IR 05000244/2010001

Ginna 2010 Annual Assessment Letter (Report 05000244-10-001)

ML100620833
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Site:	Ginna
Issue date:	03/03/2010
From:	Collins S J Reactor Projects Branch 1
To:	Carlin J T Ginna
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UNITED NUCLEAR REGULATORY REGION 475 ALLENDALE KING OF PRUSSIA, PENNSYLVANIA March 3, 2010 Mr. John Vice President R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, 1503 Lake Ontario, NY ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LEDER R. E. GINNA NUCLEAR POWER (REPORT

Dear Mr. Carlin:

On February 12, 2010, the NRC staff completed its performance review of R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant (Ginna). Our technical staff reviewed performance indicators (Pis) 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 performance review and resultant inspection plan. Overall, Ginna operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and met all cornerstone objectives with moderate degradation in safety performance.

Plant performance for the most recent quarter was within the Degraded Cornerstone column of the NRC's Action Matrix. based on two findings having low to moderatei safety Significance (White) and one White PI in the Mitigating Systems Cornerstone.

The first White finding, originating in the first quarter 2009, was related to Ginna's inadequate implementation of a preventive maintenance (PM) program for, and the subsequent failure of, the turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater (TDAFW) pump governor.

The second White finding. originating in the fourth quarter 2009, was related to inadequate corrective actions which led to binding of the governor control valve and failure of the same TDAFW pump. Additionally, the assigned White PI resulted from exceeding the White significance threshold for the Mitigating Systems Performance Index (MSPI), Heat Removal Systems PI, in the third quarter 2009, due to the reliability and unavailability issues associated with the TDAFW pump. In addition to reactor oversight process (ROP) baseline inspection at your facility, based on our current assessment of performance for Ginna, we plan to conduct a supplemental inspection using Inspection Procedure 95002, "Inspection for One Degraded Cornerstone or Any Three White Inputs in a Strategic Performance Area." The NRC has previously conducted inspections (Ml093160122, ML093160200 and ML091250233)1 to ensure that deficiencies associated with the TDAFW pump have been corrected.

However, this inspection will be conducted, when your staff notifies us of your readiness, to provide assurance that the root and contributing causes for the risk significant performance issues are understood, to independentty assess the extent of I DeSignation in parenthesis refers to an ADAMS accession number. Documents referenced in this letter are publicly available using the accession number in ADAMS condition and extent of cause, to Independently detennine if safety culture components contributed to the performance issues, and to provide assurance that the corrective actions are sufficient to prevent recurrence.

The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections, less those related to security, scheduled through June 30, 2011. In addition to the previously noted 95002 supplemental inspection and the baseline inspections, we plan on conducting independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) inspections.

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 tentlative and may be revised at the mid-cycle review. In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's 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 document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room). 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 Glenn Dentel of my staff at 610-337-5233 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

Sincerely,Regional Administrator, Region I Docket No. 50-244 License No. DPR-18

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