plan for the current Interval.

f)

For the nondestructive examinations selected by the inspectors from Section A of

this enclosure, provide a copy of the nondestructive examination procedures

used to perform the examinations (including calibration and flaw

characterization/sizing procedures). For ultrasonic examination procedures

qualified in accordance with ASME Code,Section XI, Appendix VIII, provide

documentation supporting the procedure qualification (e.g., the EPRI

performance demonstration qualification summary sheets). Also, include

qualification documentation of the specific equipment to be used (e.g., ultrasonic

unit, cables, and transducers including serial numbers) and nondestructive

examination personnel qualification records.

B.2

Boric Acid Corrosion Control Program

a)

Please provide boric acid walkdown inspection results, an updated list of boric

acid leaks identified so far this outage, associated corrective action

documentation, and overall status of planned boric acid inspections.

b)

Please provide any engineering evaluations completed for boric acid leaks

identified since the end of the last refueling outage. Please include a status of

corrective actions to repair and/or clean these boric acid leaks. Please identify

specifically which known leaks, if any, have remained in service or will remain in

service as active leaks.

B.3

Steam Generator Tube Inspections

a)

Copies of the examination technique specification sheets and associated

justification for any revisions.

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b)

Copy of the guidance to be followed if a loose part or foreign material is identified

in the steam generators.

c)

Please provide copies of your responses to NRC and industry operating

experience communications such as Generic Letters, Information Notices, etc.

(as applicable to steam generator tube inspections) Do not provide these

documents separately if already included in other information requested such as

the degradation assessment.

d)

List of corrective action documents generated by the vendor and/or site with

respect to steam generator inspection activities.

B.4

Codes and Standards

a)

Ready access to (i.e., copies provided to the inspectors for use during the

inspection at the onsite inspection location, or room number and location where

available):

i)

Applicable editions of the ASME Code (Sections V, IX, and XI) for the

inservice inspection program and the repair/replacement program.

Inspector Contact Information:

Wayne Sifre

Isaac Anchondo

Senior Reactor Inspector

Reactor Inspector

817-860-8193

817-860-8152

wayne.sifre@nrc.gov

isaac.anchondo@nrc.gov

Mailing Address:

US NRC Region IV

Attn: Wayne Sifre

612 E. Lamar Blvd, Suite 400

Arlington, TX 76011