IR 05000482/2012009

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)

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May 9, 2012

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 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