ML13254A049

Notification of Inspection (NRC Inspection Report 05000298/2013005) and Request for Information

ML13254A049
Person / Time
Site:	Cooper
Issue date:	09/11/2013
From:	Vincent Gaddy Division of Reactor Safety IV
To:	Limpias O Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD)
References
IR-13-005
Download: ML13254A049 (7)

See also: IR 05000298/2013005

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UNITE D S TATE S

NUC LEAR RE GULATOR Y C OMMI S SI ON

R E G IO N I V

1600 EAST LAMAR BLVD

AR L I NGTON , TEXAS 7 601 1- 4511

September 11, 2013

Mr. Oscar A. Limpias, Vice President-Nuclear

and Chief Nuclear Officer

Nebraska Public Power District

Cooper Nuclear Station

72676 648A Avenue

Brownville, NE 68321

SUBJECT: COOPER NUCLEAR STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION

(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000298/2013005) AND REQUEST FOR

INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Limpias:

From October 21 through 25, 2013, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions

(NRC) Region IV office will perform the baseline biennial requalification inspection at Cooper

Nuclear Station, using NRC Inspection Procedure 71111.11B, Licensed Operator

Requalification Program. Experience has shown that this inspection is a resource intensive

inspection both for the NRC inspectors and your staff. In order to minimize the impact to your

onsite resources and to ensure a productive inspection, we have enclosed a request for

documents needed for this inspection. These documents have been divided into three groups.

The first group (Section A of the enclosure) identifies information to be provided prior to the

inspection to ensure that the inspectors are adequately prepared. The second group (Section B

of the enclosure) identifies the information the inspectors will need upon arrival at the site. The

third group (Section C of this enclosure) identifies the items which are necessary to close out

the inspection and are usually sent a few weeks after the team has left the site. It is important

that all of these documents are up to date and complete in order to minimize the number of

additional documents requested during the preparation and/or the onsite portions of the

inspection.

We have discussed the schedule for these inspection activities with your staff and understand

that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Ms. Jodie Olberding of your licensing

organization. Our inspection dates are subject to change based on your updated schedule of

examination activities. If there are any questions about this inspection or the material

requested, please contact the lead inspector Mr. Steve Garchow at (817) 200-1426

(Steve.Garchow@nrc.gov) or Mr. Duane Strickland at (817) 200-1570

(Duane.Strickland@NRC.gov).

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This letter does not contain new or amended information collection requirements subject

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing information

collection requirements were approved by the Office of Management and Budget, control

number 3150-0018. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to

respond to, a request for information or an information collection requirement unless the

requesting document displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control

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 Agencywide

Documents Access and Management 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/

Vince Gaddy, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket: 50-298

License: DPR-46

Enclosure:

Inservice Inspection Document Request

cc: Electronic Distribution for Cooper Nuclear Station

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ADAMS: No Yes SUNSI Review Complete Reviewer Initials: SMG

Publicly Available Non-Sensitive

Non-publicly Available Sensitive

SOE:OB C:OB

SGarchow VGaddy

/RA/ /RA/

9/11/13 9/11/13

BIENNIAL REQUALIFICATION INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST

FROM: Steve Garchow

Senior Operations Engineer, NRC RIV

817-200-1426

TO: Scott DeRosier

Operator Training Superintendent, Cooper Nuclear Station

402-825-5573

SUBJECT: INFORMATION REQUEST TO SUPPORT OCTOBER 21-25, 2013, LICENSED

OPERATOR REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM INSPECTION (IP 71111.11B)

A. The following information is requested in order to support inspection preparation

activities. These items are listed by section as they appear in the inspection module

(i.e., 2.02, 2.04, etc). Requested materials should be sent either electronically or

hardcopy in order to arrive at the Region IV office no later than June 15, 2012.

• Electronically: TO: E-mail address Steve.Garchow@NRC.Gov

CC: Duane.Strickland@NRC.Gov )

• Hardcopy to: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV

1600 E. Lamar Blvd

Arlington, TX 76011

ATTN: Steve Garchow

General Requests:

• List of licensed operators (SRO & RO) by crew (operating & staff)

• Training and Operations Department organization charts (with qualified LOR

evaluators identified)

• Procedures that identify process for revising and maintaining LO continuing training

program up to date

• List of outstanding LOR program changes

• List of plant events and industry operating experience incorporated into LOR

program since last BRQ

• Audits and/or self-assessment reports addressing the licensed operator

requalification training program

• Last two years of simulator review committee (or equivalent) meeting minutes

• Last two years of CRC (or equivalent) meeting minutes

• Licensed operator training schedule for the week of October 21, 2013

B. The following information is requested in order to support the onsite inspection

activities. Requested materials should be available to the inspection team, either

electronically or hardcopy, upon site arrival on October 21, 2013. Note that it is not

required to make copies of all the materials, but to have them available.

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02.02: Exam Results

• All results up to the day the team leaves the site.

02.03: Biennial Requalification Written Examination Quality

• The current and approved biennial written examination schedule

• The current requalification cycle written examination results for both SRO & RO that

have already been administered up to the week prior to the inspection team arrival

onsite

• All written examinations that have been approved for administration up to and

including the week before the inspection team is onsite

• The current requalification cycle examination methodology (sample plan)

02.04: Annual Requalification Operating Test Quality

• Any changes to the schedule for the operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) to be given

the week of October 21, 2013 (week team is onsite).

• The operating tests (JPMs & scenarios) (password protected and provide separately

via telephone at later date) to be given the week of October 21, 2013 (week team is

onsite).

• Current requalification cycle operating tests (SRO & RO) and results up to the week

prior to the inspection team arrival onsite.

• Current requalification cycle operating test methodology (sample plan)

• A listing of licensed operator response times for time critical operator actions

02.05: Licensee Admin of Requal Exams

• All procedures used to administer the annual operating test

• All procedures used to assess operator performance

• All procedures that describe conduct of simulator training

• All Procedures used to test, operate, and maintain the simulator

02.06: Requalification Examination Security

• Any tracking tools that you use as a means to prevent excessive overlap on the

written examinations and also meet the intent of sampling all required topics on a

periodic basis

• Any tracking tools that you use as a means to prevent excessive overlap on the

operating tests and also meet the intent of sampling all required malfunctions

(including major events, instrument/component malfunctions, TS calls, etc.) on a

periodic basis

• All procedures that describe examination security, including procedures used to

develop the examinations that include guidelines on overlap between examinations

in current exam cycle tests and prior year examinations

• List of all condition reports since the last biennial requal inspection related to

examination security and overlap

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02.07: Licensee Remedial Training Program

• List of remedial training conducted or planned since last requal exams (includes

training provided to operators to enable passing requal exams and training provided

to correct generic or individual weaknesses observed during previous requal exam

cycle)

• Remediation plans (lesson plans, reference materials, and attendance

documentation)

02.08: Conformance with Operator License Conditions

• Access to licensed operators records (operating and staff crews)

• Access to licensed operators training attendance records

• Access to licensed operators medical records

• All Procedures and Program documentation for maintaining active operator licenses,

tracking training attendance, and ensuring medical fitness of licensed operators

• All Procedures and associated documentation that support reactivation of any

SRO/RO license (operating or staff crew) since the last biennial inspection

02.09: Simulator Performance

• Simulator discrepancies (DRs) from October 1, 2011, through October 1, 2013. This

should include all open DRs and DRs that have been closed, including the

documentation/justification for closure.

• Acceptance test documentation, including hardware and software model revisions at

the time of acceptance (as available).

• Documentation that validates current models, including the thermal-hydraulics and

neutronics models, to the actual plant.

• All current model deficiencies, including FSAR vs Design differences in the simulator

(any documentation on this)

• Summary list of modifications from June 1, 2010, through June 1, 2012.

• Plant Modifications (both hardware and software) completed on the Simulator by due

date from June 1, 2010, through June 1, 2012.

• Simulator Differences Lesson plan used in training (current to June 1, 2010).

• The complete book of all Simulator annual performance test packages (usually in a

single book, but may be electronic or in single test packages), complete with all

transient tests, steady state tests, and malfunction tests. This should also include

the test procedures for each test, the acceptance criteria, and results. For each

transient test, the reference chart should be included or an equivalent subject matter

expert review versus the simulator results with a write-up for any differences beyond

the ANSI standard requirements.

• All test packages used to verify core physics parameters (such as MTC, IRW). The

applicable reference graphs from the Plant physics data book (electronic or other

means as available) should also be included as well as the test procedures used and

the acceptance criteria with results.

• All Simulator test, configuration management, and related documents available in the

room for inspectors to review. This includes training needs analysis packages,

simulator review committee meeting minutes, etc.

• Current copy of ANSI 3.5 standard you are committed to for Simulator testing.

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• For the following cases, send the most recent transient test packages, which may be

electronic or in paper single test packages and shall be complete with test

procedures for each test, the acceptance criteria, and results. For each transient

test, the reference chart should be included or an equivalent subject matter expert

review versus the simulator results with a write-up for any differences beyond the

ANSI 3.5 standard requirements.

o Transient test 1, Manual Rx trip

o Transient test 6, Main turbine trip (no reactor trip)

o Transient test 10, Stuck open PORV

o Steady State tests for low power

• All Simulator Management and Configuration Procedures if not already provided for

section 02.05 above.

• Simulator Discrepancy Report summary list for all open DRs. For closed DRs,

summary list for those items closed between June 1, 2010, and June 1, 2012.

02.10: Problem Identification and Resolution

• A summary report of all condition reports related to operator actions/errors in the

control room

• Any revised requalification training that was based on licensed operator performance

issues

• All condition reports related to operator actions/errors in the control room

C. Cooper Nuclear Station is required to send the final results summary and any

remaining exams and operating tests that have not been reviewed to the regional

office lead inspector for this inspection for final review and comparison against the

Significance Determination Tools in order to communicate the exit results for the

inspection.

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