ML12131A459

IR 05000482-12-009, Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation - NRC Augmented Inspection Team Follow-up Inspection Planning Letter

ML12131A459
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	05/09/2012
From:	O'Keefe N NRC/RGN-IV/DRP/RPB-B
To:	Matthew Sunseri Wolf Creek
O'Keefe N
References
IR-12-009
Download: ML12131A459 (5)

See also: IR 05000482/2012009

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION I V

1600 EAST LAMAR BLVD

ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4511

May 9, 2012

Mr. Matthew W. Sunseri

President and Chief Executive Officer

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

P.O. Box 411

Burlington, KS 66839

SUBJECT: WOLF CREEK NUCLEAR OPERATING CORPORATION - NRC AUGMENTED

INSPECTION TEAM FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION PLANNING LETTER,

INSPECTION REPORT 05000482/2012009

Dear Mr. Sunseri:

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV

staff will conduct the augmented inspection team follow-up inspection at your Wolf Creek

Generating Station. The inspection will be comprised of one senior resident, one resident and

two regional reactor inspectors from the NRC Region IV office. The inspection will be

conducted in accordance with Inspection Procedure 93800 and multiple reactor oversight

process baseline inspection procedures.

The schedule for the inspection is as follows:

In-office preparation: May 21 - 25, 2012

Onsite inspection: May 28 - June 1, 2012

Experience has shown that this inspection is resource intensive 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.

Please note that the documents are requested to be provided by May 14, 2012. We request

that during the onsite inspection week, you ensure that copies of analyses, evaluations, or

documentation regarding the root cause of the failures of the main generator output breaker and

the startup transformer are available. Also, appropriate personnel knowledgeable of each of the

unresolved items documented in Inspection Report 0500482/2012008 should be available to

support the inspectors at the site during the inspection.

We have discussed the schedule for this inspection activity with your staff and understand that

our regulatory contact for this inspection will be William Muilenburg of your licensing

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

contact the team lead, John Dixon, at 361-972-2507 or by email, john.dixon@nrc.gov.

M. Sunseri -2-

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 No. 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 No.

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 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).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Neil OKeefe, Chief

Project Branch B

Division of Reactor Projects

Dockets: 50-482

Licenses: NPF-42

Enclosure: Augmented Inspection Team Follow-up Inspection Document Request

cc: Electronic distribution for Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

M. Sunseri -3-

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)

Acting DRS Director (Tom.Blount@nrc.gov)

Acting DRS Deputy Director (Patrick.Louden@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (Chris.Long@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Charles.Peabody@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRP/B (Neil.Okeefe@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/B (Leonard.Willoughby@nrc.gov,

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

WC Administrative Assistant (Shirley.Allen@nrc.gov)

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

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

Project Manager (Randy.Hall@nrc.gov)

Acting Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Dale.Powers@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)

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

OEMail Resource

Only inspection reports to the following:

RIV/ETA: OEDO (Michael.McCoppin@nrc.gov)

R:\_REACTORS\WC\2012\WC2012009 Inspection Planning Ltr.doc

SUNSI Rev Compl. Yes No ADAMS Yes No Reviewer Initials NFO

Publicly Avail Yes No Sensitive Yes No Sens. Type Initials NFO

RIV:SRI:DRP/B D:DRP/B

JDixon NOKeefe

/RA/ /RA/

05/9/2012 05/9/2012

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

Augmented Inspection Team Follow-up Inspection Document Request

Inspection Dates: In-office preparation: May 21 - 25, 2012

Onsite : May 28, 2012 - June 1, 2012

Inspection Procedures: IP 93800, Augmented Inspection Team

Various Reactor Oversight Process Baseline Inspection

Procedures

Inspectors: John Dixon, Senior Resident Inspector, South Texas Project

Mica Baquera, Resident Inspector, Palo Verde

John Watkins, Reactor Inspector

Nnaerika Okonkwo, Reactor Inspector

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 database preferred), in care of John Dixon, by May 14, 2012. The

inspectors will select specific items from the information requested below and then request from

your staff additional documents needed during the onsite inspection week. Also, we request

that you categorize the documents in your response with the numbered list below. 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 lead inspector as soon as possible.

For the following items as related to the Augmented Inspection Team inspection, as

documented in Inspection Report 05000482/2012008, please provide associated condition

reports, work orders, root cause and/or apparent cause investigations, design basis documents,

UFSAR descriptions, technical specification requirements, plans of actions, and risk profiles:

1. Main generator output breaker fault

2. Startup transformer fault

3. Turbine driven auxiliary feedwater pump operation at low flow, pressure, and speed

4. Turbine driven auxiliary feedwater mechanical overspeed trip device settings

5. Emergency diesel generator B ground

6. ESW water hammer

7. ESW piping corrosion

8. Source range nuclear instrument NI-31 response on loss of cavity cooling

9. Failure to maintain fire water pressure

10. Training/Operation/Procedures for temporary diesel-driven fire pump

11. Diesel-driven fire pump and temporary diesel-driven fire pump differences

12. Diesel-driven fire pump unavailability

13. Security issue

Inspector Contact Information:

John Dixon

Sr. Resident Inspector

361-972-2507

john.dixon@nrc.gov

Mailing Address:

US NRC Region IV

Attn: John Dixon

1600 East Lamar Blvd.

Arlington, TX 76011-4511