ML15027A299

01/14/2015 Summary of Meeting with Tennessee Valley Authority Regarding Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2

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

Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 2

SUBJECT:

SUMMARY OF JANUARY 14,2015, MEETING WITH TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY REGARDING WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2 On January 14, 2015, a Category 1 public meeting was held between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and representatives of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) at NRC Headquarters, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland.

The purpose of this meeting was for TVA to present the status of construction and licensing efforts for the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2 project.

A list of attendees is enclosed.

TVA made a presentation to the NRC staff (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System Accession No. ML 15016A042),

which covered the following topics: construction completion status; projects risks; licensing topics; and special topics, including fire protection, cyber security, degraded

voltage, and buried piping integrity programs.

TVA stated that the estimated date to load fuel is June 17, 2015, and that completion of hot functional testing poses the most significant risk to the schedule.

TVA discussed the proposed content of construction completion status letters, which would support licensing activities.

Throughout the presentation, the NRC staff asked clarifying questions, with a focus on understanding TVA's schedule and those activities that could impact the schedule or pose a safety concern.

The NRC staff also commented that an important factor in the staff being able to support TVA's estimated fuel load date, is for TVA to focus on providing high quality submittals and meeting the proposed schedule for those submittals in order to reach timely resolution of the remaining issues. No regulatory decisions were made at the meeting.

Several members of the public, including the press, were in attendance via teleconference and webinar.

No Public Meeting Feedback forms were received.

Docket No. 50-391

Enclosure:

List of Attendees cc w/enclosure:

Distribution via Listserv Justin C. Poole, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 11-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation LIST OF ATTENDEES JANUARY 14.2015.

MEETING WITH TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY REGARDING WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT. UNIT 2 Licensee:

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Plant: Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. Unit 2

Subject:

Construction Status Date: January 14. 2015 Location:

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Time: 2:00p.m.-

4:00p.m.

Headquarters.

Room 0-16B4 NAME TITLE ORGANIZATION Frederick Brown Deputy Regional NRC/RII Administrator, Region II (RII) William Dean Director, Office of Nuclear NRC/NRR Reactor Regulation (NRR) Patrick Castleman Reactor Advisor to NRC/Office of the Commission Commissioner Svinicki Michele Evans Director, Division of Operating NRC/NRR/DORL Reactor Licensing (DORL) William Jones Director, Division of NRC/RII/DCP Construction Projects (DCP) John Lubinski

Director, Division of NRC/NRR/DE Engineering (DE) Jane Marshall Deputy Director, Division of NRC/NRR/DLR License Renewal (DLR) Enclosure NAME TITLE ORGANIZATION Tomy Nazario Senior Resident Inspector, NRC/RII Watts Bar, Unit 2 Jessie Quichocho Chief, Watts Bar Special NRC/NRR/DORL/LPWB Projects Branch (LPWB) Justin Poole Senior Project Manager, NRC/NRR/DORL/LPWB Watts Bar, Unit 2 Jeanne Dion Project Manager, Watts Bar, NRC/NRR/DORLILPWB Unit 1 Robert Haag Chief, Construction Projects NRC/RII/DCP/CPB3 Branch 3 Christopher Even Senior Construction Project NRC/RII/DCP Inspector Senior Reactor Operations NRC/Office of New Reactors/Division Daniel Pasquale of Construction Inspection and Engineer Operational Programs Office of Nuclear Security and John Rycyna Cyber Security Specialist Incident Response/Cyber Security Directorate Senior Fire Protection Daniel Frumkin Engineer, Division of Risk NRC/NRR/DRA Assessment (ORA) Charles Moulton Fire Protection Engineer NRC/NRR/DRA Senior Level Advisor for Allen Hiser License Renewal Aging NRC/NRR/DLR Management NAME TITLE ORGANIZATION Christopher Hovanec Materials Engineer NRC/NRR/DLR Joe Shea Vice President Nuclear TVA Licensing Gordon Arent TV A Director, Watts Bar TVA Licensing Paul Simmons Watts Bar Vice President, TVA Unit 2 Start Up Watts Bar, Unit 2 Electrical Steven A. Hilmes and Instrumentation and TVA Control Design Frank Koontz Engineering Specialist, Watts TVA Bar, Unit 2 Bob Williams Fukushima Program Manager TVA Watts Bar, Unit 2 Bill Crouch Mechanical/Nuclear TVA Engineering Manager Scott Brooks Communications Specialists TVA Joe Calle Watts Bar Dual Unit TVA Transition Manager Mark Anderson Principal Conger-Eisea NAME TITLE ORGANIZATION Chris Chandler

• General Council TVA Chief, Aging Management of Dennis Morey

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

• Reporter SNL Financial Chris Charles

• Editor, Writer Nuclear Energy Institute Michael Blake

• Reporter Nuclear News Brittany Theis

• Member of Public Sara Barczak

• High Risk Energy Choices Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Program Director Daniel Chalk

• Light Water Reactor Scientist Department of Energy Adam Wilson

• Construction Project Rll Inspector Michael King

• Chief, Engineering Branch 1 NRC/RII/Division of Reactor (EB1) Safety/EB1

• By telephone February 11, 2015 LICENSEE:

Tennessee Valley Authority FACILITY:

Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 2

SUBJECT:

SUMMARY OF JANUARY 14,2015, MEETING WITH TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY REGARDING WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 2 On January 14, 2015, a Category 1 public meeting was held between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and representatives of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) at NRC Headquarters, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland.

The purpose of this meeting was for TVA to present the status of construction and licensing efforts for the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2 project.

A list of attendees is enclosed.

TVA made a presentation to the NRC staff (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System Accession No. ML 15016A042),

which covered the following topics: construction completion status; projects risks; licensing topics; and special topics, including fire protection, cyber security, degraded

voltage, and buried piping integrity programs.

TVA stated that the estimated date to load fuel is June 17, 2015, and that completion of hot functional testing poses the most significant risk to the schedule.

TVA discussed the proposed content of construction completion status letters, which would support licensing activities.

Throughout the presentation, the NRC staff asked clarifying questions, with a focus on understanding TVA's schedule and those activities that could impact the schedule or pose a safety concern.

The NRC staff also commented that an important factor in the staff being able to support TVA's estimated fuel load date, is for TVA to focus on providing high quality submittals and meeting the proposed schedule for those submittals in order to reach timely resolution of the remaining issues. No regulatory decisions were made at the meeting.

Several members of the public, including the press, were in attendance via teleconference and webinar.

No Public Meeting Feedback forms were received.

Please direct any inquiries to me at 301-415-2048 or Justin.Poole@nrc.gov.

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

Enclosure:

List of Attendees cc w/enclosure:

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