ML091350087

Commission Briefing Slides/Exhibits on Results of AARM

ML091350087
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Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	05/14/2009
From:	Borchardt W NRC/EDO
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COMMISSION BRIEFING SLIDES/EXHIBITS BRIEFING ON RESULTS OF AARM MAY 14, 2009

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7 C U.S.NRC UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ProtectingPeople and the Environment Briefing on the Results of the Agency Action Review Meeting May 14, 2009 Bill Borchardt, EDO

Agenda

• Plant Discussion

-Palo Verde: Elmo Collins, RIV

" Industry Trends Program -

Frederick Brown, NRR "ROP Self-Assessment -

Frederick Brown, NRR 2

Agenda (cont.)

• Materials and Waste Programs Performance: Charles Miller, FSME

• Facility Discussion

-Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc..

Luis Reyes, RII 3

Plant Discussion - Palo Verde

• NRC Activities to Confirm Safety and Assess Effectiveness of CAL

- Inspections

- Public Meetings

• Palo Verde Actions in 2008 4

Plant Discussion - Palo Verde

• Current Performance Assessment

- Overall Performance Improved

- Closed CAL and Substantive Cross Cutting Issues

• Actions Going Forward

- Focused CAL Follow Up Inspections

- Periodic Public Meetings 5

Reactor Industry Trends Program

" Identifies Trends in Safety Performance

• Communicates Performance To Stakeholders

" Complements the ROP

• Supports NRC Performance Goals 6

FY 2008 Reactor Trend Results

• No Statistically Significant Adverse Trends in Safety Performance

• Short term performance was within expected ranges

" No Significant Accident Sequence Precursors 7

ROP Self-Assessment

• Reviewed Against Program Goals

" Met Performance Goals and Achieved Intended Outcomes

• Safety Improved at Specific Plants as Result of ROP Implementation 8

2008 AARM Follow Up Actions

" Clarify Meaning and Use of "Green" Pis

• Evaluate Improvements to ROP Metrics for Pis and SDP

• Evaluate Resident Inspector Attraction and Retention Issues 9

ROP Discussion Topics

• Action Matrix Deviations

• Several ROP Enhancements

• Consistent ROP Resources 10

2009 ROP Focus Areas

• Consistently Implement SCCI Guidance

• Followed development in Safety Culture Initiative

• Ongoing Effort to Further Improve the PI Program 11

Materials and Waste Programs Perform ance Provide a summary of the materials and waste program's performance 12

Performance Evaluation Program

• Systematic review to identify significant:

- Operational performance trends

-Licensee performance issues

-NRC program issues/gaps 13

Performance Criteria

" Strategic Outcomes

• Performance Measures

• Abnormal Occurrences

• Significant Enforcement Actions

• Trending review of Event Data

• SECY-02-0216 and SECY-08-0135 14

Strategic Outcomes &

Performance Measures

• All Strategic Outcomes were realized

• Performance Measures were all within the established goals 15

Abnormal Occurrences

" Ten abnormal occurrences (AOs) in FY 2008

" All AOs in FY 2008 were medical-related events

• No discernable trends on total number of AOs 16

Escalated NRC Materials Enforcement Actions

• 118 escalated enforcement actions in calendar year 2008

• Two cases involved severity level II violations

• No significant performance trends identified 17

Licensee Performance/

NRC Program Gaps

" Two nuclear materials licensees met the significant performance issues criteria for FY 2008

• No significant trending issues identified

• No NRC program gaps or failures identified 18

Trending Review of Event Data

• Reviewed 10 years - 5,227 eve nts during this period

• No significant performance tre nds identified

• No significant change from previous 10 year period (5,053 events) 19

Review of General Licensed Device Events

• Data Reviewed to determine:

-Type of general licensed device (GLD) events that have been reported

-Any trends regarding GLDs 20

Review of General Licensed Device Events

• General Findings:

-546 events involved 7,776 GLDs for the time period 111/1998 to 12/31/2008

-Tritium exit signs accounted for 93 percent of the GLDs for these events 21

Review of General Licensed Device Events

Conclusions:

-The NRC is evaluating the cause for the large number of tritium exit sign related events

- No other trends were found during this study 22

Materials Licensee Briefing on Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.

" Reasons for Discussion

" NRC Actions

" Current Performance

• NFS' Compliance with Order

" Next Steps 23

Conclusions

" All strategic and performance goals were met in FY 2008

" No adverse performance trends identified

" Enhancements to the ROP 24

List of Acronyms "AARM - Agency Action Review Meeting

• AO - Abnormal Occurrence "ASP -Accident Sequence Precursor

• CAL - Confirmatory Action Letter

• EDO - Executive Director of Operations 25

List of Acronyms (cont)

" FMSE - Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs

" FY - Fiscal Year

• GLD -General Licensed Device

• IMC -Inspection Manual Chapter S IP - Inspection Procedure

" ITP - Industry Trends Program 26

List of Acronyms (cont)

" MD - Management Directive

" NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission

" PI - Performance Indicator

" PI&R - Problem Identification and Resolution

• PRA - Probabilistic Risk Assessment

" RII - Region II 27

List of Acronyms (cont)

• RIV - Region IV

" ROP - Reactor Oversight Process

" SCCI- Substantial Cross-Cutting Issue

" SDP - Significance Determination Process

" SRM - Staff Requirements Memorandum 28

Palo Verde. Nuclear Generating Station May 2009 Randy Edington Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Arizona Public Service

I-PLANT EQUIPME14T PFOptF (ORRECTIVE ACTION PROGRAM SAFETY WHUMANPERF.,'CONT. LEARNING I KNOWLEDGE TRAINING COMMUNICATIONS I OVERSIGHT N q EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS I ~g PRCDUE NIERN - E GES PROCRAMS,'PRO(FSSES

- 1 (CISTEFFECTIVENESS MFTRICS F LONG RANGE PLAN DEPARTMENTPLANS 2

3 Sustaining. Continuous Improvement Beyond and Broaderthan CAL

" Safety Culture

• Industry Engagement

" Planning 5 Year Site Integrated Business Plan

- Long-Range Planning / Strategic Planning

" Alignment to Mission, Values and Behaviors

" Equipment

- Top 10 Technical Issues

- Minor Modifications

" People

- Hiring and Development Model

- Staffing and Recruiting Strategies

- Succession Planning

" Corrective Action Program 4

Sustaining Continuous Improvement Beyond and Broaderthan CAL

• Knowledge / Training

- Four-week Power Plant Fundamentals Course

- Orientation Program

- Oral Boards

• Measures

- Performance Indicators with Industry Targets

- Self-Assessments and Benchmarking

- Trending and Analysis

• Oversight

- Management Review Meetings

- Nuclear Assurance, Off-Site Safety Review Committee,' Nuclear Oversight Committee

- Plant Health Committee

- Executive Challenge Boards

• Communication Strategy 5

Hiring & Development Model Hiring for our future 70% - 90%

Sr .ig,Leve 6

Palo Verde Leadership Model

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NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock &Wilcox Company Update to Commission on N.FS' Safety Culture Improvem ent Plan May 14, 2009 Dave Kudsin, President 1

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company A new beginning...

oSuccessful Acquisition oSmooth Transition 0Commitment to Safety Improving accountability through:

-Increased Corporate Oversight

-New Ethics Program oResources Accessibility 2

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES. INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Bottom Line Up Front Plan on-track

-Challenge: management of plan

-Action: senior project manager assigned

~Performance Indicators positive oSlower progress than plan in some areas o2011 goal achievable 3

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock &Wilcox Company Safety Culture Strategic Plan oLong Range Vision-Industry "best in class" safety culture by 2011 oIntegrates findings of self assessment and third party assessment oActions to address each finding assigned a date and responsible manager 4

NUCL EAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Safety Culture Strategic Plan

~mid Term: One Page Plan System

-objectives with metrics

-Action Plans with milestones oAnnuaI plan development.

-workshop to develop Strategic Plan

-Flows down to management: 3 to 4 levels oMonthly execution meetings

-Review objectives (metrics) and action plans (milestones) 5

-.1 NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock &Wilcox Company Project Management Summary Plan on-track

=93 commitments completed (46%)

->70% complete by December 31, 2009

-No overdue actions oActions effective

-Need to develop comprehensive cultural change set of metrics for use in change assessment 6

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock &Wilcox Company Human Performance (HuP) oAveragjng 12 days between HuP site-wide event clock resets oAlI operations personnel using HuP tools by year-end; security forces 2010 oMaking conservative decisions

()Security overtime reduced 25%;

staffing all-time high 7

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NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Maintenance Backlog 250 200 150 100 50 0

Jun-05 Dec-05 Jun-06 Dec-06 Jun-07 Dec-07 Jun-08 Dec-08

'Improving Long-term Plant Safety 8

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES. INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock &Wilcox Company Employee Safety Awareness 750 600 450 _o_

300I__

150 0 -

2005 2006 2007 2008

'Lowering the Reporting Threshold vIncreasing Ownership & Participation 9

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.

Employee Reported Problems a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company 2200--

1900 0 t3-1 _

1600 T 1300 ---- _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _

1000____ _

700 -_

400 -__ -_

2006 2007 2008 r- Low ] Moderate 0 High Severity

'Better Risk Management 10

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Company Corrective Action Program 5.0 How satisfied are you with the overall process from initial identification of the problem through problem closure?

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3.0 Dec-07 Mar-08 Jun-08 Sep-08 Dec-08 Mar-09 mproving Employee Satisfaction 11

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES, INC.

a subsidiary of The Babcock &Wilcox Company Safety Conscious.Work Environment 0 Successfully launched Employee Concerns Program (April 2009) oEnabled anonymous Corrective Action Program problem reporting (Oct 2008) 12