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Transcript of Commission Meeting of December 14, 2016 Canadian Nuclear Commission canadienne de Safety Commission sûreté nucléaire Public meeting Réunion publique December 14th, 2016 Le 14 décembre 2016 Public Hearing Room Salle des audiences publiques 14th floor 14e étage 280 Slater Street 280, rue Slater Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa (Ontario) Commission Members present Commissaires présents Dr. Michael Binder M. Michael Binder Dr. Sandy McEwan Dr Sandy McEwan Ms Rumina Velshi Mme Rumina Velshi Secretary: Secrétaire: Mr. Marc Leblanc M. Marc Leblanc General Counsel: Avocate générale : Ms Lisa Thiele Me Lisa Thiele 613-521-0703 StenoTran www.stenotran.com ii TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Opening Remarks 1 CMD 16-M66.C 3 Approval of Agenda CMD 16-M68 3 Status Report on Power Reactors CMD 16-M64 13 Written submission from CNSC staff CMD 16-M50/16-M50.A 18 Oral presentation by CNSC staff CMD 16-M50.1 46 Written submission by Canadian Nuclear Workers' Council CMD 16-M50.2 48 Written submission from Northwatch CMD 16-M70/16-M70.A 155 Oral presentation by CNSC staff CMD 16-M70.1 179 Submission from Énergie NB Power CMD 16-M70.2 180 Submission from Canadian Nuclear Laboratories CMD 16-M49/16-M49.A 245 Oral presentation by CNSC staff CMD 16-M49.5/16-M49.5A 270 Presentation by Cameco Corporation CMD 16-M49.3 298 Submission from the Canadian Nuclear Workers' Council iii TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE CMD 16-M49.4/16-M49.4A/16-M49.4B 348 Presentation by AREVA Resources Canada Inc. CMD 16 M49.1 363 Submission from the Saskatchewan Environmental Society and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation CMD 16-M69 397 Submission from CNSC staff CMD 16-M72 411 Written submission from CNSC staff 1 Ottawa, Ontario / Ottawa (Ontario) --- Upon commencing on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 8:34 a.m. / L'audience débute le mercredi 14 décembre 2016 à 8 h 34 Opening Remarks MR. LEBLANC: Good morning. Bonjour à tous. Welcome to the public meeting of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. We have simultaneous interpretation. We would ask you to please keep the pace of speech relatively slow so that the interpreters have a chance to keep up. Des appareils pour l'interprétation sont disponibles à la réception. La version française est au poste 2 and the English version is on channel 1. Please identify yourself before speaking so that the transcripts are as complete and clear as possible. La transcription sera disponible sur le site Web de la Commission dès la semaine prochaine. I would also like to note that this proceeding is being video webcast live and that archives of these proceedings will be available on our website for a three-month period after the closure of the proceedings. 2 As a courtesy to others in the room, please silence your cell phones and other electronic devices. Monsieur Binder, président et premier dirigeant de la CCSN, va présider la réunion publique d’aujourd'hui. President Binder...? THE PRESIDENT: Merci, Marc. Good morning and welcome to the meeting of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Welcome to all of you who are joining us via webcast and videoconference. My name is Michael Binder, I am the President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. I would like to introduce the Members of the Commission that are with us here today. On my left are Dr. Sandy McEwan and Ms Rumina Velshi. We have heard from our Commission Secretary, Marc Leblanc, and we also have Ms Lisa Thiele, Senior General Counsel to the Commission. MR. LEBLANC: The Nuclear Safety and Control Act authorizes the Commission to hold meetings for the conduct of its business. Please refer to the agenda published on 3 December 12, 2016, for the complete list of items to be presented today. Copies are available at reception. CMD 16-M66.C Approval of Agenda THE PRESIDENT: With this information, I would now like to call for the adoption of the agenda. Do we have concurrence? So the agenda CMD-M66.C is adopted. CMD 16-M68 Status Report on Power Reactors THE PRESIDENT: The first item on the agenda for today is the Status Report on Power Reactors, which is under CMD 16-M68. We have some representatives from the power plants in the room, so welcome to all of you. I will ask Mr. Frappier to proceed. MR. FRAPPIER: Thank you, Mr. President and Members of the Commission. For the record, my name is Gerry Frappier, I am the Director General of the Directorate of Power Reactor Regulations. I would point out that we also have 4 members of the licensees on the phone as well if there are any detailed questions. With me today are our Power Reactor Program Division Directors, plus technical support, who are available to respond to questions on the status report that's presented in CMD 16-M68. This document was finalized on December 9, 2016. The following are updates after the report was finalized. First of all, Bruce Unit 1 is now at 8 percent full power, returning to service from a forced outage due to turbine trip. Bruce Unit 2 is at 70 percent full power, returning to service after repairs to the injection valve and secondary seal of the primary heat transport pump were completed. Update on Darlington Unit 2 refurbishment. This is the first time I think we are in front of you with the Darlington Unit 2 out for refurbishment. Forecast date for completion of the defuel campaign has been pulled ahead to January 9 from February 6, so they are a bit ahead of schedule there. And as of December 13, 354 of the 480 channels, that is 74 percent of the channels, have now been defuelled. Also for Unit 2, CNSC received a report 5 about a critical injury December 1st. And ES Fox contractor employee suffered a broken leg while working in Unit 2. The Ministry of Labour and the CNSC were notified and the investigation is ongoing, but we could hear some more about that today if you want. Pickering Unit 4. East fuelling machine repairs have now been completed and fuelling is now available. Unit 4 was at 92 percent of full power as of December 13 and we would expect that to continue climbing. Pickering Unit 7. Unit 7 planned maintenance outage now has a projected completion date of late December 2016. I think in the status report we have it as mid-December 2016. This concludes the Status Report on Power Reactors. CNSC staff and, as we mentioned, licensee employees are now available to answer any questions you may have. THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. So let's start with Ms Velshi. MEMBER VELSHI: Thank you, Mr. President. I just wanted to let you know your status at the top says November, you want to change that to December. About the Bruce A Unit 2 forced outage, tell me what the safety implications are of that SDS2 6 injection valve and the seal issues. MR. LAFRENIÈRE: Ken Lafrenière for the record. The injection valves are triplicated valves that basically inject the reactor poison during the shutdown, so an impairment to an injection valve has no safety implications. What it does is they are unable to perform their testing, so therefore they have to take the unit out of service to repair the valves and put it back in service. But there are no safety implications. MEMBER VELSHI: So the SDS2 system is still available then or it's not? MR. LAFRENIÈRE: The SDS2 system is completely available. Essentially to repair on a valve, they have to take a channel out of service and therefore -- MEMBER VELSHI: Thank you. THE PRESIDENT: I'm sure that everybody knows what SDS is. Do you want to spell it out? MR. LAFRENIÈRE: Yes, yes. The secondary shutdown system number 2. THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. MEMBER VELSHI: And I will ask one more question. For the critical injury at Darlington, can you just give us an update as to what happened, how, is the person back at work and are there any immediate corrective 7 actions that have been necessitated? MR. MANLEY: This is Robin Manley from Ontario Power Generation, VP Nuclear Regulatory Affairs. I believe that we have Zar Khansaheb, Director of Ops and Maintenance, on the line. MR. KHANSAHEB: It's Zar Khansaheb. I am the Director of Operations and Maintenance at Darlington. Responding to the question regarding the ES Fox employee, the individual did suffer a broken leg as we were transporting an elevated work platform. The individual that was injured was a spotter and the driver of the elevated work platform did not see the spotter, lost contact, sight contact with him and ended up -- the individual ended up with an injury of a broken leg. The Ministry of Labour did come to Darlington twice. They interviewed the ES Fox workers involved and they issued no orders to either OPG or ES Fox. And the individual is back at work with modified duties. MEMBER VELSHI: And while your investigation or the Ministry of Labour's investigation is underway, have you had to implement any immediate corrective actions? MR. KHANSAHEB: The corrective actions -- MEMBER VELSHI: Isn't it ironic that the spotter is the one that gets hit? 8 MR. KHANSAHEB: Yes, we understand that. This is around maintaining visual contact with everyone around him. Specifically, the driver should have made contact, sight contact with the individual that was spotting. So corrective actions are -- those individuals that were involved were fully qualified and corrective actions include stand-downs, rollouts, with the individuals across the site. And we took this at the fleet level as well, so this went across to Pickering Nuclear Station as well.
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