IR 05000443/2005001

Annual Assessment Letter - Seabrook Nuclear Generating Station (Report 05000443/2005001)

ML050610458
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	03/02/2005
From:	Paul Krohn NRC/RGN-I/DRP/PB6
To:	Peschel J, Warner M Florida Power & Light Energy Seabrook
Jenison K RGN-I/DRP/PB6/610-337-5244
References
IR-05-001
Download: ML050610458 (6)

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UNITED STATES March 2, 2005

SUBJECT:

Annual Assessment Letter - Seabrook Nuclear Generating Station (Report 05000443/2005001)

Dear Mr. Warner:

On February 7, 2005, the NRC staff completed its end-of-cycle plant performance assessment of FPL Seabrook. The end-of-cycle review for Seabrook involved the participation of the reactor technical divisions in evaluating performance indicators (PIs) for the most recent quarter and inspection results for the period from January 1 through December 31, 2004. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period and our plans for future inspections at your facility so that you will have an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections that may conflict with your plant activities.

This performance review and enclosed inspection plan do not include physical protection information. A separate end-of-cycle performance review letter, designated and marked as Exempt from Public Disclosure in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, will include the physical protection review and resultant inspection plan.

Overall, Seabrook operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for the most recent quarter, as well as for the first three quarters of the assessment cycle, was within the Licensee Response Column of the NRCs Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified as having very low safety significance (Green) and all PIs indicating performance at a level requiring no additional NRC oversight (Green). Therefore, we plan to conduct only reactor oversight process (ROP)

baseline inspections at your facility through September 30, 2006.

The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections, less those related to physical protection, scheduled through September 30, 2006. The inspection plan is provided to minimize the resource impact on your staff and to allow for scheduling conflicts and personnel availability to be resolved in advance of inspector arrival onsite. Routine resident inspections are not listed due to their ongoing and continuous nature. The inspections in the last nine months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the mid-cycle review meeting.

Mr. Mark In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

If circumstances arise which cause us to change this inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact me at (610) 337-5120 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Paul Krohn, Chief Reactor Projects Branch 6 Division of Reactor Projects Docket No. 50-443 License No. NPF-86 Enclosure: Seabrook Station Inspection/Activity Plan

Mr. Mark