ML20202B092
| ML20202B092 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Hope Creek  |
| Issue date: | 06/19/1986 |
| From: | Corbin McNeil Public Service Enterprise Group |
| To: | Murley T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8607100198 | |
| Download: ML20202B092 (3) | |
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.Crrbin A. McNeill,Jr. Pubhc Service Electric and Gas Company P.O. Bdx 236, HancockeBridge, NJ 08038 609 339-4800
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Attention:* Dr. Thomas E. Murley, Administrator -
Office of Inspection'and Enforcement -
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'NRC INSPECTION REPORT #86-20
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DOCKET'NO. 50-354 - ' '
- HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION
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-Public Service Electric'and Gas Company (PSE&G) is in receipt, of your letter' dated May 20, 1986, which transmitted a Notice of Violation concernin,g two .(2) failures to comply with ,
Technical Specification requirements. , ,
Pursuant *to the provisions 6f 10CFR2.201,'our. response to the -
Noticee of Violation is pro.vided in Attachment 1.
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C Office of Inspection and Enforcement
. Division of Reactor Construction Inspection
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NRC Resident Inspector ' *
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. ATTACHMENT 1 .s
.g 10 CFR 2.201 INFORMATION.
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- HOPE CREEK GENERATING STATION RESPONSE TO NOTICE- OF VIOLATION s ,.
A. Your 1.etter dated May 20, 1986 identified one violation-of -
o T'echnical' Spec,ification 3.6 5 3 which rbquires that fivg3 .
Filt, ration, Recirculation and Ventilation System (FRVS)
- recirculation units and two ventilation units shall.be 6pera-
, ble during core;al'terations. The FRVS' controls were'found in the locked out position, thereby disabling;all automatic
' start functions. ,,
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- 1. PUBLIC SERVIC'E ELECTRIC AND GAS DOES NOT DISPUTE THE.' . .
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, VIOLATION.
- 2. THE ROOT CAUSE OF.THE VIOLATION WAS PERSONNEL ERRORON THE PART OF THE* CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR IN FAILING TO -
. t REALIZE THAT THE'TRVS'WAS TECHNICALLY INOPERABLE *WITH*
- ', THE CONTROLS LOCKED'OUT AND IN FAILING TO RE' STORE THE ,
. FRVS (*0NTROLS TO THE. AUTOMATIC MODE TO SUPPORT CORE .
ALTERATION A.CTIVITIES. ,
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- 3. IMMED ATE CORRECTIVE, ACTIONS: g ,
. . C a) The FRVS recirculation anci ventilation corntrols wei e ,
- *immediately placed'in the automat,ic mode.
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b) dn April 16', 1986, all shift supervisors w.ere
. advised of this v.iolation and instructed to keep
, the.FRVS contro1s on automatic. *
- 4. LONG' TERM' CORRECTIVE AC' CIONS: * .
-a) Prior *.to fuel loading, the FRVS controls"had been , .
locked out as an acceptable m,bthod of protecting ,
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the FRVS charcoal beds from vapors, generated by ,
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- painting activities in the Reactor Building. In the' future, this will be accomplished by maintaining. *-
the Reactor Building Ventilatioh System (REVS) in
, , the.hormal or refuel modes. .
, b). To raise the Control hoom Operator's awareness of FRVS operability, the statiuq of *each FRVS recircu '
~ 1ation and ventilatiory unit has. been added to the
. Control' Room console check'llst 'used at shift turnover '
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'c-) On Jurie 16, 1986, a copy of this response and the ,
applicable pages from Inspection Report #86-20 wer,e put in the Eope Creek Operations Required, Reading Book to be read by all licensed operators. ,
- 5. FULL COMPLIANCE WAS ACH.IEVED ON JUNE 16, 1986. .
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. . . e B. ' Failure to veri ~fy'that the Standby Liquid Contr'ol (SBLC).
System is operable in mode 5. when.any' coritrol rod is moved.
- 1. PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS' DdES NOT DISPUTE THE
- VIOLATION. . ,,
, . - .s THE ROOT .CAUSE,OF THE VIOLATION WAS A. PROCEDURAI9 2s
, IMADEQUACY IN.THAT.OP-DL.ZZ-026(Q)'DID NOT, PROVIDE SUFFICIENT INSTRUCTIONS.- .
- 3. -I'MMEDIATE CORREC.TIVE ACTIONS: . .
. On April 24, 1986, all shift supervisors wefe instructed - : .
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th'at for a given plant condition, all required ' surveillance
'. activities specified in the. log shall be performed even -
if the, surveilletnc*e activity is only required for a
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special evolution within the plant condition. ,,
- 4. 'LONG k'ERM CORRECTIVE . ACTIONSt e , , p.
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a) On May 8, 1986, the Operat' ions Department s'urveillance log, OP-DL.ZZ'026(Q) was revised to reflecA.t,he ,
ihs'trdctions described in. item 3,' above.
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b) On Jyne 16, 1986, a copyrof this response and the '
applicable pag'es fr'om Inspection Report #.86-20 were
'put i,n the Hope Cr'eek ' Operations . Required Reading - '
Book to be ' read by all 1,icensed opergtors.
- 5. FULL COMPLIANCE WAS ACHIEVED ON JONE 16, 1986.
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