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Annual Report 2023 & 30 Day Report for Salem Unit 1 Upflow Conversion2023-11-29029 November 2023 Loss of Coolant Accident Peak Cladding Temperature Margin Tracking - Annual Report 2023 & 30 Day Report for Salem Unit 1 Upflow Conversion ML23270C0072023-11-29029 November 2023 Notice of Proposed Amendment to Decommissioning Trust Agreement ML23324A3072023-11-17017 November 2023 Request for Exemption from Enhanced Weapons, Firearms Background Checks, and Security Event Notifications Implementation IR 05000272/20230032023-11-13013 November 2023 Integrated Inspection Report 05000272/2023003 and 05000311/2023003 IR 05000354/20230032023-11-0707 November 2023 Integrated Inspection Report 05000354/2023003 LR-N23-0072, Core Operating Limits Report Cycle 302023-11-0101 November 2023 Core Operating Limits Report Cycle 30 IR 05000272/20234022023-10-12012 October 2023 and Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1 and 2 - Security Baseline Inspection Report 05000354/2023402, 05000272/2023402 and 05000311/2023402 (Cover Letter Only) IR 05000272/20230102023-10-12012 October 2023 Biennial Problem Identification and Resolution Inspection Report O5000272/2023010 and 05000311/2023010 LR-N23-0065, Submittal of 2023 Annual 10 CFR 50.46 Report2023-10-0202 October 2023 Submittal of 2023 Annual 10 CFR 50.46 Report LR-N23-0045, and Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3 - 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Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 and Hope Creek Generating Station2023-04-27027 April 2023 2022 Annual Radiological Environmental Operating Report (AREOR) - Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 and Hope Creek Generating Station LR-N23-0033, Core Operating Limits Report Cycle 272023-04-26026 April 2023 Core Operating Limits Report Cycle 27 IR 05000354/20230012023-04-26026 April 2023 Integrated Inspection Report 05000354/2023001 LR-N23-0010, License Amendment Request Revision of Technical Specification (TS) to Delete TS Section 5.5 - Meteorological Tower Location2023-04-21021 April 2023 License Amendment Request Revision of Technical Specification (TS) to Delete TS Section 5.5 - Meteorological Tower Location LR-N23-0009, License Amendment Request (LAR) to Revise the Hope Creek Trip and Standby Auto-start Logic Associated with Safety Related Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Trains2023-04-18018 April 2023 License Amendment Request (LAR) to Revise the Hope Creek Trip and Standby Auto-start Logic Associated with Safety Related Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Trains ML23087A1492023-04-17017 April 2023 NRC to PSEG Salem, Transmittal of the National Marine Fisheries Service'S March 24, 2023, Biological Opinion GAR-2020-02842 Concerning Salem and Hope Creek 2024-02-05
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January 28, 2004 Mr. E. J. Ferland Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Public Service Enterprise Group 80 Park Plaza P.O. Box 570 Newark, New Jersey 07101
SUBJECT:
WORK ENVIRONMENT FOR RAISING AND ADDRESSING SAFETY CONCERNS AT THE SALEM AND HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATIONS
Dear Mr. Ferland:
In late 2003, we initiated a special review at the Hope Creek and Salem Generating Stations to assess the environment for raising and addressing safety issues. This letter provides interim results of that ongoing review. We undertook the review in light of information received in various allegations and inspections over the past few years. Previous inspections included both baseline and special inspections following up on plant events. While to this point, we have not identified any serious safety violations, collectively, information gathered has led to concerns about the stations work environment, particularly as it relates to the handling of emergent equipment issues and associated operational decision making. Concerns regarding the stations ability to effectively address potential safety issues have been documented in inspection reports and periodic assessment letters. For example, a substantive cross cutting issue was identified in the problem identification and resolution area in both the last annual and mid-cycle performance review letters dated March 3 and August 27, 2003, respectively.
The ongoing special review has included in-depth interviews of numerous current and former Salem/Hope Creek employees, at various levels of the organization. Our interviews have sought to understand the extent to which a safety conscious work environment exists at the stations. Our review has accumulated information about a number of events which, to varying degrees, call into question the openness of management to concerns and alternative views, strength of communications, and effectiveness of the stations corrective action and feedback processes. Several events involved disagreements or differing perspectives of operators and senior managers on plant operating decisions, particularly as they might impact on continuing plant operation and outage schedules. At a minimum, interviews to date at Hope Creek and Salem have raised questions about whether management has fully assessed and addressed the negative impact such disagreements have had on station personnel.
Our reviews are not yet complete but we consider it important to provide our perspective at this time on what we have found and to request that you initiate your own review. If left unresolved, negative outfall from events relayed to us can create an unacceptable, chilled environment for raising issues and making appropriate operational decisions. We recognize that virtually all plants, including those with strong safety performance, operate with aggressive schedules.
Schedule pressure does not, by itself, lead to safety concerns. However, we consider it important for you to take action to thoroughly understand what messages the staffs at Salem and Hope Creek have taken from various events over the past few years and address any
Public Service Enterprise Group 2 situations that significantly detract from maintenance of a strong safety conscious work environment.
We understand steps have been taken to realign management responsibilities in an attempt to better support the separate activities of Hope Creek and Salem and to improve implementation of your corrective action program, overall. While some interviewees have indicated that these steps may be leading to some change under new management, it is vital to assess the climate at the station, address the current impact of previous unresolved conflict, and take steps to assure the staffs at Salem and Hope Creek are willing to participate.
In summary, we request that you conduct your own in-depth assessment. Previous surveys conducted or directed by PSEG might form part of such an assessment. We ask that you provide your plan of action for addressing this matter to the NRC within 30 days of the date of this letter. Approximately two weeks after we receive your action plan, we would like to meet with you to discuss this matter in more detail, so that we may plan for appropriate NRC monitoring and follow up.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRCs "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and your response will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the NRCs document system (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To the extent possible, your response should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be made available to the Public without redaction. If personal privacy information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the personal privacy-related information and a redacted copy of your response that deletes the personal privacy-related information. Identify the particular portions of the response in question which, if disclosed, would create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, identify the individual whose privacy would be invaded in each instance, describe the nature of the privacy invasion, and indicate why, considering the public interest in the matter, the invasion of privacy is unwarranted. If you request withholding on any other grounds, you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (e.g., provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information).
If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Hubert J. Miller Regional Administrator Docket Nos.: 50-272; 50-311; 50-354 License Nos.: DPR-70; DPR-75; NPF-57
Public Service Enterprise Group 3 cc:
F. Cassidy, President and Chief Operating Officer, PSEG Power LLC R. A. Anderson, President and Chief Nuclear Officer A. C. Bakken, Senior Vice President Site Operations J. T. Carlin, Vice President Nuclear Assurance D. F. Garchow, Vice President, Engineering and Technical Support W. F. Sperry, Director Business Support S. Mannon, Manager - Licensing C. J. Fricker, Salem Plant Manager J. A. Hutton, Hope Creek Plant Manager R. Kankus, Joint Owner Affairs J. J. Keenan, Esquire Consumer Advocate, Office of Consumer Advocate F. Pompper, Chief of Police and Emergency Management Coordinator M. Wetterhahn, Esquire State of New Jersey State of Delaware N. Cohen, Coordinator - Unplug Salem Campaign E. Gbur, Coordinator - Jersey Shore Nuclear Watch E. Zobian, Coordinator - Jersey Shore Anti Nuclear Alliance
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