IR 05000237/2011502
| ML11110A226 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Dresden  |
| Issue date: | 04/18/2011 |
| From: | Hironori Peterson Operations Branch III |
| To: | Pacilio M J Exelon Generation Co, Exelon Nuclear |
| References | |
| IR-11-502 | |
| Download: ML11110A226 (14) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE ROAD, SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532
-4352 April 18, 2011 Mr. Michael Senior Vice President, Exelon Generation Company, LLC President and Chief Nuclear Officer (CNO), Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville IL 60555
SUBJECT: DRESDEN NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNITS 2 A ND 3 BASELINE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS BIENNIAL EXERCISE INSPECTIO N REPORT 05000237/2011502(DRS); 05000249/2011502(DRS)
Dear Mr. Pacilio:
On March 25, 2011, the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed a Baseline Emergency Preparedness Biennial Exercise inspection at your Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 and 3. The enclosed report documents the inspection findings, which were discussed on March 25, 2011, with Mr. S. Marik, and other members of your staff.
The inspection examined activities conducted under your license as they relate to safety and compliance with the Commission's rules and regulations and with the conditions of your license. The inspectors reviewed selected procedures and records, observed activities, and interviewed personnel.
Based on the results of this inspection, there were no findings of significance identified during this inspection
. In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and its enclosure 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), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading
-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).
Sincerely,/RA/
Hironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos.
50-237; 50-249 License Nos.
Enclosure:
Inspection Report 05000237/2011502(DRS);
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Letter to Michael from Hironori Peterson dated April 18, 2011.
SUBJECT: DRESDEN NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNITS 2 A ND 3 BASELINE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS BIENNIAL EXERCISE INSPECTION REPORT 050002 37/2011502(DRS); 050002 49/2011502(DRS)
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Enclosure U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III Docket Nos:
50-237; 50-249 License Nos:
05000237/20 11502(DRS); 05000249/
20 11502(DRS) Licensee: Exelon Generation Company Facility: Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 and 3 Location: Morris, IL Dates: March 21 through 25, 2011 Inspectors:
Robert Jickling, Senior Emergency Preparedness Inspector Bruce Palagi, Senior Reactor Operations Inspector Daneira Mel
éndez-Colón, Resident Inspector Approved by:
Hironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety 1 Enclosure
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
IR 05000237/20 11502, 05000249/20 11502; 03/21/2011
- 03/25/2011
- Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 & 3
- Baseline Emergency Preparedness Biennial Exercise Inspection.
This report covers a one week period of announced baseline inspection by two regional inspectors and one resident inspector.
The significance of most findings is indicated by their color (Green, White, Yellow, Red) using Inspection Manual Chapter (IMC) 0609, "Significance Determination Process" (SDP). Findings for which the SDP does not apply may be Green or be assigned a severity level after NRC management review.
The NRC's program for overseeing the safe operation of commercial nuclear power reactors is described in NUREG
-1649, "Reactor Oversight Process," Revision 4, dated December 2006.
A.
Cornerstone: Emergency Preparedness
NRC-Identified
and Self-Revealed Findings No findings were identified.
B. No violations were identified.
=
Licensee-Identified Violations===
1. R EACTOR SAFETY
REPORT DETAILS
Cornerstone:
Emergency Preparedness 1EP1 Exercise Evaluation
.1
a. Exercise Evaluation The inspectors reviewed the March 23, 2011, biennial emergency preparedness exercise's objectives and scenario to ensure that the exercise would acceptably test major elements of the licensee's emergency plan and to verify that the exercise's simulated problems provided an acceptable framework to support demonstration of the licensee's capability to implement its plan. The inspectors also reviewed records of other drills and exercises conducted in 2009 , 2 0 1 0 , and 201 1 , to verify that those drills' scenarios were sufficiently different from the scenario used in the March 23, 2011, exercise.
Inspection Scope The inspectors evaluated the licensee's exercise performance, focusing on the risk significant activities of emergency classification, notification, and protective action decision making, implementation of accident mitigation strategies, and correction of past exercise weaknesses in the following emergency response facilities:
Control Room Simulator (CRS);
Technical Support Center (TSC);
and Emergency Operations Facility (EOF).
The inspectors also assessed the licensee's recognition of abnormal plant conditions, transfer of responsibilities between facilities, internal communications, interfaces with offsite officials, readiness of emergency facilities and related equipment, and overall implementation of the licensee's emergency plan.
The inspectors attended post
-exercise critiques in the TSC and EOF to evaluate the licensee's initial self
-assessment of its exercise performance. The inspectors later met with the licensee's lead exercise evaluators and managers to obtain the licensee's findings and assessments of its exercise participants' performances.
These self-assessments were then compared with the inspectors' independent observations and assessments to assess the licensee's ability to adequately critique its exercise performance. Documents reviewed are listed in the to this report.
This exercise evaluation inspection constituted one sample as defined in Inspection Procedure (IP) 71114.01
-05. b. No findings were identified.
Findings 1EP5 Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weaknesses
.1
a. Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weakness es The inspector s reviewed an emergency preparedness related corrective action program item, IR 01031751, concerning a Nuclear Oversight Identified issue for inadequate compensatory measure for degraded public address system equipment , to determine whether the evaluation and corrective actions were timely and effective
. Documents reviewed are listed in the Attachment to this report.
Inspection Scope b. No findings were identified.
Findings
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Cornerstone:
4OA1 Performance Indicator (PI) Verification
.1
a. Drill/Exercise Performance The inspectors sampled licensee submittals for the Drill/Exercise Performance PI for the period from the first quarter 2010 through fourth quarter 2010. To determine the accuracy of the PI data reported during those periods, PI definitions and guidance contained in the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) Document 99
-02, "Regulatory Assessment Performance Indicator Guideline," Revision 6, were used. The inspectors reviewed the licensee's records associated with the performance indicator to verify that the licensee accurately reported the indicator in accordance with relevant procedures and the NEI guidance. Specifically, the inspectors reviewed licensee records and processes including procedural guidance on assessing opportunities for the PI, assessments of PI opportunities during pre
-designated control room simulator training sessions, and performance during other drills. Documents reviewed are listed in the Attachment to this report.
Inspection Scope This inspection constituted one drill/exercise performance sample as defined in IP 71151-05. b. No findings were identified.Findings 4 Enclosure
.2 a. Emergency Response Organization Drill Participation
The inspectors sampled licensee submittals for the Emergency Response Organization (ERO) Drill Participation PI for the period from the first quarter 2010 through fourth quarter 2010. To determine the accuracy of the PI data reported during those periods, PI definitions and guidance contained in the NEI Document 99
-02, "Regulatory Assessment Performance Indicator Guideline," Revision 6, were used. The inspectors reviewed the licensee's records associated with the PI to verify that the licensee accurately reported the indicator in accordance with relevant procedures and the NEI guidance. Specifically, the inspectors reviewed licensee records and processes including procedural guidance on assessing opportunities for the PI; performance during the 201 0 drills; and revisions of the roster of personnel assigned to key emergency response organization positions. Documents reviewed are listed in the Attachment to this report.
Inspection Scope This inspection constituted one ERO drill participation sample as defined in IP 71151-05. b. No findings were identified. Findings
.3 a. Alert and Notification System
The inspectors sampled licensee submittals for the Alert and Notification System (ANS) PI for the period from the first quarter 2010 through fourth quarter 2010. To determine the accuracy of the PI data reported during those periods, PI definitions and guidance contained in the NEI Document 99
-02, "Regulatory Assessment Performance Indicator Guideline," Revision 6, were used. The inspectors reviewed the licensee's records associated with the PI to verify that the licensee accurately reported the indicator in accordance with relevant procedures and the NEI guidance. Specifically, the inspectors reviewed licensee records and processes including procedural guidance on assessing opportunities for the PI and results of periodic scheduled ANS operability tests. Documents reviewed are listed in the Attachment to this report.
Inspection Scope This inspection constituted one alert and notification system sample as defined in IP 71151-05. b. No findings were identified.
Findings 5 Enclosure
4OA6
.1 Management Meetings
O n March 25, 2011, the inspector s presented the biennial exercise inspection results to Mr. S. Marik and other members of the licensee staff. The licensee acknowledged the issues presented. The inspectors confirmed that none of the potential report input discussed was considered proprietary.
Exit Meeting Summary
.2 On March 25, 2011, the inspector summarized the NRC's preliminary exercise inspection conclusions at a public and media briefings
hosted by Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency Region V Field Office staff at the Grundy County Building in Morris, Illinois.
Public and Media Briefing ATTACHMENT:
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Attachment
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION KEY POINTS OF CONTAC
T
- S. Marik, Station Plant Manager
Licensee
- J. Barowski, Security
Supervisor
- A. Daniels, Corporate Emergency Preparedness Manager
- D. Doggett, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
- P. Dohm, Corporate Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
- G. Graff, Nuclear Oversight Manager
- L. Jordan, Training Director
- B. Kapellas, Work Control Manager
- D. Leggett, Regulatory Assurance
Manager
- P. Mankoo, Chemistry Supervisor
- M. McDonald, Acting Maintenance Director
- M. Overstreet, Lead Radiation Protection Supervisor
- P. Quealy, Emergency Preparedness Manager
- R. Ruffin, Regulatory Assurance
- F. Sadnick, Nuclear Oversight
Assessor
- P. Wojtkiewicz, Operations
Services Manager
- C. Phillips, Senior Resident Inspector
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
LIST OF ITEMS OPENED, CLOSED AND DISCUSS
ED None Opened, Closed and Discussed
Attachment
LIST OF DOCUMENTS REVIEWED The following is a list of documents reviewed during the inspection. Inclusion on this list does not imply that the NRC inspectors reviewed the documents in their entirety, but rather, that selected sections of portions of the documents were evaluated as part of the overall inspection
effort. Inclusion of a document on this list does not imply NRC acceptance of the document or any part of it, unless this is stated in the body of the inspection report.
1EP1 Dresden Station
2011 NRC Graded Exercise Manual March 23, 2011; March 14, 2011
Exercise Evaluation
Exelon Nuclear Radiological Emergency Plan Annex for Dresden Station; Revision 2
List of Two Years of Corrective Action Program Items; September 2009
- February 2011
List of Two Years of Scenario Timelines; September 2009
- February 2011
IR 01194576; Exercise, EOF
-EOC Liaison Mis
-Communication Regarding Dose Rates; March 30, 2011
IR 01195249; Exercise, CRS
-Did Not Notify OSC for 2 NLO Dispatche
s; March 31, 2011
IR 01194538; Exercise, OSC-RP Did Not Inform Response Team of Increasing Drywell Radiation and Not All Personnel Followed Habitability Ban; March 30, 2011
IR 01194537; Exercise , TSC-PA System Announcement Not Simulated within 15 Minutes of Evacuation and a Meteorological Forecast Was Not Obtained; March 30, 2011 1EP5 Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weaknesses
DAP 01-11; In Plant Communications Systems; Revisions
and 8 OP-AA-102-104; Standing Order
- Additional Compensatory Measures for EP Announcements; Revision 4
Security Aid DRE #74; Security Action for EP Announcements; Revision 2
IR 01192075; Review of Public Address System, Processes and Procedures; March 25, 2011 IR 01031751; Nuclear Oversight Identified Finding Inadequate Compensatory Measure for Degraded EP Equipment
- Public Address System; February 17, 2010
IR 01031751, Assignment 2; Apparent Cause Report:
NOS Identified Finding Inadequate Compensatory Measures for Degraded Emergency Preparedness Equipment
- Public Address System; February 17, 2010
4OA1 Performance Indicator Verification
Dresden Monthly Siren Availability Reports; January
- December 2010
SAMG Focused Area Drill Report; December 28, 2010
EP-AA-1 25-1002; DEP PI Data Reporting Element Summary; January
- December 2010
EP-AA-125-1003; Key ERO Participation and Stability Monthly Data Reporting Elements; March
- December 2010
Attachment
LS-AA-2110; Monthly Data Elements for NRC Emergency Response Organization (ERO) Drill Participation; March
- December 2010
LS-AA-2120; Monthly Data Elements for NRC Drill and Exercise Performance; January - December 2010
LS-AA-2130; Monthly Data Elements for NRC Alert and Notification System (ANS) Reliability; January
- December 2010 IR 01166617; EP Focused Area Self
-Assessment
-ANS Data; January 25, 2011
Attachment
LIST OF ACRONYMS USED
ADAMS Agency-wide Documents Access and Management System
ANS Alert and Notification System
AR Action Request CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CRS Control Room Simulator
DRS Division of Reactor Safety
DEP Drill and Exercise Performance
EOF Emergency Operations Facility
ERO Emergency Response Organization
IMC Inspection Manual Chapt
er IP Inspection Procedure
IR Issue Report
NEI Nuclear Energy Institute
NOS Nuclear Oversight
NRC U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
OSC Operations Support Center
PARS Publicly Available Records
PI Performance Indicator
SDP Significance Determination Process TSC Technical Support Center
Mr. Michael J. Pacilio
Senior Vice President, Exelon Generation Company, LLC
President and Chief Nuclear Officer (CNO), Exelon Nuclear
4300 Winfield Road
Warrenville IL 60555
SUBJECT: DRESDEN NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNITS 2 A
ND 3 BASELINE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS BIENNIAL
EXERCISE INSPECTION REPORT 05000237/2011502(DRS); 05000249/2011502(DRS)
Dear Mr. Pacilio:
On March 25, 2011, the
- U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed a Baseline Emergency Preparedness Biennial Exercise inspection at your Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 and 3. The enclosed report documents the inspection findings, which were discussed on March 25, 2011, with Mr.
- S. Marik, and other members of your staff. The inspection examined activities conducted under your license as they relate to safety and compliance with the Commission's rules and regulations and with the conditions of your license. The inspectors reviewed selected procedures and records, observed activities, and interviewed personnel.
Based on the results of this inspection, there were no findings of significance identified during this inspection.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter
and its enclosure 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), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading
-rm/adams.html
(the Public Electronic Reading Room).
Sincerely, /RA/ Hironori Peterson, Chief
Operations Branch
Division of Reactor Safety
Docket Nos.
50-237; 50-249 License Nos.
Inspection Report 05000237/2011502(DRS);
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Letter to Michael J. Pacilio from Hironori Peterson dated April
18, 2011. SUBJECT: DRESDEN NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNITS 2 A
ND 3 BASELINE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS BIENNIAL
EXERCISE INSPECTION REPORT
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