See Beaver Valley responses below.

Note that our FM Program applies to all areas that require FM controls, from turbine generator and electrical cabinets to the steam generators and SFP, so I will gear my responses to the SFP since it appears that you are most concerned with the SFP.

Anthony (A.R.) Burger
Supervisor, Reactor Engineering
FENOC - Beaver Valley Power Station
Phone: (724) 682-4108
Cell: (724) 601-3224
FAX: (724) 682-4250
Email: aburger@firstenergycorp.com

From: "Kelliher, Andrew P" <Andrew.Kelliher@cengllc.com>
To: "'pwrrm@retaqs.com'" <pwrrm@retaqs.com>
Cc: "Knowles, Justin W" <Justin.Knowles@cengllc.com>, "Brown, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Brown@cengllc.com>, "Hellems, Ryan T" <Ryan.Hellems@cengllc.com>
Date: 01/31/2012 03:32 PM
Subject: [Pwrrm] Questions for comprehensive benchmark of FM team / training
Sent by: pwrrm@retaqs.com

R.E. Ginna is working to determine the appropriate makeup of a foreign material retrieval team and the tools that should be available to them. We have developed the following questions:

1. When recovering FM, do you have station personnel, or contractors perform the work?
Response - Most of the time the fuel vendor would perform recovery, however station personnel would be used for something simple such as a clearance tag floating on the surface or a security badge laying on the SFP floor in the cask pit area. If the item were fuel related, such as a fuel assembly lock tube or piece of grid strap we would tend to have the fuel vendor retrieve because of dose levels and familiarity with the objects and retrieval techniques necessary.

2. If station personnel, what departments (groups) make up the retrieval team?
Response - Radiation Protection, Reactor Engineering/Refueling, and Maintenance/Construction

3. What tools/methods do you use to recover FM in the SFP?
Response - We require that FM Recovery Plan be developed unless the item is immediately retrievable. We have used everything from duct tape on the end a long-handled pole to retrieval a security badge to air operated vise grips to retrieve a dropped lock tube. We have also used a Tri-Nuke and LUVS (Light Underwater Vacuum System) to retrieval/remove FM. Small debris baskets and debris canisters have been used to place items into and then place them into a larger SFP cell-sized debris canister.

4. What qualifications are required to be part of the retrieval team?
Response - No special requirements for retrieval personnel other than that they are a qualified FME Worker having completed NANTel training and a Dynamic Learning Activity (hands-on training).
a. Can you provide a copy of the training program qualification card?
Response - I believe the NANTel training is available to everyone through INPO. Our Dynamic Learning Activity is a hands-on lab setting to demonstrate FM practices.

Your response to any of the questions above will be much appreciated. I understand that a lot of this is a duplicate of what was sent a few weeks ago but we’re really getting pushed to get some more benchmarking information.

Thank you in advance for you time,

-Andy

Andrew Kelliher
Reactor Engineer
R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant
Phone: (585) 771-3457

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