ML13057A069

IR 05000285-13-010, on 04/08/2013, Fort Calhoun Station IMC 0350 Inspection -Request for Information

ML13057A069
Person / Time
Site:	Fort Calhoun
Issue date:	02/25/2013
From:	Hay M NRC/RGN-IV/DRP
To:	Cortopassi L Omaha Public Power District
References
IR-13-010
Download: ML13057A069 (7)

See also: IR 05000285/2013010

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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

February 25, 2013

Lou Cortopassi, Vice President

and Chief Nuclear Officer

Omaha Public Power District

Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4

P.O. Box 550

Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

SUBJECT: FORT CALHOUN STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION

(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000285/2013010) AND REQUEST FOR

INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Cortopassi:

On April 8, 2013, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will perform an

Inspection Manual Chapter (IMC) 0350 Team Inspection at Fort Calhoun Station, using

applicable portions of NRC Inspection Procedures 95003, Supplemental Inspection for

Repetitive Degraded Cornerstone, Multiple Degraded Cornerstones, Multiple Yellow Inputs or

One Red Input, 92702, Followup on Traditional Enforcement Actions Including Violations,

Deviations, Confirmatory Action Letters, Confirmatory Orders, and Alternative Dispute

Resolution Confirmatory Orders, and 93806, Operations Readiness Assessment Team

Inspections. This inspection supports the assessment and verification of the issues described

in the Restart Checklist enclosed in the Confirmatory Action Letter (CAL) issued to Fort Calhoun

Station on June 11, 2012, and any modifications thereof; and other selected areas to inform the

NRCs assessment of the safety, organizational, and programmatic issues at the station.

This inspection is a part of the IMC 0350 oversight inspection activities. Experience has shown

that this inspection is a resource intensive inspection both for the NRC inspectors and your staff.

The inspection will include 2-weeks of onsite inspections by the team. The current inspection

schedule is as follows:

Preparation Week: April 1, 2013

Onsite weeks: April 8-19, 2013

In order to minimize the impact to your onsite resources and to ensure a productive inspection,

we have enclosed a request for documents and resources needed for this inspection. 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 onsite portions of the

inspection.

L. Cortopassi -2-

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

that our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Ms. Kelly Root. If there are any questions

about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the lead inspector, Brian Larson,

at (817) 200-1172 or email: brian.larson@nrc.gov.

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 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/

Michael Hay, Chief

Project Branch F

Division of Reactor Projects

Docket No.: 50-285

License No.: DPR-40

Enclosure:

Fort Calhoun Station IMC 0350 Inspection - Request for Information (ORAT)

cc w/enclosure: Electronic Distribution for Fort Calhoun Station

L. Cortopassi -3-

Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov)

Acting Deputy Regional Administrator (Steve.Reynolds@nrc.gov)

DRP Director (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)

Acting DRS Director (Thomas.Blount@nrc.gov)

Manual Chapter 0350 Panel Chairman (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)

Acting DRP Deputy Director (Michael.Scott@nrc.gov)

Acting DRS Deputy Director and Manual Chapter 0350 Panel Member (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector and Manual Chapter 0350 Panel Member (John.Kirkland@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Jacob.Wingebach@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRP/F and Manual Chapter 0350 Panel Member (Michael.Hay@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/F (Rick.Deese@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer, DRP/F (Chris.Smith@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Ray.Kellar@nrc.gov)

Project Manager and Manual Chapter 0350 Panel Member (Joseph.Sebroski@nrc.gov)

Assistant Project Manager and Manual Chapter 0350 Panel Member (Lynnea.Wilkins@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)

Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, ORA/ACES (Heather.Gepford@nrc.gov)

Enforcement Specialist, ACES (Christi.Maier@nrc.gov)

OEMail Resource

RIV/ETA: OEDO (John.Cassidy@nrc.gov)

Manual Chapter 0350 Panel Vice-Chairman (Loiuse.Lund@nrc.gov)

Manual Chapter 0350 Panel Member (Michael.Markley@nrc.gov)

Manual Chapter 0350 Panel Non-voting Member (Michael.Balazik@nrc.gov)

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Publicly Available Non-Sensitive

Non-publicly Available Sensitive

SOE:DRS/OB C:DRP/F

BLarson MHay

/RA via email/ /RA/

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FORT CALHOUN STATION IMC 0350 INSPECTION - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Operations Readiness Assessment Team (ORAT)

From: Brian Larson

Senior Operations Engineer, NRC RIV

817-200-1172

brian.larson@nrc.gov

To: Kelly Root

Recovery Regulatory Director, Fort Calhoun Station

Subject: Information Request to Support April 2013 IMC 0350 Team Inspection - ORAT

(IPs 95003, 92702, 93806)

The following information is requested in order to support inspection preparation activities

starting April 8, 2013:

• Electronically accessible files on Certrec website for: Brian Larson, Clyde Osterholtz,

Chris Steely, Thomas Farina and Theresa Buchanan

• Documents to facilitate preparation for the onsite inspection weeks using IP 93806,

Operations Readiness Assessment Team Inspections.

Inspectors will review the documents listed below during preparation week and identify

additional documents that will be needed during the onsite inspection weeks. It is

requested that documents identified during preparation week be made available and

ready for review on the first day of inspection (April 8, 2013). If you have any questions

regarding this information request, please call the inspection team leader as soon as

possible.

Generic

• Documents that relate to establishment of an appropriate safety attitude and

proper working atmosphere for Operations Department personnel

• Documents that relate to Operations management oversight, including

expectations, analyses, self-assessments, corrective actions and improvement

plans

• Documents that relate to implementation of an Operations program to gather and

apply lessons learned from industry experience

• Documents that relate to Quality Assurance Department involvement in plant

operations

• Documents that relate to communication of station goals to Operations

Department personnel

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02.02.d

• Documents that relate to self-assessment capability as it relates to readiness for

operation, including the effectiveness of root cause analysis, corrective actions,

and the trending and generic applicability review of self-identified problems

• Documents/procedures that describe the deficiency reporting system (corrective

action program), including thresholds and prioritization

• Documents from any root cause analysis performed for the Operations and

Training Departments

02.02.e

• Documents that relate to preparing licensed operators for restart (heatup,

criticality, low power operations, full power operations)

• Documents that relate to preparing licensed operators to respond to alarms

(ARPs), abnormal and emergency plant conditions (AOPs, EOPs),

instrumentation and control setpoint and display anomalies, and the potential for

a high number of challenges to safety systems during startup/testing

02.02.g

• Technical Specifications (TS), Updated Safety Analysis Report (USAR)

• Documents that relate to preparing licensed operators to recognize, locate and

comply with TS

• Operations Department procedures with index of numbers and titles

• Documents that relate to administrative controls for startup testing activities

under TS constraints

• List of all licensed operators

02.02.l

• FCS Organizational Charts

• Documents as they relate to Operations shift manning, Emergency Plan

activation and response

• Documents that relate to Operations augmented shift staffing during plant restart

• Documents that relate to management oversight and involvement in the

implementation of Operations evolutions and work controls

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• Closure Books to facilitate preparation for the onsite inspection weeks using IMC 0350

Restart Checklist.

Inspectors will review the Closure Books listed below during preparation week and

identify additional documents that will be needed during the onsite inspection weeks. It

is requested that documents identified during preparation week be made available and

ready for review on the first day of inspection (April 8, 2013). If you have any questions

regarding this information request, please call the inspection team leader as soon as

possible.

1. CL 2.b.1 - System Health Reviews

a. 2.b.1.5 - Chemical and Volume Control System

b. 2.b.1.9 - Control Rod Drive System

c. 2.b.1.10 - Reactor Coolant System

d. 2.b.1.15 - Main Feedwater System

e. 2.b.1.17 - Steam Generator System

f. 2.b.1.19 - Instrument Air System

g. 2.b.1.23 - Engineered Safeguards System

2. CL 5.c - Procedure Quality

a. 5.c.1 - Licensee Assessment of the Fundamental Performance Deficiency of

Procedure Quality/Procedure Management

b. 5.c.2 - Adequacy of extent of condition and extent of causes

c. 5.c.3 - Adequacy of corrective actions

d. NCV 2012301-01 - Seven Examples of Inadequate Procedures for the

Mitigating Systems Cornerstone

e. NCV 2012301-04 - Five Examples of Inadequate Procedures for the Initiating

Events Cornerstone

f. NCV 2012301-06 - Inadequate Procedures with Four Examples for the

Barrier Integrity Cornerstone

g. NCV 2011002-01 - Inadequate Operating Instruction Results in a Loss of

Auxiliary Feedwater

h. NCV 2010004-10 - Inadequate Maintenance Procedure Results in a Plant

Shutdown

3. CL 5.e - Configuration Control

a. LER 2012-008-0 - Technical Specification Violation for Fuel Movement (VA-

66)

4. CL 5.f - Emergency Response

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a. 5.f.7 - Licensee Assessment of the Fundamental Performance Deficiency of

Emergency Response Organization

b. 5.f.8 - Adequacy of extent of condition and extent of causes

c. 5.f.9 - Adequacy of corrective actions

5. CL 7.a - Operations Organization Ready for Restart

a. 7.a.1 - Perform Operational Readiness Assessment Team inspection

b. 7.a.2 - Licensee Assessment of the Fundamental Performance Deficiency

associated with Site Operational Focus

c. 7.a.3 - Adequacy of extent of condition and extent of causes

d. 7.a.4 - Adequacy of corrective actions

6. CL 7.b - Systems Ready for Restart and Mode Restraints Properly Addressed

a. 7.b.1 - Final system readiness and mode restraint review

7. CL 7.c - Final Review of Corrective Action Program for Restart Items (Ops Only)

a. 7.c.1 - Final corrective action program review for restart items prior to restart

• Generic documents to facilitate preparation for the onsite inspection weeks. Inspectors

will review the documents listed below during preparation week and identify additional

documents that will be needed during the onsite inspection weeks. It is requested that

documents identified during preparation week be made available and ready for review

on the first day of inspection (April 8, 2013). If you have any questions regarding this

information request, please call the inspection team leader as soon as possible.

1. Documents related to 95003 Recovery Project

2. Documents related to 95003 Collective Evaluation

3. Documents related to Fundamental Performance Deficiencies

4. Common Factors Analysis Report

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