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March 27, 2001
LICENSEE:
FACILITY:
SUBJECT:
Southern California Edison Company
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Units 2 and 3
SUMMARY OF MEETING WITH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON
COMPANY - SUMMARY OF MEETING OF MARCH 23, 2001
On March 23, 2001, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff met with the
representatives of the Southern California Edison Company, the licensee for San Onofre
Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Units 2 and 3. The licensee presented its status of the
SONGS' safety conscious work environment program. The meeting did not result in any
regulatory action or determination. At the end of the meeting, the NRC staff answered
questions from the members of the public who attended the meeting.
Enclosure 1 is the list of attendees. Enclosure 2 is the licensee's handout.
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L. Raghavan, Senior Project Manager, Section 2
Project Directorate IV & Decommissioning Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Docket Nos. 50-361 and 50-362
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001
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LICENSEE: Southern California Edison Company
FACILITY: San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Units 2 and 3
SUBJECT: SUMMARY OF MEETING WITH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY - SUMMARY OF MEETING OF MARCH 23, 2001
On March 23, 2001, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff met with the representatives of the Southern California Edison Company, the licensee for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Units 2 and 3. The licensee presented its status of the SONGS' safety conscious work environment program. The meeting did not result in any regulatory action or determination. At the end of the meeting, the NRC staff answered questions from the members of the public who attended the meeting.
Enclosure 1 is the list of attendees. Enclosure 2 is the licensee's handout.
I L. Raghavaý, Senior Project Manager, Section 2 Project Directorate IV & Decommissioning Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Docket Nos. 50-361 and 50-362
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San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3
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Mr. R. W. Krieger, Vice President Southern California Edison Company San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station P. 0. Box 128 San Clemente, CA 92674-0128
Mr. Douglas K. Porter Southern California Edison Company 2244 Walnut Grove Avenue Rosemead, CA 91770
Mr. David Spath, Chief Division of Drinking Water and
Environmental Management P. 0. Box 942732 Sacramento, CA 94234-7320
Chairman, Board of Supervisors County of San Diego 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 335 San Diego, CA 92101
Alan R. Watts, Esq. Woodruff, Spradlin & Smart 701 S. Parker St. No. 7000 Orange, CA 92668-4720
Mr. Sherwin Harris Resource Project Manager Public Utilities Department City of Riverside 3900 Main Street Riverside, CA 92522
Regional Administrator, Region IV U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400 Arlington, TX 76011-8064
Mr. Michael Olson San Onofre Liaison San Diego Gas & Electric Company P.O. Box 1831 San Diego, CA 92112-4150
Mr. Steve Hsu Radiologic Health Branch State Department of Health Services Post Office Box 942732 Sacramento, CA 94327-7320
Mr. Ed Bailey, Radiation Program Director Radiologic Health Branch State Department of Health Services Post Office Box 942732 (MS 178) Sacramento, CA 94327-7320
Resident Inspector/San Onofre NPS c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Post Office Box 4329 San Clemente, CA 92674
Mayor City of San Clemente 100 Avenida Presidio San Clemente, CA 92672
Mr. Dwight E. Nunn, Vice President Southern California Edison Company San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station P.O. Box 128 San Clemente, CA 92674-0128
Mr. Robert A. Laurie, Commissioner Califomia Energy Commission 1516 Ninth Street (MS 31) Sacramento, CA 95814
Mr. Harold B. Ray Executive Vice President Southern California Edison Company San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station P.O. Box 128 San Clemente, CA 92674-0128
February 15, 2000
LIST OF ATTENDEES
MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
March 23, 2001
Name Organization
Ed Baker NRR Frank Congel OE Steve Dembek NRR L. Raghavan NRR Edward Holub Public Margaret Cahill Public
Enclosure 1
SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION I D SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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SONG S SAFETY CONSCIOUS
WORK ENVIRONMENT
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Presentation Outline:
- Establishing and maintaining SONGS' Safety Conscious Work Environment (SCWE) - Assessing the SCWE - 2000 Nuclear Safety Culture Survey Results - Assessing the SCWE - Analysis of Nuclear Safety Concerns and NRC Allegations - Actions - Conclusions
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ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING
SONGS' SCWE
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Establishing and Maintaining SONGS' (SCWE)
- Senior Management responsible for SCWE - Policies established, communicated, and followed - Workers encouraged to raise issues at a zero threshold - Multiple paths provided for raising concerns - Action Requests, Supervision/Open Door
Policy, Nuclear Safety Concerns Program, and NRC - Effective corrective action program (AR System) maintained - Workers, Supervisors and Contract organization provided training, annual re-training,
and periodic reminders on key policies and practices - Allegations of discrimination, chilled or hostile work environments investigated and
actions taken when required
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Nuclear Safety Concerns Program
- Independent of Line Organizations
- Confidential or anonymous alternative for all workers - Program has broad scope - Timely and complete responses provided - Staff -4 specialists, 1 manager and clerical support - Feedback solicited from Submitters - Effectiveness of program periodically assessed - Assists Managers and Supervisors in maintaining an effective SCWE
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SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATIONI• SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON An ED'IISON INMIENATIONAl Company
ASSESSING THE SCWE
2000 NUCLEAR SAFETY CULTURE SURVEY RESULTS
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Compressive Cultural Assessment - Scope & Methodology
Question Base - 35 questions with 129 parts. 2 write-ins - 7 questions (Areas of Inquiry) ask for current and 1 year ago opinions
Nuclear Safety Culture (NSC) 62 Questions - NS Values, Behaviors & Practices (NS VB&P) 40 Questions - Safety Conscious Work Environment (SCWE) 14 Questions - Nuclear Safety Concerns Program(NSCP) 8 Questions
Special Topics of Interest 13 Questions
General Culture & Work Environment 54 Questions Change Management 23 Questions, 1 write-in
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SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATIONI SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A NEDISON An EI-SION INTERNATIONAL, Company
Response and Assessment Scales
"Fully Agree" or "Excellent"
"Strongly Agree" or "Very Good"
"Generally Agree" or "Adequate"
"Disagree" or "Less-than-Adequate" "Strongly Disagree" or "Inadequate"
> 3.00 = "positive or adequate" < 3.00 = "negative less-than-adequate/inadequate"
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Good - Very Good 3.71-4.20
, Adequate-to-Good 3.16-3.70
Nominally Less-than-Adequate 2.85-3.15
Less-than-adequate <2.84
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Administration of Survey
- Survey August 2000 - Interviews October 2000
Participation
- Response rate - 58% vs. 59% in 1998 - Overall results > 95% confidence & < 5% margin of error
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SONGS Nuclear Safety Culture
- Nuclear Safety Culture - "very good" and "continuing to improve"
- NS Values, Behaviors and Practices - "upper end of good to very good" range and "improving"
- SCWE - "very good to excellent" and "improving"
- Nuclear Safety Concerns Program - "very good" and "steady"
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SONGS Nuclear Safety Culture Trends NSC IPI (7 Questions)
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SONGS Nuclear Safety Culture Trend NSC CCI (62 Questions)
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Nuclear Safety Culture Areas of Strengths - Safety Conscious Work Environment - Conduct of activities in accordance with Licensing and Design
Bases - Thorough Safety Analyses - Anticipation of operational risks / taking precautions
Nuclear Safety Culture Area of Relative Weakness - Confidence in decisions on allocation of resources to assure
Nuclear Safety is maintained
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EDISON All IEVISON INTI'RNATIONAI. Company
Progress on Previously Identified Issues
- SCWE sensitivity training effective - Ratings of AR system improved significantly
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Response Variance:
- Bargaining Unit - Generally 9% lower than site average - Non-Represented - Generally 4% higher than site average
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"Pocket" Analysis - Review for skewing of data towards "negative" by group - Analysis Inputs:
- Nuclear Safety Culture, NS Values, Behaviors and Practices, SCWE, NSCP and GCWE responses
- Score, percent negative, and changes since last survey - Absolute Scores - Scores Relative to Synergy Client Base - Scores Relative to SONGS
Analysis Outputs: - Pockets - Priorities relative to Synergy Client Base - Priorities relative to SONGS
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SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION ISOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
.jEDISON An FDISON INtErRNATIONAl. Companiy
1998 Nuclear Safety Culture Survey Pockets Demonstrating
Significant Improvement
- Regulatory Affairs, Chemistry, Nuclear Fuels Management
2000 Nuclear Safety Culture Survey Pockets - Instrumentation, Control and Radiation Monitoring Maintenance,* Boiler &
Condenser Maintenance, Security,* Other Business & Financial Services, Mechanical Maintenance, Health Physics, Electrical Maintenance
* Pocket in 1998
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Opportunities for Improvement
- Communication of bases and rationale for changes in modus operandi that lead to perceived changes in NS priorities
- Focus on pockets
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Special Topics Results:
- Industrial Safety - "Good to Very Good" and "improving" - Responsiveness to Previous Survey- "Adequate" and "steady" - Trust in Management - "Adequate to Good" and "improving" - Confidence in Management - "Adequate to Good" and "improving"
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- General Culture & Work Environment Results
- General Culture & Work Environment - "good" and "steady"
- Improving: - Ten of the thirteen topical areas - Lowest rated areas showed most significant improvement
- Communications - Performance Appraisal
- Declining:
- Focus on Results/Accountability
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SONGS General Culture & Work Environment Trend CC1 (54 Questions)
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Conclusions from 2000 CCA:
- SONGS Nuclear Safety Culture - "very good" and "continuing to improve"
- SONGS Safety Conscious Work Environment - "very good to excellent" and "improving"
- Nuclear Safety Concerns Program -"very good" and "steady"
- General Culture & Work Environment - "good" and "steady"
- Aspects of the culture for improvement exist and were identified - Organizational pockets for improvement exist and were identified
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Actions:
- Continue Communication of Results - Develop detailed action plans and follow completion
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ASSESSING THE SCWE
ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR SAFETY CONCERNS AND NRC
ALLEGATIONS
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Analysis based on:
- Concerns and allegations and trends in concerns and allegations - Information from other processes available to workers - NSC Program customer surveys - Culture Survey Results - Interviews of specific work groups about the SCWE - Special assessments
March 2001, Page 26
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Results of Analysis of Nuclear Safety Concerns and NRC Allegations
- Number of NSCs decreasing - Number of NRC Allegations decreasing, but still greater than industry average - Current organizational and subject matter trends
- Outage and outage contractor issues (4 th quarter 2000) - Industrial Safety, down since February 2000
- Trends analyzed and actions taken
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ACTIONS
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Actions to Continue the SCWE
- Continue management support of SCWE - Maintain an effective AR system - Continue training on responsiveness to issues for first line supervisors - Maintain an effective NSC Program - Continue timely, complete and effective responses to NSCs and allegations of
hostile or chilled work environments - Prepare for challenges to General Work Environment - Continue training on regulatory and emerging issues for middle and senior
managers - Complete analysis of 2000 survey and prepare detailed action plan - Continue periodic assessments
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CONCLUSIONS
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Conclusions
- SONGS has an effective Safety Conscious Work Environment and a strong Nuclear Safety Culture
- The SCWE is established, maintained, and supported by management and workers
- AR system provides an effective corrective action program - NSC Program provides an effective alternative means to raise issues - Independent validation confirms effective SCWE - Analysis of SCWE and trends continues - Actions are developed as required
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