EA-21-024, Notice of Enforcement Discretion

Notice of Enforcement Discretion for Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2

ML21063A568
Person / Time
Site:	Cook
Issue date:	03/04/2021
From:	Julio Lara Division Reactor Projects III
To:	Gebbie J Indiana Michigan Power Co
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EA-21-024 EPID L-2021-LLD-0000
Download: ML21063A568 (27)

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March 4, 2021 EA-21-024 Mr. Joel P. Gebbie Senior VP and Chief Nuclear Officer Indiana Michigan Power Company Nuclear Generation Group One Cook Place Bridgman, MI 49106

SUBJECT:

NOTICE OF ENFORCEMENT DISCRETION FOR DONALD C. COOK NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 (EPID: L-2021-LLD-0000)

Dear Mr. Gebbie:

By letter dated March 2, 2021, Indiana Michigan Power Company (the licensee) requested the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to exercise discretion to not enforce compliance with the actions required by Donald C. Cook, Unit 1 and 2, Technical Specifications (TS)

Limiting Condition for Operation (LCO) 3.8.1 - AC Sources - Operating. The licensee letter is attached to this document because it was not available in ADAMS at the time of issuance of this response.

This letter documented information previously discussed with the NRC in a telephone conference held on February 28, 2021, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). The principal NRC staff members who participated in the telephone conference are listed in the Enclosure. The NRC staff determined that the information contained in your letter requesting the Notice of Enforcement Discretion (NOED) was consistent with your oral request.

The NRC first became aware of the potential for this NOED request on February 26, 2021, at approximately 11:00 a.m. EST through communication with the Senior Resident Inspector at the site. The licensee requested that an NOED be granted pursuant to the NRCs policy regarding exercise of discretion for an operating power reactor, set out in Appendix F of the NRC Enforcement Manual, and the NOED be effective for 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br /> past the LCO expiration (i.e., until 10:08 a.m. EST on Wednesday, March 3, 2021). This letter documents the event and our telephone conversation on February 28, 2021, when we orally granted this NOED request.

On February 26, 2021, at 10:08 a.m. EST, a fault current was observed between high side of reserve auxiliary transformer (RAT) and associated breaker on the train B reserve feed for both units. This caused the circuit breakers to open, removing access to one of the two immediate offsite power sources at both units. The licensee declared Unit 1 and Unit 2 train B reserve feed inoperable and entered Condition A of TS LCO 3.8.1 for both units. Further investigation found a failed bus structure in loop feeder enclosure #1, which fed both units. The licensee determined the cause of the issue was a reduction of the dielectric properties within the train B loop feed bus duct enclosure due to insulator contamination resulting from moisture intrusion and/or condensation within the enclosure. This required repair/replacement of components to

J. Gebbie 2 return the required offsite circuit to operable status. The other immediate offsite power source, all four emergency diesel generators, and the backup offsite power source remained fully functional. At the time of the NOED request, the licensee estimated that the maintenance activities necessary to repair the reserve feed circuits would take no more than 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br /> beyond the 72-hour completion time specified in TS LCO 3.8.1 Condition A, Required Action A.3.

During the teleconference held on February 28, 2021, the licensee requested enforcement discretion to avoid an unnecessary shutdown of Donald C. Cook Unit 1 and Unit 2 without a corresponding public health and safety benefit. The proposed enforcement discretion would allow time to repair a failed bus structure due to water intrusion into the housing enclosure and perform necessary post maintenance testing. Without this enforcement discretion, Unit 1 and Unit 2 were required to be in MODE 3 by 4:08 p.m. EST on March 1, 2021 and Mode 5 by 10:08 p.m. EST on March 2, 2021. In addition, during the telephone conference, the licensee stated that a follow-up TS amendment was not necessary to address this emergent issue.

The licensee indicated that the calculated increase in incremental conditional core damage probability (ICCDP), using the zero-maintenance probability model, for the requested 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br /> enforcement discretion period was 9E-8 for Unit 1 and 2E-7 for Unit 2. The licensee also indicated that the increase in incremental conditional large early release probability (ICLERP) was 4E-9 for Unit 1 and 6E-9 for Unit 2. These values were less than the 5E-7 ICCDP and 5E-8 ICLERP guidance thresholds specified in the NRC Enforcement Manual, Appendix F, Notices of Enforcement Discretion.

In addition, the licensee proposed to implement compensatory risk management measures during the proposed period of enforcement discretion to reduce the likelihood of risk significant initiating events and protect risk significant equipment and actions. These measures included but were not limited to:

• Protecting risk significant systems and areas;

• Restricting maintenance and surveillance activities;

• Verifying and maintaining availability of credited fire suppression systems;

• Establishing fire watches in risk significant fire areas; and

• Briefing operators on plant recovery procedures for loss of power and loss of heat sink events.

The licensees Plant On-Site Review Committee (PORC) approved submission of the NOED request on February 28, 2021, prior to the verbal request for an NOED.

Based on the NRC staffs evaluation of the licensees request, the staff determined that granting this NOED was consistent with the NRCs Enforcement Policy and staff guidance. The NOED request met the criteria specified in Section 2.5 of Appendix F, Notices of Enforcement Discretion, of the NRCs Enforcement Manual. Granting this NOED avoided an unnecessary shutdown of a reactor without a corresponding benefit to public health and safety or the environment. Therefore, as communicated orally to the licensee at 10:25 p.m. EST on February 28, 2021, the NRC exercised discretion to not enforce compliance with Technical Specification LCO 3.8.1, Condition A, Required Action A.3 for a period of 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br />, which would have expired at 10:08 a.m. EST on March 3, 2021.

J. Gebbie 3 The NRC staff noted that the condition causing the need for this NOED was corrected and both Donald C. Cook units exited from TS LCO 3.8.1 Condition A at 5:22 a.m. EST on March 2, 2021. As a result, this NOED terminated at 5:22 a.m. EST on March 2, 2021, within the period of the enforcement discretion.

As stated in the NRC Enforcement Policy, enforcement action may be taken to the extent that violations were involved for the root cause that led to the noncompliance for which this NOED was necessary.

In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter will be 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). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Julio F. Lara, Director Division of Reactor Projects Docket Nos. 05000315 and 05000316 License Nos. DPR-58 and DPR-74

Enclosures:

1. List of Key NRC Personnel

2. Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant Notice of Enforcement Request cc: Distribution via LISTSERV

J. Gebbie 4 Letter to Joel Gebbie from Julio Lara dated March 4, 2021.

SUBJECT:

NOTICE OF ENFORCEMENT DISCRETION FOR DONALD C. COOK NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 (EPID: L-2021-LLD-0000)

DISTRIBUTION:

Mark Haire John Giessner Kenneth OBrien Craig Erlanger Anton Vegel Julio Lara Jamie Heisserer Mohammed Shuaibi David Curtis Andrea Mayer Néstor Féliz Adorno Richard Skokowski Jamnes Cameron Nancy Salgado Juan Peralta Scott Wall Paul Zurawski OEWEB.Resource@nrc.gov OPA.Resource@nrc.gov Public ADAMS Accession Number: ML21063A568 Publicly Available Non-Publicly Available Sensitive Non-Sensitive OFFICE RIII RIII DORL RIII NAME NFélizAdorno:ve MShuaibi via PMcKenna for JLara via email via email email CErlanger via email DATE 3/4/2021 3/4/2021 3/4/2021 3/4/2021 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

LIST OF KEY NRC PERSONNEL NRC REGION III J. Lara, Director, Division of Reactor Projects J. Heisserer, Deputy Director, Division of Reactor Projects M. Shuaibi, Director, Division of Reactor Safety D. Curtis, Deputy Director, Division of Reactor Safety N. Féliz Adorno, Chief, Reactor Projects Branch 4 R. Skokowski, Chief, Engineering Branch 3 P. Zurawski, Cook Senior Resident Inspector J. Mancuso, Resident Inspector J. Hanna, Senior Reactor Analyst R. Ng, Project Engineer, Reactor Projects Branch 4 A. Dahbur, Senior Reactor Inspector, Engineering Branch 3 I. Hafeez, Reactor Inspector, Engineering Branch 3 J. Cameron, RIII Enforcement/Investigation Officer OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION C. Erlanger, Director, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing P. McKenna, Acting Deputy Director, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing N. Salgado, Chief, Plant Licensing Branch III B. Titus, Chief, Electrical Engineering Branch S. Wall, Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch III V. Goel, Electrical Engineer, Division of Engineering and External Hazards M. Hamm, Safety and Plant Systems Engineer, Technical Specifications Branch K. Bucholtz, Reliability and Risk Analyst, PRA Oversight Branch E. Miller, Notice of Enforcement Discretion (NOED) Program Manager Enclosure 1

m INIJIANA Indiana Michigan Power MICHIGAN Cook Nuclear Plant IIOWl'R One Cook Place Bridgman, MI 49106 A unit ofAmerican Electric Power lndianaMichiganPower.com March 2, 2021 AEP-NRC-2021-20 Docket No.: 50-315 50-316 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATIN: Document Control Desk Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant Unit 1 and Unit 2 Request for Enforcement Discretion for Technical Specifications 3.8.1, "AC Sources - Operating" Indiana Michigan Power Company (l&M), the Licensee for Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant (CNP)

Unit 1 and Unit 2, requests enforcement discretion from compliance with Technical Specification (TS) 3.8.1, "AC Sources - Operating." For both Unit 1 and Unit 2, TS 3.8.1 requires two qualified offsite circuits and separate and independent Diesel Generators (DGs) for each train to ensure availability of the required power to shut down the reactor and maintain it in a safe shutdown condition after an anticipated operational transient or a postulated design basis accident (OBA). If one of the offsite circuits is inoperable, TS 3.8.1 condition A requires that circuit be restored to operable status within 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br /> or the plant be in Mode 3 within the next 6 hours6.944444e-5 days <br />0.00167 hours <br />9.920635e-6 weeks <br />2.283e-6 months <br /> and in Mode 5 within 36 hours4.166667e-4 days <br />0.01 hours <br />5.952381e-5 weeks <br />1.3698e-5 months <br />.

On February 26, 2021, at 1008 hours0.0117 days <br />0.28 hours <br />0.00167 weeks <br />3.83544e-4 months <br />, a fault current was observed between the high side of the reserve auxiliary transformer (RAT) and associated breaker on the Train B reserve feed for both units.

This caused the circuit breakers to open, removing access to one of the two immediate offsite power sources at both units. The Unit 1 and Unit 2 Train B reserve feed was declared inoperable and the Required Action A of Technical Specification 3.8.1 was entered for both units. Further investigation found a failed bus structure in loop feeder enclosure #1 which feeds both Unit 1 and Unit 2. This will require repair/replacement to return the required offsite circuit to Operable status. The other immediate offsite power source, all four EDGs and the backup offsite power source remain fully functional.

l&M requests enforcement discretion for the 72-hour allowed outage time Unit 1 and Unit 2 Required Action A.3 of TS 3.8.1 by an additional 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br /> to allow time to repair the failed bus structure due to water intrusion into the housing enclosure and perform necessary post maintenance testing. Unit 1 and Unit 2 are currently operating at approximately 100% power. Without this enforcement discretion, Unit 1 and Unit 2 are required to be in Mode 3 by 1608 hours0.0186 days <br />0.447 hours <br />0.00266 weeks <br />6.11844e-4 months <br /> on March 1, 2021, and Mode 5 by 2208 hours0.0256 days <br />0.613 hours <br />0.00365 weeks <br />8.40144e-4 months <br /> on March 2, 2021.