ML20196D647

Advises That Simulator Operating Exam Scheduled for 890118. Util Requested to Provide Ref Matls Listed in Encl by 881219

ML20196D647
Person / Time
Site:	Maine Yankee
Issue date:	11/30/1988
From:	Eselgroth P NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Randazza J Maine Yankee
References
NUDOCS 8812090152
Download: ML20196D647 (6)

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WOV 3 0 1953 Docket No. 50-309 Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company i ATTN: Mr. J. D. Randazza President 83 Edison Drive Augusta, Maine 04331 Gentlemen:

SUSJECT: REACTOR OPERATOR AS Y NIOR REACTOR OPERATOR LICE'*ING EXAMINATIONS In a telephone conversation between Mr. M. Evringham, Training Manager, and Mr.

D. Silk, Operations Engineer, arrangements were made for the administration of a licensing examination at the Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company.

A simulator operating examination is. scheduled for January 18, 1989.

To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for you to furnish the reference material listed in Enclosure 1. "Reference Material Requirements for Reactor / Senior Reactor Operator Licensing Examinations," by December 19, 1908.  !

Any delay in receiving approved, aroperly bound and indexed reference material could result in a delay in adminLstering the examinations. Mr. Evringham has been advised of our reference material requirements, and the address where it is to be mailed.

To better document the simulator examination, the Chief Examiner will have the simulator operator record predetermined plant conditions (i.e., plant pressure, temperature, pressurizer level, etc.), for each simulator scenario.

The applicant will be responsible for providing this information, with any appeal of a simulator operating examination. Therefore, your training staff should retain the simulator examination scenario information until the applicant who took the examination has either passed the simulator operating examination, accepted the denial of the license, or filed an appeal.

The reactor operator license application should be submitted at least 30 days before the examination date so that we will be able to review the training and experience of the candidate, process the medical certification, and prepare final examiner assignments after applicant eligibility has been determined. If the application is not received at least 15 days before the examination t dates, it is likely that a postponement will be necessary.

This request for information was approved by the Office of Management and Budget under Clearance Number 3150-0101, which expires May 31, 1989. Coments  ;

on burden and duplication may be directed to the Office of Management and Budget. Reports Management Room 3208, New Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20503.

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O tiaine Yankee Atomic Power Company Thank you for your consideration in this matter. If you have any questions rr.garding the examination procedures and requirements, please contact me at (215) 337-5211.

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Peter W. Eselg th, Chief Pressurized Water Reactor Section Operations Branch, DRS

Enclosure:

Reference Material Requirements for Reactor / Senior Reactor Operator Licensing Examinations cc w/ enclosure: .

C. D. Frizzle, Vice President, Operations John Garrity, Vice President, Quality Programs and Engineering Dr. E. T. Boulette, Plant Manager P. L. Anderson, Project Manager G. D. Whittier, Licensing Section Head J. A. Ritsher Attorney (Repes and Gray)

Philip Ahrens, Esquire

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e ENCLOSURE 1 REFERENCE ItATERIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR REACTOR / SENIOR REACTOR OPERATOR LICENSING EXA!!! NATIONS

1. Existing learning objectives, Job Performance ficasures and lesson plans (including training manuals, plant orientation manual, system descrip-tions, reactor theory, thermodynamics, etc.)

Training materials sheuld include all substantive written material used for preparing applicants for initial RO and SRO licensing. The written material should include learning objectives and the details presented during lecture, rather than outlines. Training materials should be identified by plant and unit, bound, tabbed, and indexed. FAILURE TO PROVIDE COMPLETE PROPERLY BOUND AND INDEXED PLANT REFERENCE liATERIAL MAY RESULT IN THE RETURN OF THE MATERIAL To THE PERSON WHO IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CORPORATE ttANAGEMENT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PLANT OPERATIONS (E.G., VICE PRESIDENT OF NUCLEAR OPERATIONS). ACCOMPANYING THE ItATERIAL WILL BE A COVER LETTER EXPLAINING THE DEFICIENCIES IN THE REFERENCE ItATERIAL AND THE FACT THAT THIS WAS THE REASON THE EXAMINATIONS WERE CANCELLED OR POSTPONED. Training materials which include the following should be provided:

- System descriptions including descriptions of all operationally relevant flow paths, ccmponents, controls and instrumentation.

System training material should draw parallels to the actual procedures used for cperating the applicable system.

- Complete and operationally useful descriptions of all safety-system interactions and, where available, BOP system interactions under emergency and abnormal conditions, including consequences of anti-cipated operator error, maintenance error, and equipment failure.

- Training material used to clarify and strengthen understanding of energency operating procedures.

2. Complete Procedure Index (including surveillance procedures, etc.)

3. All Administratbo Procedures (as applicable to reactor operation or safety)

4. All integrated plant procedures (normal or general cperating procedures)

S. Emergency procedures ' emergency instructions, abnormal or special procedures)

6. Standing orders (important orders that are safety related and may super -

sede the regular procedures)

Enclosure 1 Continued 7. Surveillance procedures (procedures that are run frequently, i.e. weekly or that can be run on the simulator)

8. Fuel-handling and core-loading procedures, (initial core-loading procedure, when oppropriate)

9. Annunciator / alarm procedures (including set points)

10. Radiation protection manual (radiation control manual or procedures)

11. Emergency plan implementing procedures

12. Technical Specifications (and interpretations, if available)

13. System Operating Procedures

14. Piping and Inatrumentation diagrams, electrical single-line diagrams, or

, flow diagrams

15. Technical Data Book, and/or Plant curve information as used by operators and facility precautions, limitations, and set points (PLS) for the facility

16. Questions and answers specific to the facility training program which may be used in the written or operating examinations (voluntary by facility licensee)

17. The following on the plant reference simulator facility

a. List of all preprogranned initial conditions

b. List of all preset malfunctions with a clear identification number.

The list should include cause and effect information. Specifically, for each malfunction a concise description of the expected result, or range of results, that will occur upon implementation should be provided. Additionally, an indication of which annunciators are to be initially expected should be given,

c. A description of sinulator failure capabilities for valves, breakers, '

indicators and alarms,

d. Where the capability exists, an explanation of the ability to vary the severity of a particular malfunction should be provided, i.e.,

ability to vary the size of a given LOCA or steam leak, or the abil-ity to cause a slow failure of a component such as a feed pump, tur-bine generator or rajor valve.

i Enclosure 1 Continued e. An indication of modeling conditions / problems that may impact the examination.

f. Identification of any known performance test discrepancies not yet  !

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g. Identification of differences between the simulator and the reference plant's control room

h. Copies of facility generated scenarios that expose the applicants to situations of degraded pressure control, degraded heat removal capability and containment challenges may be provided (voluntary by licensee)

i. Simulator instructions manual (voluntary by licensee). l

j. Description of the scenarios used for the training class (voluntary t by licensee) ,

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18. Additional material required by the examiners to develop examinations that meet the requirements of these standards and the regulations.

l The above reference material should be approved, final issues and should be so  ;

marked. If a plant has not finalized some of the material, the Chief Examiner i shall verify with the facility that the most complete, up-to-date material is j available and that agreement has been reached with the lictnsee for limiting

> changes before the administration of the examination. All procedures and ,

i reference material should be bound with appropriate indexes or tables of i contents so that they can be used efficiently. Failure to provide complete,  :

properly bound and indexed plant reference material could result in cancellation or rescheduling of the examinations. ,

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