ML17193A371
| ML17193A371 | |
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| Site: | Peach Bottom  |
| Issue date: | 08/07/1980 |
| From: | PECO ENERGY CO., (FORMERLY PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC |
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| ML17193A372 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 8008110469 | |
| Download: ML17193A371 (10) | |
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August 1,. 1980 Commonwealth Edison Company REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM FOR LICENSED OPERATORS, SENIOR OPERATORS, ~D SENIOR OPERATORS (LIMITED)
The following requalification program is designed to assure:
station management that all licensed Operators, Seni~r Operators, and Senior Operators (Lirnited) maintain a high level of competencv.
The program cons~sts of lect.ures, simulator training, and on-the-job training. Records ~hall be maintained and evaluations made of each man's progress.
The Station Superintendent at each Commonwealth Edison Cornpany nuclear power station has delegated to the Training Supervisor re-sponsibility for implementing and coordinating the requalification program for the station.
I. Lectures Lectures will be given as required by Section IV of this document in the general subject areas listed below. The minimum time requirement for review of subject areas A th~ough I shall be 80 hours9.259259e-4 days <br />0.0222 hours <br />1.322751e-4 weeks <br />3.044e-5 months <br /> 6ver th~ two year r~qualification cycle.
A. Theory of Fluids and. Thermodynamics Lectures shall include review of fluid statics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and DNB considerations.
B. Theory of Reactor Operation
- Lectures shall include review of reactor. kinetics, control rod worths, reacti~ity coefficients, reactor transient and behavior, and core damage mitigation concepts.
C. Radiation Protection,*waste Disposal and Regulation Lectures shall include review of federal and* company rad.iation exposure limitations, control methods, monitoring equip~ent, waste disposal systems and calculations for.
exposure,dose and shielding~
- D. Operating Procedures Lectures shall include review of normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures, including fuel handling procedures.
Commonwc:alth Edison Company E. Administrative Controls Lectures shall include revlew of administrative procedures, security procedures, quality assurance procedures, station emergency plan procedures, and facility license (including technical specifications) .
F. Operating Characteristics and Experience Lectures shall include review of plant operating characteri~tics during normal and abnormal operating conditions, analyzed transients, and accidents. Incidents and abnormal occurrences at Edison stations and at other utilities shall also be reviewed.
G. Plant Modifications Lectures shall provide up-to-date information concerning system design changes, instrument setpoint changes, wiring modifications, and any other plant modifications implemented during the most recent requalification interval.
H.. Plant Systems Operation and Control Lectures shall include review of the operation and control of the reactor protection systems, plant instrumentation, emergency core and containment cooling systems, core damage mitigation systems, engineered safeguards, and other related plant systems.
I~ General Informati6n Lectures shall include, as appropriate, information on upcoming outages and cither events of o~erational significance.
II. Simulator Training A. Each Operator or Senior Operator shall spend a minimum of three.full days per. year at a training simulator which has the characteristics of the plant for which he is lic*nsed. During this tim~ he shall perform operating fundtions under ~imulated normal, abnormal,* and emergency conditions4 Control ~anipulations performed on the training
- simulator may be used toward satisfying the requirement~
of Section III of this document.
Commonwc:alch Edison Company III. On-the-Job Training A. Each licensed Operator shall manipulate plant controls during the term of his license. Each Senior Operator shall ~anipulate plant controls or direct the activities of individuals performing plant control manipulations during .the term of his license. Such plant control manipulations shall include those commensurate with the .
plant evolutions listed iri Attachment A of this document, ori an annual (once in every* calendar year) or bi-annual (once in every two calendai years) basis, as indicated.
B. . Credit for control manipµlations performed ,or supervised on a given unit shall be given to ~ licensed Operator or Senior Op~rator who has performed or supervised such control manipulations on a training-simulator or on a different unit, provided ~hat such simulator or different unit has operating characteristics and c6ntrol and in~tru~entation arrangemenis similar to those of the given unit. *
- c. Stations shall maintain a system to record plant control manipulations -by Operators or supervision of plant control manipulations by Senior Operators. The system
- may consist of a log kept by the individual or an authenticated list of qualifying manipulations extracted.
from the unit log.
- o. Each licensedOperatorand Senior 09erator shall review facility design changes, procedure revisions, and facility license changes so as to remain cognizant of these changes.
Each licensed Operator and Senior Operator shall review abnormal and emergency procedures* on a regularily. scheduled basis. Stations shall maintain a* system to accomplish these revie\~S, including -documentation to sub$tantiate accomplishment of the reviews**
.E. Senior Operator~ (Limited) are responsible for review of desi~n changes, procedure revisions, facility design
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changes and abnormal and emergency procedures which are applicable to their area of responsibility.
Stations shall maintain a system to accomplish these reviews including documentation to substantiate accomplishment of the reviews *
. IV *. *Evaluation A *. Annual written examinations shall be given to Operators and Senior Operators to determine their knowledge of subjects covered in the requalification program, to pro-vide a basis for evaluating their.knowledge of abnormal and emergency procedures, and to determine areas .in which. retraining is needed. Examinations shall be given bn the Operator and Senio~ Operator level.
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- 1. The annual examinations may be given as one exami-nation or as a set of two examinations~ If g*iven as a set of two examinations, these examinations shall be given within a three-mon~h period *
. 2. An*pperator or Senior Operatol." achieving a grade of 80% or greater in any examination subject is not required to attend a lecture on that subject.
- 3. An O~erator ~r Seriior Operator receiving a grade o!
less than . 80% on any examination subject shall attend a lecture on that subject.
- 4. An Operator or Senior bperator who receives an over~ll grad~ of less than 80% on the annual written examina-
. tion, or *a grade of less than 70% in any examination subject, shall demonstrate*competence to continue to perform his license duties by participating in and completing an accelerated requalification program ... The following pro":".
~edur~ shall be followed:
- a. An oral examination shall be given within 14 days .
after determining need for accelerated requalification .
. . b. If the Operator. or Senior Operator demonstrates thathe can operate the plant safely.in the oral*
- examination, he may be permitted to continue to perform license duties while participating in the accelerated requalif ication program.
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- d. The accelerated requalification program shall address all subject areas wherein the Operator o~ Senior operator rec~ived an exam grade of less than 80%.
e~ The Operatoi or Senior Operator shall be considered to have completed accelerated requalification only after he has been re-examined and has attained an overall examination grade not less than 80%, with a grade of not _less than 70% in any examination subject.
B. If a licensed individual prepares and qrades the annual examination, he or she need not take the examination.
This exclusion shall* extend to only three individuals at each station. These three individuals shall participate in all other phases of .the operator requalification program.
- c. A quiz shall be administered upon completion of lectures in each of the subject areas specified in Section I, paragraphs A through H, of this document. Any individual whose attendance of such lectures is required under the provisions of Section IV of this document, and who receives a grade of less than 80% on the quiz, shall receive additional training.
D. An oral. examination shall be administered at least.once during each two year license interval to all licensed operators *. This examination may-consist of an oral review
.to determine the operator's knowledge of normal and emergency procedures and equipnent or an oral review of* an operator's performance*conduct~d after a reactor start;up, shutdown, or emergency.*. The oral examination s*hall be administered by a licensed member of the training staff or other licensed supervise::- ..
- E. Evaluations shall be made by supervisors* and/or training staff member, including vendors, of the performance and
. canpetency of licensed operators during actual or simulated abnormal and emergency conditions.
F. An .annual review shall be _made by Station Management of each licensee's performance in Sections A through D and
- a determination shall be made concerning the licensee.' s
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V. .'.!'raining for. Senior. Operator_§._LLiJni ted )~ ru_el Hal}_dlq_~s A. Senior Operators (Limited) when required by examination re~ults shall attend lectures as designated in Section I appropriate to fuel handling operations. Lectures con-sidered appro~riate for fuel handlers in Section I arc as follows:
- 1. Review of terminology, reactor theory, rod worth,.
core loading physics, and calculations.
- 2. Review of federal. and company ra,diation exposure limitations, control methods, monitoring equipment, waste disposal systems when pertaining to the :i:ucl pool systems, calculations for exposure dose, and shielding.
- 3. Fuel handling procedures.
- 4. *The Generating Stat ion :emergency Plan and all i terns directly related to fuel handling indicated in the documents list.ed in this. series.
- 5. Plant modifications directly or indirectly related to the performance and maintenance of fuel handling operations or.equipment.
- 6. FSAR transients, .. operating experience, incident rcvic*w related to fuel handling.
- 7. Plant instrumentation, systems, and engineered safe-*
guards related to fuel handling operations or vessel internals.
8~ Ope~ lectu~es ~uch ~s a briefing prior to re2uel operations.
B.- Senior Opera1;ors (Limited) shall participate in* special reviews of fuel handling procedures .in preparation :i:or refueling or receipt or shipment of 1uel *.. Senior Orerator,s *(Limited) are* responsible for review 0£ desi.gn
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C. Senior Operators (Limited) are not required to parti-cipate in simulator training.
D. The knowledge and performance of Senior Operators (Limited) in fuel handling operations shall be evaluated in accordance with Section IV.
VI. Licensed Personnel Not Actively Performing the Function of an Operator or Se_n_ior o.e.e_~at_o_r_ __
A. Absence from station duties due to illness, or other causes for a period of four months or longer.
The licensee shall be en.rolled in an accelerated re-training program and must satisfactorily complete an annual examination and evaluation by station management prior to assuming license duties.
B. Assigned at the station but not pe~forming duties of an Operator or Senior Operator as de£ined in 10 CPR 55 Paragraph 55.4.
The licensee shall maintain license eligibility by participation in arid satisfactory completion of the requalif ication program. Senior operators shall be assigned shift supervisory duties at least eight hours each year in. addition to the regular retraining re~uire ments.
VII * . ScheSfules Therequalificatiori program shall be conducted continuously for two years with the e':ception of the three-month summer vacation period.
The lecture. series shall be conducted on a continuous basis during the periods when licensed personnel are*relieved of
.shift duties and are available for scheduled classes. Each lecture shall be rer\eated as necessary to a .(ford licensed personnel the opportunity to meet lecture requirements as determined by the written examination evaluation.
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Lectures shall not normally be scheduled durin0 the months of June, July, and*August due to the minimum availability of shift personnel during this prune vacation period.
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. A.* The* training Supervisor shall maintain records oz the training progress for ~ach man in the rcqualif ication program to in7lude as a minimum:
- 1. Written evaluation examination, answer key, answers given by licensee, and grade for each man.
- 2. Results of evaluation rcc:'.Uired in this procedure Paragraphs IV C, IV Dr and IV E.
3 *. Records of procedure review, facility design change~.
pro~eduie changes, facility license change review, and plant manipulations required in Section III.
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ATTACHMENT A The following plant evolutions shall be performed on an annual basis pursuant to the requirements of paragraph III A.
- 1. Plant or r~actor st~rtup, to the point of adding measurable heat.
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- 2. Manual control of steam generator level or feedwater flow during startup or shutdo~n~
3~ Any change in power of greater than 10%~ using manual rod control, recirculation flow, or chemical control.
- 4. Loss of forced core fiow~ natural circulation conditions
- 5. Lbss of ~11 feedwater, both normal and emergency.
- 6. Loss of .coolant, in6luding:
- a. leaks of both large and small sizes
- b. leaks both inside and outside primary containment
- c. significant steam generator leaks (PWR only)
- d. determination of leak rate The following plant evolutions shall be performed on a bi-annual .bas*is pursuant to the requirements of paragraph III A.
- 1. Plant shutdown.
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Z. Reactor. trip.
3.. Turbine or generator trip.
- 4. *Main steam line break.
- 6 ** LOSS of normal* feedwater *.
- 7. Loss. of. shutdown cooling ..
- 8. Component malfunction due to loss of cooling.
9~ Required ~ctivation of emergency boration o~ ~tandby li'iuid control ...
- 10. tontrol rod drive me~hanism failure.
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11 .. Incr~ase in coolant o~ offgas acti~ity indicative of fue1 *failure.
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(continued) 12 .. Mispositioned control rod or bank.
- 13. Loss or de~radation of e~ectrical power source.
- 14. Loss of prote~tive .system channel.
- 15. Maifunction of nuclear instrumentation.
- 16. Malfuncti6ri of automatic control system affecting reactivity.*
- 17. Malfunction of reactor water level cohtrol or coolant volume con~rol.
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