ML16144A577

Notification of Inspection (NRC Inspection Report 05000482/2016004) and Request for Information

ML16144A577
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	05/23/2016
From:	Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV
To:	Heflin A Wolf Creek
Gaddy V
References
IR 2016004
Download: ML16144A577 (9)

See also: IR 05000482/2016004

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May 23, 2016

Adam C. Heflin, President and

Chief Executive Officer

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

P.O. Box 411

Burlington, KS 66839

SUBJECT: WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION

(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000482/2016004) AND REQUEST FOR

INFORMATION

Dear Mr. Heflin:

From June 27 to July 1, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) Region IV

office will perform the baseline biennial requalification inspection at Wolf Creek Generating

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 on-site 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 on-site 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 Mr. Jason Knust 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 Michael Bloodgood at (817) 200-1544

(Michael.Bloodgood@nrc.gov), Chris Steely at (817) 200-1432 (Chris.Steely@nrc.gov), or

Mahdi Hayes at (817) 200-1508 (Mahdi.Hayes@nrc.gov).

UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION IV

1600 E. LAMAR BLVD.

ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511

A. Heflin

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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 and Procedure," 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/

Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket No. 50-482

License No. NPF-42

Enclosure:

Biennial Requalification Inspection

Document Request

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DATE

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05/23/16

Letter to Adam C. Heflin from Vincent G. Gaddy dated May 23, 2016

SUBJECT: WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTION

(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 05000482/2016004) AND REQUEST FOR

INFORMATION

Distribution:

Regional Administrator (Marc.Dapas@nrc.gov)

Deputy Regional Administrator (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)

DRP Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)

DRP Deputy Director (Ryan.Lantz@nrc.gov)

DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)

DRS Deputy Director (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (Douglas.Dodson@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Fabian.Thomas@nrc.gov)

WC Administrative Assistant (Susan.Galemore@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRP/B (Nick.Taylor@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/B (David.Proulx@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer, DRP/B (Shawn.Money@nrc.gov)

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

Project Manager (Fred.Lyon@nrc.gov)

Team Leader, DRS/TSS (Thomas.Hipschman@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

ACES (R4Enforcement.Resource@nrc.gov)

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)

Technical Support Assistant (Loretta.Williams@nrc.gov)

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

RIV Congressional Affairs Officer (Angel.Moreno@nrc.gov)

RIV/ETA: OEDO (Jeremy.Bowen@nrc.gov)

RIV RSLO (Bill.Maier@nrc.gov)

Enclosure

BIENNIAL REQUALIFICATION INSPECTION DOCUMENT REQUEST

TO:

Barry Lee

Requalification Training Supervisor

Wolf Creek Generating Station

620-364-8831 x5076

FROM:

Michael Bloodgood

Operations Engineer, NRC RIV

817-200-1544

SUBJECT: Information Request to Support June 27 to July 1, 2016, 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 17, 2016.

Electronically: Via IMS Certrec, or email (to Michael.Bloodgood@nrc.gov,

Chris.Steely@nrc.gov, or Mahdi.Hayes@nrc.gov)

Hardcopy to: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV

1600 E. Lamar Blvd

Arlington, TX 76011

ATTN: Michael Bloodgood

General Requests:

List of licensed operators (SRO and RO) by crew (operating and 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.

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 and RO

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

arrival on-site.

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

including the week before the inspection team is on-site. This will need to have

adequate password protection if e-mailed or double envelope protection if mailed via

regular mail per NUREG-1021.

The current requalification cycle examination methodology (sample plan).

02.04: Annual Requalification Operating Test Quality

The schedule for the operating tests (JPMs and scenarios) to be given the week of

June 27, 2016 (week team is on-site).

The operating tests (JPMs and scenarios) (password protected and provide

separately via telephone at later date) to be given the week of June 27, 2016 (week

team is on-site).

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

week prior to the inspection team arrival on-site.

All of the previous years NRC required annual operating tests.

Current requalification cycle operating test methodology (sample plan).

All portions of the UFSAR that identify operator response times for time critical

operator actions.

02.05: Licensee Admin of Requalification 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

Submit 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.

Submit 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 examination cycle tests and prior year examinations.

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

examination security and overlap.

02.07: Licensee Remedial Training Program

List of remedial training conducted or planned since last requalification exams

(includes training provided to operators to enable passing requalification exams and

training provided to correct generic or individual weaknesses observed during

previous requalification examination cycle).

Remediation plans (lesson plans, reference materials, and attendance

documentation).

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02.08: Conformance with Operator License Conditions

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 supports reactivation of any

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

02.09: Simulator Performance

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. Based on the input that the licensee implements

simulator testing standards per ANSI/ANS-3.5-2009, provide this information for the

following Transient and Steady State tests:

o Transient test 3, Simultaneous closure of all main steam isolation valves.

o Transient test 5, Trip of any single reactor coolant pump.

o Transient test 7, Maximum power rate ramp from 100% to 75% and back.

o Steady State tests for full power test.

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 May 2014 and May 2016.

Malfunction Tests for loss of condenser vacuum and loss of normal feedwater

system failure. If these are included in an SBT package then the review of that

package would be acceptable.

Primary parameters tested in order to verify core physics parameters, specifically

Critical Boron Concentration - All rods withdrawn and integral rod worth (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 modification packages that are on hold, delayed, or just not completed

in the last two years.

A list of simulator modification packages completed in the last two year window.

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.

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B. The following information is requested in order to support the on-site inspection

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

electronically or hardcopy, upon site arrival on June 27, 2016.

02.02: Examination Results / 02.03 and 02.04: Written Examination and Op Test Quality

All operating tests (JPMs and scenarios) to be given in all subsequent weeks after

on-site week.

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

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.

02.09: Simulator Performance

Simulator discrepancies (DRs) from May 2014 to May 2016. 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 May 2014 to May 2016.

Plant modifications (both hardware and software) completed on the simulator by

due date from May 2014 to May 2016.

Simulator Differences Lesson plan used in training (current to June 27, 2016).

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.

02.10: Problem Identification and Resolution

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

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C. Wolf Creek Generating 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.