IR 05000335/2009006

IR 05000335-09-006, & IR 05000389-09-006, for 08/03/2009 - 08/14/2008, and 08/31/2009 - 09/04/2009, St. Lucie, Component Design Bases Inspection

ML091480773
Person / Time
Site:	Saint Lucie
Issue date:	05/26/2009
From:	Desai B B NRC/RGN-II/DRS/EB1
To:	Nazar M Florida Power & Light Co
References
IR-09-006
Download: ML091480773 (6)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II SAM NUNN ATLANTA FEDERAL CENTER 61 FORSYTH STREET, SW, SUITE 23T85 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-8931 May 26, 2009

Mr. Mano Nazar Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Florida Power and Light Company P. O. Box 14000 Juno Beach, FL 33408-0420

SUBJECT: ST. LUCIE NUCLEAR PLANT - COMPONENT DESIGN BASES INSPECTION - NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000335/2009006 AND 05000389/2009006

Dear Mr. Nazar The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Region II staff will conduct a component design bases inspection at your St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2 during the weeks of August 3-14, and August 31- September 4, 2009. The inspection team will be led by Mr. S. Rose, a Senior Operations Inspector from the NRC's Region II Office. This inspection will be conducted in accordance with the baseline inspection procedure, Procedure 71111.21, Component Design Bases Inspection, issued August 19, 2008.

The inspection will evaluate the capability of risk significant / low margin components to function as designed and to support proper system operation. The inspection will also include a review of selected operator actions, operating experience, and modifications.

During a telephone conversation on May 13, 2009, Mr. Rose confirmed with Mr. K. Frehafer of your staff, arrangements for an information gathering site visit and the three-week onsite inspection. The schedule is as follows:

• Information gathering visit: Week of July 13-17, 2009.

• Onsite weeks: August 3-14 and August 31-September 4, 2009.

The purpose of the information gathering visit is to meet with members of your staff to identify risk-significant components and operator actions. Information and documentation needed to support the inspection will also be identified. Mr. W. Rogers, a Region II Senior Reactor Analyst, may accompany Mr. Rose during the information gathering visit to review probabilistic risk assessment data and identify risk significant components which will be examined during the inspection.

Please provide the information requested in the enclosure to the Region II office by July 6, 2009. The enclosure lists documents that will be needed prior to the information gathering visit. The inspectors will try to minimize your administrative burden by specifically identifying only those documents required for the inspection preparation. Contact Mr. Rose with any questions related to the information request. During the information gathering visit, the team leader will also discuss the following inspection support administrative details: office space; supplemental documents requested to be made available to the team in the Region II office prior to the FP&L 2 inspection preparation week of July 27-31, 2009; arrangements for site access; and the availability of knowledgeable plant engineering and licensing personnel to serve as points of contact during the inspection.

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).

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions regarding the information requested or the inspection, please contact Mr. Rose at (404) 562-4609 or me at (404) 562-4519.

Sincerely,/RA/

Binoy B. Desai, Chief Engineering Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-335, 50-389 License Nos. DPR-67, NPF-16

Enclosure:

Information Request For St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2 Component Design Bases Inspection

cc w/encl: (See page 3)

FP&L 3 cc w/encl: Gordon L. Johnston Site Vice President St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Electronic Mail Distribution

Christopher R. Costanzo Plant General Manager St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Electronic Mail Distribution

Mark Hicks Operations Manager St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Electronic Mail Distribution Eric Katzman Licensing Manager St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Electronic Mail Distribution Abdy Khanpour Vice President Engineering Support Florida Power and Light Company P.O. Box 14000 Juno Beach, FL 33408-0420

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Don E. Grissette Vice President, Nuclear Operations - South Region Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution

M. S. Ross Managing Attorney Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution

Marjan Mashhadi Senior Attorney Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution William A. Passetti Chief Florida Bureau of Radiation Control Department of Health Electronic Mail Distribution

Craig Fugate Director Division of Emergency Preparedness Department of Community Affairs Electronic Mail Distribution J. Kammel Radiological Emergency Planning Administrator Department of Public Safety Electronic Mail Distribution

Mano Nazar Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution

Senior Resident Inspector St. Lucie Nuclear Plant U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O. Box 6090 Jensen Beach, FL 34957-2010 Peter Wells Vice President, Safety Assurance Florida Power and Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution Mark E. Warner Vice President Nuclear Plant Support Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution

(cc w/encl cont'd - See page 4)

FP&L 4 (cc w/encl cont'd) Faye Outlaw County Adminstrator St. Lucie County Electronic Mail Distribution

Jack Southard Director Public Safety Department St. Lucie County Electronic Mail Distribution

_________________________ X G SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE OFFICE RII:DRS RII:DRS RII:DRP RII:DRS SIGNATURE RA RA RA RA NAME SROSE WROGERS MSYKES BDESAI DATE 5/26/2009 5/26/2009 5/26/2009 5//26/2009 E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO Enclosure INFORMATION REQUEST FOR ST. LUCIE NUCLEAR PLANT UNITS 1 AND 2 COMPONENT DESIGN BASES INSPECTION Please provide the information electronically in ".pdf" files, Excel, or other searchable format on CDROM. The CDROM should be indexed and hyperlinked to facilitate ease of use. Information in "lists" should contain enough information to be easily understood to someone who has knowledge of pressurized water reactor technology.

1. From your most recent probabilistic safety analysis (PSA) excluding external events and fires, please provide: a. Two risk rankings of components from your site-specific probabilistic safety analysis (PSA) - one sorted by Risk Achievement Worth (RAW), and the other sorted by Birnbaum Importance. b. A list of the top 500 cutsets.

2. From your most recent probabilistic safety analysis (PSA) including external events and fires, please provide: a. Two risk rankings of components from your site-specific probabilistic safety analysis (PSA) - one sorted by Risk Achievement Worth (RAW), and the other sorted by Birnbaum Importance. b. A list of the top 500 cutsets.

3. Risk ranking of operator actions from your site specific PSA sorted by RAW. Provide copies of your human reliability worksheets for these items. 4. Any pre-existing evaluation or list of components and calculations with low design margins (i.e., pumps closest to the design limit for flow or pressure, diesel generator close to design required output, heat exchangers close to rated design heat removal, MOV risk-margin rankings, etc.). 5. A list of station applicability evaluations/reviews performed and documented in the station corrective action program in the past two years for industry events, critical equipment failures, and safety related equipment vulnerabilities (as communicated by NRC generic communications, industry communications, 10 CFR Part 21 notifications, etc.). 6. A list of operability evaluations completed within the last two years, sorted by associated component or system. 7. A list of common-cause failures of components that have occurred at the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant and have been identified within the last five years. 8. A list of equipment currently on the site's Key Equipment Priorities List, including a description of the reason(s) why each component (i.e. not a programmatic or system level concern) is on that list and summaries (if available) of your plans to address those reasons. 9. A list of equipment currently in RIS 05-020 (formerly GL 91-18) status, or in MR (a)(1) status. 10. Contact information for a person to discuss PRA information prior to the information gathering trip: name, title, phone number, and e-mail address.