ML13004A336

Response to Notices of Violation, NRC Inspection Report 05000247-12-009 and 05000286-12-008

ML13004A336
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	01/04/2013
From:	Rogge J Engineering Region 1 Branch 3
To:	Ventosa J Entergy Nuclear Operations
References
IR-12-009, IR-12-008
Download: ML13004A336 (4)

See also: IR 05000247/2012009

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COiIIiJIISSION

REGION I

21OO RENAISSANCE BOULEVARD, SUITE 1OO

KING OF PRUSSIA. PENNSYLVANIA 1940S2713

January 4, 20L3

Mr. John Ventosa, Site Vice President

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

lndian Point Energy Center

450 Broadway, GSB

P.O. Box 249

Buchanan, NY 1051 1-0249

SUBJECT: INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR GENERATING UNIT NOS. 2 AND 3

RESPONSE TO NOTICES OF VIOLATION

N RC I N S p E CTr O N RE pO RT 05000247 I 20 1 2009 AN D 0500 0286t201 2008

Dear Mr. Ventosa:

Thank you for your letters of September 17,2012 (ML12268A057) and December 7,2012

(Ml-12354A415), in response to the Notices of Violation that were issued in U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission (NRC) lnspection Report 0500A24712012009 and 0500028612012008,

dated August 16,2012 (ML12229A128), regarding the use of unapproved operator manual

actions to mitigate safe shutdown equipment malfunctions caused by fire-induced single

spurious actuations in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 50 Appendix

R, Section lll.G.2., Fire Areas. We reviewed your responses and find they meet the

requirements of 10 CFR2.201, "Notice of Violation." We will review the implementation of your

corrective actions during a future inspection to determine that full compliance has been

achieved and will be maintained.

Also, in a related matter, we noted that you have included in your December 7,2012letter, a

status of corrective actions for fire-induced multiple spurious operation (MSO) issues.

The industry resolution of MSOs was described in NRC Enforcement Guidance

Memorandum 09- 002, Enforcement Discretion for Fire lnduced Circuit Faults, dated May 14,

2009 (ML090300446). As discussed in your December 7 ,2012letter, enforcement discretion

for multiple fire induced circuit fault related non-compliances ended on November 2,2012, after

which time, such non-compliances were to be dispositioned in accordance with the NRC

Enforcement Policy. The NRC has determined that the violations issued to Entergy on

August 16,2012, pertaining to single spurious actuations, subsumes the MSO non-compliances

at lndian Point Units 2 and 3. Accordingly, we will also review the implementation of your MSO

corrective actions during a future inspection to determine that these are resolved.

ln accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be

available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the

J. Ventosa

Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRC's document system (ADAMS).

ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web Site at http://www.nrc.qov/readinq-rm/adams.html

(the Public Electronic Reading Room).

John F. Rogge, Chief

Engineering Branch 3

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos: 50-247 ,50-286

License Nos: DPR-26. DPR-64

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