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

Text

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 inspector

s 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 inspector s at the site during the inspection.

We have discussed the schedule for th

is inspection activit

y 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

. U N I T E D S T A T E S N U C L E A R R E G U L A T O R Y C O M M I S S I O N R E G I O N I V1600 EAST LAMAR BLVD

A R L I N G T O N , T E X A S 7 6 0 1 1-4511

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, C ontrol 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 NRC's "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 O'Keefe, 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.Powe r s@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 NO'Keefe /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 2 1 - 2 5, 2012 Onsite : May 28, 2012

- June 1, 2012

Inspection Procedures:

IP 93800 , Augmented Inspection Team

Various Reactor Oversight Process

Baseline Inspection Procedures

Inspecto r s: 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 inspector s 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 inspector

s 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