IR 05000482/2010001
| ML100620920 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Wolf Creek  |
| Issue date: | 03/03/2010 |
| From: | Chamberlain D NRC/RGN-IV/DRP |
| To: | Matthew Sunseri Wolf Creek |
| References | |
| IR-10-001 | |
| Download: ML100620920 (9) | |
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UNITED STATESNUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIONREGION IV612 EAST LAMAR BLVD, SUITE 400ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4125 March 3, 2010 Matthew W. Sunseri, President and
Chief Executive Officer
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation P.O. Box 411 Burlington, KS 66839
SUBJECT: ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER - WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION (NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000482/2010001)
Dear Mr. Sunseri:
On February 17, 2010, the NRC staff completed its performance review of Wolf Creek Generating Station. Our technical staff reviewed performance indicators for the most recent quarter and inspection results for the period from January 1 through December 31, 2009. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period and our plans for future inspections at your facility.
This performance review and enclosed inspection plan do not include security information. A separate letter designated and marked as "Official Use Only--Security Information" will include the security cornerstone review and resultant inspection plan.
Overall, Wolf Creek Generating Station operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for the most recent quarter, as well as for the first three quarters of the assessment cycle, was within the Licensee Response column of the NRC
=s Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified as having very low safety significance (Green) and all performance indicators indicating performance at a level requiring no additional NRC oversight (Green). Therefore, we plan to conduct reactor oversight process baseline inspections at your facility. The staff will also be conducting Inspection Procedure 92723, "Follow Up Inspection for Three or More Severity Level IV Traditional Enforcement Violations in the Same Area in a 12-Month Period," to follow up on four Severity Level IV violations in the traditional enforcement area of impeding the regulatory process.
In our 2008 midcycle assessment letter dated September 2, 2008, our 2008 end-of-cycle assessment letter dated March 4, 2009, and our 2009 midcycle assessment letter dated September 1, 2009, we identified a substantive cross-cutting issue in the area of problem identification and resolution. Our 2009 midcycle assessment letter closed themes in this area associated with an inadequate threshold for iden tifying problems P.1(a) and appropriateness of corrective actions P.1(d), but continued the cross-cutting issue based on a continuing theme with four findings associated with the thoroughness of problem evaluation P.1(c). We stated that this substantive cross-cutting issue would remain open until we determined that your Wolf Creek Operating Company - 2 -
corrective actions had resulted in improved performance. During public meetings with the NRC on October 21, 2008, July 1, 2009, and November 30, 2009, you informed us that you had completed a root cause analysis for noted deficiencies related to problem identification and resolution. You also informed us that you had implemented significant changes in improving the quality of problem evaluation including root cause evaluator training, conducting a management alignment seminar, and increasing management oversight of problem evaluation. We noted some improvement in this area through our inspection results at the 2009 midcycle assessment; however, we continued to identify findings associated with this theme during the second half of the assessment period, resulting in a total of twelve Green findings identified during this assessment period with this causal factor. Recent examples of these findings include: the failure to perform an adequate operability evaluation for the essential service water pumps; the failure to perform an operability evaluation for corroded essential service water piping, and the failure to properly evaluate conditions for reportability. Therefore, the substantive cross-cutting issue in problem identification and resolution associated with the thoroughness of problem evaluation P.1(c) will remain open until we determine through our inspections that corrective actions implemented in accordance with your improvement plan have resulted in improved performance in this area as demonstrated by no safety significant inspection findings and a notable reduction in the overall number of findings with this causal factor.
Of note, this is the fourth consecutive assessment with a substantive cross-cutting issue in problem identification and resolution associated with the thoroughness of problem evaluation.
We understand that you have already scheduled a safety culture assessment to be completed in March 2010. We request that you conduct a public meeting in the vicinity of the site to discuss the results of this assessment. We are specifically interested in any weaknesses identified by the assessment, your planned corrective actions to address these weaknesses, and how you intend to apply the assessment results and corrective actions to improve overall station performance in problem identification and resolution. Finally, we also request you address your improvement efforts in problem identification and resolution during our annual end-of-cycle assessment meeting.
The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections, less those related to physical protection scheduled through June 30, 2011. The inspection plan is provided to allow for the resolution of any scheduling conflicts and personnel availability issues well in advance of inspector arrival onsite. Routine resident inspections are not listed due to their ongoing and continuous nature. The inspections in the last nine months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the mid-cycle review.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC
=s A Rules of Practice,@ a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).
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If circumstances arise which cause us to change this inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact Mr. Geoffrey Miller at 817-860-8141 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.
Sincerely,
/RA/ Dwight D. Chamberlain, Director
Division of Reactor Projects Docket No. 50-482 License No. NPF-42 Enclosure: Wolf Creek Inspection / Activity Plan
Vice President Operations / Plant Manager Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation P.O. Box 411 Burlington, KS 66839
Jay Silberg, Esq. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 2300 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20037
Supervisor Licensing Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation P.O. Box 411 Burlington, KS 66839
Chief Engineer Utilities Division Kansas Corporation Commission 1500 SW Arrowhead Road
Topeka, KS 66604-4027
Office of the Governor State of Kansas Topeka, KS 66612-1590
Attorney General
120 S.W. 10th Avenue, 2nd Floor
Topeka, KS 66612-1597
Wolf Creek Operating Company 4 Chairman Coffey County Courthouse 110 South 6th Street Burlington, KS 66839
Chief, Radiation and Asbestos
Control Section Bureau of Air and Radiation Kansas Department of Health and Environment 1000 SW Jackson, Suite 310
Topeka, KS 66612-1366 Chief, Technological Hazards Branch FEMA, Region VII
9221 Ward Parkway Suite 300 Kansas City, MO 64114-3372
Chairman Coffey County Commissioner
110 South 6th Street Burlington, KS 66839
Kimberly Robrahn Coffey County Commissioner
110 South 6th Street Burlington, KS 66839
Larry Crotts Coffey County Commissioner
110 South 6th Street Burlington, KS 66839 Bob Saueressig Coffey County Commissioner
110 South 6th Street Burlington, KS 66839 Vice Chairman Coffey County Commissioner
110 South 6th Street Burlington, KS 66839 Wolf Creek Operating Company 5 Russel Stukey,Coffey County Emergency Preparedness
110 South 6th Street Burlington, KS 66839
Sheriff Coffey County Sheriff's Dept.
110 South 6th Street Burlington, KS 66839
Mayor City of Burlington City Hall P.O. Box 207 Burlington, KS 66839
Mayor City of LeRoy
713 Main Street LeRoy, KS 66857
The Mayor of New Strawn City of New Strawn City Hall P.O. Box 922 New Strawn, KS 66839-0922
The Mayor of Gridley City of Gridley P.O. Box 182 Gridley, KS 66852
The Mayor of Waverly City of Waverly P.O. Box 308
Waverly, KS 66871
The Mayor of Lebo City of Lebo P.O. Box 14
Lebo, KS 66856-0014
Allen County Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Allen County Courthouse P.O. Box 433
Iola, KS 66749 Wolf Creek Operating Company 6 Lyon County Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
425 Mechanic St.
Emporia, KS 66801
Anderson County Emergency Preparedness Coordinator 315 Orange Street Garnett, KS 66032
Osage County Emergency Manager P. O. Box 281 Lyndon, Kansas 66451 Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)
Records Center 700 Galleria Parkway SE, Suite 100 Atlanta, GA 30339 Wolf Creek Operating Company 7 Electronic distribution by RIV:
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Inspection / Activity Plan Page 1 of 2 02/18/2010 10:38:25 Report 22 04/01/2010-06/30/2011 Unit Number Planned Dates Start End Inspection Activity Title No. of Staff on Site Wolf Creek EP-1-BIENNIAL EP PROGRAM INSPECTION 1 1 IP Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program 7111402 04/12/2010 04/16/2010 1 IP Emergency Response Organization Augmentation Testing 7111403 04/12/2010 04/16/2010 1 IP Emergency Action Level and Emergency Plan Changes 7111404 04/12/2010 04/16/2010 1 IP Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weaknesses and Deficiencies 7111405 04/12/2010 04/16/2010 1 IP Drill/Exercise Performance 71151-EP01 04/12/2010 04/16/2010 1 IP ERO Drill Participation 71151-EP02 04/12/2010 04/16/2010 1 IP A lert & Notification System 71151-EP03 04/12/2010 04/16/2010 RS12MCA-OCCUPATIONAL RADIATION SAFETY 2 1 IP Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls 71124.01 05/10/2010 05/14/2010 1 IP Occupational ALARA Planning and Controls 71124.02 05/10/2010 05/14/2010 1 IP Material Control and Accounting (MC&A)
7113011 05/10/2010 05/14/2010 1 IP Occupational Exposure Control Effectiveness 71151-OR01 05/10/2010 05/14/2010 1 IP RETS/ODCM Radiological Effluent 71151-PR01 05/10/2010 05/14/2010 TSB-52B-BIENNIAL PI&R 4 1 IP Identification and Resolution of Problems 71152B 07/12/2010 07/16/2010 1 IP Identification and Resolution of Problems 71152B 07/26/2010 07/30/2010 EB1-21-COMPONENT DESIGN BASIS INSPECTION 6 1 IP Component Design Bases Inspection 7111121 09/07/2010 09/10/2010 1 IP Component Design Bases Inspection 7111121 09/20/2010 10/01/2010 BRQ-OPERATOR REQUAL INSP 2 1 IP Licensed Operator Requalification Program 7111111B 10/04/2010 10/08/2010 RS678-RADIATION SAFETY TEAM INSPECTION 3 1 IP Radioactive Gaseous and Liquid Effluent Treatment 71124.06 10/18/2010 10/22/2010 1 IP Public Radiation Safety 71124.07 10/18/2010 10/22/2010 1 IP Radioactive Solid Waste Processing and Radioactive Material Handling, Storage, and Transportation 71124.08 10/18/2010 10/22/2010 1 IP Occupational Exposure Control Effectiveness 71151-OR01 10/18/2010 10/22/2010 1 IP RETS/ODCM Radiological Effluent 71151-PR01 10/18/2010 10/22/2010 EB1-07T-TRIENNIAL HEAT SINK PERFORMANCE 1 1 IP Heat Sink Performance 7111107T 10/25/2010 10/29/2010 EXAM-INITIAL EXAM 4 1 INITIAL EXAM -WC (11/2010)
X02451 11/08/2010 11/12/2010 1 INITIAL EXAM -WC (11/2010)
X02451 12/06/2010 12/17/2010 RP123-RADIATION SAFETY 2 1 IP Radiological Hazard Assessment and Exposure Controls 71124.01 03/14/2011 03/18/2011 This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.
This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.
Inspection / Activity Plan Page 2 of 2 02/18/2010 10:38:25 Report 22 04/01/2010-06/30/2011 Unit Number Planned Dates Start End Inspection Activity Title No. of Staff on Site Wolf Creek RP123-RADIATION SAFETY 2 1 IP Occupational ALARA Planning and Controls 71124.02 03/14/2011 03/18/2011 1 IP In-Plant Airborne Radioactivity Control and Mitigation 71124.03 03/14/2011 03/18/2011 PSB2-08P-INSERVICE INSPECTION 3 1 IP Inservice Inspection Activities - PWR 7111108P 03/21/2011 04/15/2011 This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.
This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.