ML13094A213

IR 05000424-13-007 and 05000425-13-007, on 07/15-19, 07/29 -008/02, 08/12-16/2013, Notification of Vogtle Electric Generating Plant - Component Design Bases Inspection

ML13094A213
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	04/03/2013
From:	Nease R NRC/RGN-II/DRS/EB1
To:	Tynan T Southern Nuclear Operating Co
References
IR-13-007
Download: ML13094A213 (10)

See also: IR 05000424/2013007

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II 245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257

April 3, 2013

Mr. Tom E. Tynan

Vice President

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant

7821 River Road

Waynesboro, GA 30830

SUBJECT: NOTIFICATION OF VOGTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT

- COMPONENT DESIGN BASES INSPECTION - NRC INSPECTION REPORT

05000424/2013007 AND 05000425/2013007

Dear Mr. Tynan:

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Region II staff will conduct a component design bases inspection (CDBI) at your Vogtle Electric Generating Plant during the weeks of July 15 - 19, July 29 - August 2, and August 12 - 16, 2013. The inspection team will be led by Geoffrey

Ottenberg, a Senior Reactor Inspector from the NRC's Region II Office. This inspection will be conducted in accordance with the baseline

inspection procedure, Procedure 71111.21, "Component Design Bases Inspection," issued

August 14, 2012.

The inspection will evaluate the capability of risk significant / low margin components to function

as designed and to support proper system operation. The inspection will also include a review

of selected operator actions, operating experience, and modifications.

During a telephone conversation on March 28, 2013, Mr. Ottenberg confirmed with George Gunn of your staff, arrangements for an information-gathering site visit and the three-week

onsite inspection. The schedule is as follows:

• Information-gathering visit: Week of June 24 - 28, 2013

• Onsite weeks: July 15 - 19, July 29 - August 2, and August 12 - 16, 2013

The purpose of the information-gathering visit is to meet with members of your staff to identify

risk-significant components and operator actions. Information and documentation needed to

support the inspection will also be identified. Mr. George Macdonald, a Region II Senior Reactor Analyst, will support Mr. Ottenberg during the information-gathering visit to review probabilistic risk assessment data and identify risk significant components, which will be examined during the inspection.

The Enclosure lists documents that will be needed prior to the information-gathering visit. Please provide the referenced information to the Region II office by June 10, 2013. The inspectors will try to minimize your administrative burden by specifically identifying only those documents required for inspection preparation.

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Additional documents will be requested during the information-gathering visit. The additional information will need to be made available to the team in the Region II office prior to the

inspection teams' preparation week of July 8, 2013. Mr. Ottenberg will also discuss the following inspection support administrative details: (1) availability of knowledgeable plant engineering and licensing personnel to serve as points of contact during the inspection, (2)

method of tracking inspector requests during the inspection, (3) licensee computer access, (4)

working space, (5) arrangements for site access, and (6) other applicable information.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and its

Enclosure will be available electr

onically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide

Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC

Website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions regarding the information requested or the inspection, please contact Mr. Ottenberg at 404-997-4658 or me at

404-997-4530.

Sincerely, /RA/ Rebecca L. Nease, Chief

Engineering Branch 1

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos. 50-424, 50-425

License Nos. NPF-68, NPF-81

Enclosure:

Information Request for Vogtle Electric

Generating Plant - Component Design

Bases Inspection

cc: (See page 3)

_________________________

GX SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE

G FORM 665 ATTACHED OFFICE RII: DRS RII: DRS SIGNATURE RA RA NAME Ottenberg Nease DATE 4/3/2012 4/3/2013 4/ /2013 4/ /2013 4/ /2013 4/ /2013 4/ /2013 E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO

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cc: C. Russ Dedrickson

Fleet Support Supervisor

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

S. Kuczynski

Chairman, President and CEO

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

Todd L. Youngblood

Vice President

Fleet Oversight

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

W. L. Bargeron

Plant Manager Vogtle Electric Generating Plant

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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D. G. Bost

Chief Nuclear Officer

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

N. J. Stringfellow

Licensing Manager

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

Paula Marino

Vice President

Engineering

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

T. A. Lynch

Vice President

Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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Dennis R. Madison

Vice President Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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Leigh Perry SVP & General Counsel-Ops & SNC

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

T. E. Tynan

Site Vice President

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

C. R. Pierce

Nuclear Licensing Director

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

B. D. McKinney, Jr.

Regulatory Response Manager

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

D. W. Daughhetee

Licensing Engineer

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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Bradley J. Adams

Vice President

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Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. Electronic Mail Distribution

T. D. Honeycutt

Regulatory Response Supervisor

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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L. P. Hill

Licensing Supervisor

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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L. L. Crumpton

Administrative Assistant, Sr.

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

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(cc cont'd - See page 3)

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(cc cont'd) Hickox, T. Mark

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Electronic Mail Distribution

Mark Rauckhorst

Site Vice President

Vogtle Units 3 and 4

Southern Nuclear Operating Company Electronic Mail Distribution

S. C. Swanson

Site Support Manager

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Electronic Mail Distribution

Senior Resident Inspector

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant U.S. NRC 7821 River Road

Waynesboro, GA 30830

Arthur H. Domby, Esq.

Troutman Sanders Electronic Mail Distribution

Jerry Ranalli

Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia

Power Electronic Mail Distribution

Sandra Threatt, Manager

Nuclear Response and Emergency

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Letter to Tom E. Tynan from Rebecca L. Nease dated April 3, 2013

SUBJECT: NOTIFICATION OF VOGTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT

- COMPONENT DESIGN BASES INSPECTION - NRC INSPECTION REPORT

05000424/2013007 AND 05000425/2013007

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Enclosure

INFORMATION REQUEST FOR VOGTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT COMPONENT DESIGN BASES INSPECTION

Please provide the information electronically in ".pdf" files, Excel, or other searchable format on CDROM. (or FTP site, SharePoint, etc.) The CDROM (or website) should be indexed and

hyperlinked to facilitate ease of use.

1. From your most-recent probabilistic safety analysis (PSA)

excluding external events and fires: a. Two risk rankings of components from your site-specific probabilistic safety

analysis (PSA): one sorted by Risk Achievement Worth (RAW), and the other sorted by Birnbaum Importance

b. A list of the top 500 cutsets

2. From your most-recent probabilistic safety analysis (PSA)

including external events and fires:

a. Two risk rankings of components from your site-specific probabilistic safety

analysis (PSA): one sorted by Risk Achievement Worth (RAW), and the other sorted by Birnbaum Importance

b. A list of the top 500 cutsets

3. Risk ranking of operator actions from y

our site-specific PSA sorted by RAW. Provide human reliability worksheets for these items.

4. List of time critical operator actions with a brief description of each action.

5. List of Emergency and Abnormal Operating Procedures revised (significant) since June 14, 2010, with a brief description of each revision.

6. List of components with low design margins (i.e., pumps closest to the design limit for flow or pressure, diesel generator close to design-required output, heat exchangers close to

rated design heat removal, and MOV risk-margin rankings, etc.), and associated

evaluations or calculations.

7. List of station operating experience evaluations/reviews performed, and documented in the station's corrective action program, fo

r industry events and safety related equipment failures/vulnerabilities [as communicated by NRC Generic Communications, Industry Communications, 10 CFR Part 21 Notifications, etc.] since June 14, 2010.

8. List and brief description of safety related SSC design modifications implemented since June 14, 2010.

9. List and brief description of common-cause component failures that have occurred since June 14, 2010.

2 Enclosure 10. List and brief description of operability evaluations completed since June 14, 2010.

11. List of equipment on the site's Station Equipment Reliability Issues List, including a description of the reason(s) why each component is on that list, and summaries (if available) of your plans to address the issue(s).

12. List and brief description of equipment currently in degraded or nonconforming status as described in RIS 05-020.

13. List and reason for equipment classified in maintenance rule (a)(1) status since June 14, 2010, to present.

14. Copies of System Descriptions (or the like design basis documents) for Safety-Related Systems. 15. Copy of UFSAR(s).

16. Copy of Technical Specification(s).

17. Copy of Technical Specifications Bases.

18. Copy of Technical Requirements Manual(s).

19. List and brief description of Root Cause Evaluations that have been performed since June

14, 2010.

20. In-service Testing Program Procedure(s).

21. Corrective Action Program Procedure(s).

22. One line diagram of electrical plant. (Electronic and full size - hard copy week of June 24, 2013) 23. Index and legend for electrical plant one-line diagrams.

24. Primary AC calculation(s) for safety-related buses.

25. Primary DC calculation(s) for safety-related buses.

26. PI&D's for Safety-Related systems. (Electronic and 1/2 size - hard copy week of June 24, 2013)

27. Index and Legend for PI&Ds.

28. Copy of Operability determination procedure(s).

30. Copies of condition reports associated with findings from previous CDBI. (If applicable)

3 Enclosure 31. Index (procedure number, titles, and current revision) of station Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs), Abnormal Operating Procedures (AOPs), and Annunciator Response Procedures (ARPs).

32. Copy of any self-assessments performed in preparation for this inspection.

33. List of any condition reports generated in preparation for this inspection.

34. Copies of condition reports generated from previous CDBI (2010).

35. Contact information for a person to discuss PRA information prior to and during the information-gathering trip. (Name, title, phone number, and e-mail address)