ML14308A507

Requalification Program Inspection - Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

ML14308A507
Person / Time
Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	10/29/2014
From:	Eugene Guthrie Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	James Shea Tennessee Valley Authority
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION II 245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257 October 29, 2014

Joseph W. Shea

Vice President, Nuclear Licensing

Tennessee Valley Authority

1101 Market Street, LP 3D-C

Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801

SUBJECT:

REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM INSPECTION - WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT

Dear Mr. Shea:

In a telephone conversation on October 20, 2014, Mr. Richard S. Baldwin, Senior Operations

Engineer, and Mr. Walter Smith, Operations Training Manager, arranged for the U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission (NRC) to inspect the licensed operator requalification program at the

Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. The inspection is planned for the week of November 17, 2014 which

coincides with your regularly scheduled requalific ation 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-3.5-1985, "American

National Standard for Nuclear Power Plant Simulators for Use in Operator Training and

Examination."

In accordance with 10 CFR 55.59, the NRC has requested that you submit (by November 3, 2014, or make ready upon arrival), 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 by the inspectors on the first day they arrive on site. Mr. Smith has been advised of this request and

provided with the name and 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), which expires on April 30, 2016.

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, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by Internet electronic mail 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.

J. Shea 2 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 NRC's "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 Reco rds (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).

Thank you for your cooperation in this matte

r. If you have any questions regarding this inspection please contact Mr. Richard S. Baldwin at (404) 997-4642, (Internet E-mail:

Richard.Baldwin@nrc.gov

), or me at (404) 997-4662, (Internet E-mail:

Eugene.Guthrie@nrc.gov) Sincerely, /RA/

Eugene F. Guthrie, Chief Operations Branch 2

Division of Reactor Safety Docket No.: 50-390 License No.: NPF-90

Enclosure:

Materials Request List cc: Distribution via Listserv

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The items listed below are necessary to support the Licensed Operator Requalification Program inspection (IP-71111.11) in November 2014 at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. Items listed under

"In-office inspection material," must be received in the NRC Region II office by November 3, 2014. Items listed under "On-site inspection material," should be ready for review upon arrival

of the inspectors on November 17, 2014.

A. In-office inspection material:

1. Complete list of all licensed individuals (active and inactive; RO and SRO) including license restrictions.

2. Copy of an Organizational Chart for the training department including simulator staff.

3. Spreadsheets and/or test outlines which show the usage of written examination questions, JPMs, and simulator scenarios (i.e. outlines/sample plans).

4. Copy of the weekly examination schedul es for the weeks that the 2014 annual operating exams will be administered, including a list of personnel scheduled for testing the week

of November 17, 2014.

5. Copies of the written examinations that were administered for the 2013 biennial requalification examination (for a ll weeks), including all re-take examinations, if applicable.

6. Ten (10) job performance measures (JPMs), both simulator and in-plant, and six (6) simulator scenarios associated with the current annual operating test. The JPMs and

scenarios to be reviewed should include those that will be administered the week of November 17, 2014, with any remaining JPMs and scenarios reviewed selected from

other weeks of the annual operating test. (exam security related item)

7. Self-assessment reports, corrective action reports, and Licensee Event Reports, written since the last requalification inspection, resulting from, or concerning human

performance errors, including any examination security issues.

8. A copy of 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.

9. A copy site procedure(s) governing simulator configuration control, maintenance, and fidelity, including all testing methods used to fulfill ANSI/ANS 3.5-1985 requirements.

10. Copy of the program evaluation of t he previous biennial requalification cycle.

2 B. On-site inspection material:

1. Requalification training attendance records for the current 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. Simulator scenarios and JPMs (in-plant and simulator) that have been, or will be, administered for this requalification exam. (exam security related item)

4. All training feedback forms since the last requalification inspection.

5. Documentation regarding all remedial training conducted for examination failures since the last requalification inspection.

6. Complete list of all individuals that reactivated their licenses since the last requalification inspection.

7. Records associated with license reactivation, including:

a. Documentation of time on shift under instruction.

b. Security system and HP/dosimetry reco rds for plant areas toured by reactivating individual and accompanying licensed operator.

8. Records providing documentation of maintenance of active license status (time on shift) for all licensed operators since last requalification inspection.

9. Medical records for all licensed (active and inactive) operators.

10. 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.