ML25336A021
| ML25336A021 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Harris  |
| Issue date: | 12/03/2025 |
| From: | Matthew Endress NRC/RGN-II/DORS/OB |
| To: | Joseph C Progress Energy Carolinas |
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| Download: ML25336A021 (0) | |
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Carolyne Joseph, Site Vice President Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant 5413 Shearon Harris Rd.
M/C HNP01 New Hill, NC 27562-0165
SUBJECT:
REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM INSPECTION - SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR PLANT
Dear Carolyne Joseph:
In a telephone conversation on December 1, 2025, Mr. Mark Bates, Senior Operations Engineer, and Mr. Randal Catalano, Superintendent - Licensed Operator Continuing Training, made arrangements for the NRC to inspect the licensed operator requalification program at the Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant. The inspection is planned for the week of December 15, 2025, which coincides with your regularly scheduled requalification examination cycle. The staff at your facility should prepare and conduct the requalification examinations in accordance with your NRC-approved requalification program. It is our understanding that you have committed to maintain your plant-referenced simulator in accordance with ANSI/ANS-3.5-2009, American National Standard for Nuclear Power Plant Simulators for Use in Operator Training and Examination, and that you have also committed to ANSI/ANS-3.4-1983, Medical Certification and Monitoring of Personnel Requiring Operator Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants.
In accordance with 10 CFR 55.59, the NRC has requested that you submit by December 8, 2025 (or as time allows), the material as specified in paragraph A of the Enclosure, in order to support the NRC's inspection program needs. The NRC has further requested that you have all items as specified in paragraph B of the Enclosure available for review for the inspectors on the first day they arrive on site. Mr. Catalano has been advised of this request and provided with the name and email address of the NRC lead inspector assigned to this inspection.
This letter contains information collections that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). These information collections were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, approval number Part 55 (3150-0018).
The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 4 hours4.62963e-5 days <br />0.00111 hours <br />6.613757e-6 weeks <br />1.522e-6 months <br /> per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments on any aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Information and Records Management Branch (T-6 F33), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, December 3, 2025
C. Joseph 2
Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by internet electronic email at infocollectsresource@nrc.gov; and to the Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, (3150-0101), Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.
The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB approval number.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosure will be 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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. (The Public Electronic Reading Room)
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions regarding this inspection please contact Mr. Mark Bates at (404) 997-4612, (Internet E-mail:
Mark.Bates@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4718, (Internet E-mail: Matthew.Endress@nrc.gov).
Sincerely, Matthew Endress, Chief Operations Branch Division of Operating Reactor Safety Docket Nos.: 50-400 License Nos.: NPF-63
Enclosure:
Materials Request List cc: Distribution via Listserv Signed by Endress, Matthew on 12/03/25
SUNSI Review x
Non-Sensitive
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Non-Publicly Available OFFICE RII/DORS RII/DORS NAME M. Bates M. Endress DATE 12/02/25 12/03/25
Enclosure Materials Request List The items listed below are necessary to support the Licensed Operator Requalification Program inspection (IP-71111.11) in December 2025 at the Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant. Items listed under In-office inspection material must be received in the NRC Region II office by the due dates specified below. Items listed under On-site inspection material should be ready for review upon arrival of the inspectors on December 15, 2025.
A.
In-office inspection material due by December 8, 2025 (or as time allows):
1.
List of all licensed individuals (active and inactive; RO and SRO) including license restrictions.
2.
Organizational Chart for the training department, including the simulator fidelity staff, with phone number/email contact information.
3.
Weekly examination schedules for the weeks that the 2025 annual operating exams will be administered, including a list of personnel scheduled for testing the week of December 15, 2025.
4.
Site procedure(s) governing the conduct (process and content) of license operator requalification training (classroom and simulator), examination development/
administration, remedial training, and examination security.
5.
Site procedure(s) governing simulator configuration control, maintenance, and fidelity testing methods used to fulfill ANSI/ANS 3.5-2009 requirements.
6.
All 2025 written examinations administered during the biennial written exam cycle that are approved for use, answer keys (original and final), re-take examinations, and spreadsheets or outlines that show the usage of all written questions including on the different versions of these written examinations. EXAM SECURITY ITEM.
7.
All JPMs that will be administered during the annual operating test that have been approved for use, including spreadsheets or outlines that show the usage of all JPMs in the 2025 annual operating test weeks. EXAM SECURITY ITEM 8.
All simulator scenarios that will be administered during the annual operating test that have been approved for use, including spreadsheets or outlines that show the usage of all scenarios in the 2025 annual operating test weeks. EXAM SECURITY ITEM 9.
Self-assessment reports, condition reports, and/or Licensee Event Reports, written since the last biennial requalification inspection in 2023, which document operator errors or performance problems that occurred in the actual plant/main control room, including the corrective actions and if these issues were incorporated into requalification training.
2 B.
On-site inspection material for December 15, 2025:
1.
Requalification training attendance records for the current two year biennial training cycle.
2.
Examination results since last requalification inspection (weekly operating & written examinations); copies of examinations with pass/failure rates outside the average.
3.
Copies of the simulator scenarios for the inspectors to observe the operating crews and evaluators the week of December 15, 2025. EXAM SECURITY ITEM 4.
All remedial training documentation for any licensed operator that failed an examination since the last requalification inspection.
5.
List of all operators who reactivated their licenses since the last requalification inspection.
6.
Records that support verification of time on shift under instruction and complete plant tours for both the reactivating operator and the supervising active license, since the last requalification inspection, including:
a.
Documentation of time on shift under instruction.
b.
Security system and HP/dosimetry records for plant areas toured by reactivating individual and accompanying licensed operator.
7.
Records providing documentation of maintenance of active license status (time on shift) for all licensed operators since last requalification inspection.
8.
Medical records for all licensed (active and inactive) operators.
9.
Simulator maintenance and testing records, including:
a.
List of all open simulator discrepancies b.
List of all simulator discrepancies closed within the past 12 months c.
List of simulator performance tests d.
Simulator performance testing records and associated documentation