ML103540435

Notification of NRC 95002 Inspection for One Degraded Cornerstone or Any Three White Inputs in a Strategic Performance Area 05000482-11-006

ML103540435
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	12/20/2010
From:	Allen D NRC/RGN-IV/DRP/RPB-B
To:	Matthew Sunseri Wolf Creek
References
IR-11-006
Download: ML103540435 (6)

See also: IR 05000482/2011006

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

R E GI ON I V

612 EAST LAMAR BLVD, SUITE 400

ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4125

December 20, 2010

Matthew W. Sunseri, President and

Chief Executive Officer

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

P.O. Box 411

Burlington, KS 66839

SUBJECT: WOLF CREEK- NOTIFICATION OF NRC 95002 INSPECTION FOR ONE

DEGRADED CORNERSTONE OR ANY THREE WHITE INPUTS IN A

STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE AREA 05000482/2011006

Dear Mr. Sunseri:

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Region IV staff will conduct a supplemental inspection for one degraded cornerstone at your

facility. The inspection will be comprised of five reactor inspectors from the NRC Region IV

office. The inspection will be conducted in accordance with Inspection Procedure 95002,

"Inspection For One Degraded Cornerstone or any Three White Inputs in a Strategic

Performance Area."

The schedule for the inspection is as follows: Onsite inspection February 7-11, 2011, and

February 22-25, 2011.

Experience has shown that this inspection is resource intensive for 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. Please note that the documents

are requested to be provided by January 18, 2011. We request that during the onsite inspection

weeks, you ensure that copies of analyses, evaluations, or documentation regarding the

requested items are available. Also, appropriate personnel knowledgeable of the inspection

performance issues should be available to support the inspectors at the site during the

inspection.

We have discussed the schedule for this inspection activity with your staff and understand that

our regulatory contact for this inspection will be Ms. Jenny Yunk of your management team. If

there are any questions about this inspection or the material requested, please contact the

inspector, David Dumbacher, at 573-676-3181 or by email, David.Dumbacher@nrc.gov. In

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

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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 NRC's 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,

/RDeese for /RA/ /

Don Allen, Chief

Projects Branch B

Division of Reactor Projects

Docket: 50-482

License: NPF-42

Enclosure: Inspection Procedure 95002 Documentation Request

cc w/enclosure:

Site Vice President

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

P.O. Box 411

Burlington, KS 66839

Jay Silberg, Esq.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

2300 N Street, NW

Washington, DC 20037

Supervisor Licensing

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

P.O. Box 411

Burlington, KS 66839

Chief Engineer

Utilities Division

Kansas Corporation Commission

1500 SW Arrowhead Road

Topeka, KS 66604-4027

Office of the Governor

State of Kansas

Topeka, KS 66612-1590

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

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Attorney General

120 S.W. 10th Avenue, 2nd Floor

Topeka, KS 66612-1597

Chairman

Coffey County Courthouse

110 South 6th Street

Burlington, KS 66839

Chief, Radiation and Asbestos

Control Section

Bureau of Air and Radiation

Kansas Department of Health and

Environment

1000 SW Jackson, Suite 310

Topeka, KS 66612-1366

Chief, Technological Hazards

Branch

FEMA, Region VII

9221 Ward Parkway

Suite 300

Kansas City, MO 64114-3372

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

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Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov)

Deputy Regional Administrator (Art.Howell@nrc.gov)

DRP Director (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)

DRP Deputy Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)

DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (Chris.Long@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (David.Dumbacher@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Charles.Peabody@nrc.gov)

WC Administrative Assistant (Shirley.Allen@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRP/B (Don.Allen@nrc.gov)

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

Project Engineer, DRP/B (Greg.Tutak@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer, DRP/B (Nestor.Makris@nrc.gov)

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

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

Project Manager (Balwant.Singal@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Michael.Hay@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)

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

OEMail Resource

OEDO RIV Coordinator (Geoffrey.Miller@nrc.gov)

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Enclosure

Inspection Procedure 95002 Documentation Request

NRC Information Request List for Wolf Creek 95002 Inspection

1. Corrective action program procedures for:

Initiating condition reports

Screening condition reports

Assigning condition report levels

Root cause generation

Root cause methodology

Effectiveness reviews

2. License Event Reports for all reactor trips and safety system functional failures dating

back to 2008

3. Condition reports for reactor trips back to 2008

4. Plant logs for the associated reactor trips since 2008

5. Condition reports for safety system functional failures since 2008

6. Effectiveness reviews for the condition reports related to reactor trips and safety system

functional failures

7. Condition reports evaluating the Performance Indicator thresholds for SSFF and scrams

and scrams with complications being exceeded

8. Corrective actions for condition reports evaluating the PI thresholds being exceeded

9. Roll-up condition reports associated with Wolf Creek movement to the significant

degraded cornerstone column 3

10. Training lesson plans for steam generator water level control, feedwater system,

emergency diesel systems, switchyard systems and reactor protection systems

11. Post trip review packages for reactor trips since 2008

12. Condition reports for common cause of crosscutting aspects related to corrective action

program and human performance

13. Planned and implemented corrective actions for common cause of crosscutting aspects

14. Procedures for work control processes

15. Quality Assurance audits of the corrective action program

16. Results of any benchmarking or external organization audits related to the 95002

inspection

17. Training and procedures related to NRC performance indicator reporting

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Enclosure

18. Evaluation condition report related to traditional enforcement findings exceeding the

threshold

19. Condition reports related to equipment aging issues

20. Condition reports related to single point of vulnerability evaluations

21. Any long term equipment reliability evaluations and plans

Inspector Contact Information:

David Dumbacher

Senior Resident Inspector

573-676-3181

David.Dumbacher@nrc.gov

Mailing Address:

US NRC Resident Inspector Office

Attn: David Dumbacher

8201 NRC Road

Steedman, Mo 65077-1302