ML20129D061
| ML20129D061 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Hope Creek  |
| Issue date: | 10/18/1996 |
| From: | Larry Nicholson NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Eliason L Public Service Enterprise Group |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20129D067 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 9610240189 | |
| Download: ML20129D061 (3) | |
See also: IR 05000354/1996007
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October 18, 1996
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Mr. Leon R. Eliason
President and Chief Nuclear Officer
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Nuclear Business Unit
Public Service Electric and Gas Company
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Post Office Box 236
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SUBJECT: NRC INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 50-354/96-07
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Dear Mr. Eliason-
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On September 21,1996, the NRC completed an inspection at your Hope Creek reactor
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facility. The enclosed report presents the results of that inspection. In addition to the
normal resident inspector findings that are described in the enclosed report, several
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specialist inspections were conducted during the inspection period, the results of which are
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also enclosed, including: a region-based inspections of emergency preparedness and
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follow up of prior inspection findings; and, an inspection of the 50.59 process by the
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Hope Creek project manager.
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During the 7-week period covered by this inspection period, your conduct of activities at
the Hope Creek facility was generally characterized by safety-conscious operations, sound
engineering and maintenance practices, and careful radiological work controls. Uneventful
operations has continued since unit restart in March 1996. The recent initiative to have
SORC review operability determinations continued to be viewed as a positive effort.
Performance of maintenance was good; however, two personnel errors during testing
activities occurred. Better work week schedule adherence was noted during this
inspection period, which is an improvement over previous performance. However,
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corrective maintenance backlogs continued to be high, and we are concerned that the
aggregate affect of the backlogged work does not hinder safe operations. Generally good
performance was noted in radiation protection, fire protection and emergency preparedness
activities. However, several problems occurred during the inspection involving physical
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protection activities. The NRC conducted a separate specialinspection of these issues,
details of which are contained in NRC Inspection Report 50-272/96-14, 50-311/96-14 and
50-354/96-08.
We reviewed your 50.59 safety evaluation program and found it to be generally good.
However, several activities were noted during the inspection period that indicated poor
' implementation of this program and resulted in two violations of NRC requirements, in the 4\\
first instance, inadequate safety evaluations for design changes to the plant were noted.
in the second instance, the technical specification required reviews of design change
safety evaluations by the Offsite Safety Review group were not always being performed.
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Mr. L. Eliason
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These violations are cited in the enclosed Notice of Violation, and the circumstances
surrounding the violations are described in detailin the enclosed report. Please note that
you are required to respond to this !etter and should follow the instructions specified in the
enclosed Notice when preparing your response. The NRC will use your response, in part,
to determine whether further enforcement action is necessary to ensure compliance with
regulatory requirements.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter
and its enclosures will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR).
Sincerely,
ORIGINAL SIGNED BY:
Larry E. Nicholson, Chief
Projects Branch 3
Division of Reactor Projects
Docket No.: 50-354
License No: NPF-57
Enclosures:
Inspection Report 50-354/96-07
cc w/ encl:
L. Storz, Senior Vice President - Nuclear Operations
E. Simpson, Senior Vice President - Nuclear Engineering
E. Salowitz, Director - Nuclear Business Support
C. Schaefer, External Operations - Nuclear, Delmarva Power & Light Co.
P. MacFarland Goelz, Manager, Joint Generation
Atlantic Electric
M. Bezilla, General Manager - Hope Creek Operations
J. Benjamin, Director - Quality Assurance & Nuclear Safety Review
D. Powell, Manager - Licensing and Regulation
R. Kankus, Joint Owner Affairs
A. C. Tapert, Program Administrator
R. Fryling, Jr., Esquire
M. J. Wetterhahn, Esquire
Consumer Advocate, Office of Consumer Advocate
William Conklin, Public Safety Consultant, Lower Alloways Creek Township
State of New Jersey
State of Delaware
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Distribution w/ encl:
Region I Docket Room (with concurrences)
K. Gallagher
D. Screnci, PAO
Nuclear Safety information Center (NSIC)
NRC Resident inspector
PUBLIC
Distribution w/ encl: (Via E-Mail)
W. Dean, OEDO
D. Jaffe, Project Manager, NRR
J. Stolz, PDI-2, NRR
inspection Program Branch, NRR (IPAS)
R. Correia, NRR
R. Frahm, Jr., NRR
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