IR 05000029/1986011

Insp Rept 50-029/86-11 on 860811-15.No Violation Noted.Major Areas Inspected:Surveillance Testing & Calibr Control Program for Instrumentation & Control Depts

ML20210A962
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Site:	Yankee Rowe
Issue date:	09/05/1986
From:	Jerrica Johnson, Prell J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION I

Report No. 50-029/86-11 Docket N License No. DPR-3 Licensee: Yankee Atomic Electric Company 1671 Worcester Road Framingham, Massachusetts ~ 01701 Facility Name: Yankee Nuclear Power Station Inspection At: Rowe, Massachusetts Inspection. Conducted: August 11-15, 1986 Inspectors: r\ bb W i JameY PreT1, Reactor Engineer b T/f/ 8

date Approved by: 11. r N */ f/ 4 Jon 'dohnson , 'Chie f , date Operational Programs Section, 08, DRS Inspection Summary: Routine Unannounced Inspection on August 11-15, 1986 (Report Number 50-029/86-11 Areas Inspected: Surveillance Testing and Calibration Control Program for the

.I&C and Operations Department Results: No violations were identifie PDR ADOCK 05000029 G PDR

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DETAILS 1.0 PERSONS CONTACTED Yankee Organization G. Bozak Supervisor, Operations Quality Control (0QC)

• B. Darcy I&C Supervisor

• B. Drawbridge Assistant Plant Superintendent M. Gilmore Inspector, Operations Quality Group (0QG)

• T. Henderson Technical Director

• K. Jurentkuff Assistant Manager Plant Operations

" J. Kay Technical Services Manager E. May Senior Engineer

• R. Mitchell Maintenance Support Supervisor D. Neumann 0QC Inspector

• D. Pike Manager, 00G

• N. St. Laurent Plant Superintendent

• D. Vassar Plant Operations Manager

• Denotes those present at the exit intervie The-inspectors also interviewed other licensee personnel during the inspectio .0 SURVEILLANCE TESTING AND CALIBRATION CONTROL PROGRAM ,

The Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Department and Plant Operations (OPS) Department program for surveillance testing and calibration were reviewed for conformance with regulatory requirement .1 REFERENCES

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Yankee Atomic Technical Specification, Sections 4 and 6;

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Regulatory Guide 1.33, November 1972, Quality Assurance Program Requirements;

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ANSI 18.7 - 1976, Administrative Controls and Quality Assurance of the Operational Phase of Nuclear Power Plants;

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10 CFR 50.55a(g) - Inservice inspection requirement .2 PROGRAM REVIEW A review of administrative procedures, surveillance / calibration procedures, and the master surveillance schedule was made to determine:

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that the requirements and commitments identified in section above were met;

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that a master surveillance schedule and administrative control system has been established which identifies the frequency of each test, calibration, or inspection; the responsible group for performing each surveillance; and the status of each surveillance test;

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that responsibility has been assigned for maintaining the master surveillance schedule up to date;

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that procedures, written to an approved format, exist for conducting each surveillance or calibration;

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that responsibilities have been assigned for reviewing and evaluating the results of surveillance or calibration data;

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that calibration requirements have been established and maintained for equipment associated with safety related equipment but which are not specified in Technical Specifications as requiring calibratio The following procedures were reviewed:

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AP-0001, Rev. 12, Plant Procedures and Instructions;

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AP-0041, Re , Plant Surveillance Schedule;

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AP-0220, Rev. 14, Surveillance Test and Records;

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AP-2007, Rev. 18, Maintenance of Operations Department Log;

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AP-2005, Rev. 33, Operations Department Surveillance Schedules;

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AP-6003, Rev. 10, I&C Department Maintenance Program;

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OP-4207, Rev. 21, Surveillance of the Station Power System and Emergency Diesel Generators;

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OP-4669, Re , Area Radiation Monitoring Channels Calibration;

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OP-4663, Re , VC WR Level Channel (VC-G-241/242) Calibration;

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OP-4664, Re , VC WR Pressure Channel (VC-P-243/244) Calibration;

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OP-4686, Re O, Calibration of the Core Exit Thermocouple System;

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OP-2100, Rev. 32, Plant Start-up From Cold Shutdown;

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OP-2101, Rev. 27, Plant Start-up From Hot Standby;

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OP-4601, Rev. 17, Nuclear Instrumentation Channels Functional Test

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A review was also made of recent amendments to the Technical Specifica-tions, Amendments 81 through 97, to verify if they had been incorporated into the appropriate procedures and onto the master surveillance index. A review of the Test Equipment Use Log for the Operations Department was made to verify that measuring and test equipment are calibrated and con-trolle Discussions were held with key personnel from the Instrument and Control (I&C) Operations and Technical Sources Departments to:

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verify their department's conformance to regulatory and administrative requirements;

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ascertain their departments areas of responsibility and overlap;

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determine management's involvement with and control over the surveil-lance / calibration progra In addition the inspector witnessed the performance of two surveillance tests: OP-4207 and OP-460 .3 FINDINGS No violations were identified. The following comments were noted and discussed with the license ~

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TECHNICAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT (TSB The TSD has responsibility for monitoring the status of surveillance tests performed by the various~ department Every week each depart-ment sends to the TSD the status of all surveillances and calibra-tions performed that week. This information is manually logged onto status sheets for each department and maintained in three-ring binders. The TSD also has responsibility for maintaining the current status of the Master Surveillance Index AP-0041. This index consists of a series of subsets, with each subset listing a particular depart-ment's surveillance and calibration requirements, modes, procedure-and frequency. The subset index for the Operations department was not all inclusive in th'at it did not include those Channel checks required by Technical Specifications. These were, however, included in the Operations Department Log sheet The master surveillance index did not reflect recent amendments to the Technical Specifications'- amendments made since May 1986. How-ever, all department procedures affected by these amendment changes had been revised to incorporate the changes. Since the master sur-veillance index is not on a computer, changes are made periodicall Because the master surveillance index is manually controlled, the licensee does not have the capability to rapidly sort the index by different fields, e.g. surveillance number, frequency, mode, etc.,

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of surveillance tests. This makes monitoring and management of the program more difficul INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL (I&C) DEPARTMENT The I&C department uses both an automated and manual system for controlling their surveillance and calibration program. I&C operates on a conservative four week month for their monthly surveillances, thus performing 13 monthly surveil. lances per year, Fach month the automated system identifies those surveillances and calibrations re-quired for the coming month. In addition, all the surveillances re-quired for the year and when they are due are listed on a large calendar. Results of surveillances are fed into the automated system when completed. The automated system also identifies all appropriate procedures for a particular system and can provide to management any type of sort neede PLANT OPERATIONS (OPS) DEPARTMENT The OPS department uses a manual system for managing surveillance and calibrations. Like the I&C department, OPS uses a four week month for controlling survefilance Four separate operator log sheets, one for each week, are used to identify and determine the status of all surveillances. Operating procedures identify required surveillance" to be made during mode change A master list does not include all the procedures used to satisfy a particular surveillanc Some surveillances and LCO's are covered in several procedure By not having an all inclusive master surveil-lance list, it is possible a T.S. amendment may not be picked up in all the affected procedures. Also, which department is responsible for a particular surveillance is not readily identifie It took the licensee 50 minutes to identify to the inspector which department had responsibility for a particular T.S. surveillanc These comments were discussed with licensee management for their consi-deration. No violations were identifie .0 QA/QC INTERFACE

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OPERATIONS QUALITY CONTROL (00C)

The OQC group has been in existence for seven months. 0QC has responsibility for inspections of all I&C surve111ance activitie Presently they are staffed with three full tlme inspectors and the supervisor. By January 1987, two additional QC inspectors will be ddded. 0QC has developed a matrix for identifying I&C surveillances and when they were inspected by 0QC. The following

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OQC inspection reports relating to T.S. surveillances were reviewed:

OQC-YR-86-138 0QC-YR-86-160 0QC-YR-86-219 0QC-YR-86-234 Based on this review the following comments were .made: (1) The inspection reports do not indicate any type of management review and (2) the level of inspection effort -is not always indicated in the inspection repor OPERATIONS QUALITY GROUP (0QG)

The OQG performs surveillance inspections of all surveillance tests except those conducted by the I&C department. They also perform surveillance inspections of I&C inspections in this area. Present plans call for 00C and 0QG to monitor 10% of all required surveillances. The inspector reviewed the following surveillance reports related to T.S. surveillance testing 0QG-86-33, 0QG-86-35, 0QG-86-36 and OQG-86-4 No violations were identified during this revie .0 PLANT TOURS .

The inspector made several tours of the facility during the course of the inspection. This included tours of the control room and turbine buildin A review of the work in progress, security, cleanliness and housekeeping was made and found acceptabl .0 EXIT MEETING An exit meeting was held on August 15, 1986 to discuss the inspection scope and findings, as detailed in this report (see paragraph 1.0 for attendees).

At no time was written material given to the licensee. The inspector determined that no proprietary information was utilized during this inspection.