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| | number = ML20236U909 | | | number = ML20151V691 |
| | issue date = 11/20/1987 | | | issue date = 08/12/1988 |
| | title = Insp Rept 50-482/87-11 on 870518-22 & 0602-05.No Violations or Deviations Noted.Three Unresolved Items Identified.Major Areas Inspected:Licensees Corrective Action Sys | | | title = Ack Receipt of Informing NRC of Steps Taken to Correct Violations Noted in Insp Rept 50-482/87-11 |
| | author name = Boardman J, Seidle W | | | author name = Callan L |
| | author affiliation = NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) | | | author affiliation = NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| | addressee name = | | | addressee name = Withers B |
| | addressee affiliation = | | | addressee affiliation = WOLF CREEK NUCLEAR OPERATING CORP. |
| | docket = 05000482 | | | docket = 05000482 |
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| | document report number = 50-482-87-11, NUDOCS 8712030444 | | | document report number = NUDOCS 8808220347 |
| | package number = ML20236U901 | | | title reference date = 01-29-1988 |
| | document type = INSPECTION REPORT, NRC-GENERATED, INSPECTION REPORT, UTILITY, TEXT-INSPECTION & AUDIT & I&E CIRCULARS | | | document type = CORRESPONDENCE-LETTERS, NRC TO UTILITY, OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE |
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| | AUG I 21988 In Reply Refer To: |
| | Doc'.9t: STN 50-482/87-11 Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation ATTN: Bart D. Withers President and Chief Executive Officer P.O. Box 411 Burlington, Kansas 66839 Gentlemen: |
| | Thank you for your letter of response dated January 29, 1988, to our letter dated November 30, 198 It is our intent to schedule a future inspection of your revised corrective action program to verify compliance to NRC requirements and to resolve our concerns relative to your superseded program. |
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| NRC Inspection Report: 50-482/87-11 License: NPF-42 Docket: 50-482 Licensee: Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (WCN00)
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| P. O. Box 411 Burlington, Kansas 66839 Facility Name: WolfCreekGeneratingStation(WCGS) | | Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation ATTN: Otto Maynard, Manager of Licensing P.O. Box 411 Burlington, Kansas 56839 Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation ATTN: Gary Boyer, Plant Manager P.O. Box 411 Burlington, Kansas. 66839 Kansas Corporation Comission ATTN: Robert D. Elliott, Chief Engineer Fourth Floor. Docking State Office Building-Topeka, Kansas 66612-1571 Kansas Radiation Control Program Director RIV:MQP RTaylor |
| Inspection At: Wolf Creek Site, Coffey County, Burlington, Kansas Inspection Conducted: May 18-22 and June 2-5, 1987
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| Areas Inspected: Routine, announced inspection of the licensees corrective action syste Results: Within the area inspected, no violations or deviations were identified. Three unresolved items are identified in paragraphs 2.a.(1)(b),
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| + D. Withers, President, WCNOC
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| *J. A. Bailey, V.P., Engineering and Technical Support, WCNOC R. M. Grant, V.P., Quality, WCNOC
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| *+W. J. Rudolph, Manager, QA 1
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| + Belote, Manager, Nuclear Safety Engineering
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| +J. A. Zell, Manger Nuclear Training
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| *+ G. Williams, Superintendent of Regulatory, Quality, and Administrative Services
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| +J. Stokes, Procurement and Materials Manager
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| + L. Hoyt, Senior Engineering Specialist (0ps)
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| *+ G. Williams, Superintendent of Regulatory, Quality and Administrative Services '
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| +M. Nichols, Plant f,upport Superintendent
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| +A. S. Mah, Superintendent, General Training
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| *W. M. Lindsay, Supervisor, Quality Systems
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| +K. Peterson, Supervisor, Licensing
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| +T. S. Morrill, Site Health Physicist
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| + J. Moles, Manager, Emergency Planning
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| +J. C. Goode, Licensing Engineer
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| *S. Wideman, Licensing The NRC inspector also contacted other members of the licensee's staff during the inspection period to discuss areas being reviewe NRC Personnel
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| *+J. E. Cummins, Senior Resident Inspector
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| +P. W. O'Connor, Project Manager *
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| 1 Licensee Corrective Action System Licensee personnel stated that no formal management system review had been performed of the Wolf Creek corrective action system to:
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| Define the necessary elements of their corrective action system based on the licensee's management structure and methodology, Identify licensee corrective action system elemerits presently in place, or Determine the effectiveness of the elements of the corrective action syste The licensee's procedural. identification of corrective action subsystems was.by. organizational units (Licensing, Safety Engineering, Operations, Management Systems, Material Management, Nuclear Services, Nuclear Plant Engineering, and Quality). For clarity, this same concept has been used in this report by using separate report sections where appropriate. A listing of significant applicable procedures reviewed by the NRC inspector is given in Section 2.h of this repor All areas covered by the procedures listed in Section 2.h were considered to be satisfactory except those discussed herein. The corrective action system was defined by the licensee as those procedures referencing notes 1-8 in Section 2.h. Other procedures in Section 2.h were identified by the NRC inspector during the inspectio Overview of the Licensee Corrective Action System Sections 2.b through 2.f cover. the inspector's findings related to the corrective action subsystems for the following licensee organizational units:
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| Licensing Operations Branch Nuclear Plant Engineering Quality Branch Management Systems The following findings relate to more than one organizational unit:
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| (1) Evaluation of Conditions Adverse to Quality (Root-Cauf,e Determination)
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| determination, nor did he implement standardized " fault-tree" or other logic concepts for the performance of meaningful root-cause determinatio The NRC inspector reviewed three examples of corrective actions apparently performed without meaningful or effective root-cause determination. These examples illustrate the NRC inspector's concern about weaknesses in the licensee's corrective action system:
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| The first example involved cables improperly installed in cable trays. Licensee Surveillance "TE 53359 S-1510, ESW Cable Replacement" identified an "as found" construction phase deficiency, in that twelve 600 volt power cables were found installed in an instrumentation cable tray. Licensee documentation states that the nonconforming cables were ;
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| installed, inspected, and accepted during plant constructio The corrective action was to inspect 10 cable trays in Essential Service Water (ESW) Train A, and 3 trays in Train B. No logic was provided for sample selectio A significant element in root cause determination in this case related to the inspector, or inspectors, who accepted ;
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| the nonconforming cable installation. The identified nonconforming cables may have been all that they inspected in the identified area, though they may have inspected other installations in the plan To look at adjacent cables without knowing who inspected them provides incomplete assurance that the identified problem does not exist elsewhere in the plan In addition, the sampling plan used did not provide a level of acceptability based on a valid statistical sampling pla Such a level would have required sampling plans based on the population of total cable runs in cable trays at Wolf Creek, consisting of lots that were homogeneous with respect to the attribute sampled. Without performing a statistically valid sample of all attributes (such as the inspector's work), a valid root cause determination could not be mad This is an open item (482/8711-01) to be further reviewed by the NRC inspector during a subsequent inspectio (b) ASME Bolting Material Certification The second example involved replacement ASME code bolting ]
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| Without determining the organization causing the problem, the root cause and adequate corrective action could not be accomplished. This is an unresolved item (482/8711-02)
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| pending further review by the NRC inspector during a subsequent inspectio (c) Failure of Main Steam Isolation Valve (MSIV) Accumulation for 4-Way Valves The third example involved the failure cf MSIV actuator accumulator 4-way valves, which was reported in LER 85-07 The redesigned 4-way valve assemblies (serial numbers 1012, 1028, 1132, and 1133) failed on December 4-5, 1986. The original root cause determination was not correct, and the corrective action was not effective in that the redesigned valves failed. This concern is discussed further in Section 2.a.(4)(b) of this repor (2) Review of Work Requests (WRs) and Corrective Work Requests (CWRs) for Conditions Adverse to Quality The NRC inspector found that licensee procedures contained no requirement to review WRs, and especially CWRs:
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| states in Section 31.5.2.b.3 that " Work requests shall be used to document nonconforming conditions identified after issue from the warehouse." Failure to review WRs and CWRs can preclude identification of significant conditions adverse to quality, and of adverse trends, in such areas as inadequate procedures, planning and work control; inadequate craft qualification and training; and excessive lost or damaged materia Based on Quality Program Deficiency (QPD) 12/86-202, reviewed by the NRC inspector, significant problems could exist with WRs/CWR This QPD is in QA Surveillance Report TE 53359 S-1510, dated January 5,1987, for Plant Modification Request (PMR)
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| 1828/WR 4245-86, " Essential Service Water (ESW) Cable replacement." QPD 12/86-202 documents that planning and work control were inadequate based on such identified factors as:
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| Cable pulling equipment was attached to safety-related structures without evaluation of the expected loadin No calibrated tension meter was available for cable pullin This will remain an open item (482/8711-03) pending further review by the NRC inspector during a subsequent inspectio (3) Integration of Corrective Action Subsystems The Wolf Creek corrective action program consists of several separate subsystems and separate documents used to identify conditions adverse to quality and to document licensee corrective actions related to such condition The NRC inspector was concerned that all subsystems were not routinely reviewed by the licensee's Quality Branch. Conditions adverse to quality in all systems were not integrated for overall trending of deficiencies. For example, during one trend period, an overall problem of inadequate (incomplete, not incorrect)
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| The valves which failed were those functioning during opening of the MSIVs, which see a higher pressure than the 4-way valves which function to close the MSIVs Valve failure occurs after relatively few cycles Test existing valves at Wolf Creek, including previously replaced valves of the original design, to opening pressure for numerous cycle If they did not fail, they would not fail pending vendor resolution and may be used When asked by the NRC inspector, the licensee stated that there were no empirical data to substantiate that valve failure could not occur at the lower pressures used for MSIV closure after some greater number of cycles. This is considered an unresolved item (482/8711-06) pending further review by the NRC inspector during a subsequent inspectio The NRC inspector observed that while licensee procedures require prompt reporting of defect / deficiencies once they were determined to be reportable, there was no procedural requirement, or tracking, to assure a prompt determination of deportabilit b. Licensing Corrective Action Program The following corrective action activities were prescribed in approved procedures:
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| 1 Tracking of licensee commitments f The NRC inspector had the following concerns relating to the licensing procedures and corrective action program:
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| (1) There was no requirement for documented verification of p accomplishment of all commitment j (2) There was no subsequent audit of commitments to assure that they were effectiv (3) There was no requirement to provide assurance against recurrence in all cases, such as NRC Bulletins where identified components were not used at the time of the Bulletin, but no controls were instituted to prevent their subsequent us (4) There was no requirement for root-cause determinatio ,
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| (a) There was no requirement for the performance of root-cause determinatio (b) For defects (or deficiencies) that were potentially reportable as required by 10 CFR Part 21, the licensee used a "DDR" For If a defect / deficiency was subsequently determined to be not reportable, the DDR form was closed without initiating an NCR, CWR, or other document to control accomplishment of necessary corrective actions to prevent recurrenc (2) The NRC inspector's concerns about corrective action analysis of Work Requests is contained in Section 2.a.(2) of this repor ..
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| QPD 6/86-082 Contrary to QAP C16.5, paragraph 7.7 and 7.9, Report Information Folders for NRC findings did not contain evidence of completion of corrective actions. (Note 1)
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| QPD 6/86-084 Contrary to NDPM, paragraph 26.5.2, no tracking (Closed - mechanism was in place to assure corrective action for Prompt findings identified during the corrective action Corrective process for I.0.P.D. 85-11, which was close Action Taken)
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| QPD 6/86-085 Contrary to FSAR Addendum, Section 17.2.16 and NDPM, (Closed - paragraph 26.5.2, no objective evidence was found to Prompt identify I.0.P.D. 85-06 task force findings and their Corrective corrective action resolution Action Taken)
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| QPV 1/87-011 Contrary to Nuclear Department Directive III.26, procedures implementing a corrective action program have not been established for each site organizatio (Note 1)
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| QPD 1/87-013 Contrary to Nuclear Department Directive III.17, procedures governing the processing of NCRs do not address deportability reviews for NCRs dispositioned
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| QPV 1/87-014 Contrary to Nuclear Department Directive 111.17, methods to ensure that potentially reportable conditions are identified and evaluated have not been proceduralized for each site organization. (Note 1)
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| QPD 1/87-015 Contrary to Nuclear Department Directive III.31 (Rev. 2), "Nonconformance Control," Management Systems Procedure KP-1010 (Revision 0), " Corrective Action Program," requires that nonconformances be reported to the Quality Branch rather than to quality contro When conditions are determined to be reportable, they are reported to the NRC within the required time limits. It was noted, however, that not all site organizations have proceduralized methods to ensure that organizations responsible for evaluating potentially reportable conditions are promptly notified when such a condition is discovere This condition is partially addressed in finding (QPV 1/87-011) and in violation (QPV 1/87-014).
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| Note 1: Findings referencing this note are considered by the NRC as significant programmatic weaknesse h. Significant Licensee Procedures Related to Corrective Action Programs Reviewed During the Inspection Approval l (1) Policy Title Revision Date II.1 Nuclear Safety Review 02 02/24/87 Committee (2) Nuclear Department Approval Directions Title Revision Date III.1 KG&E Resolution and 19 07/01/86 Tracking of NRC and Industry Concerns
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| (6) KG&E Approval Procedure Title Revision Date KP-LZ11 Licensee Commitment 01 (Note 1) Tracking System PCN 1 04/25/85 KP-SE203 Surveillance of WCGS 03 07/12/85 (Note 5) Activities by the Safety Engineering Group KP-SE204 Safety Engineering Group 03 07/12/85 (Note 5) Technical Review Program KP-SE205 Reporting of Unsafe, 03 12/16/85 (Note 5) Hazardous or Potentially Damaging Activities by the Safety Engineering Group KPN-0-300 Engineering Activities 01 02/07/86 l
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| Classification PCN2 04/16/87 KPN-D-304 Licensing Review and 01 Safety Evaluation PCN1 03/05/86 KPN-D-307 Commitment Tracking 01 PCN1 11/01/84 KPN-D-308 Review of NRC Bulletins, 01 02/07/86 NRC Information Notices and Other Information Documents KPN-D-310 Engineering Document 01 03/04/86 Change Notice KPN-D-311 Q-List 02 i PCN 2 04/16/87 KPN-D-315 Reporting of 10 CFR 21 (lote 4) Deficiencies and Noncompliance 01 03/10/86 KPN-C-300 Plant Modification Process 04 PCN1 01/16/87 KPN-C-307 Revising the Plant 03 03/06/86 Modification Request KPN-C-308 Closecut of Completed 02 09/27/85 Plant Modifications (7) Wolf Creek Operating Corporation Procedures Admi Approval Procedures Title Revision Date ADM 01-025 Corrective Action 08 07/08/86 (Note 6) Response ADM 01-031 Operating Experience 09 05/19/87 Review Program
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