ML060220009
| ML060220009 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 01/18/2006 |
| From: | Le N NRC/NRR/ADRO/DLR/RLRB |
| To: | |
| Le, Ngoc, NRR/DLR/RLRA, 415-1458 | |
| References | |
| TAC MC3272, TAC MC3273 | |
| Download: ML060220009 (11) | |
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January 18, 2006LICENSEE:Constellation Energy Group, Inc.FACILITY:Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF A MEETING HELD ON NOVEMBER 18, 2005, BETWEEN THEU.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION STAFF AND THE CONSTELLATION ENERGY GROUP INC. REPRESENTATIVES TO DISCUSS RESULTS OF THE STAFF AUDIT OF THE AGING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS AND REVIEWS FOR THE NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2, LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION (TAC NOS. MC3272 AND MC3273)A public meeting was held on November 18, 2005, in the Town of Scriba, located in Oswego, New York, for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff (NRC or the staff) todiscuss the results of the staff's audit of the Aging Management Programs (AMPs) and Aging Management Reviews (AMRs) with representatives of Constellation Energy Group Inc.,
(CEG or the applicant). The audit was conducted as part of the review process of the license renewal application (LRA) for Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station (NMP), Units 1 and 2, submitted on May 27, 2004, as amended July 14, 2005. The purpose of the audit and review is to verify that the applicant's LRA is pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 54 (10 CFR 54), ?Requirements for Renewal of Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants." Specifically, the audit and review verify that the applicant's aging management activities and programs will adequately manage the effects of aging on structures and components, so thattheir intended functions will be maintained consistent with the plant's Current Licensing Basis(CLB) for the period of extended operation. This is the regulatory requirement defined in 10CFR 54.21(a)(3).The NRC audit team reviewed LRA AMP and AMR line items which the applicant stated areconsistent with NRC's Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report, or are based on NRC'sapproved precedents. The GALL Report is a listing of AMP and AMR line items that represents one method that the NRC staff has already found to be acceptable to meet 10 CFR 54.21(a)(3). By conducting the audit, the NRC also confirms that the applicant ismaking appropriate commitments to modify its Updated Final Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR) to meet the regulatory requirement defined in 10 CFR 54.21(d). The remaining LRA AMP and AMR line items, and the scoping and screening reviews are being reviewed by other NRC technical branches at the headquarters office located in Rockville, Maryl and.A list of meeting attendees is provided in Enclosure 1 and the meeting agenda is provided inEnclosure 2. Details of the audit activities conducted by the NRC review team for the review ofthe NMP's amended license renewal application (ALRA) submitted on July 15, 2005 are described in Enclosure 3, along with the staff audit activities conducted earlier during the staff review of the original NMP LRA submitted on May 27, 2004, for completeness. There were no comments received from members of the public during this meeting. The database for the staff audit of the NMP ALRA can be viewed through the AgencywideDocuments Access and Management System (ADAMS). The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html on the NRC's Website. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC's PDR Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at pdr@nrc.gov
./RA/Ngoc (Tommy) B. Le, Senior Project ManagerLicense Renewal Branch B Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor RegulationDocket Nos. 50-220 and 50-410
Enclosures:
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.: ML060220009Document Name: E:\Filenet\ML060220009.wpdOFFICEPM:DLR:RLRBLA:DLRBC:DRL:RLRB (A)NAME:NBLeMJenkinsLLund DATE:12/30/200501/10/200601/18/2006 Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2 cc:
Regional Administrator, Region IU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 19406Resident InspectorU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
P.O. Box 126 Lycoming, NY 13093 SupervisorTown of Scriba Route 8, Box 382 Oswego, NY 13126Mr. James R. EvansLIPA P.O. Box 129 Lycoming, NY 10393Charles Donaldson, EsquireAssistant Attorney General New York Department of Law 120 Broadway New York, NY 10271Mr. Paul D. EddyElectric Division NYS Department of Public Service Agency Building 3 Empire State Plaza Albany, NY 12223 C. Adrienne RhodesChairman and Executive Director State Consumer Protection Board 5 Empire State Plaza, Suite 2101 Albany, NY 12223-1556Kathryn M. Sutton, EsquireMorgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004Mark J. Wetterhahn, EsquireWinston & Strawn 1700 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006Mr. Michael J. WallacePresident Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC c/o Constellation Energy Group, Inc.
750 East Pratt Street Baltimore, MD 21202Carey W. Fleming, EsquireSr. Counsel - Nuclear Generation Constellation Energy Group 750 East Pratt Street, 5 th FloorBaltimore, MD 21202Mr. Peter R. Smith, PresidentNew York State Energy, Research, and Development Authority 17 Columbia Circle Albany, NY 12203-6399Mr. James RossNuclear Energy Institute 1776 I St., NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006-3708Mr. Mark FlahertyManager - Fleet Licensing R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant 1503 Lake Rd.
Ontario, NY 14519Mr. M. Steven LeonardGeneral Supervisor - Nuclear Regulatory Matters, Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC
P.O. Box 63 Lycoming, NY 13093 Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2 cc:
Mr. Peter MazzaferroSite Project Manager - License Renewal Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC
P.O. Box 63 Lycoming, NY 13093 Mr. Mike HeffleySenior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Constellation Generation Group 1997 Annapolis Exchange Parkway Suite 500 Annapolis, MD 21401 Mr. James A. SpinaVice President Nine Mile Point Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC
P.O. Box 63 Lycoming, NY 13093 Note to Licensee: Constellation Energy Group From Ngoc (Tommy) Le dated January 18, 2006
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY
OF A MEETING HELD ON NOVEMBER 18, 2005, BETWEEN THEU.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION STAFF AND THE CONSTELLATION ENERGY GROUP INC. REPRESENTATIVES TO DISCUSS RESULTS OF THE STAFF AUDIT OF THE AGING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS AND REVIEWS FOR THE NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2, LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION (TAC NOS. MC3272 AND MC3273)DISTRIBUTION
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MLemoncelliCHolden RLaufer TColburn BFuller, RI EKnutson, RI JTrapp, RI SBurnett BHayden RidsOpaMail RidsNrrDlrRlra ATTENDANCE LIST NRC MEETING WITH CONSTELLATION ENERGY GROUP, INC. NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2November 18, 2005ParticipantsAffilliationsNgoc LeKenneth Chang Jacob Zimmerman David Dellario Peter Mazaferro Michael Fa llinNicola Conicella Jim Hutton Jill Lyon William Holston Larry Martiniano Rick Plasse Terry J. HerrmannU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)NRC NRC Constellation Energy Group, Inc. (CEG)
CEG CEG CEG CEG CEG CEG LIPA Entergy Entergy MEETING BETWEEN THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION STAFF AND CONSTELLATION ENERGY GROUP, INC. TO DISCUSS THE AUDIT OF THE AGING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS AND REVIEWS FOR THE AMENDED LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATIONFOR NINE MILE POINT, UNITS 1 AND 2 Town of ScribaConference Room42 Creamery RoadOswego, NY 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.Meeting AgendaWelcome/Introduction 5 minutes Staff discuss audit results of the Aging Management Programs and Reviews 45 minutesQuestions and Answers 10 minutes Meeting Adjourn NRC AUDIT ACTIVITIES FOR THE REVIEW OF AGING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS AND AGING MANAGEMENT REVIEWSLICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION (LRA) AND AMENDED LRA (ALRA)NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2DOCKET NOS. 50-210 AND 50-410The safety audits and reviews of NMP LRA AMPs and AMRs which the applicant stated to beconsistent with the GALL Report were performed in two stages, the LRA and the ALRA.First stage On May 26, 2004, NMP submitted the LRA for Units 1 and 2 (ADAMS Accession No. ML041470060)NRC quickly mobilized an audit team consisting of contractors and NRC staff,covering 5 engineering disciplines.For NMP, AMPs are common for Unit 1 and 2. AMRs are unit specific. Unit 1 is aboiling water reactor (BWR) Mark I and Unit 2 is a BWR Mark II. Component sizes and design requirements are all different. Therefore, is equivalent to two applications and two reviews.During the first site audit, at the request of the NRC, a question and answer list (daily list - audit data base) was developed to track questions and answers. Status at the end of the first stage*Aging Management Programs (AMPs)Team members asked 155 questionsA supplement, dated October 29, 2004, was issued covering 18 LRA revisionsand 5 commitmentsAll issues resolved (some with follow-up actions), no requests for additional information (RAIs)*Aging Management Reviews (AMRs)Team members asked 230 questions. The number of questions was excessivebecause one or more of the following:a.credited an AMP which is not capable of managing certain aging effects; b.the ?discussion" column said
?not consistent with GALL" while in reality it isconsistent with GALL with exception; c.the ?discussion" column said
?aging effects not applicable," the GALL Reportrequires further evaluation;d.many AMPs NMP has implemented were not considered in the AMR; e.preparer(s) confused among the various AMPs implemented under One In-Service Inspection Plan;f.changes of personnel and loss of continuity; g.all questions were discussed several times. Some questions st ill requirefollow-up. Data Base for the staff's questions and the applicant's responses is now on the dockets (ADAMS Accession nos. ML050660380 and ML050660384) and;h.the applicant provided three supplements to capture their responses to the NRC audit team's questions as well as their responses to the headquartersstaff's requests for additional information (RAIs) dated December 6, 2004 (ADAMS Accession no. ML043490370); February 4, 2005 (ADAMS Accession no. ML050450485); and February 11, 2005 (ADAMS Accession No. ML050560199)The staff reviewed the supplements and found, subsequently, that the supplementsdid not provide sufficient responses to some questions that were previously asked, both as the staff's audit questions and the staff's requests for additional information (RAIs). Constellation requested a 90-day grace period to amend the LRA and to address the identified open items.Second stageConstellation submitted the amended LRA (ALRA) on July 15, 2005 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML052000175 and ML052000186)The ALRA is essentially a new and improved document compared to the originalLRA. NMP also provided the staff with a road map by color highlights to identify the changes for ease of the staff reviews and audit.The basis for the ALRA is still the GALL, Revision 0. However, it considered theJanuary 2005 draft GALL as past precedent.The basis documents were improved. Many new sections were added to severalAMPs.Existing AMPs were updated and new AMPs were added to make it consistent withthe January 2005 GALL AMPs.The original audit team was reassembled and conducted 2 audits on AMPs andAMRs, simultaneously. The audits were performed during the week of September 19, 2005 and October 24, 2005. The first audit resolved 173 questions with 159 items closed, and 14 items acceptedwith 6 items requiring further evaluation.The second audit focused on closing out the 6 remaining open questions. This goalwas accomplished.The team also reviewed the changes in AMPs from the January 2005 GALL report tothe September 2005 GALL report and the differences were reconciled with 3 items added to the audit database.The audit database, contained 148 items, and all questions were adequatelyanswered in the database. The database for the staff's questions and the applicant's responses is now on the dockets (ADAMS Accession No. ML053460458).