ML091770560

IR 05000382-09-009, on 08/24/2009, Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 - Initial Information Request for NRC Triennial Baseline Component Design Bases Inspection

ML091770560
Person / Time
Site:	Waterford
Issue date:	06/26/2009
From:	Thomas Farnholtz Region 4 Engineering Branch 1
To:	Kowalewski J Entergy Operations
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IR-09-009
Download: ML091770560 (10)

See also: IR 05000382/2009009

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UNITED S TATE S

N UCLE AR REGU LATORY COMMI SS ION

R E GI ON I V

6 1 2 E. LAMAR BLVD. , SU ITE 4 00

AR LIN GTON , TEXAS 7 6 01 1- 4005

June 26, 2009

Joseph Kowalewski, Vice President, Operations

Entergy Operations, Inc.

Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3

17265 River Road

Killona, LA 70057-3093

SUBJECT: WATERFORD STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNIT 3 - INITIAL INFORMATION

REQUEST FOR NRC TRIENNIAL BASELINE COMPONENT DESIGN BASES

INSPECTION NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000382/2009009

Dear Mr. Joseph Kowalewski,

On August 24, 2009, the NRC will begin a triennial baseline Component Design Bases

Inspection at the Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3. A six-person team will perform this

inspection using NRC Inspection Procedure 71111.21, "Component Design Bases Inspection."

The inspection focuses on components and operator actions that have high risk and low design

margins. The samples reviewed during this inspection will be identified during an information

gathering visit and during the subsequent in-office preparation week. In addition, a number of

operating experience issues will also be selected for review.

The inspection will include an information gathering site visit by the team leader and a senior

reactor analyst, and 3-weeks of onsite inspection by the team. The inspection will consist of

four NRC inspectors and two contractors, of which five will focus on engineering and one on

operations. The current inspection schedule is as follows:

Onsite information gathering visit: Week of August 3, 2009

Preparation Week: August 17-21, 2009

Onsite weeks: August 24-28, 2009 and September 8-18, 2009

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

potential risk-significant components and operator actions. The lead inspector will also request

a tour of the plant with members of your operations staff and probabilistic safety assessment

staff. During the onsite weeks, several days of time will be needed on the plant-referenced

simulator in order to facilitate the development of operator action-based scenarios.

Additional information and documentation needed to support the inspection will be identified

during the inspection, including interviews with engineering managers, engineers, and

probabilistic safety assessment staff.

Entergy Operations, Inc. -2-

Our experience with these inspections has shown that they are extremely resource intensive,

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

on the site and to ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed a request for information

needed for the inspection. The request has been divided into three groups. The first group lists

information necessary for the information gathering visit and for general preparation. This

information should be available to the regional office no later than July 22, 2009. Insofar as

possible, this information should be provided electronically to the lead inspector. Since the

inspection will be concentrated on high risk/low margin components, calculations associated

with your list of high risk components should be available to review during the information

gathering visit to assist in our selection of components based on available design margin.

The second group of documents requested is those items that the team will need access to

during the preparation week in order to finalize the samples to be inspected. The third group

lists information necessary to aid the inspection team in tracking issues identified as a result of

the inspection. It is requested that this information be provided to the lead inspector as the

information is generated during the inspection. Additional requests by inspectors will be made

throughout all three onsite weeks for specific documents needed to complete the review of that

component/selection. 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. In order to facilitate the inspection, we request that a

contact individual be assigned to each inspector to ensure information requests, questions, and

concerns are addressed in a timely manner.

The lead inspector for this inspection is Mr. Ronald A. Kopriva. We understand that our

licensing engineer contact for this inspection is Mr. Michael Mason. If there are any questions

about the inspection or the requested materials, please contact the lead inspector at (817) 860-

8104 or via e-mail at ron.kopriva@nrc.gov.

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

made 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/

Thomas Farnholtz, Chief

Engineering Branch 1

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket: 50-382

License: NPF-38

Enclosure:

Component Design Basis Inspection

Document Request

cc w/enclosure:

Entergy Operations, Inc. -3-

Senior Vice President

Entergy Nuclear Operations

P. O. Box 31995

Jackson, MS 39286-1995

Senior Vice President and

Chief Operating Officer

Entergy Operations, Inc.

P. O. Box 31995

Jackson, MS 39286-1995

Vice President, Operations Support

Entergy Services, Inc.

P. O. Box 31995

Jackson, MS 39286-1995

Senior Manager, Nuclear Safety

and Licensing

Entergy Services, Inc.

P. O. Box 31995

Jackson, MS 39286-1995

Site Vice President

Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3

Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road

Killona, LA 70057-0751

Director

Nuclear Safety Assurance

Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road

Killona, LA 70057-0751

General Manager, Plant Operations

Waterford 3 SES

Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road

Killona, LA 70057-0751

Manager, Licensing

Entergy Operations, Inc.

17265 River Road

Killona, LA 70057-3093

Chairman

Louisiana Public Service Commission

P. O. Box 91154

Baton Rouge, LA 70821-9154

Entergy Operations, Inc. -4-

Parish President Council

St. Charles Parish

P. O. Box 302

Hahnville, LA 70057

Director, Nuclear Safety & Licensing

Entergy, Operations, Inc.

440 Hamilton Avenue

White Plains, NY 10601

Louisiana Department of Environmental

Quality, Radiological Emergency Planning

and Response Division

P. O. Box 4312

Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4312

Chief, Technological Hazards

Branch

FEMA Region VI

800 North Loop 288

Federal Regional Center

Denton, TX 76209

Entergy Operations, Inc. -5-

Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov )

Deputy Regional Administrator (Chuck.Casto@nrc.gov )

DRP Director (Dwight.Chamberlain@nrc.gov)

DRP Deputy Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov )

DRS Director (Roy.Caniano@nrc.gov )

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

Senior Resident Inspector (Ray.Azua@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Dean.Overland@nrc.gov )

Branch Chief, DRP/E (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/E (George.Replogle@nrc.gov)

WAT Site Secretary (Linda.Dufrene@nrc.gov )

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

Team Leader, DRP/TSS (Chuck.Paulk@nrc.gov )

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov )

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov )

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

OEMail Resource

DRS STA (Dale.Powers@nrc.gov)

OEDO RIV Coordinator (Leigh.Trocine@nrc.gov )

ROPreports

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SUNSI Rev Compl. ;Yes No ADAMS  ; Yes No Reviewer Initials TRF

Publicly Avail  ; Yes No Sensitive Yes ;No Sens. Type Initials TRF

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R. Kopriva T. Farnholtz

/RA/ /RA/

6/26/09 6/26/09

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

Entergy Operations, Inc. -6-

Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov )

Deputy Regional Administrator (Chuck.Casto@nrc.gov )

DRP Director (Dwight.Chamberlain@nrc.gov)

DRP Deputy Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov )

DRS Director (Roy.Caniano@nrc.gov )

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

Senior Resident Inspector (Ron.Cohen@nrc.gov )

Resident Inspector (Nicholas.Hernandez@nrc.gov )

Resident Inspector (Mahdi.Hayes@nrc.gov )

Branch Chief, DRP/A (Wayne.Walker@nrc.gov )

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/A clyde.osterholtz@nrc.gov)

Columbia Site Secretary (Crystal.Myers@nrc.gov )

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

Team Leader, DRP/TSS (Chuck.Paulk@nrc.gov )

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov )

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov )

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

OEMail Resource

CDBI Team Lead (Ronald.Kopriva@nrc.gov

NRR CDBI Coordinator (Donald.Norkin@nrc.gov )

SUNSI Review Completed: ___Yes ___No ADAMS: ___Yes ___ No Initials: ______

___ Publicly Available ___ Non-Publicly Available ___ Sensitive ___ Non-Sensitive

S:DRS/Reports/WT3 CDBI RFI RAK ML

RIV:SRI:DRS/EB1 BC/EB1

RKopriva TFarnholtz

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

INFORMATION REQUEST FOR WATERFORD STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNIT 3

COMPONENT DESIGN BASES (CDBI) INSPECTION

Inspection Report: 05000382/2009009

Information Gathering Dates: August 3-7, 2009

On-site Inspection Dates: August 24-28, 2009 and September 8-18, 2009

Inspection Procedure: IP 71111.21, "Component Design Bases Inspection"

Lead Inspector/Team Leader: Ronald A. Kopriva

817-860-8104

Ron.kopriva@nrc.gov

I. Information Requested Prior to the information Gathering Visit July 29, 2009.

The following information (Section I of this enclosure) should be sent to the Region IV

office in hard copy or electronic format (ims.certrec.com preferred), in care of Ronald A.

Kopriva, by July 22, 2009 to facilitate the reduction in the items to be selected for a final

list during the preparation week of August 17, 2009. The inspection team will finalize the

selected list during the prep week using the additional documents requested in Section II

of this enclosure. The specific items selected from the lists shall be available and ready

for review on the day indicated in this request. *Please provide requested

documentation electronically in "pdf" files, Excel, or other searchable formats, if possible.

The information should contain descriptive names, and be indexed and hyperlinked to

facilitate ease of use. Information in "lists" should contain enough information to be

easily understood by someone who has knowledge of pressurized water reactor

technology. If requested documents are large and only hard copy formats are available,

please inform the inspector(s), and provide subject documentation during the first day of

the onsite inspection.

1. An excel spreadsheet of equipment basic events (with definitions) including

importance measures sorted by risk achievement worth (RAW) and Fussell-

Vesely (FV) from your internal events probabilistic risk assessment (PRA).

Include basic events with RAW value of 1.3 or greater.

2. Provide a list of the top 500 cut-sets from your PRA.

3. Copies of PRA "system notebooks," and the latest PRA summary document.

4. An excel spreadsheet of PRA human action basic events or risk ranking of

operator actions from your site specific PSA sorted by RAW and FV. Provide

copies of your human reliability worksheets for these items.

5. If you have an external events or fire PSA model, provide the information

requested in items 1-4 for external events and fire.

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6. Any pre-existing evaluation or list of components and associated calculations

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, etc.).

7. List of high risk maintenance rule systems/components and functions; based on

engineering or expert panel judgment.

8. A list of operating experience evaluations for the last 2 years.

9. A list of all time-critical operator actions in procedures.

10. A list of permanent and temporary modifications sorted by component identified

in Item 1.

11. List of current "operator work arounds/burdens."

12. A list of the design calculations, which provide the design margin information for

components included in Item 1. (Calculations should be available during the

information gathering visit).

13. List of root cause evaluations associated with component failures or design

issues initiated/completed in the last 5 years.

14. Current management and engineering organizational charts.

15. Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 IPEEE, if available electronically.

16. Mechanical piping drawings for:

Engineered safety features

Emergency core cooling systems

Emergency diesel generators

17 Electrical one-line drawings for:

Offsite power/switchyard supplies

Normal AC power systems

Emergency AC/DC power systems including

120VAC power, and

125VDC/24VDC safety class systems

18. List of any common-cause failures of components in the last 3 years.

19. An electronic copy of the Design Bases Documents.

20. An electronic copy of the System Health notebooks.

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II. Information Requested to be Available on First Day of Preparation Week (August

24, 2009)

1. List of condition reports (corrective action documents) associated with each of

the selected components for the last 5 years.

2. The corrective maintenance history associated with each of the selected

components for the last 2 years.

3. Copies of calculations associated with each of the selected components (if not

previously provided), excluding data files. Please review the calculations and

also provide copies of reference material (such as drawings, engineering

requests, and vendor letters).

4. Copies of operability evaluations associated with each of the selected

components and plans for restoring operability, if applicable.

5. Copies of selected operator work-around evaluations associated with each of the

selected components and plans for resolution, if applicable.

6. Copies of any open temporary modifications associated with each of the selected

components, if applicable.

7. Trend data on the selected electrical/mechanical components performance for

last 3 years (for example, pumps performance including in-service testing, other

vibration monitoring, oil sample results, etc., as applicable).

8. A copy of any internal/external self-assessments and associated corrective

action documents generated in preparation for the inspection.

9. A copy of engineering/operations related audits completed in the last 2 years.

10. List of motor operated valves (MOVs) in the program, design margin and risk

ranking.

11. List of air operated valves (AOVs) in the valve program, design and risk ranking.

12. Structure, system and components in the Maintenance Rule (a)(1) category.

13. Site top 10 issues list.

14. Procedures used to accomplish operator actions associated with the basic

events in your PRA.

15. List of licensee contacts for the inspection team with pager or phone numbers.

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III. Information Requested to be provided throughout the inspection.

1. Copies of any corrective action documents generated as a result of the teams

questions or queries during this inspection.

2. Copies of the list of questions submitted by the team members and the

status/resolution of the information requested (provide daily during the inspection

to each team member).

3. Reference materials (available electronically and as needed during all onsite

weeks):

General set of plant drawings

IPE/PRA report

Procurement documents for components selected

Plant procedures (normal, abnormal, emergency, surveillance, etc.)

Technical Specifications

Updated Final Safety Analysis Report

Vendor manuals

Inspector Contact Information:

Ronald A. Kopriva

Senior Reactor Inspector

(817) 860-8104

Ron.kopriva@nrc.gov

Mailing Address:

US NRC, Region IV

Attn: Ronald A. Kopriva

612 East Lamar Blvd, Ste 400

Arlington, TX 76011

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