ML101200565

Assessment Follow-Up Letter - St. Lucie, Unit 1

ML101200565
Person / Time
Site:	Saint Lucie
Issue date:	04/30/2010
From:	Reyes L Region 2 Administrator
To:	Nazar M Florida Power & Light Co
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II 245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257 April 30, 2010 Mr. Mano Nazar Executive Vice President Nuclear and Chief Nuclear Officer Florida Power and Light Company P.O. Box 14000 Juno Beach, FL 33408-0420

SUBJECT:

ASSESSMENT FOLLOW-UP LETTER - ST. LUCIE NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 1

Dear Mr. Nazar:

On April 19, 2010, the NRC issued the final significance determination of an inspection finding and a Notice of Violation related to air intrusion into the Component Cooling Water (CCW) system (ML101090509). The NRC has concluded that this violation involving the failure to identify and correct the source of the air in-leakage into the CCW system was characterized as Yellow, i.e., a finding of substantial significance with regard to safety, requiring additional NRC inspections. This Yellow finding was in the Initiating Events cornerstone.

As a result of our review, we have assessed St. Lucie Unit 1 performance to be in the Degraded Cornerstone column of the NRC=s Action Matrix as of the 4th quarter of calendar year (CY) 2009.

On April 28, 2010, we were notified by your staff of the status of your readiness for the NRC to conduct a supplemental inspection to review the actions taken to address the failure to identify and correct the source of the air in-leakage into the CCW system. Accordingly, we plan to conduct a supplemental inspection in accordance with Inspection Procedure 95002 in September 2010.

This inspection is conducted to provide assurance that the root and contributing causes for the individual and collective risk significant performance issues are understood, to independently assess the extent of condition, to provide assurance that the corrective actions are sufficient to prevent recurrence, and to independently determine if safety culture components caused or significantly contributed to the individual risk significant performance issues.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC=s ARules of Practice,@ a copy of this letter will be made 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).

FP&L 2 Please contact Marvin Sykes at 404-997-4629 with any questions you may have regarding this letter.

Sincerely,

/RA By Victor McCree For/

Luis A. Reyes Regional Administrator Docket No. 50-335 License No. DPR-67 cc: (See next page)

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NAME MSykes LWert BDesai VMcCree LReyes DATE 4/28/10 4/30/10 4/28/10 4/30/10 4/30/10 5/ /2010 E-MAIL COPY? YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO FP&L 3 cc:

Richard L. Anderson William A. Passetti Site Vice President Chief St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Florida Bureau of Radiation Control Electronic Mail Distribution Department of Health Electronic Mail Distribution Robert J. Hughes Plant General Manager Ruben D. Almaguer St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Director Electronic Mail Distribution Division of Emergency Preparedness Department of Community Affairs Gene St. Pierre Electronic Mail Distribution Vice President, Fleet Support Florida Power & Light Company J. Kammel Electronic Mail Distribution Radiological Emergency Planning Administrator Ronnie Lingle Department of Public Safety Operations Manager Electronic Mail Distribution St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Electronic Mail Distribution Mano Nazar Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Eric Katzman Officer Licensing Manager Florida Power & Light Company St. Lucie Nuclear Plant P. O. Box 14000 Electronic Mail Distribution Juno Beach, FL 33408 Larry Nicholson Senior Resident Inspector Director St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Licensing U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Florida Power & Light Company P.O. Box 6090 Electronic Mail Distribution Jensen Beach, FL 34957-2010 Alison Brown Seth B. Duston Nuclear Licensing Training Manager Florida Power & Light Company St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Mitch S. Ross Faye Outlaw Vice President and Associate General County Administrator Counsel St. Lucie County Florida Power & Light Company Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution Jack Southard Marjan Mashhadi Director Senior Attorney Public Safety Department Florida Power & Light Company St. Lucie County Electronic Mail Distribution Electronic Mail Distribution

FP&L 4 Letter to Mano Nazar from Luis A. Reyes dated April 30, 2010

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ASSESSMENT FOLLOW-UP LETTER - ST. LUCIE NUCLEAR PLANT UNIT 1 Distribution:

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