R.E. Ginna is obviously attempting to utilize more informal benchmarking (i.e. this mailing list) to try to improve SFP related activities and controls. Over the last few weeks I’ve kind of been spamming this list but I feel your responses will greatly help Ginna going forward. Thank you for all your responses to this point.

See below for (hopefully) our last set of questions for a while. This time the questions are mostly from our Director of Reactor Services and relates to fuel movement.

Your response to any of the questions below will be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance for you time,

-Andy

I am looking for information related primarily to Non-Outage fuel movement in the SFP.

1.       What is the level of Operations involvement in fuel movement?

·         Is fuel movement at your site performed by Operations or by Vendor?

·         If Vendor, what group provides primary oversight?

·         If Vendor, do you require any site specific training related to fuel movement?

·         When moving fuel in the SFP (non-outage) what role / responsibility does Operations have at your site? (On the bridge? – In the Area? – Remote Monitoring? – Periodic Observation?- Other?)

2.       What is the make-up of the Fuel movement Crew?  (Handler, Spotter, Coordinator, SRO?)

·         What groups participate in fuel movement and in what capacity?

·         What verifications are performing during fuel movement and who performs them?

·         Do you have site personnel qualified to move fuel or do you exclusively use contractors?

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3.       Do you have a detailed communication script for fuel movement?

4.       What specific barriers do you have in place to minimize the potential for a fuel mispositioning event?

5.       What pieces of information are included on your fuel movement sheets?

·         How are verifications documented during fuel movement?

6.       Once the activity is scheduled and movement sheets have been generated, what is the process for moving a fuel assembly during a refueling outage?

7.       Once the activity is scheduled and movement sheets have been generated, what is the process for moving a fuel assembly during when not in a refueling outage?

Thanks for feedback,

Ken Brown

R. E. Ginna Reactor Services

Desk   585-771-3314

Mobile  585-465-1432