IR 05000313/2003001

Annual Assessment Letter - Arkansas Nuclear One (Report 05000313-03-001& 05000368-03-001)

ML030650035
Person / Time
Site:	Arkansas Nuclear
Issue date:	03/04/2003
From:	Laura Smith NRC/RGN-IV/DRP/RPB-D
To:	Anderson C Entergy Operations
References
FOIA/PA-2003-0358 IR-03-001
Download: ML030650035 (8)

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rch 4, 2003

SUBJECT:

ANNUAL ASSESSMENT LETTER - ARKANSAS NUCLEAR ONE (REPORT 50-313/03-01; 50-368/03-01)

Dear Mr. Anderson:

On February 6, 2003, the NRC completed its end-of-cycle plant performance assessment of the Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2. The end-of-cycle review for Arkansas Nuclear One involved the participation of all technical divisions in evaluating performance indicators for the most recent quarter and inspection results for the period from January 1 through December 31, 2002. The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our assessment of your safety performance during this period and our plans for future inspections at your facility so that you will have an opportunity to prepare for these inspections and to inform us of any planned inspections that may conflict with your plant activities.

Overall, Arkansas Nuclear One operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and fully met all cornerstone objectives. Plant performance for the most recent quarter, as well as for the first three quarters of the assessment cycle, was within the Licensee Response Column of the NRCs Action Matrix, based on all inspection findings being classified as having very low safety significance (Green) and all performance indicators indicating performance at a level requiring no additional NRC oversight (Green). Therefore, we plan to conduct only baseline inspections at your facility through March 31, 2004.

However, the significance of two findings is still under review as part of the Significance Determination Process: (1) a fire protection program finding related to the use of manual actions to achieve safe shutdown; and (2) a repeat reactor coolant system boundary leak.

Depending on the outcome of this review, these findings could result in required supplemental inspections.

The enclosed inspection plan details the inspections scheduled through March 31, 2004. While not scheduled, we also plan to conduct Temporary Instruction 2515/150, Revision 1, Reactor Pressure Vessel Head and Vessel Head Penetration Nozzles," on Unit 2 in coordination with your fall outage. The inspection plan is provided to minimize the resource impact on your staff and to allow for scheduling conflicts and personnel availability to be resolved in advance of inspector arrival onsite. Routine resident inspections are not listed due to their ongoing and continuous nature. The inspections in the last six months of the inspection plan are tentative and may be revised at the midcycle review meeting.

Entergy Operations, Inc. -2-As you are aware, since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the NRC has issued several Orders and threat advisories to enhance security capabilities and improve guard force readiness. We have conducted inspections to review your implementation of these requirements and have monitored your actions in response to changing threat conditions. For calendar year 2003, we plan to continue these inspections and conduct portions of the security baseline inspection program, as well as perform additional inspections to evaluate your compliance with new requirements that may be ordered. Based on our final determinations in this regard, we will notify you of any inspection plan changes.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter, its enclosure, and your response will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of NRCs document system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

If circumstances arise which cause us to change this inspection plan, we will contact you to discuss the change as soon as possible. Please contact me at 817-860-8137 with any questions you may have regarding this letter or the inspection plan.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Linda Joy Smith, Chief Project Branch D Division of Reactor Projects Dockets: 50-313 50-368 Licenses: DPR-51 NPF-6 Enclosure:

Arkansas Nuclear One Inspection/Activity Plan cc w/enclosure:

Executive Vice President

& Chief Operating Officer Entergy Operations, Inc.

P.O. Box 31995 Jackson, Mississippi 39286-1995 Vice President Operations Support Entergy Operations, Inc.

P.O. Box 31995 Jackson, Mississippi 39286-1995

Entergy Operations, Inc. -3-Manager, Washington Nuclear Operations ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear Power 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 330 Rockville, Maryland 20852 County Judge of Pope County Pope County Courthouse 100 West Main Street Russellville, Arkansas 72801 Winston & Strawn 1400 L Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20005-3502 Bernard Bevill Radiation Control Team Leader Division of Radiation Control and Emergency Management Arkansas Department of Health 4815 West Markham Street, Mail Slot 30 Little Rock, Arkansas 72205-3867 Mike Schoppman Framatome ANP, Inc.

Suite 705 1911 North Fort Myer Drive Rosslyn, Virginia 22209 Dewey Traylor OES Coordinator Pope County No. 4 Emergency Lane Russellville, Arkansas 72801 Charlie Smith ES Coordinator Yell County Courthouse Union Street Dardanelle, Arkansas 72834 Fred Taylor ES Coordinator Johnson County OES P.O. Box 546 Clarksville, Arkansas 72830

Entergy Operations, Inc. -4-Don Fairbanks ES Coordinator Logan County OES Logan County Courthouse Paris, Arkansas 72855 Steve Pfeifer, Mayor City of Danville P.O. Box 69 Danville, Arkansas 72833 Bill Elsken, Mayor City of Paris P.O. Box 271 Paris, Arkansas 72855 Billy Helms, Mayor City of Clarksville 205 Walnut Street Clarksville, Arkansas 72830-3005 Carolyn McGee, Mayor City of Dardanelle P.O. Box 360 Dardanelle, Arkansas 72834 Johnny Waldo, Mayor City of Dover P.O. Box 258 Dover, Arkansas 72837 Jerry Don Barrett, Mayor City of Atkins P.O. Box 128 Atkins, Arkansas 72823 Raye Turner, Mayor City of Russellville P.O. Box 428 Russellville, Arkansas 72811 Edwin Price, Mayor City of London P.O. Box 130 London, Arkansas 72847

Entergy Operations, Inc. -5-Stewart Nelson, Mayor City of Morrilton City Hall P.O. Box 583 Morrilton, Arkansas 72110 Jimmy L. Witt, Judge Yell County Danville Courthouse P.O. Box 219 Danville, Arkansas 72833 Jimmy Hart, County Judge Conway County Courthouse 117 South Moose, Room 203 Morrilton, Arkansas 72110 Mike Jacobs, County Judge Johnson County Courthouse P.O. Box 278 Clarksville, Arkansas 72830 Edward Holt, County Judge Logan County Courthouse Room 22 Paris, Arkansas 72855 Federal Emergency Management Agency Ron Castleman, Regional Director Region VI, Federal Center 800 North Loop 288 Denton, Texas 76201-3698 Jim Ed Gibson, County Judge Pope County Courthouse 100 West Main Street Russellville, Arkansas 72801 Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)

700 Galleria Parkway SE Atlanta, Georgia 30339-5943

Entergy Operations, Inc. -6-Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (EWM)

DRP Director (ATH)

DRS Director (DDC)

Senior Resident Inspector (RLB3)

Branch Chief, DRP/D (LJS)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/D (JAC)

Staff Chief, DRP/TSS (PHH)

RITS Coordinator (NBH)

RidsNrrDipmlipb V. L. Dricks, PAO (VLD)

W. A. Maier, RSLO (WAM)

C. J. Gordon (CJG)

DRS Branch Chiefs (TWP, ATG, CSM)

W. D. Travers, EDO (WDT)

C. A. Carpenter, Chief, NRR/DIPM/IIPB (CAC)

R. K. Frahm, PPR Program Manager, NRR/DIPM/IIPB (RKF)

R. W. Borchardt, Associate Dir. for Inspection and Programs (RWB1)

B. W. Sheron, Associate Dir. for Project Licensing and Technical Analysis (BWS)

S. Morris, Acting Chief, Regional Operations Staff, OEDO (SAM1)

H. Berkow, NRR Project Director (HNB)

R. Gramm, Chief, Section 1, NRR/DLPM (RAG)

C. Nolan, NRR Project Manager (MCN)

T. Alexion, NRR Project Manager (TWA)

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2/28/03 2/28/03 3/2/03 3/3/03 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY T=Telephone E=E-mail F=Fax

Page 1 of 2 Arkansas Nuclear One 03/05/2003 07:32:34 Inspection / Activity Plan Report 22 03/02/2003 - 03/31/2004 Unit No. of Staff Planned Dates Inspection Number Inspection Activity Title on Site Start End Type ACCESSPI - ACRSA/PI 1 1, 2 IP 7112101 Access Control to Radiologically Significant Areas 03/24/2003 03/28/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 03/24/2003 03/28/2003 Baseline Inspections PSB-EP1 - EP PROGRAM BASELINE INSPECTION 1 1, 2 IP 7111402 Alert and Notification System Testing 04/28/2003 05/02/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7111403 Emergency Response Organization Augmentation Testing 04/28/2003 05/02/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7111404 Emergency Action Level and Emergency Plan Changes 04/28/2003 05/02/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7111405 Correction of Emergency Preparedness Weaknesses and Deficiencies 04/28/2003 05/02/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 04/28/2003 05/02/2003 Baseline Inspections OB RQ - REQUALIFICATION INSPECTION 1 1 IP 7111111B Licensed Operator Requalification 06/16/2003 06/20/2003 Baseline Inspections OB-IN - INITIAL EXAM PREP 2 2 X02248 ANO - UNIT 2 EXAM (07/03) 06/23/2003 06/27/2003 Not Applicable EMB - SSD&PCI 5 1, 2 IP 7111121 Safety System Design and Performance Capability 07/14/2003 07/18/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 7111121 Safety System Design and Performance Capability 07/28/2003 08/01/2003 Baseline Inspections EMB - 50.59 1 1, 2 IP 7111102 Evaluation of Changes, Tests, or Experiments 07/14/2003 07/18/2003 Baseline Inspections OB-IN - INITIAL EXAM 5 2 X02248 ANO - UNIT 2 EXAM (07/03) 07/14/2003 07/18/2003 Not Applicable EMB - HEAT SINK 1 1, 2 IP 7111107B Heat Sink Performance 08/11/2003 08/15/2003 Baseline Inspections OB-IN - INITIAL EXAM 5 1 X02257 ANO UNIT 1 - INITIAL EXAM (01/04) 08/18/2003 01/09/2004 Not Applicable 1 X02257 ANO UNIT 1 - INITIAL EXAM (01/04) 01/12/2004 01/16/2004 Not Applicable EMB - ISI & SG INSPECTIONS U2 1 2 IP 7111108P Inservice Inspection Activities - PWR 09/29/2003 10/03/2003 Baseline Inspections 2 IP 7111108P Inservice Inspection Activities - PWR 10/06/2003 10/10/2003 Baseline Inspections ALARA3 - ALARA PLANNING AND CONTROLS 1 1, 2 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 10/06/2003 10/10/2003 Baseline Inspections OB-PIR - PIR INSPECTION 6 1, 2 IP 71152B Identification and Resolution of Problems 10/20/2003 11/07/2003 Baseline Inspections PSB-S1 - SECURITY BASELINE INSPECTIONS 1 1, 2 IP 7113002 Access Control (Search of Personnel, Packages, and Vehicles: Identification and Authorizati 11/03/2003 11/07/2003 Baseline Inspections This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.

This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.

Page 2 of 2 Arkansas Nuclear One 03/05/2003 07:32:34 Inspection / Activity Plan Report 22 03/02/2003 - 03/31/2004 Unit No. of Staff Planned Dates Inspection Number Inspection Activity Title on Site Start End Type PSB-S1 - SECURITY BASELINE INSPECTIONS 1 1, 2 IP 7113003 Response to Contingency Events (Protective Strategy and Implementation of Protective Stra 11/03/2003 11/07/2003 Baseline Inspections 1, 2 IP 71151 Performance Indicator Verification 11/03/2003 11/07/2003 Baseline Inspections ALARA1 - ALARA PLANNING AND CONTROLS 1 1, 2 IP 7112102 ALARA Planning and Controls 03/15/2004 03/19/2004 Baseline Inspections This report does not include INPO and OUTAGE activities.

This report shows only on-site and announced inspection procedures.