See Beaver Valley responses below in BLUE

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>, "Hellems, Ryan T" <Ryan.Hellems@cengllc.com>, "Brown, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Brown@cengllc.com>
Date: 02/01/2012 07:46 AM
Subject: [Pwrrm] FW: Fuel Movement in the SFP (non-outage)
Sent by: pwrrm@retaqs.com

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

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

"I'm just sayin', I don't like fun." - Karl Pilkington

From: Brown, Kenneth
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:10 PM
To: pwrrm@retaqs.com
Subject: Fuel Movement in the SFP (non-outage)

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?
Response - Operations verifies that Tech Specs are satisfied in order to perform fuel movement

· Is fuel movement at your site performed by Operations or by Vendor?
Response - Currently, the fuel vendor performs all fuel moves at the site.

· If Vendor, what group provides primary oversight?
Response - We have a qualification called Fueling Handling Supervisor. Personnel from any site group may be qualified to fulfill this position. It is mainly used for supporting refueling outage, but can also be used for non-outage fuel moves. Reactor Engineering would supply oversight for fuel inspection related activities.

· If Vendor, do you require any site specific training related to fuel movement?
Response - Site lifting and rigging

· 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?)
Response - Operations is only required to verify Tech Specs for fuel movement. All activities in the fueling building would be oversight by Reactor Engineering, Refueling, or Fuel Handling Supervisor.

2. What is the make-up of the Fuel movement Crew? (Handler, Spotter, Coordinator, SRO?)
Response - Site oversight, fuel handler, and spotter.

· What groups participate in fuel movement and in what capacity?
Response - Radiation Protection is in fuel building when fuel is being moved. There may also be a dedicated FME Monitor supplied from maintenance.

· What verifications are performing during fuel movement and who performs them?
Response - Fuel handler, spotter and site oversight all verify verification of fuel assembly moves.

· Do you have site personnel qualified to move fuel or do you exclusively use contractors?
Response - Currently I do not believe we have any site personnel to move fuel. There were some Operations personnel qualified, but I believe their qualifications have expired.

3. Do you have a detailed communication script for fuel movement?
Response - There is no specific written details, only general three-way communication requirements. The crews brief the specific communications at the start of the activity and would adjust during each days activity if necessary.

4. What specific barriers do you have in place to minimize the potential for a fuel mispositioning event?
Response - Reactor Engineering (RE) develops ALL fuel moves using ShuffleWorks. A second RE is required to independently check the fuel moves, i.e. not using ShuffleWorks. Third party verification is used in the field. We will also provide large SFP printouts of the storage cells that includes the assembly IDs, locations, rack indexing etc. This is mounted both on the SFP crane and on the wall in the SFP for the verifiers. For our current SFP Re-rack Project that is in-progress at BV2, we have also utilized the Westinghouse SureTrac Fuel Pool Index System for the new racks. This is a laser system that mounts on the crane and provides a digital readout to the crane operator.

5. What pieces of information are included on your fuel movement sheets?
Response - Assembly ID, any fuel assembly insert information, SFP location from and to, and any applicable notes from ShuffleWorks. ShuffleWorks is used to track any special considerations for fuel movement and these notes may be added to the printouts provided to the fuel movers. This would include items like damaged grid straps, fuel failure, restrictions due to fuel issue over the years - top nozzle separation, loose bottom nozzle screws, damages guide tube flexure from a recon, etc.

· How are verifications documented during fuel movement?
Response - Fuel Movement sheet is initial and dated

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?
Response - Movement sheets are held by RE until they are needed. Operations verifies Tech Specs for fuel movement. Pre-job brief. Fuel mover and Fuel Handling Supervisor utilize move sheet and verify next fuel move. Spotter (usually up-ender operator) provides a third party check. Position is given to latch and unlatch by Fuel Handling Supervisor.

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?
Response - Similar to refueling, except Fuel Handling Supervisor may be Reactor Engineering. The third party verifier would additional spotter on the bridge crane.

Thanks for feedback,

Ken Brown
R. E. Ginna Reactor Services
Desk 585-771-3314
Mobile 585-465-1432

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